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are those are our gators they can get folks transported to the hospital. had this is the multiple causality unit and also they, work backwards. our -- it's a coincides i used to work there. one of our rescue ballots and - boats. this is the 201 forms we use the same forms. in the a basically encouraged plan and this is the golden
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state bridge for an anniversary event. first, the parade celebration in 2010. someone made a great call and they put a big screen here so a lot of the crowds stayed back and it was safer. the public. and that's the end of my presentation i want to stress and reiterate what the mayor said we need to replace the old system. my questions on the presentation? >> bring up one issue the evaluation of folks in the city. i know that in boston they would take folks immediately to the
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hospital >> we have multiple as to the throughout the city. >> we recently were drilled. >> so there's no plan to even discuss putting a helicopter pad here. >> i don't know. >> that's an issue that's been discussed for years and years. >> that is an ongoing discussion. >> i think for over all safety of the city and residents at large we're trumped any kind of issues there and i think the litigations for a help out pad should be looked at.
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thank you chief gonzalez. under sheriff did you want to add with the sheriff's department? >> i think the chief will provide some more information. >> thank you. are there other departments that point to share your parts in special events that planning? any questions for our chiefs? yes >> i want to commend the chief for the work it looks great it looks responsive and they had a great plan and what happened to boston i think the public will be safer as a result. >> thank you. i agree. next on our agenda is the update
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and michelle is the project manager will be presenting. >> thank you. of the disaster i'll talk loud. i'm here to talk about the e message project it's a very important project but i'm here on behalf of all the emergency department. we've been meeting since december and there's a lot of departments in this room that have been support this effort thank you to all of you. like as mentioned earlier our mega hertz system is -- why can't we pick up the cell phone
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it's a different type of item you can push to connect totally different from the technology you get from our cell phone. we have over 7 thousand users on the network on the radio system it's heavily utilized. it needs to be replaced and we're undergoing the initiative now. the system was put in place in 2007. we put together some initiative
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estimates and we do estimate this is a large project between 65 and 69 million to put the system in place. and this includes the radios it's actually most of the of this cost. so what we've done is with this project we've followed the same plan that you use when you major capital development plans in the city and we've asked for the planning money first. as recent as may second point approved planning for the project it was about 8.1 million that will staff two positions in the department of emergency and
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in the department of technology. we'll have a consultant come on board to behind us with the streaming . for example, the communications income tax is being put together and the consultant is looking at the public service department can take advantage of this service as well. we're going to start the hiring process as well as start the r s p service to get the consultant on board. so far as the schedule the vendor has given us a schedule will be about the 2018
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timeframe. so we're going in the early planning stages it's going to be about a 5 year roll out and we'll be back in front of this group and in front of the board of supervisors to keep everyone updated. that's all i have for this. any questions contact me and, of course, our fearless leader. >> thank you very much michelle i appreciate our presentation. are there any questions? as the mayor said in emphasis opening remarks we're going to be moving forward he even asked me to
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instruct staff to begin an rfp process for the consultant before the end of the year start it now so we can jump in july one >> i'm sorry, i want to thank the department for doing this. this is huge for us remember last year with the 49ers won the story was huge but cell phones were down radios went down but our counter radio station does have limitations. they can't believe that the range they have in the range and they have ever confidence ourselves will be better like the holy grail. the first thing that goes down
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is telecom >> and i want to echo the importance of this. i, you know, for our members to keep them as safe as possible the 9 hundred mega hertz is important >> thank you chief. >> any other comments? we'll keep you updated on our progress. i'm going to ask jill to come up >> i'm the exercise it's next wednesday and i see a lot of planning members at the table and we're going handing out the
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two page document. the gold the golden guardian is the safe exercise this year we're testing the 1406 earthquake on the santa ana dress all the so a lot of planning functions come into play. many cities and operational areas will be participating and the san francisco will be the most robust in the region it will center l around mass we'll be partnering r with the salvation army. so far as specifically
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objectives. we have communications from our internal center and the - we're going to look at log - how do we track the stuff we're getting in. the emergency operation center will be fully activated. to include the joint information center on the policy group we've got 1 hundred folks coming in. i know that a lot of our operational centers want to come
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in. as i mention numerous department prevail centers will be activating to test the ability to support field operation. a live shelter will be in affectionate stewart - st. martin's church. they'll be serving hotdogs and chilly. we have a planning member in the da staff that's been working with the directors of nonprofit and they really wanted to do this. we want to try to feed 6 thousand males within is couple of hours to population in the
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tenderloin so this is really excited. there's not a lot of precooking in the kitchen they want to see how this works. i know a lot of you folks are going to go out it's on golden gate avenue. and some of the exercises wouldn't be possible without outlining all the agencies in this room. i've worked with you personally and the folks will be coming in into our emergency operation center. it's looking the fema operations and we're trying to getty folks
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from fema and the navy and the private sector. if you look at the other side of the briefing sheet i you can see some of the agencies listed. so again that's may 15 that's next wednesday and we're looking forward to seeing you folks there. any questions? >> thank you jill any questions? we look forward to it and i know we'll see many of you. we're going to give ail m r e's instead of hotdogs. if there's no questions we'll move on 80 and go to our administrator. thank you >> good afternoon, everyone the
