Yeah.

Now you also have systems of redundancy.

Can you talk about that?

Through the chair to the councilperson, when you say systems are are you referring to the controls themselves or well you you you're you're doing an upgrade here and the reason why you're doing based upon what you have in front of me here now?

You're doing the upgrades here, but you're you're making these improvements so that your system is more efficient and more reliable, correct?

Through the chair to the councilperson, that's correct, yeah.

And one of the arguments of of making sure that you have an efficient and liable system is Mr.

Chairman to uh the assistant director is uh based upon the possibility of population increase or in terms of more usage uh here at the airport.

So can you, Mr.

Chairman, um, to the director or the system director, uh what do you anticipate in terms of your possibility of increasing?

Because that's a part of the argument of of doing this so you can be more efficient and more reliable.

Through the chair to the councilperson again, it's the technology component here that it will be a smarter system, if you will, to to help make sure that the bags are going where they need to go and that the ones that need to be checked are going to the the right area to be checked and and those kinds of things.

It's all about just using the latest and greatest technology to make the system more efficient and more reliable.

Okay.

So basically this is when you say redundancy, you're talking about your physical servers.

Through the chair to the councilperson, yeah.

And um and how the system is put together.

So I guess the next question is what do we anticipate uh in terms of our increase in terms of customers at the airport?

Where are we right now in terms of annual usage and where will we be with this whole proposition in six years from now?

So through the chair to the councilperson, we are uh currently at roughly 10 million annual passengers.

And uh we are projecting in the next five years uh if if things continue to to move forward with us having more capacity and and more uh passengers making use of those services, um more uh in the next few years.

That's also one of the uh reasons why we need a new facility, because the current baggage system has limitations because of the size of the building itself.

Um so these types of improvements, you could consider them almost as I sort of use the word a gap improvement to get us to the new facility.

Um but these improvements to the controls uh should make it for uh should make for a more uh reliable environment, a more efficient um process in terms of checked baggage, outbound baggage, uh, while we are developing the the new facilities.

So you know, we expect that over the next few years we'll we'll continue to have some pain points as we have in years past as uh service at the airport has gotten more popular, but that really does underscore, frankly, the the need for us to move forward with a larger scale modernization with brand new facilities uh that are more appropriately sized for the amount of passengers that we have coming through today and that we envision coming through CLE in the future.

And and Mr.

Chairman, the people who are I guess the equipment company is called CTEC.

Mr.

Kramer?

Yeah, through the chair to the councilperson, yeah.

That that company is a it's actually a consortium of our airlines.

Uh they come together to form this company called C Tech.

As as they through the chair they actually fund the operation and the maintenance of the baggage system as they are the ones that actually use the system itself.

Uh so they formed a consortium and so through the consortium of our airline partners, um they have deemed this project to be necessary uh and are going to uh be funding that through uh through funds that have been accumulated uh for use in this manner.

I see.

And so CTEC comprises of all of your carriers?

Well what we would call our our signatory airline partners, those that have the long-term agreement in place with us, so yes, sir.

I see.

And do they each have a rep that formulates this CTAC?

So through the chair, yes.

Uh each of our airlines has a representative that is responsible for sort of all matters operational related or uh real estate related, lease related.

And so yes, that is correct.

And Mr.

Chairman, um can you make available the listing of those people who formulate CTEC?

Uh we would be able to provide you with that.

Um yes, sir.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Love to get that.

And um and in conclusion, Mr.

Chairman, is this lineage will be the same as with all questions I ask moving forward in future is about minority participation and um and then also uh having Cleveland businesses.

But in this particular instance, this is strictly dealing with the the airport, so I I get it.

So it would be great to see who that is.

And then also uh I want to know who the minority uh uh participants are here.

I I see down at the bottom that you have two minority participants.

Can you elaborate a little bit on who they are, Mr.

Chairman, to direct are they just simply employees or are they a part of the airlines as a representative?

Do we have any minorities representing any of the carriers uh who formulate the CTEC that's on this board?

Uh through the chair to the councilperson, this would be uh one of the employees of of the entity.

I I don't know who they are off the top of my head.