this photo in the lower corner. we have folks in civilian uniforms, fire, police, also folks in military uniforms. the bay area does not have a lot of military personnel in it right now. this is a great opportunity for us to work with them directly. this is a landing craft utility in the middle. it comes out of our navy ships and delivers trucks from the marine corps. this is pier 96. pier 96 is out in the southern part of the city. and this is one of the federal staging areas outlined in the bay area earthquake plan. this year on monday, october 1, we'll be exercising our federal staging area, as well as our fueling requirements and needs. so through leadership with brian strong, lifeline council, we've create add fuel working group and worked through a lot of the issues of, what is a blue sky day of fuel look like in san

francisco? it's fairly good. when you put the ground-shaking scenario in there, it changes pretty dramatically. g.s.a. has been a great partner in fuel planning. we know that the department of defense will need to help us with that as well as state, federal, nonprofit and private sector partners. so, again, this picture is highlighting that whole community approach to our disaster planning in the city. the capstone event for the fleet week program is our leader seminar on october 3 and 4. it's an emergency management conference with high-level folks from across the country discussing important response, best practices and challenges as well as items we can work on together. thank you. >> thanks, jill. so we're -- i'm going to say a few words about our hurricane florence deployment team.

and just to say -- i got a note to say that they've arrived home safely. vic vicki, i don't know if you heard that. okay, good. i wanted to thank kevin mcconnell. he was our lead on that from the sheriff's department and he was stant afteric. it was kind of a young group that went with him and it was wonderful to have his tenure and experience and to lead them as they were there. i just want to say that in general, it is such a great opportunity. there is no better training ground than to deploy our staff to provide mutual aid when these incidents happen. and i'm very appreciative to the departments that sent folks, so d.p.h., sheriff's department, fire, police. people there in north carolina, tens of thousands remain without

power. and our team really learned quite a bit. and we're looking forward to lessons learned when they come back. we encourage our city departments to have your people sign up for training and they can work with us and within your department, but to deploy. so we want to be good partners in the region and to other states and all of that helps our capability and response here in san francisco. looking forward to seeing everybody in person soon. next, wanted to mention that we are almost at -- it will be a year in december of our healthy

streets operation center. healthy streets is working seven days a week out of the emergency operations center on church street. and it's a great opportunity of emergency management can be applied to ongoing or planned events. it's a very busy place. it's one of our dispatch, dispatcher sitting across from d.p.w. dispatcher. this has increased visibility. we have people coming and going there all the time. and i think that it's been fairly successful, very successful, in addressing the very complicated issues. so we look forward to reporting back after the new year of a better assessment of the achievements of that group. and now i will turn it over to

brian strong of the office of capital planning and resilience. >> thank you. good morning, everyone. i think someone can move the -- thanks. thank you very much. i think you have information on various aspects of our program, but today we wanted to talk about the mandatory retrofit because it's timely. we just completed -- it's a program that was started in 2013. the last deadline was september 15 for the final tier. so we had four different tiers in the program. the way it works, you have a permit deadline and then you have two years to get the work done. so this has really been a joint effort across several different departments. i want to recognize tom huey and

building inspections. i think my office helped to develop the policy and working closely with them on it. but we're really -- this is something that we should be proud of. the compliance rates are higher than any other part of the country or the state who have similar programs. i should mention that this is protecting 112,000 residents in san francisco. so it's a considerable number. it's going to make them up to 30 times safer, the homes or apartment units, 30 times safer, having done this work. can you go to the next slide? thanks. so these are some numbers that are maybe a little hard for you to read over there, but this shows we've addressed 3,400 buildings, deadlines have passed for them, that have complied with the various tiers.

of the tier three, 98% compliance. tier four, whiches with due a couple weeks ago, 80% compliance. the compliance numbers jump dramatically week before the deadlines. [laughter] so people are paying attention to these things. and the picture on the right there was from a september 6 press event that we had. and it was with the usgs talking about the 150th anniversary of the major heyward earthquake. the records show damage in san francisco, there weren't a lot of homes in the east bay. it was interesting that they did have some record of damage really just in our area. it reminded us of the importance of doing this work. director huey, my boss as city

