was that there were 30? >> correct. our contact is not available. we did not get a call back yesterday. it was updated 30 as opposed to the 21 initially reported. supervisor chu: colleagues, we have the amendments that have been passed out to less. let's take public comment before we take action on it. are there members of the public that wish to speak on item number four? >> i was here the last time this agenda item was the liberated. and we were debating at the last meeting a big operation. what happens in reality is that we do have people in not doing

very well in this city or san francisco. i hope that we get some sort of analysis from the budget analyst controller, because in reality these are not doing very well. i understand the supervisor wants to initiate this legislation. as a constituent, i want to know the role that the human rights commission is going to fly. i see, from talking to over 50 lbe's, something is not working at the human rights commission. many of the combined processors are stressed.

i do not know if we need to address the health department to do something about it, but my concern is that if we have the big operation and they are suffering today, who is going to do the compliance? all i am asking is whether quantity to be sold. if things do not work out, there was the belief that there needed to be a sunset cloud, which i do not see. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker? >> thank you. i appreciate the opportunity to be here speaking in support of this desolation.

i would like to stress the reason that my company changed was to legally protect our commitment and 10% of our gross profits being tent -- being donated to charity. a huge part of being a california benefit organization means giving back to the community. another reason for this legislation is to make sure that there is adequate protection for nonprofit lbe's who are worthy recipients around these contracts. this legislation is in alignment with the commitments to the business and a strong statement of the types of businesses in san francisco that they want to recruit and do business with.

lastly, encouraging more businesses to consider the type of impact they have had as a corporation in giving back to our community and shelve -- shareholders. thank you. >> thank you, supervisors, for allowing me to speak. i wanted to talk quickly again about the advantages as an employee plan working in this organization. i know that amongst youngsters, working for companies that you have a motive with and are more aligned with, it is a great opportunity. for me, personally, it is like be -- it is why i came to san

francisco we wanted to encourage this moving forward. i am fully in support of the legislation. thank you so much for your time. supervisor chu: thank you. >> my name is andy and i am the director of community development at b lab. we have a few employees that were here earlier but had to leave because of time constraints. small businesses, primarily minority-owned, i have made contact with theresa sparks and want to make sure that it is known that this is a dual effort to evaluate impact and make it clear that this is -- i

do a lot between the organization. especially with the private sector. it would be a great opportunity to see how there is a line in. supervisor chu: thank you. -- alignment. supervisor chu: thank you. >> on your mark -- ♪ on your mark, cassette, go, you will make sure business dream come true and you will do it -- you will do it with a benefit discount and make your business dreams come true. there is nothing business you must try. they have not heard the word impossible this time.

taking the discount and workout in the city. ♪ supervisor chu: thank you. >> was that the theme song to alice? think it was. my name is david. i live in california and am in the process of starting a new unit co. in san francisco and i learned of the corporation last week, from antique, who had been quite intrigued by it. we are in full support of the legislation, the wilmot benefit us, we feel that pretty much

like the u.s. green building council, it is a worthwhile effort. thank you. >> thank you. on behalf of better world telecom, i work with them in their corporation. i definitely appreciate your efforts made to protect the local community to protect jobs. i feel like the certified benefit legislation is something that is going to help business-. i feel that my interests as a local businesswoman are being held up. i wanted to thank you for your time. supervisor chu: thank you. are there other speakers that wish to comment? seeing no one, public comment is

closed. ins we have a motion to except the amendments. taken without objection. to the underlying item, colleagues? supervisor avalos: motion to move forward. supervisor chu: we have a motion to move it forward as amendment -- as amended. speaking to my vote on it, regarding public comments made earlier to benefit corporations in the public call for private companies to help the board with our summary of the and jobs programs, i hope that the folks in here -- who are year today will go back to the corporations and find out his list interested in participating. i want to reiterate that i completely agree with the

speaker in the hope that happens. in one area and other public speaker spoke to it. how benefiting corporations would be certified. understanding better than letting a digest, a charge he would have to look at the rules around this. that is a legitimate concern. it would be an area where i would like more follow-up work. with regards to benefits of being conferred to san francisco, i know that is something i have brought up and that members of the public were going to volunteer organizations.

it would be great if those contributions made it to the nonprofits were struggling. that is where my hesitation lies in the legislation. that being said, the areas where the improvements for the made a difference, the fact that we do not have additive discounts is important. i appreciate and absolutely think it is important that we have not had -- edged out local businesses. i appreciate the language that the supervisor spoke of in previous meetings, making sure it is not a subsidiary organization, especially given help they came into play here. protecting regional employers,

having a discount of this sort edge out the regional partners, i appreciate that work with regards to the expiration, which gives us a real good checkpoint to look and see if the program is working based on changing definitions. i really do appreciate those movements. because of those reasons, i will be supportive of the legislation. thank you for making those changes. i know we have seen a motion to send the item forward, but before we do that, supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: i wanted to thank the supervisors for his work in the committee.

we are early in the process of corporations grafting or brains around this ordinance. i appreciate that. supervisor chiu: colleagues, i very much appreciate your support in this process. the legislation that we are looking at today looks very different from the legislation last year. i want to take a moment in thank the budget analyst. mr. rose, your office made a lot of suggestions that we inc., including having them be responsible for many of the regulatory issues around this.

certainly the chairman's suggestion around the most efficient way being open to possibilities in the future of doing this even better. one issue that we came up with, i know that this was whether we were conferring specific benefits in san francisco and not one that we would be able to leave with. that being said, i think that stating that a non-san francisco benefit corporation or non- regional verses a regional company, that would be reasonable proxy to consider the impact of local businesses here in the bay area. i certainly, with reviews of

this legislation every six months, but hopefully over the next few years we will have a good picture of whether it has the intended effect. because it was raised by the first speaker in public comment, it was important in this legislation will not impact and we should be able to do more to think about how local business enterprises can flourish. they will not receive a discount if it would cause them to lose a particular bit. i am very committed to working with the community. i know that the supervisor is looking at this to figure out what we can do to streamline our process and making sure we can get what we want from

disadvantaged communities in order to be competitive in the initial process, of which is a long-term perspective. with that, colleagues, i very much appreciate your support. supervisor kim: i wanted to briefly thank the author of this ordinance today. both for your flexibility and patients. i am actually looking forward to seeing the outcome over the next few years. i thought that it would be evaluated as we went along. but the changes to the amendments, hopefully we will be minimally impacting the ability to retain contracts here in the city. i would be more than happy to work with the supervisors' committee to see how we can work

with local businesses and disadvantaged communities that are able to benefit from city contracts here in san francisco. a think it is important. particularly along with philosophical values here, that type of work with our local taxpayer dollar. supervisor chu: colleagues, we have a motion to send the item forward. as amended, without objection. thank you. are there any other items before us? >> [inaudible] supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned.

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting.

you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you

know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows

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if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, >> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account. everyone is welcome, even if you

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supervisor chu: welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. i am joined by supervisor avalos, supervisor kim, supervisor cohen, and supervisor wiener. any announcements today?