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if the motion fails today, community input will contribute to a more tparent pcess that can yield a fully informed and beneficial policy that includes best practices that would address and incorporate best practices from communities across the country so good jobs are available for all of san francisco workers. thank you very much. thank you for your comments, next speaker?
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the policy you have before you incorporates many movements by us in the direction of the city administrator and others to try to accommodate what concerns we could identify. the monthly payment you heard about is not a payment to the unions, it is a payment for health care. it is a payment for pensions, it is a payment for workers. that is what we in the union stand for. that is what we ask you to stand for and we don't think that has to be done at the expense of small business, but we can work together and profit together. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? good afternoon, my time is tony rodriguez. we do work in online bay area counties. i've done this position for 11 years. for 11 years, i've dealt with
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project labor all over the bay area. they've wor f years and people keep coming back to do them. when you all stood in front and said how great this was for the workers, we could haverr.nnnnns nezt::::::(vbed we weren't fast tracking. the last thing i'll say is in union, contractors that are signatory to our union. i've been in my union for yea yers. 31 of those cotorac were formal workers whoded deci to go into business for themselves. they were making a living, decided to stay union. when i hear about small contractors or small
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usinees, it all works. it's a protection for the workers is what the pla is about. anybody who is against the pla is really wanting to continue to abuse and take advantage of the workers. i think everyone here really said they were for protecting the workers when we presented this. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker? good afternoon, supervisors. happy election day. my name is julianna choice summer. i'm not up here to discuss the merits of pla. we shouldn't be doing this today. i don't want to discuss the merits of pla next week either because we need more time. you've seen all the speakers who have gone ahead of me. we need a bit more time. listen, small businesses, we don't have lawyers on staff. we don't have people that can come to city hall on our behalf. we have to take time off work. these guys are busy. that's why you may not have
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heard from them yet. you will hear from them. we need to slow it down a little bit. there are a lot of folks that want to chime in. let's just allow them to do so. please vote no on item 28. we're having good cnversatio now, but i don't think we can complete it in a week. let's keep going with it. please vote no on 28. thank you. thank you for your comments. thank you, madam chair. i represent 2500 electrical workers here in town. i'm here to speak in favor of item 28. we've heard a bunch of people say no, but i'll say yes. mike touched most of the issues that we would normally hit, as did tony. we heard from the people from the avc and we heard other people talk about opportunity for people of color, for women, e
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etc. our apprenticeship for inside wirement alone has more female apprentices than the abc has in northern california, just in san francisco. where is that opportunity? we go out, we recruit. we weren't a great organization forever, but we've made great strides. and whether it's y cd asking come out and speak to a classroom of three people prepping for our test, we go out and do it and we make that outreach. we do work for the community, we are the community, our workers are.
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there's another side to this shining city. and on the other side of this shining city, people are getting robbed every day on public works projects. and the administrator's report that came out vastly underestimated it. we found more on two school projects, just electrical workers, than what they quoted. it's rampant. and without union workers on site, you won't be able t protect those workers. thank you for your time. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. thank you for the opportunity to speak. i'm with the chinese american democratic club. we are also opposing the motion to pull the city wide pla from the government audit and oversight committee. you know, we're not against the pla, we're not. we believe that the unions do a lot of great things. but what we do need is we need
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opportunities for small businesses, which are predominantly -- many of which are minority and women-owned businesses, to be able to grow and thrive and then to become union signatory. it's a symbiotic process if it's done right. when irresponsible pla's are put in place, when small businesses are locked out, many of which are minority and women-owned. it affects the livelihoods of every single one of them that has put in blood and sweat into their businesses. i would urge the board of supervisors today to deny the motion to call up the issue into the committee as a whole. and i would encourage you to allow the unions and small
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contractors to continue to negotiate and to get it right. we've got an equity program and other issues. we need an equity program in our pla, thank you. thank your for your comments, next speaker? i'm here to speak on item 28 in support of item 28 for the project labor agreement. i've heard people say that this thing has been rushed through and they don't want it rushed through. nothing could be further from the truth. we've been working on this for over a year and a half. we've had multiple meetings. some of the people who spoke against item 28 were in those meetings. and the building trade has made concessions, huge concessions on some parts. so we listened and we decided the best thing to do was to meet with the small businesses and hear what their problems are. we did that and we did that multiple times. we made huge concessions.