administrator, both were there, made presentations. and, trent, we appreciate it. the reporter clearly found you and the comments about the importance of this to make sure that people can stay in their homes to our affordable housing, was really important. and, in fact, we go to the next slide, i can mention that a lot of this is about housing preservation. and we know that these tend to be -- they're five-plus unit buildings across the city. these are all rent-controlled units. so we know that they're vital to affordable housing to make sure that people in communities can stay. and building owners have invested, so far, $176 million into making the improvements. at the end of the program, will have invested $383 million. so, again, these are significant

improvements. these are significant sacrifices that people are making. i guess i shouldn't say sacrifices -- improvements that they're making towards their future and protecting their homes and protecting the homes of their residents. a part of the program -- and we're seeing 60% to 70% of applications are also adding add usual a.d.u.s or accessory dwelling units. so this is an opportunity where we're not just preserving housing, but adding to it. that is -- those units will become rent-controlled units. part of the house or the units that are in the building today. and, again, we think it's a really important benefit. next slide. just to remind people a little bit, and this is part of the community action plan for

seismic safety, which was completed in 2010, and it's a 30-year look-forward on how we can make improvements. we often -- we have our capital plan that talks about publicly on infrastructure. this is where we're getting into what we need to do to address privately owned infrastructure in the city. as we know, estimates are 85% of the infrastructure across the country is privately owned. so this is important. and it feeds into some of the other work that we're doing. i think coming forward around private schools, around tall buildings. a lot of you have been hearing stuff about tall buildings. and we'll be coming up with the comprehensive study of earthquakes effects on tall bulledin buildings. there's a facade ordinance that we're going to work on to address facades that could be vulnerable in earthquakes. and i should mention the community side, again, working

with the neighbor fest program and neighborhood empowerment network. there are 40 block parties that are scheduled for this year. 26 of them -- i'm sorry, 24 of them have taken place. there's a big one, one of the -- we have three or four that are really large and the biggest one is in the bayview and that's scheduled for october 6, i'm sorry, october 6, where we expect to actually have several hundred people from the community come together and have a block party and also talk about resilience and earthquake preparedness and erica and her team and other folks will be there from a lot of your departments to engage with the community. with that, i'm happy to take any questions and move along. we're moving quickly today. >> okay. if there are no questions, we can go into roundtable. if anyone has any announcements about activities that your

department is working on. >> three things. one, the elderly and the elderly care facilities especially, we do have a lot of that information, where they're at, in terms of info on the c.a.d. it would be great if we can get more of that, especially the permanent housing. it's easier to track, where you know you have someone. where my grandmother is at, it's tougher. it's a regular residence, but with six people. so we need to get that in. the harder thing would be, 20 apartments and there is one that needs help. those are temporary premise information that can go on the c.a.d. and the problem is, if somebody

moves, it changes. but that needs to be updated and i don't know if your department can help with that or not, but that would be great. or if there is g.i.s. mapping that we could work on as far as putting more of these bulledings, if there is some way to integrate the maps. and as far as d.b.i. and different types of construction. secondly, we're concerned about, there's -- tom might know about this, it's type 4, heavy timber construction coming down from the national. we're concerned about that. we're concerned about the mission bay-type building, where we have two stories of cement, type one trucconstruction, and five. when they're being corrected, it's dangerous because of the heat. so wear concerned about them when they're under construction. when they are constructed,

they're sprinklered. so it's less of a concern then. during the earthquake, the water won't be working. our plan is if there's is a conflagration, there will be lines of demarcation. and these buildings, if they have no water, our lines of demarcation can be jumped over. so that's a concern of ours. that ship has already sailed. we are concerned what's coming down the pipe and i'm not -- it's not going to come tomorrow, but the heavy timber buildings that can go up to 85 feet and 165 feet. now this is a -- we don't want this in san francisco at all. i know that the developers might, but that would even make our lines of demarcation that much narrower. so that's something this body should be concerned about. and, thirdly, we've talked with pg & e. i don't know if they're in the house. are they part of this council? so there's two transmission

lines that come in, gas transmission, is what we're most concerned about. we like to work with them so there is -- the mechanism is in place where you get the 15-second alert, the earthquake is coming. if we know that a certain magnitude of earthquake is coming, we want them to shut down the transmission lines. we would rather deal with building collapse and not possible conflagration. if the conflagrations happen, resilience will be pushed backwards. there are three things that i as deputy chief are concerned about. thanks. [inaudible]

