know disdain, and that's not that long ago. when i started off by saying i'm not impressed with those statistics, it goes deep. at supervisor sheehy mentioned, targeting of sex workers, immigrant, trans-latinas who don't feel safe talking to the police because of immigration status. this is a major issue and problem in our city, and i just completely agree with supervisor sheehy that it just doesn't feel like the department is taking this seriously with the way that you've come here today and addressed that, so i just want to back you up, supervisor sheehy. i completely agree with you. >> supervisor fewer: yeah. i just want to say i support supervisor sheehy.

we called this meeting, and it was postponed. it was not on the spur of the moment. we knew it was coming. i also think it's unfair for the city to put you -- because i know in your unit, you have this certain purview in your unit. but i also think if we -- so we would like to also know, like, what are the kind of data could we suggest that the police actually collect and share with us that really gives us a snapshot of what wis happening on the ground? so this is just a hate crime, but also how many lgbt folks are victims of violence, and those type of things, i think, are really important. and then, we should also get data from the office of citizen complaints to find out what kind of complaints are we also hearing about the police force, too, just in the light of trying to protect this

community at this critical time, especially when we know nationwide that deaths of transgender folks have been increasing, the incidents of antilgbt organizations getting boulder and stronger. all of these things feed in a culture that is anti what san francisco desires, and what the lgbt community of san francisco deserves. it's not fair to put it on you, but i guess it's sort of to the messenger, but i think that a deeper comprehensive look with the police department. we are not going to actually get a handle on this until we actually work collaboratively with the police department because i actually feel like we really depend on your services, actually, to help keep this population safe, too. and are we all working together at the same goal? i think also that we should

continue this hearing, and we should also request certain data so we're prepared to actually get a true snapshot of what's really happening on the streets of san francisco for this community that has, as we know, has also been under attack, not just by our federal government, but by organizations and individuals of organizations that believe in a hateful ideology. so thank you very much. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, and i agree with your suggestions. because if someone waits outside bars in the castro for people to go home and then robs them, that's not necessarily a hate crime. but it's a crime of opportunity. you know, so the violence against the community, it can be -- or people who prey on trans sex workers, knowing that they're very unlikely to report violence for a whole host of

reasons. you know, i think the level of detail we need to have on violence, and it should be violence against the community in all of its aspects. the narrow focus on hate crimes -- and again, i agree with my colleagues. it's not fair to hold you up here or lieutenant o'cone or to hold you up. i feel that the castro is less safe than it has been, and i don't feel i'm getting very much responsiveness from my interactions from the department in terms of safety in the castro. so i'm just reaching a level of frustration. i'm on my fourth police captain in the castro, so we actually haven't been able to create any kind of coherent, meaningful, you know, progress moving forward or strategy. i mean, my -- you know, it just seems like -- like i said --

and it's not to you guys, but it doesn't seem like there's the adequate level of respect from my community within the department at this time. thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor sheehy: and then next, i'd like to introduce christine dubarry from the district attorney's office, d.a.'s office.

>> i'm technically challenged, so i'll do my best here. thank you, supervisor ronen, supervisor sheehy, supervisor fewer. i'm here on behalf of d. d.a. gascon. in our office, we have an individual within our general felonies unit that's dedicated to hate crimes cases, and that person, unfortunately, rotates at our rotations through the office rotate. i invited brook jenkins to be here with me today, but she's actually picking a jury on a hate crime case, so she was unable to join us. but the d.a., this is an issue he's taking very seriously, as his predecessors, and we have taken the time to try to amplify it in the office to make sure that all the

communities in san francisco know that our office is here to protect them when they are a victim of any crime, particularly when they are a victim of social location. there is a question earlier how we define a hate crime, and in our presentation we have the penal code 422.55, which describes to you what are the parameters in deciding whether something is a hate crime. it can be anything from a misdemeanor theft or a vandalism all the way up to very serious felony conduct. and then, below that, you can see the different associations an individual can have or characters an individual can have, such as -- as a vulneraby that can make them a target.

