i'd like to draw your attention to. one, on august 29, we had our first city meeting regarding the response that is specific to people with disabilities and vision zero. and so on that particular agenda we began conversations specifically addressing our bike lane strategy and accessibility and the city's strategy for accessible pedestrian signal installation. and this is the first of a serious of meet -- series of meetings we're working toward vision zero strategy 2.0. there will be additional opportunity for public engagement on this, but i wanted to encourage the council to invite our vision zero colleagues to come and give an

update on where we are regarding our response to vision zero, especially as it pertains to the request that came from the vision zero coalition. and also in terms of our response to the safety and well-being of people with disabilities. we have also, this month, as denise mentioned, welcomed our new council members. i want to send my thanks and congratulations on behalf of the city and on behalf of the mayor to our new members for your appointment. and thank you very much for being here today. we're very glad to have you. the next few things that i want to talk about are upcoming engagement opportunities. and all of this information has either gone to and through the

mayor's office on disability distribution who have signed up to receive alerts, or will be shortly. first event i'd like to announce -- we just learned today -- is happening monday, september 23rd. and what that is, the update on the work with the development of the disability community cult cultural center. there is a webinar you can take part in on monday at 2:00 in the afternoon. for the purposes of public information, i'm going to give you a phone number today which is (415) 338-6010. if you're signed up to the mayor's office on disability distribution, through our

website, you will have received that as of this afternoon. the next item that i want to draw your attention to is actually an item that is happening simultaneously with our public meeting today at the high i can't tell /* -- hyatt. the reason i bring it up here today, is to encourage council members to remain engaged as this plan at the state level is developed. i know several of you have already gone to a few public meetings about this. so i encourage you to remain engaged regarding this state master plan. next i'd like to announce an

opportunity for another -- it's another community meeting from our colleagues at sfmta on the mobility permit harmization plan. this meeting is happening this coming wednesday, september 25 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at 1 south van ness. and the purpose of this community forum is to give the public information about mta's permit program and the purpose of this is to make sure that as more new and emerging mobility services and mobility devices are engaged with our public right-of-way, that we're developing a plan to address the issues and the maintenance of the public right of way and our safety in a way that is

coordinated. i encourage you, if you're interested, to also attend that meeting there specifically, encouraging feedback from people with disabilities. next there are two engagement opportunities happening the following evening on september 26. the first item that i want to bring to the council's attention is the transit reliability presentation focused on equity, which will be happening in the public meeting of the human rights commission on september 26 in this building, at city hall, room 416. the human rights commission will be hearing from sfmta on communicating service updates, language access, access for seniors and adults with disabilities, and late-night muni access in particular. and the commission has asked the

mayor's disability council specifically to attend. if you're interested and if you would be available to let the mayor's office on disability know so they can acknowledge you publicly in their meeting. also on the evening of the 26th, is a follow-up to an event that happened last week at the san francisco arts commission. i'm pleased to announce that this year, for the first time, our san francisco arts commission has included people with disabilities, specifically in terms of targeted outreach for their grant recipient program. it has been available to people with disabilities before, but this year they identified people with disabilities specifically as an underserved community when it comes to the arts and our

focusing attention this year and in subsequent years on more strategic outreach for folks with disabilities. i had the privilege of moderating a panel last week of artists, where the theater attendees learned quite a bit about accessibility and access to the arts. thanks to our panelist who were representing the community. as follow-up to that, if you're interested in learning more about art commission grant opportunities, there is going to be an informational session on thursday, september 26, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the contemporary jewish museum. you are welcome to attend that as well. there are a couple of more announcements. public events happening.

next i want to announce that the following week, thursday, october 3rd, there will be a meeting specifically for disability community members regarding an update on the better market street accessibility plan. this meeting is going to -- is cosponsored by the department of public works. sfmta, and with the generous contributions from the white house for the blind and support for mayor's office on disability. so this meeting is happening thursday, october 3rd, from 4:30 to 6:00 at the lighthouse. if you would like to r.s.v.p. for this meeting, you can contact miss jennifer blut.

and this information went out to the mayor's office on disability distribution as well and will be posted to our website. finally, i want to announce that speaking of the lighthouse for the blind, in conjunction with the longmore institute on disability, is announcing their festival. another two-day, really great event that is happening saturday, october 12, at the salvage in berkley. and day two is sunday october 13, at the contemporary jewish museum. for those of you who don't know, these are all jury selected films that talk about the disability experience and it's a very wonderful process that features films for and by and about people with disabilities.