>> anyone else? are there any members of the public for public comment? okay. seeing none, we are 2 minutes early. so i will take that. [laughter] our next meeting is in december. >> in closing, i just want to -- great meeting. i think that what we heard reported -- i can't express our gratitude enough to all of you for taking the time. i think these periodic meetings are the communication catalyst that we are and underscored what we came here to talk about. it was so wonderful to hear from everyone and understand that we are integrated and that we are dedicated to the same goal of

connected communities and to see through the presentations how everything we're doing is for all sectors and all san francis franciscoans that live and work here and we're working together to make our city resilient and prepared and engaged. so thank you. thank you, everyone. >> thank you. one thing announcement for hopefully everyone in this room doesn't need it, but for members of the public that may be watching, a reminder to sign up for alert sf to get all the information that you need for day-to-day information and emergencies, but certainly when we have a significant event. it will be a way in which we can communicate with you. i hope to see many of you at fleet week next week. have a great day.

san francisco, 911, what's the emergency? >> san francisco 911, police, fire and medical. >> the tenderloin. suspect with a six inch knife. >> he was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of your emergency? >> welcome to the san francisco department of emergency management. my name is shannon bond and i'm the lead instructor for our dispatch add -- academy. i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or medical? >> san francisco police,

dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer emergency and non-emergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. >> we staff multiple call taking positions. as well as positions for police and fire dispatch. >> we have a priority 221. >> i wanted to become a dispatcher so i could help people. i really like people. i enjoy talking to people. this is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. >> as a 911 dispatcher i am the first first responder. even though i never go on seen -- scene i'm the first one answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them

instruction. the information allows us to coordinate a response. police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency. it is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that you've also saved a citizen's life. >> our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> this is shift work. that means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes that's mandatory. >> this is a high stress career so it's important to have a good balance between work and life. >> we have resources available like wellness and peer support groups. our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances. >> i received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones. so for them to, you know,

recognize me for that i appreciated it. i was surprised to even get it. at the end of the day i was just doing my job. >> a typical dispatch shift includes call taking and dispatching. it takes a large dedicated group of fifrst responders to make ths department run and in turn keep the city safe. >> when you work here you don't work alone, you work as part of a team. you may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. >> i was born and raised in san francisco so it's really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that i have a part in -- you know, even if it's behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow and helping people out that live here. >> the training program begins with our seven-week academy followed by on the job training. this means you're actually taking calls or dispatching responders. >> you can walk in with a high school diploma, you don't need to have a college degree.

we will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. >> we just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good dispatcher. >> if it's too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. >> good. that's right. >> from the start of the academy to being released as a solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. >> training is a little over a year and may change in time. the training is intense. very intense. >> what's the number one thing that kills people in this country? so we're going to assume that it's a heart attack, right? don't forget that. >> as a new hire we require you to be flexible. you will be required to work all shifts that include midnights, some call graveyard, days and swings. >> you have to be willing to work at different times, work

during the holidays, you have to work during the weekends, midnight, 6:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the afternoon. that's like the toughest part of this job. >> we need every person that's in here and when it comes down to it, we can come together and we make a really great team and do our best to keep the city flowing and safe. >> this is a big job and an honorable career. we appreciate your interest in joining our team. >> we hope you decide to join us here as the first first responders to the city and county of san francisco. for more information on the job and how to apply follow the links below.

>> supervisor tang: good afternoon everyone. welcome to october. we are at our october 1st, land use and transportation commit committee. jim supervisor katie tang along with jane kim and supervisor safai. are there any announcements before us? >> clerk: yes. silence all cell phones and electronic devices.

fill out speaker cards and any documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the october 16 board of supervisors agenda. >> supervisor tang: thank you. can you call item numbers one through seven consecutively. >> clerk: yes. [reading items one through seven] >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. we have francis mcmillan from planning. >> good afternoon supervisors. francis mcmillan.

i have a presentation. thank you. items before you today are the article ten and article 11 designations. today's designations includes three individual art ten landmark designation and new pullman hotel and hotel utah. one article ten is proposed for today. the article 11 items include addition of two properties to the kearny market district, the designation of the mint district and change in designation of 26 individual building. each of the items was supported by the historic preservation commission and planning commission in march through june of this year. the surveys conducted over the last several years are examples

of property with architectural design. their statements serve aztec any cal studies used to inform the development and protecting -- as, technical studies and used to reflect the industrial and artistic feel of the neighborhood. the new pullman hotel is significant as one of the few remaining and best examples of the residential hotels. it is also significant for its association with seasonal and african american railroad workers including pullman porters and maids who established the first all black union in the country, contributed to the development of the african american middle class. the property is the only known property in san franciscan

