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the fifth finding i would add is that given the disproportionate number of african-american and latino individuals who have been arrested and convicted, the impact of business practices is substantial in these communities. we continue to learn about what other states and cities in the country are doing and we hope the board of supervisors continues to examine and support legislation aimed at helping persons with arrest and conviction records. supervisor mirkarimi: i suggest we quickly go to the budget analyst and then return to public comment. supervisor chu: thank you. >> madam chai...

savings to the city. we also point out that there would be some cost of economic and workforce development to propose -- promote the proposed payroll tax exclusion and that mr. cato of the treasury and tax collector's office estimates there would be a one-time expenditure of about $150,000 for additional costs to make necessary revisions for the existing payroll tax documents. finally, we, of course, consider approval of these -- we consider approval of the proposed ordinance to be a policy matter. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: returning to public comment, i do not...

do work and they can gain employment, they are far less likely to remain involved in the criminal-justice system. again, i believe this is a very good investment. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you very much. >> thank you so much for hearing this item today. i am with the reentry council and the reentry division of the adult probation department. i am here to speak to the ordinance. the reentry council has not had an opportunity yet to formally consider this item, so i do not have an opinion to share formally from them, but i did want to share that the reentry council has pre...

we saw last summer, the result of what may be a new spirit of cooperation here in washington. >> for the betterment of the country. that's what we're here for. thank you. >> reporter: 36 senators, democrats and republicans, say enough. >> we feel that it's time to check our political hats at the door and to step up and do what is the right thing for the american people. >> reporter: they're urging the deficit super committee to go big and reduce the deficit by almost twice as much as they have to. that spirit of cooperation spilled over into the senate where one republican -- >> the ...

and we ghee begin with possible progress. americans have been frustrated about gridlock in washington, but last night congress actually got something done. senate lawmakers reached a deal to avoid both a weekend session of congress and a costly repeat of the partial faa shutdown. our tracie potts joins us from washington. >> reporter: good morning. that means we head into the weekend without thousands of jobs on the line as we feared as we saw last summer, the result of what may be a new spirit of cooperation here in washington. >> for the betterment of the country. that's what we're...