Would the agreement allow us to bring in an investor and we put it in this transaction and we share with the investor the 10 . And if they were happy with 6 , we would make 4 and if they were happy with 8 , we would make 2 . Are we allowed to do that within the boundaries of contract . Within the boundaries of contract, we can put in money the Port Commission off crews and puts into its budget. As long the Port Commission approves it, we can put money into the deal. I will note that we talked about this very thing because the timing was such that we werent at this point able to put in money. The developer anticipates starting construction in ernest early next year. To the extent theres money, they are open to putting that into the deal. I think all of us on the models, see how close phase one is and we can replace the 8 money with 10 money and that would help phase one achieve feasibility. That includes my question, thank you. Weve been over this phase pe onphaseone many times so im comfortable with the project and supportive. I think one other aspect and i wasnt going to make comment here because i didnt have further questions, but one of the things in the past and the reason for the 10 , when we compare it to the investment yield that we have on our cash securities investments, that the treasure of San Francisco we have surplus cash the 10 is an attractive yield relative to 1 or 2 yield we get. Thats a factor of why when this return is discussed in the past, that we compare what are other alternatives are for not just our Capital Planning but for actual return on investments. Obviously they take safe investment guidelines. The 10 is a very good yield relative to their yield. No further comment. Thank you. Vice president adam. Im in favour but i agree with president brandon. Shes been asking about this for month and sometimes i think when the commissioners talk, it falls on deaf ears. The staff may think they know more than the commissioners. Thats fine, but i think when asking is asked, you know, shes been asking for this for months, and no excuse not to be in the report and you cant duck it. If theres an issue, it needs to be dealt it and thats how i feel. Jack came up, but it should be in the report and should be talked about. So i think when we say something, it should be heeded and as president brandon said, people from the community hadnt come out today, a lot of this stuff we wouldnt have known and we have to talk about these things. I think to me, transparency is important and when we say something, it should be there. Im not blaming you, but somebody should have had that in the report and you should have been able to call that immediately to give those anticipation. Answers. This is too big, something take 12, 13 years, we need have it right. So ill sport. Support it. We need facts to make the right decisions. Thank you. Rebecca, thank you for this report and jack and team, thank you so much for all of the work that you have put into this project because this will be an amazing project. I think our concern is to make sure there are opportunities for everywhere to be involved in this project. Anything that happens along that waterfront will affect that community. It will affect everybody. So ive been asking over and over, can you please include the southern Waterfront Advisory Committee on everything going on on that corridor. So hopefully they get the same opportunities that everybody else is getting and know of opportunities coming up, that they may be interested in. So hopefully, Going Forward, we will talk to all of our advisory groups prior to anything coming to the commission. And i can explain what our thinking was. It wail not satisfy you at all. Foul. [ laughter ] we come to the Port Commission first and we came to you on september 10th and i put them on every single calendar and their meeting is tomorrow and they didnt have enough meeting before today so we could delayed the Port Commission. Everyone has the same opportunity. I agree. We didnt have a meeting, a swack meeting since the last meet. But what we are instituting is Community Reports on the mission rock project to the swack and the seawag. So well institute that starting now. It will allow the swack to get caught up on the projects because theyre not well informed and moving forward, well do quarterly updates on them. I dont think it should take me to say that all of these advisory groups should get a briefing. I think theyve had a meeting and there was arriv ample oppor. Again, i shouldnt have to ask where we are with the workforce and who are we giving this information to. Thats not my job. There is so much happening along the third street corridor which is why i thought the Mayors Office put together an effort to make this all work together. Because every project will impact all of the communities. And so whether its pier 70, whether its mission rock or transportation, waste whatever , Everyone Needs the same information. Thank you, i really appreciate this. All in favour . The resolution 1939 and 1940 has been approved. Information under the Fundraising Campaign and partnership of San Francisco parks alignment. Good afternoon, president and commissioners. Im the manager on the real estate and development division. This informational item before you is the proposed park Fundraising Campaign. As you all know, crane cove park has been an active project of the port since 2005 and david boprey who lead the planning the park and erica crane are both here to answer Historical Context questions. Drew betchr of the San FranciscoParks Alliance is here today and will be speaking later on in our presentation. Just as an overview of what youll be covering, we will go over the project background and status, the Strategic Plan alignment, parks aligned history and experience, our next steps. Shoreline ro