where we have had a contract with itron since 2004, with multiple amendments and now we have decided to have a new contract, my understanding is that some of the terms have, you know, been changed and the escalation and we renegotiated to a lower amount and some of the scopes of work have been consolidated and it is a 5 year contract and the amount is less than ten million. >> the city attorney's office views this as the relationship with the vendor has been close to ten years and this contract will take it over the ten-year frame. and that was the discussion going back and forth. >> okay. so it has purely to do where it will be heard before us for the board of supervisors and needs our on proval approval. >> why don't you go to the budget analyst report, mr. rose? >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, the not-to-exceed amount of 171,000 would have an escalation of 3.5 percent and each 12 month period and as i stated, that is incorporated and we recommend that you approve the resolution. >> okay, thank you. >> any questions for the analyst? >> okay, we will open up the public co

obtained in the first place and indicates other people are implicated why they wouldn't go back for title itron i can search and they have what they need for that. >> if it is two grandmothers an they're probably opinion innocent. all i'm saying the only reason i raise it, i'm trying myself to figure out are there not gray areas here an wondering if you had any solutions authority of about authority which you find is too broad and completely ignoring it. let me not use up my whole five minutes. i did want to ask you about, as you know the president's review commission said they wanted to see a warrant, an actual, go get a warrant for probable cause before you could search the data using a u.s. person indicator. my question to you, is, and, we have heard some reasons why they think that would be very onerous, including the fact that the president's review commission indication was that there had to be a probable cause that the person was about to commit something, do bodily injury or commit some terrorism crime. my answer, my question to you is, if you think there are legitimate and you do, prob