i endorse director heminger's suggestion. having a working group or subgroup of the board would be wonderful to help shepherd this through the project. and create transparency about obstacles we see. i think it is great you have integrated a lot of the our learned lessons from projects by thinking about how the procurement process will unfold and how to ensure we have a rep with our suppliers. so that we don't rely on single source bidses for maintenance. i congratulate for thinking that piece through because it it is the details that really put us in physical positions once we are ready to implement something and maintain it. i applaud you for this and think that through. the piece i would add to the mix is that i would really want to learn more about how we will ensure we are integrating equity through the procurement processes. understanding this is a large project and a project that i think we want to be proud to support. moving forward and so i think ensuring that in that rfp we are you know integrating language and sppt

i know that director heminger will provide insight to the mou. so -- chair heminger, what you like to add we will love to hear from you and appreciate you being here this morning. >> thank you, president walton i want to check if supervisor mandelman wait? >> welcome. >> supervisor, the agreement before you today has a history. like most agreements do and actually the history on this guess back when abraham lincoln was president i will start more recently. in 1980, because at that point the southern pacific railroad, which was running that service those years decided to get out of the passenger business and start focusing only on freight. and at that point, we were looking around for somebody to run the railroad since sp was going to back out. state decide to do so in its role as a transportation entity. but i think the state quickly discovered that building a highway is in the the same as running a railroad. so at the upon end of the 80s. we were at a point where the local agencies needed to step up and that is what they d. the 3 counties formed