our health care system by transforming into a platform for international relations. the only way to prevent this from happening is to enforce the 50% local hire. i am not just talking about jobs in construction. we need to invest in education. another demand, a 50% of the work must be allocated to communities of color that are plagued by poverty. additional funding must be set aside for workforce development. we must not become victims of predatory privatizing. the value of the community college education and the quality of community-based health care will be depreciated. we want jobs beyond construction. i am requesting we develop an memorandum of understanding

between cpmc and city college. city college has enough scholarships -- we have ekg technicians, x-ray technicians. it seems as if cpmc, it degenerates $600 billion in profit per year. -- it generates $600 billion in profit per year. if you are serving one-third of san francisco's population, do not let be the reason you disserve the other two-thirds by taking up the city's time and resources and energy. san francisco spent six but $7 billion a year. that is their budget. -- $6.7 billion a year.

that is their budget. i hope you got the point. we will be back. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am one of the members of the filipino senior resource center. i am also the president of the filipino based support group. i am also a survivor of breast cancer. i am here today to support the cpmc project because we are -- for this community. thank you very much. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

i am with the south of market community in action network. we are raising this concern not because they are against development and not because we do not want a new hospital, we are raising this concern to ensure accountability, respect the rights of existing and new workers, and to have a healthy future for san francisco. that is quite a community benefit agreement is important to have between cpmc and the community and labor. just how -- just like how the community and labor worked with the board of supervisors. we see that cpmc should not be exempted from that. they are going to be the largest nonprofit health facility and the city does not have the oversight nor the monetary mechanism to ensure the critical

issues we are raising and the demand we are raising will be commanded by cpmc. a cba will be the right solution to have. we hope he will ask cpmc to meet with us to ensure we work with them to have a good cba for the future of san francisco. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am the executive director of the filipino senior research center. i am here with a group who are recipients of other programs. we support cpmc for their project. they are partnering to help the south of market area. with their problems regarding

jobs, health, mammograms. they are providing transportation. cpmc is giving back to the community. they have already started back. if they are -- we will be referring many clients to get a job. thank you so much. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> i am also speaking on behalf -- [inaudible] walking down sixth street, you can imagine what i was doing walking down six street. and then we had bad earthquake. after that earthquake, it became a big demand to retrofit, tried to make things safe.

it was such a demand they started hiring local people. i worked -- first, i was able to get into the trade duty. the iron workers allowed me to become a member. i became a welder. i welded on this very building here. i just left a job or their building. this was 15 years ago. i raised two kids. my daughter, i put her through nursing school. i borrowed money from my daughter, that was a beautiful thing. she does not have any kids, she move to los angeles because she wanted to be an actress. u.s. policymakers are in a position to -- you as policy makers are in a position to do

the same thing. you can help -- i worked on the fire department freer four blocks from my house. people from my neighborhood block by just because they could see me, the local guy working on the building. i had kids in the neighborhood. my nephew just got out of jail. he spent about six years in jail. he said he was tired of that kind of life. he learned how to weld in prison. he got in the ironworkers union. he is working. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am working at st. luke's hospital for 20 years as a

housekeeper. when i started, -- cpmc came over to take over st. luke's. we feel very comfortable and secure with job security. we urge the supervisors to get an approval for the building because st. luke's needs to rebuild. right now, the management has always -- why we have to spend that money to and not rebuild the whole building? that is why we are here. thank you very much. supervisor mar: i am going to

call a few more names. [reading names] >> good afternoon. i am the community to help program manager at cpmc and i support be rebuilt. -- i support the rebuild. i am a patient at cpmc. i am a two-time breast cancer survivor. not even that is my reason for the support of a seismically safe hospital. cpmc was responsible for taking care of my daughter. she delivered two lovely little girls. they are now five and three years old. they have their care at cpmc and they deserve a seismically safe,

culturally appropriate, and sensitive arean for their care. i am the proud grandmother of six grandchildren. i want to be able to work, i want to be able to be safe, i want employees, doctors, patients, nurses, visitors to enjoy private rooms when they come to us for their care. i want them to be able to look out the window. i think we have waited long enough to approve this program. to approve this rebuild. i think the sooner we can get people working and more residents of san francisco knowing that they will have a hospital that will survive an earthquake when it comes, it will give this a little peace of mind to know that you support this rebuilt and will do this as quickly as possible. thank you. supervisor mar: next speaker.

