. >> supervisors, thank you, ian lewis, hotel and restaurant workers local 2, i want to address renewed attack we saw in the paper recently in the spending requirements, it's really easy to get lost in all the jargon and all the technical discussion about health care, but this is not a complicated issue. it's quite straightforward. for the past 89 years, the golden gate restaurants association and other business groups have done everything they could be to undermine san francisco's security ordinance, they sued the city, they gouged customers with phony surcharges, they exploited a loophole that let them keep most of the money that bewere obligated to provide for their benefits and now they're beating the drum again to have another go at it. obama care does many good things but it was not designed as supervisor campos said earlier, it was not designed for high cost cities like our own. if you are a typical restaurant worker in the city making $14 an hour and an out rao*efrp worker contacts you to go to the covered california web sited, you're going to look there and you're going to find

. >>> supervisors, ian lewis, local 2 service hotel food workers union.an't believe i'm agreeing with the hotel council. it's a rare day, but this is a project that helps make that happen. yeah, i want to call two things about this project. one, it comes with guarantees that workers get to form a union if they want to, which brings with it real guarantees of living wages, affordable health care, decent retirements without having to fight years and years and years to win them. the developers of this project [speaker not understood] very early on and assured us of that from the outset. secondly, this project comes with affordable housing commitments above and beyond the 30% which is the landmark commitment for the redevelopment area as a whole. it is a real standard, i think, for projects of this sort in the city. because of those two things, the guarantees that workers get to join a union and that affordable housing, it is real for workers in our hospitality industry, an industry where in the last five years over a thousand families have been squeezed out