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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.
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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
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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.
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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 nurse and working at st. luke's hospital. i lived in mission. st. luke's hospital receives
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patients with psychiatric disorders almost every day. they often stake -- they often stay for a week or more. those patients cannot be transferred because of no bed or a patient is not qualified. i worked at st. luke's for four years and i have never seen any psychiatric patients to be transferred to cpmc. they wait for a few days to be transferred to st. francis. even if 1% of psychiatric patients require psychiatric care, in reality, due to complex economical issues, homelessness, or financial insurance problems, many patients come to hospital with serious need of psychiatric care. i do not believe cpmc plans will
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help this major issue in san francisco. when japan was hit by an earthquake, many streets were blocked because houses collapsed. this caused serious traffic congestion in major arteries. my brother was stuck in the car for seven hours. cpmc can present all these transportation plans, but there is no guarantee that this will work. people still suffer from heart attack or stroke. post-disaster traffic jam would cause further problems. therefore, the centralized medical system is not required for disaster response. please don't know today. -- vote no today.
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thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. my name is linda carter. i am a nurse at st. luke's. i have been there for 45 years. i in there because i like working with the patience that we serve. many of them are under insured to or very poor. however, some of the best people i know. i do not -- i really do realize that both campuses need to be rebuilt. they need to be brought up to standards. however, putting all of the carrot in one facility does not
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make sense -- all of the care in one facility does not make sense. actually, i know the doctors said -- if you look at the days we have plenty of patiencts, sometimes you're holding patients in icu. they are waiting in the emergency room. this is not going to go away because you build a brand-new hospital. we still need the beds to take care of these patients. we do need a new hospital. however, it needs to be an
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appropriate size to service the community that we are in charge of. that is all the way south of market. a great deal of the city. i just think they're being left behind. it is wonderful to have a state of the art facility at cathedral hill. if you fix all of the eir problems. we still need to look at st. luke's a little bit closer. thank you. [applause] president fong: any other names i have called? >> i am with the organization power. our organization make sure that san francisco had a very strong local hiring mandate.
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this product is only protecting a 5% increase in job growth. cpmc is one of the largest private employers in the city. they are using lack of jobs in the community as a way to pit health care needs against needs for jobs. we need to see a community agreement or there are permanent jobs. president fong: ok. [reading names]
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>> good afternoon, commissioners. i am the chair of the coalition of san francisco. we support the rebuild. if -- there are many if's. this would clarify our position. we are an organization of over 40 neighborhood groups in san francisco. dear president and members of the planning commission, the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods of voted on tuesday, july 19, 2011, for the following resolution. we urge the planning commission to not approve any building permits for a expansion of any existing medical facilities in san francisco until the
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comprehensive health master plan has been completed and adopted. the coalition voted on tuesday, august 16, 2011, on the following resolution. opposes the certification of the cpmc eir and further resolved that we endorse further analysis of alternatives. it would create more services at the same licks location. march 20, 2012, meeting was on the cpmc agreement. after much discussion, the developer or the agreement was unsatisfactory and does not address the most important
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issues. the long-term future of st. luke's, traffic mitigation, affordable housing, health care for the low income residents, 30-inch pipeline, and jobs for san francisco residence. -- presideresidents. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am with the chinese progressive association. we are gathered today to ask you to vote down the eir because we do not believe is adequate or complete. we also want to see a lot of the same things that people have been talking about. good jobs, we want to see affordable health care for all residents.
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we have seen a good job of cpmc dividing the nine part -- 99%. wsip construction workers saying they need jobs. we seek jobs -- we see construction workers say they need jobs. we syneresis and they need jobs, too. -- we see a nurse is saying they need jobs, too. folks who are in the neighborhood as well as folks coming from outside of the neighborhood to work at cpmc. i believe that is the job of san francisco, of this commission, as well as our supervisors, is to make sure we get the best deal we can and not just allow cpmc to divide us. they are not just the health- care provider. they are a multimillion-dollar corporation that did a lot of tax breaks from our city.
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we need to treat them as such. they are not just a benevolent health-care provider. it is not just either construction jobs or nursing jobs. it is not just either cemex the hospital or a brand new facility. -- st. luke's hospital or a brand new facility. they will have the majority of the market in san francisco once cathedral hill and is built. they will have a monopoly on health care. this restructuring of their system, it will impact san francisco for decades to come. are we ready to allow them to set a precedent for the city? are we ready to elect one of the biggest employers inner-city to say, it is ok to give 40 jobs a year to local residents? i do not think that is enough. i think we need you to stand strong and vote this down.
