so for the good of san francisco, we need to lift the veil and see that there are people out there in need. san francisco needs to be accountable to its residents. it's time that san francisco had a plan, a vision of a healthy san francisco that provides awful its residents and not just a select few. thank you. president chiu: thank you. natalie, lee, alex. emily. >> [speaking foreign language] >> hello, everybody. my name is michelle. i'm a member of c.p.a., a volunteer, and a i'm a resident of chinatown. i support the health care services master plan because this is very close to the personal interests of immigrant residents in chinatown. i'll leave myself as a personal example. i have had health problems since last year and it's been getting worse and worse. my family doctor is at northeast medical services, but in order to book an appointment i have to wait overan a month to get an appointment -- over a month to get an appointment. and then when i went to see my family doctor, in order for them to diagnose me, i had to see a specialist. to see a specialist i had to wait another tw

you have heard from as many times about the community needs. for us, it is a question of what -- but the hospital industry is pushing for, which is delays. it is for the legislation not to happen at all. and what the community needs is a comprehensive plan to understand where planning needs to happen in san francisco and where health services are needed the most, and to identify gaps in those services. i hope you will move the legislation further and not delayed as long for then we need to. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. by name is william ho. i am with the bernal heights neighborhood organization. i am in support. we need to discuss the health care inequalities in this city. this is essential to the social and economic health care in the city. the master plan will identify gaps in services and medically underserved areas. access to health care cannot be decided by business plans of corporations. access to health care needs to be dictated by the needs of residents and not their ability to p

there is no way to know for sure if an individual project is actually consistent with the needs of the city. if a master plan outlines what those needs are, that creates a road map that these institutions can follow to more expeditiously get their projects approved. it's actually something that will have the opposite affect -- effect. likewise, there's a notion that somehow the alignment of responsibilities is misguided, this in terms of the agencies that are involved, from the beginning what this legislation has tried to do is create better communication between the planning department and the health department. something that unfortunately has not happened to the level that is needed and that is what this legislation does. it provided a structure within the planning context, which is legally where we have the authority to take action, but it does so in way that incorporates the advice and expertise of the health department. and so i know that the hospital council has a specific role to play. they represent more than 185 hospitals and their goal as stated in their website is to repres

and not just the needs of the city as a whole, but the needs of individual neighborhoods and communities throughout the city. and not just the needs today, but the needs a year, two years, 10 years from now. with this legislation essentially does is it presents a very basic proposal that says before we go forward, as we're doing right now, and make those decisions, let's create a master plan that outlines in a very thorough and complete way with the health care needs of every resident of san francisco are, what the health-care needs of the city are said that when we are asked to approve or disapprove a project, we have the information to know whether or not those projects are actually consistent with the needs of the city. it is not rocket science. it is a very basic concept. in the process of drafting the legislation, we have learned a lot. in fact, we have learned a lot, in particular, from the planning department, which not only help us put together the legislation, but has in the course of this process introduced a number of changes. in fact, a letter was sent from our office to you,

the help planning now, and we need to hold accountable the hospitals and others to the needs of our community. supervisor campos: the legislation until now has not had an effective date, and my preference would be for it to go forward without one, but if i order to strike a balance between what the community is saying and some of the concerns that have been raised by the industry, there is a sense that maybe we need to do that. we are open to that, but again, when we drafted the legislation, that date was not included. i think that the community has very strong points, and i'm not going to disagree with those points, but again, we offer that date as a discussion if only because we do want to make sure that we do everything we can to get something moving. >> i just wanted to clarify -- my understanding is that the date is not necessarily the effective date of the legislation but the date at which if the plan is completed before that date, the consistency determinations would not have to happen -- supervisor campos: that is absolutely right. the legislation would be effective im

to do first and then the next year in one year we need to be superficial attention to get on to a strengthening the space the troops in what i call air force but it is serious in a when are you come through ellis island area defense i mean those in the girly warning system that if you go and they should be under the same command of the libyan that i strategic command thirty min the army feel we need me you might noodle aren't you got annoyed in navy in the morning he should moves with the warden of minutes but that weapons and skill it specialists. this requires some of the little money and i have just given you the. and new solutions and new decisions sometimes there are difficulties that we should also take care of all the ruthlessly responsibilities that we have taken up with regard to people who have joined the ranks who are service men primarily providing housing as i doubt the let you third that that we should do in the relieve your army a different thing from the jobs that it shouldn't do you mine yet hold his job some we done by t

the city does not have a comprehensive understanding of our needs. the city cannot adjust investigates based on each particular need. we need a big picture approach. we believe the monster plan will provide the big picture approach by making recommendations. the decisions made impact the services we are able to receive. we have to make sure the families you serve will hold of voice in the process. >> next speaker please. >> i want to thank you for taking the time to listen to public testimony i am here to support the master plan. health care is one of the top priorities. many are not insured by their employers and depend on the safety net to stay healthy. they can determine what are the health care needs. they should also prioritize the need of san franciscans. currently they are drawn to specialized care to be competitive on a regional, international, and national basis. it places an increased burden on the department of health. thank you for your time. >> next speaker please. >> i am with the chinese grants student association, and we work with a lo