reconstruction, bot irrigation. And it is anticipated that the 19th street, georgia street and building 49 are delivered by the calendar year 2020. The date has spent 16 millions of the 36 million budget. With that said, there were components of the project of the original scope that were moved due to cost considerations. And moved out to later phases. These included a tot lot and riggers yard. This is a critical investment and important to develop in the plan through the priorities. Opening crane cove park by 2020, raising public funds for the childrens playground in 2020 and growing Capital Funding with external forces. The components were still deemed to be vital components and this is how a partnership could be structured and to fundraise for the park. This dialogue is built upon a longstanding relationship with the Parks Alliance and highlighted in the coming sites. This raised over 65 million for ports open space. The alliance has been looked to by the city as a fundraising partner for countless spaces throughout the city. Their continuous collaboration for the recreation and Parks Department is a testament to the success for park and communities p whilwhile they are the most successful in parks, their success is matched to creating vibrant open space for everyone to enjoy and this makes them a natural fit for our partnership and to lead the Fundraising Campaign. At this time, i would like to invite the ceo of the parks to speak. Im drew betcher and thank you for the opportunity and i want to give a shoutout to my leadership team. This is important to the citizens and county of San Francisco. I just wanted to point out the history and experience of the Parks Alliance. We have been around since 1971, building and helping to build this citys rec and Park Department. I would say the rec and Park Department in San Francisco is now one of the top recreation and Parks Department. It got there with advocacy and partnerships. Thats what we are built on with 12 now Community Leaders that we organize every year and 200 community groups, that were fiscally sponsored organization and most are in our parks but were expanding. We are the first city to reach a tenminute walk to parks and open space and crane cove will help the dog patch area in the southeast waterfront be more successful. We started off with fundraising in the mid90s with the conservatory of flowers. Mamany of you may remember, it s blown down in a storm and we raised 26 million to reopen that with an endowment and we still operate that if partnership with the rec and Park Department. We just completed a 30 Million Campaign to redo the Golden Gate Park tennis centre, as well, which has a big component for the Tennis Learning Center which is invested in tennis courts, in equity zones around the city and were nearing the end of our investment, of our initiative, which is 13 playgrounds around the city that are in neighborhoods with the most need and in the middle of raising 1 14. 5 million for that campaign. Its a 36 Million Programme matched up with bond funds from the bond the city has. We have seven projects under construction and theyre due to be opened up in winter, all opened up by 2021. Another big investment made by the city and specifically the Mayors Office over the past couple of years in the parks alignsalliance. We had parks groups wanting to be fiscally managed and do Fundraising Efforts for them and we did not have the capacity. We had 60 to 80 groups waiting and we decided we went to the city and they decided to invest in the Parks Alliance to expand our capacity and were happy to say we have all new systems. We have new staff and we have a new way of almost a trademark system of work an and bringing communities together around projects such as this. An activation is big. Youve heard this from many and this is the old addage, you build it and come, that is something were work on. I also want to say, we worked with the economic and workforce development, puc, among others and weve worked with the port closely but not this closely over the past couple of years that weve been involved and were looking forward to this partnership. As you noted in 2004, we started the conversation about the big blue greenway idea and now its the rubber hits the road. Crinco is one of the biggest publically funded pieces of that plan and we want it to be hugely successful for you and we are really happy to be a part of it and we look forward to work wig you to make it really the shining star in the green necklace that will be southeast waterfront we can be proud of. Were raising money at the same time, which we think is a compliment for india basin and india basin is a pup wit. Its always bad to hav good to s and we have two great options, having both in our portfolio when we shop donors to invest in great neighborhoods. The Parks Alliance is here and we love working with the port. Your staff is absolutely amazing and we look forward to having this become the Public Private partnership that we can all be proud of on the southeast waterfront. The alliance will aim to raise 6. 