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it's not like this is kust flying up here and no one's been talking about it. otherwise, like a few of my guys said earlier, we would have pushed this through months ago. but we didn't want to do that. we wanted to make sure everybody was heard. as far as the comments about people of color not getting due i agree that heitwith that. people of color that are the workers that aren't getting due process. the worker that is are being exploited on all these jobs. as far as i'm concerned, this pla is about san francisco workers. union and non-union alike to make sure that they're getting what they're supposed to be getting by law. and what's right for them. and isn't this city all about
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that? i think it is. the small businesses still can prosper under a project labor agreement. it's been done at the school district, it's been done at the puc. i can tell you firsthand. we've been watching on behalf of the labor council this been going on f long time. we've been in the meetings that some of my brothers have been and sisters have been talking about recently. and that is to make sure that this is done right.
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. this has been in committee for over a year. there have been many amendments made. there have been amendments galore. by the way, the labor council is in 100% support of this project. so it's time to move this forward. this is just looking like delay thte's gonna yet n we find out another hearing and possibly other things moving on. so we're urging you to vote yes on 28 and let's get this process finalized after all these many, many, many months.
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thank you for your comments. next speaker? supervisors, my name is hanson lee. i have a sister, we go to church together and i wish to use her minutes if that's okay. no, that's not allowed in here. you can use up your two minutes and she may use her's. okay. i guess my minutes are suddenly cut in half. supervisors, i've been here many, many times when i was president of the asian american contract association. let me remind you this item 28,
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there's a sponsor. four years ago, i had liver cancer. doing work there is wa more full and wholehearted. but this week, i watched a
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movie. what we aredoi now is people of color exclusive. and we are all race to the om.tt thisher uonold me they want to talk to us. guess the city or the mayor don't want to include us. race to the bottom. this mayor, you know i wasn't a big fan of our mayor lee. but compared to this white thankr for your comments. thank you for your comments. madam president? sir, i'm sorry. your time is up. i'm sorry. i apologize. your time is up. we have to give everyone equal time. thank you. thank you.
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tom gilberti, it doesn't seem like 28 is ready to go. but i'm gonna switch subjects. there was another election 50 years ago. and a gentleman won the election and then lost his life. robert kennedy, what does it mean to be against communism if one's own system denies the va of t individual and gives all the power to the government. just as the communists do. the cold war long provided for the allies to abuse their own populations. but kennedy was declaring those days must end. everywhere the senator went, he challenged his right host. in the last years of bobby kenne kennedy, he became increasingly estranged from the washington political light.
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his critique of the american foreign policy became more passionate as the war in southeast asia drew on a dr the doubtful eye of the white that began spying on kennedy as if he was a hostile foreign agent. and then there was mr. garrison during this time. excellent book, i just finished it. we have gone a long way in the wrong direction. the labor guys right here with telling it. we need to firm up this country again and our city. it's not very well.
