could not get a job. i had to go to jail. i have been in jail three or four times trying to get jobs for our community, for us african americans. i am glad you have this year. this is no news to san francisco we have been discriminated against. i am surprised city hall and all these community people in city government seems so surprised at what you should have been doing years ago. i am happy. my hat is off to you. but i am here to regulate. i am going to make sure the unions cooperate with us and everyone else. the key plan is to have all -- i will start right here. this used to be the central location of jobs. we used to call it the black city hall. gordon died, and then here comes the community opportunities. the took everything away from us redevelopment. it looks like a graveyard now. they are bringing in high-tech people in the jobs community

with one stop and all this. that needs to be examined. we need to plan what is going on here. i am going to talk to you when i have time. all these agencies need to sit down and find out how we are going to work this out. this is nothing new. this has been going on for years. i am ashamed that city hall acts like it is a big surprise. check your records. we have been discriminated against for some years. i am glad. i am so happy we have reached an age now that it is quick to be illegal for those people to do that. i will not have to go to jail any more to do that. supervisor avalos: i am going to call a few more cards. dorothy peterson, will hall -- >> that is me. chairperson maxwelmy name is wi. i am a contractor in the

bayview, near san francisco. i have had a business here since 1993. i am happy that the city is putting forth this requirement. i think it is going to be a good thing for the residents and the citizens here in the city. i also want to make a point. you had mentioned about hiring apprentices. that is a part of this requirement. i think there might need to be some special consideration for requiring contractors to hire apprentices, because what i have noticed is that there have been times when we have wanted to hire new apprentices in the communities where we are doing these projects, and then the union would come in and say we cannot bring in new apprentices. that creates a problem, because we then have to try to bring them in as a journeymaen when

they are really apprentices. i think that in making this mandatory, we need to look at how this thing is going to work out for the contractors who are required to hire. i think it is a good thing for the community. i always try to hire community, local first. but we need to have the unions work with us so that when we bring on new apprentices they will put them in the union as apprentices, and not require us to move them to journeyman when they are not qualified. we have to pay them at that scale, yet they do not have the experience. i want to put some language in there or look at how the unions are going to work with this requirement so that when we bring on new apprentices they can actually get training for this. i think you'll and appreciate

it. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. chairman maxwell, supervisors, my name is dorothy peterson. i am the president of shoreview residents' association. i approve even the hearing, even though there will be no action after the hearing. but this is well needed. as i said, i am the president of shoreview residents' association. supervisor avalos, you are aware of what we went through in 2007 and 2008 because there was no mandate or even oversight over first source hiring. the black and brown brothers had to literally come together to shut down the properties in order to make them do right.

there was extortion of the latino brothers' checks. there was explication. there was one african american journeymen who was hired as a laborer, or so he was told, but on paper he was being paid as a journeyman carpenter. i agree with ms. jackson. there has to be tremendous diligent oversight. i was not even aware of some of the games that were going on. and when i found out, there was nowhere for the men or women to go. i had nowhere to go. we just resorted to shutting down the property to get the attention. and i think chairman maxwell then for having a hearing on what was going on. if we can get some action on

that hearing, i would be greatly appreciative. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good evening. thank you, supervisors and all of the other guests who spoke before me. i have been working in the bay view hunters point community since 2003. i want to preface by saying prior to starting my work out there i worked for 26 years as a peace officer, working with many of the residents from that area who were transitioning back into the community, and incarcerated setting. i am here -- a transition back into the community from an incarcerated setting. i am here to thank you for the bill you proposed, but i want to focus a little bit.

as many of us know -- i have not brought statistics with meat -- but a lot of what is happening in terms of the incarceration and recidivism is a direct result of people being unemployed and not knowing how that are going to survive and feed their families. i am grateful for this opportunity, starting out at 30%, and then the increment of 10% for the following years. but i hope that given the consideration that many of the people who are transitioning from an incarcerated the setting may not have the apprenticeship training, that there can be a real look at the general labour part so that many of the people who come out to do not have that specialized training can work their way through the system as general labor and work their way up, as you mentioned, so they can qualify to hopefully stay out of jail, become self-

sufficient, and become a contributing citizen to their community. thank all of you. i hope our organization can work with citybuild. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a san francisco resident living in the valley. i am speaking today to support mandatory local hiring legislation. the support it for the following two reasons. first of all, it is reasonable to pass mandatory local hiring

legislation. as san francisco residents, we live in san francisco. we spend money in san francisco and pay taxes in san francisco. so we should have the right to get these local jobs. secondly, it is necessary to pass mandatory local hiring legislation because a lot of san francisco workers are out of jobs right now. right now, it is too difficult to find a job in san francisco.

