doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ . >> commissioner. i'll call roll. >> thank you. >> commissioner pating commissioner shlain commissioner fung commissioner karshmer and i'm going to walk to the podium and on up the letter to read dr. charles letter. >> the president oh, the president of the commission edward cow is not able to be

here asked me to read the letter on your a lot of oar i'm sure you're aware of the general hospital has been trying to pay for equipment for the new san francisco general hospital i was overjoyed to learn that in addition to millions of there's to deity we've received a pledge off $35000 for the campaign that credible check will have a major book on the patience will allow the how hospital to be better than we imagined and every person in san francisco deserves access to the highest quality of health care regardless of status this is the largest donation and i believe will lead to future a 0 opportunity for partnerships supporting our community in

honor i'm proud to add a doctor's name to our hospital and looking at to opening the mark zuckerberg hospital i believe the commission needs to move on the historic opportunity though i'm unable to attend i want to meet ones tuesday february 10th i would like to express my thanks to chang and mark zuckerberg and thoughtful i they've to the co-chairs and staff for they're a dedication and outstanding work. >> thank you, mark arrest i've been asked to chair this meeting today special meeting which was requested requested by c chaurl hesitate noted able to come he's ill and dr. chow has been

chairing the joint conference meeting and i've served on that with him hearsay that continuum u yum of the announcements two doables with the mayor and our colleagues property owner to the guest of the city and county of san francisco to sf general and is foundation with that i'd like to follow our own agenda items that be will brief public comment. >> no public comment on this item. >> maybe. >> item 2 for - >> the 25th. >> the approval of the meetings of february 2015. >> is there a motion? >> move forward and seconds. >> additions, deletions, or changes if not i'll call for the question all in favor, say i. minutes of feedback february 3rd are hereby approved. >> next is the public comment

i've received no public comment requests. >> please read the what we'll be voting on i'll share the commission is received not only the proposed resolution but the thing which i list really the due diligence and responsibility of both of the department of the hospital of the foundation of the city and county of visitacion valley silicon valley all involved in the collaboration and i'll make a few comments after the reading. >> you want me to read the item interest the agenda or the resolution. >> item had the gift acceptance and agreement conducting the resolution the commission will recommend that the board of supervisors receive the gift from the san francisco general hospital to fund the equipment for the zero hospital building

and recommend the board of supervisors approve the gift that includes the gift for the priscilla and mark sdushlg beggar trauma center. >> additional comment. >> i move the acceptance of the resolution. >> second. >> commissioner and second final left to right there's a motion to accept and second before we have any discussion or votes with the commission well - willed i'd like to make a few comments project sponsor to this and this is a real it's an outstanding awesome experience many of us who have served in the city on different commissions over the years this guess also a very, very special occasion in many ways of significance because i think it involves our new generations of san franciscans as they come to

some of us go back several generations a reaffirm of the care and the changing academic issues and quality of care issues effecting self-general hospital the fact this foundation was started in 1992, 44 raised one hundred million dollars in times we could have lost that safety net is unharder at this point in time again through collaboration of our foundation and readsers within the foundation and directors and staff and the duplicating and directors barbara sue at the hospital, and our colleagues is really significant i'll mention this see had it not been from

the additional san franciscans at large naming jim joseph from washington a lot of those things might not have been brought to fruition i want to mention lewis if they had not gone forward wouldn't not be there naming laguna honda i'd like to ask our director and then we'll have our speakers who would like to call on to 0 make comments. >> this is an incredible day thank you. the during the course berries for the donation and to acknowledge of the formulation for their incredible work and i'm sure you're aware of our city hospital has done an incredible job of dominions raising we have a couple offer

speakers tony from the mayor's office and wanted him to come and say a couple of words and from there, i said to acknowledge you talked about some lawyers we had the city attorney lawyers i want to mention medina and jessie smith as well and so with that, commissioners again, thank you to the zuckerberg and the foundation mr. whitaker if you want to say a few words on behalf of the mayor. >> sure madam director thank you commissioners i don't think tony whitaker office of the mayor, i can't echo dr. accentuateds words thank you for your your speedy item when mayor ed lee and in his state of public safety address talked about the

agenda of shared prosperity where people of every background regardless of san franciscans can raise through the innovation this is a wonderful thing this work that the doctors and staff and nurses do everyday it's incredible time for our city and the mayors deeply perceptive of this easy foreperson following your action will be introduced the resolution to accept the gift as well and again following our ax building 9 of the supervisors have signed on as co-sponsors thank you, again. >> just to note inform julie is in the audience as well and the city attorney that led the process so bring sue up from the hospital i think a tremendous job of leading the foundation to the direction find where we need

