Organizational structure around these types of processes. And Human Resources have two outstanding recommendations related to negotiating specific issues of compensation, with the firefighters, labor union. And these recommendations come from cfas audit of the Fire Departments payroll, processes. And however, they were directed to dhr because dhr initiates and confer with the unions, are the labor unions. And dhr, just closed their process of negotiating 29 labor agreements and now that task is completed they will set up a meeting this month for a meet and confer with the appropriate labor union on this issue. And how long is that going to take . Because it has been a few years, and the concern that i have is that the city is always, and is already issued out millions of dollars for an official pay outs, and i am really concerned, about allowing this practice to continue in the audit took place several years ago. Yes. And it was supposed to be a change and so how is this even possible
And they celebrated 50 years. There was never, never, anything started and some people to start with the unfinished agenda, and have to finish when nothing that he started, and now we are the ones, that got the human rights going. In 1962, and became a commission in 1964. And i would like to say that, i would listen to the people talking, and i said, let me put this down. And there are moneys that you are hidden in this city, and under the other names, and the other names of what they are set up for and if you all, would call, and which have requested, you are going to find a whole lot of money that is coming into this city and sitting somewhere that it is not supposed to be sitting it is supposed to be for the community, and i stated at the last meeting that i was at there is going to be a white to come to the city hall and take a lot of folks to jail, thank you. And next speaker please. Good afternoon. Board members. My name is james brian and the Western Region director, and the pro
From the Hotel Council. I am sorry. Actually, sense you are here, you can go ahead. Pines, you will be next. Okay. Good morning, supervisors thank you supervisor cohen for calling this. And my name is Kevin Carroll and i am the executive director and impart of the working group that is called that is regarding this report that we are talking about today and i am also a member of the Subworking Group that has been put together, that includes the Hotel Council, and 7 of our major hotels and the hr directors and the local to kasey and pines and as well as thomas from the office of economic and Workforce Development and we have been leading and developing the process, right now. And the first thing that we did was finding way to attracting and having the opportunity for not oebl the Community Based organizations but the off can americans to learn about the Hotel Industries and the jobs available, and so the first thing that we did was developed a show case, that we invited, over 60 Communi
Join us. We go into, well, first of all when we hear of the leads, and we have a whole staff, that basically is paid to do that and they go and reach out to any business that they see that falls within their area. So, it bohooves them to reach out and on top of that, now, we do, again, look to the leadership of each neighborhood and so your neighborhood merchant associations and so we go out into those, neighborhoods and in the twofold, and again, how the working with them to help to create their neighborhood as a destination but then, also, in that, to let them know about the benefits that they can receive, by being a member of San Francisco, travel association. Got it. So up until recently, we have connected you to the merchant of the bay view Merchants Association that is what i know . I am sorry, up until recently, you have been connected. Exactly. So let me say this because you alluded to having the staff and i assume that you have had the staff and i will just want to express my
Let me say that it is very upsetting to me that we have to resort to having to have this hearing. The fact is anyone who has traveled the airport but here in sfo knows when youre traveling through an airport youre a captive audience. You cant even bring water into the facility. You are subjected as the traveler to whatever prices are imposed on use by the vendors are selling at the airport. We have been careful in selecting vendors and second that we protect the traveler and worker. Personally i want vendors that actually that represent the very best of San Francisco, not only in terms of the food an things being sold, but also in terms of practices that are being followed and tp idea to me that we could have vendors that in fact are not treating their workers fairly is something that i have a problem with and i personally feel that the vendors that are selected should be in compliance with the highest standards that we hold as a city an key among those standards is the idea you treat