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Are shifting i want to do more to deal with the affordability chris crisis in San Francisco. And that means increasing the cost of doing business and a supplemental for these nonprofits and also making sure they have greater latitude to do the service here in San Francisco in San Francisco in San Francisco. The disparity that were seeing and the despair were seeing on our streets is incredible and actually i see Homeless People in district 11 and ive never seen as many before as i see right now and its happening all over San Francisco last week we were sent all a letter saying that 25 percent ...

[applause]. Thank you president breed. I wont repeat what supervisor mar has well articulated. Coming from the nonprofit world and being there for over 30 years and actually running one for about 18 years, i know how difficult it is when you dont get a cost of living adjustment for your budget and when we talk about cost of living you know when you have to operate a nonprofit, it includes everything from administrative costs to salaries and sometimes theres certain things go up faster than others. Certainly rents have gone up faster than what we would consider a cost of living adjustment so yo...

[applause]. Thank you president breed. I wont repeat what supervisor mar has well articulated. Coming from the nonprofit world and being there for over 30 years and actually running one for about 18 years, i know how difficult it is when you dont get a cost of living adjustment for your budget and when we talk about cost of living you know when you have to operate a nonprofit, it includes everything from administrative costs to salaries and sometimes theres certain things go up faster than others. Certainly rents have gone up faster than what we would consider a cost of living adjustment so yo...

Source that was found by the mtc staff. Thats whats before you today. The resolution that the mta board of directors passed approving a free muni for low income youth did not specify what Funding Source the money came from. It left that question open. But in terms of the funding that were talking about, we have to make clear that the mtc provided in the approval for the use for this very type of pilot, that in fact it was found the funding at the request of someone in fact commissioner tiny of marin, so that this kind of a pilot that were talking about could be funded with this money. So the i...

Ive been public in my skepticism of the free muni for youth program. My skepticism has been based on and my belief the program would come from munis operating money. Were now seeing thats the case that muni is considering using some of this Maintenance Program rather than to invest that money in the system to purchase more vehicles, to rehabilitate vehicles and otherwise make the system more reliable. Once the free muni Pilot Program ends there will be enormous pressure to extend the program and that pressure almost certainly will include using more funding that could be used to improve munis ...