plans on.u baseline for the earthquake narrow yourselves that we can build all of our plans on.s baseline for the earthquake narrow yourselves that we can build all of our plans on. baseline for the earthquake narrow yourselves that we can build all of our plans oa baseline for the earthquake narrow yourselves that we can build all of our plans on. it is very important and i encourage you to adopt that extension and i can tell you more in the future. thank you. president murphy: thank you. commissioner walker: i wonder if we could put her on the agenda to present to us the program and how we can actually interface and carry forward the tasks under our purview. maybe we could put her on the agenda with your presentation. president murphy: we can do that. >> with g.s.a. is there any affiliation or connection with fe fema? >> part of the resilient s.f. is looking at improving our relationships with fema. the department of emergency management already has existing response relationships but we are looking at administratively what can we do to set the city up to make sure we can interact as fluidly and efficiently as possible with fema so it is a huge part of the work we do and the underlying motivation to make sure we have the cash flow, the administrative issues in place, the process is in place, record keeping, economic analysis. all of that.

commissioner walker: i understand we applied for a grant in advance work of an earthquake to work on issues like the soft story initiative, from fema, which would be historic because they usually only bring money in after the fact. do you know the status of that? >> we have tphnot -- our priori is just to submit the soft story retrofit to the fema hazard mitigation program which is the pre-disaster mitigation program where each jurisdiction is allowed $2 million or $3 million per project per-year. so they are prioritized for this but we have in the submitted the application yet. commissioner walker: do we need a mandatory program -- it is not need to be? >> no, just prioritize that project and submit. president murphy: any further public comments?

seeing none. commissioners? commissioner walker? commissioner walker: i want to thank a.t.c., capss, mrs. seek and the work that she has done. this is a vital step we have taken forward with the bold cooperation of the commission, i'm going to make a motion to support the extension of the capss as requested, the capps contract as requested. as it was stated, there is the report which is important, and i think that we've put enough urgency under this issue to get some closure on some of these reports. but now it is up to us. we have the information. we have a broad group across all stakeholder groups that came together to talk about this

issue, to be able to identify where we are at as a city, what steps we need to take to better prepare so we can avoid the kind of disaster that we know is coming. and i think that we, unfortunately, lost the opportunity in this last election to actually fund some of our most challenging building seismic upgrades. hopefully we can come together and find ways of funding these with the help of fema, but also we are going to come together and go to the public and actually get support for this. in the meantime, i hope that what we do is carried forward, the recommendations, including a mandatory program for our wood frame buildings which are identified and we all agree are the biggest risks. the mandatory program is, i believe -- maybe you could talk to us about what the status of our mandatory program is because i know we have been working on

it with the mayor's office. but that is one of the things that has been identified as the next step in the successful mitigation program. >> john malamut from the city attorney's office. i had a conversation with the mayor's office this morning and a program for mandatory retrofit for the wood frame soft story build some things still under consideration. it is considered as sort of in the draft stages right now but something they are still very interested in. >> is there a potential for the building department and experts in the field that we have on our code advisory group to start reviewing that process to make recommendations to the legislative body or the mayor's office, or do we have to wait for them to act? >> uh, if there is a legislative proposal from the mayor, the way

the charter is set up it is something that would come through the entire process at the b.i.c. so the code advisory committee would look at it and it would eventually come before the buildi building inspection commission. the department or commission also has the opportunity to initiate legislation themselves. so that is sort of an alternate rou route. the commission would obviously, if they were to do that, they would have to put something on their agenda. commissioner walker: exactly. president murphy: i think where the department can really help here is notifying the homeowners and property owners and get them involved. i don't see very many of them involved. granted i haven't been to a lot of the capss meetings, but what i see in there is great people, mostly engineers and experts in the field. but we do have to get the property owners involved if we

