as you have heard, my name is julie berry. we do concrete pumping. i am a certified local business enterprise. i am also a certified firm located in the bayview district here in this warm city of san francisco. we are grateful for the opportunity to work on the presidio parkway doyle drive replacement project. we are doubly grateful. not only did we have the opportunity to win a contract, but additionally we are going to be working on contract for. the total value of those contracts is approximately $3 million. you're probably wondering -- how did you do that? what i did was i attended -- just done the street, i attended and out -- event for small business enterprises conducted by paul prendergast and his team. that afforded me the opportunity. all of the general contractors were there, and i had the opportunity as a small business to reach out to each of them face to face and talk about my business and how i can team with them and work on this project together. being a woman-owned firm, with my husband out here in the audience and my son running thi

san francisco contractor julie berry is responsible for pumping the concrete to create the tunnel. >>he two contracts to be had it's estimated $3 million. it keeps my employees employed. >> reporter: the location offers one of the most stunning views of all the way has to -- bay has to offer. for engineers, it offers big distractions. >> noise restriction. we couldn't drive the piles. so the designers came up with a design where you have to oscillate the foundation into the ground. on top of that, we have the v.a. cemetery adjacent to the sunle -- tunnel. >> reporter: the project is being paid for with $83 million in federal funds and $33 million in local funds. it's scheduled for completion in -- in 2013. reporting live, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> tomorrow, the b.a.r.t. board will consider extending train service from the coliseum station to the oakland international airport. the board will discuss a new funding plan for the $480 million project, one that relies op a mix of local, state and federal money. back in february, the federal government withdrew $70 million in