[speaker not understood]. thank you. >> mr. perez, mr. p/e re, could you come back? ~ perez to the microphone. what i'd like you to do is i'd like you to repeat in spanish for the folks that are listening at home so they can listen and hear your testimony. [speaking in native language].

>> thank you very much. (applause) hi, my name is miguel robles [speaker not understood], the world health organization. she said, today many people don't live healthy life styles and healthy behaviors face opposition from forces that are not so friendly. it forces [speaker not understood] is a powerful he economic operators. ~ public health must also contend with big food, big

soda, and big [speaker not understood]. all this to protect regulation [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. so, we have very big position. in the next few months we have to be ready to confront all these lies on tv and radio. we have a program in spanish every tuesday and i have been talking a lot about the [speaker not understood] beverage and i open the lines and i hear from the community. so, it's something our communities in california, [speaker not understood], we want more community to know this is poison to our people, but also it is a movement you're going to be leading if

you will [speaker not understood] in san francisco. thank you so much for your [speaker not understood]. >> thank you, i appreciate that. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is michael tom. sorry about the bad handwriting on the card. anyway, i am a lifelong resident of san francisco. just to let you know, my mother was a diabetic and when i was born i showed sugar in my urine which means as an asian, like the doctor said, i am prone to diabetes. however, not wanting to refute the doctor's findings, low body weight, according to my bathroom scale, is not the issue. one of the criticisms i heard listening to the debate from the american beverage association that said the tax is regressive and it impacts low-income communities, but it's ironic that these are the same communities that suffer from the effects of soda and that they are opposing money that would actually go towards programs for education that would help these same communities as well.

for the record, we're not asking to ban soda, but we are doing is encouraging thought. one of the interesting things that was brought up is that they said, well, this soda would cause a tax would cause a thing on [speaker not understood]. i would encourage everybody here to go get a can of v-8 and not only read how much added sodium is in it but sugar. think about that. some of the arguments against the soda i feel similar to 30 years ago was the cigarette tax as well. yet, i mean, we think about it, thea same people that are arguing against it would probably have a problem if they saw a cigarette machine. i don't know if people here even remember those if they saw it in a 7-eleven [speaker not understood]. i commend you for supporting it. thank you very much. >> thank you, michael. next speaker, please. please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is daniel masco and i'm

a health educator at u.c. berkeley. and i've done work in a lot of different [speaker not understood] type programs. currently i work on pesticide exposure prevention in salinas, but i've worked on overdose prevention here in san francisco. and time and time again i see that the most effective public health programs are the ones that change the health environment in which people find themselves and especially if we're talking about vulnerable communities who don't have all the options to make the healthy choice all the time. and, so, from the presentation before like this, obesity, diabetes, stroke, dementia, epidemic that's bad now is just going to get worse. and what i see is that there is a change that's going to need to come and i fully believe that the changes that are coming, we're about 30 years behind the tobacco kind of

regulation. somebody mentioned 1988 there was the change to in-flight smoking. that same year california proposition 99 and at that same time they were pedaling out the same argument about regressive taxes and that led to billions of dollars of averted health care expenditures. i see the same thing happening if we're able to make an impact on the consumption of sugary sweetened beverages. so, thank you for your time and your efforts and i intend to be there with you in this journey. >> thank you. we welcome you on that journey. if there are any other people who would like to speak, come on up. if i didn't call your name, please come on up. seeing that this is the last speaker, we'll close public comment after you. hi, my name is nancy lu. i'm here representing the [speaker not understood] foundation. we work in diabetes education

and improving the lives of people with diabetes. i really want to emphasize just how large of a burden that diabetes is and how big of a deal that prevention can be and can play a role in the cost that occur with diabetes. personally i'm health coach at san francisco [speaker not understood] family health center in portola and there we see a huge minority and low-income population that are affected by diabetes. and truly seeing that when the cheap food is the bad food, that is, you know, a huge burden especially on these under served populations. so a 2 cent tax per ounce on soda [speaker not understood] the huge cost of type 2 diabetes. when we're looking at 26 million people in the u.s. affected with 79 million people with pre-diabetes that we could move the needle on and this is

projected by 20 50 to affect one in three americans. essentially including friends and family that everybody in america is going to be impacted by these effects of diabetes. and, so, the good news is we have a chance to change this toxic food environment that lead people from pre-diabetes to diabetes. most people who have diabetes' lives are much harder in finding the healthy food and getting access to that. so, we can really address this epidemic with a very simple tax and, so, i completely support this. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public that would like to speak? okay, seeing none, public comment is kaled -- oh, we have one. there is always one. come on down. thank you very much. my name is michelle cooper, i'm a registered dietician and thoroughly support efforts to reduce soda consumption -- consumption of sugar sweetened beverage. i just would like to point out

