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mayor lee is so eager to get his grant -- his plan approved, his office is not taking into account the true needs of the community. >> thank you. i am sorry. your time is done. >> good afternoon. my name is joe. i am a business representative for local 39. the jobs in san francisco that have built the middle-class have typically been union jobs. as i said, i represent the engineers that work at cpmc. we have been without a contract for 18 months and have been on strike with cpmc for five weeks now. all of the engineers that should be working inside the hospital, maintaining its in th...

that things go the right way. not having them under cut employees and the neighborhood and everything. thank you. >> how are you doing, commissioners? i am a san francisco resident. i am a member of 1 04. my wife worked at cpmc for four years. i attend a program designed to train and put san francisco residents to work in the construction field. i got an opportunity to join a great company. i recently became an apprentice local hire is important because it is important for families and it keeps the money into the community. what good is local hire if there is no work? cpmc will be ab...

as an employer, cpmc has become a tyrant in their treatment of their employees. using the rebuilding as an excuse to cut staff, cut full- time employment, and paid substandard wages to the working class employees, their refusal to ensure employees who belong to a union the ability to keep their jobs and transfer to a new facility clearly exposes their anti-union agenda. they are discriminating against the san francisco citizens that can least afford health care. their plan of building more and maximizing profits at and minimizing services in the less profitable area, mayor lee use th...

people will come and stay -- have it torn down. in order to certify this eir, you would have to find overriding consideration based on evidence that benefits outweigh the impact. and they do not. obviously, a seismic hospitals have to be built. but they can be built at half the size on that location. or on the existing site. they have had 10 years or more to do it, but they did not. they can still get an extension. the physical changes that are really important to meet involved traffic. they are abandoning the plan. peak los has been discussed and it is not sufficient. there are comp...

support this project, which will benefit all of -- all san franciscans now and into the future. thank you very much. >> hello. my name is monaco. i am representing one of the trade partners of cpmc. i would like to commend cpmc for adopting a 14% local business participation program. s.f. general only has a 7% program. i urge you to vote yes to rebuild cpmc and approve this project. thank you. >> thank you. i will read a few more cards. bobby, joseph, edgar. >> commissioners, good afternoon. my name is eugene and i am a member of the physicians organizing committee. the trigger for h...