first of all, to a controller's office , ben rosenfield, thank you, ben. todd is right there, michelle, lisa is there to your entire team, both you that are here your administration and supports up everyone that is back upstairs, thank you so much good to her budget and legislative analyst, mr. rose, 41st year of the city's budget, i believe? to mr. rose to dan, your entire team has been here working for the department, thank you for all your hard work. you get a great job again this year and we simply cannot do without a view, the board of supervisors. so, thank you. the city attorney john giving her thank you mr. given her for all your hard work it to our committee clerk window long, thank you for all of your long hours here. i think victor young, to them for spelling you to the times and other members of the clerk staff i know rick -- to john -- prebudget website accept the tv sfgtv file be stated since early to our department heads and their staff for the time they took to it with a budget analyst to work through their budgets into their commitment onl

thank you to the mayor and his budget staff, kate howard, the crew to ben rosenfield and his staff and the controller's office as well as our budget and legislative analyst. i'm really honored to be working with harvey rose who we all know is just really a legend and spin around city hall longer than most of us have been alive. you know, i love you harvey. thank you to the clerk's office and their team as well as my colleagues and my staff, valerie bauman and iris one, for their commitment to helping to facilitate this process. really were fortunate in the city just a booming economy and its helpless to increase investment to areas that are really important to each and every one of us could specifically, without public transportation system, for the first time ever will have over a $1 billion operating budget. we've added $48 million which is made possible by last year's opposition be spearheaded by supervisor wiener give new vehicles 171 new drivers and 73 new mechanics and cleaning staff. in important bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements. i'm really excited about that especiall