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second May I close?
excuse me you may cause
thank you
uh... i'd just one of respond to a few things and clse I know where
this is going but i think it's very important to be on record as having
supported it at this time
contracting is extremely important to begin construction
we do not have a high-speed rail being built we have we have less than a
hundred miles of track un-electrified somewhere in the central valley
that's what we have for our six billion
the i will ride group I applaud them but the uh... the gentleman here
said that they did not they did not know how to read the plan
but they just decided they wanted a train and that's the problem i will
ride but who will pay and where will will it be and where were you ride to
we have a lot of infrastructure needs in the state and i'm not saying we can't
this is already
going down the track but what we do need to be sure of is that we're spending the
money
in an audited fashion because it is public funds
we have four levels of contractors reviewing this project
for levels of contractors contractors being contractors being contractors and
contractors
that's not
for public funds
so
I understand
you know and we also we we just heard we really we've got a risk
management team now in place but we don't have a risk management plan yet
we are aleady going to start digging i mean that's what i heard in these reports so
I understand
where you're going to know you wanna get this done but i think you need to
acknowledge that we we have a lot of money at stake
we need audits at different levels we should never not audit this it is public
finds we should be auditing it every step of the way with each different
construction stage
and so i i had i do want an aye vote and i know i won't get an aye vote
but i think it's very important for the record the state these things
this is important to lot of money to your your voters it's a lot of money
potentially coming out of your general fund
affecting public safety education everything that we've got and we need
more employment that's true
but we need private-sector employment we don't need to be ripping through the
central valley if we are not going to be accomplishing that goal cell i would
like to see us accomplish the goal
i would like to see funding in areas where we need it but if we're going to
do this plan this is not my plan but of we are going to do this week we ought to at least
be auditing the construction timeframe and the contractors that are auditing
contractors i think contractors that's very very important we have a fiduciary
responsibility to do so
thank you we have a motion to have a second?
we have a second secretary please call the role
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that the request fails. thank you
I'll be back
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