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[inaudible] use interpreters, a poor substitute for spanish speaking providers. physicians involved with the center were out raged as well at patient. cpmc's reply, we'll study the condition and report back which they have not done. people have to call a third party to get an appointment rather than having something directly add the center. the second issue i wish to address is the lack of accountability and transparency for cpmc. for over 2 years sf [inaudible] tried to establish a relationship with cpmc that allows the community to participate in the planning of services but was met with a stone wall. cpmc did convee a
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group of providers and citizens, but it was a update not a discussion. cpmc is blowing the opportunity of developing a relationship with community after years of mistrust and battle. to restore credibility cpmc needs to consult with the broad representation of the community [inaudible] holding a series of meetings [inaudible] >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. gordon mars with jobs of justice. access to jobs at cpmc especially the non construction jobs is a high priority. this is due to the fact cpmc is the second largest employer in the sit a and the high rate of unemployment that sin san
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francisco. [inaudible] 2 years ago on the premise of creating permanent jobs and selling them with san franciscans from high unemployment neighborhoods. cpmc entry level hiring for non construction jobs is horrible for the first year and a half of the development agreement with a spike in hiring just in the last few months that allowed cpmc to claim they are coming close to the 40 percent hiring go. we like to hope that the improvement in hiring over the last few months is not just a aberration and one time trend, but given cpmc's performance for the first year and a half wree skeptical and we'll continue the hiring especially from it disadvantaged neighborhoods. thank you for your attention on this and look for full
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compliance with the pornts hiring goals >> thank you very much. next speaker please >> thank you and good afternoon supervisors. my name is lay law and with china for affirmative action. we are an employment aijs in china town so i want to give narratives for folks that applied for entry levels possessions. in the interest of time i'll share 1 or 2, but know sthr are dozens out there. first a client applied for a retail services representative position. i believe this was in june of 2014. it took tw months from the relf time to hear backt that ithey were selected for a interview and held on august 27 a month from the notification date. one month after the interview they received a call requesting a call back. it is 4 months from
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the application time. the client called several times and told no recruiter worked there and had the wrong number so the staff contacted the rerelfancy to see if they could reach the recruiter but no solution was reached. secondly, a acompliant applied to a house keeping aid position. staff receivered e-mail notification that the client had been selected for a interview, but the e-mail didn't provide the time or location. staff contacted the relf agency and otolds cpmc directly contacted the client several times and left a voice mail, but the client said she received no missed called or e-mails. [inaudible] however this time the client was told that she was called for a in person interview and told to wait for a phone call but this was the last time the client heard from cpmc. i recommend
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transapparent communication regarding hiring procedures wait time and next steps in the hiring process. prompt follow up with clients regarding and scheduling interviews and clear communication regarding time and location >> i will read a few more namesism sue chung, derek brown, cliff smith [inaudible] kate [inaudible] >> my name is sawa nob and registered nurse at cpmc. the development agreement is clear, cpmc was supposed to issue clipper card early unthe agrut and that hasn't happened. [inaudible] especially arounds the construction of cathedral hill hospital the community indurs lengthy traffic gentlemans and pollution. if
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someone at a higher level doesn't hold cpmc responsible san francisco and the community will continue to suffer. thank you >> thank you very much, next speaker, please >> good afternoon, my name is mary [inaudible] worked at saint lukes for a very long timeism we have currently [inaudible] absofens work clerks of nursing aids charge nurses. when i ask our director of nursing why can't these people be replaced i'm told because saint lukes isn't a acute care hospital. we have a lot of chronic illnesses but acute exacerbation and a lot of patients with mental illness. the reason we are missing so much staff is acpational injurys. on my floor alone there are 5 people injuryed in 6 months of those 53 are back.
