way to give more value to the medallions or the permits. i think that's the situation we're under, and so we can compare and bring some ideas forth. i think we waited for the study. i think i found the study wanting and also inadequate, so i welcome a fresh set of eyes at it in a deeper analysis to do that work. and so if you don't mind, mr. gobel, i actually think this is something we're very much involved in. if it's within the scope of lafco, even better. commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much. it's so good to hear commissioner ronen and fewer's comments about just clarifying the need and the importance and the sort of gap in and what the m.t.a. study is really getting at. and so i would support doing a separate study where you do analyze -- you analyze the

existing draft but then also to create a scope of work for any additional study that you might want to recommend to the commission to direct your work further. i mean, that would -- that would be sort of step one is yes, do what you've proposed to us here today, and then, step two is if then, now what? what do we do going further? i mean, there's clearly going to be a gap that you identify and -- and how you explore that, i think we just don't know yet, but i would be eager to hear what you say at that point. >> okay. thank you, commissioner. i -- i would be happy to develop a scope for this and to come back, also, at our september 21 meeting to make this separate from the labor study on emerging mobility services, and i'll bring the scope for that, and the scope for this study back to you for a presentation on september 21. >> supervisor fewer: thank

you, mr. gobel, that's perfect. let's open this up for public comment now. are there any members of the public that would like to speak? >> i have a lot of respect for city hall and board of supervisors, even more so for the females whom i'm always willing to standup for, and i'm quick to react when i see a violation that's taking place when somebody's trying to undermine them. i've come to a board meeting one day, next thing you know, i'm surrounded by about 10 to 15 and indian descent cab drivers who want me to speak up for them because they're being charged $250,000 for a medallion. that's a discrimination bases on rents. you've got taxi drivers that work for lyft and uber. the majority of their staff are on or about the skin color of white. all these medallions that's

given to the arabic drivers and drivers of indian descent are people of color. you've got a situation enjoyed by one class of taxi drivers but not another. you're deliberately charging them $250,000 for a medallion in order to drive a taxi, whereas lyft drivers and uber drivers are only paying, what, 125,000? some, probably not even paying it off. why are you price fixing and charging those arabic and indian descent taxi drivers more than when you're charging people of different nationality? that's a violation of the civil rights act of 1964. you're discriminating based on skin color 'cause you've got a skin color that's enjoying not paying $250,000 for a medallion, and then, you've got another skin color that's having to pay $250,000 in order to drive a taxi.

so that's enough right there for you to penalize it. whose idea was it to do this, way -- [inaudible] >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. thanks. >> hello, again, commissioners. eric brooks, our city, san francisco green party, san francisco clean energy advocates and californiians for energy choice. so first, real quick on the taxi issue and the ride hails, i want to just second what all the commissioners said about making this become a real independent report and also a report that focused on solutions that we can actually use. the main one that i can think of is either fees or taxes. fees if taxes won't work on the ride hail corporations, uber and lyft, and the others, and chariot, so that we can get the

money we need to bail out these taxi drivers from those corporations that don't -- they and their drivers don't pay any of these medallion fees. so on cleanpowersf, i definitely want to give a big thumbs up to continuing with community choice 2.0 because it's vital. right now we've got a situation where moody's is predicting that 80 -- within a few years, 85% of the load in california will be taken up by community choice. if community choice programs are not building local renewables efficiency and battery storage then there's going to be far too much demand for renewables supply. the cost will go up and threaten the whole movement of community choice. and also on these bills we're facing, we would have a lot more autonomy if we had our own

local renewable sufficiency battery storage, if we had our own independent local energy systems, we would be able to withstand bills like this much better, but no community choice programs have that yet, and so we really need to get cracking on 2.0. thanks. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much. just to build off of mr. brooks' comments, i know that mr. gobel has been working around advocates around clean power 2.0, so just ask that you continue the work that you're doing in that. and in that, i believe the local buildout has been a feature of that ongoing investigation and that you continue to look at that. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: and mr. gobel, i would like you to expand your scope when -- of study around the taxi drivers

