the third question that we're currently looking at, and again, this comes partially out of questions raised by household members in the advisory consultations is can households split? and specifically as i mentioned there are the three transition benefits available to household, a transition benefit option, an in lieu payment option, and assistance option. and household is eligible for only one of those options but what we're specifically looking at is if a household wants to split into one or two more households for the purposes of electing to transition to affordable units, is that something that would be allowed?

and consultation with the city attorney's office, we've concluded that notwithstanding the limitation to a transition benefit, if they are electing a unit option and are proposing to split into multiple groups where each group includes a qualifying adult pre-d.d.a. household member, and each resulting group qualifies for and accepts an affordable transition unit, that that would be allowable. and just to highlight what -- what the implications of that would be for the household and for tida, for one, it may allow households with more residents than are allowable under affordable housing guidelines to split into two eligible how's

holds. so we have some households that are in market rate housing, but by the affordable housing definition are under housed. by affordable housing guidelines, you're allowed to have a number of residents in a unit equal to two times the bedroom plus one, so in a two-determine it would be two times two bedrooms plus one, so that would be five. we have some 11 and 12-person households today, and i think one nine-person household in a three-bedroom unit. so these are households that don't meet the affordable housing occupancy standards, but if they were allowed to split, then, the two resulting households would be a size that they could fit into an affordable housing unit. the second is that it may

benefit some nonfamilial households that have been roommates for a number of years and are at that point that they want to split in multiple households. if they both qualify for an affordable housing unit, then that is -- would be a potential option for those households. and then, also, in terms of the potential exposure or cost to -- to tida, implementing a program like this would not increase tida's market rate housing -- market rate replacement housing obligation because this would only apply to how's holds that were electing into moving into affordable housing units. so these are options that we're exploring so far, and we have a number of other topics where we're developing some implementation procedures and

we'll continue to update the board as we adopt those going forward, again, targeting a march 2019 implementation of an extension of an early in lieu option. we're working to plan for the premarketing purchase opportunities. ticd is planning to deliver the first building on y.b.i. in 2021, and they'll probably begin their marketing to the general public about a year prior to that. and so we'll need be to planning with them to fill our premarketi premarketing obligations before that marketing to the general public begins.

we're -- [inaudible] >> and with that, i'll take any questions that you have. >> yes. thank you, bob, i know we have some questions. commissioner dunlop? >> yes, thank you for that. i was wondering, do we have any potential numbers of who is what is where? do you have -- >> yeah. i've presented some of those demographics previously, but i can come back and present again. i believe that in terms of out of our 203 pre-d.d.a. --

pre-d.d.a. and mixed households, that we have 44 households that potentially would qualify for -- to be able to purchase an affordable unit. again, that's based on the income that they've reported, they would still need to go through the certification process to verify that. we have -- now i'm going to be very rough in my numbers. the 44 was the number that was stuck in my head. but i think we have roughly 35 households that did not indicate what their income level was, and roughly an additional 35 that -- that reported that their income was over 125% of a.m.i. so if you assume that those who didn't report their income are also over 120% of a.m.i., that means roughly a third of the

existing households are probably in a position that they'll be seeking market-rate housing, whether that's a market rate rental unit, a transition unit provided by tida or potentially pursuing a market rate purchase of a -- of a unit constructed by ticd. but then, we have -- on the other end, we do have, i believe, 23 of our existing market rate households are section 8 voucher holders, and so those households would qualify for placement into an affordable unit. and then, we have -- again, i believe it's roughly another 40 households that although they are currently in market-rate housing, based on their reported income levels, would potentially qualify for affordable

housing -- rental housing. so it -- as i said, i can -- i can provide you a more detailed recap of those figures at a future meeting. but off the top of my head, those -- that's the rough figures that i recall. >> and none of these are with one sf or the housing with -- >> no, these are strictly the households that have been interviewed as -- that are villages at treasure island residents. these are all households that are in market rate housing -- market rate rental housing, but as i described, a significance percentage of them potentially qualify for affordable housing, as well. >> you know, we've presented this a lot to the residents, but is it possible to toss on something on -- at the november

