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we need the resources. the latino community. i asked for the approval of this project as soon as possible. supervisor mar: thank you very much, next speaker. good afternoon. local 261 in san francisco. i am here to talk in favor of this project. i do not have to tell you about how much this is not only about union members. anybody related to construction, you know. people are suffering, losing houses, not able to provide for the families, things like that. for our union, and many other unions, this project is the only way of survival. every little bit helps. this project needs to be approved. there is a lot of disagreement about this and that, but a lot of things can be worked out. it is important to mention that cpmc it provides service to 70% of our members. it is working both ways. thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank you for testifying today. thank you. ron smith with the hospital council. we represent all the hospitals in san francisco. for the sake of all
we see that cpmc should not be exempted from that. they are going to be the largest nonprofit health facility and the city does not have the oversight nor the monetary mechanism to ensure the critical issues we are raising and the demand we are raising will be commanded by cpmc. a cba will be the right solution to have. we hope he will ask cpmc to meet with us to ensure we work with them to have a good cba for the future of san francisco. supervisor mar: next speaker. good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am the executive director of the filipino senior research center. i am here with a group who are recipients of other programs. we support cpmc for their project. they are partnering to help the south of market area. with their problems regarding jobs, health, mammograms. they are providing transportation. cpmc is giving back to the community. they have already started back. if they are we will be referring many clients to get a job. thank you so much. supervisor mar: n
council. we represent all the hospitals in san francisco. for the sake of all hospitals, every hospital supports the rebuild of cpmc. it is our largest hospital. we do not understand how residents will be cared for without cpmc. i want to bring up another issue. why every hospital is rushing to rebuild right now is we are worried. the earthquake is coming, it could be tonight, it could be five years from now, but a delay in two weeks in approval could mean nothing. or it could be that the big one hits and that hospital has to care for many of the people of san francisco. we have to have all of our hospitals open as soon as possible. let me quickly go to the point that san francisco hospitals employ 99 are responsible for over 99,000 jobs. we bring an $11.3 billion into the city. that is almost twice what tourism does. when the economy was tanking, hospitals increased employment by 10%. we are a steady employer for the city. we have 22% higher salary than any other business.
between cpmc and city college. city college has enough scholarships we have ekg technicians, x-ray technicians. it seems as if cpmc, it degenerates $600 billion in profit per year. it generates $600 billion in profit per year. if you are serving one-third of san francisco s population, do not let be the reason you disserve the other two-thirds by taking up the city s time and resources and energy. san francisco spent six but $7 billion a year. that is their budget. $6.7 billion a year. that is their budget. i hope you got the point. we will be back. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. i am one of the members of the filipino senior resource center. i am also the president of the filipino based support group. i am also a survivor of breast cancer. i am here today to support the cpmc project because we are for this community. thank you very much. supervisor mar: next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. i am with the south of market community in