deputy clerk. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness. yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the fulfillment of the words of the lord jesus christ in matthew, chapter 24 and 14. he said the gospel would be preached in all the world as a witness, and then the end will come. nothing happened, but something did happen. i am really wondering if this is sufficient to keep coming up here. this may be my last time.

i have just with five seconds saying that, did i not? last week, we learned about the best talk show host in the family radio. the reason why that is the truth is because it is the only radio station that reads the word of god with no comment. jesus said, "judge not, and be not judged." it will be measured back to you again. cast out the demon in your own eyes. if i was like the sheriff, and by the way, i think sure of mercury me ought to sit at his feet and learn from him -- if i had a fraudulent birth certificate, i would have to

cast out the beam in my own eye. we have not had a president. that is a felony. he ought to be arrested. i hope the next one does not wind up dead, and the sheriff will not wind up dead, or the guy who wrote "the abomination." president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello, everyone. i live in san francisco. i want to thank you very much, supervisor, for entering the disease awareness month resolution into the record. i really appreciate it. thank you for acknowledging my work over the last several years. we caught somebody here at city

hall with lyme disease. that is a real accomplishment. that shows that the reason we do this is to help people who find out they may have the disease. in my case, it was the same story. i did not know i had it for 25 years. it was someone in virginia, online, who told me i had mine disease. i typed back, "what is this?" i had been written in 1981, and a health clinic had said the tech would take it out. i am one of the few people who knows they have been bitten by a tick. they are small. they are as small as poppyseed out there. they are everywhere now. birds are carrying them. animals carry them. it is an opportunity for people to learn that something as small as a poppyseed might be turning

their health upside-down. early symptoms include a rash, flu symptoms, numbness, fatigue, pain. developing symptoms are more severe throughout the whole body. people who are sick need to see a doctor. a recent buy it needs to be treated with appropriate antibiotics. we have eight people in san francisco who have contracted it already in the city. we have it's spreading all over the bay area. in parts of men casino -- mendocino -- president chiu: thank you very much. >> ladies and gentlemen, i am torn between things.

it is a serious issue here. i am not going to sing. i got your attention. i am here to say i happen sharing everybody -- i have been cheering everybody. african americans in san francisco are in a state of emergency. we have been for many years. i get tired of all these years. way before you were even here. recently, because of the out migration reports -- there will be a big meeting on thursday about that. who is in control in san francisco? i would like to know. hmm department heads do not know what is going on. -- department heads to not know what is going on. particularly with the african

american out migration. i can say, and tired of being sick and tired of going through it. i still want to know, ♪ who is in control right here in san francisco ♪ ♪ people do not want me all up in your place writ -- all up in your place ace was involved in a lot of conspiracy what is going down? blacks are leaving town i want to talk to governor jerry brown ♪ president chiu: thank you.

next speaker. are there any members of the public who wish to speak in public comment? please lineup. >> my name is larry. i want to be called juicy world peace g-mail. harvey milk, i went to the day historic society and spent two hours there this morning. harvey milk was killed by a policeman. now i hear about brother josiah who ran in 1961. we have so much history here. i tell you to go up there and see that. it is historic. there is a lot of black history, talking about who we are as a people.

josiah said he was in the army in 1942. i am here to give a shout out to the president and the mayor. the president has given us gay marriage. i realize that a lot of us did not come from marriage families. my marijuana people do not like president obama because of the marijuana. it is between the marijuana people and the church people. medical marijuana and same gender marriages. we need more marriage and death in this country. today, they have called for more world peace in san francisco. that is what they said. this board has got to do that. when it was just irish and italian, a gay man came out of europe. mr. president, we need a new and great president. it is time to make san francisco for all people.

we have 200,000 people in this country -- aarp reported that. president chiu: to any other members of the public was to speak in general public comment? general public, it is closed. please read the adoption cotter. >> items 30-34 are being considered for immediate adoption and will be enacted upon with a single roll call vote. president chiu: would anyone like to sever any of these items? roll call vote. aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor wiener: aye.

supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor chu: -- supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: those resolutions are approved. could you please read the in memoriams? >> on behalf of supervisor kim: 4 sylvia corpus. president chiu: is there any more business in front of the body? >> that concludes our business for today. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the regular meeting of the government audit an oversight committee. i am the chair of this committee. i would like to thank our clerk and the sfgtv staff covering

this meeting. do we have any announcements? >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items act upon today will appear on the supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> can you call item number one? >> ordinance amending the business and tax code. >> we have a few people who will be speaking on this matter. i want to make a few comments. this is something that i have sponsored with a number of co- sponsors. this bill creates jobs and supports our small business community. we have done a lot here in city hall in terms of job creation over the last year and a half. we have not done much in the way

of small businesses. i believe this is changing here in city hall. this legislation is a big step in that direction. this will allow small-business this with a payroll under $500,000 to expand their peril of to $250,000 a year. -- their payroll up to $250,000 a year. it extends through fiscal year 20 -- calendar year 2015. this will create hundreds of jobs for san francisco residence. the notion of underemployment, i am sure many in this room and watching know a lot of friends, former colleagues, that are currently working, but may be working less hours and making less wages. hopefully, this will also fuel our economic recovery and continued to do that in san

francisco. we currently have a 7.4% unemployment rate in the city. that is dropping. this is time to accelerate it. before turning over to the speakers, supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you for allowing me to sit in on this item. i want to thank supervisor farrell. this is something we have worked with his office on for quite some time. we have had many discussions in the last few years about the pros and cons of the tax cut. i know there are very strong opinions on either side of that issue. from my perspective, the reason why i am supportive of this item is it is an issue of fairness. i think that if tax breaks are going to be provided to certain

companies, certain industries, i think it is important for us to also do something for the small business, which is the one that is the real economic engine that makes this economy work. the vast majority of jobs are created by small businesses. it is especially the case that small-business is have a unique commitment to job creation in specific neighborhoods. what i have seen in my district, and whether it is the mission, is that when the small business owners in those neighborhoods higher, they hire people from the local neighborhood. it is not just about creating opportunities for them to hire new people. it is also to deal with the issue of underemployment.

what this legislation does in addition to allowing them to raise the payroll by hiring new people, it also allows these businesses that might be on the fence about giving an employee more hours to work, it allows them, incentivizes them to actually give that complete the additional hours. it is not just unemployment, it is under employment, that is a big concern. i appreciate the approach that supervisor farrell has done because it reflects the reality of what is happening in these communities. the numbers we have seen in terms of the numbers of businesses we have the neighborhoods like the mission, the vast majority of businesses in that neighborhood have anywhere from five to 20 employees. these are the kinds of businesses that this legislation is targeting and trying to help. the other thing that was important for us was to make sure that we also recognize that

it is important to reward businesses that are following the spirit of the laws around the treatment of workers. i am appreciative that the supervisor was willing to work with us, which is also interested in helping small businesses, to include language that insures an order to benefit from this tax break, there can be no finding of misconduct by the office of labor standards. i think that is a very good thing because we want to promote people following the rules and playing by rules. the vast majority of businesses do that. we want to reward those. i am very proud to support this piece of legislation. colleagues, i look forward to your support. thank you to everyone who has

worked on this. >> i'd just wanted to make a couple of introductory comments on this as well. reforming their payroll tax is something i have been working on since my days on the small business commission. i want to sink the small business leaders that are here. we all know that we have a tax system that is not only a disincentive for hiring, but has disproportionately impacted our small business community. over the past half year, working closely with our city economist, and our treasury's office, we have been engaged in a conversation around comprehensive business tax reform so that we figure out a proposal to replace wholesale the payroll tax that we have. i do hope we will be able to move forward in the coming weeks

to work on a proposal that we can put on the november ballot. i want to thank members of the business community who have been working on this. this legislation we have in front of us today is important to move forward because of our -- are small businesses need all the help they can get. we do not have time to waste. >supervisor farrell: we did sped a lot of hours together, working with a lot of the neighborhood merchants. i think they were very valuable in terms of the template and what we did with this legislation today. -- input and what we did with this legislation today. >> good afternoon.

