on the school board i actually authorized the largest and strongest project labor agreement in the history of san francisco unified school district. i think an important thing to remember is that all of us make up the working construction business in san francisco and our organized labor partners it's very important they have stability and we look to them to actually deliver on us for construction needs in san francisco and also we have what is an important part and part of the team that helped to build san francisco and the future of san francisco. i would just like my fellow board members to keep that in mind as we go into these

negotiations but also as we discuss this today. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, supervisor fewer. supervisor safai. briefly, briefly. >> all these qualifications. >> supervisor: can you read them? >> yes. i want to start by thank a number of people. i'd like to thank the construction and building trades, community for engaging in this process, i'd like to thank the l.b.e. community and the city team along with the mayor's office and i want to acknowledge the mayor's office within the first 90 days of being in of the has embraced in advance two major issues significant to the labor community and one is the min mum compensation ordinance and moving the process moving it close to the goal line and

andrea brus is here. this is two years in the making starting with previous supervisor farrell and advanced to the previous administration. then in the spring when president breed and i and supervisor fewer and supervisor peskin en caggaged with the may office we've made significant process. we moved with the l.b.e. community and building trades and the effected city agencies in multiple, multiple rounds of meeting and received significant input, significant suggestions and we have before you today and madame chair we'll talk in terms of the amendments introduced today and we're asking for them to be introduced. i wanted to recognize the historical significance and

interplay between the community and affected communities of color. i know there's a long history with african american community and the longshoremen and the development is tied to the hunter's shipyard in san francisco. i want to acknowledge that we made and have made significant strides in this city over the course of the last 25 years what prior to doing away with affirmative action programs, we then with city administrator in previous h.r.c. director, mayor lee, put in place significant advancement and encouragement of under represented and impacted communities and the programs that have now evolved into the l.b.e. program is something that's integral to the history of san francisco.

we've embraced it and encouraged it. this legislation begins to acknowledge the perspective of workers and those working in the industry. we do everything we can to advance, enhance and protect the city build which is the strongest program in the in terms of a pathway into the construction and building trades. we looked to advance and encourage and protect our lment l.b.e. community and are looking at how the p.l.a. will ultimately be thinking about the prospective of workers and protection of worker and that's one thing the legislation is trying to achieve through a city wide negotiated p.l.a. as supervisor peskin said, this is 50% of the work. this is setting the macro framework of what will then be negotiated over the course of

the next year with the building trades, the l.b.e. community, the city administrator and all the effected city agencies in finalizing it. i want to highlight three key points before we get in the major amendments that were integral and were a major piece of the negotiations. one of the objectives was looking at a threshold and the threshold on contracts and covered projects in the city. the agreement was that on bond projects the flesh -- flesh hold -- threshold would be $5 million in what was covered and step down. on non-bond project the threshold would remain at $10 million and that's incorporated into this and we'll produce those amendments today. we also allow for an opportunity for the l.b.e.s and contractors as we learned through the process in data collection that

a $10 million threshold, most the projects and contracts issued in the city over $10 million, almost 100% are l.b.e.s signatory with the appropriate building and construction trades. so the conversation really narrowed over the last six months and in the legislation to think about the micro l.b.e. community or those working on smaller contracts so there's a threshold on the general fund work in the hundreds of millions annually and also overall, regardless of what source of revenue the money is coming from, there's a $5 million threshold written in to protect and allow for the growth and transition time for many of the l.b.e.s to work towards being signatory or excepting or being a part of the city wide p.l.a.