for example, myself a journeyman carpenter, i have been out of a job for three months. i have been trying very hard to find a job, but there has been no luck with many job applications. i have three kids in my family that need me to support them. every month, i need to pay off my home loans and also the auto loans. with only one job from my wife, it is impossible for me to support a family of five. i really need a job.

therefore, i urge the board of supervisors to pass the mandatory local hiring legislation so i can find a job to support my family. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon.

my name is wu chau chang. i am a member of the chinese progressive association. i used to work in a restaurant. i have been unemployed for five months. i do not even have unemployment benefits. my husband is a construction worker. he is the head of the household. his work ability is very insecure. right now he is unemployed. every month, he has only a few days of work.

being the head of the family, he has to bear a lot of stress and depression. we need his few days of work to support the whole family. this is very difficult. because of the stress and pressure, he is very irritable. he has become very unhealthy. we are not the only family that is experiencing this in the chinese community. there are many families like us. they do not have work.

they do not have the ability to carry on their life. they need government subsidies. they are a burden on the government. we do not want to depend on the government to support us. we want to support ourselves. we need work. i hope this party hiring of local people -- this priority hiring of local people will materialize. we think it is a good plan. i hope this plan will help us non-english speakers. supervisor avalos: janine carter, willie radcliffe, evonne elobos, andrea crimstork and mike theerio. we'll stop right there. thanks.

if we can just stop for a second. gentlemen and folks in the audience, we cannot hear if there's a lot of talking and discussion in the lines and we will keep it quiet to help concentrate on what everyone is saying. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm a member of the chinese progressive association. i have two children. i used to work in a restaurant right now an imunemployed. my husband is a construction worker. he is a pillar of the family but his work is very unstable and in a month he has only a few days of work.

being an employee so long he is experiencing a lot of stress and that causes irritability in his temper and his health is also deteriorating. my family depends on the few hundred dollars i received from my unemployment benefits. i'm not the only one who experienced this. i know a few families experiencing the same situation. our family was a very warm family, however, because of the stress from our life, there is tendency of violence in the family right now.

when i heard of this priority hiring of local workers, i was -- i'm very happy because local people need local work and then they have money to spend and with the spending, the economy will prosper and also the government will prosper as well because of the revenue. and also each family will have a single home, and i hope this plan will help low-income families. thank you. >> next speaker, please. if i call your name, that would put you in the future to the end

of the line, ok? when your name is called. mr. radcliffe. >> thank you. thank you, supervisors, for holding this hearing. and i certainly want to congratulate supervisor john avalos for bringing this doubt. it's wayio due. should have been done when they did the funding program. it should have been done them. it really all ties together. one thing you will notice the most local businesses had to get contracts over here. they hired more local people. of course, that's who they know, and that's who they will hire is people that they know. now, the program has not been working to do its job in making sure bonding, finance and insurance, one of the main things that hold local businesses back, regardless,

especially disadvantaged businesses. now, an honest point between the age of 18 and 30, even up to 35, we have a 45% to 55% unemployment rate. our businesses suffered terribly because the people don't have no money. so we're really suffering out there all the way around. this will certainly help. unless we make sure that the finance and insurance is working in our local communities, right now we probably have four contractors. we used to have 50 that were black. we've been going downhill but we have asked but they haven't been carried out. the program worked for people in oakland but it hasn't worked

here in san francisco. so we need to put all of these things together, and they will work. we need a program -- one thing we need is that local contractors can put people to work before -- everybody don't need to be under the privacy or project labor agreement. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> well, then, what have we got here? could it be the politicians outside of washington, d.c. have heard the constituencies' cries? their calls for jobs, local jobs? no, not likely. more likely lucky coincidence. no, the board of stupid-visors evidently haven't heard the call to hire locals or meaningful actions would have taken place previously. the matter of local hearing

would have received the problem attention that so sorely deserves today and deserved yesterday. whether anything meaningful takes place or tomorrow, well, one can only hope. particularly with new board members in january. no, the board stupid-visors has elected to focus its time and city's money on dribble like meatless mondays or new taxes in the form of fees, or proposing that noncitizens get voting rights or securitas facilitation of residential parking or which lunge -- lunch should include a toy? when it comes to local hiring, the city and county has abdicated its responsibility to provide for its inhabitants and an indictment of malfeasance would be more than appropriate. testimonials abound, let me provide just a couple.

