huge number. over 2 thousand youth b will benefit from that >> when i turned 18 i couldn't pay for the fair so i need the money for metropolitan. i need to pay $6 from sunset to school to chinatown to volunteer for the youth program afterward i need to pay another $2 to go back home to the mission. it costs me almost $40 for a month. it's a loss for my family cost wise. also, if i focus to bring the $2 bill i need to walk thirty minutes to my home at the end of the mission street. so it costs me time and money for my family.

i hope that the family youth is included in the 18 years ago and help us to have a better future. thank you >> thank you very much. (clapping.) (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hello good afternoon. i'm lisa we're part of the chinatown community development center. today we'll be talking about free muni for youth. first, it's important they first supported muni for we support free muni for seniors and hopefully, this will make a path or a template so we can create free muni for seniors. okay. i'm going to talk about my personal experience my

grandparents are sitting at home they're also scombru stay at home because we actually can't afford the paper caterpillar we're from a low income family and the rents because of the cost of living it's a great pressure on us. so, now overtime i saw them they only stay at home and do nothing we live far away from chinatown. it's like they can do nothing they can only stair at the outside because the transportation fair is too expensive we're disappointed. we used to go out they used to walk around but now they're getting 36 their neat is getting hurt and their feet is getting

hurt i hope they, get the opportunity to go out and explore the city. >> many transit folks can't drive a car they rely on muni. so with this petition i'd like to leave it here and a thank you card from the youth and hopefully, we'll get free muni for seniors. thank you very much >> thank you sue. >> the tuesday card is effective we get few of them. so thank you (calling names) >> good afternoon. >> i'm elizabeth jones a student at the arts. who has been passed a resolution and in full support and will

continue to support muni for youth expended 18 years old and implement it permanently. i use muni all the time and getting to and from school. and i will turn 18 awhile i'm still in high school. i will have my college applications and hopefully part of the senior advisory council and won't have time to have a job so rely on muni to get to school and opportunities outside of school. so i would very much appreciate it if fro youth was expended for 18 years old and pledged per diem thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker

please. (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon hi, i'm michelle congresswoman i'm a current member of the youth commission appointed by the mayor. i want to thank you all for the muni free program. i was happy that google is funding the next two years but we wanted to ask that the original funding that was going to go into the fro muni program should be given to the 18 years old to include them in the free minnesota program. 75 percent of seniors will turn 18 and they face the same barrier it places stress on the family to pay of dollars for a monthly pass but for the youth. i turned 18 last month it was hard for me and my motto come up

with the $66 to consultant from school to my job and to go to school and home. and so i wanted to remind that free muni is a long term investment program we're breeding a new generation of riders and youth should be able to have this opportunity to explore the big and you beautiful transit system we have in the city where we can traffic anywhere in the city and such a program we can become the greener city and a happy birthday to the muni for youth and thank you, commissioner >> thank you (clapping.) (calling names). >> good afternoon. all right. good job. i'm nick's i chair the youth

commission where i was postponed by supervisor mar. i want to thank the members of the board for your leadership for the passing of free minnesota h that has helped over 31 thousand youth to date. sfmta defines the ages of 5 to 17 and also to encourage youth ridership. however, in their opinion there's a significant problem with the definition. of the 4 thousand and 14 uc department of education high schoolers will turn 18 and another hundreds of thousands more in the private and other schools. on my 18th birthday the monthly

fairs increased by one hundred and 80 percent and more if you're on free metropolitan. they have more access for the ability to pay when they graduate from high school. other agencies have taken the lead ac transit says you need to be 5 to 18 years old and i think san francisco should take the lead do we really want contra costa and merry run couldn't to be ahead of us on transit issues. i hope this board of directors approves the youth fair to 18 years thank you

(clapping) (calling names) >> any of those folks her. please come down >> is the gentleman here. >> anthony hernandez. i will e i want to say i go to john high school i'm here in part by mission sf. i support the idea of fro muni for youth. i think live in a single-family petitioner household. we remember trying to find the amenity funds for $4 plus a day. just like most teens me, and my

sister, and brother don't have jobs which made it hard for us to keep up with the constant as fast as we'd extend over $20 to have the fair transport us to our schools. we will try to get as much money as possible by asking our friends or finding money on the street to provide fairs to go home and to go to school. however, since i've signed up for the pilot problem we didn't have to pay every single month

more over $60 and this allowed us to be able to afford more resources, more - such school utensils and help us get more on our school instead of having to pay for a bus fair >> thank you, mr. hernandez (calling names.) (clapping.) >> looks like we have a group i can't read your sweatshirts oh, power. good afternoon, everybody >> good afternoon. i'm katrina i'm a youth leader with power i'm a 9th grader. i'm here today in support of the fro muni for youth permanent and

included in there the seniors. i rode the bus everyday to go to school and home and power. now i'm happy i have fro minnesota because i have the ability to go anywhere i want without be ticketed. i feel good, i don't have to depend open my parents prtsz the benefit of youth it gives my parents money to bow food and to pay for rent on time. also, because my mom is a single paertd or petitioner who's struggling. i know my family is not the only one struggling thanks to this program i'm one of the 31 thousand that has this service. we need this to be permanent

