it's $90,000 a year and you claim that you surveyed everybody in the area but you never surveyed them. that's why you price fix and don't include them in the opportunity. and then when they stroke striku wonder why. it's not fair. you need to stop and treat people fairly. pay them a living wage equal to what the pop squad make. $184,000 a year. >> she will make the testimony part in english and part in chinese. good afternoon, everybody. my maim is may high wong. i work as a housekeeper as marriott union square for 15 years or more. i have a son and he goes to the

college. san from is a very expensive city. i need to support my family. i pay the mortgage and i pay the tax. marriott is requests 40 room per day. we are all the jobs where we had. because they remodel the room, our job is for my co-worker if she is hurt always hurt and go home. sleep. no time for us. marriott is wealthy hotel. a lot of the business we are only asking for the benefits

that we deserve and i will not wake up san francisco you need time. can you help me sign the contract, please. [applause] >> do you have announcement? >> mr. chair, before the next speaker speaks, i just wanted to provide some tips to the audience and the public gallery. at the beginning of this hearing, the chair indicated that there are no loud noises, applause or vocal expression of support that includes applause. if you would please hold your applause until the end of the hearing. that way we can get through each speaker and not have their comments interrupted. much appreciated. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> ok. i'm eye serve are at the western saint francis and i've been there four years. i am on strike because i am

living on a razor's edge from one day to the next. i am born and raised here in the bay area. living here in san francisco is a very difficult thing for working people. i'm a third or fourth generation san franciscoan. previous generations were able to boy homes, we're not able to do that anymore. i'm a renter now. i live in a s.r.o. i pay a lot of money for no kitchen, no bathroom, bedbug season, and mice. things like that. knowing that they're renovating right next to me, building up these nicer buildings and knowing that i can't, it's not even close for me to afford those things. i know, we started at this strike saying i was one rent payment away from the street.

that money has come and gone. that payment has gone in. what am i going to do next month? i don't know. and i know that the one thing i do know is that the marriott, like he said, is the richest hotel company in the history of the planet. that is -- just that statement means a lot. those guys could have signed this contract the first day but they chose not to. we're negotiating with them for months but they chose not to. every time that we talked to them, i didn't see arnie sorrien sorenson in that room. we know the marriott can. we hope that the marriott decide to. we're disappointed they're not here today. so we know that one job should be enough. make that happen. sign that contract now. thank you. >> hi, good afternoon. thank you for taking time to

meet with us. my name is diana. i am a san francisco native, born and raised. i invested in a lot of time and effort when i chose the career i did, which is the culinary industry. i worked in a lot of other restaurants before i got into marriott. hoping that it would help me build a better name for myself. as time has gone by, marriott has asked of me to work more than i should. i have just worked over 60 hours in three days. it's not fair that they don't want to cover our health benefits when the healthcare is the biggest issue for everyone in this room right now, including yourselves. we live in a city where it's in demand to have two jobs. one just to pay rent and one for

survival. it should not be that way. we should not be working ourselves to death and have nothing to show for it. we should be able to retire with dignity. we should take care of our kids. have a decent living. marriott's slogan is, employee's first. then do the right thing and take care of your ploy' employees fi. thank you. >> duck kwan win. is that person here? after him would be carlos. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is duck win. i have been working at the saint francis for 26 years. i am having a jury at work. a permanent injury but i still

love to work because i need the healthcare for my wife and myself. i am asking for your help and tell them to sign the contract as soon as possible because we love to work. we want to come back to work. thank you so much. >> carlos. >> my name is carlos. i work in the banquet at the marriott marque hotel and i'm on strike. family healthcare is one with the most important things to me in this country. i cover myself, my wife, and our three daughters. with my healthcare at the marriott marques.