so i highly encourage you to attend that very exciting and engaging community event. and those are all of my announcements for today. >> ms. senhaux (chair): thank you, director. >> before we move on, can i ask a question? >> ms. senhaux (chair): sorry. thank you. we're going to move on to our next item, information item, which is pg&e's public safety power shutoff program. i would like to welcome our presenter. i apologize if i don't announce your name -- bijan karimi, acting deputy director of san francisco department of emergency management. >> good afternoon, council members. my name is bijan karimi. i'm assistant acting deputy

director for san francisco department of emergency management. i'll be talking to you about pg&e's public safety shutoff. psps. i'll be talking about four things today. information about what psps actually is and about three different exercises that the city has participated in and facilitated. one with other city partners. one with private sector and also with regional partners. many people may want to get a better understanding of what psps is. pg&e will turn off electricity transmission lines because of a perceived concern for starting some additional wildfires. there has been tremendous destruction and damage and loss of life that happened over the last two years in this sonoma area and as a result, pg&e has

explored what are the ways to decrease the likelihood of another event happening? so based on different factors that pg&e uses, things like heat, wind, humidity, fuel levels, and individual observations, they may decide to turn off transmission linings. the difference between a transmission line and distribution line, distribution brings power directly to your home. where transmission are the big power lines we see running across the major arteries of the city and are in the area and are typically on top of large power a-frame-looking buildings. and one of the concerns that we have is what impact is this going to have on the city? the primary transmission lines that come to san francisco come through the east bay and up the peninsula. the cpuc, the california public

utilities commission have identified tier 2 and tier 3. it identifies two different areas in the bay area. one is those that are elevated and those considered extreme. the elevated is yellow. the extreme is red. and the areas that are transmission -- our transmission lines come through for san francisco come through some of the red areas in the east bay, and then may also come up some of the yellow areas on the peninsula. so while san francisco, itself, does not have tier two or tier three exposure, where we get our power from, does. so that's why we're paying particular attention to this. we need to prepare for any potential power outage, whether it's a significant one as

described with psps, or it could be what happened this morning. earlier today, a contractor hit a pg&e transmission line here in san francisco. over 22,000 people did not have power starting right around 8:00. so whether it's the entire city because of a psps. whether it's a smaller incident, certainly 22,000 is not small. or whether it's an individual block, the steps we're taking in the city and we hope residents and other businesses will take, should mitigate the impact of a loss of power. dem hosted three different exercises. one in june, it was for san francisco departments. one in july for private sector agencies in the city, but also some of the nonprofit and government agencies we work with to help provide additional services. and the third was in august where we spoke to some of our

regional partners, other counties. we also asked the state and some of our federal partners to come to get a better understanding of how they're planning for this, should the incident happen, and how we're going to be coordinating together. for our city workshop -- this is now moving to the second topic -- we -- one of the outcomes with how critically important continuity of operation plans are. working with different city agencies to identify their essential functions and then identify what impacts loss of power would have on those essential functions. we also appreciated and studied the fuel that is going to be required to run backup generators. and understanding how much fuel we have in the city and how quickly we'll need to get additional fuel into the city to support backup generation. we also explored the impact to electronic and financial

transactions, because we appreciate that the systems we rely on, if they're not powered, how are we going to continue to exchange information and conduct daily business? and we also explored what some of the communications breakdowns that may take place and how we will continue to reach out to different populations. in our second workshop, which was our private sector, we also underscored how important business continuity is for the businesses we rely on. and one of the issues that we also talked about is the unknown of how long a business may be without power. communications with staff as what we have in the city, that may also be a complicating factor for private sector partners reaching out to their clients. are they prepared to reach out and give messages how long the power may be out, how they can still receive services and what additional needs they may have.

we also discussed the restoration of service time lines. when pg&e turns the power on, that doesn't mean everything goes back to normal. it may take time to inspect systems and bring them up in the proper way so they can be up and running. mta is an example. they may need to inspect their systems so all of the infrastructure functions correctly. one of the things we also recognized, determining the perceived diminished quality of life in san francisco. san francisco is a wonderful place that people love to come to because of its reputation worldwide. we don't want to people to think, i don't want to go to san francisco because this is an issue. we want them to know this is temporary and we're taking steps to mitigate the impact. what we found out is that few agencies -- and this is

