>> good afternoon, welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for july 27th. mr. president, all members are president. >> can you please turn for the pledge of allegiance? >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for

which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, you should have copies of the board meeting minutes, do i have a motion to approve? without objection, those are approved. madame clerk, are there any communications? >> items one through five are the consent agenda and it will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. >> colleagues, roll call vote on items one through five. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye.

>> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> 11 in favor. >> those ordinances are finally passes. >> can you call items number6 and 7? >> these are the proposed budget an annual appropriation of perpetrating all estimates and estimates for the -- upper pretty all estimates for the city of san francisco. -- appropriating all estimates for the city of san francisco. >> colleagues, any discussion? can we get a roll-call? >> aye.

>> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> no. >> aye. aye. >> those finally passed. can we call the next three items? >> items 8-10, these are from the budget and finance committee without recommendation. item number 8, a motion ordering submitted to the voters of arkansas to rise in an amendment to the real property transfer tax. item nine, an ordinance revising the payroll expense -- expense tax to establish a

progressive tax rate structure. item number 10, this is an ordinance authorizing the ordinance amending san francisco business and tax regulation code for a parking ordinance. >> san francisco faces tremendous financial challenges as a result of the crisis. we have just recently closed a $483 million budget deficit. this is a brief respite for our financial health. we don't know what will happen. we will be able to see our full budget for this year. the proposal for the deficit of next year, this is well over half a billion dollars. the year after that, the same.

this is well over half a billion dollars. we have cut well into the phone. these are the things that make san francisco a unique place in the country. labor will give back $250 million in lost wages and benefits. these are significant sacrifices that labor unions have been making and members will be facing in order to continue living in san francisco and it will be much more difficult to put food on the table. over the past year, the city has cut 64 million in the overtime and salaries.

we have cut many services and the san franciscans around the city are facing higher and higher fees. we need to have revenue as part of our budget solution. that is what i'm proposing an increase in the real estate transfer tax. this increase is not affecting every day people who own single- family homes. this is an increase for property that is sold at a volume of over $5 million.

we also need to know as the city is cutting back on services, we have given back. we have to have revenue as far as the solution. i hope that you will consider this as part of our revenue solutions. this offers of important way to bring revenue to our city. >> thank you. as i stated when a number of this, they take time to study the various proposals.

i would like to have support for the transfer tax and i would make a motion to table the business tax proposal that i have put forth. the november ballot is a very crowded but we must make important decisions that garner significant support and consensus. the tax proposal that i put forth came out of many many months of research and frankly out of request that we have asked of our controller and the city economist to look at facts and data and look at the fact that our current business payroll tax has been payroll tax

killer. this applies to 10% of all the businesses. many do not paid this tax banks to insurance companies and payroll institutions. the proposal that i put forth would not have only brought in $24 million but would have done this in a way that created hundreds of new jobs. i understand that there is a consensus about whether this should move forward. my colleagues have indicated support. we do have the ability to put this on the ballot. i think that for the purposes of making sure that we will be placed in november, i would like to ask us to support the package. the work has not been wasted. i will certainly be engaging in future conversations and future

ballots either next year or in 200012 to consider something to really reform our business tax system but at this time, i will be supporting supervisor avalos and his supported tax. >> would you like to make a motion? >> yes, i would. >> i think that the parking tax should be tabled. we were challenged.

so far, the one that i think seems to emerge is the one that i think the general consensus at least with a high number of us is revolving around the tax measure advanced by supervisor avalos. i want to keep in mind the role of the parking tax should it be considered. with the exception of the baby vlf, there are no measures that are going forward.

this is the first time with the commission. it parking tax had not been enhanced and this was really since 1980 when the supervisor had led the charge for a successful parking tax. over 30 years, we have seen a great reason to doohickeys things. one is to be more effective and judicious in collecting revenue from garages. there is a consortium that is

doing their best to do that. then there is a non-aligned caucus that we believe could be doing more in providing revenue. in this tax, i will be working with the city treasurer and other colleagues on pursuing a article 22 where there will be significant strengthening of enforcement capabilities and commitments and making sure that those who owe us money paid out and we aren't going to delineate where those dollars may be. i make a motion to table item number 10. >> i second.

>> we have two motions on the table and my understanding that this is not debatable. >> but me go ahead and speak to the item if there is no motion. first, let me thank the supervisors for not falling into the republican position of attempting to balance very difficult budgets without looking at increasing revenue. the position of no new taxes is expedient but when it comes to doing the very important work of government and providing the services that people have come

to expect from local government that this is just not doable. this is not doable to continue down the path of just making cuts and cutting out the workers and the basic amenities. these are really necessary so that people can live their lives with the dignity that they deserves. -- deserve. i will attempt to vote for all of them. i think that supervisor mirkarimi and supervisor chu making the motion to tables -- table these are therefore difficult to pass other measures. i disagree with that political

analysis. i don't think that there is an effect that if you have too many different proposals, all of them have significant merit to, this takes away from many individual proposals. in many respects, the added if quality of smart proposals negates any of the - cumulative -- well, that is just too much in terms of taxes. this is one of the interesting line items. there was a poll that had many faults. one of the interesting lines which was true was a certain percentage of voters out there, they will vote against taxes generally. they will vote against every tax measure that we place, whether it is