and supporter for over 15 years. in the mid-1990's, they sold us our current building at less than half its appraised value. we also have 48 employees. our 24-hour facility. these jobs would not exist today if it were not for cpmc's past and continuing support. thank you very much for your consideration. supervisor mar: thank you for the great work. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am the executive director of bayview hunters point senior services. i am here to support the rebuild of cpmc for many reasons. i was trying to think of what i could add to the conversation. the two pieces i am thinking about is the jobs that are going

to be around the gerontology. the people that these two hospitals are going to serve are going to be older people. we need to start training people to take care of the aging population in san francisco. those would be the recipients of the care. i am very excited to partner with cpmc. the other thing i will say is they have already been our committee partner for many years. we have a great relationship with them. what i would say is that they have a track record of reaching out to the community. they have worked with us in many ways. the breast cancer program, community outreach, i have had their employees at my center. they have been a very responsive organization. i support, not just the fact they're building a hospital, but especially they're building

a hospital with a focus on geriatrics. that is a fabulous thing for the community. supervisor mar: i am going to call a few more names. [reading names] next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. business development representative with the sheet metal workers, local union 104. we support this project. we deserve to work in a state of the art seismically safe hospital. it will allow the highly skilled men and women of our union to provide an energy- efficient building. we are standing at the ready as well as our project -- our

contractors to build this project. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you to all of you for your diligence in paying such close attention in exercising such close scrutiny on this difficult project to make sense of. i will limit my comments to jobs. things that have arisen at of this hearing. with all due respect to the mayor and to city staff, my insight, on the question of jobs, the city has been approaching this as a construction project with a health care component. it should have been approached and needs to be approached as a health care project with a construction company. good quality jobs are critically

important and we support them entirely, but the major economic impact of cpmc's project, other than its pricing, is the quality of jobs that will be sustained or diminished for its large work force, which is over 6000 people now. it is projected to grow to 7500, 8000, 10,000. it is the leading employer and the leading growth sector in san francisco's economy. whether there are dependable commitments will have spillover effects on every neighborhood in the city. the concerns of the workforce, they are not hysterical coor unfounded. they're built on a contentious relationship between the work

force and cpmc's constant threats of takeaways. disputes that threaten health care and stable employment for people. final thing, i would ask our friends from cpmc and the hospital council not to quake- bait people who raise issues about this project. i have thought many times, you know, with sutter lobbyists to try to delay it seismic safety guidelines. thank you very much. supervisor mar: that means used seismic safety upgrades to override other concerns? >> to emotionally blackmail people into ignoring the shortcomings of this project. that is its purpose. supervisor mar: you were talking

about quality of jobs. construction jobs and permanent jobs. >> the founding city of health care unionism in the united states, but caregivers and support workers, have turned these jobs into jobs that can support a family, send a child to college. jobs that are good quality jobs. when those jobs that starts on the low end and the low 20's start getting subject to substantial cuts, cuts in pensions. one of the most recent moves was to take away subcontracting protections. if these jobs are subcontracted, subcontractors are paid virtually half of the amount. that is the kind of threats that people face.

it is naive to think they will not fight back. supervisor mar: thank you so much. next speaker. >> i am a resident of san francisco. i am the vice president van ness corridor association. we are talking about jobs. i am not sure if 40 over five years matters very much, but there are over 18 hotels within 2 miles of this project. that is going to create more jobs than the guarantees on the table. individual restaurants, bars, the people -- it will be incredible for the dead zone. it is important to revitalize

this area of town. it is an important corridor. our goal is to help revitalize this corridor. the jobs that will be created are going to be entry-level jobs, waiters, waitresses, housekeeping staff, those kinds of jobs. they're going to come from the neighborhood, the tenderloin, mich., those areas. it is very important. -- the tenderloin, mission, those areas. it is very important. supervisor mar: thank you, next speaker. >> thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak on the support of the rebuild of the hospital. i am a local business owner.

this construction is vital to the corner of and job creation. i am waiting for the hospital to start and trying to hire local workers. i am getting nervous, i am sorry. i have a back room that needs to be filled with workers. i think this hospital will do that for me. it will do that to rely of the restaurants and bars and hotels in the area. in that area, and nobody wanted to go there before the park was built. and now that place is vibrant, high-rise buildings, restaurants. it is essential to san francisco for this project to go through. it will create a lot of jobs.

thank you. supervisor mar: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am also a member of the association. thank you for allowing us to speak today. my family and i live on the corner of sutter and van ness. someone mentioned that this area was known as the dead zone. the reason i became a member of the association is i wanted to be a part of bringing life back to this area of the city. we take our son to the theater and oftentimes, we walk past vacant buildings. we walk past things that are not full of life, they are not something that a kid needs to be around. when i think of a hospital, i

think of a safe place. i also think about what is going to happen to the surrounding businesses. we're very closely connected with our owners and neighbors and we support this pride did 100%. -- and we support this project 100%. supervisor mar: there are about 45 more cards. if your name is called, be ready to speak. [reading names] next speaker. >> thank you to the board of supervisors. i am the president of the corridor association. i also support the rebuilding of cpmc. what stands out to meet is --

out to me is walking my children along the corridor, that block, at my kids have referred to it as the haunted block. for the past four years, nothing has gone on there. cpmc promises to put something there that will offer security, a 24-hour security, a presence that is much needed in that neighborhood. i think it will bring positive energy to the neighborhood. as well as creating culture and reducing a lot of the vagrancy that is there. i strongly supported. supervisor mar: thank you for speaking. next speaker. >> good afternoon, honorable supervisors. i appreciate this opportunity to address you. over the course of my 20 years at st. luke's, i have held various leadership positions.

