route from being able to pay those wages that are so necessary for a lot of the families that we represent. i want to thank supervisor wiener for presenting this legislation, because for the families we represent, it is absolutely important. i want to ask the supervisors on this committee, supervisor mirkarimi and supervisor chu and supervisor kim, we need your recommendation to keep this going forward. we cannot do it without having supervisors like ourselves being able to make a conscious decision and made a decision that is absolutely fundamental in maintaining the standards of san francisco working families. thank you so much. >> i am with brightline. we spoke at the last committee hearing on this in support of

the legislation, moreover in support of what we heard several speakers talk about, which was an opportunity to go even further in promoting opportunities for workers and standards for city contracts, and that was by adding an amendment to cover landscaping. at the time, that was not going to happen because there was idea to move the before the end of the year. zagat the late. people got excited about seeing an amendment because we make the decisions on how we hire locally, how we expand into tax sectors, which supervisor kim and murdering have worked on with respect to some of the efforts to attract companies. this is a unique opportunity and we strongly encourage the adoption of the amendment to expand this legislation to landscaping. i got into san francisco last night at midnight and checked-in with supervisor weener's office to find out that the amendment

had not yet come together. fortunately, i have fast fingers and a touchdown and amend this morning. i think this will do the trick. i hope that we can circulate this. we are talking about something really exciting, a local hiring plan around landscaping. i would strongly encourage the we consider this simple fix that builds upon the idea is that supervisor kim introduced at treasure island. we can adopt this amendment today, or if you want to take a few more days to get this in before the full board, we will be building this. this is great legislation already. it has a broad amount of support. i think i have enough copies. i hope that we can add this amendment that will make great legislation even better. thanks. supervisor chu: thank you.

next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for introducing this legislation. i am supportive of my brothers and sisters in labor who are speaking on behalf of this ordinance. also, all of your support for the landscaping, this came to my attention last night at 5:30. i worked with my lawyers and everything together. i.t. mailed it to the supervisors. i also have a copy here. -- i he mailed it to the supervisors. i appreciate all your support. whenever you can do, i appreciate it. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning.

i am experienced in this trade. everything that was done was done by hand. that was at a time when economic times were not as effective. i feel the time is more than right for all the workers especially to be given full consideration for a raise in pay so they can get adequate support to their families.

especially older people who do not have the energy to come forward. i stand before you today, and my intellect is just as firm as it was years ago. my trade was being a cabinet maker. there is no type of machinery that i cannot work. however, i am turned away by certain people. that is the big difference.

i was not hear from the beginning of the proposal. whatever it is, i give my wholehearted support. supervisor chu: thank you. are there other members of the public that wish to speak on item 11? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this item is before us and there is an amendment before us as well. supervisor weener, did you have any closing comments? supervisor kim? supervisor wiener: yes, thank you for those of you came out today, supporting those, i made earlier, as well as earlier legislation. there is always give and take. i appreciate on all sides,

labor, departments, nonprofit, there has been give-and-take on this, and i appreciate that. i think with these amendments, this is strong legislation, and i hope we can move forward with a positive recommendation. i do want to note, with respect to landscaping services, the issue raised by local 261, my office had previously indicated my commitment to work with them, to work on drilling legislation, related to landscaping services. i think there is work to be done there. however, we also agreed we need to do more iresearch to see what contracts were at issue, what the issues were, etc. we want to make sure, when the

talk about prevailing wage legislation, potentially expanding the contracts covered, that we are doing so based on precise information, what is covered, what is not covered, where we want to go, where we do not want to go. i appreciate the work that was done on the city amendments. we will take a look at them. i am sure we will be meeting and talking about trailing legislation. for now, i would request the city adopt the amendments offered at the beginning of the hearing, and i hope, moved forward to the full board with positive recommendation. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. sorry i was late. i was at the demolition of our jail no. 3, which was quite a milestone, since it has taken several decades to get the wrecking ball in place. that was an important event for

