the lily leadbetter fair-pay act of 2009. ms. leadbetter, welcome to the program. >> thank you.ut equal pay for equal work. >> i'm glad. >> you're right. so far behind. >> well, i'm glad you are here because i wonder if you see anything in the years, particularly since the lily leadbetter act was signed into law, that gives you any belief that we're advancing? are things getting better? or are we, kind of, where we were when that law was signed? >> we were getting better. and we were making it headway. and we were making a lot of strides because, in fact, when -- actually, when "the wall street journal" did an article about the leadbetter bill when it passed. they said, then, that they hoped the corporations and employers would look at it. and start looking at their programs and procedures, and do what they needed to do to correct it in their firms. and it did. it got a little better but it's -- we're not there, yet. and, of course, the pandemic has just really pulled the rug out from under us. >> talk about the pandemic, a bit more. i'm glad you brought that up. there is so man

member leadbetter. then we have to move to the next item. >> my question has been answered. thank you. >> thank you. so if that is no other questions from the members, we will go to public comment. secretary? >> member of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-f 5 # a-0001, sesz code 146, 550, 2411 and then pound and pound again. and if you haven't already done so, dial star 3 to speak. and the system prompt will inkate you have raised your hand. and you may begin your comments. please note that you have three minutes. >> i will take the first caller. >> welcome, caller. >> and good morning, members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to provide comment and h.s.a. for presenting on acquisition strategist. i am gabby ruiz, the planning and policy manager at tenderloin development corporation and a member of the supportive housing provider network. i want to say we are fully supportive to select immediate and long-term needs. and the acquisition of quality sros and hotel

we'll go to member leadbetter? >> thank you. yeah, just want to sort of step and maybe emphasize that [inaudible] up until now, we really have not done a very good job of laying out the actual costs of things, either what has been spent or what will be spent, and i just have to say for the record that i feel extremely uncomfortable with where we're at [inaudible] and how they will be spent in the future, and that's just to set the stage that, on april 20, we're going to be asked to allocate a tremendous amount of money, and we're looking at it, we're looking at an allocation of the entire pot in perpetuity without an outlining of dollars. and in order to do that, with the responsibility that this committee has been charged, we need a lot more information by april 20. i know everybody is moving, the landscaping is changing, the funding source does by the day coming from -- sources by the day coming from the feds and the state, but it's something we need to do. if we can't do it, we shouldn't allocate the money. we have the dollar

thanks. >> thank you so much, member leadbetter. we'll now go to member friedenbach. >> okay. can everybody hear me? >> yes. >> okay. i'm going to do this a little different. i'm going to walk-through the different needs and some of the different policy questions because this is the one area that we actually expended money so folks have a lot of questions about where we're at for it, so i thought it would set us up for all of the conversation to include, like, a quick review as well as the input, as well. so in terms of the feedback on homeless shelters and hygiene, i think member d'antonio did a nice job going through a lot of this. just going to add some to it. just knowing that, you know, events like glide, we had a lot fewer people -- [indiscernible] >> -- so housing came up much higher, so just context allizing it a little bit. in terms of emergency services, folks were talking about more services at safe sleeping sites, reminding folks we have safe sleeping villages and safe sleeping sites. nav centers for justice involved people, more services at shelter and nav service

so the lily leadbetter act of 2019 helps protect and strengthen workers' rights against unfair pay.gnificantly less than her male counterparts with less seniority than her. long story short, she took her fight all of the way to washington. a lawsuit that made its way up to the supreme court. it failed and i got a chance to interview her, and asked her what kept her going? she was a regular woman who was trying to get equal pay on her job and she'd had setback after setback and the late justice ruth bader ginsburg had a lot to do with it and she kept her going and they developed a special rirp. this is not just her own story, it's not just her own fight, but the fight of so many other people. >> you know you're a legend when you have a bill named after you and her life, she represents millions of women and if it sounds like a movie it is, they'll make a movie about her life and patricia clarkson will play her and to see her make that difference is just so inspiring. and looking at the second name on our list. i know everybody on this list today, know and respect them well. representa

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