behind, and that accounts for the undocumented people that were not covered by the aca, and the many, i think, some said, 26,000 workers or others that are not being covered, that we should put our heads together to insure that we have the most efficient program and i think that supervisor campos's proposal is a really, a great one in my opinion, but i would like to know from miss chala or hopefully or miss garcia can come to the next hearing that we can have the strong suggestions and others said that we cannot wait for a year or two years before making sure that we have health access for everyone. and i wanted to also thank tran from supervisor or from the assembly man's office and to making it clear that universal healthcare was the intent and i think that this or the 75 percent for example, of the money, 80 million dollars in 2012, that is pocketed by the

employers and not going to the health needs of workers, that is definitely it is shocking but it is not surprising given that we have known about it for many years and i hope that today we can move this forward so that we close this loophole and insure that everyone can be covered and from what miss tran said on behalf of assembly man amiano we are removing barrier to many vulnerable people and children and to having access to affordable healthcare is the critical goal and i am very pleased that supervisor campos, hillary from his staff, and coalition of health equity and labor that is here today are moving this forward right now because we cannot wait, so i am really glad that we can move parts of this forward today. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee? >> yeah, i just also wanted to

mention that i spent most of my life in non-profit organizations and it has been a long time and so i remember in the earlier parts of my career. with the non-profits and hardly any non-profits have health insurance. and then, when we started to discuss, and the need, many of the non-profits and this is going to kill a non-profit and well, most of the non-profits have health insurance today and it did not kill the non-profits. and so i want to, and i want to use it as analogy for some of the people from the small business, and that might be saying this. i want to thank everybody, and i know that terry left and i want to thank her who spent a lot of work in making sure that we have the most legally sound piece of legislation that we

can have. and i think that where we are is i think that it is very clear, that there is anonymity on this committee about the need to close the loophole and i am glad that is clear because the issue of the loophole is becoming a bigger issue with time and if you look at the numbers in 2013, the total amount that was not spent on healthcare, and as was intended, was 93 million dollars. and 875,000, and so that is, and that means that it is about 1.8 million dollars, a week where, that is supposed to go to worker healthcare that is not going to worker healthcare. and i say that, because as much as i want to make sure that we give the department enough time to address the other issues with the legislation, i do want to remember, this number of 2 million dollars a week just

about, and that is not going to provide healthcare, to the 26,000 plus workers and their families and you know, you think of the 26,000 workers, and you know, how many kids does that mean? that are not being able to get that cough medication and you know that are not able to see you know, a pediatrician, you know, you can imagine the expecting mothers that are not able and you know, you just think of all of the people that are being and so i just want to figure out how we give the department enough time, but at the same time, move forward to close the loophole. and i also want to say, that well i understand that this is a very complicated field, i am like many people here, really disappointed with the presentation from the department of public health. and i am really disappointed that there is instead of

thinking about how we can continue to be a leader in this area, and the way that we have, and prior times, and in with the leadership of people like mitch cats, and instead of thinking about how we can make things happen, what we hear, is obstacles. and the problem is this, that we don't have the luxury to wait. this ship has sailed. the affordable care act goes into effect, you know has gone into effect. and there are individual requirements on not only businesses but also on people that we cannot afford to wait until 2015, or 2016 however, time whatever time the department needs. we have to come up with something now, in fact, we should have come up with something a while back. and so, i am very disappointed, and i think that it is disappointing because i think that san francisco is losing

ground and we have gone from being the nation's leader when it comes to healthcare to now being behind places like new york and vermont and others. and i think that it is very sad. and so, i don't know exactly how much time is needed by the department, but i would like to suggest that we maybe continue this to the call of the chair with the understanding that i am going to try to bring it back as soon as possible, and we will work with the department to see what is feasible, and i am actually thinking that if we could come back in a couple of weeks, and that will be my intent, because i do think that there is not a lot of time to waste here. but, i would suggest the motion to call, or to continue it to the call of the chair with the understanding that we will try to work with the department to bring it back.

