writing the incident reports we this was a similar presentation that was made to the police commission when had present it so the members of the public and commissions could hear the two school of thoughts next slide, please on september 2nd the group formally he presented this and in reviewing that policy and going through that with the commission there were several areas within the policy that the commission raised concern or had additional questions on those sections included regarding the authorized use of cameras whether or not the policy should direct officers to activate the body camera specifically direct them prior to the list of circumstances or shall turn the cameras on, whether or not

vehicle prostitutes should be included and whether or not the officers are to make notifications to the citizens the cameras are on next slide, please and in addition there were southerners regarding the retention times we've covered previously and public records regarding the sunshine ordinance and the possibility of adding language within the policy that identifies circumstances which the cameras will be released to the public and finally there was a question we'll talk about whether or not consequences should be written into in policy that oil the compliance with the policy and the termination of recordings being more specific about the circumstances of when an officer can terminate the recording with

that, that concludes my presentation. >> sorry okay commander and yes. >> thank you. >> absolutely everyone who came we want to hear from you also we'll have the commissioners come up we want to hear from the working group and members from the piano and i thought that that was dinner time we want to hear from the few weeks we want to make sure we get to hear from we have been supervisor president breed is here and thank you, very much we keep on coming back. >> i got to go, too. >> dr. marshall has a leaf if we could have a line okay. if we can have folks line up and speak in public comment i'll kim

kick it over to the gentleman some folks given we want to make sure we hear from everybody we'll shift into public comment so sergeant, next item. >> >> item 3 public comment the address the commission on items not on tonight's agenda within the jurisdiction of the commission. timeline right lanes any individual and the police department should refrain from debates or discussions with the speakers during hold your comments to minutes, pleas2 mi >> good evening ms. brown and

welcome. >> i'm here concerning my son murdered august 14, 2018, to a semiautomatic gun thirty rounds of bullets left that gun to my son only 17 years old to this day 9 years no closure for me his case is not solved i come here and talk about that all the time i'm not shamed i'm continue to do this for the rest of my life it might seem redundancy that's okay it's my child i talk about guns guns and always say firearms are the third leading cause of killing our children ages one to 17 years old those guns are killing our

children people are trying to open up shops to fix guns i left city hall and daily city yesterday opposing the person of a gun shop on mission street lucky we were able to have him not open up his shop maybe he'll say now but i bring that up because those guns are killing our children there are so many unsold homicides i carry those pictures of unsolved homicides mothers go to city hall to protest about our children we need closure for our children we put a band-aid to give jobs sending those people to work they can't think base that is a

mlk. >> thank you ms. brown. >> homicides is a mlk issue you if anyone has any information there's an unanimous tipline (415) 575-4444 thank you ms. brown. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening including but not limited to a trashing i didn't a sergeant with the stopped i work in the bay area district i'm the sergeant of public housing one of two 8 officers on my side and f toshgs wish t 0 the issue of body camera they're a tool for us to be better there's a tool to make us better writers to get the story right we train and train a lot in the police academy we are

voodoo a video as asked to write what happened and we didn't get it right i'm assuming the simulation training and present with a scenario and you went through that and at the end they asked you what maepdz maybe you got it right maybe 95 or 90 percent, 80 well, we have the ability to get it hundred percent right to view the video especially something we've done i did not come two the police department to take anyone's life i came to help a nature san franciscan this is where i grew up and played and hampton and new work at the bay area bayview and see a lot of thing in the bayview believe me those body cameras will make us better to police officers and your before that accident better and lower

complaints better our behavior because yes some of us probably needs to better our behavior but there are a tool a tool we need. >> thank you so much sergeant. >> next speaker did i hear you're a lieutenant now. >> we widow a big problems. >> good evening and random w welcome. >> commissioner president loftus commissioner turman, mroogs and director hicks and chief suhr i was fortunately a representative the san francisco police officers alliance i was fortunately asked to be a member of the working group and i learned so much from i've never been a part of progress but hope to be part of another process again and writing our policy it was very, very good

i'd like to speak to you from the heart we daily go to stressful situations and certain things that happen to our bodies and minds our scope of vision narrows our hearing gets muscled, our time perception is distorted this is not just an officer involved shooting or serious vehicle accidents are critical incidents this happens as a member of the - this can happen at a dngs anytime we're under stress which the adrenaline is pumping all those factors happen we want to get it right. i was taught for

the last 23 years to write the most complete and accurate police report if you're offering mia tool that will allow missouri me to do a better job to accurately report them i want to make sure i have an opportunity to do that for you and the public i want to say thank you for offering this to us and thank you to the working group thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> good evening sergeant welcome. >> good evening president and the economic development commissioners chief suhr and command staff and the acceptance citizens in san francisco i've been a member of the san francisco police department for 26 years an advocate for my communities pea

my people i want to say first of all, body cameras will help officers and citizens maintain their dignity the permeate or camera will assist me as a supervisor to handle situations early on officers don't wish to be deceptive in their police report and historically within the police report we have based our documentation on the policemen perception and notes hover with the body camera we're going to be brt to build our reports on what accurately happened at the scene the adrenalin we get every single no matter how minor sometimes results in visual distortions and sound distortions and time distortions we need to be priority with

every possible evidence this is available to us so we can record and documents the best police report to insure you get the conviction you so stiffer we're now 4 hundred officers detain for you to say we'll not be able to view the recordings and instead wait until we write the first report then view is and write a supplemental about tie up the officers time and take us off the street the black and brown community drivers better we deserve to have a complete full report the first time so when the chief coyotes to address the public he's telling you exactly what happened based on the videos available to us - >> thank you. >> mutual respect thank you

