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File Number: 16-015 <br />1.6. Announcements <br />None. <br />2. DISCUSSION ITEMS <br />2.A. Minimum Wage Update <br />Assistant to the City Manager Engelbart provided a matrix of the minimum wage amounts and <br />laws of the various jurisdictions within the Bay Area. Mr. Engelbart provided a brief summary, <br />which included the recent changes in both the City of Oakland and Emeryville. <br />Councilmember Lee thanked staff for their work on gathering the information and requested to <br />see the density of the businesses within the various cities shown in the matrix vs. the business <br />within the City of San Leandro. Councilmember Lee would also like a better understanding of <br />how many large businesses are in the City and how many small businesses provide minimum <br />wage salaries. In addition, Councilmember Lee requested information on the cost of living, <br />including housing prices. <br />Mayor Cutter also requested information on population of the cities. <br />Vice Mayor Prola provided information regarding EI Cerrito minimum wage increase. <br />Fred Pecker of ILWU Local 6 acknowledges and appreciates the City for assisting in making <br />certain the wages for the employees of ACI [Alameda County Industries] were fair. Mr. <br />Pecker stressed the importance of adding the Consumer Price Index to the minimum wage as <br />the cost of living is high in the Bay Area and if employees are able to live locally, they are <br />going to spend their money on local businesses. <br />Leroy Henny, Jr. a sorter and union steward at ACI expressed his appreciation of the leaders <br />of the City of San Leandro and the City's Living Wage Ordinance. Mr. Henny supports raising <br />the minimum wage as this would allow employees to spend money locally. Mr. Henny himself <br />recently purchased a vehicle in San Leandro and encourages others to shop in the city as <br />well. <br />Jennifer Lin, East Bay Alliance for Assisting Economy, stated her group was part of a coalition <br />that assisted with the minimum wage increase in Oakland and other cities mentioned in the <br />matrix. On January 1, 2016, the State minimum wage will increase to $10/hour and if a <br />person worked 40 hours per week, they would earn $20,000/year. In order to afford a one <br />bedroom apartment in the Bay Area would have a person working 92 hours a week. Cost of <br />food, housing, medicine has increased and Ms. Lin is in support of increasing the City's <br />minimum wage as well as having CPI indexing for minimum wage. Ms. Lin also stated that <br />ethnic businesses should not be afraid of an increase to minimum wage. It is shown that <br />small/ethnic businesses in the City of Oakland have shown either an increase to business or <br />no impact at all. Also, when a survey was performed on what challenges were being faced by <br />these businesses, the minimum wage did not make the list. <br />Mia Ousley, resident, thanked the City for looking and moving forward with increase to the <br />minimum wage. A minimum wage increase would have a positive effect on the economy. For <br />City of San Leandro Page 2 Printed on 1126/2016 <br />