i have 39 years of public service with the city of san francisco. situated directly above the junction of the north american tectonic plate, san francisco is resting on a time bomb. you must be aware that up to 80% of the destruction following the next great earthquake will be caused by the fire storms that will develop in the absence of adequate water supply. the puc has taken a dangerous path using our supply of drinking water to fight the fires, instead of sea water, which the system currently uses and is available on three sides of the city. contrary to what the puc stated, our limited supply of drinking water will be inadequate for fighting the fire storms that occur in our currently unprotected neighborhoods. it is not commonly known that of

the 79% of all the city's drinking water stored in the reservoirs, the state water code mandate during a regional disaster two-thirds of it will have to shared with the 27 cities that are wholesale water customers. it's important that the members of the disaster council understand that following the next big earthquake, the only thing that will save san francisco from once again being destroyed by fire storms is our unlimited supply of sea water and a high pressure hydrant system extended to all neighborhoods of the city. nothing that the puc is providing will enable the fire department to save the city, the residents and the pension of every employee from destruction. if the city's tax base is destroyed, our pensions will be gone as well and that includes mine. thank you. >> thank you.

>> we will move on to the presentation from the office of capital planning and resilience. >> good morning, everyone. my name is brian, the chief officered on director of resilience and capital planning. in the city administrator's office. you know, a lot of the presentations are put together before the camp fire, before we knew this was happening and they all seem to apply to the experiences there. and after the lifeline -- the lifelines committee was put together after hurricane katrina that affected new orleans and city administrator at the time, ed lee, put together a group of utility providers to sort of work out and lifeline providers to discuss how we're going to

recover, how we're going to get services up and running, how we're going to work together from a major event. for us, it's earthquake. for new orleans it was a hurricane. but really, you know, this gets to the heart of recovery, you know, the project goal that we're talking about here is how we can quickly recover from a major earthquake by assessing and improving the restoration and performance of lifelines. so, one of the steps that we've been working on since then is getting together with the lifeline providers. this is a list of the different agencies that are involved. seven of them are city departments. most all of them are here today. and we really appreciate the help that they provided. i think this is -- it's a hard thing for agencies to come and tell you what they're expected performance is going to be after an earthquake. it's a hard thing to say what they think the goals should be

after a major event. so we really appreciate the people are stepping forward and we really think this is going to be important to understanding how we work together. i should mention that in 2014, we did complete a lifeline dependency study that looked at how dependent the different providers are on each other. as we know, if you don't have electricity, it's hard to run your mta system and so forth. if you don't have water, it's hard for people to stay stay in their homes or at work. so those things are important. and the committee that we put together has been facing those things. actually, the study led to the defining of the sea wall, that the port of san francisco is managing and we're really proud that voters also recognize the importance of that with the passage of the bond in november.

so the performance goals here, i sort of mentioned already, but i'll quickly go through. it's really you know, how do we ensure that the public understands what our utility and how quickly it will take pg and e or our water to get back up and running. if we understand the current performance and how they work together, we can plan for improved performance in the future. we expect we're going to be meeting with focus groups and members of the public. many of the members here, to talk about their expectations as well. the outcomes that we're looking to provide, you know, a set of structured interviews that i'll explain later. multi-sector workshops. again, you can have a fantastic system, you know, we could have it all set and ready to go, but if the power isn't there, they're not going to go.

and they have only so much control over the power. those are the types of discussions that we expect to have at these multi-sector workshops. and the idea is that, while it can be hard to compare different types of utilities, we can come up with a common framework that allows that to happen. and then work together. so, some of the additional outcomes are looking at hard and soft strategies, thinking about infrastructure, as well as processes and systems. policies that the city has and so forth, or that the different utility providers have. and a pretty -- what we're striving for is detailed implementation plan that we can take and it can be incorporated into the capital plan, into the emergency response plan and other tools. so here is set. we had the level set. so we're using the two rather extreme examples, or scenarios.

