>> good afternoon edge welcome to the san francisco budget & finance committee i'm mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and i'm joined by scott wiener and supervisor

london breed and i want to thank sfgovtv and clerk linda sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. . any documents should be submitted to the checker and they will appear on the july 14th agenda >> colleagues before we call item one i want to have a motion to canoes one of the supervisors. >> item one motion order submitted and an election on november 4th and an ordinance for the text education code on the direction of sugar sweetened beverages to fund food and health program. >> thank you madam clerk that was supported by a number of colleagues and over supervisor mar and supervisor wiener to

talk about this topic. >> you want to go first? thank you supervisor farrell and supervisor wiener as well. i know this is one more step towards placing our health sf soda tax on the ballot in san francisco. i want to say i've been working side by side with supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen and supervisor avalos and many others through the process but it's about a 2 year coalition effort with the public health experts and even national organizations that have been focused on developing our soda tax we hope to pass this major $0.02 per ounce to you fight for better health for children and jarthsz to come. i want to say that shape sf and

coalitions in the city have been actually for healthy options and activities for our communities and food access organizations like the food guardians and the task force they help the coalitions in the tenderloin and many others go coalitions and alliances that have been working on that also the public center for the vulnerable populations the yale university red center on obesity to the center for the science have been following this and advocating for changes around the word in mexico and other local communities like our and berkley we hope to move forward that inspire other

changes at the national level we know from previous hearing i know that a lot of the choose sf coalitions are here but most impacted by sugar sweetened beverage are the lowest folks that are impacted but your budget analyst report reports we've seen there are a disproportion impact on community of colors on obesity and oral height and liver damage and others go health problems in our community we're looking at health equality that will help most impacted in the lowest xhunlts of color obesity and overweight and oral health

problems are a crisis in our community i want to thank san francisco for the soda tax in the ballot with you $0.02 per balance on the sugar sweetened beverages could lead to $31 million of revenue that will be going directly to improve food security access programs and hunger efforts to embattle that and physical education programs throughout our neighborhoods and lastly improving our paradoxes and recreational for the community. i want to acknowledge that in our last couple of hearings on the health impacts we've had whether asian pacific islander or african-american and chicano

and latino communities coming forward to pass this message i want to say we've got a number of amendments at the hearing and scott wiener is going to present those but looking at my not i want to thank the community coalition that has been educating the needs for a soda tax but supervisor avalos has spent a lot of time and supervisor cohen really and her work at the grassroots level in the southeast neighborhoods and supervisor wiener for helping to bring together other r other partners in our wide coalition that hopefully, will win in november to make our first city to pass the soda tax in the country i'm going to turn it over to scott wiener >> thank you supervisor mar. >> thank you to everyone that

is here today. so this measure we're finally near the finish line in sending the important combroung public health measure from city hall to the voters for the november election so the people of san francisco will have a voice about the health of our city and the health that should be - the public health policy based on science and policy and not on corporate influence. this measure has been brewing for years in san francisco and elsewhere as well but in san francisco so many advocates for food access for public health and education have between working on this a long time it's time to move forward to address

a very real and tangible issue that a certain type of product sugar sweetened beverages are helping to fuel the type 2 diabetes and other diseases in our population. the science in the are you if you believe the link in a way the sugar and in liquid form it absorbed into the body and the diseases it leads to. we know the business model is to encourage drinking soda and other sugar sweetened beverages in moderation we know their business motto speaks louder than those words. over the years the sizes of soda containers increased the

pressure to buy 12 packs and get bigger and bigger big gullible we know that is the business model and that is a significant factor in the exploitation of type 2 diabetes in our in addition, we know that in a recent report san francisco is one the it up 5 cities we're less height than the national average we have more asthma and more type 2 diabetes that's k345i7b9d in low income communities and communities in which the beverage industry markets we need to make sure we're giving people healthier choices that will help to reduce the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and help

people to make healthier choices and end the horrible situation it is cheaper to buy sugar sweetened beverages than healthy drinks that generates over $30 million for activity and program for our health centers and schools? a huge benefit. we did that with cigarettes we had a product giving diseases to the population we taxed it and invested those procedures in the health and wellness of our community. i want to note that berkley the berkley city council last week voted to place a soda tax only the ballot so we'll have to from the most progressive and forward cities in the country.

