Increases to customers. Increases the cost of your salads and soups and your goods that you sell all that sort of stuff. Reporter and spreading that cost increase over several years keeps people from noticing that they are paying more. So they increase the cost of a sandwich another 50 cents or so. Do people really notice it. Reporter not every business will be impact by the increase. Unemployment is low in San Francisco and most workers are already paid more than minimum wage. If you want someone now you have to pay them more. Or you wont get anyone. Why should i work for you when i can get more down the road . Reporter this man says paying people decent wages is good for people. You have to compensate someone so they have a standard of living so they want to come to work. Reporter but even at 14 an hour, its still less than 30,000 a year for a fulltime employee. How can you live on that . There are ways people can get by on minimum wage but not by themselves. Reporter next year, the
Break is still here, but a lot better than it was 24 hours ago. Lets look at the video. The cleanup is underway. And all of water has been pumped out of the area. A number of water trucks came through to pump out the water, and then the Power Washing crews came through, Power Washing the roads to get the sewage off of the roads at the complex. The water was about a foot deep in some locations had along five square blocks at the complex, and we have video of when it was at its worst. People were taping plastic bags around their feet to get through the water, and people were trying to make sure that their vehicles didnt get flooded. Stench. We had to put in a precautionary water recreation advisory. No swimming, no jet skis. And thats an advisory because of the break thats still in effect, and again, the crews coming in and out of the neighborhood, trying to pump the water out and wash all of the sewage off the roads in this neighborhood at the 500 block at northwest 4th avenue. We talke
Thank you. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the San Francisco budget and finance committee for a wednesday, september 16, 2015, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by tang and we will be joined by eric mar and i want thank sfgtv no covering this meeting as well as the clerk miss linda woning, do you have any announcements . Please, silence all cell phones and Electronic Device and completed speaker cards and the documents to be included as part of the files should be submitted to the clerk and the items acted upon today will be on the september, 22nd board of agenda unless otherwise stated. Could you call item one . It is a hearing on the new, information, compiled for the 2015, pointintime, Homeless Count. Thank you, and so colleagues, today i asked for this hearing, to take place, to discuss our recently completed and released 2015, point in Time Homeless count here in San Francisco. As many of you are aware, the Homeless Count occurs ev
We get over 20 million a year from the feds through the continuing of the care process and so the count is geb, again is a condition of that, but it also helps us to measure our progress, clearly and also gives us a much richer understanding every couple of years of the population on the street and we couple our point in time count, which is done by the volunteers. And i think that we had over 500 volunteers span the entire city and you walking or driving to attempt to encounter those who they see on the street that appear homeless. And in addition to that, we follow the count, with a survey. And we get a fairly large sample size, and so we can generally draw the conclusions from that representative sample and that gives us things like age and length of time that we have been on the street. And issues of Behavior Health and a lot of other really, Interesting Data that helps to inform our system, as we continue to see it evolve and continue to think of new interventions targeted to the
I would like to thank those in the bay area who in supporting those projects. My neighbors and i agree. The project is listed in a town that is to lower income chinese families and immigrants. Up until this recent sale this project was offered by the demographics. We are curious as to how this story luxury penthouse wrapped in floor to ceiling windows can be desirable. This is completely out of context with the surroundings. Casting a permanent shadow that leaves many homes. Perhaps this is why the sponsor has not showed the rendering. Instead the sponsor has provided a series of maps highlighting other properties. Over half of these examples are completely different than the subject property and higher limits. The sponsors own exhibits for conditional use. Commissioners, you have over 50 neighbors who have gone on record as stating that no opposition to the sponsor adding a unit otherwise increasing the height and bulk of this property this can hardly be considered antidevelopment. Th