straus. >> i'm here on behalf of the transit riders union. first, i think many people have come to the conclusion that muni needs an additional source of operating funds about a half a dozen years ago we had an sight but the budget before, before you states the best-case the base budget has a merger surplus over one hundred million dollars of nodes that are not provided for and that doesn't include a rainy day fund it is inconsul to make sure that the vehicle license fee on the ballot this fall is a source for operating services. this is an opportunity for infrastructure and capital needs there are a few sources that are for operating revenues and b o f is a annual source it can be achieved with a 50 percent vote and it be available for the operating budget. the other 4 points quickly there are a number of resources that have been identified in the budget it's hard to take those soirl. they're not credible sources and we feel all of those should be rejected i'm talking about the f line fair and not raising the senior discount fair and undersc

that's something my board will have to consider >> hi, i'm peter straus on behalf of the sf riders union. i'd like to offer 5 comments you've heard before 5 tonight. first of all, i don't think it's any secret to anyone the muni don't in the have enough funding to operate the service that it needs to provide this is a long-standing problem and there not many solution without muni securing for fund. there's no better demonstration of this than in the budget presentation that identifies over one hundred million dollars of nodes and the 15 to $20 million annually to address those nodes. there's no way that can happen. sf true feels strong that muni needs to develop the best source of fund and the best one is the vehicle license fee we understand the infrastructure improvements but the significant portion of the d l f it's at the annually occurring source and a significant source of money $70 million it

you know, you can't do the woman without a shadow of straus without studying the correspondent of straus. >> rose: to understand where they were there. >> yes. you have to do so much homework before that. and that goes with every opera that you do at least. >> rose: you didn't set out to be a musician. you set out to be a doctor, what was it. >> well my parents had decided. we come from an upper middle class family and our professions are decided by the parents. only five or six professions. >> rose: yes. >> my brother was chosen to be an accountant and me a doctor. he became an accountant later. >> rose: but you left for music early on. >> yes. i had a cousin in new york, i'm sorry, in vienna. and he was older than myself, a pianist. i had no difficulties, i had no problem being an indian in vienna. i learned what anti-semitism was. we didn't know that in india. we had heard about it, you know. i studied in a jesuit school with seven religious in one class. >> rose: india has one of the largest muslim population in the world. >> 150 million or even more today. we have more than pakistan

straus. you are very active in the library but there is controversy about outside of the library and activities around there. do your social services extend to those people as well? >> the homeless outreach team actually does spend some time around the library. in fact when our partnership started with dph we had caseworkers from inside and outside the library patrolling what's going on. right now it's not an ex- exterior service because we know there are services that identify that goes along. >> we are doing more than just moving them along. >> we are not doing police sweeps and moving people along. we are all about wanting the library to be a place where people feel comfortable not just being inside but coming to and that does address and touch on the issue of what's going on in the exterior. that is a public place and that is a place where people can congregate in a seating area. if there is illegal activity, we have pd having eyes on it because we don't want people confronted by illegal

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