ethics commission, is a huge responsibility that you are taking on. from my part, i really want to appreciate you for doing this. we need you, we are glad you are here. >> thank you. >> did you want to say anything else? if not, i will be happy to make a motion. >> i think i've said enough. [laughter] >> we will hear from you, hopefully from your seat when you're appointed shortly. with that, i would like to make a motion to amend the item to put -- >> you can make a recommendation to appoint -- >> sorry, thank you, mr. clerk. i would like to make a motion to recommend mr. gray to seat one of the ethics commission.

without objection, that motion passes. >> thank you. [applause] >> mr. clerk, please read item number 6. >> item six is an ordinance amending the admin straight of code to change the sexual harassment response and prevention to represent human rights commission to a vision under the human rights commission under the executive director of the human rights commission, and modify the appointment process for the director of the office. >> thank you so much. this is my item. last year, the board of supervisors unanimously passed legislation creating a new office called sharp, which is tasked with addressing the lack of transparency and efficiency from city agencies in response to sexual assault cases. the office of sharp or sexual harassment andrus bonds prevention is desperately needed in our city, given the continued disregard for sexual assault survivors and their rights. the office, a year later, is

almost ready to open its doors at the human rights commission under the leadership of director cheryl davis, and has been in the process of conducting a thorough hiring process for staff to direct the office. this legislation is simply meant to correct those technical errors to allow the process that has already happened and we have had some really superior applicants apply for this position. this legislation amends the ordinance to clarify that this office is a division of the human rights commission under director cheryl davis, and that cheryl davis will directly oversee the office and appoint the director of the office. i hope you can join me in moving these amendments forward so that we can finally open this

desperately needed office in our city to begin its work in earnest this summer. with that, i will open this up for public comment. mr. wright? >> i don't know if you guys know about this, but i had a major part with the fall of untested right kids. i was the person who spoke up during women's month when everyone was -- i was the one that said i was speaking out for the females who have not been represented by the district attorney's office and about 1,000 untested right kids sitting at the hall of justice. i was the one that said that, i was watching the educational show, and a soft female rape victims call out for help, which was a victim of being raped by bill cosby. she complained about how everywhere she goes, she gets hit with the fact that the

statute of limitation is passed, and is there anyone who can help us with this problem? went to the law library and came up with this law that is called continual injury, which means that the statute of limitations is tall, and as a result, the demonstration that i made during women's month because calls the issue to have a hearing on the untested right kids, and during that hearing, i also brought up how there should not be a statute of limitations because i didn't know the name of the person that just got arrested for committing 25 murders in over 50 rates, and it turns out his name is mr. d'angelo, and i said this is another example on how the statute of limitations should not be a statute of limitations on a rape. shortly thereafter, the legislators from sacramento who happened to be watching that

demonstration got rid of the statute of limitations on rape. i did that, and i don't respect any navigation or commendation or recognition here for my performance because my work speaks for itself, but my point here today is that if you put this in the hands of cheryl davis, i don't want my complaint to sit there for six years like my complaint against -- >> thank you, mr. wright. thank you. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing non, none, public comment is closed. can i have a motion? >> i move that we move this to the full board with positive recommendation. >> without objection, that motion passes. mr. clerk, is there any other items?

>> that concludes the agenda for today. >> thank you, the meeting is adjourned.

>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the

movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that

come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive

financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it

opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you

can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit?

retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself. follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. better.

san francisco department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. we know that we don't have all the answers. we need to support our local champions, our local community to find creative solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. >> zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. the grant program is a grant program specifically for nonprofits in san francisco to divert material from landfill. it's important to find the san francisco produce market because there's a lot of edible food

that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. >> san francisco produce market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. i think it's a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. it's a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, we've donated over 1 million pounds of produce to our community partners, and that's resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which we're very proud of.

>> carolyn at the san francisco produce market texts with old produce that's available. the produce is always excellent. we get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and it's important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. it's helping people. that's what it's really about, and i really enjoy that. >> the work at the produce market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better than

friends, residents. ladies and gentlemen, friends, residents, stakeholders, community leaders, good morning and welcome to this historic grand opening of 1101 potrero. [applause.] this is a monumental moment for the residents of potrero hill. we are excited to have you here today with our honorable mayor. i would like to first bring up a fourth generation san francisco resident. fourth generation potrero hill resident. [applause.]

