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by a lessons. >> my point is exactly we can't predict where we're going to be. each team has to have two meetings places are easy to get to >> let's talk about this at dinner tonight. >> oh, oh the phones are down. >> the plot thick. >> oh, zombies. >> we're sorry all circuits are busy and we head to our established place. >> the place to go to where dad
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is. good thing we had a plan >> good thing we had a plan. >> we're prepared so we're not scared. >> are you confident you taught all the basics. >> well, there is one guy. >> so who here harassing has experienced a disaster. >> when our prepared you're not scared. >> when you're prepared you're not scared. >> it's easy to be prepared it's easy you just build a kit. >> ready for a pop quiz. >> earthquake and a drop cover and hold on.
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>> fire. >> check to see if the door is hot. >> you've come a long way miguel. >> 1 hundred and 23, 1 hundred and 24 panic - no, i'm prepared to freak out - no, i know what to do. >> good miguel. >> good let's walk through your basic kit. >> first aid kit. >> radio so i can stay informed flashlight and here's my comfort item. >> the most important thing is you have what you need and you know what to do.
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>> come on miguel they're telling us to leave the building. >> it's go time. >> mr. lee. >> i'm rounding everybody up. >> where's the rest of the team. >> i'm off to find them. go team ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> did you hear what's going on. >> i wonder how long this is going to last. >> we're all here. >> wow. well, i'll be >> stay can you imagine everybody we may be experiencing anal less than invasion.
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>> you didn't prepare them for everything just build a kit and be informed and i did that. >> residents are now able to return to their home and authorities will continue to investigate what caused it out age. >> now whether there's a earthquake or flood or whatever the skills you learned from chance will go a long ways. yes preparedness is easy it's a state of mind. once you have a plan in place your calm and, make better choices >> you will be needing this. >> wow. who what caused it out age. >> still think it was an alien
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synevaluation. >> wow. did you see that? >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ because we have a great waste water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. you see we have a nice
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selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our waste water treatment and we have to clean. >> see these chains here, this keeps scum from building up. >> on this end in the liquid end basically we're just trying to produce a good water product that doesn't negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad impact on fish and aquatic life. solids is what's happening. . >> by sludge, what exactly do you mean? is that the actual technical term? . >> it's a technical term and it's used in a lot of different
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ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. it's sludge left in the water after the primary treatment, then we blend those two over and send them over to digestion. this building is built to replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. we built this as an interim process. >> is there a coagulant introduced somewhere in the middle of this? . >> this coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. that gives us more time in the
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digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. these are the biggest ones in the world, like we always like to do in san francisco. they are 4 meter, there's none like it in the world. >> really? wow. >> three meters, usually. we got the biggest, if not the best. so here we are. look at that baby hum. river of sludge. >> one of the things is we use bacteria that's common in our own guts to create this reduction. it's like an extra digestion. one of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98.6 degrees. >> so what we have here is the heat exchanger for digester no. 6. these clog up with debris and we're coming in to -- next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them out, make sure that we get
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maximum heat exchange during the colder wet weather. sludge season. >> rubber glove. >> right here. >> rubber glove, excellent. all right, guys. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> this is the full on hazmat. . >> residual liquid. we're taking it time to let it drain. we don't want to get sludge on it necessarily. take your time. stand on the side of it. . >> should we let it release for a while? . >> let it release. >> is that the technical term? . >> this is the most important bolt on the whole thing. this is the locking bolt. it locks this thing right in
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place. so now. >> take your hammer and what we want to do, we get rag build up right in here. the hot water recirculates right in here, the sludge recirculates in here. the sludge sometimes has rags in it. all we want to do is go around the clean the rags. let me show you how. take the slide hammer, go all the way through the back, go around. >> got you. >> during the real rainy season, how does that change the way dealing with this job? is it a lot more stuff in there? . >> what we do, charles, we do this quarterly. every four months we go around and clean all the heat exchangers so we don't have a large build up.
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. >> go around? . >> yeah. (sound of hammering). >> what i'm trying to do, charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke. >> right. so you are not, like, flying out. now talk about clean up. . >> then where does this stuff get deposited? . >> we're going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use
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water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid. we have to prevent about once a month, we go in there grease those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. the operators can tell just by the hum of that mhine that it's a harmonic noise emitted that it's out of balance and the machine needs to be cleaned. it will start vibrating and we have vibration analysis machines that will come over here and check the levels.
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so it's kind of an on-going thing that you have to stay on top of on a daily basis. >> handled properly, you take organic residuals, as we call them, that are leftovers of our society and turn them back into some energy. and we have another ability to take that sludge and get a nutrient value for crops there. we actually are running a kind of composting energy recovery system. >> well, this is a dirty job. we try to do it safely and we try to do it without imposing too much on the public. people want to flush their toilets and have things go away and not be bothersome again. we do a lot to try to accomplish that. i'd like to invite you to come back any time you want. once you got this in your blood, you are not going to be able to stay away.
