city on the national, international spotlight. i think this is a great thing. and i would just suggest that as a city, you know, i have talked quite a bit with the mayor lately about his efforts and in fund-raising and helping him out. and i think i would hope that we would all get behind that. we want to make this a great event for the city, but the mayor is working very hard to make had i fund-raising goals. i think we should all be doing our part as well. and i really want to thank the people we talked about, mr. buell, case, all the people working on behalf of the city, organizing committee to make the city whole. i think we need to also say thank you and let's work together because we want to make this a great event for our city together. i hope we can move forward in that spirit of cooperation and see this through to be a great event this year. so, with that, if there are -- >> thank you. i do concur in your comments about the america's cup event really showing the great part of san francisco. of course, within that is the collaboration of the city with the private sector to put this on

a community in our city. this industry is not just a cultural lifeblood of our city, but a great contributor to our economy. one of my first acts as a member of the board of supervisors was to request an economic impact report by the city economist to study the effects of entertainment and night life on our economy. when he released last year, that report revealed the entertainment industry, the night life industry generates $4.2 billion in economic activity in san francisco, provides 48,000 jobs in our city, and furnishes the city with $55 a million in tax revenue. and this study did not even include street fares and festivals like outside lands and folsom street fair. so, the actual economic impact is even more positive. * the jobs in this industry are in restaurants, bars, art galleries, night clubs, performance bases and other venues. these are very, very important jobs, particularly for working class and younger people. the legislation i'm introducing today makes several amendments to the police code to strengthen our night life and entertainment sector while also improving the enforcement capacity of the entertainment commis

we have an agreement that protects our financial agreement as a city and we have also learned so much in this process and we are going to continue to keep our city our eye on the ball and make sure we have a secure city. and to thank people around the podium here for different city departments, barbara garcia i , to all of our trade members, to the community coalition, to vince from the alliance, this has been a group effort and a group supporting us today. i couldn't be prouder to be part of it. at that point we turn it back to lou gerardo. [ applause ] . the next person that i would like to introduce is supervisor david campos. we talked about 40 hours of meetings but we didn't talk about the hours and hours of telephone calls and constituent meetings and i would say these fellows put out about over 200 hours in the process. david has been an incredible champion for this campus in particular for saint luke's and the need for this area. i didn't know david before i came to this process and i walk away from this process with great add admiration. >> i want to thank and acknowledge man

respond also in a permanent way to the transviolence that we have seen here in san francisco as a progressive city as we have. i also want to know note that this thursday ln will be a rally for the purpose of raising awareness of the attacks against the transgender community. the rally will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the district. any of me colleagues wishing to join are welcome to come. lastly i want to acknowledge amazing work by --ella and working with law enforcement to make sure that we have real solutions to this problem. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor campos. president chiu. >> thank you, today i'm introduce support for san francisco application. in june of last year obama announced it which removes people who are brought to the united states as children and to defer their removal by immigration authorities. california has over 100,000 people who qualify for this program. it's estimated there are 44,000 people in our city. the process in addition to application fee is a total of $500 and requires a lot of proof of various identifying pieces of information related to these individuals

but i think we want to focus on the future as a city. but i also want to take a step back. and i think a lot of the media recently has been focused on some negative aspects here, some really good aspects of the cup. personally, i still firmly believe in the america's cup is going to be a great event for our city here in san francisco. i was not here when the board approved this deal, if you will, so i have a different kind of history and time frame. but as i look and kind of summarize all of this financial data and we have a lot of it today, the bottom line here is that we're going to have an event that is in all likelihood going to cost zero dollars to our general fund. we have an event that is going to create over $900 million of local economic activity and translates into approximately 6500 jobs, new jobs. a lot of cities would pay a lot of money to see that happen. and we're going to in all likelihood have zero costs it coming from our general fund. it is obviously accelerated a lot of projects along the waterfront that would have been done otherwise. and i think also t

you're seeing in the current year as we go on through time will be a remaining issue for us to deal with cleric as a city and think impact on the general fund. a couple of the major items >> just a quick question. do you have another quick copy of this charter i can't do the numbers on here >> i'm sorry. it's printed small. i have unfortunately, one small full sized chart i'll hand over to you. and we're going to get copies of those and we'll also provided you with the pages from the city's 5 year financial plan. but the numbers while we are waiting for them to get here essentially show our need for general fund dollars over and above the budget will be $50 million growing to a hundred and 4 in focus year 2014 and 15. when the mayor's office makes their projection about a hundred million dollars of that is associated with the general growth at the department of public health. it's a significant portion of that deficit. of that amount there are a few things that are really driving those enemies. again, t again, t again, the -- it will match our expenditures from year to year. and we're in the process of r

as a city councilor, i've asked the local government to put human trafficking, which lover boy is a part as a priority number one. and the police is dealing with it as a priority within this region. the thing i encountered is that you are between two fires: one fire is the anti propaganda from right-wing parties who are talking against my community, and the other fire is that we have a minority of youngsters who are hard-core criminals, but the major majority... the majority is just going to school, having a normal relationship with their parents, having a normal relationship with the neighborhood. but the prejudice against the moroccan youngsters in this country takes a high political level. [captioning made possible by kcet television] [captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--]

luke's and i think that we collectively as a board and as a city and with the mayor included have said that we cannot approve a project unless we ensure the long-term viability of st. luke's. i really believe that this deal as it currently stands ensures that. and not only does it ensure the long-term viability, i think it creates and it provides the southeastern part of san francisco a world class hospital for many years to come. we're talking about a hospital at st. luke's that is 50% larger than originally proposed and is larger relative to cathedral hill which has -- is now half of 50% smaller than originally proposed. by definition it means that st. luke's is an integral part of the cpmc system, and that the cpmc system by virtue of the percentage of beds that will be placed at st. luke's cannot survive unless st. luke's is successful. and not only is that based on the number of beds, but also based on the services that are going to be created and placed at st. luke's. st. luke's will be a full service hospital following the very clear definition that state law provides. it will i