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thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker? madam president, madam clerk, i thinkwe can vote on 28 today. it seems like you're gonna make somebody unhappy. i have an item for you that probably won't make anybody unhappy. i sit in the back of the room and i kind of watch what's going well and what's not going well. and you know, i noticed that there wasn't an in memoriam for dwight clark. there was? there shoue inemoriam for dwight clark. we have 30 years of football dominance in the bay area if you include the high schools, the colleges. that had an economicnd financial positive for the area as well. thank your for your
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comments. next speaker? madam president? any other members of the public who'd like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is now closed. and just for clarity, i submitted an in memoriam for dwight clark and did not make any comments, thank you. madam clerk, please call the items for adoption without reference to committee. if a member requests an item may be severed and considered separately. thank you very much, i'd like to sever item number 28. >
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supervisor fewer? thank you, president breed. colleagues, i am a strong supporter of labor and i am proud to have authored the largest and strongest project laborgreement that the san francisco unified school district has ever seen. that said, i have some questions coming up about the proposed city wide pla before the board now. and frankly, i don't understand
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what the urgency is. to pull this legislation from committee after 1 1/2 years of this sitting at the board. many stake holders areing rward with concerns about this legislation that i think need to be addressed through amendments. and these amendments are likely to be subjective, requiring discussion at more t committee meeting. i also understand that there are many stake holders who would like to weigh in on this legislation through public comment. ultimately, the best pro-tess for this to happen is that committee, not at the full board, and i've spoken to colleague supervisor kim who has committed to scheduling this legislation at the government audit and oversight committee on june 20th. the controller's office conducted a risk benefit analysis of the proposed city wide pla in march of 2016. we acknowledge that this will result in increased costs to the city and county. and i have heard directly from one works rec and park that they expect increased costs. we have not seen a fiscal
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analysis of this legislation. and since it was moved from budget and finance, and i believe that this analysis is important to understand be taking action as a board, as the fiscal impact could be considerable. i also do not understand what the impact of this legislation would be on small contractors, particularly small businesses owned by women and people of color. after hearing serious concerns from dozens of small contractors, this issue deserves further discussion. in particular, i don't believe this pla, as currently written, addresses my concern about pathways to good jobs for formally incarcerated people in san francisco's construction industry as disadvantaged workers. for all these reasons, colleagues, i urge you to vote no on this item today to allow for the discussion, thank you. thank you, supervisor fewer. supervisor peskin?
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thank you, madam president, colleagues. first of all, let me concur with supervisor few er. what we're discussing here is whether or not we're gonna have a committee meeting in committee or a committee meeting at the board of supervisors as a whole. that's what's before us here today. every once in a while, we saw this a few weeks ago, it requires somebody, in this case, supervisor safai, to move the process forward by challenging us to a committee of the whole. what this has brought about is the fact that there will be, on a date certain, i've heard two different dates. june the 11th and june the 20th. i would personally prefer june the 11th, which is actually a day earlier than the full board would have heard it on june the 12th. that aside, i want to send a couple of messages. because i want to pass a pla, i
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would like to pass it soon. it has been sitting around for too long. and it has been sitting around for too long because no one has real, i think, done the tough work of convening the parties and hammering out the last few things that need to be hammered out. and so yes, that is on a mayor and we're having an election today and it will be on whoever is the likely mayor in the days ahead. and i beseech the parties to do some really good work between now and six days from now, if that indeed is the date. i also wany,os a whe you have the city administrator, who we all voted unanimously to re appoap and department heads coming and expressing concerns, my instinct is to say okay, i need to get you in a room and let's iron these things out.
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that has clearly not -- i don't want to say it hasn't happened, it just hasn't been successful yet. i'm not sure exactly why. but i did actually ask if there were some meetings. and yes, there were. they didn't go anywhere, in one person's opinion. i really think it's incumbent that that hard discussion happens. it's incumbent on the parties that that hard discussion happens in the next few days. i want to pass a pla, i want to do it quickly. i think that it is right that it happen in committee. it is very extraordinary that we have a committee of the whole. and i hope that we can get this done next monday or in thetexco meetings as the gao committee. thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor safai? thank you,adam president. much of what i was going to say supervisor pes id. just for clarity, the process of pulling something from a committee to the full board
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still allows for there to be a committee hearing. that's why we call it a committee of the whole. this process, we have been meeting with many folks in the lbe community. we have been meeting with folks in the building trade. myself and president breed have met with city departments and theity administrator. as supervisor peskin said, there has been progress. the amended version that you see in front of you today from the perspective of the building trades, as you heard them say, has made some significant concessions on their side. that does not mean the debate is done. that means that we are going to have a committee hearing. and i met with five members of the folks from the community as well as president breed's staff just this last week and we received even more comments and we are still continuing the conversation and we're happy to continue that conversation. i don't want to get into any of the merits or any of the policies of the pla. that's not what's before us today. before us today is scheduling.
