holdsutter cpmc accountable. we want to hold those directly affected by sutter cpmc, including nurses, health care providers, low-income residents of the tenderloin, and working families and seniors in the southeast san francisco. it is well documented a thatsutter is the most profitable hospital corporation in the region. they charge the highest price for services and offer the lowest level of charity care. despite cpmc's propaganda the current terms of the deal negotiated by the mayor's office are grossly inadequate to the community and to our workers. the deal as it stands now would just give cpmc the green light to make millions of dollars more in profits and dominate our health-care system for decades. we urge you to vote against this project unless there are these

major changes. these include no downsizing of st. luke's. 50%, not 5%, local hiring for permanent jobs. [bell rings] match lennar's commitment to $8.5 million in funding towards workforce development. guaranteed job transfers for 3000 current employees at risk of layoff. respect the rights of the poised to join a union free from interference. do the right thing, supported -- support the workers and communities. thank you. supervisor mar: the question that has come up before is the need for a community benefits agreement to hold the project developer and the project accountable. i am wondered how the cba what kind of hold them accountable? if you do not want to answer it, it is fine. thank you. next speaker. >> my name is linda carter.

a stanford and residentfor 44 years and rn at st. luke's for 42. i know this will bring a lot of short-term building trade jobs, and that is great. the city doesn't need that. and we do need seismically state hospitals. however -- the city doesn't need that. and we do need seismically safe hospitals. however, after that work is done, the real work has to get done. the hospital has to have staff. i am here to speak for the nurses whose jobs are at stake. we're not guaranteed any transfer rates, and that is one thing we have continually asked for whenever we're at the negotiating tables because we have been without a contract for five years. we do still negotiate. we have been asking about transfer and seniority rights.

with the total closure of the cal campus and st. luke's being cut to a third of its side, no one has a guarantee of a job in the new cathedral facility. we would like to see transfer rights the part of the benefit agreement, the community benefits agreement. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is frederick. i am here representing, and i am also a resident of san francisco, local 22 journeyman carpenter. i started out in 2002 as an asian neighborhood design pre- printed should double the pre- apprentice, which is now pretty much city built. i was able to support my family at a sustainable wage. i represent this hospital being built, not only as a citizen, a

person who works for the city, and i think the hospital is better than an apartment building or, you know, office building going up, because it is going to support the community. i know it is not a perfect world, but it will support a lot of jobs. i am also a student in community college in construction management. by you guys letting this hospital be built, i feel it will benefit most of the people in the city. thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> [inaudible] and i fully support cpmc's rebuild of the california pacific medical center. myself, i am a former employee of cpmc.

when i was working back in 1989, i had the opportunity from my supervisor to train a blind person to do transport back in 1989. the person had training through the rehab, the state of california rehab program, and i was the one who trained this person that was blind to do transport. it is an honor that cpmc allow me and allow the individual blind person to be able to work at the hospital.

this is the first time in california that i can remember that a hospital was devoted to allow a disabled person like myself to be able to work in the hospital. [bell rings] and i support cpmc. supervisor mar: sir, for how many years did you work for cpmc? >> i worked in the transport department. for 10 years. supervisor mar: ok, thank you. i have a few more names. halifa, jamil, stephanie, andy, alicia, saul, sean. >> good afternoon. i am a night nurse in the women's and children's unit that marin general hospital, so i am

your neighbor up north. formally a part of sutter corporate health system, i have been a nurse for 21 of my 31 years atmarin general. for a number of years, it was operated byu health -- by sutter health, but the district voted to settle its lease agreement five years earlier -- or five years early. prior to this, sutter routinely transferred around 3 million per year out of marin to its corporate in sacramento. that increased to 30 million per year just before the ties were severed. hmm. the district believes that sutter health siphoned off money that should have rightfully remained in the health care district, prompted a lawsuit that is still pending. shame on you, sutter

corporation. i had a lot more to read but it has already been said. all i would like to say is, supervisors, please be very careful in dealing with the sutter corporation. last, if you're wondering about my hat, i invite you to look up the robinhood tax .org website. >> get afternoon, supervisors. i am here to reiterate a point that was made earlier about what labor is pushing for and what community is pushing for, actually being the same things, and to reiterate the point that labor is community and community is labor. you know, what it really is about is good jobs, and that is something that both labor and community understand and are pushing for. i work at the tenderloin at

