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involved in this discussion we now as a city we now adopt a five year financial plan for a city and a two year budget. do those longer range financial tools increase ability to increase the predictability for the city and the provider network? and are there others? by no means an exhaustive presentation today but some background and some questions we re considering and i am happy to answer any questions. thank you and through chair farrell we have a number of speaker cards but i know may 1 our minimum wage goes way up in san francisco. oakland has the highest in the nation right now and i think we jump may 1 to join oakland or as close to the highest in the nation but i know that creates some challenges for non-profits and others in the city. could you talk about how non-profit contracts are adjusted for going to be adjusted for the minimum wage and how i know some of the executive directors are here to talk about the wage compression you talked about as well as a ....
out with non-profits. a case manager and the fully loaded case working for the city is $140,000 a year and the fully cost at well paying non-profit is only about $80,000 a year. multiply that by the number of case managers that you re paying for and i think it s a significant amount of money that the sector is paying the non-profit sector is saving the government, but this shouldn t be done on the backs of workers. i think it s great we can save money and provide excellent services but should do so in a way that is fair. we re under a lot of pressure in the non-profit sector. some of you may know due to changes in the health care reform in january organizations that are between 50 and 100 employees are looking at double digit increases in insurance and we can t increase wages with this and philanthropy isn t the answer and not to back fill government contracts and it helps the mission and be innovative and grow and be better. we look to you to solve this problem and i ....
knowing if they re getting a raise. non-profits not knowing if they have funding to deal with increases in health care and rent and other things. it s a very chaotic situation and it s one i think we can all agree that we shouldn t repeat and at the supplemental hearing that we had a couple of months ago i think i heard unanimous support for seriously addressing this permanent fix and it s to see we re having a hearing now and moving towards that. one thing there are a lot of nuisances and complications with this, but one thing that we can t do is neglect non-profit workers while we address this long-term fix. i do think that we may need to study and put together a working group to look into this in a more detailed way how we do something permanently but we need to establish a cost of living increase bridge that we can walk across while we get to this permanent fix that we will be discussing. non-profit workers if we re going to hear acknowledge this situation is real ....
BUCHANAN COUNTY – Memorial Day is Monday, May 27. Government offices, libraries, and some businesses will be closed to honor and in remembrance of those who have died in service ....
STRONG - Veterans from American Legion Norton-Wuori Post #61 in Kingfield visited students at MSAD 58’s Day Mountain Regional Middle School in Strong last Thursday. Joining the youth for lunch in the cafeteria, Jim Williamson, John Maynard, Robert Rogers, Tom O’Hara, James Davis, and Terry Wyman, all Army Veterans, talked to those at their tables ....