supervisor dufty: as a cfo, in my humble opinion, ms. boze does a spectacular job, but awe havea capital planning staff that looks more deeply at the federal options. i know there are some of you here today, the project manager, ms. green, who does the legislative work for us. the most important thing that i took from the testimony is we have the potential to impact decisions at the mtc as well as state legislative representatives to create the imperative around this project. it is not unusual to have a gap, particularly in this type of economic environment. expectations around government funding are not being realized. i agree with you. it is not constructive to have us working this out for a particle here. there ought to be more real conversations. -- cathartically here. i think that we do face the situation where i feel the mta, along with the transportation of our day, needs to be making a more compelling case for this project. let's just to recognize the fact that no major transportation projects has been built without major criticism. t