. >> director rinkman. >> no specific questions but i just wanted to congratulate you on some of the change and thank you from the rider point of view. some of the early morning changes, the seven buses, all of these will help just address the problems that our riders are having out there, so thank you for that. on the operator sued, you came back from rail's resolution and at one of the sessions, one effort panelists asked all of the represented cities in the room who was having problems with operator shortages and every city raised their hand. so we're not alone in this and thank you for not losing focus and continuing to push on it. and hopefully well at least, if not solve it, we will keep up and we'll get much closer in the long range. they use an outreach bus and they kidded up and drive it out to the neighborhood and park it and people walk through and look at all of the information about the project in hand. so i thought that was an interesting idea since we're retiring buses. but thank you so much. these are the kind of innovative changes that people are really excited to se