the sutter representative is here. >> i want to know what you know. the focus is making sure we have an ironclad agreement. they say money was transferred out of one hospital into the sutter system. are you confident the agreement right now is iron-clad to prevent money transferred into sutter? >> we have a provision in the agreement, item seven. they are not prohibited to move funds around. they count any funds to the sutter parent. let me try -- greg can help. we did not address the ability to move funds around. but they can take the funds and move them up. this is not permitted in the development. >> cna thcan the attorney point to that? >> it will take a moment to find the paragraph. yes. you want me to read parts of it? exhibit f, page 14. the operating expesne inse is te definition for the calculation. means, total expenses of operation and all afiliates, operating with the city to find the generally accepted principles -- so this includes reasonable payments to the system, i.e. sutter health, applied through the system for overhead and services

sutter facilities of the most expensive in northern california.the attack union benefits and contracts. i cannot come the number of times in the past 10 years i have been on a picket line at cpmc, most recently earlier this year, when the engineers were up for more than a month. //k[-- were out for more than a month. these people produce services, and their needs must be considered in any deal with the hungry sharks. chairperson mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is thaddeus lead. i am a member of the van ness corridor association. i lived adjacent to the project. for years, the area where they plan to build has been vacant. likewise across the street, until they recently began a new apartment complex. often, when you walked by, it is extremely degraded. it attracts illicit activity. we are very excited about the potential of having a presence, something that is moving and alive, bringing some life back to the economy. we strongly support the project, and ask that you do as well. chairperson mar: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for thi

i am deeply concerned about sutter's lack of faith, with respect to st. luke's. they are closing a hospital because of its failure to meet its 1% and operating expenses as expected. we really have to keep st. luke's open. a further comment. there was an expert -- chairperson mar: thank you for your support. next speaker. >> thank you, members of the board. my name is jeff garner. i am president of the van ness corridor association. we support cpmc's plan to rebuild. when we moved in, there was a parking garage adjacent to our building. it would shut down, due to tax evasion and fraud. it was unsafe, and secure, and uncared-for. my family and i parked there with little complaint, because it was closest to our apartment and church. cpmc purchased the building, and overnight, new lights were installed, with motion sensors, a new paint. signs were updated. safety took a front seat. a new parking system was implemented. things were handled decently and fairly. immediately, we felt secure and safe in our parking garage. cpmc# and favor of our community just because of

i can say without equivocation that sutter has the most aggressive business strategy. let me just cite three examples, which i would urge the board to consider. calpers did an analysis some years ago of claims data provided by blue shield. the prices were 80% higher on average than hospitals across northern california. about 10 years ago, when sutter health saw to acquire summit medical center, a judge allowed the acquisition to go through. several years ago, the federal trade commission conducted an analysis of that acquisition to determine whether it had anticompetitive a facts. they got claim status from five insurance companies and found that sutter health had boosted prices by as much as 72%. our own organization did analysis of adjusted claims data and found that in the central valley, sutter's hospitals charge prices for simple pneumonia that work 106% higher than its competitors. in the attorney general's antitrust lawsuits, document emerged discovery process to provide insight into the business strategies. i would caution the board that this is a very aggressi

. >> the article continues -- "the driving force of this is sutter health." this process of trying to figure this out up until now has failed. everything has been revealed shows that what you need to do is to plant things off six months until the beginning of 2013 when the city's own master plan process and the needs of the whole city are taken into account. supervisor mar: thank you, next speaker. >> some of you know that for years, i worked in one of the most dangerous jobs around. i worked for a company -- an individual i was working with was moving steel into a building. at some point, when he was rolling that card into the building, one will of the cards caught on something on the floor. together, they took his thumb off. that individuals brought immediately to the emergency room, san francisco general, where they did a fine job of stabilizing him. however, when the emergency room decided that it could be reattached, they immediately sent him to davies medical center. that was where the still resided for microsurgery. that is an instance of how san franc

sutter hewalth try to close st. luke's shortly after purchasing it.f keeping it over at least five as promised to the state attorney general. now, they are proposing only 80 beds at st. luke's, which will make it less viable as a hospital and has close some units also at st. luke's. @'s proposal makes it more likely that st. luke's will not survive. they are proposing no psychiatric beds in their new hospital at van ness. they should at least be required to restore the 32 mental health beds at the rebuilt st. luke's or put at least 30 to psychiatric beds in to the new hospital on van ness. and most importantly, the supervisors should challenge the not-for-profit status of them. they pay salaries annually, and there ceo gets over $4 million annually. they are paying such outrageously high compensation's while crippling st. luke's and cutting back mental health and other health-care,boco servicesn san francisco. it is odd scene. we ask all of the supervisors and the mayor to be vigilant continue to bargain hard now, and please enter into the record -- c

