mr. mcguire, the floor is yours. >> good morning, supervisors, tom mcguire, director of streets for the sfmta, where among other things, i do oversee our capital projects and construction team, and thank you for -- thank you, kathleen, or whoever's running the slides. i'm going to give a quick overview of our response and more importantly some of the other going things that we're doing to improve project delivery at the sfmta, and obviously want to thank the civil grand jury. thank you for taking the time to talk about this, something that's really important to us. we know that we're not where we need to be. we know that there are some major capital projects in the city from which we have to draw some pretty hard and serious lessons. this hearing and this report is part of that learning, including the collaborative response that we got from our fellow partners, public works and p.u.c. in responding to this. so we welcome the feedback, and even though -- in the written response you got from us, you'll see us agreeing and disagrees. you can't -- disagreeing. you can't say partially agree, but m

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mr. mcguire and mr. scarpulla. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: i think it makes sense to open this up for public comment, and then, i will have to leave. >> chair preston: thank you. mr. clerk, let's open this up to public comment. >> clerk: thank you. mr. chair, we're looking to see if there are any callers in the queue. for those of you, if you were watching on cable channel 26, sfgovtv or other streaming link, dial 415-655-0001, enter meeting i.d. 2484-263-4825, and then press pound and pound again, then star, three to enter the queue, and operations informs me that there is one caller in the queue. >> hello. can you hear me now. >> clerk: please go ahead. >> thank you. david pillpel. in the past, not all civil grand jury reports have been thorough or meaningful, and some have been fairly disregarded by city staff. i think that's not the case this year. i think there was a great job done on all of these reports, and the staff and city responses have been pretty thoughtful and nuanced and the work that everyone has done

mr. mcguire, the floor is yours. >> good morning, supervisors, tom mcguire, director of streets for the sfmta, where among other things, i do oversee our capital projects and construction team, and thank you for -- thank you, kathleen, or whoever's running the slides. i'm going to give a quick overview of our response and more importantly some of the other going things that we're doing to improve project delivery at the sfmta, and obviously want to thank the civil grand jury. thank you for taking the time to talk about this, something that's really important to us. we know that we're not where we need to be. we know that there are some major capital projects in the city from which we have to draw some pretty hard and serious lessons. this hearing and this report is part of that learning, including the collaborative response that we got from our fellow partners, public works and p.u.c. in responding to this. so we welcome the feedback, and even though -- in the written response you got from us, you'll see us agreeing and disagrees. you can't -- disagreeing. you can't say partially agree, but m