every year to the health commission and planning commission. to say it will not be hard to follow the process of these commitments. in terms of enforcing them, it is true the city would enforce these like many other agreements we make. many development agreements we have to enforce. my understanding is that ultimately the board of supervisors is the body that can enforce these agreements. i want to turn to the city attorney if i have that wrong. that has been our advice. at the end of the day, it is impossible for me to say the agreement within force itself. there does have to be action taken. it seems like a violation would be so obvious it would be hard for the city not to enforce it. >> if i knew i would be here for the next 20 years, that would be one thing. we're being asked to make a decision that will set standards and impact the entire city over the next 20.

that is part of what we're trying to figure out. the issue of whether we could find parties that would be privy to an agreement, i would be happy to work with your office. cpmc is entering into least one or more agreements with neighborhood associations. if that is happening, it might make sense to consider a broader way of doing this. i would certainly add to supervisor mar's comment. part of what we're trying to do is build the broadest community support for the product we believe will have significant impact on the city in the future. i would love to help figure out how we can get there. >> thank you. i have a request that we take a five minute short break. then we will come to public comment. we will lose the koran in a moment.

i will say five minutes. we will reset the meeting for 5 minutes and come back. >> i have to run off to other meetings. i do expect to be back to other hearings. i want to thank all the members of the public for all the work we're doing together to move this forward. >> we will recess for five minutes. supervisor mar: welcome back, everyone. the meeting will come to order. if i could have everyone's attention, the meeting will come to order.

supervisor cohen, may we resume. we have call items one through 13. i will start calling the names of the 100 or so cards. if your name is called and you are in the overflow room, please come back into the room. each speaker will be limited to two minutes. at 30 seconds, there is a light rain. there is a louder one when your time is up. the focus is on jobs. i am asking the speakers to keep the focus on this topic of the hearing. we will your transportation, health care, and other topics at a future date. -- we will hear transportation, health care, and other topics at a future date. if people could line up on the right side of the room, that would help. it does not have to be in the right order. if your name is called, please line up. the first speaker is married -- mary.

lisa, eddie, john, charles, miriam fields, james tracey, giselle, alex, angie brown. the main microphone is the one to the right. >> my name is mary michaluchi. i have worked at st. luke's for 40 years. we recently had a town hall meeting. usually we sit there like bumps on a log. this one was different. we pointedly asked him where the jobs were for us. we have transferred rights? would we be going up there? he said, i do not know. he said that to engineers,

housekeepers, clerical help, nurses. someone finally asked, if you do not know, who does know? he said, i am the ceo. we said, you should know. one thing he made clear is the california nurses association will not be up at the cathedral. that is all of st. luke's campus and california campus. we will not be up there. as far as where st. luke's is that now, we are in a precarious position. i say it would be easy to close us. we're missing vital services. the two we have are in danger of being closed. there is talk about that. we do not have much of a census or physician base. we have been downsized. i think cpmc will take almost acutely ill patients.

when that will changes when the new hospital is built and they are able to be filled up with important, prestigious, paying patients. the amount of patience left at st. luke's will be much greater than just 80 beds. one thing that has crossed my mind is if there is a specialty at st. luke's, we might have a chance of long-term survival. a 20-year commitment -- [tone!] we're closing in on seven years of that. supervisor mar: thank you. please come forward if your name has been called. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to that these important issues. my name is james tracy. i want to clear up two misunderstandings and quote chuck dee.

don't believe the hype. we want our brothers and sisters in the trades to go back to work on this project. we want you to go back to work on a socially just project that lifts all our boats, including the nurses. we're certainly not pro- earthquake as some of you may have heard. do not believe the hype. we are for increased local hire from the communities impacted by the projects. one of the classifications of jobs left out of the conversation were janitors, maintenance workers, front desk clerks. there is already capacity and training programs for these things. we're not talking about gigantic new grants to accommodate local hire.

we need to expand our imaginations and capacity. this is something we could do better on for all classifications. for workers rights issues, for the hospital, for the city of san francisco to say workers like nurses and engineers that work for years earnings seniority rights serving the people of san francisco do not get this because of an executive decision, that is not right. i do not think any member of the san francisco political family would support the actions of governor scott walker in wisconsin. if it ain't right there, it ain't right here. supervisor mar: thank you.

