@aiea7:  Okay, so if the Mayor and HART really needed the additional money, where was that figure for the additional $535 Million in the slides that he presented to the legislature 2 weeks ago?  Why did the slide say they needed $8.165 Billion instead of $8.7 Billion that he happened to mention at the last minute in a letter to the Legislature last week?  It's this kind of shenanigans that make it hard for the folks in the Legislature to trust anything the Mayor says.  Bottom line is the Mayor needs to stop biting the hand that feeds him if he wants the money that he keeps saying that he needs.