increase for all employers here in san francisco. the proposal today has us increasing to $12.25 on may day, an international day for workers throughout the world in 2015 and there after, it will increase to $13, $14 and $15 in 2018. we have wage proposals that workers will be able to take home with them. i'm proud we were able to work together to make this happen. and i just really have to recognize a number of different folks that sat through really long meetings to make sure that this happened. i first of all want to recognize the coalition for fare which from day one has been driving. the fastest minimum wage that the city could absorb. understanding that workers have been waiting for a

long time for wage increase and because the city's prosperity and not being able to catch up with the gap between our lowest paid workers and our highest paid workers. i also want to recognize the non profit organizations that were committed to getting to $15 an hor u they didn't want an exemption for a slower ray, but we want to make sure they can absorb the rate increases and gail and annie and steve was instrumental in helping us getting there. they were important in pushing that agenda and to the mayor's office, for being committed to making sure that we could get to a consensus on one ballot manages tower bring to voters and be proud of. finally, actually if i could

get re-referred for the other measures, at this point, i submit. i look forward to one unified campaign to pass again what i consider the strongest and most progressive minimum wage ordinance in the country. thank you. >> thank you supervisor kim and i will re-refer you at the end. supervisor mar. >> i wanted to congratulate mayor lee and the coalition for working together to present one minimum wage for the ballot. and tim is here from the labor council and with business and the grass roots coalition and the coalition for a fairy con mee and united we can move forward to have our strongest minimum wage. i want to acknowledge the four year phase is much quicker phase than seattle, i believe seven year phase in and i think as we move up to the

first bump up on may day of the following year, that we could look at san francisco again as a major leader in economic justice and raising wages of low wage workers in our city. i think as lew mentioned in the press conference a few minutes ago, we couldn't do this without the strong low wage worker organizing from our city and strong unity built by worker center and labor organizations but also with the mayor's effort to pull business and i think wade rose and others as well for supporting this and the non profit leaders as supervisor kim mentioned. i wanted to say a lot of work is going on now to make sure we have strong transportation 2030 support for funding and i hope as we move forward in november that we'll have stronger transportation measures as well. have i an announcement that my office working closely with the san francisco fire department

and the neighborhood emergency response team or the nert team, tomorrow evening at mill ton marks library community room, we're hosting a training in the richmond district to prepare for emergency readiness in our neighborhood and in the richmond district. it's a free work shop where my staff and i will help work with nert and the fire department to prepare people for disaster work including risk awareness, disaster supplies, personal disaster planning, nert overview and preparation by block, business or building with sff safe and sff safe is safety awareness for everyone. the sign up list is at capacity but if you wish to be placed on a wait list or plug in at a future time, contact them. the rest i'll submit, thank you. >> thank you supervisor mar.

speaker: supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam clerk. so colleagues, as you know there's been a lot of discussion in the last number of weeks around the local vehicle licensee. i know you know for ten years, mark worked to get legislation to the legislature to allow san francisco to go to the voters, to ask the voter to restore our vehicle license fee in san francisco to what it was for 50 years before arnold schwarzenegger slashed it in 2003. mayor lee, about a year and a half ago [inaudible] task force. that met for a year and came up with several recommendations, including the general obligation bond that we're all co-sponsoring for this november ballot as well as several other recommendations including going to the voters with our local

vehicle license fee. there has been some discussion recently about whether to move forward with the vehicle license fee for this november, and the date has -- and the debate has occurred and muni has $2 billion in maintenance and we know our roads need sustaining and we need to reduce accidents and collisions on our streets, and make sure that pedestrian and cyclist and everyone else can use our streets safely and the vehicle license fee will fund all of these things, it will provide funding for our roads and pedestrian and bike improvements and for muni. i'm happy to announce that today mayor lee as well as eight members of the board of supervisors are introducing the vehicle license fee for the november 2016 ballot. and colleagues, i