that the title of the hearing is called the impact of chronic disease in san francisco and the long-term minority communities. and i was -- would just like to emphasize that this is discussing one very small component of chronic disease and one, it is an important factor. although as the supervisors consider this legislation, i hope that the message to our community is that this is -- that there are many other factor that must be addressed along with the sweetened -- the sugar beverage. one thing that the tax does not address are juices and the evidence that about the effectiveness of taxes make statements that it may be effective as long as -- that there are no other increases in sugar beverage consumption of sugar beverages. my concern is that the american beverage association, if we were to pass this tax, would simply market the consumption

of juice -- recognize that the tax is going to be ultimately provide funds for education. just asking whether it's the most effective way to decrease the consumption of sweetened sugar beverages in san francisco. the other things that we did not address in our community is the same zip codes that are associated with higher consumption of soda and sweetened beverages are smoking and stress, short sleep, which induces diabetes after four days of less than four hours of sleep and adverse childhood events. the issue is more complicated and again, as a dietician, i am supportive of the tax. i just hope that our efforts are not too narrow in our approach to addressing this problem. >> okay, thank you. duly noted. any other member of the public? all right, seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> thank you very much. thank you, everyone, for coming out and participating . to the medical professionals,

the educators, the community organizers, thank you for your dill against and your hard work ~. it is most certainly a team effort. and i'm glad to be on your team. and i am hopeful that the folks that were in this chamber earlier today and the ones that are at home that are listening to the hearing, that we informed them just a little bit more with the rich content that we heard here today and that as we continue to talk and to educate people, we will be continuing to change the hearts and minds and ultimately the consumption habits of not only san franciscans, but ultimately the world. thank you. >> well, thank you, supervisor cohen, for bringing this very educational hearing to our attention. i certainly learned a lot. i was very fortunate i grew up with parents who never encouraged me to drink soda or sugary beverages. whether due to he economics, accessibility, whatever it is that some families ~ had to

resort to drinking a lot of sugary beverages. in any casey want to thank you for bringing this to our attention. i believe there is a desire to continue this to the call of the chair. >> that's correct. >> all right. without objection, this hearing is continued to the call of the chair. [gavel] >> thank youedthv >> all right. madam clerk, are there any other item for us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> all right. thank you, everyone, for coming. the meeting is now adjourned. [gavel]

>> welcome to the fifth in our series of working family forum (clapping) we're very honored you can join us today and thank you to senator leno's to his staff and to be in this lovely building and for the executive board for the retirement i'm pleased the mayor and commissioner hur is here and we have several members of congress london bremember cor englander and thank you. we have other lady that's the could owner of the nicholas company

recognized by president obama on their workplace flexibility thank you nicole for being here. (clapping.) many of you know that the women bureau was created in congress shortly after the women got their rights to vote our vision is to incur all women and our priority secures is hire minimum wage for women and over the past few months we've been engaging groups if a don't even dooeven to chicago to boston and here in san francisco to identify initiative that benefit the america's working families and the economy we're bringing together high ranking officials and researches and business leaders and federal and local elected officials to have a conversation been business

practices that benefit working families. the conversation and story as those regional forums will be encoder on june 23rd at the white house we want to list up the key issues that american families are facing and you encourage everyone to add our voice to the national discussion you throughout the forum you can tweet our comments urging the ash tag followup. please consider drafting a tweet after today and post it you can see more on twitter. we also have a story sharing wall in the reception wall you can add your thoughts on a posted notes on how families need to be supported. i'm honored to introduce mayor

ed lee he's the 403 reading mayor and the first asian-american mayor i was elected in 2011 and has a long record of public city he began working in the city and county of san francisco as an investigator for the first whistle blower ordinance and the director of city purchasing and the director of public works and the city administrator he's worked are hard to keep us on introducing track to create jobs and champion everyone that supports parks and transit and quality of life in our neighborhoods and pedestrian safety. we're very fortunate to have him with us please welcome mayor ed lee >> kelly thank you very much and thank you for your work for

the people as well. >> hello, everyone welcome to san francisco. i was tickled when leader councilmember englander said you're looking thinner i said that's what a lot of contracts and other things pelosi thank you and welcome back and establishing san francisco we're honored to host one of the forums across the country to be chosen to be a location for a discussion on working families and also just want to take an opportunity to thank all the chronicle representatives we have a national agenda we can do everything locally and hello,

again to melanie she's been a wonderful contact welcome back to the recreational office. ellis you know your economy that red hot we're a thooifl economy and we got another great enhancement we're at a record low in unemployment of 4 percent there are challenges. and while our economy maybe the envy of other places around the world i'm hard at work to make sure our residents are getting the full-time work they need and that's sustainable. we know there's no greater income gap between that person who has a job and that personal who doesn't we will be relentless to grow jobs in our city crossing across all sectors

not only technology it's fast growing by not the big driver biotech and international trade and film and video production and construction and health care are on a having having good foundation all growing ail parts of the diverse economy and creating good paying jobs for everyone. we're making sure that we do everything we can to make sure the workforce policies are friendly to families. that's why i've joined up with supervisor david chiu on his family friendly workplace we're going to be funding a bit of that this year. he's been asking for that extra funding to make sure it's not just a good sounding ordinance but we reduce the barriers for

working families. we need to make sure our priority is that you're working families can afford to call it home one of the many ways in which we'll be addressing affordability is through housing. we've got an aggressive agenda got to create thirty thousand new housing pardon mely affordable to locate and moderate income families and we're making good progress we're opening up more homes for cities families in the first 5 months of this year there than the entire year of mifl. we know your city is an expensive place so we should bring an increase to all minimum wage yet still

