it was actually funded by seiu. "why don't you show up?"was a time he couldn't appear, and they said, "look, he's not showing up." and then he's being bombarded with telephone calls. every two-and-a-half seconds this week we had another call, sometimes from in the state, sometimes they're outside the state. you can't possibly respond to all that. and it's not done with an intent to have dialogue on the issue. it's just an intent to harass and make the republicans look like they're not responsive. >> mm. nelson? >> the soda taxes, we see, has collected more than was expected in the first month. it's about $6 million. they expect about $92 million. the city council's concerned that they might not be able to collect the $92 million, because there's gouging going on. both the store owners are going outside the city to these cash-and-carries, buying the soda, and getting the tax, and not turning it in, and some other people who are selling to them are also not -- distributors are not turning in the tax. so there's an investigation going on regar

welcome everyone to the phone bank this is our at a of action for the affordable health care act the seiu we're the health care workers representing many workers and have a serious even if affordable health care act thank you for joining you guess i want to welcome a guest that's mayor ed lee good morning thanks for being here first of all, thank you. the united health care workers west for letting us join them in this multiple state call day for action to a safe our health care and recognize governor jerry brown from the board of supervisors who is someone that is well-informed about the issue having worked in and around health care for a good part of his life and we'll have i think some good to guess to share joined by department heads directly involved in the affordable health care act and our overflow room healthy san francisco and now, of course, our covered california for san francisco barbara garcia who is our head of our department of health and jerry mcfattening the department the of aging and joined by some very important partners in our on and on to make sure that everybody is

and the treasurer is with the seiu. this is not organic. this is way would do, it's the groups would i rely on. this is classic for the left when they have no way to present on the details of the issues. but they wants to distract and make if you feel powerful. they still don't uerstand tea party. a genuinely organic movement that was eventually co-optd it's like pock pie or acorn. not organic, contrived, and they think this will make a difference. but they are mistaken. liz: what do you have think, eric? >> i think tammy makes some good points. i do think, hour, that there are extremely angry people out there. to the extent donald trump doesn't listen to some of the points that relate to republican concerns that we know are in the field westward, it's a miss -- are in the field, it is a mistake. but there is some real anger and some of it will blow back on trump if we don't pay attention. >> people are losing everything over the last five years. they lost their hospitals and policies. we didn't see these people upset then, these democrats

and as i sat here i just learned that seiu ratified by 94% margin. so at this point all of the unions with the exception -- the second page is sightly out of date now. the largest remaining union to ratify is local 21 and they'll ratify in the first week of march. a couple of smaller groups, three smaller groups we expect to hear from the attorneys next week. but ratification margins, low est we heard is 59%, but some have been unanimous and been in the 90s. so i think our labor partners agreed with us it was a good plan of action, given the uncertainties we're facing as a city. i'm happy to address any questions. i'm sure you have seen the terms. it's 3%, each of two years. which what i will call a little safety net in the second year, if we should have major drop in revenue, or recession, we'll be able to save some money by delaying the increase by six months. although we wouldn't have to go back into bargaining, which is good for he everyone. we'll know the outcome. and i'll be happy to take questions. >> madam chair, i just want to note for the r

the public authority negotiated a wage and benefit package with a union representing ihss workers as seiu alleviate in san francisco as almost everywhere and the state would participate in the costs of ihss worker wages and benefits up to a - for a number of years during the early part of the last decade that cap was raised fairly regularly but it kept on getting slightly better that happens until the year 2007 when the cap for wages and benefits reached $12.10 per hour so what we paid per hour plus the benefits for the first $12.10 the state participated the fess at this time were putting in $0.50 on the dollar and the state was putting in 3? 35, 32 and the county picked up the rest and everything over the states cap the county was picking up the entire non-federal share in the year 2012 the coordinated career initiative was introduced in the state legislation and it envisioned a high-level of integration between medical costs, behavioral health costs, and long term support services costs of which ihss is the largest and counties said if there is a coordination that is fine a good thing

and as i sat here i just learned that seiu ratified by 94% margin.int all of the unions with the exception -- the second page is sightly out of date now. the largest remaining union to ratify is local 21 and they'll ratify in the first week of march. a couple of smaller groups, three smaller groups we expect to hear from the attorneys next week. but ratification margins, low est we heard is 59%, but some have been unanimous and been in the 90s. so i think our labor partners agreed with us it was a good plan of action, given the uncertainties we're facing as a city. i'm happy to address any questions. i'm sure you have seen the terms. it's 3%, each of two years. which what i will call a little safety net in the second year, if we should have major drop in revenue, or recession, we'll be able to save some money by delaying the increase by six months. although we wouldn't have to go back into bargaining, which is good for he everyone. we'll know the outcome. and i'll be happy to take questions. >> madam chair, i just want to note for the record we have

