any other questions on the task force? >> i don't think so. in regards to telematics, i don't know if you can answer this question or not. but we've implemented the telematics on most of the city vehicle fleets and i was just wondering if there is any data to show any improvement of behavior for drivers, our city employees. >> my colleague will be the right person to answer that question. i apologize. if i could come back with an answer to that one, that would be great. >> i have heard positive reports in regards to reducing idling and things like that which would save a lot of fuel emissions. but i haven't heard a lot in terms of are we driving safer? are we slowing down? now that we sort of know who is going 80 miles an hour in the city. >> i think if john were standing

here, he would say the number 1 goal of the telematics device his deterrence. when people have something in their car that says we will be recording your. >> speaker-02: , that people tend to behave in a safer way. i will let him come back and talk about that next quarter or we can send you an e-mail or follow up on that one. >> all right. thank you, very much. did i ask for public comments on this? >> not yet. >> any public comment on this item? >> hello again. my name is, ending the policy and program director at walk san francisco. first i want to thank sfmta staff and d.p.h. for this approach and this outreach they have been doing for the action strategy. the vision zero coalition last year as a group that walk s.f. help support. it is 35 communities and organizations that advocate for vision zero. we did not have a lot of opportunity to have input on last year's last action strategy

we mentioned that and the m.t.a. and d.p.h. really listens. they have been sitting down with us and have been holding all the great meetings that she mentioned. the amount of community input on this strategy is phenomenal. i really want to thank city staff for doing that. will not get to vision zero if all of our voices aren't heard and part of the process. i am excited about some of the things that are in the draft items in the action strategy. especially, i'm not sure if she mentioned it, but i think i heard recently a commitment to put improvements on every high injury corridor before 2024, even just short-term temporary. that is how we will get there. but i share your concern about the boldness and about -- not even the boldness, but what do we know? instead of just having a plan that gets us a two years and a few things and may be five years , i want to know is what will it take to get us there? not what you will do by 2024 but what would it take us to get to

zero deaths and zero injuries? and then we can work back from there and figure out what we need to. i agree with you and i would urge the city to produce that report of what has worked so far and what remains necessary to be done. i would like to see that too. the vision zero coalition has been pushing for a five year plan. a plan that takes us all the way to 2024. it is not a long-term goal. the city makes long-term plans that are much longer. this is a 50 year plan. if we can do a 50 year plan, we can do a five year plan that is details -- detailed and gets us where we need to be. i urge the city to really continue to do that. another thing we asked in this next action strategy is a focus on transit as a central part of a vision zero strategy. we know communities that rely on transit have fewer crashes. and so we want to see transit to be a bigger part of the strategy not just transit priority but

transit frequency as well. i am out of time but excited to see what this next action strategy is. thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> i would like to have you also include in your strategy, also the bidding and overseeing of construction sights. you have one construction site at the terminal and the west portal station where a white skinned coloured mail lost his life because thorough background checks and prerequirements of checking a background of a contractor was supposed to be done and city officials claimed it was done and it turns out that the company had a history of fatality and serious injuries that took place on the job. so i think that should be part of your strategy as well.

and also, we had a latino, hispanic, mexican female who too lost her life on a construction site in the streets in the city and that should be part of your strategy to oversee background checks of contractors as well. this contractor who too cause the death of this female also had a history of mistakes and licensed -- licenses had been provoked. i thank you and your strategy should combine what the bidding process and interviewing and backtracking these contractors who are slipping through this loophole which is supposed to be a safety to prevent these fatalities that you claim you want to prevent. also, my next demonstration, which is going to be more detailed under item number 7,

when you talk about fatalities, i will be in more detail and more on what took place on these locations. also, you caught me off guard. there was a hispanic male who worked on a construction site who was buried alive because the contractor didn't follow procedures when digging a trench it took 11 hours to find him. >> thank you. >> any other public comments? singing on, public comment is closed. i have one more question. sorry. i have four questions. one thing -- i came back from a conference in a child friendly city and a lot of this discussion was about the streets and what they could do to make it more attractive for people to feel safe on the sidewalks and streets. and part of it was, as you know, when we engineer what you call