on island meeting, just a little informational bit, if that's at all possible? >> yeah, no, we can definitely look at including a look at that on the on island meeting? >> commissioner lai? >> yes. is the intent for the rental -- the thrr eligible rental population for their rent to remain the same after transfer? >> yeah. so under the transitional housing rules and regulations, those households that elect a transition unit would move into a newly constructed unit at a rent that is essentially equal to their -- their current rent through the villages at treasure island. now, one of the challenges that we've discussed i mentioned at

prior meetings, because some of these residents have moved in in, say, 2002, and we've only adjusted their rents perthe allowable rents perthe san francisco rent board as if these were controlled apartments, that some households, quote, market rate rent, is actually very close to what an affordable rent would be. and so people have the option to -- to pursue an affordable housing unit, and the thrrs is kind of written procedurally with the assumption that if someone could qualify, of course, they would take it. but when you look at it in the -- because of the passage of time, the financial difference between a -- our current market rate rent that someone is paying

and affordable rent may not be that high. and then, of course, they have different occupancy standards, where, if you moved into an affordable unit, you might have a different number of bedrooms than you would under the thrr. so it becomes a complex choice for people whether to just take that market rate replacement unit or to go through the process of income certification to potentially qualify for an affordable unit. >> mm-hmm. yeah. i -- i feel like it's a little bit hard for me to even follow through all of stuff because i suppose for even the actual inclusionary qualifying households, they would have to go through, like, the mohcd process to qualify for the unit, and there would be basically a mechanism to, like, monitor, right, because if their income level kpieds a certain level at some point, they would no longer

be eligible. if that's the case at that point, because they were a pre-d.d.a. household, would they then transition to -- be eligible to transition into a market-rate on-island unit? if you income qualify to purcha -- >> if you income qualify to purchase it, you don't need to continue to recertify. the bulk of the market rate construction that t.i.c. will be doing will be for sale, so these inclusionary units will be for sale. under the d.d.a., they're required to develop 10% of the housing as rental. >> yeah. i think i'm trying to think through the rental scenario because that seems more complicated to me? because i think if i'm correct

under normal mohcd rules, there's, like, annual reporting of evaluation of income. but also if your household changes, your minors age out, they would potentially be transferred into a smaller unit. so in this case, how would that work? would the same rules apply? >> i believe -- i believe they would. and so we can kind of recap those for people, as well, so we might sure we're advising them of the full picture of what it means to take an affordable unit. >> and it sounds like there's not too many families that this would apply to, so we'll be able to track that. >> yeah. one of the benefits of the advisory sessions that we've had is we do have a sense of where households roughly fall with the knowledge that their circumstances change year to

year. someone may get a promotion or get a new job, income levels go up, graduate from school, but knowing where they start helps us start focusing the conversation with them. >> okay. and then, the question about who should be eligible, i understand the minors and all that, but what about the dependents, you know, like, an elderly parent or something like that? >> the thrrs don't provide for other dependents other than, you know, domestic partner, spouse, or minor child. >> okay. >> so -- yeah. >> i wonder how much of an impact it would be to us if we we were to include an -- other dependents? i don't know if that's --

>> we would not be able to do that legally because those pre-d.d.a. were stamped -- time stamped. those that were on the island at system of record. so if you change that, you get into some legal issues there because then, the other residents would be -- so of i can't, i don't -- we -- we cannot do that. in fact, i was going to talk about that once you finish your question, i was going to expand on that. >> okay. okay. thanks. my last question has to do with those extra large households, the 11 and nine-person households that you mentioned. what is their composition? are they just basically two different families that have been in a roommate situation? >> they differ, but they tend to be multigenerational familial households, so some of them may have started with a couple and

their kids, and then, their kids have gotten married and had kids of their own, so it varies, but i think that's one of the things about -- through the advisory sessions that over time, households would have gotten smaller. but certain economic factors in the bay area, some households have gotten larger over time, as, like i said, they've become multigenerational households. >> are there any building code occupancy regulations around maximum number of people? >> there are. i don't think we're at those yet, but there are. there are health and safety limitations, as well, but i'll like into that. >> okay.

