jim lazarus, san francisco khaim be, i thought i saw him in the back, there he is. >> cameron bingley, and david zedcar. >> jim lazarus, san francisco xhaim ber of commerce, the chamber has consistently said to this commission, the board of supervisors, the rate fairness board that beear using a flawed system to develop a come petite plan that will cost san franciscans more taking those dollars out of the local economy. while cleanpowersf does not meet the state's community choice aggregation goal, you have to remember that out of -- as i'm sure former senator torres does, out of the crisis from 13 years ago, the state passed laws which it was the intention we bring competition to stabilize what available resources lower cost to consumers. this doesn't do that. every dollar that a consumer spends which will go out of san francisco by in large in this program is a dollar not spent in san francisco. that's why we cannot support an opt-out program. if we want to get into the energy business in san francisco, if our local utility which has a green tariff proposed at the state public utili

supportive column it speaks to the real special plays that san francisco is that we can have people like jim lazarus and others not being opposed to this ordinance. you know, i think this is something that's in a larger context of keeping families in san francisco and it's a good beginning to a conversation and i know you've all been huge supporters of the folks in san francisco. there are any pieces we need to work on so thank you >> thank you for your work and a next speaker. >> hi. i work with the next generation and work with the statewide family coalition. we work on with that policy in the state. i really want to express in my appreciation especially for president chu's leadership on this issue. there so many benefits and our work group really seeing our group is workers and parents so we can be both things. and one of the things i love about our laws we have in california is the recognize that providing recognition and care when your and caregiver your family needs you there and that makes such a difference. i'm in a flexible workplace and i love this challenging job but four days a week i wa

supportive column it speaks to the real special plays that san francisco is that we can have people like jim lazarus and others not being opposed to this ordinance. you know, i think this is something that's in a larger context of keeping families in san francisco and it's a good beginning to a conversation and i know you've all been huge supporters of the folks in san francisco. there are any pieces we need to work on so thank you >> thank you for your work and a next speaker. >> hi. i work

. >> jim lazarus, khim beer of commerce, because there was a lot of testimony earlier, one of the solutions is going to be passage of the comprehensive immigration reform bill. the chamber has supported that from day 1 and it's clear that many of the people testifying today would obviously benefit from a pathway to citizenship. we struggle with the same issues in 2006 that we're talking about today, 2006 when we sat down with business and labor and civic and the mayor's office to develop the health care security ordinance. local mandates, competitive disadvantages, programs of access to health that are not insurance and not portable, the issues of urisa and federal constraints on what can be mandated at the local level have all confronted us as recently as two years ago with your legislation as to the role of health reimbursement accounts. we look forward to an opportunity to work with the board of supervisors, the mayor and the public health department on seeing how this legislation can properly duck tail with the new federal mandate that will be confronting individuals in 2014 and the bus

of thoughts on this and one, i am going to the first comment that i am going to give credit to jim lazarus at the chamber of commerce because this has got me thinking and that is the companies like levis and gap, who have subsitaries who do not or who are subsidiaries are not formula retail. and you know, this is san francisco, and their home and this is where they employ a lot of people. you know? why not let them give them a pass and let them try some of their experimental stores in some of our neighborhoods? you know, that i am all for, and if it is a local company, you know, another one, or another good example, i was thinking during this whole formula retail debate back in 2007, one company that comes to mind is san francisco soup company which started here. and now they are not even opening up stores in san francisco now because they are past eleven and now they are opening up in other places which i would love one of those in my neighborhood. that is not to mean that i am proformula retail though. and i do believe that there needs to be some balance because sometimes formula retail