it's not only free but professionalable. this legislation is a low impact on employees they have an opportunity to deny the flexibility and so therefore by getting this out on the ballot it puts the conversations in the city at the public level as opposed to passing an ordinance that people ignore. i fully support n this measure and thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors i'm scott. i'm a small business and have 28 employees with a flexible schedule. i'm fortunate. when this legislation was first introduced i worked with hundreds of small businesses around the state i was totally opposed when i heard from the small businesses around the city we were opposed because we hadn't had a chance to talk about that we had a problem of it being on a ballot because we saw ourselves as being an antiemployee but since that time the supervisor has really reached out and extended themselves to listen to our concerns. this measure is much more easy for a business to comply with. that he never op

needed time off for child bearing we just went ahead and did that it was always successful and professionalable and no one ever had a problem with what we did. but there's one thing i'm not a mommy have any kid's but about 10 years ago my dad got sick. he was a strong guy and he got very sick and he had no money and his wife was disabled. it was up to my sisters and i and -- excuse-me.. i was horrify it was up to my sisters and ii lost my job and my sister lost they are job and we gave you a lot of our funds to spend our last days with my dad and 5 years ago it happened again but my father died who happens to be in this building who gave us flexible time and i was able to spend an center two weeks with my father i definitely support this >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon ron smith. i want to apologize for my unshaven appearance i was disfrom the hospital i'd like to speak on this. under the first responders is i hope that every hospital is included. let me just share with you what happens in a hospital. i will in california a hospital may not accept a patient if they don't h

and as we impose more costs on students and families to go and get this master's degree or professionallal degree or doctors degree, fewer people will do it. we're essentially telling those people you're locked in wherever you are. you're not going to be the one that moves from had -- that hume abode to a middle class home and beyond. that i think, frankly, is one of the most disturbing aspects that people are facing across this country today. the realization and the fear that their children will not do better than they did. our parents, all of them i think could say with great confidence i'm working hard, i'm struggling, but i know my children will do better. and one of the reasons why our constituents skraos -- across this country are saying you're not getting it right is this growing perception, feeling, that no, their children won't do better. and by the way, this speaks volumes about our commitment to making sure that the next generation of americans does better. just look at the numbers. this is how you get well compensated in the united states. our country is based upon the notion t