milestone and it's borne out of faith and it's borne out of service and that commitment of service has kept you anchored in san francisco for 150 years. it's quite an accomplishment, and salute you and say thank you. thank you for your service. at this time i want to invite you to say a couple words, please. thank you. >> hello. i am selena su, the vice president of the board of directors at gamoon, and on behalf of the staff and the entire board of directors, we wanted to thank you for this opportunity. now, usually gloria is here asking for money and more money, but today we just wanted to take this time to let you know how appreciative we are of your recognition and contributions and support. without your constant support, our work will simply not be possible and i wanted to

especially thank supervisor kim and all the kind words among the board members and we truly appreciate it. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you, congratulations. [applause]

>> president cohen: congratulations again, thank you. madam clerk, continue with roll call for introductions. >> clerk: next up, supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: added as a co-sponsor for the hearing of the committee of the whole on the hotel workers strike. other than that, the rest i submit. >> supervisor tang: thank you. today submitting a package of contracts for technology improvements for both the treasurer's office and important to replace antiquated systems largely responsible for the city's largest source of revenue, and introducing resignation to make permanent some control to help bring more small businesses to 4 and 11,

and previously a pilot program two years, but seeing how much of our merchant corridors are struggling and a lots of vacancies, i want to make it a permanent control. with that i submit. >> supervisor yee: submit. >> president cohen: concludes our roll call for introductions. madam clerk. it's not quite 3:00 yet. shall we go to public comment? yes. at this time, the public may now address the entire board of supervisors up to two minutes on the subject jurisdiction of the board, items 38 through 41 without reference to public calendar. public comment is not allowed, pursuant to the rules, direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors and not to the audience. speakers using interpretation

assisstants will be allowed twice the amount of time. if you would like to display your document on the overhead projector, state such to sfgovtv. >> president cohen: please continue. >> san francisco owes oakland an apology. when the city of santa clara stole the 49ers away from the city, it began with a letter to look at some property. city and state officials connected to san francisco had a fit. but their wimpy attempts to keep the 49ers here all failed. then the late mayor ed lee sent a letter to the warriors inviting them to look at some land. if we didn't like what was done to us, why are we doing the same to someone else? we owe oakland an apology.

it is disingenuious to stick to the argument the warriors were here first, when you consider the fact how did the warriors leave san francisco? in 1971, it was a letter by mayor joseph aliota, reneging on a bond issue to build the warriors a san francisco arena. i believe a business should be able to go wherever it can to make the most of its profit. when the late mayor ed lee sent a tweet to the restaurant chain chic-fil-a, warning them not to try coming to san francisco, it states that there is always something bigger than profit. san francisco owes oakland an

apology. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> last week i got caught off guard when i made an appearance at a hearing pertaining to employees who died on the job after having applications filled out for a contract. and this time i want to spend my time highlighting the fact that there's a female by the name of lilliana presalgado, a copy and picture of her, please, here is a picture of her. this is a hispanic latino mexican female who busted through the glass ceiling of construction plumber's trade predominantly controlled by males. she lost her life on the job. she has a 2 or 3-year-old

toddler and asking for her mother and her grandfather is telling her that her mother's in heaven and as a result the toddler is asking can she go to heaven, too, in order to see her mother. by the same response, that hearing that i was caught off guard was called on the grounds that demonstrations from three different departments are supposed to demonstrate what they do in order to vet a contractor to make sure that past experiences like this doesn't take place. there's another individual by the name of rick rickets who, too, lost his life on the job and by the same response mr. rickets lost his job at the twin peaks construction job site. the hearing that took place shows how these three departments that was at the hearing failed to submit information about fatalities that took place on the job site.

