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>> thank you all for coming from to the disaster counsel. we have a packed agenda and i'll try to get you out of here in an hour [inaudible]. we do have a chance at the end to have a roundtable soap if people have announcements they want to make [inaudible] and
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[inaudible] >> thank you, and i want to thank everyone for attending the meeting and to get updated on the things we are doing good to keep our city resilience and also prepared and i want to say a big thanks to all of you that are working hard to make sure that the tens of thousands of additional visitors were having the next few weeks, what we just had, in open world and [inaudible] quite a few people in the city and we need to of course keep them all safe thank you for making sure that your roles are played out on everything from the streets to the events, to being ready and the responses. that is going to obviously help be helpful to both our economy but also to
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the people that are invited here . i also want to let you know that there is, and we are monitoring, a fire in moccasin in the areas that are close enough to our water facilities, upping hetch hetchy to pose a potential threat, so we do have a very large something like almost 900 acre wildfire that's going on good that has the potential of affecting so we moderate that. california fire is the incident command there in all the different agencies including the state, are there to respond and begin the attempts to fight this fire, but as you have readily known, many of our firefighters are often very difficult to stop and so we've wanted to make sure that the entire staff at
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moccasin and our public utilities commission are fully alerted. that their own safety is paramount and then the facilities that operate our water system are also being monitored as well. so we will-i want to thank all the ages ago might be asked to respond including our own fire department and obviously, our controller and others who have focused in the past on the impact on past buyers near moccasin that there'll be already as well to assist. i want to also again thank everybody for a continued effort to make sure our city is seismically safe. >>[background noise] i'm been saved by the bell. >>[laughing] that measures for example the third year we have the mandatory soft
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story building retrofit that are going on in i want to say thank you to all of the building owners in the city, to participate in this in making sure that our buildings, particularly, those that are wood frame seconds of the vulnerable in a seismic event are complying and doing everything they can to get to a higher level of resiliency. of course, seismic actions continue to be on our mind for a variety of reasons that are part of today's agenda. i want to make sure that everybody knows that we are paying specific attention to the sinking and the tilting of 301 mission, and that given the number of conflicting viewpoints as to what is going on, i
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have-i am organizing and have tasked our city administrator, as well as dbi, but also this department of emergency management, to co-lead a great group of experts that are, there are no contractual relationship to any of the of buildings under construction or buildings that have been constructed to give us as a city and the board of supervisors a independent transparent analysis of the geotechnical engineering challenges that might be associated with the sinking and the tilting. we will, for lack of a better phrase, get to the bottom, of making sure we understand much better not only what is going on and causing, but that we want to go well beyond the 301
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mission building and take a look at established buildings, new buildings, those that are proposed and under design, and to match up with the best and higher level safety engineering that we may be required. we will of course, absorb those engineering reports that are currently under scrutiny as well as those that are being conducted by current owners and developers, but we will also add to that a good look at what is being done and what should be done and considered by all development and construction including our tjpa, our transit center, as well as those buildings that are being planned to be built in and around the transbay center as well. i want to thank naomi and and i had of time for leading this effort because there are a number of people whose confidence in their ownership and rentals are very shaken and we want to assure them that
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have the highest level of safety in the city's attention and i will make sure that that report comes directly to me. we will be finding opportunities once we start this process, we will take little time to meet with any and all residents of that area. this is a big area of cities investment and client neighborhood. so we want to make sure that everybody that we've invited to the area businesses as well as developers, and residents, are assured that the highest level of safety is being examined and also that the jurors in which to prevent further sinking and other aspects will be there. i say that in the context of seismic activity as well because the geographical area is already challenged being above mud, and so the techniques have to be examined in light of their performance, should there be a seismic event happening. so we are very well aware of that and need to have the highest level of safety
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regardless of what our current codes may provide. going to code is one thing. but assuring a highest level of safety is got to be paramount and so that's what is going to be examined by this group. in fact, directed already the department of building inspection and the office of resiliency and recovery two and immediately amend a 30 year earthquake safety and implementation plan to really expedite the safety of new and existing high-rise buildings and, again, with a very good focus on the geographic hazardous areas that are being underdeveloped underdeveloped. that could be more challenging in a seismic event. so that is going on. i want to also make sure that we know that the
