what was made by the administration was impressive. in-home visitation health and family wellbeing program as well as our general operations. they've been good partners with us and i'd like to urge you to support the rebuild. we believe the rebuild will bring jobs and energize the community. the ongoing economic impact will be magnified as they become a driver in the growing and dynamic healthcare economy, one in which safety, access and quality of care will increase. we expect them to be contributors to the betterment of the community. please support their efforts as we do. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is joe fang and i own a business on van ness. as you all know, especially

supervisor chu here, the van ness corridor is in dire need of help. we have drug addicts and homeless people wandering the streets at night and it's unsafe to walk. when i first heard about this project four years ago, i applauded it but in over four years that i've been watching this project, my mood has gone from jubilation to impatience to despair. the city already has the dubious distinction of being one of the most difficult cities in the country if not the world to do business and this project is a prime example of what misguided democracy has done to this country of ours and the endless debates to protect a few minority groups will discourage

productive projects and investors such as this one. in any other city in the world, a project such as this would be welcome with open arms and city officials would bend over backwards to make it happen. i implore you, city officials, look past the benefits of a few minority interest groups. the city is broke. the state is broke, the country is broke. for the good of the vast majority of population in this city, for the welfare of this country, for god's sake, do the right thing and approve this project. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. thank you, president chiu and supervisors for staying here late to the hear us out. my name is emily o'rourke. i'm a business representative with the international brotherhood of electrical workers local 6, journeyman, wireman, san franciscan and fortunate to be working but i

wasn't for 21 months and i remember hearing about this job for a long time thinking it would get started and it kept a lot of us hopeful and still has a lot of us hopeful, not just people who are working now and hope the job will start soon so they don't become unemployed but hundreds of our members who sit on our out-of-work list. so i'm able to represent my local, an organization that has been representing electrical workers in this city for over 100 years. i'm a proud member of it because we're a highly skilled union labor force and i speak for all my brothers and sisters when i urge you to please get this job going. thank you very much. >> good evening, board of supervisors, president chiu. my name is john wang, i'm also a

business representative for international brotherhood of electrical workers local 6. we represent over 2,000 members working here in san francisco. i'm here tonight speak on behalf of my membership. there were some of other local 6 members were here like to speak but after a day of work they need to get home and get ready for tomorrow. one of the members left me his note. he reads -- "my name is brett shamberry, an apprentice for i.b. local 6. when the economy was at its slowest, we apprentices were rotated in and out of work every two months but far better than journeymen out of work for up to two years. i'm a single parent and my son is a patient at cpmc for thyroid

disorder. there were times when my insurance ran out because of lack of work. we would have to skip appointments and pay for his medicine out of pocket. my local and i need work not only for ourselves but our families. so with unemployment still around 30% for our local 6 members are struggling. some of them lost their home and we, the middle class, are in danger of falling below the poverty line. cpmc creates hundreds of good paying union jobs, our members are ready to go back to work. we support the current proposal and ask you to finalize this project. thank you. >> good evening, president chiu

and members of the board of supervisors and thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to speak tonight. my name is kevin mccormick, the media relations manager at cpmc but i'm here to speak on behalf of four physicians at st. luke's who had to go. the physicians are dr. tom pike, head of emergency services at st. luke's, dr. laura norle, head of the o.b. program, dr. sam michaels, head of anesthesiology and dr. eric mineberg, orthopedic surgeon. they've been great champions of our plans to build a great hospital at st. luke's, one that will better serve the people of the mission. they came here to express their support. the st. luke's medical executive committee has passed a measure strongly supporting rebuild plans. the four physicians hoped to come here and express their desire, their urge for you to support the plans to better serve their patients and the

people of the mission. unfortunately, they had to leave so they asked that their statements be submitted to the public record. thank you very much. >> good evening, supervisors, and mayor's staff. i'm steve wu from tenderloin neighborhood development. we brought a large group of seniors to come speak and many of them had to leave so before they left, we had them sign some petitions so we'll leave them here for you. i want to clarify, i think nobody during this whole public comment, has said that they're against this cpmc project. i think that's one important point we should clarify. their stickers say "rebuild cpmc." our stickers say "rebuild cpmc." the only difference is we're trying to achieve the correct path, the right way.