this question here that was asked, did they have any fatalities on the job, they answered no. when the truth of the matter is they did have a fatality on their job past experiences. and by the same response, three -- >> clerk: next speaker. >> supervisors, we are in the year 2018. and if you look at what's happening to this very corrupt city, it may not come as a surprise to you but comes to the hard working constituents when we see too much of request money, dirty money, being used

to represent a certain segment of the population of san francisco. we don't come here to sit here for 3, 4 hours to speak for two minutes. at one time we were given three minutes. but we have to come here to look you in the eye so that a person like me who has a blog can address the issues and you cannot say that i have not looked you in the eye or you have not heard what i'm saying. so, what i'm saying is, we want representatives, we want representatives who have their heart in the right place so that they can do the right thing. but again and again, when we review the documents at the ethics commission, we see that the representatives are going into that pool of money that we

call dirty money. so what are we going to do about this? we, the people, can only pray for you but what are you going to do? what is your commitment going to be? now? we have you passing our legislation after take money from the developers. that shouldn't happen. you should recuse yourself. thank you very much. >> clerk: next speaker. >> hello, board of supervisors. we are pharmacy students from ucsf and advocate for legislation that would mandate the indication of use of prescription drug labels. what is indication of use, what a patient is using a medication for, and we believe that by adding that information on a

prescription drug label patient adherence will improve. as pharmacy students, we learn exactly what the medication does and how it works, and we can only imagine the confusion that our patients get when they receive their medication without knowing how the drug works, how, like why it's even used, or anything like that. so, that can explain why over time they decide not to take the medication. so, as a future health care provider, i could having indication of use it would be beneficial because drugs have many use, it would allows us to know if it is appropriate or changed for the patient. furthermore, greatly reduce medication rates and bottom line saves on health care costs, it could decrease risk of preventable hospitalization. thank you for your time. >> good evening, madam president, colleagues of san francisco board of supervisors. leland francois, industrial park

on behalf of the united nations association of oakland emergency shelter project. i've been bombarding your offices with documents over the years and over the months suggesting that our united nations, our 73rd anniversary is not as bright as it should be in the city and county of san francisco. we have a serious problem of homelessness. i have taken it upon myself as a volunteer over the years to study the outreach efforts of the united nations, known as habitat, started in the early 1970s. problem arose from the fact that the original international sister community friendship exchange program organized by nairobi, kenya, africa. that's how the sister community of, historic community of

nairobi, california was formed, today known as east palo alto. unfortunately it fell prey to redevelopment. what my intent here is to report on you two areas, or four areas aim placing an emphasis on to rectify the problem. first of all, reestablish international friendship ties with our colleagues in nairobi, emergency housing throughout the bay area. and secondly, bike trucks to mobilize ourselves through surveys and intense problems throughout the entire bay area. amateur radio operators from here to san jose, and organize volunteers to help coordinate the relief effort, and get some of the folks off the streets prior to the stormy weather season that's being predicted.

>> clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i'm here to talk about how we can improve item 19. advocate for sex workers homeless persons -- >> clerk: the speaker's time, this matter has been heard in committee and you cannot speak on it. >> thank you. >> clerk: next speaker. >> hello, board of supervisors. third year pharmacy school students at ucsf and we wanted to advocate for sb-320, mandate medical abortion resources at campuses. this was previously vetoed by governor brown because send there were abortion centers 5 to 7 miles from cam bus, but we

know how far away that can be. as both a young woman and a student at a riggous graduate school, we feel it's important to make the resources more accessible to students. it's difficult to go to a doctor's appointment or dentist as a student. especially considering limited hours the clinics are to them. and many of my friends go to work right after school, and it is also important to improve access to the resources in this turbulent administration. thank you for listening to our concern. >> good afternoon, supervisors. mark grubber with the san francisco taxi workers alliance. and i want to thank you the supervisors who weighed in with the m.t.a. against their terrible plan to ban most cabs

from the airport. on the same day that that plan was approved in most of its elements, the airport commission passed a rule that is going to forbid taxi drivers from conducting free speech activities in the taxi lots. this has been going on for decades. i started driving a cabin 1983, and ever since that cab drivers have had the right to hand out materials, collect signatures on petitions and then so forth in the taxi lots. we always get a permit from the airport to do that. we follow their rules, and it just makes no sense that they would, you know, stifle this free expression at this point, except for the presumptions that they are doing it in concert with the m.t.a. to quiet taxi

drivers' voices, to impede organizing at a very, very critical point for our industry. the taxi lots at s.f.o. are the only common ground that taxi drivers have to meet together, to talk, they typically spend an hour, three hours there, they have always had, you know, a free access to go around the taxi lots and it's just totally absurd that they are now prohibiting us from doing that. and airport representative after i raised this objection at the commission said we could do this at one of the picnic tables in the lots. well, there are 400 cab drivers in the lots at any given time, and maybe three at a picnic table. it makes no sense. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker.

