>> this is item number nine. >> ok. >> can i show the presentation? >> there you go. " we are going to provide a brief overview of the 2012 update, which he received in your packet. we have the city administrator's office and the department of the emergency management. they will discuss a brief update of their programs. >> this is an important element of the general plan. it sets an overall framework in

preparation for response to and recovery from a major disaster. this element establishes policies and programs to protect san francisco risks associated with disasters. this is critical because of the risk posed by seismic hazards and a large earthquakes. implementation actions and programs will be carried out the number of plans and programs. including the san francisco hazard mitigation plan. the community action plan for seismic safety and other plans and programs referenced -- a reference in this document. what are we proposing to update this element? the element is a required element of the general plan. the current element was last adopted in 1997. the city's thinking has evolved. we have learned a lot about how

other cities are dealing with disasters. the document before you represent a close collaboration of many agencies to create a framework to facilitate community resilience and to establish policies to guide the city's actions in preparation for, response to, and recovery from a major disaster. this update supports numerous initiatives that are currently under way within the city and adoption and shores of these initiatives are carried out over the long term. having invented element in place in charge the city is well suited to receive funding for mitigation projects and recovery assistance. the 2012 element built on the existing elements. in addition to earthquakes, the elements expand its focus to include new information about additional hazards, including medical emergencies, communication failures, and terrorism. incorporate new information

dealing with disaster preparedness. this update expands the focus to better address the city's objectives of mitigation, response, and recovery. mitigation and preparation work -- are incorporated with the existing element, less attention was given to the response and recovery phase of the disaster. these topics are of great importance given recent disasters. this element is organized by four main objectives. mitigation, prepared ness, response, and recovery reconstruction. i will provide a brief overview of the objectives. the first objective is mitigation. damage to structures can result in substantial economic loss and cause severe disruptions to the social, cultural, and economic

functions of the city. associated but these objectives are policies that address ways to reduce potential damage. this includes exploring mandatory strengthening, ensuring that new development on places like treasure island are resistant to natural disasters, and looking up the risks associated with climate change. the next objective deals with an emergency preparedness. this includes preparing for response activities as well as the coordination necessary to execute these activities. ssa with this objective are policies that relate to prepare it -- associated with this objective are policies that relate to these strategies. the emergency operations center, at a consolidated website cut and encouraging businesses to evaluate the earthquake risk. the third objective is response.

the city's emergency response plan is the primary document was to direct the city's response in the case of a disaster. policies related to the disaster face -- the response phase of the disaster includes insuring public access to information, working with nonprofits and other agencies, and assessment of historic resources. this assessment would build on the work and information that we have. the creation of temporary permiting centers, which would help residents get temporary permits for repairs. the fourth objective is the recovery and reconstruction. we have learned a lot from other cities about how they have dealt with recovery and reconstruction following a disaster. a number of new policies have been added to reflect lessons

learned. this objective insures that directly after an earthquake, the city is able to maximize the ability to save lives, prevent injury, and reduce damage. we have a plan in place to provide housing for those displaced, provide services, and we're in a position to continue the economic and government function of the city. this objective calls for the creation of an advanced recovery framework. to develop and adopt repair and reconstruction ordinance to facilitate the repair and recovery. and to create a recovery plan. adopting this element is a major milestone, but there is still a lot of work for us to do. this table ally and next steps for the department, the city, and -- out lines next steps for the department, the city, and region. the city is tasked with helping to develop this framework and a

plan to guide the process. additional thinking is needed to guide land use planning during the recovery. after the disaster. we are working to develop a strategy to address regional planning following a major earthquake. additional coordination is needed. just to conclude, adopting this element establishes a framework to make sure that san francisco is more resilient should a disaster occurred. the department recommends approval of an intent to initiate an amendment to the general plan. this concludes my portion of the presentation. i am going to hand it over to the city administrator's office. >> good afternoon. we are working on earthquake safety programs. as the department -- we have

done a program called community action plan for seismic safety, a comprehensive community-based view of what are the hazards and risks posed in the city, what are the impacts of the damage, what should the goals of the city be based on the work of the program, the city has adopted something called the earthquake safety implementation program. it is a 30-year program. this community safety element, which was prepared to in coordination with our implementation program, gives us the overview policies necessary to do our implementation. our programs says we should do this and this and this, but this program gives us the overview that allows that to happen. i have to commend the planning staff for cooperating with our work. it was extremely, along, and

complicated. the committee safety element has to include the work that supports capss and the fire department's work, health department, of public works. this will serve us well and our long-term implementation. the city administrator and the mayor's office strongly support the adoption of this. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am with the department of emergency management. i am going to tell you a tiny bit about our agency and how we interact with the community safety element. i understand many members of the public did not really know much about the department of emergency management. there are two divisions.