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and supervisor kim and i had been in conversations. we had looked at multiple dates over the last three weeks. there wasn't an ability, given all the things that were going on, particularly today being election day, to find the right time. meetings were going to happen, those meetings were cancelled. e wasone that was tomorrow. i think everyone would be on the floor exhausted. so that does not make sense either. we had discussed having it on monday, june the 11th. if that's the will of the chair of that committee, i will support that. and there will be a process. the idea that there would be no democracy in a committee of th olewh is absolutely not trued. that was proposed two weeks ago by supervisor fewer to have a conversation about apartments and operation maintenance agreements. we were trying to have scheduling conversations. we were able to resolve that and we did have that committee hearing and we moved the process forward. i am in support of having it on june the 11th.
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i am in support of having a pla. i am in support of respecting the great work that's been done in the history of this city to support lbe's and incorporating all that great work into something. but my pe the perspective and always will be the perspective of workers first. and that's how i approach this conversation. thank you, supervisor safai. just for clarify, i sit on gao committee and i've made it clear that i will not be here on june 11th. but i am planning to attend the meeting on june 20th. supervisor kim? thank you. as chair of the committee, i just want to clarify that we are working to schedule this now on monday, june 11th. we are still workingo confirm this with the agenda. supervisor peskin and i will be there. so it would be great to have a repleno that we can walk around. but i do just want to warn members of the public that we
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do sit on land use committee at 1:00 p.m. as much work as can happen on wednesday, thursday and friday to hammer this out and get to a consensus so that we can pass this out of committee on monday, june 11th, is appreciated. but we will be scheduling it. i think it's much more appropriate to be heard at committee than at the full board of supervisors. and i'm happy to schedule it. thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor safai, would you like to continue to support the committee as a whole? issue wle that item. motion to table made by supervisor safai. seconded by supervisor peskin. colleagues, can we take that without objection. without objection, this item is tabled. madam clerk, any other items before us today? please read the in memoriam. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the
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following beloved individuals behalf of president breed, dwight clark. on behalf of supervisor ronen for the late renee yenes. madam clerk, any other items before us today? that concludes our business for today. ladies and gentlemen, today is election day. the polls will be open until 8:00 all over the city, includingy ll. please make sure that you go out and vote and have a wonderful day. thank you. we are adjourned.
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>> my name is naomi kelly the single-story for the 775 i started with the city and county
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in 1996 working for the newly elected mayor willie brown, jr. not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored united states and excited about the future. >> my name is is jack listen and the executive director of a phil randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in san francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the community members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. i worked in he's mayor's office of housing
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in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of san francisco state university and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the taxicab commission and through the process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and . >> having trouble struggling to make ends meet folks will not understand what importance of voting is so we decided to develop our workforce development services after a couple of years offering pathways to sustainable jobs. >> (clapping.) >> we've gotten to a place to have the folks come back and have the discussion even if participation and makes sense we do public services but we
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also really build strong communits when i started this job my sons were 2 and 5 now 9 and 6 i think so the need to be able to take a call from the principal of school i think that b a whole new appreciation to being understanding of the work life balance. >> (clapping.) >> i have a very good team around me we're leader in the country when it comes to paid and retail and furiously the affordable-care act passed by 3079 we were did leaders for the healthcare and we're in support of of the women and support. >> in my industry i feel that is male dominated a huge struggle to get my foot in the door and i feel as though that definitely needs to change this year needs to be more
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opportunities for i don't know women to do what tell me dream i feel that is important for us to create a in fact, network of support to young people young women can further their dreams and most interested in making sure they have the full and whatever ty ake that achieveable. >> education is important i releases it at my time of san mateo high ii come back to the university of san francisco law school and the fact i the bar will open up many more doors because i feel a curve ball or an where you can in the way can't get down why is this in my way we have to figure out a solution how to move forward we
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can't let adversity throw in the you. >> well to the epic center are you ready for thet earthquake did you know if you're a renter you can get earthquake shushes we'll take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode i'm the chief resilience officer for san francisco i'm joined by my good friends for the earthquake authority we're at the el cap center for the city
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and county of san francisco started in 2013 to get the community andabouk the risk we think about earthquake if usual greaty you'll see one of the demonstrates we've built the model home and i encourage other episodes we'll be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as property owners to employ you work for the california earthquake authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if you're a renter or property owner how the insurance issues. >> i'm the chief mitigation officer or c e a property line funded pubicallyanaed e that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. >> what make the c e a deft.