finally, i would say enhancing, encouraging and advancing the opportunities for a pathway for direct entry into the city build program is also part of the process transition in the step-down and an integral part for the mayor's office and members of this body and board. there's an acknowledgement in terms of the amendments that we talk about today on data collection and the controller's office and the role the controller will play in setting a baseline for where the status of things are today versus the status of where things will grow over time. so we acknowledge that in the amendments today and i can talk about them later, madame chair, if you'd like or where appropriate. i'd like to thank supervisor fewer. >> supervisor cohen: that's why i said brief but let's get on

with it. >> let me know when you want me to talk with the final amendment. >> supervisor cohen: perfect. i appreciate that. i don't flow noe if the mayor's i don't know if the mayor's office has anyone to thank. >> i'll be brief. we have been work in partnership with the supervisors as well as the city department and l.b.e. community and members of labor on this project. as the supervisor mentioned, the key three issues around threshold provide $5 million runway for l.b.e.s and language to facilitate direct entry for city build graduates were key priority so we're here to answer questions if needed. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for representing the mayor's office. at this point we're going dive in and start talking about the amendment. we'll start the discussion and take public comment and then take action on the item. very quickly, before we go to

the amendments i want to pivot back to the budget legislative office and hear their report to us. >> this legislation, if enacted, would probably result in some cost to city departments. i know there's been some discussion with members of the board. we have not provided a specific cost estimate in the absence of knowing what the implementation would look like. the city services auditor did a review a couple years ago. they looked at p.u.c. which had five positions of p.l.a. for the water improvement program about a $4.8 billion project. some are part-time and some full time and ranged in classification, some are higher level positions and some are aides that provided community outreach and other kinds of work. the other departments that would probably have cost if the city

were to implement this is the office of labor standards enforcement, public works and recreation and parks. we did talk to the city administrator's office and labor standards enforcement and they were looking at eight positions. i would say we'd have some concern in knowing what the position in the work flow. this is an office that already does a lot of contract monitoring in ways in which they can use their resources effectively. there would probably also be a one-time cost for i.t. implementation and without knowing what that would be we did not do a cost estimate and there would be an approval and we'd be certain to look at the position request and work load analysis and we do consider approval to be a policy matter.

>> supervisor cohen: can you confirm the fiscal impact will come later when there's actually a formal agreement that we're negotiate from what i understand we're negotiate road map. >> i believe any further analysis on our office's part unless requested otherwise would be at the time the departments would come together with an appropriation request. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i appreciate that. all right. ready to start discussing the amendments? >> yes, ma'am. >> supervisor: in respect to my committee woman, would you like to begin with your amendments. supervisor, safai, we'll begin with your amendments when you're ready. >> madame chair, supervisor ronen was attempting to be here

to speak and can we call up her aid to say a few words on the record real quick. >> supervisor: sure. >> she's coming in right now. >> supervisor cohen: we're ready. i love how they stroll in chillin' while here waiting. the mic is all yours. >> good morning. i'm an aide with supervisor ronen the supervisor had to go to another engagement and was hoping to be here. this is why i'm so sorry i'm rolling in like this, president cohen. supervisor ronen wanted me to express her support for the agreement. she feels we've been talking about these policy concerns for two years and it's time to make a decision and wants to make sure we can really move forward out of committee today.

>> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen: now we're ready for you supervisor. >> thank you. i highlighted the previously agreed upon amendments that were incorporated into legislation as introduced the change to the thresholds and the $531 million and the runway for l.b.e.s to transition where they're not exempt to let the p.l.a.

>> we added references to the academy on page 3, section 6 and 7. we added an acknowledgment about the historic nature of the out-migration of the african-american community and how stable jobs was an important part of stability not just to african-american community but we specifically allow for job opportunities for inmigration to reverse that flow. we talk about definition of core employee which was previously

agreed upon to talk about 500 hour time period for the employee on the contract or's payroll page 4 section c. undercovered project the concept of the word project. the project is a contract. that is a more defined term for the administration of the program. that was clarification. we clarified the definition of project labor agreement between the city and san francisco building and construction trades and affiliates. we have submitted to every one of you here today. we have a copy of the list on file. it is here if you don't have it we can make a copy, but we have that entiral affiliate list. we talk about clarification of definition of union to the state and city does not have the city