as quick as as possible with the understanding that they need more information, supervisor yee? >> i move it. >> so we have a motion. and can we take that without objection? >> without objection. >> continued to the call of the chair. and again, we are going to try to see if we can bring this back as early as in two weeks. again i want to thank everyone for being here. and mr. clerk, do we have any other business before the committee. >> that concludes today's business. >> meeting adjourned. thank you. so san francisco sma

business week we've been doing it for 10 years about inspiring and educating and connecting small business week to have them thrive aim leslie the co-chair of small business week along with the small business week commission steve adams and together we've been involved for since its inception and it's really about being for impressive and more resources full to and we're going looking forward to today and this is special, in fact, the top ranked part of small business week a day you'll get great information and interaction and to join me

to kickoff the conventional is the executive director for the city and county of san francisco regina. (clapping.) >> thank you leslie this year's theme to small businesses they're the vitality no our corridors and neighborhood and shape our community. the small business convention has became the most popular of offering during the week and this year we're featuring free educational and inspirational workshops success panels and a procurement panel in expo. the last session ends up at 430 are a reception overland it's hosted by a hardworking committee including our honorary mayor ed lee.

mark convincing the district many of the for small business administration and emily from behalf it compromised of the team tom and marlow and hannah and kathleen bustling and the san francisco chamber of commerce and leslie and karen. the renaissance center and the san francisco development alliance and sharon miller and the district organization henry and the golden gate association sf entrepreneurs and the san francisco african-american chamber of commerce and sf city jeremy and adams and alison now, it's my direct pleasure to introduce to you, your presenting sponsor bank of america for this year's small

business week bank of america small business regional executive on the west coast is emily emily i'd like to invite you up >> good morning it's a real pleasure to be here and small business week is is an exciting week for all of us we're thrilled to go be the presenting sponsor we understand power and significance of small business tloos across to city and really exciting to celebrate the entrepreneur spirit behaving has a long his in san francisco over a one hundred years no california and our founder opened the doors of the bank of italy in 2004 and came bank of america in the 1930s since then

a lot of influence we've had and participation with the city to build it to what it is today. we were part of the funding the governmental and golden gate park and the funding the renovation at the ferry building we are on the ground individually helping people person to person making their financial lives better everyday. the heritage commitment lives on through the floifb work and the effort we have everyday working with small property owners hocking to help them and mayor ed lee has helped to support the small business community and encourage entrepreneurship like sunday streets that's the most

popular open street project in the united states this increases the foot traffic to the small businesses see more business everyday and last year with the help of the white house they brought silicon valley to the public it be tangibles programs concluding health care and open government and transparency and finishing. during the small business week 2013 they announced the loan fund that made $12 million available to support small businesses boost the local economy and create jobs. the merging business loan program extends fund to institutions it focuses on lending to the entrepreneurs and growing industries like

manufacturing and apparel and industry sector to create jobs for local folks. in this city small property owners have a terrific opportunity and and team bank of america loortdz to our continued work with the mayor in partnership and support of the local enclosures please join me in welcoming mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you for that introduce emily good morning, everyone what a great time to be in san francisco weather wise my economy wise i've been thinking about the loiter seeing if i could win the loiter but one of the reasons if i could dream about that winning that i'll spend all the money in san francisco because we have such a

rich con gorgs of businesses of people making things in 0 san francisco i couldn't think of spending it anywhere outside of the great city that's what i think about spending it all in the city. well, i, you know, not everyone ca can working for the city and county of san francisco go that's on the mind as i close out the 27 contracts and balance a budget hopefully in the next two weeks to wrap up but i see why this city is so attractive because today wife got 65 small businesses in san francisco. they compromises over 2 hundred and thirty thousand people for jobs that's the reason they compromises all the businesses in the city so those conferences

there's a statistical appreciation but ufo our strong economy is reflected in the small businesses. while everybody doount do not want to be an employee the strength of combrifrp is strong and there are so many reasons why one of the reasons great 23i7b8 institutions bank of america thank you for your sponsoring for this great convention and wells fargo thank you for supporting today's event and thank you to detests for the square for the flavors and all of you who are succeeding our are supporting the others a that's a story it continues to resonate throughout the rest of the country businesses helping other businesses and helping our community. i've added a number of things to my busy i didn't agenda on a

