upheld today, so thank you all. thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is ryan, and i also hold a degree in planning, and i am a sixth generation san franciscan. i urge you to shoot this down, support this appeal, and not allow this eir. how many years has this gone on? they have had years to produce the right statistics, the right information, and when asked further questions, give further response is, "i need to check this." you are hearing more from members of the community who have no investment in cpmc in

producing this information. the people who are responsible to produce it do not. it is time to shoot this down. one of the arguments is about earthquake readiness, which is a huge issue, but the neighborhood in power and network lists or one of the proper responses for earthquake responsiveness is community development. it is your neighborhood, your community that comes out to support you in times of disaster and times of stress. we need to really make sure that any developments that happen here do not impact our community and that strengthen and in power as, so i really asking a this question as elected officials for the city and county of san francisco. do you support the development of community and the individuals and the residents who live here, or big business and big dollars? thank you. president chiu: next speaker.

>> good evening. my name is -- i am a member of the neighborhoods association and the san francisco neighborhood network and the coalition. and i actually have some documents, some additional articles i would like to submit into the record. president chiu: you can just hand it to one of our colleagues. >> ok. i want to talk a little bit about the history of this site selection of cathedral hill. if we look at the record, we can see that cpmc started looking for a new site for earthquake preparedness in 2001, and they selected a hospital in the presidio, a 43-acre site. they then tried many other sites in the area around cathedral hill, a psychiatry at that was the only place they were ever willing to look for a site.

that is where all the others are clustered. they were never willing to look for another site outside. it cannot be that district 5 is the most important district in san francisco, but they had an unwillingness to look at other areas to provide service there. there have been many opportunities over the years, particularly in 2007, when st. louis became part -- when st. luke's became part. they could put 300 beds in cathedral hill, others at st. luke's. we go to 7.2 acres. so we double the acreage, we double the access roads and transit capabilities. we take down the environmental impact. the health-care services for the eastern neighborhoods, and we have a great environmental compromise.

cpmc has not been willing to discuss this in any way. another thing we hear about is numerous requests for data and benchmarks that have never been met. we cannot get the data or benchmarks. when they do provide them, they are not supporting the position. they take a position, but the data does not support it. this is in one report and various other reports around. traffic and transit. because of this unwillingness to ever move forward and ever be a in a partnership role -- raw with neighbors, with community advocates, with other advocates, we would urge you not to let this go forward, to make sure that you uphold the appeal at this time and not go for a continuance, not to let this go

on month after month, year after year. thank you. president chiu: thanks. next speaker. >> hello. i am -- housing jobs and justice. especially our seniors, we have been fighting to keep st. luke's open. it is one of the many reasons are organizations joined with many others to ensure that this prioritizes the needs of all san franciscans, especially the most vulnerable populations. i would like to report that new the board of supervisors held their appeal and rejecting the eir that did not seriously consider alternatives, including a larger st. luke's and presumably a more viable state and whigs.

prioritizing people over profits, and that you are looking at long-term benefits for the entire city versus short-term gains -- gains for just eight select few. please uphold this. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> ok, my name is zac, a resident of the cathedral hill neighborhood and a founding member of the cathedral hill association. we formed the association i think in 2005 largely to create some sort of interface with cpmc and quickly found that they marginalized the neighborhood interests. we were not able to have a conversation with them on the impact of traffic, the 24/7 nature of the operation at van ness, and as a result of the eir

moving fort, through the development agreement, there really has not been much public opportunity to have that discussion either and to really reflect the neighborhood concerns. one of the issues aside from traffic which as been discussed is the traffic. effectively, we are looking not only at two buildings that they want to build but a third building that they are operating and that will be at franklin, which they say right now they have no plans for. well, chances are they are going to very quickly have plans for that after building the two new buildings, and who knows what ever buildings else they have? my concern is that the corridor will become -- without any real spending for what this means for the neighborhood, when it means for commerce in the area, what it means for residents in the area. going back briefly to traffic,

that the studies have been inadequate, one area that is heavily impacted already, and, of course, van ness, so i urge you to reject this. supervisor: >> my name is -- and i am a registered nurse, and three years, we have had issues with the corporation. what i've come to realize is they will do just about anything to increase their market share. they have done this in northern california. they are doing this in san francisco.