tndc. we have a lot of unemployed residents or low-income and working poor. it would be great to see them working at this hospital. we're pushing for more local hire, more than 40 jobs per year for five years, to ensure our residents can work in the hospital being built in their neighborhood. in good conscience, i cannot see myself or have a hard time seeing myself recommending by residents to work at cpmc hospital where workers are treated so poorly. and i have been sitting here listening to all these accounts of nurses. i have talked to stationary engineers who were on strike. and in no good conscience can i say that i fully support the jobs that will come from cpmc if they are going to be the way that has been described today by our brothers and sisters in the nurses' union. so i really wanted to emphasize

that for community, for the tenderloin, we really want to see a local hire good jobs -- want to see good local hire jobs. [bell rings] we want to ensure that our residents in the tenderloin will not be moving into a poor working environment, that their rights as workers would be respected. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> i am an engineer, not a politician and not a lawyer. as an engineer, i would like to mention that the new cathedral whole project will not only be earthquake-proof, but it will also employee outside, so in case of epidemic, it will be a beacon on the heel. i was thinking i would talk about this world-class facility a little bit long for.

-- a little bit longer, the previous speakers were talking about guaranteed employment. thanks to my unique experience, i worked and lived half of my lifetime in the soviet union. know that when employment is guaranteed, people become complacent. and when they become complacent, they do not perform their best. it is common knowledge that 100,000 people die in hospitals every year in the united states due to [unintelligible] which i attributed to mistakes made by health-care providers. so san francisco deserves not only world-class facilities but world class medical care providers, and the qualifications should be not the fact that they reside in san francisco but that they are

world-class. [bell rings] let's build this facility. i am waiting to receive another pin during the groundbreaking ceremony. let's build it. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i am a community organizer in the tenderloin. we need more jobs in san francisco. over the past several decades, there has been a mass exodus of working-class families that can no longer afford to live here. it is one of the most expensive cities to live in in the world. so we need to make sure that we secure funding and opportunities, economic resources, towards low-income working class families, residents of san francisco. how could it be that the nurses are against a hospital being built? there should be something that clicks with that, sutter that

help -- that sutter health does not support the nurses' unions and others. they have had to start to get fair wages for themselves. we need to make sure that we are hiring locally. 5% of all the jobs coming into the city to the new hospital is being built is really a census to san franciscans. we need to uphold the name st. francis and what that means as seven franciscans. no one from cpmc is able to say anything about the jobs. in their presentation, there is no mention of the jobs. the ceo was unable to say he would commit to anything. he said he will take into consideration. so you, as elected officials, need to hold them accountable, because they're not going to do it themselves. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. andy, carol, ian, michelle, nancy, kathy.

i do not think you have been called yet. >> i am taking his position. his name is jamil. you called him. supervisor mar: he can speak. >> he cannot give me his term? supervisor mar: i asked you to respect the process. >> he told me he is giving me his turn. is that illegal? supervisor mar: your name is on the bottom and he appeared. >> he said he wants me to speak for him. supervisor mar: your name is a the bottom of the list. but if he is willing to give up his time, that is fine. >> that is what i said five times. does my time start now? supervisor mar: his time has started. >> mine namefly benzo carpenter, a bayview resident in part owner of a paint company, bnc painting

and decorating, and i know from experience that when it comes to hiring, blacks hire blacks, whites hire whites, asians higher asians, and latinos hire latinos. so i would like to say that african americans and our businesses need to be included in the bid process, and we also need to be given assistance in receiving these contracts, rather than a situation that we have going on in west point right now in which there is no oversight. and if anyone comes up raising issues, they call the police. and people were given at restraining orders, and our tax dollars are being misappropriated and misused because they are not getting down to the people who are actually paying the taxes, who are the residents of the community. i just want to make sure that this -- i know for a fact -- i

