. * is henry kim this was presented to the board in april for 1.6 million in revenue bond funds were set aside for sfmta for radio replacement project [speaker not understood] regarding voice and data communication systems for the city. this item was presented on october 18th, endorsed by the committee, and we are here today to request release of the funds. and i believe there is a budget analyst report on this item. >> okay. why don't we actually go to the budget analyst report. >> madam chair, members of the committee, deborah newman from the budget analyst office. as mr. kim has indicated, these funds were placed on reserve last april when sfmta came forward with proposal for issuing revenue bonds. and at that time, recently prior to that, the board of supervisors had approved the large motorola regional agreement that was a 12-year agreement with motorola to do a public safety regional data communication and radio communication system. and at that point, when the mta was coming forward, they raised a number of questions about how the sfmta project fit in with the regional motorol

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