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To the coalition of san franciscans for healthcare, and housing, and jobs, and justice. And made up of some 60 Community Based organizations and coalitions of organizations. To meet the three main, if you will objectives, of our program for this development, the first is following up on the innovative solutions, that this board and cpmc came to end of the Development Agreement, around Employment Training and placement, and around healthcare and around the creation of a new saint lukes hospital. And our difficulty is in meeting those three objectives, the role of city departments has been extraordinary passive, basically waiting for checks in the mail from cpmc, the testimony that i think today, indicates that basic passive stance of key city departments in trying to come up with innovative and creative programs, and let me just give you three. One, the city has no real experience in dealing with permanent entry level jobs in not in construction, but permanent jobs. And the notion that
Gone into this project and one of the success storis in terms of the different sides of an issue coming together and working collaboratively to find a solution, that everyone could agree upon. And i know that i am very proud of the work that went into this settlement. And we simply wanted to take this opportunity to hear a status report on where the project is, but we are going to hear from a number of city agencies, that are responsible for oversight of the Development Agreement, and of the project itself. I also want to welcome cpmc, sutter who are present, and i see mike cohail who was instrumental in getting to a resolution and so i want to thank him for being here. And i do want to give sutter an opportunity to Say Something and it can be at the beginning of the presentation, or we can wait until that we hear from the various agencies. And maybe we should proceed along those lines. And so with that, why dont i call upon the Mayors Office of workforce and Economic Development and t
Cathedral hill but also the tender loin residents are included in the planning for the various impacts of the project. How are we doing through the planning . They are related to various invier mental impacts and so there is no specific out reach for that and perhaps we will recognize the approval that were required for sort of Community Visioning groups, to be established relative to the various campuses. And those are, the Planning Department are not involved in those, and it was required that the cpc was responsible for establishing those and they have not begun those, as far as i am aware but they are not required to establish those yet. And then, which department over sees to make sure that they are going to engage the neighborhoods in that visioning process, which department is over that . It will be the Planning Department, since it is a condition of approval. So we will machine that in the same way that we will regulate any other for compliance. And from the Development Agreeme