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Coming from the nonprofit world and being there for over 30 years and actually running one for about 18 years, i know how difficult it is when you dont get a cost of living adjustment for your budget and when we talk about cost of living you know when you have to operate a nonprofit, it includes everything from administrative costs to salaries and sometimes theres certain things go up faster than others. Certainly rents have gone up faster than what we would consider a cost of living adjustment so you have to make those decisions as a nonprofit where funding would go to keep your operations on...

Money is flowing through the city it is here. To the extent its flowing directly to the organization, it wouldnt be. So is it possible the increase that were seeing year to year do you know whether the increase is coming from the flow through money from the state and fed, or is it actually real city money . I couldnt tell you. Its not one of the things we looked at up to this point but we certainly could. I think its important to look at because otherwise were finding out its indeed the flow through money then were kidding ourselves and saying were supporting nonprofits in a bigger way through...

Funds to fund a supplemental allocation to pay for the increasing cost of doing business for nonprofits and though it didnt pass at the board a fews ago many of our colleagues felt that the funding through this request through a supplemental they felt that it wasnt appropriate at the time. It should go through the regular budget process but they importantly acknowledged also that i think unanimously from my memory that we all want to come up with a comprehensive approach to address the need to adequate compensate to allow nonprofits to stay in the city and stay up with the rising costs and the...

Nonprofit worker for many years and a seiu shop steward as well. From my days 30 years ago with the Chinatown Youth Center and now the youth center and to a receptionist running the california cho ligz of human rights and ran a committee for [inaudible] and most of the work is about supporting the Human Service sector and San Franciscos unique and creative safety net that man of the nonprofit represent. I think with recent studies from the San Francisco foundations recent equity profile of the bay area to the association of bay area governments and the transportation commissions and Economic P...

Involved in this discussion we now as a city we now adopt a five year Financial Plan for a city and a two year budget. Do those longer range financial tools increase ability to increase the predictability for the city and the Provider Network . And are there others . By no means an exhaustive presentation today but some background and some questions were considering and i am happy to answer any questions. Thank you and through chair farrell we have a number of speaker cards but i know may 1 our minimum wage goes way up in San Francisco. Oakland has the highest in the nation right now and i thi...