weekly basis every tuesday, i visit is a business in the city and talk to the ceo and cfos and people working with the businesses but get to talk to the employees and find out what's attractive and try to meet the challenges and usually it's about transportation or schools now those days it's about the price of housing and building more housing thaitsdz that' where we generate our ideas i added to that meeting not because i want to get out of city hall but on fridays now i've added an hour to get to go to the commercial corridors of the city and walk and feel what people are doing and stick my head into the local restaurant and the eyes cream particularly that takes along or the local

toy stores and futile iowa we can do. and listening to them and talk with them and react with all the policy decisions with regina and others tisk with our economic development office and awe our small business programs and those ideas turn into immediate reality so we create 1, 2, 3 license ability where small business can get our licenses or permits quickly we're going to open a single portal for small businesses that wyoming want to have one place to go rather than stand in line for different permits and attitudes we'll have >> prayer by the chaplain. >> that online and open 24246 so 7 so entrepreneurs in our pa

gambles can do thing. but there's also things that are big picture things i'm glad to see the gentleman helping me to really out a new business tax system in the next 4 years we've done it will help with the talking to the small business county and see whether an outside tax will help the city small businesses weighed in we know our new business tax will support the small businesses in the city and we'll do more along with our assessors office we've got loans and grant we're matching them up with our 12krik9d captains and mrovs to make sure the corridors are safe

and we've got neighborhood grants that are visiting in the programs that are working hard to get out there. it's no longer in any estimation about money known e money it around the city there really is harnessing that in ways to help people succeed and get the jobs. i'm going to thank the small businesses and large ones you're helping us with jobs helping me so much we can go out and tell the folks how about a paying summer job 7 thousands of them we did that saturday to help small businesses and we're going to have a big meeting with all the businesses and they'll be raising their hands over a question who helped you get our first job and all you have so to do is send the lovely thirty

seconds someone helped you, you to get our jobs for the recreational managers and institutions. as we relive that i hope to create another generation of kids that appreciate how when i become conceive you taller than and help accountability pr this is the culture of san francisco this is why i came in and decided to live and sacrificed my golf free speech to be the mayor of san francisco. but it is more than a dream it's visiting in each other this is what small businesses do they ask for help and invest in others help and this is the huge kwenlz that come to the town the big conventions don't want to ride the cable cars they're asking where are the real

neighborhoods in san francisco y where can i go out and see thing and experience things that are very strong in our neighborhoods because they're coming from places it's a lot of vanilla the same thing over and over but they want to see the cultures and that's why we have 25 neighborhoods we're investing in. i'm proud this welcome to announce our small business honorees and you'll see the diversity when i go through the names the sushi and the automobile repair shaping shop that is changing the shops in the past the has a valley and the hampton creek foods talk about a new maine nasal egging

free and the electric bike super store the triple 52 do brewery and, of course, i added in matt restore their special in our city their pete's are a that was started by two deaf business leaders that are taking orders because of the technology and the ability of the blending the technology with their small business they're taking live orders in their restaurant and their entire staff is deaf. so those are stories that others are going to tell over and over again, the diversity of the city this is how we're successful and those continue to draw the biggest conventions around the world to come to san francisco

and see how the businesses are helping us and, of course, they're helping government as well. so again, this is a way of me saying thank you to all of you working together you, you know, we've got sf made and i can't leave the stage without thanking mark and katie they're leading some 4 thousand people in sf merchandising and working with the small business community saying we can give back to great manufacturing and the offer lay that's happening there. they petroleum pump in 3 hundred and 95 thousand dollars a year gas station to the small business week and to the partnership with s b.a. you and part of the entire obama administration set the tone for

the country and next year i get the privilege and honor of hosting the conventional of mayors in san francisco 2015, 3 thousand mayors and we're going to add 3 thousand mayors around the world to the convention to come to san francisco to create jobs and maintain good requirements and help our kids and create jobs and keep our city safe all of this is part of a whole network of relationships and the ones that know how to create the relationships are the ones in business that's how you survive and succeed in the city with that, take the opportunity the proclamation that signals that small business in the city and regina please accept this

and to all you have who you are part of this great week thank you very much >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the

san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe

starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible]

around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit

and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire." >> good morning. this is the regular building of the building inspection commission. i would like to reminds everyone to off all electronic devis.