we have seen a lot of targeting of communities in our country in particular the last year, year and a half, and unfortunately, san francisco doesn't have a wall to keep that type of activity out. these are some of the groups that we see being victimized frequently in our own city. it's not unique to san francisco. unfortunately happens around the country. some of the earlier presentations indicated from the southern poverty law center indicated increases in hate crimes across the country, and we've seen that here in san francisco, as well. >> supervisor ronen: what does it mean that victims are an example of a group targeted by hate crimes. >> so we've seen an increase of people being targeted, like muslims and people in the arab

community. >> supervisor ronen: right, but... >> i think the descriptor might have fallen off of that. we do every time we speak on this issue, want to emphasize the hotline that we have. there was a discussion by director davis the difficulty of getting people to come forward. we experience that as well. one of the things that we setup after a lot of the targeting of immigrants and then in the muslim community by then candidate trump was to emphasize the hotline, so we do have that hotline available to all victims. we do offer language services. as you can see here, we take calls in english, spanish, cantonese, mandarin, russian, arabic, and tagalog.

anyone who would like to report a crime can do so on that line. if they speak another language, we'll obviously get assistance to help them with that. there are no immigration consequences for calling this number and reporting a crime. the d.a. has done a lot of outreach to different communities to reassure them that our office was here to be supportive of them if there was actual crimes, if there was information they wanted us to look into, along with the police department, that we're available to do that. and we're always available to speak to other communities about this work or other parts of our office. and then, we also have community advisory boards that

come in to meet with the district attorney and attorneys in our office. so as it relates to this hearing, we do have an lgbt group, and we have serl other groups based on racial and other identities, and we find in those a lot of intersectionality. we'll find one board is interesting in partnering with one of the other community boards, and so we'll being the liaison that fosters the relation between those communities. in addition to that, we have had a big campaign of reaching out to the consul generals in our city and signing memorandums of understanding within those communities to assist both victims of hate crimes, domestic violence and human trafficking, crimes that we feel particularly -- people that may be immigrants or visiting this country may have

even less comfort inn talking to us or the police department, so we work with the consul generals to sign those memorandums with their home country and really making sure that they're aware -- the laufrt supports but maybe more importantly the victim services supports that we can offer people in those situations, so we do a lot of work in that community in speaking at events to make sure we're reaching more deeply into the community. and then, i want to spend some time talking about our local statistics. i did, just before i came, get some 2014 numbers as well, so i'll report those to you. we have certainly seen an increase in both the cases presented to us by the police department as well as the cases we have filed in our office. in 2017, we had many cases that are booked on charges that didn't include a hate crime, but after we reviewed the facts and looked at them more

carefully, we've been able to determine that a hate crime does exist, and we were able to add those charges. that's why you'll see in 2017, four more hate crimes than cases that were brought to us, because we felt, the strain of the conversation earlier, mau not have appeared to be a hate crime, but with a little more time in our office, where we were able to consider the facts, we felt that a hate crime is appropriate. what's not represented on here is the 2014 numbers. as i said, i just got those before i came. in 2014, sfpd brought 12 cases to us as hate crimes, and we filed only four of those, so we had a quite low filing rate at that point, and we've had a steady increase over the last four years in both the cases brought to us and the cases we've been able to file. in fact from 2014 to 2017, we've had a 575% increase in

the cases that we're charging as hate crimes. and just in the last year from 2016 to 2017, we're had a 93% increase in our caseload in hate crimes, and i think that's consistent, unfortunately, with the trends we're seeing in the country of just a lot more language of hate and targeting, and it is resulting in crimes in our city that require us to prosecute them as such. of the cases that we have this year for 2017, the 276 were lgbt victims, and at this moment, i can tell you that three were trans. it's where a lot of our outreach is, and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor sheehy: well,

