information and contact us. so, no problem and it is your bithday. happy birthday. i would give you a free pass. i wanted to say hello and we are watching this closely, it is really intrigueing and want a open dialogue with your office and members of the public. >> we appreciate assembly member tangs efforts on the issue in sacramento. >> good morning my name is shan aen dodge and i have been a affordable housing developer in san francisco for had past 11 years. i'm a projpect manager with china town cdc which drep dweped the 2 surplus properties. i'm a resident of the mission since 1993 having been displaced myself. asa

fordable housing developer i know how challenging and costly it is to acquire sites for affordable housing. this initiative represents a exciting opportunity to expand san francisco's supply of affordable housing. the public sector and the mayors office of housing is our partner in creating thousands of affordable apartments. the mayors office [inaudible] developable land is getting expensive. every dollar the sit a spend is a dollar they cannot spend to build affordable housing. 18 and a half million dollars is another 18 and a half million we can't spend. currently most thf mayors office of housing resources preserve existing public housing which is important but it doesn't add a single unit to our affordable

housing stock at a time when we need t. many city agencies own sites they no longer need for their core function. this is a public resource that should go to public good. i support this measure and look forward to the passage and implementation. thank you >> thank you mrs. dodge. >> good morning supervisors. my name is marilyn [inaudible] with [inaudible] thank you supervisor kim for introducing this measure. so, i'm learning about how this works but i worked with [inaudible] 12 years. [inaudible] which is what a lot of the youth are having to do so i'm excited to [inaudible] so the youth can see the leadership at city hall that cares about us being here in the city and to make sure that we definitely prioritize the public sites so as a

organization many other sites have continued to be doing this. [inaudible] mayors office of housing have that up there and want to make sure they know we fought for the land. it was for the public good. i hope the supervisors support this because when we are older and choose to have kids zee to make sure they can stay in the city. how will we stay here when everything is 3.something million dollars? >> calvin welch, san francisco information clearing house which is a member [inaudible] i want to speak in support of this measure and thank supervisor kim and avalos for their sponsorship and urge supervisor tang to join with them in sponsoring this important issue before the

ballot. it is important to understand that this amends the existing administrative code that limits only to very low income homeless housing. the disposition of surplus base land. it is not at all correct if the implication of the office of work force and economic development or your comment supervisor tang that this ignores the needs from the affordable housing community of the plight of middle income people in this town. this ordinance will allow surplus base land to go as high as 150 percent of medium. another point that is often lost and i'm kind of taken aback by the mayors office of work force development, the largest housing subsidy in the nation goes to the middle class. not to low income people and that

is the mort gj tax deduction. by a factor of 10 to 1, it out numbers huds budget that pays of every other low income housing group in the nation. for the city and county of san francisco to use its limited resources to provide assistance to the lowest income people in the city simply balances out what thiboard routinely does. 2 years ago you increased conversion of condo, 10 thousand people all middle income or above. the board passed a ordinance that allowed short term rental uses that took thousands of units out of the housing market including rent controlled units to benefit middle income people. please don't tell me this one measure will unbalance a already unbalanced housing

organization. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker please. >> i red all the cards if you would like to speem come up >> good morning. i don't think i need to wait to be called. [inaudible] i lived in san francisco for 36 years since 1976. if you agreed with the arrythmiatic there are 3 years missing. those were years i moved from the city to fremont who took care of my mom and stayed with her 3 years until her death. when i moved back to the city i couldn't afford the rent because it had gone up so much. in that sense i'm in favor of the ordinance and i think we need low income housing. i'm not in favor of affordable housing because i

feel the word is played with and defined many different ways including way to exclude low income people. i am low income. i'm also part of a group of senior and disability action. i have gray in my beard, i call myself presenior because i'm not old enough for senior housing and we don't have enough. i'm also disabled with chronic depression and don't qualify yet for ssi, but if i did qualify for it and got 850 dollars a month i couldn't afford the market rate rent in the city. for the past 30 years i have been a professional handy man [inaudible] i repaired a lot of apartment s and put them on the market and they have been paid city taxes. i can't afford the [inaudible] that i worked on.

basically i am here today to say that seniors need low income housing, disabled people with mental problems need low income housing especially those who have been homeless and yes i'm homeless. not only do seniors and disabled people need low income housing but i need it. >> seeing no further public comment for the chair if we can clous public comment >> close public comment. it is closed. >> thank you. i did have follow up questions but think we'll have a opportunity to continue this discussion. for the sake of time i would like to wrap up. i want to thank everyone who came out and your eloquent words on why this is so important for us to fully implement and how the measure

in the ordinance will go to strengthen both the transparency and accountability in the process and original intent which is insure available public sites that are not fulfilling a essential department or need go toward production of housing. again this ordinance expands to include housing for homeless and low income working class, middle and moderate income up to 150 percent. we know we are not building middle and moderate income housing here in san francisco. most recently i know supervisor avalos and i work would the giants to 40 percent of affordable and middle income but 12 percent was affordable housing. close to 30 percent of the hoizing is going to be for households between 90 and 150 percent ami. that is unprecedented and go towards what we call middle class households here in san

francisco. i look forward to had continuing dialogue. there are 2 parallel tracts for the ordinance. one with 4 signatures that cannot be a-minded and one that can have potentially 6 cosponsor squz maybe take on the feedback. i think my intent is to go forward with the strong est measure to the voter squz this is something we herds over and over from the voters. i make the point wrun of the members of the public made, we just puchsed a site in the mission, a former gas station on 16th street at 18.5 million for 1 percent affordable housing. this is great and important for the mission but imagine what we can do on our own land where that cost isn't a primary driving factor. i look forward to the continuing dialogue and thank my colleague frz the hearing. >> supervisor tang >> i want to thank supervisor

kim forbriing this fort. there are very good improvements and look forward working with you to see how it is we can actually make it even better so with that then i know this is just a hearing today so we'll take further action on the other item. >> great thank you. the other item will appear next thursday in rules or i think that is when it will appear at the regular rules committee meeting. we'll announce when that will be. that is a item that can be considered for amendments potentially. this one cannot and so by city charter we are supposed to have a hearing on item put on the ballot by 4 signatures, that is this here and i believe we can just file this hearing. okay. if we have a motion to file >> make a motion to file the hearing >> motion from supervisor tang and second by supervisor kim

and we'll take that without objection. this hearing is now over and madam clerk since we have no other items we will adjourn. thank you. >> 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

>> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's

ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers.

they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who

come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers.

it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most

literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading,

everyone is happy. ♪