>> i'm here to advocate your support for s.b.1426 and bills like it, support the expansion of the scope of practice for pharmacists. allowing them to furnish patients with drugs and devices that patients would otherwise seek primary care physician to receive. pharmacists are medication experts can decrease the burden on physicians to prescribe commonly used medications, providing physicians more time with patients to make many other important clinical decisions, and highly populated san francisco, increasing access to care in this manner can only benefit our communities. thank you. >> clerk: any other members of the public that would like to speak in general public comment? >> tom gilbert, usually i come

and i have two tissues in my pocket, i never use them, i find them coming out of the dryer with the clothes. last year i used two tissues in 45 minutes and i went to the board of supervisors office searching for more and used them up, and went to the clerk of the board for more tissues, this is -- this is runny nose season. if we could have boxes of tissues in every room behind a closed door in the city would be great. world series is happening right now, usually on the team in the world series there is a pitcher throwing fastballs, just control, striking everybody out. we are lucky to have michael wright on the side of the podium, this side of the fence throwing items and issues at this board and throwing strikes all the time. i'm glad to be behind him. i second almost everything he is

saying. i attended the audit and oversight committee about earthquake tall buildings and the safety and i'm still not sure what the city is going to look like after the big-big one. 1989 was the big-little one, or the little-big one. i don't know what the streets are going to look like. i would like the fire department to raise the issue what the city will look like. also at that meeting they talked about the crisis intervention teams. they need to be independent of the police and department of public health. commissioner reports solely to the mayor. mayor needs to keep the streets clean. mayor breed has fallen like humpty dumpty has fallen off the wall twice now. first with not wanting the 300 million in issue c, and now with the taxis, what they are doing.

>> clerk: any other members of the public that would like to speak in public comment? all right. public comment is closed. >> president cohen: madam clerk, it's 3:04. perhaps it's time to go to the 3:00 p.m. special order. >> clerk: items 31 and 32, are a hearing in ordinance, the hearing is for the board to sit as a committee of the whole to consider the proposed ordinance, increase the hourly xhengs rate for employees under contracts with non-profit corporations to $16, and under contracts with public entities to $17, and establishing a working group. this hearing was scheduled pursuant to the approval of motion made during the board of supervisor's meeting.

>> president cohen: after we hear from supervisor fewer and ronen, then the legislative analyst's office. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, good afternoon, everyone. i am happy to announce that supervisor ronen and i, with our labor partners, have come to an agreement with the mayor in support of a raise for our lowest paid workers. over 20,000 home health care workers, seek care for the elders and disabled residents, and depends on thousands of low wage workers to provide safety net services, all these workers are on the edge of poverty, most earning only $15 an hour and yet they have some of the most emotionally and physically demanding jobs. this legislation was originally introduced by supervisors kim and sheehy about one and a half

years ago. since then, supervisor ronen and myself have worked closely with the workers and their labor unions to draft this legislation. and thank supervisors jane kim and norman yee for their steadfast support of this legislation and early recognition of the atenable situation of the low wage workers. our agreement on the proposed amendments to the minimum compensation ordinance is a collective recognition of the critical situation these workers face. working for $15 an hour, they are on the edge of homelessness themselves while they care for our seniors, homeless youth and families in the community. in addition, nonprofits are having a very difficult time attracting and retaining people to these jobs. seeing large fast turnovers as well as vacancies. come probl

our amendments, raise wages of ihss workers $3.75 an hour over four years, and non-profit $1.15 an hour will by no means give them a livable wage. even at 18.75 an hour, only making $39,000 annually. about but i am humbled and grateful to offer some relief to the workers. thank the labor council for being champions and holding the elected officials accountable. many thanks to mayor breed and her team for working diligently and closely with supervisor ronen and myself. personally want to thank and recognize the work of my legislative aides, chelsea and beth, and carolyn, of the

district 9 office for their dedication with them and tensity to get this agreement completed. thank you hillary ronen for being a great partner in this process. >> supervisor ronen: i just wanted to start out by saying i could not be happier this was a long-term fight and there's 20,000 plus workers who have been incredibly patient waiting for a bump in their salaries that is not enough, about you will help make ends meet in this incredibly expensive city. i wanted to start out by giving a special thanks to the mayor, mayor breed and her team, kinhska, andrea and kelly, for engaging and really heartfelt and serious negotiations.

it was a pleasure working with you all, and i think it's helpful to build that trust with one another as we are moving forward. so, i really think that took us a long way, and i'm very appreciative of it. so, thank you very much for your commitment. and i wanted to also just give a thanks to the negotiating team and call them out by name. workers to know their unions are fighting for them. i wanted to thank nelson dela cruz, david, santiago. and david cannumb and joseph bryant, and very, very special thanks to the president of the labor council, rudy gonzales, for having been there since day one, fighting tooth and nail for what's right and for all workers in the city. it was an honest pleasure working with all of you. and then finally to sandra lee

fewer, a pleasure to work with you always, not because, not only because of your righteous moral clarity where you are here in this building and why you have decided to accept this job and accept being elected to the board of supervisors, to fight for your constituents and the people and the issues that you believe in. but for always doing it with so much humor and fun, it's so -- it's such a pleasure working with you all the time. so, thank you supervisor fewer, and then also to beth reubenstein and carolyn gusen who have held this together from day one, and working nonstop to make this happen, thank you so much. we rely so much on these work forces to make up the social safety net of this city and during this time not only of unbelievable wealth and inequality in the city, but a worsening crisis nationally

under this presidency. this is something to go home and celebrate tonight because at least here in san francisco we are moving in the right direction and that's something to be proud of, that's something to celebrate, and that's something to spread to others and cities and counties that need to make sure that their lowest wage workers are able to survive. so, thanks so much. hope colleagues you'll join supervisor fewer, yee, kim, myself and the mayor, and vote in favor of these amendments today. >> president cohen: thank for your remarks. supervisor brown. >> supervisor brown: yes, thank you. i want to commend the labor leaders and that's with both capital ls, the mayor and the sponsors of this as supervisor ronen, fewer, kim and yee, for, and especially with supervisor ronen and supervisor fewer for taking the past week to negotiate. i know it wasn't easy.

and i hope we can all stand behind today. i can't think of any more deserving work force than our in-home support workers. i want to thank everyone for this. thank you. >> supervisor yee: i just want to thank the main authors of this legislation. it's something that, and that would be supervisor fewer and ronen, and also thank the mayor for her sincerity in the negotiation. as you know for most of us that were here last year, this discussion started, and there was some concerns about it and when the first word that i received, i have to thank gordon mar and his group that came into the office to sit down with me and say this is, these are the issues we need to, you know,

like deal with this issue. and of course, many of us really wanted to support it but could not figure out at the time, maybe we should wait a little bit to figure out where the finances are coming from. and at this, you know, it's one of these things we have to finance this, and the good news is that once the city wins that lawsuit against howard jarvis, that, by the way, this could be another 25 million every year, that's available for, to support this effort and we knew that. and supervisor kim, didn't want to mention it earlier, always, when it's in lawsuit, you never know what's going to happen. but i feel confident that it would be available and that indeed we'll have funding to cover this. one way or another. so, thank you, i want to thank

all the labor leaders and all their people that work in the unions, persistence in coming to my office and your offices and saying you have to support this, you have to support this, and i'm glad we are there. thank you very much. >> supervisor kim: i want to first and foremost thank the workers of s.a.u. 2015 and s.c.i.u. 1021, fighting to raise the wages of our lowest paid workers here in the city and county of san francisco. i was proud to work with many of you in 2014 when we initially negotiated the increase to $15 an hour, and unlike the previous minimum wage ordinance learned from our mistakes, we made sure that we included i.h.s. workers in the new minimum wage ordinance that we unanimously

