I did not see the whole hearing yet saw the part where Senator Tokuda mentioned going through the City's budget and started doing her calculations whereby she said that the City needs to find ~$300-500M to complete the project based on a figure of $8.2 billion (even though the Mayor admitted he didn't know how much the total project would cost) and based on forecasted revenues coming in from the existing rail tax.

If I understand her logic, that's to complete the project (rail line only?) yet we know $8.2 Billion isn't nearly enough let alone the unknown costs for a dedicated power plant and monthly O & M costs (currently guesstimated using inflated ridership figures).   I'm wondering if they'll pass the "in perpetuity" part because this wasn't factored in?????? Something just doesn't "add up".