why don't we go to our adoption calendar. >> items 49 through 53 are considered for immediate and unanimous adoption. single roll call vote will approve these items. if they member requests, it can be severed. item 49. roll-call vote on 5353. -- 50 through 53. supervisor wiener: could i also separate 50? >> supervisor cohen, aye, kim, aye. mar, aye.

olague, aye. avalos, aye. campos, aye. chiu, aye. chu, aye. there are 10 ayes. president chiu: item 49. >>ofsupervisor campos: in thinking about the need to affirm our commitment to keeping st. luke's hospital open and making sure it remains a viable hospital, it involves a number of things. there is a lot of work that needs to be done with respect to the project before us and we look forward to hearing developments on that and hopefully progress has been made. to the extent there is still some uncertainty around that

development, i think it is important for us to make sure all options are explored. having a commitment to maintaining st. luke's opened involves considering other options that go beyond the proposal before us. it is important to make sure that we are considering all options with respect to st. luke's and it is important to make sure all stakeholders including members of the city family are part of the discussion but we're involving community members in that discussion. to be able to ensure there is a long-term viable hospital that we need to make sure we do that work now. thank you. i want to thank my colleagues for their co sponsorship. president chiu: do we need a roll-call vote on this item? without objection, same house, same call.

item 50. >> calling on the department of public health to provide medically necessary transition related care for transgendered people and remove exclusions under the health care security ordinance. supervisor wiener: thank you. i will not repeat the comments i made before and during combinations. this resolution -- i will not say it is the first step because the first step was the committee process that got us to this port -- to this point. it is important to go on record encouraging and making sure this stays on track and expressing our support of what the page is doing. this did come up during public comment relating to costs, suppose that cost concerns. what it comes to access to health care, while we all believe in cost control and making sure we're delivering health care in a cost-effective manner, i do not think that

cost is a reason or legitimate rationale to exclude people from access to health care. we can tell all sorts of people that we do not want to treat you for this or that or we will exclude this group for that group because it is too expensive and that could reduce costs but it would be incredibly unfair and would undermine our commitment to universal health care in the city and country. i want to note to that the same arguments were made when san francisco adopted senator leno's ordinance. the costs have been dramatically lower than the cost estimates provided at the time. i think the argument is a red herring and fundamentally, this is about equal treatment and access to health care and i ask for your support. president chiu: can we do this without a roll-call?

same house, same call? without objection. this resolution is adopted. i understand that -- there are a couple of imperative items. item 54. >> we have to imperative items. the first as offered by supervisor mar, commanding -- commending toy boat and declaring toy boat dessert cafe day. and a resolution declaring july 24-27 alpha kappa alpha week. president chiu: is there is second to the motion? seconded by supervisor avalos. is there any comment on this

imperative item which has the requisite commendatory fighting as well as the brown act finding. can we take this same house, same call? without objection -- there is public comment on the toy boat resolution? >> imperative agenda and it seems to me there is an awful lot of imperative stuff that needs to be addressed versus this particular item. the occ has covered up my abuse. there are no doctors and people -- doctors need to know it is their obligation. president chiu: if you could keep your comments focused on the resolution commending the toy boat cafe. >> we need more imperative agenda on the imperative agenda.

president chiu: are there any members that wish to speak? and, with this -- comment with this resolution? seeing none, public comment is closed. without objection, this is adopted. and do have anything you'd like to add? >supervisor avalos: i will read a short resolution. declaring july 20-july 27 at the cal baht -- alpha kappa alpha week. it was established over 100 years ago by a group of students dedicated to the call the they don't -- cultivation of individuals seeking to improve the lives of communities across this country and whereas this story has to matter 60,000 members worldwide who in furtherance of their vision of service to all humankind have

contributed over 1.3 million hours of service to communities in need and have played an important role in developing and guiding young woman through higher education and continuing to engage this woman as they progress through their lives and contribute to their communities and whereas at the cabot -- alpha kappa alpha sorority has an international conference held this week and has recognized this city as the golden gateway to external service using san francisco as a backdrop as they challenge their members to rise to new levels of leadership and service, be it resolved that the san francisco board of supervisors recognize aflac called the alpha -- alpha kappa alpha and commence their selection of san francisco as the setting to grow and grow these values and therefore be it further resolved that the san

francisco board of supervisors declared july 24 through july 27 . this is co-sponsored by supervisor malia cohen. president chiu: supervisor has made a resolution. is there a second? do you have additional comments? supervisor cohen: i want to say thank you to supervisor avalos for bringing this forward and i would like to extend a greeting to the lovely ladies of aka, welcoming them to our great city. president to i would like to be added as a co-sponsor. is there any public comment? >> there is. i would like to remind you that i was visiting [unintelligible]

and i noticed a lot of black women in town. last time i seen one he was from kentucky. when they said rosa parks and coretta martin was aka -- i was so happy they were here. they're celebrating 108 years. i was pink before britney spears and the aka is green, too. [unintelligible] our pink healthy inside, that goes togther. go down there and say something nice to these beautiful woman

