and i applaud you to please botvote to go ahead and pass the eir. thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you, members of the supervisors -- of the board of supervisors for during this today. -- for hearing us today. i was awarded a as a student. i lived a block away from the pacific ocean. good for me it is the most beautiful place in the world, of the people here deserve the best health care.

conc is the second biggest employer. with so many local employers, isn't is making it an ideal site. i support, and i believe strongly the project has been thoroughly studied. i want to be part of the team, including 50% more space, postpartum care. but i believe i deserve structurally save hospitals. gooi believe the hard-working mn and women get this done.

i urge you to vote. thank you. good night. >> i have been a gynecologist at st. luke's for 17 years, and i was a member of the blue ribbon panel. i believe this does hurt st. luke's about a decrease security, and this does affect our census on a day-to-day basis. the proposed site will allow us to grow. for many years we have been well-supported by the clinical services of the california campus. we really appreciate the diligence of the board to verify and insure this is a solid plan for san francisco, but we must maintain our potential, and this

could ultimately lead to a closure. >> thank you for your diligence in investigating the eir. i appreciate you are still here tonight. i am a member of the van ness corridor association and one of the pastors of san francisco lighthouse church, and i fully support the rebuilding plan. i live close to the campus for six years. i am sad to see them go. they are in desperate need of revitalization and healing, and with each neighborhood having its own character, the van ness

corridor comes up short. it lacks a natural amenities. there is a lot of dark places for bad things to happen. we are prioritizing transit and people over cars. i think it is a shame this neighborhood only be known for the vehicular arteries, so i support this project, because i believe this can be the defining heart of this neighborhood. right now it has no character except for cars, and i fear if this project does not go forward, it will stay that way for the foreseeable future, so i ask that you please support cpmc. thank you very much. >> i am the president.

i support this project, because it is one of the best medical providers. i am a strong local hiring supporter. we need this job to make local hiring legislation to be meaningful. the project will stimulate an economy started from construction work in terms for future employment. the building is state of the art. i do not see general admission, as part of the problem. the owner and general contractor network above and beyond in including construction.

they are also hiring many people and organizing many mentor programs and classes to help contractors and train people. the commitment to our city is significant in every respect. please do not throw this back to the planning department. it would be a big loss to our city. >> thank you, next speaker. i have no expertise in medical or civil unions, and i am not an expert in environmental issues, and my comments are of the general nature. in many assessed five days -- many societies, the highest contribution is the building of all hospital followed by the building of a school.

there is hypocrisy for so many locals and near the proposed hospital to reside in buildings taller than the proposed hospital and to claim that it impacts areas negatively. in san francisco we give sanctuary to illegal aliens, allow people to walk the streets naked and citron -- sit on benches and block the latest technology to save lives. my wife and i have loved and enjoyed san francisco. of we selected this location because we considered it to be an ideal environment. we noticed gradual deterioration. we noticed facilities, and electronics stores.

increased prostitution is quite visible on the streets, and many cars are broken into, so we hope the decision on who is to go ahead and who improve the process, because it would improve the neighborhood. thank you. >> next speaker. >> i am a resident of san francisco living a few blocks from st. luke's. as a patient over the years and an engineer in the construction industry, i am aware of how badly the facility is in need of repair. i worry about the safety of my neighborhood in the event of an earthquake. envisioning my friends, families, and neighbors scrambling in an earthquake leaves me anchored = = --

angered. it does not make sense that they would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a facility only to walk away later. the suffering caused by the recession since 2008, and now the organization is trying to improve health care while relieving some of the hard times faced by our businesses. regarding the traffic impact, we have seen projects pass in recent times with major traffic impacts such as the trans bay terminal. we should not hold up construction of a health facility.

