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supervisor chu here, the van ness corridor is in dire need of help. we have drug addicts and homeless people wandering the streets at night and it's unsafe to walk. when i first heard about this project four years ago, i applauded it but in over four years that i've been watching this project, my mood has gone from jubilation to impatience to despair. the city already has the dubious distinction of being one of the most difficult cities in the country if not the world to do business and this project is a prime example of what misguided democracy has done to this country of ours and t...

agreements and by continually ignoring the demands of the community for a comprehensive community benefit agreement this arrogance is revolting, considering that cpmc receives property tax exemptions from san francisco every year. as a nonprofit facility. in spite of being the most profitable hospital in the city cpmc needs to pay its pair share. especially people who are medcal recipients. it's not our choice to be medcal recipients. we are like a product with our own fact tomplete we need development in our community, but i believe that a project like this must also address the nee...

years as one the senior administrators at ucsf medical center. finally in my career i served as vice president of the labor management president buell: at kaiser permanente health plan for two years. i currently serve as the chair of the board of the institute on aging of san francisco. having reviewed the analysis, i city's so-called asks which adds $2 billion additional and doubles the cost of constructing the new hospital, as mandated by the state, hospital safety laws. i understand there has to be remediation, but i think it has to be remediation that is fair and that is not this...

profitable hospital in the city cpmc needs to pay its pair share. especially people who are medcal recipients. it's not our choice to be medcal recipients. we are like a product with our own fact tomplete we need development in our community, but i believe that a project like this must also address the needs of our community. we in the tenderloin cannot accept this project unless cpmc gives the community what it needs. we need greater access to care. cpmc should increase affordable access to all kinds of possible care, especially for seniors and low-income families whose only lifelin...

money over 50 years that they should be paying to be adequate ly serving low-income patients as a nonprofit hospital. the $2 billion over 50 years, that figure is somewhat dubious. that's what they should be providing as a nonprofit hospital if they were treating low-income patients on medcal and charity care patients. so i just want to clarify that. the mayor's recommendations were really to bring cpmc up to the state average. that's really -- that's not even enough. we need to go far beyond that. so in addition, i just want to wrap up by reiterating, a community benefits agreement ...