constructed as part of phase one and doesn't have any bearing on the supplemental environmental analysis being prepared now. so, the focus really was on the inner city bus facility and so the concern was to what extent might that affect traffic circulation along beal, along freemont and particularly for egress and ingress along businesses on beal street. when you look at the driveway configuration and the street configuration, the inner city bus does not line up opposite any other driveway for any of the businesses or residence denlszes. so, there's not going to be any conflicting turning movements that might create some congestion. even if the alignments were such that the driveway exits for the inner city bus facility did align with a residential or business driveway, the number of buses that would be exiting

the inner city bus facility during the a.m. or p.m. is only going to be 10 buses per hour. neither the volume nor the alignment configuration was going to result in any adverse effect. meghan has already explained this pretty thoroughly. so i'm not going to belabor the impacts associated with the widened throat structure. but one of the concerns was whether or not we needed to look at other alternatives. could it be possible to consider a tighter curve because it had already started that 900-foot curve and then through the negotiations between the tgpa, high speed rail and the federal administration was a variance granded to a 650-foot curb. so if we even tried to adjust the curbs, the analysis showed that there would be greater impacts than what would be -- than what would occur with the current curve.

so we kind of hit the sweet spot, if you will. and timely in terms of other construction methods, in response to the public comment the tgpa on its own took the initiative to go ahead and start a studies option report back in 2017. the f.t.a. was interested in understanding what other methods could be deployed to reduce some of the impacts for cut and covered construction. so, all of the information from the option study has been incorporated into the final environmental documents and has met with f.t.a. satisfaction. the actual preferred solution is something that will occur after 30% design and other factors have been considered. [please stand by] [please stand by]

action if approval, a notice will be submitted to the county clerk down stairs, and we'll also do that at the state clearinghouse in sacramento, and we'll be expecting the m.t.a. will be issuing their amended memo of decision.

thank you. any questions ? >> questions from board members? >> not a question, but this is a pretty important milestone. advancing d.t.x. is a huge step forward in bringing high speed rail to the salesforce transit center. i just want to congratulate mark and the team to getting these steps done, and looking forward to the next steps in the process. >> thank you. >> i just echo the comments, thank the staff, thank the team. much effort went into this work. i think we were happy to contribute in some small way at the transportation authority. we're hoping that the resumption of the design process will help to continue to refine those plans so we can minimize the impacts on the adjacent stakeholders and property owners. i think in some cases that's

part of the challenge, so i just want to thank everyone for their hard work. we are also keen to ensure that we minimize that cover, avoid as much of it as possible. i think the e.i.r.-e.i.s. supplemental work does a good job of ensuring we have the right path forward. thank you. >> clerk: all right. you do have members of the public that wanted to comment on the item. we have daniel krauss and james tomlin. >> good morning, chair nuru and members of the board. my name is daniel krauss. i'm a principle planner with caltrain. i just want to say that caltrain supports this action

to approve the seis and seir for the downtown completion project, and so we urge the body to move it forward today. this is very integral to caltrain's future plans and increasing the capacity in our service. so we really see great value in the project. it will also help meet the regional and state goals to reduce traffic congestion, also greenhouse gas emaission, so caltrain looks forward to continuing or collaboration with tjpa, with all the other agencies in the city, high speed rail, m.t.c., and all the other agencies that are involved in this process. thank you very much. >> clerk: we'll have jim patrick, followed by roland

lebrun, and then bob finebaum. >> i'm jim patrick, patrick and company in san francisco. we talk about mitigating factors. may i suggest a mitigating factor, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka ching, how are we going to pay for this. i see we developed the first phase one with the federal government making loans. we're going to pay them with tax dollars. now we have another opportunity to rethink the way we did project a, if you will, which is the transit center. clearly, what we did ended up being delivered to us with some problems. we've articulated those clearly. what can we do to prevent those in the future. now, we have another project about to be approved. i suggest we get a public-private partnership and pay for this improvements with the revenues that will be

generated. let the private contractor, whoever that might be, let him get the revenue, let him build it, and forget this buy american. i like buy american, but it's very expensive. forget a lot of these joint labor agreements. another thing, why should we buy into that? we've paid the highest price possible for all our labor. i figure it's cost us $200 million. do you like paying $200 million? we've delayed this at the transportation joint power authority for two years. come on, guys, step up to the plate, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching. we need to understand the costs and containment practices. we need to do this, but limited