3 million for contribution to the park to deliver the yard, the tot lot and two crane tops. And the Partnership Structure will be similar to what the Park Alliance does with the recreation and Parks Department throughout the city, staff envisions executing an mo ultimate tu. There will be commun protocols, port oversight, Commission Engagement and how it will be accepted by the park. The fiveyear time line will hit the target, there will be to allow for any changes that may lengthen or effort. And in conclusion, next steps are as follows in the fall. We will continue at your direction to retype Partnership Structure. The commission will be presented, a proposed mou to be executed with the Parks Alliance and winter of 2020, in the new year, the Fundraising Campaign strategy will be further refined and we will launch a Small Campaign and in the sprai spring, the park willn with a launch of the campaigning to confetti, lots of kayaking people in the new beach. Im here to answer any questions and drew betcher and drew and erica are here as well. Any Public Comment . Director forbes, im with pier 70 and we were the First Development entity and put a trailer on site and started in the noonan building and moved to our project. The idea is for the park at the time, they were developed, designed and its really, really exciting to see theres a potential for the port to join a Development Partner or fundraising partner to raise the money to get the job complete. I know hearing from the committee and from our tenants and everyone else for crane cove park to come online and we want to share that. Thank you. Any other Public Comment regarding this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner g gillman. Thank you for the presentation and im familiar with the work and im excited were partnering with them to get the project over the hump and deliver as promised to this neighborhood. So thank you for the presentation. Commissioner . Thank you for the presentation, to questions. Commissioner . Thank you for the presentation, as well. I was involved with the park ace linesaligns alliance in 201 2012 and so imy supportive because i think crane cove park is a long, overdue development and we know that its been long and coming but were all excited to see it happen and i think this is an important step Going Forward. Thank you. Vice president , adam . I like the presentation and i would like to say for the Park Alliance, i appreciated the comments you had to say about the new system and you got it up and running. You got things going, looked at it with the city and stuff and this has been long going. I know David Frasier worked on this for years and a lot of people when it first started have passed on. David knows the initial committee, my union that wanted to see this happen and theyre all passed on now. This has been going on for years. So i hope i get to see this come to fruition. It would be a tribute to their honor. Thank you. Thank you so much for the presentation. David, thank you for all of your work, bringing the park to where we are today and you think its really exciting that the Parks Alliance is joining us on this fundraising effort and muchneeded structures that we need out there. Just one question. So youre going to do the finalizing piece and annually, you turn the funds over to the port and the port does the work or how does that work. So it can happen in a multiple delivery strategy. The recreation and parks delivered the work and gusted the improvemengiftedthe improve. And then staff delivers through maintenance or through consultants the actual work. So i think that depends how the contribution is made and each will come to the port as an accept and of cours expend acti. So the Parks Alliance will do the fundraiser and we will do the actual improvements . Theres an opportunity for multiple paths to be taken. There have been discussions right now with the existing contractor because there might be there may be shared expenses that could be more advantageous than using the existing contractor to deliver the work, but that is contingent on us having the fundraising dollars come in and so, i know that the Parks Alliances having several conversations with donors right now and we anticipate starting donor tours in the near future. So i think that if we were gifted playground equipment, we could institute a contract for that work, as well. Now. Ok. Im sure ill understand it better when you bring the [ laughter ] the mou for approval. Thank you very much. This was great and really exciting and we want to thank the Parks Alliance for partnering on this effort. So thank you. Thank you. Could i help to try to provide clarity, maybe . I think what were asking for is the neglect o flexibility of ths alliance and if its something our crews could do, we can do that or by us putting it out to bid and take th taking the funde raised. So well look to allow any three delivery methods, whatever makes the most sense from an efficiency standpoint. Ok, thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Item 8a, requests for approval to execute an amendment for professional Services Contract with ch2m hill, Engineers Incorporated for planning, engineering and services for the waterfront which includes the army corps of engineering and related activities to increase the contract by 19,000,392,000,000 resulting in a contract. Im brad benson representing the waterfronts of resilience teem to talk about a proposed amendment that we describe to you on an informational basis in august for a contract with cm2m hill. So i will give a shorter update than we did last time about the waterfront resilience programme, also give a few short updates about the Army Corps Flood resiliency study. Ill go over the major items in the contract scope of work and theres one minor change to the report i would like to flag and well end with a funding update with a focus on a planned trip to washington, d. C. With our commissioned officers to advocate for the programme. So as we mentioned last time, we are out in public, in a series of public workshops along the waterfront describing the work going on. We were in the Bayview Community this last week, had excellent attendance. The team did a good job of turning folks out. Were trying to understand what people love about the waterfronts, what they think is important to the city, their concerns about flood risk and seismic risk. As part of that outreach effort, were getting feedback on draft visual ship statement principles, goal and objectives. The draft vision is to create a safe, equitable and sustainable waterfront. The programme