my oldest daughter has a pacemaker. and we rely on having medical benefits to survive. we cannot afford to pay more family medical benefits. there is a lot of expenses in the cost of living that we cannot control. like gas, for example. like groceries, et cetera. we can control the cost of the healthcare. we know that the marriott can afford it. so we believe that one job should be enough. thank you for your support. >> jose perez. >> hi, good evening. my name is jose perez. and i work for marriott junior. i've been working for marriott

company for almost 12 years. we are here demanding to this company our healthcare, wages, and benefits. and retirement. but it's not only healthcare benefits and better pay and retirement, it's more that we need to and we want to receive more respect from them. because for this company, we are numbers for them. we're not humans. i believe that every single human being they have to be treated with respect, with dignity to have a better place to live and to work in a happy place as well. but unfortunately, for this company, they see us like a number so we know and it's been so clear since the beginning

every single negotiation that they don't make any movements, they don't -- they reject all our proposals and for them the first need they've been saying in healthcare is expensive. we know healthcare and our america is expensive and in california. but at the same time, they have the money. they have been making tons of money from us and we understand healthcare is expensive for all of us but we deserve. for us and for every single local members or in eye united members we are making the one for them. we are the one we deal with the customers, we are the one giving the good smile to the customers. we are the one --

>> thank you, very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, everybody and supervisors. i am rufina. i'm working at the saint regis hotel for about 13 years now. i would like everyone here, i'm just asking for marriott to pay us for a fair share, which is job security, fair rates and healthcare benefits. thank you. >> next speaker. after that would be nancy lee, looks like brian ho, lydia, kelly lay, and marion lavano.

>> good afternoon, everyone. my name is marrily. i work as a health attendant. i'm on strike right now. as a mother of two and a husband that does not have a job due to health issues, i must work overtime. since i do overtime, i rarely have the chance to spend time with my family. working as a housekeeper is not enough to support my family. my hotel job is in jeopardy. this will eventually take over my occupation and the issue is the healthcare prize increasing. if the cost of healthcare is too high, my family's health will be effected. this healthcare coverage my husband who has health problems and my children who may also have the health problems in the

future. my job has a huge workload. i might get injury any time i am at work because of how difficult it is. how many things i carry around to clean the room. as for management, i do not feey have is to pay me less and work more. i don't feel my personal being care while working on the job. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. nancy lee. >> good afternoon. my name is nancy lee. i am working at the saint francis over 30 years. i am supervisor. everyday after work, instead of enjoying dinner with my family i am worried. i am worried about tomorrow. i am worried about the next week schedule.

because i am worried about my job. our union, we need job security. thank you, very much. >> thank you, next speaker. brian. >> good afternoon. my name is brian and i work at the w here in the city specifically to pbx which is a telecommunications department. i understand our strike has drawn attention and support from many other industries, i hope our message is clear to everyone. one job should be enough. to let us sustain ourselves in a city we love and we can tell our loved ones we can support them and have piece of mind with healthcare. i want everyone regardless of what industry you work into understand when a corporation you work for is a leader in their industry and boasted an increase in revenue, they have a responsibility to provide for their workers a fair wage and affordable healthcare. instead of celebrating a increase in profits and revenue with marriott we are fighting

four our jobs. when a corporation is as profitable as they are, their workers should not have to worry about job security. i, like many of my colleagues, in many fear of losing my job and what i fear most is not for myself but the moral compass of marriott, in industry and job security of the generations after me. [ please stand by ]

hotel to sign the contract today so we get a job. the hotel is my second home. we wish they could give us the health care, wages, pension, job security. thank you.

