Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
Second is Revenue Bonds not to exceed 87 million to provide Construction Financing for the residential project. The hearing was held in june of this year. The bond allocation was approved october 16th and to note this financing is conduit and does not require the city to pledge repayment of the bonds. Third resolution requests approval of amended restated grant to provide 13. 4 million to finance construction of the city owned and operated Homeless Services center to the mercy affiliate developing that project. Of the financing structure to maximize noncity resources to support the homeless center. It covers a portion of the funds needed to build and leveraging tax credit for its portion of the shell costs. To review the timeline. Today we are before you to request approvals. The construction contract will be final later this month. We requested h. H. S. Transfer in december and we would Close Construction and bond financing and Start Construction in january 2020. Once the board approv
Allocation of no place like home funding targets to create the permanent housing for chronic homeless with serious Mental Illness. Second is Revenue Bonds not to exceed 87 million to provide Construction Financing for the residential project. The hearing was held in june of this year. The bond allocation was approved october 16th and to note this financing is conduit and does not require the city to pledge repayment of the bonds. Third resolution requests approval of amended restated grant to provide 13. 4 million to finance construction of the city owned and operated Homeless Services center to the mercy affiliate developing that project. Of the financing structure to maximize noncity resources to support the homeless center. It covers a portion of the funds needed to build and leveraging tax credit for its portion of the shell costs. To review the timeline. Today we are before you to request approvals. The construction contract will be final later this month. We requested h. H. S. Tr
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Consideration in all the questions that you posed around protecting the Small Businesses. That is really what we want to see here. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is kristin. I wear multiple hats. I am a resident of the haightashbury and i own im here to speak on support of the vacant storefront tax. Something i have been speaking with. I assumed the role of owner nearly 12 years ago. We have seen a Record Number of vacancies more than even from the lean years of 2008 and 2012. There have been any of the number of reasons for the business closure including retirement. What has happened is storefronts have been left vacant longer and longer as Property Owners have held the property off market for unknown reasons or are holding out for higher rents. The circumstances that have left a situation where every block has at least one and usually multiple vacancies, and that has led to blight, trash, graffiti and has pressed foot traffic. At one point had f