eric cordova, ybi corp. mission manager. happy to present this item.o update you on the contract terms we are requesting an amendment on as well as the overall current status of the project. i'm going to jump right into the contract information and quickly give you a history, of state. at the end of 2010, the authority issued an rfq requesting qualification statements from engineering and environmental firms. we received six proposals, reviewed them, and executed a contract with the wmh corporation. they definitely had the superior understanding of the project as well as the team that could handle all phases of the project, the engineering, environmental, etc. it is also important to recognize the rfp included provisions to amend the contract to include the following services that we are here to discuss, the environmental phase and design phase. we have just finished preparation of the seismic strategy report. i will get into that into more detail. caltrans approved this strategy and it meets the highway bridge programming funding deadline, which were