to go in order to fund a new hospital she's been an incredible job of the leading the foundation through this process so thank you sue and please come forward. >> thank you, director garcia and good afternoon to the commissions it's really an xrierld display for san francisco general hospital as the only trauma center we provide care to everybody no matter who you are and we really are so they've for the extraordinary gift from mr. zuckerberg and dr. chang it is going to transform a hearsay hospital and serve our patients better dr. chang understands the example era work and mission and part of the general family for the years and as a nurse and ceo

of san francisco general, i understand this transformative gift really means it's a game changer as said earlier zuckerberg's are bringing our council caption forward and joining the donors and community make sure our patients get access to the same life saving environment and investment that any patient deserves in the city we're thankful the foundations has been an outstanding york connie is here representing the foundation board i want to thank larry and pam bear and richard and judy who chaired the campaign you're looking at the

resolution of gifts from other donors as well as the zuckerberg's on behalf of the hospital and the patient and the community to really thank the zuckerberg's and all the donors for their generosity in helping us to really plan for the future and how we care for our patients i'd like i'd like to introduce amanda the executive director of the foundations who is going to say a few words. >> thank you. >> thank you sue and thank you, commissioners for your strong support today. through the rebuild the city is creating a 21st century hospital that will have the equipment and facilities it needs to continue to position the general as a leader in trauma care both nationally and globally this transform from 0 gift from mr.

zuckerberg and dr. chang we know that the general is the heart of the city we're incredibly they've to the zuckerberg's to make this outstanding investment that signals the importance the leaders in public health we as a foundation supports the mission of the general know that private philanthropic is so crucial to the longevity of the public health in general capital campaign our foundation spear headed no naivete was to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote ambition and unprecedent effort from the beginning the zuckerberg's have- with the exceptional attraction from the zuckerberg's as well as support from the numbers of the numbers

we have the cognizance to seek the proper funding for needs now and for the future of the general we're so happen to be her and the gratitude to all of i as well as the zuckerberg's for their incredible investment >> we're going to have greg wagner to come up about the financial. >> just a briefly commissioners greg cfo you have a resolution before you we're requesting our approval the resolution has two component of recommendations that the board of supervisors take a substance action to accept the gift of $57 million 3 hundred and 75 thousand dollars as others mentioned that includes is portion of the gift from the zuckerberg's and $25 million of

tricks from other donors it's a tremendous thing for us to be able to move the procurement of sf forward for the hospital and the second component is also recommending the board of supervisors approve the attached gift agreement which outlines the terms and conditions between the city and the foundation for how the public exchange of gift funds will be handled i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. or others thank you. >> thank you, greg. >> i'll note no public comment requests. >> okay. he want to make would be small comment in reference to the amount of time and energy in the protocols to get this where it is now the member of the foundation i think all the treaties got a call roughly

either wednesday or thursday to check in at zero 8 hundred we are going to have an important, important item we need the vote and everybody participate many of us sat on many, many commissioners over the years this was the first time because we have a chair who got us all there and every single untruths checked in we have 21 people you can't believe this is the second phase as we move forward we've got the other phases it really gets testimony to the fact that you know everybody's involved in this institution as and move forward larry bear made extreme comments excellent comments about the entity this is the quality of care we get one level

of care that's the way 70 general has always been and was move into the exchanges and hold shift in reference to financing the mission and the dignity and respect that all patients get through through our community and hospitals and our foundations and through our commission and through our department of public health we're all part find why we're san franciscans we thank everybody involved in the process with that is there a motion and a second we want to thank everybody involved here during this whole process and also the formulation has been involved in the whole mission at this point in time i'm going to ask for a role call and vote this out. >> if i could note even though

commissioners are not here they sent support for the initiative. >> and the director as part of the record. >> so commissioner pating. >> at this point there's a call for the question. >> oh, yes. i'm sorry i thought. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? abstained hereby approve this by the health commission >> (clapping.) great. >> we have a few more items duo to go through quickly. >> we have one more item. >> i wanted to say yeah. this is incredible work and i'm very proud to be a san franciscan thank you. >> i'd like to ditto those comments to be like a san franciscan this is like winning the world series of public health department the commenting commitment to the city and

county of san francisco and the general hospital foundation and in particular dr. priscilla chang and mr. zuckerberg we have one the finest hospitals in the country and certainly the newest public hospital and excellent, excellent research so again, thank you for bringing home this. >> very good. >> just so you want to make a comment. >> i'm going to comment on this generous gift from dr. chin and mr. zuckerberg it really attest to how we do business here in san francisco and really to see the generosity of this gift you know to invest in our public health system for to maintain a public hospital of the city to

be one of the stacking facilities on a personal level i've been to san francisco general hospital twice awhile i didn't know what the health and safety was is gave 4 extra months to my grandfather to visit highway children and grandchildren those are the gift that mean a lot not only to me, you but to who have benefited from the state of the art center this gift will continue that legacy we've put forward for the city and i'm really hardened to see that on the other hand i want to share something you you know that any heart is really happy i actually participated in a die in in front of city hall

