to the city in that they could reach populations others cannot reach, but they do not have the resources to a absorb these cuts. they do not have the resources to raise bonds. they are in an even more difficult position of addressing these costs, and i just need to say a few things. to me this comes down to a question of values. when you want a service, and you consider that a value, and the cost goes up, you pay for it, yet our sector is increasingly ask to deal with it, and yet i hope we address this issue and deal with it and that is

collectively on the city to address as very important issue. this budget committee has miraculously found a efficiencies that could easily support the increases being put forward here and the recommendations being made. the last point i want to make is that i hope whatever comes out of this process is not just made this year, because this happens every single year. this is not just a one time issue of our organizations are dealing with. we deal with this every single year. regarding funding to nonprofit, there is nothing flat about the funding our organizations have received, and i am asking you to take the time to make something happen so we can deliver services to residents of this city and need. >> thank you. goonex>> today i am here to talt

being a nonprofit worker and our relationship to try to get a wage increase. but i want to say i began seven years ago in 2005 here in the community clinic where i first started. wages were something a lot of us talked about, feeling it is hard living in the city. a lot of my co-workers talked about moving from different parts of the cities to see if the rents can be lower. staying in the city is important. i am really touched a lot of you showed on and on to the point is actually a board session, because i thought it was only

going to be a few of you, and i really appreciate that you showed up, so the living costs have really gone up over the years. it is getting really hard to make it, and what i would ask, we know that the cost of living is going up, but the most direct way to help us out is to make sure our wages can keep going up as much as possible. the main players we talk about where it will have an impact is to make sure it goes into wages as much as possible, and know that we are going to be there along the way to help you out. i know it is not easy.

i have been here every year for the past seven years making sure we do not cut in wages. good thank you. >> my name is larry bradshaw. i worked on a daily basis with nonprofits, and i have come to appreciate the care they provide. i got my start in high school, where my classmates and i it organized a strike in the cafeteria and asked them not to serve what does and grapes. they did not work directly for the contractors. they worked with the growers, so they could say, we are not responsible for poverty wages. we are not responsible for lack of benefits, and the growers could say, we are not to blame.

both could point their finger, and both could avoid responsibility. this is a pattern i would see throughout my career as a work as a janitor he argued both would not take responsibilities for the wages and benefits. the same thing when i worked as a paramedic in oakland. the employer claims they are not our real employer, and the contractor claims a lack of money, and i see the same situation played out here as a non-profit, and i am going to challenge the board, you cannot hide behind legal artifice but you're not the employer. you control the wages of these workers. and we will partner with you to fund this cost of living increase for workers. and we can start with negotiations that have been continuing to continue to give a

tax break to the wealthiest corporations. let's tax the 1% and give the workers what they need. we are going to be rallying around this event with the theme of less to build the city we need. we encourage everyone to join us. >> this is mr. barkley. goowe volunteer at hospitality house. and we have seen quite a few of assessethe best quit because thd no longer afford to work for the wages they were getting. there was one social worker -- i am not the only disabled person,

but i have arthritis in my back, and when i get my procedures done, i am stuck in bed for a couple days, and we had one of the case managers would come over and make sure mr. barkley would get walked. i read an article yesterday, how our politicians old guard raises, but you cannot afford cost of living increase for nonprofits. goo>> thank you. next speaker. 5512 thank you for cosponsoring this clearly historic hearing i was here when the settlement

went john with a fill the 52 corporations. they sued the city, and only 10% of businesses are paying taxes in san francisco, which is astonishing. it is the most irrational tax policy of for a pure ego -- the most irrational tax policy ever. we think there are 52 guys downtown -- pies downtown, that it is time to step up and helped the city. they are not paying. there is $44 million they would be paying, and that would more than cover the cost we are discussing, and i think the

conversation has been legitimate about how is it on the private side they have these escalators but on the private side they do not. there is speculation about why that is. perhaps it is because they are doing so-called charity work and their work is not valued in the same way. i do not know if that is true, but i think we need to standardize the way we view nonprofits and recognize they have health care costs and recognize the 52 corporations are getting off scot-free, and we have 52 pyres people could been eating from. it is time to hold these institutions accountable. one more year is not acceptably accurate and -- is not acceptable.

