discussions is that tenant improvement is a strong vehicle for creating opportunities and jobs for local union members. here is some language that i will pass to supervisor can -- supervisor camp. -- kim. [tone] supervisor chu: thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors. by name is gary marshall, the good government policy director. our interest is navigating for coordinated strategies around business investment locations, which this addresses had done. what we would like to do is just encourage thoughtful consideration of both of these proposals that have identified specific issues. the core of our business in payroll taxes. we need to be mindful of our opportunity for balancing opportunities to generate revenues. like to acknowledge the proposal around the cap or payroll tax payments for stock options. it is an opportunity. both of these proposals make apparent for us the need for comprehensive analysis and further discussion. we cannot continue to govern by exception and we would like to continue with a proposal that should be sector agnostic. we appreciate the supervisors amendments

i am with painters and allied trades district 16, local union 913, painters and dry wall finishes, san francisco, california. we rise in opposition to the fact that the developer, as the previous speaker stated, refuses to pay the area standards in wages that have been established by the city and county of san francisco. we thank you for your consideration to this matter. >> can i just ask one question -- edge as one of the clear -- your opposition to this is not for many traffic impact to the new extension, any environmental impact, or any community, neighborhood immediate impact -- it is the sole issue of the labor issue? >> yes, the labor issue immediately impacting the local neighborhood as well as -- >> fair enough. supervisor mar: is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i represent the affordable housing alliance, and we are in support of this project. we have supported most affordable housing projects in san francisco. we supported several predecessor project to this location, which failed, one of which was subject it to a r

i work for an organization, painters and dry wall finishers local union 913, which is painters and allied trades council 16. that covers painters, dry wall finishers, glazers and floor layers. as you are aware, our construction workers are 30% unemployed. in a project like this where the area is committed will provide a tremendous amount of work. therefore i stand in support of this. >> i am bernie, and i am the principal appellant for san francisco tomorrow. may i have more time? >> we are limiting to two minutes per person. >> including the principal appellant. i am going to read our statement. approval for park merced exroosm should be aborted now. until such time as fainlscation of the park merced e.i.r. and alternate development scenarios. conditions are also considered. proceed proceeding as proposed is prejudicial to the outcome for the board of supervisors' consideration as it narrows options, adopts agreements with possible legal comblicts and leads to litigation and is supported by a necessary general plan and its implementation. therefore this item violates the necessity for du

i work for an organization, painters and dry wall finishers local union 913, which is painters and allied trades council 16. that covers painters, dry wall finishers, glazers and floor layers. as you are

the other thing i wanted to say is that the california teachers association and our local teachers union are planning a week of action around the budget situation, so they 9-13, there will be rallies in sacramento, and rallies and events locally every day of that week -- may 9- 13. i think we can still advocate to make the situation better. the solutions are not easy, but i think the people rise up and said that this is unacceptable, because it is unacceptable, we have a shot that may be moving -- may be moving a few votes in the legislature -- maybe moving a few votes in the legislature. u and i uesf -- and i know that uesf is going to bring a bus. their plans are still very fluid, but on their website, or on the cta web site, there will be more information for people. >> thank you. supervisor chu: thank you for your presentation. just a couple of questions -- the numbers that i saw here with regard to the ada reductions, there were three scenarios. one was a flat situation where it would be a reduction of $19 per ada. the second was the $330, and you laid out another one, which is if i

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mean hundreds of good union jobs that will be created at a time when our economy desperately needs it. these jobs will pay good wages and benefits. all positions will be filled locally by skilled union labor. due to our contract with at&t, we have good protections, good benefits and language that protects all employees that we represent. we at at&t have worked over the last six years on a national speed matters broadband build-out campaign to extend broadband to both rural and urban centers that need more competition and more access to local citizens and businesses. this build-out will expand access to high-speed internet as well as entertainment and telephony services while also providing critical local jobs in san francisco. these local jobs will reinvest in their local community and provide a good standard of living for our members and those who are employed with at&t. i urge the board to consider at&t's permit application. with all due respect to the appellate's concerns over aesthettics and other issues, we can work through these. [bell] thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening president chiu and supervisors. my name is roland anderson, a member

of the population, 1425 employees are represented by the san francisco fire fighters union, local 798. therefore, the audit focused on payroll practices of employees represented by local 798, which there are 5% of the employee department who are mia employees. unit two includes pilot and fireboat. as you can see by the slide for fiscal years 2009-2010, the department to expenditures were over $2,709, including base salaries, overtime costs, premium pays, and onetime payments. based salaries include the total base rate, also if an employee performs a long-term acting assignment, it would include that as well. overtime expenditures include any time work beyond the regular standard work week, and premium pay extenders include the amount paid to eligible employees as prescribed in the employee's mou. as well, there are a onetime payments, which are generally retirement lump-sum payments. for this audit, we again only looked at one fiscal year, and we used a statistical method. we sought to have a confidence level in 95%, and in our process of selecting items for review, we used the risk-b

adoption to the tentative agreement between the district and service employees international union, seiu, local 1021. i need a motion and second for the tentative agreement, please? thank you. reading by the superintendent. >> the requested action is that the board of education adopts the public hearing and tentative agreement and the related public disclosure document that has been ratified by seiu local 1021. i want to thank president karen bishop of the seiu and their bargaining team as well as the district bargaining team. president mendoza: that's your reading? do we need to put anything in the record? is that just the recommendation. >> to approve. president mendoza: o.k. thank you. i don't have any public speakers signed up for this item. any comments from the -- she's been asked to be removed. are there any comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call please? thank you. [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: i need a motion and the second on the wage benefits for board-designated unrepresented classified management employees wh