>> i had a speech prepared. it blew in the wind. it is gone. i will go off the top of my head. the spirit moving me. before i do a prayer for us in this beautiful space, i want to say welcome from my family, the blue family. i consider myself a po a nativef potrero hill. i went to missouri street after two days of hospitalization. i want to first honor and acknowledge the ancestors that came before us shared our mothers, mothers and fathers, fathers came to san francisco. some of us came to san francisco from the south trying to avoid atrocious cities, trying to

better their lives and moved to potrero hill. they didn't know they were going to unknown territory. this is what they called home. i still consider it home today. i want to remember those people. i want to remember the people that came before those, the native hurricanes that this was their land, their home and that we don't often knowledge that but we feel their spirits on the hill. this is a beautiful space. it is a beautiful space and the homes that reside across the street and up the street and up this hill and down the street. those will be one day another transformation in physical form. we are talking about more than a physical form. my people believe in spirits. i am 90% of what you don't see my thoughts, beliefs, mind and spirit. i want to honor and acknowledge

those people that came before me to acknowledge that they gave and they sacrificed in ways we will never know. i want to say thank you to the people that made this possible. this is only one of many phases of transformation in the physical. this is one of the milestones in the spirit and emotional. if you can bow your heads at this time and i want to say to made god, my heavenly father and those praying to your god. i am talking about one god. the spirit muffs among us. it is someone that is bigger, stronger than us that knows this right here was going to happen. i share with you earlier today walking in the building the young woman said do you remember

me? do you remember me? my name is faith. i said what? my name is faith. it comes to me transformation is happening. if you believe, if you have faith that change is going to come, i want to say today change has come. i want to say thank you, lord, for the people that continue to move through even in the midst of darkness. thank you to the people recessient in midst of pain. thank you for those that gave their lives when they didn't know that they were. i want to say continue to bless the space that these new residents reside in. may you continue to put your loving protective arms around the space, the place and the people that reside in this

place. may you continue to remember that there are a group of 90% people that still need to move into a new space and those putting up the spaces and places. remember these are people that have memories and places and spaces that are yours, lord. so may we continue to bless this day when we continue to bless this space and the people. may we continue to be resilient and still remember there is heaven in the middle of some of our hell. may we remember beauty among the ugly. we ask this day continue to be flowing. may we remind people to be responsible and accountable for the people we are in charge to move forward. forgive us for things we may not know that we have done. amen.

>> thank you so much. a men. can we say amen. you are due for a treat. you have a powerhouse group of speakers, you have the distinguished mayor, supervisor district 10. in our community we know if you feel us, if we hear you back. now we are ready to do this work, to build a set of 100% affordable housing units in the community for the first time in a half a century. it takes a mission-driven developer. the leader of the incredible and extraordinary partner who is behind this incredible building cynthia parker from bridge housing. [applause.]

>> thank you. i appreciate that. what a crowd. you know, i am so impressed that so many people came out here to help us dedicate this building, but particularly i think what is so wonderful we have had so many people from the resident community who are so excited about this. last saturday we had an open house for the residents to allow them to come through and tour the building and get a chance to see it. they are just so jazzed and so are we. last week we had our first resident start to move in. i have to tell you it makes my heart so glad to see this ham. i have been at bridge for nine years now. it is hard to believe. it went by like a second. i have to tell you this was the first project i got involved in. we had been awarded this

development awhile ago, two years before i got here, and we had a very lengthy entitlement process. a lot has changed in san francisco during that time. the housing situation has become much more acute but we also have leaders like mayor breed who have said we are going to step up to speed up the process to make the development of affordable housing a priority in the community. we have seen that happen. we are now seeing permitting and entitlements under expedited process happen under senate sb35 which senator wiener introduced which allows us to get things developed in a quick fashion. we see those entitlements by right go through in 60 days as opposed to nine years. it really makes a difference

when the community when the leadership of the city says we put this first because we need this kind of housing. i would like to give a couple shout outs to people who made this happen, you know. we have our residents, on you mayor, we also have maria. thank you for all of your support. i remember going to your office and you were right there with us. i thank you for that. jeff sparks is the district director for senator wiener. thanks. we have a couple bridge board members who are very supportive. dennis o bryan is in the crowd and ron is our board chair. we also have folks from obviously hope sf and the mayor's office of housing. thank you, kate, for all you