mean, i am not going to act like i predict the future, like i am some kind of mind reader or something, but i know for a fact that this is going to pass regardless of what we have to say, regardless of how much we can plan or whatever, because of the regional funding and the way but that the regional funding goes to the suburbs rather than the cities. [bell rings] which have most of the residence. so we need construction and development in order to stimulate the economy. but i understand it is going to pass, but i want to make sure we are not overlooked and we're not held at is disadvantaged and african-americans are not still continuing to lead the city at an alarming rate, 3.9% in 2012. [bell rings] i also want to say -- supervisor mar: thank you. >> we need some educational opportunities, going through

city college -- supervisor mar: thank you very much. thank you for giving your time to him. thank you very much. >> [inaudible] supervisor mar: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] supervisor mar: can we have the microphone turned back on? thank you. >> ian, hotel and food-service workers union. somebody asked us to take the big picture. the big picture today is that we are paying the price for years and years of the country's biggest corporations exploiting job insecurity of working people. that is the source of our budget and jobs crisis, our economic crisis. and that is the source of people dying in hospitals of preventable diseases. understaffing and security that our health care service providers suffer every day at the hands of these corporations. against all odds, in our city,

working people have achieved some humble gains, particularly in expansion to new development projects. they have done that by winning the right to join a union if they want to through card check in a poor neutrality. they have done that through strong impossible worker retention agreements that ensure the workers and their security in their contracts are preserved when employers open up new operations elsewhere. and they have done that through strong community benefits agreements. now, that has happened in some of our city's signature developments regardless of proprietary interest or not. we saw agreements like that covering the expansion of sfo and the concessions at the airport. we saw agreements like that at the ballpark. we have seen agreements like that at a dozen hotels and many suit -- food service operations, and we have seen that and thelennar hunters point

development. nobody is asking cpmc to break new ground in these areas of commitments, strong, enforceable commitments, to employment rights and community rights with a new hospital expansion. so i urge you to look at any approvals of this project in that light. supervisor mar: from local two's experience of card check neutrality and transfer rights, can you explain what you said about the nurses? >> i am not sure your question, but we have negotiated, both in the context of this city proprietary interest, agreements that guarantee those rights for workers, and bilateral agreements of developers who were not receiving any city money. those developers and those operating companies and did so because they respected the rights of workers to join the union and preserve their jobs and accomplished level working conditions in the city. supervisor mar: and the cma

workers talked about that, so local two is supportive of that? >> absolutely. there's no question that is the most effective way for workers to realize their right to join a union. supervisor mar: thank you. next. >> thank you, supervisors. i am is civil engineering student at san francisco state. i am here today to voice my support for the rebuild cpmc project. throughout the day, we have heard concerns raised by many individuals and parties, and particularly the nurses. i want to say that i understand and sympathize with those concerns, and i think most people in this room share that sentiment. but we need to understand that with the product of this scope and size, not every part involved will receive everything they ask for, and certain invest -- concessions will need to be made. what i can say is that the

city's health care infrastructure is hopelessly and prepared for major seismic event in the future, and it is slightly alarming to me that when a natural disaster strikes, if it does, we may not even have standing hospitals to support the resulting influx of patients. what i want to see is this project implemented so that we do have this level of service continued throughout any situation. and i hope that everyone is able to reach an agreement as rational people so that we can go forth and carry through this project. i yield the remainder of my time. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. debra, paloma, bruce, mclarens,clarence -- >> hello. i am an rn from the east bay

and have been for 29 years. i have spent time at the medical center. i wanted to come today to share my experience with sutter. like the nurse from marin, and we have had more than a three- year fight to keep our hospital open. they build a new hospital in castro valley. none of us were against building the new hospital, but we did not wanted to be at the sake of sacrificing our hospital. that is kind of what happened. sutter said they would keep us open if it would meet the budget. they did not want to make money, but there were going to start their evaluation of the six months prior to them bringing in a service that they said would ensure that we would stay open. of course, the services never moved into the hospital. they came to losses, billions of dollars of losses, but they do not open their books for anyone to have a look at to actually

