are somebody super you are is somebody super super star . >> good morning. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the march six regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor jackie fielder, chair of the committee joined by supervisor sader and supervisor cheryl. the committee clerk is monique

creighton. our thanks to sue enos of a subcommittee for staffing this meeting. >> madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. >> when your item interest comes up and public comment is called please wanted to speak on your right alternatively you may submit public public comment in writing in either of the following ways. email them to the government audit and oversight committee clerk at iq u e dot cr8 whitehall in at self-government org if you can submit public comment via email it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. you may also send your written comments via u.s. postal service to our office in city hall. number one dr. carlton good place room 244 san francisco, california 94102 if you have documents you would like to be included as part of the file please submit them to me before the end of the meeting. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent any

interruptions to today's proceedings. finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of march 18th 2025 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. >> please call item number one. yes. item number one is a resolution authorizing the mayor, officers and employees of the office of the mayor and officers and employees of the recreation and parks department to solicit donations for the renovation of embarcadero plaza and sue beerman parks from individuals, nonprofits, private organizations, grant makers and foundations for six months effective upon approval of this resolution notwithstanding the behest it payment ordinance. >> thank you madam clerk and ms. brands is lisa ranson, director of partnerships at the rec and parks department will be presenting on this item. thank you for being here. ms. branson please go ahead. >> thank you. chair fields are good morning. supervisor cider and supervisor

cheryl i'm lisa branston. i'm the director of partnerships at the recreation and parks department and as the clerk mentioned, i'm here today to ask you to approve a resolution that grants certain members of the mayor's office and rec parks staff a six month waiver of the behest of payments ordinance though so that we can assist with fundraising for the public private partnership to renovate and reimagine embarcadero plaza and superior park. so i know some of you have seen this presentation last week but i'll move quickly with a little bit of background on how we got here and why this project is so important and it's okay. so embarcadero plaza was originally envisioned as a european style plaza that would punctuate the end of market street and serve as a buffer from the overwhelming view and noise of the embarcadero

freeway behind the sunken plaza created a bowl that gathered people at the end of market street and the fountains served to block the sound and view of the freeway beyond oops see? so that's some historical photos and and then now the city finds itself in a moment where both the plaza's infrastructure and design have outlived their useful lives. the plaza's infrastructure is in disrepair the brick paving is considered at the end of its useful life and the department estimates that it would cost millions to repair and the vallon court fountain would cost an estimated $10 million to update and repair and even worse the department to just fix the space. it would still bring us back to a design that is completely out of con text with the disappearance of the embarcadero freeway, the demolished sinking of the freeway opened up the eastern

edge of san francisco to the stunning light views and business activity along the waterfront and all of a sudden the design of the plaza serves the exact opposite purpose of what was needed in the 70s instead of blocking and stopping people, the city is now in need of a plaza that connects the downtown core to the ferry terminal and the ferry building rather than blocking those elements and then visitor data shows why this project is so critical right now. as you can see from this slide, both the ferry building and the park across the street suffer a dramatic drops in usage due to covid. but while the usage at the ferry building is rebounding, recovery has been much slower at the uninviting parks across the street. this makes a lot of sense when you're in the space just to get to the plaza from the ferry building and even more so to get across it you're are faced with the back side of the fountain and climbing up and down through grade changes.

thus department staff were thrilled when b p came to us with the proposal to renovate the park's so the idea is to turn the space into an integrated active space that serves both the local neighborhood and visitors from across the city and everywhere we are just beginning the community process that will terminate determine the final design. so this picture that you're looking at is a little bit of a blank slate. in fact, we have our first community meeting this evening and this is the preliminary budget for the project and it shows that the city will deliver a 27 million to $32 million project for 15 to $20 million in public funding. but as you can see, it also requires a big commitment from our private partners to raise $10 million for the project. and then you'll see from this timeline that we've agreed to work as diligently as quickly as possible on this project

which makes the fundraising even more urgent. if this rough schedule holds, we'll need to have funds in hand for construction in the next 18 months or so. so having all hands on deck to assist with the fundraising and providing information to possible donors and to also just show the city's commitment to this project is critical. and so to close as i mentioned, this project is critical to the city's recovery. we need to take advantage of the widespread desire in the private sector to support the city's recovery. so i hope you all support granting this waiver and thank you so much for listening and i'm open to any questions. >> thank you so much, miss branson colleagues, do you have any questions or remarks? >> supervisor cheryl thank you. this looks really great. i really appreciate you being here. quick question a lot of these cost estimates are about construction costs. are there any operational

