working class to continue living in san francisco and promote families to continue contributing and providing in san francisco. this is truly a moment. for the city of san francisco to challenge the status quo and to make history together. thank you. chair avalos: thank you. >> supervisors, my name is -- from a foundation. i am a member of the southeast jobs coalition. i am in support of this legislation. i can see where it can benefit a lot of disadvantaged workers, people who have been displaced. the recidivism rate can be lowered as far as people going in and out of prison and not having opportunities, without training or trades.

this legislation will allow a lot of different agencies to work together that have had a disconnect in the past. it will bring a lot of people together who have not had the opportunity to have a voice in this process. and this is something that has been needed because of the fact that the economic opportunities are in the city and in a lot of these disadvantaged neighborhoods, so the trades that have been closed and had no access, now there will be opportunity for people to get into these trades and earn a livelihood. the opportunity that it will afford the city that is in dire straits as far as economics will be a win situation for everybody, and for the work force development, it will allow them to work with their cbo's, where they can be part of the work force, where they can also

monitor to make sure that the people are actually working. i appreciate the opportunity to have had the chance to work with a lot of different people and, again, i applaud you on taking the initiative, as well as ross mirkarimi and other members that will support this. i take my hat off to you. thank you. chair avalos: thank you very much. >> my name is reckless. i am a general contractor. i am very glad to see this legislation -- my name is -- radcliffe. the people do not have no money to spend with the locals. there are people out there who say this is going to cost the city money. this will make the city money. people pay taxes here. people buy homes here.

so we need very good faith efforts in. -- in employment, and the next thing would be to have a good- faith effort in our contract and, so that contractors can get city contracts and spend the money year -- a good-faith effort in our contract in -- contracting, so that contractors can get city contracts and spend the money year -- here. i am really glad to see that supervisors avalos and mirkarimi came through with this. i support it fully, and i think that once we make that step

where we have to do something, then we make the next step to make sure the we have got more local contractors that are getting contracts. i would say that better than 80% of the contracts for the city are not people in the city. they come from somewhere else. thank you. chair avalos: supervisors, joshua, with a defense project, and i am a proud member of the southeast jobs coalition. i want to thank you, supervisor avalos, for this historic legislation that we have before us that we hope to move forward and for carrying this legislation forward and doing this. my wife and guide our local residents here in the mission district. this is our home -- my wife and i are local residents here in the mission district.

this carries forward all long line of work force reforms. our newest co-sponsor, again, supervisor mirkarimi and his efforts to centralize the work force, there was a time when we heard this was not possible. he has shown us the way. it is incredible. i want to thank you, too, the laborers and contractors who have come out, going forward with how we can make this a partnership. you have shown this is possible. kalas community members out of work. even environmentalists -- countless community members out of work. i will bring it over in the second. and office of work force development. i saw the deputy city attorney over there, who i know has worked hard to bring this to where we are at. and harrington -- ed harrington

and others. commissioner ellis. how do we do this? this shift from a good-faith effort approach to mandatory local hiring is immense. only one other city in the country has passed this. let's move forward. thank you, supervisors. chair avalos: thank you. >> supervisor avalos

if a poll was taken in the city, there would be overwhelming support for this legislation. the tradition of the labor movement is to get the job done, for fairness, for making sure that there is not the kind of lagging that we have seen happening in construction area jobs, and it is certainly time to move forward with this mandatory legislation, because it has not been happening. our tradition is to make sure that we move forward in this area. when union people see our traditions being used as an excuse for it to be blocked and go nowhere, i think that makes the brothers and sisters in organized labor matters, and i am sure it overwhelmingly, oversized workers -- organized

workers support this. thank you. chair avalos: 80. i have gone through all of the cards. i there any other members -- thank you. seeing none, we will close public comment, and i want to thank everyone who has spoken today, sharing stories, and your plight, as workers looking for work, and family members, the work that you have done to help shape this legislation. one of the joys that i have had is doing some construction work in the past, many, many years ago. it was good at the end of the day to look back at what you built. quite a remarkable feeling to have that feeling. after maybe a few months or a year on the job and seeing what you built, it is also wrote the

