Thank the many city staffers that brought us out today. I want to bring out the hundreds of folks but in particular thank you mr. Mayor for working with us and in particular ken rich, you really get one of the major Unsung Hero Award for your efforts. I want to take a moment also to thank our counter parts across the table from cpmc, this is a different conference than the conference i called for back in july, is that right . I want to thank you for your demonstration in San Francisco and i look forward to opening up a brand new saint lukes and cathedral hospital. Of course much has been said about gerardo, if you are looking for a feature story to do on someone. David has already suggested he go to the middle east. Im going to ask lou, we need some help with homelessness and i wonder if you are ready for that task. Oor there is literally thousands of people that interacted with city hall to make sure we address the Housing Labor issues, the transit issue, the neighborhood issues. We c
You should be very proud of. I want to thank everyone who made this happen. I look forward to engage with me colleagues, to make sure they why this is such a good deal and to verify the terms of this agreement and im very proud to be part of this group today. I will turn it over to lou gerardo. Thank you, david. The next speaker is supervisor david chu. David is an amazing strategist, a very good leader, a man who has a lot by example including riding a bicycle in the rain which was amazing when he came to meetings wet and got 32 you the meetings we went through. It is my honor to introduce the president of the board of supervisors david chu. [ applause ]. What a great day. This is a tremendous day. A great day for the future health of San Francisco. Let me start by admitting no that you we are here, when we first started project i was not hugely optimistic that we are going to get here. I want to echo and appreciation for everyone who sat at the operating table to create this critical
Predictment go. My mom was ill and we had to take her to the er. They saved her life. Its very personal to me. The test for me has always been we want saint lukes to be a world class hospital. This dealen insures that we get that. We have 120 beds. Which is a 50 percent increase from the original proposal, but more importantly, saint lukes plays a more Important Role as part of the larger cpmc system. Cpmc by making it a larger hospital is making a real commitment to ensure this hospital will continue to serve this community for years to come. Its not just the size of the hospital but the specific requirements that im happy to talk to you afterwards that actually required and followed the guidelines that the law provides but also that it provides specialties and a center of excellence that is specifically outlined to ensure that saint lukes is a successful hospital. And something that is very important and something that we fought for and i appreciate the fact that cpmc is willing to w
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