supervisor campos: thank you very much, mr. president, and i want to thank the members of the small business commission for giving me the opportunity to be here today. i'm very proud to speak to you about this piece of legislation and before i begin, let me thank my fellow members of the board of supervisors for their co-sponsorship of this legislation, board president david chiu, supervisor avalos, ross mirkarimi, jane kim, thank you for their sponsorship. we are here today to talk about a very modest piece of legislation that essentially tries to make sure that in the course of implementing the very ground-breaking universal healthcare legislation that we indeed live up to the original intent and spirit of that legislation. i'm proud to say that i come before you with a full support of the father of universal healthcare in san francisco, then supervisor, now assembly member tom omyiano because this is a common sensicle piece of legislation that is essentially trying to address an unintended consequence, a loophole that was un

mr. campos, supervisors, real briefly, the health department may have employee issues. i don't know. i am not in the health department. but certainly, we should absolutely not allow that to be a backdoor way of undoing what the citizens of this city overwhelmingly supported in the shipyards and the board of supervisors support it, also. someone has said, let the chips fall where they may. the chips have fallen. this project was overwhelmingly support it. it needs to go forward. the thing that disturbs me the most, on this issue and a lot of other things, i have -- i am representing the san francisco naacp and our church -- the thing that kind of really gets me is that we love to talk about the environment, but somehow, those who seem so concerned by the environment never allow children who are hurting and living in poverty, people who are unemployed, somehow, those people never disturb their environmental landscape. that messes with my environment. having clean air does not do me any good if it is being preached by unemployed, hurting, and hungry people. we need this economic revital

mr. campbell? supervisor campos: mr. campbell? >> yes, with the s.f. p.u.c., miss miller is quite right, there's a $500,000 not to exceed contract the p.u.c. has with power, with $390,000 remaining on it. as miss miller notes, every dollar that we can husband will be available for outreach and marketing and potential appropriations that might be needed. so there is a very strong interest in keeping consultant costs down to what actually lines up with what we need. on that point, one of the bits of direction we also heard an item similar to this, an item that was related to the extension of the contract, it's now been extended for another 12 months that was approved by my commission last week, last tuesday.

supervisor campos: finally, do you agree with the conclusions in mr. egan's impact report? >> my reading of it is that there would be potentially thousands of jobs lost in san francisco. supervisor campos: 270 the first year, 105 in the second year. >> that is a minimal impact. furthermore, his analysis did not take into account, to the best of my understanding, at the restaurant industry has passed on the cost of the increased expenditures to consumers. that would further mitigate the effect and further reduce his estimates. thank you. next speaker please. -- supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> i work for a technology company that contacted me with a larger company. they were basically paid by the company to pay me and to pay for my health spending account. last year, december 27, they made a quarterly deposit of $900 into a account. i was not notified of that and i was not aware that the account was in existence. when i found out about it and went to use the money, it had already expired. it was the use it or lose it option. i had over $900 from prescript

supervisor campos: great, and mr. campbell is here to present for the public utilities commission. before that, i just want to ask the executive officer if you wanted to say anything before mr. campbell spoke. >> we have arranged the proceeding that mr. campbell will present a brief synopsis of the term sheet before you, and i will follow-up on that with -- with comment. >> good afternoon, commissioners. in your packet, you had received the presentation that i and my colleagues at the puc had given at the san francisco public utilities commission meeting on tuesday. i am going to provide a high level overview, and i'm happy to take questions throughout the presentation as you see fit. one thing to start out, just to highlight is, we have been working together very collaborative lee -- very collaboratively. the chair of my commissioned it highlights how she would like to have feedback from this body. where we are -- i can just sort of go through a bit. first, as you know, the program, given the market research we have done in terms of where we think our likely participation would be

supervisor campos: finally, do you agree with the conclusions in mr. egan's impact report? >> my reading of it is that there would be potentially thousands of jobs lost in san francisco. supervisor campos: 270 the first year, 105 in the second year.

