Supervisor farrell has asked to be excused in adivision supervisor kim is ill and unable to attend so can i have a motion to excuse commissioner farrell and commissioner kim . Motion by commissioner cohen, seconded by commissioner compose and do wree need roll call on that or take that without objection. Take without objection. Item number 2 chairs report. This is a information item. Colleagues we have two pieces of good news to share. First i like to congratulate cal trans and Transportation Authority with public and private sector partners for winning the california transportation award. We had the opening of the new presidio parkway replacing the doil drive with a safe, modern and beautiful facility. I like to applaud the organization for their work and thank for the recognition as we finalize dlinchy of the innovative project. Speaking of invasion, i would like to thank u. S. Transportation anthony foxx for making San Francisco eligible to compete in the smart city challenge progra
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Nevertheless went into our budget season 66 million in the hole and so we still have to make difficult decisions. But excited about where we came out. You know, the mayors budget of 8. 6 billion focus on a lot of things and i think he prioritized a lot of great things in his budget. He mentioned just earlier during this Board Meeting 94 million towards affordable housing, 2 million to rehab the s. F. Housing authority units that i think are an incredibly big deal. Investments in our public infrastructure, continued our Public Safety hiring plan, and numerous other things and item that and priorities i think a number of us or most of us would agree have been tremendous. I do want to thank the mayors team in particular, kate howard, the mayors budget director and her entire staff and certainly Ben Rosenfield our controller who played such an integral role in our budget process, we wouldntible able to get this done. [speaker not understood] our work began in march as always, and met with
I released a 7point plan to stabilize and protect existing housing, streamline the creation of new market rate and affordable housing. Because, supervisors, i believe there is a direct link between new market rate housing and new onsite and offsite inclusionary housing and land site control. We have to develop new units at all levels to ensure we have adequate low and moderate Income Housing to meet growing demand. Supervisor chiu, i am deeply commit today this issue and i will support any proposal that includes public housing, affordable housing, and stabilization strategies. Again, we need to focus on Revenue Strategies in the coming years. Thats the only way we can build more housing thats affordable to more families and keeps San Francisco affordable to the 100 . I hope we can all Work Together on the common goals that we all share. Thank you for your question. Thank you, mr. Mayor. And our final question for the day will be asked by our district 11 colleague, supervisor avalos. We
S. F. Housing authority units that i think are an incredibly big deal. Investments in our public infrastructure, continued our Public Safety hiring plan, and numerous other things and item that and priorities i think a number of us or most of us would agree have been tremendous. I do want to thank the mayors team in particular, kate howard, the mayors budget director and her entire staff and certainly Ben Rosenfield our controller who played such an integral role in our budget process, we wouldntible able to get this done. [speaker not understood] our work began in march as always, and met with departments, each of the members of the board of supervisors i know had copies locally in their own districts with mayor lee. We held an online town hall with members of the public. That went well, including our full day of Public Comment that we had here at the board of supervisors. And this year what we did for the first time is actually invited online Public Comment throughout our budget proc