really peaceful and powerful and inspiring marches. thanks for doing that because it's what makes san francisco san francisco. and from the police on my right, fire, dph, thank you for what you did. i know it's your job, but that doesn't mean that we should just take it for granted. thank you for all of your work and the hours you put in in 96-degree heat. thank you for everything you did. this professionalism and the grace with which you operated makes us really really proud of the city. i will leave it at that and thanks to everybody for spending your time to come and participate today because it is very important. thanks. >> thank you very much, jason. as emergency managers we are constantly reviewing our plan and revising and learning from real life experiences. what jason just

mentioned we are doing it now the and no one is perfect and every time we learn and activate and we just keep getting better. our first responders and police, sheriff's, and 911 and fire and emergency services have done an outstanding job and continue to lead this city. thank you for those remarks. we should say mayor lee would be here, but he is out of town with the delegation -- court. >> we are having more fun than they are in court. so we are in the right place. >> all right. on that note you are going to hear a number of presentations. we've been very busy since the last time and we are going to give you very wide brush stroke overview of what we've been doing and then available to answer any questions if you have them. so i'm going to turn

this over to my deputy director. mike day den who is going to report on our emergency preparedness initiatives. thank you.. >> thank you, everybody. we have been busy and we've also been as michael and john can a test to in leaning forward and engaging forward with the private sector and non-profit sector. that's important. the first initiative we have for you today is planning initiatives and lisa will give that presentation.. >> thank you, mike. good afternoon, everyone. i'm just going to go over the high level for the plans that the department and emergency management is working on right now with our partners. first our 2017 earthquake plan update. this update is going to describe the key responsibilities, the resource requirements and the issues that are going to be addressed in the

eod and doc level in earthquake response consent. we -- incident. we are going to include an action guide for you to look at action that needs to be looked at in 6 hours all the way up to 20 hours. this is going to have a resource table so it will show the departments of the agencies and departments. and another plan is the essential elements of information. this is information we are going to collect at the eoc and doc level. this includes damage and injury reports, your status and response operations, what are your needs and current capabilities and are there any threats to safety and public health. we hope to have this plan completed october/november timeframe. we are going to include many

workshops that will assemble our manage groups so they can vet this plan. the next plan i have up here is our disaster debris management plan. this is a plan that they have been working on since august of last year. so, we are working closely with public works, san francisco environment and public health, port, recreation and parks by the end of this year. by submitting this disaster relief plan, it makes us eligible to receive a one time increase for federal funding for debris removal work. i looked at houston and the county's impacted in florida. for houston it's estimated that it's going to cost up to $200 million for the debris removal. in florida, the

counties that have been impacted they are looking at debris removal to take up to 4-6 weeks. that gives you the idea of these challenges these areas are facing. the next plan is no. 6 which is the healthcare and human update. many of you are involved with that plan and i thank you for your participation on that. this focus on emergency shelters, emergency feeding and health and human services we are providing help to address the needs of unaccompanied minors and foster children and needs like that. the other area we are going to include in this plan which is something new is our mass care recovery. we are going to now start talking about a shelter transition task force and when we get to the end how we are going to transition out of that disaster case

management and will also talk about housing meteorology and financial programs to the survivors. right know we did yellow command exercise, vetted our plan this month. so, we do have some action items that we are going to take from that and look at it. an then the one thing i wanted to add is back in march, emergency management partnered with the mayor's office on disability to create an access and functional needs on a workgroup. we met four times and this workgroup is going to be one of the major components to vet this plan in the appendices that goes with that. and we are going to start the mitigation plan to work with the office of resiliency and capital planning. we are basically looking at the natural and man-made risk factors

that san francisco has identifying some mitigation strategies and resources to help with those strategies. and we have several work groups that we are going to be looking at establishing and right now tentatively, don't hold me to this but the workgroup is the asset development and mapping gis workgroup and master plan and grant funding workgroup. preplanning has initially started. we are having a meeting later this month. but it will officially kickoff in january and hope to have the plan approved by october 2019. thank you. >> any other questions? >> next i would like to give you a brief overview of some of the exercises we have on the plate and have participated in. >> thank you, mike. good afternoon, everyone. please turn to page 4 of your report. we have about 3 pages of exercises. so i'm going to hit some of