practices and limited amount of dollars. >> okay. roland lebrun. >> okay. with your permission, i'd like to back up to slide 17. >> clerk: uh, so it's not active. >> so i would respectfully disagree. let me just start with something else that came out of the tunnel option study. there was this idea that somehow we're going to dig up three tracks with starting with three tracks on the outside and then going with the third track in between. i've got three international firms that i conferred with that all told me the same thing. if you start digging the third tunnel in between the two, you will compromise the integrity of the two outside tunnels.

now, the train box extension is actually under the bus facility. if you look at the plans, the train box extension actually goes all the way over to the other side of main street, actually, right against the building foundations. and then, the next question is okay, that's great. now you've got your 1400 foot platform. somehow you managed to squeeze them in there, but how do you have to go across the bay? all you've got to do is go up in the study and look at the leak impact. you've got numerous buildings that are going to have to be taken downtown. now, the last thing is a turn-back track. the thing that you have to understand is just the

existence of that is going to impact every single train, not just because when you're turning trains, because to accommodate it, you have to increase the distance between the gates. you're going to increase the distance by approximately 20 feet -- sorry, 30 feet. if you do that, you will increase the warming time by 20 seconds, and the reason that happens is because -- warning time by 20 seconds, and the reason that happens is because somebody with disability neats to cross, and they cross at 1.5 feet per second. the pennsylvania avenue alignment, if you do that, the turn back goes -- the trains are moving over to the tunnel number two, which is the tunnel that will be abandoned, and basically, pennsylvania takes

care of all the problems. basically, i took care of it seven years ago. thank you. >> clerk: mr. finebaum. >> i am mr. finebaum. we urge you to accept this supplemental e.i.r. it's been well done. it's taken a long time, but the results are great. i want to talk to you a little bit about something else. as tilly well knows, the c.t.a. has suspended the funding, the $9.6 million of funding for the continuation of engineering drawings on the downtown extension. they've coupled that with a study that is going to be bid out for contract to study the management and operations of the transbay center. these two have been linked, but

unfortunately, they are really not linked. the study of the operations and the future project delivery is a good idea at this time, and i think it should go forward, but i also think that funding should be released now because it is extremely destructive to that. if it is not going to be released immediately, that you empower mark and the tjpa staff to find funding elsewhere as a bridge loan to continue the engineering work. as i said, it is extraordinarily destructive, and it's a terrible idea to couple the two.

i think perhaps naively, that our friends at salesforce may come through with a bridge loan, and i urge you to have mark to talk to salesforce and others, maybe boston properties, to come through with that money until the c.t.a. will release its funding so that the engineering can continue. thanks. >> clerk: all right. that concludes members of the public that wanted to comment on item 10. >> okay. >> motion to approve. >> motion. >> second? >> second. >> motion and multiple seconds. roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: that's seven ayes,

and item ten is approved. go ahead and call your next item? >> yes, please. [agenda item read] >> director, if you have any questions on this item, ron alameda can answer them. >> director reiskin? >> just to the earlier point of accountability, i saw some of the reasons for the need of this extension, i -- which i think is pretty modest, about 2% of the total value. but some of the reasons include dealing with the webcor lawsuit, and the fact that we've diverted resources to the temporary terminal and the fix of the new terminal. is it safe to assume that we are -- our errors and omissions were also listed there. is it safe to assume that the costs of this contract that are

associated with dealing with errors and omissions or the webcor lawsuit that we will be seeking compensation for ultimately from the designers or for webcor? >> i think it's a little premature to assume that kind of as a baseline? obviously, we'll be uncovering what transpired in that respect in terms of the design. this is just really focused on the fact that it's protracted out to deal with closeout, the temporary terminal, as well as, you know, modifying or recalibrating the staffing plan to address the lawsuit, wherever it may take us and reflective of that new forecast of staffing with the institutional knowledge that we had. back at amendment four, we had to add a little dollars, and we

