civilian authorities and the military and they all did some wonderful presentations. we promised that in 2011, we would ratchet it up and increase the program to include a table top exercise. we did some other things as well, but i want to focus first on the table top exercise period september 8, the department of emergency management in san francisco helped -- they really just took the lead on creating an incredible tabletop exercise in which we rehearsed a 7.9 earthquake outside of the golden gate bridge, and the damage that would have taken place. we talked about a medical search situation and how we would work with the various navy, marine corps, and coast guard forces that would come in to help the city. very successful event. i have to tell you that in san francisco, you really ought to be proud of the planners of the department of emergency

management. we had people from around the country participating in this program. we had about 160 attendees, various agencies. many people said to me that it was about the best exercise they have ever participated in. so fabulous job to everybody. but that tabletop exercise was held september 8. that is not during fleet week. rather, during fleet week, this year, on board an lhd-class ship, helicopter carrier, by invitation only, there will be a program in which we will do a back brief on how that tabletop exercise went. it will be an interactive program with panelists from the various local, state, federal civilian and military folks talking about what they got out of the exercise, and in those

who are in the audience will have opportunities to talk about their experiences from their agencies as well as those who were not participating will have time for question and answer period following the program, we will have governor barbour speak. he has a lot of experience in disasters, most notably the katrina situation. one of the things that separated the situation in mississippi from the situation in louisiana was two words -- haley barbour. he was voted elected official of the year in 2006 for his role in that, and he will be speaking on how an elected official works with the military. we will also have a presentation by admiral walsh, the commander of the pacific fleet. he will talk about the united states military operations in japan during the catastrophic

earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear issues that came about. we all know former mayor willie brown will introduce the panel, and they'll talk about regional cooperation. these will be bay area mayor's talking about regional cooperation during disasters and preparation in activities in which they cooperate. following that, we will have a discussion moderated by a former news anchor here in the area on the business role in disaster response. i think we all know that the private sector has a major role in disaster response. following that, we will have a little ship tour. friday, october 7, we will have a program with a discussion on social media's role in disaster response.

we will also have a presentation by the assistant, not -- deputy commandant of the marine corps now, but he was boots on the ground during the operation in japan. it is a robust program. i should also mention that on october 5, as the ship is teaming up to san francisco, we have a group of working level metal management folks in the first responder community. we will have them muster over to the airport and have a helicopter lift them out to the pacific ocean and land them on the debt and give them a full tour of the capabilities of the ship, which are incredible. they have six surgical centers on board. command and control capabilities. complete interaction between the men and women on the ship and the first responders to actually have to lead the fight during disasters. it is an incredibly robust

program. we will also have a peer appear medical exchange program with the medical community -- a peer- to-peer medical exchange program where the medical community will toward the ship was a facilities -- tour the ship's facilities. they will have an exchange on the difference between military care and civilian care. i really would like to say that a lot of invitations have gone out to department heads on the disaster council. i really encourage you -- please rsvp. there is a limited amount of room. we are at the seams right now, but we want to make sure that the department heads of various departments involved in emergency response are on board. it will be a very valuable program. thank you. >> thank you. are there any questions?

he told you about all the great stuff with fleet week, but of course, you also have the blue angels and those wonderful ships coming in. it is just visually such a nice time. i am going to introduce diana, our special events coordinator. she will talk to you about some upcoming events. >> in upcoming events, the eoc will be partially activated. during fleet week, we will partially activate on saturday and sunday, beginning 10:00 a.m. on saturday until 5:00 p.m. we will be sending out notifications to all the departments about that activation. we encourage you to send representatives in order to train again on webeoc and become more familiar in case anything does happen. we do have the freight ships on

saturday as well as the air show on saturday and sunday. sunday, we also have the italian heritage day parade, which will take place in north beach. that is expecting about 100,000 people in attendance. since we will already be activated during that time, we will have that on our list of activities during the day along with a 49er game. i could say the giants, but i am not really sure. i do not keep up with those things. i do not want to jinx or anything. we will be partially activating for halloween on monday, october 31. the last event we have ongoing is america's cup. the next item on our calendar is next friday, september 30, a draft of the public safety plan