are going to have -- if we are going to take this forward. commissioner walker: we have had the small apartment owners, building owners and managers. we have had ongoing and constant representation from these organizations representing, as well as building owners themselves, at all of these conversations. so i think that -- president murphy: i don't see any of them here today. commissioner walker: well, you know, i don't know what to tell you, mel. our job is to look at the risk, which is what we have paid people to advise us about. and they have outlined those ris risks. now it is our job as people who are appointed to look at these things to carry forward mitigation efforts. if we fail to do that, it will be on our backs. president murphy: all i'm saying commissioner walker, is we need to educate the public, both from the tenant's side and the

landlord/owner's side. and i don't think we are doing enough to do that. commissioner romero: one thing we have to do is let the complete to finish its work so i want to second the motion to extend the contract to december and we know when the contracts come out that is when the work really starts which includes education and letting everybody know what are the risks and what we have to do to deal with it. president murphy: i have no problem today with letting them finish their contract. they have done a lot of work the last two or three weeks and i'm proud of them for that. so i don't have an issue there either. commissioner hechanova, do you want to say something? vice president hechanova: i believe in being pro-active. we are coming up with a really

terrific document. but we don't seem to be pro-active enough to say the next step is to really inform and provide this information to the public, much less keeping everyone engaged. but also what are the next steps to effectively do the education and outreach out there? i think that is as much the challenge in the education component to provide the public the information so they can act, responsibly act on what they need to do on the next steps. and somehow we don't seem to be active enough at this point. president murphy: commissioner walker. commissioner walker: i want to point out that we got almost 65% of the public to support funding

retrofitting soft story buildings in affordable housing units and residential hotels. unfortunately, 1% less than what we need for a two-thirds majority on this issue. i think that there's been sufficient activity around what the goals of a.t.c. are, which was to get a group of people together representing all the stakeholders. i have been to most of these meetings and i have to say there are tenant representatives, owner representatives, as well as people who are engineering experts and geologists and seismic experts who have worked on the recommendations. i think if people have read the reports that we have already been given, there are clear recommendations especially about those issues like wood frame soft story buildings that are three stories and five units and more that we have identified and agreed upon that there is a huge

risk. so, my suggestion -- and i know what is on the agenda is basically extending this to get the contract under way, is that we also realize the urgency within the reports. and if you haven't read them i encourage you to read them. but we need to move on them. and whether it is a mandatory program or just a letter out to building owners saying you are in a possible problem building and give us back a report. if we fail to carry forward the urgency of this issue and implement some sort of response, i think that it will be a failure. i want to move to extend the contract as requested. and i will be asking to put some action items on our agenda to move this forward. president murphy: we have a motion and second. >> all in favor.

>> aye. >> opposed. it carries unanimously. item number seven commissioner's questions and matters. 7-a is inquiries to staff. president murphy: commissioner walker. commissioner walker: yes, i would like to put an agenda item on to actually look at a mandatory program and what is being looked at by the mayor's office and see if there is an interest from the commission to have our code advisory committee take a look at things and make suggestions back to us. president murphy: commissioners? commissioner walker: also, an update on the notification of ab-35. >> we have continued that so we will bring it back.

commissioner walker: perfect. >> any public comment on that item number 7-a? president murphy: seeing none. >> 7-b, future meetings and agendas. next meeting is scheduled for december 15. we have a litigation committee meeting on november 30. president murphy: ok. >> we definitely need to have a subcommittee meeting on the appointmen appointments. i have been trying to get a hold of you guys. we evenly have four applications but we need to reappoint. commissioner walker: could you do an e-mail to the commissioners as to the openings and maybe we can help get people to apply? >> we have been extending it and extending it and some have gone past 60 days of when they should have been appointed. president murphy: you have been too busy to notice. commissioner walker: can you just do an e-mail about what the actual vacancies are?

>> yes. but time is of the essence. president murphy: commissioner hechanova you chair that committee. vice president hechanova: yes. >> any public comment? seeing none. item eight, adjournment. vice president hechanova: is there potentially the joint meeting between both -- >> yes, i sent out an e-mail changed to january. so, as soon as i have any information i will get it to you so that you will be available for the dates. president murphy: motion to adjourn. >> second.