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system for speakers? president chiu: unfortunately, everyone overwhelmed the line so rather than trying to rearrange that. >> i have a personal request for the board. can you allow some money next year's budget so we have some cushions here for the seats here. i'm getting numb here. president chiu: that's a great idea. >> thank you. my name is kent lamb and we're mechanical contractor from bayview hunter's point and i'm going to make it short, and last year, we got a call from that -- herrera bolt and asked us to be part of the rebuilding team and we've been back and forth with a lot...

mechanical contractor from bayview hunter's point and i'm going to make it short, and last year, we got a call from that -- herrera bolt and asked us to be part of the rebuilding team and we've been back and forth with a lot of ideas and i believe that cpmc commitment to local business is not a token effort. they have established 14% local business participation goal. by comparison, san francisco general hospital, has a goal of 7%. i'm not attacking the city here, ok. so -- and i personally respect and ask that you to move this project forward so enable us to hire more people and esp...

understand how difficult it is to negotiate with this entity. they're very resistant to coming to the table. i think it's important to understand that the mayor's staff, if and when they come to an agreement, that it will be through a very large and strong effort but also it will be like moving mountains and that's speaking from experience from the community. and so we hope that when, you know, hopefully if this project, when it reaches the board, you guys can have an extra level of input into the development agreement, especially with regards to meeting the full cpmc's full housing ...

here for you. i want to clarify, i think nobody during this whole public comment, has said that they're against this cpmc project. i think that's one important point we should clarify. their stickers say "rebuild cpmc." our stickers say "rebuild cpmc." the only difference is we're trying to achieve the correct path, the right way. the community has been trying for two or three years to reach a community benefits agreement with cpmc. we've repeatedly approached them about meeting with the community and it's been -- it's been very difficult and so when hearing a report back from the ma...

guys can have an extra level of input into the development agreement, especially with regards to meeting the full cpmc's full housing impact with regards to serving their -- increasing their medi-cal and medicare and addressing traffic impacts but also the community is still pushing for community benefits agreement. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> what happened to your card system for speakers? president chiu: unfortunately, everyone overwhelmed the line so rather than trying to rearrange that. >> i have a personal request for the board. can you allow...