that, dieting? you always try to lose something you are trying to lose speed here. it is dieting to lose speed. is there any -- was there any overall strategy discussing the possibility of reducing speed overall in san francisco? i know m.t.a. and caltrans is a little resistant to that in the past. i don't know about now. it took me two or three years to get monterey boulevard slowed down to 25 miles an hour off the freeway and originally for two years they said it couldn't be done. so i think things can be done. any strategies? >> strategies around speed reduction? the first one, i will say is automated enforcement again. and we also -- speed limit reduction roles are set at the state. again, that will be part of the

conversation of the state at zero traffic fatalities task force. that it is convening in july. but it is definitely part of the conversation. those two are the biggest tools we would like to talk about and we really need the state to be on board with those items. we are not starting from square one. we have done a great job advancing that conversation. hopefully we are taking that good work that we have done and we are moving it forward through this state legislation. probably a less than satisfactory answer. it is in our strategy. >> ok. thank you. we will can to new pounding on that strategy. thank you, very much. ok. we will go ahead and finish with this item and we will go to item number 7. >> item seven is update on 2018 fatalities. this is an information item.

how are you doing? >> hi, doing good. there you go. >> hi i am the captain for sfpd 's traffic division. today i would like to talk about the fatalities so far for 2018. and i will quickly go through the slides and i also have an expansion on some of the items that i was told to highlight. if we look at between 2016 and 2018, we are currently at 18 fatalities. this is slightly higher than last year but significantly lower from -- i went back as far

as 2014 and we were in the thirties and right now it is just slightly higher at 2018. so if we look at the fatalities and look at the travel modes, 12 for pedestrians, two more vehicles, three were bicyclists and one motorcyclist. so far, 33% of the people that have died were 65 and over. seven of those people were hit and run. i can expand on that in a little bit. one of them was a t.n.c. going to the hit and run, out of those hit and run out of the seven, we have made three arrests. one was a detention

investigation and that was the t.n.c. out of those, we have three open cases right now and out of the three, we have two that are active and have leaves that we are following today. and i will go to the next slide. if you look at the areas of what they look at as concentration of poverty and rural population, 56 % of the vision zero fatalities occurred in these areas and 44% of them on the high energy -- injury network. you can see the diagram up there if you have a closer copy, it will show you which of those areas people were walking. which were bicyclists and which were riding motorcycles and vehicles while driving. the yellow area is the

vulnerable populations and communities of concern. the red network is the high injury corridor. and our unit focuses on enforcement on the high injury corridor. out of those 18 fatalities, the seven hit and run, if you have any specific questions regarding those, our team, what they do is they go out and investigate and i have an investigations unit and a forensics technical unit that go out to every fatality. not only the hit and run and they basically treated as a crime scene and we interview all the witnesses and all the involved parties. we look at a forensics of not only the car but also the

roadway and we look for cameras and video and individual video. we develop leads that way for the hit and runs. for the drivers that remain at the scene, we investigate it and we work closely with the district attorney's office to identify which cases lead to prosecution. which are majority of them. we work closely with d.p.h. and m.t.a. and we work closely with d.p.h. and m.t.a. on every single fatality to troubleshoot the area to see how it can be improved and they work very closely with m.t.a. on that. and that is all for my presentation. >> i have a question about one of the fatalities. what do you call that, the moped

think we the one along embarcadero. >> that is the pedicab. >> we don't have any leads at this point, right? >> we do. we are looking at leads on that. we have been all over the bay area investigating that collision and we have interviewed people. we have examined cars. it is still an open investigation and we are still investigating it. >> one of these, i'm curious about. especially the area where there are a lot of t.n.c. they will have their cameras. was there any attempt to reach the t.n.c. that happened to be around that area so you can actually get more footage possibly of the vehicle that cause cost a fatality? >> yes.

