used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go.

>> thank you for coming today. today is the disaster council meeting for friday, september 10, 2010. i'm going to take this opportunity to let you know that we will be making some changes to the agenda, mostly due to the san bruno fire that occurred yesterday. we will reorder the agenda today, and we will be adding the discussion to the agenda regarding yesterday's fire, as well as a moment of silence on this ninth anniversary of the 911 that tax. we realize the ninth anniversary is tomorrow, but we wanted to recognize that since this body is the disaster council. we will also be taking a recess at approximately 1:30 for an

emergency briefing, and we are planning and to reconvene at 2:15, and i apologize for this, but it is unavoidable, and i want to thank you for your patience. we are going to start on the agenda actually with the executive director update and the highlights, and that is this blue item we put in your folder today. once again, i think you have been through this with me before. we're going to go through the highlights, but we're going to just highlight some of the highlights, so you have more information available. it has been a few months since we have a disaster council meeting, so we have been pretty busy. may 6, we had a joint information center, training exercise. we participated as a city in the state won golden guardian exercise on may 18 and later in the agenda, we will be having a summary of the after action. we also on july 8 activated the

eoc in cooperation with the police and other agencies for operation verdict for the johannes mehserle trial, and we will be talking about that later in the agenda as well. august 12, we did a mitigation steering committee kickoff, as we are trying to work a little bit more together with brian strong and agencies in san francisco to develop items in a better way for our fema applications for pre-disaster brand management mitigation. then, on august 18, boma did the annual financial district building exercise. just wanted to mention that september is national preparedness month, and in recognition of that, boma is also doing a seminar, and there is more information available on

this list for you, and on september 19, the san francisco department of emergency management is presenting sunday streets, a prepared this pavilion, at our sunday streets even for that day, and we will hold it in the western addition. it will feature, as i mentioned, preparedness pavilion adjacent to fire her station 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. we will have a number of interactive exhibits. the fire department will have mobile command. the police department is providing equipment, and we will have a quick cottage that people can experience an earthquake within the walls of the cottage. on september 22, the san francisco airport is having an exercise with british airways and united airlines, and they did this annually, but this one involves an airbus aircraft arriving from new hampshire

national destination when a simulated fire erupts. on said jim 22, the office of -- on september 22, a conference is hosted for members of the consular corps, and the department will be involved on that. october 7 through 12 is san francisco fleet week. senator dianne feinstein asked the city but the fleet back into fleet week, and there is going to be a number of events including senior leadership seminar aboard the uss macon that many of you might have been invited to. the san francisco fire department will be hosted the navy and marine corps for a practical search and rescue training. the u.s. navy is going to host a regional civilian prepared this volunteers and urged people from around the region -- preparedness volunteers answered by people from around the region, and a number of activities will take place from around the green. the blue angels will also be year.

we did not put that on the list, but that is a given. on october 16, the san francisco fire department is having their annual citywide emergency response team drills. the list of where those are going to occur is on this. as we moved into october 16 through 18, we will be doing bourbon shield regional terrorism exercise that is an annual event -- urban shield regional terrorism exercise. the sheriff's department and police and others are heavily involved in this. it is my understanding we will have captains' available in five-hour shifts and the police department that will be helping the area command for all the exercise sites that will occur in this committee. october 21, and i would like you to go back to your agencies and work with your agencies on this, and that is the great california shakeout, statewide drop, cover, and hold on. if you remember, we did this last year and the year before,

and we ask you to participate by going online and registering, but also having people within your supervision work on some type of exercise in addition to maybe doing a drop cover and hold on, and we would ask that you take a look at that and prepare for that period october 29, the building management at city hall is coordinating a drill involving tenants. this is the thing we like to see because these people are getting out there and doing these exercises on their own. as our karma and the emergency services people have nine regular staff employees, some additional people on grants, but we do not have the capacity to do this for everybody, so what we like and what we're seeing is a lot of coordination for agencies doing this on their own, getting ready and making the city more prepared, and that is something we love to see, and i want to compliment everybody on that. if you have people on your staff that have not seen the eoc, we

would ask you to have them come, and they can sign up for online courses and other things. the human services agency once again taking the lead, which is a great thing. full-scale shelter exercise that they are working on that they will be announcing soon. in addition to that, we are preparing with the city to look at the all hazards gap analysis, and we will be working with all the stakeholders because as part of our grant requirements, we will be looking at our strategic plan and trying to update that. it is a living, breathing document we are constantly using to refine what we're doing and also to apply for future grants. ongoing projects, we will top -- talk about that later on the agenda. i have to compliment the bay area. we have to complement the sheriff's department for getting