first, do you still have a victim advocate dedicated to the lgbtq community? >> so i just want textis texti our chief of victim services if we have a dedicated worker, and we don't, but particularly within hate crimes, we don't have a dedicated advocate or a dedicated lgbt advocate. >> supervisor sheehy: so my role, when i was there, was a combined role of hate crimes and for domestic violence because domestic violence is a particular challenge. the common assumption that i found at the time, which is borne out by statistics is when you have a heterosexual domestic violence, you know, 95% of the time, i think it's a statistic, the man is the aggressor. but in 99% of the same sex

situations, that's not always the case. i don't know how well known this is, but if you've done domestic violence work, you know if there's an injury, someone has to be arrested, and it's automatic. that's state law, and it also includes same sex domestic violence. and so a lot of the training that i was doing was actually trying to talk to officers about being very mindful about doing a complete investigation, looking at the types of wounds people had, defensive or offensive wounds, canvassing neighbors so that you could correctly identify the aggressor in domestic violence. so i think it's disappointing that this office has lost its focus in the last 20 years in that particular area. so that's one. i do think it is useful to actually have people dedicated to that work, and you know, to the degree that people are

victims of crime, the awareness that they may have been targeting because of their sexual orientation or gender i identity, that interaction should be -- i just feel -- i guess my census, i guess the criminal justice system is buckety. so if someone yells "fag" as a hate crime, or if you're transgender, and somebody beats you up because you're coming out of a bar in the castro and robs you, that's not a hate crime, but actually, those were targets that were specifically chosen because of that person's identity, and i don't know where the intersection is taking place within our criminal justice system. and then, i also am curious just to how you can work with trans sex workers who on one hand you're arresting, however, on the other hand, you're

asking them to report true reports of violence against them, and when there's so much -- i mean, let's say there's so much economic discrimination against trans folks, and unfortunately, folks do a disproportionate amount of sex work is a way to survive in this city. and yet, and the violence associated with sex work is so high, and that is a form of hate crime. and i'm just not getting a perception of some of the intersections of -- or the vulnerablity, i guess, of my community. and when i say my community, i shouldn't be so parochial, because all of us are here together. of my community, because it doesn't seem -- even after all this time, it doesn't seem to have permeated into the

criminal justice system in a really valid w really meaningful way. >> i think those are valid comments. it does leave one feeling as if it's not a whole holistic approach to a community or an issue, even, and i think that's valid and warranted. we welcome the feedback on how to make improvements in that. it ourns out that all of -- many of our supervisors within victim -- it turns out that all of our -- many -- i do feel that it's an area that we need to improve upon, and i was preparing for this hearing, which i always appreciate that opportunity. it gives us a chance to pause

on our work, is i do feel we need a dedicated victim advocate. we had a trans victim who was very dissatisfied with the way her case was handled, and she met with her attorney. i think we were able to resolve that, but having had somebody dedicated in that role, i think we may have avoided having to get to that place with her, and so i do think a dedicated advocate would be a plus to us. i think a dedicated attorney would be a plus to us. we do have a turnover in that office because we have to fill holes in other parts in the

office. [ inaudible ] our resources don't allow for that, so you know, we try to pick the smartest and most capable people in that unit to do the work, people that have a real passion for that work. i think it takes a special drive of somebody willing to peel back the layers of a police report and understand what's motivating somebody to commit this crime. how might this victim have perceived that, and that takes a unique perspective on those cases. but i agree we should have more, and having more dedicated resources always gets a better result. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you very much. >> thank you. >> supervisor ronen: if we want to open up this item to public comment, is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed.

supervisor sheehy, do you want to add any closing remarks? >> supervisor sheehy: you know, i think that there's just this assumption, because i just -- and it's not just the lgbt community, but there's this assumption that because san francisco is so progressive that we made so much progress on -- on these social cultural issues as a community, that these things don't exist anymore. and as we saw this summer with the white supremacists, they know there's parts they can act in their communities.

