Support Jane Natoli for Confirmation to the SFMTA Board
Rules Committee Chair Hillary Ronen and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Mayor Breed nominated safe streets advocate Jane Natoli for SFMTA board and we couldn’t be more thrilled with the choice. She’s someone who understands our need for safe streets, for better transit, for living up to our ideals as a transit first city.
She brings her experience serving numerous other organizations in our City like the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, YIMBY Action, and the SF LGBT Center to this moment. She is a solutions-oriented advocate who will do the work necessary to hold San Francisco to its professed values as a transit first city, who will bring her experiences as a bike rider, a transit rider, and a trans woman to bear to help guide SFMTA. She is an ardent advocate for safe streets and knows that we need to be creative to meet our climate goals in a city, and we must do all of this while centering the needs of our most vulnerable citizens and street users.
We are in the middle of an unprecedented challenge right now with COVID-19, and we need people who will rise to that and guide important city departments like SFMTA through it. Jane Natoli is someone who is willing to meet those challenges with solutions, not just for San Francisco today, but for our future.
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Rules Committee Chair Hillary Ronen and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
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[Your Name]
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Rules Committee
Supervisor Hillary Ronen, Chair
City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Dear Chair Ronen,
I am writing to express my support for Jane Natoli as Mayor London Breed’s nominee for the SFMTA Board of Directors.
Jane comes to this work as an advocate for safe streets, regularly showing up and fighting for everyday San Franciscans walking, biking, and taking transit. From 2018 to 2020, she served as an elected member of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s Board of Directors, helping to guide the 10,000 member organization in its mission of making biking more accessible, safe, and diverse for everyone in the City. She has regularly shown up to advocate on behalf of projects that will do just that throughout the City. For her, it’s not just the right thing to do, but personal, as she has been hit while biking three times in San Francisco.
In addition to that experience, Jane serves on two other boards currently, the SF LGBT Center and YIMBY Action, and is also a Mayoral appointee on the Citizen’s General Obligation Bond Oversight Committee. She understands the need for a steady hand guiding organizations, making the right and sometimes tough decisions for the organizations she serves and staying focused on the mission and centering the needs of those who need our help most. She takes the fiscal responsibility of overseeing organizations seriously and understands the challenges ahead for SFMTA and our City.
She understands the gravity of what is ahead of us and remains committed to ensuring we meet our Vision Zero goals while getting San Franciscans around safely. She wants to uphold our values as a Transit First city and ensure that our system truly serves the riders who need it most. Frequent and reliable transit is a must, but as a trans woman, she also understands that everyone who rides our buses and trains or walking or biking deserves to be treated with dignity and that is just as real a barrier for too many San Franciscans getting around our City as how often the bus comes.
I am confident that Jane will bring all of her experiences to bear in this role and will step in and work quickly towards solutions for our City and our citizens in these unprecedented times. I ask you to recommend Jane Natoli for the SFMTA Board of Directors to the Board of Supervisors.
Thank you,