his turn. is that illegal? supervisor mar: your name is on the bottom and he appeared. >> he said he wants me to speak for him. supervisor mar: your name is a the bottom of the list. but if he is willing to give up his time, that is fine. >> that is what i said five times. does my time start now? supervisor mar: his time has started. >> mine namefly benzo carpenter, a bayview resident in part owner of a paint company, bnc painting and decorating, and i know from experience that when it comes to hiring, blacks hire blacks, whites hire whites, asians higher asians, and latinos hire latinos. so i would like to say that african americans and our businesses need to be included in the bid process, and we also need to be given assistance in receiving these contracts, rather than a situation that we have going on in west point right now in which there is no oversight. and if anyone comes up raising issues, they call the police. and people were given at restraining orders, and our tax dollars are being misappropriated and misused because they are not getting down to the people who are actually paying the taxes, who are the residents of the community. i just want to make sure that this -- i know for a fact -- i mean, i am not going to act like i predict the future, like i am some kind of mind reader or something, but i know for a fact that this is going to pass regardless of what we have to say, regardless of how much we can plan or whatever, because of the regional funding and the way but that the regional funding goes to the suburbs rather than the cities. [bell rings] which have most of the residence. so we need construction and development in order to stimulate the economy. but i understand it is going to pass, but i want to make sure we are not overlooked and we're not held at is disadvantaged and african-americans are not still continuing to lead the city at an alarming rate, 3.9% in 2012. [bell rings] i also want to say -- supervisor mar: thank you. >> we need some educational opportunities, going through city college -- supervisor mar: thank you very much. thank you for giving your time to him. thank you very much. >> [inaudible] supervisor mar: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] supervisor mar: can we have the microphone turned back on? thank you. >> ian, hotel and food-service workers union. somebody asked us to take the big picture. the big picture today is that we are paying the price for years and years of the country's biggest corporations exploiting job insecurity of working people. that is the source of our budget and jobs crisis, our economic crisis. and that is the source of people dying in hospitals of preventable diseases. understaffing and security that our health care service providers suffer every day at the hands of these corporations. against all odds, in our city, working people have achieved some humble gains, particularly in expansion to new development projects. they have done that by winning the right to join a union if they want to through card check in a poor neutrality. they have done that through strong impossible worker retention agreements that ensure the workers and their security in their contracts are preserved when employers open up new operations elsewhere. and they have done that through strong community benefits agreements. now, that has happened in some of our city's signature developments regardless of proprietary interest or not. we saw agreements like that covering the expansion of sfo and the concessions at the airport. we saw agreements like that at the ballpark. we have seen agreements like that at a dozen hotels and many suit -- food service operations, and we have seen that and thelennar hunters point development. nobody is asking cpmc to break new ground in these areas of commitments, strong, enforceable commitments, to employment rights and community rights with a new hospital expansion. so i urge you to look at any approvals of this project in that light. supervisor mar: from local two's experience of card check neutrality and transfer rights, can you explain what you said about the nurses? >> i am not sure your question, but we have negotiated, both in the context of this city proprietary interest, agreements that guarantee those rights for workers, and bilateral agreements of developers who were not receiving any city money. those developers and those operating companies and did so because they respected the rights of workers to join the union and preserve their jobs and accomplished level working conditions in the city. supervisor mar: and the cma workers talked about that, so local two is supportive of that? >> absolutely. there's no question that is the most effective way for workers to realize their right to join a union. supervisor mar: thank you. next. >> thank you, supervisors. i am is civil engineering student at san francisco state. i am here today to voice my support for the rebuild cpmc project. throughout the day, we have heard concerns raised by many individuals and parties, and particularly the nurses. i want to say that i understand and sympathize with those concerns, and i think most people in this room share that sentiment. but we need to understand that with the product of this scope and size, not every part involved will receive everything they ask for, and certain invest -- concessions will need to be made. what i can say is that the city's health care infrastructure is hopelessly and prepared for major seismic event in the future, and it is slightly alarming to me that when a natural disaster strikes, if it does, we may not even have standing hospitals to support the resulting influx of patients. what i want to see is this project implemented so that we do have this level of service continued throughout any situation. and i hope that everyone is able to reach an agreement as rational people so that we can go forth and carry through this project. i yield the remainder of my time. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. debra, paloma, bruce, mclarens,clarence -- >> hello. i am an rn from the east bay and have been for 29 years. i have spent time at the medical center. i wanted to come today to share my experience with sutter. like the nurse from marin, and we have had more than a three- year fight to keep our hospital open. they build a new hospital in castro valley. none of us were against building the new hospital, but we did not wanted to be at the sake of sacrificing our hospital. that is kind of what happened. sutter said they would keep us open if it would meet the budget. they did not want to make money, but there were going to start their evaluation of the six months prior to them bringing in a service that they said would ensure that we would stay open. of course, the services never moved into the hospital. they came to losses, billions of dollars of losses, but they do not open their books for anyone to have a look at to actually justified the losses they are claiming. so i am listening to the jobs promised thing here, and i would say you need to absolutely get that in writing from sutter with no ifs and all of that. they want to keep st. luke's open if -- the ifs did not happen. that is their ticket out. even with contract negotiations, we agreed to have joint seniority. [bell rings] so whatever hospital would close, there was a question of were the new one would be rebuilt, and the senior nurses would have jobs but that was in our contract we agreed to. now sutter management has put a proposal in to rescind that and separate the seniority. supervisor mar: when the rebuild happen? >> it happened in castro valley, and they're due to move in in december. supervisor mar: how did it impact overall cost of health care in the area? >> i do not know yet, but they have not moved in. we have elderly, medi-cal, uninsured, and more. they just do not want them to go to castro valley, and they do not want the hospital anymore. supervisor cohen: i have a question for you. cpmc has said that they have built in a certain trigger points that would relieve them of their obligation to continue to support st. luke's hospital. i was wondering if that were the case down in san leandro, did their work trigger points that were agreed by? >> i would say in the contract at the hospital made with the district board -- that sutter made with the district board, you know, they promised quite a bit. but the deck was stacked. they made it so this would not happen. there was never interested in keeping the hospital open. but it sounded good to some of the public, and the board decided to go ahead with it. if we keep our hospital alban, there will not be rebuilding. people did not speak up that there were against that. we really need both hospitals. seismic interests were mentioned. if hospitals go down -- i mean, if they close hospitals and we have a major earthquake, we're going to be hurting. we're going to need every bed. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, members of the board, for hearing my comments. my name is michelle. i have been a safety coordinator for cpmc at the davies campus for five years. i currently live in daly city but was born in san francisco and grew up in the richmond district. at that time, i believe the same hospitals were up as are up now. i do not think there has been much of a change. i strongly support cpmc's plans to build two new earthquake-safe hospitals at st. luke's and at the van ness and geary. we have outgrown our hospitals. they cannot accommodate our state of the art technology and equipment that is no standard to apply good health care to our patients. to retrofit -- rich rafa buildings, it does nothing to upgrade the 50 + year old infrastructure -- to upgrade buildings. we have a mantra in their safety office that says "it is not if but when" that there's going to be some kind of earthquake, and we're hoping we have seismically sound hospitals for the people of san francisco before that happens. this is a wonderful opportunity to build a modern earthquake- safe hospital. this has been delayed for far too long. please support cpmc's plans to rebuild. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is kathy, and i am the director of safety and disaster preparedness for cpmc. i am a san francisco resident, and i live in bernal heights. not only do i strongly support cpmc's plan to rebuild two new earthquake-safe hospitals, but i feel very passionate saying that we owe this to our patients, our staff, and our san francisco community. our patients deserve modern hospitals with newer, state of the art technologies. being responsible for the disaster program, of course one of my biggest worries is an earthquake. knowing that our hospitals are not seismically safe and could sustained significant damage in a major earthquake is sending the seriously concerns me. the plan to rebuild cpmc has been delayed for too long. it is time to rebuild two new hospitals. please support our plans to rebuild. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is deborah. i am registered nurse of about 23 years of cal campus. i am speaking off the top of my head and out of my heart. nurses are the face of your hospital. s or theou -- you are the soul of your hospital. you're the heart of your hospital. we're tired of being treated like cattle and being forced into blue uniforms that advertise that we are nurses all over the city. i think it has been a demeaning process. we're proud of the work we do, and we do not like to be treated like something unimportant. i am concerned that it has been misconstrued -- misconstruing the press about our salaries. i think there has been a lot of media press that cpmc has put out that is not true. i wish our nurses were being respected in terms of the new facility. i also have concerns that maybe you guys want to again to the effect it appears that a lot of nervous -- a lot of nurses from the south are being hired as cpmc these days. not only are nurses not being hired from san francisco, but you why it -- you might want to find out what we're suddenly seeing an awful lot of nurses from other states other than california being hired at cpmc. thank you. supervisor mar: i know it is just your perspective as a nurse, but since seismic safety has been raised as the main driver for the rebuild, i am wondering how you, as a nurse, the cpmc about, -- feel about cpmc and sutter wanting to do this seismic upgrading? >> i am proud that we are working on seismic safety. but i am concerned about putting all our eggs in one basket. i am is geared to think about that there will not be emergency room facilities scattered around san francisco -- i am scared. i do not know when we lost that concern. we shut down emergency services throughout the city and put everything up on a hill with some of the busiest streets in san francisco. i got lost or we lost that concern. supervisor mar: that is really helpful. i know that there are state requirements. we're talking about jobs today, but i know that there have been different delays and other complications at different times, i think that will come up later. but i appreciate the perspective. >> thank you. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> my name is claire. thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. i know this is about jobs, but i want to tell you that the reason i came here today is i have lived in san francisco since 1948, at a live one block from the proposed structure. -- and i live one block from the proposed structure. i volunteered at cpmc for over 17 years, and my daughter was born in cpmc 60 years ago. so i have a -- well, anyway, a new hospital is desperately needed at this side. an earthquake, unfortunately, can occur any time. i do not believe any of the present campuses are adequate in a catastrophe to help. this hospital will serve a large area for all diversified citizens. the new structure will assure patients of good care, private rooms, and especially for parents and their newborns. to have surgery in such a building will ensure better health for all. i have seen the nurses at the hospital. i work with them constantly as a volunteer. and they are wonderful people, but i hate to see this bickering back and forth, because this is desperately needed. [bell rings] and it has been going on long and long and long. i would like for to be completed so that i can volunteer before i die. thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank you, ma'am. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with cathedral hill neighbors. i am a retired planner and a labor council delegate. setting up small special use districts for two major hospital projects with lots of employees and clients begs the question of planning and regulations for the surrounding areas. i am speaking to two out of the 13 items which would set up special use districts around -- medical special use districts around cathedral hill and st. luke's. of course, jobs are important, both in construction and in medical services and first source hiring should be included and enforced. but beyond a token level. and if sutter is going to be the largest employer in san francisco, we do not want an example of harming existing employees and not having rehiring rights at the new hospitals. but in terms of jobs, i do not think that is enough. neither the planing concepts or the zoning of cesar chavez or van ness as their propose now will facilitate future development of appropriate ancillary or surrounding employment generating areas. think of two examples. a negative one, pill hill in oakland or telegraph and broadway are dead in the vicinity of the major hospital in the complex but i positive one, mission bay, where hospital uses a conscious and complementary use to the other activities, community facilities, and housing in the area and vice versa. this rezoning should not have been done without looking at the context of the future desirable surrounding uses and traffic flow. [bell rings] to remedy that, the development agreement needs to provide funding for such studies in both areas. do it right. consider what the surrounding areas will be in the future and plan for it. thank you. supervisor mar: that will come up at a future hearing as well, so thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for letting me speak today. i am the executive director of the community center in the excelsior neighborhood near st. luke's hospital. health care needs for low-income and people of color. in 2010, we were approached by the california nurses association about the serious allegations of discriminatory hiring directives, specifically for the hiring of new nurses at cpmc hospitals. the sworn statement indicated the sutter west bay president for hiring showed -- we have a former cpmc director of critical care services stating that she ordered me another nurse managers to refrain from hiring filipino nurses, told me not to hire filipino nurses. twice, you're not to hire filipino nurses and you're not to hire any filipinos. she added that filipinos are always