A. The City of Sebastopol awards contracts to private firms and other businesses to provide services to the public and to City government; and

B. The City of Sebastopol has a limited amount of taxpayer resources to expend; and

C. The use of taxpayer dollars to promote sustenance and creation of living wage jobs will increase consumer income, decrease levels of poverty and reduce the need for taxpayer-funded social programs in other areas; and

D. When City funds are used to contract for services, such contracts should demonstrate an effort to promote an employment environment that enhances the general quality of life within the community and maximizes the productive effect of the City’s limited resources; and

E. The City’s use of contractors that do not provide health insurance to their employees can result in imposing the costs of their medical care on the County, State and Federal governments; and

F. Employees are far more likelier to be healthy if their employer provides reasonable health insurance to them and their dependents; and

G. The payment of a minimum level of compensation as required by this chapter benefits these interests.