will be turned in to the america's cup. we are working with the fire department and police department on that. in november, we have the world cup of sailing in san diego. that is the first time america's cup will come to the united states, so that will be interesting to watch as that unfolds down in san diego. that is it for september, october -- september/october. >> all right, last on the parade is bag alicia -- the parade is alicia johnson, the most recent to our department of emergency management. about one month on the job now, and she has hit the ground running. >> thank you. we have two events coming up. one on october 17 in commemoration of the loma prieta

earthquake in 1989. the department of emergency management is partnering managementkqed -- partnering with kqed to present a symposium that will feature a keynote from fema's deputy administrators and will additionally include a panelist discussion and question and answer session from the audience regarding the aspect of whole community preparedness and disaster recovery itself. that will take place beginning at 8:30 on the 17th, as i mentioned before, here in city hall, and it is by invitation only. the second event we also have coming up is the fourth annual

great california shake out, the drop, cover, and hold drill that will be held on october 20 at 10:30 a.m. right now, we have slightly over 290,000 attendees registered for that particular drill. we would like to exceed our number from last year, which was 350,000. we are looking this year to cap off at about 375,000. we would appreciate any help you can give us from your department level in creating back milestone -- creating that milestone. thanks. >> thank you. any questions? hearing none, i will just open it up to disaster council members. announcements? things you're doing in your own departments or agencies? >> i represent the building

owners and managers association. we have had, since the 9/11 crisis, 30 different programs in conjunction with the police department and department of emergency management, fire department, and i would just like to thank the city on behalf of boma and the private sector for working collaborative with the private sector to make us ready -- working collaboratively with the private sector to make us ready. not long ago, we had a shooting -- shooter/hostage situations here those kinds of things happen. we need to be ready. we are proud and appreciate the partnership we have with the city, so i just wanted to say

that. >> i will go this way. michael? and if you could identify what organization you are representing. >> executive director of the san francisco benefit council. on behalf of the council and the san francisco opera, we want to extend our thanks to director cronin burke and her staff -- cronenberg and her staff for their help. we also want to thank the chief and staff for their inspiring words. >> thank you for all your hard work. >> want to talk a couple of minutes about the good samaritan ordinance that was passed and signed by the mayor recently.

the good samaritan ordinance allows people that have been displaced from rent-control housing to find additional housing after they have been displaced for up to a two years at their pre-disaster rent. when someone is living in a rent-control unit, they lose their housing to the fire. working with american red cross and we are trying to find additional housing for people. this will allow us to go to landlords that want to participate in a program -- in the program to allow folks that want to read for a short time a unit that they are able to afford. the mayor just signed off allowing hsa to be the designee to sign off on the certificate. when there is a fire now, we will be able to sign off and refer people to a corporate --

appropriate housing providers that have agreed to work with us. i will be working with the apartment owners association in doing some and hopefully we'll be able to get that going in the next couple of weeks. >> the other important component is that folks who participate and offer their units, the tenants who temporarily occupy their space at that rate would not establish tent ants's rights. it would allow landlords to offer these units and not be locked into a lower rent for a long period of time. >> thank you. are there? yes. >> bill walton of the san francisco national airport. we're having our annual aircraft exercise. we're doing it with the office

of emergency services. we're partnering in that respect. thank you. >> more good news. i'm sorry, mayor's office on disability, san francisco is continuing to lead the way in many ways on disaster and disability prepareness. just last week a team from san francisco was chosen to present at a conference in d.c. the head of office disability and coordination and the head of fema were there addressing the conference and reflecting a real change in our current administration's emphasis on disaster preparedness for disabilities as a civil right. the team that came from san francisco included ben ames from the human services agent si.

rod stengel from the department of emergency managements. carle and jill from the mayor's office on disability. they highlighted not only the wonderful things the mayor's office is doing but also collaboration with so many community groups and nonprofits to have a really grassroots ground-up approach to preparedness. i thought you'd want to know that. >> very good, thank you. other? yes. thank you for sharing that. i just wanted to record that it's the 22nd anniversary of [inaudible] the neighbored emergency response team is always a great option for people to consider investing about 1 hours of their time. it's a wonderful program and on october 14 there will be a large-scale drill at

fisherman's who i have about 8:00 until 9:00 and on the 16th, there will be drilts throughout the city for members who have gone through the program and to bone up on and practice their skills. thank you. >> thank you, chief. yes? >> harold of the american red cross. this is her first meeting so i want to introduce meredith who is replacing aaron, who has gone to the dark side. he's now a fundraiser with the organization. >> hello. >> happy to have you on the team. >> is representative bart here? >> yes. >> ok, so i wanted to welcome mark lewis, member of the disaster council. if you'd like to introduce yourself. >> good afternoon. i'm the deputy chief of r.p.d. >> we're thrilled to have you. thank you for coming. thank you.