related or know each other and that is not good. another nurse manager and supervisor who is prepared to go to a meeting with us in cpmc that we were able to get but was denied entry, heard die in this edition not hire any foreign graduate nurses. in previous years, we saw is sharp decline in the rate of hiring filipinos between 2008 and 2010. after cpmc in every other cross battle in the country was actively recruiting filipino nurses and desperate for jobs. we confronted these allegations but were not satisfied with outcomes of the first meeting. [bell rings] we have been following another case. a cpmc employee and chaplain resident was told, you terrible people, you do not confront your oppressor, and then you become violent. a racist comment. we want to make sure this does not happen to any other workers are communities in san francisco and we supported accountability for cpmc for the demands of the good community benefits agreement. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. [laughter] let me say that we're joined by supervisor olague. a number of us made opening remarks. i like to give her the opportunity to do that. if you have not been called yet, there is -- there are 88 speaker cards that are probably before year. i will read a few more. joe, dennis, kathy, ina, natalie, and bernadette. supervisor olague: there two folks standing. we can hear them before i speak. >> good afternoon. i am president of the fillmore neighborhood association. divisadero 2 van ness and geary to growth. i am in support of cpmc and no delays. the geary and van ness areas are an economic dead zone. it has been that way for a long time. i believe development can actually create jobs as well as create small-business opportunities from many different dimensions. my concern actually is if we were to delay this process, the only reason would be to complete -- to do a complete overhaul of the mayor's office of workforce development. if not, i do not see a reason to delay this project. another concern i have is that some of the groups against this proposal, not saying that the reasons are valid or invalid, but there has not been any outreach in our community. i would think that the community that this development is taking place in, the concerns that are happening, it would be logical to engage with the community, and this could have been done through many, many -- a long time that it went through the planning commission. i do not think there has been any outreach in our community about the concerns we have with this development. i feel that it should be moved along. [bell rings] and that the major issue is with the economic opportunity. the mayor's handling of these resources, and are they going to handle it in a way that will of the biggest impact? but there is a delay, let's overhaul the office of economic and workforce development, because i think that is the biggest problem with many of these developments over the years of people not benefiting in the impact not being seen. it is not necessarily with a cpmc. when these go through, is the mayor going to deliver? please push this forward. thank you. [laughter] supervisor mar: thank you. mr. paulson, yes are pretty sure i did not call your card. you have not been called yet. please wait your turn. there are many people that are way before you. please respect the process. i would like to ask of supervisor olague has some remarks. supervisor olague: yeah, i guess my remarks would be towards the cities. more like questions, i guess. supervisor mar: if you give your remarks, we will make sure that they are addressed, but it will probably be at the end. it was said that staff is doing this, so there will be able to respond at the end. supervisor olague: ok, because i wanted to mention that i did recently good feedback from some tenant organizers who attended a meeting at the richard sent complex, this beautiful new complex -- the richardson complex, this beautiful new complex located right off of hayes. 175 formerly homeless residents reside there, and it is beautiful facility. but my understanding is that the unemployment rate among many of those residents is very high. above 50%, if not way above 50% of the residents there that are unemployed. i have heard similar things from some of the co-ops, plaza east, and some of the other housing sites in that area that are somewhat adjacent or close to the new facility. i guess i would like to understand and little bit more about what type of entry level jobs might be available to residents of the district and what the opportunities might be for those residents in d-5. i hear mr. crawford's concerned a little bit about the implementation, so how that would be coordinated with the city, and that sort of thing. also, i had a question -- i apologize if it has already been asked, regarding the transfer rights of what they would be for some of those folks whose jobs would be displaced at st. luke's, if there would have the ability to be hired at the new facility? i think that is really -- also, i am kind of saddened to hear that there has not been a lot of movement around the concerns of the filipino nurses. so i would like -- i would hope that there is some movement around that, as that has been out there for a number of years. i remember hearing that exact letter about three years ago. i am hoping that there is a little bit more understanding between the community and the institution around the issue of filipino nurses. but, finally, i would like to -- there was a question that some folks had sent to me in relationship to the definition of entry-level position. so i guess we wanted a little bit of clarity around the two years of training or