Part 7 of this episode is a fairly weedy presentation of the CA State Legislative Update by Michael Pimentel of Shaw, Yoder, Antwih, Schmelzer & Lange, METRO's legislative advocate at the state level. He is Metro's eyes and ears in Sacramento where a great deal of their funding comes from. He moves through this information quickly and it is not all good news. The YouTube video in the link below is a good way to see the charts he is presenting.

Meeting agenda here: https://scmtd.com/images/department/board/archive/agendas/2023/2023-10-27--BOD-Agenda.pdf

Full https://communitytv.org/ video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIpv1xCe4XQ&list=PLo9N9AsVOVvT_Ae6YrLvf_pJKSTzuuMqX&t=1s