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there is no reversing it. we hope that you will do that and you will go down the eir. thank you. [applause] >> madame secretary, would you like to make an announcement? >> [inaudible] all the applause are really nice. everybody likes to get applause. it prolongs the process. we are asking that you -- once this is over with, you go outside and to congratulate or commiserate. but do not apply during the process, thank you. president fong: let me call a couple of names. [reading names]
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>> i am not opposed to [inaudible] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i will not take up a lot of your time because you have heard a lot from both sides. i work with advocate for children and youth. i am urging you to vote down the proposition put forth before you. i think it is very clear that this project is not beneficial for the city of san francisco. i think when an agreement only calls for four rights -- 40 local hire jobs per year, that is not an agreement. that is kind of a joke, right? when a large entity agrees to invest only $2 million to support workforce development. that is not something to applaud. when an agreement does not take
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into account the job security of its existing employees, only a small select few are benefiting from this deal. an agreement that is beneficial should include local hire to at least 50% at all job levels. it should also include workforce development. an agreement that is beneficial would include protections to current employees. they will face possible job loss by allowing them to transfer to the new facility. san francisco is a city that others look to as a model. do not lead a lobar be set as a precedent. -- do not elect a local bar be such as the president. -- low bar be set as a precedent.
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>> i lives near st. luke's hospital. i want to ask you to look closely at the justification for the size of st. luke's hospital. it does not make any sense. the 80 beds -- it is inappropriate. for years, cpmc has been deliberately undermining st. luke's hospital. they have been cutting services. the stories i have heard are horrible. they take patients with insurance and transfer them to other campuses. that is what happens. despite health care professionals and nurses doing whatever they can to ensure the best treatment for everyone. cpmc says that as residence, we can go across town to get all of our specialty care services on multiple buses. as someone who rides the bus 3 only, i know how long that can take.
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-- frequently, i know how long that can take. the -- as a community, we have tried to negotiate. we know what they are like. they play hardball. they are ideological and they are opposed to doing the things the community and the workers need. in order to get the real project that we need that will address all of these impacts, you need to vote no. that is the only way we will get them to build a project that will be good for san francisco. you do not want to have a faulty eir, and up in a long lawsuit, and delays are committed to getting the health care that we need. -- and let our community getting the health care that we need.
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>> thank you. my name is john elliott. i am the labor partner in support of rebuilding cpmc. there is a lot of talk about one group blakney for one reason and another group not liking it -- one group liking it for one reason and another group not liking it for another. i am a small business in san francisco. for me to grow, there has to be opportunities. some of the opportunities are with cpmc. i live in a small business for two years and these the been the hardest to years of my life. this building will be seismically safe and hasted of the arts facilities that we do not see everywhere. -- and have state of the art facilities that we do not see everywhere. my 17 years in the construction industry has been great in showing what can be great and
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i've been unemployed. the diagnosis for cancer makes matters worse for me. fortunately, i found mission hiring hall. they convinced me to enroll in the construction administration program. the active participation of the volunteers in this program has great contributed in preparing me for employment in the construction industry. presently, i have my health back. my only hope of getting perm anent employment in this industry is when the project is implemented. i support rebuilding cpmc because of the jobs it will generate. i believe that cpmc will be able to continue to provide the
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exceptional health care that it is known for with state of the art facilities in its new seismically safe building. i need a job. i do not want to be a problem to the city. i want to be a solution. please vote yes today. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm here representing the bay area council. we are public policy advocacy organization. i would like to give you a little bit of perspective. in 1971, a small earthquake hit the san fernando valley. it killed 65 people.
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that was the genesis of the first efforts of the state legislator -- legislature to pass laws to upgrade california hospitals. in 1994, and other earthquake struck the same region. all california's hospital be seismically safe and upgraded by 2015. be of art now 10 years into a negotiation process surrounding cpmc. we do not have any more time. prolonging this negotiation any longer does us no favors whatsoever. this is a process that other hospitals are going through. the development agreement for this particular proposal is much more generous than the equivalent hospitals area close
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to where we are today. it has been an inclusive process. the deal has been struck between cpmc and the mayor's office is one that is fair to all. it is not perfectthe eir -- it is not perfect. eir's will always be subject of documents. that is always going to be the opinion of folks who do not want to see progress and who do not want to see projects move ahead. the eir is a lengthy and complete document. we would urge you to move forward as quickly as possible for no other reason than public safety. the safety of the residents of this city is your highest and
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most important task at hand. we would urge you to vote yes. thank you. >> good morning. my name is mary and i work at the st. louis -- st. luke's campus. i am here to support the rebuild. we need a new facility. with current technology. it is well known that st. luke's is of need of major repairs. every day, something happens. we have water leaks, a heating issues, cooling issues. all patients deserve a safe and inviting hospital. it is well known that if patients feel safe and comfortable and receive quality
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medical care in the hospital, the recovery time is greatly reduced. let's help our patients and our community. i urge you to vote yes. thank you. president fong: thank you. >> good afternoon. i represent apa family support services. our mission is to treat victims of child abuse and domestic violence. i have the opportunity to address the commission and show my support for this project a few years ago. -- a few weeks ago, excuse me. i am back again to ask for the same. cpmc means so many things to so many different people. cpmc is california pacific medical center. california pacific community center. with your approval, it will be california pacific earthquake
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safe medical center. our clients are waiting for a new and improved st. luke's. our clients in the tenderloin are looking forward to a new hospital at cathedral held. -- cathedral killed. the community has waited long enough. -- cathedral hill. the community has waited long enough. i stand by the mayor to rebuild cpmc and move forward. thank you for your time. >> good afternoon. thank you, commissioners. i am here in support of the rebuild project for cpmc. i am a san francisco native.
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