they will do this at the expense of patients, their employees, their unions, and the community. what really concerns me is we have seen the corporation be very dishonest with us in their negotiations as a union, and now it has come down to that they are doing the same thing with the city of san francisco and the board of supervisors, so i would urge you to reconsider approving anything with the sutter corporation and cpmc until we know they are dealing honestly with the board of supervisors, the city of san francisco, the community, the nurses, the employees. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> hello, i am a registered nurse and a nurse representative for the nurses at st. francis memorial hospital, and i speak to the concern about cathedral hill, which is just six blocks from st. francis. st. francis is a major provider to the homeless and low-income and is always at risk of closure or sale. my concern is that a new hospital at cathedral hill will result in a loss of paid patients and that it will place a new problem with the potential hospital closure at st. francis. it is a real concern, and i urge the board to consider this in their long-term planning. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is -- a resident of the

tenderloin. i am also a member of the filipino community organization. we would like to thank the supervisor. the people's demands about this project. we can also agree if this does not benefit the low income residents. cpmc continues to make record profit while not giving back in health care services for the poor. downgrading st. luke's, which many depend on. they must have a more sustainable and fully staffed st. luke's. we urge the board of supervisors to reject this project since

cpmc continues to reject our demands. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> the afternoon, supervisors. my name is -- and i am a resident. i am also a member of the tenderloin filipino american community organization. our organization has been in the forefront to make them accountable, and for two years now, there has been a campaign for better health care for the low-income residents of the tenderloin, more affordable housing, local hiring, in ensuring that they will mitigate the traffic impact that this will do to our neighborhood. for years now, cpmc continues to ignore our rightful demands, so on behalf of all the members of our filipina american community

organization, i am here to support the appeal of the community and reject the eir. thank you. supervisor: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is -- jiminez. it has been in the paper that there is action to be taken for st. luke's to be demolished. i would hope that you would consider it before taking any action because it is really important for us seniors, so hopefully each and every one of the supervisors will consider this matter. thank you very much.

supervisor: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language] >> good evening, supervisors. my name is -- i am going to translate for her. >> [speaking foreign language] >> we are worried about cpmc and the issue of discrimination, especially for the filipino workers that have not been addressed yet, therefore we are concerned about that. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> and also the issue of st. luke's possibly closing down is a big issue for us, especially for the workers who want to make sure that cpmc stays open for more than 20 years. >> clean support this and send it back to the planning commission. thank you, supervisors. supervisor: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors. i am rosemary. i am in the filipino community, too. i am concerned about jobs.

in two years or three years' time, it will be closed, and i am concerned about the jobs and the medical for the low-income persons for the filipino community and the jobs also. [speaking foreign language] last week, a relative was hospitalized at st. luke's, and if it is closed, the medical is

going to be -- >> last week, her mother-in-law went to st. luke's, and what would happen if st. luke's is not there for them to be treated and their medical is not supported? >> thank you very much. supervisor: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, i am with the community. [speaking foreign language] >> my name is grace, and i am here today to urge you to please hold off on passing the cpmc, especially in regard to helping

low-income families who need affordable housing. >> [speaking foreign language] >> listen to the community appeal and send this draft eir back to the planning commission and to the community issues are addressed. thank you. supervisor: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is -- and i worked with at least 60 or 70 families, latino families, and we have to speak for them, and we ask you to support our community and send it back to the planning commissioners, so would you please do that?

thank you. supervisor: thank you. next speaker. >> i am with the action network. i have for you a petition of residents that we collected and over four days that heard about cpmc and how it would be heard by the board of supervisors. please address housing, jobs, the traffic. you know, the traffic calming even though it is coming from the tenderloin, it is going to impact the south of market greatly. we already have a committee of parents looking at the pedestrian safety issues in the south of market area, which has over 20 of our members involved. we urge you to hear the community appeal and send it

back to the community -- and send it back. we urge you to please not passed cpmc. supervisor?: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is -- at, and i live about two blocks away, and this project has invar mental impact, and it is negative. the environmental impact report really downplayed it. there are severe housing in packs and traffic impacts and housing displacement. you know what? the city is getting a raw deal, too. even if they keep st. luke's open at 80 beds, that is not a viable hospital. they have 200 now. maybe they need 300.

