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Prop h, so with collective bargaining came a complete aggregation of the prior salaries standardization ordinances with the exception of the rns and the transit operators. In other words, not part of the 1996 charter. Okay. Thank you. So to the extent im sorry. We spoke on monday and on monday you said that the proposals that you have preserve comparable worth and that was one thing that we asked you to come back and tell us exactly how that has happened but knowing there are different standards presented from the standard discussed by ms. Keely looking at market surveys and two tiered system ...

Hard to reconstruct what it is because even if one wanted to do a historical look its whatever we say it is then. Well, the jobs have changed. Even if we have said a laundry worker is equivalent to a Data Entry Operator. The laundry worker doesnt exist anymore and it was merged into another classification. The Data Entry Operator doesnt exist anymore. We had 20 years of collective bargaining and unions making different decision how to spend the money and seiu decided to do one thing and they had obligations and laying a pure salary analysis is collective bargaining like things in the last Cont...

Positions and the market, and in fact the union has itself based its requests of raises on the market so what the union is effectively saying you can look at the market if it produces a wage increase, but if it doesnt then we dont look at the market. That runs counter to what they agreed to in negotiations. Its certainly not consistent and not with our obligations under the charter. With your permission i would like to touch on a couple other points. Please continue. If i drink water is that like the republican okay. Sorry. I wanted to in view of time i know there is plenty of people that woul...

To follow the standard in the charter and also in the labor contract which does not speak to comparable worth t speaks to cost of living, recruitment and retention, difficult of filling positions and the market, and in fact the union has itself based its requests of raises on the market so what the union is effectively saying you can look at the market if it produces a wage increase, but if it doesnt then we dont look at the market. That runs counter to what they agreed to in negotiations. Its certainly not consistent and not with our obligations under the charter. With your permission i would...

Members of the board i am Shirley Breyer black, and i cant believe im here talking about pay equity again when i was one of the original ones when Dianne Feinstein was mayor. We went through all of the statistics and this equity was the most fair thing to do for the people that are working, and i certainly hope that, and i am sure this board will look into all these things and not change our pay equity. Its very important and when i read in the newspapers now about other cities in this country being very proud that now they have discovered pay equity that weve had for a long time and theyre pr...