effort with uber and lyft, and i want to publicly thank and acknowledge my chief of staff, son i sonny angulo. many are supportive of this as it will bring $30 million-plus annually for bike and infrastructure improvements and other ways to get cars off the streets and provide residents with safe alternative transportation options to cars. with that, i have several amendments. page 1, lines 7 and 8 and 9. they have the same changes. page 4, line 8, strike human operator and replace with natural person. page 4, line 10, insert remotely after driven and replace remote driver with natural person. page 4, lines 11 through 15, insert commercial ride share company means a person that provided prearranged transportation services using on-line or any offline method to connect with drivers including but not limited to a transportation network company as that term is defined in the california public utilities code. page 4, lanes 18 through 20, insert mobility provider means any person conducting or controlling a business that provides rides to fare paying passengers using autonomous vehicle or transit

i'd like to thank everyone who worked on this, particularly lee hefner and sonny angulo. also would like to thank marco lemandry of new city america. i would like to thank the staff of oewd, the clerk's office and the department of elections and city attorney. marco from new city america will present on this new c.b.d. and its assessment rate. >> thank you, mr. corgis, and thank you for the kind words, supervisor peskin. so as supervisor peskin mentioned, we started this effort in 2007, and we had the recession in 2008 which really put a quick stop to our efforts to form at that time what was the financial benefits community benefit district. the effort picked up in 2015 when a lot of downtown and property jackson square owners needed more services than what the city was providing. so we gradually developed a great strong steering committee. so the -- why establish the c.b.d. in downtown? this is probably the longest attempt at a c.b.d. in the history of the city, but the need is great because this is one of the most significant districts if not in the city of san francis