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lifeline council is made up of y our department heads that are critical to restoring san francisco after an emergency and also allow our utility agrees to get our telecommunications back up and running our water and sewer. our objectives are to improve the planning and restoration and he establish collaborations and recovery following a major
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disaster. we've got a huge independent study and we talked about our tangible story where we collectively worked with pg&e additional solving one our of of their issues and supporting one of their transmission project to help improve liability and particularly in the downtown area. most recently, the lifetime policy we're asking what topic would be most urls to observe agencies and we've prioritized those routes and how well, the crews get around the city to fix whatever they need to fix. we also established another working group called the cell
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activity and mobile cell sites and lastly we are going to do an independency table site where we can all identify areas that need additional planning. i want to thank patrick and the earthquake and safety group who is chairing that. and thank you rob for helping us. in addition it is talking about just our different and working to work with the different private utilities and private utilities. we're trying to shire the
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information in our environment not so much as you protecting our information just for safety and security reasons we don't want to put a map up so folks what figure out where our assets are. we're working with the city attorney and how to protect our assets to share information without sharing our information in a worldwide way. and we're talking with pg&e after the boston event and we'll get together with our departments. but also working with pg&e their starting to work with us on unveiling there 2 million up grates infrastructure and so in
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a nutshell our group and this is what the lifeline council looks at to make sure we're protected from may i approach terrorist attacks so we don't have a neighbor's like in new orleans not up and running quickly. so the more resilient our lifelines are the quickly we will be operational >> any questions for naomi? >> thank you for your g
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in the the time for councilmembers if you have something to share upcoming events this is our round table >> i'm representing the building and management owners and both of your high-rise building - we've had a long-standing relationship with the fret and we're going to do a high-rise safety drill in july. so it's going to be a full on exercise at the post montgomery center so thank you to make sure that all your high-rises in san francisco are safe >> excellent thank you. >> so in this budget in the upcoming budget season there's
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been to up grating in the the - we've got adequate fund to build the data center around sacramento that will first house the security systems and it's something we want. and secondly it would be dark in a disaster for our buildings so we've been funded to secure generates to be permanent to maintain buildings in those 2-e ocs i'm happy about that >> good work. i was going to mention that the dp m has partnered to put on a
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one-day disaster conference on july 23rd. the invitations went out this week seating is limited. any other unanimously? any public comment? okay hearing none this meeting is adjourned. thank you all so much for
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director bridges present. heinicke is anticipated. nolan present director ramos, director rubke will be absent today. item 3 announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. please be adviced electronics are not allowed in the meeting. the board respectfully request they be placed in the off position. >> second. >> motion seconded.
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>> all in favor say aye. >> item five communications directors please be adviced that there will be no closed session today. >> from the market street railways for the e line report and i'm interested in getting a status report on where we are on that project. it's a very exciting vision and will this be coming anytime soon? is it done? what's going on with that? >> so we'd be happy to bring you an update on the e line there's a few different answers there's kind of plans for a short-term piloting as we did last summer and it's also part of the water front transportation assessment but
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independent of that if you like -- >> it's a very compelling vision and i hope we're able to do that at some point. okay thank you. >> anybody else for new unfinished business? looks like we're seeing none. >> good afternoon members of the board and members of the public and staff we're going to start out today as we always do on the first meeting of the month recognizing some of our employees rather than me trying to paraphrase on behalf of the nominees the great things that the employees have done i'm just good to ask the directors to do so themselves so i'd like to ask our director to come forward. our graphier
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jimmy lee. >> thank you for inviting me. thank you. to present this special award to chimmy, lee he has been our graphic designer for 7 years one of the many who perform a core function for the agency that is not always recognized for the value it brings to the customer. since i arrived in january, chimmy has demonstrated a level of responsiveness. i called on chimmy to help out with a new campaign idea i had. having
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been adviced by our legal counsel that fighting them would be fruit less we decided to create our own peace campaign. chimmy did what he does best creating award winning design for sfmta he conceptualized a full scale campaign. it spoke to the hearts of san francisco ans about peace love and acceptance. it was it was mentioned in numerous press articles as a key part of m
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u.n. i's response. perhaps more importantly now that that time has passed a bit we've received compliments from 311 such as the one i'm about to read which says in quotes to everyone at sfmta i would like to thank you for recent actions against big otry thank you to everyone who thought contributed and worked on this campaign i mention that we are honoring chimmy here and there were a lot of other people involved in the campaign as well i'd just like to acknowledge and have a communication team for chimmy to stand. [applause]. >> the peace campaign is
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currently running on m u.n. i buses around town and on behalf of the agency chimmy your supervisor standing with you today and the entire communications team we celebrate and we honor you today with the special recognition award thank you for the work you do with sfmta. >> on behalf of the agency and all people of san francisco thank you for the outstanding work it's a great campaign you created so thank you very much. >> thank you very much it's a great honor to be here and receiving this award again i want to thank the members of the board and especially candice and dea nna and of course the communications team