this is a year's work of collaborative work with supervisor brown and hilary ronen and of course mayor breed. when this came before us, in my district, along with supervisor ownen we saw people living in campers in most visible display of this and in the homeless crisis. this is something that we see from bay view hunters point to lake mer saiced all up and downe bay area. we brought it to the attention of the sfmta. any knee jerk reaction was to talk about overnight camping signs. to the credit of the sfmta board they gave us the stiff arm and said absolutely not. we've been pushing you to come up with a policy and we challenge you to do something better. my colleague, supervisor brown, left a photograph on my desk and that picture was of her as a young woman, as a young child, living in an r.v. and she said, let's work on this together. i thank you supervisor brown for sharing your personal story and i know your bother meant a lot to you and i know she did everything she could to provide for your family. and one of the things that struck me the most about that conversation was, she s

thank the board of supervisors for this recognition specifically i'd like to thank supervisor hilary ronen for acknowledging the incredible efforts and contributions of institutions like ours. it's not easy as an immigrant coming to a foreign country and walking a country that is not our own. i wanted to let you know that it is possible if you have an ambition you can accomplish it and i want to thank the other members of the board of supervisors for acknowledging our efforts. i would like to thank ermina for recognizing our institution and our family and the events we do in the community and i would like to invite all members of the board. [please stand by] >> as my office has spent months engaging with s.f. m.t.a. and the merchant community to address the deeply felt and deeply real concerns on how years of construction will impact their lives and of construction will this isn't limited to my district, of course. from the central subway to van ness, there are many small businesses impacted by construction, and they deserve answers on how we, at the city, are addressing those impacts. i'm