the wave tops. as we know lisa's group and others in this room that are in charge of our emergency support functions write very robust plans. in some cases we are not able to activities our plans and real incidents so we have to exercise them and update. i'm going through the work that we did in 2016 and 2017 thus far and where we are going for the rest of the year. if we look at the top, with ever the fleet week commodity point distribution exercise. this is in annex to our fw 6 mass care plan with the national guard as well as the u.s. marine corp and a lot of our disaster and non-disaster are part of the presidio. we did a functional exercise on our emergency operations center. we activated our eoc and

commodity points of distributions in the communities. moving forward we are doing biannual doc communications drill. when we activate the doc, it is essential that we can community fully and completely with our doc's. so we do that twice a year. as we move forward, february 14, 2017, lisa mentioned we are updating our ccsf earthquake plan and we are having a workshop there. moving forward we are doing an exercise with the giants to look at control of the stadium. there is a conference that happens every april, last year it was april 4th-6. this led a panel discussion tabletop exercise at the fort mason center where we learned from new york

and super storm sandy and we looked at the response and recovery which included very interesting sessions with our partners specifically around mutual aid around mass care and transportation. >> moving forward we did another communications drill. we did a shelter tabletop exercise in multi support function 6 and a lot of work the human services agency is doing. after the tragedy in england at the ariana grande concert. we asked to help work through a scenario like that. that is a very good exercise. moving forward through 2017, an annual exercise program.

some of our folks that run our public information in the city ran our workshop in f 16 which is joint information system. then august 29th, a couple weeks ago, we did an medical top table exercise. we had local, state and federal partners looking at what happens when a major disaster such as an earthquake in the first 96 hours. the exercise guided program is a regional program. it is a hazardous materials exercise comprised of four lead up discussion exercises. this week we had the government officials exercise. the focus of these exercise are dependent on radiologic equipment. we learned a lot in san francisco. as we move forward we have the san francisco fleet week exercise program

continuing. on the september 28th, we will be conducting a resource request drill which some of our department operation center partners will be requesting resources from the eoc and the eoc will be requesting them from cal. on sunday october 1st, the us navy will be landing a landing craft utility near pier 50 full of assets specifically in this case medical assets that will be driven to the san francisco zuckerberg general hospital. the next day october 2nd, tents will be set up, local and state and federal in the parking lot of zuckerberg indicating that we will need help from our partners. >> moving forward we have our seminar for leaders october 4th and 5 and

talking about humanitarian aid and disaster relief specifically looking at the refugee crisis hitting around our world right now. and we have the pier to pier medical exchange. the fly out and private and first responders will be flying out to a navy ship to discuss disaster response capabilities. october 2nd, the full scale exercise at zuckerberg. ems ride alongs are part of this. it's important for military partners to ride along with our local ems staff. then we also have a summit or seminar during the senior leader seminar, a medical peer to peer exchanges. we'll have medical experts from local state, federal and department of defense to discuss best practices. moving forward of the exercise programs, there will be a

full scale exercise on the 28. it's regional in nature. we have a play in the south bay, east bay and north bay. essentially the first 5 days of that exercise are looking at the prmd part of the hazardous material side. october 28th, saturday we'll be accessing the emergency operation center in response to a radiation disbursal device and in november we are excited to help host a volunteer action and disaster and tabletop exercise. finally, we'll have a disaster service and how to move the workers into san francisco following the disaster and how we move them around and how we get folks out of the city that need to get back to