we have about 104 local unions across the country., i have worked with kara on prison industry issues. our organization has supported good time changes, things like that, where inmates can get out early. we have just seen an explosion of inmates in the federal system. host: our federal prison workers all unionized? caller: yes. host: are some of the private contractors? caller: we have about 14 private prisons in the system. they are not unionized, but they cost more money than the federal system. host: hominid are there -- how many are there? caller: 24,000 correctional workers. host: what is the average salary? caller: we started with a gs5, step one. we top out at about $54,000 a year. host: think you for your call. guest: i think the point that he raises is important. the situation in california should be a warning for states and the federal government who is facing significant overcrowding. the federal bureau of prisons is .bout 35% over capacity abroa the recently retired director has testified numerous times before congress and

bright line defense project, and san francisco's local hiring law requires local hiring in every contract. it guarantees union wage construction jobs. this uppers' opportunities to local san franciscans to break cycles of poverty and discrimination. development on treasure island would guarantee thousands of construction jobs over the life span of this project. san franciscans should have access to these jobs. in past hearings, questions have been raised whether local hiring would be incorporated into the development. we have been happy to hear that it will be incorporated into the development. once we look at the development agreement, we would love to see local hiring be implemented. thank you. chairperson mar: mr. paulson? >> i am walter. ♪ you got treasure island on a string sitting above the water wrap the string around your fingers what a city, what an island fix it up so fine city island is a beautiful thing city, you hold the string your silly if you ever let this play scope's -- this place go you have the city island on a string, sitting on a rainbow wrap the string around your city figgers -- finger

rules of that governor rick snyder's financial manager or dictator brought in to break up the unions fire local elected officials and sell the city off to republicans and corporations or republican cronies is unconstitutional unfortunately their ruling isn't going to go very far since governor snyder has already stripped down of their powers and this cancer is also infecting new jersey georgia florida iowa pennsylvania maine south carolina kansas and arizona all states were republicans are setting fire to government programs that heal us educate us and keep us safe in order to give away billions in tax cuts for millionaires billionaires and transnational corporations this was reagan's ideal vision a nation where the rich were swimming in cash and poor were on their own the government was neutered and ineffective women were marginalized working people screwed and democratic voters disenfranchised. this is what a nation that's on the verge of going to terminal looks like twenty five million people on or under employed one in seven people on food stamps more than fifty two million people without h

tenet out through really with of course the help of his staff, sort of researching local groups that helped the labor unions, homeless down the line and using his concert as a platform to talk about the work of local organizations and raising $25,000 a night. so there is a transition. it is sort of indicative of some of this complexity. you know, even his impressions of inks about the direction of the country can be appropriated for conservative causes and yet at the same time there is an undercurrent of criticism that's the exact of that. okay, another figure recognizable that one chapter were false around his jesse jackson and when i just said that, it are for an different people different reactions and there is a comment here from a former jesse jackson aide that speaks to that but says he repels and attracts in equal measure. if you feel like you want an argument to any tavern, so with that as a starter who could mean, i go on to talk about his two campaigns for the democratic presidential nomination. the somewhat largely symbolic one in 1984, even though the much more legitimate one in 1988 and i just

i'm a business representative with the international union of elevator constructors, local eight. thank you for allowing me to speak. i've been a resident of west would park for the last 20 years. i've worked in the downtown area for probably the last 30 years. it's with great pride that i watched the renewal and revitalization of the south of market area and areas around downtown. it was a project on the west side of the city which has not experienced any such renewal. this project is -- has enough provisions in it to protect the tenants in light of supervisor chiu's proposed amendments. i would strongly urge, in light of that, that you allow this important project to move forward. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. >> i am peter andersson. i'm a business owner, architect, and faculty member of california college of the arts. i strongly support this project and believe it should now be brought forward to the board of supervisors for review and approval. i sympathize with current rent whose individual households will be impacted in the short term. i would like to call attention

the other local finalist is albert pay from union city. the top doodle will appear on google's home page a week from friday. the winner gets a $15,000 scholarship and the school will get a $25,000 grant. that's great. >> love the t-shirts they have made of their doodles too. >>> now a check of the weather. >> let's go to sandhya patel. pretty warm out there, sandhya. >> indeed, warm enough we set some records today. look at 85-degree temperatures in oakland. sfo got up to 84 degrees. that was a new record. 86 degrees and 86 in san jose. it was close to 90 degrees around concord, antioch, napa. 91 in cloverdale. pretty warm in places like half moon bay. 75 degrees and temperatures well above average in san francisco where the number came in at 82 degrees. and to capture just how beautiful it was outside, take a look at this photo. it was submitted by bobbie from china beep in san francisco to you report powered by youtube. it was of a beautiful ocean view. it is clear and it will remain clear, but we have changes coming tomorrow. the temper

boys and had a good pension until the day he died because he worked in a thirteen man local tool and die shop a union shop thanks to franklin roosevelt and the wagner act roosevelt had learned from the mistakes of the three republican presidents who preceded him parting coolidge and hoover who had turned their backs on the veterans of world war one denying them their pay leading a massive tent cities across washington d.c. . google the story of the bonus army if he didn't learn about it in school unfortunately today those lessons have been lost even though there are no ten cities and d.c. veterans have largely been forgotten about there is no g.i. bill for the men and women who serve in the military today or in recent decades over and over again democrats have tried to create a right to introduce a new congress new versions of that old g.i. bill but each and every time they tried it their efforts have been sabotaged by republicans and today our soldiers are shining shoes just to keep from being homeless during this course of this year and a half a million veterans will be on the streets without a hom