demographics will come out as we look at the proposals and i wanted to thank my leagues for bringing this forward. i know this is a difficult issue as we deal with a tight budget for the city and my feeling as i said yesterday and many of the workers in the city came throughout the first and second floors of city hall we will move forward and not backward as we look at pay equity and comparable worth. i want to say there were effective signs used in city hall and the questions on big signs were for many women that were on the first floor, the grand stair case, the signs said "if i were a man would i be paid more? people of color that said "if i were white would i be paid more?" and i hope in san francisco the answer is no but i know there is a long way to go so i would like to thank everyone who is assembled here today and look forward to hearing the stories and understanding history and how our policy making impacts that history. >> thank you supervisor mar. we can go onto our speakers. i have a number of speakers that are going to be presenting. first up will be emily morase and mara keely who has a lot of history about the worker and the city around comparable worth and

women and people of color and they bear the brunt of the decisions and we're not acknowledging it as a city i think that is a big concern that i have and maybe united states feel because we have a target. >> >> because of the staffing and that's a higher value, but the value we're not dispropose atly impacting the people of color we should consider. it's different world views that we have and i would like to see one that supports this that can prevail. >> with your permission supervisor probably the classification with the largest wage gains was registered nurse and that has been driven by the market. it's predominantly women and people of color so i think that we can't ignore i think we ignore the market at our peril. >> we also have a market in san francisco where the cost of living is sky rocketing like crazy and to maintain that is beyond the means of most people including myself and at a pretty high salary here in san francisco, but we're proposing to cut new hires pays for certain classifications that is significant. that is not keeping up with the growing cost of living. i will stop

this year alone we're spending about $790 million on health care as a city and county of san francisco. it's a huge part of our budget. and as we start to attack the issue of our $4.4 billion unfunded health care liability as a city, i think keeping the reigns on the financial impact to the city of any health care related field, in particular this one was very important. and proud to announce that we did deliver protections for city of san francisco. and i think even more important, though, i think we have all learned a ton throughout this process and i would daresay a danger somehow. i think going forward we we are all going to have our eye on the ball on this issue and make sure the the financial health of our city continues to, to be a top priority and that our health care costs do not balloon out of control. so, at this point again, colleagues, i'd like to ask your deference to allow supervisor campos and president chiu to speak on this issue as well. >> thank you, supervisor

as well. you know overall there is a discussion happening between dhr and the other groups and i want to make sure i am giving a bird eye's view of what we're doing as a city that looks at preserving comparable worth. i have called a hearing to review the policies on comparable worth and our historic efforts to eliminate pay inequities raced race and gender. i am concerned as president obama and -- could be going in the other direction and cutting and classes disproportionately filled by women and people of color. it is well documented women make less than men for similar work. that's why equal pay advocates have been trying to get congress to adopt the fair wage act and president obama highlighted in his state of the address. over 30 years ago san francisco was ahead of its time on equal pay and tackling pay gaps here in city government. in 1978 the commission on status of women issued the comppable pay study of the city and county of san francisco. in 1981 the board of supervisors passed a resolution stating unequivocal support to lmentd pay inequities based on race and sex and by bringing them up to parity. i believe that this remains the policy of the

adding with all come together as a board, as a city. we should come together as san franciscans, and, colleagues, at this time, i hope, and i asked that we unanimously vote for ed lee to be our next mayor. this is also a historic day for the asian-american community. for a community that has been here in santa francisco, for over 160 years, i am a product of that community. i know the ed and all of us of asian-american decent feel the legacy. i want to thank all of you who have been part of this historic moment to make this happen. and say that this is obviously not just about a chinese- american community or an asian american community. this is about the american dream. the idea that anyone of any background of any color from any part of the globe can come here and sunday be at the very top of what our community is about -- and someday be at the very top of what our community is about. >> to address these concerns, i have made a series of amendments to the resolution that capture the spirit of the policy but would allow continued conver

know the cultural benefit of not life on our city without entertaining and night life, it would be a completely different city. a lot of us might not like it as much. if you do not have that community building, that tool does not exist anymore. it is not just about that. it is about keeping this city diverse, and having young people that actually want to come here. i cannot tell you how many times i walk home up market street and see a line of young people waiting to get in to hear live music. even though i am an old fuddy- duddy now and i do not stay out as late as i used to, it is important to me to know that young people have things to do today. audrey asked the economic question of me almost immediately after taking office. it benefits us the truth about $55 million in tax revenue. nightlife is the only significant industry in this city that sometimes gets treated at times as it is a nuisance, a problem to be managed. and of course, we have to focus on making sure it is safe and that people are complying with the laws and that we are not having shooting. but when you get so focused on combating the negatives -- every industry has the nega

ling that for happening and i want to touch on what mayor khan said we can never be as successful as a city as we want to be unless we pay attention to the gun have the vls in our city and is no different than mayor khan or any urban mayor across the state or country. we are extremely concerned about our gun violence we have to reduce it. and you already know what we have announced in san francisco the possession the very possession of powerpoint ammuntion or automatic weapon tree has no -- in our streets or inner city and is so we offered our own legislature locally but we also know the very reality is just controlling borders won't help and so we have asked all of the mayors and county administration across california do the same and joined our state legislature and some eight other seniors to support their effort state wide and to support president obama and senior fine fine stein on their national events and i want to take a moment to make sure that we hong hospital members of sandy hook continue keeping them in our minds and but also, that things that are not as announced but every sin