so this bill would only impact commercial customers, it would not impact residential customers? and you know, we see these community choice programs are choice, and we're already competing with the i.o.u.s, so we'll have to do our best to compete with direct access providers should this bill pass. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. commissioners? commissioner pollock? no. any comments? none at all. let's hear from our public comment speakers, please. >> yes. eric brooks again, san francisco clean energy advocates and californiians for clean energy choice. i really have to strongly challenge what i just heard from sfpuc staff. the only reason ab 813 got out of committee is that cal c.c.a. did not opposed it.

had they opposed 237 in committee, it might have been held back in committee or at least would have gotten less votes which gives us a stronger ability to kill it in the future. i really -- and the idea that being in a neutral position and claiming that you're working with environmental groups that have an opposed position, when your agency, your trade association is the reason that these bills are moving forward, is not legitimate. and i'm sorry to get back into a position to have to strongly challenge the sfpuc, but this is one of those times. if direct access is opened up, every large city that has large commercial and industrial customers, especially those that have not established community choice yet, all of those companies will be decimated. all the companies will leave even if they're getting clean energy because they're getting a better deal with bigger

companies with lower economies of scale. so this is not really good. we need the board of supervisors to pressure the sfpuc. i'll mention this more on future agenda items, but these bills are now being conegotiated with some fire bills that i've notified the chair about and the executive officer. sb 1088, ab 33, and sb 901 that would all take the liability of companies like pg&e for fire damage that they cause and put it on consumers. so i'll talk more about that on the next items. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. >> my statement is related to senate bills, as well, but not the ones that's on point here. but you have senate bills by david chiu pertaining to testing assault kits, information has produced facts that there's a minimum of 1,600

untested assault kits. i suspect there's at least maybe -- no, 1,600 assault kits -- no, 16,000 assault kits that hasn't been tested. i suspect there's about 1,000 or more kits sitting at the hall of justice. i made a demonstration before the police commission, and you should create an additional bill to follow up on that $2 million that was given to the police department to test those assault kits. assault kits, i believe, wasn't put into the electronic codis systems. i talked to one of the police officers, he says they are. and i believe that the backlog that they admit that they have need to be tested, so i believe there should be some bills and legislations to enforce that because my demonstration pertained to continual injury where they're under the impression that those old kits cannot be tested because of the

statute of limitations is a false narrative. and if you do so, i'll predict that numerous assaulters will be caught because of the d.n.a. evidence. those are the most easiest kind of cases to prove because they've got your fingerprint of your body fluids, your sperm and your fingerprints and skill cells within that assault kit, and they're sitting on a shelf at the hall of justice. it's not fair to the female victims. i suspect mr. deangelo, you've got his evidence in other cases because you haven't tested all the kits. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. commissioners, questions, comments, would anyone like to make a motion? yes, commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: a question for mr. gobel in terms

of senate bill 237. is there an idea when this will actually have a vote? is it a two-year bill? it's gotten out of committee, so do you know if it's been agendaized? very least that

we could actually write a letter because we can't speak for the san francisco board of supervisors, but we can actually speak for san francisco lafco, that on behalf of the san francisco lafco, we would write an opposition letter. >> commissioners, i would happy to work with you and your staff to draft that letter and send it out as soon as possible. >> supervisor fewer: thank

you. miss wong, do we need to have a vote on that to take action on that. >> clerk: no, not required. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. so let's call item number six, please. >> clerk: item number six, executive officer's report on executive officer work plan update, emerging mobility services update, and cleanpowersf 2.0 service updates. >> supervisor fewer: hello, mr. gobel. >> hello, madam chair, commissioners. i have a few updates, starting with the work plan which i approved at the last meeting. first of all, i wanted to let you know that i have been meeting exami meeting and talking with staff. we are mandated to monitor cleanpowersf, but the language in the m.o.u. in the original 2007 ordinance which commissioner pollock, we talked a little bit about at the last

meeting, was written cleanpowersf started and really addressed lafco's role in the program's beginning stages. what i wrote in the work plan was my assessment after reviewing the m.o.u. and the ordinance, but i think it's probably time for that language to be updated, so what i would like to propose is that i continue to meet with sfpuc staff advocates, your staff, to come up with some more detailed language on how lafco will continue its important role monitoring cleanpowersf, how we can effectively work together and then update the work plan language and bring it back to you for approval after the august recess. >> supervisor fewer: great. >> second, at the last meeting, commissioner pollock directed me to move forward on an r.f.p. study on c.c.a. 2.0 or the next face of cleanpowersf. quite frankly, as the new executive officer, i'm still trying to understand what

