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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...

Over private contracts. Thank you. [applause] my name is matt feltstein. I work for Progress Foundation for a house for the mentally ill and the drug addicted. In the years i have been doing this job i had all kinds of jobs. I came from a privileged family and dont know what its like to struggle. What i can say about my coworkers is theyre brave, compassionate understanding people ever going to meet in my life so i am in awe. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [applause] hi i am also here encouraging to you consider the 4 increase to nonprofits in the city. Whe...

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 of 1015 increase so basically the city is recognizing that other sectors that they do busin...

And addition to landlords that lease with the city get average of 1015 increase so basically the city is recognizing that other sectors that they do business with has the realities of business such as health care and workers comp goes up but what does the Nonprofit Sector . We have the same realities and workers have to pay the bills and we deserve to be compensated fairly for the hard work that people do, so pie colleagues gave you some really testimony about where the money could come from. I want to take a really hard look at that but at the end of the day its about where our citys prioriti...