very much. >> thank you accessibility. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening my name is officer brian currently assigned to the san francisco police department southern applicant district been with the depth of the years last year a field training officer after is recruits went but to cold report that happened the night before or an accident or any incident when they are ready to write the report i ask them have i gathered the all the information. >> what do you mean. >> z did you check for video cameras. >> most of them as a yes, it's our job to gather all the necessary information talking with the witnesses or the fathoming to see if we can get all the facts onto the reports right then and there i can tell

you from first hand experience responding to calls a dngs call and i come first think seen scene with with multiple people boyfriend or girlfriend or husband and wife accusing one another of something in their irrational and angry dngs calls report we write there are specific forms to fill out additional to regular polyesters specifically are persons did he mean we fierce come on scene that person that called 9-1-1 can be a victim or suspect can tell you information 15 years when we have them calmed down they can be giving us a completely different story for us to view the fathoming is crucial to report and the

investigation to whether or not someone is booked that night or released depending on data information we gather from interviews or the victims thank you very much. >> thank you, officer thank you for being here. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening my name is (inaudible) thank you it is very interesting why we decided right now to you talk about the cameras or something like that it is two reasons first of all, around the war the united states image is slow down what is going and come police the main point in every country is this government and pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are

prohibited at this meeting. police but i'll say different police and government the main point of people in russia it was the kj b and german gestapo they're the main points how they push their peep that's why we're talking about the achievement and come to the united states and g can i say around the wormed image dune completely down we don't talk about that this year that is very interesting you know the statistics says is uk in 20143 shots in the people on the street 3 united states made millions okay millions and every shot is skilled i don't know how many from the streets was the right shot but 3

shots in ukraine example you can k i'm sorry. i'm from the ukraine by way of i'm a deaf person police came to my home 6 police for this man okay throw me out imagine at 12 o'clock at night put me on the streets. >> thank you, sir good evening your time is up thank you. >> yes. okay. >> thank you. >> next speaker good evening and welcome. >> good evening. i'm ma led reigning thank you for giving me this time to share

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screen side of the room. >> i have to stop you. >> thank you your times is up to so much good evening. >> next speaker. >> i thought that was a great poem good evening and smile you're on candid camera can you imagine for one minute when into consideration callahan would say about those lawyerly imposed cameras i can in california 90 thousand law enforcement sheriff's and police departments that 35 percent with corrupts. >> 35 thousand bar association and associated with 3 to 5 percent doing the best the police chief said the lawyers are on, on is thumbs up

department although many conceive the cameras desperately seek to control and the more you grip the more sands goes through this is your fingers how about cameras for lying lawyers and judges i like sheriff richard making the community is first and the cities are first and is property tax i'm not sure you want to know 38 they want to take the money they won 0 thousand 7 hundred and 20 goes to the feds and their lawyers are we nuts it's time to cut the cord of over sub certainty slave ship to 9 bar association and is one percent law enforcement is the true party they need to stand up together united nations

and say we've not putting a penny and binge begging you are in case lives you'll keep the money to distribute it for the law enforcement and the children and the homeless vets and in that direction the fed is american people illegal bar for one thing that killed kennedy and lincoln thank you, thank you sir, your time is up. >> your time is up, sir your time is up we want to make sure we get to everybody. >> next speaker. >> go ahead same amount of time welcome. >> your time is up. >> can you hear any sxhufz and commissioners droiks my name is sergeant skooltd a midnight supervisor a member of the san francisco police department for

17 years the majority time on parole on the issue of body cameras and whether or not the officers should review the footage prior to making a statement or writing a report the only reason not to allow only to have that got you the review the footage can't change what occurred what the camera xauchdz report wrifrg is one of the most important activities they provide every crime and identity the parties and evidentiary issues and document the policy and procures it is therefore important that the reports are accurate and complete and others spoke to the special situations in which you have tunnel vision or favorable disassociation but in

non-stressful full we rely on memory and assistance tools for example, i have carried throughout my entire contractor a career a brown notebook we refer to the cat computer and ascertains videos and it go be absolutely ludicrous to have an officer not referring to their note back the cad or photos if an incident yet have an officer wearing a camera and expect them not to look at the camera didn't make sense the body cameras have context provide the technology officers need to provide the necessary inspection for that footage sir, your time is up. >> thank you. >> good evening and welcome

thank you. good evening commissioners and once again on behalf of mo' magic thank you to commissioner president loftus and expanding r captain for contributing to the program quite frankly body cameras are a state of the art not only to give the offers a better vantage point in general just better training but, of course, to give the public the prospective of trust building more trust between communities like i think all brown and black should be pained as criminals i believe that all officers should not be painted as corrupt and i think that the balances the scales and i definitely think that the offices should have a chance to review first, because if i had a body camera i'm thinking about buying on my daily life going to

the chris pie cream doughnut shop i shouldn't i think the officers have right it is justice across the board for those who are behind the badge i know that officers should have that opportunity to review that as well and, of course, just evidences in general and going back and i think suggestion with the conditions as far as keeping the footage it should don't think the type of footage a traffic stop delete it within a short timeframes but more serious something you should consider keeping long term so it depends on to me on what the video is about, as far as, how long to keep it but i'm okay are the policy i wish you guys well as you build the most initiative

department. >> thank you. >> good evening welcome. >> hi ucsf all of those of california i'm to speak on one issue the popular issue of the night review of footage before writing an incidents for one cameras record only certain angles and going into writing a reports not knowing what exactly was captured provides a healthy way to report the truth but officers reviewing the footage see some of the elements they were concerned about and stuff they need to explain were captured in the video and don't exclude that in the report we need to look at that we can't look at past ways of gathering