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somebody needs to look at this. i was one of them. we need-my concern is if this pattern continues how will this look to the community? bh i campaigned for david comp pose i went to bruno heights and talk toog the people there they would like a a hospital that works for them, but in the condition it is in they will not come. will they come in the future? i don't know. the attitude toward us is so different from what cpmc projects. [inaudible] we like our patient squz like eeach otherism i don't think anything will change unlessen someone takes a look at all the things that has gone on in the hospital. i haight to think this is our future >> that you can very much. next speaker, please >> my name is [inaudible] i'm
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a registered nurse at cpmc pacific campus. nob nab in the union negotiation for all most a year now and we held auction by the work force. cpmc refuses to be held accountable to us just like they refuse to be held accountable to sthait. i would like taaddress the clipper card program which benefits many in san francisco, community and traffic. cpmc should have started that program in august of 2013. now i lurd in the presentation cpmc will start the program in 2 to 5 years. i am employer you to direct cpmc to eleaveiate traffic congestion by keeping promises in the da to issue clipper card to employees. we are asking for 100 percent sub stuty on clipper cards until the obligation is met. the
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time is now to hold cpmc accountable for their obligations. if not you, then who? >> thank you. next speaker, please >> cal ven welch and speak for san franciscan housing health care jobs and justice. i have a statement for the clerk as well. sfhj 2 request the board of supervisor amend section 5611 to provide for a collateral agreement between department of public health, the office of housing and work force development and our coalition in order to facil thait the implementation of pucklic benefits reached in the development agreement. i do not want to be sentical, i want to rejoice in the achievements of this development agreement, but by golly it is maws that
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amazing 2 of the [inaudible] getting citizen participation and planning saint lukes hospital and finding a mechanism to provide for health care needs of low income people in the tenderloin gets resolved the day of this hearing and a week before. so, if you don't give us the development agreement will you have one of these hearings every month? because we get action then. otherwise we don't. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. thank you for having us. my name is cathlen [inaudible] president of the south of market [inaudible] resident community association. we are newly formed. i'm also a clie ant of [inaudible] clinic and i was homeless 2 is a half year as go. i am very
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dishearten today hear without public input come with an agreement as to what clinic is going to serve the tenderloin residents. there isn't community input t is all decide from the top down. where is the input from the community. the collateral agreement, this is something you need to have with san francisco housing health care housing jobs and justices. very important for us to have this because you need have input from the community. it can't just be decide by bureaucrats and people in top authority. there are people like me that really care whether it is for housing whether it is for jobs whether it is for our decision on health care. we need better access and need to be able to help you decide what is best for us in stead of what you deciding what is best for us. collateral agreement and please do something to help a lot of
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the tenderloin residence and other people that go to some of these clinics in the tenderloin area and so forth to be able to access. going up to general is very stressful. we need other options >> thank you very much. next speaker >> good afternoon commit amembers, my name is [inaudible] i am with the [inaudible] community organizing department. for a while this community coalition that consists of neighborhood rez dnss organizer and neighborhood steak holders fautd hard for compliance of the development agreement yet we are still underminded. [inaudible] it if the city is dropping the ball or creating a deviation frainsurement of cpmc not upholding the obligation of the deadline [inaudible]
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without our faces on it. i find it disheartening this is [inaudible] because the city wonderful population lives are at stack. it is bad enough that the exclue sirfbty is not serving the marginalized. the suvartee of the issue [inaudible] members of the committee, you all should sign on to the collateral agreement with us because out of both parties we need to be in the middle of how our community direction should turn. accountability doesn't come with a price >> peter o00, counsel [inaudible] we have been a part of the san franciscan for health care housing jobs and justice for faum the beginning t. is a very complex project and very complicated package to
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implement. if you recall in may 2013 the coalition proposed a collateral agreement. the city aprosed. here wree 2 years later and the compliance report from cpmc as well as the sate report said everything is okay and your 3rd party monitor mr. jur auto flagged a number of issues that need to be paid attention to and in the conclusion said i suggest the board of supervisor squz responsible agency pay close attention to cpmc performance in the coming years. the question is how? you have 4 or 5 more years of doing this joand you see the packed out of people. the compliance so far is because of the endless amount of work done, the due diligence by the community a to flag those issues that came out in the third party monitors report chblt we can't do that year after year whether there is no formal role for the
