our health care system operates at 90% capacity on a good day. we are no exception to that. we have the incident management things figured out. we know how to solve problems together. our next focus of area has to revolve around the federal search. that will remain a high priority. that a huge challenge will be automatically don't start to focus on that. >> i think i can echo what they have been saying. a couple of health perspectives, is really hard for the federal government partners to think of a practical double. the really, i think, shed some light on developing practical

standards. [inaudible] and really thinking through a framework of how to get our communities on that. you can't say you're going to do to every building in san francisco you did to our building. that was a huge thing that was really i opening. they have been thinking about it, but they have not been sharing it on the local or state level. i think that really came through. some of these things, it is a huge health issue that came out. it won't be enough for the entire bay area.

again, if the new normal is anthrax, who would be in charge of that, and how would be affected. i think what was really encouraging was that we had a local thing here a few weeks ago. i think we felt on a local level, there and has been a lot of great work. we seem to communicate and work together a lot better than some of these vertical communications. and to echo for the health, they're really talking about the city.

>> i will open it up to any members of the council of that like to ask questions. if you like to share on this exercise theory and anything, many of you participated in february. moving on. >> holly deal with the possibility of a false deposit. to what example -- to what extent is the private sector involved in these exercises? >> the private sector was involved in every level of this exercise to the chamber of commerce and the business groups. we have done locally, and there was 1 and march. the small business administration, they are at the table of these things.

your legislation around the false positives are spot on. i was able to receive a briefing from people at the pentagon. this is where you have essentially the ideal environment for this sort of center. even under ideal conditions, they are still very unreliable. it is very important that we pass this legislation and knowledge the fact that there will be a fair amount of false positives. moving on to the last item, a real brief comment on st. patrick's day, a lesson we learned from new year's eve about how best to manage some of these incidents. >> at the debrief, discussions

of having some alternative placed to take large numbers of drunk people of the than to the jail, the closed at 1:00 in the morning for any drunks. those six closed around 1:45. they were packed. what do we do with them. when is the next chance. saint patrick's day. we had six steals hospitals. they will respond to set up medical care after something like an earthquake. we went to the foot of market street. there is a slab of concrete there and we set up a field hospital.

into the health department, we were able to legally operate as a one-night at john to the sobriety center. this is designed for the chronic public inebriates did -- a street person. and that is where they are taken if they meet the criteria for not going to a hospital. we took the same criteria. the nurse will train us insobriety medicine that is a specialty in and of itself. it was a thursday night, so we saw 11 patients between the ages of 22 and 32. they all would of gone the hospitals, most likely. we prevented those admissions,

and six of them came by rail cars. five came from ambulances. this allowed the officers as well to have a five-minute turnaround. it just took five minutes to give us what we needed and we took it from there. we had the benefit, we're really pleased that we have a partnership. they have partnered with us to have heard people come out and move our tents to wherever we need them had set up. it is these three residents that put that up in the morning and took it down the next day. i trained them so well, that if the earthquake happened next week, we would make a call over there, a live rabbit one of our trucks, but get up and put it

all up for us. that is set. supervisor mirkarimi: i wanted to say congratulations. before we go, all of these reports are very heartening. coming up, i would like to believe that the new year's eve response and the st. patrick's day response has been a good precursor for preparing for a very concentrated event that is not unfamiliar to any of us. ""mhíand let that be certainlya level of preparation. this weekend, with japan on our mind and japan town, i think the

underscoring the theme is recovery. how encouraged the city family to come out and show full support. >> thank you very much. we will keep things moving here. we skipped over the tsunami alert >> i missed that one on my notes. we did have a tsunami warning that came out. we will be doing in after action report on this. né of the event. i wanted to touch on a couple of the basics. just a little after midnight, we had the eoc spun up. from there, the primary objectives that we have work to keep the senior leadership

informed and to get out the right public message and be consistent and keep the public message out there. the warnings that we get our genetic endowment for the entire west coast. they can be really kind of scary. they require a little bit of analysis. we realize that the amount of water we are looking at is probably not any higher than the high tide we just experienced. our course of action was to set up a buffer zone that was essentially ocean beach and a great highway. and get on with our media partners, we are not evacuating into this is not something to panic over. they have a different story. for our purposes, we really felt like we had to get out there and keep people, and understand that

there was really not a larger threats. with that, i think we accomplished those objectives. lee will be digging into those, so when the after-action report gets circulated, i would encourage people -- we will present it at another disaster council meeting. i think that is is for item four. >> any other comments before we move on to the next item? who is presenting for recent disasters? hashemi, primarily. the recent disasters, this will be fairly quick. i would like to invite members of the disaster council to engage in discussion.

these events are so relatively early. having had the opportunity to be in washington with a lot of people that were directly involved, i wanted to convey some of the things that i've picked up. beginning with the new zealand experience, it so happened that one of the assistant illustrators was actually in new zealand representing the secretary of, and security at a meeting that happened to be there when the earthquake struck. i have the opportunity to talk to him a little bit. for the first time in a very long time, i am seeing seismic activity really register at the federal level. so often, they're focused on hurricanes and flooding. for now, seismic activity is really high on the radar. with that, there were lessons that he brought back that i thought were very interesting

and insightful. it is not so much the number of directors scale that was the problem, it was the energy released in the shaking. this one was lower, but it caused far more damage. it is something i am sure that the department of building inspection is looking at. new zealand has good building codes and there are actively enforced. they still have a lot of damage to really new buildings. the lessons that will come out of that will probably drive changes down the line in our own building code. there are a lot of things to look at. mother nature will throw us a curve ball. that event in new zealand, liquefaction is something that we talk about, but until you see

