advertising makes it clear that employers that charge and state that they are charging a healthy san francisco surcharge but not actually spending it on health care -- that that could lead to very negative consequences. the ordinance makes a number of other changes, but i want to mention one last provision, which is meant to address the situation in case this amendment is challenged in court and the court upholds the changes. i want to make it clear that the ordinance would then revert to a supervisor campos -- revert to what supervisor campos has proposed. if we could move relatively quickly to public comment, i know a lot of folks have taken time out of their busy schedules to be here, and i would like to get feedback from the public on this. supervisor campos: thank you. we will be happy to proceed to that, but before we do that, i want to make a couple of points. first, i want to thank the members of the audience who have been waiting for this matter, and i know that this issue has been an ongoing issue for many months. we introduced my original legislation in may of this year, so that was five mont

my alternate states that when an employer says that they're charging a healthy san francisco surcharge, they need to let the city know that they're spending that money on health care. if they are not, they could be facing significant consumer actions. the ordinance makes a number of other changes, but i also want to mention one final part of my alternate. which is, are there any legal issues with what is being proposed? and the language does get challenged in a court, and the court fines for those changes, which i do not think what happened, and i have included supervisor campos' language in the alternate that i have. so that his language would then prevail if anything would happen in court. all this being said, i do understand that there many issues at hand. i look forward to hearing the testimony. i also want to let folks know that what i proposed as an alternate is simply a starting point for a discussion, and i look forward to other potential ideas of things that we could do. i am not necessarily wedded to the deadlines and the dates and specifics. but my goal is to figure out a wa

san francisco program have been pocketing extra cash. phil matier explains. >> reporter: if you dined in san francisco you may have noticed a little something extra on your check, a city mandated surcharge healthcare for part-time workers. now, it's a fee that all businesses in the city pay. but most don't put it on their checks. they pay it out of profits. last year the city collected 62.5 million dollars for the healthcare fund but only paid about 12.4 million leaving $50 million untouched. money system employers have been pocketing. -- some employers have been pocketing and that's a practice that the majority of the board of supervisors wants stopped. >> most agree that when a consumer pays to provide healthcare it should be paid for healthcare not pocket by businesses. >> reporter: he and labor groups want it held in an account for up to a year and a half after a worker leaves but that's something that both businesses and mayor ed lee said would tie up tens of millions of dollars that could otherwise be reinvested in business. >> it's in the wrong direction, overly broad and will cut out jobs. >> reporter: small businesses like lombardi sports that operated in the city for three gen

san francisco downtown. i have 65 employees. i pay health insurance, dental insurance, disability insurance and eye insurance. we did not offer a surcharge to our members or guests, and i am in support of david chiu's amendments. i think we need to be going after the people that are using the loopholes in the system and not changing the whole business climate in the city to go to direct deposits. hra's work. my employees use them when they need them. i had five babies born in the last six months at my club, and everybody has been paid for it. thank you. >> hello. i own a third-generation san francisco business providing jobs to persons who were to take care of seniors in the homes of disabled and terminally ill. i am here to support supervisor chiu's proposed ordinance since it allows my company to provide health access and also allows me to continue to invest in jobs meeting my obligations with san francisco taxes. i would like to make reference that my business is in daly city, not in san francisco. my hra account average yearly usage is 33.3%. the money's not spend i have invested in my business and continue to invest in jobs. jobs ar

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