their homes.. >> thanks, jill. any questions for jill. again, our training and exercise program is really designed to support you. if there is issues you want us to exercise or scenarios that you want to exercise, please let us know. the big picture is we want to identify the gaps that we don't have the resources for inside the city and where we will get those with mutual aid if we can't get those with mutual aid, where we will get those from fema and private sector. so next, i would like to spend a little time going through some of the eoc activations and not to steal the thunder but we have on a strong pace to activate more times this year than last year and that's a combination of factors based on the world events and terrorist using cars as weapons. that's made us take another

look at soft targets as mass gatherings and not only have we activated for those events but made more tabletop exercises to make sure we are prepared. >> the eoc activation is where lisa and we are bringing together. we have been twice as act have in the past 12 months because of things like the 1st amendment and with the soft targets. sometimes we have planned events and unplanned events. for the planned events we can plan for and have all the agencies come together and even with the people that are going to be sponsoring them to make sure that key issues that some of our response partners may have are going to be addressed. we also have citywide coordination

meetings where we bring everyone to the eoc and this is how all the agencies are going to work together and we also provide that to our electives when it's a significant event. like pride, we want to make sure they all know what's happening in their district. that document moves forward to when the event takes place. when we have unplanned events, we rely on all the work we've done and the relationships we have developed to move forward. when the eoc activates, our information is coordination and we gather and disseminate it. we look at what's going on in your department and your city. as our plan pulls it together, we get it out in one of many ways. one that goes to the city leaders and the other way is we do conference calls both with the city leadership and also with all of our elected officials so they know what's

happening when there is a significant event. we also are pushing information out to our public so they know what's taking place and what they can do of the 15 events they can describe starting on page 10 you can see how we have done each of these things in the different activations that we have done. as mike said, once the activation is over, we e document what can be done differently and what can change as we improve our abilities. that's the opportunity for all the relationships to be developed ahead of time through the planning and exercise process to be sure we can be ready to address any of the issues that come up.. >> after irma, we got a call that

they were trying to fill from the emergency services that they were looking to support florida. >> rob is our deputy director. the emergency communications. >> thank you. so, i'm sure many of you are aware we've had some challenges with nine -- 911 and staff issues. mayor lee issued our --

>> in april. we were down to 66%. since then we've made considerable progress. four or the last 5 weeks we've been hitting over 80% and hopefully we are there to stay. we hope to achieve our service by the end of the calendar year. some significant have been the effects of the hiring initiative that was really ramped up. it takes about a year to train dispatchers. other efforts that have been encouraged on by the mayor's executive directive have been coordination with 311 to transfer calls that are not

dispatchable events and to get immediate staffing support. the police department has given us to police officers on light duty. we have some light duty people from the airport and from other sources that have helped us with staffing and so measures to boot. we are working on a public campaign which should be kicking off very shortly and some other measures to continue the progress. as i said, i believe we will achieve our service goal by the end of the calendar year. >> thanks, rob. i will turn it back to anne. thank you.. >> thank you, mike and thank you team for the good reports. we have had a busy year. are there any questions for the any of the presenters so far?

we are heavy on the presentations, sorry, but we have a lot to say. i'm going to turn it to naomi kelly who over sees the san francisco and recovery. it's all yours.. >> thank you, anne. i just want to start off with there is a report that heather green, our director of planning but i would be remiss if i didn't talk about the life council. we have been meeting in this calendar year. it's been great. we have a renewed focus on restoration timelines and you know the purpose of the lifeline council is to have inter agency cooperation not with just our internal public sector utilities but private sector utilities. we don't want to be at the table for the first time when the incident occurs or we don't know who to call. it

came in very handy when we had the power outage and we knew exactly who to call with pg & e and get them on the phone and let us know when the restoration timings would be up and running for the city. additionally, we had an inter dependency study about how we are dependent upon each other for power and very important and also focusing on access fuel and roads which is important to get our city back up and running right a way and transportation networks. we at the last lifeline had pg & e come over the summer to give an update on their electrical capital campaign and when they are going to invest in their capital infrastructure which is important to the timelines and the timeframe to get it done and to get lessons learned from the

