most of the presentation will be done by julie kirshbomb. while mta is still looking at hiring a project manager, she is continuing to guide the work through the mta. for our part, the comptroller's office and mta have been working together by a partnership for mets since 2006. we have been supporting in a variety of staff capacities. in general we have had the procurement of complex professional service contracts. we would procure transportation management designed by our early consultant, which by an early market study of operation analysis, demographic and transportation pattern analysis, we worked with them to get grant funding to install automatic passenger counters, which greatly facilitated the data collection that informs tep throughout. early on there was an advisory group that met on a consistent basis dead included our office, the heads of a number of city agencies, mta, transportation authority, labor unions representing most muni workers, superpower, a number of other major expert -- superpowspur, r of others. after the a little