estimates once the park opens? >> no, we really haven't dug into that because we need to develop the design with the community before we know exactly what the programing of the park will look like. great. >> thank you. yeah. >> um, thank you so much for the presentation. >> very exciting. i was wondering if there are any, uh, private partners that are already being contemplated or that the rec and parks department is has been considering approaching. >> we really haven't like created lists and gotten into that part of the initiative yet so not know the answer thank you. >> not yet. surprises honor thank you ms.. >> branson for your presentation. i do have some amendments this morning on this perhaps the waiver that i plan to introduce but i also see some members of the community in the audience

and i wondered if we might be able to do public comment now. absolutely. so uh, let's move on to public comment, madam clerk. yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up now along the side by the windows. >> all speakers will have two minutes i good morning supervisors robbie silver president and ceo the downtown as a partnership and again we're more celebrating right now on a unanimous vote out of the board of full board of supervisors this week. this is another critical piece of this giant puzzle to create a world class waterfront to serve workers visitors and our very own san francisco residents. we are the fiscal sponsor that is in the mou. and so we would actually be partnering with both the mayor's office and rec and park to deliver that $10 million

very ambitious but i think very reasonable goal to bring private funds as well to this park. i think we've really developed an innovative private public partnership model so that way not all the costs are are bearing on on the city to deliver this park project. and so tonight we are going to hear from the community community for the first time we're going to have additional community meetings to really figure out what do our stakeholders of the city, our residents of the city want to see in their waterfront park. so we are thrilled and i encourage you to submit this forward. it's really going to take a village to do this fundraising. we alone cannot do it ourselves and i know the mayor's office as well as rec and park have connections in the philanthropic and corporate community that can deliver this project as soon as possible. >> thank you. thank you.

>> mr. so your comments next speaker please. >> good morning supervisor my name is bernadette kim, a resident and gateway tenant association external committee member i'm here to support the embarcadero plaza and superior park renovation project. >> this project is a public private partnership that will renovate a public park which will revitalize the downtown area and bring forth new opportunity for the city residents and businesses. hopefully with all the other living beings we love to see our neighborhood to be known once again as a vibrant, beautiful city where everyone wants to live and visit all the time. we love san francisco especially our downtown

san francisco where we call our home. >> unfortunately we also know the city of san francisco has faced ever increasing financial pressures and challenges. >> therefore we may need to consider creative solution to fund selected improvement and renovation project in our city with appropriate audit oversight and quality of residence life safeguards near the park. this legislation before you that allows the city and the partners to go raise private money for the park will be one of those creative solution. >> so i hope you would consider public private partnership for this renovation project. >> thank you so much for listening and thank you for

your comments. do we have any additional public comment? madam chair that concludes public comment. >> thank you madam clerk. see no one else make public comment. public comment is now closed and supervisor sartor thank you chair fielder. >> as was shared in the presentation i think this is a incredibly important project. it is as we know this site really is a remnant of the embarcadero freeway and so much good has happened over these last few decades and opening that space up and connecting our city to the waterfront. this is kind of that last piece of the puzzle and i'm really hopeful that will move forward today this legislation is being heard on the heels of the passage of a really related legislation at at our full board this week the sept and expend expenditure. so if we were to pass this today it's truly a green light to start fundraising and moving towards a ground opening

groundbreaking. i have amendments to introduce this morning and in forming these amendments i want to thank a supervisor supervisor chan's office chair fielder rec park, the mayor's office, our city attorney. the amendments which i m introducing this morning give further definition to the parties that will be authorized in this best in behest waiver particularly greater definition within the rec park department to to scope the individuals involved and then clarifying the mayor's office a number of key positions within the mayor's office that will be included in this one excuse me included in this waiver. clerk do i need to read the particular amendments? we have circulated these amendments and have submitted them. is that adequate?