look forward to all of us as a community working together over the next several years to raise awareness about this incredibly important issue and about the important critical -- critical importance of putting our money where our mouth is and funding our entire transportation system. we're a growing city and we need to have a transportation system that keeps up with the growth in our city and i look forward to that and the rest i submit. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you madam clerk. i have me more yum request. i'm joined by david campos and wiener to ask for this request. i didn't know sean personally. he really died of tragic death too much of a young age

and if sean is anything like his grandfather, john moreland has always been passionate and caring, we lost a great person. the rest i submit. speaker: thank you supervisor yee. >> supervisor avalos. >> colleagues, i have two items for introduction. one is an amendment of the hole, of the transit charter amendment that i had introduced late last year. this has been apart of the g 2030 process, about how we can make greater investments in our transportation infrastructure in san francisco. i want to thank my co-sponsors who are apart of this, supervisor campos, supervisor mar, and supervisor yee and supervisor kim. thank you for co-sponsorship. this is a renewal of a new version of the transit equity

measure. it puts some real measurements that the mta can provide that they'll submit to the board of supervisors every year and forced to approve that will budget will be taken into account how our transit infrastructure can be invested and going to neighborhoods that really need the services most. the charter will also look forward to a new revenue that will come to the city and how that new revenue can be programmed. we know that this will be a quift and this measure will be looking at filling in that gap in funding, once our go bond that was paying for street resurfacing is finished. it would help with a vehicle purchase to make sure that muni can be the -- to be

much more reliable and having more vehicles and be reinvested in our fleet and it will have measures in place that will insure we're building affordability for riders. we want to extend and make free muni for youth and make it affordable for seniors living on fixed incomes. i'm proud of the work that has been done on this measure and many community groups have been involved in the effort. the transit riders union, walk ssf, chew chew, the bike coalitions and many others and i want to thank jeremy in my office for doing a lot of the work behind the scenes to put this together. and we've done a lot of work as well with the mta in crafting this measure as well with the coalition of folks that i just

mentioned. we also sat down on many, maybe five occasions, maybe six occasion to work out how to put matrix together to measure equity in the mta's work and the mta also did a great deal of work at measures equity, finding that a big part of the rider ship which is not a surprise to a lot of folks, but rider ship is low income. i live in the part of san francisco where we have not seen deep investments in transportation and transportation infrastructure so i'm looking forward to our go bond that will be on the november and i'm looking forward to greater investments we can make and i'm looking forward to how the city can fulfill its promise to making sure that all boat as cross all san francisco can be lifted, we have new revenue coming in and our economy is thriving. that's not the case in district 11 and other

parts of san francisco. it will probably take the city charter to make sure those investments are going to be done in a way where it's needed like in district 11. thank you colleagues for your consideration and i know supervisor wiener has a similar measure for the 2015 ballot and we'll work together to see how we can have a single measure that we can agree ongoing forward. my second measure is bringing back a rent control protections for people who have leases and they want to bring in additional roommate within the constraint that a unit will. people living in the unit greater than the number that's allowed, so we'll maintain that level but

if new roommates get on, we want to make sure they can sign without the rent going up for the roommates. it's a measure before the supervisors four years ago and i'm bringing it back. clearly the issue of tenant protections is one that continues until this day and it makes sense that we come forward with greater measures to protect folks and the right to live in san francisco. the rest i'll submit, thank you. >> thank you supervisor avalos. >> president chiu. >> i have two memorials today which involves my perspective significant tragedies. the first is one for casen. he was the two year old boys whose family was visiting and a statute fell on top of him. i think any of us who know about this situation, i don't think any of us can imagine what his

parents and family is experiences so i would ask from the board of supervisors, an exappreciation of our heart and prayers and i wanted to mention that. i have a second for someone who was a friend of mine and who passed away as a brain an u rizism. carolyn, i know supervisor cohen would like to be added to this. carolyn grow up in canada. she was a very well regarded public affairs professional, transportation professional, government relations professional who and who was the director of relations. she's someone who we all knew to be brilliant and an amazing

activist and someone's life who was cut way too short. she will be dearly missed. i also want to add my voice to what supervisor wiener had announced about moving forward with vehicle license fee for 2016. in 2009 i asked our board to consider the vehicle license fee which i sponsored. there were nine of us that were willing to move it forward but we didn't at that time despite the fact that it was supported by a wide coalition. and i want to thank senator mark for working and allowing jurisdictions like san francisco to move forward with the vehicle license fee. as supervisor wiener mentioned, the 2030 transportation task force with lee has two measures.

