sfmta budget at atay.com. we are three to as as many questions as we can the second half of our broadcast. sfmta.com. i would like to share a little bit about myself. i am a native of san francisco. i have a background in marketing communications and customer service. i was guided do sfmta by my father and my uncle who have over 60 combined years with the company. i began as a operator driving the 130, 45 then i went on to train and i have driven the lkm and n. i am currently a supervisor and i have supervised our construction sites, street operations, i am currently a supervisor at our metro green division. i oversee the morning operations of the klm lines. i am a mother of two and traveler and 49ers fine and i will go with the golden state warriors. now we are moving to ed. can you tell us about your day? >> sure. the position i hold is establishing the charter as director of transportation for the city and county of san francisco which gives me the great privilege of leading the sfmta which is an agency wit

let's start off with overview about the sfmta budget and describe what it means for the city of san francisco. >> happy to do that. i have slides i will use to guide the conversation. it is a large agency. the budget can be a little bit complex. i am glad we only do it every two years. it is obviously an important part of what we do. the budget is what frames a lot of the activity we do over the course of the years. to start out with, just to give a sense of the scope and scale of the agency and rough numbers. $1.1 billion operating budget. that is the money we spend every year. $3.6 billion five year capital program. those are the investments that we are making over time to improve the system. you can see from the slide some different numbers to give you a sense of scale. on a weekday we provide more than 700 rides. we have more than 280,000 street signs, 28,000 parking meters, coming up on 500 miles of bike path lanes and routes. that number is growing every day. we have 1200 signal intersections. the agency is authorized more than 6,000 employees. this is to give a sense of the scale and b

welcome to the sfmta budget online town hall. we are streaming this via our website. c.com budget and on our twitter and we are also live on sf goff tv channel 26. i have the directtor of transport ed reiskin. our goal today is to give background information on the budget and the process that helps us create us. hopefully this will shed some light on our priorities as an agency aet

welcome to the sfmta budget online town hall. we atr

welcome to the sfmta budget online town hall. we are streaming this via our website. sfpuc.com budget and on our twitter and we are also live on sf goff tv channel 26. i have the

news in the president's budgets is it supports the fast act funding levels for the core transit program or transportation program. so these are the formula funds that we, as the sfmtase for state of good repair investments and our critical infrastructure and fleet. so that is fully funded in the presidential proposed budget. but it includes nearly 20% cut in the discretionary grants that come from the u.s. d.o.t. including any future grants under the capital investment grant program. and so if you, this is the program that funded big chunk of this central subway that is funding a big chunk of cal train electricification that would in the future be funding the extension of cal train and high speed rail to trance bay transit center, the final extension of bart to san jose. portion of better market street and gary d.r.t. the extension of the smart train to larksbur so a lot of projects within this region, if things continue as they had been would result in a lot of federal money to support these major projects that leverage or are leveraged by local and regional dollars. the president's budget proposes funding no more of those except the existing grants such as centra