thank you to the clerk's office and their team as well as my colleagues and my staff, valerie bauman and iris one, for their commitment to helping to facilitate this process. really were fortunate in the city just a booming economy and its helpless to increase investment to areas that are really important to each and every one of us could specifically, without public transportation system, for the first time ever will have over a $1 billion operating budget. we've added $48 million which is made possible by last year's opposition be spearheaded by supervisor wiener give new vehicles 171 new drivers and 73 new mechanics and cleaning staff. in important bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements. i'm really excited about that especially because there been a lot of folks live in my district who had difficulty in finding employment opportunities were now being trained and working for the municipal. i'm really excited this is finally making a difference. the brand-new trains are coming, and that i pushed so hard for. i'm hoping that soon there'll be a notice without noticeable difference