we have a multiple investigators that went out, not only the primary investigator that was involved on the investigation, we also have a video team that went and looked at different routes that this person might have taken. we do have video of the vehicle that we put out and we put it out to the media including a shot of the car. specifically for the t.n.c., what we did is when we go out to the media, we ask for any kind of dash cam footage from anybody not just the t.n.c. that can come forward to. we have had a a lot a phone calls both anonymous and people who have identified themselves. it is an open investigation. >> ok. i appreciate that. hopefully may be in the future, i would like to see possibly

working in agreement with t.n.c. and companies. because right now we are just asking for people to volunteer their information. wouldn't it be nice if you could say to them, this is where it happens. can you get the footage of your fewer just your vehicles that are around sterically if someone refuses, or they might be a lot of people who don't want to do it, then you are at some disadvantage. >> i have actually discussed that specifically with my investigators. t.n.c. do not require any type of video for operation. so that would be up to the individual driver and those are generally considered independent contractors using an app. but it's definitely a lead that we can look at. >> one more related question.

in this -- has ever been where you had notice from t.n.c. or any driver, with t.n.c. in particular that has been useful for investigation and finding the perpetrator? >> we have some that have come forward as witnesses. i would have to actually look at the case fall -- case file to look at that and look at each individual case file. >> i will go off-line with you but i think my intent is there are some that i would love to highlight what they did that was so positive. >> ok. >> i just have one quick question. is there any reason or have you looked at why the fatalities spiked in august and september? >> we do look at those

fatalities. again, and arrest was made on one of those out of the three arrests. and that one was a d.u.i. on the other ones that were both pedestrians walking, one of them was a real late at night and that was the hit and run. at this time, there was nothing trend -wise that stood out. i have discussed that with my investigators. >> ok. thank you for your report. any public comments on this item >> i spoke to you earlier about hispanic latino and mexican female dissent who lost their life in a fatality in a construction site. she is a historical female by

means of breaking through the glass ceiling barrier that was done by a predominantly male employees in the construction field. >> i'm sorry. this item is on -- >> fatalities. >> vehicle fatalities. >> this is a teagle dish vehicle fatalities. the vehicle caused her death. i like to start my time and give me back for the seconds that were lost here. this e-mail here is working on -- this female was working on a construction site. she busted through the ceiling of an occupation that was controlled predominately by a male and she was struck by a vehicle that slid off of a tow truck and the contractor had a history of numerous rule violations and didn't have a license during this timeframe. this correlates with my earlier

demonstration where you are talking about strategies. i believe your strategy of overseeing and being present during this contract bidding situations could help prevent this type of situations from happening. her name was leanna. she was a plumber. she busted through the ceiling and went through the training in school and everything. she had a toddler that was only about two or three years old. as a result, she was asking her grandfather, where is her mother and the grandfather told her that her mother is in heaven. as a result, she wants to go to heaven too to see her mother. the second demonstration pertains to a male that was hit at west portal station. he too was killed by the negligence of a contractor. the contractor was checked and prequalified and passed all the tests, which is a boldfaced lie.

he lost his life too on the job site. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, the public comment is -- public comment? >> sorry. public comment is now closed. do you have -- i might have to skip item a and go to item nine for now. because we have two drop our time -- we have dropped dropdead time at 4:00 pm. can you call item number 9? >> item nine is update on plan for pedestrian signal retiming. this is an information item. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm here with the sfmta. i am the city traffic engineer. you had asked us to provide you an update on what it would take or how long it would take for us

to the time the entire traffic signal system based on our previous discussion that we had developed a new crossing time for pedestrians. a slower walking speed of 3 feet per section -- per second. and your inquiry led to some productive work that we tried to see what projects we had pending and what projects were likely in the next few years and we have concluded that we can retiming all of the high injury network in five years and to be completed with the entire traffic signal system by the year 2024. the high injury network is about two thirds of our traffic signal so we think that based on existing projects and staff capacity we can do the work in five years and i will be part of our strategy that they discussed prior. and the locations that are not on the high injury network, we would finish them in the year after that five-year period. six years total.

