i'm thrilled to see more asian american women in positions. women make up the majority of public riders in the city. in philadelphia, chicago, dc, new york, and boston, women make up 60% or more of the public transit ridership. despite that, public transit isn't often designed with women in mind. you know that shes and inciteful questions. lastly, i have strongly supported sharon because of her ties to the chinese community. since becoming an sfmta board

director, she has consistently showed up for the board. i look forward to a positive recommendation from the rules committee today. i thank mayor breed for nominated sharon in her reappointment. i look forward to her continuation on the sfmta board. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisors. my name is carla larell. we've been serving the community for the past 50 years and predominantly the recent filipino and i'd like to speak in support.

i truly believe sharon is an important asset also for the community voice that she brings professionally, i've known sharon and she goes above and beyond to really understand what the community needs are especially those that are really underserved and don't have a voice. how things like this how transportation really affects our community members. the majority of our families, seniors and kids only use public transportation. they don't have cars and so she's really made an effort to understand what their needs are and to understand that they're always represented. i want to thank her for her work. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker please. >> good morning supervisors.

my name is rudy corpus. i'm the executive director of the united players for violence and organization. i'm a native of san francisco. i'm here to support sharon. sharon is intelligent. she has integrity and she brings sunshine on a cloudy day. so we would love for you to resubmit her and have her be in a position that she is best at. thank you, she gets my full support. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, rudy. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, my name is francisco decosta. and i want to talk on an issue that i'm very concerned about and that is the mta despicable actions linked to taxi drivers. we cannot forget the many taxi

drivers that have got strokes, died of a heart attack just because the mta hasn't done due diligence. we just cannot talk about the other issues because mta has failed on many other levels. they're happy now because the biden administration is going to send them some money but we cannot. we robbed them and we destroyed families. i will not take this like a joke. wherever these people are that they have to have empathy and compassion. and there must be restitution

to the drivers, the taxi drivers. and as long as i'm alive, i'm going to fight for this cause. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is stuart fong and i am proud to wholeheartedly support mr. sharon lai to the board of directors. on the sf head where we worked on hepatitis b issues and api community. i think it's important to have sharon on the board of directors for the mta. again, she is fluent in chinese and mandarin. so that bodes well. she understands the issues of

sfmta. and as an avid commuter as she said, she used muni. so she understands the issues and i fully support her on the board. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker. >> hello amazing rules committee. this is manny cuteal. small business owner and member of the sfmta board. i am just calling to say how amazing it's been, what a pleasure and honor it's been to serve with director lai on the sfmta board. she's deeply qualified. she takes the rules so seriously. a lot of the folks have said all the qualifications that she comes to the board. not physically sitting next to her but digitally next to this board. she takes the role extremely seriously. we get hundreds and hundreds of

pages to read and review and director lai is combing through each of these pages asking incredible questions. she and i are working on a bunch of stuff together and i'm just so impressed with her and she gets my 100% support and enthusiastic support for her reappointment to this board. i really hope to be able to continue to serve with her. so thank you, supervisor peskin, and thank you supervisor chan, and thank you supervisor mandelman. >> clerk: i believe that completes -- we do not have additional comments. >> supervisor peskin: already. public comment is closed. i'd like to make a motion by removing the word "rejecting" in the long title and remove the word "reject" in the move clause at line 20 on that motion.

mr. clerk, roll call please. >> clerk: on the motion to amended. [roll call] >> supervisor peskin: and then i'd like to make a motion on that motion. >> clerk: [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> supervisor peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: yes. next on the agenda. six members term ending december 13th, 2024. to the housing stability fund oversight board. i would just like to make two notes. i did receive a withdrawal letter from emile and i would

just like to note 10 and 11 state in the requirement that they must be a san francisco resident in the code and i do not believe the requirement can be waived for seat 10 and 11. >> supervisor peskin: mr. clerk, you said you received -- did you not also receive a withdrawal letter from connie ford? >> clerk: let me double check. >> supervisor peskin: i saw that on friday. >> clerk: i will confirm and get back to you shortly. >> supervisor peskin: yeah. i am in receipt of that and she has withdrawn for the record. thank you. supervisor preston has brought this to the ballot and has brought this to committee. with that, let me turn it over to supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, chair peskin and good morning committee members chan

