Anniversary of celebration in San Francisco um, but that is also the 40 are 45 year of celebration in the United States um, in the 1979 the president signed the proposition for the may for the Asian American Pacific Islanders especially heritage and the month of may was chosen because of the could commemorate the transcommon council railroad and the arrive of the first immigrant in japan so we have been celebrating the weekly by the week every year until the year of 1990 was extend because of the work of a lot of organizations and advocating for them in 1992 the celebration of apa month in the country was again signed into law to tap in perpetuity this is the third vehicle because it is our 20year the month of may is very special and we celebrate coming together of our very diversity Apa Community and take this opportunity to celebrate our uniqueness and our togetherness it has to be both. Um, you know, i think the City Attorney david chiu always talked about San Francisco is the capit
Today we will begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. Before item one is called, id like to start by thanking Media Services and sfgovtv and of course, our staff for helping run this meeting, please call item one, item one. Roll call. Commissioner benitez. Commissioner cornett, present. Commissioner. Dickerson. Present. Commissioner herbert is absent. President healy is absent. Commissioner ortiz cartagena, here and Vice President ozunas present. Vice president. You have a quorum. Thank you. Okay, now i will read our land acknowledgment. The San Francisco Small Business commission and the office of Small Business staff acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land , and in accord
Commission i have been serving on the ihss governing body Public Authority. Previously i was president of the Eureka Neighborhood Association and president when we created the ping Triangle Park memorial, the first open air memorial in america to victims gay and lesbian victims of the nazi regime. Im a founding board member and previous president of the castro market benefits district. Im a Founding Member and Vice President of the rainbow honor Walk Committee that installed 20 plaques along castro street to honor important lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender individuals and previously i had a 19 year career as bank of america ending as chief of staff to the head of global finance. Great thank you so you have actually through the work on daas had a seat on the ihss authority . Yes. How long had you have the seat on the authority now . Eight years. So its been a while so curious on things you have seen under your time on the authority. What are the things that you weighed in most where
Good morning ill call to order this monthly of the San Francisco Transportation Authority commissioner avalos absent supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee we have quorum okay. Please call item 2. Item 2 chairs recorded an informational item. Colleagues earlier today we healed held our annual building of the new agency i want to congratulate supervisor jane kim that will chair and supervisor christensen will serve and vice chair the project is many innovative opportunities to model new ways of doing business for Sustainable Transportation i look forward to partnering with tide and mta the various ferry operators over the coming years to make sure that Treasure Island has a very very successful Transportation Future id like to express your appreciation to bart for delivering Outstanding Services for the Golden State Warriors parade primarily figures over
Creates our Housing Investment for existing neighborhoods and builds on the rehab thirty thousand homes by 2020 2015 avenue bond is a crucial canyon of our one. 250 millin dollar billion dollars 5 year Response Fund that will deliver more than 10 thousand 7 hundreds permanently affordable low and middleincome Affordable Housing thats why we need the Housing Accelerated Fund to attract and secure private Sector Investment in Affordable Housing ladies and gentlemen i know we can do all of this together we must continue to build housing thats affordable to people across youll protect spectrums in order to generate the revenues to build every o even more Affordable Housing over the next 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar years new Market Rate Development is anticipated to generate more than hundred Million Dollars in Affordable Housing fees that can be put to work to insure sites and build housing throughout the city with the success of how city we have a special opportunity to insure the pros