>> and if you wish to you can read the amendments. okay. i will quickly read these amendments on page one lines three through seven give this definition in detail authorizing the general manager of the recreation and parks department the director and staff of the recreation and park department's partnership division the mayor and the following staff in the mayor's office chief of staff. chief of infrastructure. assistant chief of infrastructure. chief of housing and economic development director of public affairs and policy advisor. lines 12 and 17 are grammatical corrections on page one on page two we have clarifications on lines five and seven lines 22 through 25. add that set of individuals that as referenced on page one on page three we have a grammatical change on lines

three and then five through lines five through ten add in language that was worked out with chairs office around accountability and transparency and reporting requiring the department or office to submit reports to the board within 60 days of the expiration of the six month period authorized by this waiver. lines 13 through 16 give that set of individuals with the waiver clarifying that and then 18 through 21 are minor grammatical improvements. so it is my hope that we will adopt this amendment today. and so with that i would first ask if we can unless there are any questions if we can have a motion on this amendment. >> thank you so much. supervisor sauder thank you to supervisor chan for working on these amendments with with all

of our offices i am really pleased to see the reporting requirements and just more specificity of of whom this waiver applies to so that as we've done with other waivers we can be transparent to the public about who is soliciting donations. so i'm very happy to see a narrow list and the reporting requirement. >> and with that i now move to amend this item as presented on the motion to amend madam clerk please call the roll yes and on the motion to accept the amendments as presented by vice chair slaughter chair fielder i'm cheryl folder i fischer sartor i like your souder i member cheryl member cheryl i have three eyes thank you the motion passes i would ask if we could now send this amended piece of legislation to the full board with our recommendation. >> thank you vice chair i now move to send this item to the full board of supervisors with

positive recommendation. madam clerk, please call the roll. yes and on the motion to forward the amended item to the full bore with the positive recommendation chair filner i chair field are i vice chair sauder vice chair sauder i member cheryl member cheryl i have three eyes. >> thank you. the motion passes madam clerk please call item number two. >> yes, item number two is an ordinance approving a settlement of a law suit against the city. >> thank you. >> and all right, madam clerk, let's open up public comment for a closed session. yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line them now along the side by the windows. >> all speakers will have two minutes seeing no one else sorry yet it appears we have

no public comment seeing no one else making public comment. >> public comment is now closed . i now move that the committee convene in closed session. yes and on the motion to convene in closed session chair filter i chair filter i if i share order vice chair slaughter i member cheryl member cheryl i have three eyes thank you madam clerk we will now convene in closed session thank you madam clerk we are now back in open session and madam clerk please report on the deliberations. >> yes. item number two of the closed session was voted to be forwarded to the board with a positive recommendation. thank you madam clerk. i now move that the committee not disclose the discussions

during the closed session. yes and on the motion not to disclose the discussions during closed session. chair filter chair filter i like your slaughter fischer slaughter i member cheryl hoover cheryl i have three eyes. >> thank you madam clerk the motion passes. >> madam clerk is there any other business before us today and no, that completes our meeting agenda. >> thank you. we are adjourned

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first i want to start by congratulating mayor laurie on a very, very successful weekend here in san francisco and i was exhausted looking at his social media as he was doing between the all-star game and what i think for my recollection is the largest crowd for the chinese new year parade i've ever seen in san francisco is back and is getting stronger and stronger by the day. so thank you, mr. mayor, for your leadership. so we need to continue to build on the progress that we are making and we know that downtown financial district union square south of market yerba buena it is absolutely essential for san francisco's recovery for our economic vitality and for our city's future and not just for san francisco for the whole bay area. we know there have been huge

challenges with remote work and all of the hangover coming out of the pandemic and as years of crime and public drug use that we're working so hard to try to address. and we know that we need to reimagine downtown for the future and have more diversity so it's not just the office but more and more housing and retail and nightlife and food and drink other kinds of recreation entertainment and nightlife is a key part of that strategy. we know we see that when you give people a reason to be downtown, they go downtown. we've seen it with some of the street festivals. the first thursdays are bhangra beats or the chinatown night market. people will come. and so we need to keep building to give people more and more reasons to be downtown not just

at night but to come into the office because there's more to do and there's more vibrancy. we've been working hard. i want to just really thank my colleague assemblymember matt haney who has also he has a select committee on downtowns and he's done a tour of the state because there's a lot of commonality. so thank you assembly member for your leadership. we also were able to pass the entertainment zone legislation that has allowed on front street and other at the warriors arena and other parts of the city to allow outdoor drink and allowing the local bars and restaurants to sell onto the streets. and we want to continue to build on that success too that the state of california is being a good partner to san francisco and other cities in this recovery. we know that when people are trying to open up new bars or restaurants it is extremely expensive and one of the most significant costs is is obtaining a liquor license.