have done. you have been an awesome director for the office of housing. i also want to acknowledge dan aldoses dams. i accused had -- dan at dams -- dan adams. he is still helping us out. thank you, dan. just a real quick compilation. this is going to end up going over 1675 units of housing. we would like to squeeze in a few more because we need the housing in the city. it will have affordable development across the street and market rate development which we want to see in the next year or so. there will be 15,000 square feet every tail, 25,000 to 35,000 square foot community center open to the neighborhood, daycare spaces and three and a

half acres public space. this has 72 affordable units. part of the problem is people are living in public housing. i know they are anxious to get out. we want to help that happen. we have to build the units in order to move them out. that is going on. this space was created first. next spaces will carry things down and move people in. there are spaces for resident services and programs. this is a leads gold building. we are pursuing that. it shows our commitment to suggestion stain ability. -- sustainability. it takes a village. you are our village and you helped make this happen. i appreciate it. [applause.] are you going to introduce the mayor? i don't mind. i would love to. i would like to with this

introduce or beautiful and lovely mayor of san francisco, london breed, who has just a tremendous appetite to make things happen for afford annual housing. thank you, mayor breed. [applause.] >> i can't believe how cold it is in potrero hill. usually it is warm. i am so excited to be here today. this is a long time coming. i often go back to my experience of when i lived in plaza east in the western addition. at that time during the hope six project, we tore down 300 units of housing and only built 200. we made mistakes and moved people out of san francisco. sadly, a lot of mistakes that i am glad that today we are not

repeating those same mistakes. we are making sure residents of potrero hill have a place to move in directly in their communities. that is a big deal with all of the challenges that existed in the past. the breeds have history in potrero hill. the breeds -- that is my sister for those who don't know. my mother lived at connecticut and i spent a lot of time in potrero hill for so many years. eddy and brenda were a sustain in the community. we are grateful they were like mommy and daddy in the neighborhood. get in the house. it is too late for you out here. this is an amazing community. it is filled with so many incredible people who deserve to live in better conditions than

what has existed for far too long in public housing. you know addressing the challenges with public housing is my number one priority. when you have had to live in the kinds of conditions where you had no control and no money to make any changes, there is nothing else that would be more important to you than changing those conditions when you have the ability to do so. i won't get into the details of the challengeses. don't get my started on the mold and pipes and roaches and drama and calling a number no one would find out and you had to pay somebody $5 to pick the toilet so you didn't have to use the neighbor's toilet. i can go on and on about the challenges that existed. today is significant. the work we have been able to do and this happened when supervisor now board of equalization member was on the

committee. they worked together to make sure we addressed those challenges by investing in this community and not displacing this community, which was so critical to the success of this project. i am reminded of the thing mayor lee used to say. it is not about new promises, it is about old promises. today after years afternoon years and years of struggle we are fulfilling an old promise. one building at a time, one family at a time, joyce. we are doing it. we are changing the face of public housing, not the people but just how these places look, how they feel so that people can live in dignity. some of you know i have been on a mission to make sure we build more affordable housing in san francisco. part of the work along with

supervisor walton are duing. when there is extra money we carve out money for public housing to address the conditions that continue to exist all over the city. a couple days ago we introduced a $500 million bond including $150 million for public housing. (applause). we also know that in order to make sure that communities are able to afford to live in the communities as we build more housing, neighborhood preference is a critical tool to making sure that as your kids grow they have a shot of being able to live in the community they were born and raised in. we know there is to much work to do. today is an incredible start at a great future in this community. i am looking forward to breaking ground on more buildings. i am looking forward to moving faster and getting red of the

red tape that makes it difficult to build 100% affordable housing in the city. look out for the charter amendment to allow for 100% affordable future housing projects to be built as a right. no more delays, no denials, let's build it and build it now. [applause.] this is honestly a dream come true for me because as i said when i think about my own childhood and growing up and living in public housing for over 20 years of my life, i think about my grandmother and the conditions we suffer through, my family, my friends not with us today and the conditions that we suffered through, and i am so hopeful because now as a result of this work that so many of you contributed to making this dream a reality the next generation of