c.c.a. 2.0 means, but i think in the broader sense, it gets us thinking about the future of cleanpowersf and energy independance in san francisco. so as we consider cleanpowersf's future and addressing your request for a clean -- c.c.a. 2.0 study, commissioner pollock, one idea that briefly emerged was how cleanpowersf can develop more programs for disadvantaged communities it would identify what under privileged meaned in a c.c.a. context and generate a list of program ideas. if we did this, it would be very useful for other c.c.a. programs across california. so i haven't really had an opportunity to get into detail on this, but this is something i've discussed with the sfpuc staff and with some of your staff, commissioners, and i

wanted to call your attention to it today. i'd be happy to develop a scope for this and bring it back for your approval if you're interested in pursuing it. finally, i wanted to briefly update you on the study on mobility services. i had a chance to meet with staff from the san francisco county transportation authority, and i'm working right now on completing a draft scope. hope to have that ready in the next few weeks, and i will have a presentation for you on the scope at our september 21 meeting, thank you at the last meeting, commissioner ronen, you asked me to include in that study how we can help taxi drivers who are struggling to payoff their medallion loans. so today, i'd like to ask for direction on this. the m.t.a. as you know hired a

consultant which has produced a draft report on how to improve the health of the taxi industry, and they do address briefly in their report some of the issues that medallion holders are having in terms of struggling to pay their loans. what i would like to propose is instead of doing a separate study on this, is that i analyze the m.t.a.'s report and other work that has been done in this area and come up with our own list of recommendations on how to help these drivers. so i'm proposing to do this separate from the study on emerging mobility services and labor. and lafco is authorized to do this work under our special studies authority. so with that, madam chair, i'll turn it back to you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. that might work. i -- what i -- i want to provide some relief to

particularly the group of taxi drivers who bought their medallion at a very high cost, right when its value basically plummeted. and i -- i -- i -- i -- i'd move to ask chair fewer perhaps to talk a little bit about your conversations with these workers and with the m.t.a. because i know you've done quite a bit of work to give some feedback because the report that you referred to, it -- my sense of it is it's not going to help those workers to the degree that they need help, and they're -- they're in dire straits. >> supervisor fewer: so i agree. >> supervisor ronen: yeah, go ahead. >> supervisor fewer: i have to say, that report is inadequate.

after reviewing that report, it doesn't give them any relief, and actually, it doesn't explore how the m.t.a. could give them financial relief, which i think they shied away from. i think after speaking with the director of the m.t.a., it is his position that they will not offer financial relief but rather incentives to make the medallions more valuable, and i think quite frankly we are we're at a point where the medallions have lost all value. so i welcome a deeper analysis. i cannot believe we are the only city that are suffering under this, the impact -- the financial impact of t.n.c.'s. so if you could expand your search to the medallion sales in cities such as new york, which their taxi drivers are

suffering from the same thing, too. that if you could look at these same types of situations where they have sold these to taxi drivers, and they have found these permits now or medallions are a burden, but there's no way to give more value to the medallions or the permits. i think that's the situation we're under, and so we can compare and bring some ideas forth. i think we waited for the study. i think i found the study wanting and also inadequate, so i welcome a fresh set of eyes at it in a deeper analysis to do that work. and so if you don't mind, mr. gobel, i actually think this is something we're very much involved in. if it's within the scope of lafco, even better. commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much. it's so good to hear

commissioner ronen and fewer's comments about just clarifying the need and the importance and the sort of gap in and what the m.t.a. study is really getting at. and so i would support doing a separate study where you do analyze -- you analyze the existing draft but then also to create a scope of work for any additional study that you might want to recommend to the commission to direct your work further. i mean, that would -- that would be sort of step one is yes, do what you've proposed to us here today, and then, step two is if then, now what? what do we do going further? i mean, there's clearly going to be a gap that you identify and -- and how you explore that, i think we just don't know yet, but i would be eager to hear what you say at that