information such the notebook in the pocket videos are a deft ball park you report indifference when our watched and how you respond to an investigation i want to point out the letter that we provided to the working group was not only by the all of those and color of chunk those are critical community partners body cameras offer an opportunity 101 for rebuilding the trust and the notation the police can alter their investigation eliminations the opportunity to build that trust and show the accountability we're striving for whether or not an officer actually lice or miss directs in their report of investigation the perception is there that

perception will impact the policy seeing that as an opportunity for accountability or police cover up this is a real concern thank you. >> thank you very much for coming good evening. >> and well. >> thank you very much i'm john, i live here on hazel street in the senior member of hayes valley and a senior member of pedestrian safety citizens advisory committee i appreciate the work in the words i've heard in the room about the creation of that commission the working group that was in june, and the word that are captain greg thank you very much for related to the direct role of the board of supervisors particularly for seniors and people with disabilities cameras will assist officers to

thoroughly vet the situation and rnth on how to interpret the condition of who their implicit because of people with millennial's the news i heard the number of officers that will be engaged in team train will go up because what we heard in the news and the agendas for we're representing to represent them in the supreme court decision that the officers were not at fault that can be tolerantly prevented by having more training on officers and the tool of the camera with them will lead inform more inclusive analysis of the situation ♪ room and also as my church at the corner of polk and bush street this summer and

disseminat disseminated instruction sheets how to call in my new when someone is in a mental illness crisis to call for an officer this is disseminated and offered by the nation we in the communities are engaged with the relationship with our commissioners and may continue an through millennial's public safety >> thank you, mr. lowell i have the unfortunate job of cutting people off but the rules are to apply. >> i'm to be here foreclosure for a while oar i am bryan i support sfpd's position to allow the officers to have you body cameras to assist them in preparing their reports there's an upside in lingus the officers to prepare their reports the reviews will insure garage

accuracy i'm afraid ever of the sort of got you he's now going to court and a correction the case gets thrown out i'm afraid of him been disfranchised as a young police officers and going to jp morgan that's what i'm afraid of a third generation good koch i want him to stay that's it. >> thank you, brian. >> good evening a member of the working group yes. >> i'm teresa i was part of the working group i wanted to emphasis emphasize a few things and promote i'm the last person to speak one the topics the got you momentum i want to say none in the working group those are of us who this as director hicks

mentions should building that police officers should not review the rogers and very limited circumstances never thought discuss the got you moments quite frankly it is somewhat offense because as you may know i've been a defense attorney for many years we came thinking those limited instances where officers shouldn't review guarantee we wanted to get them in court or catch them this is about accountability and transparency protecting officers and protecting the public in making sure that in those limited circumstances and that's the key only where there is an officer involved shooting where there's a in custody death or whether the officer is a witness or is the subject of a misconduct investigation is for those members of the working group

perhaps not appropriate for the officers to review the recording before writing he or she report certainly after the writing give a supplemental if necessary if you have expert testimony or a those folks who are very well versed and experts in the area would suggest there is a potential of tainting the statement not intentionally monopoly is suggesting the misconduct on the officers part but the human part you think you've found something i want to emphasis there are 3 limited circumstances. >> i'm sorry. >> it is pie role tonight. >> so thank you so much. >> further public comment there

hearing none public comment is closed. >> in my colleagues have a chance to ask questions i know there are members of the working group i want to provide that opportunity for folks might have questions for captain moserer or others i'll open up for the commissioners. >> thank you. i want to ask a q question she's on board i know professor young from the public defender's office told us at the last commissioner meeting it was her recommendations to set up the multi tier process officers taking rounded reports can review the video before writing the report but it is sort in the other incidents the officers under a sort of a quasi investigation whether an allegation of force

her position i guess representing of public defender's office they'll ask the officer not to view the video i think that's what you said i want to make sure it is that the position of entire working group. >> maybe this is a consensus no situations whether; right the officer is a witness or victim and he or she is perceiving or involved in an events where he or she is a victim just recording what a victim of american people auto burglary or responding to a 0 dngs where the victims or witnesses are reported this is different than a situation why an officer hoichl is a victim or a witness actually some point credibility is going tobacco at stake it really protects i suggest that a lot of people in the field

expert quilts is it protects the officer bus it is his or her recognize we want to know about it is the recollection and that's why as director hicks pointed out the nypd report thought after that program had been implemented and they audited it and in that he reports if i'm not mistaken came to us late in the process so you know that was their recommendation we do well to study that and consider. >> i believe that was also mr. young referred to at the last meeting. >> it seems to me last week in the 8 or 99 incidents rotators everybody say the officers should review we're only talking

about limited case. >> that's right and marty has a good point with the others point too yookz i've served as a investigator on officer involved shooting and responded at 2:00 a.m. to a officer involved shooting case the polyesters san francisco have number one involved shooting at the time of shooting the issue was if you don't let the officers view the video prior to giving a statement the officers will not give me that volunteer statements it make sense to me as a prior defense attorney they'll choose not to give the statement that can't be useful in the investigation; right?

