board do you get the chief on it he didn't go to a lot of boards 234i8s they're truly there he has to be on the ground doing good work i'll glad with we have allocate members the community i've encouraged them to be the members of the board of directors because it heeds leads not when you become successful but where your matter is first and when you lead like that your successful this is my way of saying to doris and the kids of the family your gone good really good for the city we feel it and appreciate that the way we horn honor it is that kids when you and your friends gain

friendships and the relationships we want to have with the willie maze in the mission area and all the other clubhouses that when you're ready we're going to do our job and create those jobs for you in the city you're going to have the best jobs you'll have the character building and you'll have the friends of mine and relationships then you're getting the skill stewart's sets one of the lovely things about this place. >> have to design thinking studio what is that going to do more for our kids to welcome them in and when you're ready we're going to be ready we're going to welcome you going into the best jobs the world can have right here in san francisco that's my job to make sure that i get thousands of jobs for you that's the reward we get because london and i know that is better to be in here than in a car

being a victim of something that happens you can't control that's why we've got to get the word out here is better than most places you'll feel the love of the city like don and doris and the entire family with that background and that commitment i want to present rob to you and to the board of directors on behalf of the city that this is an appropriate time to declare this to be don fisher clubhouse day in san francisco. (clapping.)

>> okay. thelation thing originating a granted shot so the staff is helping me someone is moving the podium i think carl maybe james and tom you can help tom? maria sue is the director for the department of the youth we've been leader and maria urge in the photo everyone in the front right now is in the photo and i believe derrick is in it

and correct me if i am wrong thank you. >> are we doing a count down. >> 3 2 1. >> clap your hands. >>

>> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about things you can do you don't have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. >> i want to talk about things a homeowner can do. we have comfort and we have things like a little bit of

maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in. let's look at windows. >> let's assume this window is broken in the earthquake. we have wind and rain blowing in. one of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. if you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, we're going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. what i'm going to have somebody do is they're going to have -- this is an old piece of shingle. you might have -- everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. it doesn't have to be fancy. they take out this rusty screw begun, and hopefully you have one of these. >> there is one at the neighborhood support center. >> at the neighborhood support center. you're going to wrap this plastic around this board, take your screw. and then screw that in.

>> you need a permit for this? >> you do need a permit for this. and you can contact the former head building inspector to get that permit. that's it. now when the wind blows, it's tight and it's not going to pull through, having a single point of contact. >> great. what about this door? take a look at this door. what can you do? let's say it doesn't shut tight. what can you do? >> for the sake of argument, we're on the inside. i can't lock my door at night. i have a very similar, very similar idea. i'm going to take my 2 by 4. i can put it across the jamb in the door. one. two. maybe i want another one up here, maybe another one down there. but i can go to sleep. and that quickly, i can get it off in the morning. >> terrific. what about the roof up here?

we see people throw blue tarps over their roof after an earthquake. that seems reasonable. >> i think the blue tarp is reasonable. the things that people want to know that they need to know is if you have multiple tarps, how you overlap. starting from the bottom and moving up so that you're overlapping this way. so, rain running down doesn't slide under your tarp. >> right. >> and the same technique we did over here, as silly as it may sound, wrapping the end of that blue tarp with your board and then securing that if you can underneath, if you have to on top is fine. but making sure that you don't have an area where the wind is going to get under and bill owe that tarp. >> the wind can rip it right off. >> and then you're back up there again. >> let's go inside and check out what we can do inside. >> old fun. here we go. >> so, ben, i see you have nails, universal tool right here. >> man's best friend. duct tape. let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an earthquake. this window right here, because it's off kilter, we have open

seams all along. i have a lot of air coming through. i want to stay comfortable at night. i want to keep that air out. it's as simple as that, all the way around. >> excellent. >> now i don't have any air coming in. let's say this one is one that would annoy me. everything is a little off. my doors won't stay closed. i take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. and at least it will stay out of my way when i'm trying to live throughout my day. if we're not talking about pressurized water, we're talking about just the drain, sometimes they're going to get a crack here. >> right, sure. >> and you're going to get a leak. duct tape around that is going to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. let's say we only have electricity in one room, so we're running extension cords across the house. if i'm going to run an extension cord from one room to the other, i don't want kids tripping on it. i don't want to trippon it. i take my trusty duct tape, tape it to the floor, and i don't have to worry about it getting kicked. >> great, great. look at this.

let's look at the duct tape here because we see a big -- >> yes. in the event of an earthquake, i don't think we're going to have too many -- too much debris that's safe to put into a plastic bag, even as strong as it might be. these are called vice bags. this is what they use to put rice and things when they ship it. this is something where i take my glass, i can take broken pieces of wood, i can take anything sharp and fill it. and it's not going to puncture and come out. it's not going to fall all over the floor. i've not going to have it sticking out, maybe scratch myself, cut myself or anything like that. these are a great thing to have. >> you have a little go-to box for emergencies. that's great. thanks very much for joining us, ben. it's really been interesting. and i want to thank you all for joining us here at the spur urban center. and we'll see you again (clapping). >> good afternoon.