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community. there should and could be a formal role for the community iin making sure this deal is done the right way. the sit a is talking about using development agreements as a tool for other large complex deals coming down the road and to see those things working effectively we have to take construction from this particular project and say how can the due diligence and monitoring be done well and how can the community play a lasting role so it is done right. [inaudible] make the da on big projects work the way they are supposed to. thank you >> thank you, next speaker, please >> [inaudible] hello supervisors my name is rita witker. i'm a resident at the [inaudible] hotel, i have been there for about 10 years now. i have been diagnosed with bone
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cancer and allp i want to say is that for support for helt care for me t is a organization called the sky watchers who take me to the hospital and give support. i just want to say again that i have only one wing to fly with and i think we do need 2 wings to fly with and that is where the supervisors come in. thank you so much >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> good afternoon supervisor. gab real thomson and tendser loin resident. in lieu of trying to get my education i took my daughter all the way from the tenderloin over to supervisor avalos district so she would have day care so i can get the training that i need. i want to hold cpmc
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accountable for this. i am a qualified person, i have a med call office certificate which i went to school for so i can work so as a tenderloin resident and single mom i can get to a better platform so i can show my daughter a better life. this is something that we want. this is something we need. this is not just we are asking because, you should just serve a blatant community. we are the community you need and serve. i also need the health care. i have a daughter with disaability to and take her all the way to general sometimes is very distressful. it means getting her out of school early and taking her to general and she is trireed and that trenz ends into my next day so these are needs not just wants >> thank you very much, next speaker
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>> good afternoon supervisors. my name is [inaudible] i'm a community outreach coordinator [inaudible] tend chinese [inaudible] my husband has had heart attack april 1 morning. i drive him to the emergency room of cpmc. they save his life. right here i have [inaudible] all medical provider of cpmc. today [inaudible] the members of tenderloin chinese nob nab association. they all low income seniors and disabled residence in the tenderloin. the city must keep the promise to create [inaudible] system by
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december 2015 so 1500 tenderloin residence on medicare can get special care and hospital care at cpmc [inaudible] there is not accept more medi-cal patients, we have traveling a long way to go to general hospital and wait for months and months and need appointments [inaudible] cpmc needs to serve at least 5400 people on medi-cal throughout the city. cpmc must also serve 1500 tender line residence on medi-cal. i hope the city can help the tenderloin and low income people. thank you >> thank you very much. i have a few more names. adela
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[inaudible] dan galvin,iolaunda jones, chris hess, dunel fuller. please come up on up >> good afternoon. my name is anthony miller, i'm a [inaudible] i was in a meeting at the work force and i came to my knowledge there was a 40 percent hiring which there was no public outreach, there was no -any kind of announcements and also about the 1500 medical clients, i also had no knowledge of that. they haven't announced it and they are not really doing their part to my knowledge about as far as addressing that and that is a concern to me because as you know, the san francisco is
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changing the [inaudible] changing a lot of parts of the tenderloin. the tenderloin will look a lot different within 5 years. it is cleaning up quite a bit and i would like to see minorities and everybody else to get a chance to try to get entry levels positions and think that would be a good idea. >> thank you very much. i will read a few names. bery [inaudible] >> good afternoon supervisor. my name is derek brown and community organizeer in training. i'm in support with the city ask san francisco for health care housing job and justice. i want to talk about jobs especially in the western addition in mission street and china town where low income people need these construction jobs to better they life. i'm
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also concerned about those disabled like myself who was shot 5 years ago ijthe tenderloin. i'm concerned about those who are disabled who would like to be able to work when the hospital is built so they have a opportunity to better they life >> thank you very much next speaker please >> my name is [inaudible] community healthy partnership and jobs for justice. my understanding is cpmc has not comply today the 40 percent hiring and they excuse is that the city is not gibbon refelf systems created and we just need this done and get it over with and make things happen. quit playing around >> thank you sir, next speaker >> >> good to see you back in city hall >> supervisor, my name
