mr. winier. next speaker, please. >> ace is the next speaker followed by peter strauss and he is the last person to submit a speaker card. >> thank you, commissioners, this is probably one of the first times coming before you. >> welcome. >> well, thank you. ace in the case is not too much welcome here at city hall. i call it chilly hall. commissioner, good to see you. director now. and i do know torez, i know your son had to be a commissioner. i go to his meetings all the time, yes. as a matter of fact, he serves on housing authority. and the oewd. >> pro bono, yes. >> yeah, i got other things to talk about that. i am here specifically, i just happened to stop by because up by your office yesterday. whatever you do i approve because they don't say ace you ain't speaking on the item. one guy didn't say anything. i approve whatever you are doing. i thought it was something said equity i thought it was about race. they're talking about transit. i have something about transit. because you guys are o

mr. winier in this meeting. so that's good. and this was just an information item so that brings us to the close of item 14 and the close of the meeting, correct? >> yes, did you want input on the use of some of the reserve fund? >> so -- >> no. >> so acid said that's not the feedback i want. [laughter] >> others as i said last time,l likely and the year coming close to 20% of our operating budget and reserve as compared to the board requirement for a 10% reserve. some of the ways that we'll be seeking, if you recall, we had a slight projected surplus but needs far greater than that surplus. we need to have a way to meet the needs and some will decrease our surplus a little bit. so what we are seeking to do is identify one time uses and this is something akin to what we did last time around. find one-time uses we can use either fun balance or prop b revenues to address so that they come off of the operating budget needs so we can fit in the stuff we want to fund. based on our conversation last time when i said i wouldn't bring