Good evening, this is Chris Baelish from LA Metro inviting you to join our live telephone town hall meeting. Press 2. To opt out of future prerecorded calls from Metro, just stay on the line to be automatically connected. You'll have an opportunity to ask questions, share comments, or just listen in. We'll talk about Metro's priorities in a wide range of topics. For more information, call 213-922-4616. Please note this public forum will be recorded and any comments may be made public, including to the news media. Hola. Somos Metro invitando le un for envivo con estideres de la transportacion Siustre. Sieres co el foreign. Again, please stay on the line to be connected to our live telephone town hall. Thank you. You are joining a live conference already in progress. Please be aware that your local phone company may leave your line open for up to 32 seconds after you leave the conference. If you would like to ask the speaker a question, please press 0 on your phone to get your question into the queue. We'll be taking questions from the phone as well as from our web participants. If you're participating through a web simulcast, you can type up your question. We'll read it and answer it as well. Now, just a note. For those of you who are asking your question by phone today, you'll be limited to 40 seconds to ask your question so that we can get to as many questions as possible. Tonight, we want to take on as many questions as we can, so we'll just limit your question time to 40 seconds. But we do appreciate you submitting questions again by pressing 0 on your phone. If you'd like to get email updates from Metropress7. And for those of you already in the queue, please be patient. We'll be taking calls throughout the Town hall. Jennifer? Thank you, Ian. If you're waiting to ask a question, please note this is a live public event. It is being recorded and it will be made available to the public and the news media. So please treat everyone on this call with respect, and please refrain from using any foul language to kick off this town hall. It's now my pleasure to introduce Metro's Board Chair and LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who will share her thoughts. Chair Hahn, Take it away. Good evening. My name is Janice Hahn and I'm the Chair of the Los Angeles Metro Board of Directors. Proudly represent the 4th district on the LA County Board of Supervisors. On behalf of Metro, I would like to give all of you a warm welcome to tonight's Budget Town Hall. Thanks so much for joining us. First, I want to again acknowledge so many of our riders, our Metro employees and.