and rudy gonzalez, the executive director of the san francisco labor council here in the city. and also i want to mention our economic recovery task force, because not only do we need to help workers now, and what happens in future when we start to re-open the city, he's a co-chair leading that charge on the san francisco economic recovery. so, ladies and gentlemen, rudy gonzalez. >> thank you, mayor breed and director arce, and michelle, it's great to be in your community. we're grateful for the opportunity to be part of this discussion and bringing together not only organized laborer but as you said, mayor, ways to lift up all people. so we're happy to get to work on our recovery right now. >> mayor london breed: all right, michelle, we can turn it over to you so we can get started. we probably have a lot of folks on the line who have a number of questions and that's what we're here to do, to answer the questions. and also to take feedback on just suggestions that people who are in the middle of these experiences might have. so i'll turn it over to you. thank you so much agai

and rudy gonzalez, the executive director of the san francisco labor council here in the city.d also i want to mention our economic recovery task force, because not only do we need to help workers now, and what happens in future when we start to re-open the city, he's a co-chair leading that charge on the san francisco economic recovery. so, ladies and gentlemen, rudy gonzalez. >> thank you, mayor breed and director arce, and michelle, it's great to be in your community. we're grateful for the opportunity to be part of this discussion and bringing together not only organized laborer but as you said, mayor, ways to lift up all people. so we're happy to get to work on our recovery right now. >> mayor london breed: all right, michelle, we can turn it over to you so we can get started. we probably have a lot of folks on the line who have a number of questions and that's what we're here to do, to answer the questions. and also to take feedback on just suggestions that people who are in the middle of these experiences might have. so i'll turn it over to you. thank you so much again.

and rudy gonzalez, the executive director of the san francisco labor council here in the city. and also i want to mention our economic recovery task force, because not only do we need to help workers now, and what happens in future when we start to re-open the city, he's a co-chair leading that charge on the san francisco economic recovery. so, ladies and gentlemen, rudy gonzalez. >> thank you, mayor breed and director arce, and michelle, it's great to be in your community. we're grateful for the opportunity to be part of this discussion and bringing together not only organized laborer but as you said, mayor, ways to lift up all people. so we're happy to get to work on our recovery right now. >> mayor london breed: all right, michelle, we can turn it over to you so we can get started. we probably have a lot of folks on the line who have a number of questions and that's what we're here to do, to answer the questions. and also to take feedback on just suggestions that people who are in the middle of these experiences might have. so i'll turn it over to you. thank you so much agai

and rudy gonzalez, the executive director of the san francisco labor council here in the city.r economic recovery task force, because not only do we need to help workers now, and what happens in future when we start to re-open the city, he's a co-chair leading that charge on the san francisco economic recovery. so, ladies and gentlemen, rudy gonzalez. >> thank you, mayor breed and director arce, and michelle, it's great to be in your community. we're grateful for the opportunity to be part of this discussion and bringing together not only organized laborer but as you said, mayor, ways to lift up all people. so we're happy to get to work on our recovery right now. >> mayor london breed: all right, michelle, we can turn it over to you so we can get started. we probably have a lot of folks on the line who have a number of questions and that's what we're here to do, to answer the questions. and also to take feedback on just suggestions that people who are in the middle of these experiences might have. so i'll turn it over to you. thank you so much again. >> thank you, mayor breed,

and rudy gonzalez, the executive director of the san francisco labor council here in the city.i want to mention our economic recovery task force, because not only do we need to help workers now, and what happens in future when we start to re-open the city, he's a co-chair leading that charge on the san francisco economic recovery. so, ladies and gentlemen, rudy gonzalez. >> thank you, mayor breed and director arce, and michelle, it's great to be in your community. we're grateful for the opportunity to be part of this discussion and bringing together not only organized laborer but as you said, mayor, ways to lift up all people. so we're happy to get to work on our recovery right now. >> mayor london breed: all right, michelle, we can turn it over to you so we can get started. we probably have a lot of folks on the line who have a number of questions and that's what we're here to do, to answer the questions. and also to take feedback on just suggestions that people who are in the middle of these experiences might have. so i'll turn it over to you. thank you so much again. >> than

and rudy gonzalez, the executive director of the san francisco labor council here in the city. and also i want to mention our economic recovery task force, because not only do we need to help workers now, and what happens in future when we start to re-open the city, he's a co-chair leading that charge on the san francisco economic recovery. so, ladies and gentlemen, rudy gonzalez. >> thank you, mayor breed and director arce, and michelle, it's great to be in your community. we're grateful for the opportunity to be part of this discussion and bringing together not only organized laborer but as you said, mayor, ways to lift up all people. so we're happy to get to work on our recovery right now. >> mayor london breed: all right, michelle, we can turn it over to you so we can get started. we probably have a lot of folks on the line who have a number of questions and that's what we're here to do, to answer the questions. and also to take feedback on just suggestions that people who are in the middle of these experiences might have. so i'll turn it over to you. thank you so much agai