>> over 10 years ago, i was the executive architect for this project. since that time, i have been an independent consultant working with california health care foundation and others. i was responsible for the selection of the cathedral hill hotel side and i support rebuilding cpmc. it is important to understand the significance of these locations. first is the ability of cpmc to construct new state of the art buildings. separate from daily operations. existing buildings must be maintained to support ongoing patient care. major earthquakes have occurred around the pacific gramm. it is critically important that are most vulnerable people and the health care professionals be housed in six buildings. constructing these new buildings will fulfilled cpmc's

commitment to community safety. the accountable care organization approach proposed by the new affordable care act locate services for the sickest patients at centralized centers. the success of their transplant services improve with higher patient volumes. the location relies on one of the best served transit corners. st. luke's centers of excellence that focuses on senior and community health. st. luke's will have the same private patient room size and amenities. i strongly support the mayor's agreement with cpmc to build two more state of the art seismically safe hospitals. supervisor mar: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, members of

the board of supervisors. i am the executive director of compassionate care. i support the rebuilding of cpmc. for 25 years, we have been providing hospice and medical respite care to very low end, san franciscans with advanced aids. what you may not know is that cpmc has been a generous partner and supporter for over 15 years. in the mid-1990's, they sold us our current building at less than half its appraised value. we also have 48 employees. our 24-hour facility. these jobs would not exist today if it were not for cpmc's past

and continuing support. thank you very much for your consideration. supervisor mar: thank you for the great work. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am the executive director of bayview hunters point senior services. i am here to support the rebuild of cpmc for many reasons. i was trying to think of what i could add to the conversation. the two pieces i am thinking about is the jobs that are going to be around the gerontology. the people that these two hospitals are going to serve are going to be older people. we need to start training people to take care of the aging population in san francisco. those would be the recipients of the care. i am very excited to partner with cpmc.

the other thing i will say is they have already been our committee partner for many years. we have a great relationship with them. what i would say is that they have a track record of reaching out to the community. they have worked with us in many ways. the breast cancer program, community outreach, i have had their employees at my center. they have been a very responsive organization. i support, not just the fact they're building a hospital, but especially they're building a hospital with a focus on geriatrics. that is a fabulous thing for the community. supervisor mar: i am going to call a few more names. [reading names] next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

business development representative with the sheet metal workers, local union 104. we support this project. we deserve to work in a state of the art seismically safe hospital. it will allow the highly skilled men and women of our union to provide an energy- efficient building. we are standing at the ready as well as our project -- our contractors to build this project. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you to all of you for your diligence in paying such close attention in exercising such close scrutiny on this difficult project to make sense of. i will limit my comments to

jobs. things that have arisen at of this hearing. with all due respect to the mayor and to city staff, my insight, on the question of jobs, the city has been approaching this as a construction project with a health care component. it should have been approached and needs to be approached as a health care project with a construction company. good quality jobs are critically important and we support them entirely, but the major economic impact of cpmc's project, other than its pricing, is the quality of jobs that will be sustained or diminished for its large work force, which is over 6000 people now. it is projected to grow to

7500, 8000, 10,000. it is the leading employer and the leading growth sector in san francisco's economy. whether there are dependable commitments will have spillover effects on every neighborhood in the city. the concerns of the workforce, they are not hysterical coor unfounded. they're built on a contentious relationship between the work force and cpmc's constant threats of takeaways. disputes that threaten health care and stable employment for people. final thing, i would ask our friends from cpmc and the hospital council not to quake- bait people who raise issues about this project. i have thought many times, you

know, with sutter lobbyists to try to delay it seismic safety guidelines. thank you very much. supervisor mar: that means used seismic safety upgrades to override other concerns? >> to emotionally blackmail people into ignoring the shortcomings of this project. that is its purpose. supervisor mar: you were talking about quality of jobs. construction jobs and permanent jobs. >> the founding city of health care unionism in the united states, but caregivers and support workers, have turned these jobs into jobs that can