>> my name is connie ford, and i am done treasurer of the other union. we are also here to support this historic event of you calling us together to talk about who we are and our needs. i do not have to talk about it, because people have done it eloquently. i want to zero in my attention to the workers are the work in these nonprofits. these are the working class of san francisco. we often talk about her parent'' leaving, african-american migration out of the city. these are the workers we need to keep in san francisco, who provide internet personal services that make san francisco who it is today. it is these workers we have to support, and we are asking you

to support the values of our city. these are the people who do the work every day to take care of our homeless, are aids patients, are mentally ill folks, are drug-addicted people. these are the people who make san francisco what it is today, and these are the people who deserve respect from each and every one of you. we want a little fairness. we want to be a line on your budget. did you know there is not a line on your budget that talks about this? we have to go to all the departments to have it calculated. we want a line that says these are nonprofit workers, and we need a cost of doing business so not only workers can get a raise, and we want you to

consider that. we want to work together and make a difference this year. good >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am here working, and i want to thank you for a listening to what we have to say. our workers are going to talk about the work they do in the outreach program. i know you get calls from your neighbors. they are concerned about the elderly in their streets. the homeless outreach seaman and

now is local, the people who staff the drop-in centers can find some support, move on with their lives, get a job, and re- enter the work world, and they are the working poor. some of our folks in the nonprofits are literally one paycheck from being homeless themselves. we have employees paid what our employers are able to pay them. the respect and value their work, but they are paying what they can afford to, given the stresses they are under, so we

are asking for an additional support. i know there is a line item in there. please support us. let's give folks a living wage and dakota to support these valuable services, and i want to thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. good >> good afternoon, supervisors. we have been providing mental health services to this community for 52 years with agencies serving about 1600 people a year, so i know people are very frustrated, and you have heard that. we know you are stretch. so are we, but we are not helpless. there are couple of practical suggestions i just ask you to

consider. one is it would be great for the city to adopt a cost of doing this as a policy -- doing business policy. did it starts with your rfps. you issue a request for proposals, and you asked for an annual budget, and i would ask the author -- i would suggest asking for a five-year budget or a three-year budget would do two things. it would let you know what our costs are going to be. and we happen to know a lot about this. we spend a lot of time trying to figure out how we are going to cover these costs, some merely asking us would go a long way.

it then becomes a structural adjustment. if we ask the question and give the answer, we can actually have a real two-year budget in the financial plan, and i would love to see you to the 3% increases but match it with another 3% and have a 6% budget for fiscal year to 13 -- fiscal year 2013. a two-year budget divided in half as a 4.5 increase in two years. >> thank you. [list of names] if you have heard your name, please line up in the center aisle. if you love not commoplease wair

turn a. >> probably a lot of you know about what we do. we are not only a shelter, but we offer a crisis hot line, his family and individual therapy, and many other nonprofits as west us government programs are really depended on our services, so the police department, a juvenile probation, schools, other not for profits, parents, as well as community organizations common they rely on our services, so the biggest point now i need to make is that if we are not here, chrisises are still going to happen, so it

is either that you give us the money we need or you are going to have more kids in the foster system that is going to cost more money in the long run. you are going to have more kids in abusive homes. you are going to have more kids in the hospital. good we are a bargain. your costs are going to increase more in the long run >> i am active in my union. good i am also graduate student.