supervisor campos: mr. egan, thank you very much for your hard work. i know that you had to spend a lot of time working on this, and we really appreciate your professionalism and the thoroughness with which you approach the task at hand. so, thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisors. i have to run to a meeting in five minutes, but i will come back if there are any further follow-up questions. supervisor campos: great, thank you. colleagues, unless you had any specific things to add, i do want to turn it over to public comment. but let me simply say this, and it is actually something that i was thinking about as we were going into this meeting today. i see the office of labor standards enforcement, donna, and map -- matt, and i have to say that for me, my involvement around health care issues and the way in which the impact businesses and workers, came out of my interaction with the office of labor standards and, in fact, one of the first conversations i had as a supervisor was with the individual who was first charged with implementing the health

supervisor campos: supervisor campos: thank you very much. one of the reasons we asked mr. goldberg to do a brief presentation on how the health care security organs works and how that differs from help the san francisco is because it became very clear in the main, and that commissioners made that there was a real lack of understanding of how the law works. that is one of the reasons why we wanted to provide some context. because the comments and statements really do not align with the reality of how the actual ordinance covers. >> i just wanted to thank you on your willingness to spend so much time on an issue that should be taken care of quickly. i am a rabbi in san francisco. i began my career 42 years ago as a chapel in the united states air force, spending t a beale years in southeast asia. i address you today not as a rabbi. i am a strong believer in the separation of church and state. i want to speak to you as a resident of our great city and as a customer at a restaurant, and i want to tell you that i feel deceived. i was so proud when i first learned that a portion

supervisor campos: next speaker. >> mr. chair and supervisors, the community has been engaged in reviewing and discussing this issue surrounding regulation to clean up bayview-hunters point for more than a decade. no other site in the country has undergone as much investigation, remediation, community process. there are more than 30,000 ground water samples. more than $700 million has been spent on the cleanup of the site. article 31 of the health code called for additional oversight of the shipyard. it predated this. it was and still is the most unique program in the country that regulates and reviews construction at this level in detail to be protective of the public. multiple regulatory agencies charged with public health and the environment are calling for the cleanup of the site. there have been peer reviews of the process implemented by dph. it has been concluded time and again that the shipyard does not pose a risk to human health or the environment. as recently as last year, the epa concluded that dph were utilizing

supervisor campos: thank you, mr. president. me simply say that i wanted to just note the main reason why i have introduced this resolution. i think that much has been heard here in staal in terms of how -- in city hall in terms of how taxi drivers feel in terms of the interaction they've had with the municipal transportation agency. and i think that very legitimate concerns have been raised by taxi drivers. being a taxi drivers is probably one of the most difficult jobs you can have not only here in the city and county of san francisco, but anywhere. and one of the things that i have been concerned about is this decision that the m.t.a. has been trying to overturn section 11 on 06 of the f.c.c. transportation code. that section forbids taxi companies from charging taxi drivers a fee fort redemption of credit card charges. but the way that the m.t.a. has decided to approach this issue is to shift the burden of credit card charges to the actual drivers, and i think that that is having many -- will have many unintended consequence

supervisor campos: thank you, mr. goldberg. unless there are specific questions at this point, i'd like to just make a very brief presentation on why we're here. again, i wanted thank all the members of the community who have come out through this hearing, including workers, business owners, and taxpayers. so many people that have been following this issue. in terms of why i introduced this legislation, let me simply say that i did not think that anyone who has been following san francisco politics, government in the last few years would be surprised by the statement that the health care security organs has been an incredible success. it is something that we take a great deal of pride in because of the health care security ordinance that was offered by then-supervisor ammiano. more than 50,000 previously uninsured san franciscans have access to health care, and i haven't because it was -- because of this law. this was an incredible accomplishment here the most extensive public study on the impact of this ordinance shows that no

supervisor campos: thank you mr. president and thank you, supervisor, for your comments. i would like to thank everyone who has come out and spoken on this item and i appreciate all the comments and understand the importance of these issues for the folks have come out and testified. i do not take any of the things that were set lightly. we are talking about very serious issues here. that said, i have always believed that when it comes to something as complicated and important as issues like retirement, pension, health care, you are not going to come up with a solution unilaterally. you are not going to address those issues and truly solve the overarching concerns if you do not bring all of the stakeholders to the table. if you do not thunder's -- if you cannot find a middle ground or a position everyone can live with, i think balance is the word that was used. to me, that is the key word here. how do we strike the right balance so all of the concerns of the different stakeholders are taken into account? striking the right balance often means you have things not everyone i

