Supervisor peskin . Thank you, vice vice chair. Commissioners, director, and to the remarkable staff of the sfmta, my name is aaron peskin and im not here in my capacity as a supervisor, that will happen later. I am here in my capacity as chair of the littleknown Funding Agency called the San Francisco county transportation authority. Momentarily to be joined by our executive director, tilly chang, for the purpose of saying what is rarely said to the public, which are words of sincere and profound thanks to our outgoing director, address given, and to acknowledge and celebrate and ruskin, and the fact that i have been a constant pain in his but. [laughter] so lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe the second toughest job is the one that Jeff Kaczynski has running the department of homelessness, but eds is the toughest and i just want to say, i have known him, and all three of his positions, going back to my first tour of duty when he came and made 311
I moved into my wonderful, beautiful, Affordable Housing march 7th. I have lived in San Francisco since i was twoyearsold. Ive lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. My name is vlady. I use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the San Francisco housing facility. From the very beginning, this whole transition of Public Housing and Affordable Housing was a good idea. But many, many residents didnt think it would ever actually happen. Its been a life changing experience. And im truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. Theyve done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. Now they have quality housing. I was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. It wasnt large enough to accommodate. The children are grown. I had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. I really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. We st
As a supervisor, that will happen later. I am here in my capacity as chair of the littleknown Funding Agency called the San Francisco county transportation authority. Momentarily to be joined by our executive director, tilly chang, for the purpose of saying what is rarely said to the public, which are words of sincere and profound thanks to our outgoing director, address given, and to acknowledge and celebrate and ruskin, and the fact that i have been a constant pain in his but. [laughter] so lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe the second toughest job is the one that Jeff Kaczynski has running the department of homelessness, but eds is the toughest and i just want to say, i have known him, and all three of his positions, going back to my first tour of duty when he came and made 311 work, which has been a pain in your butts, but has been good for the people of the city and county of San Francisco. I knew him in his incarnation as the head of public
Supervisor yee speaking alternate language] okay. Supervisor ronen one correction. Only translation for item 2. [speaking spanish] supervisor yee . [speaking alternate language] our clerk today is victor young. And id also like to thank jason and leo from sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, complete speaker cards and copies of any document to be included as part of the file, should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 16th supervisors meeting. You can please read item number one. Clerk reading item number one. Change the name of the aging and Adult Services Community Living fund to the disability and aging service Community Living fund. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. President yee, did you have any opening comments . Supervisor yee sure. Well, as everybody knows, we have a department in the city that helps to support our resident
Course, that revenue will go as supervisor peskin said to the San Francisco m. T. A. And the San Francisco c. T. A. At the same time, there is a second thing going on, which is we are taxing a mode of transportation that is shown to create congestion and using that money to fund modes of transportation that could reduce transportation. There is an economic benefit. Unfortunately, the first of phnom economic impact, with the data to analyse, and the second we dont. When i say, as we conclude in the report, that this is a mildly negative economic impact. That is a result of placing the tax on the consumers and spending the money at the city. It is a fairly small impact of 25 milliondollar reduction to the g. D. P. , which is less then the tax that is raised. We are not able, because of Data Limitations to estimate how responsive t. N. C. Ridership would be to be an increase in fares, although we expected to decline somewhat. The only kind of caveat that we mentioned in our report is abou