been or but for our family it was cost a lot of money and it was really hard on us. so in theory i think that we already have a law in place for this. and so i am kind of saying why we have to add to it. and so i can see that if the people have been in jail for 30 days to 60 days and showing the good behavior and the staff are able to assess them, and see that yeah, they are possibly really low risk to the community to recommend that they be released on the electronic monitoring but much would prefer as i said or. and on the deversion. thank you. >> thank you. very much. >> next speaker, please? >> and good afternoon supervisors. and it was very interested and interesting to me for the da, because i support all parts of

the law enforcement. but i was really surprised when the da compared the people like with a million dollar bond murder, you know, committing a murder, to what is going on here today. because, i was like what? how can you just like the sheriff was saying, it is apples and oranges to the way in los angeles, but, we just like when i was in my addiction some years ago, and i was in the middle of the revolving door because of my addiction, but, with the money that could be saved for opening a new jail, that if people are allowed to go on the monitoring and process that could go into

housing, and then, in the mental health services and other things that would that is really needed to help the people stay out of jail. so, i really wish that you would bring this forth to the full board, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> good afternoon. my name is luke gordon and i am the executive director of recovery survival, and i am here in full support of the electronic monitoring and home detention. and because i work with this population every day. and what i have come to realize is that the taxpayer i have something here and as a taxpayer, i don't think that it is cost effective to leave a person for a low level crime in jail at 140 dollars and upwards a day as opposed to putting them on the electronic monitoring at 16 dollars a day or something in that vicinity and the point is that we know that that person is every day, every second of every day.

and it is absolute positive way to keep complete transparency, for that client, is and it makes a community, a whole lot safer, to be able to identify where that person is and i am mot talking about a murderer, i am talking about a guy who did petty theft or something like that. and so i think that they don't have the economic resources to bail themselves out and as a pretrial, too, i think that electronic monitoring is the best way to go and 100 percent support it as a taxpayer and as a service provider to the sheriff's department to probation and to the superior court, thank you. >> thank you, sir, the next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is martha roots and i am here today as an ankle monitor success story. san francisco sheriff department assessed me, and put me on an ankle monitor for 75

days. and that time, i was electronically monitored through all of my walk of every day and i was also home detained after 9:00 p.m., in that time, i got my high school diploma, received an internship through the sheriff's department and have now been working for three years. and so, this does work for low level criminals. it has nothing like, i don't see them letting a murderer go on home detention, i don't see them letting anybody that has 3-d uis with may hem going on electronic monitoring but for those low level criminals that do deserve the second chances it does work. >> i want to thank you for sharing your story. and very inspiring and congratulations. thank you. >> next speaker. >> my name is kevin pull son and i am assigned to the community programs which means that i manage the deputies and the men and women who manage

the electronic monitoring system for the department. >> i wanted to say just a few short things, one, i want to make sure that we know that in addition to knowing where people are, we also have the ability to monitor their alcohol consumption, and so we know whether they are putting themselves more at risk. and the other thing that i wanted to mention is to make sure that we know that this is a relationship that we do electronic monitoring and not just putting the person, or a person in an electronic jail. but, it is a calculus of interviewing the person and working with the person to provide them the resources that they need to successfully reintegrate with the community. and this means providing them educational services, and substance abuse services, and a variety of violence interventions so that we give them the tools to succeed in the community at the same time as letting them know that we are watching them and working with them for their success. thank you. >> thank you. captain. thank you for what you do.

>> thank you. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is nick and i am the director of the legal services in jails in san francisco and i am an attorney and i am also an ex-offender. and one of the things that i have been working here for 15 years that mike hennesse pointed out to me when i started working here is people who go to court from outside from the street, usually stay out of jail. i was one of those lucky people many years ago. i came from a family who was able to bail me out of jail and i was able to get out, and eventually get my life together and show the court that i was worthy of staying out, part of that was the color of my skin and part of that was the socio economic family that i came from, the majority of the people in our jail don't have those resources. they don't have the opportunity to bail out and we can and then on the other issue that i want to talk about was the district attorney brought up the people

with prior serious crimes. now, someone could have a prior serious crime from 20 years ago, not have money, and not be able to get out of jail. if for something minor today. whereas someone can have a prior serious crime and a current serious crime and have money and still get out of jail, and so, it really does, even though the public safety is a big issue, it comes out to people with money are able to get out of jail and the people without money aren't and it comes down to that simple and do we want to keep the people in jail, solely because they don't have the resources? thank you. >> thank you, very much. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. again, i want to thank everyone for their thoughts and comments, and it is clear, that all of us even if we have disagreement, you know, we all agree that the main thing here is that we want to maintain the

public as safe as possible and in the process of making sure that we explore the alternatives to incarceration and i think that it really is about striking the right balance. and we have a motion, and to amend the ordinance, and we also have to include in the amendment, the annual report. and i want to turn it to supervisor yee. >> thank you very much. >> i really, i guess that the last speaker that just spoke, hit the point very clearly to me, in that, with this is going to do is continue to look at vehicles to even out the playing field for everybody regardless of what socio economicks that people come from. and i, again as i said earlier, i think that this is just a little too... for us to help people get back to their lives,

and so, with the annual evaluation reporting to the board of supervisors, and you are even stronger to maybe, to get this passed to the full board. and >> great, so can we take, and i just want to make sure that we are clear on the amendments to our deputy city attorney and our clerk and we are clear on the amendments and a motion to amend the amendments and so we can take the motion to amend without objection, and now on the item as amended, if we could have a motion to move this forward with a positive recommendation, as a committee report? >> so moved. >> we have a moved by supervisor yee if we could take that without objection. >> without objection. item passes. and mr. clerk, do we have any other items before the board. >> i believe that is today's business. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you.

