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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 ...

Programs. To the extent thatmine is failing or hasjpn,1 to address those issues, it is not because of somehowqpihb making Public Transportation more accessible to poor kids in this city. I think its simply unfair to place that responsibility on that group. We all have ajr n responsibilito make sure that we have a reliable system, and the working families and the poor families of this city are as interested in increasing the reliability as any. But to simply say that we have to choose one or the other, to me, is not accurate. It is not a choice that has to be made. It is not how San Francisco...

Principle, that in reality in fact being for making the system accessible touocu income youth is not exclusive mutually exclusive from trying to maintain the system. And that i think goes to the very heart of this point that to the extent that you have issues with what muni is doing or not doing with some things, that predicating the resolution of those issues solely or primarily on whether or not to put this thats the right way to frame this. The last thing that i would say is, as you correctly noted, the board of supervisors has acted before on this. I dont know that there has been any new i...

Different times, not only in these chambers but also beforehm the metropolitan transportation commission. And i . mx certainly respect supervisor wiener and his position, and i think that he was correctonnny in saying thate are you know that reasonable minds can disagree with this specific matter. But lets just step back a little bit and talk about sort of what were talking about here. The issue of the free muni for youth Pilot Project has been somethingyd r rpa this board s been dealing with for more than a year. And at different times, his different actions have been taken by[ cnc city agenc...