>> and in regards to the timing of it, did you say three years? >> five years for the high injury network and six years total for the city. >> ok. i thought you said three. so the question here is what is preventing us from speeding that up? what would be the bottleneck? >> there are various bottlenecks there are some issues about how to properly read time some of the signals. for example, we are undertaking a retiming of the downtown area which requires not just going on and retiming the signal by gathering data and doing traffic analysis to make sure that we update other things and need to be updated with the traffic signal system. those kind of cases, we need to do a more thorough signal timing there are issues in terms of implementation and we have other priority projects including vision zero projects and transit projects that take up staff time

in terms of implementation of projects. i am trying to be realistic in the sense that the past ability to deliver these types of projects and the capacity both at the m.t.a. in terms of engineering and our traffic signal shop in terms of implementation. and that is the best we can do at this point. >> with the resources you have? >> with the resources we have and we likely will have in the future. >> but the state will probably past something that is similar. do we want to read time all the signals in california? san francisco deserves another 50 million to do this. can we speeded up? >> that would be possible. it would require a process by which we would have to step up staffing. it is an issue in the sense of retaining an engineer his -- it is a tight labor environment in

terms of hiring electricians. staffing up along just beyond the stuff we have no, and retaining the staff that we have is a possibility. at this point, i'm not assuming anything to come out of the sky. i am assuming what is known at this point and being optimistic in a sense it in the future we would be able to leverage some state funding or some other resources to finish the work. in the past we have not retimed all our traffic signals every five years. we have taken much longer. to do the project in five years is to be aggressive on our end. >> i appreciate it. i am sure what you are giving us is realistic. but it is always the what if? by the way, we have families who are street members and we heard what we need to. let's advocate for it and may be we could get it.

>> i think -- i'm excited about doing traffic signal timing. it is one of the things we can do with minimal construction or other type of work. i think it is one of the things that we want to do throughout the high injury network as, mentioned. i share your belief that this is something we should work on. but we are trying to proceed in a measured manner and i think that this is my realistic assessment at this point. if we can do it quicker, we will aim to do that. >> commissioners? no questions. i really appreciate your effort. the two things that we really find helpful is reducing speed and changing the time. any public comments on this item >> yes. the five-year commitment that he came up with that really equates to more than 100 people losing

their lives. on this current toll the city of san francisco is experiencing right now. we have to get more aggressive. lives are at stake. families are losing loved ones. families have to deal with the fact that they have to bury or go on category at whatever else they have to do with when it comes to losing loved ones in that manner. so we have to get more aggressive. we have to more creative. we have to be more available to make this happen. we can't wait any longer, coming from me. those measures were in place for my sun, may be. he may be here today to even breathe. for me and for the city of san francisco, and for the bay area and for this country, we need to be more aggressive and more creative and we need to consider the lives that will be lost.

not may be but will be lost if we are on this current course. thank you. >> thank you,, very much. next speaker. >> i think the best way to timeout all of these signals is to have our senior citizens behind from one section of intersection and how much time it takes for them to cross the street and use that as the major anchor point instead of just setting timers based on speculations of traffic. because the pedestrians are the ones that are losing their lives so by taking the measurements of a slow walking senior citizen that is moving at full capacity, which is very slow, is the best way to measure the timing and set signals on these light signals for traffic. instead of driving -- trying to

move traffic from point a to point b without causing a traffic jam. i was watching one educational show about two nights ago that halloween night is the highest percentages of kids dying, and fatalities on trick-or-treating night. so that is an important factor that should be included in your calculations as well. but the best way to get a measurement on the time signals is to have senior citizens be timed and crossing the street on busy intersections. the street is so wide. that has to be taken into account too. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? public comment is now closed. i really appreciate your comment about speeding it up and how many lives could be saved if we were to do it quicker.

i share your sentiment in regards to my own incidents where one more mile an hour and i wouldn't be sitting here. there was not a time like they're there. if there were, i probably would not have gotten involved with that particular collision. ok. we are finished with item number -- what is this? nine. could i call item a and continue go ahead. item a. >> item a is a vision zero ramp study phase two. this is an information item. >> can i have a motion to continue this item? ok. with no objection, we will continue item a. i'm sorry for the presenter. any other items? >> item ten is introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> ok. no introduction. >> item 11 is general public

