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larger and a cathedral hill that will be smaller in addition to the health care innovation fund and issues around how we deal with cost limitations. we do have significant provisions about the future of the charity care. in the original development agreement that we were discussing many months ago, there was a dollar commitment to that charity care in this agreement we are taking a comparable commitment of the number of charity care patients per year that will be taken care of, approxi...

supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. there are 10 ayes and one no. >> the ordinance is passed on first read. colleagues, we have one 2:30 special accommodation. id like to acknowledge supervisor mar. >> thank you, president chiu. colleagues, i wanted to ask if an incredible teacher parent organization could come up and join us up here at the podium. we have the principal of argon elementary school [speak...

supporting cpmc and our vision to build 2 new hospitals in this wonderful city of san francisco. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. warren. i would like to introduce barbara garcia the director of public health who has been counseling us through this process and answering questions and providing us with staff and expertise and help us understand what we were learning. barbara garcia. >> good morning. this is a very exciting time for the department of public health. i want to give th...

city. it takes strong personalities, it takes incredible amount of effort to depoliticized these issues. by the way, when you hear the real stories and they will probably come out, somebody will leak something, there was more than one time where everybody felt justified in walking away and im glad they found reasons to come back because these are important for our city and the needs of this area. it would not have been done without the board of supervisors and gaining the insight lou w...

minimizing the impact. we have several people who keep home businesses and they work very hard to keep us from having to relocate our businesses and minimize the amount of construction noise and all that so i very much appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is benjamin uny. im c.e.o. of safety net health organization headquartered in san francisco called operation access and we work with the community clinics who each low income unininsured peo...

next speaker? maam? >> i would hike to start by thanking the members of the board of supervisors for sticking around to make sure we all got to get our comments in. my name is emily. im a joranman wireman and a business representative for the international brother hood of electrical workers, local six. i was born and raised in san francisco. i live in twin peeks. for the people i love and all the people that come to san francisco for medical care, it is of the utmost importance to begi...

beall -- we all appreciate that. >> thats right. >> anyway, scientists predict the big one is a matter of time, an 8.0 or larger here in the bay area. is the bay area equipped to handle a disaster like this? i think not. the city of san francisco needs to lead the way as it has so many times in the past. san francisco is a leading center on the west coast and it will remain so. so continue that leadership now and in the future we need a first rate medical center, one that is ready to m...

know, how are you going to push for earthquake safety when youre trying to reduce the size of st. lukes hospital, which is one of the few hospitals that serves the southeast of the city, and then what, youre expecting everyone to come to a 10-story hospital in the middle of the city on the corner of vepies in the middle -- of venice in the middle of an earthquake disaster? youre kidding me that you expect people to get there. its an excellent excuse to actually keep st. lukes at a larg...