how much of that is for environmental seqa analysis. how much of that 6 million is for seqa work? ballpark. >> approximately 2 million dollars. >> this is a 2 million dollar eir. i think that that is absolutely ridiculous that we're spending 2 million dollars on an eir. i think it shows how broken our system is. that is an enormous amount of money that's not going into implementation but going to environmental analysis. and i guess the question is, i know that geary brt is more controversial than van ness brt and i don't begrudge anyone their opinion about whether brt on geary is good or bad. my sense is that -- this is true with a lot of things in san francisco. instead of saying we're going to have a public process, we'll delineate it's going to be a six month process or one year or two or three year process or whatever we define it to be and we'll get feedback and a collaborative community discussion, we allow the community process to go on [inaudible] if someone comes forwards and says i have an issue it sort of restarts everything and i -- as we can see through the extreme dr

one bill of note or issue of note that's re/phrebgted in a measure is seqa modernization and senator [inaudible] is pushing [inaudible]. it modern /tphaoeuzing seqa by moving to more of a threshold based program rather than standards and it's during some support. it recently passed the senate. it has not been set for assembly, although when the assembly returns it will be eligible to return in that point in time. i think early in the budget process this year i mentioned that the governor had called on the secretary of dtnh at that time to convene a working group to look at transportation funding short falls and how to proortize those. they established the [inaudible] and i'm a member of the large /tkpwraoupb and also on the transit subgroup. they just announced yesterday the conveneing of the next full group meeting in july. they're making some progress. can't wait to see what analysis the administration has put together. as a reminder as of july 1 btnh agency, the cabinet level for transportation no longer exists as such and in this place there is simply cal sta, which we now have b