i also want to thank theo miller, sigh eata and akeys gray for all the work. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. president yee. >> president yee: thank you, madame clerk. supervisor walton, please add me as cosponsor. >> supervisor walton: my pleasure. thank you, president yee. >> president yee: so, colleagues, i'm introducing a hearing on san francisco foster youth status, placement and future. under governor brown, a major child welfare initiative was developed called continuum of care reform. in 2015, california passed assembly bill 403, which i intended to phase -- is intended to phase out group homes for foster youth. with the phasing out of group homes, the intention is to place children and youth more quickly into foster families. not known as -- now known as resource families. this is critical step as studies show that children have better outcomes when placed in home environments. however, in san francisco, more than half of our foster youth are placed out of county and 25% of those are placed more than 100 miles away. the very act of being placed

director theo miller sends his regrets and is unable to attend today's meeting. we will go back up to monica. julie is here. we will take it in the order it is on the agenda, which is supervisor ahsha safai office and then, hold on. i am just going through the people who aren't here. i would like to say i am pleased to see commissioner ricky from the m.t.a. here, as well, and former h.r.c. commissioner stephen hermon who reminded me i'm sitting in his former chair. we will hear from monica and then julie. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm excited to be here today. i just wanted to affirm that the supervisor's commitment to ensuring equity and transit within our district. he is a relentless champion in making sure that our bus lines run on time, that we are balancing the dual needs of transit reliability and pedestrian safety, as i am in many conversations with sfmta every day to talk about old bouts, introducing more bike lanes, stop signs, and speeding. there are traffic calming measures to make sure that transit is functioning well. in terms of equ