in pink and green. the woman on the building -- it was a sign during the gold rush, there was no woman here. there were 90,000 men and two years later there were 45,000. that is when san francisco became politics and theater. the w hotels [unintelligible] that has they took the rainbow flags down this time. women should always have the right to live here with their family. i am so glad that we had this many, 10,000 black women and the deltas was always there for aids. ak is here to help the woman in the south get through this aids crisis. thank you for being in the city. president chiu: are there -- is

there other public comment? >> it is brilliant to celebrate people of all races or all sexual orientation. it is also the education that makes the difference, always the education. there are now elected officials in the united states who have overcome difficulties. we have one state now that has 54% of its money going toward education. education is the means by which we can protect people. protection is our obligation. as a right. i should be able to be free. i should be able to housed. i should be able to have lots of things. when you travel people because of their color or because of their sexual orientation, it is a crime against the city and the

humanity. i beg you to help me, a victim of persecution based on these things. i think black is beautiful, it is time to celebrate every culture and every race and every sexual orientation and have equality and justice in the city. please include us all. president chiu: thank you. >> we need to include people in being able to be part of this country. i have ideas to make that happen. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i have driven all the way up from san jose. is there any way you could cut me some slack to do the general public comment? president chiu: i am sorry. if you wish to make public comment related to this item you are more than welcome to do that.

thank you. are there other members of the public who wish to speak on this resolution? public comment is closed. can we adopt this resolution same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. i think you called the business tax items? >> items 20 and 21 are before the board for consideration. president chiu: why don't we go back to items 20 and 21. supervisor avalos: thank you. the suspense was killing me getting to this point today. we had something written but it did not quite have every dot and period. thanks to the tax team for your incredible work in bringing this together today. this is renewing our business tax in san francisco.

i would call it a watershed moment that we are moving from a payroll tax to a gross receipts tax. something that has been contemplated for many years, something i have been eagerly working on for many years as well. i met david chiu in 1997 when he was a small business commissioner. we have a tax system right now that currently taxes but the number of employees in company might have and how much they make. and clearly that type of tax could be a disincentive for is a disincentive on hiring new workers in our economy. the gross receipts tax will open the door to a fair tax system that is going to tax revenue instead of a number of workers

we have. the measure we have, we have an agreement with the mayor's office. i have introduced a measure with fellow colleagues. supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor campos, and supervisor olague. most of us have co-sponsored. i want to thank you for your co- sponsorship. we have an amendment that would raise revenue in new revenue coming from business registration fees that will be indexed to the consumer price index and i will -- i am excited about revenue generating measure that was the impetus for coming forward with a second measure in the hopes we could come together as a city and we have just that based on the breadth of interest. not only changing the payroll tax by bringing in new revenue

that can meet our needs for infrastructure, for services, making sure as our economy is growing that we can meet the increased demand in our city to be able to make sure that we are reaching workers, getting them to work, making sure they have services for education, parks, or for making sure the roads are in good repair. we will have a process of determining how we would determine new revenue. the mayor has concerns. he has -- about what we would use new revenue for. paving our streets is a big part of it. that is a concern in my district trade we can come to an agreement about that. this measure has a lot of great work that was done by the comptroller's office. they worked in a dynamic process with business groups in san francisco.

we have a schedule of six different business sectors that are going to be addressed in this measure and there process was dynamic and iterative. businesses had a lot of input about how they would be able to adjust the rates that would apply to them. it is significant way and have made adjustments on our measures last week. we will have mr. rosenfield back me up on some of the changes, i have a list of the main changes we have had. these include rate reductions for retailers, wholesalers, and other services. real estate administrative offices, especially when it comes to retail wholesalers and neighborhood retailers. we are seeing their rates will be a lot fairer than what was proposed and that takes into account a lot of the effort

around business and retail selling products unnecessarily high profit margins in that sector. we have rate increases for information, restaurants, manufacturing, financial services, business services, and insurance, that is part of the amendment. we have an inclusion of consumer price index adjustment for small businesses at the exemption level. this measure but i am excited about is it exempts small businesses that have revenue at $1 million of that would be applying cpi so elaris that -- so their prices as our economy grows and making sure we are including businesses in that exemption as our economy grows. we have changes to their registration fees and revenue targets. $25.50 million is a revenue target with cpi. a new and lower registration fee for retailers and wholesalers which i believe is a fair -- we're looking at their part --

profit margins. the inclusion of the consumer price adjustment on registration fees, i will pass this onto ben rosenfield to talk about the adjustments to this measure. i want to thank the community labor coalition that came together to support the revenue generating measure that we have before us. i want to thank the business groups in san francisco and the mayor's office for the great work of bringing them together and bringing the adjustments we proposed to this measure that has gained their acceptance and work in a flexible way that we can move forward that will raise revenue in the city. a want to thank you for your flexibility. i want to thank jobs with justice, san francisco rising, the council of community housing organizations. this measure will complementary