the sutter street would operate on an accepted level. and the franklin street approach would offer -- would operate a lower service. the average intersection delay per vehicle would decrease. let me step away from the technical explanation. >> from my perspective, i am trying to understand if you add traffic to a congested intersection you are saying it will reduce the delay. >> if you add that traffic to an approach which has lower volumes, yes. it is a formula and that happens. let me step back to the eir and tell you this. at the sutter and franklin intersection, the level of service at those intersections is already an acceptable level e and f respectively without n with the project. even though the delayed increases by a couple of seconds, the effect to the project is not going to change par. >> because it is so gridlocked, when you add 28,000 more cars, it's pretty gridlocked already. >> that is not what i'm saying. those intersections experience a substantial number of the lead. a respected of the peak hour factor, the impacts rep

goo-- sutter. the consolidation is a serious problem, and finally, the federal trade commission in 2008 determined when merger in the east bay was anti-competitive. you have three respected authorities. did you not take our word for it. consolidation leads to higher prices. it is designed to create consumer demand so health insurance plans to do not include the hospital in their networks will be less popular. it was the same objective when they merged in oakland. it raises questions about what is the optimal size of the hospital. gthe literature review showed te optimal size between 200 and 400 beds. the economy of scale exist, but they declined after 10,000 annual discharges. profits rose between 500 and 550 beds to over 88,000 in a 550-bed hospital. this is the explanation for the size of the hospital. you could achieve the care efficiency with a 200-bed hospital. would you achieve is more of the double -- more than double the cost of beds. the eir could have addressed this issue about the type o

sutter was promising all of this stuff that never happen. you are very right to be concerned about that. they say they would keep us open if they broke even. they started the evaluation six months prior to. they did not move services and that they thought would keep us open, and we have been fighting closure for the last three years. they will not release the books to you, you will not know. there is no way you are going to know. $90 at one hospital, 30 and another. why they marked them up, we do not know. do they consider those part of their losses? we think so. i feel like a ghost of christmas past year, and i hope you are listening because you need such an ironclad contract with them, and i do not even know such a thing exists. but the 1% for st. luke's, it will be gone. they will find a way to get around it. just really be careful, because i understand that some of them are medically indigent. they are medicare. they are medical. we did 26,000 emergency room visits last year, and those people cannot be absorbed in the valley, which is mu

they got claim status from five insurance companies and found that sutter health had boosted prices by as much as 72%. our own organization did analysis of adjusted claims data and found that in the central valley, sutter's hospitals charge prices for simple pneumonia that work 106% higher than its competitors. in the attorney general's antitrust lawsuits, document emerged discovery process to provide insight into the business strategies. i would caution the board that this is a very aggressive organization. they will use their market power to boost prices on consumers. >> i am working -- supervisor mar: please pull the microphone closer to your mouth. >> i am a student. i have been here for, like, six years. i would be glad for having a new hospital building in year. it will be a safer and provide faster support for emergency relief. no cpmc project means no jobs. many members have run out of unemployment benefits. it would increase the positive impacts four lives. some of our members have lost their homes. we need this project to move forward. we need to approved cpmc project without

like to urge you to take an especially skeptical look at the eir, at the information provided by sutter, and ask for the rest of it, well, what can i say? and if the financing is not there. thank you very much. supervisor thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello. i want to first thank you for your being diligent and having this public process and the many hearings. as you can see, it is important to many cross sections. i am here to tell you that we would like to support the appeal of the eir, and our young, starting in 2009, they took a very bold stand to have southeast represented within the conversation of health care needs. the southeast always neglected in the city, and our youth took a stand, and this week, it was in the san francisco " chronicle," saying that st. luke's should be a deal breaker. they have shared their stories with many of you, either one on one or here, but they do rely on st. luke's, and if anything, st. luke's needs to be bigger and even more viable, which goes to where the eir is flawed. the project objectives are way too high in a stamp that medical servic

he said sutter help charges a 30% more than other health-care change but where is the source of that? >> is was na "los angeles *" article from last year. i believed it was a steady at the university of southern california, but i could be wrong. i would be happy to look -- and probably have the article in this folder. supervisor mar: thank you very much. last couple of speakers to help us understand this, the first is alan schafer from the center of policy analysis. i'm going to ask her to limit her remarks to no more than five minutes if possible. >> i am the co-director of the equal health network, a project of the center for policy -- center for policy analysis. i appreciate the chance to explain consolidation and competition in the next five minutes, so i will do my best. i want to say a couple of things. the proposed expansion would drive up the cost of health care and divert services away from the health-care needs of san franciscans. i want to say the consolidation will certainly concentrate bargaining power in the hands of mega hospitals. but it's also important to recognize t

. >> we're owned by sutter health. and sutter health made $4.2 billion a year. anthey're trying to take 30% from the nurses who are the heart of taking care. >> and sutter health reported a fourth of the nurses reported for work today. on sunday, contracts of replacement nurses expires. sutter health says the union asked for unrealistic wage increases. >> the beach book you're into this summer is giving your brain a boost. research kinds fiction books can improve rational thinking and abstract thought. and saying to get the best benefit he says linger over readings. >> and you should feel guilty about wasting time? >> and we'll have encouraging news about the economy thanks to car ask truck sales. >> yes. michael fin gee here. >> it's amazing. there is signs aren't discouraging americans from buying new cars, for many, sales of new vehicles surged in june and there is a 22% increase. for chrysler the best in five years and there is volkswagon for the best year in u.s. sales since 1973. falling prices and new models like ford escape and dodge dart helped attract

secondly, of course sutter is going to close st. luke's. if they do it from the plants that have been leaked, they will save about $450 million. smart business. just not good for our city. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is linda harris, a nurse and an adjunct at sf. i urge you. i feel strongly that moving forward with the current plan is a public health disaster which will haunt our city for generations to come. i would be first in line to support this project if it were to be built in the southern half of our city, where we have a population with already underserved health care needs, emergency rooms on diversion and shockingly high number of times, and a reduction of beds. instead, they want to build the hospital with plentiful beds and no real commitment to keeping st. luke's open. to be honest with our city. they want to build in an extremely busy north-south transportation artery and are requesting variances to a very well thought out van ness corridor plan based on a seriously flawed environmental impac

sutter is planning a regional- wide project. and yet the eir only focuses on san francisco and does not take into account all of the trafficked. two, disaster planning. in the 1989 earthquake, i went down to the marino and tried to do my bit to pitch in. i can see that it is one thing to talk about services for the southeast, what about the southwest? what about the south half of san francisco? we need to have following up on the health services planning, comprehensive planning for san francisco, and push people who want to bring services to capitalize on san francisco's market, push them to provide what we need not just what they want to offer. third, housing. imagine if the current van ness regulations on housing were kept for this. you think of that nice big building. think of four of those buildings, three of them being housing. with that not be great? it would be a great asset for san francisco to have that new housing. but it is not there. thank you. >> and final speaker on behalf of the appellants. >> good evening, superv

the fed's short-term strike against sutter in the past eight months. it is over unresolved issues in contract negotiations including sick leave and staffing levels. the walkout begins at 7:00 a.m. this morning >>> energy bills could be going up in 2014 pg&e wants to raise rates. about $12 a month more for the tobacco customer. $144 a year the utility wants to raise $2 billion to improve infrastructure. pg & e's sent the proposal to state regulators. >>> our goal with this proposal is to improve safety reliability and customer service to levels on par with the best of the industry to do it while keeping service affordable. >>> we will go over every single penny and a man pg&e justify how they will spend the money. >>> if approved the rate hike takes place in 2014. would you mind paying extra for safety upgrades lisa writes: share your thoughts on facebook twitter or e-mail us at mornings at cbs 5 dot com >>> 21 minutes before 7:00 c- net breaks down the computer you can wear. a fourth of july celebration that is out of this world. the solar explosion. >

luke's to be a liaison person between that sutter and the community.ny town hall meetings to see what hockey denizens of bayview hunters point feelings were. all of the in-house wanted to the st. luke's hospital to remain the same. i certainly could understand the sentiments and because as you know, south of market -- [unintelligible] i went back and took the information to the ceo, asked him why it they can't remain the same. he said, because he would love to do that. because the hospital had been operating in the red over how many millions of dollars it was a year, no business can stay in business that way, and if we operate the same way, we will go out of business also. so they reduced down to 80 beds. in my opinion, her 80 beds are better than no beds. i say that because the california pacific can't do it, and not know any other hospital in san francisco that can do it. because of the longevity has a health-care provider, they have been operating in the black the whole time, i think that is indicative of the fact that they are the best qualified to