>> i correct me if i am wrong i believe the officer is given a waiver if i'm being correct so. >> they can be right now this is only if they received did volunteer statement a - >> so the chief doesn't have a mike the chief disputed that point im. >> you want to get a mike chief we want to hear from i. >> helpful to understand those issues. >> police officers like everyone else in the united states are allowed the fifth amendment against self-incrimination understanding the police officers can't refuse a statement ordered to and give

american people interview with that said, whatever comes the live statement will not be in mind in court but the members of the san francisco police department have given a volunteery statement there's no need to compel the statement which means it could be later my mind into evidence. >> later. >> did you have further questions. >> that's he is tension he see there. >> thank you, chief. >> i don't time to quite frankly not in a position to dispute that but i'm not exactly insuring sure from the officer is going to be potentially involved in a criminal investigation he gives is given the live bar waiver correct and no, he inrevokes. >> right but i mean police

officers we deal with advise our officers to evoke so he or she didn't lose their job so the statement is not used against hearing impaired in a prosecution. >> it is better if i make you understand. >> so we'll take that piece offering but the commission is saying a tension of the unintended consequences does anyone have a question for this are we good questions for marty from the piano. >> marty i'd like to you clarify one thing i'm not exactly sure what it say, i feel you'll tell me. >> i wanted to clarify and echo are commissioner wong said two weeks ago i laid out a couple of scenarios an officer who is not

i'm sorry an officer who is compelled to provide a statement after an officer involved shooting or in custody death that statement can't be used against them in in fact any type of criminal conduct the histories as long as api i've been in the plod 15 years the officers are given a voluntary statement that's been the policy but if we are now not allowed did view the body camera view prior then our attorneys will more than likely advise our members not to give that voluntary statement i don't want to see that happen and turn bad actor the clock other restrictions eir agencies like lapd they'll take over the

investigation as opposed to our homicides which don't does an exceptional job with other agencies conducting that as far officers are not lout to view the view it is going to be forced on i a the administration that's not what we want to see and not the members deserve or the public deserves. >> thank you, mary i didn't thank you, colleagues other questions for the champion or excessive or the members of the working group? okay. well, i, see this policy is actually, only 6 pampers page it enrevokes the issues that has sweeping issues we are declaring to get through we're grateful for everyone on the working group you've spent our time and

continue to communicate with the folks website e-mail us if you were not able to be here he guess i'll ask accenting >> adjournment action time. >> colleagues a motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> we're adjourned. thank you so much everyone we will

>> well, he wanted to welcome everybody to it gorgeous day at contemporary hundred and 65 people registered to attend this conference mayor we couldn't be more existed that is beyond our expectation but as you may know dreamforcwe is for the just about having a good time and innovation but giving back that's one the salesforce core values and that's why we invited you as the superintendent of sexual richard carranza welcome to, here we have our 1 millbrook

drive so, yeah exciting so we have obligate our school house to keep everybody's on the eye bone the ball k through 12 not only in san francisco needs our attendance and the people that make the difference which if come to the k through 12 education are the people attends dreamforcwe that is, of course, all those great embarrassing insures and innovators and companies and we that to inspire them to remember to go and work in the k through 12 system we're, of course, doing f that in san francisco we want to tutor giving but e us the inspiration that work in our elementary school and hopefully e heroism into our high schools. >> thank you mayor and mr. superintendent for being here and being our inspiration to remember the kids and why we're

here at dreamforcwe to give back mark thank you. >> good morning, everybody. 2015 dreamforcwe in san francisco well mark thank you for just starting this company here years ago growing it and making that successful and you're right hundred and 65 thousand people i felt that, too blocks away i want to sass say welcome as to the customers and business partners this is a wonderful time in the city not because dreamforcwe is here with a cruise ship liner people are living in and filling up the hotels it is a time we can clear have examples hour how successful businesses benefit everybody in our city this is a job that i enjoy doing that

richard carranza our superintendent. >> i. >> do solemnly swear. doing whether we work with the business partners epa mark and benioff looeldz with salesforce with our corporate character that is so important to emphasis the companies coming here today have an opportunities to exhibit character to take into account what the commitment to social values and ultimately it is a part of what we do is we've got to create the talent for those companies for future generations salesforce noted here for 5 years but 20 years richard and i got together we'd love you to recruit from the people that live and grew up in san francisco this is little school house is is got wonderful

kids from jildz that want to work for salesforce they love to be part of a 111 and part of the fact that dreamforce has has a theme for giving back starts within an understanding where tlaernts a derived it is education, education within the house education in the schools, education in the community it begins with some basically things like read that's why mark i'm here with my 3 books any daughter said you're giving away my books yeah, you read them 10 minds i want this threatened to be transferred to the talent those kids are about to have and be supported by upstairs companies walk salesforce i'm so enthusiastically but with we are doing with you and the other companies with the circulation

of tech companies through sf city that are encircling the schools and making sure our principals and teachers are is the resources and is volunteers have the books have everything they need to be successful it is already making a difference mark with salesforce foundations investment in the middle schools and the stem education weave already seen some increases in the performance of our kids this is the third year i'm so happy that the millions of dollars we're pitting in are not just financial contributions by making a difference in their making a defensive in the enthusiasm of the teachers and the resources they have and the principals and holding everyone on the campus affordable to the success of our children that's why a school house in the middle of hundred and 65 person company conference in the middle of the

san francisco that's exactly a kind of relationship we want with every single business in the city so i'm proud of dreamforce and proud of the employees that work there that are part of the 11 culture i'm proud of everybody that spends that additional time to think about what success medians for others that are in need not just themselves this is why we have a shared prosperity in san francisco i've got on obligation to build and rehab enough housing for everyone that want to be here including the teachers i'll work hard but i'll tell you you said something earlier he think mark you and lynn inspires us to give more this is an exciting times let's continue a collaboration pea make the link more and more

before all the things we do successfully to help those at the heart of that i said earlier it is education this is where the sam's i salesforce foundation has made to their contributions on a day to day basis i have the privilege of working with a superintendent who also has that as his goal and making the relationship with the city with an the success in the education system our superintendent richard carranza. >> thank you (clapping.) thank you mr. mayor and mr. benioff mark thank you all for being here in front of of the light go school thousand what do you think isn't that gorgeous more than anything i want to thank you, mr. mayor for our words we live by the fact you can't have a world-class city without a world-class education