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the raging waters are fun and when we do digester cleaning i really hope you can come back. that's quite a sight. >> yeah, that sounds interesting. >> i really appreciate you coming by and it was a >> ♪ ♪ we are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally >> everybody is cop us right now. >> the people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. >> i didn't think we would have a location at the airport. >> we've set the bar higher with the customer commerce. >> telling me about the
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operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. >> so first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sit-down we go to the neighborhoods in san francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. >> we have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. >> they are planning on extending. >> we that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your
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minds and it's all good. >> how long for a vendor to move through the process. >> i would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually open a restaurant. >> i don't know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. and, you know, even taking out the track simple things there's a learning curve >> with once we're here they are helpful. >> it's an award-winning program. >> we're prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address beverage program and . >> like the oscars (laughter). >> the professional world. >> tell me about the future
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food. >> all the sb national leases are xooirz and we're hoping to bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what your passengers want. >> well, i look forward to the future (laughter) air are we look fo >> thanks everybody i'm dpa with s k s on behalf of everyone and southeast partners want to welcome you to the groundbreaking we'll have you in april or may assuming we're still on schedule tim; right? good. first of all, i want to thank some of the people this is a team celebration that start with our land use attorney that helps
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us navigate this process that was quite easy and peter and the folks from the architecture we're bias we think it's a beautiful design planning commissioner moore said the building is exceptionally well designed it does everything correct and is a building this is respectful of everything around that it is wonderful and i'm pleased to support that. peter we know that commissioner moore doesn't hand out a lot of compliments i hope you're proud as we are very well done. in connection is the alderman of swat we're looking forward to a long relationship but want to recognize mike and bryan as well as their colleague michael who
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couldn't be here that represented us on the marketing and leasing on the project finally i gaffe one of the colleague and partners they've been here we're on schedule and budget and intent intend to keep it that way in addition their going to participate in an experiment we're boring from london and we're going to post on the job site sense penn cal commits to this county to be a respectful contractor to manage noise that unfortunately comes from construction if this works maybe others in the city will follow us the biggest thank you to so mayor ed lee and his administration we're joined by
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director ram and jean who worked hard with us over the past year and a half to get us here we're appreciative of our font we have the building inspection to make sure that the permits arrive on time to keep things going and in addition to that this project recommendation what the city has been trying to do with long-term planning this is part of the south eastern neighborhood this is from 2008 we're grateful for the mayors administration in allowing this project 270 to happen without trovrt which is something we all strife for that in san francisco finally there are two citywide initiatives we feel strongly about this building will be reflective have to have a lower impact on
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climate change we've played for platinum status and we support the mayor and his administration and the transit first policy of the city we'll have only 12 parking stalls but 52 bike parking spaces with shoreside and we want to be supportive (clapping.) with that, mayor ed lee the podium it yours >> dan let me bring my personal congratulations to s c s and the attorneys and all of you together have produced an excellent product as i go around the city there are sensitive areas of the city we're trying to do better and planning is in the center with dbi to help us
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to make sure that the developed is right for the city and right here where a few months ago you only saw a parking lot request a hair clearly this is not only unutilized it was calling ought to do better those private investments that are not only making the changed and allowing for some to 8 hundred berlin next year i want to be here also want to absolute passport and the architects and engineers he working again your reputation precede you you've done be fantastic work i've been there at the spur building and love it here what you've designed and the lead platinum but the enlightenment to the historic area we're in the south of
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market the south park and in those areas where you have to be sensitive to the way you've designed it and given the quick approval that it can be challenging when you have agencies trying to protect a little bit of our history and they quickly saw our work and congratulations to the entire team and the development team i'm also excited about what this development means it's not only an office, by construction jobs will be here and continues to be a story of putting people back to work this are good marked jobs and this contract hire good folks i want to keep them business just by the men and
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women they hire are always good for the city we were there the other day with leader pelosi, you know, we have a great history of the city building our way and building new knows that are seismically sound and representing of the homes where a lot of new employers in this case have no more bicycle parking spaces than cars it's we have to have solar panels and to have this building is a good story interest to top it off there are serious contributions by the impact fees it's expensive to be in the city and it's more expensive with when the city extracts fees out of you over 8 and a half million dollars is going to trams and infrastructure and affordable housing those are things we are promoting with our developers.
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i do meet with our developers and dan is one of our kind of close group of developers in the city i constantly want to have a conversations with if we get high-level of coordination we can do a lot more with the private sector if we gossiping give in to fast track stuff this means private investments they're putting together their investors can invest in our city it's not only letting the developers do we they want to do but the public-private relationship is for those days. i know that john ram and i glow
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this weekly this relationship is greatly important to the direction of the city so the more conversations that we can have can effect policy for the city i'm all about making sure that collaboration at the a high-level it can breakdown to no confusion and second-guessing the intention ultimately the intention is build to keep the city vibrant and alive for everybody for all the spectrums this is what jobs and good development and design does and good contractors do and what great developers do congratulations to everyone i look forward to this opening and continuing this great story with so many other developers congratulations s k s congratulations and thank you very much
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(clapping) >> now i'd like to introduce the preside the president america our partner. >> (clapping). >> thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, congratulations on the groundbreaking for brooklyn in her street i'm the president and ceo. the industries is a long business plan two years ago which we call innovation and it highlights the importance of all the about his so we've been there it's out for real and by being more active in government business in the united states especially in san francisco we mark toy as an initial step our
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long-term goals i want to express my gratitude and appreciation. i would first like to thank our partner s c s thank you very much for making this venture happening and thank you to the architectures not only for the design but also engineering energy and the downtown product thank you. and i also want to thank mayor ed lee and supervisor kim and san francisco government and the neighboring resident for supporting a new relationship to the community. thank you very much. we are extremely fortunate in the stage of this project they've chosen here as their headquarters and with all of this in place the success on
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brooklyn no one is a success with our contractor i'm confident those parties will lead us through a safe and timely project to make this into realty thank you very much for grandfathering here today. thank you very much
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>> good morning, everyone. welcome to the, san francisco budget & finance committee meeting for september 3, 2014. thank you for everyone's patience and my name is mark farrell i'm joined by supervisor avalos i want to thank the members of sfgovtv jim smith and jennifer lowe mr. clerk any anun