it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and we know that and i won't get started on my critiques of california's restrictive liquor laws which hamstring cities in many ways and assemblymember hayne and i constantly work to deconstruct that and give cities more flexibility without micro-management from the state . and that's what we're doing here today. so sb 395 will create 20 new low cost liquor licenses for a hospitality zone defined by the city. and it will just allow some of these businesses to get going in a much more affordable way. and so with that, i want to turn it over to our sponsor of this legislation, mayor lurie. >> and you guys. >> good morning, everybody. >> thank you. senator wiener.

well, it's great to be back in union square again after we welcomed hundreds of thousands of people over the last few days. >> i appreciate the shout out to me but it took everybody behind us all of our departments muni sfp, pd, fire sheriffs, all of our departments, parks and rec everybody came together to pull off an incredible weekend for so long. this area has been a a hub for tourism shopping and dining. and last weekend people came from across the bay area and the country and frankly the world to take part in the lunar new year parade and all star weekend. and i was here throughout the weekend and every time i visited the streets were packed and teeming with people.

people were enjoying the shops, eating at restaurants and even playing basketball on a court right here to get our economy going again. all of downtown needs to be at full strength. and this weekend was a great way to get people here. now today we are taking the next step with permanent solutions for this neighborhood by adding 20 new liquor licenses. this legislation will bring new restaurants and bars, new people and energy. downtown san francisco is known for our world class food and culture. and last week we were named the culinary capital of the united states. >> we should be making it easier not harder for businesses to set up here. right now state law limits our number of liquor licenses and they are expensive and hard to get to. this high barrier sends in and

sends the wrong message to businesses that want to come here. well, the message from r administration is san francisco is open for business. that's the message we are sending with this bill. and that's the message our administration is sending consistently. listen to what we did just last week. we launched permit s.f. which will streamline the city's permitting process and help new small businesses open faster. we signed the fentanyl state of emergency ordinance, announced plans and announced plans for a 24 seven police friendly stabilization center so people can get medical treatment and police officers on patrol right here can get back on the street faster. and the board of supervisors land use and transportation committee passed our bill with supervisor dorsey and supervisor souder to make it easier to turn empty offices into homes.

that was just last week the week before that we launched the speedy hospitality zone task force task force with dedicated resources to increase the police presence not only around union square but also around mosconi center and yerba buena center. this bill will allow us to do even more for that hospitality zone bringing more restaurants and bars to our shopping areas and union square and yerba buena gardens. and we will continue to take bold steps to revitalize downtown. this work is urgent. and that's the energy our administration is bringing every single day every day. i'm working with senator weiner, our partners in government and our friends downtown to bring people back to our city. if you're a business owner this is your moment to invest. if you've stayed away, come back and experience everything our city has to offer.

and if you haven't heard san francisco is on the rise. so let's get on board and let's go san francisco. >> sorry. thank you, mr. mayor. next i want to bring up one of our unsung heroes who's had the ms.. mr. rodriguez who the ceo of the union square alliance and who has it's been a rough few years for union square, but i'm optimistic about this neighborhood's future and i just want to thank marissa so much for your incredible work and perseverance. >> so mr. rodriguez. >> all right. union square, how are we feeling? i want to hear you. we just came off of an incredible weekend. that's what san francisco is about and that's what union square is about. the billboards are still up and

what do they say? we don't play. >> we don't play san francisco. i'm so excited about this great opportunity that we are talking about today. why? because san francisco's lifeblood is right here where you are standing. >> the hospitality zone is where we put our best foot forward. it's where we greet our guests, where we welcome visitors not only locally our san franciscans, our bay area residents, our northern californians but internationally all over the world and nationally. this is us. this is what we represent. we can't move. the convention center west of twin peaks we can't move union square in 12,000 hotel rooms anywhere else. it is here and we have to continue to invest. when people come to visit us for two days, three days a convention just coming into town because they've heard so many wonderful things about our world class city, we want to put our best foot forward and guess what? that is?