justified the losses they are claiming. so i am listening to the jobs promised thing here, and i would say you need to absolutely get that in writing from sutter with no ifs and all of that. they want to keep st. luke's open if -- the ifs did not happen. that is their ticket out. even with contract negotiations, we agreed to have joint seniority. [bell rings] so whatever hospital would close, there was a question of were the new one would be rebuilt, and the senior nurses would have jobs but that was in our contract we agreed to. now sutter management has put a proposal in to rescind that and separate the seniority. supervisor mar: when the rebuild happen? >> it happened in castro valley, and they're due to move in in december. supervisor mar: how did it

impact overall cost of health care in the area? >> i do not know yet, but they have not moved in. we have elderly, medi-cal, uninsured, and more. they just do not want them to go to castro valley, and they do not want the hospital anymore. supervisor cohen: i have a question for you. cpmc has said that they have built in a certain trigger points that would relieve them of their obligation to continue to support st. luke's hospital. i was wondering if that were the case down in san leandro, did their work trigger points that were agreed by? >> i would say in the contract at the hospital made with the district board -- that sutter made with the district board, you know, they promised quite a bit. but the deck was stacked.

they made it so this would not happen. there was never interested in keeping the hospital open. but it sounded good to some of the public, and the board decided to go ahead with it. if we keep our hospital alban, there will not be rebuilding. people did not speak up that there were against that. we really need both hospitals. seismic interests were mentioned. if hospitals go down -- i mean, if they close hospitals and we have a major earthquake, we're going to be hurting. we're going to need every bed. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, members of the board, for hearing my comments. my name is michelle. i have been a safety coordinator for cpmc at the davies campus for five years. i currently live in daly city but was born in san francisco and grew up in the richmond district. at that time, i believe the

same hospitals were up as are up now. i do not think there has been much of a change. i strongly support cpmc's plans to build two new earthquake-safe hospitals at st. luke's and at the van ness and geary. we have outgrown our hospitals. they cannot accommodate our state of the art technology and equipment that is no standard to apply good health care to our patients. to retrofit -- rich rafa buildings, it does nothing to upgrade the 50 + year old infrastructure -- to upgrade buildings. we have a mantra in their safety office that says "it is not if but when" that there's going to be some kind of earthquake, and we're hoping we have seismically sound hospitals for the people of san francisco before that happens. this is a wonderful opportunity to build a modern earthquake- safe hospital. this has been delayed for far too long.

please support cpmc's plans to rebuild. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is kathy, and i am the director of safety and disaster preparedness for cpmc. i am a san francisco resident, and i live in bernal heights. not only do i strongly support cpmc's plan to rebuild two new earthquake-safe hospitals, but i feel very passionate saying that we owe this to our patients, our staff, and our san francisco community. our patients deserve modern hospitals with newer, state of the art technologies. being responsible for the disaster program, of course one of my biggest worries is an earthquake. knowing that our hospitals are not seismically safe and could sustained significant damage in a major earthquake is sending the seriously concerns me. the plan to rebuild cpmc has been delayed for too long. it is time to rebuild two new hospitals. please support our plans to

rebuild. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is deborah. i am registered nurse of about 23 years of cal campus. i am speaking off the top of my head and out of my heart. nurses are the face of your hospital. s or theou -- you are the soul of your hospital. you're the heart of your hospital. we're tired of being treated like cattle and being forced into blue uniforms that advertise that we are nurses all over the city. i think it has been a demeaning process. we're proud of the work we do, and we do not like to be treated like something unimportant. i am concerned that it has been misconstrued -- misconstruing the press about our salaries. i think there has been a lot of media press that cpmc has put out that is not true. i wish our nurses were being respected in terms of the new

facility. i also have concerns that maybe you guys want to again to the effect it appears that a lot of nervous -- a lot of nurses from the south are being hired as cpmc these days. not only are nurses not being hired from san francisco, but you why it -- you might want to find out what we're suddenly seeing an awful lot of nurses from other states other than california being hired at cpmc. thank you. supervisor mar: i know it is just your perspective as a nurse, but since seismic safety has been raised as the main driver for the rebuild, i am wondering how you, as a nurse, the cpmc about, -- feel about cpmc and sutter wanting to do this seismic upgrading? >> i am proud that we are working on seismic safety. but i am concerned about putting all our eggs in one basket. i am is geared to think about that there will not be emergency roomil