. >> i am benjamin elliott, and we represent nurses at the bay area and also of san francisco. i live in inner richmond with my family, right near the cpmc agreement. i am here to talk about an agreement they made in another county, sonoma county, where they agreed to take over county services. shortly after the ink began to dry, they began eliminating services, such as psychiatric, a pediatric care, a pediatric icu, and the closed another area. in 2004, they had a business it planned to seismically retrofits when there was not enough money in their calculation to make profits off of the patience of sonoma county, and they tried to walk away and close all of of hospitals and transfer them to a catholic hospital in the area. there was a community fight which ultimately led to a political fight which kept them in the county. now, they are building a smaller hospital which will put a burden on the facilities while they increased their profits. they do this in every single community where they operate. as a resident of san francisco where my wife and child, and we are about to have