to prove local union. it is building and construction trade. we updated the time period which the sty administrator needs to work with all parties, l.b.e.s and everyone affected would be over initially nine months extended up to one year. it is discretion. the goal is to have this negotiated in one year or less at a minimum mun. clarification contractors and subcontractors and lb participation on affected projects up to $5 million on page 7 section 3. we clarify the time period between which the all parties would have a pathway for entry into city wind and direct entry. we clarified that on page 7, section 7. we talked about the previously

agreed upon language regarding journallal districts we incorporated that on page 8, section 8. we clarified the p.l.a. coverage not affected to the parent and subsidiaries unless performing covered work page 8 section 11. these were discussed earlier annual reporting and the request on four year period from the controller's office, request for presentation for all of the data. we talk about referencing all of the different sections and codes that are previously negotiated, in place in law in the city and county of san francisco section 82, which is local hire practices for equal benefits. we talk about city build. we talk about all of the existing sections.

those are part of the baseline analysis the controller will do. the participation rates of l.b.e.s. there is one term that needs to be incorporated. we will continue to work on that. the recognition of local hire how that is played out. we reference section 82. we will refine that one small piece within the next few days. i talked about the public hearing on page 9, section g. as i said earlier the building construction trades and affiliates list is submitted and will be on file. those are all of the amendments refined, negotiated, incorporated in based on supervisors and affected parties. thank you, madam chair. >> thank you very much. we heard from the bla, the

supervisors, now public comment. i welcome folks to the chamber. any member to speak come on up. i have several speaking cards. airon brown. wall, alex lawson, alex chew. come on up if you are here to speak. i recognize robert stewart, chris leone, susan smith. danielle smith. davidger, joe lewis. anyone else that would like to speak, you are more than welcome. come on up to the mic. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am areon brown i currently live in san francisco. i am a third year apprentice

working for elix electric on the san francisco state prospect. i worked on the uber building. a lot of people have the misconception we are not local to this area. i grew up here. i graduated just up the hill from grey's cathedral. i love my job and what i do. i make more than a living wage in the city, i have a davis bacon 401-k and health insurance. if this p.l.a. passes it will affect the living state -- status of people like me. it excludes me. i urge you not to pass this p.l.a. thank you for your time. >> hello. good afternoon. i am here with the lawyer's

committee for civil rights. to promote the ordinance to do no harm we want seats at the negotiation table. if it is passed it should include local hire in the future p.l.a. to ensure the process includes all stakeholders. we ask you add language requiring the city administrator include representatives from the local hire and l.b.e. communities in the negotiations. i support the amendments and would like for continuance so that we have more time to discuss the proposed amendments. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am alex lawson from the lawyers committee of civil

rights. we ask that you measure the impact. mandate that the controller, other city departments and the building trades collect relevant demographic data to establish pre-p.l.a. baseline for measuring potential adverse impact. the finding should trig you are mandatory -- trigger review of the p.l.a. i support the amendments. i ask for a continuance to allow more time to discuss the amendment. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i am alex chew. i am the president of the coalition for economic equity. a coalition of various minority business organizations. we have a lot of concerns about the legislation.

i sent an e-mail last night with a list of concerns. we have not had an opportunity to review all of the amendments as a group. we would like more time to do that. for that reason we seek to have it continue or have it voted down. as i mentioned. we have a lot of concerns. one of the concerns i will talk about at this moment the term of the ordinance. 20 year term is too long. we have not found any comparable city wide ple in california with a term as long as 20 years. there might be other p.l.a. agreements in california with definite terms. they are projector fund specific. we think the initial term should be four years to measure and prevent adverse impact on l.b.e. and local hire. that would be five successive

opportunities to extend for four years for a total of 20 years. if the city is against the safe guard in case of adverse impact, it is by not having the limited the terms to four years and having review of the legislation and its impact on the l.b.e.s, each of those four years. isn't it essential leaf admitting the ple adversely impacts the l.b.e. or local hire. it does not account for cost of living increases. >> who do you represent? >> coalition for economic equity. a coalition of minority business organizations. >> how long has this organization been organized? >> since i believe 1984, early 1980s. we were involved in the initial drafting of 12b, which is the ordinance. >> landmark legislation.

thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to speak. i am here representing abc associated builders action contractors. i am an instructor. i started as a union electrician. i chose after six years to work non-union. i have been an electrician for a long time. i started my business in 1989. in 2009 i decided to give back to the community i served by being able to hire minorities and women and people that were difficult to serve having been incarcerated. i have been teaching those students since then. i feel like the construction trade is where people that are difficult to serve go because they can be employed. i feel like the joint language

segregates and minimizes the amount of people we can actually about. i really -- it scares me. joint scares me because it means we can only about if we are non-union the core group. in the core group that is two people. where do the rest of our employees go? where do my student goes to work? where do the gentlemen go to work to make a living wage to stay in the areas in which they grew up. i have concerns we are not on the runway, we don't work. thank you. >> i am susan. i am a small business owner, mechanical contractor, 90% of my work is in san francisco. there are thousands of businesses that would not be able to do business with you if

you sign this p.l.a. i cannot bid on a p.l.a. project because it requires things of me it does not require of union shops. union shops can go in with their own work force. they do not have to satisfy the core work force requirements that i do, and that is discriminatory and shows favoritism. they hide this in definitions. for me to go and take local hire from their bench and train them when i don't know who they are makes this job risky for me when the union contractor next to me has his own crew there. this is very unfair, and the local work force, if it doesn't get hired by me. they bring people from other areas. this happened in other

p.l.a.s. also, well thank you. that is good enough. >> good morning. i am joe lucas with abc. i am here today to urge that you remove the joint language from the p.l.a. as it excludes many local apprentices. please allow core workers to have the opportunity to build the city and receive retirement to allow worker to work under the p.l.a. to receive the pension moneys after the job concludes. thank you. >> i am shell employee with bright line defense. bright line agrees the project labor agreements contributed to the safe completion of projects. they believe the agreements can

and should affirmatively advance racial and economic work force equity. we urge provisions to protect local hire to strengthen the work force development pipeline. we urge support for amendments to facilitate robust local hire. increase participationna communities of color and three ensure ability of contractors to comply with local hire. bright line urges mandatory review. we have reviewed from 18 other jurisdictions. in no case did we find one without five years without review. the mandatory local hire is one of the strongest in the country. clarifying language is

necessary. most city wide p.l.a.s had terms three to five years. to serve it is to advance racial and economic equity provisions must include review of the p.l.a. and potential impacts. thank you. >> good afternoon, committee members. i am representing asian incorporated founds 57 years ago. we strongly urge any support for any p.l.a. legislation be withheld unless it is amended to do no harm. we heard that from supervisor to do no harm and is ad to promote includes i competitive bidding in the san francisco public practices. we endorse the amendments to the letter dated november 22 of

which asian is a founding member. the package of amendments honored the value of the lb program previously known as woman enterprise. asian urges that it establish the provisions called for in the amendments for the long held priorities to protect lb asks and administering the tram. it was formed and championed by the coordinates doris ward. and representing the organizations of disadvantaged local women and contractors. we hope as the p.l.a. legislation moves forward. if passed we hope to be at the table if not at the table on the menu. thank you.

>> next speaker. >> good morning. i am matthew thomas, president of the san francisco african-american chamber of commerce. i am not anti-p.l.a. i just want the best in california. i recommend we adopt the 2009 report on african-american out-migration. the souper visor mentioned that the issue of out migration is added as an amendment to this proposed agreement. however, it has no specifics whatsoever. what we suggest and as the report states, the african-american out-migration task force was not convened to produce the report. it was to develop action recommendations to be implemented by the city not just to slow out-migration but to reverse that three decade trend.

supervisor fewer mentioned the school district p.l.a. it had a lot of room for improvement. as you know may 7 of this year the black human rights leadership counsel filed the administrative complaint with the department of justice regarding the school district p.l.a. african-american owned businesses are shut out of contracting opportunities by the district. the council claims the district does this by bundling small related contracts into one large project and shutting out our comment. supervisors, all i am asking is put thought into there. i would request continuance. actually look at the reports available for you. i will send them to you.

