ms. kirschbaum before taking final action to approve the employment agreement pursuant to that requirement, the board provides the following summary the proposed agreement sets an annual salary of $425,000 under the proposed agreement, ms. kirschbaum will receive fringe benefits equivalent to specified benefits provided to employees represented by the municipal executives

ms. kirschbaum before taking final action to approve the employment agreement pursuant to that requirement, the board provides the following summary the proposed agreement sets an annual salary of $425,000 under the proposed agreement, ms. kirschbaum will receive fringe benefits equivalent to specified benefits provided to employees represented by the municipal executives association under the memorandum of understanding between mta i'm sorry the municipal executives association which i will refer to as mta under the memorandum of understanding between mta and the s.f. mta the full list of benefits is set forth in exhibit a to the agreement. key benefits include five days of paid management leave recognized legal holidays, vacation as specified in the san francisco administrative code 13 days of sick leave per year as provided in the charter administrative code and civil service rules a management flexible spending account for health and related benefits $150,000 life insurance policy and reimbursement for the cost of required professional licenses, certificates and memberships with no max

ms.. kirschbaum and congratulations from all of us and also our gratitude for wanting to take this on andbe a little grace because i, i only play a cfo on tv and i did bring our our actual cfo barry marauder is here to answer all of your hard questions. but i did want to present to you all directly today kind of in my in my new role as the as the department head and i plan to make it a continued practice that you hear directly from me on the tough issues that we're facing. i appreciate all of the time you all have been taking with briefings to understand all of the issues that the mta is currently juggling and i look forward to close partnership with the board as well as with your other had the board of supervisors so with that i will start start with some bragging because i think it is important context setting that muni is playing a really a disproportion net role in the region in in terms of transit ridership and the muni system looks a little bit different regionally than it did prior to covid. so i wanted to take an opportunity to talk about it. the first is that muni is carrying abo