The City Council reveals how clueless they are about rail funding.  They knew that the GET surcharge won't pay for HART salaries, so the City will have to come up with the money from its own sources, such as the property tax.  But it seems that they are perplexed about how to do it.  City Budget Director Nelson Koyanagi recommends using bonds.  However, Councilmember Ann Kobayashi says that it's unprecedented to use bonds to pay for operating costs.  She's right because the use of bonds would restrict the capacity of the City to pay for core services in the future.  Funding operating costs with bonds is a desperate idea.  It shows that the City does not have a rational long-term financing plan for rail.