the city and county of san francisco, and our sheriff's department. my decision remains the same, as i indicated before. it has my full support. i am aware of the amendments proffered by supervisor wiener. i wanted to come back and take part in my last participating role here on the budget committee. more than happy to make a motion to accept the amendments and move forward with recommendations. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i want to support the recommendation to move forward. i want to thank supervisor wiener's office for their work. i also appreciate the cleanup around this law, especially

around establishing the prevailing wage, and i appreciate the amendment around ensuring prevailing wage for all the workers here with city contracts, and also providing a logger employment transition period. when these contracts have been, they have huge impact on employees and their families. six months is a more humane amount of time to give to folks in order to find new jobs, even in an economy as difficult as today. i want to thank supervisor wiener;s's office. supervisor chu: thank you for being here. supervisor mirkarimi, thank you for participating in your last board hearing here. [applause] of course, also the last budget

meeting in particular. we want to thank you and wish you the best as sheriff of the city. i do want to articulate a few points. when this item came before us previously, there was a lot of concern in my mind about it because there are a lot of components that conflict with some of the things i believe in. for example, eliminating the small business exemption was something i was concerned with. i have been a purported to make sure we provide opportunities for small businesses. having an exemption seemed to make sense. one of the big concern for me on the small business component was to say, do we have the same level playing field at small businesses would have for participating, bidding in work for the city? that is why i appreciate the amendment made through the help of ms. kelly and supervisor wiener to make sure we are

providing the cost estimates, so that they are more in line of what i have been supportive of. i do appreciate that amendment. the other component that was problematic, not necessarily the concept, but how it would apply. this is the issue of the retention going from 90 to 180 days. while i agree it makes it easier for families to figure out what to do next to be able to survive with a 180-day window, as opposed to 90, i appreciate the fact that there are obstacles with keeping individuals for that long, if there are individual -- issues that come up. i want to thank the labor union as well as supervisors for having the foresight to include exceptions when there is a layoff of some of the new employees. i think that is a strong

provision of it. if there are issues of performance, making sure this does not apply when the contract is supposed be one time in nature. this makes sense and helps to ease my mind with regards to the retention time. i want to thank the labor union for agree to that, supervisor for adding that component. the third area where it was problematic for me, in terms of legislation, the issue about the nonprofit exemption issue. as we start to take a look at our budget and we look at what the impact on our departments will be, it is a potentially large impact, if there were certain nonprofits included in it. as some of the departments have articulated, our largest contractors departments go out with millions and millions of dollars for lots of services that we sometimes do not think of, but have ancillary services

that include janitorial. if this would apply to all those contracts as well, the impact financially on the city would be a much larger one that we would have expected. whenever we ask these departments to cut even a million dollars from their budget, it is painful. to see how these amendments would actually play out, proposals, is something that we would not anticipate just yet. i want to appreciate very much supervisor wiener's two amendments, which would include janitorial services, disabled individuals. i also want to appreciate the clarification language that you are including. the intent of this was never to include organizations like larkin, homeless shelters, where we are providing residential service, contracting for residential service, whatever

service it might be, mental health facilities. but there is an ancillary component that was janitorial. it was never meant to apply to that, but that was the intention of the law. i appreciate the clarification. i know our office will certainly work with you, supervisor, to make sure that the language included is tight, and i hope that the departments will help us make sure there is nothing we have overlooked in that regard. finally, the last component that was not clear in my mind was the issue about the definition of the employees. as i stated, the intent was to make sure individuals who were working were getting paid a prevailing wage. not necessarily which relationship is better, but the fact that they're getting paid that amount. it sounds like there are many reasons why we do have to indicate it is an employee relationship, as opposed to independent contractor.

at this time, i am comfortable moving forward with the legislation as amended, but i do hope that we can work in the ensuing week to clarify the employee-employer relationship, so i can better understand the issue. i think it is incumbent upon us to see whether this is the best approach. many small businesses, minority individuals work through an independent contractor relationship. that is the crux of why i am concerned about it. who gets left out of the employment opportunities and who does not? i really want to understand that component. based on those comments, comments of my colleagues, why don't we go forward with the motion. there is a motion to accept the amendments that supervisor wiener move forward, recommendation to move to the full board.

again, with the caveat that the employer works with the office to make sure that the languages all something that we intend. without objection. [applause] thank you again, supervisor mirkarimi. i wish everyone a happy new year. we have no other items before us. we are adjourned.