there are specific communities that are easy to target in san francisco, because they're here, they have freedom, but that also means they have increased vulnerablity, the people who specifically want to target them. and i really was hoepgs there was more awareness of the special vulnerablity in these times where people feel particularly ' particularly emboldened in being able to target groups that have been marginalized. i think it's been a collaborative effort. we all have worked in coalition with each other and collaboration with each other to get to a place that san francisco exists as it is, but the awareness of our time now with what we have happening in our country, i guess if i have one takeaway, is i hope that the public elements of our city

government will reexamine what their posture is and recognize that we're feeling more vulnerable, not less. and we need to feel safe, and we rely on our public safety agencies to help us feel safe. and so being attentive to that and taking that as a priority -- and again, it's not just the lgbtq community, but it's really our immigrant community, our muslim community, i mean women -- you could go down the list -- people of color, we're being targeted in washington. we don't live in a -- we feel like we live in a bubble, but we don't. there's bridges, there's highways. people come here, and i think that maybe another -- another order of attention -- a higher order of attention and

thoughtfulness about the vulnerablity of our communities is necessary at this time. >> supervisor ronen: thank you -- thank you for that. that was -- appreciate that you called this hearing and would love to follow up on the issues that we didn't feel were meaningfully addressed. supervisor fewer, no comments? >> supervisor fewer: no. >> supervisor ronen: okay. with that, can i entertain a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? okay. great. so this item is continued to the call of the chair. thank you, everyone, for the presentations and for coming out today. mr. clerk, is there any further items? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. this meeting is adjourned.

>> welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode we'll show you how 0 retroactive you're home let's go inside and take a look. >> hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt we'll talk about plywood. >> great thanks. >> where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and

plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we've got to wind block between the studs and we'll secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. >> i notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking we'll a xoich attach the plywood. >> the third thing we'll attach the floor framing of the

house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the

forces. >> so you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next episode you'll see you apply >> all right. good afternoon. happy new year. i want to call to order the first meeting of 2018, tuesday,

january 9. madame secretary, item two, will you call the roll. >> president kwon? >> hear. >> vice president courtney. >> here. >> commissioner vietor. >> here. >> commissioner moran. >> here. >> and commissioner caen is expected to arrive later. >> there will be no closed session today and we'll move to item three. approve after of the minutes of december 12, 2017. do i have a motion to accept the minutes? >> approval. >> second. >> commissioner kwon: any discussion? any public comment? ok. all in favour -- >> aye. >> commissioner kwon: opposed? all right. it carries. and now to item number four, the time for general public comment where members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda.

do we have any public general comment? ok. item five. communications. any discussion on communications? ok. any public comments on communications? going easy on us. all right. item number six. other commission business. any discussion? commissioners? >> we have one real quick. i did want to quickly report to my colleagues that we managed to launch our first class of 2018. [feedback] at the -- at the academy out there at [feedback] in connection with the massoud, todd and the young community developers, the human services agency which granted necessary extensions candidates as well as the mayor's office of i.p.o. interim, predict and organize,

we had a total of 18 signups. 13 participants started at 6:30 in the morning in the dark and the rain yesterday out at the academy. a number of support person fell was on hand. -- personnel was on hand. i wanted to make you aware of the fact that additionally the six-week curriculum has become an eight-week curriculum and now includes a component in connection with asphalt, which is intended to put folks into a better position not just employment seekers opportunities in the private sector, but also in connection with the sewer system improvement project and i'll just continue to report. there is a dispatch piece that i'm working internally with staff on. that's supposed to commence within the next couple of weeks. but i felt really, really good about how everybody's kind of come together on this. i can tell that the students feel really good about it. we were also able to put together a last-ditch effort before the end of the year to

provide certifications pursuant to request made by hope s.f., a number of individuals from bayview community. we received a number of certifications and that will be going -- ongoing with help from oewd and city built. so, i think we're doing what we said we would do. we we're keeping the promises that we all made together and we should be proud. >> commissioner kwon: great news. thank you. anyone else? any public comment? ok. moving right along. i think we have item seven. >> happy new year to everyone. and hopefully this year will be better than last year. so, the first item i have is clean power s.f. update. barbara hill. >> thank you. happy new year. assistant general manager for power. i have updates on our clean