i am definitely supportive allowing those families to split into separate eligible units if we can afford. thanks. >> thank you very much. you know, bob, let me try to -- just like we did before with the transportation presentation, i think it's extremely important that we also kind of pull back a little bit to educate the public what it is we're talking about here. they're hearing about transition and rules and regulations and wondering what we are doing here. when the navy vacated, the city went to the navy and said, rather than just shut things up, i think we can provide -- use

this for affordable housing san francisco. and so at that time, i think it was a wise decision. and at that time, that's when the city started entertaining residents on treasure island. and so we need to establish for everyone that no one, no resident of treasure island that are there now that were there -- that were moved there are being displaced. no. this is where they came in. the city, through its generosity, decided that for those residents before the land disposition development agreement, a d.d.a. -- d.d.a., for people listening, is a developmental agreement, this city, knowing that no one has been displaced from treasure

island out of its own goodwill, decided to identify these residents that were pre-d.d.a., that were living in treasure island, to give them some incentives. i think we're talking about 224, less than 300. those are the ones that we're talking about today. those residents were captured, they were captured as a system of record, and the rules and regulations bind them. and what are we trying to decide here is what are the benefit for those members? now, all the ones that came after the d.d.a., they were known as post-d.d.a., and they -- again, they are those -- don't have this special kind of arrangement that we have. so we are talking about the pre-d.d.a. my question here, treasure

island is also bound by city and county of san francisco regulations. some of them are prized and privileged to how the city is treating resident of public housing as they are rebuilding public housing in the southeast, in the bayview, in chinatown, all over san francisco. their policies is one and one of placement. however, all residents in affordable housing, city policies and are also applicable to treasure island, they have to go to their income certification because we're talking about subsidized housing here. we have a disposition, the thrrs, to make sure they get housing. but we're also obligated to make sure that the city regulations are also, you know, enforced.

what the city has said they will not be displaced. we are trying to provide housing. and we need to elaborate that because that does not preclude them from housing on the main land, also, from the way that i'm interpreting this, as long as at the end of the day, this to privilege, some of them might want to get in lieu amount. say, hey, i don't want to continue to live in treasure island. we have a provision for them to get some specified amount. it's called in lieu of payment. they also have -- they don't have any restrictions if they want to move off the island. we also have those stipulations there. and so at some point, we need to be cognizant that even the city have all this housing out there, i want to ask, are we actually promoting this to some of these people, the san francisco housing development corporation that we hired to be helping them, also are doing and being

involved as to some of these other nonprofits in trying to the city b.m.r. all the time, that should not even preclude treasure island residents, so let's broaden this discussion. i'm looking at the definition of benefits here, and i want to make sure that the definition, that we are very clear what the definition is is the system of record. we need to be clear about that. we can't stretch that because of the legal implications here because we said that these 224 are pre-d.d.a. and we're going to provide them with benefits. and any time you're providing benefit, there is a likelihood of some legal implications, also. so our definition must be very clear, what, who we deem. for instance, if you are single,

and you are on the system of record, okay, even if your family -- in case point, if your family has increased now, how do we treat that because you are the holder. in san francisco resident, the head of household is clearly defined. so that system, the person that is in there now, they're the -- that's the one, a case study, that we really need to look at how -- how we're doing that. and it should not be that complicated. if we really take the time to break it down to that level, so we know what a household look like. if you bring some household's -- you know, members, the first question i'm going to ask you is who is the system of record holder? that's going to be very important before we even get

into anything. and once you're able to define that, and that is very clear, then, you might be able to, then, be able to look and answer some of these other questions that we are obligated to be asking. and then, number two, every year at a certain point, are we doing the income certification required? it should be at a point in the first of the year that we're able to do that. and the reason i'm asking this is because you mentioned we have about 30 households that are not that income. well, as to be a part of this process, it's hard-core as part of the process to really know your financial capability so that we can be able to determine them where you fit in the system. so they're going to have to go back now in this process, in order to continue discussion