>> there has been an acknowledgement of the special places around san francisco bay. well, there is something sort of innate in human beings, i think, that tend to recognize a good spot when you see it, a spot that takes your breath away. this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of these dignitaries talk about the symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting for those of us in the pioneer park project is trying to make the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco.

early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen

decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city

anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when they were preparing the site for the coit tower, there was always a lot of harping and griping about how awful progress was and why they would choose this beautiful pristine area to do them in was a big question. as soon as the coit tower was getting finished and someone put in the idea that it should be used for art, then, all of a sudden, he was excited about the coit tower. it became almost like a daily destination for him to enjoy

the atmosphere no matter what the politics, that wasn't the point. as long as they fit in and did their work and did their own creative expression, that was all that was required. they turned in their drawings. the drawings were accepted. if they snuck something in, well, there weren't going to be any stoolies around. they made such careful little diagrams of every possible little thing about it as though that was just so important and that they were just the big frog. and, actually, no one ever felt that way about them and they weren't considered something like that. in later life when people would approach me and say, well, what did you know about it?

we were with him almost every day and his children, we grew up together and we didn't think of him as a commie and also the same with the other. he was just a family man doing normal things. no one thought anything of what he was doing. some of them were much more highly trained. it shows, in my estimation, in the murals. this was one of the masterpieces. families at home was a lot more close to the life that i can remember that we lived. murals on the upper floors like the children playing on the swings and i think the little deer in the forest where you could come and see them in the woods and the sports that were always available, i think it did express the best part of

our lives. things that weren't costing money to do, you would go to a picnic on the beach or you would do something in the woods. my favorite of all is in the staircase. it's almost a miracle masterpiece how he could manage to not only fit everyone, of course, a lot of them i recognized from my childhood -- it's how he juxtaposed and managed to kind of climb up that stairway on either side very much like you are walking down a street. it was incredible to do that and to me, that is what depicted the life of the times in san francisco. i even like the ones that show the industrial areas, the once with the workers showing them in the cannery and i can remember going in there and seeing these women with the

caps, with the nets shuffling these cans through. my parents had a ranch in santa rosa and we went there all summer. i could see these people leaning over and checking. it looked exactly like the beautiful things about the ranch. i think he was pretty much in the never look back philosophy about the coit. i don't think he ever went to visit again after we moved from telegraph hill, which was only five or six years later. i don't think he ever had to see it when the initials are scratched into everything and people had literally destroyed the lower half of everything. >> well, in my view, the tower had been pretty much neglected from the 1930's up until the 1980's. it wasn't until then that

really enough people began to be alarmed about the condition of the murals, the tower was leaking. some of the murals suffered wear damage. we really began to organize getting funding through the arts commission and various other sources to restore the murals. they don't have that connection or thread or maintain that connection to your history and your past, what do you have? that's one of the major elements of what makes quality of life in san francisco so incredible. when people ask me, and they ask me all the time, how do you get to coit tower, i say you walk. that's the best way to experience the gradual elevation coming up above the hustle and bustle of the city and finding this sort of oasis, if you will, at the top of the hill. when i walk through this park, i look at these brick walls and

this lawn, i look at the railings around the murals. i look at the restoration and i think, yeah, i had something to do with that. learning the lessons, thank you, landmarks meet landmarks. the current situation at pioneer park and coit tower is really based in public and private partnership. it was the citizens who came together to buy the land to keep it from being developed. it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the north side.

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