to provide a career path for san francisco residents for over 100 years and we are -- because we are a part of the community. today we continue our commitment, work closely with city build, crrment. a.a. and other -- c.a.a. and other community-based organizations in order to bring more qualified applicants to our program. review cpmc will provide opportunities for such applicants. we as building trades, already to make -- are ready to make hospitals in san francisco seismic safe. please put our members back to work, and i ask you to support this project and moving forward. thank you. >> up the. mr. san, we already called your name. so i'm going to read the last cards and if anyone else can come forward -- [reading names]

next speaker? ma'am? >> i would hike to start by thanking the members of the board of supervisors for sticking around to make sure we all got to get our comments in. my name is emily. i'm a joranman wireman and a business representative for the international brother hood of electrical workers, local six. i was born and raised in san francisco. i live in twin peeks. for the people i love and all the people that come to san francisco for medical care, it is of the utmost importance to begin construction on a seismically sound hospital now. on monday, a group returned to install a new generator at a hospital that they rewired a year and a half ago. it's an amazing display of kindness, doing right by those in need and having a skilled trailed you love.

rebuilding cpmc would provide my brothers and sisters with the opportunity to build a safe, seismically sound and advanced medical facility. rebuilding cpmc would allow our journeymen to get back to work, have pride in what they do and pass on their skills. san francisco joint ring the academy ask committed to providing the highest level of training. we've opened doors for city participants to come in and be exposed to be a -- what a union apprenticeship has to offer. this would be a great opportunity for those trying to get hours to become journeymen. it would give hope to our members still waiting on the out of work list for their chance to get back to work. please vote in support of cpmc.

thanks. >> thanks. next speaker? >> good afternoon. my name is richard manning. i'm a retired -- living in san francisco for 32 years and i am a volunteer at the ralph k. davies medical center. but before i make my comments, i would like to direct something at you, sir. i think you deserve some kind of award, a stamina award for sitting here for the last six years listening to us. beall -- we all appreciate that. >> that's right. >> anyway, scientists predict the big one is a matter of time, an 8.0 or larger here in the bay area. is the bay area equipped to handle a disaster like this? i think not. the city of san francisco needs to lead the way as it has so many times in the past. san francisco is a leading

center on the west coast and it will remain so. so continue that leadership now and in the future we need a first rate medical center, one that is ready to meet the challenges not for the city but for the entire bay area. great cities are measured not just by their famous museums or monuments but by the institutions they serve. in a city like san francisco, we are fortunate to have such an insurance institution, cpmc. we need everyone in this room, in this building, in this city, to stand behind cpmc in its endeavor to build a medical center of the future and for the future. now is the time, this is the place. cpmc is our future. tough. >> thank you, mr. manning. mr. fercudo? >> good afternoon. supervisors. i started watching proceedings

at 10:00, had time to go shopping, go to berkeley and come back and here you are. so good work. the city needs cpmc. we understand that the need for seismically safe hospitals -- the coalition understand that is we need jobs. we need jobs for the city workers. and another important thing is that the feeling is that the health care master plan should be a vital component that should be completed before cpmc proveeds. -- proceeds. the city does not know exactly the needs of the city as far as health care hospitals are concerned. we don't need all the hospitals concentrated in certain sect oishes of the city. now going on. the coalition feels that a small erven is project and a larger st. luke's project will

best serve the needs of the city in future. as far as the job guarantees are concerned. 40 jobs per year? that's not very much and it's been said many, many times that cpmc is one of the largest employers in the city. and 40 jobs per year? that's sort of embarrassing, i would think. you might put one more zero there. make it real. i think supervisor chiu and other supervisors who have mentioned that, keep mentioning is that for just the low end? are there more skilled licensed professionals? those should be included but 40 jobs per year that is unacceptable. that needs to be increased. the rebuild has to be done. whether as it is or with a new plan with a small erven is project and a larger st. luke's project, i think that's the way it should be.

