to add my heart to this as well though. this supplement is crucial and it's important if we really want to put our money where our mouth is -- if we truly say we care about it -- this is one tool we can actually employ and make sure the people in the nonprofits can actually stay in san francisco this is about worker retention and nonprofit retention. we're seeing nonprofits with their rents increasing and the cost of doing business are increasing and healthcare costs are sky rocketing and that's going to affect many of the worker at the bottom line and if we put this supplemental forward today we make it easier to balance our budget in the next year. my priorities also

are shifting i want to do more to deal with the affordability chris crisis in san francisco. and that means increasing the cost of doing business and a supplemental for these nonprofits and also making sure they have greater latitude to do the service here in san francisco in san francisco in san francisco. the disparity that we're seeing and the despair we're seeing on our streets is incredible and actually i see homeless people in district 11 and i've never seen as many before as i see right now and it's happening all over san francisco last week we were sent all a letter saying that 25 percent of the homeless population is

african-american if we want to actually do something about the affordability crisis and how communities are struggling in san francisco we have to recognize the people we want to serve most from or nonprofits are actually african-american and if we're not making it possible for nonprofits to serve the people struggling to stay in san francisco we have unprecedented reserves his here in the city we have 30 million $30 million and a budget stabilization reserve 160 million $160 million and our general fund reserve. we can take a little bit of money from the general fund and increase it next year so we're not asking a lot during the

midyear budget process to do a supplemental right now and we've actually had a budget process around around that's been in place for years every year i've been working at city hall since 2005 the nonprofit organizations have talked about the cost of doing business and we've had discussions going on forever. we don't do it year after year. if we want to deal with the affordability crisis this is one thing we can do today to deal with it and colleagues, i hope you can shift priorities to make this happen. thank you. >> thank you very much. i just want to say that just because some of us may not support the supplemental today it

absolutely does not mean that we do not support the work of our nonprofits and as supervisor kim supervisor as supervisor kim mentioned i supported the nonprofit stabilization fund and that was one thing i was willing to bend on because it's very important we try to do our very best to keep our nonprofits here in san francisco and again, just because i'm not supporting it today it doesn't mean i'm not open to this. so i really for for me it's just so important that even during our good

budget times that we do not forget how short of a time it was before when there was such drastic can you drastic cuts and you were in a much worse position coming to us for funding and again, it doesn't mean i'm not open for discussion but today i'm not able to support the supplemental. >> thank you. supervisor farrell. >> so last year i voted against the resolution that came before us and i, like my colleagues very much appreciate the concerns around affordability. it effects everyone in our city. i do believe we need to look at a permanent fix and for me this is about process. . now going forward you know we

support in the past and last year it was not included in the budget that we passed out of the full board and i do think without a doubt my opinion is that doing supplementals is a dangerous precedent to set because we are preallocating money which otherwise we could use -- this money isn't just found money that's otherwise sitting there. it's going to face the deficit we're facing. it's not the same magnitude it was from 20 ten but it's still a deficit going forward and again, i want to say i'm open to finding a permanent fix but in my opinion this supplemental is certainly not the solution. >> supervisor christensen? >> so this is a tough one. my

staff and i have thought about it and talked about it quite a bit and for me the first thing to say is it's important to me this is not a refer endum i don't think there's a person on this board or room who would not agree of the critical importance that they play in our city. i've advocated for many of the nonprofits and worked with them and i understand firsthand the struggle they have economically and i do think as some of my colleagues have said this is a refer endum and we're currently focusing on the budget for this coming year and as a new supervisor in my district i've got baby birds in every corner saying i'm underfunded and we need help and our next budget cycle is literally around the

corner and it's important to me also that steps have been taken outside of of the cola to aid our nonprofits and i agree more needs to be done but the question is is this the best avenue and i think for me the defining thing is this cola will not achieve the goals. it's not going to prevent evictions or have or elevate workers pay and i think supervisor mar description is small because we're talking about payments to a lot of our nonprofits of no more than 3 or 4 or 5 $5,000 spread among the number of employees and the entire scope of work the nonprofits do is literally a drop in in the bucket so my goal would be to try to work in

our next budget cycle to address some of these long-term issues and have this consideration be placed in a forum to have a balanced look at the over all needs of the city and address them in the best way possible. >> thank you. supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam president i think that the folks advocating for a cost of doing business adjustment whatever happens today have achieved a convict a victory. i, too, think that the upcoming budget we need to have a discussion about the long-term fix and that there's

