The barriers are supposed to be locked door pinned together which we found was often up against the same problem exists at other construction sites. Workers told us offcamera that they dont secure the barriers even know that even though its the law because it makes them difficult to move around, which of course is the point. In San Francisco Tara Moriarty ktvu fox2 news. Within the last hour the public works permit said that the broken barriers are being removed and replaced with barriers filled with water. You can watch more of this Surveillance Video of the tour bus crash exclusively obtained by ktvu. The web team has posted it on the youtube page. New developments tonight in a high profile court battle over frozen embryos. A San Francisco judge today sided with the husband Stephen Finley who wanted to preserve be preserved frozen embryos to be destroyed. His soontobe exwife wanted the embryos to be preserved. They had signed a contract that requires they be destroyed if the couple d
[applause] [inaudible] [cheers and applause] good afternoon supervisors. My name is dave canner and the acting director for seiu 1021 San Francisco. I want to start by saying its really unacceptable that the community has to be out here begging every year and yet private for profit contractors never have to do this. That is absolutely unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we think some of the money could be found to fund the services that these folks are providing. The Systems Commission is submitting to you 2014 insurance renewal rates within the coming days. Now negotiations between kaiser and hhs staff has been [inaudible] so far and they use proposal which was the last offer. With kaiser refusing to negotiate for month hhs staff has outlined the issues for you folks to consider when this comes to you. Members have trended younger and healthier and requiring fewe
Cost of living and food and everyday costs and were talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increase and they had increase of 16point. 4 and addition to landlords that lease with the city get average of 1015 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 abo
Demorizing and our jobs are point scpls cant do the work and not to mention we have small salaries and for these reasons and more were asking for the 4 so its imperative these services are funded and we get these and we dont need the americas cup. Nonprofits dont care about americas cup and the kaiser increase and taking money out of the general fund also we dont care about that and please give us the 4 . [applause] hi my name is kaitlyn and a researcher at seiu 10 to one representing nonprofits in San Francisco. This is necessary for nonprofits to stay afloat and the city can afford it. We ended last year with a 300 million surplus and controller surplus this year. Furthermore the mayors budget didnt have this operations for Contractual Services will amount to 13. Four increase from last year. An analysis we put together identifies budget savings. I will share with you some highlights. The mayors budget includes total appropriations to the general fund reserve of 76 million. The board
Over private contracts. Thank you. [applause] my name is matt feltstein. I work for Progress Foundation for a house for the mentally ill and the drug addicted. In the years i have been doing this job i had all kinds of jobs. I came from a privileged family and dont know what its like to struggle. What i can say about my coworkers is theyre brave, compassionate understanding people ever going to meet in my life so i am in awe. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [applause] hi i am also here encouraging to you consider the 4 increase to nonprofits in the city. When we were Walking Around meeting with you guys in your offices earlier this month supervisor farrells office mentioned this budget is a moral document and i would ask if this is so that the priorities of this budget consider not only mine and my coworkers dedication to service, not only the community that we you and i have the privilege to serve, but i ask to you consider the effects of the dissol