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[inaudible] one year ago i was retired. up to 30 years i help with the homeless people and [inaudible] andinose are becoming the oldest community activist. to today i come to thank each of the people who work [inaudible] and tonight [inaudible] california, pacific medical center. [inaudible] not far from my home. i live at 990 bunker street. [inaudible] russian, armainian, jewish, arab, [inaudible] i would like to remind you that we would like to allow everyone working in the hospital to open his eyes for the people live in 990. many of them use
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wheelchair. i going to be blind sooner or later i have diabetes. i survived with 9 time heart attack. thank god god give me a chance to be here to open your eyes and ask each going to work in this hospital to be [inaudible] service from this [inaudible] wants to be from our resident of this area. supervisor, for all of you thank you very much for your support [inaudible] to everyone who make it our dream come true. thank you. god bless all of you >> i'll read a few more names. colby whit field [inaudible] >> good afternoon my name is
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chris [inaudible] director of hethd care training programs at jewish vocational services and j vs is partnering with cpmc to provide training for intrelevel positions not clinical. the model is proven. this particular model is 4 week training in class and 4 weeks of internship. it is 61 textialized and work with cpmc to make sure we prepare san francisco residence for employment. we will be paying close attention to those in the priority nairblds neighborhoodss and the entire training is contextualized and make sure there is job success after placement >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> good afternoon. my name is [inaudible] i represent [inaudible] construction.
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first of all i want to thank cpmc and [inaudible] allowing me to meet my commitment to my community and city. i work closely with the traffic management and equipment out on van ness for the safety of the san francisco residence traveling up and down van ness. [inaudible] allowed me to reach out to to the community of san francisco and build a diverse team to represent several communities in san francisco including residence in transition. the main priority of cpmc and [inaudible] is safety and to hireb local. as a [inaudible] hunters point resident and business owner i have never seen this done before but they brought on so many local residence even as much as from local labor to [inaudible] it is unbelievable that people don't see the change out on van
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ness as far as local home grown people working out on the site identifiable that they are from all districts. people on my team spoke cant niece, mandarin, spanish and vietnamese and english. that says a lot about a small company to bring that diverse team in to monitor the traffic and safety of the pedestrians on van ness. they are to be commended and you are commended to alow lowing them to reach out to small companies and employ them. thank you >> thank you very much, next speaker please >> my name isbery stanger and executive director at saint antany foundation. thank you superlistening to us. saint anthony has a long history in the tenderloin of caring for
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the population in that community and trying to improve their lives. would you we served in the clinic for 60 years. those people that have little access to health care, about 65 percent we serve are undocumented who have no access to health care and will not have access to helts care under aca. in turfbing the other thrie 5 percent we need to find ways to get reembursement for the health care we provided. we haven't revved reembursement for the last kickt wreer 60 years. we negotiated with nims and cpmc to see if we coo take care of the 1500 lives in the tenderloin and receive med kale reembursement for that. wree happy we can partner with nims and cpmc to work out disagreement and hope to get support for that. i would like to introduce a drr dr. who served that population for 20
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years >> hello supervisors. my name is doctor sonia bloodso, i worked at saint antany for the last 20 years taking care of people in the tenderloin community. we have great need, we have lots of people with disabilities, difficulty getting around, emotional challenges, mental challenges and the elderly. ahospital nearby where 1500 people could use services would be tremendous. we also have the only pediatrician who works 5 days a week in a clinic in the tenderloin and we have been talking with cpmc about nishiating a child development center in our clinic, so there is obviously lots of work and challenges but we hope it can
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go ahead. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you for had opportunity to speak before you. my name is winy you and assistants director for [inaudible] non profit agency in san francisco serving the elderly. [inaudible] we are going to talk about the new partnership to [inaudible] for job seekersinate eted in becoming more competitive can dlts. a primary goal is provide training. we work with all the candidate who are san francisco residence we also pay particular attention to those from the priority neighborhood discussed earlier. we are happy to partner with cpmc and work with the other collaborative community bases organizations to allow more san francisco resi
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