stanning strong associations with pullman porters and maids. the pile drivers bridge is associated with post disaster reconstruction era. the union hall at 224 and 226 guerrero. this is a striking example of architect commonly employed in the design residential hotel building constructed during period and the hotel is notable for having survived a large scale redevelopment of soma during the mid-20th century during which much of the building stock was raised. the last article ten designate

nation is named for the -- designation is named for the two story warehouse building unique to the district. it is significant because it is representative of 19 century development of the south of market area and maritime commissioners a-- commerce along the west coast. it was developed in the 19 industry and continued through the 1906 earthquake and fire reconstruction. it is one of the last remaining enclaves of main stream building following the 1906 earthquake and fire. the first of the two designations before you is the addition of two properties to the kearny market district. 55 fifth street, and 1923 hotel.

their heights, scale and massing along with the renaissance detailing share direct relationship with the architectural character and historic context, making them natural additions to the district. the mint mission district is co comprised of industrial properties. as a reminder, article 11 building are classified with numerical rankings. buildings one and two are significant and contribute to categories three and four are smaller scale and possess less ornate detail. the district is rare with this mix of building types and

representative of the post 1906 earthquake and fire reconstruction period. the 26 properties proposed for a change in article 11 designation best represent the neighborhood. they include examples of the industrial and commercial hotel properties that were once common to soma. the majority of the properties are not currently rated under article 11 or classified or category 5. as outlined on this slide, throughout the development of the central soma survey, multiple outreach efforts were conducted. through recent notification we have received several inquiries from property owners with a mix of questions and concerns related to designation. department staff has held a number of meetings and spoken with owners to discuss their concerns, including the

transferable development rights and using the california building code and certificate of appropriate requirements. in closing, the article 10 and 11 designations included in the soma plan policies include supporting the preservation, recognition and well-being of the neighbor's resources, protecting heritage properties, designation to article 11 of the planning code and supporting the features that shows the art of the neighborhood. this concludes my presentation and happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much for that presentation. colleagues, any questions or comments? okay. seeing none, we will go to public for items one through seven. any members of the public who wish to speak on the historic designation items? >> this technique of conserving

and preserving historic building is an example how you can preserve buildings in area owned and controlled by nationality of white people. when you have historical building in areas that is predominantly black and hispanic, latino, people of color, you never come through talking about you want to preserve the building. you want to tear it down and build a brand new building and jack up the expenses of rent and move the original people in the area out of the district. and you do it all the time. every time you do it, i'm going to check you. and by the same response, i'm going to step outside just to conference of taking care of business in city hall because this is not the correct place to take care of these kind of problems with the way your administration is. i have to get you in front of a

federal district judge with the price fixing and price gauging and you get trillions and billions of dollars to high-tech companies that don't need a damn blink. i'm tired of it. i'm tired of it. about you talking about i'm being decisive. pitting minds of people against each other when i speak up for every nationality. [bell] >> i don't appreciate you talking to me like that. a black person come here and tell you he had two cancer surgeries because of the radiation in your district and you slam the door in his face. female tell you how 13 people have died because of the cancer causing materials in your district and you hang up the phone. do not come through and how black people have been discriminated for years in san francisco. [bell] >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. any other members of the public

who wish to comment on items one through seven? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagueses can we get a motion on these items? >> supervisor kim: i would like to move forward items one through severalen with recommendation to the full burden. >> supervisor tang: we are missing our colleague, but do we need to roll call then? >> clerk: sure. on the motion to send this matter forward as recommended, supervisor safai? absent. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor tang? >> supervisor tang: aye. >> clerk: there are two eyes. >> supervisor tang: thank you. these items will proceed. item eight, please. [reading agenda item]