>> i work the night shift at st. luke's. i worked last night. this is hard on me. i am here to represent not only the night shift but also the patients. we have known some money. we've grown close to them. we get the ones that have no insurance. they are homeless. if one of them were to be admitted in the fall, we would have to spray the room to keep a small way. we love them. we have taken care of them. just recently, there was a study that came out. no disrespect to the people here. we all got our degrees. i respect all of you. i am so grateful cpmc picked up

st. luke's to give us a job for another five years, but the truth is the survey's made on all the professions, the ones that came out telling the truth were the nurses. i implore you to listen to the nurses. if you were to use your brains, everything they have shown you looks beautiful. [tone!] please look with your heart and listen with your heart to all the proposals because there are a lot of contradictions. i hear st. luke's. i do not feel secure in my 30- year job. they have not even given us a contract. we have been tolerating everything they give us. i love my job. i love being a nurse. i loved my white uniform but i gave it up. job security is the one that we

need. [applause] supervisor mar: thank you. >> i am with the building trades and construction council. we lost a few at the break. i would ask those in the trades to stand up and be recognized. i thank them for attending. it is rare i can stand up here and be invited to talk about jobs. usually they tell us it is not appropriate to talk about jobs in whatever context we're in at the moment. the representation of our agreement with the prime contractor for california pacific medical center is correct. we have agreed to 30% goals for journey level workers -- overall and 50% for apprentices. the apprentice number is vital. journey level requirements are going to be challenged in the

next couple of years as private sector work wraps up. the real opportunity is going to be at the apprentice level. as supervisor mar may remember, i sent him a map of local higher. one of the points was taken only have so many apprentices relative to journeymen. they are not a cheap workforce. they are there for training. they have to be paired with an adequate number of journeyman to learn what they are supposed to do. to increase apprentice opportunities, you have to increase the volume of work. this hospital definitely increases the volume of work for san francisco. [tone!] i will point out if you try to resized the hospitals relative to each other, you set about three years if not forever because they are so far along and a very intricate design. so much money and time would be lost in that effort that it

would kill the project and jobs. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. mr. roselli. >> i am the president of the national association of health care workers. for more than a decade, cpmc has been by far the worst hospital in clear -- employer in the city. sector across northern california is by far -- sutter across northern california is by far the worst employer. over 500 complex -- contracts, fewer than 20 strikes out of 500 contracts settled. virtually all those 20 strikes have been with the sutter corporation. what the employees have to do to maintain the standard established with the industry or

as the nurses are defensively being locked out of the hospitals because the employer wants significant takeaways from the standards. as the city's largest private sector employer in years to come, we must get a binding commitment to restore and maintain standards, and in other hospitals. including strong transfer rights, the right for workers to join a union without being coerced by the employer, real training opportunities, fair wages, restoration of benefits that they have taken away. without these protections, the project being promoted to create jobs would easily destroy jobs for cpmc's incumbent workforce for women, people of color, and immigrants that have dedicated years of their lives to cpmc and its patients. we understand the terms of employment can knock be imposed

related to land use, but elected leaders should evaluate the economic income of the project. [tone!] we urge you to express strong concerns over these issues and urge cpmc to resolve them through the negotiation of the benefits agreement with the san franciscans for health. supervisor mar: thank you. >> supervisors, good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to speak this afternoon. i am the steering committee chair of the plan of vista neighborhood association. -- buena vista neighborhood association. we are very near and well served by cpmc's davies campus. we urge you to support and pass without further delay the cpmc

issues before you today. it is time all the elements of the cpmc bill be implemented as soon as possible. it has been negotiated fairly over an extended period of time. it is time for the final approvals and for construction to begin. those who oppose that goal still mostly represent special interests and agendas that seek further up the way for their selfish benefits. disregarding the huge city-wide and badly needed benefit the south -- the rebuild represents, let's keep the big picture. cpmc has for over 10 years been open, responsive, patient, and always consistent in listening to and working with our neighborhood.

amazing what dialogue between honest people sitting at the table can do. [tone!] supervisor mar: we are trying to keep a respectful tone. please respect that. most people are doing that. if there are people speaking out, i will be asking folks to be taken out. we're trying to keep a respectful conversation. go ahead. >> thank you, a supervisor. a great project has resulted at davies as part of the overall cpmc rebuild as a result of the neighborhood negotiations on the data element for us. let's rebuild it now. thank you. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> i am a resident of district 8. i am proud to have such a hard- working and inclusive representative as supervisor wiener. i am your to support the cpmc

rebel, particularly the neuroscience center of the davies campus. i think it would be an excellent use of district 8 land. i am a registered nurse at the keep rehabilitation to sell to. in my 10 years, we have transitioned to a world-class state of the art facility. all san franciscans deserve world-class facilities. the time and opportunity for miracles are fleeting. we see miracles, but they do not happen on their own. they start with world-class facilities. time is precious. i encourage all san franciscans get world-class medical facilities now. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. i will call a few more names. christopher, dennis, laura.

mr. flores. >> i am from local 22 of the carpenters' union. local 22 is committed to seeing the local construction workers have their fair shake on the job. you have my word on that. supervisor cohen talked about women in the trades. in our apprenticeship program, it is mandated 20% of the class has women in that class. it is no secret. i will come out and say it. we are low on that. we need more women we're doing as much as we can on outreach. we're working with the sheriff's department of san francisco. i did not know existed. let me get this right. women's reentry -- reentering

center. it is great. i have a group of women i am talking to. they are interested. we're doing what we can out there. thirdly, we have a program called helmets to hardhats. that is when veterans have completed their tour, they can sign up for the program. they have direct entry into our apprenticeship program. we're pushing on that. [tone!] we are finding there are a lot of residents of san francisco involved. we're doing our share. we are reaching out. we're doing what we can with the residency hiring in san francisco. supervisor mar: you were mentioning construction jobs and making sure you will abide by the first source hiring and local tire.