bye-bye. >> supervisor yee: thank you. mirian -- it is mirian here? okay. next speaker that's in line. >> good afternoon. my name is steve creswell, and a bartender at the marriott square. i live in the most expensive city in america. i've lived in san francisco for 26 years, and 22 years of those 26 years, i've had roommates to help with the expense, even when i was married. yes, san francisco is that expensive today. we are here because we are asking marriott to pay their workers a fair living wage. we are asking marriott to pay into our pensions so we can retire with dignity in the

community where we've lived and where we have worked, where we have spent our lives. we are asking all of this at a time when marriott is making record profits, a company valued at $49 billion, a company that just benefited from a generous government corporate tax windfall. they are a company that can clearly afford to sign this contract. so i ask this: if a rising tide lifts all boats, then why is the marriott not willing to raise the boats of their workers, the same workers who have helped create these record profits, so same on the marriott for driving these same workers into the street. shame on you, marriott. sign the contract, and thank you, board of supervisors, for your continued support. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker -- i'm going to call a bunch of speakers and

finish up these cards. lee huang, susana hernandez, gloria nicolai, yee tan, and rebecca. lee, are you here? if not, just come on up. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is susana hernandez. i work in the dining room for the marriott, and i am on a strike. i was part of the group of the people that had to work to pay my rent and expenses and bills. i have to sacrifice time for my family but even had to put my

own health in second place until unfortunately was diagnosed with breast cancer. in the middle of these terrible moment, i felt blessed to have medical insurance to help cover all my expenses. if i didn't have medical insurance, i wouldn't be able to pay for the chemotherapy, radiations, medicine, and the surgeries to remove areas affected by the cancer. the treatment continued even after the chemotherapy to now three years later. i am still taking medication due to all the side effects that the cancer caused. now i wouldn't be able to work two jobs because physically, my body had suffered in the negative side effects of the treatment, but i feel the stress, thinking what will happen if marriott doesn't sign the contract?

how will i be able to pay my medical expenses, my rent, bills, and food? this is why i'm asking marriott please think of all the people that depends on our medical insurance. i have worked for 20 years at the marriott hotel, and i'm just asking please sign our contract. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. just come on up. next speaker. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is rebecca. i have been working at the marriott marquis for 18 years, and i also have been working at the st. regis hotel for 13 years. so far, most of the workers you have heard earlier talk about their term stories. i, on the other hand -- personal

stories. i, on the other hand, will not do it. marriott is now the biggest hotel chain in the world, and it's largely because of its employees, us. we have made billions from marriott. some of you might not know marriott's philosophy: take care of your employees, and they will take care of your guests. it's why marriott has 6,300 locations all over the world, but why we on the street now? we are on the street because marriott has neglected to take care of us. we are now bullied by the same company we have made -- helped build. now we are left with no choice but to fight for justice and our

rights. we are just asking for what we deserve. marriott, please. abide by your own philosophy. take care of your employees, and we will take care of your guests. sign the contract now. thank you. >> hello. my name is gloria. i have been working at the westin hotel for 41 years. y i have seen many changes in the hotel industry, especially in how's keeping department -- housekeeping department, the green choice, they call it. it's a very, very dirty program. the green choice, it means to save the environment for the blue planet. they don't follow that. they should go to another planet. but it doesn't -- but it does the opposite. it forces workers to use more

chemicals in every refused room, we, the room of cleaners, stay at home with no pay. the company save more money. the company makes billions in profit every year, and we stay at home? that is unfair. and with no pay, that is unfair. and if they call us to go to work, we, the room cleaners get paid $23 and no cents an hour, and with no workload added on our backs. i see workers getting injured more and more every year. what we need is wage increase, job security, pension for any

retirement, pension for my retirement especially, because i'm getting up to there. we want respect from the managers. our time is valuable. we need to stop working two jobs to survive, especially here. one job should be enough, and that's my number one comment. thank you. >> good afternoon. i work in san francisco since 1984, almost 35 years. i have my kid sitting on the desk like this. we want them to be lawyers, in politics, doctors. i thinking about the bread and butter, how can i send them to college. my daughter born with a preexisting heart condition, but i send her to the law school,

and she already passed the law test, but i'm thinking she has to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for student especialloa. you should hear more things other than one job should be enough. if i can't pay my daughter's student loan -- i would like to see my daughter sitting here. she -- she went for the halloween -- i'm not just saying for her to make it popular, i'm just saying how much we want the people to sit like you guys. this year, if they're going hundred years back, you -- marriott will buy hotel all over the world.

