we're the people that are very, very conversant with private entities coming to the city at moscone center and other venues to put up trade shows. we anticipate hopefully this would be the case in america's cup and so far i can say it's been a great disappointment. as we speak, if you go down to the piers right now, there are banners proclaiming the america's cup. we are the signage display union. that is what we do. if you see the banners on moscone, we put them up. we had great difficulty streamlining the process so our contractors can get involve in the project, see the plan and understand. we have had one company that has told us that they were in line for a contract with a construction of what look like in a rendition here, you can go to the slide, the front part of this is kiosks and signage. that company is in alameda.

that business is gone away. we don't know who is going to build it, we don't know who is going to install t. can you give us a streamline clearchannel so we can tell our contractors to how to go forward in the next few months. all of those on the pier, right now we have an interest in our contractors saying who did the work? i don't know. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jackie phlegm. i am the executive director of the [speaker not understood] and i'm here because i am very concerned about the wages, the back wages we've seen in the presentation today. although i'm not surprised. last summer i was here joined by many of my colleagues bringing to attention the fact there was a tone of resistance on behalf of the authority tomorrow present an award plan, instead of them wanting to use good faith language which we knew did you work l i'm pleased

to hear about the plan to address issues, even minimum wages. i do want to remind many ~ everyone here it's about the names and faces of people. these aren't just numbers. they deserve to be paid fairly at the time of work. i'm happy to see the city continuing to monitor the project. identify issues and make plans to address the wage issues from happening again. ~ and i just wanted to note there are successful private projects in the city that have voluntary compliance with city's local hiring ordinance provisions. they're able to meet and exceed their expectations. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. , please. good afternoon, my name is marilyn cain and my husband and i are the owners of wash 1 and

landmark laundry services. we have been providing services for america's cup. we washed every banner and flag before they were shipped to italy. because of america's cup, we hired two more employees and everyone in our group is so proud and honored to be part of such an amazing event. and we thank them for the opportunity to grow our business. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisors, and hello local businesses. i'm actually chris marno and i'm with laundry locker here in the city. we have grown actually to about 36 employees now, triple the size. most of the families in the city are san francisco family. we've been able to give additional dry cleaning and

laundry for them in addition to her company as well. so, we worked closely to actually monitor what items would be cleaned, worked through how we would do deliveries and whatnot. it's very important to me that the business that we do stay competitive in the city and that we are giving local businesses and local city a first opportunity to work with any organization that comes into the city. i'm appreciative we're given this chance, keeping ourselves competitive as an industry. you know, focusing on livable wage. i know there's been a lot of talk about that. we're a dry cleaners, we offer health insurance and 401(k) for our employees. the other thing i want to ask

going forward, any opportunities that can drive more business or drive new employment that we do take advantage of that. thank you. >> thank you. please come forward, next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. james widen, marketing manager for [speaker not understood]. we are obviously a very local company and had a very [speaker not understood]. look forward to working with them, exposure in 2013. we've been working hand in hand with them to do outreach, both international media and tour groups, also national groups to get more travel trade and people to attend the events and add to the experience. in addition to working with them with groups like san francisco travel association and pier 39 to increase the outreach and awareness of the events that are going on, to increase attendance in these events to hopefully help all of these businesses have more

effect by this event. we understand the importance of large events like this, that's why we're happy to be partnering with america's cup to make sure that is good and make sure of the companies that support it. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good morning, supervisors. eddie [speaker not understood] defense project. nonprofit specialize workforce development and community reinvest. a lot of commitments were made with this project, but yet we're still hearing a lot of open-ended answers. what is being done on the construction side? where are the prevailing wages themselves? instead we're finding out there is a lack of data about local employment opportunities available. we are also finding out that there is not enough notification going on of local employment opportunities. the authority indicates why local hiring is key.

