greg. and our whole purpose was to say that the raley joint -- real authority in the joint -- and this, that, the other thing are here, and we realize what the impact our and realize how important is to get it right. and i really cannot emphasize that, as much as ta it is important and so forth, i think you need to circle back to the stakeholder group that was really helpful in putting the whole thing together. they were 40 people that took part, and it included, like i said, the port. everyone that was enacted. well you do something with the rail, you might upset with the port's raley dark, unless you're very careful about it. so we had all sorts of people in

this group with a lot of institutional knowledge and history, and i invite you to have that sort of a meeting. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> that afternoon. my name is occurring in woods. i chaired the mission bay citizens advisory committee. the read the ballot agency. which is going to survive, but we do not know who we are going to be advising. i was part of that working group, the stakeholder group that mr. boss mentioned. . as you saw in the presentation today, there are really serious implications for mission bay, depending on how these things are done. mission bay is already isolated by freeway, by water by the

train tracks. and a year-and-a-half later, we do not see that anybody has looked at that were considered at in these fast track ideas. we would very much appreciate any potential solutions that you guys come up with, you bring back to us, to the stakeholder group, who are, as mr. boss said, on the ground. we really understand what the issues and implications are. we know that potential solutions, a short tunnel, a long tunnel, taking down 280, as possible solutions are going to be extremely expensive. but they are extremely important. and we would like to be at the table.

as you move forward. mr. ram has the list of all the people who were involved in these earlier meetings, or i am sure mr. bawsca and provide them. -- mr. abbas can provide them. we have heard nothing. and we do not want you guys moving forward with solutions that you cannot back out of. unless we are at the table. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, commissioners. robert beck with the transbay joint powers authority. i want to thank the sfcta and the mayor's office of for establishing and leading the technical group to affirm the city's support of the transbay transit center at the only acceptable terminus for high- speed rail in san francisco.

we welcome the end of the city on alternative strategies to fully fund the dtx. the city has been instrumental in funding the development of the transbay program throughout its life, beginning with the cooperative agreement with caltrans, the commitment of funding for proposition k, the transit center district planning that has been prepared by the planning department, and the preservation of the transbay we developed area with the bodies of the redevelopment agency. the full funding of the dtx and completion will require a complete support from the mayor's office, the ta, the board of supervisors, and city departments. on the consideration of an additional opportunities to reduce costs for the transbay program, we're excited about working with the ta on ways of optimizing the scope and cost of the downtown extension.

the current alignment of the dtx is the result of more than a decade of the engineering study and environmental review that was culminated in our eir adopted in 2005. i think it is important, as jose luis mentioned, the context of considering alternatives that will not distract from the current status of the program as ready and able to accept funding and move forward into a construction should and additional funding becomes available in the near term. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am wearing two hats today. a bart director representing much of the city, as well as livable city. i have to say, this is the most exciting project that has come to the city in a generation i need transportation area. it is a tremendous opportunity

for san francisco, because it can provide at least two things. what is this high-speed rail connection between los angeles, the place where i was born, and san francisco, so i will not have to fly southwest anymore. the other thing is that this is going to create a rapid transit line for the eastern neighborhoods of san francisco. unlike part, but better. i say this is a budget director. it is going to be better because with this three and four tracks system, you do not have to make the compromise that barred bus, which is having lots of stations and having faster express service. you can run a complex, like the baby bullet, but there is a local service, local rented transit service going up and down the east side of san francisco. a lot of people get to san jose in 30 minutes and still allow high-speed trains to come to san francisco. in prop k, we talked about an oakdale station to serve downtown bayview.

we can look at adding or relocating the other stations along the east side of san francisco to reserve neighborhoods like mission bay, make them really transit- oriented. a station at 16th street, for example, to connected to use cfs -- ucsf medical center. i am excited about the blvd. alternative but i think we should be bolder. we should look at getting rid of more of interstate 280. this is the southern embarcadero freeway. we talked of two sections, and then we don't all the traffic down on to sixth street and on to the embarcadero, where it forms in the barrier. weekend and into the all city back together at the street level. mission bay with soma, birch river district with the central waterfront. we should look ahead boulevard alternative the beginneth cesar chavez, terminating the freeway there.