point. >> okay. thank you, commissioner. i -- i would be happy to develop a scope for this and to come back, also, at our september 21 meeting to make this separate from the labor study on emerging mobility services, and i'll bring the scope for that, and the scope for this study back to you for a presentation on september 21. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, mr. gobel, that's perfect. let's open this up for public comment now. are there any members of the public that would like to speak? >> i have a lot of respect for city hall and board of supervisors, even more so for the females whom i'm always willing to standup for, and i'm quick to react when i see a violation that's taking place when somebody's trying to undermine them. i've come to a board meeting one day, next thing you know, i'm surrounded by about 10 to 15 and indian descent cab drivers who want me to speak up

for them because they're being charged $250,000 for a medallion. that's a discrimination bases on rents. you've got taxi drivers that work for lyft and uber. the majority of their staff are on or about the skin color of white. all these medallions that's given to the arabic drivers and drivers of indian descent are people of color. you've got a situation enjoyed by one class of taxi drivers but not another. you're deliberately charging them $250,000 for a medallion in order to drive a taxi, whereas lyft drivers and uber drivers are only paying, what, 125,000? some, probably not even paying it off. why are you price fixing and charging those arabic and indian descent taxi drivers more than when you're charging people of different nationality?

that's a violation of the civil rights act of 1964. you're discriminating based on skin color 'cause you've got a skin color that's enjoying not paying $250,000 for a medallion, and then, you've got another skin color that's having to pay $250,000 in order to drive a taxi. so that's enough right there for you to penalize it. whose idea was it to do this, way -- [inaudible] >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. thanks. >> hello, again, commissioners. eric brooks, our city, san francisco green party, san francisco clean energy advocates and californiians for energy choice. so first, real quick on the taxi issue and the ride hails, i want to just second what all the commissioners said about making this become a real

independent report and also a report that focused on solutions that we can actually use. the main one that i can think of is either fees or taxes. fees if taxes won't work on the ride hail corporations, uber and lyft, and the others, and chariot, so that we can get the money we need to bail out these taxi drivers from those corporations that don't -- they and their drivers don't pay any of these medallion fees. so on cleanpowersf, i definitely want to give a big thumbs up to continuing with community choice 2.0 because it's vital. right now we've got a situation where moody's is predicting that 80 -- within a few years, 85% of the load in california will be taken up by community choice. if community choice programs are not building local

renewables efficiency and battery storage then there's going to be far too much demand for renewables supply. the cost will go up and threaten the whole movement of community choice. and also on these bills we're facing, we would have a lot more autonomy if we had our own local renewable sufficiency battery storage, if we had our own independent local energy systems, we would be able to withstand bills like this much better, but no community choice programs have that yet, and so we really need to get cracking on 2.0. thanks. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much. just to build off of mr. brooks' comments, i know that mr. gobel has been working around advocates around clean

power 2.0, so just ask that you continue the work that you're doing in that. and in that, i believe the local buildout has been a feature of that ongoing investigation and that you continue to look at that. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: and mr. gobel, i would like you to expand your scope when -- of study around the taxi drivers and the medallion issue to include a racial analysis, also. thank you very much. thank you, michael, for that suggestion. >> you're very welcome. >> supervisor fewer: and then -- there's no action for this committee to take. madam clerk, can you please call item number seven. >> clerk: item number seven. public comment. members of the public may address the lafco on items that are within their jurisdiction and not on today's agenda. >> supervisor fewer: are there any members that would like to spe speak? hello. >> hello again. this time i would like to speak

to a false narrative and speak about the people coming to the board of supervisors line about the multiple millions and billions of dollars that twitter and other high tech companies is making and contributing to the city. sf, viewer, please. i demonstrated well over several times and showed how a minimum of $217 billion worth of tax-free money has been awarded to twitter and other high tech companies when that money should be contributed to the city and county of san francisco and used to the big who are in biggest need. in 2006, when the payroll tax had been cut by nearly half and gross receipts, taxes raised accordingly, nearly 400,000 more businesses paid gross tax than paid in payroll tax, according to the october city receipt reports.

now here's a graph on how payroll taxes have decreased and less money has been contributed into the city of san francisco. as you can see here, in 2012, all the way up to 2018, the payroll taxes decreased, and that money that's being decreased contributing to the city is going into the pockets of the high tech companies, okay? now, as far as other companies, multibillion dollar companies, according to the committee executive summary, last year's city hotel tax brought in $370 million, okay? annual payroll pertaining to taxes in tourism and the industry exceeded $2.5 billion, which increased the tax contribute to over $700 million. how come that's not applied to --

[inaudible] >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. [inaudible] >> supervisor fewer: thank you, michael. thank you very much. public comment is now closed -- oh, so, so sorry. >> never mind. i'm going to do it on the next item. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. [inaudible] >> supervisor fewer: would you like to come up, sir? public comment is now reopened.