that's now open-ended, you're going to have to be able to provide all of this information in order to help us decide how we're going to be able to place you in the system. and then, lastly, i asked that before: how are we engaging with this household? how are we engaging with them? i know that the last presentation, there were some he that we could not reach. well, after we approve engagement, the burden is on us to prove that we are engaging with this household. so you send a flier, but you also -- you know, also send a certified letter. that is your proof that you're engaging. at some point, we're going to ask this process to move to the next level. because again, all these houses are going to be built, and again, we also need to make sure that the other opportunities are

available to some of these households, land and everywhere, so that they have an array of opportunities that they can explore. when we do that, i think that's how people are going to see that, you know, we crossed all the t's and dotted all the i's as mandated for us and before we can really say that we've done the best we can. and i'm going to reiterate that here, that, you know, bob, so far we are going about this meticulous is great. but i think at some point in 2019, we're going to have to move the milestones. so you can come up here and give us some -- a spreadsheet or whatever, and then, we will know that out of 220 something, we only have maybe five households that we are dealing with now with some of these variations, i think that's where we wanted to go. that is my statement.

commissioners, are there any other statements? none? statements from the public? none. okay. >>clerk: item number six, retail planning. >> so kevin griffith with ticd is here, and he's going to give an update on the -- their -- their efforts -- they're beginning to do some retail planning efforts, so -- >> commissioners, kevin griffith, again, from ticd. so i know retail planning has been a topic of interest to the board, and that's why we wanted to make -- just give a brief update, basically, on the process that we're going through right now. this is kind of a time to refine our thinking on the retail. we have a plan -- you know, a loose plan that's baked into all of the documents that we've been

working with so far, but right now is when we are working on the subphase application for the island center area that encome passencome ---encompasses that. i wanted to just briefly update what we've been up to over the last month and then update that exercise in november and december. so again, this is an opportunity to kind of reevaluate where things are when the planning documents were put together several years ago. you know, retail has obviously changed a little bit -- quite dramtly, actually, in the last

few years. we want to make sure what we're putting together is feasible, sustainable, serve the residents and also allow merchants and entrepreneurs who come to the island, open up shop, to sustain -- survive and have is y y you -- sustainable businesses. we have people that have been involved from day one. we're bringing into the process some kind of retail specialty architects, designers, and kind of retail economyists and brokers who understand day-to-day where the market is and what's working and also folks who have experience in

similar -- there's nothing like treasure island, but retail in a newly developing kbrar aarea ano make it survive. the scope of the exercise is actually bigger than just retail. it encompasses the entire area, so how do we interact with that area there, and how do we interact the marina? we want the -- that's where we want to focus the energy, but i would expect that we might come up with some more subtle changes as to whether retail wants to spill out towards clipper cove or into the plazas, how people move in and out of the area.

also i know there is a trend now for smaller and smaller or microretail that seems to be more sustainable for businesses. i think we'll be looking at that and whether it applies to treasure island, and i expect that we'll get some good thinking about the sequence of how we bring retail on-line. we're going to have the subphase application come in and get approved, but when we build things and time them so we can look at the success of the businesses as the island fills up with residents. it also serves as that kind of central place. you want a gathering place, you want the neighborhood identity, and we want to make sure that's preserved, as well, but we want to bring it on-line in a way as the island builds out in order

to have all the amenities together, working together. so again, i'm sort of predicting what might come out of the conversation. it's just starting now and we'll come back when we've kind of processed through this thinking and let us know what kind of conclusions we're coming up with. >> thank you. this is really great. i think the two approaches to looking at this is that treasure island, you will have about, what, 18,000 people living there, so that is really great. but it is also a destination, a destination, so it's a mini city within a city that we're talking about. so the kind of retail that we'll be looking about is to satisfy the residents that already live there, and then, for the visitors that are going to be coming to visit the island. and there are successful models even in california. i travel a lot to san diego.