passed in 2014 and put on the ballot, and passed by an overwhelming majority of voters. being able to include the workers is an important priority that 2015 and the labor council has always well educated me on, you do some of the most difficult but also most important work, taking care of our most vulnerable residents, all of us will be there one day. and as we talk about the future of work, now this new kind of hit term of art, it is true that we are going to be losing many of our well paid middle class jobs in the country. the jobs most difficult to automate away are our in-home health workers. it's our child care workers, teachers, ones delivering direct services human-to-human and we have to make these middle class jobs because we are going to

become really will be a country of the rich and the poor. a direction that we have been heading in the last 30 years, and will continue to head in if we do not figure out how to address this issue, we have to figure out how to pay our folks that are doing this work, but also the jobs that we are not going to be able to automate away and make them the new middle class jobs in the country. so, thank supervisor sheehy who introduced the ordinance in 2016, and bobby lopez for ensuring that i could sponsor this. i was really proud to be the supervisor to put it on the city-wide list this past june and our budget cycle. and -- >> supposed to be anonymous. but since you outed yourself. >> and proud to work on proposition c, to ensure we set aside percentage of the new funding to go to the general

fund to help pay to increase the wages of the lowest paid workers and also increase the wages of our childcare workers as well. i want to especially thank supervisor fewer and ronen for actually taking this across the finish line. there was a lot of herding of cats and i also know a lot of transition and changes of leadership across the board so thank you so much for the negotiation and to members of this board for sticking strongly with supervisor fewer and ronen to make sure that we could really be able to pass this just action here today. thank you to mayor breed for making this happen. i'm just happy we are not going to be here until 1:00 in the morning as supervisor ronen promised that we would last tuesday, so, happy 10th anniversary to you, supervisor ronen, and to your husband. i'm sure he appreciates this negotiation is done here today. but again, thank you to the workers. you are the ones that have been waiting for two years, so thank you for doing the work, for your patience, for persevering and

not giving up. congratulations to everyone. >> supervisor safai: i would like to see my name, sorry. just kidding. i just want to add my name to the chorus, thank you thank you thank you to all the workers in this room. i know so many of you in particular had the opportunity two years ago, this was a shared sacrifice. i know you all stood in solidarity with one another and decided not one of you would step in front of the other. i know the first step was getting the airport workers, taking care of supervisor cohen, you led on that. thank you to supervisor fewer and ronen and kim and yee. thank you for your leadership over the last week. more importantly, thank you for the workers for doing the work you do, and deciding collectively to put your lives on hold, increases on hold in this time of tremendous prosperity. the work that you do is going to save millions in the long run

for the city of san francisco. without in home health care workers, we are talking about nursing homes, we are talking about other much more expensive options that we don't have the ability to do today. so, this is such important work that you are doing. thank you to each and every one of you for your patience and thank you for all the leadership from the mayor and the board and everyone involved in bringing the solution forward and putsing in the long hours to get a good compromise that we can all stand by today. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you colleagues for those wonderful thank yous that went all the way around to everyone. historical context, this has been a challenging issue that we have dealt with. first of all, recognize that supervisor, excuse me, that mayor lee was the original mayor that was around when the legislation was introduced and had some apprehensions on it. mayor farrell refused to deal with it, but mayor breed stepped

up to the table to try to solve and close the gap and then was demotted and then now she's back, and so it's almost like a romantic saga. i want to talk about the household labor. tim paulson, in the middle of his own transition, leading the conversation and he transitioned from the labor council to the building trades, and then you rudy gonzales, stepped up, not confirmed but stepping in the role. a really interesting exercise in leadership and diplomacy. a lot of thank yous that need to go around, and you know what else, one lost his mother in the middle of the transition, thank you for being so resilient and strong and able to continue to press on. rudy's little boy got sick -- incredible, you don't know behind the scenes what has transpired, it's been a very, very heavy lift.

