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this contract. i have -- representative from the oewd and staff here to work you through the services they provide and some of the information attached to the memo before you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. pat, city build, economic and workforce development. our charge was to develop a workforce policy for this project. there is some challenges early on a. this is the first cal trans project that we're aware of in the state has any sort of local hire provisions. we had a very difficult negotiation early on to try and set practice in place to ensure opportunities for local residents. this was also a unique collaborative for this project. i think this is the first time cal trans has embarked on this
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sort of endove for this public-private partnership. so despite of our best efforts to get policies more consistent with the mandatory local hire provisions. we ended up adopts provisions very similar to the san francisco's first source hiring requirements. those are good faith efforts on behalf of the contractor towards meeting a goal of 50% of all new hires. so if you can review the data on the left side of the report it goes through that there were 120 local residents that were hired on this project that represents a 30%,jx.zst as opposed to the % ku >> i'm sorry, a quick question, do you know where they were hired? which neighbors. do you have that level of detail? >> i can provide that. certainly we have access to all of that data by zip code. we can identify workers. anybody who is received
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employment services through our office would be registered with the san francisco address. our practices are -- focused for the economically disadvantaged so predominantly in the southeast. certainly that is the case of individuals coming through our workforce training programs. we can provide detailed information, and pie charts breaking that down. the 36% goal is not consistent with the 50% overall, but it is consistent with force source obligations on other projects throughout san francisco. certainly superior to the fist source provisions on transbay, a similar project with regional and national funding sources and also with first source obligations. some of the challenges on this project are the -- in addition, to the unique nature of this type of development and working with cal trans for the first time is, it is coming to miss of
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a large construction boom in san francisco where local hires are really in demand with all of the local hire provisions citywide. the contractor was very specific on certifications come from certain individuals. also there was a shortage of operating engineers. which also speaks to some of the shortens. the overall numbers, not part of this report as well. even throw there is a 36% achievement regards to the new hires in s in res in first soure obligations. approximately 25% overall what they are meeting. not just new hires, but residency hiring. that is how the mandatory local hire is measured. not just new hires, but overall employment. the numbers are encouraging and been improving over the last few months. initially this project was
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challenged. the contractor never worked on the provisions before and cal trans never dealt with them. there was a learning curve, but we are encouraged moving forward. we can provide all of that data detailed by demographics, by zip code. >> this is great news. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. cynthia, i don't know if you have anymore. >> i would like to just mention the fact, before -- the committee on december 3rd, a unanimous motion of support. in terms of financial impact, we are currently able to fund this $164,000 contract with an appropriation previously approved by the board. any adjustments that need to be made for the physical year 15-15 budge -- 14-15 would be made at the midyear point. with that i'm happy to answer
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questions that the committee would have. >> thank you, staff for coming back and make the presentation. it is important for us to call this into the record and the folks not here in this chamber and that home watching and listening it is important that we are making efforts to expand local hiring at every opportunity that we have. so thank you for your presentation. no comments from -- callings. public comment. no public comment. it is closed. let's go ahead and do a roll call vote. >> on item four? >> on item 4. correct. [ calling roll ] >> the item passes. >> great. thank you very much. is there -- what is the next item, mr. clerk? >> item 9. >> all right. seeing there is no introduction of new items. let's -- go ahead and open up to
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>> what do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. >> we want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i didn't love it i'll be an accountant. >> we want the experience that is a non-airport experience the negative stigma we're trying to erase that. >> everything is in a bad food to excite them about the food and they have time to learn about us. >> people are imitated by traveling and the last thing to
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do is come to a place fill of chaos. >> telling me how the extent of napa a farms came about. >> it was a vision of the airport director he had a suspicion of a really cool gourmet speciality market locally friendly products this market local flavors this is the best. >> can we get a little tour. >> absolutely (laughter) ♪ ♪ >> so first on our tour. >> we have the clock we like to call it. >> this is coordinating it is made in san francisco. >> what about the customer presence. >> we like to get the permanent farther i love the cappuccino
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and you have to go to multiple places for the cupcakes the cup a cakes from kari's people want to live here they're longing phone call for one thing in one spot in you know anything about san francisco the cheese the most popular cheesy think a lot of the people from the west coast say so this the real san francisco sour dough and they're curious. >> you find people respond to the idea of organic and absolutely. >> this is autumn. >> thank you, thank you and there's a lot of personal touch. >> i see san francisco. >> it's very hands on. >> what's the most popular items. >> this is quite surprising our fresh jotting this is the
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chronicle special a bowl of warm oats and coconut that's mites farther. >> and speaking of drinks tell me again the cocktail scenes is that one, the things your known for . >> the cocktails are fantastic. >> really. >> fresh ingredients we don't have a mixture it to order this is our marcus bloody mayor. >> farmer's market bloody mary the bloody marys in the airport are great shikz it up. and then we're going to garnish it with olives. and some lime and a fresh stalk
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of selly. right on. >> we like good afternoon, everyone welcome to the budget & finance meeting a special meeting for november 2015 i'm supervisor farrell i'll be joined that i supervisor mar and supervisor avalos thank you for the committee clerk linda wong as well as the members of sfgovtv keeping covering this jonathan madam clerk please silence all electronic devices.