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the public authority negotiated a wage and benefit package with a union representing ihss workers as seiu alleviate in san francisco as almost everywhere and the state would participate in the costs of ihss worker wages and benefits up to a - for a number of years during the early part of the last decade that cap was raised fairly regularly but it kept on getting slightly better that happens until the year 2007 when the cap for wages and benefits reached $12.10 per hour so what we paid per hour plus the benefits for the first $12.10 the state participated the fess at this time were putting in $0.50 on the dollar and the state was putting in 3? 35, 32 and the county picked up the rest and everything over the states cap the county was picking up the entire non-federal share in the year 2012 the coordinated career initiative was introduced in the state legislation and it envisioned a high-level of integration between medical costs, behavioral health costs, and long term support services costs of which ihss is the largest and counties said if there is a coordination that is fine a good thing

that represents the most employees as well as the bay area retirees at the seiu and as well as the areired employees of the city of san francisco and appreciate many others in terms of helping with the endorsements were very, very key i actively campaigned and talked with the members he received 38 percent and my opponent twice that when the results were known he graced al with the message that heshtd he hover got i'd rather be right than president. >> it remind me of winston church kill - iron curtain as descended from the beginning of our ceo and the iron occur at an has descent the first time the board approved the budgets have approved equity in texas and oc home. >> commissioner meiberger be mindful be respect but some things were in closed sections. >> however, the dollar amounts and the names i've not mentioned my specifically. >> i ask you to be mindful at the same time the board invested one hundred millions with a index the move towards secrecy in item 19 staff is not closing the names of managers they've met and this is public dollars paying for the business trips because st

and as i sat here i just learned that seiu ratified by 94% margin. so at this point all of the unions with the exception -- the second page is sightly out of date now. the largest remaining union to ratify is local 21 and they'll ratify in the first week of march. a couple of smaller groups, three smaller groups we expect to hear from the attorneys next week. but ratification margins, low est we heard is 59%, but some have been unanimous and been in the 90s. so i think our labor partners agreed with us it was a good plan of action, given the uncertainties we're facing as a city. i'm happy to address any questions. i'm sure you have seen the terms. it's 3%, each of two years. which what i will call a little safety net in the second year, if we should have major drop in revenue, or recession, we'll be able to save some money by delaying the increase by six months. although we wouldn't have to go back into bargaining, which is good for he everyone. we'll know the outcome. and i'll be happy to take questions. >> madam chair, i just want to note for the r

olga, are you still here at seiu. thank you. and thank you to the friends in the labor movement for the actions that you take, and thank you to ask me as well. [ applause ] as far as the labor movement is concerned, nothing less is at stake but collectiver b bargain, osha, the nrlb, national labor relations board, and minimum wage and imagine they attempted to put somebody at the head of the labor board that who did not support raising the minimum wage in our country, and if the we did one thing and i see mr. paulson here from the labor council, and thank you, mr. paulson and there ra few one things that we could do, but if we could just pay people a living wage. a living wage. it would do more to lift up the economy instead of putting billionaires in office, and the epa sue the epa so many times, and in e d nidenial about the c, and the woman of the head of education who does not believe in public education, and these are people who do not share our values plain and simple, but they have specific things in mind to dox and we ha

welcome everyone to the phone bank this is our at a of action for the affordable health care act the seiucare workers representing many workers and have a serious even if affordable health care act thank you for joining you guess i want to welcome a guest that's mayor ed lee good morning thanks for being here first of all, thank you. the united health care workers west for letting us join them in this multiple state call day for action to a safe our health care and recognize governor jerry brown from the board of supervisors who is someone that is well-informed about the issue having worked in and around health care for a good part of his life and we'll have i think some good to guess to share joined by department heads directly involved in the affordable health care act and our overflow room healthy san francisco and now, of course, our covered california for san francisco barbara garcia who is our head of our department of health and jerry mcfattening the department the of aging and joined by some very important partners in our on and on to make sure that everybody is health women's hea

we know that organizing for america, the seiu, soros-funded open borders agitators, this is what theybsolutely and barack obama doesn't want his legacy destroyed by donald trump, so he would do -- i would imagine he would do pretty much anything to continue the legacy. so that's why ofa, organizing for action is out there organizing people. last night on this channel, michelle, i don't know if you saw the tucker carlson program, but he had one of these organizers for one of the groups called refuse fascism. and he called them out just to figure out what they're about and all he wanted to know is what do you want? but she was really more interested in name-calling and delegitimatizing the president, so they didn't get very far. but nonetheless, we would like to play a little bit for entertainment purposes. >> actually would have taken millions and millions to rise up to stop hitler. it actually would have. it's what people should have done. and it is shameful for you to -- >> but hold on. i know it's shameful. >> oh,, oh,, oh. it's funny to you. no, because i know you love to carry wat

