lesberg of our staff will show you what the government barometer is about and then joe lapka will talk about the mta benchmarking report. i know we talk fast. we have a presentation 5 minutes each. we very much appreciate your time on this and i think you'll be interested in the content. >> thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. and thank you for your time. so, the goal of the government barometer report is to report performance data on a quarterly basis in order to increase transparency, create dialogue, and build public confidence regarding the city's management of public business? our annual report publishes data for all city departments and contains over 1,000 performance measures. the government barometer is meant to provide a selection of key activity or performance measures in the major service areas that are listed here. and we use the cover page of each report to highlight contemporary issues of public interest and provide context on how current events might affect the performance measures for the respective quarter or might have an impact going forward. the quarter 1fr-2014