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Present wiener wu, present. Yee not present you have a quorum ladies and gentlemen please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance]the tech thank you madam clerk are there any communications there are none to report today can you please call the first item special order at 2 pm is the appearance by our hon. Mayor edward lee. Urbino questions omitted from the eligible district supervisors the mayor may address the board for up to 5 min. Thank you. Welcome mr. Mayor thank you supervisor breed and good afternoon supervisors. Good afternoon to the audience that here today as well. I want to start off by saying that we had a pretty exciting week in our city and certainly in the bay area. Hosting the 50th super bowl. I believe resident visitors and residents alike so rated the best super bowl ever with Family Friendly events all images of our beautiful city were broadcast to the entire world. In addition to the incred ....
Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors get my name is on the chairman of the local association am proud to stand with local poke merchants and boat District Merchant Association to support stronger form of the retail controls on polk street. Sometimes it takes a series of dramatic events to bring the Community Together to ask for change. In our case, the last year and a half weve been about a with bigbox retailers like target and whole foods were trying to swap away one of only half a dozen subsites and district 3 to build muchneeded housing in the greatest housing crisis in modern memory. The lombardi site will build really 62 units of housing evictions are at alltime high in our neighborhood. Alice, people want to move to our neighborhood. Thats a good thing. We have to build housing first. We also want to protect our local businesses ....
The recent relatively lastminute changes in the structure of this bond and the fact that the Capital Planning process has been obviated to a certain extent. When 54 million comes out and is replaced with things that were not vetted sufficiently through the Capital Planning process, i feel that is creating a precedent that could be down the road will be continually stop using the Capital Planning process. At your 10 we should be recommitting to the capital process and not starting to ignore it. So, while all of the replacement projects are worthy and virtuous, i think that adhering to the process and keeping our bonding process and the sanctity of the whole is more important than creating a whole and filling it in. I could vote for a bond those 54 million less in size. I could vote for the ponderosa originally propo ....
Us ef faction of ucsf paid impact as much as 29 per hour but the contract paid his employees only 18 an hour. In 2013, the pay was cut to 10. 74 per hour. That is barely above our minimum wage of 10 our minimum wage of 10. 55 that the degree. Workers responded by working with the uc servers were. Union afscme local 3299 to begin organizing for better treatment. They doubled the hourly pay and benefits such as health and pension, guaranteed wage increases, and paid time off. In march of 2015 ucsf did not renew its contract with impact group resulting in many of these workers losing their jobs. Then the university then began working with another contractor. The dispute between ucsf and local 3299 has prompted an unfair labor practice complaint filed by the general counsel of the Public Employee relations board. In response to that complaint, ucsf claimed it cannot hire the impact workers because they do not speak english sufficient ....