and although we are going, doing a lot of thank yous around, acknowledge the non-profit workers and also the executive leadership. because there is -- this has been a very challenging issue to recognize and bring peace and bring everybody all on to the same page. home health care workers, yes. one element of this conversation and they have proven to be victorious. i want to make sure the executive directors of the non-profit officials, that they, too, will be able to live with the decisions and the actions we are going to be taking place here today and grateful for the work that the controllers office has done in order to help us survey and understand exactly where the numbers are. this body continues to mature, you have a lot of young supervisors and moving on and then you have a new supervisor that are going to be taking on in this body. i really hope that we start to be more thoughtful and use data as the tool to help us drive our policy so we know exactly where the numbers are, so we know how much we are spending and for whom we are spending it for.

you know, this is going to be a significant investment of more than 1 million, over $100 million over the next five years. and you know, that may mean that this body may feel a tighter squeeze when it comes to our own board priorities and our processes. but this is the right thing to do, and i'm really proud to be able to support this initiative as we go forward and then i also want to speak as the chair of the budget and finance committee and recognize that it's going to be a challenge to align all the competing priorities, priorities that we all agree are important, homelessness, shelter beds, police staffing, of course a fair worker compensation, these are all of the many competing priorities that this body, as well as the mayor's office, as well as the controllers office, and the budget legislative analyst and the budgeter's office, all grappling with. trying to make this city more fair. we are trying to make this city equitable, and that everyone

will have an opportunity to be prosperous. everyone. i want to also acknowledge again the stakeholders that are here. colleagues, i'm happy this this legislation is moving forward. i would like to, at this point, pivot and give the budget legislative analyst a short presentation before we take public comment on these two items. thank you, mr. rose. please. >> madam president, members of the board. according to the controllers october 15, 2018, memorandum to the board of supervisors, the estimated increased cost is $500,000 in fiscal year 19 -- fiscal year 2019-20. if the minimum compensation for employees of non-profit organizations having contracts with the city is increased by approximately $0.50 per hour, from 15.50, to $16 per hour.

if non-profit organizations increase the wages of higher paid workers, to maintain wage differentials, the estimated costs of non-profit organizations in fiscal year 19-20 is at least 3.5 million. estimated increase costs in non-profit organizations in fiscal year 19-20, increased minimum compensation on july 1, 2019, to 16.50 per hour, as an adjustment of 3.35%, that cost would be 1.3 million. if non-profit organizations increased their wages of higher paid workers, to maintain wage differentials, the estimated cost of the non-profit organizations in 1920 is at least $7 million. the city would have the discretion on whether to fund the increased cost to the non-profit organizations due to increased minimum compensation, or require the non-profit

organizations to absorb the increased costs. we also report that according to the human services agency, the increasing the minimum compensation for i.h.s.s. workers by $2, from $15 to $17 per hour, on january 1, 2019, and with adjustments each july 1st thereafter, would raise the i.h.s.s. maintenance of effort payment the city is required to make by an estimated 12,417,676 in fiscal year 18-19. we consider approval of the proposed legislation to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors and we would be happy to respond to any questions. >> president cohen: thank you. i have one question, mr. rose. wondering if you had an opportunity to look at the

amendments and if you have any analysis. >> our report was -- was issued yesterday on the latest legislation that we have seen, madam president. >> president cohen: ok, thank you. appreciate that. so, i'll take that as a no, the policy matter for this body, ok. great. either one of the authors of the amendments would like to read into the record or walk us through the amendments? supervisor ronen, supervisor fewer, would you like, one of you like to share about the amendments? >> i could do that now or would you like to take public comment first. >> president cohen: i would like to hear what the amendments are, because public comment might be interested in commenting on those amendments. >> no problem. after the last agreement reached with mayor -- after our agreement reached with mayor breed and the san francisco labor council, like to introduce the following amendments to the

