SWEATFREE PROCUREMENT ADVISORY GROUP

December 13, 2021 10:00 a.m.

 

PUBLIC COMMENT

Via Microsoft Teams: email angela.chiu@sfgov.org or ellen.love@sfgov.org for log-in information

                                                                                                                       

AGENDA

Public comment will be taken on each agenda item.

Estimated Meeting Time: 120 minutes.

                                                 

CALL TO ORDER/INTRODUCTIONS                         

                                                                                             

1.  ADOPTION OF AGENDA                                                                                          Action Item

Consideration of the December 13, 2021 meeting agenda.                                     

 

2.  PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA                             Discussion

 

3.  APPROVAL OF MINUTES                                                                                         Action Item

Consideration of the draft minutes from the meeting of October 14,

2021.  (Attachment)

 

4.  POLICY BODY MEMBER VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS                           Discussion/

     AND VIRTUAL MEETING STATUS                                                                         Possible Action Item

OLSE staff will review new protocols regarding virtual meetings and

new policies regarding policy body members’ vaccinations.

 

5.  CONTRACT RECOMMENDATIONS REVIEW                                                     Discussion Item/

Advisory Group members will review revised recommendations           Possible Action Item

for sweatfree contracting language from Corporate Accountability

Lab.

 

6.  WORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM UPDATE                                                        Discussion/

Ben Hensler from the Worker Rights Consortium will provide                 Possible Action Item

updates from Shanta Industries in Bangladesh and Pride

Manufacturing in Honduras.

 

7. ADVISORY GROUP REPORT                                                                                     Discussion/

Advisory Group members will discuss the process for drafting the          Possible Action Item

required annual report on sweatfree implementation.

 

8.  POTENTIAL ITEMS FOR FUTURE AGENDAS                                                     Discussion/

Possible Action Item

 

9.  ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                                                   Discussion/

                                                                                                                                          Possible Action Item

                                      

10.  ADJOURNMENT

 

 

Disability Access: The meeting room is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Members of the public should not interfere with accessibility by ensuring the public right of way is open at all times. Ramps are available at the Grove, Van Ness and McAllister entrances. The closest accessible BART station is the Civic Center Station at United Nations Plaza and Market Street. Accessible MUNI lines serving this location are: #42 Downtown Loop, and #71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line to Market and Van Ness and the Metro Stations at Van Ness and Market and at Civic Center. For information about MUNI accessible services call (415) 923-6142. There is accessible curbside parking adjacent to City Hall on Grove Street and Van Ness Avenue and in the vicinity of the Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue adjacent to Davies Hall and the War Memorial Complex. To request assistive listening devices, real time captioning, sign language interpreters, readers, large print agendas or other accommodations, please contact the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement at (415) 554-6492 at least 72 hours in advance before the meeting. Late requests will be honored, if possible.

 

Electronic Devices: The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting.  Please be advised that the Chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound-producing electronic devices.

                               

Explanatory Documents: For copies of explanatory documents listed in this agenda, and other related materials received by OLSE, please contact the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement at City Hall, Room 430, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place,  San Francisco, CA  94102; phone: (415) 554-6492, fax (415) 554-6291.  Also, to the extent possible, documents will be available on the OLSE website at http://www.sfgov.org/olse.

 

Language Access: Per the Language Access Ordinance (Chapter 91 of the San Francisco Administrative Code), Chinese, Spanish and or Filipino (Tagalog) interpreters will be available upon requests. Meeting Minutes may be translated, if requested, after they have been adopted by the Group. Assistance in additional languages may be honored whenever possible. To request assistance with these services please contact OLSE at (415) 554-6492 at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing. Late requests will be honored if possible.
 

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Lobbyist Registration and Reporting Requirements: Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance [SF Campaign & Governmental Conduct Code 2.100] to register and report lobbying activity.

For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the San Francisco Ethics Commission at 30 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 3900, San Francisco, CA  94102; telephone (415) 581-2300; fax (415) 581-2317; website: http://www.sfgov.org/ethics.

                                                                                                                             

Materials Distributed to the Sweatfree Advisory Group after Distribution of Agenda Packet (S.B. 343 Requirements): If any materials related to an item on the agenda have been distributed to the Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group after distribution of the agenda packet, those materials are available for public inspection at the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, City Hall, Room 430, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California during normal office hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday).