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Council President Todd Gloria: News From City of San Diego

Council President Todd Gloria announced that his proposal to increase San Diego's minimum wage to $13.09 over three years and provide up to five paid sick days per year has passed the Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations Committee and will be considered by the full City Council. The proposal is intended to improve the lives of many low-income San Diegans and boost the local economy. Preliminary analysis indicates the changes could increase wages for about 220,000 residents and inject $660 million into the local economy. The Council President will continue discussions with stakeholders to potentially modify details of the proposal before a vote by the full Council.

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Council President Todd Gloria: News From City of San Diego

Council President Todd Gloria announced that his proposal to increase San Diego's minimum wage to $13.09 over three years and provide up to five paid sick days per year has passed the Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations Committee and will be considered by the full City Council. The proposal is intended to improve the lives of many low-income San Diegans and boost the local economy. Preliminary analysis indicates the changes could increase wages for about 220,000 residents and inject $660 million into the local economy. The Council President will continue discussions with stakeholders to potentially modify details of the proposal before a vote by the full Council.

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NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release: June 11, 2014 Contact: Katie Keach, 619-235-5268

Minimum Wage Increase, Earned Sick Leave Proposal Moved to Full City
Council

SAN DIEGO (June 11, 2014) Council President Todd Gloria today announced that his proposal to
increase San Diegos minimum wage and allow workers to earn up to five sick days per year passed out of
the City Councils Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations (ED & IR) Committee and will
be considered by the full City Council.

This measure would make a meaningful difference in the lives of many San Diegans and improve
our economy, said Council President Gloria.

The measure would set a minimum wage of $13.09 per hour, which would be implemented over a three
year period starting in July 2015.

The Council President made clear that the details of the proposal may be modified prior to Council
consideration through ongoing conversations with stakeholders or at future Council hearings.

My conversations with stakeholders have been constructive and will continue after this hearing. If
talks generate modifications to this proposal, I will ask my Council colleagues to consider the best
proposal possible, said Council President Gloria.

In developing the proposed measure, Council President Gloria has attracted significant public involvement
including three public hearings and three public community meetings and held more than 30 stakeholder
meetings with more than 80 stakeholders. Representatives from a wide variety of industries have
participated including those from small businesses, hotels and tourism, restaurants, business improvement
districts, local chambers of commerce, trade organizations, retail, labor organizations, food retailers,
breweries, nonprofits, senior home care providers, and developmental disability service providers.

The current minimum wage in California is $8.00, which will increase to $9.00 on July 1, 2014 and to
$10.00 in January 1, 2016. If the proposed measure is approved, San Diegos minimum wage would be
$11.09 in July 2015, $12.09 in July 2016, and reach $13.09 in July 2017. It would then be indexed to
account for future inflation starting January 1, 2018.

Preliminary analysis by the Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) and the Insight Center for Community
Economic Development shows that when fully implemented, the measure would:
Expand access to earned sick days to over 285,000 San Diegans;
Increase the wages of roughly 220,000 San Diegans;
Raise the annual earnings of impacted workers an average of approximately $3,000; and
Put a total of approximately $660 million into the pockets of San Diegos lowest income working
families, who will turn around and spend most of that money at local stores and businesses.

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In addition to directing the Council President to continue to work with the City Attorneys office on
completing the ordinance language with any proposed modifications, ED & IR forwarded the proposal to
the full City Council, without a Committee recommendation, for Council consideration of the options of a
ballot proposition and a Council ordinance, and to request staff to take all necessary steps to comply with
the Citys obligations as a public agency employer related to the proposed ordinance, including compliance
with the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act and San Diego Charter section 70.2.

The ED & IR Committee discussed the concept of these workforce strengthening measures at its meeting
of March 24, 2014 and reviewed initial language on April 30, 2014.

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