childcare centers, schools, betsy carmichael, this is the smallest pot. we want to be sure we're serving our youth and children and families. the items are important and wants to increase affordable housing funds, environmental funds. so the balancing act that we're playing here is what we're bringing before the land use committee. >> supervisor tang: thank you for that explanation and i see that another $4 million is coming out of the sustainability -- sorry, environmental sustainability and resilience category as well as $1 million water recycling and stormwater management. how much of they receiving? they will be okay? >> supervisor kim: yeah. so this -- i came through some creati creative brainstorming. there are enhanced requirements that has been passed around stormwater as well as -- what was the second one? stormwater management and water recycling in parks. so we reduced this dollar amount. project sponsors will have to provide that on site on their own dime. so there would be less of a need for the impact fees or c.f.d.s to contribute to that. >

she was important in starting efforts at betsy carmichael, so she has a significant amount of experience and somehow in these conversations her funding was dropped to half. in my point it is not fair to add another to pick it up. i'm not prepared to do that. it's important that sfmta and -- figure this out. we are asked to many different shortfallst but a staffing position funded in the following year but not this year, i hope that you would find a way to make this transition smoother and this person is very important in providing safety in our community. >> the cut of the funding for this position as i understand it came from the caltran side of things and through the department of public health so not something that sfmta was able to address at the same time we are in agreement with the role. >> supervisor safai: are the other commissions fully funded? don't you have other ambassadors and i see your colleague nodding his head, so how is it that this was only half funded? >> i will try to answer it, it's my understanding that caltrans as they do and i have had this open that caltrans re

youth feed into this rec center from surrounding neighborhood, betsy carmichael school. there are teenagers that feed into that rec center. there are teenagers that feed into that rec center. i took a trip over there yesterday because i wanted to see how the program was going. and it's -- it was pretty amazing. i walked in and elementary schoolkids were playing red light-green light, but playing it on skateboards. they had helmets on and gloves and knee pads and having a ball. and another section, there were elementary kids playing kickball. and they were surrounded by about four groups of adults that had their eyes on them. one of the things i also noticed about the center is the pact that it's a diamond in the rough the surrounding area is rough. the rec center is rough. it needs it be improved, but it's a safe space for the community to come together and gather and recreate and play. there's nothing more joyful than watching kids being about the business of truly playing in a safe spot. and this center provides that. it's too small. it needs to grow. it needs to expan