other comments from disaster council mexico? any announcements? -- council members? any announcements? ok, how about public comments? supervisor farrell has joined us. actually quite a while ago. we were not able to introduce him at the beginning of the meeting. anything you would like to say, supervisor? supervisor farrell: i'm fine, thanks. have a good weekend. >> if there's no public comment and no further comment, this meeting is adjourned. thank you all so much for coming.

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> good morning. welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. mr. young, are there any announcements? >> please turn off all cell

phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out the speaker card and return it to myself. any document should be submitted to the clerk for the file. anything discussed today should be brought up for the full board on october 25. >supervisor chu: thank you very much. please call item no. 1. >> item #one. resolution authorizing the director of public works to execute an amendment to the emergency public work contract to install a new, permanent emergency electrical generation system at san francisco general hospital to increase the not to exceed amount from $18,000,000 to $20,500,000. >> good morning. my name is ron alimeda. i am the program manager for the

general rebuild. i am here with the project manager. i appreciate mr. rose and his report, and the level of history and detail in the report and his recommendation. i have a brief power point to facilitate giving background to the project. the first slide it is just a quick overview of the generator replacement project that is occurring in the building that serves as the central plan. it provides the essential utilities to keep campus software. we are introduced to the new generator system in that building, while maintaining all of the central abilities that

remain active. this resolution is seeking to increase the current $18 million capped to $20.5 million. i want to underscore that funding is coming from the rebuild. additional capacity is trying to mitigate issues that we would encounter, two of sort some of the rebuilds go. -- to absorb some of the rebuild scope. in terms of where we are in terms of progress, the design is complete. the office is stabilized. state level agencies have permitted the project. the basement demolition is complete. general repairs and associated equipment have been manufactured and put in place.

exterior equipment is nearly completed. utility connections are under way. i have included a few photographs. there is the overall plan. a shot of demolition occurring in the basement and a couple of photos of the basement filled with a generator equipment, actively being connected in the project. impacts to date -- the problem -- project thus far has encountered a number of occupational problems, all of which were resolved within our $18 million capped so far.

issues included the state delays in the terms of the office of statewide development planning being under furlough, as well as experiencing a number of other issues so that the regulatory approvals delayed the advancement of the project. inside the building, given that it is 40 years old, with active system issues and hazardous materials, including legacy issues, we found ourselves having to put the entire basement under hazmat control and containment, working through that and updating the area. leslie, another pressure point on the budget has been the

addition of the three generators in the rebuilding project. originally the project was planned to proceed to rebuild, making the building ready to receive the generators for the rebuild. however, with that the protracted time that it took to secure financing for this project, as well as the aforementioned statement, i found both projects overlapping into each other. in order to mitigate a potentially large rebuild, we have absorbent some of the scope of work that was originally in the rebuild, absorbed into the generator project, ink --

impacting the generator project. we are up against the $18 million limit. forecasts are requesting a limit of 25 million to replenish some of what was eroded by the additional scope of work. also, in anticipation of encountering other issues on the first floor. right now, the project is wrapping up. when the generators go live, we go to the first floor with turbines, reconfiguring the boilers. we expect to encounter similar issues. so, leslie and in conclusion, support of this resolution will allow us to meet the original

objective of restoring reliable emergency power while also maintaining the original schedule with the added benefit of shifting a good benefit of work from the contracts on the rebuild to smaller, local contractors that are advancing the generator project. with a quick overview, i can address any questions. supervisor chu: thank you. let's go to the budget analysts report. >> madam chair, members of the committee, on the bottom of the page, towards the end of page 4 of the report, at the p.w. -- dpw points out that by combining