>> supervisor tang: thank you. we are joined by supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. it is in response to multiple fires we have seen in the city over the past few years that have led to property damage, massive tenant displacement and some instances loss of life. there were 252 two-alarm or greater residential fires between 2004 and 2016. the most horrendous fire in my district was 22nd and mission in 2015 where 58 men, women and children were displaced. access to fire escapes were locked and that the alarm system didn't work. many of these survivors are low

income families with young children. one person also tragically died. today this building is nothing but a hole in the ground and people have not been able to return to their homes or community. this legislation provides the city with a strong mechanism that will help keep our most vulnerable building safe and hopefully prevent tragedies like the one at 22nd and mission in the future. while there are many upstanding building owners in the city, what this legislation does is focus on those who have a pattern of negligence. the legislation will be triggered when a building owner has been issued two or more notices of violation for violation of fire safety requirements and any fire hazard continues to exist or reoccurs after abatement. the violation must also be so extensive or of such a nature that the health and safety of

the resident is endangered and the property owner has failed to abate the violations. in these situations, the city can issue a fire life safety notice and order, which can be signed off by either dbi or fire in consultation always with our fire marshal. this order will make clear that not only must the building owner resolve their outstanding notices of violation, but they will now also be required to do so through one of the following. either install a new sprinkler system, install a new fire alarm system or make improvements to either one of those systems. this legislation amends the housing building and fire codes and the admin code because it makes clear that the landlord will not be permitted to raise the rent on tenants to pay for the installation. landlords will not want to incur

the significant price and be incentivized to keep their building safer and up to date. we have added one more provision to this legislation which is reflected in the version before you colleagues on page five beginning on lines 13. once building owners receive a notice of violation related to fire safety, they will be made aware of the consequence for not abating fire safety violations within the specified time period and be made aware of this new law. in addition, once a building owner has reached two or more notices they will receive a warning letter letting them know they are a recipient of the order. negligent landlords need to understand if they don't take life safety then there are clear and serious consequences. i would like to thank many people who worked on this

legislation starting out with the incredible rosemary who is now retired for developing this idea together with my chief of staff, caroline who have worked on this for many years and are really the brains behind this incredible piece of legislation. thank you caroline and rosemary. i hope you're watching. i also wanted to thank the fire marshal, dan decosio. jamie and bill from dbi. and then a huge thank you to anty displacement coalition for help in developing this legislation, especially justin and tommy from the housing life committee and rose maria from the tenderloin housing clinic. i want to thank charlie from the san francisco apartment association for reviewing this

and providing feedback. thank you so much. with that, in my colleagues have any questions or comments. >> supervisor tang: i think we just wanted to see the amendments and maybe we could look at them while comment is going on. >> supervisor ronen: it is in the packet you have. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. we can just go to public. >> supervisor kim: i wanted to say something. first i just want to thank supervisor ronen and her office for their really incredible work on this ordinance. i know when we had a number of major fires in district nine but also district six, many of us were wracking or rain or a legislation that would be appropriate to addressing this without doing a city wide requirement on every single multi-unit apartment building. it is obvious a great deal of work went into it. it is a very elegant and sump solution that help -- simple

solution to help and protect lives and housing of our residents. i just want to thank you in advance because redid require springi springi springing -- sprinklers. thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. >> supervisor tang: each speaker will have a few minutes. i will call a few names to line up on the side. julio, joseph, anna, raquel veronica gomez and i will call some more after we hear from our first speakers. >> public: i agree with this and also move to expand it. the ordinance prohibiting landlords from increasing rent

to cover the cost which is supposed to be paid for by the owner of the building in the first place. normally i speak up for people in low-income and very low-income brackets and people with disabilities both mental and physical. but there's a unique time where i came to speak up for people in high-income brackets who are being discriminated against and involved in rent increases based on general routine maintenance. you claim that the rent ordinance prohibits landlords from increasing rents. i believe my last comment the rent stabilization board is not supposed to be price fixing and increasing the rents when they are supposed to be maintaining rent control. the same response has been studied by the university of berkeley pertaining to how rent

control will stable out the displacement of low-income, very low-income and fixed income and people who are retired on a fixed income. by going and taking care of the business the way you have been doing -- the study produced information by professors at berkeley both law school -- [bell] >> public: san francisco, bayview district and san francisco has lost thousands of low-income black households where lower income prices were already established. you incorporate situations per any expense that is supposed to be liable to the owner and pass it on to the tenant and undermine the tenant that is not aware of their rights pertaining to housing. you signed a contract with the owner. [bell]

