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commissioner kim: good morning and welcome to the special rules committee for thursday, june 28. my name is jane kim. i am joined by rules committee member sean elsbernd and supervisor mark farrell. i just want to thank sf gov tv for taping this early in the morning and making the transcripts available on-line. we have only one item on todays agenda, which we had heard last thursday. please call item one. >> item 1. charter amendment (third draft) to amend the charter of the ...

i am really proud of both the public sector and the private sector that we can craft this kind of resolution. thank you. [applause] mayor lee: i also said the transparency was well beyond the labor unions as well, as well as our city workers. so, i know this transparency was reflected in the san francisco chamber of commerce and their ongoing participation. they listened very quickly to our efforts. >> thank you, mayor lee. the chamber of commerce and the entire business community of s...

that. we have to thank over and over again our workers for stepping up and being part of the table. i not only want to thank our colleagues, but i want to thank supervisor elsbernd, who has made this his passion. he has educated us over the years, bring us together. on behalf of the supervisors, we look forward to making sure san francisco is with us and make sure that we will ensure the health and safety of our residents. thank you very much. [applause] mayor lee: we had to be guided ...

entire business community of san francisco want to thank you for your leadership, and supervisor tells burns -- supervisor tells burns -- supervisor elsbernd, for your leadership. businesses have had to reduce their work forces. we have 40,000 unemployed san franciscans. it was time that we faced the reality of helping the city of just -- i just needed pension reforms. were pleased to be part of this process. again, the best kind of reform is consensus reform. there are many times when...

not were going to hold out for months finger of blame -- claiming for what occurred. or whether we would get to work and at the numbers tell us what we needed to do. as precisely what we set out to do and allow those numbers, the numbers that we have been quoting as the numbers we had to attack. the financial house of the city , it would allow ourselves to focus as we have done. i like to thank the people that are standing beside me as well as the ones in the back of me having spent qu...

along with the board of supervisors. there was a lot of number crunching to people were fully prepared when the move to the table. this is historic. i am really proud of both the public sector and the private sector that we can craft this kind of resolution. thank you. [applause] mayor lee: i also said the transparency was well beyond the labor unions as well, as well as our city workers. so, i know this transparency was reflected in the san francisco chamber of commerce and their ongo...

[applause] >> thank you so much. i want to acknowledge my colleagues standing beside me and behind me. i think it is important to understand what a difficult process consensus is. it is always preferable, but what it requires is a balancing of many different interests. people stayed in the room when things get difficult. people continued the hard work. we did not allow ourselves to get sidetracked or splintered. i think there is a myth out there about public employees, and what i am he...

mayor lee: very comprehensive. we began with people asking, why should we sacrifice? what do we get for ourselves? and that great leap, i think, started very early to "what can we do to help to make sure our pension is solvent?" that is the changing role that labor has made. i was pretty excited from the beginning where we were making a lot of proposals. where we started having union representatives make their proposals, then we knew we were on our road to ultimately thinking together ...

council. >> thank you, mr. mayor. as you say, this is historic. i speak to my colleagues all over the country, and there has never been a partnership with a city family that we have seen like we have seen in san francisco. usually, someone has to run good idea or theyre doing it unilaterally. and theres all kinds of friction. here in san francisco, we really have done it as a good way. where do we get business, labor, progressives, and moderates coming together for solutions to save jo...

three different methods. the details -- we have some months to work out, because they are extraordinarily complex. we are happy that our brother and sister employees will be joining us in the program. we have new retirement tears. -- tiers. we are raising the minimum age at which one is eligible for retirement. this will encourage employees to stay longer. which not only reduces pension costs, but will reduce our costs for retiree health care. when people retire, we pay for their healt...