>> i remember when the city had a -- how do you say, a maybe 15, 20 years ago when things looked a lot different than they do now, and i'm proud of san francisco for, you know, just continuing in its development, and that's all i had to say. i'm happy with the city and its socioeconomic competition and it's willingness to do things like bring back public pay for -- so people can go to school for free at the community colleges here and whatnot. we haven't had that since 1980. so i'm proud of san francisco. i don't see any racial issues. i just see big going on and, you know -- and we work with business. it's part of a community. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. public comment is now closed. madam clerk, please call item number eight. >> clerk: item number eight, future agenda items.

>> supervisor fewer: are there any members of the public who would like to speak on item number eight? okay. good. >> take that as an indication that you don't have any future agenda items to talk about. well, i do, and in a way this is a future what the chair might decide item and also what the chair might decide to take to the board of supervisors item. so i mentioned these fire bills. so as happened last year, governor brown, who wants ab 813 to go forward, he's got family that's in the -- in the fossil fuel energy industry and that's part of the deal, really wants ab 813 to move forward, and the way he tried to move it forward last year, but we managed to block him, but last year was a different story, he tied the passage of sb 100 to

ab 813. and now that the big fire bill issue has come up, and the liability of companies like pg&e have come up, he's now tied both of those, the clean energy bill, ab 813, now those are tied to negotiations on the tire bills, and so -- and -- fire bills. and the intention of that is to bring pg&e to support the other bills, to kind of give them something in the fire bills so they support the other bad bills. so this is a really cynical conflagration. it's a huge problem. you won't be able to take action on it, but sb 1088 -- it's 1-0-8-8, ab 33, and sb 901, which is the same author at 1088, are all being opposed by reform and a lot of clean energy advocates because of the dynamics and also because they would take the cost of fire prevention and fire liability

off of the utilities and put them on customers. and as soon as that liability goes away, they don't have to care about whether they start fires or not. that's just fundamentally crazy, and so we need the board to take a position on this whole badpackage of bills. >> supervisor fewer: okay. so thank you very much. hello. >> hello. [inaudible] >> -- and extreme serious and willful misconduct. i already mentioned to you that i spoke before the police commission pertaining to assault kit situations. and during that hearing, an additional topic came up to breast center and how they wanted to change to support the police uniforms putting pink patch to support breast cancer. i supported that response and i explained that part of the reason a lot of females have

breast cancer is because of cancer causing agents out at that shipyard. that's your source. that's one of the main sources of breast cancer, and also out at treasure island. and by the same response, i want to point out that that scanner van that was used to detect radiation is not qualified to take care and detect the radio active materials that's out there. there's several kinds of cancer causing agents in that soil. [inaudible] >> -- such scanner vans are supposed to be used only as gross screening tool to help focus on subsequent soil sampling which is done by taking thousands of samples and the fill and then sending the dirt for testing in the laboratory. okay. the scanner van is incompatible

in screening -- incapable of screening most radio active levels of health concerns. the van simply cannot be used to declare sites safe. so you're using a machine that's not qualified to detect these materials. not only are you falsifying the samples, but you're using a machine that's giving you false data. and i'm real up yet about that because as i -- [inaudible] >> i'm real upset. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, michael. >> okay, because you killed my grandmother. >> supervisor fewer: yeah. >> okay. cancer killed my grandmother out there at potrero hill, and i didn't know that. my grandmother died in my arms, and i did not know because she is dieing because of cancer causing material out there at potrero hill, and now that i know that now, i'm even more upset than i was before on any other topic that i'm working on here. >> supervisor fewer: thank

you, michael. thanks for fighting the good fight. public comment is now closed. madam clerk, is there any further business today? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. the meeting's adjourned. thank you. >> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i

want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment.