the bath water when you're dealing with so many good employees -- [bell rings] supervisor campos: thank you, mr. lazarus. next speaker please. >> good morning, supervisors. i am with the chinese progressive association and progressive workers alliance. our main campaign we are working on right now is not health care. our main campaign is a campaign to end wage that wagetheft -- wage theft. we have been trying to educate workers on basic labor law protections. we're doing our campaign because the fact that workers have wages stolen from them " as the economy. i wanted to acknowledge and thank all the members of the community, all the employers here today expressing their interest in providing health care coverage for employees, expressing their interest in protecting jobs and making sure that workers get employment, and invite all of you to join the progressive workers alliance in our work to increase enforcement of labor laws in san francisco as well as create jobs for san francisco workers. i also want to note that we are coming here with actually a very simple matter. everyone agrees that hea

supervisor campos: if i may, mr. president, the way the resolution is drafted, if you look at the last page on the first result clause, it provides a space for the committee to make a recommendation on whether it agrees or disagrees with the specific finding. and then it has to provide a reason as to -- supervisor chiu: we could state that we disagree with the findings and either incorporate the specific language in the letter provided to us by the economic and workforce department, or we could refer to this document so that people know what we are talking about. happy to go either way. supervisor campos: let me turn it over to supervisor farrell, and then i will speak to the specific findings. supervisor farrell: thank you, chair campos. let me also say thank-you to the civil grand jury for your time and effort. i am going to be joining president tchiu and agree with his opinion. i agree with all of the tenants -- i agree and thank all of the tenant for coming out. i know all of the time that you have spent for our

mr. chairman, that concludes my reports. commissioner campos: thank you. colleagues, do we have any questions for the cac? no questions. thank you very much for your presentation and for your great work. widener open this up or public comment. is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, -- yes, please. >> i am the community government affairs manager at google. i have been working with the mta on shuttle issues. one thing i would like to point out, as you're looking at this report, shuttle program's saved thousands of tons of co2 a day. the google shuttle program specifically -- there are other corporations that have them -- 30.8 tons are saved a day from google shuttles running as opposed to cars. per year, these saved 7,500 tons of carbon. per day, over 133,000 vehicle miles traveled are saved. i have some additional information i can provide you. before there is any regulation, i want you to understand the benefit of these shuttles, not only to the community, but to the environment. commissioner campos: thank yo

mr. decosta. >> my name is francisco decosta. supervisor campos would like to commend you for this legislation. there are many such signs all over our city that need to be preserved. when you say "vintage," i think about wine. [laughter] the best thing is you are moving forward. of like to see -- and maybe this is for the planning department -- we need to do something to preserve our murals. thank you very much. supervisor mar: is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward for a positive recommendation without objection? thank you. the attorney? >> it has to sit in committee for another meeting. is that correct? and my apologies -- this is for diet coke, not a:. [laughter] supervisor mar: we will continue this for the next meeting? >> you need to approve the amendment first. supervisor mar: without objection, colleagues. we will continue this for our next meeting, which is scheduled for -- >> july 11. supervisor mar: july 11. thank you. colleagues, we're he

supervisor campos: thank you very much, mr. chair. thank you again for continuing to focus on these very important issues. chief, thank you for the presentation. i, unfortunately, have to leave the meeting early, because i have to attend to another matter involving another commission. but i wanted to ask you something. is there something that we can learn or that we have learned in terms of what other jurisdictions within the state are doing to address these changes? i am wondering if we're sort of keeping our eye on what is happening statewide, so that, you know, we also take advantage of any creative or innovative approach that may be out there as well? >> thank you, supervisor campos. all of the chiefs are meeting on a regular basis regarding the best practices that are out there. we are also having -- there has been an award by the national institute of corrections and also a private foundation to where they have been convening different parts of the system together to learn from one another. there will be another large statewide