are already starting kind of to destaff a bit and were on our downward wind. for myself, i was starting to focus a little more on public works, and with the events of september compounded by the lawsuit, we realized our staff forecast needs to be recalibrated. >> this agency, through your contracts, through your services, otherwise, are incurring costs because of the lawsuit, because of the issues with the new center. and i thought i read in the staff report and chasing down errors and omissions issues, ultimately, i believe this agency should be made whole for. >> actually, and we're tallying all costs related to the fix of the girder, and whatever's in this report that pertain to see that, we -- pertains to that, we will tally that up. other costs are because of the

closure itself -- not the closure, but the pushout of the -- of the -- the project completion. so whatever that is that's related to the fix or the closure, that we will tally that up in one column. other items, the lawsuit, and other things will be in another column. so whatever we can recoup, we will. >> just to follow up on director reiskin's point, not to jump to any conclusions, the agency wants to be made whole wherever the path leads us, so whatever hours and tasks are being spent on need to be tracked separately so we do have the opportunity to be made whole wherever this journey or journeys take us. >> no, that's the approach. not to say the e.i.o.s are off

the table. they certainly are on the table. going into it, it's to make ourselves whole and hold accountability for those that are responsible. >> so moved. >> second. >> and a second. call the roll. >> clerk: okay. first and second, no members of the public wanting to comment on the item -- [roll call] >> clerk: seven ayes. item 11 is approved. call your next item? >> yes, please. [agenda item read]

>> and we'll have a presentation on this item. >> good morning, directors. i'm relieved to bring you an item that has no lawsuits or claims related to it. this contract with bus storage facility has actually been a very good project and clean and it's almost wrapped up. and truly, we are at a closeout stage, but request authorization for a time and dollars modification. just quick location, it's between second and third street, stillman and perry streets between the transit center and the bus ramps and to the bus storage facility utilized. we're up to approximately, i believe, 53 buses can park between second and third

street. access over second street is in green and third street is your street-level access, as well. scope of work is essentially the facility for the buses and also an a.c. -- the transit admin building and various other items that went into that particular facility. bid summary, ghilotti construction, it was awarded to them may 9, 2017. award amount was $21.6 million. our -- per the board rules, 10% delegated authority would get us to $23.769 million, as authorized to the director of design and construction to sign change orders, but our anticipated final completion is 24.7 million, it does exceed our delegated authority. and also included the base substantial completion was june 30, 2018. and we have actually awarded a

substantial completion of august 1, 2018. and an anticipated final, with just some minor change orders that can proceed with today's anticipated action. february 1 would be -- essentially we'd just close out the project as was noted and marked in the staff report, there are no claims, and this is an extremely clean project. ghilotti construction has been very good to work with, has been very cooperative to do various items that are necessitate -- that were necessitated for various reasons. cost droppers, i've tried to drop them into the six buckets that are first. first one, relatively self-explanatory with the contaminated soils. we encountered a lot more contaminates soils than were expected. when you go in there, and you

retest, and you find that you have more than the soil samples that were taken preconstruction, so that actually was the largest pot out of this was contaminated soils. 975,000. the a.c. transit editions with that, i think the biggest one would be merge. we talked about that significantly with the merge. this includes other items that would include all the various items from the additional striping to delineators to all the other items to make the facility work well for a.c. transit. those are in those dollars. differing site conditions, where the miscellaneous, as i would call them, the lost city of san francisco pieces, you know, old buildings, things that were just unknown as we were excavating. site requirements, this includes items such as the third street improvements to -- which was street lighting and

site work to ut lite the additional signalization to get out of third street with the new signal that was added at perry time from the time of design to the time of construction, there were some additional modifications needed. also, the bike lockers that were added at the west end are an example of what's in this bucket. caltrans requirements, can't look at tony for this one. so these are items when they go through safety reviews, impacts to their facility that were required, and fencing, safety items specifically around their substation. and then, the rest is e&o's, errors and omissions which add up to the $21 million. i will say that is a conservative number at this point as we have handshakes on everything. just need authorization to signed the change orders. -- sign the change orders.