all the planning and the management lives in the division of emergency services. we coordinates the disaster management agency on a local, state, federal, and nonprofit level. we operate within the region. we operate and implement our plans and activities and then adds a lot of training and exercises within our agency. we also court meant a lot of private sector implementation a work -- courted a lot of private sector implementation work. we provide a lot of average to the community through a variety of methods -- a lot of outreach to the community through a variety of methods. many of that type of activity is corn ended through our partners. we participate -- is coordinated through our partners. it is a policy guidance document

for a lot of our programs. it is our only opportunity for a public review. to participate in any kind of a public outreach of our major documents. one of the tenants of whenever a document that allows us to receive hazard in addition funding specifies that we have to link through the community safety element in order to make sure the public has an opportunity to review our work and participate in the process. this also helps us to build coordination with other agency and make sure we all follow the same goal. our goal is to make a resilience city that is ready to recover quickly. the community safety element establishes a framework for long-term recovery and reconstruction. i will talk about some of the major programs and how they are

featured in the element. one of our major initiatives is called the resilience san francisco the initiative. it is a comprehensive planning platform that leverages the efforts of our partners. they are doing extraordinary emergency planning work. we want to make sure that efforts are not overly duplicated, that they are coordinated. and that we have a big picture of how ready to recover the city really is. this advances are over all resilience by providing a framework and a roadmap to coordinate all of those types of work going on in terms of our individuals and the community. this helps us to solve problems together in a comprehensive way. it is a very innovative initiative. it is one of the first of its kind in the country, following some of the directorate's.

it has earned our program a lot of a national recognition. it gets us out there and gets all the agencies out of their silos. these are some of the examples of the projects that are housed within this program. the san francisco lifeline council is the first of its kind in the nation. it's is a passive council that gathers together the major decision makers of lifeline operators. lifelines are both telecommunications, water providers, power providers. it is a program that we partnered with sga and some private advisers on. -- gsa and some private advisers on. we had a community engagement program and they promote preparedness by providing educational materials to the

community and neighborhoods. we also have a private sector preparedness and resilience planning platform. we partner with boma and a lot of other organizations that engage banks, financial institutions, all sorts of private businesses that do business continuity planning. we also host a private sector liaison program which allows the private sector to come into the emergency operations centers so they become a part of our usual activation to see how we function. we can provide them help the this program. we also have a cultivating -- a culture of preparedness program. this is a strategy that in cages a broad range of audiences. it helps them to adopt

preparedness and resilience behavior. we have a smart phone app that helps you learn resiliency behavior, helps you prepare a plan on your phone. there is a campaign for shopping for emergency supplies. you may have seen it in when difference in walgreen's. it is called who are you shopping for? depending on the size of your household, it helps you tailor your emergency preparedness strategy for your specific household. we also partner with the california academy of sciences to host a variety of preparedness exhibits and other kinds of installations. the department of emergency management also hosts a couple of the major plans.

the hazard mitigation plan is one of our main tools to help us assess the extent of vulnerability in san francisco. it is a high-level engineering assessment of hazards and threats as well as consequence analysis. it is a foundation for the long- term strategy to reduce disaster losses. it is required for certain types of funding because it really gives us a break down in concrete numbers of what we can expect in certain magnitude of disasters. it also addresses man-oriented to threats. we also host the san francisco disaster degree management plan. it is the project that calculates the potential of debris related impacts of earthquakes and other major disasters. it identifies the procedures and processes and resources that will be necessary to deal with these types of destruction. it addresses the challenges in terms of recovery.

our first -- our primary goal is to recover as quickly as possible. to get government and businesses back into place. it tries to meet the goals of the san francisco department of the environment 0 waste program. despite the fact that a catastrophic disaster might happen, we want to make sure that we can stick to those rules as close as we can. recovery is one of the major components of the current seismic -- of the community's safety element. we view recovery as a partnership with neighborhoods. a lot of programs and strategies directly address that. in gauging the community today will help us to recover from a disaster in the future. our programs actively leverage the culture of the city.

we want to make sure that we can do everything in our power to enable them to do so. we prefer that everybody in the city used recovery as late -- a view recovery as a multi-agency effort. we can work with in our own domain to figure out a recovery strategy for ourselves. we're working with a couple of excellent national experts on disaster recovery to identify the building blocks of a successful recovery based on best practices from disasters over the last 20 years. we are currently developing the advanced recovery framework and the reconstruction plan to meet standards as well as a couple of other accreditation standards. if you guys have any questions, i can answer them. >> thank you.

staff? does that conclude the staff report? public comment on this item? commissioners? commissioner borden: i want to thank the staff for this presentation today. i want to thank mr. cornfield. this is really important work and i serve on the board of the american red cross area chapter and dino how important it is, especially -- and i know how when port and it is, especially getting information out to people. it is very troublesome. the most important issue is the recovery because you will deal with a disaster when it hits you, you will do what you must do to survive.

there is a lot more work to be done after that. i note -- i will not make a lot of commons today. maybe i will talk a little bit more at the next hearing. i am very familiar with the work of the department of emergency management is doing. it is lauded around the country. we have been working through already neighborhoods making sure our underserved neighborhoods are educated and prepared to deal with disasters. i look forward to talking at the next hearing a little bit more in depth about that. i want to know a little bit more -- i know we talked about medical disasters. does that include infectious disease? if we talk about pets and how we handle that, because i know that is another