and we're asking the utilities to provide us information on how they would be able to respond to a 7.9 earthquake, similar to what we faced in 06. and 7.0. we're somewhat unique we're in the middle of two rather large earthquake faults. so there is a fair amount of information on both of these scenarios, which we believe gave us a head start in moving this forward. the approach, some of you may remember, spur in 2009, did their report on resilient city that set out performance targets. the national institute of science and technology. this followed that up and have put out their own performance expectations for utilities, housing and other types of infrastructure. and then the university of

british columbia, in vancouver, has put together sort of a framework that we're using, which again, enables us to compare different utilities through structured interview process. so we've done all 15 of the interviews happened over the past six months. what is coming from that are restoration time lines and they're going to look like this, where the blue line is the current performance, the yellow line is the goal, and how do we -- we recognize it's going to be simplification of the complex systems, but we'll have narrative. by doing that, we'll be able to develop a plan. it's an example where you take the interview information and take sector information, you know, on how much we know about for instance, fire following an earthquake and we layer those two together to produce the

report and the recommendations. so the time line is here. the green bar there at the top is the cross sector workshop. we welcome questions that people may have. this is going to be primarily a place for people to be able to have conversations about their different systems and how they work together. following that, we'll produce an action plan and the intent is that a year from today or so, we'll have implementation plan we can bring back to the committee with some specific recommendations on not just how our lifelines are performing, but how to improve their performance. with that, i will take questions.

>> the don't of technology and -- department of technology went after grant funding for sat lie wi-fi trailers to support communications and especially applications that rely on communications like what's ap app tt. and we received funding for that. that is multicounty. so we're going to figure out the government structure, but the short of it, you'll hear more about the wi-fi trailers and the new asset we have to share among counties. >> great. thank you. >> i just want to announce the executive direct ivgive that --

directive that the mayor announced, we didn't have copies earlier. we'll have them outside when you leave. >> we have general comments. i have a card for one person who hasn't spoke yet. >> may i ask a question, or is it just a comment? >> it's public comment. go ahead. >> yes, hi. let me introduce myself. my name is colleen. and i used to work at the san francisco public defenders office. and i had served on the evacuation committee there. my concern is if there is a catastrophic meltdown in the atmosphere above the planet, and we need to evacuate using like a space rocket or some type of you know, device like that, what department or who is the person that would handle this? would it be the city or the

california state? and the reason i'm asking is because i have a lot of concerns regarding citizens aside from government workers being evacuated. who would i really talk to? would it be the department of emergency services within the city? or would it be within the state, maybe the military or the governors' office? i'm a little curious who would handle something like that. >> well, the department of emergency management, we own the -- we have an evacuation plan. our evacuation is scenario-based, but i'm sure one of our staff could speak to you after the meeting and get a little more detail about what you're looking for. >> any other public comment? so, thanks, everyone for hanging in a few extra minutes.

in a few extra minutes. appreciate you being here.

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>> all right. we've got some holiday cheer for you. we hope you're ready. [singing "you're a mean one, mr. grinch"]

grin [applause] >> thank you. >>. [applause]

[singing "feliz navidad"]

[applause] [singing "jingle bell rock"]

>> once again, we are business casual acapello, and we are so excited to be here for the san francisco tree lighting ceremony. if you shoot videos or photos of us here tonight, we'd look to see us. our facebook page is bc vocals. this will be our last song tonight. we hope you have a wonderful christmas and happy holiday

season. [singing "santa claus is coming to town"]

>> let's have another hand for our wonderful acapella singers. [applause] >> and now we're going to get to the musical part of our program with our overtures,

three songs that you know so well. [singing "san francisco"]

[band playing "silver bells"]

[band playing "santa claus is coming to town"]

[applause] >> thank you. now, it's my pleasure to introduce the emcee for tonight, bill bottoms. bill, where are you? >> hi, everybody. how you doing tonight? that's right. let me lead you a little bit louder. how are you all doing tonight?

