(music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk

(music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly.

i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy

when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before. string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music)

>> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time.

i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. at 6294 together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a

little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each class and there's certain

children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their >> hi today we have a special edition of building san

francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to

communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. >> how long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in san francisco. >> it depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. >> what kind of neighborhood and community involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. >> it is important to have a good relationship with your neighbors and your community. go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. it is important to have a

battery-operated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the community around and how you can communicate with other people. >> one of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. >> yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. so a title to a home, a passport, a driver's license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any vital information on your computer. back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. >> in your home you should be prepared as well. >> absolutely. >> let's take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. >> we have no water, what are we going to do about water? >> it is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis,

both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. >> we have this big container and also in people's homes they have a hot water heater. >> absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well >> what other things do people need to have aren't their home. >> it is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. >> here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. and this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. >> yes. >> so in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. >> having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away.

it is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. >> and here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. >> i hope that you have an alternative one at home. >> oh, i forgot. >> and in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. >> i have them right here. >> good. excellent. that is great. additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. >> i am okay and i will meet you at... >> exactly. exactly. water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. >> we have matches here. and my spare glasses. >> and your spare glasses.

>> if you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. if it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. >> inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. >> very important. >> we have a little first aid kit. >> and lots of different kinds of batteries. and another spare flashlight. >> so, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we don't have damage? >> one of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. becoming prepared is not that difficult. taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra every-day items on hand helps to make the difference. >> that contributes dramatically to the way that

the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building (clapping) >> we're going to start off with the on and optional president of board of chinatown cdc. (clapping). >> we're so pleased you're here with the wonderful housing

projects. can you hear me? how about this one? okay. all right. . so you know all of those projects take a long time. i've got to note it's been 22 years. it's taken 17 years for the city to issue the questions of proposals for this site to be affordable housing. it took 4 years sirng since we were selected as verbatim or developers to get the 49 total. it took 3 different project managers and two different executive directors but i'm proud to say i promise you this project will be built under one mayor under mayor ed lee. so it takes a lot of people to

make a project like this but i'm supposed to announce the lenders because it's the money that makes agree project successful. okay. so we have from the mayor's office of housing (calling names) please stand up yeah. from sf mathematical we have john he's here. thank you, john. from the san francisco human agency their providing the important service grant to provide sober services (calling names) (clapping) from entity partnerships raymond and kevin. kevin from silicon valley bank

we have rebecca. from the california department of housing community and development they can't afford to bring people here from san francisco. the bank for housing affordable grant herbie young and a green grant from the home depot peggy. thank you all for supporting this project infinitely and now i'm going to turn it to our very own reverend. so i'm not going to give a speak. that's a sign. i'm not giving any long speeches but i'm filed with joy are you filed with joy. great family housing for families that are almost

homeless. it's a beautiful day go to our neighbor and say your beautiful. go right next to them. it's a beautiful day. i don't care about clouds we've made it through clouds. this site was a very tough time and reminds us of the earthquake and the damage of that and we're at a point it took a long time to get here what's the word in chinese? so it's really beautiful that's what do i is about out of devastation came hope and a great sunny of a lot of great departments and so that's why

you have to appreciate it and i'm not going to give a speech bay it's going to be 8 stories, family apartments and 3 of one bedrooms and 5, 3 bedrooms and it it is sewer passing blah, blah and, of course, they'll be providing a lot of special services. but we want to thank the project team. carl are you here? chuck and mike and john and casey and by the way, where is chuck. did chuck make it?

(calling names) tony, steven and also castro construction manager the construction manager put your fists in the air i've got pour. we want to thank the consulting team allen are, of course, he's here and applied partnership and charles associates and they told me to go this faster. martin raul and associations and linda hicks and the design jerseys tip i didn't and tommy mary and associates let's give them all a hand human resources,

of course, i not be in trouble if i didn't introduce the board. (calling names) gordon? are you in the house. let's hear it for the old guy. i'm not that far behind him. there are so many people to thank but heavy duty who did the heavy lifting on the staff side? but the housing development team we want to give them the spur hand and joy to the world. anyway, we really need affordable housing we're so happy to have a mare that cares

about it. this goes for our community. i envision a lot of the families living here. this is when real estate becomes more of a commodity but we need housing for san franciscans. all you folks be positive for once this is good stuff we should celebrate by batter up first t is kevin coma up. from raymond jeans. thank you. what was i was talking about this is a ground breaking in a true sense so anyways, i work for raymond james we've raised

about $4 billion to date and have become actually in california. this is our fourth project and we're truly committed to let midgets. we're one small component of this it took a lot of folks. the stronger organization working with our partner and a significant amount of support from the mayor's office. so we're certainly proud to be part of this development. i want to point out we've enjoyed working with the selling son bank they provided a large construction loan with a very attractive interest rate. i don't know if one of the staff is here from the bank but they

invested a couple of million dollars in the project and have a highly invested interest in san francisco. but again, all the credit goes to whitney and their team and also the mayor's office it made it easy to thank you >> very well you set the tone for other speakers. the second batter up john the wonderful collaboration and replacement housing oh, yes >> good morning, everyone this morning i'm representing the director of time fta. i know that ed and the sf mathematical you're probably wonder why we're verified

involved we were replacing many, many houses and that was a challenge. when norm mentioned households knowledge in a single room there were two households knowledge in one room and we're pleased to be part of this project where we're going to be partially funding for fourteen new homes and this is an excellent example of what and how city departments overcome exchanges when they come together under the leadership of mayor lee. we have opportunity and this is wonderful. fourth batter up, of course, is our own district also president of the board of supervisors president chiu (clapping) >> good morning, everyone.

so i'm going to be very, very brief first of all, i want to thank you. if you are looking at look around the crowd you're the village that is taking care of of the people of san francisco. there's so many folks to thank. we have a lot of the four letter words in san francisco but my favorite is cdc c. in particularly i want to thank for being our tenant and immigrants and families your why we're here today. i want to thank all our government and mayor lee to our state help and federal agencies, of course, our builders and architect.

i want to thank sfmta and thanks 90 to john and ed reiskin i was concerned where we were going to house the tenants that were displaced. and at least i think one of the greatest challenges fact or facts our city is affordability and this site is going to be a symbol of exactly how we do that for our families and former homeless individuals so congratulations and norman let's shovel some dirt >> our own mayor ed lee.

>> thank you norman and norman i want to thank you and cdc staff you guys don't get the credit but no matter what you're focused observes and the quality of life to i'm grateful to you. i'm very happy to join supervisor david chu and other agencies that have worked hard. john said something earlier about the subway and this project. there's much more and i think that ms. wu understand how we have to plan important the city. transportation and housing go together and they miss go together in the future. we've been taught for many, many years you can no longer build housing in areas where it's not connected to great

transportation systems payroll so we took this opportunity when we understood when the embark did care highway was going down we were sad and i know we were there struggling for the survival of the chinese community which this freeway went down. but we take opportunities to have confidence with people about what we we need to continue doing. this is why cdc forces those conversations to have to happen. this is just the beginning. 45 units of affordable housing but 18 of those are going to be dedicated to the formerly homeless. those individuals need to be helped in the city. we're building a lot of housing and as norman referenced that

might not be assessable to our community so we're creativity we're going getting that innovation going. i'd like 80 to see the city's official bird on the city-state site. that's itself crane. as gordon was whispering in my ears we're going to do the right thing keep the strong commitment to the affordability in our city and this is one of the examples to come we're already beginning those negotiations. and i've started that conversation and we're going to