pictures of it right after it happened, i would encourage people to look at pictures of new zealand, christchurch after the event. they brought back pictures of a car. this really brought it home. we talk about this all the time and it is absolutely, positively the truth. neighbors are the ones that rescue neighbors. that is what happened in japan, that is what will happen here, are partners with the red cross and every other agency, we have to keep the focus on community resiliency. does anybody have any comments on christchurch new zealand? the japan van, very early, there

will be a lot of lessons to be learned. we don't have the experts to really dissect it yet, i wanted to hone in on the experience in washington, the ringside seats in trying to get a public message out about this event. we were there 48 hours after the earthquake and a tsunami. mr. the really deal with the radiation aftermath. watching our partners in the federal government having offline conversations with them, they got hung up in the bureaucracy of saying what needed to be said. they were begging for just a press release from the federal government that said it is going to be ok. it just goes to the fact that public messaging is another area where we have got to streamline and focus. and with that, any comments about japan?

excellent. >> we are going to have diana and commande>> excellent. >> hello. i am commander aa. [unintelligible] -- commander dudley. we started planning the day after the last one. we heard from the community and supervisor mirkarimi and many others. we heard all their concerns. we changed the makeup of the breakers. we will have a d.o.t. running on the 15th. in the northern part, the trail,

where the finish is, we will put that celebration into golden gate park. it will be registered runners only. we will make sure it is a very fun event. we are pretty good plan in place. we are at crunch time now. several heat of you in your have representatives that will be at that meeting. we ever really good plan going. we will have a great morning for the bay to breakers. >> thank you. >> pursuant to the previous reports, where you put 2800 inebriate id? >> [unintelligible] [laughter]

we have learned over the years -- new year's eve, things happened. we had several large events where inebriant some are a problem at the front end and at the back end. it may be an ambulance call. they may put a lot of pressure on sfpuc. with that in mind, we talked about the sobering centers, if you will. it is of force multiplier women use public health and fire ems, -- when we use public health and fire ems, when it would normally take two officers and up to four hours. for bay to breakers, we will

have it set up similar to what we talked about seeing patrick's day. >> in short, mayor, we're going to have a much bigger tent. [laughter] >> i cannot believe it. rob? america's cup. i invite you all to san francisco in 2014. for next year, in august or september -- we are well into the planning. we will of fire, ems, representatives in our monthly meeting. it is a huge endeavor. the united states coast guard will be front and center in emergency management.

this year, the u.s. coast guard will open up over the summer a command center on yerba buena island. they will be the commander on the water, the waterways, search rescue, any kind of incident we have on the water. the police departments will be -- will be the public safety lead on the land. the office of emergency services in the counties of marin, san mateo, we will use their resources. for the first time in the history of the america's cup, we are going to have a theater in a bay where we will have 300 degrees of viewing area on the land. not to mention the water traffic. so, we are going to rely heavily on our neighbors in those

counties. it is a coalition of law enforcement agencies on the water, different then the intentions of society. >> [laughter] >> and we are well into our planning. we have partners from the drought outside resources to come in. we've set up a series of exercises. the law or three each years. tabletop for joint training exercises. there will be an exercise this í4xwthváu)s& all be able to see and purchase. they areg7tw.)um all to preseo show us, we are right in our planning. i will hear any questions you may ask. >> i know we may want to make

sure we have some exercises with oakland' because of shared water responsibilities. i look forward to those exercises with other cities in the bay. >> any other questions of commander doubly? -- dudley? thank you. are there announcements from disaster council members? >> yes. >> [unintelligible] >> you alluded to an event tomorrow. there will be approximately 15,000 citizens taking place -- taking part. i appreciate all you do, and everyone who actively works with the neighborhood emergency response team members. it will be tomorrow between the

hours of 8:00 and noon. i look forward to seeing people out there. i would also like to acknowledge the members of the department under the department of emergency management. like mayor lee said, i know that we were up their acknowledging the great work they do. they need to get a lot -- the people who wear uniforms did a lot more acknowledgement the people who do not wear uniforms. we also appreciate the people who work downstairs at the department of emergency management. i was very impressed on the very early morning of march 11 for the tsunami warning how quickly and how well organized we were. there were a lot of challenges that morning. it is a credit to you. and also to the red cross. a shout out to herald broke --

harold brook. the fire in montgomery -- it got a lot of attention. last week, it was challenging two nights in a row. always professional, always organize. we are very grateful for that partnership. thank you some much. i invite everyone to join us early on monday to commemorate the anniversary of the earthquake and fire. >> thank you, chief white. other announcements from council members? yes? >> [unintelligible] is the department aware of training the first week in april? there will be fema documentation and everything there will be needed to support it. i want to thank everyone for making themselves available for that, for the training on the

turk street. still awful, up to your sites and operational staff will make sure you have access to your buildings and things like that, so that our cost recovery experts can deal with that. >> thank you very much. other announcements? yes? >> [unintelligible] of vaccination clinic on may 14? >> for what? a vaccination -- >> of vaccination clinic. [unintelligible] may 14 they are having won at john mcconnell high school. >> other announcements? just a reminder. when we do in anniversary of one

of our two quakes here, the personally prepared. it is an opportunity for you to go home, see whether you've of water stored, flashlights and batteries, really simple. just look on 72hours.org. i'm sure that everyone is more prepared than they think they are. just look through. it will make you feel better. is there any public comment? ok. hearing none, say this is adjourned, unless, mr. mayor -- ok. thank you for coming.