when we developed our initial baseline budget back in the fall for this coming fiscal segel, that $1.4 million was in there, and the mta board seems supportive on continuing use of those funds to support youth fares. it did not support going beyond those funds. that is how we ended up with this pilot. supervisor wiener: thank you. supervisor chu: thank you for that question. when that $1.4 million was originally put in there, i cannot say as to what other people assumed that was, whether it was meant to be ongoing or not, but frankly, the idea back then was that it would be a pilot. ipod leave -- a pilot to do free muni for a period of time. i think other people would probably say they thought it would be ongoing. but in my mind, it was clear that it was supposed to be a pilot to see how it would work. now to say that it was meant to be part of your annual budget, i do not know that is actually the understanding i would have had having been there in that budget as well. i just wanted to comment on that. i also, for whatever reason, had the assumption that there was no funding from muni