For years African Americans and japanese americans Property Owners were pushed out of the Western Addition fillmore area and japantown neighborhoods. This corporation comprised of Business Owners and leaders in the community has served as a check against the injustice, a voice for the neighborhoods. That voice is far too important, too valuable to silence it now in the name of cost savings. More over, i am not convinced that eliminating the corporation would actually generate savings. The corporation acts as [speaker not understood] for the japantown and fillmore communities thus increasing the number of visitors to the area and paid customers to the garage. The increases the garage the garages top line revenue. And without the nonprofit corporation, the mta would have to manage the garage, which would certainly require some similar expenditures. So, any potential savings are, at best, illdefined. I want to thank my good friend sandy maury for her hard work in japantown overall and esp