san francisco sfgtv full board of supervisors meeting occurring on tuesday, march 3rd at 2:00 p.m., will begin shortly. >> good afternoon everyone and

welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for for march for march 3rd, 2015. madam clerk, can you please call the role? >> yes, madam president thank you. supervisor avalos present president breed present supervisor campos present supervisor supervisor christensen present supervisor cohen present fairly

supervisor farrell present supervisor kim supervisor kim present supervisor mar not present supervisor tang present supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present. madam president you have a quorum. >> thank you and can everyone stand up and join us in in the pledge of allegiance? >> pledge of allegiance. >> thank you. and colleagues, are there any changes to the board meeting minutes of january 27th? seeing no changes may i have a motion to approve. motion by supervisor

cohen and seconded by supervisor tang. madam clerk, are there any communications. >> i have no communications today madam president. . >> can . >> can you please at this time read the consent agenda? >> the small business commission to establish a region a registry and authorize a a a $50 fee. >> thank you very much i want to thank my cosponsors and supervisor farrell and supervisor yee after speaking with supervisor tang and others about the particular legacy businesses in their districts that might not be protected under the legislation i'd like to make the amendment to the legislation. we are removing

the category of businesses that were eligible for recognition and instead have included language that would allow the mayor or any supervisor to nominate a business in their district and the idea there is no one knows the businesses better than the various supervisors who represent that district and we're also asking that the small business commission hold a hearing to determine if they meet the following criteria the business has operated in san francisco for for 30 years or more that the business has contributed to the neighborhood history and or the identity of a police a particular neighborhood or community and that the that the business was founded or currently how head quartered in san francisco we're also asking the small business commission to survey legacy

businesses and the legacy business program and to make recommendations to this board of supervisors in a way we can provide assistance support and education and we want that report to be presented to us by by september 30th so with that, i make a motion to amend the ordinance along the lines that i described and i believe that copies of the amended language have been provided. >> okay. supervisor campos has made a motion to to make amendments seconded by supervisor cohen and without objection the amendment has passed and you are aware this is now a first reading for approval. >> that is correct. >> madam clerk can you please call the role. >> supervisor farrell aye supervisor kim supervisor kim aye supervisor mar aye supervisor tang aye supervisor wiener aye supervisor yee aye

supervisor avalos aye president breed aye supervisor campos aye supervisor christensen aye supervisor cohen aye. >> there are 11 ayes. >> this ordinances passed unanimously on the first reading. madam clerk can you please call item number 2? >> supervisor cohen is seeking recognition. >> i apologize is it for item number 1. >> thank you. i just wanted to compliment you i think this is a very good piece of legislation and i'll be looking closely to see if there's ways to duplicate it so san francisco can protect its legacy businesses and maintain that cultural diversity that we seem to be losing so good job. >> thank you supervisor appreciate it. >> thank you. madam clerk please call item 2. >> expand the scope to apply to

all city departments to revise complaint procedures and the plan requirement. >> without objection this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. >> item 3 a resolution to approve the the foreign currency exchange and the city with the first year of 5.4 million minimum annual guarantee. without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. >> item 4 a resolution to authorize the department of public health to accept and expand 67.4 $67.4 million gift from the san francisco general hospital foundation for the for the for the new hospital procurement and to name the

institution the priscilla zuckerberg. >> i'm really excited and i know a number of you are as well and i want to very quickly thank the people who made this monumental gift possible and of course mark zuckerberg and priscilla zuckerberg and the president of the san francisco hospital foundation board i believe they are here today so i'd like to have them stand and i would like to give them a round of applause on behalf of the board. >> and i just wanted to take

this moment to just really thank you for your hard work i know raising money for this hospital isn't easy and we truly appreciate that and we're really excited for this gift and what it's going to do for the hospital and i'm excited to to move this forward for a vote. colleagues, can we take this item. seeing no objections this resolution is adopted unanimously. congratulations and thank you again. madam clerk can you please call item 5. >> a resolution to authorize the sheriff's department to enter into an amendment to ensure continuous telephone service to inmates while a competitive bidding process is

modified. >> item 6 an ordinance to appropriate 3.4 million responsibility to fund with agencies that contract with the cities. >> thank you president breed colleagues this is cosponsored by supervisor campos supervisor avalos and supervisor kim supervisor kim supervisor kim and as many of the community based organizations and workers and leaders of the nonprofit sector rallied over the past year i'm calling them nonprofit justice they have come to the board numerous times and this board in august passed a resolution prioritizing approval of this

supplemental appropriation. now this supplemental is cosponsors by supervisor campos supervisor avalos supervisor kim supervisor kim and myself and it was contingent on revenue and saves above the projected estimates of the fiscal year 2013 and 14. the city's comprehensive annual financial report for the fiscal year 2013 showed a year end general fund surplus of 21.6 $21.6 million that came from unanticipated year end revenue and i think that many of the community based organizations that have been coming to the

board the nonprofit workers and leaders of community based groups have emphasized they are a critical part of the statement part of the safety net and the nonprofit sector i believe and with neighborhood stability and efforts to really assist the nonprofit sector, they are an often undervalued and under acknowledged part of our city family in many ways i think they are undervalued and i think they are taken for granted and at times belittled by government and i think they deserve the same respect as public employees and for profit contract ors with the city and i think this small supplemental is a key part of that and to bring them up to parity and to end the double standard and many of these community based workers and organizations are

some some of the hardest working in the city providing critical critical human services in our city and the workers and organizations have been chronically under compensated and i'll just say the the under funding year after year flat funding has amounted to a reduction for many nonprofits negatively impacting their ability to provide city services and the clients depend on them and the workers who serve them as well and they have not received any cost of doing business increase since 2007 and 2008 so that's a that's a 5-year period that they haven't received that increase and the fiscal year 2014 and 15 budget included 6.75 million of general fund revenues and approximate 1.5

percent increase for nonprofits and i think the comment from the comment is you can't survive so 1.5 percent increase increase and i agree with that so this is an effort to increase it a tiny bit more hopefully helping many of our nonprofits and neighborhood stabilization and of 2014 the budget included a 3 percent increase for all city and county employees and it took us up to october and reflected a 2.25 percent increase and this supplemental brings nonprofit contractors to parity with that level increase and i believe that it is really going to be a step forward to reach the fairness for nonprofit workers. i wanted to also emphasize

that the estimated cost of doing business increase is 3.4 million $3.4 million and it's enough to bring the nonprofits to par with city employees and i want to be clear and others have said this before too, i think a long-term structural change to our budget that allows nonprofit community organizations to keep pace with other sectors providing similar services for example an annual automatic increase based on inflation or other factors really should be what we're looking at as a at as a long-term fix and to end the double standard for community service workers. the supplemental will provide needed resources for this fiscal year and whatever we accomplish in the budget process as it comes forward i'm optimistic that we'll look at this structural issue for the

future and i think as a city we've acknowledged in various ways we need to help our nonprofits to survive in this incredibly challenging financial environment and fulfilling the commitment that we've made as a board from 6 months ago it's critical to the stabilization of our neighborhoods as well and regardless of the outcome of this vote i hope we as a board will address the inequality so that we can come up with a solution before we are done with our upcoming budget process and i don't think this is an issue that we're going to solve today but to make it a priority that we said 6 months ago as we as a board prioritized this issue and i thank you. >> thank you. supervisor yee

[applause]. >> thank you president breed. i won't repeat what supervisor mar has well articulated. coming from the nonprofit world and being there for over 30 years and actually running one for about 18 years, i know how difficult it is when you don't get a cost of living adjustment for your budget and when we talk about cost of living you know when you have to operate a nonprofit, it includes everything from administrative costs to salaries and sometimes there's certain things go up faster than others. certainly rents have gone up faster than what we would consider a cost of living adjustment so you have to make those decisions as a nonprofit where funding would

go to keep your operations ongoing. so for me i wish we had been able to take care of this during the budget process last year but we didn't so some of us made a commitment in august of last year and i was one of them that supported that resolution to say that that we would support a supplemental if we found that the budget would have additional funding available and so for me today you know, yes, we need a long-term fix but i also made a commitment in august that i want to keep to so i'm going to to be supporting the legislation to author the supplemental. >> thank you. many . supervisor campos.

>> thank you i'm not going to repeat the points that have been made i think there were five of us putting forward this resolution and i want to thank supervisor mar supervisor yee supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and it was a very basic, simple idea. we know that there are many services that are provided by the by the city through nonprofits that by virtue of being provided by those organizations the city actually provides those services at a much cheaper rate and spend much less than than we would spend and i think the basic premise of the resolution is saying that we would not be able to do our job without the very important role that these nonprofits play and it's only a matter of fairness that we that we give them this point 75 increase that would essentially bring them on par with the

increases that other city workers and for profit contractors have received and at that time we predicated that commitment on whether or not there would be additional revenues through the december annual financial report and low and behold those revenues are there and as a matter of fairness we need to do this but more importantly when you look at what's happening to san francisco and the affordability crisis that the city is facing, the people on the frontlines of that crisis are the nonprofit workers and we can not expect them, i believe, to be doing the very important work that they are doing if we're actually not paying them enough to actually be able to afford to live in the bay area and unfortunately that's not where we are right now and so i would encourage my colleagues to support what i believe is a very moderate,

very modest increase. i think that it's the right thing to do and i think in the end not doing it will end up hurting the city because i think we'll lose a lot of these nonprofit workers if this increase is not provided because they are struggling like it is and it's not right. >> thank you supervisor kim supervisor kim and supervisor kim. there's a rule if you want to show your support, just raise your hand supervisor kim. >> thank you president breed i shared a a budget committee last week but prior to being on the board of supervisors i spent actually 8 years working in the nonprofit sector and several of us on this board did and i still remember when the

board would allocate cost of doing business increases and seeing that slight increase in my salary each year i started at 26 thousand $26,000 and then i saw my wage increase five $5,000 over 6 years and i have seen my salary go up 3 times that amount on the board of supervisors so i think it's important that we recognize and value the work of our nonprofit workers that often perform some of our most important and critical life saving work here in the city whether it's in-housing or healthcare or so many other sectors and this small increase would take us to the same level that city government employees have seen their increase gone up as well and on top of that and this is a subject that comes up often at budget

committee when we sign contracts we often put in in an escalator to ensure they get a regular increase and i think we got to make sure we put in in some equity so to make sure our nonprofits are getting the same benefits as for profit and we value these workers and the work that they do and do. i think that is the secondary issue but beyond that i think it's important for us to support this today and i know there's concerns about the precedent that the supplement does today and first of all this board has passed 3 supplementals just over the

last year here at the board of supervisors and one passed ten-1 and the second 11-0 and the third ten the third ten ten-1 last spring and i clearly remember on budget night in june, many of us did want to support a cost of doing business for nonprofit contracts but we weren't sure how much revenue was coming in. had we known that 22 $22 million were going to be coming in, i'm certain this board would have approved the cost of doing business then and that's why a few weeks later 7 members of this board committed to that and that we would support that when we had a clear financial picture. so i think for a number of different reasons because this was in discussion in june that we would pass this is pass this at

at a later date and the vast majority of this board has voted to support them and i'll exclude supervisor christensen but finally i'll just say i think this is important because our nonprofit workers are so valuable and i'll add another story i remember a colleague working at a youth program was on food stamps while he was going to law school and working at this organization because he could not meet the needs of his family with his income alone and today i'll be honoring someone to receive her a commendation.

and that is why the cost of doing business increase is so important. >> thank you supervisor kim supervisor cohen? >> thank you very much supervisor kim and thank you for reminding us about the the 3 supplementals that we passed just last year and it's important to recognize there's still a lot of could conste rna tion particularlyn and i just want to also go publicly on record and voice my agreement that nonprofit workers do play extremely valuable role in our city particularly in in our social service safety network and to share say story with you my mother was a nonprofit worker for many years so i'm personally connected. so i

understand the key role that the workers play and often how challenging it it can be to remain financially inside san francisco i will not be supporting the supplemental largely because my priorities have begun to shift a little bit since the resolution passed in july and my budget priorities are focussed on public safety and i've gone on record as a supporter because i do believe workers should be compensated for all of the reasons previous colleagues expressed earlier but it's important that the dynamic in this city has also changed. and in the first 3 months of this year we as a city have already lost 15 lives. as

evidenced by this activity what we're hearing from communities of color in the city as well as the budget analyst's report reflects the fact that our current public safety system isn't addressing all of the needs for the entire city of san francisco and crime is up more than 30 percent and impacting many of these areas besides the south eastern neighborhoods and i believe we need a serious overhaul on prevention efforts and we need to invest in programs in our city so that we're producing thoughtful results and this is not to say that that i don't support the nonprofit workers, it's quite the contrary i am

open to it. i'm just unfortunately not able to support it at this time and being mindful that every allocation that we make is less funding that we have to balance our budget in support of other priorities and a lot of changes in the last 7 months since we took action on on that resolution and one area i think many of us are in agreement is a permanent fix is warranted for this particular issue and i'm very interested in supporting efforts and spear heading the conversation so that neither the board nor workers need to deal with the the angst every year and for the members interested in this