and the medallion issue to include a racial analysis, also. thank you very much. thank you, michael, for that suggestion. >> you're very welcome. >> supervisor fewer: and then -- there's no action for this committee to take. madam clerk, can you please call item number seven. >> clerk: item number seven. public comment. members of the public may address the lafco on items that are within their jurisdiction and not on today's agenda. >> supervisor fewer: are there any members that would like to spe speak? hello. >> hello again. this time i would like to speak to a false narrative and speak about the people coming to the board of supervisors line about the multiple millions and billions of dollars that twitter and other high tech companies is making and contributing to the city. sf, viewer, please. i demonstrated well over several times and showed how a

minimum of $217 billion worth of tax-free money has been awarded to twitter and other high tech companies when that money should be contributed to the city and county of san francisco and used to the big who are in biggest need. in 2006, when the payroll tax had been cut by nearly half and gross receipts, taxes raised accordingly, nearly 400,000 more businesses paid gross tax than paid in payroll tax, according to the october city receipt reports. now here's a graph on how payroll taxes have decreased and less money has been contributed into the city of san francisco. as you can see here, in 2012, all the way up to 2018, the payroll taxes decreased, and that money that's being

decreased contributing to the city is going into the pockets of the high tech companies, okay? now, as far as other companies, multibillion dollar companies, according to the committee executive summary, last year's city hotel tax brought in $370 million, okay? annual payroll pertaining to taxes in tourism and the industry exceeded $2.5 billion, which increased the tax contribute to over $700 million. how come that's not applied to --

[inaudible] >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. [inaudible] >> supervisor fewer: thank you, michael. thank you very much. public comment is now closed -- oh, so, so sorry. >> never mind. i'm going to do it on the next item. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. [inaudible] >> supervisor fewer: would you like to come up, sir? public comment is now reopened. >> i remember when the city had a -- how do you say, a maybe 15, 20 years ago when things looked a lot different than they do now, and i'm proud of san francisco for, you know, just continuing in its development, and that's all i had to say. i'm happy with the city and its

socioeconomic competition and it's willingness to do things like bring back public pay for -- so people can go to school for free at the community colleges here and whatnot. we haven't had that since 1980. so i'm proud of san francisco. i don't see any racial issues. i just see big going on and, you know -- and we work with business. it's part of a community. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. public comment is now closed. madam clerk, please call item number eight. >> clerk: item number eight, future agenda items. >> supervisor fewer: are there any members of the public who would like to speak on item number eight? okay. good. >> take that as an indication that you don't have any future agenda items to talk about. well, i do, and in a way this is a future what the chair might decide item and also what

the chair might decide to take to the board of supervisors item. so i mentioned these fire bills. so as happened last year, governor brown, who wants ab 813 to go forward, he's got family that's in the -- in the fossil fuel energy industry and that's part of the deal, really wants ab 813 to move forward, and the way he tried to move it forward last year, but we managed to block him, but last year was a different story, he tied the passage of sb 100 to ab 813. and now that the big fire bill issue has come up, and the liability of companies like pg&e have come up, he's now tied both of those, the clean energy bill, ab 813, now those are tied to negotiations on the tire bills, and so -- and -- fire bills. and the intention of that is to bring pg&e to support the other

bills, to kind of give them something in the fire bills so they support the other bad bills. so this is a really cynical conflagration. it's a huge problem. you won't be able to take action on it, but sb 1088 -- it's 1-0-8-8, ab 33, and sb 901, which is the same author at 1088, are all being opposed by reform and a lot of clean energy advocates because of the dynamics and also because they would take the cost of fire prevention and fire liability off of the utilities and put them on customers. and as soon as that liability goes away, they don't have to care about whether they start fires or not. that's just fundamentally crazy, and so we need the board to take a position on this whole badpackage of bills. >> supervisor fewer: okay. so thank you very much.

