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File Number: 16-231 <br />Business Development Manager Kay informed that we do not enforce that law and therefore <br />we do not ask. <br />Councilmember Prola directed staff to provide information on the number of FTEs by next <br />meeting for discussion. <br />City Attorney Pio Roda stated looking at FTEs staff would be able to crunch numbers and <br />provide better information. <br />Mayor Cutter stated there may be some industrial business that do not have the number of <br />employees and pay a low wage. Thus increasing the minimum wage would not benefit the <br />employees in that case. We are not helping the people we would like to benefit. <br />Business Development Manager Kay stated staff can provide a list of businesses that are <br />over 20 employees. What we don't have is local vs. national data without researching <br />individual companies. We also don't have wage information for businesses, although we do <br />have some anecdotal information. <br />City Attorney Pio Roda stated the City is not asking for a separate tier of minimum wage. This <br />is a uniform number. If we choose 20, those businesses will pay San Leandro minimum wage <br />and those businesses that are under will comply with state law. <br />Councilmember Prola stated he was hoping that workers, such as baggers at Safeway, would <br />prefer to stay here rather than go to Oakland where the minimum wage is currently <br />$12.55/hour. Prola stated he wants to help people that are suffering right now and can't pay <br />their rent. He stated that at the next meeting the Committee will have to define the large <br />businesses. <br />Mayor Cutter stated that she is also trying to make it so that we help clerks at grocery stores <br />however we can't go too low or we are going to hurt our local small business. <br />Mayor Cutter stated we have to figure out how to determine what a large and small business <br />is. Staff needs to come back with business by employees and industry type. <br />Business Development Manager Kay stated he will return with that information. <br />Councilmember Prola again stated he would like to accelerate the raising of the minimum <br />wage <br />Mayor Cutter asked if we are going to notify businesses and stated we should advise them <br />that we are taking to Council. <br />Councilmember Prola stated everyone should be made aware. Next meeting staff will bring <br />the information requested and then we should make a recommendation to Council. <br />City Attorney Pio Roda stated that staff can bring the information requested and we could <br />bring an item with updated language by 1st meeting in June. <br />City of San Leandro Page 8 Printed on 5110/2016 <br />