system it didn't reside in one seblth of the community you have to are the philanthropic community and the private business community and obviously you have to are on the other hand, it elected still officials on the same page i'm proud to have our board of education this is here with us to say we're all rolling in the same direction and as evidence of that justices three years ago when we started the partnership you wouldn't have heard in the middle schools anything like a maker space or design thinking or computer science and programming now new middle grade or middle schools in san francisco you'll find maker spaces and kids programming you'll find pre k kindergarten is the students learning the fundamental of convert science we recognize in the 21st century a language we

need to have this would not to have happened without the investment in the partnerships are salesforce i'm so proud that is more than just stuff it is more than just technology it is more than a investment and resources those are important but the 111 model salesforce volunteers and employees that come into our schools and sit sibdz side by side shoulder to shoulder with the students the students have a sense of empowerment maybe i could do this kind of work and not thought about stem field the young girls that didn't think that that all of a sudden see other women in stem i can do that san francisco is the mesopotamia in the world everything stems is from what happens in san francisco is many make sense mr. benioff your planting seeds our students will

be your future employees everyone here at salesforce director barbara garcia it an appropriate title you're helping our students to be part of the dream of stem and innovation the draechl open in a deft way the corner of that all it the strong literacy students need to read and write and do margret and the one million drive will trofrp our pre k to rich libraries of books that students want to read and stack and learn and go to the next level this is an dribbling i incredibly important investments coupled with the investment in the middle grades so for us this is a symbolic day a the bernie we're over three-quarters of what to the goal 0 so i'll say like jerry louis but we can do it we want books in the schools and want to

thank all the participants at dreamforce for mcthat happen and burglary benioff and mrs. benioff but other folks wherever susan it she's guarding the school house i love it we want to thank you for your partnership a model for the nation everyone from that is here from director barbara garcia across the world take that back and talk about how it is possible to have those 3 kinds of the public and private and elected to come together e together and rally around the public education on behalf of the 48 thousand students in the unified school district we'll take a million books and put them to good use let's have a great director barbara garcia and thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. mayor and mr.

superintendent and salesforce is deeply committed in the san francisco unified school district the first thing i want to thank both of you here no san francisco our superintendent implicit report to the mayor our school board and you guys don't have to work together ensue you do it is because you work together so well and have an incredible partnership that is what inspires us and so we're noting now in year 3 of a 10 year commitment for more than bone madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> i hundred million dollars to be dedicated to the unified school district i hope that goes 10 and 20 and thirty years the salesforce through the money the technology is important but i guess i'm proud of, of course, your employees who are dedicating what will be hundreds of thousands of hours to do the taken care of and the tutoring to augment you're amazing teachers and principals in the

schools so thank you for giving us that opportunity without you two working together we couldn't do with what we are doing we're quick to gratitude and happy to be here i think we should put the books into the school house what had you say? >> all right. thank you very much, everybody welcome to dreamforce and we're looking forward to a great week and see you at the keynote othetherher s

as we bring events in the city, and know that we have partnerships throughout the communities, i think, there is a lot more confidence about what we're doing and it's exhibited by the people who tap into our sf72.org. you remember that? [laughter ] , as well as the very enthusiastic support we have for our nert program. and for the ongoing resiliency programs that a number of people have had, and to our resiliency officer, who is

helping dem and city administrator think through things around the corner that we need to pay attention to. there are a couple of things that i also want to do. let me say thank you to all of you who have also helped in the lake county/sonoma, napa and butte areas in their disaster and maybe a quick moment in our own minds and hearts about the lost lives there. i think it's appreciated. and i also want to give particular thank you to our fire department, and our firefighters, who over the past week have not only gone up there in as many volunteer hours as possible, with equipment, hopefully we never have to use down here and hopefully, we keep our fires down, but in response to that tremendous disaster that you you already know the statistics on. 800 homes, thousands of

people's lives destroyed, that were there to assist. if it isn't medical and now perhaps our public health is being asked to submit mental health professionals to help. as our firefighters giving toys to kids who lost everything and giving them a chance to have some play as people rebuild their lives. that reminds me this is the 10th anniversary of katrina, and knowing that a huge disaster happens in the other counties constantly we're more than observing and engaged in those not just to help, but to take lessons learned and about rebuilding and recovery and things we have been associating ourselves with ever since

katrina where mayor gavin newsome allows me and others to represent the city and we took the opportunity not only to bring lawn mowers to help certain areas, but took our time to stand in areas that were devastated and wondered how our city would prevent that from happening? and in those moments it wasn't just wishful thinking, but brought that opportunity back and that is what began a more solid resiliency plan and volunteers and people from both berkeley and harvard. that studied it from all over the country, if not the world, to see what san francisco and other places could do to anticipate better our expected challenges on both an earthquake, but also now more and more it can be the expected

el nino, plus an earthquake, plus drought, plus anything else. and so this is my way of saying that we take every opportunity that we can to support you the others that are doing and then we learn. and then we take it back here. for el nino, as all of you know, all of the experts are predicting historic levels of flooding. i have already asked harlan for his favorite list of catch-basin sites that he and public works have already identified, and can already vacuum-suck all of that stuff and make sure that we don't have backups that will compromise our pedestrian/vehicle, and access safety for everybody. but that is just the small stuff, relatively small, i think. we need to concentrate on those

