two areas i'm particularly proud of our work on omaha and our work on public safety together mayor ed lee and i have invested $5.4 million in incredible elevator repair at 9 inform public housing sites and also secured 2 pointed $5 million to refusal over one hundred and.

>> all right. good afternoon, everyone. at the moment april 8, 2015, budget & finance committee we have a quorum of 3 members i want to turnover after our clerk makes announcements then i'm going to turn it over to supervisor mar. >> electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the item one examine whether the entrants of arts program that meet our city's goals of access to resources inform cultural and arts organizations that serve community of color. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you supervisor tang i'm asking my colleagues to

continue this item next next week the various departments and arts organization need the time to prepare so that's grants for the arts and other arts reps and community-based arts groups i think the focus on arts and equality i want to thank the budget & finance office but this allows a successful hearing next week i ask we continue this until april 18th. >> thank you we'll take that without objection. >> would you like to have public comment. >> oh yes any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. and again, we have a motion and if we can take with a positive recommendation this item is continued until the next budget month to month michelle's >> no madam chair.

>> all right. this meeting is adjourned >> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse.

>> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do.

let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what

kinds of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames.

tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready, watching. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf

oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough.

>> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known

store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our stores with you that process helps to divert things it from local landfills if the san francisco area. >> and the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. >> it brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to make sure we're capturing all the value in the textiles. >> with the help of good will and other businesses san francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our

acts can and will make a great difference. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us test. >> good afternoon, everyone wow.

first of all thank you, everybody friends, family appointees to our boards and commissions it is my pleasure to join all of you and issue the oath of office but a celebration of more people that share responsibility thank you to our supervisors here supervisor breed formerly supervisor and new carmen chu jane kim thank you very much for being here our city administrator thank you for being here and commission thank you and tom hugh and mr. puc guy >> thank you all of you for being here today let me say at the outset we're giving the oath of office for 32 people 118 bodies and commissions that help

me deal with the policy challenges but more and more most importantly and the most important thing the commission and advisory bodies do we reach out to people and engage them and bring that diversity of opinion and culture into the way we around government and this is what the exciting to me and let me tell you i'm excited today because the 18 different commissioners and advisors bodies are very important to me let's look at who ear appointing people to when we look at our diverse city i have to say and it is not because it begins an organization but art it is important to our city on a local and international level so the arts commissions e commission

deals with our diversity and culture and on the eave of the completion of novm the beginning of the maeks the reestablishment of moob and the museums we traditionally have and now a really big opening of community arts that is revienlts has been the reason why we've been able to revitalize market street in the tenderloin lead by the arts and the asian arts my name is a big part of that not only because their across the street today but i i think so you have an indulging exhibition it is a sud dusk infection i don't want to talk about that too much but our building inspection commission will be appointed to

you don't think them we have serious fires in the city in the past two months over one hundred units of affordable housing we've got to make sure that everybody lives safely in our city and we don't lose housing, in fact, we need to net new build housing in the city to the building inspection commission will make sure that happens commission on the status of women and equal pay of advisors board are important nor many, many reasons many of you know you'll be co-sponsors with libby shaft on women's economic empowerment this october we'll bring together all of you and anyone that is have read or interested in making sure that women have no gooblz to economic opportunity and less barriers and those two commissioners will do that i'm excited about the

individuals appointed there it is a lot of great talent and high commitment brought to the bodies with respect to equal pay that's a fairly new board they're going to be 4r50k9sd the actual data so we understand what the economic gaps are between men and women in our city and what we need to do that about it and, of course the status of women take that data address revolve it through policy oriented discussions and ultimately legislation we need to consider our historic preservation commission and hiv council wow. what they've done to make improvements with the ac a, with 5 hospitals being built with health care being the number one impact driver in this city their incredibly important and wanted to say to you a big that's

correct to the health commission they're there day to day to help us with issues of mental health and all kinds of health problems in the community the hiv health services planning council i'm very proud of them we're joining as angle inspire industry to make sure we get to zero infections in the city we are about to launch the opening of the wednesday center in the castro this is successful such a great state of the art to help us going get to zero in a short amount of time this year is a one hundred year celebration of our world fair it, of course, allows us to think back a hundred years ago the innovators in our city i

mentioned that in a context of this historic preservation commission as part of they're great work to understand and make sure that our city's history is connected to us this building is part of that history but so many other buildings give us that link to the history so it shouldn't intries you one hundred years ago people were doing it and how we're doing it today is understood that by our kids that's what the historic preempt will do i told you earlier we're on the ground with making sure we end as much poverty and misery for people as possible we're challenging ourselves by oifsz the 5 hundred most impoverished families in the city and giving them the most intense support to

end intergenerational poverty for them i can't do that without the wisdom and guidance of our human services commission and bay the appointee to this commission today george is now going to begin pious o his 40th year on the commission thank you, george for a lifetime worth ever work (clapping.) you know my passion important local business when we appoint local business enterprise committee we're making more local businesses to be start and successful to engage in this strong economy we have because for me, the local businesses is really what it is all about and yes we want to grow local businesses to international businesses as well long term care for the couldn't

a vital to our ability to delivery services to people that are challenged in the city we need a functioning body to give us the populated considerations whether it's more nutrition and food or more sports for the staffing or the people of the industry that is helping us do long-term care retirement board r rent board wow. what a commission but the careful ability to balance between landlord and tenants very, very important to the city it is a sensitive position one we trust of those we appointed to make the right decisions sf that hopefully in most cases is a win-win we can't have strife within landlord and tenants more harmony in the city there is a housing crisis we are doing something about that we are

making sure we were the good k345e78gsz going on our conservatism core they're being called up because we video a drought and a lot of open spaces to rehab and change to make sure their drought tolerant work is being done on the open spaces and we also need a conservatism core to help us do that our mta advisory committee we invested greatly last year and will continue to do that because the voters said, yes it's important to pass a $500 million bond for a transportation system a great museum is for pedestrian safety the sizing had will help the priorities that vision zero and all the others have as part of our great transportation and walking and bicycle riding city southeast community facilities

commission they transition going on in the southeast part of our city i want to make sure the people that little there for generations are directly involved in the future development of that area that's what the southeast sector will do they themselves and their facilities are going on changes we need good leadership to make sure the community is directly involved in that that conversation wow. urban forestry council meeting we need to have admonish trees and we need to make sure that is clear who is responsible for them because those trees are commonplace and part of our investment we need to do better as a city we need a you have been talking about council to guide us in the potentially conflicting things we all care about we care when our common

place trees your workforce investment in important nowadays people need to sustain for the future we don't want people victimized by the economy and the workforce is required their looking at around the corner and understanding the emerging industries making sure we have a workforce that is ready for the industry and finally the most unknown body today is called an oversight board it is kind of like a whistle blower investigator it is a body where former redevelopment agencies are own e organizing to make sure we get it right we're

not violating our tax obligations or financial obligations to the public i'm sure that is sun shining something that carmen is interested in; right? carmen see i'm going to catch them all anyway, i went over bayshore's these because their incredibly important to the function of our city i again want to say too all he each of the appointees today thank you for your commitment and volunteering rhythm and the love of our city and with that i'd like to ask all off appointees to please stand up and raise your right hand as i say i, i would like each think one of you to say loudly this is the only time you can yell added

me after you get sworn in people will yell at you and sigh loudly to the commission you're being appointed and we'll precede with the rest of the oath are you ready? i >> (repeated.) very good thank you loudly thank you

>> i. >> do solemnly swear. >> ( repeated.) >> that i will support and defend. >>