. >> this item is to basically work out the agreement with mta, howard fong talked earlier about these joint projects we have with 15 or public works. in this case sfmta is replacing tracks. this first segment that we worked out to replace water mains and sewer, we are basically taking the sewer from under the tracks, and putting two sewer pipes outside of the track area. this just works out, how we are going to work together with mta taking the lead on construction. >> we have talked about the difficulty on some of these large multi agency projects and how to keep them on schedule. has not taught us anything as we put together this m.o.u.? >> it has. we actually went ahead of m.t.a. and we advertised our own construction project to replace sewer and water ahead of m.t.a. in this case, because they are taking out the tracks, we could not go of them. what we have learned is that we really need to do partnering, even within our internal city family. normally we have partnering with the contractor. we have instituted partnering within the city departments to work out and iron out details