>> yes, sir. i'll bring the data. >> and just as a sidebar, which is not necessarily specific to the presentation, but specific to equity, because i was looking at a flier that s.f. m.t.a. sent out, $720,000 available through that process in the bay view, which we know won't fund infrastructure projects. but what i noticed was there was an exclusion of public housing sites in terms of being a place where they could go and vote, with the exception of the boys and girls club on tiska. so as we talk about equity, but we're not providing options for people to vote in their communities, and the irony of that is the bus service is so bad in these areas, we expect them to be able to get to other places so they can vote, but they're trapped and isolated. so i want to make sure we prioritize providing

opportunities for them to be able to participate as we talk about equity because that piece is important. we need the voice of our public housing residents. you definitely admit in the presentation that these are areas where they heavily rely on bus service, but when they have to have bus service -- two, they have to have a voice to be able to talk about the needs in the community. the last thing, you mentioned during the budget cycle working to address improvements on the 8 bay shore. is that the same timeline in terms of having more rapid service and additional buses that you just described? >> no, sir. so we're starting the budget process. right now it is going to take nine months or something to come up with our final operating budget for the next cycle. these ones -- the 29 and the 44 that are currently under way, those are in our existing budget. so i was saying the timeline for implementing

those is the next year. but the 8 bay shore is just one example, but we have a bunch of other service that needs to go into the next round of the budget act. and that starts next july. >> and s.f. m.t.a. hasn't been given any additional money during off-cycle? >> no, sir, no that i'm aware of. >> thank you. >> chairman: i appreciate this presentation, and the deep dive into the 25 as well, and treasure island. what would it take to have treasure island included as an equity strategy neighborhood? i realize it is unique in some ways, but it does feel like there are some tracking and processes and data that treasure island may be missing out on because it is not

included? >> so i think that that's -- we're basically treating it as an equity strategy neighborhood, as far as how we're approaching the prioritization of the projects and where we can put our resources. i think it can be possible to add that to the equity strategy neighborhood list. typically, you know, we're doing -- the equity strategy neighborhoods are served by a number of lines, and really treasure island just has the one. and they've got the larger city family looking at the entire planning process out there, and so that's why it was left off originally. i think that's something that we we're good with adding to the overall project. >> thank you. i appreciate that. i think it meets the requirements in terms of the demographics and the need. and then another thing on the 25 -- i really appreciate the increasing of the evening service.

has that started? when will that start? >> yes. it had started in june, mid-june. so it's only been about a month. >> okay. great. in terms of really tracking to make sure that in the -- from what i understand, even when we have the brief time with the terminal, that there were still some challenges around delays and crowding and unpredictability, and that sort of thing. what sort of things are being done to address that or track that or really improve on that? and maybe a somewhat related thing, i do hear sometimes from treasure island folks that the g.p.s. tracking thing will be off, and it will say when it is coming, and it's not really coming. >> yeah. >> and they'll end up being out there -- obviously if one doesn't come, that could mean an hour wait for folks. >> as far as the next bus,

we're -- we were leading edge technology when the next bus first went in, and unfortunately it has been quite a while since that went in. m.t.a. is working on a new next bus, and hopefully with much better predictions and things like that. as far as the trans bay center opening, you're right, it definitely still had problems when it opened. we think that was mostly due to that it takes a while for everybody to kind of gel. we're sharing a lot of space with other agencies on that second floor. we think we actually got a lot of the operational kinks worked out, making sure everybody knows what days we're going to, and who gets priority, and those kind of operational improvements i think happened in that short timeframe. once again, it is going to take a couple of weeks

before everybody gets smooth again. at that point, then we're planning to look at what does -- we're anticipating a sizable jump in ontime performance. and i'm talking 5% to 10% improvement, which will be rather significant. if that doesn't happen, then we'll have to look at other ways to make improvements, and that might be transit priority on the treasure island itself. the bay bridge is a very difficult, obvious, issue, because we don't control that. we have to work with caltrans. and we have been in talks with them about preliminarily what can be done. we're hoping that there will be a marked improvement once the transit center opens back up. >> thank you. i appreciate that. right now there is no other option for people who don't have cars who

are on treasure island. and we're working towards some significant changes around transportation. and it relies on the people there having access to transportation that is affective and reliable, and they have faith that as it grows and changes and all of that, it is going to be there when they need it. because, really, they don't have any other options. i hope we can keep an eye on the ontime performance and the frequency. thank you. >> chairman: seeing no other colleagues with comments or questions. thank you, mr. kennedy. are there members of the public who would like to speak on this item? >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is mary claire, and i'm with the south market community action