this done. then, we have the 2010 state homeland security grant program and metropolitan medical response system grants. to plan for mutual aid for a response within the region, within the response, and we will hear a little bit about that as we talk about the san bruno incident that happened yesterday. and almost done -- mitigation steering committee. i talked a little bit about that originally, but we have membership from the department of emergency managementofdpw, recreation and parks department, general services agency, treasure island apartment building inspection, puc, mayor's office, capital planning, the fire department, police department, school department, and the port. we're working on that. the outdoor public warning system update -- we just wanted to say that we have added a number of non-english specifically cantonese and some spanish in targeted siring units

around the city, so when you hear this tuesday noon simon, if you happen to be in certain areas of the city, you will hear the english announcement, and then you will also hear a cantonese announcement. this is based on the old sense. when we get the new numbers, we will be targeting additional areas. -- this is based on the old senses. we are also canning messages so we will have them available in the event we do not have a person of fluid in the language that is required. just wanted to talk about 911 a little bit. emergency communication. wireless calls are surpassing landline calls now to 911. it is slipping. it has been creeping up there, and with wireless calls, one of the things is we really do not know where people are. i know a lot of people watch " 24" and jack bauer always knows where people are when they use

their cell phone, and we can triangulate according to sell towers, but the fact is we really do not know where people are, so it becomes important that people are using cell phones to call in any emergency to save their location and know where they are. we have two things we're working on with 911, which is language, and also say your location if you are using a cell phone. very important. so we are working on education materials for that. in translation, it is interesting to note that of the calls we receive -- and we received close to 1,013,000 in 2009, which is approximately 3% of all the calls -- the top four language requiring translation were spanish, cantonese, mandarin, and russian. there's a big gap between cantonese and mandarin, and as we go down to russian. so the service has been working out well. important websites -- i want to draw your attention to the

shakeout website again so you can register. want to draw your attention so you pass along to your employees and continue to keep them updated to have their plans, their family plans, where they are going to meet their families, how they are going to come into work, mobilization plans and everything else, so that this is a great place to send them, to make sure that they can be calm about their family and make sure their family is taking care of in the event they have to work through an emergency. then, the quick quiz, our website, and fire department. we have added now the department of emergency management on facebook and twitter, so we are working now on those. i just want to say those are a number of things we are working on. not everything we are working on, but i wanted to congratulate and thank everybody in the room as well.

so that is the end of item two. want to see if there's anybody from -- any comments from members of the disaster council on any of these items. anything anybody would like to add. yes, sir. >> frank dean with golden gate national recreation. i m curious about the 911 calls. if the wireless calls come in, do they go to the city dispatch center? >> yes, they do go to the city's dispatch center. there has been a project on going to kind of reduced the footprint of the freeway so that the 911 calls would not go to chp. the project has been going on for the last year. we have been taking on those calls little by little, whereas, for example, if you were under a freeway a block away, if you called 911, it would go to chp, but now that footprint area has

been reduced, and it goes to us for the most part. if it goes to chp because you are really close or under the freeway or on the freeway for medical, they will transfer it to us, and we will send the appropriate response. any other comments for members of the disaster council? seeing none, open for public comment. do i have anybody who would like to comment from the public? seeing none, we are going to move on -- we are going to skip item four for now, and we will move on to the recovery initiatives update from heidi sieck. i think i saw you here. there you are. i'm sorry.

i'm sorry about that. she did not know she was going to be of next. that was kind of a surprise for her. and just so you do not think people are walking out on your presentation, we have some people that need to go to a meeting right now. those of you, i think you have been told or have been asked to go. if you could just come on outside, we will meet you outside. thank you. >> good afternoon, disaster council. i am going to give you a quick update about the recovery business. [inaudible]

here come the handouts. for those of you who have been here for all this, you know that the recovery initiative is -- okay, good to see at least five people are here today. the recovery initiatives is a partnership between the department of emergency management, harvard university, and the office of the controller. the whole point, what we do, as you know, is we try to figure out everything we can think of to do before an event happens to make sure that the post-disaster recovery go smoothly. the focus is on implementation, getting products down that can help us recover after the event. these are the objectives. these are the objectives that are in our project, and the one i want to point out is the fourth objective, which says