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seismic events, because it is just the beginning of the month of october, of course, it is our month where we do a lot of both recognition and celebrations, but also repaired this with schoolkids, with our property owners, with all the agencies practicing and, of course, the really direction of our fleet week has been to really join with other agencies and federal government and state government to exercise our ability to be better prepared in case of disaster. i want to thank all those that are working on the fleet week preparations because it's no longer simply as operation. as all of you know. it's an opportunity to practice what all of our different agencies, the kinds of events that will challenge us and how we work together today can create the kind of relationships we need when an emergency hits. so i
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look at this obviously in total preparation for an event that will happen in our lifetime. it's not and if could it will happen and more of the predictions of the best signs indicate in the next 25 years. so if i can again, in every opportunity i have those of you in this room, please, be prepared. you and your families, you are number one responders and you're called upon to respond i can't have you worrying about your families by not taking care of them now and being part of a deliberate plan. then, for those of us who have the opportunity to prepare our communities and our leaders with that opportunity now and practice it, and get them to sf 72.org website for further preparation could introduce him to the agencies that were all working together on because i certainly think that if you
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gone to a disaster service worker training, if you're able to take some skill set training yourself, neighborhood leaders as well, we will all be for the better in recovering much quicker from a seismic event. obviously, we may not be be able to prevent an event but we certainly can prevent a high degree of hurt from that event. so please do that and maybe three please make sure that those of you that work and respond to departments work on the continuity operations the bars they are obligated to understand and implement. i know that we have a lot of new employees coming aboard good this government of ours has gained a challenge of a good economy but with that comes the obligation that we train everybody to be the faster workers and disaster prepared along with all of our utility agencies that ought to be constantly practicing with us.
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so with that, i know we have as and has indicated, a very elaborate agenda. let's get to it and have that exchange. thank you. >> thank you very much mr. mayor. dem conducted nearly a dozen exercises this past year in our mission to get san francisco repaired and ready to respond to any disaster or significant events. they are aligned in my directors report, which was on the table that you could pick up. i'm not one to go to every single one with you today, but i do want to highlight a couple. last year during fleet week we did something called a rehearsal of concept or a rock drill. where the department of defense work with us to test our disaster transportation and would just
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ask strategies. we learned from that a key lesson that we learned was that the last tactical mile was very important and we don't often exercise that. so the details of moving to the next stage of this kind of exercise is to exercise community points of distribution. seed pods and we are doing an exercise with fleet week this coming year, see but exercise and folks are welcome to join us with that and i think we'll learn a lot from that. you'll hear more about details later on because that is an agenda item. the mayor also mentioned that we have done a lot of very successful things this year including super bowl l i know many of you were involved in the planning and preparation for that. that was not only a citywide planning effort, but it was a regional planning efforts. working with all of
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our partners at the local, federal, and state levels and i think was incredibly successful could we had a huge turnout. it was better than i think anything we could have imagined and the possible negative things that might have happened, thank god, did not and i think a huge part of that was the effort we put into the kind of security we wanted. we wanted the event to be a safe family friend friendly event and it turned out it definitely was and it highlighted the bay area in san francisco in particular, for the gorgeous part of the country that we are. this past summer we also partnered with the national counterterrorism center, the department of homeland security, and the fbi 20's the san francisco joint counterterrorism awareness workshop. this two-day workshop brought together local state and federal partners engaged artisans in discussion can
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recognize a best practices, and encouraging information sharing in the event of a complex terrorist events. this unfortunately as you know, listening to the news and reading the paper, is a challenge that is very much real that we need to be prepared and make sure the city is ready to respond. the last exercise the want to highlight this morning is our urban shield. yellow command. which test the region's ability to work together during a catastrophic event. this year's scenario involve eight evan .9 magnitude earthquake along the san andreas fault and cyber security attack on the water systems requiring community pots of distribution which again we're doing an exercise next week, to be staged throughout the city and throughout the region. other things we exercise this year and we also updated for of our
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plans. the winter storm and flood annex the emergency support function 15, which is the joint information system and asked, the sunol meet annex and the emergency support function outlook health annex. so, we know that emergencies don't stop at the county line. that's what work with our regional partners to make sure that we all owe each other by first name that we know the functions that we each perform. so that in the event of a large emergency we are not meeting each other for the first time during the emergency. we worked very collaboratively with our region and i want to thank all the city representatives here today who sit on the disaster counsel and also our partners in the community who are with us as we continue to be repaired and make sure san francisco is ready to respond in the event of a major