>> good afternoon, everyone. this is not a new version of q and a time if you're wondering but we have a major announcing announcement to make and something that all of us and particularly the people that are standing behind me want to really thank them for working

hard for us and a number of people throughout the city realizing our city is more expensive and work families mr. taylor those who eastern minimum wage have struggled longer hours to try to make end meet and recognizing we'll have a tremendous effort being given to sustain jobs in the city and want to continue doing that but beyond the jobs how much you that make and so you can pay the high rents and all the things that costs sometimes beyond our control are increasing i'm grateful that last year, we made this announcement and he repeated it earlier this year at the state of the city address that we thought it was the right time to make a boost to the city and counties city's minimum wage

to our lottery workings i prengd to work with all the different businesses small and big with workers themselves the representatives with economic experts any public comment? with the members of the board of supervisors, to try to reach a sequence around raising the minimum wage in the city. and this is one of the great issues that we can ail unit around and push forward to the residents of this city with our san francisco values intact and a sure belief that someone who puts in a hard day's work gets a respectable wage we've heard the input from the sectors are our community earners and people that pay the minimum wage we've heard from nonprofits as well as small businesses and large businesses and today, the

current minimum wage of $10.74 there's been a across the board agreement that's not enough. and even though voters passed the minimum wage that we counter experience in 2003, the new the current minimum wage is left unchanged will be to the $11.03 were hour effective january 1st of 2015. the sequence measure that we are proposing to have to the voters and i'll the the first but everyone behind me it going to be very proud to have this discussion with other businesses small and large and nonprofits with residents and voters in san francisco. we will have before the voters a proposal to increase san francisco minimum wage to the following numbers. in the next few years.

beginning on may 1st of 2015. we propose $12.25 per hour and then each of the next year's beginning on july 1st for example, july 1st, 2016, that will be raised to $13 or a hour and july first $201,714 and july first $201,815 an hour and the consumer price otherwise to kick in. thank you to all the members of the board of supervisors who are standing here at the podium all here. i want to thank dr. laura tyson from uc berkley and there's a lot of stakeholders in this big

and small businesses labor unit want to thank all of them for being at the table and workers rights groups invaluable to the process they've been talking to folks in languages to make sure they understood what in the meant and nonprofit groups a very large number of hours committed i want to thank the number of nonprofits that came to the table that make sure that we were taking care of them as well their invaluable to the employment to san franciscans all in an effort to really try to get a consensus approach thank you to the coalition to the fair economy my the san francisco chamber of commerce. sometimes they maybe speaking times at the opposite ends but

they came together with all of us to make sure our interests were united. a lot of hard work to build consensus in the city i'll be the first to say but i've been proud we've done so on a number of occasions whether this was pension reformer are or the housing trust fund or a number of general obligation bonds we'll have in the past we've had a united effort this was well work out it when you get a consensus to raise minimum wage that will be the highest minimum wage in this country. we will remain progressive and i want to specifically thank our supervisors and i know as of last night supervisor jane kim spent an which they recalled amount of time loans with the

representatives of our fair committee but in particular we wanted at the beginning to work with the supervisors and i'm very glad that supervisor kim took up the challenge she put in the hours to work and i want to introduce her not only has helped us do this she's been on the forefront of a lot of issues for the city. supervisor jane kim (clapping) >> thank you. mr. mayor and i can't tell you how happy i am am to be here san francisco is once again setting the bar for emphasis economic agenda we're doing it together. i'm proud to be here with the mayor the buyer board of supervisors, labor our nonprofit leaders and the chamber of commerce. united to bring forward a

proposal inform the voters of san francisco the most progressive and strongest minimum wage proposal in this proposal all san francisco employers will be paying $15 by 2018 this is pure wages that san francisco workers will be bringing hoyt home despite setting the prototype in the city in the last two years in particular we've been seeing a widening inflict gap between our lottery and highest paid worker no one should be left behind an economy that is so successful some be able to benefit. when the mayor and the board committed to creating more jobs in san franciscan it was not about creating just any jobs but with health care it was not only

allowing our workers to afford to live in santa fe san francisco but support their families i want to acknowledge the labor and workers they've been clear in leading issues to protect our protecting workers they fought for sick day and no other city considered those landmark lacks foundation now cities are joining san francisco's ranges san francisco has a lot of to the proud of not only are we pushing the boundary within the boundary of san francisco but impacting the lives of workers throughout the country our president made a call to raise the national minimum wage but if congress can't do it localities should it's simple and clear and i and

