pay off in jobs. the ability to provide for this -- their families once this job starts. please vote yesterday. -- yes today. >> good afternoon. i am the president of the [unintelligible] advocating to build san francisco in an irresponsible manner. -- in a responsible manner. i support this project because this project will become a state-of-the-art facility. i can provide san franciscans with some of the best health care available. -- that can provide san franciscans with some of the best health care available. in the short term, this project will bring billions into the local economy. many small businesses, local

workforce, and families will benefit from the building of cpmc and benefit in the future care that cpmc can provide. unless your entire family, and anti workers, there are not any reasons for you not to support this project. i urge all of you to about -- vote yes for this project. >> i called your name? ok. >> good afternoon, president fong. i am -- lived in the tenderloin for 10 years. i am a member of the [unintelligible] community association. i am here to let you know we want a hospital that will address the health care needs of our community.

tenderloin residents need greater care needs. tenderloin residents need greater access to quality health care. cpmc messed -- must accept more medicare and medicaid patients. they can provide adequate service to the community and the residents can have preferred access. we want to see a agreement that is acceptable and beneficial to the community. thank you very much. president fong: ok. anna valdez, other speakers.

halwife if i have called your n, go ahead and approach the podium. >> i am currently a student at the construction administration training program. i am born and raised in san francisco. i am here to say please go yes -- vote yes because it will be an opportunity for my class to offer great job opportunities at and make us more better parents

and be a better role model for our children and our communities. it will be a great thing. vote yes, please. thank you. >president fong: next speakers. some people are coming up. connie, richard. >> good afternoon. i am amember of the polk neighborhood association preempt -- never associate --

neighborhood association. this was a bustling street with bidders and hardware stores and butcher shops and over the years, polk street has gone through some rough times. today there are empty storefronts and homeless people, not to mention the prostitutes and felt the sidewalks. at that area, it is blighted with shattered buildings and human waste is not uncommon on the street. we can change all this with your roach -- vote. we have the possibility of building, spill that works with the committee to create a neighborhood that is healthy and filled with businesses and restaurants and medical offices and i remember when mosconi center was a contrast -- controversial area and people were worried about traffic but it was planned well and included underground unloading so traffic

impact was minimal. it is the same with this hospital. the plan for emergency vehicles and supply trucks and emergency room drop box will create minimal impact on moving traffic. the hospital brings work for construction workers, four nurses, for doctors, and for the medical personnel, not to mention the businesses and services that will service these folks. thousands of permanent jobs. we have been told how the america's cup will bring jobs, too, and tourist dollars and two san francisco and how we will have to endure that traffic and the influx of tourists and people filling the city for just three months. three months. not years. not a new hospital that will enhance the lower polka area -- polk area. the america's cup will not be

part of the community. it will not build low-cost housing or build -- bring long- term benefits. i urge you to consider a long- lasting solution and to build this hospital. thank you. president fong: if i have called your name, you can come up. >> in afternoon -- good afternoon. i'm a registered nurse at the cpmc davis rehabilitation facility. i have participated in an upgrade in that facility to a state-of-the-art, world-class facility. we see medical miracles but they do not happen on their own. they need facilities. time is precious. our patients time and lives are precious.

francisco is an amazing place. all san franciscans deserve world-class medical facilities like we have in the rehabilitation unit. i would urge that we move forward. thank you. >president fong: next speakers? >> good afternoon. i'm a structural engineer. and a member of the national academy of engineering and member of the board of directors of spur. this is the time to approve

cpmc. california sits on the edge of the pacific plate, the call of the ring of fire. grayson and a -- a recent earthquakes around the ring remind us this is one of the most active regions in the world. we note emerge -- a major earthquake will occur in the next 30 years and if it happens here, this afternoon, we're expecting heavy damage, casualties in the thousands, and injuries in the tens of thousands. we need our hospital to take care of these people, we need it now. our recovery depends on san francisco being disaster resilience. a state we have not yet achieved. we must have a credible disaster response plan that will provide the ex -- flexibility needed to recover quickly. each of us needs to understand what is going to happen, what has happened, and work together to shelter in place.

