. >> july 2000, reporter brian schultz is dispatched to new providence, iowa, to cover the installationw water tower. >> that looks pretty good, don't it? >> it does. >> getting the water tower was a point of pride for new providence. something they'd been trying to get done for quite a while. so it was quite a big deal. >> new providence raises enough money to purchase its very first tower. the remote town of a little more than 200 people is all abuzz. >> anyone who was at home at the time, they were going to go out and see this happen. >> as local residents gather in the streets, a 150-foot crane rises and successfully lifts the four steel legs into position. >> there were some gentlemen on top of the tank that were attaching these straps to a central point that the crane would lift up. there were a few gentlemen on the ground that were kind of directing them. and there was a gentleman on top of the crane that was waiting for all this to happen. i remember even at the time i was pretty impressed with how cautious they were being. >> we're going for liftoff. >> with two workers poised

the new plaza will provide access, but to the hospital and the doorways. it is full of bounce, seatings, the louvre -- new landscapes and a multipurpose room. the public staircase goes uphill to the south to connect 27 st. in the second major doorway -- and the second major door way that provides access to emergency services. the hospital and medical office building we believe will support a dramatically improved public realm. we believe these five buildings answer the challenge given to us. we think it will be great additions to the city. these buildings will provide the highest quality of health care, complement the neighborhood and be built to last. i would like to introduce dr. costed kirsch. >> good afternoon. my name is dr. ed kirsch, and i am a cardiologists and chief of staff. i represent the 350 positions on the active medical staff at the hospital. they in turn it care for about 300,000 residents who live south of market. i participated in the rebuild st. luke's process for over six years. that started with the save at st. luke's movement, went on

the new proposed hospital would provide access for all set for assistance, regardless of income levels. we support a new health care facility that will include a state of the art and modern equipment for all san franciscans. it is the stronghold of our community that this board will vote in favor of the cpmc rebuild. thank you. president fong: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, president pham and commissioners for your time. my name is natalie. i have been a resident of san francisco for 11.5 years. i support rebuilding cpmc. in 2008, i started working as a camp for cpmc. i was eventually hired by a general contractor to work on the project. without these projects, i may have never maintained employment brought the economic crisis. i have children that were born at st. luke's. as a member of that community, i was fortunate to have access to health care in close proximity to where i live. i as well as many residents and patience, would be pleased to see this hospital get a much- needed to upgrade. campus neighborhoods surrounding will benefit from the new facilities. all the

projects and then secondly, which is a new concept, they will be providing a 50% off peak and 75% peak charge for every car that interests and captains the garage this . is a new concept we are trying to implement. these parking spaces are a little over a thousand. we felt it was a good structure to mitigate some of the automobile use on that corridor. they are providing $10.4 million for transit delay which we will use for other capital improvements and 400,000 for bicycle studies. roberto probably clarified this but in the documents we had not indicated that the parking charge would apply to all compensated parking. physicians getting free parking will be paid for. so there is a change that says in the agreement that the >> thank you very much. members of the board. that concludes the presentation. anyone care to address the board from the public? come forward, please. ok. >> we just completed litigation in sonoma county over a new sutter hospital to be built on the fringes of santa rosa. the issue there is that it was a transit unfriendly location. and as a result of the litigation

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they provide new and exciting landscaping and will be built to quality throughout. the first is an unchanged proposal from the building and site development use sulphurs in 2007. the building fundamental or urban design gesture is to enhance public access to an existing campus by linking street-level activities through the campus in new and accessible concourses. the building is composed of two different elements. there is a wood facade and various windows. there is the continuous glass street level concourse that provides the view. the upper building is set back and turn that 90 degrees to the street. that bridges into the core of the hospital campus, so the past is available to the public and this building through the building and up the hill and into the original campus. there is a small corner card and that really accentuate the available lobby concourse entry. the upper floors are set back and virtually not visible in this particular vantage point. at vanass and gary, cmpc proposes to build a new hospital. the hospital is founded by a gary franklin medical offi

