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Certainly learned lot about a lot of the individuals, i have the utmost respect for supervisor avalos and some of the great work he done specifically in the labor community, my brother and my friend eric brooks is an outstanding advocates and ive gotten to know a lot of the advocates very well, there are a lot of things that have been discussed but i do want to state clearly for the record because people at home need to know certain things, i happen to be a member of the San Francisco Labor Council, the San Francisco Building Construction trades council and im also a delegate for the alliance ...

Anyone. It should not be based upon a race. It should be based upon humanity. We are human beings and we need housing. We need food. We need the basic necessities to live in this city. Unfortunately a lot of people are met with great adversity and challenges and have found it impossible to obtain these things. Personally i believe that we dont need to write a blank check, but we do need to write a check. You need to write a check with the condition that these issues will be taken care of and put a date next to those issues. Also, i want to point out something with San Francisco housing that is...

So far hsa is unable to do so and opieu local 3 and Budget Justice Coalition join me in urging you to include this in this years budget that added 460,000 and i can echo and our colleagues and many in of the community have talked to you about in regards to requesting an additional 1. 5 million increase for doing business with your non profit workers. Its close to impose month make ends meet and were offer to a place where theres nothing left to cut, so i heavily urge to increase the 3 on the cost of doing business. Thank you. Next speaker, please. And good afternoon, supervisors. I would like ...

Coalition join me in urging you to include this in this years budget that added 460,000 and i can echo and our colleagues and many in of the community have talked to you about in regards to requesting an additional 1. 5 million increase for doing business with your non profit workers. Its close to impose month make ends meet and were offer to a place where theres nothing left to cut, so i heavily urge to increase the 3 on the cost of doing business. Thank you. Next speaker, please. And good afternoon, supervisors. I would like to say we need to focus on spending and the reason i say that is be...

Straight forward and that it requires that there be some advantage that the city gains by having a project Labor Agreement and ill give you one example in this particular context, every one of our project Labor Agreements has a dispute resolution agreement to which contractors and trades are bound, youve been told a problem with the production of solar power in this town because of jurisdictional disputes, that problem goes away with a project Labor Agreement, so we have given her an example of an Energy Retrofit agreement for a half Million Dollar project for the housing development, it is a ...