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disaster. so that concludes my remarks. i hope you do beat my more detailed briefing because i'm very pleased with the work that my department has been able to accomplish this year. i've got incredible staff who have worked very hard to keep us safe. the next item on our agenda is the fleet week briefing. fleet week is coming up starting this next week. it is something that we all love to embrace. it's a great party for san francisco but it is the mayor said, it's also a wonderful time for us to have an educational experience and get to know our partners in the military. francis s'more planning and zoning are public information officer and director of external affairs will give the briefing. >> good afternoon everybody and [inaudible] were excited about it. the annual event in san francisco since 1981 and over the years billions of people
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[inaudible] have come from throughout the bay area to [inaudible]. since scuttled the city has coordinated joint with with exercises with our military departments. these exercises ring together civilian responders and [inaudible] with military units responding in the event of a major event like an earthquake. so this year san francisco fleet week is from october 3-october 10. i just want to go over briefly some of the events taking place. there's going to hear a lot about c potter community place of distribution that is a major exercise that's taking place during the week visit. that's monday, october 3 [inaudible] begins at 11 am and so what is going to happen this is going to act as our exercise our
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ability that should we [inaudible] catastrophic event. things like food, water, and other life-saving materials that will help people stay in their homes following a catastrophic event. this exercise will feature more than 100 volunteers and many of the staff are coming from the department's representing in this room but also within our partners in the military and california [inaudible] as well as some nonprofit partners as well. volunteer members in the community [inaudible] players earthquake disaster that can drive their vehicles to see but since he seek water, still other comfort supplies and get through the major catastrophic events. if you have an opportunity to come out we incurred you to do so. the key thing that people should
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remember about a seed pod is that they are a last resort measure. if regular means of getting water or food are unavailable, then the seed pods will be set up. this is why it's so important everyone in the community has at least 72 hours worth of supplies at home. these are things that we find every day in-home was just a matter of gathering them up and having them in place. if you need help doing that go to sf 72.org. you'll find civil tips to do that. what of the other key events is the senior [inaudible]. that takes place on wednesday thursday a fleet week. this is an opportunity where civilians leaders, well, senior military leaders get together to discuss emergency taking place both internationally and domestically. [inaudible] best practices to exchange education and to share ideas get this out we learn from each other. so the previous years without representatives from all over the world life buildings and nepal but also within our own country as well. this is a
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special program that is a key to the humanitarian assistance of disaster response mission. finally, on saturday [inaudible] enjoying having a [inaudible] in san francisco. this is a family-friendly events. where civilians and military and nonprofit service come together and provide demonstrations and things like search and rescue, explosion detection, and we would have a nonprofit service of help people with disabilities [inaudible] that of come home with ptsd. integrate family-friendly event 11 am on saturday. finally, i would remiss be remiss if i didn't mention we will have our [inaudible] active during fleet week. that begins on friday. this is a so we can keep-so we
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can keep an eye on things taking place in the city during the week not only fleet week with this number of events taking place early in the week we have [inaudible]. all fleet all those things go well these next two weeks. will have [inaudible] one thing [inaudible] i'll be happy to [inaudible] but there's a lot going on in the city. we want to share their coordinated or anything that goes on [inaudible] we are ready to go. the final thing i like to say [inaudible] this event cannot be done without the coordination of our nonprofit partners and so [inaudible] and we look forward to another successful week. at this point if there's any questions of happy to answer them. >> any questions? all right,
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thank you very much. my favorite event is [inaudible] so it is family-friendly [inaudible] bring out your kids bring out your dog. it's going to be fun. next on our agenda is [inaudible] is going to present on san francisco bay area earthquake plan and mike is our deputy director and director of our division ons [inaudible] services >> thank you for the opportunity to talk about about the bay area catastrophic plan. this plan was developed by california office of emergency
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services and fema region nine. obviously, the mission of the plan is save and sustain lives. minimize suffering. stabilize and restore critical infrastructure and it also delves into recovery. the overall objectives are really organized and unified state and federal response and even though the plan is really written as a guide for state and federal response, it talks a lot about the unified coordination group and how the state will organize the response and coordination with fema that the primary objectives are to deploy personnel to and from areas unaffected in california two areas that are affected by catastrophic earthquake. probably the most challenging component of that is developed in the access strategy and temporary supply chain. odyssey, were going to have the quick action is going to be a major factor for transportation to debris clearance is going to be a major issue. so all of the staging sites laid out in the plan are across the bridges. so those are going to be areas that we are working with fema on. just in terms of the risk,