local families, mothers and daughters in [speaker not understood], when they are offered there is follow through. that is why your questions today are incredibly important. largely good faith efforts are not simply good enough. [speaker not understood]. that is why again enforcement of local hire policies are actually key that is [speaker not understood] that are brought to cities like this to make sure there is community reinvest. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. josh [speaker not understood]. thank you, supervisor avalos. this is a conversation you kick started in august i think, 201 1. it's like yoga bear, the basketball player, it's deja vu all over again. i think it's great. that's obviously great. what we're focused on is there

was zero compliance for the hundreds of construction jobs, temporary, permanent, no local hire, no prentiss ship, less than minimum wage in some instances. contracts in other jobs. we all lost last time and we can't lose again, supervisors. i appreciate director levitt, you did an amazing job. americas' cup is going to have to pay these penalties. if not, please, mr. levitt, let us know. you built it whackv [speaker not understood]. otherwise we're going to have to make it mandatory. you remember how fun that was, controller and all of us. ~ back i think that's what happened. we had a policy that everyone ignored. it's happening again. it's the same thing. this thing was a deal as of march. it was a year ago. we were all here. it's all the same faces.

it's like one happy family, i guess you might say. but the thing i appreciate is supervisor farrell said what's next. what are we going to do. look, community lost. labor lost, these are all union jobs from the temporary signage that local 510 does with community apprentices, local apprentices, carpenters work, the staging, it's got to be fixed . we've got to see the transparency. the city can do its job with the cdos. i expect we're all going to come together and introduce this legislation in 30 days. bad labor standard, no, thanks very much. >> next speaker, please. >> >> good morning, supervisor, i'm from the [speaker not understood]. hey, look, let's be real. supervisor avalos, when you

started this opportunity, it was an opportunity. i met with a group of young men and women this morning, some 35 folks sitting in the [speaker not understood] warehouse looking at jobs. i don't see one opportunity for those men and women from the bayview, from areas that are low-income. i see a lot of small businesses and, you know what, i applaud that, that's great. but it doesn't seem that every time i pass the estuary and i see the big oil ship or whatever that thing is, sailboat that's not on the water, i ask myself, how could oracle be so close to the community and yet be so far from the community? we have to ask ourselves, you know, yes, this is a great

opportunity. this is something we should all be cherishing as a jewel for our city. but no, we have not done the outreach. no, we have not, you know, pulled in our community, our labor folks. you know, ms. levitt and the folks here have put together a report that is scathing to say the lotv. -- least. i ask these supervisors to take the initiative to do something about this. and i agree with everybody on the end of this. so, we seen happened so, where do we go from here. hopefully it will be a congenial coming of a family and fa that hev includes the whole city. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. before the next speaker, i will call some other names and folks can come up. if your name has already been called and you've spoken, please ignore. also if people want to talk

about the fund-raising side, we have space for that as well. norman pierce, ashe williams. kevin elliott, marcus clark, christine caplan, janet weisberg, manuel flores, lynn fitzpatrick, fernando castillo and owen murphy. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood] with local laborer [speaker not understood]. i'm here to support local wage, local hire. we are all that. more has to be done to make sure that the violations don't happen again. please support that. thank you. ♪ if you were a carpenter and you city had some budget crazy,

would you then them in the workforce right along would you have a budget baby save the workforce through the lienest save it through sorrow would you help it ride along help it for tomorrow and the america's cup went sailing on the san francisco bay i'm thankful for public comment here and that's -- and this is what i got to say calling america's cup budget to ride along to another budget shore we can sail our lives away and be free once more ride, budget, ride upon your mystery budget ship

and i hope you get a lot of very good gifts ride city budget ride upon america's cup mystery budget ship and i hope you get a great wind with a budget lift ride, budget good morning, supervisors. my name is ignacio castillo and i represent the laborerses local 261. and i am here today as a representative of laborers local 261 and also as a member. i represent a lot of folks here in san francisco, over 4,000 members. we'd like to get the opportunity to work on a lot of the work that has been

performed to the america's cup. also, we are willing not only to work with the local businesses, also with the local contractors to help them meet the goals or the requirements of the prevailing wage order, the wages that need to be paid and be half of all of our members which he he a lot of those members are local residents, i'll work with them. we urge you to take the necessary steps to make sure everything works perfect and wages be paid correctly. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. my name is frances patrick and i wanted to clarify. are we talking about one item, item number 45* or item number 4 or both? >> right now we're talking about item number 5.

