the senate transportation committee on july 9th. we hope for a favorable approval there as well. and finally, on the management front, and administration front, we held a -- we participated -- staff participated in construction management association of america night. that was featuring in all businesses and d.b.e. opportunities, public agency night. so together with dozens of other agencies, we featured the projects that we have coming forward, so that we can provide networking and learning opportunities to contractors large and small. keynotes from a number of folks really drew the community to the event. and we were happy to participate and support business participation and access. finally, reporting on those statistics, deputy director of finance cynthia fong has provided some updates here. we have small business enterprise firms participating in all of our contracts. we track these figures to ensure we're making progress on a quarterly basis and during the period from july 1st through march 31 -- july 1st last year up until march of this fiscal year, we made 30% of our vendor payments to d.b.e. firms, 27% to l.b.e. firms and 25% to s.b.e. firms. so we're pleased with that -- those types of figures and can only strive to do more. and i