hello. >> hello. [inaudible] >> -- and extreme serious and willful misconduct. i already mentioned to you that i spoke before the police commission pertaining to assault kit situations. and during that hearing, an additional topic came up to breast center and how they wanted to change to support the police uniforms putting pink patch to support breast cancer. i supported that response and i explained that part of the reason a lot of females have breast cancer is because of cancer causing agents out at that shipyard. that's your source. that's one of the main sources of breast cancer, and also out at treasure island. and by the same response, i want to point out that that scanner van that was used to detect radiation is not qualified to take care and

detect the radio active materials that's out there. there's several kinds of cancer causing agents in that soil. [inaudible] >> -- such scanner vans are supposed to be used only as gross screening tool to help focus on subsequent soil sampling which is done by taking thousands of samples and the fill and then sending the dirt for testing in the laboratory. okay. the scanner van is incompatible in screening -- incapable of screening most radio active levels of health concerns. the van simply cannot be used to declare sites safe. so you're using a machine that's not qualified to detect these materials. not only are you falsifying the samples, but you're using a

machine that's giving you false data. and i'm real up yet about that because as i -- [inaudible] >> i'm real upset. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, michael. >> okay, because you killed my grandmother. >> supervisor fewer: yeah. >> okay. cancer killed my grandmother out there at potrero hill, and i didn't know that. my grandmother died in my arms, and i did not know because she is dieing because of cancer causing material out there at potrero hill, and now that i know that now, i'm even more upset than i was before on any other topic that i'm working on here. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, michael. thanks for fighting the good fight. public comment is now closed. madam clerk, is there any further business today? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. the meeting's adjourned. thank you.

>> i want to welcome everyone to this very special event. celebrating san francisco's graduation to a 15-dollar an hour at minimum wage. good stuff. [applause] i'm pat mulligan. the director of the office of standards and enforcement. i want to thank everyone for attending this event. i know it is kind of a friday before a long weekend, and some people think it should be a whole week. i appreciate your dedication and being here today. i was reminded recently leading up to this event that it has

often been said in labour circle for years, as long as i can remember a, for more than 30 years, that every generation must reearn the right for labour justice at work. we need to reassert ourselves and redefine what is acceptable or tolerable within society. with the passage of the $15 an hour minimum wage, and with the earned implementation, this generation of san franciscans has asserted itself. we have taken the first steps towards defining what the minimum standards are for workers throughout san francisco and taking a step towards moving the agenda for social justice for all workers throughout the country. thathat is what we are here tody to celebrate. just meet -- just be mindful of that. we have a brief program with some distinguished speakers in front and we will have a

reception afterward. please stick around until the end. our first speaker, i should say i am truly impressed that he made the journey back to san francisco, after a gruelling week in san francisco as the budget chair. thathat is the california state assembly member phil tennant. [applause] >> think you. it is always so great to be home, especially, the temperature is about 90-100° in san francisco this weekend. we are always used to leading the way. i remember back in 2,003 when we had our first living wage battle in the first living wage proposition, and said we can't raise wages that high. will never be able to sustain it. we will have unemployment and people will be put out of work. while we have a very simple philosophy here in san francisco. no one who works full time,

doing a job, should ever have to live in poverty. we have not, even with our living wage, haven't been able to achieve that yet. this fight for 15, the amazing victory, starting july 1st. it is amazing. we are far ahead. california is still lacking behind. we will get to 15 in 2023, hopefully. assuming the economy continues to stay. that is years and years and years after san francisco already has hit that number for the fight -- has already achieved the fight for 15. but we know we can't stop. because until we can pay people a rage where they can rent a home, they can buy a home, they can provide for their families and put food on the table, and have a decent life in the richest city in the richest state in our country, we know that we still have a lot of work to do. we have the wealthiest state. we are the fifth largest economy

in the world to pick larger than great britain. but we also have one in five people living in poverty in california. this year, we were so proud to expand our earned income tax credit increase and put more money into medi-cal and work to get our healthcare access up. we know we are not done in san francisco. we are not done in california. have a long way to go and we need to keep fighting here in san francisco. those fights, it starts here. those fights that start -- sound crazy when we first put them out there, eventually, we know everyone will follow. thank you so much for coming and thank you so much for fighting. we will celebrate today and celebrate july 1st. but we know that on july 2nd we will get back to work, and we will keep fighting. thank we will keep fighting. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. yes. first, i would like to acknowledge the president of the

