you know, i would not only the important generally but important in san francisco ecif.he benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important heit allows us to try something and say, there mt let's understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a if they are le we think about too great we can modify the program as we go. mta has absorbed the strategy whr lane or other to figure how best to use the street? is it working for bikes and cars and buses? maybe not, let's switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd our office particularly because we tend to have thiland the mayor's support through the budget process to things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public i think the benefit there is, if tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when rk, we are able to uplift that and mto a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city er procedure. pilots also give peop

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excited abyo with your two grandchildren, here ecifically to welcome, commissioner mcgarry. we sort ofet committee, thank you. and we look forward to working with you in the future. and even though commissioner campbells not here, a welcome to her when shee commissioner so and williamselmh you're not, you know, new new you're still you've been here a while but again thaouur d commissioner mcgarry, thank you for what's going to be a heavy lift. but thank you for taking this on. thank you. good afternoon. also welcome to newest commissioners and fag commissioner sue dimond. cynthia gomez, senior research analyst, unite here.ocal two. so i've been at local two for nine years, and in that capacity i've been in this commission before, this commission countless times, and i can't remember having to deal with the situation like the one i'mav now. so most of us, and i'm pretty sure most of all of you would not consider a $3,200 a month hotel room with no coon space, no kitchen, no shared space to be affordable housing, but, that's exactly what theoperatorn eighth street would like t