areas of flooding, but also prepare people for that particular aspect of our weather while we're still into how we're going to get out of this drought. and that is taking the opportunity to say thank you to the puc, because all of you there have been working hard to make sure that we do everything that we can to respond to the drought. i think we have done it effectively, that we're at historic-levels of conservation. i can use my bill as one example. but i know that we're always cautious of our water use in the city and i noticed everybody has got dirty cars, fine. i'm accepting of dirty cars. i also want to say thank you to our city administrator. she has kept me very much informed on our lifelines, utility councils and what each of the big utilities are doing and practicing. again, on the eve of yet again

our -- i guess this will be the 26th anniversary of loma prieta next month, that we are also taking that as an opportunity to remind everyone that yes, that there were real shakes in piedmont, along the hayward fault. that is extremely -- that is right there -- it's close. and it's close enough that there is earthquake experts that are zeroing in on all of the different plate movements that are going on in northern california if not even in the cascade mountains that i have been studying a little bit, because i have relatives up that way as well. we need to be very cognizant of that, and the same experts and some of them are working on early earthquake warning systems and i'm glad to see now there is a growing investment, where we can have a warning system that would allow us to

do some early things while the precious seconds are there trembling. we can also have some maybe automated things that help our fire departments keep the doors open, elevators get unstuck, these are all important things to consider as kind of lessons-learned and let's do better and let's keep on investing in the proper protocols for that. i know that we're investing in our disaster workers program with our city employees. and making sure that we have both through the lifeline council and through our hr a robust return as best we can knowing there will be participation challenges. that we have to have the multiple modes coming back into the city, so that utilities and lifesaving support systems can be up.

most importantly, i need to remind everyone here to make sure you are personally prepared. there is no excuse for us not to be in the situation that we have, and we are the center of leadership and so we have got to have our own families and friends ready for this at any time. and then to have your departments that you are in charge of, you do the same thing for your top management. you ask them to be personally prepared, and to work on those things that get them freed up, so that we do what we do best, which is serve the public. i want the public to know that our investments in nert in resiliency programs is all in an effort to prepare for those 72 hours and we should never, ever be caught in an unprepared way. we should always expect this

disaster to happen. then it's a planned response, not a surprise response. and that is the huge difference in san francisco. we always want our disasters planned out in advance, so that we can take care of a lot more things, and i think we have found out that when we do pre-planning whether it's in our fiscal arena or in any other event planning, we always have a great deal of success. and no less for disaster response and to be planned in every jurisdiction we have interviewed since katrina knows that when you make the fundamental investment, you will have some clear and better results, and the residents will feel that. because they will be directly engaged in that effort. so with that, i just want to say thank you for being part of this council. i'm proud of what the city is doing. let's keep doing it and let's keep having an attitude of always been prepared.

that is how less fear and more about the engagement that we have in front of us is going to be the standard always to be working with our communities. i know there is a lot more things that people want us to do, whether it's potable water on the west side, whether it's more paramedics to make sure ambulance responses are there, whether it's ongoing investments like we have done with hiring more firefighters, paramedics and 911 callers and more equipment and more police officers, i think we have those resources. we have demonstrated in the budget this year with the no-cuts budget for the city that queer we're willing to invest in all these things to make our city. nowhere else do i think it's adequately prepared dem, and i know we'll be on display for fleet week as we emphasize

well-beyond the celebration of our military is the practice of a number of things that i have already seen the scheduled for and i'm excited to be participating in everything from the practice zones to the desktop practices with our you our coast guard, with our military, that uld most likely be here in a major disaster. this continued practicing with them, so that our cultures within departments can get used to the names, the acronyms that they use, that we use, that we understand each other's acronyms and get used to those things so we have good partners coming in and bringing good equipment and have the places to do it. everything from debris management to supplies has to be here and we have to anticipate that. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much, mr. mayor. as the mayor mentioned we are

responding currently to the valley fire that was a very fast-moving fire, started a week ago saturday with 40 acres and by the time we woke up on sunday morning, i think it was almost at 40,000. so it was very quick. about 75,000 acres have burned now, and three lives have been lost, which is just very sad. over a thousand structures. it's going to take them a long time to rebuild. the city has deployed from the fire department, from my office, from public health and from the puc, up to help in lake county. at the same time, the fire department is also still currently in butte county. i think you have six engine companies up there is deployed. so we really are providing a lot of mutual aid for our partners here in california during this very rough fire

season. we have is deployed a total of 17 personnel just to the valley fire so far, and again, as i mentioned, we'll probably going on for many, many weeks we will be asked for help over that period of time. i wanted to mention just really briefly that we finished our urban shield exercise a weeking a. urban shield has grown into a comprehensive full-scale regional preparedness exercise, assessing the overall bay area and the regional response capabilities related to multi-disciplinary planning policies and procedures and specifically san francisco was very involved with the yellow command exercise, which happened a week ago friday. what we were doing in

full-scale exercise was simulating three different events around the bay area. stimulated terrorist-type of events or that is what we thought, but of course as you are in the middle of it, you really don't know what is happening. so as things are taking place in different counties, trying to pull the intel together, the information we had our joint information center activated. we had many, many personnel involved. we did a stimulation down at levi stadium for a soccer game. what happened is some kind of explosive device went off there, and so i think we learned a lot from urban shield. and every year it gets tighter and more people participate. san francisco had the most staff participating this year from fire, police, my office, health, puc. it was many, many different departments were participating. and it really is viewed on the

national-level as the exercise to emulate. i was at the fema's national advisory council in washington, d.c. last week. i had the honor of sitting on it and representing san francisco and i can't begin to tell you how many people came up and asked me about urban shield specifically? and if they could come out and to partner with us and find out what we do. so more to come on that. i wanted to mention that fema requires us to do a hazard mitigation plan and keep it updated every three years. we did complete our hazard mitigation plan at the end of 2014. we covered climate change, and sea-level rise, temperature rise, precipitation changes, and we received many national