involves different activities, some of which are portwide and po some limited to specific geographies. The flood study covers the entire port jurisdiction. The adapt and envision process where well envision a new waterfront to 21 levels is portwide. We have efforts like the embarcadaro seawall and Rehabilitation Programme that are limited to the northern waterfront and in southern waterfront, were commencing through the front, similar to the northern waterfront kicking off the seawall programme. We are requesting author requesn to amend the contract portwide and were trying to integrate efforts like the embarcadaro seawall and army corps wall study. As were adding resources, were being mindful and trying to take advantage of the creek study, which is caltrans finished with the army core work and were efficient with public money. Weve incorporated your recommendations from prior discussions. The change to the report that i want to flag for you, actually on page 7 of the report, we were projecting a 23. 42 spaw spaws e participation and we got approval just yesterday in advance of the commission meeting. The exact mission is 21. 9 . We expect that will go back up to the 23. 24 . There are some lbes where paperwork is in process and theyre being added and that will be before the board of supervisors approval. As an overview, we have provided that informational presentation on august 13th. The proposed contract amendment will increase the contract amount by 19. 3 million with that 21. 2 lbe participation rate, including contingency and the total amount will be just slightly less than 60 million. As to the Army Corps Flood stow, study, a big part is to support that work. Weve been seeking army corps expertise since 2012. It to the north of the port. If the study recommends a project to congress and Congress Funds the project, the federal government would pay 65 of the design and construction cost. We have the october throug locad plan which would be loyal funded. As we spent a lot of time at the last meeting, we think we need a waiver from the army corps of engineers to increase from 23 millio3million dollars 3 mi. It could be a project up to 1 billion. As a measure of that, the seawall is budgeted at 24 million for preliminary engineering and Environmental Review for three quarters of a mile, so we think were efficient and were trying to merge two effort. We expect that the waiver request would happen in spring of 2020 and that we would be talking about that waive i request when were back in d. C. In october. So these are all of the items in the proposed contract amendment. Ill touch on the major ones briefly. So we are finishing up the multihazard Risk Assessment right now. The results are expected in spring of next year. We are trying to ready by building into this contract amendment, a programme to provide lbe support services so that we can, one, understand the tape of work that will be available, advertise that to the appropriate lbes and make sure e they have the capacity and be matched with primes for future work, looking at the bid packages so that theyre appropriately sized. Were excited to start and effort with the explor explorat. , wear skated to be launching an effort to explain this complicated programme to the San Francisco public. Even as we pursued the bond, the first 500 million strengthened phase of the work willing focusn life safety. The multihazard Risk Assessment will tell us about the casualties along the waterfront but we need to hear from the city and First Responders what we need from the waterfront. So were amending the contract to provide for two exercises in the spring to call together not only city agencies but weda to understand if you sea this type of damage along the waterfront, how will that include your response and wont yo wont to d existing plans for existing damages through this reduction assessment. So ch2m is committed to the 21 proceeding spa lbe goal. We think were close to 29 . And we expect this to be over 23 and were continuing to work with the Contract Monitoring Division to get those final firms added. We do support a rationale support and we dont think it would be a decision to bid out this work. A new contract award would take six to nine month and that delay would pose a risk to the flood study and the albei ability to t that. Its difficult to manage a team anand that would be two. We want to get to work on the lbe support services and workforce soo as soon as we can. We think it will carry us through the Environmental Review and design projects. There some unforeseen circumstances that would change that. If the flood resiliencecy study found recipiente limited, we wod astrodescope and reduce the task authorizations for that work. Similarly, if the army corps is not able to obtain a waiver. There are circumstances where the flood study could identify a larger project or the damages that we seen in the seawall programme could be so severe that policy makers want a larger project and we might need more resources than were seeing today. Thank you to our officers to supporting us in washington, d. C. Were organizing a trip in the end of october, and plan to meet with the capable del garbages. Delegation. We have a proposal to the resources act that would give the port extra credit for seismic improvements through the flood study. It has to and flood controlled improvement but it would be designed to address seismic risks along the waterfront and this amendment would help with that. Well be talking about that waiver request that i mensed med earlier. I will stop there and see if the commission has any questions and to allow for Public Comments. Can i have a motion . So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner . Jajacob is our contractor no. If we to do a new bid, would they qualify for this work under, what is it the 12y