need. it is not that it is going to be the worst thing ever. i think you need to be careful how you frame your comments to us, because it -- just be careful how you frame it so it makes sense and it is not just if you don't we will fall off a cliff, because it just does not work that way. thank you. >> abbey yen, sts. francis hospital. i appreciate the opportunity to come into you one more time. i think god just locked us all in the room. we are all here, and we are all very interested in doing a plan. i think that is part of what this legislation has done, is made that clear we are very interested in a good health master plan for san francisco. i would ask on behalf of our facility that our rebuilds in the future as it relates to the legislation -- we have a 2013 deadline. we are retrofitting our facilities at st. mary's and st. francis as we speak. they will pass the 2014 deadline, but we will be looking at a 2013 deadline. -- at a 2030 deadline. it requires an outlook and we are not there yet. the suggested amendment presents us with interest

as i said earlier, we have seen an increase in the need. we had our highest number of directly certified students in the program, which means families are accessing more of the programs than ever. that is why we feel we would like to participate in the city 's efforts. supervisor campos: thank you. if we could now call on deloris mcgee. good morning. welcome to the committee. >> i am -- we are a nonprofit organization -- supervisor campos: speak into the microphone, please. >> i'm here to represent the community living campaign. i am a community connector for the omi, which is ocean view, merced heights, and ingleside. we provide services for people who are not able to get out into the community to get the services they need. we provide those services for them. we are a community that does not have a supermarket, and i found that most of the seniors are not able to get food, so i developed a program where we have 35 volunteers who take boxes of food to seniors twice a month. we have 51 seniors that we serve, and the age requirement is eight

the first question we need to talk about his education and strengthening the education system. n you begin to develop a robust education policy in san francisco, need to identify pathways that will lead to jobs and careers, sustainable careers that will lead to a person being able to afford housing. we're looking for sustainability. the number one way to destabilize any community is for a home to go into foreclosure. that usually happens to someone is under-employed has lost their job. that is where i stand. we need to have pathways to careers that are sustainable. that will help to stabilize communities that would then lead to jobs. thank you. >> we do have a tremendous amount of housing programs for district 10. the shipyard has over 10,000 homes planned for phase two. let's not forget about phase one that has homes planned if the 49ers' do not stay, we will have more homes. this more like 15,000 homes just of the shipyard -- at the shipyard in candlestick. we have a lot of info coming in bayview. we have rebuilds of public housing. i think the public dollars from redevelopmen

we at organized labor usually never fail when we listen to the workers first and make sure their needs are taken into consideration and we do not stray when we are diligent in those matters, and we are here today on behalf of the labor council -- i'm here on behalf of the labor council to support the library commission, and we urge you strongly not to win one of these buildings -- not to landmark these buildings. thank you. >> building and constructions trades council. i am sometimes accused of coming before you only because of the work, and that is really not the case. i make it in principle not to argue on behalf of projects are non-union, and this has been a mixed bag for us. any gains we would make our marginal at best, so i'm here to argue on a different basis. as a san francisco resident and someone who raised his family here in san francisco. you have heard how a library has preserved appleton woolford libraries whenever possible assiduously, but they have real needs they need to meet on behalf of the community here we should honor historic preservation where possible, but we mu

we understand the needs of the kennedy as well as the needs of the program. we are also competing with this work. we partnered with another local firm and we are looking for to be able to continue to do good work in the city of san francisco. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. very exciting to have you here and here experience on this. -- and your experience with this. we are working to help vulnerable communities. i wanted to speak to the slide about what we learned on this project in a very informative presentation. i want to talk about this with respect to local workers. everyone said this is part of a good presentation. this addresses local consent. i think that we're looking to see a project labor agreement covering this work in this city. this is an important tool. would like to see this advance through mandatory hiring. there is dissatisfaction within the community. there was also an alliance of good faith efforts of contractors to better babbitt debate band -- to secure work for local residents. we're looking to see a mandatory local hiri

we understand the needs of the kennedy as well as the needs of the program. we are also competing with this work. we partnered with another local firm and we are looking for to be able to continue to do good work in the city of san francisco. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. very exciting to have you here and here experience on this. -- and your experience with this. we are working to help vulnerable communities. i wanted to speak to the slide about what we learned on this project in a very informative presentation. i want to talk about this with respect to local workers. everyone

this is just the tool we need. this, as you recognize, is the map of the 17 areas they would like to move into. what we need to do with those regulations and incentives is to concentrate them in the transit-rich mid market area around civic center. this is where there are residential projects that could buy. there are vacant lots that could be developed. there is the great building, which recently approved as a youth hostel. that is a shaky project, given the size of it. if the academy of arts or to lease half the building for students, or some of the other institutions here today, i think it is likely they could get the financing to do that project. how would this impact the city? this is what i find fascinating. these are bus routes. you can see this great long line out here to the star motel. that is the only thing it serves. this red line goes all the way out to fisherman's wharf for basically two buildings. if we can focus their residential and academic buildings in the transit corridor, the transit-rich market