because as of today for 2014 we have 6 women of color murdered in the united states one per week and 80 two weeks ago it was one of our own in san francisco in the boyfriend her name is tosha she's a client with the department of public health and been struggling with housing with a gift it's not just about building our 3ub9 facilities but really renewing our faith we don't take life for granted here ♪ city no matter what class or thatful income level or background you come from with that i'm willing to ask dr. accentuated to give us a moment of silence to journey to

remember this transgender woman who's life might not that have been not taken because violence and violence prevention is a public health issue >> pause for a moment of silence first please. >> thank you that's violence and level one trauma center will continue to thrive and how were you outline those who cross our doors with the hoist quality of care unfortunately, many times it doesn't have a positive outcome but we know that they're

at the right place we'll continue inform mission is there a motion to adjourn. >> actually commissioners i need to walk you through an agenda item 5 new business if not we'll move on. >> the joint conference committees. >> no joint conference reports next committee agenda setting and if you all have no comments we'll move to adjournment. >> if not we'll move to adjournment. >> motion to adjourn. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> we're hereby adjourned thank you

. >> all right. good morning everyone. how about a big hand for our dancers? i can't hear you. [cheers and applause] yeah, give it up to them as they head back to the hilton. let me begin by thanking all of you for coming out today. it's such a beautiful day in chinatown, is it not? i see larry excited to go clean. first of all i want thank all of you for coming out.

it's very important and from our department, the department of public works. we are so excited that you guys have come out today to join hands with us to keep our city clean and green, and every year for the chinese new year we always hear and the chamber of commerce and all of the chinese organizations here always work with us to make sure that they bring a lot of people out to help us clean the community so thank you everyone. all right. also earlier this morning our agency has been all over chinatown preparing for the chinese new year's festivities. there are so many events and chinatown is the mag nent of bringing tourists into san francisco and we have to do our part and there is no way that

our agent or rec and park or all of the agencies together and get the city cleaned and your extra hands are very much appreciated so give yourself a hand for coming out and keeping our community clean. [applause] i am going to introduce someone who i call a cheerleader of neighborhoods and someone that taking care of neighborhoods has been his priorities, and also former director of public works but now our mayor ed lee. please welcome him. >> thank you muhammad. good morning everyone. i want to thank muhammad and the entire dpw crew. you know muhammad he's going to be the grand marshal this year at the parade. all right. i can just visualize him. he will say he doesn't have to piece a garbage up

because he's the grand marshal and i want to thank you for can i -- kicking off the chinese new year and valentines day. muhammad where is my flowers? >> [inaudible] >> i want to say thank you to all of the community groups that are working together with our departments to make sure that our neighborhood here, not only chinatown, the entire district is clean, ready for not only valentines year and the new years and there is going to be a lot of celebration. today we have the flower mart and you will see people buying all of the symbols of happiness of welcoming in the new year. i want to give a hearty thanks to

the chinese chamber of commerce who are here today. thank you very much. [applause] eddy raise your hand. i see a lot of the chamber members here and i wanted to thank the chinese benevolent association who are here and thank you to all of the departments here represented. how about a hearty hand for these department ?ses yeah and we have our special guest that are performing all day long. they're going to remind everybody not to trash the place, make sure all of the tourists and people coming from neighborhoods enjoy the great few weeks coming up. make sure they are also keeping the neighborhood clean. i want to congratulate again introduce our new direct supervisor julie

christensen for being here and the hilton and a big sponsor of these teams and always here and making sure the youth is working together with our businesses. i had the pleasure of being able to join all of you at the different events the next few weeks. i also want to say we're working hard together with the supervisors, with our office, with the neighborhoods, not only to do more housing, but we got to keep our streets safe. today when we're cleaning the streets make sure everybody who is volunteering pays attention because dpw and all of the agencies and rec and park we're making sure anyone that drives big trucks in and out of the district whether delivering all of these goods or dog construction like they're doing on this public restroom that will be finished very soon. no matter what they're driving whether in a city vehicle or

truck or they're delivering great goods or they're the big trucks we're training everybody to be safe. watch out for pedestrians and what i ask is that pedestrians big and small are also looking both ways and making sure they're safe. we invite a lot of people on our streets and our sidewalks. we just want to make sure the number one thing is everybody is safe. this is important to us because without your help, without your safety you have nothing else to share and we're all about sharing more prosperity in the city. we want to build more housing. we want to make sure that the low income housing is the best it can be and increase housing opportunities in the city and everyone shares in the great prosperity in the city. we want it here in chinatown and north bech as well. and how about that more house something yeah, we can work on this but during