i'm confident san franciscans will proudly vote for the measure there are so many people the mayor and mayor's office the nonprofit leaders that were committed and, of course, labor and workers that have been waiting for the wage even as different that was no one wanted to walk away from bringing this proposal to the city. i'm very proud thank you. (clapping.) >> the coalition for fair economy has been working the streets late and you've seen them on the street corners we were cognizant of that let me be clear now that we've made the agreement there are no two different measures this year's

only one measure wisp able to contact and start negotiations with this coalition there were compromises that should had to be made and reality if that checked in and we were fortunate we were able to catch each other to make sure we connected in the base ass basis and the relative to be sure there are no longer two measures before the public that was a possibility up underlining until a few weeks ago i'm glad to introduce charleston who's been representing the coalition her staff and volunteers were talking to workers and making sure that the economy was not going to get away from them but also making sure they made contact with us as well.

ma'am. (clapping.) good afternoon >> i'm here representing the campaign for a broad coalition for labor i'm not sorry who have collectively been representing over one hundred thousand workings we fought for the original 2003 minimum wage increase which set the bar across the country and which has been model by cities and states for minimum wage basically as well as health care laws. and we're very proud of that work but as mentioned by that mr. mayor and supervisor kim the minimum wage as to it stands far too low and 10 years later the same things that compelled us to

raise the minimum wage are working today in san francisco we see the workers are falling behind in rent and when the average one bedroom agreement is 2 thousand plus per month workers can't live here and have long term futures in the city so many are homeless and worker two or three jobs and living in cramped rooms with shared kitchens or living with three or four or 6 people in agreement to pay the rents. san francisco should not be leading the country as the number one faster growing city that's not the legacy we want to leave so we are pleased to be standing with the coalition with the mayor's office and the board of supervisors and other groups

to reach the consensus measure. our consensus measure will raise the bar by getting all workers to $15 in 200128 and insure that no minimum wage worker in san francisco goes without on increase over one hundred thousands of our lowest paid worker will benefit it puts hundreds of millions of into worker wages money going directly to local businesses and fuels our economy. i want to put into prospective what that means the campaign is made up of organizations that fight for the lowest minimum wage workers get a decent chance of thriving in san francisco around many policies around housing and health care and education. for people in may day of 2015

theirs to see a pay increase been $240 a month that is a different between paying for health care or paying rent. and within 4 years time as we get to $15 an hour that's putting $9,000 a year into the pocket of protecting workers it's not everything but it reduces the stress. so the campaign for fair economy wants to recognize supervisor jane kim and mayor edwin lee in raising the issue and bringing the city together to fight for a unified coalition and thank you to the worker the fast food

workers across the industry put tare livelihoods on the edge to raise the minimum wage and we're proud that san francisco, california join the fight and help to lead the fight. i also wanted to say that we know for our workers sometimes $20 makes a different between paying the bus or paying rent. we're confident that the voters will support this measure finally, i want to say we're pleased that the mayor's office and supervisor kim has made a commitment to continue to increase the minimum wage we're going to make sure this is enforced so we have the resources and the tools needed to make sure that employers that

minority employers that often my try to cheat the workers are held accountable. thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> i'm very proud of the city as you've learned our unemployment rate went down to 4 point percent latinos that's the lowest in the country we want to continue to employ people in the private and public sectors and nonprofits as well and a partner wanted to make sure that you knew that working on this particular task was extra sensitive for the san francisco chamber of commerce but their proud you have we, in fact, had a consensus let me trolley mr.

wade rose who is representing the san francisco chamber of commerce. (clapping.) >> mayor ed lee and supervisor kim and supervisors we the business community are police department mr. reginald that a single ballet measure had been appearing in november to ask the folks of san francisco whether or not they want to support an expansion and growth in the minimum wage. the issue about the discussions we were involved with and have been involved it come down to the observation that a compromise is a precious idea that has to be experienced to be healthy that we think that the consensus built up around this measure residents will be voting on we've reached the compromise. one of the kind of facts of san francisco which is not well

understood because we're bless to be a headquarter city and a huge amount of high tech are coming in is that 80 percent of the 6 hundred thousand people who are employed in san francisco are employed by small and medium businesses businesses often less than 20 people, 80 percent in the twitters or the pg&e. it's the folks who have put themselves open the lineup to put a business together and make employment available that are impacted by this the most so our concerns as a business origins to make sure that the process when was agreed to in the compromised reflected their concerns from a business prospective which means whatever the amount had to be phased in it had to be within the means of

people who to afford as business owners 0 write paychecks to people who work in san francisco. we've arrived at the at a that venture and up to the people of san francisco but we're pleased many the consensus is reached and the work of mayor ed lee and the work of the supervisor kim and the other supervisors and entities within san francisco that are pushing the issues and we look forward to november. thank you very much (clapping) >> you know, as i said early consensus building is not a easy task i want to shout out to someone on my staff that's been working extra extra hours to keep my texts and phone calls alive to make sure idealogy with everyone in the room and