m.c.o. ordinance. wage, raise wages for workers of non-profit contractors of the city to 16.50 an hour on july 1, 2019. increase base on the consumer price index applied beginning july 1, 2020. raise wages for workers of i.h.s.s. in a phase-in as follows. $1 an hour february 1, 2019. give immediate relief. $0.50 raise july 1, 2019. $1 raise july 1, 2020. $0.50 july 1, 2021. $0.70 2022, and increased on the consumer price index applied beginning july 1, 2023. bring i.h.s.s. workers to hourly wage of $18.75, on july 1, 2022. in addition, we heard from our colleagues on the board that

there was a concern that during the recession that the city needed flexibility in addressing c.p.i. and wage increases. so, we are adding language that addresses that. the increase in hourly growth compensation and consumer price index increases specify in subsections a, b, c, d, increases under the fiscal and budgetary provisions of the charter and certfies that such funds are sufficient to pay for the increased hourly gross compensation. if the controller certifies the appropriated funds are sufficient to support a proportion of the increased hourly growth compensation rate and the consumer price index increase, then the rate shall increase by that proportion only. i would also like to thank the controller for helping us, of course, with these numbers, and agreeing to convene the

non-profit working group. and everyone has a copy of the amendments. >> president cohen: thank you very much. all right. seeing there is no further discussion on the amendments, why don't we go to public comment. items 31 and 32, please come up. reminder, two minutes. soft chime indicating 30 seconds remaining on the balance of your time. welcome, sir. >> thank you. charles minster, a member of senior disability action, retired trade union, residents of district 1. i certainly stand in support of these two items. if i were a union rep in this town, i would be asking for a minimum of $30 an hour to survive. we notice it's a pittance. and over 30 years, the government is forced to take care of the most vulnerable

people in the population, all and the country. corporations, they want to keep taxes low, they'll spend millions to keep taxes low and therefore, no money going into the coffers of the city like there should be to take care of the problems. [please stand by]

hello, my name is henney kelly, and i usually come and beg you to do things. what i'm going to do today is thank you for doing things and i'm real happy to do that. i am the legislative chair for the california alliance for tired americans and caucus chair for the disabilities caucus of the democratic party. i am also an officer of labor council and everywhere that i look, what you are doing today is so important and so correct

and such a good start. i know that people need workers to stay in their community. disabled, aged, we need these workers. they do an amazing amount of work. and they don't just help us dress ourselves, bathe, but they talk to us. they make us feel less isolated. and what you are doing by raising the wages is

i would like to start with the corporal works of mercy, jesus on the mount and endorsed by the catholic and methodist church and most religions or some part of them. they are a job description for care givers. feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, give shelter to travelers, visit the sick, visit the imprisoned, bury the dead. care givers do all of these. mostly the first three.

and feeding the hungry does not, in san francisco any more mean just preparing the food that is there or that you get from the supermarket for them. it means when it is close to having their check time and they are out of food, they give them food. a lot of caregivers give to help the people they care for a float because they are often on social security or disability, which the cost of living is not covering their increased expenses for medicare and their healthcare. that is the world we live in. also, i would like to have a quote from pope francis. trade unions have been an essential force for social progress without which a semblance of a decent and humane society isn't possible under capitalism. remember he said a semblance of a decent and humane society. what you are faced with is

trying to do the right thing under a system that is stacked against having a decent and humane society and we are just playing catch up to keep the people who are the most vulnerable. the care givers and people they care for from suffering any more than they are. thank you for what you are doing. you all realize that's how it is. >> president m. cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm john lydell. proud to be here. i think we need a truly global mayor's conference to let everyone come and testify how problems get solved. one thing i've also been fighting for is daycare centers and this is kind of an exception to the minimum wage law in that i think we should staff them with elders who get

paid with hugs and kisss. i think that's something else san francisco can innovate. whether main staffers are elders who love the kids and spend time with them and give them good attention. i think it's a national way to get the elders and younger folks together. kind of innovative solutions the city is known for and i am glad to see you are carrying on the tradition. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors, my name is joseph bryant, regional vice president for s.e.i.u. 10-1. wow, this has been a long time coming. it feels as if we have been running a marathon for the last couple of years in regards to try to figure this out. and then the last couple days it's really felt like a sprint to get things done. but we represent many of the non-profit workers that will serve to benefit from this ordinance. and you know, i did have to