this report here just speaks to the fact that we are not included as we should. >> what is the name of the report you held up? the name? >> the office of employment and work force development 2017-2018 report. in this report it shows clearly from 2011 to 2018, approximately 80 african-americans per year are working in construction jobs. >> name of the report? >> local hiring policy for construction. i will send this to your office. >> next speaker please. >> i am ruth anchor employee of pilot construction management. i am here representing pilot construction. it is a woman owned business. we are in business for 12 years now. the majority of our employees are not english speaking.

first language spoken at home or at the job may not be english. we live here and are raising families here and sending family to school here. it is unfair to union workers that not locally from here and take our jobs. please permit l.b.e.s to bring all of the core employees to the projects. clarify they are permitted to use the employees under the agreements. this amendment is of particular concern to the minority community and raised by the asian contractors. it is essential for pilot construction to continue to bring workers. majority not english speaking. we support the amendments proposed by the commission for economic equity.

thank you. >> thank you. i am baird fong. i served 34 years at the human rights commission. i am a volunteer and local citizen, fourth generation from san francisco. i wanted to salute you supervisors. this is as you mentioned a very pivotal moment in city contracting. it is from here going forward we have the potential. i hear that in your voice to include everyone in the room. labor, community, departments, people that work for the firms, all of the l.b.e.s to pull together the model p.l.a. that can be proud to be shown throughout the whole bay area and state. that is right here in your laps.

do we have the encourage to do so? every one of us? do we have the courage to do so? i hope we do. i am here to volunteer for the sake of all l.b.e.s, workers and migrate grandfather and my dad came here and had to suffer the struggles our new immigrants are struggling through today. each of you here. this is 2018, are we talking about chinese exclusion act of 1830? no. we want to move forward. i expressly support continuance of this to get more description on the amendments. i support the exception to be fair. the last thing i would like to suggest and supervisor fewer was on my side. we would like the building trade to sponsor four locations in san

francisco to offer after school trade programs like we had at the marina. >> thank you, commissioner. >> good afternoon. i am tony rodriguez, local 483. i want to make two points. one, the 35 years i have been in the trades i have been involved in working with the p.l.a., setting up p.l.a.s and negotiating. the number nationwide keeps growing. i made this point before. it is because they worked. otherwise they would have gone away a long time ago. second point i want to make. supervisor fewer mentioned about the school p.l.a. during one of the school p.l.a.'s, my union had you 30 schools they worked on.

half were union contractors and the other half were non-union contractors. when they say core workers can't work. that is not true. i can show you all of the union contractors had workers on the project that are workers. i wonder why the workers for the non-unions don't know this. are they being told lies to come up here and say something not true. next door to my house there was a project that was prevailing wage. i would speak with the workers. they had no clue what prevailing wage was. they were doing different trades. they cannot ask for stuff. if they do, they will get fired. on a p.l.a. job, the vehicle is there to take care of that. our workers would tell us and we could take action against the

people being taken advantage of. i wonder why l.b.e. contractors are so against the p.l.a. i ask to you move this along. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am t un ica with local 38. i am a san francisco resident living in bayview. the p.l.a. is important to me to make it where i can afford to work and live in the city. i am a single parent with an 11-year-old boy and this helps me support him. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. i am cheryl gardner, journeyman for local 38. i am a single parent. i know the p.l.a. should pass. i am a local hire and fortunate to work in the city i live in. i mean i am hoping we move this

forward. thank you, guys. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am a bayview resident, san francisco resident and graduate of cycle 6. i graduated when governor newsome was the mayor. you should support the p.l.a. because it does bring a lot of locals. i am from the bayview-hunters point community. city build did do a lot for me and got me into local 38. i am hearing people say that, you know, it would exclude. i heard somebody say they are pulling people off the bench to train them. we go to training two nights an week, apprentice. i went through a 14 week training with city build.