that is our food and beverage. that is our nightlife. that is the essence that makes san francisco so unique. that is our people. that is our culture. that is our innovation. and if we can't put that front and center right here in 27, 30, 40 city blocks, we are failing and we aren't failing anymore. a light switch went off. the energy is alive. this weekend showed us that our city is all about it. it was in credible and it's going to stay that way. i'm excited for what this means when union square and yerba buena thrive. our entire city does our neighborhoods thrive and we are modeling this opportunity after a successful opportunity in our neighborhoods. let's continue to do that great work. i want to think oh i see them. >> i know they're in it with us. our state partners looks like the irs is behind me. >> that's because we mean business. we are serious. look at these guys. they're showing up. our mayor daniel, he doesn't

play. we don't play. this is real. >> this is serious. this is our city's ability to continue to thrive on the line and we're going to continue to do the work. we're going to continue to make this happen. we love san francisco. we're so happy to be here and thank you so much for all you do to support us. >> and next when i ask up my legislative partner in this effort. assembly member matt haney. >> good morning everyone. don't worry i'm not the tax collector. you know we're world class cities have world class nightlife. and in order for our city to thrive, we need world class nightlife. if you look around what's happening all over the world as cities have come back from the pandemic, they've done it with thriving restaurants, bars and people places for people to come out and enjoy themselves with each other, period. and what we're seeing in california in particular is the cities that have really

invested and supported their nightlife have been the fastest to recover across the state. >> why is that? it's because people now in many cases have a choice of where they go and how they spend their time. we can't just rely on people coming in to our city during the day for jobs at their desk . now many of those folks have a choice of whether they come in at all or whether they work remote people who have choices of places to visit, how they spend their time and when they have places to go out in the evening that are enjoyable where they can build community ,where they can experience arts and culture that's where they want to be not just at nighttime, not just in the evening but they also want to be there during the day. and what we're seeing in our downtowns including in this downtown is we're not just in eight hour downtown anymore. cities that are thriving are 24 hours. they're looking at what's happening during the weekends or looking in the evening and nighttime.

and so i want to thank senator weiner for his leadership in understanding that and taking us there with entertainment zones and all of the partners who've come together to ensure that we are making it easier for nightlife can thrive to thrive not harder. our mayor said it our city's coming back. we showed it this weekend. we have to be able to embrace the role that nightlife plays because when nightlife is thriving our businesses do better. more people come and visit. our entire city benefits from it as well. thank you, senator weiner, for your leadership and all of the partners who are here. we are going to get this done and make it easier to make things happen in san francisco. thank you, senator weiner, for your leadership. i'm next. in addition, it's not just about union square. it also goes south of mark. and i want to next call up jill

jo lynnwood, director of external affairs at the yerba buena partnership. >> you know, thank you. thank you, senator weiner. mayor lurie assembly member me and marissa. so fun to work with. >> our organization comes from the other side of market street from yorba buena which is the city's arts cultural and convention district. as you may know, we have 11 hotels. >> and this weekend at nba all-star we were so delighted that we understand nearly every one of those 11 hotels was at capacity. all of our restaurants and bars were sold out. the dawn club, the lark bar, the restaurants within the w hotel, the marriott, the palace everything was booked solid. and our museums and our galleries were absolutely full . >> the diversity certification

that this that this piece of legislation is putting forward to give businesses an opportunity to open that might not otherwise well help us give give businesses another reason to choose to have conventions at moscone center and to choose to visit our museums and galleries and visit our restaurants and bars. our ambassadors work seven days a week all year round to ensure that our neighborhood and union square alliance that the ambassadors in this neighborhood ensure that our downtown is clean and safe and welcoming. so as yerba buena and all of downtown's strong arts, cultural and entertainment community communities are driving our comeback, we are so supportive of this legislation as another signal that san francisco wants your businesses here and is where

your business will thrive. >> and then our final two speakers i want to welcome up the supervisor for this district supervisor danny sauder who will be followed by ben lyman, a member of the san francisco entertainment commission. >> thank you, senator wiener. good morning, everyone. i'm danny sartor, the district three supervisor having the honor to represent union square in our incredible northeastern neighborhoods. and i'm really proud to support this effort. i see it as the next step in the puzzle, the next piece of the puzzle to bring union square back. and on my way over here today saw many of those pieces in action. you know, we have our ambassadors who are working to keep this neighborhood friendly and safe. we have our sfp ready here with a concentration in the new hospitality zone. we have i was told about the toddler time here in the corner the 200 days of programing that

