The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved two of Mayor London Breed's nominees to serve on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's board but not without a lengthy discussion on diversity for one of them.
Emanuel "Manny" Yekutiel, a gay man and the owner of the eponymously named cafe and event space at 16th and Valencia streets in the Mission district, was approved on a 9-2 vote Tuesday, January 5.
He will be the transit board's only LGBTQ member and an advocate for local merchants who for years have called for such a representative on the oversight panel.
Fiona Hinze, a disability rights advocate who lives with cerebral palsy, was approved 11-0. Her appointment brings the number of women on the seven-person SFMTA board to