the community has been trying for two or three years to reach a community benefits agreement with cpmc. we've repeatedly approached them about meeting with the community and it's been -- it's been very difficult and so when hearing a report back from the mayor's negotiating team and thank you all for staying so late, you know, from the community, we understand how difficult it is to negotiate with this entity. they're very resistant to coming to the table. i think it's important to understand that the mayor's staff, if and when they come to an agreement, that it will be through a very large and strong effort but also it will be like moving mountains and that's speaking from experience from the community. and so we hope that when, you know, hopefully if this project, when it reaches the board, you

guys can have an extra level of input into the development agreement, especially with regards to meeting the full cpmc's full housing impact with regards to serving their -- increasing their medi-cal and medicare and addressing traffic impacts but also the community is still pushing for community benefits agreement. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> what happened to your card system for speakers? president chiu: unfortunately, everyone overwhelmed the line so rather than trying to rearrange that. >> i have a personal request for the board. can you allow some money next year's budget so we have some cushions here for the seats here. i'm getting numb here. president chiu: that's a great idea. >> thank you. my name is kent lamb and we're mechanical contractor from

bayview hunter's point and i'm going to make it short, and last year, we got a call from that -- herrera bolt and asked us to be part of the rebuilding team and we've been back and forth with a lot of ideas and i believe that cpmc commitment to local business is not a token effort. they have established 14% local business participation goal. by comparison, san francisco general hospital, has a goal of 7%. i'm not attacking the city here, ok. so -- and i personally respect and ask that you to move this project forward so enable us to hire more people and especially san francisco local residents. thank you. good night. president chiu: thank you. next speaker.

>> president chiu, supervisors, al norman, bayview merchant, 25-year mechanical contractor from the bayview. and the only reason i'm here tonight is to support that gentleman that just came before you and supporting him in what he wants do with cpmc because my dealing with cpmc is a definite indication that they don't want no black folks on this project. we're talking about different agreements, development and so forth, but you you don't know that none of this work they're doing is going to be put out for a competitive bid nor is it subject to -- i had to deal with mr. lamb to deal with his 14% or whatever but i guess i'm not the right color because they don't

want me but i want to come before you this evening and let you know that they discriminate and they do all they can unless you want to be a janitor or direct traffic and not be a mechanical contractor and be a part of their team that they have, you have to be chosen by them, it's no competitive bidding, it's none of that. you got to be a part of the team, a part of the paradigm and that's how you get to be a part of building this cpmc. i also want to bring up the subject of st. luke's hospital and dr. arthur coleman who did a heck of a lot for the bayview community but my time is up but i had a lot more to say. thank you. >> thank you, board and president chiu, my name is brian

webster, president of the worker's resource in the mission district. we've been serving the working poor here in san francisco for 30 years and our board is made up of rank and file members of organized labor. we support the project and the jobs it will create. we echo the position of the san francisco building construction trades council and also of business and labor and community networks such as the alliance for jobs and sustainable growth. i don't know a lot -- i'm not expert on charity care but i can testify that cpmc does support community based organizations that serve the poor, including the instituto and other groups such as the bayview child health center. instituto has recently launched a web media portal called working media,

workingmedia.info. on there is a healthcare channel and you can go to workingmedia.info, click on the healthcare channel and you can see an amazing video about the bayview child healthcare center and the work being done there. i wanted to thank you for your time and we support the rebuilding of the cpmc and the jobs and sustainable growth and the healthcare that it will provide to the people of san francisco. >> mr. president, supervisors, north market tenderloin activist. i'm not just a community based service provider, stake driver, welfare pimp but i'm also a welfare queen. i bring to your attention critical issues that seem to be totally unnoticed by anyone else. i have noticed this board's willingness to engage with the concept of evidence-based decision making and considerations of the reality of

our interventions and how we implement them. i believe that is where we are going to find the solution sets to our many problems all of which are present in my neighborhood, the tenderloin. i thank ross mirkarimi for being a leader and moving this board in that direction. for the tenderloin, there are specific health benefits, housing benefits, public safety benefits, yet if the goal is to bulk up the tenderloin to meet the objects of the project, the most obvious needs are not on the list. ask yourself what is not on the menu of community based service providers and yet is essential for the tenderloin to navigate through this project, current projects, what part of the tenderloin community is underrepresented today? most of my neighborhood activists are not here tonight. there is no avenue for them to evaluate or articulate wants and needs relative to this project as is normally the case.

