i'm going to see if maria lombardo is available to answer that. >> maria lombardo, transportation authority. we come up with these five-year project lists. we do that every five years at the same time as we update our strategic plan, which is basically our financial tool for the 30-year planning revenues. it looks at our expenditures on a project-by-project allocations. >> let me add one thing to what maria is saying, and i kind of want to address director eaken's question, as well. the m.t.a. does get a say in how the sales tax is allocated because what we do is the revenue forecast that we get from the transportation authority we include in our c.i.p., which you will be getting in the coming months. we'll allocate our anticipated uses of the sales tax, which is what maria was saying, how much cash flow or debt maria was talking about we'll have to anticipate. our matches are just going up and up every cycle, so we can plan that out in advance. also on streets projects, where we have very more complicated high dollar grant projects, we will through that in the upcoming 5ypp. so the staff d

i'm going to see if maria lombardo is available to answer that. >> maria lombardo, transportation authority. we come up with these five-year project lists. we do that every five years at the same time as we update our strategic plan, which is basically our financial tool for the 30-year planning revenues. it looks at our expenditures on a project-by-project allocations. >> let me add one thing to what maria is saying, and i kind of want to address director eaken's question, as well. the m.t.a. does get a say in how the sales tax is allocated because what we do is the revenue forecast that we get from the transportation authority we include in our c.i.p., which you will be getting in the coming months. we'll allocate our anticipated uses of the sales tax, which is what maria was saying, how much cash flow or debt maria was talking about we'll have to anticipate. our matches are just going up and up every cycle, so we can plan that out in advance. also on streets projects, where we have very more complicated high dollar grant projects, we will through that in the upcoming 5ypp. so the staff d