>> good afternoon. >> that's not a good afternoon. >> come on. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> now that's better this is a really a momentous coalition we've worked so hard on the things we do in our day jobs and commissioners this is an opportunity we should celebrate good afternoon. my name is is online the director of the mayor's office of housing and we're here to celebrate a historic agreement between the housing authority the housing and urban development and the city that permits the housing u housing authority to utilities the program a relatively new program in combination with other hud programs to rehab over

35 hundred units of public utilities in san francisco and sustain another thousand more unit (clapping) yes, it pretty much covers all of the public utilities showcase stock in san francisco this is why this work has taken a while the demonstration program was to provide a way for housing authority across the industry country to fund the repairs that in fact, the federal government couldn't afford to fund or was not able to fund we are at the starting line of something special in san francisco as well as for the nation we'll further demonstrate for congress and for the rest of the nation how the rental system demonstration

program can benefit public utilities residents we know that hud got the caps lifted in terms of rad but the goal to prove the program and make sure increase not a scape again so the resources as they become available we'll help 9 residents throughout the country without regards to that capital this agreement facilities over $500 million in erect in the next few years hud is not giving us a check for $500 million we wish by their giving us us resources to voucher assistance to track that $500 million to make the needed repairs in the hud fund there is much, much work that needs to be done this

agreement shapes the way that the housing authority the federal government and the city will work together to make this all possible. >> at this time it is my pleasure to introduce a very special man yes he's my boss he's very special (laughter). >> as part of his 2013 state of public safety address speak the mayor said we must do something to help our public libraries residents and called for the revitalization of the housing authority which were struggling loan to try to serve san francisco neediest residents as the mayor likes he like the big issue led by the naomi kelly of the city metrics

administrator's office and that work group helped to identify the challenges that were faced by the housing authority and it also identified some of the opportunities that we in san francisco, california pull together to assist the housing authority and it's residents to have a safe descent sanitary housing to implement this work the mayor district automobile cities departments not only the housing and urban development to work with the housing authority to towards the goals of the revision he has committed city resources in excess of $50 million for just the rental system rehabilitation alone and committed the resources of the city to serve the needs of the residents on an ongoing basis

and funded hope sf which has revitalized alice griffith and developed the financing plan to revitalize potrero and sunnyvale also (clapping) he is very committed to serving the housing needs of all san franciscans especially those lowest income residents in the city that needs the housing let me introduce to you a very special mayor mayor edwin lee (clapping.) thank you olsen for the introduction a hearty chinese new year the first day of chinese new year we have a lot to celebrate we have malia cohen

in the crowd thank you four district 10 and london breed who's story continues to be so inspiring everyday she's not in my area but in my ear and reremind each other of the sprernz to making promises to helping others get out of poverty not just in public utilities but housing i know the secretary is going to say some things i'll truly inspired by the support as determined as o citizen says i'm about this topic i'm lucky to have people surrounding me with the same interests and passion to help people get out the poverty part of that it is to have an answer is people call the deplanning

housing someone's fault i told you we've isolated the residents not to be the residents but never again that reference is going to happy that we are providing proud to see the residents of our public utilities are resident of san francisco what do you mean that means (clapping.) a heck of a lot and those conversations have now proud action that produce a lot of people that stepped up you can our regional office levied by ophelia she's a supporter of our vision for this to happy our housing authority staff out of the role of isolations into conversations with our city administrator and olsen lisa

office i'll lead the housing development for low income seniors bringing their expertise in and as olsen mind earlier rad the rental assistance demonstration really is a tool a tool of different government programs brothel together but what we had to do was put that tool in a revilg process that was challenging and piece together a plan that involved the residents because most importantly the residents don't believe what you're doing you can say they don't believe it you a can not improve their lives it had to be a partnership utilizing those

tools other part of this getting here was to have a housing authority commission made up of people that also shared that with the staff and with the conversation with the residents we had to have a strong, strong relationship and continue to do with ore labor representatives that are dramatically important to this effort we need everybody to be at the table that's not just the implicit the to the resident we had to overcome our own bureaucracies we have thick walls in our bureaucracies part of my job was to breakdown that to allow for a significant level of flexibility flexibility that i talked to john donovan was secretary and the deputy concert was over phone call after phone call and phone call and pleading