it could be a lot cheaper. if you bring the train underneath and but the freeway of above, it means you have to dig under the freeway. it gets expensive because you are shoring up the said acquitted freeway while trying to put a train line underneath. removing the freeway can make the whole thing to ever give up and look forward to this discussion and some kind of public process. this is the biggest infrastructure project we have ever had. there has been in the zero public participation. we really need to think about a public engagement strategy for this project, to let folks know what the options are and what the implications are. [bell rings] supervisor campos: thank you very much. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: i want to thank all the presenters and members of the public uk.

i want to thank mustaf for putting this hearing together. colleagues, thank you for the indulgence this is incredibly important, so i think this was a productive beginning to any discussion today. with that, mr. chairman, i move to continue this to the call of the chair. supervisor campos: we have a motion to continue to the call of the chair. supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: thank you, chair. i think it is good that we initiate this conversation here. certainly, this is of great import to san francisco in the future of high-speed rail. i think if we were going to continue this conversation, i would prefer to continue its in plans and programming. i would like to see if we can actually modify the motion to do that. >> i agree. supervisor campos: ok, so we

have a motion to continue. supervisor wiener: send it back to plans and programs to the call of the chair. supervisor campos: we have a motion in the second. i want to thank all members of the public who have been waiting for this item, and thank you to commissioner wiener and his staff for making this a priority. can you call item number 10? >> number 10, introduction of new items, information items. supervisor campos: colleagues, do you have new items you like to introduce? is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? the seeing none, public comment is closed. please call the next item. >> item 11, public comment. supervisor campos: an opportunity for members of the public to speak on any item that is within the jurisdiction of the commission, but it is not on the agenda today. is there any member of the

public like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 12, adjournment. supervisor campos: before we go, i want to thank the members of the sfgtv staff who have been covering the meeting today. thank you for your service. meeting adjourned.

>> good afternoon, everyone. thanks for being here. this is our first disaster council meeting for 2012, and it's been quite a previous year, but again, i want to start out by thanking everybody for working as closely as together as we are. i do feel it's just a higher level of collaboration by our community, our residents, our agencies, our responders and i know that towards the end of last year, we had a number of fires. we had a fairly big one just a few days before christmas in our western district area. i want to thank all of the residents that were out there because there were individual heroes that acted very quickly to get others out, and then, in those precious minutes, our fire department showed up with not

only one but five different divisions which was absolutely necessary, five-alarm. their response was excellent and not only did a good job but immediately there was also the fire commissioners, including the chief. we were there. i want to thank ross mirkarimi, then supervisor, he was out there with me looking out for the residents. several other board members, as well. and we immediately saw not only the residents there but the non-profits that had been there helping out. our faith-based community was there, as well, because immediately, the needs were felt and i think in the context, that there were no fatalities, no real serious injuries, it was just another reflection of the way we're handling serious disasters, yet response is so thorough, so good. and then to follow up with those

needs, not only did the community help out and i think the city started showing immediately our sense of support for the residents there that had lost everything that they had just before the holidays, and good response from our helpful communities to help out, whether they were churches or individuals that would help. d.e.m. also, they made, i think, a very critical call to cal nema to get our city declared particularly at that fire, a disaster, and got the attention of the s.b.a. and the state programs to help out and ind that there are at least six individuals who are going through the process of getting specially handled loans out of that program. there was good follow-up because people, although not serious

injuries, their lives are being put in place with that additional help so i thank the staff for doing that and all the other agencies but i think it's the reflection of the kind of response we want to see in case there is that and while we're doing that, we do everything we can to prevent but when it comes to the winter times, it was something we were all paying attention to and i know sheriff mirkarimi shared this with me, as well, because we had a chance to talk then. we were thinking there were too many fires going on in that district and we were wondering why, trying to make sure we looked at every opportunity, whether our police department and others, to research the backgrounds for all these things to make sure that if they were accidental, we can do something even about accidental better, by better education with all of our residents about how these fires start and where they start and how to prevent them, while we look for any other indications beyond just accidental. again, i think we're doing

