impact associated with raising the minimum wage based on economic motion deling. we believe the city would have more jobs by 2019 compared to the jobs without it. that's about 2 percent of employment in the city. about half of these jobs in food services and retail trade. the employment impact is whether this city's economy will be growing during this period and whether growth is enough to continue the job expansion into city's economy. to do that we need to look at different projections at the city's employment during that time period. we rely on three sources of employment projections. they are all projecting significant amounts of growth from 27,000 to 59,000 new jobs. what that means even the least optimistic employment projection we have will see

the city continue to see 25,000 new jobs even if the effect of the new minimum wage comes into effect. we looked into industry by industry and it's a little less clear. the projections we looked at arrest unanimous -- are unanimous like the restaurant industry which will continue to grow even with the minimum wage impact. the personal services are a little less clear, some are projecting healthy growth and some are not. the overall story about the employment effect the city's economy will improve. the number of the jobs in the city will still be less than the city will expect to have with natural growth over the last 5 years. the only point of caution we would mention is

that none of the projections we have looked at are anticipating a recession in the next 5 years. we may have a recession where the city will naturally lose jobs while the city is raising the minimum wage. the city may consider to add flexibility to this proposal to the economic event. >> that concludes my presentation. i'm happy to take any questions at this time. >>supervisor jane kim: i just wanted to clarify that i heard correctly. in terms of the employment impact, you are saying the most conservative is that the city would grow 12,000 new jobs per year. on the other hand, about 15,000 of the private sector jobs by 2019, again there may be a

reduction by that amount. so essentially, are you saying that the loss in the jobs are not necessarily cutting existing jobs, but it could also come from the projected growth that we anticipate even at the most conservative levels. >> the most conservative projections we have is 27,000 new jobs and we predict 15,000 so that leaves 12,000 new jobs even with this new creation. >> okay. thank you. >> if there are no further questions, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> so, i just wanted to recognize that supervisor david campos wants to make opening statements as well. >>supervisor david campos: thank you supervisor kim and i want to thank this very broad coalition coming together to support the nation's

strongest minimum wage law. and i'm very proud to be a part of that coalition. and i want to thank the mayor's office, supervisor kim and her office and all of my colleagues who have come on board to support this item. i also and more importantly want to thank the workers and the community members who have come together to share their stories to underscore why this is so important. i don't know what the campaign for this effort will look like. and i don't know to the extent there will be opposition. i see the letter from the california restaurant association that is, i guess, predicting the end of the world if this goes forward. and i really hope

that they reconsider their stance. but i guess if there is a place where we will be thrilled to have a discussion about minimum wage and the need to increase it, that will be san francisco. so i look forward to add discussion. i want to provide some context because as much as the restaurant industry is trying to anticipate a parade of horribles. we have a very successful restaurant industry particularly here in san francisco. there was a report by open table which is the leading provider of online restaurant reservations, they released information last year that actually shows that san francisco leads the way in the country even higher than new york in terms of restaurant visits. and you know, and

this is not withstanding the fact that not too long ago when san francisco was talking about increasing minimum wage and increasing protections like the universal health care, at that point, this very industry was sayings that the industry would collapse with those things going forward in fact the industry has not collapsed and it's doing better than any place in the country. i wanted to provide context as to why this is important and i have been saying this in the last few months that we are the wealthiest city in the country and yet we have the fastest growing inequality in the country. let's provide some context. there was a report issued by the san francisco chronicle. you know it's true if the chronicle reports it. it basically talks about one way of measuring income and equality is to go by, i want

to make sure i'm pronouncing it correctly. the guinea coefficient, used by world bank to actually measure national economies throughout the world. and the way that this coefficient works is that it looks at a region and the region scores a zero if one 1 person holds all the wealth. so if there is complete income inequality and it scores a 1 if there is an even distribution of wealth. so using 2012 figures, which is what the coefficient shows about where we are. so, you have on one end of the spectrum, sweden which scores at 0.25. which has a lot of

equality. denmark is better than sweden and it's scoring at 0.24. the united states scores at 0.45. so we are not quite sweden. if you look at san francisco it's at 0.508. which means that san francisco is doing worse than rwanda. the 1 piece of news certainly for me is having been born in guatemala that we are doing better than guatemala which is at 0.559. the fact that we are doing worse than rwanda tells you there is something happening here and that we as a city have an obligation to make sure that we lift every boat and those who are trying

to make enough of a wage to live in san francisco who work very hard, that at least we give them a fighting chance. that's what this is really about. it's about making sure that we address the fact that the inequality puts us in the company of developing countries. and i just think that san francisco, the wealthiest city in san francisco, has to improve that. thank you. [ applause ] >>supervisor jane kim: chair, seeing no further comments, can we open for public comment? thank you. i do want to recognize that while there are many many folks that were involved in make k minimum wage come before the voters today that of course we want to recognize our fast food

