your support. next speaker. >> thank you, members of the board. my name is jeff garner. i am president of the van ness corridor association. we support cpmc's plan to rebuild. when we moved in, there was a parking garage adjacent to our building. it would shut down, due to tax evasion and fraud. it was unsafe, and secure, and uncared-for. my family and i parked there with little complaint, because it was closest to our apartment and church. cpmc purchased the building, and overnight, new lights were installed, with motion sensors, a new paint. signs were updated. safety took a front seat. a new parking system was implemented. things were handled decently and fairly.

immediately, we felt secure and safe in our parking garage. cpmc# and favor of our community just because of how they handle their garages. they brought security and carrot that was long overdue. today, we stand in a similar situation. a huge block casts an ominous cloud ofwoñ emptiness over our corridor. i have enormous respect for the due diligence supervisors have to do. i know it is a difficult task. the block under discussion is in desperate need of healing. we have waited a long time to see something come along that can bring health to our neighborhood. this block, and the blocks surrounding the neighborhood, are long overdue for security, safety, and organization. i am not credentialed, but i humble law offer my opinion on the spiritual impact on the

neighborhood. i ask that you support the rebuild cpmc project. what they did with that little garage, it is any indicator, means it will be a beautiful thing, going forward. >> good afternoon. i am the ceo of operation access, a san francisco-based nonprofit. we have worked with cpmc for over 10 years to provide access 's and specialty care for low-income uninsured people. i support the rebuild. it is a wonderful project that will create jobs and improve the economy. it will strengthen the health care infrastructure in the city and improve services. a previous speaker referred to sharks. i have not found that to be the case at all, with either the sutter folks we have worked

with, at nine facilities, or with cpmc. there are 27 surgeons that provide free care to low-income uninsured people. over the last decade, 500 patients have received free exceeds $5 million. these people are often referred to as working poor. there are service workers, but their employer does not provide insurance. without this donated care, they would be out of the work force. getting their medical procedure taken care of gets them back into the work force. the can take care of themselves and their family. i am a strong advocate and supporter of the rebuild. thank you. chairperson mar: thank you. next speaker. . in the tenderloin for the last 20 years. i am also a member of the

latino american community. the proposed project will worsen the housing problem in the housing -- in the tenderloin. dtvwmin this overburdened housig market, the surrounding low income communityée< with new households for affordable housing. to mckay this impact. -- to mitigate this impact. the project is not responsible to our needs. i urge the members of the board of supervisors to reject this project if cpmc will not address all of our concerns. chairperson mar: thank you. >> good evening, supervisors.

my name is rosa vera, and i have lived in the tenderloin for 30 years. i am a member of the filipino american association. housing is a basic human right, and it must be upheld. cpmc must not reneged on this issue, especially if they want to build in our neighborhood. honorable supervisors, help us save our neighborhood by keeping housing affordable. the 1500 new san francisco households that this project out from our homes.2 by keeping housing affordable in tenderloin, we are assured that i will be living where i have lived for the past 30 years. please make sure that cpmc contributes more toward affordable housing. do not let them pass this burden

to the city. although we need development in our community, thisr1nh developt should also benefit the low income residents in our community. cpmc continues to make super profits, so they should give back to san francisco by looking at the housing impact this project would create. we demand that cpmc should give more for affordable housing. we urge the honorable members of the board of supervisors to reject this project>v(gñ if cpml continue$f$v to disregard our rightful demands. thank you very much for your time. chairperson mar: thank you. that speaker. >> hello, supervisors. i am with the burn heights neighborhood center. i live in it excelsior district. i am a senior student at balboa high speed -- the ball high school. i am concerned about the issues the proposed hospital will

bring. my family and i use the road on many different occasions. we all agree that it is busy all hours of the day. when it is not rush-hour, there is always a constant stream of people using the road for their personal needs. the hospital would only worsen the traffic which is already horrendous. the size of the hospital, its clients and staff parking, the operations that will undertake bailey, those kind of factors -- it will create even more chaos on this already-busy road. instead of me being able to get somewhere in 10yq#ñ minutes, iy take me three times as long. this also applies to cathedral hill hospital, if it was to be built. why would i want to go to a hospital that is 45 minutes away, when i have st. luke's 10 minutes away from me? i hope cpmc sticks with its promise to keep st. luke's open.

knowing the cathedral hill hospital will be a longer commute for me, i would much rather rely on the hospital i have now. chairpersonfni mar: i am going o call a few more names. emily 0 rourke, dorothy behr, david dupree, david madsen, lois scott. >> i am with the bernal heights neighborhood center. i live in excelsior and attend the ball high school. ÷iñnr-- balboa high school. i am concerned about the proposal for cathedral hill hospital. traffic affect public transit as much as regular drivers. van ness and geary will become verye. we are trying to avoid traffic by writing muni, bart, and our bicycles.

