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which funding would be allocated -- are those -- have they been identified, the ones particularly for the safe passage program in the tenderloin in so, they would go through a competitive process? >> yeah, the money for that, 200,000 would go to the city and the city would do its usual competitive process. ~ >> okay. >> maybe just to clarify, i think one other question you had, we have not yet negotiated as the 14 million a year comes in, how to allocate it which, you know, how much goes to housing what year, how much goes to transportation. that would come after today and you would be looking at that allocation when you see the final approvals. >> okay. and you'll take the consideration of the potential for work force -- >> yes. >> -- receiving that payment up front in consideration? >> yes. >> just really quickly, i wanted to ask about -- oh, affordable housing, i'm glad you brought that up. from my perspective, and this
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is just -- i mean, i don't know if i'm going to be able to use this for very long, but as a new supervisor, as someone looking from the outside of the board of supervisors, i wonder why when we develop projects of this magnitude, do you look in a payment at the affordable housing fund, why we don't look at how we create affordable housing opportunities for potentially people who are going to maybe be working in these developments who are possibly the lowest wage earners of this and how, if we're -- the city is so fortunate to have this 36 million in affordable housing, and i think i'd like to see it impact the surrounding community as it relates to potentially existing affordable housing and supporting that. but more importantly, making sure that low wage earners of this particular project has some sort of access to affordable housing in the
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neighborhood. i want us to have people who work in this hospital be a part of the surrounding community and not just commuters from far parts of the city or even other cities. and, so, i'm not sure if that's possible to make that or to talk about that within the structure of the term sheet. but i just wanted to make sure that that's something that i'm really interested in seeing the city do a better job at as it relates to affordable housing in san francisco. >> that's understood. i don't think olson lee from the mayor's office of housing is here yet. he should be here any minute -- oh, he is here. okay. i don't know if you wanted to respond now or -- i guess now i made you respond. [laughter] >> good afternoon, supervisors. olson lee from the director of the mayor's office of housing. the money is going into our low mod fund -- >> can we please turn that phone off? thank you. >> into the low mod housing fund.
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and clearly all the existing affordable housing in the surrounding area are eligible for access to that affordable housing fund. the workers in not only cpmc, but all employers in san francisco are eligible to participate in our down payment assistance loan program. and through the voters and through the housing trust fund, we've been able to put basically refund the housing trust fund. you'll see that in the mayor's office budget as we come forward with our next fiscal year budget. but those employees will have access to those funds. and as we use those funds, we can make decisions in the future for -- to replenish that down payment assistance fund should the need be there. but we will be creating affordable housing in the general area. we still have some octavia
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parcels to develop. and, again, we will be utilizing the funds from this low mod fund as well as the larger housing trust fund for the preserving the affordable housing in the surrounding area. it's so hard for us to build affordable housing and there are people in those affordable housing. we want to ensure that whatever is affordable housing remains affordable housing. so, we share your concern about the existing affordable housing. >> thank you. and i just would add that maybe some additional effort on prioritizing those who qualify for affordable housing who work for cpmc whether it be down payment assistance, which any of us would qualify for as san francisco residents if we meet a certain financial threshold, but taking an extra step potentially in this opportunity to really support the workers of this potential hospital in
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san francisco. i'd like to see potentially a little bit more effort made. and i'll just want to make a statement and then i'll allow my colleagues to move forward with this. today, we are being presented with an outline for an agreement, and this is absolutely incredible. i'm actually really excited about this because i thought that it wouldn't come to pass so quickly and i want to thank the people who labored for months and in many cases years to get us to this point. i specifically want to thank the nurses, housing transportation and community advocates who fought for a better deal, even when everyone else was ready to relent. and specifically i want to thank rome a guy for always keeping me abreast of the developments in this project and giving me accurate information throughout the years. ~ i want to thank cpmc and executives of sutter health who have, against their own
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inclinations perhaps, negotiated fairly and listened to our concerns. my colleagues david chiu, david campos and mark farrell whose collaboration and commitment, in spite of their political differences, are proof that results matter more than labels and a hallmark, i hope, of how this board will do the people's business. i'm really proud of the work that you all have done on this. and lastly, i want to thank lou gerardo, the man who did the impossible. where there was gridlock and miss trust, lou forged consensus. the man doesn't just make delicious sour dough bread. he's a mediator to rival king solomon. thank you, lou, for your hard work on this. this deal offers a variety of impressive benefits for san francisco, namely two brand-new seismically safe hospitals serving both the north and southern ends of our great city. and just to highlight a few of the benefits for district 5, the 5 million for the geary and
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van ness vrts, the work force development and construction jobs, hopefully to significantly benefit the residents of the western addition community. and nearly 40 million for affordable housing, which ought to benefit the district with some of the most distressed public housing development. all that said, our work is not done. we have a framework for development agreement, not a complete consensus. when i endorsed the term sheet before -- while i endorse the term sheet before us today, i am cautiously optimistic about our progress so far. and this is clearly not our last vote on the project. i have reservations about shifting money into the mayor's office of housing without a clear plan for how the money will be used to actually create housing, particularly in the effective area. and i am convinced the work force development -- i am not convinced that the work force development adequately
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prioritizes western addition residents who live in the cathedral hill's backyard. i am committed to ensuring the framework's promises are solidified on the development agreement and i plan to reserve final judgment until the exact language of that agreement is available. i will be combing through this, the details to make sure the agreement measures up to the negotiators' intent and guarantees the benefits to san francisco workers, residents and patients. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. i won't repeat all of the thanks and accolades to everyone who was involved, but i know we're all very appreciative of the work that went into this and really taking a deal that seemed like it was at times dead in the water which would have been just devastating for san francisco and would have sent a huge negative signal about whether we were actually capable of getting these kind
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of projects done in the city. the fact that it was then pulled back from the brink and that we can develop consensus is terrific, and i'm very grateful to everyone who made that happen. i am also very happy that the process overlooked in this process, davidies campus is the previous agreement in place for years ~ are still in place. davies -- it was always frankly as district supervisor representing the district, and also a resident of the castro it's painful for me and i think our community to see davies sort of floating out there, potentially impacted by the controversy around cathedral hill and st. luke's. davies was not part of that controversy. davies is such a critical resource in the castro community for the lgbt community, for so many people, and it will be intact and it's
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going to be an even better facility than it is now. i'm also very happy that the streetscaping commitments made around davies and st. luke's are intact fully and that is a very positive thing. as with any consensus driven plan, i think we've heard some elements of this today. we're never going to all love everything. there are aspects of the proposal that are disappointing to me. the fact that the down payment assistance was zeroed out, that was from the 33 million to zero, i believe. that side is disappoint tog me. that was a value choice that was made during the negotiations. i disagree with it, but that's the way negotiations go. transit fees, impact fees were reduced by 33% or 30% i think from about 20 million to 14 million. that's very disappointing to me. once again, colleagues, transit
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comes out at the short end in a lot of the item that come before this board and i really look forward to the day when we all get together and acknowledge that we need to prioritize spending for transit and not make it always the first thing that gets cut. i will note one thing, that at least it's good that cpmc is going to be paying transit impact development fee to tidf. if it weren't a development agreement here so that we had the leverage to insist on these fees, cpmc would be exempt from paying tids because it is a nonproof it. and this board -- and i was on the losing end of that vote last year, kept that blanket exemption from nonprofits and tidf intact so no matter how big your profit is as a hospital, you don't have to pay it. i'm glad cpmc is paying it. it's a rate thing when you do development that has transit
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impacts, you should pay the fee. so, i will be supporting this today. and i again want to thank my colleagues and all the departments and cpmc lou gerardo for really making this a reality. i think it's something we can be proud of. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you, president chiu. i want to thank all the parties involved in negotiations that we got to today. i want to thank cpmc for their flexibility and coming to the table. i really want to thank my colleague, supervisor farrell, president chiu and supervisor campos for your great work and of course lou gerardo for his magic as well. a magical ingredient for the catalyst to get to the table. i remember this time last year we had a presentation from the mayor's office saying this is the best we can get. and i think it's really important that we always challenge that. and we have so many big
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projects and development agreements that come before us. there is always a little more we can get to make sure we're getting the best deal we can in the city. you know, i want to thank cpmc for their flexibility in helping make this happen. there are still things i think that could be stronger moving forward that i want to express. i want to echo some of the comments that were made by supervisor breed. i think the work force development part of the -- what is before us is strong. i think it can be stronger. i think when it comes to end use jobs that we can have something a bit stronger, a bit higher than what's being proposed. and hopefully we can get 50% for both entry level and nonentry level end use jobs. that to me makes a lot of sense especially because we're not -- ensuring that local san franciscans who live in the city have the ability to commute directly to work. it's not -- it actually meets our climate action goal as well, too, make sure we're hiring local residents at 50%
