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Caucus along with representative doug collins, senator leahy and senator soon. The internet caucus was created 20 years ago to help inform the debate and discussion about key internet policy questions. Net neutrality is towards the top of that list even though all of us may not agree on how to approach Net Neutrality, this case is important for all of us. Im glad we get a chance to hear from different views on how we should be thinking about this. Net neutrality has been a top issue for many years. This case in particular is important for us. She led an amicus brief cosigned by 100 members of congress. Mozilla, the lead plaintiff is headquartered in our district. In sarasota county, also party to the case and this year we did a couple townhalls focused on Net Neutrality. I am looking forward to hearing what you have to say and others are too. On behalf of the caucus i think t ....
Patton murphy and representing get around. I wanted to thank chairman rolan and director reiskin and directors of the board. I wont reeight the benefits that christine and hailey have mentioned. As was mentioned get around and instant car sharing allows people to instantly find rent and unlock a vehicle, so they dont have to own their own vehicle. So the benefits of car sharing are widely reported burb its basically there is an environmental benefit, a transit benefit and entrepreneurial benefit in the case of get around. For the environmental benefit, susan from uc berkeleys data suggests that car sharing vehicles eliminate 913 cars from the road. Over the course of the program, hailey mentioned an opportunity to eliminate 10,000 vehicles. For the transit piece, what that means ultimately, in fact, while one parking spot will be used there is the opportunity to free up 10,000 parking spots. But more than that, the Research Also sh ....
There still some lingering distrust left over from the housing crisis that hasnt been fully dealt with yet so i think that is what everybody is concerned about along with the somewhat anemic Economic Growth that people are concerned that this housing recovery is not for real or its not as good as it appears to be. So we look at home prices had a very big jump in many areas in and home prices in 2013 but we are starting to see those numbers come down in many markets across the country. Foreclosures which we track are down to nearly prerecession levels. Actually we came out with the april numbers yesterday. There were 115,000 properties with foreclosure filings in the month of april. Thats down from a peak of over 367,000 in march of 2010 and we are almost back before the recession we were seeing about 85,000 foreclosure filings a month so we are getting closer to that level. That negative piece is largely gone from the market. Hou ....
Of it would have been possible without the foresight and leadership of this board and of the city of San Francisco. So on behalf of our peers Members Around the world we extend our gratitude and thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Patton murphy, george papadous. Good afternoon, my name is Patton Murphy and representing get around. I wanted to thank chairman rolan and director reiskin and directors of the board. I wont reeight the benefits that christine and hailey have mentioned. As was mentioned get around and instant car sharing allows people to instantly find rent and unlock a vehicle, so they dont have to own their own vehicle. So the benefits of car sharing are widely reported burb its basically there is an environmental benefit, a transit benefit and entrepreneurial benefit in the case of get around. For the env ....
Want to do whatever we can to ensure your success. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [ reading speakers names ] good afternoon. Im a Campaign Director with peers the organization that hailey is a member of. We launched in july of last year and since then, almost 300,000 people around the world have taken action to support the sharing economy through initiatives like the sfmta car sharing parking program. Hayeys online petition is just one of the initiatives we have worked on in past year. There is say diversity of issues relevant to the economy that enrich peoples lives and people care about. When we heard about haley and how she wanted to support the Car Sharing Program as a car owner and car sharer, we saw she wanted to take action not just for herself, but for real people in the community, which is why we choose to support her and help her get her petitio ....