we have broad support and i want to say the bench issue is saying it's not going to do what it's supposed to do we know it is going to be effective not only on the studies and science we know it also based on who is supporting that. you can tell sometimes a judge in particular opposed a situation on who is with you, we have broad support near universal support in the california nurses association to all our physician organizations and the hospital and the dental hi gift and the community consortium and so forth. we have the engrossment if our san francisco parent packs and

the citywide pta and school specific at el dorado and fairmont and brad 10 and mckinley and presidio middle school and the ruth art school and sherman and elementary and parent for public schools and support from the public parks and the parks alliance and the residents of town square and joe demaggio and the nurses the laborser the united educators and the american federation have teachers and s c i u and deep support from our san francisco marin food bank and the tenderloin hunger task force and the coalition. so the question is if the

beverage industry is convinced this isn't going it work why is our physicians and nurses and park advocates say outcomes i'm going to go with the advocates we know this measure is going to work this is exactly why the bench industry is fighting. i want to note as mentioned we're introducing a technical clean up amendments today which i does not say will change the structure or how the money will be used only technical clean up amendments we know that the beverage industry has said if we pass it we're going to be sued to we want to make sure we're dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's so at the conclusion i'll ask the committee to adapt

those and continue for one week >> okay. thank you supervisor wiener. so we have a number of amendments that we will be discussing avenue public comment so colleagues unless others public comments from this committee why not open open this up for public comment supervisor mar has a number of the speaker cards so supervisor mar i'm going to turn it over to you >> to mr. chair i'm going to suggest we have a lot of public speakers we could limit it to two minutes a loud buzzer will sound then a less loud one. i'm going to read the names don't come up to line up to

speak on the right-hand side of the room unless your name has been called. i'm going to call on the names now and do my best (calling names) and just come up and whoever is up first ma'am, go ahead >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm sandra bacon i'm a native of san francisco a type 2 diabetes diabetic and appalled by the way

you guys are saying about the soda taxes. as well as the older adults here i can't say that i appreciate - i mean supervisor wiener its okay. but you say you have all those people to support but do you have the ones that have been here in san francisco, california and race here and seeing all those different changes coming about. you know, the board of supervisors through it didn't make us a fix to me we have to add taxes to 1340g we don't have any control over i entices should be going after the people that make the beverages with the juices it's ridiculous kids are not going to be getting things in school they don't have the

gyms i'm a veteran a retired veteran and i watch in the parades just really upset excuse me. my father was a veteran so i'm just appalled you guys should tooblt that we have already paid our dues and we don't have to add any more money we're not receiving any more money we're on social security and va benefits and stuff like this you're not understanding how swi we are feeling >> thank you, ma'am i'm going to call a few more names

(calling names). >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm a senior citizen i'm a mexican and i am here i feel this initiative is extremely important as a grandmother and great grandmother our children are growing up in san francisco and based on what this initiative is going to produce the $32 million that will supplement all the reply rap and all those activities for my grandkids who happen to be african-american. i feel whatever the amendments are we're in support and it's extremely important we notice how eloquently this issue has been brought up in we don't have faith an researchers and the

folks that will been involved we're doomed. we talk about 25 years from now we'll have this young population that perhaps will not suffer get diabetes and suffer the obesity so, yes i'm here in support and my family is in support we look forward to seeing this initiative becoming a success thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, everyone i'm mr. jones. i understand to say i'm neutral with this situation it's our choose i choice as people not legislators or the corporations to make the decisions it's on each individual in san francisco and everywhere for protecting families and everything it's not

based on the taxes but the availability of the product itself and the choices and the education that the advisement of those things they put on tv it's education and stems from how parent and grandparent bring it back to the kids i give up my own choice to give up soda and i've studied a lot >> thank you for going doing that. >> is that it? >> no, i was thanking you. >> i'm an athletic and a young father i've been in the low income community throughout the united states and since the availability of the sugary fats with the los low costs and

availability it's like supply and demand if you spend a dollar on a soda instead of - that's it i thank you and hope this bill comes to a great future for our children this is detrimental to our health. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm jerry grey at the scene i'm here because i think this is an unfair tax on the poor. i think it's immoral for the city to raise money >> could you pull the microphone closer. >> i think it's immoral for the city to sale a product to the

poor and you might think this is great for the social workers but california got the lottery we heard it was going to be great for the schools that didn't work i'm opposed it's a tax on the poor. >> thank you. next speaker. . good afternoon supervisor mar and supervisor wiener. i'm dave. i'm opposed to this tax for several reasons. one of them is structurally i'm concerned that once that take is imposed we'll have bureaucratic over research and bureaucratic interpretation and other foodstuffs b will fall under the

umbrella. there's an irony the poor are paying the wages of the very well paid civil servants to collect the tax and lastly the city employees from 26 thousand plus employees i think by example the board of supervisors should encourage the health service system to charge a surcharge on you'll city employees and contracts that have a body of mass index that their obese quite frankly it's the responsibility of the city to provide an example not to be taxing people who can ill afford it thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker.