Myself, who have major disabilities but otherwise capable of producing something in society. We have a political problem in this country, not an economic problem. That political problem has created a debt, federal debt, approaching 20 trillion because of the wars primarily. We have a problem in this city with the hospital industry, deciding if they want to throw out the people that are too ill to be taken care of unless its 24hour care and they dont want to pay for that. And this hospital industry is making millions of dollars, though they claim theyre not for profit. As it was told at the last health Board Hearing at this issue, the no, this was in the supervisors chambers. Sutter healthcare has 14 billion in the bank. 44 executives making over 1 million a year. The last i saw, kaiser had 9 billion in the bank and they have milliondollar executives. So they want to kick this problem out to the city and let us take care of it. I worked for the presidio and the army, thats where i start
We do have a quorum. Item number two, general Public Comment. This item is to all members of the public to address the Treasure Island Development Authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and that do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comments, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. You will hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. Prior to making your comments, please state your name and the o you are representing, if any, for the record. Is there anybody in the audience that would like add to dress the board on items that are not on the agenda . Ok. Seeing none. Item number three, report by Treasure Island director. Thank you, chair and members of the board. Id like to begin my report today by asking Sherry Williams come up and make an announcement. Good afternoon, commissioners. For the record, i am
[roll call] we do have a quorum. Item number two, general Public Comment. This item is to all members of the public to address the Treasure Island Development Authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and that do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comments, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. You will hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. Prior to making your comments, please state your name and the o you are representing, if any, for the record. Is there anybody in the audience that would like add to dress the board on items that are not on the agenda . Ok. Seeing none. Item number three, report by Treasure Island director. Thank you, chair and members of the board. Id like to begin my report today by asking Sherry Williams come up and make an announcement. Good afternoon, commissioners. For the
Presentation. Thank you. Can i have a motion . Motion to approve action items 1803 through 1811. Second. Just 1810, i think thats a typo yeah, thats oh, 10, im sorry. All in favor . Commissioners, michael terrio, San Francisco construction trades. I want to go back to your awards to your staff and talk about how your [ inaudible ] 14 or 15 years ago, but i guess im a lot grayer, too. The valedictory tone in that would carryover to this particular item. For those of us in the Building Trades who had a long devotion to San Francisco in the port, its not just the work that this particular project brings, but the fact that it brings shall didthat it helps make the port viable in the longterm. It helps sustain the port and the city of San Francisco. Thats the kind of thing thats exciting to us. We look forward to working on this, to contributing to the port on a continuing basis, and i will get out of the way so you can vote on eight items. Thank you. Corrine wood . Good afternoon, commissi
To positively impact the people. And its no secret were losing a lot of people from San Francisco that can no longer afford to stay here, and this is an example of what can be done to try to keep people here and to work with people, create jobs for those that are here and as you said also, bring people back. This is really a thoughtful project. I was struck as i was reviewing the project before the meeting, the wonderful little details, too, and the things that people got right, from figuring out how to phase in the parks, and kr orrine, i want to thank you again for keeping that front and center. And also thank the giants for this work in recognizing that and the importance of the parks and the needs the community and having that open space and bringing that in the fashion, that it comes in earlier rather than later. Even though thats not necessarily the easiyes easiye eastiest thing to have done, it was the right thing to do. And port staff, i used to say port staff is the best in th