i know their waterfront development and how they've tried to, you know, bring a retail -- we can look at some of those successful models to look at, and i'm sure when we go to new york, we'll see some. let's see how other places are treating, and there's some -- you know, some parts of europe like in amsterdam that i visit a lot that i also see some emerging retail, and we can look at that, what others are doing and introduce that even more. because now the motion of -- notion of retail is even changing. brick and mortar is dying. sears just filed for bankruptcy, and we might need to change what we look at in the new definition of retail.

c.m.g. with all those architects and also here tida, and building things from scratch, so will be able to be able to be helpful. so yes, sir, we would like to have you back and tell us so we can look at your plan. commissioners. >> thank you. >> very good. i can't wait to -- i can't wait to hear as it progresses, so i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >> but can you remind me what is the size of retail square foot age that t.d.a. same calls for? >> it's just over .5 million square feet of retail space. it's reused space, building one, hangar two, and hangar three. i think the important reason for this look now is that all of the

mixed use zone property is in the major phase one, in the zone that was just approved that's moving into construction now, as well as in the subphase that ticd is preparing for, so this is a really important time to kind of take this look at retail planning and how it's best distributed throughout that -- that major phase one area. >> yeah, i absolutely agree, this is super important because again my idea this has to neighborhood serving amenities. so this retail study, are we generically saying -- is that supposed to mean all active uses or are we just specifically saying -- looking at retail? like, the strict definition of retail under the planning code?

>> yeah, i believe it's all uses. >> okay. >> because, like, conceptually, hangar three has been kind of entertainment oriented, but not strictly retail. >> yeah. >> the thought is these commercial spaces are going to be neighborhood serving, be neighborhood focused. and consistent with our conversations earlier about transportation, minimize those number of reasons that would draw you off of the island by -- by meeting, you know, that -- a large percentage of those routine need that the residents of the island are going to require. >> i'm really happy to hear that it's not just strictly looking at retail uses. it goes beyond that, and that would have been my comment, to encourage the retail consultant to look beyond the strict definition of retail services or

type of, like, transactional type of uses. because i think most people recognize for san francisco, we have a very vibrant commercial environment with a lot of urban, like, very usable amenities for visitors and residents, but there's still an increasing amount of retail vacancy. and i think as other commissioners have already mentioned, it's just a reality that the traditional format of retail is changing, and the experience needs to be curated. i hope at the end of, i guess, before you said, i guess, december, that there would be an actual retail study. is that the product of this group, this work be group? would there be an actual study? >> the study -- i think we will

be generating more than that. a study report will follow. it doesn't need to be part of the subphase application, but for our purposes and your purposes, i think we need to take it a little bit beyond that minimum requirement. >> thank you. let me ask any, you know, public comments? seeing none. >>clerk: item number seven, discussion of future agenda items by directors. >> none? okay. all right. let me just take this opportunity, again, you know, to thank everyone that are here and watching us. this has been really a vibrant, robust discussion. we all get excited here at the wonderful opportunity to develop, you know, these two islands, yerba buena, treasure island. what we do here have implications for the development in the rest of the region, the

country, and definitely for san francisco, we are doing things a little bit differently here in trying to utilize the state of the art, and we are highly environmental conscious and climate conscious, and that's why the development has already won the highest of its kind of platinum lead. so, you know, the work's in progress. see you next time. thank you. bye.