a very very good argument for providing a cost of doing business adjustment in the upcoming budget. i've been on this board going into my fifth cycle and i believe we as a board did do a cost of doing business adjustment along with the mayor. last year it did not happen and i've said this to various nonprofits that i work with that when we look at what happened last year i think it was a model of how not to do it. we, in a good year, have about 25 $25 million to work with in the pool and if my memory serves me we receive 70 or 80 or 90 million $90 million and when and when you have so many very powerful asks whether it's nutrition or mental health or other very important areas

and you also have an ask for a cost of doing business adjustment it makes it very challenging. this board went aggressively last year with service expansion expanding these critical services and not with a cost of doing business adjustment and i'd encourage the nonprofit community to the extent possible to incorporate cost of doing business into that broad set of asks that are coming to the board. we do not have the same pool to work with than the mayor has to work with. we're much more limited and it presents a lot of challenges chl i . i don't think this is the way to do it by doing the supplemental. >> we will finalize a budget by the end of june going into july so i i won't be supporting this today. >> thank you. supervisor mar.

>> i really appreciate it about the dialogue on the long-term structural fix we're talking about for the undervalued at times under respected nonprofit sector workers and the organizations with a few of my colleagues i'll be introducing a sharing request so we can continue the discussion and ensure we're going to end this double standard for community organizations and workers and that we'll achieve hopefully steps toward nonprofits adjustments as the coalition that stepped forward last year has been saying so i want to thank the human services network and many of the workers from our frontline organizations and the community nonprofits who are coming back over and over again to this body and hopefully we can begin that conversation about longer

term fix and i started working as a nonprofit worker 30 years ago earning and as as supervisor kim and others mentioned just how little salaries and wages have gone up over the years so this is about about ending that double standard and i want to say to my colleagues that signed on with us with supervisor campos 's resolution a principal from 6 months ago. the violence prevention programs are critical but we can't keep kicking the can down the road for the nonprofit workers not keeping up with the wages and so my hope is that this is the first step towards the longer

term conversation but i still urge people to take the vote today put your money where your mouths are in supporting the community nonprofits it's a small amount and they deserve it and i strongly urge you to support this budget supplemental. >> thank you. i've been listening very carefully to each one of my colleagues and i respectfully disagree with those who will not be supporting this supplemental but i do have a question to supervisor christensen. i was trying to understand what you were saying. are you saying you would support if it was a larger amount? i'm sure that those of us in support of this would be happy to accommodate any amendments that you think would be sufficient to get you to support it. >> supervisor christensen? >> i said two things -- one i

find it difficult to deal with this method of funding the nonprofits because it doesn't allow us to weigh these needs compared to some of the other needs that some of us are facing and i find it diss general i diss ingenuo u.s. and i think i did clearly say as many of my colleagues have that we look forward to looking at this in a more holistic and balanced fashion in the very much impending budget cycle. >> i'm still not entirely clear. i don't think that anyone here is being diss general i diss engenuo u.s. but the point i'd make is that people always say these things, you know, that the fact that you are voting against an item

it impacts a number of people and i appreciate that but i know from the perspective of the worker the most important document that we put forward as a board of supervisors, it's the budget and it's important not only because there's money attached to it, it's important because it really reflects the policy priorities of this board of supervisors and to that extent, it does represent the value that we place on specific items on specific issues that are important to us and i think that it does unfortunately even with the intent is not to to do that, it does send the wrong message to our workers that you are not valid enough to actually get a cost of living adjustment and i actually think that's that's unfortunate and the reality is

as important as this process is at the end of the day process does not pay the rent and process does not put food on the table and what we're talking about here is making sure that we help people who are struggling be able to pay their rent, be able to put food on the table i think it's that drastic and dramatic but that's the reality of san francisco for these workers and it's unfortunate that it doesn't seem like today you are going to get something that should have happened a long time ago. >> supervisor christensen. >> i've got constituents in my neighborhood that aren't making anything that don't have anything and the point 75 percent the 3 the $3 million we're talking about here could

mean a lot to them, too so what this referendum has forced me to do is choose between them and other people both of whom i care about very much and i'd like to to do that in a forum where we can weigh those choices very carefully and for anyone to suggest this is a cold hearted dismissal is certainly not fair but i do think -- i wasn't here for the previous sessions and i wasn't here for some of the votes that you were discussing. i'm here now and let's talk about the budget going forward and long-term solutions and then, if you or someone else wants to judge my intentions at that point i'll be happy to stand by my actions. >> thank you supervisor and just a few comments i'd like to make about this particular item i i won't be supporting it today and i ran a nonprofit organization in this city for 10 years and i remember getting

