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I would like to comment on something that a couple of people have said and i totally agree with the one size does not fit all. I have used my role as a commissioner here to look at and look out for the entire city in terms of transportation, that is the charge. And the same time being mindful of neighborhoods and groups and individuals, and circumstances that are around the city, i can assure you that it is an extremely difficult job and for us it is going to be getting much more difficult in the coming year because the transit effectiveness project will be coming out and that does involve som...

State revenues come in stronger than expected we get the set side in the budget that represents a quarter of the operating budget so as the economy grows we continue to benefit. On the expense side the 3 things driving the first is the Service Increases with your support friday morning and the adaptation of the transit effectiveness an increase up to 12 percent in muni service on the street. Were going to try to include as much of that in the budget currently 3 percent in the first year and 7 percent and 3 more to get thats the single biggest change that were recommending in the operating budg...

Some bus stops and changes. And so there is going to be a lot of opposition to it and it is going to be tough, but ours again and we have it look out for the whole city and the case is made well for the involvement of the Small Business community and the work of mt a and i would like to make a suggestion that your commission, came up with 12 different suggestions and we have several as well. And i think that it would be very unwhiledy to try to deal with tonight and i would suggest that we consider asking our staffs to Work Together on some of the most sale ent recommendations and to come back...

Priority needs that helps to answer the mayors call of addressing the concerns about sunday parking in prairie the high rate of citations and those have a high revenue impact but given the strength of the mayors resolve and the concerns from the community that pursuing one of the options would be a good faith gesture while preserving the meter. I made reference to that with discussions about Market Street and the evening rush hours generally using the beneficiary marks to which is one of the reasons the voters wanted this we want to focus on managing traffic at special events but throughout th...

They are all critical in their own way, and yes, some of them are more important than others. And in terms of the number of people, and it might effect. And or the amount of money that it might cost, but our view is that each and every one of these recommendations is going to help a significant number of seniors and a significant way. And so with that, i would just like to thank you all for having this hearing for accepting our recommendations, and i look forward to hearing what my colleagues in the public have to say as well. Thank you very much. Great. Thank you very much. And we also want t...