550 beds, 15 floors, an oversized building in my neighbor, a nonviable st. luke's, this is what they are proposing? this is designed for misery and failure. the southern half of the city will be left without adequate medical care, and the tenderloin area will be burdened with excess traffic, and yet our residents will not even be cared for. sure, they will let s in the emergency room, but this is a luxury hospital with rooms that will rent between $5,000 to may be $8,000 per day. this is not a neighboring hospital. police, i urge you to reject this environmental report and uphold the appeal. thank you for your time. supervisor: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i just 20 it speak briefly to

tie together some of the points that several speakers have made tonight and to take you back in time, because i think it is important to watch how sutter has behaved in what is this in exorable march towards a total market control. i will remind you that they are in non-profit corporation and yet they are a fabulously wealthy nonprofit corporation, and we are happy to have hospitals provide charity care services in exchange for waving taxes. we think that is an important social benefit, but keep in mind, and i know materials that been presented to you in writing, but their record in charity care in san francisco is abysmal. it was addressed at great length by a professor's students who did an in-depth analysis of the

charity care provided in which hospitals in the city really carry their weight in that regard, and i want to just go back in time a little bit and bring to your attention an article i found while i was researching this question of their role in market share in northern california, and i know you'll have all been provided with a copy of a federal trade commission study that was done matches the impact of sutter's consolidation in many communities. this is from a lawsuit filed by the attorney general of california in 1999 challenging the merger of summit and the other hospital in the east bay and from the internal planning memos received in the course of discovery in that lawsuit, the attorney general found -- supervisor: thank you very much. next speaker.

>> a good afternoon, supervisors. i cannot speak to the issues here. i do not have the expertise of many of the speakers before. i am simply here as a resident of the mission the has some serious concerns about the availability of health care for myself and my neighbors. you know, one thing that has emerged from this entire process that should be glowingly obvious to everyone in this room is that indeed, they plan on closing st. luke's if it is allowed to do so as soon as possible. and it has shown this by negotiating in a way that does not exactly manifest bad faith. that should throw some doubt on everything that they told the city, and i think i would like

to urge you to take an especially skeptical look at the eir, at the information provided by sutter, and ask for the rest of it, well, what can i say? and if the financing is not there. thank you very much. supervisor thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello. i want to first thank you for your being diligent and having this public process and the many hearings. as you can see, it is important

to many cross sections. i am here to tell you that we would like to support the appeal of the eir, and our young, starting in 2009, they took a very bold stand to have southeast represented within the conversation of health care needs. the southeast always neglected in the city, and our youth took a stand, and this week, it was in the san francisco " chronicle," saying that st. luke's should be a deal breaker. they have shared their stories with many of you, either one on one or here, but they do rely on st. luke's, and if anything, st. luke's needs to be bigger and even more viable, which goes to where the eir is flawed. the project objectives are way too high in a stamp that medical services need to be centralized,

and this is a false, i think, assumption. number two, and never looked at alternatives, and st. luke's needs to be bigger and more robust. it is currently in the development agreement that it is set up to fail. now, when we did our survey of the excelsior and the chinese residents live in there, one out of four were uninsured, and a lot of them travel 60 minutes to get to any health care services, and some people say they'd like going to chinatown, that is great, but let's make that a choice. let's make sure people have health care access in the southeast for all san franciscans. thank you. at supervisor: thank you.

next speaker. >> i retired last november. this hospital has always been the on mounted orphan. only under these damages for noncompetitive practices that they agreed to bring st. luke's into its fold, but they made decisions to close it. because of their nonprofit status, they created their blue ribbon panel that agreed with the need to rebuild st. luke's. this was already under way, and the skeletonized hospital without even a pediatric ward planned. st. luke's was supposed to be a spoke serving the hub, to use their analogy. st. luke's has served this community for 131 years as the only other hospital beside san francisco general. we are not talking about rebuilding another mcdonald's.

this is vital to the health care infrastructure for san francisco for perhaps the next 100 plus years, to have an emergency room capable of handling the unexpected. the reason for the rebuilding is seismic safety. we know from other expert testimony that loss of a hospital eir substantially increases morbidity and mortality, for all nearby communities where the wait times increase. think about the stroke victims, your child of an attack or your heart attack. unviable st. luke's is needed at san francisco. it is better that they admit a need for new management rather than close saint wheat. please forget the profit driven point of a 1% margin. should not the true purpose of the nonprofit before the benefit of the community? thank you.