Between mercy housing; now its mercy housing because its the sisters of mercy, but its mercy housing because that is what it is. And that is what it means to the people who benefit from it. And this collaboration with st. Anthonys. The coming together of two forces of such magnitude, of such commitment, of such deep commitment, of such values that you know that the outcome is going to be not only benefit the people who are here, but also be a model for others. This is a collaboration, as has been said between mercy housing and st. Anthonys and was example was nonprofits come together for the greater good. With their leadership and their being models, producing results of National Significance, they, most of them have been able to to impact Public Policy and i know the mayor is right on the forefront of all of this. And thank you for your great leadership, mayor lee. [ applause ] and you know that we just had a little session with the cliffs, going over the cliff, not going over the cli
They are insensitive to our world of miracles here. We love and touch each other and we know what that feels. In d. C. Its hard to gain that with the conversations that they have there, but for her leadership, but for her connections but for her introductions to the federal agencies that we need so much their attention as they are stretched wide across this country with all of the needs, she has opened up those doors for me, for countless other mayors, for representatives of our different agencies to get that chance to present our case. So that our miracles can happen for each other. So nancy, thank you very much for your wonderful, wonderful leadership. [ applause ] and then to come back here and celebrate with us on helping us turn the state on something that is going to happen that has been a miracle now, 38 million times for people in the last 60 years, father harden, that is just you and your staff. All of the volunteers, you know, the volunteers at the heart of the success of st.
Live on fixed incomes and the added expense of paying 2 5 an hour to park would work a great hardship and eliminate their ability of what they need to do or reduce it. I know its not appreciated very well around here, like if you have to go to the doctor, or you have to go to the Grocery Store or senior meals program, or if you want to go out with friends or relatives or volunteer for an agency. Many of us do volunteer work. Some of us get paid for it, some of us dont and now that you cant park in the city hall lot, even if you are commissioners, then you understand some of that. And my third point is the changing meter regs will not bring more parking. I complained during this committee about otis street there were so many disabled placards that you couldnt park. But when they changed it it was all city trucks and cars that parked there. So i dont think that that will increase parking in spite of your very nice video. There is nothing like that will increase the parking. It will make
Cell phones set on vibrate cause microphone interference and the board respectfully requests that they are in the offposition. Item no. 4, approval of the minutes of the november 19th. Motion, second. All those in favor, signify by saying aye . Aye. Thank you item 5 communications. Members of the board, on next monday december 9 the mta board will have a special meeting with the Small Business commission combining at 4 30 here in this room and the focus of the meeting will be on the impact of sfmtas planning processes on the Small Business community in San Francisco. So were all looking for that and that will be noticed and would love you all to come back at that time. If people could please step away from the wall there. Also, out of respect for the fire codes we do need people to find a seat. We cant have people standing. Okay. Roberta . Yes. All right, directors, please be aware that with respect to item 10. 1 j the proposal to establish a towaway zone has been removed from the agen
Directors report so we can address any issues before we hit that deadline would be great. Yes. Director rubke. I have a quick question about the Incentive Program or the pilot. First of all, it sounds really great. Are we going to get data that feeds into the recommendations that are coming forth in terms of proposal for the ramp cab program . We will have data based on this pilot, because were doing it through the debit card program. Well have very exact data. The kind of larger recommendations on how the reform for the ramp system are really already developed. There has been a number of town Hall Meetings with taxis. I think were planning to bring those forward january 7th. So we can tell you how the Incentive Program has been, but it will have been very new at that point. So i dont think that will meaningfully necessarily inform, but it will inform how we incentive going forward. To the extent that we have information about it during the ramp reform item well bring that. Do we have