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cpmc lacks significant implementation enforcement for mitigation by enforceable agreements or localized institutional assurances, for example performance bonds to underwrite those agreements have not been called for. mitigation is ignored, especially community impact. they are not recognized as they should. you have $800 million of funds to be implemented into the tenderloin and japan town areas, with no means to mitigate except, show we say, the good wishes of the planning staff, which track record is not very good. safety issues such as the 30- inch gas line, aluminum volatility contiguous to the franklin street site, must be resolved as an imminent public safety danger. if he would like to have a look at that, this issue makes the city and this commission complicit in promoting public safety liability. we could get sued for ignoring the issue. additionally, the master plan lacks emergency and disaster relief. the efforts of all city health providers need to pull sust ....
i have worked there 10 years. since i have been working at st. luke s, our patients have encountered many problems because of the age of the building. last month, the boiler and broke for a week. there was no way to wash the dishes. the water would not circulate. we had to give thermal blankets and portable water heaters to get through the cold winter nights. patients had to be moved from their rooms. the worst time was when the fourth floor had a fish smell. no one in our community should have to suffer in those conditions. and our patients deserve better than this. a new facility will benefit this community. people will be happy to come here and now they will be comfortable and cared for. the floor on the new hospital will not require waxing. patients will not have to breathe in the chemicals anymore. cpmc is proposing to rebuild this hospital. i support the new hospital proposal because it will make the care we give those patients in this community much better. thank ....
hospital the beds would be more geographically dispersed, especially to guarantee the sustainability of st. luke s for the southeast and southwest neighborhood of san francisco. thank you. good evening. my name is rev. arnold townsend. tonight, i am representing the san francisco naacp amongst others, as its first vice president, dr. amos brown, the president, could not be here tonight. a long night. i will brief as i will be brief as possible, but i have to be since i only have two minutes. let me say to you we are 100% supportive of this project. we know cpmc, and we know them because of the work they do in our community, the outstanding work. the wart dr. carolyn dyson has done with black women s breast health program has gained national recognition. this is tremendous work they do. we are talking about saving people s lives. i keep hearing people talk about how they do not take poor patients. i cannot tell you how much and how often i am up at cpmc. in fact, we ....
president olague: i am going to call some more names. [names are called] if a culture name, please come to the microphone. if we called your name, please come to the microphone. my name is duane spears of community housing partnership. i am concerned about them wanting to build this hospital. i have a personal interest. my brother had died at st. luke s five months ago due to the medical services that could not provide him. i cannot see building another hospital and not being able to make st. luke s have more medical equipment and what not in order to help the community. i have been in that area for about 30 years. i just can t see that building this hospital in that area for any reason at all. thank you. president tierney: thank you. we are sorry for your loss. thank you, commissioners. my name is penny straud. i am with a local consulting firm that has been planning for a healthcare organizations throughout northern california since 1978. we have worked with man ....