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the planning itself is based upon hayward fault scenario. this is generated from the estimates from the united states geologic survey. according to the usgs, this is 78% chance of at least one 6.7 magnitude earthquake by 2043. there's a 90% chance of at least one 6.0 earthquake by 2043 and jessica you know there's a 12% chance of a 7.5 and 2.3% chance of and 8.0 and at the same time frame. just for comparison, obviously the great earthquake of san francisco is 7.8 that hayward last time that a major seismic event there was an 1868 and was a 6.8. so there's been 12 major seismic events on the hayward fault spanning about 1600 years
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good that's where they come up with a probability of okay, this false escape hole of producing a magnitude 7 and when they calculate the risk that hayward fault is actually 33% of the risk of these calculations. the san andreas makes up about 22% of the risk. the calaveras is 26 and some of the lesser-known falls make up the remainder. in terms of the state federal organization this unified coordination group for those of you are not familiar with the unified quarter nation group is made over the federal senior officials. it's made up of the state senior officials usually the director of--and fema region nine so fema region nine, under this plan, they will not be operational in oakland. no actually deployed the risk management team to sacramento to:-okay with the state operations center and in and out today's they will establish a joint federal
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office of operations there and also in the unified quarter nation group the california national guard will be there could be a defense coordinating the show there as well. i think the porn thing for us there's not a direct seat for local government there at the unified quarter nation group. we talked to the state about we will send -it's our intent to send a liaison to that entity so that we do have a voice at the table at the unified coordination group. then all of their work is supported just like typical ics, by operation section. the new elements of this clan in addition to the ess that i think everybody is familiar with the emergency support functions, it also calls for the establishment of several task forces. those taskforces, the people not been identified to serve on those task force is good some of the work ahead of us is identifying who best from
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the city will be serving on the taskforces and how we will work with our counterparts in the regions to really have a unified voice when working with the state and federal response apparatus. so, to give you a very high level timeline of what will happen after it has tropic quake from the most earth that perspective it will take him a day to probably establish a unified quarter nation group. they will be very relied upon us in the first 24 hours to provide situation assessment along with the other operational areas and obviously that's going to be focused on transportation routes and the status of critical infrastructure and we've got a good basis to operate on from all the work at the last council and then from 24-hour-24-72 hours, fema deploys the national incident management assistance team. state operations under two: manage the event him and--will
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activate and avoid all eight state [inaudible] search and rescue teams and ozark eight sounds insignificant but those are 70 person teams that will be immediately coming to the bay area to help with immediate search and rescue operations. they also up 12 level for teams that will be deployed. so that's all part of our planning efforts is how to receive those first responders that are going to be coming in, and then in addition, in that 24-72 hour fema will activate their contract with amr, ambulance provider, to send 300 ambulances to the bay area and then we would the state will assemble and diploid 25 strike teams in the strike teams are five and once is a piece. so that's to give you an idea of the amount of first responders that will be coming to our systems, but we will have to care and feed them once they get here that your how to get
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them to where they need to be. they will also deploy that other mutual aid resources for fire suppression and support to debris clearance operation. then, in terms of kind of what this plan means for us, it's going to influence our planning that's already ongoing. we are as started in an initiative to update our debris management plan. we just completed an update of our logistics annex. but we will also be working on updating our earthquake response plan because we want to make sure that our local plan lines with the new federal and state client for catastrophic earthquakes. we will also identify local regional roles and response abilities because again, think of critical component for us is going to be on how we work with unified quarter nation group. then and, with her work with the national advisory council, big city
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emergency managers, has cost us to come up with mission ready packages and these are assets that we can deploy from san francisco to other areas in the country if they're facing a similar catastrophe but are also defining mission ready packages that could be deployed from unaffected urban areas across the country that would help us with the recovery efforts and response efforts. exercising-they've indicated a pretty ambitious exercise plan for this plan and its 20 exercises, nadine the full-scale exercise in three years. so we are going to do our best to align that with our existing exercise. epicenter [inaudible]. any questions on the plan? >> michael will move right into the next agenda item then.
