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Good morning. Welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, carmen chu, joined by supervisor kim. Supervisor avalos is unfortunately tied up at a bay quality air Quality Management meeting. I would like to entertain a motion to excuse him. Our clerk is mr. Victor young. At sfgtv we have mark bunch and jesse larson. Announcements . Yes. Please silence cell phones and devices. Complete speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be on the october 23rd, 2012 board of supervisors agenda unless otherw...

To sfmta. Is there no deferred maintenance here and other garages that it would be more appropriately used for . Well, thats what this bond issuance is for, in terms of an mta wide, so we can address concerns related to all the garages, not just japan center. Or Sutter Stockton. So, that is our main concern, is that knowing that not only this garage needs improvements, but citywide as well. I understand that, but that seems to me like youre taking bond money, then, and transferring it through a wheel to operational expenses. To the budget analyst analyst. Mr. Chair, as we understand it, the bo...

[applause] [inaudible] [cheers and applause] good afternoon supervisors. My name is dave canner and the acting director for seiu 1021 San Francisco. I want to start by saying its really unacceptable that the community has to be out here begging every year and yet private for profit contractors never have to do this. That is absolutely unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we think some of the money could be found to fund the services that these folks are providing. The Syst...

Cost of living and food and everyday costs and were talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increase and they had increase of 16point. 4 and addition to landlords that lease with the city get average...

Demorizing and our jobs are point scpls cant do the work and not to mention we have small salaries and for these reasons and more were asking for the 4 so its imperative these services are funded and we get these and we dont need the americas cup. Nonprofits dont care about americas cup and the kaiser increase and taking money out of the general fund also we dont care about that and please give us the 4 . [applause] hi my name is kaitlyn and a researcher at seiu 10 to one representing nonprofits in San Francisco. This is necessary for nonprofits to stay afloat and the city can afford it. We en...