so i'm requesting from the board an authorization to increase up to $24.7 million for the various reasons identified and also the time modification as well to the dates noted of august 1 for substantial and february 1 for final recommendation to the board. >> directors, questions. yes, sir. >> actually, if i could move the item, i would be very happy to do so. i would remind everybody in the room this makes working conditions better for your operators, but more importantly, it allows us to not drive empty buses back over the bridge. we impact the environment in a significant positive impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, so thank you, and i'm happy to move the item. >> second. >> okay. call the roll. >> clerk: okay. first and a second, and no members of the public wanting to come ment on the item --

[roll call] >> clerk: that's seven ayes, and item 12 is approved. go ahead and call your next item? >> yes, please. [agenda item read] >> directors, there is no change proposed to investment policy, but brad jenkins is here from stray capital if you have any questions. brian, if the board has any questions? no? >> move for approval. >> second. >> thank you. there's no -- if you accept it, we're good. just a review, per policy. >> clerk: okay. that does conclude the business before you today. >> okay. so i will adjourn the meeting. thank you, everyone. >> clerk: thank you. >> happy holidays.

>> i moved into my wonderful, beautiful, affordable housing march 7th. i have lived in san francisco since i was two-years-old. i've lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now.

my name is vlady. i use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the san francisco housing facility. from the very beginning, this whole transition of public housing and affordable housing was a good idea. but many, many residents didn't think it would ever actually happen. it's been a life changing experience. and i'm truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. they've done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. now they have quality housing.

i was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. it wasn't large enough to accommodate. the children are grown. i had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. i really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. we still do it from time to time. the mayor's office has been a real friend to us, a partner. we know that our city supports us. i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy.

. >> president cohen: good afternoon, and welcome to a special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. today is december 18, 2018. thank you all for being with us today. for this important meeting. to the members, begin with attendance, lead the pledge of allegiance, communications and nominate and vote for their president pro-tem. so let's start with the roll call.

[roll call vote taken] we have a quorum. so, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. members of the board please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance was recited] >> thank you all. during the roll call for attendance, those marked not

present were president cohen, supervisor peskin and supervisor tang. my office has received communications asking to be excused from the meeting. a pro-tem officer is appointed by the members, a motion to excuse the members the first order of business. but first, board president malia cohen is among those members not present, pursuant to the rules, clerk calls the meeting to order, and opens the floor for members to make nominations and to vote for their pro-tem. all right. though this appointment would terminate after today's meeting. any member may make a nomination, a second a nice touch and majority vote of the members present. so, if there's one nomination, we'll take the vote. if there are multiple names in nominations, we'll take a different type of a vote. so, are there any members who would like to nominate president

pro-tem? >> yes. >> supervisor yee: i would like to nominate the only outgoing supervisor in the room, that would be supervisor jane kim. >> supervisor yeah has nominated supervisor kim seconded by safai. we'll take a vote on that as supervisor kim as the pro-tem. [roll call vote taken] there are eight ayes. congratulations, madam chair.

>> colleagues, thank you for your confidence in your vote today to allow me to preside over our special board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, december 18th. more than anything, i want to thank my colleagues for coming in for this special meeting to allow me to be able to vote for this charter amendment to bring this forward to our voters. may i take a motion at this time to excuse president cohen, supervisor peskin and supervisor tang? motion from ronen and second from brown, do that without objection. madam clerk, call today's one and only item.

>> clerk: item 1, charter amendment third draft to establish the free city college fund to defray certain costs of city college students and to require annual appropriations in designate the amounts to the fund, at election to be held november 5, 2019. >> i want to thank the members, primary sponsor, supervisor mandelman, supervisor yeah, ronen, brown, fewer and safai. i did promise a brief meeting, but i did want to make a couple of points before we took a vote on this charter amendment. i just want to recap the journey that we had been on since 2015 when i first introduced a revenue measure to create more equity here in san francisco. we have one of the fastest

growing economies to the envy of cities and states around the nation, yet we also have the fastest growing income gap between the rich and the poor in the nation as well. the great equalizer or one of the great equalizers in our country has always been education, and in the mid 20th century when this country made a very expensive and at the time a very radical decision to fund a free and universal k-12 education system we saw a middle class grow in this country. while that was not the only factor for the growth of the middle class, it was certainly one of them. and during this time we also found a high school diploma was enough to get a middle class job. 30, 40 years later we have seen technology has raced ahead of education, and that by 2020, 70% of all u.s. jobs will require some type of post secondary degree training or certificate. i believe it's our role as elected officials and as government to constantly review

