Are celebrating our countries birthday but recognizing in the celebration throughout the weekend people like the people had that are standing with me are working whether the restaurants or hotels or Health Care Workers and others and and we all feel for working people that is hard in our expensive city to survive unless you have a december sent wage thats why a couple of years ago i destined or joibd the board of supervisors full board of supervisors to place before the voters an 15 an hour minimum wage and people that work in all those industries we did it together and were celebrating because today it goes from 12. 25 an hour to 13 and up to 15 and after that cpi takes over i want to remind everybody this city was brought together with our labor unions and your working families made up of all the exit are represents our city and got this done in a strong collaboration with everyone and showed not only the cities around the bay area but the state of california if we got together and t
Shades of green. A lot of the problem here in his world has been uncivilized effort, not things done because of nonresponse and unintelligible . And we dont have to unintelligible because of unintelligible got to do this or that. There is a reason for every purpose that we have unintelligible today. And our unintelligible and food is one of the things of our land that should be more appreciated in our values. Supervisor tang thank you very much. Seeing nor the members of the public who wish to speak Public Comment is closed. gavel at this time we estimate and minimal impact to the cost the government. Supervisor tang thank you it could have a motion to file this item. So moved. Anymore items . None. This meeting is adjourned. gavel all right. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the to the special rules committee of monday, july 18, 2016, im kairng the chair our vice chair it scombhaifr and to my left is supervisor cowen and clerk eric and sfgovtv thank you jim smith and jesse larso
Of the fiscal year they would create the programs say there are 10 million available this year for within the transit expansion or optimization for that process to knot with other needs with the Transportation Commission Transportation Transportation Authority Commission and their funding so administer to prop k. I was having a hard time like the van ness corridor brt is that specific that opens the door to talk about the changes weve done on that. Well the van ness projects that have been approved like the van ness project that have their viral clearance are approves people can talk about them but the decisions with made the designs are final and bringing two Construction Contracts many of our projects that are approved at that board have funding that 0 flows that the Transportation Authority so wounded change anything they can ask questions about the project their funding but generally working with the board office as projects are brought here i dont see any fundamental change there
All ushth together to help them but for alsolf and mayor libby schaaf of oakland that recognizes our workforce is more regional than ever do more than benefit the residents that work in our city and so we joined. Today and cities that are committed along with cities like new york and seattle and los angeles and portland and the others also raised their minimum wage we want to the state of california to do the same thing because what could happen i think all the labor advocates know and people that we raised our minimum wage just and ourselves in the city of San Francisco or just in oakland we would probably be golden state talent that belongs to where everybody lives and not as affordable to them as it is to those were helping so mayor libby schaaf and along with the United Health care workers started a process and emigrate hundreds of thousands of snatches set the minimum wage higher of 15 an hour tour the state of california in uniting all the cities with the labor unions and workfor
The people that always serve us at the hotels and restaurants and people that are working the janitorial and Building Maintenance and all working class in the city were there to be of help this will be consistent raising the minimum wage to attack affordability challenges is part of solution paid parental leave is part of the solution making sure that we work so that no one is a theft of their wages thats why your head of the department the labor enforcement is joining us with the advocates of people that earn those wages im saying they earn every single penny they deserve to make sure they get it in their hands thats why we announce these and make sure that everybody is prepared adequately ahead of time to make sure those wages are paid and wage theft we have to make sure that our workforce that speaks many languages dont get capture and been take advantage of this is how we really in city year ago we have a benefit and make sure that everybody obtains that benefit i want to say at th