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all files and documents to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the full board to the committee report for consideration on not that i know of 18, 2014 >> thank you, very much. call items one and two. >> amending the planning code for the operation of formula retail establishment including the employers who offer additional hours of work to temporary part-time employees for 90 diaz days and item 2 a an ordinance amending the police code to provide employees with two weeks notice of schedule and compensation for schedule changes on less than 7 days notice and on call notice and permeate for the access to time off and eligibilities for promotion for full-time employees. >> thank you madam clerk i know
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this was heard last week while i was not no time but won't have a spell meeting today i'm going to turn it over to supervisor mar. >> and i wanted to mention that i believe that samantha rajas will be hopefully here to answer questions i want to thank supervisor farrell for allowing us to have the budget meeting last week and pleased he's here to continue our conversation in the last in our meeting on wednesday there were a number of amendments made and i wanted to thank the many members of the public members of the community from the retailer workers themselves to small businesses and on that testified and also the businesses and on that testified as well and wanted to thank the director of our office of small business and director of our labor enforcement dan for
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weighing in on that important legislation and our retailer workers bill of rights has been given through many, many meetings and now hearings and we're almost over the finish line i wanted to say for today's hearing we have a number of people that we are continuing the public comment period supervisor farrell but i'll do my best to listen to the public comment but my attention in speaking with president chiu over the phone this morning and others i'll be making a motion it's critical i think to keep within any part of the legislation to eliminate an amendment that was made last week proposed 2 hundred thresholds employee for the retention policy and for me keeping the legislation has strong as possible and the co-sponsors have supervisor chiu
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and supervisor avalos and supervisor campos for this section and that amendment that was made they're not a strong rational for it i think it sits and persistent to create a loophole where thousands of workers will be impacted i'll move we eliminate that threshold of 2 hundred employees i think in looking at other examples i think it was given at the meeting i don't think it will be there's a persistent for example, in the hospitality square footage there's a sliding scale threshold and in the 0 grocery store worker retention there's is a square footage threshold and then there's no threshold in the scombrarl cud kidal ordinance we need to keep
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the ordinance strong from the retailer workers to keep this as strong as possible this will that is not one i can agree it so i'll be making that motion also there have discussion from the motion made and supervisor avalos to change the employer dimension too the 20 thresholds as proposed in the original legislation to one employee so in fiscal eliminating the 20 employee trerldz and in decisions with sf loma and the coalition and supervisor avalos i'll say that i don't know that in conversation with the planning department and from our own work on the formula retail ordinances that pass or undergoing going through the board that passed unanimously at a previous meeting many say a
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will that that will cover only a small number of employees and i think that this one is one where i can agree to the original language though i know that supervisor avalos and sf loma feels strongly i'm convinced from the data it's a small enough will that i can feel comfortable along with president chiu to add that back in and i'll be casting a motion to add that back in to 20 i know that there will be decision on that item also i know we'll have discussion on the 6 months fiscal dates with the six months wrap up that president chiu proposed and strong feelings from the coalition i've been working that the way too long and 6 months effective date should be the compromises or the agreement and not to have a 6
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month wrap up but i'll be listening to the testimony i feel strongly that we need sometime to extend the fiscal date from 3 to 6 months that makes sense but i'm in agreement with our coalition is adding an additional 6 months is not necessary this is legislation that impacts up to 40 thousand retailer workers protecting go workers and larger immigrants and adding that 6 months means people won't have stronger rights as retailer workers i think the goal is to insure the protection of economic security of tens of thousands of retailer workers in the city i'll be listening to the testimony but my intention is to consider 6 month fiscal date but not 6 months with that i'm i'm going
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to turn it over to my colleagues. >> supervisor mar i will given i wasn't here i'll have questions but certainly we can do public comment supervisor mar and testimony mr. egon you spoke last week is there anything else you want to add or speak about. >> good afternoon ted from the krerlz controller's office our office filed an environmental impact report and i'm sure the supervisors doesn't read it i'll i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> thank you, mr. egging on i think i should acknowledge we have we have a person regina and
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other colleague they made remarks at the last meeting i'll start with the list of speakers and call them up (calling names) so if your name has been called you can come and speak when you. >> my name is see ms. cady i leave the work and family coalition i didn't speak in the last hearing i want to express my support for this legislation on the scheduling and workers bill of rights in our statewide
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coalition we represent parents who rely on childcare and this is very, very important legislation i'm happy to see the working together and the compromise we also have had the opportunity to work closely with jobs of justice local 2 and s c i u and continuing to work with them on prevention that makes san francisco a leader on the issue that is impacting young children and young worker and we're hearing everyday about you know how important having a predict schedule is for the quality of life i'm encouraging everyone to you know work together to have the best legislation possible to move forward i'm excited about this thank you. >> good afternoon jim lazarus from the chamber of commerce thank you for your comments
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we continued to have as you are aware significant problems with this legislation we think they can be worked out with time i may not have the time but we appreciate the 20 employee thresholds back in and the retention of 2 hundred is not major but how do this negotiates change that has over 15 thousand square feet that fenced hotels and major restaurant and catering companies it's unclear this supercedes i think it was passed a number of months ago regarding part-time employees we are concerned about the employers to if i vacancies and manage a workforce for full-time and part-time employees we rec recognize the needs and rights
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of employees to give the employers they want to work additional hours available but can't support anything that restricts the right of an employer to determine the hours and workforce composition regarding the fixed work schedule issues notice requirements of 14 days redundantly were acceptable to us as well as changes in the threshold for changes and work schedules and other comments i'll make if you have the questions while deliberating the two pieces of legislation. >> thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors thank you for your time samantha golden gate restaurant association we would like to express our concern with the legislation we appreciate the amendment to remain to go back to the 20 limit employment
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for small businesses we have issues along with or along with the chamber of commerce we advocate for a posting that the employees have the right to request additional hours as jim said limiting the employers ability to hire is detrimental we have issues with the 2 week schedules we worry about the changes that made within the 7 days in the ordinance can be harmful to the business has a whole so we would like to continue to work towards a better solution and lastly we would like to request that we continue to work on that legislation we feel it can be a very a great piece of legislation given the times we can work on it together thank you. >> thank you
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ma'am. >> thank you, supervisors hopefully utility had not to read the continues and letters on both items so one of the key directives and requests and recommendations for the board of supervisors to continue to work with the business community to resolve their key issues want to extend you know my appreciation and the commissions appreciation to return the distinction back to 20 employees at the business center we facilitate and do franchisee businesses one foot their product and things of that is formula retail but how they operate their business is a small business they don't have the benefits of having someone from a counterpart office foresight location.
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>> and things like that and one of the key things as jim lazarus pointed out in supervisor mar's legislation regarding this additional work hours again, the major concern about the ability if you're look at aggregate hours this is calibrating an employers ability to make sure there's adequate staffing to fulfill that mandate may need to adjust the full-timers schedules to it is a complicated nuance than the intention of what that section is ininsinuating i want to request we make sure that before this is finalized it if preclude on employer the ability to hire an adequate staff at all times if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> okay. thank you
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>> next speaker. >> supervisors thank you and i want to thank supervisor mar in particular for casing this important legislation i want to raise a concern that was highlighted at an intended consequence last week with respect to the collective bargaining a there's a category of employees if this city working at restaurant and bars in hotels upscale hotels in the city which i think there are inadvertently being captured as a result for baurgsdz formula retail was not intended to cover hotels with particular zones that they did formula retail has applied to it is not addressed hotels but there are numerous restaurants and bars and hotels where the employees are employed
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by the management company they have different working conditions and income standards from inincreased restaurant and bars it is a sub market between the eating and drinking spaces where long-standing practices that have the support of employees that maybe upset by this ordinance i want to urge you to fix this critical flaw in this legislation i know it was inintended but to make sure the category of employees employed by management companies whether or not they work at eating and drinking places are not captured in this definition i believe that was the original intent i urge you to make that clear before that governor's office and happy to question questions.
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>> thank you, thank you mr. lewis colleagues we've been working up until the last minute that mr. lewis and local 2 has brought up but your understanding it's tricky to fix this flaw my intention to introduce trailing legislation that comes at a later time but not language that holds up tens of thousand of retail workers i'm making a commitment to follow up with the trailing legislation but i appreciate mr. lewis's attendance to this i'll say that nick from my staff is doing his by the evidence with the city attorney's office but we can't hold up the legislation but i'll foil with the trailing legislation thank you, mr. lewis. >> next speaker
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>> jane from the s f w thank you for the legislation and the contracted property services and security happy to see that in there i wanted to support the request that we address this issue around restaurants and side hotels and actually it is important for the vacs advocates we continue to supporting each other and rather have this dealt with up front but it's a big deal we make sure there is no intended consequences and workers support each other as we try to improve things i wanted to say we approve the six months waiting period but no ramp up period after that and agree that 6 months is enough and to say we're against the 2 hundred thresholds for job retention as supervisor mar said earlier there's no threshold in the city law around janitorial jo
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