it's a bond we'll move forward and a sale's tax and a bond fee. it's important to plan for this. i could have supported moving forward with the license fee, i do appreciate the recent conversations that transit officials and mayor lee and other colleagues have had, so i'm happy to join as a sponsorship. it's critical we pass the bond manages number year and then hopefully sequence in two years to move forward with the vlf while funding our vision zero, pedestrian and bike plans over the next few years. when governor schwarzenegger gutted sale taxes, it's important to -- when we complain about our pedestrian and cycling situations on the streets and congestions on the streets of san francisco, that these conditions are in the context of a transit system

that has been under funded for over a decade so it's important for us to commit to november and commit to two years from november. i want to close by adding my voice to what supervisor kim has just mentioned as the minimum wage. i was happy to participate with her and all the efforts that led to announcements today. as a city, we're at our best when we come together and with our announcements, we're asking san franciscans to help us as a city take care of our lower wage worker was this measure and i look forward to our conversations to hopefully passing this in november. the rest i'll submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor kim. >> thank you. i wanted to add my voice of support as a co-sponsor to the 2016 vehicle license fee ballot manages that you are will build upon a strong and successful campaign this year for the general

obligation bond for street repaving which we anticipate will pass this november with a strong coalition. he want to acknowledge mayor lee's commitment to backing this measure in 2016 as well as funding the $22 million delta remaining in ssmta budget over the next couple of years. this measure is an important step to following our revenue road map and fund the city's needs around transportation and in particularly something very close and dear to my heart is pedestrian and bike safety. as we encourage more of our residents to get on muni or get on their bike or walk, we need to make sure people can do it safely and quickly. transportation funding will -- has continued to be a priority along with the dollars necessary to fully realize our investigation zero goals. bringing our vehicle license fee back up to 2 percent, of every car value is the right revenue

source to pay for road engineering, and street paving and bike and pedestrian safety. san francisco is a transit for city and we have the political flexibility to lead where other cities in california are still struggling to prioritize people over cars. i want to thank state senator mark forgiving the city and county an opportunity to bring this measure to the voters so we can back fill funding, that as president chiu has mentioned was gutted from our budget years ago. i look forward to supporting a charter amendment -- transit infrastructure should be allocated and the analysis on how that gets spent throughout the city. it is -- there's so many unmet need and we want to make sure it happens in a way that benefits all of our residents, but in particular, our most vulnerable and transit

dependent residents and i want to acknowledge some of our strongest advocates that made sure this was passed. we have to spend time educating and convincing voters that not only is this the right revenue source and pay more to build a safer city, but we have to convince voters to know that we're going to spend it wisely. the bike coalition, and walk sff and the transit equity and i want to recognize wiener and for his efforts to make sure we continue on this road map. i forgot to do a big thank you around our minimum wage ballot measure that we are introducing today with the entire board of supervisor and with the mayor.

i forgot to honor lee who spent countless hours to keep the different stakeholders and all the different parties and all the different positions together so that we can get to the place that we got to late last night so i wanted to thank and acknowledge her and the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor. that concludes role call. >> why don't we move back to item 27 on hcso. supervisor campos. >> thank you. thank you, mr. president. and my apologies. thank you for your patience. i am absolutely thrilled today to be introducing a long with supervisor reed, supervisor farrell, a set of amendments that finally lead to the closure of a loophole in the health and security ordinance

that has left more than 26,000 workers in san francisco without access to health care. the amendments that we're introducing is updating our health care law that was passed by supervisor, so we have health care that works with the affordable care act so we have as many san francisco workers covered. and we have had indeed the most shocking and inhumane inequality in san francisco for the last few years. this is an issue that so many of us have been working on for more than 4 years and i want to thank all the members of the coalition

