Ive be about 18 years ago, i met mr. Taboni, and i did my first project with him, and ive been working with him ever since. My company has grown to 15 employees since that time. One thing about mr. Taboni, everything he says is completely gospel. Hes an honest businessman. He eats and enjoys lunch with the employees on the projects, and having an abandoned vacant lot is not doing any good for the city. And having 75 new Housing Units will be spfar superior to anything thats going on now, and like he said, 20 is going to Affordable Housing. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is ben nahidi. Im the owner of the business and the Apartment Building directly across from this project. The corner of the 19 and south vanness. The old gas station site has been vacant for more than ten years, almost 15 years, and we are very happy to see that finally there is a building that is going to this lot. A vacant lot like this creates a very unsafe environment for the neighborhood
And the needs of the children, youth and families of our city. Clearly were seeing increases of violence amongst the population of lgbtq young people, a sobering 97 of violence and increases of homelessness from 39 six years ago up to 68 in this past year. Thank you. Hi, im tracy, a native of San Francisco, homeowner and an advocate for the community. My community is under attack and underrepresented in City Government and the setasides make us feel part of San Francisco. This is my city. This is our city. This is a sanctuary city for everyone. In 1994 and please correct me if im wrong, i worked on the first Children Fund campaign, i was a mother of three children under six. I needed childcare to be able to work, i needed after School Services to work and provide for my family, so i could stay in college. So i could do a lot of these things that the services that the Children Fund protects. Therefore the next time it was up, i was a mother of four and all of my kids worked on the campa
Which is primarily city employee, pensions and healthcare costs and wages that are rising over time. In order to cover those it robs funds for vulnerable populations and voter priorities. These are priorities that voters have chosen to prioritize in good and bad Economic Times. We should not deprioritize them when the economy goes down and the need is the greatest and it treats all setasides alike, even those that rise and fall with particular Funding Sources and where is the provision that says we do not need to add new Police Officers when the deficit is large. Even that setaside happens regardless of cost. The general fund return is very bad policy and open to a couple of types of abuse, allowing city officials to undermine the priorities to not incumbent funds and allocate funds as the year of the end approaches because its use it or lose it. And its unfair to put in a poison pill against a measure that received two thirds of voter support last time on the ballot. We ask the board
Next speaker. Yes. Thank you. Hello supervisors. Im with senior and disability action. I just want to say, i agree that setasides are not a perfect policy mechanism but the reality is we work within the flawed system we have. One of the only tools for poor and marginalized communities right now is setasides to get resources for the services that have been historically underfunded. The dignity fund helps fund among other things for seniors to stay in homes and not be evicted and not displaced and end up far away from San Francisco and the communities we know. Were doing a Needs Assessment for the dignity fund right now. It takes time to figure out how to spend the money in a way thats responsible and best for our communities. The claw back provision would hurt seniors and people with disabilities. We certainly all agree we need a better budget process, one that involves and really hears Community Members, and meets peoples needs and this is not that. Please oppose this legislation. Than
That have hair salons and stuff like that, at street level, you can see from outside. So, this location you cant see anything from outside. You have to climb stairs to get to this shop. So, thats my, you know, i know a lot of seniors in that location. Its like theyre being discriminated against because you dont have any access for them to get to. And its already, like i said, a hair salon a few doors from this location. Why would you want to put another hair salon in the same location . This is up by van ness and chestnut. Theres not many Commercial Area in that location. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance . We have a motion and a second. Does that still stand . Ok. Yes. All right. So, to call the roll [roll call] motion passes. All right. And so item three has been continued until february 22. So well take that matter up again then. And well continue item 2b to march 8 also. Thank you. Commissioners, so that brings us t