properties and it s supposed to cover our policing and beautification. cbd is going to come in and add another cost which in my case i m representing four senior owners ranging in ages from 79 to my uncle who is 107 years old. this is not an easy thing for any of them to count on another added expense on a yearly basis. i hope that my home district supervisor mike ferrel will help to support our family s position. relying on the rent for income, we try very hard not to raise the rent on our tenants and i hope you realize that any or all in creases affect not only them but their families and ours. we get less income, they have to pay more. we don t need another community benefit district in san francisco if we really use our property taxes the way they are supposed to be used. we feel the taxes should cover the things that these cbd things is going to try to cover. thank you, next speaker. good afternoon, thank you so much for everyone who is here in support of the safety
to speak lineup on the right hand side of the chamber. good morning members and board of supervisors. i also want to welcome back katherine dodd. i have known her for years and i don t think this situation would have been resolved. as a kaiser baby, i was born at kaiser. thank you for resolving this, but at the same time thanks for holding kaiser s feet to the fire. because although they maybe a great provider and cheapest alternative around, i too was shocked to hear that the c eo makes $10 million a year. the fact that they would not justify, thanks for making sure this worked out this time and hopefully we ll have more transparency next year. thank you, next speaker. supervisors, catherine and colleagues from health service system. i m a former commissioner 26 years on the health service board. the last couple of weeks are turning me gray over night. i just want to thank all of you very much for finally coming around on this issue. i think it s been very difficult. t
and leadership. he attended every community meeting we had and addressed people s concerns and responsive. he s now moving to los angeles and going to continue to work around community development and urban revitalization. i want to thank him for deeply caring about every aspect of this neighborhood. it s a very diverse neighborhood. he went to the meetings, to our senior housing and neighborhood safety watch meetings and attended one of our mosque . i also want to highlight the community program. i get a lot of e-mails thanking or office for the community ambassadors. i saw them on the street while whack walking on friday. i have a senior tenant who lives on howard who saw a community ambassador run out to the street when she say a child walking into traffic who got away from his mother and running from income traffic. i want to congratulate because those are the little efforts and actions that don t get recollected in the public. i want to thank the many members of the comm
justify, thanks for making sure this worked out this time and hopefully we ll have more transparency next year. thank you, next speaker. supervisors, catherine and colleagues from health service system. i m a former commissioner 26 years on the health service board. the last couple of weeks are turning me gray over night. i just want to thank all of you very much for finally coming around on this issue. i think it s been very difficult. there are a number of colleagues in the audience that came today because they were very very concerned. most of them are retirees. as you heard ethyl speak, they are very worried about our future. we are happy that you held kaiser s feet to the fire and more happy that you are talking about holding blue shield s feet to the fire. the reason that we are taking the risk, our trust fund, our city takes the risk for blue shield because their rates were going out of sight and we worked out an issue where we thought that we can do better by taki
thanking or office for the community ambassadors. i saw them on the street while whack walking on friday. i have a senior tenant who lives on howard who saw a community ambassador run out to the street when she say a child walking into traffic who got away from his mother and running from income traffic. i want to congratulate because those are the little efforts and actions that don t get recollected in the public. i want to thank the many members of the community that are here today in supporting the cbd and it s expansion. thank you. before you proceed, i want to say one thing colleagues, if we can go back to the prior community benefit district. our city attorney reminded me that we need to formally close that hearing. without any objection, i would like to close that hearing. without any objection, that is close. now we ll proceed to comment on this item. thank you. good afternoon everyone. supervisor you basically took half my comments away because basically i m on