according to the article, much of the reason for higher cost allies was sutter which has groups throughout the northern california region. we can see the strategy at play in several other areas. they have proposed the same kind of game plan that they are proposing now to consolidate with a provider in a low-income area and they have done this with a public entity created to operate a hospital for the benefit of citizens living in and around castro valley. the hospital district purchased a hospital in 2004 using public funds owned by the district and those who question the arrangement were sure it was negotiated for the express purpose of ensuring funding for the continued operation of the hospital, however they negotiated a provision by which they had the option to cease its operating commend its net revenues fell below a certain level, which was determined after accounting for operating losses to be calculated by setter itself. this hospital, like st. luke's, services and less affluent population and the related hospital in castro valley. sutter has now made its intention known to close i

i can say without equivocation that sutter

sutter health reports half of its nurses reported for work as scheduled. sutter will keep the striking nurses locked out until sunday when the contracts of replacement nurses expire. sutter says the union has proposed unrealistic wage increases. >>> 49ers scored legal victory in efforts to build a stadium. judge has frozen 30 million dollars in redevelopment funs that santa clara county pulled from the project. the county planned 40 million dollars toward the stadium and already granted the first 10. a abruptly yanked the remaining 30 million last month so the 9ers are taking the county to court. >> auditor is responsible for distributing the funds, he will not be distributing funds for the time being because the court has ordered him not to do so until the court can decide the issue. >> the loss of funding came after the 49ers broke ground on their future home in santa clara. the team released a statement saying this hearing was a step in the right direction and we expect the court to take time to study key issues. the team and the city strongly believe t

sutter health nurses east bay and peninsula will be locked out of their jobs until sunday following their one-day strike. drivers honk horns in support of the striking nurses. this marks the fifth time since last september nurses have walked off the job in an ongoing contract dispute despite the strike sutter health says half of its nurses reported for work. sunday the contracts for replacement nurses expire. >>> what will you be doing today on this 4th of july? i'm going to guess at the thomas household, barbecue? >> what would make you think that? history. [ laughing ] >>> let's check in with mike. >>> a little grilling and chilling today. live doppler over the last three hours watching clouds roll in not watching anything fall from them off to a dry and cool start low to mid 50s from now through 7:00 towards lunchtime clouds return back to the coast where it will stay in the upper 50s mid to upper 70s around the bay and inland rapid warming once the clouds pull back to the coast which they will do by 10, 11:00 at the latest. 4:00 warm inland mid 80s for you . clouds start pushing back

if you recall, i did make the observation that perhaps because cpmc's profits and revenues go to sutter health, sutter health could drive down the cpmc profits to the point where they could be seen as insolvent. >> i will ask mr. rich. >> i will note that there was no board of appeals and there was no historic preservation decision. if we could move forward on your calendar to general public comment category. it has a 15-minute time limit. at this time, members of the public may address you two items of interest to the public. with the exception of agenda items. agenda items may not be addressed during this category, but only at the time they are reached on calendar. for this category, each member of the public may address you for up to three minutes each. the entire category has a 15 minute time limit. >> i have a couple of speaker cards. [reading names] >> i am the founder and spokesmen for a grass-roots group that is been around 30 years. i hope to make a compelling case for an eir in and around the memorial tower. the uninhabited lots within the urban jungle tend to become depositor

today strike comes as union officials and sutter management continue to clash over sick leave health care payments staffing levels and other issues. the walk-out is the fifth strike organized by the union since september. >>> still the death of a television legend. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> just ahead, a look back at the life and career of andy griffith. >>> new chapter in the effort to solve the mysterious disappearance of aviator amelia earhart. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> we have sad news to report about a television icon the star of the andy griffith show died this morning at the age of 86. don sanchez is here to look back at the amazing career. >> he is one of those hall of fame icons of television remembered for comedy that still endures family values that helped shape generations. thanks to places like tvland i could still hear that song and whistle. ♪ >> that whistle calls viewers back to mayberry for eight years beginning in 1960 he started as sheriff andy taylor. opie's pa. >> you know you have been taught the golden rule do on to others as you would hav