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>> spanked thanks. i just want >> i want to give you a quick update on some of the exercises, obviously in the winter that's not on the our winter storm annex [inaudible] in shape for winter storm. we lived it with the el niño last year so i think were in a pretty good battle with that but we do want to take the time every winter just to review the plan and see if we can make any improvements. one of the new exercises that we are going to conduct is epicenter. they'll be held in april [inaudible] we want to take advantage of the [inaudible] 1906 earthquake and also make that more of the citywide event and focus on catastrophic earthquake recovery. so something we party talked about with the state and federal planted [inaudible] exercise that next item is are the state initiatives
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[inaudible] the new planted were going to do our best to align its but it's really we are looking for all of feedback from departments about what elements would you like to see exercise. we will work [inaudible] disaster core neighbors and trainers on that. one thing the complex coordination attack, and mansion that previous with a joint counterterrorism workshop series that she brought out from dhs from fema. this a follow-up to that. it's one of the main take ways was develop a complex coordinating plan. were in the process of doing that. but we would like to exercise one [inaudible] active shooter terrorist attack so that is our plan for going forward. continuity of operations as the mayor mention, we just want to give a date for all the departments could this is where we would
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like that apartment of emergency management will be exercising our continuity clan but [inaudible] this other departments need guidance in doing that were here to help with that. we like to coordinate that in august in urban shield [inaudible] poster you are familiar with and [inaudible] francis you did a great job. also, in november there's a medical health exercise. this year the scenario is trained to vehemence but that obviously public health emergency management participate in that. if there's any questions [inaudible] >> i just want to commend spero particularly on the yi from the logistics side, from purchasing and real estate i know the [inaudible] that
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exercise was very the thought of goal and was very helpful from every report i got back so, thank you for your work on that and i know just from dpw and gsa, i know who worked a lot on those exercises with you. so, thank you. >> thank you very much. are there any questions at all. mike gave a lot of information in a short period of time. are there any member updates since? this is a time to have a little round table. this is what have you been working on? what do you want to share? >> they could, and should could afternoon. joanne speedway from the fire department did i did one indicate but after fleet week night-15th is fire prevention week where we are starting the
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continued message that the pm shares with everyone is on was our mayor and other public safety agencies the importance of having a preparedness plan in your home in your workplace and to exercise that. the more we can spread the word the better off all our city will be. at the end of fire prevention week, that same day, october 15, we have our nursed guilt neighborhood emergency response team took it we held at marina middle school nine-3 pm. >> great. thank you, chief. if you're not a dirt volunteer and you're interested in this is a great thing to become involved in. we have many dedicated thousands of people throughout the city look taken dirt and i applaud the efforts. thank you. it looks like todd, you have an update? >> yes. two updates. we recently completed our twice a
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year training. this one had 45 city staff attend the sf with their finance and administration disaster academy. so that brings up the total trained finance and administrative professionals to nearly 200 or the last year and a half. that includes all basics department said that active attendance so thank you to the department heads here. your folks have been really good to work with. in addition to that, in coordination with the city administrator's office department of technology, we developed and that to all city departments it related updates to the continuity of operations plans. in it updates to the emergency response plans for your deponent. so over the coming year and a half, your draft it sections to those plans as well as your final sections to those plans will be items that your staff are working on. so that's good news. that policy adopted
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by-earlier this month has in mind both man-made disasters as well's natural disasters like earthquakes. there is a companion cyber threat and cyber security policy that is being further perfected and will come back to-. thank you >> thank you very much, talk. guess, michael? >> not an update but more thank you and commendation to and anna stop. and made mention of the joint counterterrorism awareness workshop series in the presidio. i was asked to offer a prayer in and up staying three days. i think for this program. it was really a fascinating time. the were a lot of high-level people there. what came after that was of great benefit not only to our counsel but to the greater community because at several meetings with members of the fbi and unlock other law enforcement folk. their concerns about terrorism and
