youth saying? they are saying they want a better life, they want economic quit, equity, they want economic equity, we've seen them take autopsy -- all of our raises and the work that our work has produced and put in their pockets. while we are increasing the minimum wage, we not only want to see a maximum equity and share, but there is much more to be done. i commend supervisor kim for sponsoring this. let's make it higher. let's work towards beyond 15 and working towards more economic equity, not only in san francisco but throughout this country and throughout this world. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is lisa alexander for

politics is a local 1021 and also a non-profit worker at the tenderloin. i want to thank supervisor kim for your role in coming up with this measure. also for recognizing that this is even possible because of the bravery because of the fast food workers to bring issues of equality and the idea of lifting everybody up as the solution to rising inequality in our country. i say no one working full time should be living in poverty and raising the minimum wage is a practical solution to addressing poverty. however we have many many people working two or three jobs and living in poverty. we have seniors who are working and renting floor space. we have people who are living in sro hotel rooms and people matching their income with public

benefits because their wages don't get tluchlt -- through. we are engaged in minimum wage, i glad san francisco is leading the way again. we have spent a lot of money to attract a lot of sectors here. i think this is the appropriate next step to take is to say, we don't have to just attract lots and lots of good jobs. we can make all jobs good jobs and lift the wages. thank you very much. >> thank you. i want to call the rest of our cards that want to speak at public comment. lily wong, chelsey boiler, frances, grace martinez, david elliot louis, mario. if you did not submit a card, please feel free to lineup. mr. tennis? >> thank you committee members for allowing me to speak this afternoon. my name is david tennis and retired and i live

in the tenderloin. i would like to commend all of you for the work that you have done in this measure. $15 an hour is a very good start. unfortunately that's not until july 1, 2018. and it seems like we are sell braeth -- celebrating as if it were today. i wish it was. to divide the have and have knots in san francisco is everyday. even though $15 an hour is a very good amount, that's not for another 4 years. what about between now and then? i don't have the answers. i'm not that smart. but to divide the have z s and z and s have nots.

>> good afternoon supervisors. i'm the executive director of west bay for the -- service. i brought students here today. we support the increase of minimum wage. the reason for is a lot of our students, a lot of our kids don't finish high school. those who don't finish high school don't go to college. a lot of filipino students we have live in san francisco. in fact we lost 11 percent of our population in san francisco. on behalf of our students, we fully support the increase in the minimum wage. thank you very much. >> also thank you to the west bay summer youth program for coming out to rules committee today. [ applause ]

next speaker, please. >> i really don't have too much to say, but i will say everything is getting inflated. so raise the minimum wage. you know, why are you going to inflate everything and don't raise our pay. it doesn't make sense. it's just natural progression. are we going to cut the people short and raise the prices on everything or are we going to cut the people. raise the minimum wage. >> good afternoon, i name is

nichols. organization local 1021 and worker in san francisco and case manager in affordable housing community non-profit organizations. normally i come to these committees or city hall meetings and we are fighting and complaining about something, we don't like something that's going on, we are demanding more, but this is great minimum wage policy that i hope becomes implemented. i really want to say thank you for putting this up, working it out through seiu, i'm proud of the coalition for the fair economy which is made up of labor organizations. and work out differences and come to this compromise with this measure that we are discussing today. bring it home a little bit more. i started working full time as a non-profit worker in 2005 and that's how i started

seeing company -- co-workers of mine making less than $15 an hour. and working in the union and nonprofit, over the years there is no push from the bottom. the clients from the non-profit organizations, there is no push from the bottom. i want to ask you to keep it up. let's pass this, let's make sure people go up from the bottom and like we saw a lot of the studies earlier that will push the economy. thank you and keep doing what you are doing with this. >> thank you. >> hello. my name is lily