board of supervisors, thank you for your attendance today. i look forward to your continued support from your office. thank you very much. it is my honor to introduce our next speaker. my partner in this work, as well as many of the other functions of the city. also, the host of today's event, naomi kelly. [applause] >> good afternoon everyone. thank you for being here today. so we are here for this historic moment. whether you work in an office building in downtown san francisco, or at a nature -- neighborhood restaurant, or building homes back or cleaning them, as of july first, hour minimum wage will be $50 an ho hour. [cheers and applause] -- 15 dollars an hour. i am proud to be with you here today to celebrate this

milestone. san francisco is the first major american city to reach 15 dollars an hour for all it's workers. i can't fully appreciate this accomplishment without acknowledging our former late mayor, ed lee. it was in 2014 that ed lee worked to bring the stakeholders together and had a consensus driven approach with both labor unions, business leaders, community advocates to develop crop jay which was passed by the voters in 2014 with a 77% approval rating to increase the minimum wage which was then at $10.74 an hour, to today which would be $15 an hour. he often reminded us that the great city that this city of san francisco -- a great city, must treat workers fairly and shared prosperity is an integral part to our strong economy. [applause]

we have a booming local economy and a 50-dollar minimum wage. those who say we have to choose between -- 15 dollars minimum wage. those who say we have to choose between a fair pay and equity are wrong. they complement each other. thank you all for being here today. thank you to our labor community partners, our city staff, and all who have worked to ensure the rights of hard-working san franciscans can be protected. enjoy the rest of today. [applause] >> ok. next up, hang on, we will get through this expeditiously. the executive director of the san francisco labor council and lifetime resident of the city and county of san francisco, rudy gonzalez. [cheers and applause]

>> you have heard from other speakers that san francisco was the first. that mean something. a mean something when labor unions like community, and when i say that, i mean community partners like the chinese progressive association and through their partnership with groups like jobs with justice, where they come together with leaders in san francisco, and set a tone for the rest of the country. we saw just yesterday massachusetts joins the likes of new york and others who have followed suit to raise their minimum wage. as an important statement in what are otherwise dark times in our country. labor will stand with community. we will continue to fight for the working poor and we will continue to fight for immigrants in our communities. we will continue to stand up and provide a voice for working people. not only in san francisco, but in this nation and in this world. it is important that amidst this despair this world. it is important that amidst this despair, we can come together and break bread and celebrate some of these victories. under the leadership of tim paulson at the time in our labor

council, these things were possible. the minimum wage will rise, again. the living wage needs to rise out. [applause] whether it is over a copy, or you are reading mit statistics, you know it costs a lot more than $15 an hour to survive. even with just one person in this city, at the lodge of communities in the bay area. get us on as. 's on labor and community and on our elected's to take bold steps and move this even more forward and make progress and make a living wage a reality for san francisco and then we will see, under the leadership, it will happen across the country and elsewhere. thank you. with that, i will turn it over to pat mulligan. thanks, brother. [applause] >> thank you rudy. next we will hear from a san

francisco worker and a victim of minimum wage violations. she suffered under -- under minimum wage violations in a case i was investigated by the office of labor standards enforcement. we negotiated a settlement in the neighborhood of $400,000. in the back wages and penalties. just to appreciate it to, this was for seven workers. you can get the extent of the violation on an ongoing basis. whether that, i would introduce this woman and her interpreter for today with the office of labor standards enforcement. >> voice of translator: good afternoon everyone.

i will be the interpreter for this group of people. i also work for the office labor standard enforcement for -- as a compliance officer. i would like to thank you so much for this -- of these workers. all of them, they will have two more coming and they will probably be late. they took time off from work. they are taking the day off and some of them without pay. they want to come here to support us and support this event and to support the city and you support raising the minimum wage for the low wage workers. thank you. thank you so much. [applause] now she would like to say a few words on behalf of these good people who received a total of $480,000 as a back wages from one of the cases. i will be the interpreter for her. [speaking foreign language]

>> voice of translator: we are here today to support raising the minimum wage for low-wage workers. we work for a chinese restaurant on 18th street and the chinatown location, for many years. we work six days a week from 10-12 hours a day but we only

receive wages from 1,000-1,800 per month. which equal to $4.4 to $7.29 per hour. it is far below the required city minimum wage. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: in november 2014, with the help of a former worker from these cases, we looked for and talk to miss hall who helped us with not receiving city minimum wage and overtime pay. [speaking foreign language]

