[applause] >> hi i am emma gerald and a field representative for seiu 1021. i representative nonprofit workers. i think you heard compelling testimony why we need the 4% increase. we appreciate the board's support last year with the 1.nine increase. however this was absorbed quickly with rents and cost of living and food and everyday costs and we're talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. they deserve to have family health care where a lot of folks don't have. it's so expensive that some of them use public assistance. it's unacceptable. white the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increase and they had increase

[applause] >> hi i am emma gerald and a field representative for seiu 1021. i representative nonprofit workers. i think you heard compelling testimony why we need the 4% increase. we appreciate the board's support last year with the 1.nine increase. however this was absorbed quickly with rents and cost of living and food and everyday costs and we're talking about wages tha