wong for children and youth part of san francisco work alliance. i'm here to support minimum wage to $15 an hour. working class families in san francisco need a higher minimum wage. i'm actually the product of a minimum wage family. my father's first job? san francisco was a minimum wage janitorial job. families like mine are the ones that keep the city going. minimum wage wasn't enough for us to is survive growing up in san francisco and that was a long time ago. it's a little embarrassing, but when i was going to school in this city i got academically dinged, i got a lower score in one of my presentations because i didn't by coastal paper for that presentation because i didn't want the added cost to my family because they couldn't buy me poster paper for school. it's young people in

minimum wage families like mine that make these decisions everyday. and they really shouldn't have to make those decisions. the measure of our city's success should be based on how well workers can live and thrive in san francisco. that's why i support a higher minimum wage. thank you. >> hello, my name is chelsey for children and youth and part of san francisco rising and i'm here to support the minimum wage measure. we organize working class for youth and these are families who without a living wage are living in over crowded and substandard living conditions and in some cases pushed out of the city and commuting for work and school. these families urgently need an

increase in minimum wage. an incredible amount of work has been done to create unity around this powerful measure and get it passed by voters in on november. it is not a living wage. we still have a ways to go to make sure those can stay in the city to thrive. it is a powerful measure and powerful step in the right direction and will affect thousands of workers to ensure they are economically secure. thank you. >> thank you. just a reminder if those can put their phones on vibrantte -- vibrate or silent. >> david elliot louis. 30 -year resident, long time social justice advocate and also on the board of community partnership. i know our director hasn't always been

supportive of this. that's her opinion. i think there is huge value in promoting this. it does trouble me that san francisco chamber of commerce supports this. it makes me think we didn't go quite far enough. this is a great start. i strongly support it. 10 supervisors or supporters, to me it's a complete, i'm preaching to the choir, i know it will pass. i want to thank you for doing this. you are really going to help a lot of people and you will help people at the bottom. i live in district six and i see poor people everyday and people who will be helped by this. i'm hoping that in maybe two or 3 years we'll have another adjustment. i hope there is no watering down to dilute this. so please go forward and carry it forth as designed. you

will really be helping poor people. thank you supervisors. good day. >> thank you. mr. louis. >> good afternoon, my name is grace martinez, a community organizer for community and empowerment. we organize income for communities and social and economic justice. we are here to support the minimum wage increase. earlier today at the press conference we had in front of city hall, one comment that resonates with everyone is that the rent was too damn high and a lot of that comes from the fact that there is a growing inequality here in san francisco with the cost-of-living and increased profits for a lot of koreans -- corporations. $15 an hour is a great start and this is

a livable wage. thank you very much. >> hi supervisors. mario, from san francisco. from the community groups from the advocates of podder. we are proud to be part of this fairness economy. as so many have said one of the pieces to make this affordability crisis in san franciscans. i want to get on record to make sure the municipal election an intense voter outreach program. we employee 10 people, we contact 4619 voters where many

supported an immediate measure and we identified 77 supporters which this committee heard. we are looking forward to working with our allies to make sure this becomes law. thank you supervisors for bringing this measure before the votesers. thank you. i do have one more speaker card. ward log ins. any other person that would like to speak on this item? >> just good afternoon supervisors. thank you for allowing me to speak. i love my supervisor jane kim. appreciate you. thank you for doing a great job. i support the minimum wage increase and support affordable housing. i think san francisco has a lot of services that we provide and we have a lot of people wanting to go back to work.

we have a large amount of people on general assistance and welfare. i think $15 an hour will be an encouragement to going back to work and cost of child care and person earning minimum wage who can't hardly afford the cost of child care. i think $15 an hour will be great to have an income for affordable housing as well. i'm hoping that $15 an hour will boost our local economy, businesses and raise funz for our city because we provide a lot of services for our residents and we need this minimum wage to put people back to work. thank you. >> thank you. i got a couple more speaker cards, jesus perez, marian. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jesus