our power, water, and communication networks must operate shortly after the disaster and within weeks, people need to be able to live normally in their homes, have access to health care, and the services they depend on and able to travel as needed throughout the city and have resumed a fairly normal routine so they can go about rebuilding the city. san francisco is on a delivered pass to becoming a seismically brazilian city. the mayor's resilience san francisco initiative is working to establish and implement programs that will assure quick recovery. they involve emergency preparedness and neighborhood based response programs, earthquake safety improvement programs, programs to improve the city-owned building, a lifeline council, and much more. sentences go need to its hospitals to be operational. -- san francisco needed

hospitals to be operational. some will collapse and kill their opulence -- occupants. we need to serve the injured. this will change that picture but they must be completed. the time has come to honor that years of work that has brought these projects to an accessible level. rebuilding must start as soon as possible. for the next major earthquake, san franciscans want and deserve to have modern earthquake safe facilities they can turn to for help. i urge you to approve this plan and the benefits it will bring to our city. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you, president fong and commissioners. i am the medical director at northeast medical services and we wholeheartedly support the

rebuild of cpmc. we serve over 55,000 patients through a san francisco bay area with seven clinics. close to 60% of our patients are uninsured, low-income, and have minimal english proficiency. cpmc has been a good neighbor and friend to our low income, underinsured patients. cpmc has collaborated on many projects over the last 14 years and our patients have received generous charity care from this partnership. for instance, cpmc provide specialty care and hospital care to 25,000 of our patients, half of which are in any healthy [unintelligible] program. many received eye benefits. 5000 newborns are delivered

annually. we partner with cpmc to eliminate infections tand offer free hepatitis b testing. a patient received life-saving surgery. he had a tear in one of his major arteries. he is well and alive. in conclusion, cpmc has been a great friend and neighbor to our low-income and uninsured patients. rebuilding would bring a world class institution closer to our community. on behalf of northeast medical services, we offer our full support in rebuilding and we ask that you will do the same. thank you. >> good afternoon,

commissioners. i am a policy director here for spur. i am here to support the cpmc. this is an important step for the network of health providers and reaching an agreement for two state of the earth -- art hospitals and to reinforce hospital's critical to the emergency preparedness and disaster response capabilities. they have taken steps to improve the instability and viability but have taken an honest interest in how this can improve the capacity and quality of care as well as their position in the health-care network throughout the city. they have engaged the community in assessing the form and function of the facilities in a way that they can maintain full system capacity throughout the construction. we are aware that the health care network in san francisco is

in a dramatic state of transition. we aim to support agreements like this that struck a balance between community needs and capacity. there have been a number of stringent requirements that work in the development agreements we have been discussing. this is an important component of the process. cpmc is obligated to deliver on these commitments and insurers to be an active partner in providing quality care to the diversity of san franciscans across the city. an important component is an endowment to support clinics and social services like the speaker who was up here. as well as $90 million in charity care. any measure that these investments are sure to benefit thousands of residents and will strengthen the overall health services network. the cue for your support. -- thank you for your support.

>> a block away from the proposed site, [unintelligible] i am a member of the van ness corridor association. three quick reasons why i support cpmc's proposed campus. my experience is there a good neighbor. i have watched from a distance for a couple of years at how cpmc has managed the project, answering their critics and seeking to work in a way that is fair, just come and balance. i have been impressed with how they have come into discussions and come up with creative solutions and have been available for concerns and the concerns of my church community. i got the sense that good neighbors were moving in and this was a welcome change from the bacon -- vacant lot. in meeting with them, they have

repeated to me they are contributing to the neighborhood which includes become a justice, and safety. as a church, we are excited about the prospect of cpmc helping us in our quest for peace in the neighborhood. and 64 my family. walking my kids back, on friday nights from the amc van ness theater is a patch of darkness that my kids refer to as the haunted block. my daughter has been heckled with sexual profanities' by people who work in the shadows and light 9-year-old son will pepper me with questions, how long will it be like that, why does it take so long to build the hospital and on and on. that's what feels like a night of emptiness. -- that block deals like a night of emptiness. cpmc will bring a presence of

safety and security. my final reason for supporting this is the help and support for the van ness corridor association. we dream and work toward creating a neighborhood that is healthy and full of promise and we dream of a place in a city that is a destination. reflecting the heart and compassion of this great city and we feel their presence will contribute in a positive way to the environment of our neighborhood. the economic vitality of our merchants and sustainability manners. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, mr. president and planning commissioners. i am a healthcare architect and i strongly support the project in front of you today. i understand the issues associated with such a project. the challenges, the opportunities. i am personally engaged with

similar projects at kaiser permanente in oakland medical center, currently under construction. three reasons why i support the project. place and function. over the years there has been effort with great success for the integration of buildings and neighborhoods. health care services are both in with a focus and our the focus. leading to embrace and enhance the community to be seen and unseen at the same time. i think cpmc's master plan addresses this beautifully. this need to address place and function. innovation. you have heard others speak about how this will be an opportunity to be one of the safest places in san francisco in the event of a seismic event. thirdly, world class. san francisco is a world-class city and deserves world class medical institutions. in my investigation of this project, i am convinced systems are in place, especially at st.