-- be complementary with our housing trust fund. part of the revenue that will be generated will be looking at ensuring we have a steady stream of funding for the housing trust fund. i want to thank supervisor or president david chiu for his work on this. our first discussion has -- as supervisors, changing the business tax structure came after the 2009 budget and we worked together with the controllers and mayor's office at how we would get this done. there was a lot of doubt we would be able to come up with that agreement and i think that is based on the great work and the collaboration in city hall that we were able to come to this agreement here today and colleagues, i will make a motion to table my item and to move this amendment as a whole and that would trigger an automatic continuance to next week to hear this item. i am proud and honored to

introduce this and i want to thank my co-sponsors, most of whom have come on board with this measure, supervisor kim, supervisor olague, supervisor mar 4 co-sponsors of of this measure as well. this is a great way to grow the economy and make sure we are meeting our need for government services to support the economy as well. supervisor mar: did you what the controller to speak before we turn it over to other colleagues? >supervisor avalos: that would be great. if you want to share the things that we have missed. >> good afternoon. supervisor avalos touched on the key points in the amendment that is before you. changes to the gross receipts tax rates and the changes to the

registration fees and revenue targets. there are more technical amendments that do a number of things. the measure now to the men that contains an annual reporting requirement for a five-year period from the treasure and city economist running implementation. secondly, there is further clarification of what constitutes non-taxable receipts for certain types of financial service income. third, there is further clarification of treatment of past [unintelligible] for purposes of the tax. there are final adjustments to the phase in and phase out formulas in the legislation. lastly, this minor language and definition changes throughout the ordinances. that provides a high-level summary of the amendment that is before you. president chiu: thank you. i want to join supervisor avalos

and mayor lee in thanking all the stakeholders that have come together for this business tax reform that has been literally a decade in the making. the reform that will incent job creation and economic development. we did meet in 2006 working together for a -- to think about how we would bring about reform like this. this is at a time when i served on our small business commission and as we knell for the better part of the last decade, the business community has asked us to reform the tax system that is only in the san francisco system that asks 10% of our businesses to shoulder the burden of this particular tax. this is an item that i campaigned on in 2008. i want to thank the comptroller's office in 2010 for working with me to promote an initial cut at business tax reform and appreciate the work

that has been done. it has been six months since we asked our city economist and your staff to work with us to go through countless iterations of what we have arrived at. hundreds of meetings with the business community. in addition to thanking the stakeholders that supervisor avalos had thanked from the progress of revenue coalition. i want to thank the various leaders within the business community and the representatives of dozens and dozens and dozens of companies that have worked with us to really find to and the legislation that we have in front of us and i want to thank everyone for keeping their eye on the prize. i know there are some among us who would have preferred less revenue to be in this measure. others would have preferred more. i want to thank all sides to join together on the reform measure that i think is a compromise that reflects the best sense of that work. and i appreciate that the four

revenue measures will be consolidated into one measure. i ask for support, particularly in reflection of the work that this represents over truly a decade of discussions and ask for your support. supervisor kim: but want to thank the time to thank -- i want to take the time to thank president to and the mayor's office to -- chiu anmdd the mayor's office for working together. many of us have been talking about this for years. i remember when i first started hearing about this issue in 2003. in that mayoral campaign. the conversation about how we tax our businesses, ask the businesses to invest back in the city and whether payroll tax is the best way to do that. receipts is a much better and

stronger model in terms of as a method of asking our businesses to invest back in the city. we will be generating revenue from this measure. there are a number of reasons that justify that. our need for infrastructure, whether it is open space where schools or public safety and supporting our small businesses as well. we're hoping that revenue will go toward building a much stronger sense francisco. the housing trust fund and gross receipts tax measure are peas in a pot and i see them as being key pieces in living together. we will have a wide coalition supporting both of these measures and i am excited and proud to be campaigning for these measures. $13 million of this gross receipts tax will be going toward affordable housing and also homeownership loans for families making 120% of ami and

below. the housing trust fund was [unintelligible] in order to gain support for additional revenue for affordable housing and that will be carried through by the gross receipts tax measure. these measures and the rec and park bond complete its strong balance for san francisco and i hope our city will pass all three. thank you. supervisor campos: i do want to thank the members of this board who have been working on this for quite some time. in particular, president chiu and supervisor avalos and mayor lee. i want to thank the controller who has spent a lot of time with his staff. i think is a positive thing whenever the city elected family

to use the term that mayor lee uses from time to time, comes together. as i indicated in the prior item involving affordable housing trust fund, i certainly do not want to be in a position where we let the perfect be the enemy of the dead. but i do believe that we have to ask certain questions whenever a proposal of this magnitude comes forward. this is probably one of the most important votes will have. as a board of supervisors. there are a couple of questions that raise questions for me. in terms of process, it is a good idea any time a vote of this magnitude takes placethis o that we have of awful and in- depth analysis by the budget and legislative analysts. i think that we have always benefited from this