Francisco labor council. I am actually quite proud here to stand here before you. The labor council, other unions and many other Community Organizations work hard for this calling us the coalition for the fair campaign, we got in the streets and negotiated with the mayor and with everybodys help we have come up with one of the most exciting minimum wage initiatives the country has ever seen. Many of us were there 10 years ago and now we are awe fully proud. I just want to caution you about ted eagans good report that in a week uc berkeley is going to produce another report, like the glass is half full and half empty where ted eagan said that 60,000 workers are going to benefit from this. We understand that over 100,000 workers from uc berkeley will benefit where ted eagan says the city will flow by the dollars. Uc says 10s if not hundreds of millions of dollars will benefit over time. This is really important for the city and when supervisors campos talks about comparison to uganda, it
Thank you for coming to speak. Good afternoon, john sacke Deputy Director and cochair of the council. Im here to speak in favor of this measure and especially about the provision which provides an alternative wage for government supported youth employees. 10 years ago, while we very much supported the minimum wage measure, providers who provides work for youth were not available. Hundreds of the youth we served their positions were unfortunately eliminated due to limitations in available resources. Right now young people are recovering from the highest youth unemployment on record in this country. My organization alone is weight ait listing over 2,000 people a year. It was vital that we maintain at the table the need for these young peoples needs were addressed. Im very pleased to say that folks were very sensitive to the needs of these young people. It would be great to pay a few of them a little bit more, but by far the need to serve as many of them and to make as many of them as emp
And thrive in our diverse city. We are really excited about this minimum wage measure as well as the commitment from supervisors and Mayors Office to ensure that this minimum wage is adequately enforced and we look forward to november leading the way to the highest minimum wage in the country. Thank you. Supervisor jane kim thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Steve fields and director of nonprofit provider and speaking on behalf of the Human Services network, the coalition of 100 Nonprofit Health and Human Services provider. We are really pleased to see this measure moving forward. I want to especially acknowledge that this city, this jurisdiction maybe the first jurisdiction in the country that from the beginning acknowledged the necessity to speak to the nonprofit partners in developing a fair and equitable minimum wage measure. And its typical of San Francisco that it steps for it in all of these issues. We appreciated being in the conversation. We also appreciated the tone of t