power assess programme with respect to enrollment and service, contracting for our growth. and legislative and regulatory activities. on the enrollment front, our clean power s.f. programme has grown since i talked to you last. we reported in december. we're completing our small enrollment just this month so right now we're currently serving about 80500 sites. so, it is up 500 from the last report. our opt-out rate is the same. 3.2%. so, we're steady eddie on that front. our super green upgrade continues to exceed that. and we're at 4.1% now. that is a .1 increase since my last report to you. so, that's a snapshot of who we're serving today. looking ahead, our next small enrollment will be april of 2018. so just a couple of months away. that enrollment will include folks on our wait list.

we have 230 customers on the wait list now. and that will -- about 65% of them are seeking super green service. so if you want to be part of that enrollment, go to cleanpowersf.org/enrollment before january 21 and we'll be able to include any additional customers in our april service. but, of course, the big next enrollment is for july. right now we're very involved in a number of activities to support that city-wide enrollment. our goal, of course, is to enroll all of the city by july of 2019. we're expecting to have about -- to get about halfway there with our july 2018 enrollment. the work that we're focusing on right now is procuring supply and the related financial support. so, the financial support comes

in the form of a bank credit facility. i've reported to you before that our finance team is working to finalize those contract terms with j.p. morgan. we're on track to bring that to you for a vote of approval at our next meeting, january 23rd. on the supply front, we are actively negotiating and finalizing those contracts with the short listed counterparties. we intend to present the programme risk management, portfolio assessment, and proforma results to the commission on february 13. so that is two meetings from now. at that time, we'll propose updates to the business practice policis that we've been operating the programme under for your approval as well. you initially approved those in december of 2015.

and so with this next big enrollment, we'll refresh those and bring them back to you for approval. on the legislative front, consistents with your vote in november, i believe it was november 14, an ordinance was introduced at the board requesting the board provide a limited delegated authority to the p.u.c. to enter into our supply contracts and that will support the completion of our programme enrollment. the delegated authority would include annual expenditure limitations and conditions imposed by you at that november meeting on the general manager's authority to sign contracts. that item is -- was heard at a special meeting of the board, budget and finance committee on december 12 and i was moved out of committee with full support. and so right now, today, it's at the board for its first reading.

at the capital, cal c.c.a. is preparing for a lobbying day that we we're participating in later in january. and that is to educate and raise awareness about community interest and local energy programmes like clean power s.f. we want to make sure we keep our legislative folks aware of our interests. then on the regulatory side, we are continuing to. a lot of action on the exit fee tpcia. the annual adjustment will be delayed until march. it usually happens in january. i reported in december that it looked like it wasn't going to happen january 1. we've gotten additional reports from the cpuc. they're saying march 1 is when they will authorize adjustments. we're also going to be participating in workshops on january 16 and 17 in a general reform to get to some agreement.

we'll be participating as san francisco and also as part of the cal c.c.a. coalition. the staff at the cpuc surprised us in december by issuing a resolution on resource adequacy. that staff draft resolution was issued for comment. it would result in delaying c.c.a. expansion. and start up for at least a year in california. the stated objective was to avoid cost shifts from departing customers to remaining customers. associated with resource adequacy obligations. and what the commission said they were trying to do is align the c.c.a. expansion and startup dates with their planning process for resource, for assigning resource obligations.

comments are due in that proceeding january 11. they were actually due like a very short amount of time after the resolution was ish used and we petitioned for more time as did others. they reluctantly granted that and we're grateful that they did. there's been a lot of coordination activity on how to participate in that proceeding over the holidays and many legislators and local elected officials have written the cpuc expressing their concerns about the process that the cpuc is undertaking. including our board president and acting mayor breed, sending in a letter. so, stay tuned on that front. we'll see where that goes. we see it really as a cost allocation issue, not an urgent drop everything and pay attention to this matter. the kind of matter that the cpuc takes time through a rule-making process, with comment and possible hearings,

discover. a lot of opportunities to understand viewpoint and get input. we thought the process alone was reason to be alarmed about the approach the cpuc was taking. we'll see how they respond once they see folks written comments. and then finally, pg&e has filed for at the cpuc for revisions to its solar choice and green tariff programme. that is the part of the programme offerings that competes with our super green offering and we will be addressing comments on cost allocation issues to make sure that the costs of that programme with are being borne by the right rate payers so the competition there is fair. with that, i'm happy to take any questions you may have. >> i have a question about the enrollment. can you remind me.