perez with south of market network. i'm here to support p minimum wage. you guys support the minimum wage because we have families that live in sro's and they are working two jobs. so i'm here to see if you can increase the minimum wage, thank you. >> thank you, mr. perez. you mean come in any order. >> i will take it then. thank you very much supervisors. we are all in support of this. you can see how broad the support for this measure has been and thank you for taking the initiative on this. i have also been a restaurant worker and when people talk about the restaurants and how the jobs really affect us. most of my

co-workers work two jobs just to make it here. my mom worked three jobs. she woshthd woshth in -- worked in a restaurant and flower shop. it's about living a rich life. that's why it's important. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you for taking the time to be here. my name is lydia. i have been working with comcast for the past year. i have been in san francisco for the past seven 7 years mainly with working families. basically what's going on right now in the city is as you have all seen and it's all affecting us is high prices. the biggest impact has always been on our

immigrant community. the families that work in the kitchen, the families that are serving your food and minimum wage that's on right now is not enough for our families and to increase the minimum wage would be a small relief, but it would help families that have five and four kids trying to exist here in san francisco. thank you for your time. >> thank you. are there any other speakers on this item? seeing none, mr. chair, can we please close public comment. >> okay. thank you supervisor kim for conducting this item. you had earlier wanted us to introduce some amendment to this item. we heard the amendments already that you wanted us to introduce. is

there a motion to introduce the amendments as outlined by supervisor kim? >> so moved. >> okay. without objection, the amendments are passed. is there a motion to pass this item out? so moved. >> there is a motion and are there comments? >> thank you, chair. i wanted to make a quick comment. i wanted to thank all the members who came out today. this is a very compromised solution. it was a compromise for a lot of employers who are worried about the rapid increase to $15 even though they agreed that $15 needed to happen and of course workers who are struggling as workers and need the $15 now and i want to thank you for the support because there are so many that need this measure. i'm speaking for someone that

is the coauthor of these measures. we know we need to prevent the eviction and we need to build more affordable housing in this city. i'm excited that we have this agenda moving forward for the november ballot and i want to thank those who made it possible to introduce these measures. the organizing that's happening with the labor is in incredibly exciting. i want to thank all the supervisors that are here, they are all cosponsors of the minimum wage proposal. >> thank you. i would like to add to the course here and thank you for your leadership on this and also with the may i see -- mayor's office and community members and all the people that have made this possible. i lived through

many many years of minimum wage myself and it was a struggle. as many of you know, i spent most of my life in the nonprofit world where it was pretty much minimum wage. for me to see this little bump up in salary for the people that actually run our city and make our city as rich as it is in terms of what's available for other people, i am happy like probably everybody else here on this committee to be a cosponsor of this item. so, if there is a motion on the floor, and without any objection. >> what was the motion? >> supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: the motion is to move the ordinance as amended. >> we need to continue this to

july 24 th for the amendments being made. >> okay. we need to continue this to july 24th. >> without any objection, then the motion passes. thank you very much. we will continue this item because we made amendments today until the next rules committee meeting. okay. that means if you would like to leave, unless you want to stay for the rest. madam clerk, can you call item no. 11. city clerk: item 1: [settlement of lawsuit - jay korber - $4,072,519]1405991.ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by jay korber against the city and county of san francisco for $4,072,519; the lawsuit was filed on april 12, 2013, in san francisco superior court, case no. cgc-13-530600; entitled jay korber v. city and county of san francisco, et al. city clerk: sf 11234 item 11: [hearing - initiative ordinance - planning code - city housing balance requirement]14071611.sponsors: kim; campos, avalos, mar and

yeehearing held to consider the proposed initiative ordinance submitted by four of more supervisors to the voters at the november 4, 2014, election entitled "ordinance amending the planning code to establish, in the approval and construction of new housing, a balance of 70 >> okay. supervisors kim. you want to make some comments on this. supervisor kim show today. >>supervisor jane kim: first of all. i want to thank the rules committee. you have had a tough calendar. i didn't know i had quite the calendar that you had. i do want to thank supervisor tang and chair yee for all the many ideas and proposals that we have proposed for the ballot for november 2014. i wish this was one. i know we are going to have folks coming in to speak on the housing balance measure. i did want to give an introduction for this measure. this as i had mentioned earlier today is a big legislative year in san francisco. an equitable affordability is important in san francisco. despite our growth in our economy and