medical director of surgical services, chief of the medical staff. as an emissary and voice of the physicians at st. luke's, i wish to acknowledge and thank cpmc and the city of san francisco for saving our hospital. if you recall, the blue-ribbon panel was an exemplary collaboration that achieved buy- in from all interested parties and it yielded a remarkable result. over the last few years, the leadership has been working hand-in-hand with architects and planners on our new facility. the st. luke's medical staff firmly supports the proposed plan. this plan has crystallized, we see that it does what it was supposed to do. it provides a new state of the art facility, the size and scope of the hospital preserve's critical service lines we

originally identified in the blue ribbon panel. st. luke's will be able to access and avail itself of incredible critical support from the future cathedral hill campus. while maintaining critical new patient care, it includes a robust plan for the direction medicine is taking, which is outpatient and preventative care. cpmc has already spent well over $150 million on st. luke's. i have never seen a higher level of medical care provided. i personally am honored to play a role in partnering with cpmc to achieve this caliber of quality and safety. the physicians can now look to the future optimistic that we can continue to serve this community. we request that you give your full support to this plan and shepherded expeditiously to the permit process. supervisor mar: next speaker.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i speak in support of both the cpmc projects. the contractor has been instrumental in developing my small-business and district 10 to build capacity and to be able to hire out of our neighborhood. this project, they are bringing us along on, and i commend them for that. the 7% goal, they went above and beyond. they raised it to 14%. i know you guys would like to see more, but most of the major construction companies, no one has gone above and beyond.

this project is very important to district 10 because we have several local business enterprises, minority business enterprises, that can benefit. our community can benefit from that. we would hire administrative employees. leading us with self sustaining power to not only work on these two projects, but to have the capacity to stay in business. your minority business implies

up report of the rebuilding and the seismic retrofit of the same lewis and cathedral hill projects. >> you hire people from the community? is that right? >> yes. that is right. >> supervisor cohen wanted me to ask about the public-private part of this. >> we could raise that up a little bit more. definitely, that would be great, and real instrumental in finding real niches. i am here with another colleague, and we are both bidding on another project.

i think we could raise it up a little bit. we have. i think they are doing a great job. we are doing a wonderful job. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you, members of the board of supervisors for hearing this important item today. i'm a citizen of the city and county of san francisco. it was at city hall. i live a block away from the

pacific also. i support cpmc. cpmc is the largest private employer in san francisco. cpmc plans to build state of the art hospitals, and it would create 1100 union construction jobs. it will double the number of sick beds in san francisco. it is time to invest in making this earthquake safe. our members, our struggle --

it's time to move this project forward. with this news, san francisco has the opportunity to go forward with the plans and innovation. we need this project. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the executive director of apa family support services. we are able to serve denver api -- diverse api communities and

families. i have been able to talk about the quality of care and safety of around the rebuild for cpmc. also want to talk about jobs. multiplier effect of the direct number of jobs, plus the jobs that will result from supplies and services is quite large. i think the trick is to keep the dollar's local. the multiplier effect was 2 to one. we are talking 16,000 jobs. that does not even include the impact of the construction work.

they have been great supporters in terms of community benefits. they came out and did health screenings. i urge your support for cpmc and the rebuild. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. i will take up much of your time, but as someone who runs a business and the community, and i'm very excited about this. as the previous speaker said, it's not only looking at jobs directly, but expanding our role in the community, expiring --

expanding our jobs and hiring more workers. thank you. >> i'm going to call a few more names. [reading names] next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm a member of the sheet metal local union 104. it's a program designed to put san franciscans to work in the construction field. i have been at work for about 20 months now.

this project will open up more doors and create jobs and helps san francisco residents. i really support this project. my family is out of work. i know this job -- it will open up more opportunities, programs like city build. city build is a good program. there are not many programs that will basically pay you for trading peak -- training. we just want to get back on the work force. so, i really support this project. >> thank you. next speaker?

>> good afternoon, supervisors. eric brooks, san francisco green party. as drafted, it is not acceptable for many reasons that some of you stated. local hiring is nowhere near enough. all that stuff is really crucial. i want to make sure that no one in this room, who has been in this room talking about this issue anywhere in the spectrum is talking about hiring fewer trade workers to build your beds. were not talking about that. we're talking about deciding where to build and how to build to best empower the entire city of san francisco, not just one part of the. which i live a block away from.

i would love to see my neighborhood revitalize on van ness, but not at the expense of the neighborhood around st. luke's. seaboots needs to be kept at its current level, are made even larger. -- or maybe even larger. we just got beat by a percentage point, by huge amounts of money from a large corporation. cpmc is a large corporation. if you look at the analysis of what is happening in wisconsin, the unions were not tight enough together to win that campaign. we all need to sit down at the

table together and create a war room where we decide how we are going to get a better deal out of them. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisors. my name is monica. my family runs a family-run business in the bayview district for 35 years. we are also certified. we have been proud to host interns from the construction administration training program. we do not do this because is required. we do it because it is the way we have always done business. i have to say the knowledge and the confidence level of all the intern to have come from the program have improved. i think that cpmc is employing

baby residents on this project. by supporting this project, you are indicating your support for local businesses. and as we all know, when local businesses win, the city wins. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is jerry. i'm the manager of oncology services at cpmc -- >> oncology as in cancer? >> yes, sir. we are located on the pacific can cpmc, and although our service will not relocate to the new hospital, the overall rebuild project will benefit the

services we provide the citizens of san francisco in the following ways. due to the growing demand of our cancer care services, we allow the space to expand. with the construction of the tower, the two services we sure the floor what will be allowed to expand and centralize over three locations. there's the main hospital, the first floor of stanford, and the campus. as part of the work that has provided 150 years of health care services to the citizens of san francisco, oncologist need a centralized home to continue providing the kind of care the citizens of san francisco deserve. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. let's meet -- let me visually show. we have been through