which could be double the budget creation needed for the plan. the department recommends that the ordinance include a funding source to cover the production and the funding cost of the plan with a surcharge on the medical facility or for other sufficient funds for those departments. third, the content of the health care services master plan. the ordinance currently includes very detailed language about the contents of the master plan and believes that the scope of the master plan should be created in the separate process to discuss the content and layout rather than mandating the inclusion of certain areas. fourth, make d.p.h. and the department of public health is better equipped to determine whether or not newer and expanded medical uses is consistent with the health care master services plan. fifth, exempt pipeline projects. the planning department recommends you modify the ordinance so that projects who have already filed applications would not be subject to the consistency determination. only those with projects who file the further applicat

of students -- where their co- curricular academic needs and the development needs of students are met, particularly younger students who are not yet ready for the rental market. i see them come into my office, very upset about what they have gone through. the school has lost a lot of control over that. we currently do not have student housing. being able to provide that is another educational element to our program, one that is incredibly important to our young folks in a college environment. these proposed changes would encourage the development of new student housing and reduce the burden on the existing housing stock. i encourage you to approve the amendment to the planning code. president miguel: thank you. >> brad paul, speaking as an individual in support of this legislation with the changes to staff has recommended. i have a confession. when tim cullen first mention this, i said "as long as it does not apply to the academy garden." i figured they would find some way to use it against us. but on more careful reflection, it is exactly them we need to apply this to. the on

the argument against when marking the building are substantive. we need a library that works. that people can actually use. finally, the new library plan has the advantage of keeping the old library open, as heavily used as it is, while the new library would be built, which other plants have not enabled us to do. thank you. >> good afternoon. the san francisco parts trust is the fiscal sponsor for the friends of joe dimaggio playground, and we have been working for the past five years on various improvement projects -- the san francisco parks trust. we are opposing historic landmarking, and we feel confident all the various options have been well explored within the community, and the park and community would be best served by renovating and creating a new library. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm a proud supporter of our renovated library as well as a renovated library for the whole san francisco's system. i'm asking you please not to recommend landmark status for the north beach branch. new or renovated functional libraries have been popping up all over san francisco. north

of students -- where their co- curricular academic needs and the development needs of students are met, particularly younger students who are not yet ready for the rental market. i see them come into my office, very upset about what they have gone through. the school has lost a lot of control over that. we curry

funding, i wanted to offer a possible suggestion that might facilitate the accommodation and needs of the parks and recreation department because quite frankly i think there's a lot of people that have great concern and affection to the city of san francisco that are wonderful gifts to the community. i was going make an offer and a suggestion because individuals in the community would like to contribute to the park but they don't know where the needs are. the federal communications commission has low-level broadcast station availables, frequencies that are available for short-term broadcasting. if one of those would be taken and utilized by parks and rec to announce four contributors to the parks and rec for clean-up volunteers for equipment volunteers for the types of things that if the community knew about and had the opportunity to contribute money, time, or resources that they could possibly do. but part of the issue is they don't really know what's going on in parks and rec. a short-term broadcast station that was assigned to the needs of parks and reck that anyone could pick up

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criminal justice system but he also did on the issue of corruption and he said that we need to fight corruption in every sphere is still the top priority of him and his governments. should. someone when you make the most of them the battle with corruption remains the top priority for us i think we have to analyze what we have done and go ahead with it our experience shows that even facing a twelve year jail term does not stop corrupt people we think that sometimes economic measures such as a fine could be more productive so commercial bribery can be punished with a hundredfold fine. so you modernization in again the ball's words of this address but the fight against corruption still the top priority for president medvedev and his government but surface further analysis on that the contents of that presidential address my colleague in isa now we who is in some ways the kremlin this self earliest spoke to alexei pushkov a political scientist. a new arms race what do you make of his statements in the translation we had seemed a little bit lighter and. it came off really strong am i righ

there needs to be an objective solution. thelution to asthma needs to come from an objective body. i have been following this for almost five years. this is how i got involved. we thought it was lennar. they worked with us. we got the monitors. a lot of people still shows to work in that environment as opposed to starving to death. we need an objective body. it can be done through partnerships. thank you. >> ms. cohen. >> not too long ago last year, i was doing volunteer work. i had the unfortunate experience of winninwitnessing a young gird an asthma attack. that had an impact on my mind. this young girl was gasping for air. she had a look of fear in her eyes. she was able to be stabilized and she is healthy now. i tell you this story -- the impact of not knowing what to do when an asthma attack is happening. we need to be smart. we need to have the education out there when it comes to asthma related remedies, as well as access to quality health care. i would continue to support held the san francisco. i would continue to suppo