past the next two years so the youth like me can benefit in the future. i feel that muni for i did not get should be for the 18-years old they may not have a job so they dependent upon their parents. you have an opportunity to make this permanent >> thank you very much (clapping) (calling names). >> i think there's - >> so i'm a 15-year-old girl in high school. honestly, i wouldn't be standing here advocating for the youth if it wasn't for the actual program this helps me go to power and

center programs to help me with my school if i didn't have $0.75 i'll be home or maybe causing trouble so i can go whatever. am i making this permanent not only forego other youth that will help others to be a leader in the dmuntd. that was great that google has offered to pay for this after two years. i'm going to want to keep my grades up to get into college and not have time to get into a job my parents are going to be paying for my college and my

younger sisters. we're within 4 years of each other. they don't have the money and resources to inspire $4 each day for me. i'm hoping in the future in the next hearing you'll pass this for not only 5 to 17 for 18 years old >> thank you very much. (clapping.) (calling names). >> i'm here as a representative for the power for youth. i'm 17 years young and currently am in high school. i'm here to advocate for the free muni to be permanent and add the 18 years old. i come from a low income household and usually if i get money which is not very often i have to submit the bills and

things, you know, my family can't afford. i use free muni it's a struggle to find change to get on the muni. i don't also have money and when i do i try to be smart about it i'm terrified to get sick. and evidentially when they catch me and quote/unquote let me slide it almost puts me to tears. but imagine when i'm 18 to me it's just another day i'm still going to have their support and still in high school until i graduate. the only differences i'll have to pay $2 more and on top of that the scholarships and my

home situation am i going it to have a place to stay. my story is not that bad for comparison to others. the fro minnesota benefits me around san francisco. the reason i don't have to feel like a criminal. it gives me appeased of mind >> (clapping) >> thank you next speakers. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, everyone i'm rossi i'm 16 a sophomore at the balboa high school. i'm here to talk about the coalition between power and the advocates. we support fro muni for youth we need this pilot program a

permanent. we also support 18 years old that are in high school there's a lot of seniors that are 18 i know when i'm a senior in high school i'll be 18 i have 6 plus months to go i probably won't have a car or licensee need this program especially with a lot of youth around me twho who don't have cars i go to work and school i also have to commute back and forth. i can speak that on this with other youth and also with the rising cost of living in san francisco it's hard for families to support themselves. this will especially help the low income families who have to support their children transportation it's not like they can drive them to school or

their actual programs and things like that. there's a safety concern. i'm 16 i'm a teenager but there are safety concerns especially, if i go to work and come home when it's don't work. not only girls i'm saying guys too. this will definitely help youth and girls in general thank you. thank you very much (calling names.) (clapping.) >> good afternoon. >> i'm anthony i'm with the filipino leader. i'm here to support fro muni for

youth. a lot of the seniors and everyone that can be aware are in thousands. i know you know that a lot of you have seen the benefits we've been struggling with this clel for years. and we're asking here our basic demands to serve the nodes of our folks in the city. this is for 18-years old and the seniors and folks who are disabled to prioritize all the people of the city not only those who are weighing i didn't. we believe we can do this in partnership like supervisor campos said there's a good point about transit equality and we'll

keep coming and the door is open in the community to talk to us and work with the people and not just the corporations thank you >> thank you next speakers. >> thank you (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm the youth commissioner currently and an appointment by mayor ed lee. i would like to applaud you with the work had you done with free muni for youth. i appreciate the donation that google has made. i'd like to say well, let me tell you there's this gill in my high school she's got 3 brothers they go all over the city and it's a financial burden for her and her family to provide the

money but for free muni for youth it's not necessary they can go anywhere no matter where they have to. however, she a happens to be turning 18 sooner and she'll have to worry about adding the $2. i'd like to propose we'll expand the muni free for everyone no matter where they are in they're lives even in college >> thank you. next speaker please. (calling names). >> it is successful for the youth and the people like power

and cdc the youth commission i want to commend them for the best program nationally it's a model we get calls and we're going to be on calls for people around the country for the model. it reflects in the city and reflects well in sfmta let's make this permanent so the 18 years old don't have to deal with this and the need to address the affordability for seniors and folks with disabilities. this shows how you build support for addressing the budget you're putting forward today and other funding mechanisms the way you build those and i address the needs i can't think of a low

cost benefit i've been working on at that particular time transit in the city and i've not seen a budget you see how we've spent hundreds of dollars that never met their objects it's wonderful to hear this is under budget and it's a slam dunk i hope we can take the experience how we invest in youth and you need to fund your system. i want to see in the future to go for more funds and start tapping into the real estate market and get more money for the system we need for the future thank you. next speaker please. (calling names.) (clapping.) >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon my name is

jim i'm a community organizer with the san francisco bicycle coalition. the goal of the free minnesota for youth program is to among the city for all opportunities accessible to youth regardless of their household income. through our missions of promoting the bicycle coalition we support the same goal and stands alongside it and asks for a free muni for youth. i hope this gets approved in the forthcoming. thank you >> next speaker please.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm a member of power and a mother as the free minnesota has helped the families noted to have to pay for the clipper cards the extra money a month. >> we ask you make this program permanent it's on the only way to make our youths get to school

safely and not to make them feel like criminals. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> because the recession has impacted people who have two or three days of work and week and many have lost their jobs. >> it's a success the metropolitan. >> and is families are

impacted. >> we ask you include seniors and disabled because they don't have access to