and as i sat here i just learned that seiu ratified by 94% margin. so at this point all of the unions with the exception -- the second page is sightly out of date now. the largest remaining union to ratify is local 21 and they'll ratify in the first week of march. a couple of smaller groups, three smaller groups we expect to hear from the attorneys next week. but ratification margins, low est we heard is 59%, but some have been unanimous and been in the 90s. so i think our labor partners agreed with us it was a good plan of action, given the uncertainties we're facing as a city. i'm happy to address any questions. i'm sure you have seen the terms. it's 3%, each of two years. which what i will call a little safety net in the second year, if we should have major drop in revenue, or recession, we'll be able to save some money by delaying the increase by six months. although we wouldn't have to go back into bargaining, which is good for he everyone. we'll know the outcome. and i'll be happy to take questions. >> madam chair, i just want to note for the r

and as i sat here i just learned that seiu ratified by 94% margin. so at this point all of the unions with the exception -- the second page is sightly out of date now. the largest remaining union to ratify is local 21 and they'll ratify in the first week of march. a couple of smaller groups, three smaller groups we expect to hear from the attorneys next week. but ratification margins, low est we heard is 59%, but some have been unanimous and been in the 90s. so i think our labor partners agreed with us it was a good plan of action, given the uncertainties we're facing as a city. i'm happy to address any questions. i'm sure you have seen the terms. it's 3%, each of two years. which what i will call a little safety net in the second year, if we should have major drop in revenue, or recession, we'll be able to save some money by delaying the increase by six months. although we wouldn't have to go back into bargaining, which is good for he everyone. we'll know the outcome. and i'll be happy to take questions. >> madam chair, i just want to note for the r

seiu crepe can you help me out. >> here's what i'm hearing the roof deck is one of the open space fordwelling units having an open area with the top one a and the amount of roof area on the remainder of the building didn't support the open space obligation if you were to entertain a motion for removing the park for example, that allows the ground floor or other areas some flex to basically she thought around basically hit upon what commissioner moore was expressions in the residential design guidelines the other pieces in terms of the the design the fade i guess for what we heard for the busyness and i'm confident we can work to tone that do you think that's kind of what i'm hearing so far. >> i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say the parking so the straw pole here and i'm fine with the parking we tried to didn't think what a family is a family unit i know for myself as a family of 5 no way i'll not have and not be without a car the balance of two parking spaces. >> works. >> i'm aubrey abrakasa memorable. >> when i saw the plans i was excited it was a great ratio great ra

and as i sat here i just learned that seiu ratified by 94% margin. so at this point all of the unions with the exception -- the second page is sightly out of date now. the largest remaining union to ratify is local 21 and they'll ratify in the first week of march. a couple of smaller groups, three smaller groups we expect to hear from the attorneys next week. but ratification margins, low est we heard is 59%, but some have been unanimous and been in the 90s. so i think our labor partners agreed with us it was a good plan of action, given the uncertainties we're facing as a city. i'm happy to address any questions. i'm sure you have seen the terms. it's 3%, each of two years. which what i will call a little safety net in the second year, if we should have major drop in revenue, or recession, we'll be able to save some money by delaying the increase by six months. although we wouldn't have to go back into bargaining, which is good for he everyone. we'll know the outcome. and i'll be happy to take questions. >> madam chair, i just want to note for the r

seiu crepe can you help me out. >> here's what i'm hearing the roof deck is one of the open space fordwelling units having an open area with the top one a and the amount of roof area on the remainder of the building didn't support the open space obligation if you were to entertain a motion for removing the park for example, that allows the ground floor or other areas some flex to basically she thought around basically hit upon what commissioner moore was expressions in the residential design guidelines the other pieces in terms of the the design the fade i guess for what we heard for the busyness and i'm confident we can work to tone that do you think that's kind of what i'm hearing so far. >> i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say the parking so the straw pole here and i'm fine with the parking we tried to didn't think what a family is a family unit i know for myself as a family of 5 no way i'll not have and not be without a car the balance of two parking spaces. >> works. >> i'm aubrey abrakasa memorable. >> when i saw the plans i was excited it was a great ratio great ra

