The third option, which is to cut their own budget. Theres thousands of people in city departments who are making sixfigure salaries. You think they could tighten their belts, quite frankly. Its not too much to ask when so many other businesses, people have lost their jobs or businesses have entirely had to close. I dont see anything thats going to create 2,000 jobs is pie in the sky speculation. Taxing the information sector . Thats whats been driving the San Francisco economy years and years, the tech economy. Theres real risk of losing losing the goose that laid the golden egg, tech being driven out of town if they continue unfriendly policies. Thank you. Thank you. Were going to go to the next question, and well start with star child. The question is San Franciscos child care and homelessness taxes has been challenged in court, and the money thats ae been collected through these taxes has not been spent by the city. If this prop is passed, that will free up these funds for the city
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That we need to address and adding more service. Or whether we can bring back a new route. Those are the things that we have. Two other factors are geographic distribution. From the beginning we only had 17 routes. We made sure that every single neighborhood was within a mile of a transit. We are now getting closer to half a mile i. In normal times we have a standard of quarter mile. The last factor is essential destination. Making sure each neighborhood, especially neighborhoods where people are less likely to have other options are connected to hospitals, Grocery Stores and other essential business. Thank you, i will open up now for questions. Just to remind participants who are listening, the council has chance to ask questions. We will open it up to people who are in this meeting. I will start off. Sandra, when you were talking about how you approached your decisionmaking for where the routes are going, was that a decisionmaking base on traffic prior to covid or during covid . I wo
While we know all of those Parking Spaces and we are addressing making sure people have information to drive to all those spaces. The main focus of what weve been working on recently is the music concourse area. Especially because museums reopened and academy of science will be reopening. [please stand by] were going to add tour bus parking area and six more accessible spaces on Martin Luther king drive and four more on nancy pelosi so that would get us to the 18 faces that were losing with the j. F. K. Closure. Were having people with knowing where they can drive and where they can go to drop someone off and park or with their paratransit can drop them off. So the other thing that were addressing is the communication to ensure that theres clear Information Available in multiple formats. So, we are going to be providing maps and detailed directions on our website and to the Disability Community and every way that we can and to make sure that people have access to that information. Were
Families. Frankly were a community that cares, we are an organization that provides education, support and advocacy around Mental Health dare in this country. As we have this discussion, our phone lines are a bit different, split up regional. In the tern time zone, or the mountain or pacific time stones, as folks are calling in, some stats on the state of americas Mental Health from namis latest fact sheet in a given year, and almost nearly 60 of an adult with Mental Health illness didnt receive services in the previous year. To put those numbers in perspective, how bad or good is that with previous years . Actually those statistics have remained fairly constant through the years, but what is shocking is if we think about a comparison to cancer. If half of all People Living with cancer had no treatment in the previous year, we week outraged as a country. The fact that over half of our country is living with Mental Health conditions, going without treatment, when treatment should be ava