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level. that to me is also consistent with what we're trying to get to with local hire. we have local hire ordinance passed in 2010 to get the 50% for local residents. and the difference between that ordinance and the program we're proposing here is that the construction jobs are temporary jobs. but the end use jobs are permanent jobs. if we can have the greatest stability for that, for local residents to get hired, it will be a great boone to the entire city. i actually see that there's a lot we can do as a city as well to really bolster our health care industry and our work force training programs to get into the health care industry. we have klieg, we have a number of nonprofit organizations, we have a lot of community clip i cans through our internships provided. clinics, city college ~ we have the opportunity to strengthen that and holess tick system to provide entry level and the ability to rise in economic status through the
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health care system for people in san francisco. and i'd like to see that being moved forward as we -- as the project comes to fruition. i think more money than what's being provided for, about $4 million that's being looked for for work force development, would be helpful, $$4 million, a greater amount that can come up front as was suggested as well by supervisor breed i think makes a lot of sense. i know that there is still issues to work out between cpmc sutter and the nurses. the cma. i'd like to see that that can happen. i know that there's been great progress and negotiations that have come forward between sutter and many other bargaining units. ~ it seems like having one left out, still being worked out is a big concern and disappointment right now, and hoping that can get cleared up in the next few days. hopefully not weeks, but to me the fact that there have been such it -- there's been such
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great movement move forward, cpmc can come to agreement with the cma as soon as possible, it would be great to see. but overall, i'm actually very, very pleased with the movement, the progress that's been made, and i'm really -- especially thankful there was -- believed before it couldn't get any better. it has. thank you. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. i, too, have an overall level of pleasure on the deal. i am thrilled to see such -- to see a larger st. luke's out of this project. i know it wasn't easy -- it wasn't an easy solution to arrive to. i also want to commend cpmc for doubling their commitment to work force dollars to ensure we can train san franciscans to access these jobs and opportunities. but i also want to associate myself with the comments of
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supervisor breed, mar, and avalos and concern about what the end use jobs are going to be. i'd love to see more work force dollars allocated to the work force pot of money and more of these work force dollars up front so that we can begin to get people trained and ready to go. also we want to encourage cpmc to continue to close the gap with cna and their negotiations with their contracts. i also want to mention one particular item i discussed with some members on the project team, and that's the management of the 4 million in work force funding. i think there is some additional conversation that should be had where the city manager should be using these funds or managed by independent organizations such as the san francisco foundation or a combination of both. district 10, we certainly have seen both models used. and as the term sheet is incorporated into the revised development agreement, i would
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appreciate it if we could continue to explore the benefits as well as the challenges associated with each of these approaches by managing the work force dollars. thank you. >> thank you, colleagues. any additional comments before we go to public comment? let me just add two quick thoughts from my end. i know there have been a couple questions that have been raised around work force development and one thing i might ask ken rich to do, potentially with rhonda simmons is convene a little group to discuss this. we've heard certainly some feedback from the community as well as from supervisors breed, cohen and others, and want to make sure that we get this right. i also want to echo the comments that some of our colleagues have made around labor piece, which is certainly separate and apart from what we have in front of us. i think we all appreciate the labor piece that has been brought with muhw and we hope in the coming days and weeks we can resolve these matters with the california nurses as well.
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but with that, colleagues, unless there are any additional questions, why don't we now go to public comment. the first sick cards that i have are from rachel [speaker not understood], emilie lee, calvin we will shall, gordon mar, marlene morgan, and marc aronson. mr. president, my name abdullah [speaker not understood]. i come here to say hallelujah, thank you, god. couple years ago i [speaker not understood] come here and ask each one of you to turn i an empty hotel to be hospital to people like us. i would like to thank the former director of the health, dr. mitchal katz. not only him and the lovely
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lady who replace him, barbara garcia, which she is here, they work hard. i hope and i wish that [speaker not understood] behind me and mayor lee include mr. rich, work with her to bring the hospital fair quickly. i am the only one who lives in san francisco, survive with [speaker not understood] heart attack. last sunday i have [speaker not understood] and i won't tell to everyone, i am not as strong, it is blocking. i give 28 years in my life here in this city to vie for the homeless people, to vie for the poor people who live in america. and look for the garbage to find something to eat. shame, shame to every one of us that we don't have money to finish project like that.
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i am very close for the hotel or the former hotel going to be the hospital. i live in [speaker not understood] and geary. that means i can walk on my feet. i don't need the [speaker not understood], i don't need the ambulance. i need doctor to help me and care with my life. i have six pace makers in my heart, four on one, two on the other side. and i need you as supervisors, if you had good care to support every one of these people include barbara garcia, [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. >> next speaker, please. hello, [speaker not understood] shall good afternoon, everyone. my name is rachel. i am with san franciscans with health care for housing and justice.