when i brought this issue to my supervisor, i found not only 0 interest of anything amiss with the agreement, there isn't even a communication basis to broach the issue. i don't care. i'm in the city of life and death where life expectancy is a decade below the national average which gives me personally what. there's a huge gap between identifying social problems, homicide, homelessness, low voter turnout and implementing solutions that are sustainable and politically defensible and don't run down the rat hole. i don't bring this to your attention as some kind of -- 99%. president chiu: thank you very much. >> as a a three decade veteran of the tenderloin who just happens to still be awake. >> good evening, supervisors, eric brooks, as usual,

representing san francisco green party and the local grass roots organization, our city. i also live in district 6 one block away from the proposed new location of the cathedral hill hospital. there will be traffic nightmares. but what i want to get to is something that's much more fundamental that we haven't fleshed out yet and i will stand up here and oppose this project because what we are talking about is in the big picture, is a hospital chain that's going to build one massive hospital at one of the worst traffic jam locations in the city on two major corridors, deer and van ness, which is frequently blocked up, and make all of its other locations smaller so it can focus everything into that one big hospital, especially st. luke's and also be in competition with other satellite hospitals likely making them smaller and scaling them down eventually if they become this

big massive competitor. and it's really ironic that in hearing after hearing, cpmc and its allies have gotten up and said how important this is for earthquake safety. well, the worst thing you can do in san francisco for earthquake safety is put all hospital services on one location that's going to get traffic jam while all the other hospitals around it and that it owns gets smaller and then there's a major earthquake or natural disaster like that. imagine what the problems that could cause. imagine that. so not only are all the other problems really crucial that everyone has brought up with this, that is fundamental, and especially that earthquake danger means that this hospital, this massive hospital, is not going to conform to the upcoming master plan that supervisor campos and wisely gotten us to prepare for so whatever it takes to pull this project out of the

pipeline, legislation, something on the ballot, do it and make this hospital conform to that plan instead of going forward with this. >> good evening. president chiu, fellow supervisors, madam clerk, manny flores, local 22, carpenter's union. i want to commend the mayor's staff, the negotiating team. you did a hell of a job and it was a good presentation. but obviously, still more work to be done, some issues, but that goes along with the territory and it's really important to work and to work on these issues because a lot of good points were brought out tonight. supervisors, supervisor campos, and it's important, but you know, i think we're going to get there. i'm very confident, because this board knows how to get things done. and i tell you, first class healthcare center, that's what we need, that's what the city and county of san francisco

needs and i know we're going to get there and also i want to say in closing, supervisor mirkarimi, i want to commend you and congratulate you on your new position coming up and i know we didn't see -- at times we didn't see eye-to-eye, but you know what, you were a straight shooter and i wish you well and with that in closing, thank you very much. >> thank you, good evening, president chiu and members of the board of supervisors. i'm warren brammer, c.e.o. of cpmc, and i will be brief because i know i am most of what is standing between you and a warm bed on a cold night. and i thank you for the opportunity to speak to you about our plans to rebuild cpmc and i want to thank mayor lee and the team for your diligent efforts and for staying this late, your work on this incredibly important project. it has been a long, long

process, and it appears that even more work lies ahead. but i want to restate our commitment to reaching a development agreement that addresses the healthcare and safety needs of the people of san francisco. mayor lee and his team are tough negotiators. they've pushed us hard and though i think we're getting close, we have not yet reached a mutually acceptable agreement and we're working on it. i cannot overemphasize the importance of rebuilding cpmc. our project will double the number of earthquake safe hospital beds in the city, create thousands of jobs and workforce training opportunities, provide our local economy with a $1.9 billion boost without using taxpayer dollars, and improve the neighborhoods around all of our campuses. as you know, our plans include building two state-of-the-art seismically safe hospitals as part of our coordinated city system of care. at our st. luke's campus, we're

going to build a $275 million full service hospital with an expanded e.r., new neuroscience institute at davies and at van ness and geary we're going to build a new hospital and emergency room to provide in had-patient medical and specialist care right in the heart of this city. and as been true for 150 years and we hope will be true for another 150 years, our facilities will literally be open who lives, works and visits in san francisco. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, good night almost. i'm pea larshiavo. i'm from the nurse's association. thank you for sticking it out. this is such an important issue for our nurses and community coalition we are here in