write notes just to acknowledge all the people that we are absolutely grateful for in taking a leadership role in making this concept, this, you know, hopeful idea become a reality. additionally, this was a true show of solidarity. we use the word solidarity a lot but this was a solidarity shown between the elected leaders here in san francisco between labor, between communities, you could see all the folks who are here in support of this. and we thank you so much for standing with the workers. prioritizing workers. and giving workers a chance. giving workers hope. this is not an easy city to live in. as we all know it's very difficult. i need to jump to the thank you's because i'm running out of time. thank you to our champions that

helped us in this sprint in making this actually happen. supervisor fewer, you are a champion. we appreciate everything that you've done and continue to do. supervisor ronen, you are amazing, thank you for getting us here to this point. i also want to thank our co-sponsors and supervisor kim for helping get to this point where we could get it over the last couple hurdles. supervisor yee, mayor breed, thank you so much. and the mayor's staff. andrea, they have all -- [buzzer] >> president m. cohen: thank you. next speaker? >> good afternoon, my name is javier, for community partnership in the tenderloin and member of s.e.i.u. 10 21. our organization c.h.p. works with formerly homeless individuals and provides them with housing.

but i also worked alongside hundreds of non-profit employees and workers that today, their work has been validated and the dignity of their labor has been given a big push so i want to thank the board and remind everyone here who is involved in a constant labor struggle to have a decent wage for workers who work their tail off that this is a milestone and we will continue to keep fighting and i want to thank everyone here. >> good afternoon, board. my name is fernand dela cruz, s.e.i.u. on behalf of the care workers and 20,000 home care providers in san francisco, we want to appreciate your leadership and the message that san francisco sends today, that we continue to be a beacon of hope for all

long-term care providers. today you make a decision to taking an enormous step to ensuring caregivers in san francisco are able to live with dignity and respect. and we know the quality of care providers can give is directly linked to the ability for them to care for themselves and their families. i want to thank our sponsors, supervisor kim, yee, and the incredible tenacity and leadership of supervisors fewer and ronen and this wasn't be possible if not for our mayor, mayor breed, in the last several weeks leading up to this. again, this is an enormous message to send, not just here in california or san francisco but across the country. this is work to be valued and respected and we appreciate your all's leadership on this historic day. [ applause ] >> hi, my name is -- i'm with

senior and disability action. i'm here, oh wow. you know, when i was sitting, i was thinking what way can i talk that i will be aggressive enough and not insulting anybody [ chuckles ] and this is different, this is to say thank you. i'm really glad i get to say thank you because usually i'm here to say kind of like shame on you, you need to do better. so thank you for doing this. particularly, to supervisor fewer and ronen for their role in this. and all of you for the workers because the workers should come first because guess what? if we don't have these workers, we don't get to have our seniors and our special children and our disabled participate in our community. and we do appreciate that,

right? so thank you very much. >> hello, supervisors, my name is joanna lawrence shank, pastor at first mennonite church of san francisco and i live in the mission district and i'm also a member of faith in action bay area. thank you for your support of the proposed amendments to raise the wages of i.h.s.s. workers and non-profit workers. i offer my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, hillary ronen, to supervisor fewer and mayor breed for championing this effort. in a city with as much wealth, vision and creativity as san francisco, this increase in wages is the least we can do to care for our elders, the disabled people and those who support them. dr. king has some thoughts on

this in his prophetic "beyond vietnam" speech, dismissive attitudes for vulnerable people is possible when machines and computers profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people. he called for a revolution of values to save the soul of our country. and he was assassinated one year to the day after he offered that speech. so passing these amendments is an imperative. it's not revolutionary. but it does indicate that san francisco leaders haven't lost touch with their souls. thank you. >> denise with the living wage coalition. the amendments to the ordinance are important to me because as a non-profit worker, i used to be a cal works program participant where i work providing valuable services to our community. i am a single mother of three children.