network. a huge component is affordability. in light of last week's fare increase, i'm here to raise concerns of people who are negatively impacted by the yearly fare increases. they say they have done an analysis to see if the fare increases will unfairly impact parts of the population, and their findings have found it will not impact those of low income, but we have conducted our own tests, and our findings showed of 400 surveyed, 82% of participants expressed being negatively impacted by fare increases, and switching to alternative modes of transit over muni. so clearly there is a disconnect in how we are conducting our analysis. we have great free and slow income programs that cover 90,000 people out of the 725,000 people who are reliant on muni every day.

but they only cover youth, seniors, people with disabilities, and those who live 200% below the federal poverty line. we've done the calculations, and people who make minimum wage in this city, who are still struggling to get by, don't even fall 200% below the federal poverty line, which is probably why the lifeline program has the lowest number of enrollment. $3 for a cash fare is inequitable, and just before inflation is rising it doesn't mean people's incomes are rising. we demand no more fare increases in s.f. m.t.a.'s next budget cycle and future budget cycles. and we hope to work with the city to address this issue. >> chairman: thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before i close public comment? public comment is now closed. mr. chang? >> this is in response to

the prior conversation about the development plans for treasure island. i wanted to clarify for the public that the planning worry doin program is r the affected new growths. but there are needs that precede all of the planned growth that we're working together to meet. so there are existing crowding and other reliability issues that as commissioner haney mentioned we hear very frequently from the residents, and i wanted to distinguish that between the new work we're doing for future growth. >> chairman: thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call item 11. >> item 11, for the planned barrier 2015. this is an action item.

>> good afternoon, commissioners, in light of the time, i'm going to kind of zip through this and just bug me with questions. the other good news on this is that the may 21st board meeting here, michelle bellu has been working on issues, presented and update and basically gave an information item on the action. i want to remind people what planned bay area, or p.b. a. is. the first is approval of goals for san francisco that will guide our advocacy, and approval of the s.f. project list. this requires a board action to go along with it. this slide here is an update, the schedule for

horizon and plan bay area. that was a staff-led future planning effort that let m.t.a. explore some topics and issues without having to follow all of the rules and regulations. that work is wrapping up this fall. that's what the black bar is on this screen. the end of horizon indicates the beginning of the planned bay area efforts. unlike horizon, which as i said was staff-driven and had next to no actions on it or actions from our board or others, plan bay wilplannedbay will be very different. in the window where it says craft preferred scenario, so between when mid-2020 and when they adopt the craft preferred scenario, you will see a lot of activity. and the adoption of the final scenario will be

back with similar actions and information. >> this is a sustainable community -- in that graphic there. and it applies to the nine barrier region. it looks at transportation investment, jobs and housing allocations by jurisdiction. they're done every four years. the last update was adopted in 2017. as you saw on the last slide, the 2050 update will be adopted by mid-2021. the c.t.p.s serve as a primary transportation input, and that's the san francisco transportation plan, which was last adopted in 2015. and we're in the process of updating that. so those county-wide plans

and other local plans, like community-based plans, p.d.a. investment, the bike plans, all of that flows into the planned bay area. what is planned bay area? when the document is done, this slide shows the three sort of high-level elements that you get out of it. the first is a roadmap for a vision of how the bay area will grow. that includes primarily housing and job growth targets for each jurisdiction in the nine barrier region. it includes a transportation investment package. a list of projects and programs that is constrained by the amount of revenues the region is expected to receive during the first year of the plan, 202 1, and the last year, 2050. that is state and federal funding, that is assumed in there. we're talking really big numbers. planned bay area 2040 had a $300 billion re revenue

forecast. the first two items there -- but also how to advance goals, like equity, economic development, and resiliency. this is the first part of the action that is before you today, which is adoption of the goals, which are listed as attachment one in your packet. we built on the goals that we used for the last planned bay area. and we have the regional transit operators, m.t.c. and caltrans. you can roughly divide those goals into the three shown on the screen. in terms of funding, for example, we seek to include all of the san francisco party projects and programs that need to be in planned bay. it is kind of like your dance ticket. if you're not in or consistent with planned bay area, you cannot seek many regional funds or state and federal funding for most projects.