decrease in unemployment in san francisco, san francisco is still leading in the largest income gap in the country. san francisco can also lead in our commitment to address this gap and commit to the strongest affordable housing production in the country. i had mentioned before that it was exciting to have three potential ballot measures that would address equity in san francisco, one we need to raise wages for workers so they can live here and the incredible increase of evictions of long time city of san san franciscans and seniors and families and finally our legislation which is about a commitment of 30 percent affordable housing here in san francisco. this legislation has a lot of history and a lot of folks have been working on this

concept for a long time. it began in 2007 when the western market community began meeting in 2007. this plan was finally improved last year march of 2013 and our office began to work on the trilogy legislation of which housing ballot was one. we know that there is a broad consensus throughout san francisco that luxury housing what we are currently producing for people that makeover 120 percent of ami is not creating the housing that the vast majority of san franciscans can afford. our goal of construction should be affordable to 50 percent of san franciscans. something we don't think about when we talk about affordable housing. who does affordable housing include? it includes individuals who make-up to $81,000 a year. that is how expensive san francisco is.

you can make $50-80,000 in san francisco and still struggle to live here. we are talking about the majority of san franciscans. no one opposes a 30 percent goal mark. we know it's achievable with a little bit more effort. however, i think the question is whether we as policy maker and whether we as a city should be accountable to that goal. i want to say personally that i support growth and development. for me it's never been about height, density or even on the water front. but everyday i hear from residents who maybe on fixed income and seniors but even or working class residents who say they can't afford the housing popping up throughout this city. i hear from people that their kids coming out of college can't find a place to

rent on their own. i hear it throughout san francisco, i hear it at harvey milk clubs and even hear it at chamber of commerce. residents are concerned and frustrated that they can't live in units that are built that they can not afford. we consider so much in our city, we consider height, all small businesses from formula retail. shouldn't we also consider affordability. shouldn't affordability be a value in the planning code. shouldn't we protect low and working class residents in san francisco. we should be held accountable. as policy makers to make this vision of affordable san francisco a

reality. building more luxury housing is not going to build more affordable housing. economic impact fees are not going to build more affordable housing. it is striking that today, the day we speak about the legislation, we also read in the news that san francisco's median price for buying a home in san francisco has hit a million dollars. the median price of purchasing a home in san francisco has hit a million dollars today despite the largest construction boom in san francisco. residents don't believe that supply alone is enough in san francisco. i believe it's part of the answer. we have not seen the decrease in cost of housing. that's why we should continue to build at 30 percent. i heard two major criticisms of this legislation. one i heard that this legislation will

stop development. i don't think anyone in this room believes that. i have never seen anything stop development in san francisco except a bad economy and banks closing their doors to financing development. this is a tool to ensure rather not that we want to stop development but that we want to ensure balanced growth and this is our commitment to residents that 30 percent new growth in the city will be available to the average resident. we can build at 30 percent, if this legislation will never take into effect. if we don't, then this process will give the community and the city an opportunity to be more thoughtful as we support new development to create real plans for creating a deficit when we fall below 30 percent. it is an additional planning review where the community can participate in that process and the planning can consider the affordability as a factor

of what we build in san francisco. i have also heard that this legislation is a threat. i want to be clear that we are not threatening anyone. this is about accountability. we can say all we want as a goal but we have to be accountable to the people of san francisco. i do want to say finally before i bring up our powerpoint presentation. that we want to continue to work with the big stakeholders and the mayor and the affordable housing and housing that addresses the need for increased revenue and inclusionary housing policy. i strongly believe that housing balances the tools and can compliment these reforms but i understand that conversation and dialogue is important as we continue to discuss how we can build affordable housing which i know is a goal for everyone. i have distributed a