support a family, send a child to college. jobs that are good quality jobs. when those jobs that starts on the low end and the low 20's start getting subject to substantial cuts, cuts in pensions. one of the most recent moves was to take away subcontracting protections. if these jobs are subcontracted, subcontractors are paid virtually half of the amount. that is the kind of threats that people face. it is naive to think they will not fight back. supervisor mar: thank you so much. next speaker. >> i am a resident of san francisco. i am the vice president van ness corridor association. we are talking about jobs. i am not sure if 40 over five

years matters very much, but there are over 18 hotels within 2 miles of this project. that is going to create more jobs than the guarantees on the table. individual restaurants, bars, the people -- it will be incredible for the dead zone. it is important to revitalize this area of town. it is an important corridor. our goal is to help revitalize this corridor. the jobs that will be created are going to be entry-level jobs, waiters, waitresses, housekeeping staff, those kinds of jobs. they're going to come from the neighborhood, the tenderloin,

mich., those areas. it is very important. -- the tenderloin, mission, those areas. it is very important. supervisor mar: thank you, next speaker. >> thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak on the support of the rebuild of the hospital. i am a local business owner. this construction is vital to the corner of and job creation. i am waiting for the hospital to start and trying to hire local workers. i am getting nervous, i am sorry. i have a back room that needs to

be filled with workers. i think this hospital will do that for me. it will do that to rely of the restaurants and bars and hotels in the area. in that area, and nobody wanted to go there before the park was built. and now that place is vibrant, high-rise buildings, restaurants. it is essential to san francisco for this project to go through. it will create a lot of jobs. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am also a member of the association. thank you for allowing us to speak today. my family and i live on the corner of sutter and van ness.

someone mentioned that this area was known as the dead zone. the reason i became a member of the association is i wanted to be a part of bringing life back to this area of the city. we take our son to the theater and oftentimes, we walk past vacant buildings. we walk past things that are not full of life, they are not something that a kid needs to be around. when i think of a hospital, i think of a safe place. i also think about what is going to happen to the surrounding businesses. we're very closely connected with our owners and neighbors and we support this pride did 100%. -- and we support this project 100%. supervisor mar: there are about

45 more cards. if your name is called, be ready to speak. [reading names] next speaker. >> thank you to the board of supervisors. i am the president of the corridor association. i also support the rebuilding of cpmc. what stands out to meet is -- out to me is walking my children along the corridor, that block, at my kids have referred to it as the haunted block. for the past four years, nothing has gone on there. cpmc promises to put something there that will offer security, a 24-hour security, a presence that is much needed in that neighborhood.

i think it will bring positive energy to the neighborhood. as well as creating culture and reducing a lot of the vagrancy that is there. i strongly supported. supervisor mar: thank you for speaking. next speaker. >> good afternoon, honorable supervisors. i appreciate this opportunity to address you. over the course of my 20 years at st. luke's, i have held various leadership positions. medical director of surgical services, chief of the medical staff. as an emissary and voice of the physicians at st. luke's, i wish to acknowledge and thank cpmc and the city of san francisco for saving our hospital. if you recall, the blue-ribbon panel was an exemplary collaboration that achieved buy-

in from all interested parties and it yielded a remarkable result. over the last few years, the leadership has been working hand-in-hand with architects and planners on our new facility. the st. luke's medical staff firmly supports the proposed plan. this plan has crystallized, we see that it does what it was supposed to do. it provides a new state of the art facility, the size and scope of the hospital preserve's critical service lines we originally identified in the blue ribbon panel. st. luke's will be able to access and avail itself of incredible critical support from the future cathedral hill campus. while maintaining critical new patient care, it includes a robust plan for the direction medicine is taking, which is outpatient and preventative care.

cpmc has already spent well over $150 million on st. luke's. i have never seen a higher level of medical care provided. i personally am honored to play a role in partnering with cpmc to achieve this caliber of quality and safety. the physicians can now look to the future optimistic that we can continue to serve this community. we request that you give your full support to this plan and shepherded expeditiously to the permit process. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i speak in support of both the cpmc projects. the contractor has been instrumental in developing my

small-business and district 10 to build capacity and to be able to hire out of our neighborhood. this project, they are bringing us along on, and i commend them for that. the 7% goal, they went above and beyond. they raised it to 14%. i know you guys would like to see more, but most of the major construction companies, no one has gone above and beyond. this project is very important to district 10 because we have several local business enterprises, minority business enterprises, that can benefit. our community can benefit from that. we woul