we allocate for new revenues for transportation. kind of following up on the prior disurks you'll discus, you'll see in our goals, we have a portion dedicated to equity-related goals. so we're looking in planned bay area to advance some of our san francisco equity initiatives, both in s.f., but also across the region. two examples are we have been pushing last cycle and this cycle, transit affordability. i believe several operators are participating in that. and also pushing vision zero, trying to make it el availableligible, that can fund visioner zero projects. and lastly, leadership. we want to be able to help shape how our region deals with the future, what we're going do look lib in thlikein the future. two good examples are we're trying to make sure

all of the jurisdictions in the region take on their fair share of housing and jobs growth. and another area where we're ground zero for a lot of the emerging technology -- i'll call them improvements that are happening very quickly, we want to be able to share our experience and our knowledge about these to help shape how these technologies get incorporated into planned bay area. i think given the time, i'm just going to say one thing on this, but one example of how these goals translate into something tairchtangible that we get, there is project performance evaluation that happens. the bottom of this slide here, you'll see we had four san francisco projects that were among the to top perm performers in te region. another good example is we

had a focus on the transit investment last time. this because cal tran and muni and bart tried to deal with current growth, and we have a lot more growth in the pipeline. that led to things like m.t.a. funding, and helping get planning on the second tube going and so forth. it makes important differences both at a longer term scale and a shorter term scale. so i'm moving on to the second part of our action about the financially constrained investment strategy. so we have to wait for a couple of things to happen before we can get there. the first is that m.t.c. will come up with the regional forecast that i spoke to you about. i can say that it has changed over time. like our transit fares and the prop "k" sales tax.

so you'll find when we get this huge revenue forecast, the vast majority of money is already dedicated to current parties, subject to local decisions, but there is a small wedge or piece of that is subject to m.t.c. discretionary action. and that will be the focus of a lot of the actions we bring before our board. on the policy funds, i'll say that sometimes you see policies that happen directly in planned bay area. two key examples that will be of interest to this body are, the region will adopt a new list of regional transit expansion parties that ship get us in the cue for the federal funding. gary b.r.t. is on that list, and we want to make sure it stays there. we had a desire to link transportation and housing production to try to incentavise housing

production. so unfortunately, m.t.c. has made the process of developing the transportation investment strategy, that package of projects, really confusing to explain. i'm going to try to keep it super high level for you. there are basically four blue bars on there. think of those as four different processes. at the end of the day, san francisco county and the other eight counties are going to be given a financial target and asked to schmid submit a complete list of projects. right now m.t.c. has four different processes. they had a public solicitation for projects that were transformative. and one of the key criteria was a billion dollars or more. so there is a list in your packet of what those transformative projects are there. there are regionally

significant projects, which i'll talk about in a second. and there is a need assessment. what is our funding gap. that process is led by m.t.c. and is under way, and lastly and important, the vast majority of projects in planned bay area for m.t.c. guidelines are incorporated in the categories. you're fa familiar with prop "k" and so forth. so very few projects actually need to be called out specifically. among that those do are the subject of today's action item, which is for this purpose, m.t.c. is looking for roadway and transit capacity increasing projects over $250 million. i want to emphasize this is gis just like going into a forest and looking at three trees. what is not in here, when you're looking at your

list in the packet, which is attachment three behind the resolution, projects that are under way but expect to be completed by 2021 are not in here. so you won't see central subway. and then, importantly, new projects that we come up with, the next suite of the tube crossing, extensions to the west side, the east side, whether it is bus or rail, those are not in here if they're only going to be in the project development phase, like pre-construction between now and the next update four years from now. so what you see in the list in attachment three are mostly things from the last cycle that aren't yet done. things like expanding m.t.a. suite, west side bridges, and development-related projects like the southeast waterfront improvements.

i won't go over this here, but i think attachment four in your packet is something we'll come back to later with approval of the categories, just to see where most projects will be. categories 13 and 14 are very important categories to allow for additional project development and planning for core capacity transit improvements, like the second bar tube. so what you'll see coming in the fall, we'll bring you information on the state of good repair short shortfalls. we'll get the revenue forecast from the m.t.c., which will give the target for the san francisco project list. we'll see some project performance evaluation results from the $250 billion project. and somewhere between

september and december, we'll come back to you with ou target an our target. and i'll be happy to answer any questions. the other slides have additional information. >> chairman: i do not see any comments or questions from my colleagues. and so we will open this up for public comments. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. we have a approval resolution in front of us. is there a motion to adopt that? moved by walton. is there a second? seconded by mar. please call the roll. rol[roll call]>> we have first .

>> chairman: thank you. please call the next item. >> item 12, award three-year professional services contract, with an option to extend for two years. in a combined amount not to exceed $1 million for oncall legal counsel issues. >> cynthia fong, deputy executive. this is a item i have before you. it had come to the board back in 2015. we had legal services back on june 6th,and we received six proposals. we interviewed three of the firms. three firms are here before you today. we thought each firm had the skills necessary to help carry forth our plan for the transportation

authority. they have a proven tract record with us, and we're adding myers to the roster of legal attorneys. they demonstrate a strong approach -- management approach and qualifications. in addition, we're really impressed with them. this item has gone before with an anonymous motion of support on june 26th. this contract will be funded over the next three years with state, federal, regional, and the local prop "k" funds. with that, i'm happy to open it up for questions. and i have representatives from all three legal firms here with me today. >> chairman: thank you, misfong. ms. fong. i do not see comments or questions. i think my colleagues are eager to get prepared for the afternoon meeting. so we'll open this for public comment. seeing none, public comment is now closed. can i have a motion to approve the award of these

contracts? moved by yee. seconded by brown. and we can take that same house -- can we take that same house-call? yes, we can. great. mr. clerk, please call the next item? >> item 13, introduction of new items. this is information item. >> chairman: commissioner mar. >> thank you vice chair, vice cr mandelman. i would like to make a request that on july 23rd, the board receives an update from m.t.a. in the office of workforce development on the construction mitigation on the business impact fund, which is the $5 million that this board advocated to be set aside from the m.t.a. allocation to support neighborhood businesses impacted by major construction projects. when i discussed this with director chang briefly,

she had asked if we could have this update in september because the july 23rdt be a bit -- from my perspective, there is an urgency to have this update on july 23rd. particularly with the improvement project moving to construction phase in july, and they're without a construction mitigation plan in place. and in my conversations with m.t.a. staff. they had indicated that they needed direction from the board on the business impact fund and allocation of it. i wanted to get an update and some clarification on where things are at in us being able to access those resources that were set aside. >> chairman: thank you, commissioner mar. thumbs up from director chang. all right. fantastic. commission safai. >> i think we gave some

very specific instructions last time. it was very much about looking at the receipts from previous years of businesses, what the current receipts were, and how that money could be utilized to help support these small businesses. and so, you know, this is a perfect extreme. i read in the paper the other day about the el taraval situation, and the construction happening there and a lot of businesses around there -- there was no notice given, or very little, two weeks, if that, and the impact is significant, and has the potential to the significant. in most cases the small businesses are lever raismleveragingtheir own homes. this is exactly why we set up this fund for van ness and any other part of the city. it should be incumbent upon the s.f. m.t.a. and the t.a. to coordinate

when these types of projects are coming on line. there should be a plan put in place, and the businesses should be notified in advance that this fund exists. that is a very simple request. so it absolutely blew me away when i read it in the paper -- it's not even my district, but i happen to be down there because i was picking up my son at camp, and to see this work would be happening without any notification to the businesses is not okay. i share in your frustration, supervisor mar ander and anywhere else in the city, but i agree we can't wait until september because this is happening now. >> chairman: director chang, do you want to speak? >> sure. i would just say we certainly heard the board's direction last time. if you want to say a few

words now before inviting them back at the july 23rd meeting. >> thank you chair mandelman and commissioners. yes, we got the direction last time, and we are certainly doing our best to work with o.e.w.d., mostly because we wanted to make sure that the funds for those programs were working very closely and in conjunction with some of the services that o.e.w.d. already had in place. so the hope was, i think, to augment the programs that they had they were we were already doing around places like central subway and other places. when i let the staff know that this body was thinking about making this request, they would hoping we could push back because we do want to put it in front of our board before we actually make any final direction. but if we just want to get an update, we can do that as well. >> chairman: so not

going too far into this, as we are going to have a fuller presentation discussion on this on our next agenda, commissioner brown? >> yes. i mean, this is the issue about pushing it back. and i do agree with commissioner mar and others, is that right now i hate ashbury. it is being torn up. just this morning i got a message from the mer merchants that ashbury andiate and yates e being torn up. and this is their main season. most of them make their money in august, and wait until after labor day. it has been very confusing as to what kind of mitigation. when we put forward this money, we were looking at giving them cash to help them with their rent or whatever, and could it be