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especially islamic communities in san francisco but which are vulnerable, we were able to make connections with the religious leaders in those houses of worship and right now, they are in communication. so that's what came out of an invitation to offer a prayer. in my mind, it was a [inaudible] >> wonderful. thank you for a much and thank you for the work you do at the interfaith council. you're a terrific partner for the city. thank you. other comments? yes, connor >> i want to briefly yield the floor to dnr-a purchaser for supervisor tang's office was a brief update. >> thank you, connor. so i'm janna-with supervisors katie tang softy i just want to update everyone on our [inaudible] effort. the supervisor tang's effort to raise [inaudible] and campaign. this is specifically with the members of [inaudible] we want
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help our members become specifically reserved you will be created with help of members of our community is a sunset district preparedness guide in of a few copies could we also have it of able online. so i can send out those fires as well. the other thing we created with a monthly [inaudible]. we partnered with six local businesses as was [inaudible] walgreens creating a monthly schedule so when residents shop in his store stores during specific month specific supplies will be on to. for instance, in the month of september flashlights and batteries will be on sale at -hardwood. the next part of the campaign will be providing supplies to members of our dirt neighborhood emergency response team bill be creating many
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caches of supply and make those available to all the residents on their block. so when there's a need residents have created their own supply then they can go to that residence and get the supplies from seattle so we are excited about this effort. spread the word across the sunset district, we've had members that the community directly participate in this effort because we know this can be a long term campaign and we want the residence to really own each aspect of the campaign. so were inviting the sheriffs information and other neighborhoods [inaudible] if you want to adopt a were happy to share how we did that. i will pass out the copies of the guide [inaudible] i want to thank the office of [inaudible] for helping both all the materials beyond [inaudible] it we hosted somewhere. [inaudible]
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access the information. thank you. he was fantastic. thank you, naomi >> supervisor tang's office has been one of your we are at so many initiatives are on the subject without resilient in diamond heist and resilient bayview. resilient menlo park and they've taken the bull by the ones that really got out the word and it janna is absolutely right with officer resigns and neighborhood empowerment network were trying to get more neighborhoods involves ingesting resilient get so, thank you. >> that is fantastic. thank you. other-yes? will sydney, first? >> earlier this year? san francisco three-week exercise the port hosted in conjunction with the coast guard and army corps of engineers the port opening exercise to identify who is responsible, who had what and what would be required to bring a ship through the golden gate, up to a port offload it and hit office
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supplies to the city of san francisco to become see brought. it was very useful exercise. i like to think dm for the participation because we had a lot of people helping us with that. we learned a lot. >> thank you. other things that members want to share? yes? >> at the housing authority would always completed a community of operations plan. were about 90% complete we like to have you review it. we have also created a number of emergency action plans for various different scenarios, situations that might come up. we have about 8-9 but actually coming to this meeting i think we have a couple [inaudible] though we missed [inaudible] and we don't have one that's physically for terrorist attack. but we would like to coordinate with the city and make sure were in sync and benefit from all the work you are doing on a
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citywide base. >> fantastic, barbara. we would like to partner with you and mike will get you the appropriate contact person and we'd love to review your continuity of operations planning good so that is terrific. thanks. i would encourage all departments, if they're not updated their plan recently to take this opportunity to do it. september is preparedness month and we moved into october very quickly and as we said, we have fleet week. lots of good reminders for us not only as private citizens here in san francisco residents and visitors to the city to be prepared but also our city departments. other items to share? all right.