>> thank you. next speaker? >> thanks, supervisors, and ♪ supervisor march for listening to the -- mar for listening to the land use show thanks to supervisor mar for listening to the board land use show but we do need a hospital star show and it will be better don't you know you won't be denied budget, money and jobs abide and we do need a money show we don't want it we better make it better today say lay, lady lay lay across your west sutter west bay stay, lady stay

stay because the expensive night is still ahead your st. luke psychiatrist is going to get you mighty clean and it's the best hospital you've ever seen stay, lady stay stay across your sutter way bed bed. and ♪ st. luke's luke's luke's duke of earl, earl, earl unfurl those pearls, pearls, pearls boys and girls boys and girls and you'll make it better, better hospital world, world, world and it will come your way in a hur and ♪ i found my bills and money thrills on ca need a hospital hill and you made it better still

and i thank for all you do and you still will ♪ >> what timing. thank you, walter. [applause] mr. sang? >> hi, good afternoon, honorable supervisors. i'm representing -- foundation. the cpmc project is going to be -- with the booming population in san francisco is soon going to catch up with all the hospitals and recently several i had a friend who had a heart attack. every hospital is always filled. we need additional hospitals in the city and cpmc has always offered excellent service, the best you can think of in the city, other than trauma center of san francisco general, of course. they're still one of the best hospitals in the city so please

put that project retro fitting if only for the safety of the employees and for the patient as well so please approve this project. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to speak today. my name is lander miles. i am a volunteer on the front desk of cpmc's davies campus and have just come from there. i've been a neighbor of cpmc for 37 years, having lived within two blocks of first the pacific campus and now the california pam -- campus. in the early 1980's, the california campus was torn down and rebuilt. yes, there have been reconviences. but a city needs its hospitals, schools, and churches. and it's always near a neighborhood. that is part of living in the city. i have found cpmc to be a good neighbor. our family became hospital volunteers when our doctor

called to ask if our husband would join the board of st. luke's, which was in desire financial straits. i asked him to do whatever he could. there's no doubt that st. luke's would be just a memory if cpmc had not embraced it as a campus and there would not be an adequate hospital in the mission. my husband and i are also patients. having been shepherded through a bifert, emergencyies by its staff and physicians. my husband was ones again in the emergency room at davies at a bad fall a few weeks ago. he's fine. i doubt that i would be here speaking to you without the care of a plastic surgeon on the campus. let's make st. luke's, cathedral hill and davies campuses, world-class

facilities as well, for those who come not only a -- only from the city, but across the u.s.a. and indeed the world. thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. next speaker? >> good afternoon, period -- board of supervisors. thanks for this opportunity to speak with you this day. i was also going to give a karaoke version of my presentation but that was a hard act to follow. by name is ray jue. i am a native of san francisco, born and raised and lived here all my life. i'm going to talk about the personal aspects of why i support rebuilding cpmc. as a native of san francisco, my family and i have lived here for over three generations. we had choices to make about living the city but this is always home for us. it's very important as the community that we live in and that we serve in together that this continues.

throughout three generations, my immediate family, my relatives, we have all been patients of cpmc at the four campuses throughout san francisco. weevepled like to see that continue with seismically safe hospitals that will be constructed that will withstand a major earthquake and will be here for another 100 years to carry on the legacy of cpmc as it did early on when plan? was still developing. on a professional level, i'd also like to provide full disclosure. i'm a member of the integrated project delivery team of sutter health and cpmc and what we're doing, in my role as an information technology project manager, we are designing and we're ready to construct the hospital of the future with the latest technology, making patient information secure available to our clinicians.

when it comes to life and death situations, having that information available is critical for treating cardiac, for treating strokes and emergency room patients. i implore you, we can do this together with your vote and your support. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is -- and i'm a skipper in st. luke's hospital. i've been in the work area more than 10 years. since i've been working at st. luke's, we have encountered many problems because of the age of the hospital. last year the broiler broke for a month. there was no hot water to clean the food and dishes and sterilize the surgery instruments. we had to get thermal blankets

and portable heaters to all the patients on cold winter nights. we also had other issues. parents had to be moved from their rooms because the rain leaking through the roof. in the past, the sewage line for the hospital broke. leaving us to work on the floor with sewage everywhere. everyone in our community, they deserve better than this. a new facility, people will be happy to come here and know that they will be comfortable and cared for. right now, we use the harsh chemical on the floor. the floor of the new hospital won't require waxing.