you are also making a commitment to support local hiring in other areas. is there right? >> i am all for that. i think it is important. whatever can be drawn up. you know, construction, temporary and permanent. it is important. supervisor mar: thank you. >> mining is alex. i am the executive director for the chinese association. we organized city-wide. we're based in chinatown. mostly service workers in the restaurant industry and getting more workers in the construction industry as well. i wanted to keep my comments focused. there is a false dichotomy being created that this is community versus labor. if we look at the room, we can

see ithe most unity around cpmc and building it in the right way for all working families is the unity coming from labor and community coming together. that is a very important part. we see labor is community. health care is also jobs. health care is also services for our communities. the reason we're here today is because we really support the worker rights issues. to spell it out more clearly, we feel the only way to keep working families in san francisco is to preserve strong standards, strong labor standards for all working families. this includes people in really bad conditions in chinatown getting paid $5 an hour. it also includes for us to be able to ensure there are good jobs for people to be able to get into the union jobs as well. for the majority of the members we work with [tone!]

they are able to get union jobs afterwards. this is not about health or union transfer rights. it is about the working families in san francisco all together. i want to emphasize that equal -- even for the local higher numbers, it is low. 40 a year for five years. the unemployed rate in the chinese community is 30%. a lot of people do not understand that. this is not just about workers. it is about housing, health care, and the community as a whole. [tone!] supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is elizabeth alexander. our local represents a health care workers and social workers. our workers are adamant against the project that does not go forward without the benefits agreement. we have seen our workers

testified to the impacts and non-expanded st. luke's house on s.f. general. when s.f. general max's out, we triage to st. luke's. st. luke's max's out. people are waiting hours to receive emergency care. we want to see a larger facility. we want to see expanded loops. this is not an issue we're coming to because of our jobs. it is because of the care. it is an expanding area in our city. to give cpmc the green light without insuring anything for the south side is irresponsible. you will see us coming back and talking about what we need to do to expand services for people on the south side. as supervisors, that will fall in your hands as you are responsible for providing health care when the private sector is

not doing the right thing. in terms of public policy issues and future planning for the city, we have to be thinking about what is our obligation. [tone!] cpmc will be taking on more healthy san francisco money. we need to look at the charity care rate. that would otherwise go into the public sector. it needs to be done in full understanding of what's cpmc's obligation is. we're standing with our brothers and sisters and other unions about transfer rights. we look forward to your support for the committee benefits agreement. [tone!] supervisor mar: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a registered nurse in the neonatal i see you at the california campus. i have been up to this podium and others several times in the

last few years pete -- speaking in front of the planning commission, board of supervisors, and help commission. i am back to remind you that not a single registered nurse at cpmc has been guaranteed a job at the new cathedral hill hospital. no employee has been guaranteed a job. warren brown was asked about a recent employee for. his answers were non-committal. at this point in the process, there is no specific plan for the current work force. many of us have years and years of service at cpmc. many of us who started as new nurses have remained dedicated employees helping patients with their most challenging times in life. nursing is a predominantly female profession with a large percentage of women of color being the primary breadwinners and their families. it can be hard working for a

household. it can be hard working for a health care corporation puts profit ahead of everything else. i love being a nurse. do not get me wrong. helping patients and their families at a vulnerable time has many rewards. that is why i have remained a bedside nurses for 35 years. i often go to sleep at night thinking about the families and wondering if the little ones will be better the next day. [tone!] cpmc should do the right thing and guarantee us through a community benefits agreement in writing we will be able to keep our jobs and current working conditions. without a union supporting us, we will not be able to push for safe staffing. and the ratios to protect our patients. the supervisors are constantly looking at how they can tighten up assignments. [tone!] without union protection, we would not be able to continue that work. supervisor mar: next speaker.

>> my name is laura. i am a project engineer in turn for the cpmc for the general contractor company. i am also a student studying civil engineering at san francisco state university. i am here to support the rebuilding of cpmc because of the opportunities it will bring to our community. by rebuilding cpmc, doors will be opened for young aspiring professionals trying to pursue their dream careers. i am one of many young college graduates going back to school to obtain a higher degree because of the lack of opportunities available. i always thought working hard or you are passionate about would take you anywhere automatically. this is the american dream. for our generation, there is so much competition and limited opportunity.

it does take a toll on your confidence. it is because of the cpmc projects the company was able to take me in as an intern. it has only been my second week. the value of being part of something big that contributes to society inspires me to continue to pursue a career in engineering. i never thought i would look forward to breaking up at 6:00 every morning. this internship has made it easy. please support the cpmc so that many young adults in my position to pursue their dreams and get their chance to contribute to building a better society. [tone!] thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. i am going to call a few more names.