21st outage. city staff has been meeting regularly with the ultimates side, public works, puc, mta and just looking at their own restoration timelines and for capital improvement and our own city assets. we've been meeting with you and we'll be talking with you mike and would love to get a restoration recovery tabletop exercise going when you find time. but we love the lifeline's council members love the tabletop exercise because we bring the coordination of the public and private utilities together. with that lifeline, we are looking to hire in a consultant to get through the restoration timelines for the city. with that, i would like to

turnover to heather green , the director of capital planning.. >> hi, everyone, for those who don't know you i'm heather green of capital plan. thank you for the opportunity to speak before this group. a brief note. you've heard now a couple times at this meeting about the office of resilience and capital planning since the last convening of this group. i think brian's first day he came to this session and since that time we have merged the office of recovery and emergency to one office so we are thinking about all capital infrastructure from a resilience mind-set and percolate that with so

many of your agencies as we think of our future environment as we ultimately provide our physical ground for our residents and workers. we have this resilient strategy which you maybe familiar with and i will use that to provide some structure for our remarks. you can find that in full on our website at one san francisco.org. the first of our resilience, we made progress against all four of the resilient schools and our strategy which was published last april 16. the first is to plan and prepare for tomorrow. certainly the work of this room right now is helping us to get there, but we also have published this spring the city's ten year capital plan which is a major planning effort which not only includes our financial strengths and position when we go to rebuild

projects but when we go to look at what we need. it is a 3 (500) 000-0000 capital plan includes $1.1 billion obligation bond and the votes according to that plan is $150 million initiative to support and strengthen the seawall. as part of the capital plan update, we ran and expanded our hazard analysis and checked the seismic, strength and our vulnerabilities of our public assets. we were at 214 and now we are at 239. since we've gotten the results of that, we are looking at the list to understand where we are dedicating our resources and where we have already a plan and where we need to invest next. that is on our website too. the plan in full. the second goal is to

mitigate and adopt and retrofit. i'm very excited to have this meeting today on the major milestone in our soft to retrofit program. today is the deadline for property owners to submit to retrofit. thanks to the efforts of dbi. i want to thank tom and lily for doing an amazing job and getting the word out and through other communications with the safety fair. that was very well attended. to get a sense, there are 335 buildings in this tier of the larger buildings. there are 349 buildings across the tier program, but this is the largest by far and as of wednesday which is the latest data, we have 78%

compliance from the deadline today. we are often a state that will hit 80% or more by the deadline. worth noting that just in the last week, 262 applications came in which is more than doubled than the week before. it's been trickling inning all along but the movement as good. thank you for that. >> thank you. we have also initiated a study in at all buildings in seismic risk in san francisco. this will be a 14-month study and the report will include recommendations about how we review and assess the structure and also non-structural and technical issues related to our tall buildings. goal 3 is to ensure how san

franciscans reacts to an acute disaster and in regard to the disaster on affordability. our third navigation center opened and the water front center opened the shelter to help the chronically homeless relocate off the street. and then our fourth residue generality -- resilient sf goal is to empower neighbors to first connections. i'm excited to report this time on the neighbors program, this is the most colorful part of this meeting, i think, is to give you a sense of what this program is about. it is run with great zest and caution

through the neighborhood empowerment. it's a program that empowers neighborhood to host block parties that directly increases the resilience capacity of the neighborhoods by laying deliberately the groundwork for them to come together during stress and to provide the support that we'll need in the kind of disasters that we are seeing on tv everyday now. permitting fees are waved for this event and we provide materials. residents receive a bin of disaster supplies directly from ecology and the enhanced disaster preparedness. the first were held back in 2018, there were scheduled to 35 and there will be in the bayview and

this is something, it's no small thing. because you hear so many logos. they are city agencies and private partners as well, community partners who are helping to make these things truly accessible to the people. we are knocking on doors to the people coming together to help reach each other. >> thank you very much. we really appreciate it. any questions? okay. hearing none, this is the time that disaster council members can make announcements and talk about what you are doing. i'm opening it up to any member of the council now. >> yes, tim?