i would love to tell you about the service me and my co-workers provide and how much of the impact of diminish of their quality hasn'. i would also like to talk about the creative sources of funding and may or may not be able to get what we need. i am going to make an appeal to the legacy of my active as parents who moved to san francisco from the midwest because san francisco was known as the city of the revolutionary ideas, compassion and known in disk -- unknown in this country. let me ask you a question. what is value? since the city has made the

decision these services are of value every year with a budget restorations and budget cuts, but we are continuously funded. many services are no longer with us including a community nearest my heart. what i would like to say is there are still enough services around that they make a difference and will hopefully be funded into the future. i would like to have the board, and i thank you for your time, to look at us and other members. good >> thank you. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am the executive director of catholic charities, and i am very appreciative of your taking the time to have this hearing

today. we are your partners in service of the poor and the vulnerable and marginalized, and i am here to really just personally it when my voice as an advocate on behalf of the people we serve, and we are seeing a compassionate response to our request for what i would describe as a true partnership, and i will give you an example. we partner with the city and county in a variety of ways. one way is we provide incredible services to those suffering from disabling hiv and aids. we run about six different programs that serve the community. a decade or so ago the funding we received was close to the cost of providing those services. this year and next year the gap

is going to be approximately $1 million. each year that gap is increasing and our ability to resolve is being decrease. we are only going to solve this agency by agency, and only solution we will have is to begin closing programs, and unfortunately, the resources we received are not totally fungible, so if i have six programs, i cannot close one and take the money from it to fund the other five. i have to close six to be able to balance the budget, and that does not make sense or serve our community. i jotted down some of the things we have been doing over the last

several years to try and keep top. every year we are trying to raise more private donations. we know how difficult that can be. we have increased copays in health insurance. we have cut our pay times. we have moved our programs to lower our rent costs, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, and these are the kinds of things we are continuously during. we want to be your partners with a respectful dialogue about how we solve this problem. good thank you very much. by jim paulsen. i am the executive director of the san francisco labor council, and we have over 100 different unions in the public and private sector, and we represent workers wastith sciu,

and i did not realize the hearing was today until i was reading some of my e-mails and talking to a couple of representatives, but i want to thank you for having this hearing. one thing i did find out is it has been five years since there has been increases in nonprofits. i understand budgetary increases, but it is these nonprofits that are being strained at the seams, so i am asking that there are line items of are going to be putin to rectify what sounds like a breaking point on a lot of nonprofits. goowe have got to take care of e community. good >> i am a clinical case manager.

>> i am the director of juvenile justice services at the center for criminal justice, a nonprofit organization based in san francisco wo. we have provided services since 1985, some of which have become models for the nation. this city has a proud history of community services provision through non-profit providers. nonprofit has taken on responsibility for more city services and now is an effective a lot of them rely on. san francisco have a lowest incarceration rate and has been recognized as a national model. we believe they should eliminate the process.

foundations do not provide ongoing support for provision of services. nonprofit in the city operates without adequate salaries or benefits for staff and without a pension options, yet we provide so many services the city is responsible for providing, and we carry on ever increasing demand for accountability. all contracts for cities service cover delivery. they should also include 15% overhead cost so that a nonprofit service provider can provide adequate support to its service delivery staff. mandate for the 3% increase. thank you for your time.

>> the next speaker. goo>> i am the founder and director of the safe house. we are one of only five such programs in the entire country. the women who come to us are severely traumatized. most of them have suffered long term incest and drug abuse. many of them have severe mental health diagnoses, and some of them are developmentally disabled. we accepted a woman who had been taken from her home at age 02 because she was being sexually molested. when she age out of the foster system, she came to the safe house. when she got in an argument with another resident, she drew a kitchen knife. our one staff member on duty had to intervene.

she is a survivor. she deserves a raise. we should all remember our federal government spends $2,200,000 every minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the military. we need to remember that all of us, including the city itself, needs to turn up the heat on federal officials to cut the military budget and stops this outrage. we do not want our taxes going to death and destruction and. i want to emphasize the federal military budget is a local

issue. >> thank you. five good afternoon, supervisors, and thank you for having me. i am just an ordinary citizens, but i want to emphasize that the rays would help all of the nonprofits hear their employees more, and they would do the same thing they are doing with more money. good how do they come to work every day? they come to work vico's -- because they love what they are doing. how are you going to raise the money? you