i urge you to please hear these pleas and make the right decision to rebuild right now. >> next speaker. >> good evening, members of the board of supervisors. i of a registered nurse of the rehabilitation facility. during my 10 years at the facility, we have many patients who come in. they cannot walk, talk, lift a finger. we see those patients thinking of. we see medical miracles, but those do not come on their own. medical miracles talk -- start with world-class facilities and

a train, dedicated staff. you have the ability to let them pass or expire. vote to save lives. votes to restart careers. vote to strengthen and reform our families. vote to rebuild our hospitals now. >> good evening. i am a native and resident of san francisco. my family has used various hospitals. my dad and sister go to cpmc. they are all overcrowded, and parking is always a problem. in a perfect world, everybody would be happy with an eir, but

we do not live in a perfect world. please do not let them put san francisco in danger of losing one hospital and having the existed one retrofited. not to mention the loss of all construction jobs, new job the hospital, benefits for the entire city. i remind you these are for the entire city. i ask you to pass the eir. you spoke of wanting to work with commissioners willing to change, but it seems certain supervisors have already made up their minds. you have a planning commission that has use professionals. you ask about what resources they have used, and when they tell you, the other supervisors

asked the same questions over again. i do not understand. good luck. >> president chiu, members of the board. our senior pastor is out of state, and he asked me to come and encourage you to support the er, if not tonight, i hope you would support it as suggested, but i hope you support it as soon as possible. i have heard people talk about disasters. i have heard people talk about all kinds of things. earthquakes, god knows when they are going to come, but there are disasters every night.

traffic, bicycle as cause disasters. the reason we support california pacific medical center is a reach out to us. they helped us to teach about prostate cancer, breast cancer, which was very high in the bayview district of san francisco, so we have developed with some of system who -- a fitness center in the church. that is why we support this eir. thank you for your attention. >> good evening, supervisors. i am a lifelong resident. i have one member ray when i was 3 years old. i was playing in the park.

here we are 23 years later, and how many earthquake-safe hospital beds to we have in the city? zero. that is a shame. a recent poll said 70% of san franciscans want this to go through. they asked their appellant to stand up and say who is against the eir. now i asked hours. -- ours. this is your 70%. put these people back to work, and for once, put their safety as your top priority. me and please approve this eir.

>> good evening board of supervisors, members. my name is steve and i am the executive director at the senior center in the heart of the japan town. i come to you as the executive director and a citizen and a member of the fire commission. i support supervisor campos: -- cpmc in terms of rebuilding their hospital. in terms of seismic, save, and accessible but also with the commitment of cpmc to st. luke's as well. my community also participates in a charity care as well and have always been accessing programs and services that cpmc has provided. we are in a crucial point to get

this moving on. we were so close a few weeks ago. i am not denying the fact of information. i appreciate it but i think the comprehensive recommendation by the planning department and by the halt -- hard work of the mayor's office, i am not denying issues need to be resolved. that is what continuance these to be about. we need this project. please do not deny the appeal process. >> good evening. i am the safety officer in the disaster preparedness coordinator. i work closely with the city of san francisco hospitals to coordinate our disaster plans with the city. one of the things we all know is

that we are not prepared to deal with disasters or a large influx of patients in our hospitals. and to do with hospitals that may not be standing. we have known that our hospitals are not seismically safe. we need to take this seriously and take the safety of our patients and staff and city seriously. i have three boys who were born at the children's presbyterian hospital so i'm committed to this city and this organization and i urge you to please support the rebuild. >> good evening, board of supervisors. i am here again to reiterate our

support for this project. we believe that the eir adequately complies with the ceqa and we applaud staff for all of the hard work and think they have done a good job demonstrating that. police uphold the eir tonight. reject the appeal and we ask that you, the board, the mayor's office, and cpmc work out a deal for this project. it is a world-class medical facility that this city needs. thank you. >> good evening president chiu, board of supervisors, members, and thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. i was not prepared to talk tonight but after listening to the testimony i felt compelled to do so.

i have been at cpmc as a vice president leading a number of support services within the hospital, engineering, housekeeping, and patient transportation. when i came here three and a half years ago, my officers -- officers were located at the corner of franklin and post. i am now at sacramento and van ness. honestly, i have not seen an emergency vehicle transit van ness in the three and a half years i have been there. they used franklin as a north- south. i have worked in los angeles county and orange county and our traffic is not as bad as theirs. when my engineering team works