. >> hi, rudy gonzalez, san francisco labor council representing 130 different unions here in the city. and among them, the 33,000 approximate city workers in our public employees committee. i think it's important as you talk about this agenda item overall plan review that we remember that kaiser is a prepaid system. they lack transparency with regard to their rates for these systems. they have posted in the first quarter of 2019 $3 billion in net income, billion with a "b." we have seen massive creases to their revenue -- increases to their revenues, capital planning. this is untimely and i think we need to distinguish kaiser, especially in this conversation, from the other self-funded plans. when they increase rate utilization, they are trying to deter people from using prepaid services. it's absolutely immoral, particularly with public health crisis in this unprecedented challenge we face as a city. thank you. >> madam secretary: thank you very much, sir. moderator, can we take the next caller, please. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> hi. i am so much opposed to this

. >> joining me is carmen chu, rudy gonzalez and we have a task force of 80 people which seems like aut considering how many different sectors, not just business, nonprofit, trades, transportation and that's a pretty small group and that group, the task force will start out into very specific sector-related conversations and so, we want to ma make sure everyone will give their input. the three main buckets, policy areas of the task force are retention of existing businesses and jobs in san francisco. and so important to hang on to the one we have. the second is the focus on a vulnerable population and that may be different than we thought before and that could be people reliabilitily laid off or furloughed and e were wan we wae sure we're creating jobs for them and then economic development and are there opportunities moving forward and other large cities to be the leader in the clean management in movement and science and technology that helps post covid life. i think we're in a great position in the bay area and maybe better than others to attack that and turn that into an industry

the task force are carmen chu, the recorder and the treasurer, rodney fong from the chamber and rudy gonzalez from the labor council and supervisor peskin and i are representing the board and folks representing different sectors of san francisco from big business, small business, labor, nonprofit community and lots of folks and then with abled staffing from the city administrator and workforce develop, the office of resilience and capital planning, the human right's commission, the treasure tax collector and melissa white housmelissa whitee staffperson and i believe carmen reached out for feedback. we had a meeting on april 4th, a just getting started meeting and the staff then convened, i think nine different smaller groups to discuss what folks are hearing and what they would like to see prioritized. and those smaller subgroup meetings, i believe have now been finished, and the meeting of the larger group is this thursday, may 14th. based on those initial conversations, i think as recorder chu an and thinking abt going forward in three buckets of areas. first is the developing of plan proto

we thank you for not considering the copayment increases in light of rudy gonzalez' comment that kaiser made over $3 billion this year. i'm willing to wait for the next two weeks to get more information, but i really appreciate supervisor preston's comments. we can't balance these things on the back of city workers. they're suffering too much now and don't need this additional stress. thank you. >> thank you so much. moderator, can you please open up the line for another caller. >> operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> clerk: president breslin, that concludes public comment for this item. >> president breslin: okay. very good. so now, we have to vote on this item. we still didn't vote on this. >> actually, president breslin, this is commissioner heil. before we take the vote, i don't mind to push this over to the next meeting, but i hope we can talk about the sustainability of our health plans long-term, and whether contributions, as controversial as they may seem to be, play a role in that. i just want to put that out there for everyone. >> president breslin: okay. all those

. >> this is rudy gonzalez of san francisco labor council.ust want to note that seven stores, not one of them meets area standards for working class people in this city. amazon has a record of charitiable giving, and they want to inoculate you against that. we've seen in the year that amazon has owned whole foods. they've brought that model of distribution and they want to stick that right in our neighborhoods. the implications for traffic and t.n.c. and deliveries would be far greater than the studies show. the comments about labor agreements are deceptive. if we're going to do that for the eighth time, and the eighth time is a charm, let's do it for working class people and make it a value add for our community. thank you. >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> hello. i'm a resident of -- [inaudible] >> -- neighborhood. i'm supportive of the whole foods project for several reasons. first, i think in this time, economically, we have a lot of people out of work right now, and if we turn this down, it would be turning jobs down fo

. >> joining me is carmen chu, rudy gonzalez and we have a task force of 80 people which seems like aot but considering how many different sectors, not just business, nonprofit, trades, transportation and that's a pretty small group and that group, the task force will start out into very specific sector-related conversations and so, we want to ma make sure everyone will give their input. the three main buckets, policy areas of the task force are retention of existing businesses and jobs in san francisco. and so important to hang on to the one we have. the second is the focus on a vulnerable population and that may be different than we thought before and that could be people reliabilitily laid off or furloughed and e were wan we wae sure we're creating jobs for them and then economic development and are there opportunities moving forward and other large cities to be the leader in the clean management in movement and science and technology that helps post covid life. i think we're in a great position in the bay area and maybe better than others to attack that and turn that into an indus

the task force are carmen chu, the recorder and the treasurer, rodney fong from the chamber and rudy gonzalez from the labor council and supervisor peskin and i are representing the board and folks representing different sectors of san francisco from big business, small business, labor, nonprofit community and lots of folks and then with abled staffing from the city administrator and workforce develop, the office of resilience and capital planning, the human right's commission, the treasure tax collector and melissa white housmelissa whitee staffperson and i believe carmen reached out for feedback. we had a meeting on april 4th, a just getting started meeting and the staff then convened, i think nine different smaller groups to discuss what folks are hearing and what they would like to see prioritized. and those smaller subgroup meetings, i believe have now been finished, and the meeting of the larger group is this thursday, may 14th. based on those initial conversations, i think as recorder chu an and thinking abt going forward in three buckets of areas. first is the developing of plan proto