worked out as like square feet, how much you're paying for rent. let us give you a few months when they're tearing up your sidewalks and it is very difficult for people to shop at your store. i feel, and maybe i'm speaking as the only person, but i just felt it was to give the businesses directly cash. it wasn't to do the mitigation of oh, we'll do marketing and banners. i just don't think that is going to work here. so for me, asking for this in july is going to help me because i have to go out to that community and say, this is exactly what we can do. i've heard there might be some loans, low-interest loans, but in reality, does a business want to take out a loan and then filpile on their debt? so i think we have to really hear exactly how this money is going to be used and really understand, can we get a little more creative with it? and not just using the

programs that are already at o.e.w.d. to help people go shop there. because if people come and there is not parking or the sidewalks are being ripped up, they're not going to go shopping. i don't care how much you advertise it. it is just going to be really tough. so i think really having some kind of an -- even if it is brief, what exactly they have planned to do and what they are doing. i would love to have that in july, also, so thank you. >> chairman: thank you, commissioner brown. mr. alman, you can probably sit down because we're not going to be engaging with you in a dialogue right now. commissioner walton? >> i wanted to emphasize the importance of the report at the next meeting, and also in line with supervisor brown and supervisor safai. we were very clear this is was more of a cash-type subsidy to help address loss of revenue that we could predict over a period of time.

i was not envisioning it alone. when we had a conversation about these resources, i was really envisioning a process where we look at what businesses have typically made over a duration of time, and how much resources can we provide and come up with a strategy to make sure we do as best we can for as many businesses to benefit. and, hopefully, this body will work to find more resources because the mitigation impacts and the affects -- we need to do our due diligence to support our businesses during these times. in some cases, it could be up to a few years of businesses losing revenue. i hope that message is clear to all departments involved, that we are envisioning this, at least in my case, and i hear from some of my colleagues, actual tangible resources to address loss of revenue. >> chairman: ms. fewer? >> i want to say i concur. i think we should have

that update in july, and the sooner the better. i was here when we actually voted on that. so i just wanted to lend my support. >> chairman: thank you commissioner fewer. any public comment on our introduction of new items? seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, please call the next item. any public comment on items not on our agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. and mr. clerk, do we have any further business? >> no other. >> chairman: we are adjourned.

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>> roll call, commissioner -- [roll call taken] we have quorum. >> thank you, mr. clerk. please call the next item. >> item 2, chair report. information item. >> i just have one thing that i want to announce in my chair's report, that i'm very excited to share and some of you may have heard this, that the treasure island development authority and mercy housing assisted by our

timma staff have won a $20 million grant from the state affordable housing and sustainable communities grant program. the strategic growth council awarded the full amount to fund construction on the island and transportation improvements. it includes construction of a bicycle pedestrian path connection between the bay bridge east span, touchdown on yerba buena island and the ferry terminal, and electric busses to a.c. transit to operate the new east bay transit service. congratulations and thank you to the team who worked on this. and thank the staff for their work doing the first phase of outreach to businesses on the island, talking about the potential, or the needs of the businesses as well as some of the questions around a potential future toll. with that, i believe we are actually going to skip item

number three. >> public comment for item 2. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, next item. >> director's report, information item. >> public comment on this item n seeing none, next item. >> item 4, approve the january 29, 2019, an action item. >> any comments on the minutes? seeing none -- let's open to public comment. public comment on the minutes? we have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of january 29, 2019. motion by commissioner peskin and second by commissioner walton. mr. clerk, call the roll, please. [roll call vote taken]

final approval. >> thank you. i think we are going to call items 5 and 6 together. >> approve the proposed fiscal year 2018-19 budget amendment. item 6, adopt proposed fiscal year 2019-20 annual work program, action items. >> miss cynthia fong, director of finance and administration. >> deputy director of finance administration. timma committee heard april 4th the suggested budget amendment proposal. we are shifting 1.3 million from 3.5 million budget to a new budget amount of 2.2 million to

carry forward the work of the timma program. in relation to the proposed budget for fiscal year 19-20, proposing a budget of 2.7 million, which is approximately 500,000 increase, to continue the governance and administration, the program delivery, toll service delivery and outreach and communication efforts on the timma program. with that, more than happy to answer any questions on the proposed budget for the fiscal year 19-20 and for the amended budget for 18-19 amended. >> move approval. >> we have a motion for approval. any public comment on this item? can we take items 5 and 6 without objection, same house, same call. all right. mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> item 7, 2019, timma outreach program, information item. >> i believe we are going to

continue this item. without objection, any public comment on this item? all right. seeing none, next item. >> item 8, introduction of new items. information item. >> any new items? seeing none, next item. >> item 9, public comment. >> any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. meeting is adjourned. i you