>> you're watching quick bite, the show that has san francisco. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940.

it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened

in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i

think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is

such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food.

it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting

on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪

>> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh, this is awesome. oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪ >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪] [♪]

[♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because

it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it

was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪] >> last, but certainly not least

is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every

single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s.

i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. >> hi today we have a special

edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to

know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. >> how long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in san francisco. >> it depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. >> what kind of neighborhood and community involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. >> it is important to have a good relationship with your neighbors and your community. go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. it is important to have a

battery-operated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the community around and how you can communicate with other people. >> one of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. >> yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. so a title to a home, a passport, a driver's license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any vital information on your computer. back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. >> in your home you should be prepared as well. >> absolutely. >> let's take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. >> we have no water, what are we going to do about water? >> it is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis,

both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. >> we have this big container and also in people's homes they have a hot water heater. >> absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well >> what other things do people need to have aren't their home. >> it is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. >> here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. and this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. >> yes. >> so in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. >> having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be

working right away. it is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. >> and here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. >> i hope that you have an alternative one at home. >> oh, i forgot. >> and in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. >> i have them right here. >> good. excellent. that is great. additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. >> i am okay and i will meet you at... >> exactly. exactly. water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. >> we have matches here. and my spare glasses. >> and your spare glasses.

>> if you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. if it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. >> inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. >> very important. >> we have a little first aid kit. >> and lots of different kinds of batteries. and another spare flashlight. >> so, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we don't have damage? >> one of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. becoming prepared is not that difficult. taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra every-day items on hand helps to make the difference. >> that contributes

dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building >> san francisco is known worldwide for its atmospheric waterfront where spectacular views are by piers and sight and sounds are xhanl changing we come to the here for exercise

relax ball games entertainment, recreation market, exhilaration a wide variety of contributions easily enjoyed look up the bay the waterfront is boosting for activities boosting over 25 visitors every year the port of san francisco manages 7 may have million dollars of waterfront from hyde street and fisherman's wharf to the cargo terminals and name shoreline the architecture like pier 70 and the ferry building is here for the embarcadero and a national treasure the port also supports 10

different maritime industries alongside with the recreational attractions making san francisco one of the most viable working waterfronts in the world but did you think that our waterfront faces serious challenges if earthquake to damage the seawall and the embarcadero roadway rising seawalls will cause flooding at high tides and major repairs to a safe many of the piers the port is at a critically turnl point time to plan for the future of san francisco's waterfront this year the port is updating it's marts plan the plan working group to invite a wide variety of poichdz from the city and

bayview and other advisory teams to share their expertise if intense and maritime operations the waterfront land use plan has guided the use and development of the lanes for the last 20 years major physical changes take place along the waterfront and now is the time to update the waterfront plan to continue improvements that will keep our waterfront vibrate, public and resilient the biggest challenges facing the waterfront are out the site an aging seawall along the embarcadero roadway and seawalls that will rise by 21 hundred to provide and productivity of tides seawall is built over weak soils and mud the next earthquake will cause it to settle several feet without the urgent repairs that

will damage the promenade and other things we've been fortunate over the last hundred years less than one foot of seawall over the next hundred years scientists say we'll have 6 feet of seawall rise imagine the pier 30/32 will be floated, the embarcadero will be flooded our transportation system is fog to be heavy impacts unfortunately, the port didn't have the financial resources to repair all the deteriorating piers let alone the adaptations for sea level rise. >> it is clear that the port can't pay for the seawall reinforcement or deal with the sea level rise on its own needs to raise money to take care of the properties at take care of the maintenance on the

properties no way absent anti funding the issues of sea level rise or the schematic conditions of seawall can be development. >> as studies talk about the seawall challenges the working group is look at the issues please come share our ideas about recreation, pier activities, shoreline habitat, historic preservation and transportation issues and viral protection. >> we know this planning process will not have one question and one answer we need the diversity of the opinions how people feel about san francisco waterfront and want to hear all the opinions. >> the challenges call for big decisions now is the time to explore now and creative ideas to protect and preserve san francisco waterfront. >> now is the time to get

involved to help to shape the future of our waterfront. >> we need the debate please come forward and engage in the process. >> this is your waterfront and this is your opportunity to get involved be part of solution help san francisco create the waterfront we want for the future. >> this is really to dream big and i think about what our waterfront looked like for all san franciscans today and generations to come. >> get involved with the planning process that will set the fraction for what is coming at the port. >> find for in upgrading dates on the ports website. >> (ship blowing horn in

distances) >> today was the inauguration. we heard congratulations. it's the first african-american woman to be named to the city. with that, thank you for coming today. let's get started. >> for the record this is the july 11, 2018 treasure island development authority board meeting. call to order. [rol