workers who helped strike across the country and protest bringing $15 an hour to the forefront. when the mayor announced it, it really began the conversation setting that as a minimum. those that were involved in the discussions and negotiations and i do want to recognize mike casey, the head of local to hotel workers, shas an lieu with coalition for fair economy and from the mayor's office and steve fields, gail gill man, john sackey and annie chung who represented nonprofit workers. i want to call up jose from workers united and workers alliance to present and i will read a number of comment cards. steve fields, annie chung, samantha

higgins, don menendez, amy aguilera, antonio diaz, schiavo and connie ford. >> all right. good afternoon supervisors. first of all thank you for your work on this as well as many of the community today and laborers on the minimum wage. part of the workers alliance and campaign for fair economy who represents restaurant workers, retail workers and domestic workers and laborers in san francisco. we've all seen that san francisco has had a huge economic increase in the tech industry and real estate development, but that by no means is a measure of economic success. what is a measure of economic success is handout how -- san francisco is going to address the needs of our

workers in san francisco. right now we are leading the way in economic inequality. but that's not the legacy we want to lead. the legacy we want is is for san francisco to have the highest minimum wage in the country to give our working families and youth a chance to be able to live and thrive in our diverse city. we are really excited about this minimum wage measure as well as the commitment from supervisors and mayor's office to ensure that this minimum wage is adequately enforced and we look forward to november leading the way to the highest minimum wage in the country. thank you. >>supervisor jane kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. steve fields and director of non-profit provider and speaking on behalf of the human services network, the coalition of 100 nonprofit health and human services provider. we are really pleased to see this

measure moving forward. i want to especially acknowledge that this city, this jurisdiction maybe the first jurisdiction in the country that from the beginning acknowledged the necessity to speak to the non-profit partners in developing a fair and equitable minimum wage measure. and it's typical of san francisco that it steps for it in all of these issues. we appreciated being in the conversation. we also appreciated the tone of the conversation with community activist labor and the non-profits all trying to come together to find something that was going to work and move our city forward. so we are very pleased to encourage the committee to move this out with a positive vote to the full board. the non-profit sector. even though the vast majority of our workers meets beyond the minimum wage wage and there is a sector that this is benefit and we hope with the rising tide raises

all boats that will help those that are barely make it to see economic growth in their life so families can stay in this city. i want to thank you for the long meetings we had and i look forward to the campaign. >> thank you, mr. fields. >> good afternoon, supervisors. supervisor yee, supervisors campos and tanning -- tang and kim. i want to truly let you know how grateful we are that all the time in the mayor's office and some of the supervisors we talked to individually specifically today i'm going to address the cop-out for 55 plus older workers. i think many people do not know that for seniors to be eligible

for medicare they have to have a work history of 10 years and a full 40 quarters. many people thought that only if i work one or two 2 years when i grow to be 65 i automatically get medicare. this is not so. almost 30 years ago, the elderly, the older workers who do not get medicare will be in a dire situation particularly when health care is so costly. first we provide training and we hire people over 55 and provide employers, people like us who house housekeepers and they work for 10 plus years, maybe 12. at 65 they qualify for social security. we are not here to ask for a discounted minimum wage rate because we want to pay the older workers lower.

we are just here to make sure that older workers get social security and medicare at age 65. thank you very much for listening and for your compassion for our community and help us maintain these 400 plus jobs for this population. thank you. >> thank you, ms. chung. >> chair yee and members of the rules committee. my name is samantha higgins here to represent the golden restaurant association and express our thoughts about the minimum wage measure. we are appreciative that the mayor is able to reach the minimum wage ballot. as you know the carve out and total compensation approach for minimum wage. we would welcome the reconsideration of these request. at a minimum wage we hope that you might consider the letter we joined seeking one for employers with fewer than 100 full time equivalent

employees the january 1, 2015, rate would be $11 and each july thereafter until july 2019 when the rate would expire and these shall apply. 2, the government supported employee rate should be applicable to all employees for temporary or after school summer or trainee positions with youth or young adults under 25 provided this rate would not be paid to any individual for more than 120 days for any calendar year. no. 3, on or before any year if the employer finds that of the prior year had increased year to year by more than 50 percent, the required first minimum wage adjustment shall be suspended. as you may know restaurants are a low margin endeavor and we are experiencing a boom in the

restaurant industry by restaurants who are experiencing a shortage of labor. we want to go on the record by saying we are not opposed to the minimum wage increase, rather the concern is to keep it best affordable. with this mind we ask you to take into consideration as you deliberate the potential change to the minimum wage ordinance. we to believe the wage workers need a raise. >> thank you. i know that we are to let you know not to sit on the floor. there are a number of seats on the first three rows. please feel free to take those seats. >> speaking spanish. [ spanish speaker ]

>> good afternoon, my name is canned alar i menendez with the progressive workers alliance. i'm here to give you all my testimony. it's time that we do something for our communities. our people are not currently able to pay for their basic needs with the salaries and the wages that are being paid, not even rent for a single room in our city.