you have two minutes to speak on whichever one you want right now. i want to speak on both, but i want to speak twice. >> you're welcome to come back. thank you. my name is sunset [speaker not understood], i was on the america's cup before the cup was contested in court. the team would have been a team of athletes and sailors with physical disabilities to compete on bar with no barriers for the america's cup. it would have been a time at this point. perfect. i resigned from the team as executive director in march of 2011 because of the lack of development going on in san francisco, california and the united states of america. following my resignation, i paid the registration fee for

african diaspora maritime. it would have been the first african-american team to register for the america's cup in the 162-year history of the america's cup. that team was rejected by golden gate yacht club. if you've read through the beacon economic impact report, you will realize that they admit the largest variable to their projections is the number of defender aspirant teams. there are no defender aspirant teams. so, we've heard testimony here earlier that there are merchants -- okay. >> next speaker, please. thank you, 33rd. -- mr. chairman. i just want to let you know you heard from local employers. i gave a letter to the clerk. there were a few others who

couldn't come in. i appreciate you including those in the record. >> thank you. appreciate you being here as well. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisor. my name is fernanda castillo. i'm not a business owner. i belong to a nonprofit business [speaker not understood]. this is an opportunity where we all have to check and balances what is going on from the get go of america's cup coming to san francisco. let's also not forget that not only do we capitalize on media, we capitalize on human capital. in many, many ways of resources. the opportunity that this is presented to my little club has reached out globally. and the resources that we use necessarily that we function is

now being broadcast everywhere and we have been slammed with inquiries, which is great news, wonderful news. we're not a business owner, but we're still going out there doing what we do best every saturday. now, again, we have all of the labor intensive that's happening here in the city. everybody wants a bite of it. it's a small bite of it, a big bite of it, whatever, everybody wants to be a part of it. so, what i ask you as a supervisor and leader of this community that human experience is priceless. keep that in mind. thank you very much. >> thank you. and next speaker, please. thank you, supervisor. i'll be brief. manuel flores, carpenters 22. earlier last summer local 22 sat down with representatives

from america's cup, mr. bob dillingham, mr. barkley here. and we had a pretty good meeting. we wanted this to meet, we wanted it to be success. ful. gave him a lease of contractors that perform temporary structures. i thought it was a pretty good meeting, but apparently that fell on deaf ears. i was taken back on that one. ~ we did send a letter out early on also to haar bin studios regarding all the workout there, the upcoming america's cup. i got no response. when the work did start, we went out there, i went out there and discovered this wasn't going right. on a lot of the contractors weren't even from around here. things fell apart. that's when my investigation began. manuel flores and i presented it moving on to office of labor standards [speaker not understood].

so, it just didn't work. what happened, you know, this is what happened. you know, the issues, the workers, workers got hurt. that's what it's about. now we got to rectify it, make it right because it's about them. these workers, they travel, you know, they travel, stay in hotel rooms. you know, so, we want to make it right. from here on out, you know, let's do the right thing. let's get it going. letters that went out to live nations and to mr. bob dillingham to make this right for the proper prevailing wages are paid because that's what it's all about and it's all about the workers, very important. thank you. thank you very much. good afternoon, norman pierce again. i want to speak on the -- my opinions about the fund-raising. i think you're kind of blending

these two together. should i wait until after? >> actually i think it's best do it all together. i know you spoke earlier, we're on number 5 right now. so, the answer is this is about the fund-raising. >> now, yes. do you want me to wait until after or speak now? >> speak now. it makes sense to have it all together. it will be confusing. >> i know. thank you. so, my observation on the fund-raising effort and the issues that will be asked, i asked to have a little more of a civil tone towards this group. i'm a citizen. i vote for you supervisors, and i've been a little frustrated with your approach, your tone towards these individuals who are working hard to do the best job they know how for the people they're responsible to, much like you are. but i don't appreciate my board of supervisors being so gruff

and antagonistic towards people that come here to present their facts. i would request respectfully that we keep a civil tone and try not to use [speaker not understood] for mistakes that our citizen ships, elected officials have lacked the ability to follow-up on on their side. i know this will all be resolved, but i like a better, more civil tone. i've been among this committee many, many times and over the years it's gone up and down with the tone in this chamber. and the last three or four years it's gotten better and i want to see better progress on that. these are professionals that we're working with and they're doing a very professional job to the best of their ability to make this thing successful for our city. a benefit is in the fund-raising part. i have a small business i just started across the bay. we have hundreds of people per

day come through here all wanting to know when the america's cup is going to be here and it's basically because these people have been together and been working to promote this worldwide which is going to be a benefit for our city and our tax coffers and our general budget. so, thank you for your time. african diaspora maritime is in court and the new york state supreme court with an appeal, and i understand that there will be preliminary arguments in april. it's clear that kgyc, the acoc, oracle, san francisco lieutenant governor's office used inflated reports [speaker not understood] and tried to pull off the largest urban waterfront land deal in the country.

i think it's about time that serious consideration be given to postponing the america's cup. larry ellison has already taken warren buffett's giving pledge to give his wealth to charity. i think that it might behoove him and others to invest in this america's cup. and allow teams that represent billion of people on the planet, whether they be blacks, hispanic, youth, women, chinese, the commonwealth, to participate and also to create many more festival-like events around the country. and these, i believe, should be funded by the group of individuals that have promoted this america's cup. i really, really strongly wish that everybody would start to read these documents, particularly the host and venue agreement. and some of the documents that are on the new york state

supreme court website because truly you would have lost the better part of your embarcadaro had a person who lived in san francisco for a number of years not tried to register the first african-american team in the history of the america's cup and be rejected with very little due diligence. thank you. >> thank you very much. this is on the [speaker not understood]. yes, supervisor, joshua [speaker not understood], i want to speak on the other item. i actually disagree with the gentleman who kind of started off the -- moving into this part of the conversation. i actually really like the tone. i think it's very respectful. i think it's also reflective of something the gentleman may not know, but i think the board knows and we as community and labor advocates know we work for hundreds of hours on this. we knew -- i shouldn't say we knew. we feared that we would be here once it was stuck in the good faith, once it was stuck in all the back and forth.

we thought everything was fine when it went into the agreements at the board of supervisors a year ago. we thought we had a good understanding with the folks from america's cup that we all lost. what i like most about the tone, supervisor farrell put it out there, all this happened, where do we go from here? i want the boat race, but i don't want to see what we saw again. do not want to see it again. the penalties from the america's cup for the violations of the agreements will help to make sure and support the efforts to make this -- to work. and the fund-raising will be supportive of that. when you think about the fund-raising, i think it sounds like we're going to get close, maybe we'll hit the fund-raising which is great. but if there is a shortfall, fund-raising shortfall to the city, then, ghosh, it really makes the court even more stringent we have to have local residents out there on the best paying job.

not minimum wage prevailing jobs, apprenticeship. that's why i think the funding is something -- part of the funding conversation is that if the city is going to put out taxpayer dollars, let's definitely make sure that everything that is on the last item is fixed when we add those additional city funds because it will be better for the city and it will make the yacht, the races more exciting and just such -- everything that we want from the beginning, it will get everyone excited again. so, thanks again. >> thank you. next speaker, please. this is on the fund-raising effort. thank you, supervisor. andrew woods international arts festival. i want to follow-up on the last couple points. let's not forget the board of supervisors signed a $35 5 million deal december 14, 2010, two weeks later land use signed $110 million deal. office and workforce development worked on that deal without telling you and brought it back the following year. i think your tone is entirely

appropriate because this body is really responsible for holding the executive office in check. if we've seen what's been happening out at the mayor's office, it has really not been where it should have been, starting with land use and change in doubling what the deal was. we've been trying to hold them accountable for that ever since. in term of the deal itself and the fund-raising, i think it's appropriate and i thank supervisor avalos for calling this forward. this is the tip of the iceberg. if we believe what we read in the newspapers, mayor lee is now creating a nonprofit organization that will seek to court other major events here. i think we need to look at this event in its entirety. and see exactly what went wrong and a lot did go wrong. i want to thank supervisor mark. he was the first to call hearing that were left out of the [speaker not understood].