>> well good morning, everyone and welcome. i'm mike co- hill president of the west bay regular alienate. this event will kickoff the construction of two new state of the arc earthquake save hospitals in san francisco. one hospital here on this site

in the center of san francisco and a second hospital at the caesar chavez in the growing neighborhoods of the southeast section of the city. today is a pivotal point in the history of the medical center and for the health care system in san francisco. for one hundred and 50 years cpmc has been providing citizens with the most advance mcavailable. with the construction of our two new hospitals we'll be in positional to continue to serve the medical needs of the residents of san francisco for decades to come. we also have with us the president of the board of supervisors david chiu and supervisor mar farrell. both supervisors along with david campos were the 3 who

helped new york state the final all the time to move this project forward. we appreciate the dedication of each of you to final approval. also, we can't precede without acknowledging one person who was vitality to the success of our project lou. he lead a series of very frank and positive productive discussion that helped to move forward this project and his help in this process and his service to the city of san francisco is appreciated. jude i didn't say here. she would and bralthd this project and helped guide itself internal process thank you very much jude i didn't were i want to thank dr. warren your

leadership and commitment kept driving us to build two new world-class hospitals in san francisco. thank you for keeping us on track. we're working very closely with city bills and the construction administration professional service academy to build hospital construction jobs. we're dedicated and committed to san francisco and look forward to working with all the trades to augment our construction crews and a begin those projects. member of our construction management team. the construction of our two hospitals is led by our contractor herself restraining order and our architect is smith group. we'll be working with subcontractor and consultants to

this project. about our construction schedule and we have one. the demolition of this exciting i existing building began in september that clears the way to bring down this structure so we're underway. the demolition starts in a couple of weeks. i'm sure everyone is looking forward to that the evacuation happened evidently months ago. the steep rising will be in june and july. the construction at the city attorney luke's will begin in february of 2015. both hospitals are scheduled to be opened in 20019 or sooner. we look forward to a successful

project on time and budget with worker safety being our focus. we have mayor ed lee and mike the san francisco trades council dr. mike and chief of staff at cpmc and mayor logan. mayor ed lee please step up to the podium (clapping.) thank you, very much for working with us again. this is a day we've looked forward to for quite some time. i know our community partners have worked really hard with our board of supervisors with lou girard to come together with our health officials and make an agreement that is right inform san francisco. i know this is the first of two announcements that we look

forward to. this compass invaluable in the center of where a lot of activity are will have at least a 3 hundred and 2 bed and we look forward to having a similar announcements on the st. luke's campus to create a service hospital there as well. i can't tell you you how excited we are and we'll reminder each other that the process has to be credited with the leadership that the board of supervisors had. i want to thank my colleagues there board president chiu and mark farrell and david campos urging their personal time as well as their time on the broadway board to lead the effort along with our office and ken rich who's working and lou

interrad continues to make sure the communications are open. your colleagues will labor unavailable in all reporters. as we're excited about getting the site going i want to make sure we signal as any other project that the workers safety also begins right now with the demolition and we want this site to be safe because it will be occupied by nurses and decreases working together while we build this we want every life to be safe. i want to signal to the community and i know good friends like randy are here because we saw the connection with had this very close commit community. we've gotten the first check under sutter that represents a

healthy investment. housing, transportation, pedestrian safety, and, of course, the thousands of medical lives and a medi-cal and hospital patient lives that will be improved because of the commitments that sutter and cpmc have made par you'll pause and maybe ask how did he do it all? we'll also remembered as complicated as it was every persevered whether it was sideboard lou our community leaders argue housing advocates our people next door and in the tenderloin or the people who are health experts. they all worked closely together with the sutter leadership to form an agreement an agreement

as complicated as that was as a high commitment that unsaturate had to make it was a great investment it was sensitive and strong. we have ever promise here this reflects all the values our city has put together and the process as complicated as it was it persevered. on behalf of everyone that's worked hard to get here. i want to thank again mark and warren and cpmc's leadership but everyone who sees the benefits into the future. in years to come you'll see a very good campus of mill professions serving us and take

care of so many challenges. remember this was a combination of a lot of good efforts by everybody. i'm so lucky to be the mayor here. thanks so much to everyone (clapping.) >> i'll introduce myself i'm michael with the trades council. we're happy this day has arrived. we have worked on this project forever. it would have about good a couple of years ago. what it means now is a real opportunity to bring san

francisco into our trades and give them an reduction in those trades in a complicated project. hospital projects are more demanding. the mechanic and electricity systems because hi critical. the structural systems that have to be hopeful sound have to withstand more in a hospital and the inspection is higher. we in the trades are exactly the folks to do this work. we have the volume on display everyday. we train our folks with a my competition. we're grateful to the city family mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell are supervisor campos and chu and cpmc in