>> voice of translator: in the investigation, employers hired two attorneys to fight and try to settle with us for less than what they audit for the findin findings. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: one of the employers called us and said, hey, you guys just won money. i gave you money. just drop the claim. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: we are

so upset that the employer called and told us we just one money. we learned that it is our right to receive minimum wage, and when we work more than eight hours a day or more than 40 hours a week, we are entitled to receive overtime pay. so we stick together and stood up for our rights. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: we are so fortunate that with their help, our employer finally settled the case on the day of the hearing for a total of $480,000 as a back wages. [applause] [cheering] we received varying amounts from 50,000-$100,000 as a back wage

and interest. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: when the ponce -- the director of osc is here and the city attorney handed the first, to us and we are so happy and so grateful and couldn't think them enough for their help. [speaking foreign language]

>> voice of translator: the minimum wage is so important to the low wage workers. by raising the minimum wage, it helps the workers to support their family and puts more money in worker process pockets that will lead to more spending in a local business and help our economic growth. thank you so much for fighting for our rights and helping us to recover our rightful earned wages. thank you. [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> thank you, everybody. before our next speaker, i would like to acknowledge the san francisco school board. matt amy, i think i saw him in the back. also upfront, the fire chief joanne hayes white. thank you everyone. next up to speak, an individual

who will always give it to you straight. the president of sci you local 87, representing custodial workers throughout san francisco and the secretary-treasurer of the san francisco labor council, olga miranda. >> i would be doing a disservice to my community if i did not start in spanish first. before the monolingual challenge, i would do it in english immediately afterwards. [speaking spanish] span-mac

span-ma [applause] when this campaign started in 2013, it was one of the campaigns that kicked off after the 99%. before i go on, i want to be able to say that -- thank you to naomi kelly and pat milliken. -- mulligan. thank you for having the up year. i want to be able to say that

these fights are done with coalitions and the hard work and to the contributions that everybody puts an. is not just the accolades of those directors, of the elected officers. it doesn't happen because it dawned on one of them. let's do the right thing. what i said in spanish, is that these alliances, for example, for the brothers and sisters from [speaking spanish] our brothers and sisters from the trident just chinese progressive association. i would like to elect -- recognize a newly elected president. president -- of the cultural officer. these are the partnerships, with all the organized labor, my brothers and sisters from the firefighters and brothers and sisters from sei you. local 87. we had the courage to be able to

fight for that. and my former boss and mentor who was a director at the time when all of this was happening. thank you. [applause] this week and the celebration today is one for all of these allies and partners such as jobs with justice. in the wake of the janice decision, the achievement of 15 dollars as a minimum wage in san francisco is far more significant. we will resonate -- this will resonate throughout the country. our work is still not done. it was born from the 99% campaign and workers at burger king, mcdonald's, wendy's, theyy all decided i want $15 and a union. it was born from single mothers and minimum wage workers who said i deserve more and my children deserve more. a lot of these employers called

immigration on workers. san francisco has a luxury to have this in our city. we also have labor unions. that is one thing that san francisco can say we are proud to have. this is a uniontown. uniontown plus block -- [applause] in the coming weeks, we are still under attack. our responsibility is to continue that momentum. at workers from the airport and erase those workers that have been left behind. that this city makes a commitment through the small business owners, through labor unions, there all the offices here in city government. make the mco and the p.l.a. happen so no one is left behind. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. that was great.

next up got my former work partner for four years, and never at a loss for words, vice president of service employees international union local ten-1, joseph brian. [applause] >> all right. good afternoon everyone. how is everybody doing today? good, good. today is a day to celebrate. at least in the moment. we all know that we are facing a tax on many levels. we are seeing a tax on families at the borders. we are seeing attacks on civil rights like what took place in colorado. we are seeing attacks on human rights. with the muslim band and we are seeing attacks on workers rights with what we are experiencing with a new decision that just came out. but we have to remind ourselves, we will not get it all back in one swipe. there is not a magic bullet that will fix everything.

