it as a revenue source, but would like to start aggressively marketing the dark fiber that the city helms, generating revenue for the city, working with other companies that are at that -- interested in attempting to market that capability, making the city some money and offsetting the deficit in the general fund. i know that that was brief. i cannot think that you need me to be the slide for you. what we are asking today, i know that in the last conversation my feeling was that she wanted to be sure that we got the message that we needed to be smarter about how we were doing i t. so the to feel like we were making progress in that area. if you need specific discussion answers, we are happy to enter at this time. i would -- supervisor mirkarimi: -- supervisor chu: i would like to turn it over to supervisor chiu. supervisor chiu: i do support the release of these reserves today, although it is not with overwhelming excitement. last year these amounts were placed in reserve in order to live the incentivize departments to find savings. i am glad that we went through this significant exercise

. >>> a new person at the helm at the city attorneys office in oakland chief assistant city attorney barbara parker now becomes acting city attorney she was appointed by her out going boss john russo. the council has 60 days to appoint someone to fill the rest of russo's term otherwise a special election has to be held by mid-december. russo got the job after 11 years to become city manager in neighboring alameda. >>> carlos may soon join the growing list of cities to have a ban on plastic city bags, city council could take up that issue as soon as today and they may also consider some ban on food take out containers made of poly styrene foam. >>> riders on muni's busiest rail line are getting relief today muni is adding an express bus to run the same route as the rail line. this is a pilot program the ease over crowding on the route between san francisco's financial district and ocean beach it carries nearly 40,000 riders a day,. >>> not often we get to report good news at the gas pump. >> i know. pay close attention you may not hear this again. prices are going down. the lundborg s