are now in union square bringing people back into this square and giving people more reasons to come here. and i think that is certainly the theme that we've seen in this past weekend. we saw it in winter walk. we saw it on display. when people have a reason to come to union square they love it, they enjoy it. they will come here and that's what this legislation unlocks. you know, we i was researching the legislation and i think it's interesting that it's tied to residents. of course we want to work to bring more residents downtown living downtown we've taken action at the board of supervisors to make that possible. but in the meantime we know that this neighborhood is changing. the office use is changing, the retail use is changing and there's nothing more san francisco than more restaurants, more bars, more nightlife. you know, imagine what this legislation can unlock. you can take the cable car down to union square and maybe enjoy a mai tai or an irish coffee or hopefully soon soon again in

anchor steam. so those are, you know, the pieces as the cable car goes behind us. those are the the the opportunities and the promise that this legislation unlocks. so it's for me it's a no brainer i think for san francisco it's a no brainer for us to support this legislation and for this neighborhood to thrive with this legislation. >> thank you. >> the closer everyone. i'm a big fan of this legislation and you can tell because i wore my most formal puff and sweatshirt today. >> i'm a bar owner and i also have organized many of the bar owners in town into a group. we have about 538 of us and when we talk about downtown we talk about it being almost like the circulator tree system for the whole city. it brings a ton of economic activity tax dollars that get spread out around the city and also a vibe it brings energy, it brings people it brings all sorts of intangible things that then go out into the greater city and fill us up.

if downtown is the circulatory system, union square is the heart. so without union square as union square goes, the entire system kind of depends on it and that's why it's so important to put resources and effort and thought into into this. >> i believe a few things. so one thing is that our downtown is going through a reckoning and we have to bring it back and in order to do so we have to re-envision it. it cannot just be a place where people go to work. i also believe that nightlife entertainment, performance art they're not going to be a crucial part of the of the re-envisioning of downtown. they'll actually be the main driving force for it because without them people simply aren't going to want to visit downtown. and we're talking about people who maybe are deciding whether or not to work from home on a friday. right. talking about visitors from overseas or other cities who would come to union square and shop and enjoy themselves are going to town and we're especially talking about people from there. even san francisco in the greater bay area who maybe never envisioned downtown as a place that they can go for nightlife. we're going through that reckoning now. a lot of our downtowns went

through it in america over the last 2030 years. now it's our turn. entertainment is going to push that. i'm really excited about this legislation. it sends a message that union square and soma are back open and specifically for me a lot of our best nightlife and a lot of our best restaurants and hospitality and clubs they actually don't start downtown or soma. they start in the outer neighborhoods. they start all over the city. but a lot of those operators have felt kind of priced out from downtown just it's really hard for them to get a foothold here and i expect that many people who are kind of thriving in other areas of the city will take a look at this and say now is my chance to move down here. and as far as i'm concerned that's exactly what we need. so i want to thank senator wiener. i want to thank mayor lurie for putting this together and the whole team i know there was a ton of effort put into it. i think it's a step in the right direction and let's go. >> thank you. thank you. that's that wraps it for us. >> we're happy to take some questions. i don't hurt any barrier. reporter i wanted to ask the

mayor. yeah, we're going to work with raphael management board president on that. it's in the early stages but i'm very supportive and look forward to working with him on it. what kind of about what that'll be up to the city will structure how it works yeah well they will go from there that's what they do. a lot of people work for jobs are good work. i want the boundaries be drawn. the city will draw the boundaries and i don't want to speak for mayor. i know there's been talk about, you know, union square. >> yeah. you ever going? i don't know if you want i mean

we just looking at the hospitality zone so union square yerba buena center mosconi center really looking at it as a cohesive group. so that's that's the game plan but we'll work with our legislative partners on the board of supervisors as well. any other questions? okay. yeah, i love this. is there. so you know, i don't know if is really whether it's like marketing later in time your quote. yeah i mean we're we're actually working now to make sure that our public transit systems are still functioning and not collapsing. so muni bar and you know always any opportunity to say this that the public needs to understand if we have inertia and nothing happens muni bar, ac transit caltrain will all have to enact huge service cuts

and we we have to stop prevent that from happening and we will and that's why we're working in the state budget to try to support these systems and also to try to authorize a regional funding measure. other states fund public transportation at a much higher level than california does and so we need to play some catch up. and so we need to shore up these systems and yes, i would love for them to go later. but job one is making sure that we assure them up and other questions. great. thank you so much everyone. >> thank you for thinking

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