solidarity with today. just a couple of important points and to follow up on what steve wu said earlier, again, we support rebuilding cpmc the right way. we very much support jobs and jobs for san franciscans. but they're talking about 40 jobs a year. i mean, all of the folks who were here talking about work force development and education and training, they can swoop that up in a heartbeat and it's not nearly close to the jobs that are going to be created. you're talking about 4,000 new jobs and 6,000 existing jobs and they're talking about 40 jobs a year for only five years. and they can completely get out of the construction piece of local hire because of the collective bargaining agreement. so these are not local jobs that are guaranteed. these are not real san francisco jobs. and this is not meeting the real needs of unemployed san franciscans that needs to be filled right now. that's a major concern of ours. the other piece is that, you

know, there's a lot of people talking about construction jobs and that's great and that's important and unfortunately we're on different sides with our brothers and sisters in the trades tonight but in addition to those trades jobs, what about the permanent jobs, the jobs that our nurses have been occupying for 30, 20, 40 years as their career. what about those jobs? there wasn't any discussion tonight about nursing degrees. you can have a two-year degree. that doesn't seem to be incorporated into the entry level jobs. if you can have a two-year degree, that's a whole bunch of other jobs that should be thought of when you're talking about the jobs that are being created. and the other piece of it is that this is a standard mode of operation for cpmc and sutter to shift responsibility to the city, that they are cutting services that are not profitable and putting it on general. they are not meeting their housing requirement, which is going to fall in the city

budget. they're not meeting the traffic issues which is going to fall on the responsibility of the city. they're not meeting the healthcare needs of the community or jobs. president chiu: thank you. if there are any other members of the public that wish to speak in public comment, please line up now. >> mr. president, members of the board, my name is brad paul, as somebody who spent 40 years working in the tenderloin and south of market, i have seen, as you have, and see every day, the need for psyche beds in this city. cpmc is systematically reduced and eliminated psyche beds at st. luke's and i have not heard unless i am mistaken that there are any psyche beds in the current proposal. i hope you will not take this proposal seriously until you start hearing about larger numbers of psyche beds in their facilities because if they don't

do it, that burden is going to fall more and more on san francisco general and the other hospitals and you see the need for these beds every day as you walk around this building. so i would urge you to make them put psyche beds back in st. luke's and back in their general facility, the new facility, because you cannot have a hospital in san francisco and claim it's open all the time to everyone and not have psyche beds. thank you. >> what you did today is very big mistake with me. you said in the beginning that you going to allow disabled to speak first but when i come in here, you refuse to let me speak and you let another chinese lady to speak. that is discrimination or favoritism. correct your mistake or buy one d.v.d. to see your mistake.

i don't allow you to make mistake with us anymore from now on. you let the guys come two three time and people like us have heart attack, hard to embrace and lady here can give you copy of my health! try to be honest with us. president chiu: are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in public comment? colleagues, any final comments on this hearing? sorry, sir, do you want to speak in public comments? no, this is for cpmc. colleagues, would anyone like to make any closing comments? i'll just say a few words. i don't want to belabor this. i know there are many more issues we have to discuss around

cpmc. but first of all, i want to thank all of the members of the public that waited very patiently for testimony tonight. i want to thank the city staff for all the hard work you're doing, the officials from cpmc for the work you're doing. i think from my perspective, there are a lot of issues that were raised and i know we will continue to have conversations, for me, i know, with regards to healthcare, i think there are many colleagues including myself that are concerned about the charity care levels, about ensuring that st. luke's role be viable over the next 20 years, about ensuring that the impact of our healthcare system will meet the goals that we set as we thought about a healthcare plan of the i know there have been questions raised around affordable housing, whether or not our city's affordable housing goals are being met according to our housing policy, transit issues. i look forward to receiving information from the m.t.a. to address whether the data and the numbers that were presented make sense as someone who actually goes through the van ness and

geary intersection many days of the week, through gridlock. i am very curious about whether we'll be able to address the transit issues given how many new people we have. obviously, there have been questions raised around local hiring, the fact that this is a project that will create 4,000 jobs over the next 20 years, but according to community advocates, will really only guarantee 1% of that over a five-year time period. and then i know that many of us will be having conversations around the possibility and i think the importance of the c.b.a., not just to build community support, but this is a model that has worked really well with the hunter's point shipyard project and i know we will continue the conversation around this but i don't want to belabor the point. i want to thank everyone for coming out tonight and acknowledge supervisor campos who has closing comments. supervisor campos: thank you, mr. president. i want to echo everything you've said