sutter bones every single hospital bed with the exception of st. rose which is struggling. hear, our employees have a choice and here we have the finest medical institution in the country. there is probably elul competition there but we wanted our employees to be able to have a choice. an interesting question that you raised is because uc is in that group, they have high-risk members or more expensive patients. you don't really go there to see your family practice doctor. you go because you have an underlying chronic illness or you have had cancer and are being followed up. they have by definition high- risk members and have partnered beautifully with st. mary's and st. francis and have a step down in terms of rehab. you have an academic medical center partnering with a community-based hospital and the physicians have done a better job at reducing costs. they had experienced doing it in the sacramento and we are hoping this kind of improved care will spread throughout both of them. >> i am understand this is a difficult question to answer, but i assume many experts would sa

today strike comes as union officials and sutter management continue to clash over sick leave health care payments staffing levels and other issues. the walk-out is the fifth strike organized by the union since september. >>> still the death of a television legend. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> just ahead, a look back at the life and career of andy griffith. >>> new chapter in the effort to solve the mysterious disappearance of aviator disappearance of aviator [ female announcer ] now get high speed internet at home on our newly expanded advanced digital network, a connection you can count on. introducing at&t u-verse high speed internet with more speed options, reliability and wi-fi hot spots than ever. call at&t now to get u-verse high speed internet for as little as 14.95 a month for 12 months with a one-year price guarantee. it's the fastest internet for the price. our newly expanded advanced digital network gives you more of what you enjoy online. and with at&t, our wireless gateway turns your home into a private wi-fi hot spot that connects your wi-fi devices and can even save on your smart phone

luke's to sutter health, cpmc announced its intention to close st. luke's. the hospital staff, the community were mobilized. there began a campaign to save st. luke's. there was an outcry from the hospital staff, from community leaders, and city officials, which prompted cpmc to convene a blue-ribbon panel i consider the future of st. luke's. -- and consider the future of st. luke's. the panel recommended that st. luke's be rebuilt as a full- service hospital and the board approved this. >> i have spent a good deal of my non work time attempting to ensure that the hospital i which i worked for 26 years, st. luke's, remains a viable acute- care facility in this city. i am an emergency room nurse and i continue to fight for st. luke's that will be vibrant and viable over the years. once we were a thriving acute- care hospital, we now function at a fraction of the size to use to be. what has happened is the starting of a hospital and there is no logical conclusion that the starvation will lead to its demise. the record at st. luke's shows there must be an agree

the sutter hospitals are in san mateo and alameda. >>> court battle begins in sacramento today over 30 million dollars in disputed funds earmarked for the 49ers new stadium. a judge agreed to freeze the funds after the team filed a restraining or last week. a board voted to not allow the money to go to stadium funding. the 9ers say they don't expect the dispute to impact the construction of the project slated to be completed by july of 2014. >>> development deal for california pacific medical center to build two new hospitals in san francisco could be in jeopardy by documents provided by anonymous whistle-blower. several supervisors unveiled leaked documents yesterday that shows the finances could go in negative numbers as soon as 2018 that could get the hospital out of its contract and the site could close. the board president says a vote will be delayed until an independent audit can be done. >>> 4:36. winds may have played a role in toppling a large tree in san francisco the tree came within inches of smashing a scooter and landing on a truck. drivers were to steer clear of the haza

i am the owner of sutter fine foods are right across from this building. talking to the neighborhood and association, they are all for it. a lot of people were upset, they lost a restaurant that was there before and they are very excited in talking to them being involved in the community that another restaurant is coming and it is a pizza and they're totally looking forward to it. i talk to me 100 different people and they are all for it. i know these gentlemen -- i may managing partner at the park merced shopping center and the beauty is they helped us whenever we needed any thing. they hire within that community. some of the workers i see, like seven of them live in the area so they don't even use their cars. i know a lot of people are for it. they're wonderful operators and a good for the community. needed. thank you. president fong: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya: i am quite familiar with this neighborhood. i don't have a conflict of interest. i'm two and half for three blocks away. th

nurses say sutter has proposed eliminating sick leave and increasing healthcare payments. 3500 nursesxpected to strike. >>> new video of an incredible heat related accident, an suv went airborne over driving a buckled road and the incident was caught on a cell phone. the suv went several feet in the air and landed on the other side into the on coming lanes and amazingly nobody was hurt. the road buckled during this past week in the mid-atlantic, they are still dealing with the extremely hot whether or. it knocked over power lines and utility crews have restored service to several but 8 million are currently without electricity. >> i guess the fact that the power is out people are sticking together and coming closer together just because the power is out. and i guess it unites us in a strange type of way. >> they are bringing in crews as far away as canada to help speed up repairs. >>> and firefighters are battling the largest wildfire in history, why two air tankers in california capable of dropping thousands of gallons of water has been grounded. >>> police say the gang is involved i