thank you very much to ben rosenfield and your team. and the budget legislative analyst. thank you for putting this budget together. but more importantly, when i became president in january, one of the first things i said was that i'm going to make this board of supervisors, this set of 11 people, the best that we can ever have in san francisco. to serve our community, to serve our residents, to serve the most vulnerable, and the most important committee to help serve these people is the budget committee. and i knew i had to make the strongest budget committee that i could think of, so as mentioned, it was really an honor for me to ask supervisor fewer to be chair of the budget committee, and i was so happy. she just kept on saying, oh, no, no, i don't know, i don't know. for christ sake, sandy! you were chair in the budget committee on the board of education, yes, you know how to do a budget. you are as good as anybody on the board of supervisors. so thank you for accepting it. you did a marvellous job. give her a hand. [applause] but like all of us, one person can't do

. >> i was going to express appreciation for chilly chang and ben rosenfield, who had done so much work to pull the group together. we have only had one meeting of the full group, but subgroups meeting. i thought the first meeting, it give me a little bit of hope that, you know, if you put smart folks in the room and start getting feedback from people from other systems, that we may figure some things out and get sort of path forward that is helpful. i felt really good about the first meeting. i want to thank everyone in the mayor's office as well for their help in pulling it all together. >> chair: thank you for that closing comment on this ongoing item that we will hear more about. is there any introduction of new items? seeing none. any -- commissioner walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair peskin. moving pretty fast today, huh. >> well, it's been two hours. >> supervisor walton: just briefly. we've been hearing a lot from our constituents lately. and i've definitely personally experienced as recently as this past weekend, inadequate and inconsistent transit service, we're ex