the san francisco transit riders union which i'm a board member is endorsing free muni and would like to consider you increasing it up to 19. i want to make that public. we would really like for you to consider service increases, the ten percent service increase in 2016 to be moved to 2015 ask and the way to do that is a petition is, with a 119 signatures and taking some of the money and putting it into operating service. we endorse the vlp and the ttp and the bond measures that are going to be put forth and we'll fight for them hard, but we would like the vlf to be spent on services and one way that they may be able to get the money that you additional need for capital if you use that money for services is obama has a big transportation bill, part of the budget and perhaps some of that federal money missing for years may be matched for us here so we can get our capital needs met but give the riders of san francisco what they deserve is taken care of. that's it. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> nicole, kevin stall. >> good morning. >> thank you director. my name is pablo a

my name is body boden, the san francisco riders union and i'm here to overwhelmingly support the transit improvement. having recently come from new york city, i feel like i now know what a transit city feels like. if anything i think all of these proposals need to go much further. if this is what we have at this point, i want you to fully approve them. i also want to commend the mta for the overwhelming amount of public outreach they have done. as an advocacy we couldn't go to all of them. there were so many of them. there has been an overwhelming amount of community input and they must have a lot of attention to sort through all of those comments and i appreciate them. i know there is a temptation to meddle through these proposals and maybe wind them down to particular concerns. the tep as a whole helps 99 percent of transit riders. there are 700,000 transit riders not in this room today. people at these meetings do have valid concerns. but your role is to work out not the hundred in the room, but the 700,000 of the riders everyday. when you start pulling pieces a way, the plan falls ap