and reexamine the social compact we have with our citizens to provide them a foundation to become successful in our nation and education of course continues to be one of them. in 2015, we started to hear candidates for the democratic party and president talk about tuition-free college, and community members reached out to me in december of 2015 examine what it would mean to use revenue measures for a free city college. over the next four months we worked with our controllers office, ben and his team and in particular, thank jalieal, and my chief of staff, to look at what the investment would look like and found it does not cost that much. with an estimated revenue of between 20 to $44 million through luxury real estate transfer tax we realized we can make san francisco the first city in the nation to make community college free for all of our residents regardless of

age, income or any type of g.p.a. prerequisite and thank my colleagues on the board at that time for supporters a charter amendment with ten votes, i'm sorry, supporting a revenue measure with ten votes that became proposition w, luxury real estate transfer tax, asking those who are doing tremendously well in the real estate economy to invest back in the city to create more equity. the average job available for city college graduate, $11,000 more than the same individual with a high school diploma. l 62% passage in november, able to raise $27 million in just the first year of implementation and able to make city college free that fall of 2017. however, as you know, through that process, we were able to allocate only 6.4 million of the 27 million to this free city program. we wanted the pilot to begin and get our foot in the door and the

program has been much more wildly successful and popular than i think any of us even the strongest advocates have anticipated. we saw a growth that looked to be about 20 to 25% of increase enrollment of san francisco residents and we saw city college adding classes and hiring faculty again. one of my favorite quotes was one of the, one of the faculty members saying that she enjoyed being screamed at by a student for not being able to get to the class because it was full, instead of telling a student that they could not get into the class because it was canceled due to underenrollment. since that time we have gotten so many letters from city college students. including this letter that we received, on behalf of the students of city college, i want to express my gratitude toward the victory of free city college. as a student and as a graduate who continues attending ccsf, the removal of financial barriers has opened greater skills necessary to prepare for

the 21st century work force. i'm a mother of three young children and been working towards a career change in life. obtaining this education is essential and purposing career path that is fulfilling. free city contributes to their talents, and pursue new career paths without going into financial debt. reduced education iniquity and made education accessible for all of our city residents and thank the board for championing free city. it's so important in a city that talks about innovation and disruption, we need to make sure the opportunity is provided for all of our residents. so, colleagues, i just want to thank again our co-sponsors, i want to thank our rules committee for expeditiously allowing this to come before the board. i know this is one of the quickest charter amendments that have come before the board of supervisors but i really do look forward to working with all of you to champion this in the

november 2019 election. i want to recognize the college board of trustees for adopting this charter amendment and recognizing the president, the vice president, and others, and also my former chief of staff, ivy li, the architect behind proposition w. thank the city attorneys for working tirelessly to make sure we could get this done since july, janet and john, and recognize the controller's office, ben rosenfield and his team, michelle and jayliel, will work on this in a different hat without your office and all the data and numbers we would not have been able to move forward with proposition w or the charter amendment before us. and last but not least, i want to thank the free city coalition. i have really enjoyed standing in front of this campaign but this idea came directly from the

community and not from any elected official. it was again members of labor and afc2121 that brought the idea of investing in free city and said this was possible and tremendous amount of research across the country to see what what it would take to make this a successful program in san francisco, examining the tennessee promise, chicago promise, oregon promise, the strengths and pit falls of the program to make sure we would implement a program in san francisco that drew on the strength and also addressed and mitigated some of the challenges they saw, one most importantly, low income students in households did not enroll in free college, we found that books and transportation and child care costs exceeded the cost of tuition and that was also a barrier attending the college, so unique not only tuition free but for the lowest income students enrolling in

city college part and full-time, providing additional stipend to pay for books and other things to be successful in the school. i want to thank afc2121, our president jenny warly, our former president, aleesa, james tracy who worked on it at the partnership, and labor council, connie ford, rita gonzales, and kim paulson. community housing partnership, anokvil rama, and the student solidarity committee co-chairs. among others. any comments or questions you would like to make before our vote on the question? this is really going to be a