young people in public housing will have a completely different experience. that gets me excited. i want to thank the community for their patience, delays don't mean denials in this case. i want to thank bridge housing for their work to wells fargo to the mayor's office of housing and hope sf and the leaders who continue to fight to make sure so many places in san francisco especially out east which supervisor cohen knows the battles and now supervisor who is taking this over will be there with everything to make the changesness so that communities can live in dignity

throughout the city and county of san francisco. thank you so much. [applause.] >> thank you, madam mayor. i have a dirty secret. downtown in city hall not everyone cares about potrero hill, lets be real. having served under multiple mayors. this mayor come in a short period prioritized hundreds of millions of dollars for public housing. i want you to give her a proper thank you to mayor london breed for all of the support to this community. [applause.] thank you. thank you. she is not shy.

as mayor breed mentioned, this is all about the residents. i have the highest honor to introduce a resident who has lived in this community a decade and who now calls 1101 connecticut home, mr. johnny ledbetter. >> thank you. first, i would like to thank everyone for coming out and i am one of those promised. god is first in my life and my world. i am johnny ledbetter, a san francisco housing authority. i just transitioned to bridge housing. i want to tell you how i got here. i was a single father raising my

daughter, homeless, living in the shelter in 2010. i got a phone call from san francisco housing that said i was approved. i was overwhelmed with joy but scared at the same time. also because i had never had my own apartment. being a sick el father raising a -- single father raising a daughter is challenging. being homeless is worst. through my challenges and being blessed with housing i have built a strong solid community with my neighbors and with san francisco housing authority and staff. also with other organizations such as public housing association, and this i never

had before. also, i am blessed to seek employment or keep a job. i had again been blessed to work with a nonprofit organization that helps residents from san francisco housing authority transfer over to bridge. i would like to thank mattie, elizabeth, for guidance through the trying but fulfilling time especially as i glare out my window. that is a blessing. my new spot in my new 1101 connecticut street, you know. i want to thank everyone and

you, too, mayor london breed, for your effort. thank you. i am that promise. [applause.] >> thank you so much. next we are going to bring up a community leader, fighter the supervisor of district 10. mr. walton. >> good morning potrero hill. we are energetic. this is important. good morning, potrero hill. there we go. this is very personal to me.

missouri and turner terrace. 1720, 25th street. all of those potrero hill addresses are very personal to me. the first address is a family resource center where i became the director in the early 2000s where we worked to provide services for families to make sure basic needs were met, where we had a food pantry that served over 100 residents every week with the grandparents group here. i see eddy here, joyce is here, i see a community of folks that worked hard to serve the community. the second was the address of the food pantry where so many families. as you know we don't have grocery stores in close proximity in the southeast sector where so many families access quality food from the food bank so they were able to

get through the week to support their families and feed them and provide nutritious meals. we focused on making that happen. the third address 1720 25th street is where i lived at a young age with my aunt, cousin, mother right up the hill. we rode bikes with no brakes. i would hospital to go to west point where migrate mother and you cancle lived and where i lived as a youth. this is exciting to be here to witness the rebirth, to witness the beautiful homes on this side of potrero hill. i also want to say that i remember having conversations at the family resource center and when bridge first started

bringing on community connectors and bringing folks in the community and we started having conversation about revitalization of potrero hill, what it was going to look like. like mayor breed said it is a promise. i have had many conversations with residents. nobody believed it was going to happen. we have our first 75 units at the. i want want to shout out to malia for her hard work not only on this project but for all support for hope sf and everything we are doing with public housing in san francisco. her dedication, work to get the financing to blink the community together is very important in this fight as we continue to do everything we need to for our

communities. [applause.] i want to end with saying there is more work to be done. we have four communities just on the southeast to make whole. things are not perfect right now, but we are going to continue to work hard to make sure that we do the best job to bring everything this community needs, not just housing but grocery stores, activities and things for young people to do. things are not perfect. in the words of janet who sung the theme song for the jeffersons. we are moving on up. [applause.] >> leave it to supervisor walton. moving on up. amen. if you look around and see the

finishes, the courtyard, the views, the landscaping, this is first class. this is not public housing. this is for our people in potrero hill. it takes a lot of money to do this. it takes investors, funders, folks willing to commit to the principles of hope sf. the senior vice president of wells fargo investing daniel pearl. >> do i get to wear the hat if he left it here? i am here on behalf of a group in wells fargo called community lending. there is about 200 of us around the country including many in san francisco. i want to start by thanking the long-time residents, leadership council, bridge housing who brought us here, mayor's office