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>> we work with 19 participates the insurer that sells y, our homeowner policy you're not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. covered with homeowners insurance. >> no california homeowner theunders homeowners insurance doesn't cover earthquake they need a separate policy if you're an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. >> so explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. >> irreverent so in the 80s the state of califorassed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye there was so much loss they were
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going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. >> we're talking about the homeownership's buying the earthqu shiners but 70 percent are renters what's my opposite. >> the option for renter the earthquake be insurance company is affordable i think people don't realize just exactly what it covers iter property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as emergency repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in our unit that's whether earthquake is important. >> you're title you're the excessive mitigation officer for the state of california when i think of insurance i don't think about mitigation. >> so as part of public safety
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mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had $45 million to make a difference fing and incentivizing and mitigation for california homeowners to structure engineering a unique opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitig tequivalent. >> er an own o renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i >>arthquake authcomy. not only information about insurance but a calculated figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their premium as an incentive for the
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work. >> what does mitigate the home mean. >> strgthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly orarlier d you putn adding streamlining maybe collar bts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. >> thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the earthquake authority but we'll talk about > abot two years ago now i had my first child. and i thought when i come back, you know, i'm going to get back in the swing of things and i'll find a spot. and it wasn't really that way
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when i got back to work. that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innove ideas and policies, san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many d th year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. >> i was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my ltive s while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. she was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the
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room arondhe hallway, i don't know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. not all returning mothers have the same access, even though there's existing state laws o the issues. >> these moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they don't feel well-supported at work. >> we started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations mothers to return to work and lactate. but this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. >> with the newcome -- accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. >> what are legislation? >> we wanted to make it
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applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. >> do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. >> i would love to. let's go. >> this is such an inviting space. what makes this a lactation room? >> as legislation requires it has t minimum standards, a seat, aceo place your breast on, a clean space that doesn't have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. and we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. the things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. anhen the room. our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but it's all right in here. you can wash your pump and put your milk away and you don't have to put it in a fridge that you share with co-workers. >> the new standards will be
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applied to all businesses and places of employment in san francisco. but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? >> i thinkmall s busses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations f employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account small footprints.es that may for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we canan, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to y o support a encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is necessary. >> what is most important about
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the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a hi as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking aceir boss for lactation mmat really it's hardo go b the office after you have become a mom, you're leaving your heart outside of your body. when you can provide your child food from your body and know you're connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. and businesses and employers can just provide a space. if they don't have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and at wi attact moms working in san francisco. >> if you want more information
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visitorg/eastfeedingatwork. ♪ ♪ >> this lodge is home t some o the best fly pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is
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held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be here. and been practicing since for the competition. all the besters the world come here. my fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man.
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>> it's unique. will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the world. competitions in ireland, scotland, norway, japan, russia each year, the facilities here there is plex in the world that can touch it. >> i'm here with bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i needo know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show uponhe 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are i the water. >> let me acquaint you with the
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fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. pu forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway r fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the clubnd at the casting pond.
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it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a season day like this, it was the perfect spot to be. i find fly casting very relaxing and also at the same time very challenging sport. takes me out into the nature. almost like drawing art in the air. and then i can make these beautiful loops out there. >> even though people from across the globe come here to compete, it's still a where loc and enjoy some rely unique scenery. until next time,get out and play!
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>> so first, i want to say good joining me as i submit our balance to your budget to the board of supervisors here in city hall. i want to start today by bei acknowledging all of the hard work that went into this. i want to thampg the members of the board of supervisors, i want to thank the departments that are here today and their staffs for all their hard work and the months of preparation th