this means statue and patients won't have to be breathing in the chemicals anymore. cpmc is proposing to build this hospital. i support the new hospital proposal because it will make the care we give those next speaker, if there's anybody else that is speaking, please come forward so we'll close after this gentleman. >> good morning. my name is pilar chiavo of the california nurses association. i want to touch on a few things that have been talked about today and follow up on paul kumar who mentioned the earthquake safety. it really is offensive for us to have people supporting cpmc and cpmc's line about earthquake safety when our nurses are working in those hospitals. our nurses want earthquake safe hospitals. and we have been actively lobbying for this legislation with them on the other side of

us. on the other side consistently. and so when they come up here and act like they're pushing for this to move forward quickly because they want earthquake safety, when they have been on the other side pushing for delays after delays after delays, it is offensive. i'm sorry. i'm pregnant. i'm almost due. i'm mad. the other piece of it is, you know, how are you going to push for earthquake safety when you're trying to reduce the size of st. luke's hospital, which is one of the few hospitals that serves the southeast of the city, and then what, you're expecting everyone to come to a 10-story hospital in the middle of the city on the corner of vepies in the middle -- of venice in the middle of an earthquake disaster? you're kidding me that you expect people to get there. it's an excellent excuse to actually keep st. luke's at a larger size. the health care academy, even rhonda simmons is basically

saying that this is outdated information. that when they started negotiating this agreement, they were basing it on what the city could do at that time. so it seems to justify that this agreement needs to be updated in terms of what the city can do, what work force development programs can do, and what jobs are actually available. these 40 jobs a year, 5% of the jobs that are going to be created is terrible. and it's not a construction project. this is a hospital. it's going to be here for decades. >> can i ask you about the comment about seismic safety delays and nurses supporting legislation that would speed up seismic improvements? but could you go into a little bit detail about that. >> we at the statewide level, we as an organization have consistently been advocating and lobbying in the capital to push for earthquake safety requirements. cpmc, sutter, through the health care -- their lobby arm

of the -- health care or hospital association, has been opposing these and asking for delays. cpmc and sutter have specifically requested and gotten delays on this. so for them to turn around that issue right now and act like this needs to be sped up because of earthquake safety requirements, when they have been actively opposing them is at the least disingenuous. >> thank you. thank you so much, ms. chiavo. next speaker and we're going to close it -- are you going to speak? please come forward. and we're going to close after the man in the white shirt. thank you. next speaker. >> i would like to thank you for this opportunity to speak tonight. my name is brian decraco. i benefited from the excellent carrie received from cpmc. i was infected with hepatitis c when serving in the military and when other doctors and treatments said not to bother with treatment because it was long and difficult and ineffective the doctors at cpmc said we can and they did. i've been hepc free for over

seven years. i'm also a member of the san francisco hepatitis c task force. the help tights c task force -- the help tight he is c task force was established by gavin newsom in 2009. in that time weekly developed a comprehensive set of regulations for the city and we continue as a community task force. one of our key recommendations has been for the city to expand hepatitis c testing because 75% of the people with hepatitis c don't know they have it. leading to advanced liver disease and liver cancer. there are effective treatments for hepatitis c. and many like me can be cured. but the need -- but they need to know they have hepatitis c. in order to get treatment. cpmc can and has been a major partner in this effort. we greatly appreciate that cpmc provided hepatitis c testing with hepatitis b testing at the asian heritage street celebration. as a part of the historic first national hepatitis testing day. san francisco served as a model that day for other cities for providing hepatitis b and c

education and testing. and cpmc was a major part of that success. we encourage cpmc to provide -- so san francisco can continue to be a leader in the fight against viral hepatitis. >> thank you. great to see you at the extradite fair as well. last speaker and we will cut off public comment, all six hours of it. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of this important project. my name is keith wolf. and our firm is a business and land owner on venice boulevard within a block of the project. my wife and i also live in the city and our daughter was born at cpmc where we witnessed first hand the fantastic and dedicated staff at cpmc and also the deteriorating facilities. for example, we were surprised when they said you can't plug in a music device because we're at full electrical capacity and obvious that a new hospital is really important. my wife and i are fortunate to be playing -- planning to stay here in the city. something that's getting harder to do each year for families. unfortunately, our family is

moving -- other families and friends moving out of the city to more communities with more up to date facilities such as hospitals. having an earthquake safe hospital facility in the city of san francisco is critical to families living in the city in case of an emergency. it's so rare to find an organization that's willing to spend over $2 billion on a major project without any public financial assistance. it's hard to understand why the city would provide assistance to successful for-profit companies like twitter to remain in san francisco while not helping support a privately funded project of this importance. the new project will also provide much needed 24-hour presence in the immediate area. it's heartbreaking but not uncommon to find people selling or using drugs and you're nating in the streets in broad daylight surrounding our facility and the proposed project. although cpmc hospital project will not solve all the problems in the area, it will be a really important catalyst for the property owners like ourselves to be able to hire more people and invest in our business. important projects such as the cpmc hospital are always

