i want to thank director sartipi for the kind words and get the word out and speaking to middle schools and doing our part but it works both ways. i have to commend her and her staff and the rest of them they work with us, anything that we want, we ask, we get, and one thing about maria she makes sure we're doing our job. hey, how's it going on? she does her part but it's a two way street and she wants to see this project successful and it's not easy. it's a lot of work. we hit roadblocks but we get over it and i have to tip my hat to her and her staff and they make the wheel go and i want to say thank you and

i want to thank director sartipi for the kind words and get the word out and speaking to middle schools and doing our part but it works both ways. i have to commend her and her staff and the rest of them they work with us, anything that we want, we ask, we get, and one thing about maria she makes sure we're doing our job. hey, how's it going on? she does her part but it's a two way street and she wants to see this project successful and it's not easy. it's a lot of work. we hit roadblocks but we get over it and i have to tip my hat to her and her staff and they make the wheel go and i want to say thank you and pass that along. thank you very much. >> thank you manny. >> thank you mr. florez. any other speakers that would like to speak that didn't turn on a card? seeing none public comment is now closed. we now move into our special calendar and if the board is okay with this i thought we could move up items nine and 10 first because i think they are shorter items and end with the budget. i thought we would keep the proposal after the budget since that is included in the informational bu

. >> director sartipi is in route, you do have a quorum. >> first israel em, community indication? s >> i am not aware of any. >> executive director's report. >> i will note that the board of directors of business that i am not aware of any either. >> okay. >> good morning, good morning, everyone. this week, we reached a couple of great milestones, the first one is we started the geo thermal piping on monday of this week and we are starting to put in the permanent structures and second we finished the baoel street bridge over the weekend with no complaints and 0 problems and we received a thank you note for 119 freemont thanking us for the great work that we did, and another thing that i wanted to refer to the board as you know last month you gave us authorization to attempt to enter into negotiations to reach a fair and reasonable price. engaged in that with our team, for some time, and however, they would not provide a fair and reasonable price, so on april third, a formal letter to scanko rejecting their bid. what we are going to do now is web corp is going to repackage everythi

. >> director sartipi is in route, you do have a quorum. >> first israel em, community indication? s >> i am not aware of any. >> executive