i am not sure where the snowbound union would say not properly trained. to pink -- o piggyback. this helps up because we grew up here, we live here and we want to continue to live here. if you vote no you would outsource us and send us somewhere else. i mean i don't think that is fair. i graduated, my mother and father were born in san francisco. they graduated from high school here. we want to keep the work within the city here and give it to the city workers and locals here supporting us going through the programs you guys provide for us and making you guys look good. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am darron gardner, apprentice.

born and raised in san francisco. i ask you to move this forward. it is piggybacking to help us out. we are trained well. i work in the city i was born nor, and i am in support for it. [please stand by]

.please stand by] . . >> we think there's more work to be done to insure that this does not negatively effect vulnerable minority contractors, particularly african-american contractors.

we are thankful for the work that they have put into this and not enough attention has been given to the attention of micro l.b.s and how they will be effected. the letter that i am submitting talks about how under the sfusd-pla or under the district itself, over a 15-year period from 2004 to 2018, five out of 1,136 contracts were awarded to african-american contractors. that is a rate of .44%. we found that since the 1990s, and there were three times more african-american contractors than there are sod. and we are with the latest

monitoring report, there are 120 left from the micro l.b.s. this is the basis for the concerns around title 6 violations if there are not sufficient civil rights protections for the l.b.e. and specifically why we are asking for an exemption. we ask for more time and continuance on this item. thank you. >> let me ask a question. what would you do with the extra time? what difference would it make? >> we'd like to raise the issue of the micro l.b.e.s. there's a lot of i a tension given to african-american migration and not enough connection is being made between the effect of the p.l.a. and the agencies with the smaller contractors and to not bid on the projects and we believe that

is going on with the usf-pla and we would like more time and that is one civil rights fix to this. that is what we would do. >> good afternoon. my name is juan hernandez. i live here in san francisco. and i am in the abc electrical problem and i started by education as an electrical training and it was okay. i have been blessed with the opportunity to be accepted and be currently trained as an apprentice through abc and this is a night and day difference. i will be a well rounded electrician. and here in san francisco.

and everything i do and will do to start a family and future businesses will be here in the city. i have never been incarcerated and i have been an example in the community and you are showing that the artists and incarcerated are more important than the regular citizen. i will not have the opportunity to work on the projects in my

community and i urge you not to pass this on your vote and to allow for all local project ts in the county and city of san francisco. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i respect chinese formative action and we are a 49-year-old civil rights organization and servicing l.e.b. community members in the immigrant community. i am the director of advocacy. we believe that this road map for the p.l.a. must inamendments to advance racial and economic justice and equity. i believe your offices should have received a letter from our organization stating the importance of local hire. it is key to addressing issues

of communities of color and immigrants who face multiple barriers at employment. we know this this would benefit san francisco residents and local and disadvantage workers facing multiple barriers to enter and retain in the pipeline should be able to receive protecti protection even in the p.l.a. san francisco has been progressive and we must protect the contractors and comply with existing laws with mandatory local hire. san francisco has also investigated significantly in programs like city build and ebl that the road map to address the gap in pre-apprenticeship programs as it relates to retention and recruitment of historically disenfranchised communities facing multiple barriers. it has been established as a priority for the authors of the legislation. there should be strong language that affirmatively protects

local hire and the work force goals and the proposed amendments that we have committed to the officers and the offices. we hope that through this discussion, that is the only way we can exercise -- >> thank you. next speaker please. >> supervisor, i am connie ford and i am a vice president of the san francisco labor council. i want to make it clear they endorse the passage of the p.l.a. and is a part of spending nights, all nights, negotiating the different elements. i want to say one thing about the p.l.a. and unions and workers. what this is going to provide is that all workers working under the p.l.a. will have a structure to insure that they have fair working conditions, good wage,

