16-point.4% and addition to landlords that lease with the city get average of 10-15% increase so basically the city is recognizing that other sectors that they do business with has the realities of business such as health care and workers comp goes up but what does the nonprofit sector? we have the same realities and workers have to pay the bills and we deserve to be compensated fairly for the hard work that people do, so pie colleagues gave you some really testimony about where the money could come from. i want to take a really hard look at that but at the end of the day it s about where our city s priorities are, and we think it should be with the city s most vulnerable. thank you. thank you. next speaker please. good afternoon supervisors. my name is peter mace ac with seiu 1021 and with the nonprofit coalition and the cost of living in san francisco has increased 12%. during that time the nonprofit workers have endured a constant stream of budget cuts. many of the pe
linked up to vitality facilities and have warm beds and nutrition. as we know seniors don t have family support so those programs are vitality. vital. we put our hearts and souls into our jobs. we save the city a lot of money by caring for the poor and disadvantaged which is way cheaper in an institutional setting. we ve absorbed clients who are often discharged from the hospital early. there s no doubt that our job is challenging and it s only fair we be compensated for the work we do. although we got 2 percent last year but that s not enough. we also work straight 5 years without one single raise. although i don t have children i work with a lot of coworkers who pay 6 homicide dollars a month and 1 thousand for two or more a month. i - . thank you (clapping) good afternoon supervisors and good afternoon to my colleagues. okay. on on behalf of my union as i can see we re all wearing purple. is we re concerned with something 7 .9 is a big amount of money and you guys will s
and i hope that you consider and definitely find in the budget just a little bit that we re asking and think long-term for us so we can get the recognition for the hard work that we do. thank you. hi. i am lacie johnson and work at progress foundation and with the nonprofit coalition. i work at adu acute diversion unit and people can stay for two weeks after they are ps and i want to talk about in the last few years the work load has gone up a lot. we used to have 10 beds. now the beds are increased and we have 12 beds and lost a half-time position and the increase in paperwork so there is constantly more work for you and as far as other services and recently other services have been cut, places where we connect people to such as tom ladell, haight-ashbury clinic and in the past where we connected people within two weeks now it takes three months so for nonprofit workers it s demorizing and our jobs are point scpls can t do the work and not to mention we have small salar
great friends through music. and i ve invited some of those friends to join me this evening. we re sharing a message of hope, peace, friendship, and of course the international language of music. come on. [mc] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome america s romantic piano sensation, jim brickman. [mc] welcome to jim brickman s beautiful world , a concert special featuring latin superstar, jon secada, and from america idol melinda doolittle, from celtic woman, orla fallon, and canadian singing sensation, mark masri. it also features many other wonderful guests including, david klinkenberg, anne cochran, tracy silverman, arthur hanlon, and adam crossley with dala. [mc] ladies and gentlemen, jim brickman, beautiful world. [jim brickman] brand new song called carnival from beautiful world . that song kind of celebrates my latin roots, growing up in cleveland, oo. for such a long time i was a soloist and i still am really, but collaboration is something that s a really bi