astounding, the work of your hands. i look at the testimony today and the work that many people have put into this legislation so far, and you can look back and say "i built that," that you all had a piece in the construction of this legislation, this ordinance, and it is still a work in process, still moving forward, so you have a piece that you have done today or up to today that you can look get probie that we got this far, so i want to thank you for that effort. before we talk about moving this forward, we have some technical amendments, i believe, to make, and we have mr. rodriguez who will share what those are. also, the attorney will share, as well. >> supervisors, office of economic and work force

development. there are a couple of technical amendments that we would like to propose for your attention, and i believe there are copies of the amendments here, and i just wanted to walk you through a couple of them. the first is on page 25, lines 19 through 22. we want to talk about the role of community-based organizations and their participation, and we value that participation, so we recommend that amendment. the second amendment that we would like to make is on page 24, line nine. it is a reference to the local hiring plans for large projects. again, the amendment we are making here is essentially to ensure that our office is not getting in front of a contract in department for issuing notices to proceed but is still providing assurances that we have the data but so that the local plans move forward.

next, the technical amendment we are proposing, page 16, the definition under the description of city-built. there are a couple of line items that we would like to make the corrections on. on page 16, line 11, or place san francisco residents with workers. line 13, delete a phrase of all san francisco residents. and in another place. again, this is purely for definitional purposes. on page 18, 24, correct a typo -- on page 18, line 24. then there is another typo on another page. page 22, 12, change -- page 22, line 12,

chanagge will to shall. as so fixed and determined by the board, supply the mandatory participation levels and incentives that this policy sets, and it shall remain in effect until such time as changed by the board. on page 26, lines 18 and 19, deleting a phrase, including prevention of race and gender discrimination. on page 29, lines 18 and 19, and deleting the contract or subcontractor shall have the burden of proving liquid damages is incorrect. the last minute we are proposing is on page 29, line 3. we are looking at amending that language and looking at the

public utilities commission and the redevelopment agency language with respect to binding arbitration as a more effective course in providing contractors with the opportunity to deal with the appeal procedure. there are some additional amendments that our office has been working on with the supervisor and will continue to explore those. those include the 20%, revising the specialty trade language, and reviewing the banking of hours in light of the comptroller's office of economic analysis report, but the items that you have before you are the technical amendments that we have. we have wanted to provide that for you today. chair avalos: ok, supervisor elsbernd, can we take those? ok.

[gavel] this is something that will be for us over the course of next week, and i think it is valuable to have the insight and to have it before us to consider. i want to before we discuss moving forward, i just heard from a legislative aide that cleveland, ohio, provided the legislation that this legislation was modeled after, which was mandated at 20%. it is actually 31%. they exceeded their local hiring requirements by 11%, and i think when we see the implementation of this policy move forward, we will see that it gets easier and easier to hit the targets as we are building a robust work force to the limit program legislation. so without further ado, i will

say that we can move it forward because we will be considering possible amendments to it, that we can move forward without recommendations to the full board? can we take that without objection? it will go to next tuesday's full board calendar. [gavel] very good. clerk: mr. chairman, is that referred with or with up? chair avalos: without, and that is our last item of the day, and we are adjourned.

>> what about if the tiebreaker was ranked above the seated one tie breaker? it was reserved for students that lived in the attendance area. i know it gets kind of confusing after a while. basically, your testing to see if the order of the tiebreakers was shifted, what would the impact be on school composition and also on choice outcomes for parents? that is what we are planning to kind of simulate and provide data about it in the annual report that we generated. the first annual report was january 2012.

we want to make sure that we are looking at the actual enrollment of the schools. we wanted to talk a bit about the researchers and to help with the simulations. we are grateful for the work that they did. they were wonderful to work with to help us think through the tiebreakers we are using in the student assignment system. we spent a lot of time working with them to do an mlu. in exchange for data. as we work to negotiate, we got to a point where the costs were too high for the district. in return for their assistance, they wanted 17 years of data. 10 years of historical data and seven years of data into the future. they wanted to talk