controversial. and although cpmc could never possibly meet all the demands of its opponents, it appears the hospital has made a considerable effort at great financial cost to accommodate the community in terms of redesigning the project and making significant economic concessions. the proposed cpmc hospital is one of those rare transformational projects that only comes along once in a generation. south of market and the ferry building on the waterfront cpmc will bring new life and investment to this important portion of the city that's in disrepair and has significant public safety concerns and has been neglected for too long. we hope the city would have the vision and the courage to support such an important project. >> thank you so much. and with that, we're closing public comment. and first i wanted to thank dr. browner, mr. farar, judy lee, others from cpmc and our staff from so many definite departments for being here so long -- different departments for being here so long and the public comment from so many different perspectives in the city.

he also wanted to remind us from what mr. kenrich the process is to continue this hearing so that on monday, june 25, we'll address health care on monday, july 9, housing, transportation, and public realm/health service systems/controller and budget analyst report. and then monday, july 16, wrapping up with additional comments. and then it goes -- the appeal will be heard at the full board on tuesday, july 17, with the first reading of the items and then tuesday, july 24, the second reading. so there's a number of other times for people to testify. and today's discussion was on job creation and retention. i also just wanted to say that because of the appeals on july 17, that at this time, we won't be taking action at this committee hearing or the other ones and that it's likely that the items would move or there

would be motions to move them without recommendation so that it goes to the full board on july 17 and july 24. so all 11 supervisors would decide upon the appeal and the legislation. i also wanted to say that it's been a great experience listening to so many stories of the needs for health care in the city. but also the important historic role of cpmc and the community as well. i wanted to ask if supervisor chone or weiner wanted to make -- cohen or weiner wanted to make closing remarks. >> good night. [laughter] >> i wanted to then if my colleagues are being bashful right now, let's ask mr. kenrich if he has any concluding remarks. >> i don't have a concluding remark. but if the committee has about two minutes, we were able during the public comment period to research the discrepancies that you pointed out between the e.i.r. numbers and the numbers that we're

presenting so i was going to ask ms. watty from planning to take one minute talk about that and then we have nothing further. >> elizabeth watty from planning. >> thank you. as background the e.i.r. projection of the 4,107 new jobs created by the year 2030 is a very conservative projection because the number is used in the e.i.r. to project the housing demand. generated by the project which could result in housing production which could result in environmental impacts. so the jobs are analyzed really through that lens. i think that's important to note. but with regard to the previous question, the main reason for the difference in the numbers is the e.i.r. assumes the hospitals would be staffed at full capacity with net new employees. rather than by existing physicians and medical staff who lease offices elsewhere in the city. since this would give the most conservative projection for e.i.r. purposes. in reality, it's expected that many of the people staffing the

new m.o.b. will be physicians and their staffs who currently have practices within the city. thus the much lower number. and for those who are interested, there are more details and specifics in the final e.i.r. >> that's very helpful. thank you for doing that quick research. i also wanted to thank rhonda simmons, head of work force development for office of economic and work force development. ms. simmons, did you want to make any closing remarks? >> thank you, supervisor mar. i think what i'll say about what we have put together is on the construction side for a private project that has a p.l.a. involved in it, i feel like the language that we've negotiated with cpmc and the contract is probably the strongest that i have. because in any other private p.l.a.'s, i don't necessarily

have language that calls out specific goals. so i feel like that's, you know, that part is pretty strong. that in agreement with their agreement to focus on some of the other aspects of construction such as the construction administration. on the in-use, while i hear all of the concerns that everyone has about the higher skill jobs, i totally understand that. i get it. the fact of the matter is as i've said before, just for us, it's not been the focus of our program where i actually train people that have already degrees. san francisco state, all of the other institutions do that. having thought through this a little bit since this morning, we could do more around recruitment with those organizations. i'm sure cpmc does some of that with those programs that offer some more of those advanced degree programs. and that could be something we

can continue conversations around. because they actually do that training. much more than i would have. the ability to do. and would do it quite better. so there could be some ongoing discussion with them around stronger outreach to those programs that do provide those -- that set of training for higher degreed positions. we could work with them more closely on that and provide some placement services there. >> thank you. i know that there have been a lot of comments from the public testimony on quality of jobs, i guess, for the permanent jobs in the city. the 6,200 permanent jobs plus the new jobs that are created. and i'm just wondering if you've been following kind of the comments of the transfer rights and card check neutrality were brought up by some of the speakers. and i'm just wondering if we've done that for other