"enable public and private entities to contribute to post- disaster recovery in an efficient way." that means if anyone wants to give to help us recover after an event, we want to be able to use those resources immediately without having to figure out what to do with them. we noticed it today with the incident that happened in san bruno. when folks wanted to give, we were doing a little bit of scrambling trying to figure out who to tell to do what. the idea is we have those systems in place for post- disaster recovery. these are the areas of the recovery initiatives, and you have seen these all before. we wanted to make sure we had a sense of all the things that needed to be done, so we had 80 projects that need to be done in nine areas, and i wanted to give you an update about the most recent milestone. one of our big programs, which is very unique, is the post- disaster financial management cost recovery program. the key to successful post-

disaster recovery is money. we need lots and lots of money. i try to figure out what to do with that money. so the controller's office has taken a major leadership role in the area to make sure we are better prepared for the money. these are some of the things we have gotten down, which is massive city-wide training. they set up emergency reserve funds, access policies, and also, i want to highlight some great work that the risk manager is doing around enterprise risk management program, really looking around city-wide buildings and city life assets, and what's it is going to take -- what is going to take to replace those things if they are jeopardized in an event. that is the post-disaster financial management recovery. the other program i wanted to highlight is one of our of one priorities -- one of our number

one priority, how to use resources efficiently. i'm happy to introduce dr. johnson, who will be working with us on the governance project. she is an international expert on post-disaster recovery, and she will be helping us figure out how to make decisions in a disaster event. one of the things we're looking at, which is very exciting, is the concept of using our incident command system principles to extend into post- disaster recovery. this is laurie's expertise, so we will be national leaders on trying to figure out the best possible model for using ics over a long time, and we hope to really instigate best practices in the federal government and fema, department of homeland security, so we can be using these best practices principles, so i'm really looking forward to some of that. as you know, one of our key successes is the life lines

council, which is a group of 25 to 30 of our life line providers, includes communication, transportation, power, water, sewer, debris management, and we recently have added our financial institutions. organizations of banks, which are definitely lifelines. we have had three meetings that have featured major providers, and our next meeting will be about transportation and looking at independency analysis. this is again the only lifelines' council of its scope that we can discover anywhere, so everyone is really excited about this, and a lot of folks are looking at the way we go about our discussions of into dependencies and networks. i also want to say we have been doing some really great stuff around mitigation, especially with the mandatory stuff stored program. dem has recently gathered work group of all the folks involved in mitigation projects in one place so we can be doing

mitigation management together, and that has been doing a great collaboration together. it is really an example of what the recovery initiative is supposed to do, which is get people to the table but not used to necessarily being involved in emergency management response and engaging them in a way that we can talk about all of these projects, and we will all be in it together. finally, i wanted to let you know about some of the work we're doing around community engagement, which is a very exciting aspect. dem has created a readiness and recovery work group, which involves small businesses. boma and chamber of commerce and hotel council and lots of groups that engage us. of course, under the direction of my tireless colleague, we have the neighborhood empowerment network, which is a neighborhood group process that includes communities, as well as

a resilient community initiative, in gauging merchant corridors into the resiliency conversation. i think that is all that is on there. next up, we have a bunch of important projects, which is a housing project, which we definitely have to figure out what to do about mid term and long-term housing. we will be engaging all kinds of people with our governance project, so that is going to include pulling in members of the attorney and members of the board of supervisors, the mayor's office on some of these conversations. it will be really interesting. we want to increase cooperation with the planning department, making sure it reflects planning recovery, so we will be working closely with the planning department. the other thing that is coming up is doing more work around climate tethers, how we engage

in hazard mitigation. it will definitely be leaders in this area, adding those issues to post-disaster recovery. the last thing i wanted to let you know is very exciting, which is the recovery initiative is, as i said, a partnership of these organizations, and we have discovered over the last year that the project that we've you are very integrated. there really is no way you can separate post-disaster recovery from mitigation, planning, preparedness response. with the department of emergency management, we have decided that the of great of the all-hazard strategic plan will also be included on the merger strategic initiative. we are very excited about that. and you will be seeing that, and we will be bringing the initiative which has some assets of, again, national leadership, and what really does resilience mean. we hope to be able to define that for the world. that is what is going on with the recovery initiatives.

i thank you all so much for your support over the last year, and you will be seeing lots of changes coming up, and some additional collaboration. do not be surprised if your phone is ringing and a disney on the other end saying, "guess what, you get to go to another meeting." we really appreciate your support. thanks, i will take any questions you have, especially on the summary you just received. >> [inaudible] >> we will be in recess until the meeting is done for a few minutes, and then we will reconvene.

>> welcome back to the disaster council meeting for september 10, 2010. mayor gavin newsom is joining us. this was the summary of the san francisco responds to the san bruno fire. please remember to pass the microphone to the set table when you are speaking. thank you. mayor newsom: thank you all for being here, and i appreciate the outstanding leadership represented here on this table. let me begin by recognizing the

obvious or fortuitous in some respects that we had you here today under different circumstances, but nonetheless, now more difficult circumstances. i want to underscore the purpose of this disaster council was always rather self evident and oftentimes needs some elimination -- some illumination to be reminded of its importance. as much as i was reminded of the presence today, it really reinforces the contribution of the commitment to the future because there's no question that we live in interesting times, and the tragic incident of yesterday and the incident that is still unfolding today, and that will continue to impact the lives of hundreds of people and their families for years to come just becomes a testament