comment. >> general public comment. >> my next demonstration is further concrete the reasons why your overall strategy plan should be included and to the beddings of construction site projects to make sure all safety and reference checks are checked viewer, please. i talked about the construction worker who lost his life. he died at the west portal station. the california occupational safety and health administration has a history of violations including a november 2016 accident which a worker operating a forklift died after

losing control and going into a trench. ok. the san francisco transit officials who oversee the beds and the contracts for the work said that the construction met all the requirements of prequalifying for the bid. i want to refresh you on the hearing that you called because of that accident how several departments came and testified about all these procedures that they go through in order to prevent accidents like this from happening. and it proved how they are not doing their job. if they were, accidents would never have took place. as you can see right here on the section where they make their demonstrations, they talk about prequalifying packed by different departments in the city. it is a bald-faced lie. if they did, the accident would not happen. on one of the questions they were asked have you had any history of fatalities in the past ten years and they deliberately said no.

and then by the same response, a history check demonstrates that a person lost their life by being crushed by a construction vehicle and resulted in a fatality. that is why i want the organizations to check the situation. >> thank you. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> item 11 is adjournment. >> meeting is adjourned.

>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices.

>> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids

using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the

ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. . >> my name is angela wilson and

i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isn't that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been one thing. >> i'm all for vegetarians if

you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a women's field in most of world just here in united states it is that pay a man's job i'm an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all women's who

work here to be impoverished and strong in san francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and that's a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. >> i'm the - i've been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up i'm definitely the only female

here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and that's how i got here today something special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know i'm a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. >> the sad thing the building is sold i'm renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business

it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something i'm proud of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learn >> hi, i'm lawrence corn field. welcome to building san francisco. we have a special series, stay safe.

we're looking at earthquake issues. and today we're going to be talking with a residential building owner about what residential building owners and tenants can and should do before earthquakes and after earthquakes. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at this wonderful spur exhibit on mission street in san francisco and i have with me today my good friend george. thanks for joining me, george. and george has for a long time owned residential property here in san francisco. and we want to talk about apartment buildings and what the owner's responsibilities might be and what they expect their tenants to do. and let's start by talking a little bit about what owners can do before an earthquake and then maybe after an earthquake.

>> well, the first thing, lawrence, would be to get together with your tenants and see if they have earthquake insurance or any renters insurance in place because that's going to be key to protecting them in the event of a quake. >> and renters insurance, there are two kinds of insurance. renters insurance coffers damage to goods and content and so forth. earthquake insurance is a separate policy you get after you get renters insurance through the california earthquake authority, very inexpensive. and it helps owners and it helps tenants because it gives relocation costs and it pays their rent. this is a huge impact on building owners. >> it's huge, it really is. you know, a lot of owners don't realize that, you know, when there is an earthquake, their money flow is going to stop. how are they going to pay their mortgages, how are they going to pay their other bills, how are they going to live? >> what else can property owners do in residential rental housing before an earthquake? >> well, the first thing you want to do is get your property

assessed. find out what the geology is at your site. get an expert in to look at structural and nonstructural losses. the structural losses, a lot of times, aren't going to be that bad if you prepare. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. get in there and get your property assessed and figure it out. >> so, what is a nonstructural issue that might cause losses? >> well, you know, pipes, for instance. pipes will whip around during an earthquake. and if they're anchored in more numerous locations, that whipping won't cause a breakage that will cause a flood. >> i've heard water damage is a major, major problem after earthquakes actually. >> it is. that's one of the big things. a lot of things falling over, ceilings collapsing. but all of this can be prevented by an expert coming in and assessing where those problem areas and often the fixes are really, really cheap. >> who do you call when you

want to have that kind of assessment or evaluation done? >> the structural engineering community is great. we have the structural engineers association of northern california right here in san francisco. they're a wealth of information and resources. >> what kinds of things might you encourage tenants to do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenants should do? >> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of the building, whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and bandages and know how to use a toilet when there's no sewage

and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank you so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for joining us >> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story

program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. let's talk worst case scenario.

what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs property

owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on

here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,

>> all right. good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the october 24th, 2018 meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am chair of the committee. to my right to supervisor ronan, to my left will be supervisor peskin. i also want to welcome supervisor yee and stefani up to the dais. i would like to thank