>> on behalf of the san francisco labor council, i want to let people know this is quite a fabric that the city has with departments and the city. within the labor movement in general we have been spending a lot of time with houston and florida and what have you, there is a lot of strings that we are attaching. we are sending nurses and united food workers are sending food to florida and the fire department is here, but the firefighters and the rn workers and the engineers who know how to take care of the acute disaster and building collapse, we are all in. i don't know who exactly in what department or whatever needs to say anything, but if you can do more than engage just the head of the labor council to be involved in this stuff particularly in trades

because we do have our fingers on this stuff and if we need any of the professions that we represent in the council fill yates and particularly the city departments to keep that in mind.. >> excellent, thank you. other comments or announcements? >> hi, i'm ms. rodriguez with the district attorney's office. we spent the last 2 years preparing 40 members of our victims service team to be trained and practice in responding to crime related events. so any victim of crime events our staff will be nationally certified by the end of october and we've been through multiple citywide training to prepare and this year we are purchasing a lot of

equipment on our side to help with counseling and support and long time recovery and any scenarios, we can work with victims of crime.. >> very good. other announcements? comments? >> hi, airport director. we have our annual exercise coming up early october. we do it every year. there is an faa requirement done every 3 years, but we choose to do it every year. this year it is an active shooter full scale exercise. we'll be doing it 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. as that is the only time we have a terminal available and we'll be fully developing this and we'll have our rac activated and we'll have this during the time when the airport is empty. it happens. and we'll have a way in

about soft target protection. we renovate that program and ballistic glass to protect areas and calm hardening plans as well. we are working on initiatives around those targets as the airport continue to be a much sought out target in worldwide events and terrorism. >> thank you. >> ed reskin from mta. we are required by the state regulate or is to exercise certain security issues and to document those as part of getting our final safety and security certification from the state. so with a great participation from the police and fire departments, that work is underway and getting

completed. just a kind of reminder especially maybe pertinent given that this morning as many of you may know there was reports of an explosion on the london subway. fortunately, what we understand is that nobody was seriously hurt. we understand 29 people were injured but fortunately not seriously injured. we are working with our local law enforcement that there are no credible threats to us here currently, but just another reminder along with all the recent natural events, civil events, all the things that we've had to activate our eoc for whether airports and transit and in our streets that we need to remain vigilant about. >> well said, thank you, ed. director garcia? >> i will do it who --

without the mic. with concerning the eoc issues, we are going to have more so we are really going to connect with this labor stuff because what we are going to do is try to push out our information with the community organizations and work with the department of aging and basically the elderly who need somebody to be knocking on their doors. and as we did with the homeless population during the weekend putting out water and checking on people. we try to do the same thing with the elderly and also with other population. during this neighborhood approach, they know their neighbors and try to make those connections and really try to reach out to people because our infrastructure is not ready for heat and i'm not only doing that as a neighborhood piece but even some of

our employees and we are finding some of our employees in 90-degree heat. we are working first at neighborhood safety and also looking at our own staff safety as we are going down this road. i want to thank you for the coordination around this. i believe this is new territory for us and we are looking at the profits and the efforts around this. >> michael, from san francisco council. we use cautions put out by the department of public health and we have 2500 new subscribers and we have -- we are able to design those at the cooling station. given more lead time

and other things with facilities that might be good. >> thank you.. >> it's very clear as we move forward in our planning and exercising that we, the city, can't do this by ourselves unless our partners like inner faith community and boma and salvation army and the red cross that it really takes a whole team to be able to have an effective response. other council members, and there will be time for public comment. yes, fire? >> good afternoon, everyone. mark gonzalez at the operations. tim, i can hook you up with my director, chief, regarding building collapse. that will be necessary in

case of an earthquake. i would like to share from the 1989 earthquake and will share that after the meeting was about equipped relief rigs. when we have our recall depending on how many positions there are, we'll call maybe the half of the workforce. what they experienced that day, everyone came on. we didn't have enough rigs. we have about 60 right now. we need somewhere to put them. in the coming years we'll have more places to put them where there will be station 49. we would like to get that done. as far as the ignition points as well, this accounts for the lifeline. they are more modernized since 1989. we need to evaluate how many