if i had two houses, i would sell one house to take care of my family. they don't do that. they say one family, one company, one vision. they don't sell the other house to take care of it. one day, i think i'm going to have to live in the garage and rent the house, so i can survive the bread and butter. you better listen to me. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. thank you.

thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: next speaker. [inaudible] >> hello, everyone. my name is serg morales. i work at marriott hotel. for me, one job to be enough because it take all my time. 16 hours a day, i don't have time to play with my daughter. at midnight, when i go, i wake up my daughter to play with her, let's go an hour every day. we do this because our families, and we cannot spend time with

them. that's the truth. one job should be enough. [applause] >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon, all supervisors. my name is yu lee. i'm room attendant. i want to show you some -- how hard is my job. [speaking native language]

>> i want to talk something very painful story about the room attendants. actually, as far as i know, my -- my team has a 14-a staff, but they always will have to work injuries in the workplace. they always will have the back, leg, and hand injuries because of the -- in the workplaces, and

we usually work in hours -- sometimes eight hours a day, and we also have multiple things to deal with for a day, as well. there's many -- always, it's sensitive, so many times, it's painful for us to handle those type of jobs.

[speaking native language] >> so 80% of our colleagues are immigrants, and because of the language barriers, most of us cannot work fog the very relaxing jobs or very -- work for the very relaxing jobs or very casual jobs. most of the work is very hard for us, but we don't have any choices. and -- but you know what? we are here, and we want you guys' support. and to be honest, we do not want to strike, and we do not want to make the noise, and we do not want to interrupt tourism, but that's the reason why we are --

really want you guys to hear our voice and want you guys to support us. >>interpreter: oh, one more thing. [speaking native language] >> supervisor yee: can you transma translate, and we'll be done. >> yes. marriott makes millions of dollars around the world, and they always tell us how we help to earn them that kind of moneys, so we can't understand how marriott can pay us that

kind of moneys. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> my name is jesse stanton. i'm employed for the city and county of san francisco office of the medical examiner. i'm here in support of the marriott workers, and i'm here to say that the city workers, docto doctors and nurses of 1021 all stand in support. it's telling that the company couldn't be bothered to send a single representative, so i hope even with that disappointment that you all will be able somehow to help them understand that it's time for the company to sign the contract so these people can get back to work. thanks. thanks for your time. >> supervisor yee: thank you.

next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jose zepeda, and i work at the francisco hotels. i'm a banquet server. marriott hasn't been very respectful to the workers. no need to ask. also, to the city, marriott said their goal is to make millions of dollars into their pocket. they don't know the damage they've made, not only to their workers of the city of san francisco without signing a contract. they say they love their neighbors. their neighbors, they're suffering outside, the business, because of them. but they try to blame on us. they don't want to hear the

proposals that we make to them. how much longer it's going to take for them to realize how much damage they make to our family and to the city that they say they love. there's no love if they don't sign a contract. marriott, if you don't sign a contract, we're still going to be there on the street. marriott, if you don't sign, all day, all night, you're going to hear from us. thank you, members of the board of supervisors for giving us the time to hear our demands. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm david williams, and i'm the

president of the west bay chapter seiu 1021, and a member of the san francisco living wage coalition, and i'm here in solidarity of all the workers and the striking workers of the marriott. i think you've heard wonderful and moving stories from them today. i only hope this board can big o out -- figure out a way to do more than listen to this either. i'm hoping you can either come up with a resolution, come up with a regulation, come up with some way through either negotiations and mediation all in concert with local 2 and the striking workers to work with them and bring the strike to a positive resolution on behalf of local 2. thanks. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker.