24 hours a day to keep a very outdated infrastructure at st. luke's st. luke' -- at st. luke's together, i cannot tell you what my team has gone through, both at st. luke's and california campuses. i encourage you, i implore you to reject the appeal, except the eir. if you choose not to do that, decide to keep the dialogue open and continue this for tubing weeks. >> my name is rick stevens, recently hired as the new chief administrative officer for st. luke's. one attraction was the rebuild of an aging building not seismically safe. being part of the construction

team, i can tell you we are building a better st. luke's. it will aid in the healing process of patients and families. the new facility is being built to support current services provided such as an er which will be state of the art. x-ray, pharmacy, and intensive care units, infectious disease, appellative care, and more. i see that the hospital needs to be rebuilt for the citizens south of market. it is vital for san francisco. further delays puts the hospital at risk. let's not wait for the state to close st. luke's because we did not meet the deadline or have another earthquake because we are not seismically safe. please vote to pass the eir.

>> good evening. i am the executive director of [inaudible] thank you for your hard work. i do not know how you do this. i am about ready to fall over. but i appreciate your diligence asking the hard questions. i want to say that apa work together to meet the needs of over 5000 asian and pacific islander families in san francisco. we are happy to do that through new contracts in debut. my predecessor -- in bayview. a predecessor assisted in a program as well as our own operations. it appears a development agreement and also the eir, maybe there are questions but

this seems to me they are close. you are asking the right questions but the thing i want to say i'm is that our families needed jobs. there is an economic impact. they talk about the multiplier effect of hospitals and what that is is something that will result in billions of dollars that will raise all boats in san francisco, the construction, the ongoing jobs, the ripple effect in businesses in the city. and of course safe facilities for our community. cpmc has been a good partner and we know they will continue their contributions as a sister non- profit. please support their efforts as we have. president chiu: next speaker.

>> thank you to the board and staff for the opportunity to speak. my name is brian webster. i am a 25 year resident of san francisco. i am the chief of staff at a 30-year-old organization in the mission district. we are a resource center that provides programs for the working poor. our board of directors is made up of officers and rank-and-file members from organized labor and we are a 501 c 3 organization. we advocate for labor rights, good jobs, and sustainable development that serves the working poor. we support the plan and we believe that the eir is adequate and should not be appealed and we urge you to vote to keep the plan moving forward.

and without any delay. so, we do not just to stand up and speak out for any project. we study the issues, we have our own program that is a web-based media program. it has a building channel and a green jobs channel. we believe that this issue is not black and white. there is good and smart people on both sides but it is not simply a rich versus poor issue. we stand in solidarity with the opinions and the position of the trades council and also alliances of business groups, community-based organizations and sustainable growth.

we support the eir. thank you for your time. >> thank you, president chiu and members. before i give you my comments, i realized sitting here how much i appreciate you all observing what you go through and listening to all of this. sometimes we take you for granted because i had to go preach at a funeral at 5:00 and that funeral was a hell of a party compared to what you guys are going through here. [laughter] they were crying. let me just say that i am here representing the naacp. we are on record as supporting this asking you to please approve this eir and tonight the

appellants. i know there are things to be worked out. i want them worked out as every person in the city does. but let's not hold the eir hostage to the other work that has to be done. what frightens me is that every time we delay this, i start thinking that the people in the city are salivating. i know that sounds ridiculous. it sounds just about as ridiculous -- just about as ridiculous as impossible as the santa clara 49 years. -- 49'ers. >> good evening, president chiu, board of supervisors, thank you for having us here tonight. my name is ray and i am a

stakeholder on this program of rebuild cpmc. i am part of the cpmc project team at california pacific medical center as the project manager. i am also a native and resident of san francisco. i was born and raised here and so are my family and kids. we plan to stay here throughout all of our lives and we will continue to do that with your help. i was here 27 years ago in a similar situation but it was on a smaller scale. my family had the opportunity to acquire property in district 2 and we had to go through a subdivision. in order to accomplish that, we had to work with the board of supervisors, associations, and went to a a series of meetings. i had no idea what i was getting into.