i tell my son's basketball team when we get down, you know, we will not get it all back in one shot. we have to stay resilience. we have to continue to grind. we have to continue to fight. today is a moment of the success of all the people in this room. the success of labor and coordination with working with community, in working with city leaders like pat and naomi. when we come together, we can make substantial change for the working people. sciu international has played a leading role in the fight for 15 and a union since 2012. [applause] it has not been an easy fight. there's been a lot of pushback. there's been a lot of critics. there's been a lot of opponents. we know what's right. even 15 in san francisco, as great as it is, it is still difficult to live here on $15 an

hour. so we must continue to push. we must continue to process to ensure that there is a living wage for all people who live in the city and county of san francisco. [applause] at the end of it, yo, you know,? why fight so hard for this? the fight for 15 is a fight for dignity. it is a fight for respect. it is a fight for justice. so we must continue to press in all places that do not have 15, and then continue to press beyond. we must continue to fight for one another and we have so many folks in the house from labor today back again, sciu and the local 87, brother ramon hernandez from local 261. we have both of the executive

director's, rudy gonzalez and tim paulson from the labor council and my sister alyssa from 2121. we have the operator's army in the house. we have mr james bryant who played an interesting -- a great role in labor over many years. we must continue to work together and continued to fight together. we are with you guys in terms of making sure that we continue to fight for worker's rights. thank you. [applause] >> i was going to try and recognize some of the labor folks here but i think joseph just covered everybody. tim, connie, ramon, also everybody else. thank you for participating and attending. the next speaker's rep estate -- reputation precedes her. she has been the organizing director with a chinese

progressive association. [cheers and applause] >> i was nervous, but now i have something to distract you all. just watch him if i get off track here. good afternoon. many thanks to pat and -- let's give it one more round of applause to the hard-working staff of the office of labor standards enforcement you every day help workers to make sure every day law is a reality and not just a good theory. i want to start by saying it has been a devastating week for all those of us who believe in democratic rights, in human rights, in immigrant rights, in the rights of families to be together and to be free. and the rights of workers to stand together as one. and to the rights of people to not be discriminated for further religion or country of origin. i know that, for all of us, it is mixed feelings that we come together today for a

celebration. at the same time, it is so important that we come together to celebrate. it is important we come together to celebrate because we want to remember, in dark times, in difficult times, what is the way forward? how do we win? how do we fight against racism and poverty and inequality? how do we make progress for working people and people of colour in this country? let's take a lesson from the $15 minimum wage victory. this victory was bought as many had mentioned already, because labor unions and community groups and workers, elected officials and many more came together to fight together for something better. but i want to get to the very core of why we have a $15 minimum wage. we have a $15 minimum wage in san francisco starting sunday. because workers took risks to stand up. because workers put things on -- their lives on the line and their livelihoods on the line. [applause]

fifteen years ago, it was workers here in san francisco that first made minimum wage a thing again. and now, all over the country,, cities and states have followed to follow and raise the minimum wage. it was workers in new york city who went on strike to demand $15 an hour and a union. minimum wage was won by people in this room. let see a show of hands. a show of hands who worked on the minimum wage proposition back in 2014? am i getting it right? raise your hand if you worked on this legislation. let's give a round of applause for everyone who has their hands in the air. [applause] i want to see another show of hands. who here is a worker who earns a minimum wage or around the minimum wage, who is affected by

this increase, and is part of a movement to improve the lives of workers in this city? raise your hands. [speaking spanish] [speaking foreign language] [applause] ok. i want to remind everyone that it was never about $15 and a union being some magic solution. i mean, this call started, like, six years ago. it meant something different than it means today. what this movement was about was not about some number that solved poverty or any quality. it was about dreaming big and aiming high and saying, we don't believe that we will be constrained by the limits of imagination of those who are in power. by those who wish to get more profit from our labor.

