i want to thank zola jones, who found me and let me know that this event was going on.ent me an e-mail. it's been two years since we last met and it's good to see you again. these days -- we've got a short power point presentation that i'm going to be using. just talk about some of the things we'll be doing, what our agency is about, the type of work that we do. and as you all know, cal trans covers the entire state of california. and in order to better manage that, we have broken down the department into 12 districts just like the city has different districts. that helps us in being closer to the community. helps us in increasing the utilization of the small businesses, disadvantage businesses and disabled enterprise businesses. the department manages 50,000 lane miles of highway, 22,000 employees statewide. my operation here in district 4, it covers the nine bay area counties. as you can see in the map. which is about 7,000 lane miles of highway. we have the toll bridges that we operate. we have just under 4,000 employees. our budgets, our capital program ongoing at t