accolades and requests for guidance to integrate those new components into other people's hazard mitigation plans. so again, i think we are viewed as leading the pack in that. since our last meeting, we have had a number of different exercises. i mentioned urban shield and we had ebooltabletop series a 3-part series. we did a mass-feeding tabletop. we did fleet week logistic tabletop and as the mayor mentioned and you will hear more about today, there are additional exercises occurring in next week. we activated the eoc a number of times last year for the wonderful giant's playoff and world series. the world series parade, our winter storms of 2014, it's rather difficult to even think about winter storms today when

it's 90 degrees out. but new year's eve, the warriors nba finals just to mention a few. the last thing i'm going to mention we try all the time to really reach the community about being more prepared. i think most of you, hopefully, all of you are aware of our sf72.org. we use our outreach. we try to use special events to get the word out to people. this year in a very innovative fashion, i think we were at out lands with the table and simulating what people ould do in an earthquake at outside lands and used the opening of the "san andreas" movie, the premiere as an opportunity to have a panel to discuss what you do in an earthquake? and to just you again highlight what we as a city are trying to do. any means that we have to bring

people into the fold and get them to be prepared at home and at work is something had a what that we look for. so thank you very much. and we'll move on to the next item on the agenda our el nino citywide planning. mike dayton our ems director is going to be presenting to us. >> thank you. i just wanted today to give you a little flavor of how the planning effort is going. some of the assumptions that were based in the plans on, obviously on previous events. we had the great benefit of having our executive director anne serve as incident commander during the el nino 1997-1998 event. if the predictions hold true we anticipate see a lot of mudslides. in '78-highway 101 in pasco cific pacificka was

shut down at one point we had 80,000 people in san francisco without power and if you think about people with access and functional needs things can really turn south when the power is out for an extended period of time. that is going to be informing our planning efforts. we opened up temporary shelters for the homeless and obviously, if it's like last winter when we opened up, activated the eoc during the winter storm for three operational periods, we expect with el nino type of events it's going to be a marathon of storms for the winter months. we're planing for a more extensive operational period. also in 1997-98 we declared a state of emergency with $14 million in damages. so we're

anticipating similar damages during this year with if the predictions again, hold true. during the next month we'll be convening smaller plan groups and also holding a meeting october 2nd within our faith council and thank you michael for pulling that together. and by november 1st we'll have a revised concept of operations. we had a con-op last year and we're taking that and revising the base and dem will be staying in constant contact monitoring what the national weather service will be in contact with state. and the feds and if there is a forecast for severe weather, and i mean that is high winds with a large amount of rain and isolated areas, then we will host a coordination call with all city departments and brief them on what forecast is. if the national weather service agrees that earlier briefing to

be part of the call, so you can hear it from the scientists and not the emergency managers. based on those conference calls we'll take actions whether or not to activate? and that is all in support -- i know there is already pre-planning efforts going on with the puc, the department of public works and we look forward to pulling them together with 311, and our dispatch center to really focus on the communications in next month to have a solid con-ops. that is where we are at with planning for el nino. thank you. >> thank you. any questions about our planning efforts? [ inaudible ] >> agencies should be

prepared, because it's not going to be as fast a recovery -- [ inaudible ] >> thank you. any other comments or questions? thank you, michael. >> thank you. >> okay. next on the agenda is our super bowl l update. we're all excited about super bowl l, anna sop is our dem operations coordinator and she is going to be presenteding. >> hello and thank you for having me. i'm here today to share our super bowl l planning efforts. we have been working with the host committee and work in partnership with the afl and events planned for the bay area. as many of you know the game is

scheduled sunday february 7, 2016. prior to that a week long series of events will be hosted in san francisco. nfl experience and we're working with our first-responders to identify how to continue to provide essentially you city services seamlessly. this obviously requires multiple -- requires coordination with multiple safety agencies, a mix of federal, state and local municipalities and private sector. within san francisco, we have developed branches that we can work from that can be a point of contact for us. for instance law enforcement

and sfpd has been working with us and escorts, traffic safety, tactical response. for the fire branch we have with chief francisco working with fire-related focus. for san francisco, we have the city services branch working with peter albert for transportation, public health, and all of the other different functions that are actually impacted with these events coming to the city. and we started to really when we focused on this with dem, we really looked to our first-responders for a collaborative effort. so that we can maintain early communication and begin a series of exercises and we could look at operational awareness, planned development, and validation, training and exercise, and ultimately, leading up to operational coordination. we will have our emergency

operations center active during the super bowl events. all stakeholders are invited to participate and assist with coordination and can i probably speak for the police department and multiple dpw and fire department will be operating in different instances. so we had three dates for the exercise series we held last month, the planning review workshop. we looked at planned assumptions and worked with martha cohen and moving forward we're going to look next month in november 18th, good day tabletop exercise. this will be an opportunity to test our response plans locally, regionally as well with our federal agencies. reviewing a list of events, looking at the street closures, sanctioned events, maybe unsanctioned events knowing that a lot of this may change, but really for us we want to know how we can provide, if we have an alarm fire how go we

send response and ingress/egress for emergency response vehicles? and then the third series of that would be the bad-day tabletop. we just want to focus really for this it's an opportunity to focus multi--level response, say for instance a natural or manmade incident, say an extreme weather event, how do we integrate response and response in a timely fashion? ultimately the objective for us is to test local and regional plan, santa clara and san mateo are all heavily involved and how to maintain a common operating picture and share information? not just vertically, but also horizontally. what systems are we using? what do we need to know? when do we need to know it? in closing that has been really for me personally and i think i can speak for at anne, we started early planning efforts in collaborating and finding out who needs to know

information and our first-responders have been very helpful communicationwise. that is all i have. we look forward to a very successful event and happy to be part of the process. any questions? >> the impact will be to have good communication for downtown construction because there will be a week delay how to do the delivery, our office will work closely -- because street closures in those areas for construction and delivering materials and so forth. >> that is part of that transportation -- we're contemplating how we accommodate the necessary movement such as commercial loading and construction that would be happening. [ inaudible ]

parts of downtown that are essentially closed off, they are still buildings that are operating and construction and accommodate those needs. >> mr. mayor ? if i may? working closely with dpw -- [ inaudible ] i know those conversations are ongoing. we have been in two meetings last week -- director hui's questions and points --