ignition points there are. >> chris connors with the san francisco zoo. just returned from the national aquarium conference in minneapolis just yesterday. as you can imagine the big topic of discussion in zoos and aquariums in houston and florida. as you can imagine all aquariums are responding and with manpower were no different. we have decided to dedicate a portion of our sales for a short period of time to the disaster reliefs for both the zoos and aquariums affected by both storms. we are proud to say that we have sent two staff members from the animal division and construction teams. those are both skill sets they

are in desperate need in florida and houston. those will be heading out momentarily.. >> wonderful. thank you. >> angela? >> to heather, i'm wondering what resource that we can offer you or any director in the department in the city is the outreach advertising. for the neighborhood fest, we manage the advertising going out and the contract for cao kelly and her office. that is something that can go out at least once a month for you. happy to help.. >> angela is the clerk of our board of supervisors. yes. john bows man. >> yes, we represent high rise buildings in san francisco. you should know how appreciative our members are to be apart of this group. i want to thank all the fine departments here in partnering with us. know that boma is a resource

for you. if you want to drill our building, give us a call. this is or manager. he's done a great job on boma's rep. he's done a great job. on october 17th we have an emergency preparedness center we hold every year on low level terror events. if you want to come and learn about what our industry thinks of that, you are welcome to come as my guest. thank you.. >> thank you, are there any other comments from council members? all right. that was a very newsy report back. thank you all. is there any public comment today? yes, ken? >> ken, many of you know me. i want to bring attention to a new york times story that ran after the texas and florida events that was

a recap of disaster management agencies around the country. the main point was that these events had motivated and shall we say to a higher level of concern among disaster management agencies and states across the country. but i want to commend our city that following the 2005 katrina hurricane, that our former cao, ed lee, reached out to new orleans and established a relationship with new orleans and recovery that has led to our step ahead to what i think the rest of the country is now motivated to look at by having our resiliency and advanced recovery planning. that's my comment. >> thank you very much for those comments, ken. any other public comment? all right. seeing none, i want to thank everyone for their time. i look forward to our quarterly meetings and thank

you for everything you to do keep our city safe. thank you. >> adjourned . [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >> good morning, everyone and thank you for coming my name is rosy form treasurer of the united states and the form of empowerment 2020. >> yeah. >> empowerment 2020 is an initiative to durnl encourage a million women we 2020 to go in leaders positions it is request

quality day and the one hundred year of the 19 amendment that give woman the right to vote joining me on stage a margo the ceo of ma tell. >> (clapping.) >> 74 percent have been girls in middle school express interest in office only girls are expressing an interest in computer science 50 percent less graduating are for girls than thirty years ago i've spent 8 years of the treasurer of the united states to have a portrait on the photo in our public engagement process there were one hundred of women overlooked in the history of our country many tops will be discussed and empowerment 2020 conference

everything there empowering young women and girls to be the future leader to encourage women to get into stem education and getting into nasa and google and making sure that they are part of tech economy. >> the second part of empowerment 2020 is women money and power to put women in so and so positions for the corporate fleet and elected office the third part of empowerment 2020 are the conferences their action oriented women have flatlined at 20 percent on that percentage one and 20 percent women a in congress that is stagnated if we get up to thirty percent fabulous 80 percent would be amazing that conversation is equality will be something we're used to as pair the culture i'd like to that that will be done in 2020 but if food in san fran

just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits

traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their

hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food

banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us

the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste >> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part

of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and

i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the

special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly >> could we get everyone to rise and please pledge -- pledge of allegiance. i pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation,

under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. mr. secretary? [roll call] >> quorum is present. >> ok. >> closed session? do we need a motion to go -- no, we're just coming out. >> coming out. >> ok. if there's any members of the public that woli