the previous coca-cola plant on third street where the residential project at candlestick point for los gatos played a predominant role in both of those projects. let me read a letter to gavin's boy michael cohen, which substantiates my charge of malfeasance and irresponsibility. let me start at the beginning. while soliciting work at two projects on third industry in the bayview, i was redirected to the cityville program located at your one-stop career -- located. was that two minutes? >> look at the time. >> i won't read this whole letter to you. let me finish, though. >> we will have to cut your time right there, sir. it's two minutes per person. >> hey, you can't even run those comment cards straight. you can't even get that cue straight. >> next speaker, please.

>> thank you for taking me. my name is janine carter and i'm the founder and cree of a local san francisco solar contractor. and we are also an l.b.e. what i would like to start out by saying is that 50% of luminalt's crew came to us flew community-based organizations. and the way that, that happened that means y.c.d., neighborhood design, san francisco conservation core and the list goes on. the reason that, that happened is that true the proposal and adoption of solar and its implementation and administration with great work done by people like yermio rodriguez and others, a collision was forged and groups

worked together in common purpose and i would really love to see that happen and coalesce around local hires because working together and real floirging bonds and figuring out how we can do this right, and incorporating local businesses in connection with that will make this work. city hall is getting solar, which is fabulous. i think it's really exciting local businesses, local advocates have worked on this for years. the organization that got this contract is a colorado-based publicly traded company that has no offices in san francisco and is not signatory to a collective bargaining agreement. we all lose. we all lose when none of us are part of the process and none of us are given opportunities. if local business is given an opportunity to win some of these

contracts, we will all win and be able to expand that opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. and thank you for your how we can instead of why we can't attitude. we really appreciate that very much. >> we can do this. we've got a lot of talent here. we've got a lot of talented people that do really good work and in fact san francisco and the bay area is one of the most competitive places to do solar and lumanalt won sixth place in one of the fastest growing companies in the bay eamplet the reason we did that is through sweat by men and women who are all san franciscoens working with huge supports in the community-based organization. >> thank you. thank you very much. how we can. >> i have one just a followup question. i think your company is one of the examples of how we need to do this right, and you suggest that there are things we might be able to do in our city contracting laws. as you may or may not know, a number of us have authored

legislation in years' past to change our city contracting laws to make it easier for some of these local businesses to win them. i would be happy, we don't have to discuss this now, if you have specific suggestions at what we could do that those difficult proposals i think we would all like to hear them. >> thank you. we're in l.b. but we've never gotten a job by the result of our l.b.e. status. i would love to talk to it. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, land use. ♪ if i were a carpenter and your employer maybe would you hire me anyway because i would sure like some money gravy if you were a city worker and you had a job

could you get -- you gave me, you would do everything you'd help me you'd really save me see i've been so very broke take that in your city notes and you reached your help us and little city i feel the job ice is slowly melting little city, it seems like years since jobs in hiring have been here here comes the job sun here comes the sun here comes the sun i say jobs it's all right jobs, jobs and hiring here it comes it's been a long, long cold winter little city it seems like years

since had you jobs here here comes the city job sun here comes the sun and i say that's all right jobs, jobs and work here it comes jobs, jobs, work here it comes and it's about time and we're gonna have lots of work signs ♪ >> thank you for reminding me i would rather be a hammer than a nail. hammer in the morning. next speaker, please. >> hi, yes, i support the hiring policy but i really suggest that you change it to south african, because i'm a big soccer buff and the first time i heard about hiring policy was in the fifa

world cup, south africa stadium building, how that government over there really like tried to implement that but how the complexity of projects forced local work out. just please consider it. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is florence. i'm the president of the san francisco chinese club and president of the bay view area. local hiring in the city of san francisco benefits san francisco's economy and puts many san franciscoens to work. san francisco may not have met local hiring and the economy is booming but we need it now. we know that the locals san franciscoens who work on this local hiring jobs will spend their hard-earned dollars in san francisco. this spending will create ee