welcome everyone to the phone bank this is our at a of action for the affordable health care act the seiulth care workers representing many workers and have a serious even if affordable health care act thank you for joining you guess i want to welcome a guest that's mayor ed lee good morning thanks for being here first of all, thank you. the united health care workers west for letting us join them in this multiple state call day for action to a safe our health care and recognize governor jerry brown from the board of supervisors who is someone that is well-informed about the issue having worked in and around health care for a good part of his life and we'll have i think some good to guess to share joined by department heads directly involved in the affordable health care act and our overflow room healthy san francisco and now, of course, our covered california for san francisco barbara garcia who is our head of our department of health and jerry mcfattening the department the of aging and joined by some very important partners in our on and on to make sure that everybody is health women's

and as i sat here i just learned that seiu ratified by 94% margin. so at this point all of the unions with the exception -- the second page is sightly out of date now. the largest remaining union to ratify is local 21 and they'll ratify in the first week of march. a couple of smaller groups, three smaller groups we expect to hear from the attorneys next week. but ratification margins, low est we heard is 59%, but some have been unanimous and been in the 90s. so i think our labor partners agreed with us it was a good plan of action, given the uncertainties we're facing as a city. i'm happy to address any questions. i'm sure you have seen the terms. it's 3%, each of two years. which what i will call a little safety net in the second year, if we should have major drop in revenue, or recession, we'll be able to save some money by delaying the increase by six months. although we wouldn't have to go back into bargaining, which is good for he everyone. we'll know the outcome. and i'll be happy to take questions. >> madam chair, i just want to note for the r

and as i sat here i just learned that seiu ratified by 94% margin. so at this point all of the unions with the exception -- the second page is sightly out of date now. the largest remaining union to ratify is local 21 and they'll ratify in the first week of march. a couple of smaller groups, three smaller groups we expect to hear from the attorneys next week. but ratification margins, low est we heard is 59%, but some have been unanimous and been in the 90s. so i think our labor partners agreed with us it was a good plan of action, given the uncertainties we're facing as a city. i'm happy to address any questions. i'm sure you have seen the terms. it's 3%, each of two years. which what i will call a little safety net in the second year, if we should have major drop in revenue, or recession, we'll be able to save some money by delaying the increase by six months. although we wouldn't have to go back into bargaining, which is good for he everyone. we'll know the outcome. and i'll be happy to take questions. >> madam chair, i just want to note for the r

where the unions are simply trade- based or other ones that operate across industry, like--like i'm an seiu member, for example, rright? or are they just sort of anachronistic, sort of workers' vanguard spectacles that we can just kind of throw aside? >> good. wonderful question. let me try to answer. and again, rather than my spinning out my own thououghts about thatat, let me start from a concrete example. thehe steelworkers unin here in the e united states, one of f the largest unions in the afl-cio, here, stunned the world of american labor two years ago when they issued a press release announcing the formal alliance-- i'i'll usese their words--the fl alliancnce between thehe steelwororkers union of the unid states, which--i don't know how many members it has, but in the hundreds of thousands, big unionon--with mondragon, the corporate--that huge, successful worker's self-directed entterprise in spain. and i remember many of us were taken aback. "what an interesting idea. an alliance." what did it mean? well, the details were hard to come by. it seems as thougugh there was discussion, o

welcome everyone to the phone bank this is our at a of action for the affordable health care act the seiu we're the health care workers representing many workers and have a serious even if affordable health care act thank you for joining you guess i want to welcome a guest that's mayor ed lee good morning thanks for being here first of all, thank you. the united health care workers west for letting us join them in this multiple state call day for action to a safe our health care and recognize governor jerry brown from the board of supervisors who is someone that is well-informed about the issue having worked in and around health care for a good part of his life and we'll have i think some good to guess to share joined by department heads directly involved in the affordable health care act and our overflow room healthy san francisco and now, of course, our covered california for san francisco barbara garcia who is our head of our department of health and jerry mcfattening the department the of aging and joined by some very important partners in our on and on to make sure that everybody is

welcome everyone to the phone bank this is our at a of action for the affordable health care act the seiuealth care workers representing many workers and have a serious even if affordable health care act thank you for joining you guess i want to welcome a guest that's mayor ed lee good morning thanks for being here first of all, thank you. the united health care workers west for letting us join them in this multiple state call day for action to a safe our health care and recognize governor jerry brown from the board of supervisors who is someone that is well-informed about the issue having worked in and around health care for a good part of his life and we'll have i think some good to guess to share joined by department heads directly involved in the affordable health care act and our overflow room healthy san francisco and now, of course, our covered california for san francisco barbara garcia who is our head of our department of health and jerry mcfattening the department the of aging and joined by some very important partners in our on and on to make sure that everybody is health women