throughout the region -- they also don't have continuity of operations plans. you can see one key thing is how important it is. fuel will also be a critical issue. if san francisco is without power, because we're getting our power from somewhere else, they're also likely affected with some type of power shut jouf. so it's not just -- shutoff. it not just san francisco impacted, it's likely a larger area, so how will we work with the state to get the different resources we need and making sure that the state appreciates areas that may have higher levels of impact. we also talked about if agencies will provide financial recovery to businesses. many businesses have discovered after the private sector workshop, their insurance may not cover a planned outage, which is this is considered planned, because pg&e will provide notice. business interruption service doesn't cover someone willingly turning the power off, even if

it's for a safety kilometre-per-hour. so that's an area that is coming up. we did talk a lot about -- and there has been a tremendous amount of work done with coordinated public information. the different ways, we, through the bay area, will be exchanging information that is consistent with what we're saying, with what other counties are saying and the information we're getting to all of our population. we also recognize the dhal enge with health and -- challenge with health and human services committee, especially those with access and functional needs. the department of public health and i'm joined by dr. jan gurley who will be here to answer questions, how do we make sure we know where some of these individuals are that need additional assistance? how do we help them prior to the outage taking place? pg&e has let us know they hope to give us 48 hours of notice. we hope that, too. if it's less than that, it's

much more important or equally important for us to make sure that the populations that may be impacted more significantly, that they have the tools and resources they need. so specific impacts to the access and functional needs population. loss of power. we understand that will be a significant concern, particularly with some of the durable medical equipment. loss of refrigeration, both for individuals with medicines or for businesses, if there are other refrigerated items that individuals may need, that may not be available. disruptions to public services. i mentioned senior centers, dialysis clinics. they have different requirements on them versus a hospital in terms of backup power generation. and the loss or degraded communication systems. we use a lot of electronic means to communicate with individuals, but if those degrade, once 0 the power goes out, we're looking at ways to continue to communicate with the population. one that was raised during the city-wide meeting and this also

came up during the private sector was challenges with evacuation. and if there is no elevator access. there may be individuals relying on an elevator to get to and from where they work, or a service they require, or their homes. what messaging are we giving to these individuals so they can be confident if they need assistance, they will be able to receive it. continuity of operations plan. this is something that mayor breed after the first exercise we had recognized the importance. we are now gathering all the information. but it talks about -- i mentioned earlier -- essential functions. what are those things you do, or depends on you to do? linings of succession. if the power outage happens in the morning, who makes the decision? i can make the decision, but i

have to authority to do so. who are those essential personnel? and the overall plan for revising the plan. we don't want to do it just once. we want to make sure it is continued. for business continuity planning we provided resources to private sector and the nongovernment organizations directing them to the ready, business, power outage tool kit. this is provided by fema. we've also partnered with the community agencies responding to disaster, making sure that they are ready to respond as well and they have their own plans. the volunteer organizations and the california resiliencesy alliance. all different partners we work with, but it's making sure, they, too, are prepared for an incident if it comes up. and the psps awareness campaign. this links back to the regional coordination. we understand how essential it is to preparedness.

we've developed messaging in multiple languages and we'll use partners to spread the message. we don't want someone to get a message one way. we want it multiple ways. it may even be a neighbor knocking on the door. neighbors helping neighbors. and focusing on populations that may be medically dependent on electricity, nicole participated in a mayor's policy group exercise that we had. and one of the topics that came up, how do we prioritize if we have power charging stations? how do we prioritize when they have life dependency on power above other individuals? so we're working with pg&e to identify the medical baseline customers that register with pg&e, how to get that information and working with the san francisco public utilities

commission to distribute flyers in the utility bills so people know what may happen to take the steps to protect themselves. for public alert and messaging, pg&e intends to do the notification 48 hours ahead of time. at that point the department of emergency management is going to do alert sf. that's our common platform for emergency messaging, sending the text messages and e-mails before a shutoff takes place. we'll also be using traditional and social alerts. if this happens, the media market in the bay area will light up and there will be all kinds of information sent out from us, from all the different channels and we want to -- and radio, and we want to make sure people have that consistent information. through our partner outreach, whether it's the homeless outreach teams, elected officials, business associations, many others listed here, community organizations for individuals that are homebound, make sure everybody has as much information as they

can to get to the individuals. other options are the emergency wireless alerts. that's something we'll be testing during the up coming 30th anniversary of the earthquake. and then also other emergency alerts or the outdoor public warning system. and our continued coordination with pg&e, this is not just a one-shot thing. we're participating in regular conference calls with them to make sure we're getting other information about what they're planning. and then we're also participating, along with nicole's assistance, with the california public utilities commission regulatory requirements. they have a rule-making process and we're reaching out and working with nicole to make sure we're providing the necessary information to that rule-making body. later in september, actually wednesday of next week, pg&e is going to be doing a specific workshop for san francisco to answer questions from a lot of the different partners to make