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federal new starts for the project from the city and region, which would provide a sizeable share of the financially to build it. the amount the region is putting the city on the hook for is $450 million. this plan with largely get us there. it would not get as all the way there, but very close to meeting the region expectations for camp -- for san francisco's expectation for making this happen. it is a very important aspect. this is billions of additional savings. the funding program is laid out in the implementation project as reviewed last session there is a large table that shared the allegations of all of the projected revenue and identified funds that will be used to build the infrastructure in the future. you have a nice copy at your desk. there is one item i wanted to call your attention to. yesterday we sent you a sheet with a couple of items that have corrections and minor modifications to the package that you already received. this goes in the clarification column. there is a line item or previously a line item that allocated $12.5 million from the projected open space imp

schools, a violation of state law, 69 employees will be laid off, 9,000 patients will have to find a new provider. officials say they haven't found a new building and may have to start up a delivery service instead. >>> what was interesting about the weather yesterday, kids were sent to school with shorts and shortsleeves warm throughout the day then boom, mid-afternoon, those winds started howling clouds rolled in and instant change. >> that was good sleeping weather, you open that window baby and the heat rushed out. >> almost like mother nature listened to my forecast yesterday it did get cool afternoon we touched 80 in a few areas we won't do that today. now you see the winds off the ocean a lot of sun because there's drier air behind the system still cooler, almost cooler everywhere this morning, oakland one degree warmer half moon bay the same otherwise one to six degrees cooler to start out that's where the mostly sunny sky sunrise 6:13 upper 40s to low 50s everywhere. sunshine just about total dominant by 4:00 upper 50s at the coast, mid 60s around the bay low 70s inland temperatures drop

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cpmc will be able to continue to provide health care to san franciscans. the new building will be seismically safe. we need to keep the jobs in san francisco. this project will allow us to do so. that is why we need the city to approve the rebuild of cpmc. it will create more opportunities and more programs just to give people out of work and people in this second chance a new lease on life. to help people take care of their families. i think it is a win-win for everybody. i appreciate it if everybody would vote yes. thank you. >> let me read a few more names. [reading names] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the executive director for the mission neighborhood centers. our organization has submitted a letter to each one of view and i would like to take a brief couple of minutes to read the content at this time. the letter is addressed to president fong. it reads as follows. on behalf, i respectfully extend this letter of support to on behalf of california pacific medical center and urge you and a fellow commissioners to extend your approval and certification.

the 2008 bill expanded more than $1 million to existing and new energy programs. it was provided to develop biofuels beyond corn ethanol. there are many sources in my pennsylvania district court that can be used in the advanced biofuels. timber can be used for energy or heat production. many of our -- programs such as the biomass crop assistance programs, better known as bkap were developed to foster the creation of the next generation of advanced biofuels. this program has received over $900 million in appropriations. i think it's fair for this subcommittee to ask whether or not this program has achieved its purpose, whether or not it needs to be altered in some ways and if there are new sources of biomass established for energy production as a result of this program. other programs like the rural energy for america program, commonly known as reap were expanded to assist small businesses to implement energy efficiency measures and renewable energy systems. we should be certain that farm bill energy programs do not favor one region over another and that the programs are operating

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plan as presented by the planning director and staff, because without it we cannot build a new station or provide the station for their growing and current commuter work force we will see in the san francisco bay area, and we will not be able to have the environmental benefits. we will not be able to build housing, so thank you very much for your consideration and the opportunity to comment. president fong: thank you. >> i am with the planning department staff. as the planning director and an rea, you are restated, this plan is the filling of -- held vision about the downtown plan in 1985 to realize the new downtown san francisco of round the bend transbay terminal and the new transbay transit center. this plan covers and not just the transit redevelopment area, which was detailed in the video you just saw, but the broader area from market street to folsom st.. essentially the embarcadero to the east side of the district. this plan that we feel is the pinnacle of transit-oriented growth and development in the bay area. the city has been engaged with the regional agencies and other jurisdictions f

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real concerns that credit rationing from banks will actually restrict that availability of new money to be provided difference is where you get your funding from, right? so who's in a better position if banks aren't going to give you a new money, who is in a better position to get it elsewhere? >> that's the issue and it's a particular issue in europe where we see a weak economic environment, the question about sustainability of debt at the sovereign level, we're seeing banks that are more highly leveraged than the u.s., and that all leads in to -- for us, that points very clearly to the fact that since corporates are so dependent on banks in europe, 85% of the debt financing traditionally has come from banks, we think banks will ration credit much more likely to corporates in europe. which pushes the largest corporates that can toward debt capital markets. >> this is jim. i have a quick question here. i wonder how has the behavior of the large multinationals changed in the period since we've had the big financial crisis? they were caught short in terms of not realizing how dependent they were in t

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