with great traffic, we can walk a block five times faster than any vehicle. living in the excelsior, it would take me and my family an hour or so to get to the cathedral hill, instead of 20 minutes. it will be very difficult for excelsior residents to travel many miles through crowded streets just to get to cathedral held. if cathedral hill hospital is built, it will increasebzmññ tr, pollution, and noise within the van ness and gearyxmy neighborhoods. i hope cpmc find these conflicts reasonable enough to focus their money eliminating medical services at other hospitals. chairperson mar: it is great to have balboa high school students with us. >> may i have the overhead?

chairperson mar: the overhead, please. >> i am with san francisco tomorrow. a month to address transportation impacts as regards legal and professional liability, as you can seeñax and i presented to you earlier. it is a need for cumulative impacts, by zero considerations. that has not been done. this is not a legal document. our supervisors claimed they wish a city of 2 million people, seismic city, is one of the factors you have to consider. the fact of the board of supervisors have given tax evasion's to the tenderloin, and will change the intent to use traffic by raising the incomes and depriving residents of affordability, has not been studied. the fact

figures prepared by the county transportation people, which uniquely, in this country, have been permitted to not follow origin and destination studies that all professionals anywhere in the country use, means that your data is presumptuous and politically derived. it cannot be relied upon. that needs to be examined. the fact that seismic safety and disaster relief inaccessibility is part of the community impacts you need to address has not been done. they have postponed the health master plan to deal with in all health facilities, and sutter health, has not been done. can i say a word about housing? and i thank you very much. the fact is, about 16,000 units

a overturn every year. a at who otherwise have affordable housing and have passed the house and into affordability. identify the impact areas has not been addressed. chair mar: your time is up. thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is angelina. i am a senior and have lived here for the past 27 years now. i am a member ofñi-o[ the tenden and filipino american community.

i am staying in an affordable housing for seniors. i want to make sure that housing for the low-income residents is prioritized, and less money on home ownership. many will be able to benefit from this money. we must ensure that this is prioritized for community is most impacted by this development. this means affordable rental housing for the tenderloin residents. we want cpmc to ensure that this issue is addressed. we urge the board of supervisors to reject this. if cpmc will continue to ignore our demands. thank you. á];7chair mar: thank you.

next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. i am a senior resident of the tenderloin for almost any years now and also a board member of the tenderloin filipino american community association. i am here to speak about this at van ness and about this project will affect low-income residents. i know that affordable housing in the tenderloin is very hard to find. most filipino families in the tenderloin have small units because they cannot afford rent. the thousands of new employees that cpmc plan to bring into the neighborhood will certainly cause this placement among the low-income families already living in the tenderloin.

some 490 new households to san francisco. where will these people live if cpmc will not help address their housing needs? there is the new san francisco affordable housing. that is why it is very important for them to follow the van ness plan for affordable housing. i demand that they should build more affordable housing in the community. we would like to see a project that is also responsible to the housing needs. we cannot let this project -- instead, we want them to address the community housing needs. we should not approve a project that does not help the low- income families in our neighborhood. thank you. chair mar: thank you.

please pull the microphone closer to your mouth. >> my name is -- and i am also a member of the tenderloin filipino american association. this is where low-income families live. as a tenderloin resident, i do not agree with the plans to construct a hospital facility that will not address the housing needs. the 1500 new households will certainly contribute to the ever burgeoning housing problem in the tenderloin. these new employees will be directly competing with existing tender one residence for affordable housing. wars, this may drive the housing prices up. we should not allow it to happen, and we should make sure

and that they contribute more money to are affordable housing. cpmc should sign an agreement that addresses this issue. i urge the honorable members of ç supervisors iy do not provide clear solutions to our concerns. chair mar; thank you. let me call a few names first. [reading names] robert, bill, bethany, william, are mondo,;zyeñ and glorious sa. >> the thank you. my name is -- a district 5 residents. _r two points. when they began their site search, they focused on the

uíe a 40 acre site. most u.s. major hospitals of this scale are on 140 acres. a 600-bed hospital is on 160 acres. is a default location. what are we cutting off to a shoe worn a hospital of the size at the site? aspect is that it is for sale. this does not address the site needs for a hospital of this scale. econd, san francisco's stres are already overburdened by shuttle buses for high-tech companies and other medical opportunities. many of the streets that these shuttle's drive on right now are not rated for the suv winning 6,000 pounds. the shuttle buses weigh considerably more, which causes

street damage and repair needs. thank you. butchair -- chair mar: thank you. mr. weiner? >> this is located on the california street. one comment is that there is so much money''-px that has been st on this campaign, and it is dirty money. so many people have been bought off. i am sure sutter health, if they could pay for lady gaga, they would do it. why cannot the existing medical centers be retrofitted so they are earthquake proof? there is no need toí"cdñ buildzs facility. it is going to throw people out and give a lot of money to sutter health, which is supposed to be nonprofit.

