mr. lurkin? >> is that me? >> chairman: okay. member mccue? >> yes. >> member mcnulty? >> yes. >> member patoha? >> yea. >> chairman: vice chair post? >> yes. >> chairman: great. mr. mills hasn't been sworn in yet, so he is not is voting today. have there any nominations for vice chair. >> i will nominate lauren post for vice chair. >> chairwoman: i will second. any comments from the members? we already have a nominee? any public comment on vice chair? seeing none, can you call the vote. >> chair chu? >> yea. >> member lurkin? >> yes. member mcnullty? >> yea. >> vice chair post? >> yes. >> item number four, approval with possible modification of the may 20th, 2019, meeting. >> chairwoman: do any of the members have comments? >> i'll move to approve the minutes. >> second. >> chairman: any public comment on the minutes? move on to item number five. >> i think we need to vote. >> chairman: can we just do one big vote -- i think we need to vote on the ap priewl oapproval of the minutes? how can you do it without calling roll call -- >> you can do a roll call oraor any say a

mr. lurkin gave, and the advantage would be the forcing function of having the liason have an opportunity to anticipate that item, set up a meeting with bond program managers, ask any questions they had, so that the content could be focused on things that are of most of interest to goback. and there was a concern you would get detailed reports and pretty pictures, but not much of a chance to focus on issues that are of concern for you. the liason focus was a test. i should have also reminded the m.t.a. program manager that having that program manager appear during the agenda item would be an expectation so that any questions could be answered. so sorry if that was my miss. but that's sort of my expectation for how it would go. >> oh, sorry. i was going to say there is a familiar-looking guy over there. >> chairwoman: i don't know all of the personnel, so sorry about that. >> and before you go on, i was going to say, yeah, this is a misunderstanding, then, on my part that the new format was going to not include as much a presentation as we had had before. i'll say a misunderstanding to mak

mr. lurkin, you're the first deliverer of a liason report in the format we talked about for this fiscal year. there has been a little bit of confusion about how to deliver this content, but i think -- our conversation, when we were developing the work plan with you for the current fiscal year, was that each bond program would appear before you twice in a year. once you would have a formal report from the bond program managers of the type that was just given on the public health bond. in the opposite six month point and the calendar, you would have a liason report, like mr. lurkin gave, and the advantage would be the forcing function of having the liason have an opportunity to anticipate that item, set up a meeting with bond program managers, ask any questions they had, so that the content could be focused on things that are of most of interest to goback. and there was a concern you would get detailed reports and pretty pictures, but not much of a chance to focus on issues that are of concern for you. the liason focus was a test. i should have also reminded the m.t.a. program manager that hav