[microphone cut off] >> public: good afternoon. i have been working with sf tenants since 2017. i'm here today to support the legislation. i have been working with tenants who have been displaced by fires in the mission and what often goes unmentioned in this conversation about fires and housing units is the difficult process of tenants returning to those units or their homes. housing units are supposed to be temporary displacements but they turn into permanent displacements. the fire -- they are supposed to be temporary until the proper repairs are completed. so, the fire life legislation before you can help ensure the safety and well-being of these

tenants and reduce the amount of impact it has on the building and the tenants that live in the building. please support this legislation as it will help reduce the impact fires have on the san francisco tenants. thank you. >> public: hi. good afternoon. my name is leticia and i'm one of the lead housing organizers. i have been working with tenants in the mission and other neighborhoods across the city since 2013. and i'm here today in support of this ordinance to amend the building and other housing codes to ensure landlords take the safety of their tenants seriously. i can share as an organizationer -- organizer, i have worked with

tenants and i have conducted building inspections and outreach when tenants have horrible repairs. i have worked with families displaced by fire including tenants from the 22nd mission street fire and i have seen the gaping hole there with no hope. so, we really believe that this legislation is vital in protecting the well being and safety of tenants. and although i can say that we work closely with inspectors from the department of building inspection to get landlords to obey these code violations, in the tenants unit and in the common areas of buildings, those repairs can take anywhere from six or more months to abate. so, my hope is that with the amendment of this housing code -- [bell] >> public: slum lord will take the notices of violations that are issued to them and actually

fix the fire code violations rather than paying fines. and the sro hotels have sprinklers and i don't see where landlords have ignored multiple fire code violations shouldn't be held to the same standard. please vote to support and move this legislation forward. thank you. >> public: hello. my name is raquel and i'm a housing advocate at the housing clinic. i'm part of the code enforcement outreach program and i'm a mission native. i support this legislation because every building deserves to have a fire sprinkler system that are working and up to code. as you may all know, the mission has had many fires in the last couple of years which have displaced many families. in particular, one building my friend used to live in which was on 22nd and mission.

it was his senior clear of college and because of that fire, he lost everything. growing up, my mother would take my sister and i to the markets to buy produce and when we would get good grades, she would take us to popeyes. when i walk by i can think of the memories i had as a child. i will never forget the night when that building caught on fire. there would be nights i would have a hard time sleeping because i was scared my building would be next. by passing this legislation, not only are we helping families stay housed, but we are keeping memories and stories that we grew up so we can pass it on to the next generation. can you imagine in that building would have had sprinklers, it would possibly still be here. thank you. >> public: good afternoon. my name is angie saunders. as of a month ago i was living

in the mission hotel sro. i now live in a private apartment. i believe this gives the department of building inspections the legislation would potentially benefit. i believe this gives the department of building inspection and sf fire department enforcement tools to hold negligent landlords responsible. this legislation is a step in the right direction for private apartment tenants like myself towards fire life safety prevention. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you so much. >> public: [speaking spanish].

>> public: i'm going to translate for her. good afternoon supervisors. my name is veronica gomez and i live at 642 hyde in a private apartment. in january 2017, after christmas, 2017, we suffered a great fire that impacted myself and my children, my three children. it was a very tragic situation and we had to relocate our whole

lives. although this situation did not impact us physically, the trauma of this event can still be felt. even today, my children get scared when they hear the sound of the fire trucks and firemen coming. i don't want anyone else to suffer as we did. for this reason, i strongly support the legislation and i ask that you all do as well. thank you very much, supervisors. >> supervisor tang: thank you. >> public: good afternoon supervisors. my name is anna g. and i'm with the code enforcement outreach program. and i'm here to voice those ten other private apartments in our neighborhood, the tenderloin, that couldn't make it here to this hearing today. they are very happy that this legislation is going to

hopefully pass. i'm just here to say thank you and support for the legislation. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. >> public: good afternoon supervisors. joseph from the richmond district housing rights committee. speaking in support of the fire safety legislation before you, i want to thank caroline and supervisor ronen to hold landlords accountable and for building the apartment association together with the d d displacement coalition together. fire safety is seen only as an issue that effects the heart of the buildings. these are seniors like the ones who call me every day because they are still waiting to get back into their apartments in a

four-unit building after a fire that happened nearly two years ago. the tenants in a 16-unit building who are scared because there are constantly electrical problems that the landlord refuses to fix or many tenants displaced this last year throughout the richmond. so many that it is hard for us to track down all the tenants once they have been displaced. having a better system of accountability is essential. once a tenant is displaced by fire it often takes years for the owner to fix the damage so the tenants can move back in. the additional fire safety notice and order is a huge step in the right direction. so, we in housing rights committee are in full support to make sure they are working together to make sure tenants don't continue to live at risk of displacement or having their possessions or lives threatened by fire that could have been