that are here. the loophole has gotten bigger because of limitations in terms of how these healthy reimbursement accounts will work. today i will be introducing amendments that were developed in coordination with supervisor's london brooed and mark farrell. i believe that the amendments that have been put together and that have been circulated to all my colleagues strike the rights to protecting the worker and taking into accounts of small businesses. i want to take this opportunity on a very personal note to thank supervisor farrell, to thank supervisor breed, and to thank my co-sponsors for working so hard to finally address this issue. it has

been a long time coming. after these brief remarks, i'll turn it over to farrell and breed so they can talk about the amendments incorporated in the package but i want to explain some additional amendments that i made in committee that is in the original ordinance. i created a program called cover san francisco which was designed to use employer expenditure money, most efficiently when they pay money to the city to enroll workers. when employers pay into the health access program, the department of public health enrolls workers

at a reduced rate. i originally designated a third path which is the creation of covers san francisco which was going to provide additional local subsidies for workers who were eligible for insurance through covered california but who had otherwise couldn't afford it. the department of public health informed me and my office in our coalition that they wanted us to amend the ordinance to give them more time to develop their own program for the purpose of using employee expenditure money to get as many people employed. the coalition in my office agreed to make the change because we believe and understand, we recognize that the department's desire to have flexibility in how the program is designed and so the amendments that we made in committee

provide that flexibility by removing the language creating the covered san francisco program and adding language directing dph to develop a health access program designed to maximize the number of san francisco workers that can purchase health insurance and also directing the department of public health to present its plan and its recommendations in time for the 2016 covered california plan year. >> before i turn this over to supervisor breed and farrell, i want to describe the additional amendments to the law. i wanted to take a moment to actually thank all of the people who have made it possible for us to be here. being with tom amuona who is responsible for have universal health care in san francisco. thank you tom for not only the original law but your

guidance as we're try to go close this loophole. on behalf of more than 26,000 workers who will get health care, i want to thank the san francisco labor county and here local two, the california nurses association, united educator of san francisco, the american confederation of teachers local 2121, the national union of health care workers, sciu local 20 to 1. uc berkeley labor center, health access, the san francisco clinic conversion, ace, the san francisco organizing project, young workers united, jobs for justice, single pay or now, and so many others. i especially want to highlight the incredible tenacity and long hours and so much work that has put into -- that has gone into this

from my chief of staff hillary ronan. we have been working on this for combiet some time and hillary, we finally did it and i want to thank our city attorney, and the various deputies who have worked on this legislation over the years including vince who sits on the northern district federal court, and sherry kaiser who has been incredible in guiding us through a complicated law that in a way that not only insures that we have illegally sound proposal, but one that will address the underlining issues at hand. i believe this legislation is important at a very critical time as supervisor kim indicated, we

have an issue of inequality in san francisco. we do have the fastest growing inequality and to address that issue, to make san francisco affordable for all of our people, it's not enough to make sure that they make a fair wage, but health care is an important component and i am just so proud that the 26,000 workers and their families who for the last few years have not had access to basic health care will have that access and i want to thank my colleagues for making that happen, to my co-sponsor, supervisor yee, and breed, and cohen, and supervisor farrell. thank you very much and i turn it over to supervisor breed. >> supervisor breed. >> first i want to start off by thanking supervisor campos. i

know you and hillary and those on your staff have been working on this issue for over a years' time and your work is to be commended. i'm glad we have been able to arrive at this point. thank you farrell for your hard work on this issue as well. i want to stop and acknowledge assembly tom who has been champing health care for all for so many years even before we were working in this building. i've had a chance to meet with labor leaders and i want to thank guy because she's been an advocate for women and health care in general for so many years and she has a way of putting things in perspective that is truly appreciated and it gives me the ability as the legislature to make sure that those changes are implemented in policy. i want to also thank many of the labor folk who's ve