four-seamer libs, this hospital is needed, especially in a time of natural disasters. every hospital is needed in this city, it is simply unfair to do this. this plan should be squashed. it is a monster in the making, and it will get worse and worse. plus, every time they expands, the feedstock for medical care. this is a lousy system, and what is happening is in danger in the medical center, a perfectly fine medical facility. bank. chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is -- and i am the chair for the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods and land use committee. i would like to mention the resolution passed. this is in the august 2011

newsletter, so this is a resolution on cpmc, and it talks about what is proposed will cause on mitigated gentrification and a loss of currently affordable housing in the tenderloin area. now, in hearing some of the testimony from speakers before me, i feel that some may be speaking for the last time here. they will be greatly affected by this project and all the new employee is,4)÷ and i just know that something terrible is going to happen in regards to gentrification, but i would like to go on and make some comments about the hearvsou campos

earlier expressed uncertainty and not confidence about this project. the report given by the transportation agency in relation to the traffic increase appears to be unbelievable, and i think everyone agrees that they were unbelievable. now, since i do not have much time, i would like to go on and say that cpmc's actions in the bay area and elsewhere riklis by speaks volumes, and what they say, what they promise is one dx but actions g than words. thank you. chair mar: thank you. i am going to call a few more names. sam, paul, monica, mike, merlina, mike abu mauricio

bonacini, and maeri -- maria. >> y4ílçi am don fox, reading tn behalf of another of st. paul's lutheran church, a positions organizing committee, and the san francisco organizing project. wo hospitals south of market, san francisco general and st. luke's. other hospitals are concentrated within 1 mile of each other. in a major earthquake, it would be nearly impossible for many of the san francisco poor people to get to medical care. st. louis gave great charity care for many poor for over one century one kind by the epically church. sutter hewalth try to close st. luke's shortly after purchasing it. this was instead of keeping it over at least five as promised

to the state attorney general. now, they are proposing only 80 beds at st. luke's, which will make it less viable as a hospital and has close some units also at st. luke's. @'s proposal makes it more likely that st. luke's will not survive. they are proposing no psychiatric beds in their new hospital at van ness. they should at least be required to restore the 32 mental health beds at the rebuilt st. luke's or put at least 30 to psychiatric beds in to the new hospital on van ness. and most importantly, the supervisors should challenge the not-for-profit status of them. they pay salaries annually, and there ceo gets over $4 million annually. they are paying such outrageously high compensation's while crippling st. luke's and cutting back mental health and

other health-care,boco servicesn san francisco. it is odd scene. we ask all of the supervisors and the mayor to be vigilant continue to bargain hard now, and please enter into the record -- chair mar: thank you. we still have about 30 more cards. we asked if there are seniors are people with disabilities to come forward, so, next speaker. >> board of supervisors. my name is marion. my husband and i, paul, owned a business in san francisco, and repair garage. my husband wrote this because he is still running our shop, and i am here to speak on our behalf and the merchants of san francisco. i want to express my views on the cpmc hospital proposal.

i have lived and worked in san francisco for 65 years. i have learned my trade and opened my business here. the business is now 40 years old. i am only a high-school graduate, but luckily i have acquired a lot of common sense during my life. this has given me the ability to make the right decision in dealing what all of the changes that have occurred in my business. the most important thing i have learned about business is that you must know what your cost of doing business is first and foremost. the second most important thing i have learned through the years is that business cannot be saddled with costs that they cannot control. just think general motors, ford, chrysler, the city of stockton,

san bernadino, and local example is the local ford dealer. they did business in san francisco from 1928 to when they went out of business around 2009. the straw that broke the camel's back was a proposed union contract that would cost $2,000 per month for each employee benefit. multiplying that by to 100 impossible to control, but it is not sustainable. chair mar: thank you. >> that is all? chair mar: next speaker.

tenderloin fallopian america association. two issues that they should address, the thousands of new the affordable housing in the tenderloin, finding housing in nearby communities, so what will happen to our already overburdened market? the surrounding low-income communities will be directly competing with them for affordable housing. cpmc should also investigate the traffic impact that this project will bring to our community. the estimated cars daily will cause traffic. venice is already highly congested. with this going through the tenderloin. what will they do provecpmc --

what will they do prove -- do? cpmc, they continue to ignore the demands. thank you. chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is nancy cross, and i am here to bring your attention to the case of an absentee controller. i at that a number of experiences with a hospital in alameda county, and a fine that for anything other than may be an x-ray, and they require the patients at the point of actual service at the time of service, not telling them in advance, something that effectively denies-