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property in san francisco. one of the big things that we do is as a result of our work, we bring in a lot of revenue, about 2.6 billion worth of revenue to the city. often, people will say, what do you do with that money, and i like to share what we do with property taxes. for every dollar we collect in property taxes, about 68 cents of it goes to support public sstss, our police officers, our fire departments, our streets, our cleaning that happens in the city. but i think what most people don't know is 34 cents of the dollar goes to public education. so it goes to the state of california and in turn gets allocated back to our local school districts. so this is an incredibly important part of what we do in this office. it's an interesting place to be, i have to say. my colleagues across the state have been wonderful and have been very welcoming and share

their knowledge with me. in my day-to-day life, i don't think about that role, being the only asian american assessor in the state, i just focus on being the best i can be, representing my city very well, representing the county of san francisco well. by being the only asian american assessor, i think you have a job to try to lift up and bring as many people on board, as well. i hope by doing the best that you can as an individual, people will start to see that your assessor is your elected leaders, the people that are making important decisions can look like you, can be like you, can be from your background. i grew up with a family where most of my relatives, my aunties, my uncles, my parents, were immigrants to the united states. when my parents first came here, they came without any relatives or friends in the

united states. they had very little money, and they didn't know how to speak english very well. they came to a place that was completely foreign, a place where they had absolutely nobody here to help them, and i can't imagine what that must have been like, how brave it was for them to take that step because they were doing this in order to create an opportunity for their family. so my parents had odd jobs, my dad worked in the kitchens, my mom worked as a seamstress sewing. as we grew up, we eventually had a small business. i very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. we went to the restaurant every weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out. it really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing public service the way that i do. one of the events that really stuck with me when i was

growing up was actually the rodney king riots. we lived in southern california at the time, and my parents had a restaurant in inglewood, california. i can remember smelling smoke, seeing ashes where we lived. it was incredibly scary because we didn't know if we were going to lose that restaurant, if it was going to be burned down, if it was going to be damaged, and it was our entire livelihood. and i remember there were a lot of conversations at that time around what it was that government to do to create more opportunities or help people be more successful, and that stuck with me. it stuck with me because i remain believe government has a role, government has a responsibility to change the outcomes for communities, to create opportunities, to help people go to school, to help people open businesses and be successful. >> make sure to be safe, and of course to have fun. >> and then, i think as you continue to serve in government, you realize that those convictions and the persons that you are really

help to inform you, and so long as you go back to your core, and you remember why you're doing what you're doing, you know, i think you can't go wrong. it's funny, because, you know, i never had thought i would do this. i became a supervisor first for the city under very unusual circumstances, and i can remember one day, i'm shopping with friends and really not having a care in the world about politics or running for office or being in a public position, and the next day, i'm sworn in and serving on the board of supervisors. for many of us who are going through our public service, it's very interesting, i think, what people view as a leader. sometimes people say, well, maybe the person who is most outspoken, the person who yells the loudest or who speaks the loudest is going to be the best leader. and i think how i was raised, i like to listen first, and i like to try to figure outweighs to work with -- out ways to

work with people to get things done. i hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of city government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. >> take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the one-on-one counseling. >> i wouldn't be where i was if i didn't have very strong people who believed in me. and even at times when i didn't believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. if there was one thing that i can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether it's being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think it's really to just trust

yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are enough to make it work and to

>> all right. hello, sunny day. [cheers.] so, so excited to be here with each and every one of you. i am sorry for those we don't have chairs for. we didn't expect a big crowd, but when you talk about the city budget, i guess everyone shows up. i am so glad to see the residents here. thank you to everyone who joined us on the tours earlier of the unit. today we, of course, through the tours saw the challenging conditions that people are living right in this neighborhood, just a few miles from our thriving downtown, and yet a world apart. as someone who grew up in public housing, i have lived these conditions. i know these conditions. i don't expect everyone to understand the challenges of