everything we can to do that. i also want to acknowledge the work that's going on behind the scenes but now becoming more visible, and that's our america's cup. as we approach that very active event, that inviting event with thousands of people that will be here, a number of agencies are already working together doing the necessary training and i know a number of you are involved in that because there will be so many people and so many activities that are going on throughout the city in anticipation of that and so many agencies that need to have a lot more ability to work with each other and maybe have not had the opportunity to do that. and, then, to, of course, prevent anything from happening that would be negative to the event and really reach our goals for it. so the exercises that are being led by d.e.m. in anticipation of

that, the agencies that will touch upon things that include things that will happen in the air, crime control, e.m.s. fire, park events we anticipate, the people movement that are needed, the general security and the use of the water, both for security as well as recreation, all will be in play so appropriate agencies are being tapped to work through the leadership of d.e.m. to coordinate exercises that will test and need to be tested any assumptions that we are making with our individual plans so we never work in silos. and i want that to be, again, the mantra for all of us. these large events, we have to get out of our silos and make sure we're cooperating and that's been the theme of this and that's why we go through the exercises so i appreciate this and want to thank people for doing that because when we're doing that up front, we're

making every effort to mitigate anything that can happen beyond our individual borders which i know all of you will take care of on an individual department basis, it's really where it doesn't come across as individual departments and effects several of us, i don't want any gray areas to prevent us from doing an excellent job as we go on the world stage with this event. thank you very much for that. i want to single out the -- also the leadership that d.e.m. is doing when it comes to a bay web. that's been in the papers. it's before our board of supervisors and thank you for holding those hearings, members of the board, that we are pushing forward this bay web because we do have very, very clear needs to have better communication, better spread of data. the chief mentioned that during the playoff games at candlestick, as well, some examples where things could have worked better if we had a bay web approach to our other

agencies to promote higher levels of data exchange. we need to get there and i want to signal to the board that our staff, working with d.e.m., will make sure we answer every question about the financing aspects to it that might be of concern and make sure we get through that quickly so we can get on to building a system in collaboration with all the other agencies that are involved in the bay area, all their responders, all their emergency agencies. we need this because we are going to be hosting more events in this great city that command a level of bay area collaboration and with that, we need, then, data and communications that work across our cities. that's important to us and we are also honoring the serious federal funding that had been made because they believe this is also their goal in supporting us, as well. and finally, again, i want to

acknowledge all the members of the disaster council, including the new members from the community and from various agencies we work with, along with all the departments, and the board of supervisors, as well, in paying attention to how we manage disasters and how we prepare for them. things do still make me nervous in my years as public works director and i've already asked d.p.w. as well as the city engineer to begin studying what's happening on the tower and telegraph hill because those slides always leave me some level of uncertainty as there's so much housing up there and visitors that go up there and the tower itself so we're going to get a study going to what the short term, middle term and long term challenges are on those rock slides and what they're

indicating to us. i need the best engineer minds to give us that information so we can go on to higher levels of effort there. i also want to make sure we are all continuing to pay good attention to disaster recovery. that's been my personal interest but i'll tell you, all the things that we're already doing on disaster recovery, i've indicated to many other cities as i go through the conference of mayors and talk to them about what they're doing, they acknowledge that disaster preparedness has a lot to do with recovery planning that goes on now because that leads to a stronger tie with our communities about what mitigation is really all about and where we need to spend our infrastructure money. i want to thank everybody for participating in that. you'll hear reports. every time there's a disaster in the world, if we can get somebody over there that representing our city, not only as part of a humanitarian effort that we've done like for turkey that you'll hear about today, but if we can bring back that

very live experience that people have every single time we come back with a reinforcement that our recovery planning and our disaster preparedness is not only apropos, it is absolutely necessary, and again, i also signal a thanks our fleet week because that is really turning the corner for us. it's no longer the very important celebration of our military, the humanitarian and ongoing training we have with our military in the country about our own disaster preparedness is extremely important, getting everyone involved in that. with that, i just wanted to make that initial report and thank everybody for participating this disaster council meeting. thank you to the board members, again, for being here. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i happily can say the mayor gave most of my director's report so that's wonderful. thank you so much. i have a nice little

