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director leigh. present. director yekutiel. here. we have a quorum. announcement in prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. item 4. approval of the minutes of the february 16, 2021 regular meeting. any additions before i open it to the public for comment? seeing none. please open the mine for public comment. are there caller on the line? please remind people how they call in if they don t have the number. if you want to speak press 1-0. dial (888)808-6928. dial 1-0 now. are there any callers on the line for item 4. you have three questions remaining. first caller. this is for comments on the february 16, 2021 regular meeting minutes. if you are calling on another item, this is not that. first caller. is there someone there? my comment is i don t think the option recommended by staff sir, we are talking about the minutes of february 16th. are you speaking about the minutes of february 16th? no, sorry. which item? the third ite ....
february 16, 2021 regular meeting. any additions before i open it to the public for comment? seeing none. please open the mine for public comment. are there caller on the line? please remind people how they call in if they don t have the number. if you want to speak press 1-0. dial (888)808-6928. dial 1-0 now. are there any callers on the line for item 4. you have three questions remaining. first caller. this is for comments on the february 16, 2021 regular meeting minutes. if you are calling on another item, this is not that. first caller. is there someone there? my comment is i don t think the option recommended by staff sir, we are talking about the minutes of february 16th. are you speaking about the minutes of february 16th? no, sorry. which item? the third item. which item is that? the debate. that is not until 2:30 p.m. it is a time certain time. 2:30 p.m. it was publicly noted for 2:30 p.m. we cannot discuss the item prior to 2:30 p.m. than ....
meeting. any additions before i open it to the public for comment? seeing none. please open the mine for public comment. are there caller on the line? please remind people how they call in if they don t have the number. if you want to speak press 1-0. dial (888)808-6928. dial 1-0 now. are there any callers on the line for item 4. you have three questions remaining. first caller. this is for comments on the february 16, 2021 regular meeting minutes. if you are calling on another item, this is not that. first caller. is there someone there? my comment is i don t think the option recommended by staff sir, we are talking about the minutes of february 16th. are you speaking about the minutes of february 16th? no, sorry. which item? the third item. which item is that? the debate. that is not until 2:30 p.m. it is a time certain time. 2:30 p.m. it was publicly noted for 2:30 p.m. we cannot discuss the item prior to 2:30 p.m. thank you. next caller, please ....
i m michelle levis, soma resident. as you all know, soma has been in development for san francisco and has become a neighborhood of ultra rich and ultra poor. i would like to advocate for an increased range of affordability. we have families where two families work minimum wage jobs and they don t qualify for the affordability, making too much. i have a struggle between talking about the new dream community when across the street, part pardon my language is a [beep] show. it s hard to not think about what is happening on the other side of sixth street. the school is in crisis. we have one school in our district and talking about a new school is ridiculous to me. we had to get pinterest to pay for a second social worker because we have the highest number of homeless kids. 85% of middle schoolers were reading below grade levels. we know that means they will drop out and become incarcerated. for us, it s a huger issue, instead of just what is happening in the footprint ....
i don t have to acknowledge him because he is not my boss anymore. [laughter] but i do want to give a special shout-out to tom nolan. under his leadership of the board that we brought forward the central subway and brought forward this procurement and we would not be here but for not his leadership. thank you for that. [applause] and so with all of the fire power that you ve heard from represented here that put together the money, that put together the leadership, that authorized and approved all of this to happen, someone actually had to do the work. and that is where some might say the part really begins. somebody had to execute on this promise that we made to our funders, to our policymakers, most importantly to our rider and to the public. the person who is at the tip of the spear for our agency, but even coordinating beyond our agency, with the fire department, police department, the mayor s office on disabilities, the rest of the city family is our transit directo ....