lukes campus to help the patients and families and citizens of san francisco. i see great planning vision represented in the application of great thinking and a great opportunity to serve the citizens of san francisco. i support this project and ask that you vote in support of it as well. thank you very much for your time. president fong: thank you. our next speakers. >> thank you.

i am a patient, a volunteer, and i strongly support the rebuild of cpmc. i have been a cancer survivors for three years, thanks to cpmc, and i would like to think that doctors and staff for saving my life. and letting me walk again. my wife, she is a -- first time i came to the city i stayed at the [unintelligible] hotel. she works at pes general hospital where she is a physician, a psychiatrist with the city. thanks to her, i have medical insurance because i had to leave my job when i got sick. i stayed at that hotel when i first came here. i can think of no better services than to provide services. i walked around the area, i know the area.

i go up and down, i live on geary. i think it would be great. i know the impact that great jobs can provide. i know that cpmc provide excellent care. >> good afternoon, a thank you for allowing me to speak. i volunteer on the front desk at cpmc.

i am a member of the leadership council. i see firsthand how cpmc welcomes visitors and patients from all the districts of san francisco. all of hom racine the same -- all of whom receive the same dedication from our doctors and staff. at the time, a st. luke's was in dire financial straits. i said, of course, he would do it. i encouraged him to go toe to toe with whoever it took to keep st. luke's open. there is no doubt that st. luke's would be just a memory if cpmc had not stepped in and made the commitment to embrace it as a campus. i am so proud that a new 21st century st. luke's is part of the plan before you.

together with the new building and the new campus, it makes the future of health care look brighter for the whole of our city. i have lived for 37 years within a block and a half of two separate cpmc campuses. i was in my current home during the rebuilding in the 1980's. i've always found the hospital campus is to be good neighbors. not only am i a volunteer, but also have been blessed with the care of cpmc's physicians and will always be grateful that they were there for me. without them, i would not be standing here speaking to you today. thank you.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i am a registered nurse at the california campus. nurses have spoken out to you and other elected officials before and informed you of cpmc's failure to bart -- barter in good faith. nurses have been without contracts for almost five years. local 39, the stationary engineers, are in the fifth week of the strike. the national union of health- care workers, their members have also been working without a negotiated agreement. cpmc has serious labor issues that have not been addressed. nurses want to maintain our union representation at cathedral hill hospital. we have not been granted any

transfer rights to the new facility. we have been unionized there since 1947. yes, there will be short-term construction jobs for the mostly male dominated trade. long-term health care jobs for nurses and other health-care workers, mostly women, have no such guarantees. because of the recent views -- it serves the poor and uninsured, breaking its promise to the community, we know they cannot be trusted. for example, there was a discussion this morning about the large number of psychiatric patients who do not need to be hospitalized. my colleagues at st. luke's and those who work in the emergency department tell me the stabilization area for the site patience in sep -- psych

patients in the up in the hallway. cna looks at all issues that affect the health care of the community, not just pay and benefits. it includes access and affordability for the people who live in that community. without union representation at the cathedral hill, we will not feel comfortable speaking up of about safety issues. our patience will be the one who will pay the price. wiener's this urge you not to move forward -- we urge you not to move forward. it is not ready yet. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i will be speaking -- i work

with a community organization called power people. our membership is low income families and workers in the mission and bayview districts. i am a resident of baby. i am here because our communities are not going to benefit from this project. so many of our community members are out of work and we need permit health-care jobs. -- permanent health-care jobs. the local hire is only 40 jobs per year for only five years. 5% of the projected job growth. the devil is in the details. is this a standard we want to set for future projects to come? we need to be setting city standards to go up, and not down. we always see this divide and conquer strategy using to

separate our communities. we have seen large corporations and projects promised jobs and use that as an argument to get community approval and support. but our communities are still waiting. we do not think it is fair that cpmc is taking advantage for a community's needs for jobs. thank you. >> micahel lucci, maria rigaldo, rico, linda carter, marie, -- >> i am a registered