[cheers and applause] >> that's right. do we have some small kiddos for the show. feel free to come right up front. we're going to have some stories and personal visitors. everyone, i'm bell bottoms. they were looking for an incredibly talented host. they could only find a jewish drag queen, so i apologize in advance. but what a wonderful city that embraces such diversity. i'm so, so proud to be here with you all. [applause] >> that's right. and apropos my division, the first number that i'm going to perform is by the queen herself, barbra streisand.

[singing "jingle bells"]

>> thank you all so much. thank you so much for being here. so we have an incredible show in store for you tonight. we've got a ton of performers. who here knows someone in the show, anybody? [applause] >> there we go. we have some fans in the house. beautiful. fantastic. let me introduce you, and i want to give some special thanks tonight. so i want to give, first, some thanks to the crew that has made this entire performance possible here at the civic center. i want to thank another planet entertainment who's helped with all of then tainment here tonight, and the sfgovtv northern nation, who have made donations for all of the toys tonight. let's give a round of applause for them. [applause] >> and who here loves to dance? anybody here loves to dance? yeah. we've got a few dancers.

anybody got some moves? you've got some, little guy. got some dance moves? well, this next performance is by an incredible group of tap dancers. so this next group, the christmas tree tappers, under the direction of pam drake, the tap dancing christmas trees join us from dance ten performing arts center in alameda. over the years, they've performed in many parades. their fifth appearance in the macy's parade on thanksgiving day 2016 featured them with the muppets. so please, welcome to the stage the christmas tree tappers.

[dance routine performed]

>> let's hear it again for the christmas tree tappers. [applause] >> weren't they fantastic? what about you, kids? did you take the tappers? yeah. so much fun, right?

they brought them because they knew i couldn't dance, and they knew i needed some help. the next group is the san francisco girl's chorus. they won five grammy awards, performing at the 2009 inauguration of president barack obama. the sfgc continues to empower young women from all across the bay area with its chorus school, which trains over 250 young girls and women in vocal training each year.

please welcome to the stage the san francisco girl's chorus.

[applause] chore [singing "deck the halls"]

[singing "silent night"]

[applause] >> let's hear it for the san francisco girl's chorus.

hi, folks. how great were they? fantastic, don't you think? [applause] >> okay. before we go any further, i want to let jeanette know, we've found tatiana. so mom, come back stage, and we have tatiana for you. i want to give a couple of additional things. none of this would have been possible without the civic center community benefit district, so if you could join me in a round of applause for the benefit district. thank you so much. [applause] >> and of course the office of economic and workforce development, so thank you so much for your contributions. thank you for being here. and next, i'd like to welcome

to the stage rabbi sydney fran's. she represents congregation emanuel. you may or may not know, tonight is the fourth night of hanukkah. and tonight, we are going to light the menorah. do you want to say anything? >> happy hanukkah.

[the hanukkah blessing] >> and for our next number, we're going to continue the hanukkah festivities, if you know the words, join in.ukk

[singing "hanukkah, oh, hanukkah"] >> thank you so much.

thank you so very much. and for this next act that we're bringing to the stage, we're bringing some poets to the stage -- oh, and they're over here. so please welcome to the stage, a special group of poets who are going to introduce their very own selves, please, come up. >> hi. when i say america, can you say scores? >> america. america. america. all right. you are welcoming the poets, the poet athletes of scores up here. poet athletes, what's that mean? what's that look like? well, what it looks like on every friday are these guys and 150 other kids who live in the civic center playing soccer. this is home court for america scores and these poet athletes. but tonight, they're bringing

their poetry game out here, and tonight, they're going to celebrate the many traditions, the subversity that's represented in this community and this city, with a poem that we've written together. so they're getting their mics setup, but this is a poem to celebrate the many cultural and religious practices in community. thank you, thank you for letting us believe a part of this movement here to make this space friendly for all. i should have come with my own poem, here. ro roses are red, violets are blue, so glad to see you. all right. and these -- these poets are

from moscone elementary school. they're from -- they're with coach ally. can we give coach ally a hand for coming out and giving the poets and parents extra support. as well. all right. thank you ready? america. america. america. [children reading