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we are a city-wide labor coalition for labor and negotiation who have been working together the last few years as some of you have heard to make sure community priorities on health care housing, jobs and transit are at the forefront. on behalf of the coalition, i do want to commend president chiu, supervisors farrell and campos for getting us to this place and moving forward in this resulting term sheet that is containing some material improvements from the last agreement. as supervisor breed mentioned earlier, we are as well cautiously optimistic that the details of the term sheet will be appropriately represented in the final development agreement. and we look forward to providing a community voice to the process and in supporting you in creating an infrastructure of accountability during the implementation phase. as president chiu and supervisor campos both mentioned also, this is a great step forward, but there are many more steps to go before this is all finalized. so, we look forward to
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partnering with you, the board of supervisors, the mayor's office, as well as sutter cpmc and prioritizing the needs of community members, including workers such as the nurses of cna in our push for accessible health care for affordable housing for conscientious transit and traffic planning, and for equitable and sustainable jobs for all san franciscans. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is emilie lee, i'm with the chinese progressive association and with the coalition of san franciscans for housing, jobs, justice and health care. so, we're really pleased to see that cpmc has worked with the city to respond to the community's needs around kara at st. luke's hospital as well as city-wide. we see a lot of great improvements in the term sheet that show the hard work of all the negotiators involved. you know, we're optimistic about the framework of the proposal and we're also very eager to hear some more details about the health care element.
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and specifically how they're going to ensure that families get the care they deserve. so, for st. luke's, we have some questions around what are going to be the exact mix of services that are going to be provided at st. luke's and how will specialty care be included to attract a diverse pair mix as well as to ensure the economic viability of st. luke's. what is the exact scope of services in scope of excellence and how are they going to be utilized to provide not just outpatient care, but in-hospital patient care, what type of specialty care will the centers of excellence be providing for patients. and there is a question around the term of the option to add 30 beds at cathedral hill. is there a requirement after the 30 beds are built for cpmc to maintain a sense of, you know, certain level at st. luke's. and then, you know, as other folks mentioned, what are the oversight and enforcement mechanisms governing this arrangement besides just the third-party auditor. in terms of charity care -- oh,
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geez, that was fast. charity care and also want to see how some of those numbers were arrived at. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. calvin we will shall council community housing organizations representative on the coalition. i want to thank the supervisors for doing this in a fascinating and meaningful way. this board became, if you will, the tribune of the people on this issue. this is a far more significant development than any this board has dealt with. health care stands at the very center of economic future of san francisco for san franciscans. more san franciscans will work in the health care sector than will ever work in the high-tech sector. we have an opportunity here to make employment opportunities available at a level that has never surrounded a major development before.
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there is a dynamic relationship between affordable housing and employment. every existing san franciscan that we get in this job in this facility is an affordable housing unit we do not have to build. we, as member of the council of community housing organizations, advocated strongly for work force participation and training, for the permanent jobs because the most affordable housing unit in san francisco is an existing housing unit. one that is occupied by a san francisco resident. we are very concerned about how this program -- this multifaceted program will unfold. we ask for participation in the continuing process. we ask for participation in overseeing the actual implementation of this program. we're eager to see how that is accommodated. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.
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good afternoon, supervisors. my name is gored on mar, i'm with jobs of justice and labor coalition. and i'm going to offer some brief comments about the work force elements of the cpmc agreement. ~ these have been an important part of our overall coalition platform, getting the back up cpmc is the second-largest employer here in the city. so, this project and cpmc's ongoing operations, you know, have a big impact on employment in san francisco in addition to health care in the neighborhoods. so, actually as supervisor mar previously commented, cpmc, the current local hire and work force development commitments are significant improvement over the previous ones which were among the weakest terms of the development agreement that the board had considered last year. so, we're -- our coalition fully supports these increased commitments as a key part of the overall package of the community benefits being offered by cpmc. i just want to offer a few more specific points of feedback that kind of reinforce comments
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that were already made by supervisor cohen, breed, and avalos. for the commitment of 40% local hire for permanent entry level jobs, you know, we believe that's a solid commitment. local hire commitment. but many important details still need to be flederction out about that. you know, for example, what positions are going to be included under this and what are the projected number of job openings by facility. what's going to be the recruitment and hiring process to achieve the 40% goal and also the additional goal of giving priority to residents in the targeted neighborhoods. and finally, what's going to be the monitoring enforcement plan and mechanism for the local hire board. like i said, in conclusion, there is a lot of important details that will need to be flederction out during the drafting of the new development agreement and in the coming
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months and actually in [speaker not understood] commitments in the coming years and we look forward to continuing to work with the city and cp [inaudible]. >> thank you. hello, my name is marlene morgan and i'm the president of the cathedral hill neighborhood association and on the community coalition and on traffic and environment. cathedral hill neighbors has been involved in the planning of this new project since 2005 and with the coalition since 2009, we have spoken many, many times about our desire to have two state-of-the-art hospitals, both sustainable and both reasonably size and scope, not a megahospital at cathedral hill and nonsustainable one at st. luke's. i think this framework that we're seeing today is a tremendous victory. thank you so much to the team on the board that worked on this and for the city ta
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