and good benefits. all workers. things like the local hire ordinance, that is the law of san francisco. that will be part of the p.l.a. that happens and that is the law. aside from that, the unions that are involved in this are very aware of the necessity of bringing in minorities and enhancing minorities work and making sure that everybody has access to the enforcer and that doesn't happen unless there is a union structure. the other thing my brother tony was talking about and nonununion working next to union, the union will make sure the nonunion folk wills get the wages and health and welfare. nobody does that better than a rank and file member of a union on a construction job. that is why we say that we need that basis for the p.l.a. and

that basis on bonds where the work is to make working in san francisco and all the workers proud to be in san francisco and working and all those are welcome to join this movement. thank you. >> thank you. no applause needed. she is a veteran and is used to performing in two minutes or less like that. >> kim, san francisco labor council. so this is time to get the p.l.a. out of committee. it is time that the city is going to agree not to contract with contractor who is will make profits off workers' backs. this levels the playing field. it says all electricians will get x, y, z money.

and this amount of benefits. that these contractors won't be profiting off of minority workers anymore. that standard is no longer acceptable. the playing field needs to be levelled. and this p.l.a. will do that. this p.l.a. will also insure that all departments act accordingly across the board. so there can be less discretion. and i think that is essentially important in terms of how the city needs to do business. i think it's fair that the playing field, this is essentially an m.c.o. for construction workers. and i hope that it gets out of committee and we recognize the right of all workers to get paid the same amount of money for the same work across the board. whether you are union or not. that is all it does. and it's not going to allow one

group to profit off of paying people a lot less money. it's that simple. that's what this does. it doesn't allow anyone to be taken advantage of by their employers. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is victoria and i am in support of the p.l.a. please move this forward. i am kind of offended with the comments regarding the union and we would haven't pay or decent health insurance. thousands of san francisco families have health insurance because of the union. please support the p.l.a. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with local sbu87 and an officer as the secretary-treasurer of the pedestrian labor council and speaking here today in favor of the p.l.a. obviously the shirt says it.

but i just want to be able to point out this entire year of 2018, we started out the year talking about the levelling the playing field, and i have to say that for the comments that have been made against unions, workers in san francisco have benefitted from being able to have a collective bargaining agreement speak for them whether you are african-american, whether you are latino, whether you are asian. whether you are a woman. the contracts speak in black and white and what's written holds to be true. and that is all we try to accomplish with the p.l.a. hold everybody true and honest and make sure that not only is the level playing field, but also securities that will allow us to advancements and that is what the l.a.e.s are doing today. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon.

i want to thank the supervisors and the mayor's office for supporting the p.l.a. thank you. >> awe good morning. we are not talking the l.b.e. and there are still laws on the books that provide them with the edge they need to be competitive. there has been a contraction in the number of contractors, general and specialty over that amount of time. so it's not just to the l.b.e. on the apprenticeship piece, we actively recruit in san francisco. we recruit people from underrepresenting communities and the last time we were

speaking about this one, ibw local six has more female apprentices than western electrical contractors association combined over the entire northern part of the state. we actively work toed a vance the options for women in the construction industry. the report from oewe was quoted inaccurately as i look at it here. 200 people on public works over a five-year span for african-americans. there was 585 listed in this report for pedestrian resident and 1350 overall. so that's some inaccuracies that are out there. it's time to move this forward. we put a lot of hard work and we have taken the other

stakeholders interests and we have put them in this draft legislation and we ask that you move it forward. thank you. >> next speaker please z. >> so supervisors, here we are two years later. i sat in the committee meeting. >> what is your name? >> miguel galarza. and the legislation and i am shocked. and we spent a long time with this legislation in talking to him about the nuances of p.l.a. and how it would effect l.b.e. and so forth. that piece of legislation went back or seven, eight months. we were told it was going to come back to committee and here we were introduced into legislation and it was put on the fast docket and if not for

working with a lot of supervisors, that legislation would have passed. and we would be bemoaning where we are. so here we are today. we spent a tremendous amount of effort and a lot of work and a lot of long nights and the conference room of the mayor. and working with the mayor's office and working with significant leadership to get where the l.b.e.s were comfortable. by no means are we there or happy as they say in negotiation.