presentation for you, mr. mayor, that is a fun way to start this out, i hope. we had a beautiful coat made for you so that when you respond to our disasters we can tell who you are right away. [laughter] >> it is the mayor. anyway. i hope it's all reflective, it's heat resistant, all of that stuff. i hope you enjoy it. [applause] >> we didn't want to be outdone because i know the fire chief gave you a hat after your election. >> i'm hoping not to wear this too often. >> i hope you don't have to, as well. just a couple of quick things that i did want to touch on, is a little uwasi update. i think most of you know that

there has been cuts at the federal level on uwsai funding. this last year, we lucked out in that san francisco and the core cities remained whole, which is wonderful. so we will continue to have our $34 million of funding regionally for this current year. next year, it's questionable. what we're hearing from washington is that perhaps all of the tier 2 cities or regions will be cut out this year. if that's the case, we still may be ok next year but i think we need to be thinking long term about how we sustain the efforts that we have begun and make sure that we can continue to become more and more prepared and ready for the big one when it does happen because funding at the federal level is definitely declining. san francisco, at this point, is in good shape and in fact the approval authority last week voted to keep the core city

allocations of oakland, san jose, and san francisco, $1 million each before any other funding is expended so that's a very positive thing. just real briefly, we were very happy that the state e.m.s. authority ruled just a few weeks ago that san francisco can maintain its exclusive operating area for ambulance response for 911 and emergency calls. this has been up in the air since 2008 so that's a big victory for us, very happy with all the work that mr. dudgeon has done working with the state and with chief hayes-white and her command staff. we really -- that's a big victory for us. just following what the mayor said about advance recovery and the resilience work that san francisco has been doing. we have really been acknowledged throughout the entire country as

being at the forefront of that work and that gets back to what mayor lee, in his former position as city administrator, led up the resiliency effort and did that pre-recovery planning. on february 16, fema is coming out to roll out their national recovery plan and so they are doing it in san francisco, here in city hall. the mayor is going to be giving the opening remarks that day and in fact i had the opportunity to go to harvard in december and go through the national preparedness leadership institute, which was this fabulous program, and all of the instructors from around the country are saying that san francisco is the lead, that we are the model that should be followed in other places. so fema will be looking to us for direction and i think that it's a way for us to highlight all the great work we've been doing and continue to do. just on a very last note, we will be doing all the 1906

earthquake remembrances that we do every year, so i hope you will join us at lata's fountain at 5:42 a.m., or whatever time it is, some god awful early morning but it's a lot of fun and we will be doing community events during april. april's a big month for us so look forward to getting messages from us and i hope you can join us. thank you. next on the agenda, i believe, is rob, recent e.o.c. activations? >> certainly. i'm going to touch on the last three or so that we've had because they're in relatively recent memory and work backwards a little bit. first starting with, we did activate a small team for the rock slide earlier and we did that to basically make sure everything gets pulled together in one spot and make sure that everybody's working together. it seems like maybe it doesn't

raise up to the level of e.o.c. but this is a key message we've been trying to push, it doesn't have to be a big event in order to have the benefits of the cross departmental, cross-agency coordination. in this case, this is specifically one of those events that really benefits from getting people in the room because oftentimes what happens is if something -- if there's an event, it gets put in the dispatch system, we get pages and updates and what the fire and police part is done, they go back to their stations and go back in service and it drops off everybody's radar so one of my charges to my team has been to keep tracking these events beyond the end of the first respond because it is first respond. it doesn't mean the event is done. we've really seen that in dealing with displaced people and a lot of these fires in the past year and it also folds over into this where we're able to maintain tracking it for several days after it until we get a sense that we've got to the

recovery phase and it's down to one or two departments working together to solve the problem. that's what we did here. it also gives us visibility and i think this is really important. it gives us visibility for identifying those events that might be eligible for some form of reimbursement down the line because if we get together early and capture the data early and get the damage assessments early, we're able to make that determination and work with cal ema to determine whether or not it's going to hit their thrish hold so we don't miss these opportunities and i think it's going to be critical as we move forward and the economy can continue to do what it does and government budgets can do what they do. i think it's important and sometimes it's the small events, all it takes is working together. the one before that we did was the n.f.c. championship game which, again, people say, well, nothing really happened. that's because we didn't