and the mayor and hope sf for leadership. we provided low income housing equity. we participated in the construction loan and it is an honor to invest in the community. we are lucky to be part of the hunters view and made the tax credit investments in the bay you and other neighborhoods in the city. one personal connection for me. i moved to the bay area about 11 years ago and i had a friend at that time working at bridge housing. he knew i didn't know many people and i had time on saturdayen. he said we just started working on this development out here and having a barbecue would you come? i didn't know what bus to take now, i know it is 19. i spent the afternoon here.

little did i know that 11 years later i would be here. we are ready for phase two and thank you to everyone who made this place what it is today. thank you very much. [applause.] >> thank you, daniel. you passed the pest. my also daughter is the only one who can wear this hat. i tested you right there. last but not least i want to bring up one of the partners at bridge, the project manager. i want to acknowledge mr. fred blackwell, chairman of the san francisco foundation here with us who is such a partner along the way. we mentioned the esteemed director of the mayor's office of community development who made this happen. barbara smith is somewhere around. thank you, barbara.

samuel. >> i have been given the job to give the last thank u.s. i want to thank the residents of the annex and terrace. this project is more than 10 years in the making. thank you for making this happen. iit is a process. here we are today. also, i want to thank the residents from park view down to those down. it is months of almost years of inconveniences with traffic detours and construction noise. i hope this is an improvement to what was here previously. i want to thank our financial partners apartment city bank and wells fargo as well as the mayor's office of housing and community development.

our contracting team that including matt, mike, jim and matt. our team of fred, michael. our landscape architect tour team justin and gary. civil engineer mark hail. i want to thank faith and phillip at city hall for keeping the wheels greased and our bridge team. stacy and damian. i want to thank everybody. i hope you enjoyed the event. now if you are here to take a a look at the units. we will do the formal ribbon-cutting ceremony right here. [applause.] >> let's do this. five, four, three, two, one.

(applause) . plause) >> i love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will -- for the longest, i was applying for b.m.r. rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. i pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave

san francisco. i found out about the san francisco mayor's office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did home counseling with someone, but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. i told her about the housing program, the mayor's office, and i told her hey, you've got to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. she said no, i want you to go with me. and then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b.m.i. i was like wow, this could potentially work. housing purchases through the b.m.r. program with the sf mayor's office of housing, they are all lotteries, and for this one, i did win the lottery.

there were three people that applied, and they pulled my number first. i won, despite the luck i'd had with the program in the last couple years. things are finally breaking my way. when i first saw the unit, even though i knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, i could see what this place could be. it's slowly beginning to feel like home. i can definitely -- you know, once i got it painted and slowly getting my custom furniture to fit this unit because it's a specialized unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small. this unit in terms of adaptive, in terms of having a murphy bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as i can. it's slowly becoming home for me. it is great that san francisco has this program to address,

let's say, the housing crisis that exists here in the bay area. it will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise

>> 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, [♪] >> coming to san francisco on june 11th, the earthquake safety his fair from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. as the auditorium at 99 grove street. meet with contractors, design professionals professionals, engineers and architects, along with city agencies and hundreds

of booths on the main floor. attend one of the workshops at 11:00 a.m. the seismic safety strategies study. what you need to know is the city strengthens buildings 240 feet high and higher, and to get ready to the next -- for the next big one. 12:00 p.m., changes in the updated citywide vacant commercial storefront ordinance. 1:00 p.m., comply with the accessible business entrance program to enable everyone to enter your business. 2:00 p.m., home modelling process made stress-free, meet the experts and understand the permit review issuance and inspections process. 3:00 p.m., making the best use of the accessory dwelling unit and legalization program to at affordable housing. learn from these three workshops at the june 11th d.b.i. earthquake safety fair, and begin to get ready for the big one by taking immediate steps to protect both family and property we hope to see you there, so register now.

>> good evening and welcome to the may 22, 2019 of the san francisco board of appeal. president rick swi going wilg we presiding president. at the controls is the board's legal consistent and i'm julie rosenberg, the board's executive director. we will be joined by representatives from the city departments that will have a case before the board this evening, scott sanchez, acting deputy administrator