>> i wasn't going to come and say anything. in fact, i didn't even want to strike. i told my employers that i appreciated them x allow them very much for allowing me to work with the company, and so i've only been here a year, and i've learned a lot, and i've met some incredibly wonderful people that i met, some friends, and they've been here 20, 30 -- some ten -- it's all over ten. when they tell me how long they've been here, i shrink. i'm going to stay in the corner until i get my years up. but when the strike came, i told my employers that i didn't want to do it because i didn't feel like it was -- you know, i have really no say. and i worked for the city, for

d.p.w., where i've cleaned this building, all the way up to larkin. i've seen all of the dirt, and i understand because a lot of those people who are out there are my age or around my age. they're not old veterans or people who are just dieing, they're young people out there. they're very discouraged about working and just even -- because they know it's not going to get them nowhere. the rages that they make, the rent has sky rocketed through the roof. i just seen -- i don't remember what his name is, but he is a representative, and i said this wonderfully incredible speech about how we were doing with the company, and we were the best this year. and d.p.w. said, just straight work. it's good when you can have fun and enjoy your work. that's what makes the work even better, but now, all of a sudden, i'm hearing three hour

shifts, and we have to pay for this and that. i'm hearing how much money you all are making, you're international, china, africa. you guys are everywhere. we're just asking for wages. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> when i decide to work, i never thought we are on this track. so right now, we are on -- on this strike. so right now, we are on this strike one month because marriott never respect their worker, the person who making benefits. so i just want to say to marriott, sign the contract. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hi.

my name is fortunato martinez. thank you for having this hearing. i'm a little saddened, but i'm also angry that no one from the marriott corporation has came down to hear our voice, but yet, they want to make the money off our blood, our sweat, our tears, altogether the hours that -- all the hours that we put in from our families. some people come from modesto, stockton. the commute is three hours to and from. but they don't want to hear that. they don't want to look us in the face and say you know what? i'm sorry you have to do that. i'm sorry that you have to be away from your family. but thank you for your sacrifices so i can sit in my office and get a bonus at the end of the year. i want to thank you guys for having the hearing, and i want to thank you for hearing us, but for marriott -- for no one from marriott to be here and to hear

us is a slap in my face. and the city, and the county -- you know what? we'll take your money. we'll take whatever we can from you, but whatever you're going to give back, you know what? whatever you guys need from us, from all of us, we're going to stand behind you, because you're going to fight for us, and we're going to fight for you. we live in the same city -- me and my girlfriend, i'm never going to buy a house, probably, and i'm 50 years old. thank you very much. i've been thrown out of worse places than this, so i'm going to leave now. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> two days in a row. good afternoon. my name is olga miranda. i'm the president of seiu local 87. my other hat is there is the

treasurer of the san francisco labor counsel, and i've been on the picket line, i've gotten arrested with a few of you supervisors, and i just want to start out, it's very hypocritical for a company like marriott to have hashtag, the golden rule, how you treat everybody the way you want to be treated, this is not a way san francisco should allow marriott to treat any of the workers. for me, we are -- our union, and i'm here today to be able to speak on behalf of our janitors, carpenters, within our universe of organized labors. these are the same families, and that's how personal it is for every single one of us. i applaud you for sitting here and listening to all of the families affected, but it's not just a little bubble they're in.

it's everybody's household here in san francisco and across the bay. i hope that all of you supervisors are taking this personally. these are not the values that we're always on camera and fighting for, that this is how people should be treated. i ask every one of you to send a letter to courtyard -- to marriott overall and say settle the strike and stop punishing san francisco hotel workers for always taking the stand and leading the fight. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is jay perschnepny. i am a bartender at marriott union square. i just need to let you know, being out on the picket lines, something that i've experienced. i've had people come up to me on sutter street tell me that

they've been receiving e-mails, come work for marriott. a woman goes oh, no, no, no, let me show you an e-mail. she showed me an e-mail. they're offering $30 for a server. in my hotel, they get paid minimum wage. in fact some of them aren't making $15 an hour. what an insult that is. take that, marriott. >> supervisor yee: are there any other additional speakers? are there any other speakers who would like to address the board on the special hearing committee of the whole? all right. seeing no other speakers, public comment on this item is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: thank you, colleagues, and are there any closing remarks or recommendations from the members of the committee as a whole to

