. >> peter strauss. >> good afternoon, directors. peter strauss and here on behalf of san francisco transit riders union. has been working as part of a broad coalition addressing the issues of the vlf and the issues proposed to be on the ballot this fall. we have had a number of very productive meetings with mta staff as well as among ourselves. and the equity analysis that is your next calendar item, you know resulted in a large part out of those discussions. it's positive and many will be supporting this on the next measure. that said, the number of issues which i believe remain unresolved. supervisor avalos has statement that embodies our concerns. and it does it better than

i probably should say ditto that to much of what peter strauss said but i want to commend the leadership of this agency for working with the coalition that has been in marked contrast. unfortunately we weren't part of the task force discussions. and since talking with the mayor's office and ar-and i wan clear about the charter direction, and out there since june and the director has engaged us and would like to do the same with the mayor's office. we do that to pass the bond, and many of us speak for my organization and that we work with are supportive of the idea. to put a coalition to pass the vlf, is the goal. and we know that the mayor want us to spend capital on what we can pass. and the charter talks about closing nonprofit and exemption for tdif to put it together. and the presentation that was put together shows we have a bigger need than what it captured. and in terms of value and development and we can get more people benefiting from the system to pay for the system. what we have now on the vlf is a huge push to get through to the voters. i think it will be hard to mobilize the