the 80,000, that was by district, right? didn't we shift strategy now, focused on business as well? >> it was district and we did shift strategy to focus on some districts so it was business customers in district 10. all customers in five and eight. the smaller enrollments that we've been engaged in have included net energy metring customers in those districts and customers who have been on the wait list. >> and then the next enrollment in july, it is going to be targeted at who? >> we'll -- we'll continue to work that -- those details out. it is going to be about 150 megawatts of customer load. we're pretty much going to be serving customers in all districts between our auto enrollment and our wait list signups. >> it would be great to get -- the opt-out rates are still so low, but it would be great to

get a better understanding maybe at your next presentation briefing on, you know, a little more on the daem graphics of the enrollment. you know, are the small businesses, are they big businesses -- >> sure. >> how many of the supergreens with individuals versus businesses. kind of a little bit more of a profile? >> happy to do that. happy to do that. >> quite interesting as we move into the big push here. >> sounds good. >> thank you. >> there was a piece in the paper this morning or yesterday about pg&e proceeding to shift customers to time of day rates. how does that affect us? and refresh my memory. we do not have time of day rates, is that correct? >> no, we do have time of use, time of day rates, seasonally adjusted rates for both our clean power s.f. and our hetchy customers.

yeah. so, our rate design mimics pg&es. so, those same time of use periods and seasonal periods apply to our customers. >> ok. thank you. >> thank you. >> great, thank you. any public comment on this item? ok. item 7b. >> commissioner kwon: actually, i have no other announcements and that concludes my report. thank you. short and sweet. >> thank you. very short and sweet. any public comments on the general manager's report? ok, madame secretary, the consent calendar. >> item e is the con sent calendar. all matters are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these item fls a member of the commission or public so requests in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and

considered as a separate item. >> i'd like to make a motion to improve the consent calendar. >> second. >> any discussion? any public comment? all right. all in favour -- >> aye. >> opposed? carries. >> item nine, authorize the general manager to execute a memorandum of understanding with the san francisco recreation and park department to establish authorized entry and access to recreation and park properties by s.f.p. representatives in other words to inspex, install, modify, repair, remove, replace and test a temporary overhead power line in mclaren park. >> i'd like to move the item. >> second. any discussion? all in favour? >> aye. >> public comment? >> public comment. forgive me. all right. all in favour. >> aye. >> opposed? it carries. item 10. >> a proven increase to the existing contract cost in the

amount of $7,635,800 and any future modifications to the contract. >> second. >> any discussion? any public comments? all in favour? >> aye. >> oppose? ed carries. item 11, please. >> item 11 approved the selection of kennedy jenks consultants a.g..joint venture, a.e. com technical services incorporated and stantech engineering incorm rated and award dpraoems number pro-880076a through c and authorize a general manager to execute three professional service agreements each with an announcement not to exceed $4 million and each with a duration of five years. >> i'd like to move the item. >> second. >> discussion? any public comment? all in favour?

>> aye. >> opposed? >> 12 , please. actually, we have no closed session items. so we go straight to item 23 and 24. any new business from the commissioners? ok. i think this is a record. [laughter] wow. the meeting is adjourned. >> i told you it would be a good year. >> have a good one..

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today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to

face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have

the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon

monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to

do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use

a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us.

and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. >> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. fire commission regular meeting january 10th, 2018. item one roll call. president ken cleaveland. >> present. >> vice president stephen nakajo. >> here. >> commissioner michael

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