consider? supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: thank you. wow. that was -- that was quite a hearing, and i just -- i wrote some notes while you were speaking, and i just wanted to repeat back some of what i -- what i heard today. young people are discouraged about working 'cause it doesn't get them anymore. i can't get sick because i'm a mother of three children and they won't be able to eat if i get sick. after 20 years, i got breast cancer, so i could no longer work two jobs, and now, i don't know how i'm going to pay my medical bills. i have one job to pay rent and one job to survive. i have no time for my husband. after five years of marriage, i had to get a roommate because i couldn't afford rent.

i wake up my child at midnight when i get home from my second or third job because it's the only time i get a chance to play with her. for marriott not to be here is a slap in my face. this is not okay. this is not okay, and i don't know what we have come to as a society that allows this to be the reality for millions and millions of working people in this country and in this city. we have lost our way. and what i'm asking marriott to do is to sign the contract. you -- instead of being an embarrassment, instead of insulting us as members of the

board of supervisors and your thousands of employees worldwide, you can be a leader, and you can show other companies what it means to actually respect the people that make you a profitable company. and you can give hope to people that working is actually worth it again. you know, for those of us who are lucky enough to only have one job, of which i am one of those people -- i get paid enough as a board of supervisors to not have to work a second job, i know how precious that time is when i get home at the end of the day, and i get to cook dinner for my child -- she's five years old, and i get to talk to her about her day, and i get to bathe here, and i get to cuddle in bed with her and read her a bedtime story. it's only a couple of hours of day when you're a working person

to spend with your kids to begin with. that's what we're forcing thousands and thousands of parents to give up. it's not okay. it's not okay, and it is an absolutely crisis, and we must -- absolute crisis, and we must all join the marriott workers and fight, and fight for them, fight for ourselves, fight for each other to make sure that this is no longer the reality in our country ever again. and i just want to close by saying that one of the workers said this is the most american he's ever felt. i agree. this is the most american i've ever felt, lirchistening to you watching your strength and your dignity and your resolve and your indignation is the best of this country. and sometimes, i feel a little weird when i pledge the allegiance to the flag because i

know how much injustice is happening in this country. but i just want you to know that your testimony today and your fight has made me feel comfortable doing that because you are americans, and you are what we are about, and you are the people that hold the values that we hold so dear as a nation. so i want you to know that i am 100% with you. i will be on that picket line with you until you win. i will be writing letters, i will be calling, i will be raising awareness, and i am so humbled by all of you, and thank you so much for this beautiful hearing today. >> supervisor yee: thank you. [applause] >> supervisor yee: so are there any other supervisors that would like to make last comments? if not, i'd like to say that i want to thank everyone who came

out today and made public comment on this item. and certainly, i want to thank the hundreds of others that came out and wasn't able to or wanting to make the comments in public but i'm sure their comments are similar to what we've heard today. thank you, supervisor ronen, for basically summarizing the comments that we all heard. i think it's important for us to hear that over and over again because what we heard today are comments made by the backbone of what makes the city run and tick. without workers to do this type of work, we wouldn't be a city, and certainly, we wouldn't be the city that we know it as. and certainly, we wouldn't see a whole lot of tourists coming in here without these workers. so for me, for the sake of the workers, for the sake of the

name of the marriott corporation, and for the sake of all those people that want to come and appreciate, we -- the marriott corporation needs to step up. they need to be the leaders -- they are the biggest hotel corporation in san francisco. then they need to either step up as a leader, or i just realized, we haven't looked at the hotel tax for a long time. i'm willing to look at it and maybe help those hotels pay for some of the things that the workers are not getting. you know, people are -- people are struggling in san francisco, and we all know that. and we want the marriott to show that they care, care about the people in san francisco, and help these people that are helping them make their fortune,