short meeting. so -- at this time, madam clerk, please call the roll. >> on the question shall this charter amendment be submitted to the department of elections. [roll call vote taken] >> clerk: there are seven aye and one no, with supervisor stefani in the dissent. >> colleague, ordered and submitted to the november 5, 2019, election. and failed to thank kitty fong for working so hard the last couple of months. madam clerk, general public comment. yes, still doing that for the special board meeting. >> at this time the public may address the board up to two minutes on subject matter items

within the board's jurisdiction, but not on a free city college. first speaker, please. >> city college for free, first of all, i want to point out to you that there's nothing for free. during the budget cuts, two executive females for city college came up here and said it's a good program but we here before the budget today because we are $5 million in debt. so that's proof nothing for free. you just testified you got multi-million dollars of dollars from proposition w, if so, why is city college $5 million in debt per year. you want to continue this program for 20 years, 20 years times 5 million, $100 million that the city is in debt. another example of the situation enjoyed by preferential treatment said the people but not enjoyed by the most vulnerable people. you have lower level institutions of schools in order

to get to the best schools, junior high and elementary schools, and other school institutions, you have to go to school based on the lottery system. whereas city college is for free and no lottery system involved. in fact, i have to speak up for the teachers as well, because the teachers are not getting paid on time, and just this past holiday season, s.f. -- over 200 instructors that did not get paid. and as a result, they received foreclosure notices from the banks, eviction b notice from the apartment owners, and by the same response, some homeless teachers out in the streets, too. and i want to point out another example of differential treatment, because scott wiener and the previous mayor put together a $44 million homeless bond for teachers only to build 100 units and 120 units for homeless teachers only. you have a situation enjoyed by homeless teachers but not enjoyed by nonhomeless teachers.

moreover, another situation where this homeless bond after seven years of living in the building the teachers have to be evicted and start the homeless teacher situation all over again. >> thank you for your comments. just a reminder, general public comment. not comment on free city college for future speakers. >> thank you, thank you. mr. wright is throwing fastballs and they are covering the plate. this issue, this is coming back to bringing our government back home. this is just one government, and this government needs to say well, we have other governments, the federal and the state, and there are budgets there, dropping. littering yemen with bombs, couldn't we get a few more, instead of bombs, schools. i mean, this is across the country. people are not going to have a

lot of money for the programs for the people but yet we need to bring the governments back home and this is a perfect example of it. good luck finding funding for bringing the governments back home. thank you. >> thank you, mr. gilberte. any of the other members in general public comment? >> i would generally like to say thank you very much from a city college person, it was free -- i'm not commenting about the i think this, just saying thank you. it was free for me and i've taught there 39 years and if it had not been free, that would have never happened. i know we are not allowed to clap or sing, so, hey! thank you. >> i think we are allowed to sing. >> thank you. ♪ we've got a charter amendment ♪ ♪ we've got a charter amendment ♪ ♪ to keep city free, from the bottom of my heart i say thanks to thee ♪ ♪ we have free city college for you and for me ♪

>> thank you. >> thank you, police berg. -- miss berg. >> all right, madam president. >> oh, yeah. i just want to say, i wasn't here last week for all the great accolades that, thank you jane kim for a wonderful eight years. i'm proud to be a district 6 resident and close out as board president, one of the great moments. thanks for pushing universal child care, ban the box, and raising the minimum wage wage, and the other thing we are not supposed to talk about in general public comment. thank you. >> thank you so much, to members of the public. sorry -- flip the page. madam clerk, any further business before us?

>> after you close public comment, madam president, i believe that brings us to the end of our agenda and a year that we will remember. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. thank you so much to mike colleagues for coming in today for a special board meeting. we look forward to seeing everyone in the new year. thank you also to our staff and clerks for organizing this special board meeting for december 18th and for the members of the public for coming. today's special meeting is adjourned.

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illuminated snowflakes on market street. the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the >> 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,

thank you for coming to our second meeting of the fiscal year. i'd like to call the meeting toed on -- to order and welcome our mayor, london breed. >> mayor breed: good afternoon, i mean, good morning, thank you, it's friday. the day is just all -- days just all blend together. thank you so much for being here. as we start this meeting, i want to first start with a moment of silence for the victims of the north -- northernal