(clapping) yeah. but we've got to keep pace and this is what paying attention to working families is all about not about what we did yesterday although we celebrate that we have to keep the pace with rising consumer costs i know that a few more dollars an hour can make a difference and san francisco has done we need to lead by example we're the first city in the nation to establish our own minimum wage a model for the rest of the country. we're going to work with the board of supervisors that impacts small businesses and experts to seek coincidence in a significant wage increase for working families. we also continue to join in the fight for equal pay giving our

women equal pay for equal work. yes (clapping) equality for all was not only a slogan but also been a san francisco value and our city values equal pay for everyone and make sure our women are succeeding and treated equally and nancy pelosi said when women skeekdz san francisco skeekdz yes (clapping) and you can see it's true in the leadership of our city i'm proud to nominate carmen chu the assessor recorder she's going to deserve that i've appointed katie tang to our board of supervisors you'll find women in the highest levels of local

government and fire cheer chief joanne haynes-white our health director and port director and other and our naivety department head appointed last week debbie so many more critical leaders in position that direct policy and function for our city. i'm proud to have as my council nancy pelosi and dianne feinstein and congresswoman spear joins us in making sure we're strong and we have a strong fight for our san franciscans and here in san francisco and washington, d.c. so joining with others congress

members honda and hoffman and spear and nancy pelosi we're going to move forward and advance workers rights and equality for all of us in san francisco and across the country i know there's a lot of work ahead i remain committed for all residents i commend you and people in the audience and those i've just met even those years i was just happy to see roses come and join us thank you for coming here today congratulations (clapping) >> good morning and thank you four attending this important forum i'm emmy i'm the region representative for the department of the labor in san francisco i've had the privilege of working at the department of the looker no washington, d.c.

for the past 4 years and how time flies when you do something you love with amazing people you deeply respect but it's an honor to introduce secretary tom perez when we were sworn in as the 26 secretary of labor he infused a new energy and rebranded it as the opportunity for every working family every working person to get ahead like a fair days pay for a fair day's work connecting ready to work people promoting gender equality in the workplace and insuring the developers have access to equal and safe opportunities secretary

prez binges a commitment to service and prior to commission he sirtd as the attorney general for the justice department and should to restore and transform the conscious of the in addition to further fulfill the tutored vance equal opportunity and leveling the playing field he also served as deputy attorney general under janet reiskin with the task force. he was special council to the late senator edward kennedy as a civilize revoke and he served as secretary of labor licensing and regulations for the state of

madagascar he resides with his wife and which were i was born in buffalo new york he graduated from brown university where on saturday, he delivered the com mention time speaking speech all of these make him an amazing secretary of labor a great boss we're sad at his dispatch from his old office but happy to have him here please welcome secretary tom >> (clapping) >> good afternoon san francisco it is great to be here thank you for your kind words it's an honor to be here in the presence of so many important people all of you are important i really

enjoyed meeting the rosaries we'll talk them more but nancy pelosi thank you. i know a few people in america is that have not done more for americans than you so thank you for your work (clapping) and again to all our elected officials and have mayor thank you for the warm welcome we have a wonderful partner i used to serve on their board and mirror was fantastic and the progress is all about progress and moving america forward the the president's opportunity agenda is making sure we grow the economy and add more jobs good jobs and making sure that people have the skills to compete and

making sure that everybody has access to educational opportunity from pre k and making sure we reward work with a decent wage that allows you to put a roof over your head and allows to you have health care and other securities that's the agenda of this president and i'm hoping happy to be working with him we want to make sure that everybody who works hard we reward hard work and the responsibility and we work with members of congress (clapping) we have to acknowledge the working family summit is about we have to acknowledge we're not in leave it to beaver anymore there are more women in the workplace and the family has evolved and the family responsibility have viewed and

public policy needs to evolve with those changing democrat garlics and changing trends you tell throughout america i talk to people all the time and they give me the following concerns i need to make enough money to put food on the tackle but want to be home to eat dinner at that table with my families (clapping) i hear from so many people to go home and take care of my father or mother or pickup my sick child and yet i have to choose been the job i love and the family i love that's an unfair choosing choose most of other criticize countries on the planet don't allow us to make the most important family values or one