we have shannon dodge who is a project manager at china town community development center and she and i are both available if you have any questions. thank you. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any questions on item number 6. okay. we don't have a budget analyst report. no public comment. public comment is closed. colleagues can we have a motion to move forward and we can do so without opposition. thank you very much. why don't we go back. we already called item 5, so we'll go back to that item, please. >> go ahead. >> members of the board, my name is bree and i'm the ceo the sheriff's department. our existing contract for inmate phone services which is with a company called gtl needs to be extended for one year. gtl provides phone service for inmates paid by the inmates. from this revenue 60 percent is reduced from the revenue and deposited in the fund and used for the benefit of the inmate. and in addition gtl pays $100,000 into the fund each year. gtl was selected through an rsp since 2009 and has been our contractor to 2010. this would be the first of two possible extensions an

you very much, shannon travis, pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> there's some sense of relief in buffalo, new york, a city notorious for massive snowfall. this time, they seem to have dodged a bullet as well. george howell is in the middle of it. tell us what you're thinking. >> another bright spot here. when you consider what was setting up here, when you consider we're talking about one of the busiest, if thought the busiest travel day of the year. and the storm system is coming in with anywhere from 4 to 6 inches of snow expected here. this city certainly did dodge a bullet in that regard. it's very cold here. no rain showers. that's good news because it's still below freezing. i want to take you to another camera down the street here, and you can see, this is what travelers are dealing with right now. good news here on the streets of buffalo. there is snow here. three to four inches of snow. they're used to that sort of thing. again, everybody is watching. as long as the temperature is low, the concern of black ice, that's what drivers are expected to watch out for. >> buffalo, new york, not as bad as it could be. >>> coming up next, cnn's great race from new york to

shannon, how are the roads doing right now? >> well, john, let me answer that question with something that a state transportation official told me earlier. he essentially said, we dodged a bullet. meaning that the wicked weather that the pittsburgh area was expecting wasn't so wicked after all. they did get a few inches of snow, but the roads have been pretty much clear. we have been driving along them, looking at the roads behind us. they have been pretty much clear. obviously, thanks in part to a lot of crews that have been out, helping to clear the roads. it seems as if most of the wickedness is really in other parts of pennsylvania. you mentioned a lashing in other county said, not here in allegheny where we are in pittsburgh, but in other counties. i spoke earlier with officials. apparently in beaver and lawrence, they got up to 12 inches of snow. the cleaning crews are out in force there. a lot of people are getting out of the airport. i have been in contact with a spokesman at the airport, pittsburgh international. she tells me that there haven't been any significant weather canc lashzs or delays, but that definitely they have seen an increase in the number of