regarding the ti rcp.o though we are pleased the bay area did well on receiving the ti rcp we were disappointed to hear that the $275 million for phase ii did not make the cut. with that said, we are hoping with phase ii being in better position to move forward at the next opportunity for funding in 2 years it will be a better candidate to be awarded funding. with this said, we are pleased to see that the next rab community working group meeting is scheduled for may 21st with the public meeting scheduled for the following week. we would urge based on the information provided by the project team and feedback received from the public in key stake holders agencies that a timeline and next steps be established to reach a decision on the optimal alignment in a timely manner. with that decision finalized, additional environmental analysis as needed could be initiated. in addition, we urge that the tjpa project team, the sfcta, planning and other associated agencies to recommend a path forward allowing engineerin

once again, these were submitted by you all, those of you that were at rcp a week ago, you saw the e-mail asking for ideas on this. we weren't able to select them all, but we got a lot of exciting quick pitches. three minutes each, everyone's going to introduce themselves, we're going to go real fast. how about next time if we have a a little more time, i didn't know this was going to work so well, maybe we'll have you all up-vote the ideas to select. >> get out your phones while we're talking, please. get out your phones for some fun time. everybody knows that calling congress is a horrible experience. it is a horrible experience for constituents who are calling in increasing volume and getting full voicemail boxes or not even getting logged or responded to. it's horrible for members, and it's really difficult for the folks in charge of institutional infrastructure and tech. but most of all, it's a horrible experience for staff. i myself am a recovering staffer, and you spend hours, sometimes full days many manualy dealing with constituent phone calls, phone-based engagement and voicemai

i would think that we would want 100% of them focused on getting that next ti rcp grant. why do we need them in operations? >> we can do it all in the operations budget. there are additional opportunities for operational receive -- revenue. they were instur mental in the rm3 including operations for funding if that passes. >> director reiskin: okay. so then the two main questions, one i appreciate you putting the operating budget projections doing back in time so we could see how they have changed. the good news is that the bottom line is holding pretty well it looks like. some of the line items are significantly different. some significantly higher and some significantly lower. i know there was a brief explanation but i wonder if you could just speak to the ones -- it seems like all the good savings that we got from the lower ones were offset by proet pretty significant increases and -- pretty significant increases and i was wondering if you can help us understand that better. >> sure. i think one of the major differences is in the early presentation, last year, last aug