[ inaudible ] >> >> thank you, martha. do you have anything to add as martha said? [ inaudible ] any other comments or questions? moving right along then. thank you, anna. i'm going to do a real quick fleet week brief. fleet week is right right around the corner. in addition, to the blue angels and spectacular airshow that we see the public-facing side of fleet week, as well as the ships that come into san francisco bay. there is a whole bunch of other activities that take place as well:the city and county of san francisco is organizing with

the fleet week center for humanitarian assistance in disaster relief a series of events to help us train and prepare and get better as the mayor mentioned, responding with our military partners. so fleet week brings all of the first responders, federal, state and local government disaster response agencies together with the department of defense services to develop these relationships and plans in advance. so that when we need mutual assistance, when we do have some large event here in san francisco, we know how to talk to each other already, and we have those relationships established. so just to highlight a few things that are going on outside of what you see in the air and on the bay, on monday october 5th we're having a defense support civilian authorities discussion. rehearsal of concept exercise.

this is taking place at pier 50, exercise is designed and conducted by dem, in partnership with the port of san francisco and the humanitarian assistance disaster relief group of fleet week. and we will rehearse decking the uss somerset outside of the bay, and then bringing it in and offloading supplies and staging at pier 50. so it's going to be a really good exercise and we're looking forward to it. on the 2nd -- the 6th of october rather, the marine corps will demonstrate the delivery of urban search-and-rescue teams to san francisco's post-disaster, mv22, that will land at moffett field and pick up teams and deliver them back to moffett

field. also on tuesday the 6th we're going to be doing an interoperable training with fire department, and ems ride alongs. on wednesday, we'll be doing the fire department every year does urban search-and-rescue and we have gotten feedback from military, who have gone through that; that they have been able to use the skills that they have picked up from sffd in place likes haiti, when they have gone to respond and found it very useful and worthwhile. on the 7th of october a medical pier-to pier exchange at the marine's memorial and on the 7th senior leadership seminars day one. we do two-day seminars tackling immediately subjects with the military and these are our seniors leaders throughout the entire bay area region. the first day of the seminar will focus on energy

restoration. i know that is one of the mayor's interest areas with the lifelines council. and the day concludes with a tour of the ship docked at piers 30-32. day 2 is the second day of the senior leadership seminar. on thursday, we also have an interoperable training with the navy and on saturday, actually friday/saturday/sunday this year, everyone who can should make it down to the marina green. we have a static display there at the humanitarian village, humanitarian assistance village and get lots of great information from all of the presenters and the different organizations who have booths there, along with being able to see the actual military capabilities that would be brought to san francisco. so

all in all, it's a very exciting week, and we are very happy to be partners with the fleet week association. we've identified a citywide concept of operations plan. we do this every year. we'll be meeting next week to go over it with our key partners in the city, and this plan is designed to provide situational awareness for all of us. to just make sure that fleet week is not only a fun event, but it's also a useful one that brings good learning-lessons for us. yes, micki? >> i have a question about your october 6th event veterans employment. we have currently a veterans hiring project that dhr where we're seeing to be the employer of choice for veterans. so we're hoping that there is a coordination.

please reach out to our workforce development staff to ensure that as the largest employer in san francisco to make sure we're there and part of the program and talking to our veterans about what opportunities in san francisco employment as well? >> i believe that you are there already, but -- no, i'm really glad that you mentioned that. we will make sure that that happens. but we have been working with your department. >> fantastic. thank you. >> also i would like to -- -- [ inaudible ] >> who is your contact? >> you can start with me. >> great. other comments or questions? everybody come out and have a good time with fleet week. i hope that you all participate. are there any --

we're drawing to a close here. are there any updates from disaster council members? we have a roundtable here. anything that you wish to present? [ [ inaudible ] holding a number of trainings of personnel -- to go through that at the eoc. so finance and admin can continue to participate and related to el nino specifically, we are notifying all departments that because of the gradual or marathon nature of el nino we're activating all the time

keeping codes in an automated way, as well as in the accounting system. so your cfos will get messaging on this, so that they can calmly practice it before the storms come underway. if it doesn't come to pass at least they have a chance to practice with it. >> excellent, thank you, todd. any other announcements? yes, tom? >> last year -- actually this year because of the delay of the grants we have $200,000, chinatown for outreach. we have additional with two more districts we're going to do another $100,000 for each district. one is western edition and one bay and hopefully we have enough people to outreach for the public to learn how to prepare for the seismic safety. >> thank you.

anything else? any public comment? october is a very busy month. 26th anniversary of loma prieta as the mayor mentioned and shake-up is in october. if you haven't signed up for it yet, please do. fleet week, we're going to have a lot of things going on in san francisco. and again, i thank you all for being here today. be safe, and thank you all you also for your partnership in helping us to be better prepared and planned. thank you.

>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy ho

connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and

we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken

swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that

i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. ut yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain.

i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up

into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones

less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty

conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the

door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they

survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

>> 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. ♪

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