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thank you all so much for coming. is there any public comment before we conclude this meeting? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> . >> my name is naomi kelly the single-story for the 775 i started with the city and county in 1996 working for the newly
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elected mayor willie brown, jr. not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored united states and excited about the future. >> my name is is jack listen and the executive director of a phil randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in san francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the community members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. i worked in he's mayor's office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of
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san francisco state university and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the taxicab commission and through the process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and . >> having trouble struggling to make ends meet folks will not understand what importance of voting is so we decided to develop our workforce development services after a couple of years offering pathways to sustainable jobs. >> (clapping.) >> we've gotten to a place to have the folks come back and have the discussion even if participation and makes sense we do public services but we also really build strong communities
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when i started this job my sons were 2 and 5 now 9 and 6 i think so the need to be able to take a call from the principal of school i think that brings a whole new appreciation to being understanding of the work life balance. >> (clapping.) >> i have a very good team around me we're leader in the country when it comes to paid and retail and furiously the affordable-care act passed by 3079 we were did leaders for the healthcare and we're in support of of the women and support. >> in my industry i feel that is male dominated a huge struggle to get my foot in the door and i feel as though that definitely needs to change this year needs to be more opportunities for i don't know women to do what tell me dream i
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feel that is important for us to create a in fact, network of support to young people young women can further their dreams and most interested in making sure they have the full and whatever they need to make that achieveable. >> education is important i releases it at my time of san mateo high ii come back to the university of san francisco law school and the fact i passed the bar will open up many more doors because i feel a curve ball or an where you can in the way can't get down why is this in my way we have to figure out a solution how to move forward we can't let adversity throw in th.
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>> my name is angela wilson and i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in
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sxos and went to uc; isn't that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been one thing. >> i'm all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25
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for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a women's field in most of world just here in united states it is that pay a man's job i'm an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all women's who work here to be impoverished and strong in san francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and that's a challenge in the town so many people chasing
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money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. >> i'm the - i've been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up i'm definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and that's how i got here
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today something special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know i'm a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. >> the sad thing the building is sold i'm renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something i'm proud of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the
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jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this
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>> i'm rebecca and i'm a violinist and violin teacher. i was born here in san francisco to a family of cellists, professional cellists, so i grew up surrounded by a bunch of musical rehearsals an lessons. all types of activities happened in my house. i began playing piano when i was 4. i really enjoyed musical activities in general. so when i was 10, i began studying violin in san francisco. and from there, i pretty much never stopped and went on to study in college as well. that's the only thing i've ever known is to have music playing all the time, whether it
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is someone actually playing next to you or someone listening to a recording. i think that i actually originally wanted to play flute and we didn't have a flute. it's always been a way of life. i didn't know that it could be any other way. >> could you give me an e over here. great. when you teach and you're seeing a student who has a problem, you have to think on your feet to solve that problem. and that same kind of of thinking that you do to fix it applies to your own practice as well. so if i'm teaching a student and they are having a hard time getting a certain note, they can't find the right note. and i have to think of a digestible way to explain it to them. ee, d, d, e. >> yes.
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then, when i go on to do my own practice for a performance, those words are echoing back in my head. okay. why am i missing this? i just told somebody that they needed to do this. maybe i should try the same thing. i feel a lot of pressure when i'm teaching young kids. you might think that there is less pressure if they are going on to study music or in college that it is more relaxing. i actually find that the opposite is true. if i know i'm sending a high school student to some great music program, they're going to get so much more instruction. what i have told them is only the beginning. if i am teaching a student who i know is going to completely change gears when they go to college and they never will pick up a violin again there is so much that i need to tell them. in plain violin, it is so difficult. there is so much more information to give. every day i think, oh, my gosh.
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i haven't gotten to this technique or we haven't studies they meese and they have so much more to do. we only have 45 minutes a week. i have taught a few students in some capacity who has gone on to study music. that feels anaysing. >> it is incredible to watch how they grow. somebody can make amazing project from you know, age 15 to 17 if they put their mind to it. >> i think i have 18 students now. these more than i've had in the past. i'm hoping to build up more of a studio. there will be a pee ono, lots of bookshelves and lots of great music. the students will come to my house and take their lessons there. my schedule changes a lot on a day-to-day basis and that kind of keeps it exciting.
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think that music is just my favorite thing that there is, whether it's listening to it or playing it or teaching it. all that really matters to me is that i'm surrounded by the sounds, so i'm going top keep doing what i'm doing to keep my life in that direction.