Good morning everyone. Thank you for being here today. I just want to thank all of you for coming and give a special thanks to the va who is here joining us, theyre important partners in this project. The owners of the site, there they are. Thank you for making this site available and for being partners with the city on this and other sites to help address homelessness. We want to thank the nonprofit providers running the site, everybody from dish, if you can raise your hand. Many dish staff are here and providing services on site. Everybody from the Mayors Office and their staff. Thank you very much. This is an important day for sorry and dell seymour. I forgot my other boss, the local chair of the coordinating homeless board along with ralph peyton who couldnt join us today. This is the opening of a new Supportive Housing site in San Francisco to serve chronically homeless veterans, that adds to the 70 units we have, and this is important in mayor lees desire and hope to get i should
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Neighborhood, my experiences is that i think people almost universally in the neighborhood would like to see that developed as housing. I mean, we have a housing crisis in this city. And the parking lot itself, you know, in the long run, isnt what the community, i think, is going to want or need. The communitys becoming more tech focused. I think well see a decline in cars. Unless somethings done with the traffic situation there, i mean but tigers will be there forever. Tigers and glen park station, and la corneta, i think, will never go away. You know, this is a dilemma that im probably going to ask the department to explain, but you know, my auntie rosa owned the dry cleaner on the corner for years that had all the Police Uniforms on it. Yeah, thats my dry cleaner. Yeah. Yeah, i really think and to the degree that the five years im here, this is something i would push aggressively to see housing develop, because we do have a crisis, and for me personally, the more we can fill around
County Transportation Authority for today. It seems like its been a long day already, tuesday december the 12th. I just want to start the meeting by offering our condolences to the family of edwin lee, the 43rd mayor of the city and county of San Francisco and share all of our condolences with people of the city and county of San Francisco. I want to thank all of my colleagues on the board, many of whom gathered in the wee hours of this morning at zuckerberg general hospital. With that, our clerk is Alberto Quintanilla and mr. Clerk, if you could please call the roll, were going to have a very brief meeting and then we are going to adjourn to go have a press conference with our acting mayor london breed on the mayors balcony. Clerk item one, commissioner breed, breed absent. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, present. Commissioner fewer, fewer absent. Commissioner kim, kim present. Commissioner peskin. Present. Commissioner ronen, present. Commissioner safai present, co
Or you can do that report online. I want to end this on a positive note. I started this with this season is all about giving, sharing and taking care of each other. I think if we do that, that is a resilient San Francisco that we all know we can be. Lets take care of each other and be a community and enjoy your holiday season. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, chief. As i mentioned earlier, the shop and dine the 49 campaign is a partnership with the Small Business community but also with other government leaders. It is my honor to introduce and recognize our s. B. A. District representive, fewly appointed just a couple of months ago. Come on up, julie. [applause] good morning. First of all, mayor lee and chief scott for your great support of the Small Business community. S. B. A. Is really proud to cosponsor, again, Small Business saturday with American Express and women impacting public policy. They have been tremendous supporters of this initiative across the country. And i