to make their fortune so they can live in san francisco. we're all busy, and in particular now until tuesday. after tuesday, we hope that this thing is settled. if not, i will, and many of you, my colleagues, will join the workers out there in the picket line. thank you very much. [applause] >> supervisor yee: so what i'd like to do now is thank the colleagues, the committee -- i didn't see it. supervisor fewer, i didn't see your name. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i just wanted to also say to the workers, thank you for coming out today. i think it was very hard testimony to hear because i think each one of us knows that behind every voice, every story, there are 100 people who have a very similar story and are struggling to stay here, and many of them are workers like

you who every day are serving the people of san francisco. and the idea that your jobs are so hard that you are cleaning the luxury hotels for the guests of san francisco and to make our city such a tourist attraction, and that you should have to go on strike for some basic needs such as health care. i think this speaks larger to what is happening in san francisco, but even larger to what is happening in our country. and i also hope that they will sign the agreement and give you a contract. i know after being a member of local 2, i know how important a good contract is to you, and not only you, the workers, but also the united states. labor is under attack nationwide, and under this

administration, we are seeing a much larger separation of wealth in this country, and i just think that the working poor, or the moderate wage workers, you guys are up against a big battle, but we're behind you, and we hear you. and i think today your voices were loud and clear, and one job should be enough. [applause] >> supervisor yee: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: yes, thank you, supervisor yee. and i want to thank my colleague, supervisor ronen, for calling this hearing. i just want to speak briefly. i want to thank you for coming out. definitely heard you, and i absolutely agree, one job should be enough. to the parents out there, i, too, am a mom with two kids. i heard what supervisor ronen mentioned, and it breaks my heart. i just want to say i heard you

today, so thank you for coming out. [applause] >> supervisor yee: okay. colleagues, then, without objection, we will now dissolve the committee of the whole and reconvene as the board of supervisors. without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: okay. madam clerk, item number two. >>clerk: mr. chair, we are going to hear and file that public hearing? >> supervisor yee: yes. >>clerk: okay. >> supervisor yee: hopefully, yes. >>clerk: at this time, the public may address the board of supervisors for up to two minutes on subject matter jurisdiction. direct your remarks as a whole to the board as a whole, not to individual members of the board. if you need interpreter assistance, please utilize twice the amount of time. to display your item on the display, and remove it when you want the image to revert back to

the meeting. you may comment on anything you want, but not on the item that we just heard. >> tom gilberti. just a couple of weeks ago, we had another union here. they were losing the gardening jobs. was that sutter health? the following week, a different union came in because they were losing the gardeners, and the next week, they were losing the drivers. it's a rush down to nothing for the people here. a week ago, we had -- who came in a week ago? the in-home supportive service people. they went up to $17 an hour, but there's no place for them to live. there's no place for the workers here to live. we have to make it so that

instead of driving two hours a day, they can live and work in the city. we need to change the fabric right here, right now. thank you. [applause] >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> thank you, acting president yee. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the board. my name is winship hillier. on tuesday, i showed you a graph of the mental health filings in san francisco superior court jumping up by a factor of 19 in one year right after 9-11. these people, these mysterious people, the -- accounting for these 2,000 filings are -- were, i believe adjudicated incompetent to stand trial. penal code 67, i think, and

following. this is a back door commitment route, as i've said before. this is a way of ordering people into involuntary psychiatric treatment when they do not meet the criteria for lanterman-petra-short. this is a back door commitment route. it's been historically abused, and credibly. people have been shoved into treatment, involuntary treatment on the basis of jaywalking. for years, i have been in involuntary treatment for over a decade on an unknown charge. now this is being used, and if sfgovt.-v, could you focus on the laptop -- and in case anybody forgets, this is a huge sea change. these are invisible people, much like the laborers here, these are people who have never had a trial, these are people who