and supervisor mandelman. i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak on these appointments. i'm here to share some brief background on the housing stability fund and to offer some context for the group of candidates that my office is supporting for this oversight board. this past november as you know, my office put forth proposition i known as the fair recovery act. the package included on the increase tax rate of the real estate transactions on properties sold at over $10 million. a rent relief program to address a covid related hardship and the housing stability fund. dedication of funding for permanently affordable social housing. the concept is to provide a

revenue source to pursue a range of affordable

she does meet the residency requirements. and seat ten to which she applied to seat seven and then similarly appointing alex lanesburg to seat eleven the at large seat rather than seat eight the labor seat and moving davita escavado to seat eight rather than seat eleven. all of these individuals are fully eligible for both of those seats but would request that adjustment. so i think this is really thrilled about this collection of individuals and look forward to hearing any questions or comments and hearing from the applicants. thank you, chair peskin.

>> supervisor peskin: thank you, supervisor preston. and i completely share which is we have an embarrassment of enrichment here. all of them with experience and qualifications. and, we did even after you and i talked earlier this morning have a wrinkle that you just spoke to relative to the non waive ability in seats ten and eleven. and, i very much appreciate and this really is in your wheel house, the ten individuals that you accept out of the 14 that are before us. i am a little red sanity to do this on the fly. i did look at all these relative to the qualifications. so, now, if we're moving one

person and i can see how and we'll get to all these individuals how you could make that switch relative to somebody who's with jobs and justice going to labor seat. although that does raise some issues. which is what you would need in some of these things. so as i'm a little redisent to do this on the fly. and why don't we go to the applicants in the order that they appear on the agenda and i know that there are some individuals who just because of work are not able to attend. so why don't we start with remhi mennel.

if remhi is not here, we do know that bermuta burge is not available this morning. is that true and correct? okay. why don't we go to ann fugioca for wage requirement >> am i on? >> you are on mr. fugioca. >> okay. thank you. mr. chair and supervisors, thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today. my name is dan fugioca. we deeply share and embrace the vision embedded. we need to grow and foster viable models of social housing that can push beyond the rigid categories defined by present

state and federal programs. as a housing attorney serving mostly low income tenants for more than two decades and for the past eight years as the executive leader of the, in the development ownership and operation. >> supervisor peskin: you faded out. >> a decade ago, i represented the tenants of 53 columbus and a long struggle to prevent the demolition of the building in partnership with the san francisco community land trust, we acquired the building and created the first tenant-owned property in china town. and directly engaged in working to make our sousing stock more sustainable and continuing to be more affordable. i'm continue to go work with this board and develop policies which, for the first time made

it possible without relying on virtually nonexistent. the passage of prop i, the creation of housing and stabilization fund creates an opportunity opportunity for us to realize the aspirations of social housing rooted in a commitment to social equity and justice. i would be honored to be apart of that creative process. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. fugioka. why don't we go to edward parion . i apologize for miss pronouncing your name. >> that's okay, supervisor. good morning everyone. and thank you for the time for meeting with applicants of this board. i have lived in san francisco for the last 15 years. originally, i'm from trinidad, but i've been in the u.s. my

adult life. i have -- i applied for this seat because of my deep experience in affordable housing and specifically in affordable housing development. currently, i work with an organization, a nonprofit called mosaic urban development. we do a lot of work in the bay area working with nonprofits developing affordable housing and on affordable housing finance. before that, i worked with bridge housing for a number of years doing affordable housing there including extensive with affordable housing in the city of san francisco with projects like alamaney and mission housing in the mission. so i'm very familiar with the constraints under the current system of financing and the vice that scarce local funding

puts us in trying to provide affordable housing and provide housing in general for the population that's adequate and people aren't burdened with their rent. so i'm very excited about prop i and the opportunity to do a few things different with it with few of those constraints. including additional rental assistance for people so we can help those far more quickly than the typical affordable housing tax finance. new purchases in social housing including possible mixed income housing which is also difficult. [please stand by]