[laughter] we are not going to stand and be restrained by what people think it is possible. we are going to make the impossible possible. am i right? at this moment, we know our work is far from done, as many have mentioned. we know our work is far from done. we know the cost of living is outrageous and that $15 an hour does not get a family of four even close to what they need to survive. we know that our communities are facing blatant attacks on immigrants, on people of color, and it's bad. it's really, really bad. we know that the right wing and people income -- in power, at various levels of government,

especially the federal government, want to normalize the stripping away of worker's rights, immigrant rights, human rights and democratic rights. we cannot allow them to let that happen. this is not a time to be complacent and say we are doing great work in san francisco. this is a time to say, we did well and we have to keep doing better. we must lead the nation to fight back and make normal a world where all workers can live with dignity and decency. thank you. [applause] >> great. before we get too much further i want to acknowledge we have several of our partners from labor compliance today. the department of labor standards enforcement and the office of the director of industrial relations. i believe also with the california department, i want to acknowledge all of you and

welcome you here today. also with technical and professional employees local 21. thank you for attending as well. the next speaker is a san francisco worker, also a victim of minimum wage violation. [applause] [speaking spanish] [applause] >> hi everyone. and the member and leader of the collective and i have been a member for the last five years.

[speaking spanish] >> i want to thank all the organizations and all the people here. together, working side-by-side we've been able to accomplish our goals of hitting this minimum wage [speaking spanish] -. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: i want to say that we can do this, and

we did do this. we accomplished our goal of getting $15 an hour. beginning on the 1st of july, everyone will be getting paid at least $15 an hour. [speaking spanish] [laughter] >> voice of translator: i want you to see and observe how good it feels to give the sigh of relief to accomplish our goals of raising the minimum wage. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: we know it is expensive in san francisco to live. when minimum wage goes up, everything else goes up. rent, food, and living.

[speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: we want to keep fighting and make situations better for all the workers here in the city. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: i want to invite everyone to share this message and share with the rest of our community who are not present, that on july 1st of

this year, minimum wage in san francisco will go up to $15 an hour. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: with the organization's help, we will continue to push two more of an increase and improve these conditions. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: in our communities, not just in organizations, we work together

and there is always a great leader. [speaking spanish] [applause] >> voice of translator: as a member, i would like to recognize our leader, and all the rest of the members who continue to do the work needed in our community. [applause] [speaking spanish]

[cheers and applause] >> voice of translator: i would like to thank all the organizations present and everyone within the labor community is for this great achievement. we want to recognize the worker's present -- workers president -- present who are here and we will push for more of an increase, and thank you again. [applause] >> thank you elizabeth and alejandro. our next speaker, i'm really excited he was able to make it back here with competing

engagements on his schedule. representing district 11, including ingleside, outer mission park and excelsior, supervisor asha safai. >> thank you everyone. there's been a lot of speakers today. one of the things that distinguishes my district as we have the highest number of working families and men and women who are represented in organized labor in the entire city. representing the excelsior, the outer mission, mission, ingleside, lakeview, all of those neighborhoods, we have more -- or one in four households is a household of organized labor. organized labor is why i am standing here today. i am standing here on the shoulders and side-by-side with my brothers and sisters in the janitor's union. let's give it up for the president all got miranda. [applause] eight years ago, she took me

under her wing. may he rest in peace, our friend bob morale as it -- bob mireles and the union. those are the two groups that brought me into the labor movement, and like many of you that are sitting in the audience both as organizers, both as community members, and as men and women of labor, i was on the front line and played a very small role but an a very small role but an important role to help pass this -- help it get past the finish line. what that means to me is i will never forget the hard work that went into this. i'li will never forget the voics of organized labor, and it will help to guide me each and every day as i make decisions here on the board of supervisors. in the wake of the janus decision, as many of you have heard, it was a very, very hard week for labor. but one thing we know about organized labor, we always stand up and fight. we will continue to fight and we will honor this victory and we will carry it forward and carry it forward for many more, and

never backed down from the horrible decisions that are coming down from the federal government. thank you again and thank you for such a wonderful victory for the men and women and to the working families of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you. as we look forward to the fourth of july weekend and the celebration of our nation's independence, we should be mindful that the 15-dollar an hour minimum wage represents a different type of independence for san francisco workers. thank you everyone for attending today. we will have food shortly. please stick around and we can all get to know each other better. thank you again. thank you again.

>> today was the inauguration. we heard congratulations. it's the first african-american woman to be named to the city. with that, thank you for coming today. let's get started. >> for the record this is the july 11, 2018 treasure island development authority board meeting. call to order. [roll