ordinance. No, because theyre headquartered in texas. We could take a waiver that i think i would be i could look at it, but no, they could not bid today for a new contract award because the firm is headquartered in texas and texas is on the list of states that the city and county is not contracting with because they have draconian laws and there are amendments to add to the list states where women cannot get access to abortion. Has jacobs request add waive. No, because the 12 skepticism legislatio12x does notapply. They wanted to make sure not to interfere with big works underway and big Engineering Work requires to mo modify and amend. So 12x does not apply to modifications. For a noncontract amendment, have they requested a waiver to be able to bid . Not from me, commissioner. Not from the port of San Francisco. You aware of any waiver thats been granted, jacob and company in San Francisco . Not personally aware. Colleagues, for me, i think theres a better way to continue this programme. This is a valuable programme and i concur a delay would not be in our best interests. But theres a bay t way to adheo the law of the programmes and go forward without delay. We can go out with a new bid and project eight months from now or ten months from now and overlap them and have a smooth transition from one contract or another and be in compliance with the ordinance. Giving 20 million contracts to someone that can not get the contract on their only if they bid is just a package of circumventing the law. I think we can honor good contracting. I think we can honor no delay and i think we can meet our goals and objectives by pushing it out and bidding it properly. Short of that, in a backwards way, we are approving this contractor i and all of the potential ills that our board of supervisors believe that they do. So you will be voting against it and i would prefer to all of you to look for a solution to honor the ordinance that we have versus taking the easy course out and just sir su sir come cie law on the books. Thank you. Well, i had some questions, but just related to what commissioner macra said. We have concerns about this ordinance and companies headquartered in a state we dont agree with in San Francisco. But do we have inspection issues with this particular company relating to this law . Ill ask brad to get up and talk about it. We did do some outreach to make sure the company itself has good provision and protections for their gay lgbtq staff and did some additional Due Diligence to make your theres no particular issue with the company in terms of policies. The ordinance doesnt apply. We just wanted to go above and beyond to make sure there wasnt an issue relative to the company. With that, ill turn it over to you, brad. Commissioner, director forbes, do you want me to go over the staff analysis of the apoliticcabilitapplicability. So as director forbes mentioned, the board of supervisors in february 11t february 11th of 2017 passed an administrative Code Amendment that bans city funded travel and city contracts with firms headquartered in states that had antilgbt laws. You think that ordinance has been updated to address states with antiabortion laws. The city administrator added texas to the covered state list for the original ordinance, september 1st, 2017. The Port Commission authorized the award of the original contract on august 8, 2017 and the board of supervisors approved that contract septembe. Youll see that texas was added to the covered states list. At the time ch2m was in denver, colorado and that state is not on the covered state list. Ch2h stakeholders Jacobs Engineering on december 13th, 2013 and the state of supervisors approved the contract. Pouch2m is still headquartered n denver and as director forbes mentioned earlier and this only applies to contract award and not contract amendments. Thats the 12x analysis and now i would like to invite stacie jones up who is the project manager for ch2m, here with laura harnesh. Thank you, brad. President brandon, commissioners, director forbes and staff. Thank you to address this very important topic because its something near and dear to our company and all of our staff. Iin terms of the commitment to the lgbt. Community, when this contract was wa awarded, they went beyond what the ordinance required. We have been very successful in accomplishing that. Especially because we work with many states that are not on this list. We have provided that documentation by staff, by state to port staff. Like the city and the port, ch2m hill feels very strongly that we embody the spirit and the value of inclusion and diversity, especially as it relates to the lgbtq community. Where we strive as an employer, and i welcome you to please visit our website, and our employees strive to become employer of choice for the lbgtq community and its people. Its really evidenced in our business practises and our employment practises and also recognition by the industry. So i would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of the hu highlights. They have had an Employee Network especially for the lbgtq Community Called prisment. Pris. Its to create an environment to bring their whole selves to work. When we cant do that in an organization, we cant e excel, regardless of sex, gender or sexuality. Our practises, business practise and our Employee Benefits are an example of this commitment that wave made and some of those, among other things include samesex opposite partner benefits, nondiscri nondiscrim n protection. Expansion of our prison network, Employee Network, globally. And this year, we are providing a conscious inclusion training extending to all employees globally and ive taken it and its extremely important and really provides awareness for our employees. We support the employee awards in may. The largest statewide lgbt civilrights. We