tom mcguire, sustainable foods director. i'm here today to ask you to help me recognize alex velez rering from sfmta after 11 years of service as a transit fare inspector. during this time, along with many other distinctions, inspector valdez is one of our most reliable inspectors. he once went five years without calling in sick. he is also almost certainly the most productive transit fare inspector in the history of the m.t.a. in terms of the number of customers he interacts with every day and the number of citations he issued. his partners in squad have given him the nickname bossing. he's had that nickname apparently since he started because they knew from day one he was a person to hold in high esteem and special regard. you may recognize his face because a few years ago he was here with some of his colleagues, several times over the course of his time with the m.t.a. he has saved the lives of patrons or rendered aid to people seriously injured on the system. you may remember that he was previously recognized for this bo

to thank her team, matt gurow, thomas fuller, elizabeth keys, joe brinkle, tom bork, rick burger, jeremy derimple, allison mcguire, steve towson and eric uland. i want to thank my personal office staff who worked hard on the tax provisions on this package and kept all other issues going at the same time. in particularly i want to thank mart massey who is a cpa and who has been my special person to work on these finance issues with me for more than three years. i also thank tara shaw, my chief of staff, who had to put together a new staff because a lot of good people that i had were taken to the administration and to the budget committee. and she did a marvelous job of that. landon stropko, the legislative director and coordinated well. natali rigin, chris lighton, erin wer, max dufornio. and the rest of my wyoming team that work out in wyoming collect being the information and working casework out there while we get this work done. i want to thank the budget committee's bipartisan staff, kim prorkt, katie smith, george woodall, grace and kevin walsh. we've been supported by the great work of the leadership floor,