with hud they were pleading with us you've got to demonstrate there will be outcomes to snare share we can't just share you've got to that will lead to something by the way guess what the federal government can't tolerant failure we have to take a lot of risks i know the pressures on secretary castro he knows the pressures as well to turn 411 hundred units for 54 hundred families people are disabilities and seniors into a collaboration with labor and nonprofits city administrators and housing authority staff you all had to be demonstrates time and time again demonstrated we began with the hunters view and

you see brick by brick family by family moving into those unite with a level of support of services they trust to help them get more successful you'll see that demonstrate in alice griffith we had an infusion of dollars mother person i want to thank over and over again our fellow certainty nancy pelosi she's allowed us to demonstrate what we're felt is behind the entire vision authenticity not so much investment in barker but we began with investing in people first and letting the residents we care about they're to be treated as full fledged residents of san francisco this is the conversation that leandro and i have time and time again she's led the effort to make sure that our budget is appropriately supported of our

public housing residents not just so we can survive or die on our own is where he to lend that because guess what the people that will there are san franciscans ease kept we fail they fail we needed everything we needed tenant applicant and people that believe in us and demonstrate that quickly and have all the agencies including our police officers our firefighters and bishgz building inspectors our expertise that has been involved tremors in the way we staff up and everybody to believe this is the right direction that's the inner ingredients of success i'm so happy to announce rad is a just a tool and if you don't use it with live human beings that believe what you're using it for

you'll not get the goal of this tool housing and the human people behind hud are to be congratulated because we do work in thick bureaucracies and it was and had to be a big selling point to convince hud we're willing in san francisco to thank ta take the risk ourselves if they don't see the city mayor wanting to take the risk why would they join in it's about transforming the bureaucracies to a collaborative and strong spirit i've named those people i want to give them total credit for the collaborative strong effort we're dooements today, we so the opportunity now to use this rad program with all the neglects that we've asked for

that also were taking on more risk as a city because it's worth it to invest in our members you know some of them all they seven hundred was better elevators and now they're getting that and all they wanted was heat and hot running water in the winter and no cook roaches and fire alarms that work in fires those are simple things how come we're not doing that many residents ask and i ask there will be reason after reason after reason that transformation will be sustained by a very knowledgeable resident basis and inspired staff and our pocket sectors as tremors commentator they're no my office saying hey, it's not about the brick and mortar we have to have

services that the city has never done before because if we're going to ask people to challenge themselves out the poverty we've done that time and gnp time again in non-residents we've been successful so this re-visioning is going to happen i'm so happy it's happening in our watch and glad it's happening under the leadership the supervisor london breed and supervisor cowen two strong women that will not leave me alone and constituents that won't let them all and all to say that my envisioning for the entire housing challenge housing crisis in the is city is one i'm up to the challenging challenge we're up to the challenge and the housing authority is just beginning i've got thirty mouse

u thousand housing to build we're going to get to that with the housing bond this november with a complimentary you infusion of dollars we've seen time and time again help us with the city challenges but ultimately all of us who work in government can say that you work with hud and the housing authority and the in housing office and with nonprofit and proud to be san franciscans we're demonstrating how to help each other be successful i met secretary castro along agree as mayors and i'll tells you this i'm thankful to president obama who picks mayors to be cabinet secretaries wherever you met a former mayor in a position you only have to

talk half as much they get it (laughter) i know that secretary castro was picked by president obama not only do we get things duplicate when he saw the challenges we were all under months and months of discussions with the staff at hud he went to work like mia any mayor and god bless him the experience from san this or that that was a smooth going forward he had to champ his staff because everyone works in bureaucracies if you have the leaders that have is has the kind of experience running hud for the entire country the government has to have answers because that's my way of

introducing someone who's been existing to me a national leaders someone that will take what we do in san francisco and brag about it to the rest of the country but to say we have to do it as a partnership he had to challenge emphasis own staff to be flexibility in the way they do vouchers and onsite stuff but you have to deal with our local labor leaders and get them to be flexible again, i want to thank the labor leaders we have to have that flexibility to get things done right the rad program i want to repeat this only in tool you've got to have all the people involved in strong conversations to have this happen so brad it here our projects are on the cusp and 12

months from now brand new operating elevators that has that's right units done in a way that people with disabilities can get in and out of shoulders quickly and have safety bars and have a management they can speak to that's robust and fouls on challenges in their life not only what's happening around here in the community we're proposing this from a community pro apprehension as hud wants us to do they're about setting examples like san francisco how are we developing community so for our residents not only buildings so i want to say that with all enthusiasm to welcome and thank skeet castro former mayor of san antonio texas but now