supported transcal to provide firms as underrepresenting, ne necessitag quality. We are partnering with other organizations that promotes and advocates for lgbtq people and one is buildout. Theres an event in november where theyll launch buildout. It is an organization that advocates serving for lgbt people in building, design and construction. So im scooted to able to participate. In january we were awarded a 100 score with an index measuring lgbtq quality in Corporate America and their practise. We have been recognised in previous years and our score was 80 two years ago and increased to 9 90 and this year is to 100. This demonstrates or goals as a company to supporting diversity in all areas. I would like to speak for laura and our employees. We personally are tremendously proud of our companys reputation, our diversity and inclusion policies. It makes a Stronger Company where people of all backgrounds can feel at home and where our widely different perspectives and our talents around the globe greatly enhance our ain abilito provide you, our clients with our imaginative an effective solutions. Were admitte committed and we y the spirit of what 12f is trying to english an accomplish and weu could take that under consideration seriously. Thank you. I think that answers part of my question. Thank you very much and i appreciate that. I just came back from a National Association of Corporate DirectorsNational Award last night in washington, d. C. For diversity Equity Inclusion and this is a hot topic. I was representing u. S. Bank and we did not win in the category but it was a big topic for the conference. [ laughter ] in terms of our board. But i really appreciate that because i think thats a very important category for all of us and certainly San Francisco is even more aware and sensitive to this top understanding, but getting back to the project itself, i guess i had just a couple of kind of more global question, brad. So it looks like weve had a lot of amendments, costs have gone up and scope has gone up. Weve been working at this and it seems like we have to sort of test and learn along the way. Weve learned things because this is something new we have not done before. I guess the question and concern that i have is that just have we learned enough . Do we know enough . Are we comfortable . Will we keep coming back with more amendments and scope . I know its a huge topic. I think this team has been ate for two years and this is the product of more than four months of thinking about this contract amendment. I want to credit all of the members of the team, putting a lot of time into thinking about this additional scope of work, whether i the engagement piece or counting the number of meetings with need over the last two and a half years of all of the different events that will support engagement for folks who dont come to the workshops or steve and matt working with the Engineering Team on how to develop a Seismic Solutions kit for the entire three miles of the seawall. Theres just been a lot of thought. And not just ourselves but with the army corps of engineers. Were in a project Delivery Team with the army corps, where the two staffs come together, meet on a regular basis and the project is owned by the pdt. We spent quite a but bit of tim, really pushing the brow boundarf that and i have a high degree of confidence that we are bringing all of our knowledge gain to date and all of the effort in the last threemans t three montg you the best we can. I cant guarantee things wont change in the future but we have a high degree of confidence this will resource the effort. So any lessons everyoned that we can be smarter about this Going Forward and be faster at it in terms of identifying of something we didnt know that we need to address . I think an undertaking like this, its difficult to having identify a broader risk to understanding how those risks are affecting assets along the waterfront, including utility infrastructure, hidden infrastructure, to then designing projects. You know, its unlike what we typically do. We typically start with a pier and saw we want to redevelop a pier or well build standard infrastructure in a new neighborhood and the city has design specifications. So were starting from the hazards to figures out what the projects will be. I think this as been iterative. What about the sound waterfront. Well try to look for lessons learned. We dont think we have the answers but were being as smart as we can today. Thank you. Commissioner gillman . Thank you. Im torn at this moment. Theres a lot you want to commend the staff and i want to commend ch2m hill for doing. Thank you for the presentation that you as a corporation are trying to do for equity and diversity. The programmes you talked about, they really are impactful for your employees to thank you for that. The lbe representation and the amount of work done today in Going Forward is impressive. Ive learned its continuing to try to do better every time we contract. But im concerned that the board of supervisors passes ordinances. The reason they pass them, stating do not do business under this provision, is to leverage the resources that the city and county of San Francisco not do business with companies that are headquartered in states that dont have their value and i think its the timeline they put out in the sale because i wasnt here in 2017, and im just curious, it seems to me unless im missing something, which i could be, that the sale and acquisition conversations were happening white the commission was hearing these contracts. Everywhere was aware that was occurring. So they were given notice and we made commission aware and the board of supervisors completely aware. This is the situation where we didnt mothe know for certain by had given in the of intent and everyone was aware they would be bought by