>> what are the three things that we need? we drop, cover, and -- yes, so we did a good job okay. we have third grade coming in, second grade. thank you so much. so our practice went pretty well, and we have so many special guest that came today to practice with us, okay? so i'm hoping that this is not -- [inaudible] >> so i'm going to introduce first dr. matthews, our superintendent, is here, and he was practicing with, us, so drth matthews. >> good morning, boys and girls.

buenos dias. so first, i want to tell you how proud i am of you. you did a great job. it is so important that we keep you safe during an earthquake, and today, you have the opportunity to practice during that earthquake. it's important, when you feel the ground shaking, that you drop, that you cover, and that you hold on. so we're very proud of the job that you did today. all throughout california during the month of october, and especially on this day, young people like you and older people, like me, are practicing what we want to do during an earthquake. you want to make sure, also, that you have supplies at your house, flashlight lights, radio, food, enough that's going -- you are going to be able to fed -- sustain yourself for a period of time. so that's very important.

today, we have a number of people who are, as i said, here to keep you safe, and they're very proud to be here this morning. we have our mayor, we have the chief of police, we have the chief of our fire department, and we have our deputy director of emergency management. so give them a big round of applause. [applause] >> so it is my pleasure to introduce to you, bryant bears, our wonderful city of san francisco, mayor london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, dr. matthews. good morning, bryant elementary school bears. it is so exciting to be with you all today, and i've got to tell you, i was alive during the 1989 earthquake. now, i know i don't look old enough to be alive during that

time, but i was. and i remember that the earthquake lasted for only seconds, but afterwards, the power was out, there were a lot of challenges, and the reason why we have in san francisco sf72.org, so make sure you go home and tell your parents -- repeat after me, sf72.org, there are a list of things that you should make sure that are in your home so that after an earthquake hits, you and your families can be prepared and you can be safe. is that a deal? thank you. i appreciate that. so today, we were practicing, but as dr. matthews has said, what you want to do, as soon as you hear or feel the ground shake, you want to do what?

drop, cover, hold on, and you did a wonderful job today, so continue to make sure that you listen to your teachers, you listen to your parents, you get good grades, and when that time comes here in san francisco, you will be prepared. thank you, everyone, for being here today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and with that, i want to turn it over to the deputy director of the deputy of emergency management, mike dayton. >> thank you, mayor. good morning. i am so excited to be here. i've got to tell you, the kids at my table did such a tremendous, johnny, aunel, jade, you guys did such a good job of identifying what you need to have at home for preparedness

kit, but they were good at knowing what numbers to call, if you need help. what number do you call if you need help? awesome. awesome. we've got so many dedicated dispatchers that are ready to get you help, and ready to get you help when you need it. again, you did such a tremendous job. and thank you for being here. with that, let me introduce our police chief, william scott. >> thank you. good morning, bryant bears. so you guys have already passed all the tests. i was going to give you one, but you already know all the answers. so you did great this morning. as mike said, if you are in trouble or if you feel like you need assistance, call 911, and

you can let like myself, a police chief, or firefighters to help you. i want you to know we are here to help you. we have a great city. you guys are prepared -- i learn i a lot -- i learned a lot from my table. and i will tell you a test. what are the three things you need to remember? all right. you aced it. you aced it. congratulations. next, i want to introduce my partner of public safety, our fire chief joanne hayes-white. >> good morning. first of all, i want to say you did an amazing job. i've been doing this for years,

and i want to say you did top notch. thank you, mayor breed and superintendent matthews for art prioritizing public safety and today's particular message about preparedness. boys and girls, i'm going to give a shout out to my table. i had anthony, jace, and tiandre. i wouldn't be working as fire chief today unless i had wonderful teachers. we get a lot of credit, scott and i, in our deputy because we're heros, but teachers are heros, too, so please give your teachers and faculty and staff a round of plauz. [applause] >> boys and girls, it's a pleasure to work with my colleagues, and the message that i would like to reinforce when you go home to your moms, your

dads, your grandparents your brothers, your sisters, teach them the importance of stop, drop, and hold. taechl them the importance of having a kit so you will be prepared in the event of a large scale emergency. all the school districts are doing something similar so we can be as san franciscans prepared. so thank you, have a wonderful day, and keep up the great work. back to principle laura. >> thank you. good job, bryant bears. -- back to principal lawyer. >> thank you. good job, bryant bears. >> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk

about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it

means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say

that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are --

>> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some

of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at

that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so

interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining 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. >> i'm calling this hearing to order. >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco preservation hearing for wednesday october 17 th, 2018.