for nonprofit workers as promised by this board of supervisors justice for the workers who have to make the city a better place for everyone to live thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> board of supervisors my name is nick jenkins. >> please pull the microphone closer to our mouth mr. jenkins. >> i'm an employee of the tenderloin housing clinic to keep people housed what we have their situation some of the residents have mental illness those are people are not well we provide a place for home as a desk collect i keep resident safe and make people comfortable i have to enforce the rules some

accept and so resent i'm a residential manager with the clinic which is an unpaid position that allows me to stay in the city free i'm also on the clock if i didn't have this position i couldn't afford to live in the city over the years i've seen how funding shortages have hurt our resident we can't maintain the facility and often storages are supplies staffing shortages will make that harder for me to do my job and make sure the residents feel safe in july the board passed a resolution that loud the nonprofit if there's a surcharge the city has the money it's hard to ask for something you feel you've been owed for a long time last year the employees got 3

percent and auditors got a 2.6 percent raise i hope we continue to serve the community and make it a better place for all residents thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i work for a process foundation and edge wood a center for children and families and volunteer at the municipal family services after working in the corporate world and understanding numbers beyond why it is a big deal to pass n this something that's been promised and that takes common sense on top of that the city has punched more acquit onto the

nonprofit we're consistently not funding the hospital and less beds we don't have the manpower to deal with things we can't handsome we don't have the manpower to handle those kinds of things those are not dealing with numbers but happening because they can get away with it we want to help no matter who comes through the doors we try to help everyone such as we can and we want to continue to do that we need you guys help. >> thank you. next speaker. >> mr. chairman supervisors, my name is tony medina i'm proud to work for car mount

cash in san francisco it provides a good service for our city i think you, your fair hearted and fair-minded people you're going to pass this resolution you promised i would i just want to add that in my short time remaining that the previous jailhouse phone calls i hope you would allow 3 phone calls a week free for inmates because you know the burden is not on the enemies but their families that have to pay so thank you for your attention. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i work for a nonprofit organization i work for clay

house in alternative to institutionaltion clients from jail and hospitals and ultimately save the city a lot of money we keep people out of hospitals the residential treatment program we really don't think on the 7.5 percent there i hope you'll fulfill our promise and thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i'm helping helen a residential council for families and which were we serve the kids with emotional disturbances and one of the primary reasons people feel they can't stay longer than pass of the low wajdz we get paid. >> ma'am you said tlrtsdz an

average of one year per staff. >> i think the average is 9 months. >> thank you and one of the primary reasons is for the low was this and the supplemental money will be able to pay workers more and they'll stay longer than and it's good for the workers and the kids they receive the most benefits from the seasoned employees so, please pass the supplemental money thank you. >> thank you i'm going to call the last card here if there's anyone else that want to speak fill out a card. >> next speaker. >> hi my name is stephanie i work for the edge wood for families after 3 years i'm up to you made $23,000 i have a

bachelor of science and this is not compatible to poverty at this point you know, i view hard work and get paid little it matters to me but it seems like it matters to 09 people we have to fight for this is insulting that we are making so little to the population we're severing we can't be given a raise we don't get even though raise because our funding is low and our we serve clients we can't keep people it's really sad i want to bring up in california computer software engineers have their own minimum wage but we don't the minimum wage in the city of san francisco is late better

than other place but not a living wage and your competing with software engineers that make 3, 4, $5 an hour i have the same educational background and doing things that falls into the categories and make you know 4 to ten times what i make they make this is a no brainier this is that we pass it on and push harder because this is not fair you know i'm i work hard i want to see change happen thank you for a hearing i notice a lot of and eye contract this time thank you. >> (clapping.) i'm ken choi the chief executive officer in richmond and have

multiple services a mental health agency in san francisco i'd like to share my story about the cost of living in the current fiscal year the job market is a influence there is a staff turnover to codify the candidates city employees usually get paid much better than my agency can pay people left to go to work inform the city affordable health care will occur diversity costs under the san francisco health care security audience represent and utility which is come - and the prices has gone up significantly on the other hand, we expect san

francisco minimum wage audience will have an impact not only on the wajdz of the employee earning below the minimum wage but people coming earning 13 or $14 an hour so we really appreciated if the city can give an increase to compensate for the higher costs. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i'm karen i'm a community organizer nor the industry collaborative part of the tenderloin housing client beyond the scope i need to reiterate the difficult of the work people do we work with the lowest income on people with displacement or avoiding displacement i'll agree with the last speakers the organization sees a lot of turn over as the

result of the lower wages it is an absorb it the low workers will get the lottery increase for the jobs i thank you for your ongoing support and hope you'll continue to unnecessarily our clarifications in the right districts. >> i'm even though executive director of delores street a nonprofit in the mission district that provides homeless services and legal services i repeating really want to thank you supervisor mar for your leadership this is critical to our city it will start to address the issue but i agree it is a long term issue that needs additional resources and more attention from you all as well as the mayor we face a numerous challenges

when we're hiring we have the shelter monitoring and the nurses assistant it get paid from 12 to $14 an hour many of the staff can't afford to live in san francisco for vallejo it puts a burden and many people i've spoken to so hiring and retaining staff is a big concern and definitely impacts our clients and impacts the city and others services the city provides i also want to mention a challenge that i know is maybe beyond the scope of the hearings we receive a number of contract that are federal funding that have been flat funded for lower city contracts if there's something that the city can do to address that city i know

there's 09 challenges fits the reality we're dealing with that also does not enable us to keep with the health care costs and all the other increasing costs so really appreciate our consideration without many of our services expensive things will go up. >> thank you, ms. >> i work for the health client we do the go health serviced so 6 years i've been in this work in the city we had support important the hotels people and most at risk for as long as i've been at any of the agrees i have a comprehensive staff and seen cuts we see nonprofits getting increases

and this moment i realizing realize in the absence of a cost of living increase not only the absence of an increase is is cut because everything is getting more expensive this past beyond a reasonable doubt people are displayed out of the tenderloin and sow we werelism hotels ourselves and were almost not able to find a home because of the fear of the neighborhood but one of the things we helped them understand the services that concludes my report is actually making things better; right? if we are actually able to help people things get better we haven't had issues with the neighborhood part of our move involves a lot of expenses we applied for the nonprofit displacement fund which actually didn't cover half of the expenses we're hurting

we're really hurting and the 15.75 can do a little bit to help that we need the retina supplement so we're not here fighting we can't be trickling down and carter to the wealthiest we need to start at the bottom and list everyone up thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is is a emma i'm with the sciu 1021 thank you for having this hearing i want to say it, it's true that nonprofit workers can't survive on the 1.25 the reality the $3. million will come in like that with the city worker raises that the city

workers represented by 26 unit including sciu 1021 and 4 thousand workers the reality is that, of course city workers make you know much more of a living go wage and have great benefits and our nonprofit workers should have it, too it's a total inequality another point i want to bring up again private contractors with the city have those awkward increases from the contract and payroll some have a calculation ♪ there to have a for profit in the contract so this is a complete enequality between the nonprofits and the for profits contractors and the reality is the work percentage your members do they serve the hotels and help people find houshdz they're

open the front lines of the constitutional rights and our workers what we see our workers really struggling and having to have longer than and longer than consultant time and not being able to support they are families and trying to go and find other work that is hurting the residents of the city so this is not a lot of money this shouldn't be a big thing this is what is fair it put in line with other workers in the city and simply keeps you want to mp i >> thank you . next speaker. >> >> good morning. i'm doggie diner doug styles the director of the hocking beggar program when the committee improved we don't see any increased revenue we don't sell properties we work with people

at huckleberry we work with families in san francisco it is only coming to our contractor with the we have to ask for increases we can keep with some of the expends we have i'm going to throw a couple of numbers all right. in the last year through our improvements increased by 7.4 percent our benefits over the last 5 years have increased annually 15 percent we have a had percent increase in the afternoon for our staff 1.5 percent didn't add up and adding 7.5 is a step towards that we need a loefrment fix so we don't have to come forward here everyday pass this onto the

full board and talk about long term strategies for the challenge. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm nancy deputy director of the social services we serve over 22 hundred people in the city that are hopeless the point i want to make the speakers have said things about the long term solution think about do the math if the minimum wage is - what does 7.5 percent get you may $23 a month or $5 a week bethink about that in making this dignities. >> thank you. >> thank you for putting this into process pefb. >> debbie from the human services network i want to look at 9 properties for a moment i

understand that some supervisors are uncomfortable that came about shortly after the budget process concluded i agree that is not the way we want to do things but one crucial piece of information after the process was done in october the controller put out a report $22 million in unanticipated revenue for fiscal year 2014-2015 if we had known about the $22 million when the 3wuk9 u budget process was going on i feel confident the board would have live approved 7.5 percent that combined with the mayors percentage would be less than i think the speakers have spoken lont to the need and you've heard hours and hours of testimony talking about the needed many of the needs have

beenes batdz by policies that led to tremendous rent increases in areas where our nonprofits are most needed with improved wages and benefits those are great things but exudate our needs this deserves to go to the full board for a vote and imexplore you pass this out the committee today. >> thank you mofrnl on the public that wishes to speak mr. chairman we're ready to close public comment. >> okay public comment is closed. schair. >> thank you. i wanted to thank all the speakers from the nonprofits management and workers for many of the human services system in the city but

i'll call it our critical safety net this is an issuance or issue about fairness and urban finished business from the last nonprofit i want to read from the board resolution that thought passed introduced in july and passed in august that was sponsored by supervisor mar, supervisor yee supervisor cohen and i believe supervisor kim there are a stronger majority on the board to follow through with the language upon release of the city caver the general fund balance versus the soon to be budget and be it therefore resolved be it therefore resolved that the board of supervisors shall approve the amount up to $3.57 million for the fiscal year to fund a cost of don't go business that contract with the city and county of san francisco so i'll urge my colleagues to as many

norm said send this forward to the full board so there is a vote and i stronger urge your support for the supplemental i make a motion we move and support the supplemental. >> thank you supervisor mar (clapping) supervisor kim. >> thank you chair dpaerl i want to notwithstanding supervisor mar and sdmoomz for bringing 13th century this supplemental before the board having served on the budget committee i've become conservationist when it comes to the city coffers when i support the supplemental appropriations and one of the last rotates to come in first from the supplemental proipthdz i want to make sure when we do things ratting ad hoc or appetites meal in their important priorities for the city i think to make the proipgdz are in june when we

have a look at the entire pie of the city needs and make good decisions based on you'll the priorities that's being said in june question didn't have a complete picture of the revenue as we don't every june if we had known an additional $22 million were coming in 0 not only the 7.5 cost of living i would have said this board would have done a full 3 percent i think at this time we have a complete picture of the financial revenues that can building spent out in the fiscal year? a fieftd fund in the a equality issue when our contracted get a cost of doing by itself, if you were doing for nonprofit legal or real estate services or other contracting services on a regular basis at

the board you get a step up that's automatically in yourself karaoke we should be providing that same for nonprofit workers (clapping) and that makes a statement on behalf of the city we spent those who do services that are incredibly their work is not as valued we expected you to live in powerful to do this work this is the wrong statement coming from the city i hope structurally we're able to see that as a city and look at it an elevator or step up with the contracts he fully support that and not only are we doing the 7.5 today but we're doing it late this should have gone to the workers in july this is a

short time of the year and then on a personal level i spent 6 years in the nonprofit sector i started well, i started at $27,000.33 when i changed job and over the course feeling 6 yshdz my salary went up roughly 5 thousand dollars in my year on the board my salary is do you believe that in 5 years it is important in by the president our workers to live here and do the important work whether organizing or providing health care services this is something we support on an annual based i'll share one story a colleague at a nonprofit he was a lawyer and worked with the children and youth in householder that were impacted by denies and he went on food stamps to support his family i think that is just not

what we want our workers that are doing most of the important work to go throw in a comprehensive time in the city i support the supplemental today. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. i agree with the majority of supervisor kim's comments reilly that wanting to hostile how important our nonprofit workers are previously i volunteered for a joint for free that's how important the services are for the community i know that my procedure makes people confused about playing my intentions i have voted against supplementals that were foster by high colleague supervisor farrell not because i didn't believe in the process but my hesitation with the original

resolution why i couldn't support that promise i want to make sure by the look at the fundamental issues as many of you stated long term you don't have to come back and fight for the pieces of funding and the brubt budget process i want to remind you ooufsh i've supported the increasing the minimum wage to address the long term term infrastructureal issues see back then i supported a nonprofit certification supplemental i generally don't support supplementals i think the only without parole one i support outside of the budget process to make sure that we can make sure our nonprofits stays here in san francisco and make sure they get on their feet if they're in trouble so i want to remind you there's been times i deviated from what i believed in to make

sure that our nonprofits in the long term can survive in san francisco i believe that this deserves time at the full board to the members to vote on i'll deeight from supervisor mar and say were so through the budget i want to taking into consideration in the grand scheme of things i'll support it to the full board to the full board but really for me it's a process issue right now, i'm so on to considering all this with the budget process that is very, very soon. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you i appreciate this item going to the forbidding without recommendations i think that maintains because there were there was a majority off

people even with the change of the supervisor who will support this according to the reds that was passed last year just i understand the concerns about process but just process for increasing the cola is in process for that 15 years if not more, more every year we get to cola as part of the budget process and it happens to be in the mayor's office budget office in the mayor's office so there's been years we've actually had a hearing mid year to talk about how to get the cola into the budget process when the budget comes before the board of supervisors we actually have been programming reprogramming or doing add backside from 15 to $20 million over the past years and the