i will give a very brief overview of our report. if you have questions, now or later, i can respond to them. we did look at this program. i am not going to summarize it unless you want me to, but it would provide -- based on the first year perrot. we estimated -- payroll. we estimated that the reduction in revenue to the city would be about $2 million per year. we raised a couple of policy considerations. one is it would apply to any increase in payroll, not just new hires. one of the second issues we raised was that as a business

expense -- expands, we continue to apply to them. we do consider this to be a policy matter. supervisor farrell: questions? thank you. much appreciated. i asked our city chief economist to come up. i think one of the things we should -- i should think you personally. if you have any comments or the one thing i do want to ask, we talk about $2 million from harvey's office, we also talk about the job creation. if you could address that. >> our office reviews all legislation introduced at the board for material economic impact. as the work on this item, we

determined that it would not meet our threshold likely. because i did work would supervisor farrell, i would be happy to offer with the drop in tax might be. we had provided the estimate to the budget analyst and we did despite modeling what this legislation would have cost in 2010 -- we did it based on what this would have cost in 2010. we are more in an economic recovery and i would expect the cost of the policy to go up. $2 million per year is a reasonable estimate. in terms of the job creation, payroll taxes increased to the cost of labor. it reduces their affected cost of labor and incentives for job creation.

the chief question when designing a payroll tax cut is the tax cut sufficiently designed to minimize the amount of forgone revenue that is spent on payroll and job growth. i do think this policy measure is carefully tailored in three ways that makes the cost per job lower than a straight payroll tax cut. first of all, it is a payroll tax reduction only for net new pay row. it is an incentive for businesses to add payroll and at employment or hours or salaries. it does not provide incentives to businesses that are contracting in the city. secondly, by focusing on small businesses, businesses with less than $500,000, that is a broad range of businesses in the city. with estimated that to 30,000 businesses. -- we have estimated that to

30,000 businesses. the fact that the new peril is capped a $250,000 in one year. it does mean that you are eliminating the risk of subsidizing a business. you are limiting their exposure to any particular growing business to $250,000. on that basis, i would estimate the cost per job is somewhere between $6,500 and about $10,000 a job. that would mean the job creation you could expect is somewhere between 150,200 50,000 job -- $150,000 and $250,000 jobs. >> we normally say if it is less than $10 million a year, that is not material for the purpose of our reporting. supervisor farrell: next

speaker. one of the offices we worked with was the tax collector to make sure we insure that this was a relatively small piece of legislation that could be implemented easy. thank you for being here. >> good afternoon. i do want to thank the supervisors for their willingness to work with our office. it will be straightforward for us to implement. this exclusion would be granted for all qualifying businesses that make a timely filing of their payroll expense tax returns. what is going to be helpful is this is gone to be automated as part of our existing tax return process. it does not require us to collect and track any additional pieces of data. that is why our costs were relatively limited.

we've started the conversations with the office of labor standards enforcement as to how we will incorporate the recent amendment to make sure that those businesses that have of finding against them for violating wage laws are not included. it is going to be a process very similar to how we handle other exclusions. i am happy to answer any questions. supervisor farrell: questions? thank you. thank you for your work on this. last, we have the small business commission, office of small business. >> good afternoon. i am the director of the office of small business. this year's small-business weak theme was saluting the heroes of our economy. -- small business week the

muzzling the heroes of economy. the commission heard reviews of -- the amendments you have proposed fall in line with what the commission would support. it would very much support what you were wanting to accomplish with that. the commission had the same similar findings as what was noted by supervisor campos in terms of this getting to our small neighborhood businesses and helping not only had with the underemployment, but also with job growth. just want to express our appreciation and responding to the need that -- when we have had the enterprise tax credits, we have heard from businesses, how come is not in our area? when we do sector based tax credits, businesses have also

said, why not our sector? this will cover a broad range. we are very much appreciative, thank you. supervisor farrell: thank you. colleagues, any other comments? we would like to open it up to public comment. still free to step forward and line up over here. i see a number of colleagues here from our small business community. everyone will have two minutes. >> thank you. thank you for introducing this. we truly appreciate it. the other part that is not looked at is when more folks are hired and folks are making more money, they will be in the community's spending more money. that comes back in a different way. there are also -- there are

other effects that are helpful in many aspects. i want to address supervisor farrell. you reached out and said, how can we do this? can you work with us? that was a wonderful way to do this. that way you got some input from small-business. the only feedback i got that was not 100% for this, what happens in november? what happens if things change in the tax structure? if you do not do something, who knows what is going to happen? we do not truly know what is going to happen. there is not a reason. just push forward, let's move it forward. again, i wanted thank you very much for