today as director ram mepbsed we will be asking for your approval. i will be highlighting the changes made in the proposed budget from the last time i presented the budget to you two weeks ago today. this pie chart represents the full-time equivalent or fte allocation of our staffing across the 5 main dwr*ition divisions in the department. you will see staffing levels are expected to increase by 15.4 fte the total fte count will increase slightly to 223.78 fte's in fiscal year 17-18 and that assumes the annualization of the new positions we request in 15-16 and 16-17. this table represents the high level fte trend in each of the 5 divisions from current fiscal year adopted budget to the upcoming two fiscal year proposed budget. the only changes we made to the fte allocation among the divisions includes the extension of 3 limited term positions in the city-wide planning and in the environmental planning divisions in fiscal year 15-16 and 16-17 for continued work on various projects and the inclusion of multiple position requests in fiscal year 15-16 a

i've seen the lines out the front and jessica layman mepbsed about getting the word out even more and we hope everyone who is eligible will sign up at some point. at our commission meeting some months ago, i expressed my own philosophy about it, a commissioner has to look out for the good of the whole city but being mindful of particular groups with special needs of different sorts. i've come to this conclusion i ride muni a lot, muni is for everybody. 702,000 people a day are riding the system but it's mostly for the people that need it the most and in my mind the people we were able to cover with this, free rides for low income seniors, need it the most. i'm always proud to be on the mta board, i've been on it for 10 years. the most proud i've been is when we did free muni for low income youth and also free muni for low income seniors and people with disabilities. the cost by the way, we are expecting it to be about $4 million a year out of an annual of $925 million. as you probably read, the mayor is actively seeking support from the tech industry as he did, google is actually payi