the rent has become so expensive and folks are making ends meet are scraping pennies together to pay for rent and transportation and food as well. we already have too many people in san francisco sleeping on the streets without a roof over their heads and we do not need anymore. today i got a call from a volunteer at the tennants clinic, i got a call from a woman desperate because she had just been evicted because she could not pay for the rent. her ssi was only $500 and on top of that the wages she would earn as a minimum wage worker did not support her being able to pay for the rents in either of places she lived and this is a chronic eviction she had been seeing and didn't have support from her family members because they are not able to

also pay their rent. it's time now to ensure that our workers in san francisco are able to meet their needs and our wages need to increase to ensure that they are meeting the price of what living in san francisco is costing now. thank you so much. >> thank you, mr. menendez. >> supervisors, my name is connie ford and i'm one of the vice-president's of the san francisco labor council. i am actually quite proud here to stand here before you. the labor council, other unions and many other community organizations work hard for this calling us the coalition for the fair campaign, we got in the streets and negotiated with the mayor and with everybody's help we have come up with one of the most exciting minimum wage initiatives the country has ever seen. many of us were there 10 years ago and now we

are awe fully proud. i just want to caution you about ted eagan's good report that in a week uc berkeley is going to produce another report, like the glass is half full and half empty where ted eagan said that 60,000 workers are going to benefit from this. we understand that over 100,000 workers from uc berkeley will benefit where ted eagan says the city will flow by the dollars. uc says 10s if not hundreds of millions of dollars will benefit over time. this is really important for the city and when supervisors campos talks about comparison to uganda, it's about time that we work hard

to get this passed because it's going to benefit every single one of us, our children and grandchildren. thank you very much. >> thank you. before the next speaker, i'm going to call more speakers. i forgot to mention san francisco chamber of commerce. john sackey. teresa molina, bob cass ana, jeffrey hunter, tavia. >> good afternoon, my name is pilar schiavo from the california nurses association. we are part of the campaign for a fair economy and we fought very hard for this and appreciate the leadership by supervisor kim and we worked with the mayor's office and our coalition to come to

#2k3wr50e789 and -- agreement and the larger fight that i know supervisor campos now is engaged in. that's one of the reasons as a nurse that you can't be health and provide for your families. nurses have told me about when they are taking care of children who are cancer patients and their parents can't be there because they have to go to work. who should have to make that choice? this is something that we see day in and day out when people are making decisions about medications and being able to is survive and pay rent and putting food on the table for their children. we are very proud that san francisco is leading the way in this movement nationally and we hope this is something that will set the standard for the rest of the nation because we

know san francisco while workers here are hurting, arguably the most of any business workers in the country, we know workers are hurting nationally as well. this is one of the reasons that we are fighting a main street campaign around housing and education and health care and living wage jobs and we appreciate the supervisors support. we hope that you will forward this and expect that you will and look forward to a unanimous vote of the full board. thank you. >> good evening, my name is amy aguilera. we are here to support the ballot measure to support minimum wage. everyday it's becoming more difficult for working families to stay afloat with the rising cost-of-living and the inflated housing prices. so as prices go up our wages do not follow. it's leading individuals and families and

communities in the dark. so san francisco needs solutions like this to keep our communities afloat and raising the minimum wage is definitely a step in the right direction. like supervisor campos mentioned san francisco has to do better and now is the opportunity to do so and lead the way in minimum wage. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is antonio diaz. i'm with podder and san francisco rising. i'm here to raise our support for minimum wage. going on two 2 years now with podder with coalition that we work with in district 11 publiced this report. it was based on the community consultation where there were 200 residents and workers in district 11. we did sessions in spanish and tagalog and cantonese and

english. one of the reoccurring issues that came up in the session that we had with community members in the neighborhood was the issue of at the current jobs that they just do not pay sufficient wages. we have drafted this report with the recommendations, but obviously in terms of a way to get us there, the raising of the minimum wage is an important step. it's not just raising the minimum wage but also ensuring it's enforcement is crucial along with bold policies around housing, education, community and economic development that will help workers in san francisco, not just is survive but ideally thrive. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tav ia. a second generation

native san franciscoan. rent not affordable. not even a lousy hotel. i think bed bugs are getting a better deal than us. you may giggle about that, but it's true. it's really getting bad out there. i speak because i'm an ihs worker and i make minimum wage too and i fight for that. i'm a live in worker and provider for him. if i didn't have him, there is no telling where i would be, in a doorway or something. lord knows i have been there before and would not like to go back.

we all need to bond and not just low income people, all of us need to as city of san franciscans to show pride. this is something we've all earned. this is something we need to keep and so you can look at your grandchildren and say, hey, i remember when that building was there. i feel that way. it's not fair that you have to live in a dump. and then have other people in nice places. i don't know what you guys can do, but all i can do is tell you how i feel and what's going on out there and it's getting worse. there are lots of kids from all over and sleeping on the street. it's