the cola from the city and it was really exciting but i wasn't required by the city to utilize that for staff raises and i think to to imply this money is going to increase the amount of money that the nonprofit workers make in this city is not actually accurate nor can we require if we were to provide a cola, i think that there's a more in-depth discussion that needs to take place if we're talking about valuing workers then understanding how these increases are going to directly impact the workers and i think also there's a budget process that exists and has already begun and this is more of an appropriate discussion in the budget process and i'm excited my colleagues are open to more of a permanent solution i think

it's unfortunate that we go through this year after year after year and if we're talking about a cola increase we're talking about an increase to the organization and not an increase to the to the salaries of these workers and that's the reality of it. >> supervisor kim. . >> president breed did bring up an important point. it's true they can use it for their operating fund but i just have to say our nonprofits are struggling period they are struggling to stay in the city to even provide services to the very people that make no money that we're talking about and the very people and communities where we're trying to prevent violence so i just think this is so important and rent is going up and our nonprofits are struggling to stay here. this

cost of doing business whether it goes to the workers or the organizations to be here they play an important role in supporting the very people who have nothing they are their advocates and organization ers and they provide them information so they know how to file their complaints to the police department and if you call the hotline to say you have been sexually assaulted they come and these folks do all of the things that we're talking about and we're trying to juggle and balance versus all of these other needs we have in the city budget and we have 22 $22 million that that that we weren't expecting that came into our budget this year. we made cuts on top of cuts and it really really hurt and supplementals were always a

tough conversation they were all needed but couldn't fulfill them and we finally have this opportunity to do this and it should have happened in june we just never have a complete picture of our fiscal revenue at that time that's a structural issue we deal with every year and i hope we don't have another hearing. i don't think we need to talk about that anymore we've been talking about that for a long time i just think this is important. i know that the writing is on the wall, it's not going to pass but it's really hard for me to hear i think many of the comments being made today i think i just think the supplemental is important and i think this small dollar amount and if you are making fifty or a or a hundred dollars more a year that's going to help pay for your utilities that's going to matter and that's not

insignificant. i hope we take care of this ordinance. >> thank you supervisor kim supervisor avalos? >> just very briefly this morning i had a conversation with the controller's office about this very issue and i had a sense of how the vote appears to be going down as it appears right now and it's a complicated issue there are nonprofits that can pay higher salaries with the cola and so what i'd like to do is to work with eric mar so we can actually have a hearing to really start to tackle this

issue not wait until the june budget process but really start a conversation with the mayor about this cola and what's it going to take to make it happen. how do we see different departments face this problem with their nonprofit contractors and that would be a really great discussion to have to initiate that conversation but when we needed the political will to actually have the cola resolved once and for all. >> thank you. madam clerk can you please call the roll. >> supervisor farrell no. >> supervisor kim aye. >> supervisor mar aye. >> supervisor tang no. >> supervisor wiener no. >> supervisor yee aye. >> supervisor avalos aye. >> president breed no. >> supervisor campos aye.

>> supervisor christensen no. >> supervisor cohen no. >> there are five ayes and six noes. >> this ordinance fails. >> item 7 is an ordinance to amend the environment and administrative code for a construction minimization plan and to require controls on emission producing equipment outside of such zones. >> madam clerk can you please call the roll. >> supervisor farrell aye. >> 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 ordinance passed unanimously on the first reading madam clerk, can you at this time we are going to go to our committee reports. item number 8. >> item 8 and 9 were considered by the government audit and oversight committee. >> can you call item 8 and 9 together? >> a resolution to receive and approve annual reports from the know noe valley.

>> without objection these resolutions are adopted unanimously madam clerk can you please call item number ten. >> considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on thursday and were forwarded as committee reports. sabrina hernandez and terms. >> this motion without objection this motion is approved unanimously next item please. >> item level a motion to approve the mayor's nomination to reappointment. >> without objection this motion is approved unanimously. next item please. >> item 12 motion to approve

the mayor's nomination of richard johns for the un expired portion of a a 4-year term. >> without objection this motion is approved unanimously. >> item 13 please. >> a motion to approve the mayor's nomination of karl hausz of a 4-year term. >> without objection this motion is approved unanimously. >> item 14. >> motion to appoint theodora marie caminong to the entertainment commission. >> i just want to weigh my enthusiastic support and this has been important to district 6 and also our residential mixed use neighborhoods in

which they reside. i personally witnessed the important role that the commissioner and the neighborhood can play to help ease tension between residents and night life venues that live side by side in our city. . i just want to take this opportunity to thank you. >> i have to say i was really

impressed by the applicants and i want to acknowledge and i look forward to going to a punk rock show with you and i'm happy to support the unanimous recommendation of the rules committee today and i want to recognize today she's dedicated the last decade of her life working at glide church a very well-known institution here in san francisco and she