sure everyone is getting the same information from pg&e. are we taking questions? >> ms. senhaux (chair): yes, from council members. i'll go in order of request. council member herman is first. >> mr. herman: thank you for your presentation. >> if i could be joined by dr. gurley, with the department of public health, she may be able to answer your health-related questions for directly. >> mr. herman: you mentioned those people who have signed up for medical baseline with pg&e. if you know who they are, which it sounds like there is a way of identifying them, what specifically can you do for them? >> in terms of notification ahead of time? or for during the incident? >> mr. herman: during the incident. >> during the incident, pg&e have committed to reaching out to as many of the individuals through their customer representatives as they can on

the list. we intend on requesting that list from them. we can only -- we can't have the information ahead of time because it is regularly changing. we want the latest information. so at the 48-hour, or first notice, they'll be providing us with information so we can also do directed messaging to these individuals. >> mr. herman: that's not answering my question. your messaging to them, but is there any assistance you can give them if the power is shut off? >> hi. i'm dr. jan gurley. i am the director of public health emergency preparedness and response for the san francisco department of health. we have been working rapidly to try and address this vulnerability for some of our most impacted communities. we know from discussing this issue with other cities that the

pg&e list of people with medical needs is actually a tiny subset of the people for whom we would be concerned. we're trying to create rapidly, a response protocol that has several layers. one that bijan karimi mentioned, we're working closely with dem around messaging. that seems to be an important opportunity to help many untoward effects. to do effective messaging, though, it has to be appropriate to the recipients, in a timely fashion, and then it also has to give them actionable steps. so we're quite aware that for some people, if they knew they would be out of power for four days, and they're dependent on a power wheelchair and they have an elevator, we may need to establish emergency shelters or places that they can go. that's one of the ways, for

example, that we would begin to try to responding as soon as we develop messaging. the second issue is we're also working rapidly to get a better handle on who all we could reach in a very short period of time. not purely based on one subgroup. each list, or subgroup, has flaws. so the pg&e list is actually very difficult, we've been told by colleagues in l.a., for many people to get onto. it's complicated. it requires provider-filled out forms. it relies on certain diagnoses that may not be the words that many in our communities might use. i mention that because there are many reasons that it may not capture people. we have worked with the federal government to get the steps in place to request something called the empower database. that is a database on the federal side that is based on medicare diagnoses. and it is considered a group of

people who are extremely high risk for energy-dependent medical devices. including ones like a left ventricular assist device. that's pretty significant. it's helping your heart beat. another one is oxygen concentrators or even respiratory. in the department of public health, we're doing now, and practiced this morning, all of the information so we can do a stratified response for the people in the empower database, working with partners and people in the opt-in list. that stratified response in addition to messaging, as we're working with our first responder communities, both volunteer and otherwise to figure out how we could stratfy going to check on people in a hippa-appropriate

way, starting with high priority people first. while we're messaging to all people who might be medically dependent. an important thing for all of us to be aware with, with the empower database, even though it's been studied and found to be 96% accurate, it only captures medicare patients. it does not capture pediatric. it does not capture private insurance people. it does not capture medi-cal. for those many reasons, as i mentioned, each subgroup has flaws in the information. we in the department of public health have also created alliances with our nonprofit agencies and some of our key workers, such as our in-home supportive services workers. we will continue to move ahead as rapidly as we can. we're practicing october 9 for an emergency volunteer practice

for how to respond to this empower database, where we'll create a scenario and move ahead. in emergency work, it always feels like whatever we're doing, it's not enough. we appreciate your time today to share this. we are very open to hearing from any agency that is interested in helping any one of the many constituents. we want to get feedback how we can practice and improve. we want to include people from communities as we develop these protocols and make sure they're appropriate. so if you have any questions, i would be happy to hear them. >> mr. herman: one follow-up. are there any facilities now available to which you would take individuals who are identified at the high-risk level? >> so this is a question about what is our response plan for sheltering in an emergency? >> mr. herman: correct. >> this is more of a dem

question. i mention it, because in dph, we're responsible for the sheltering. it's a multi-process. our job is to have ready the cache -- and it's not that kind of cash, it's the cache of supplies. >> the current sheltering plan for any incident in san francisco we've identified locations throughout the city that can function as potential shelters. in that collection, we've also identified those that are ada compatible. not all are. we hope they become so, but we also recognize we want to provide the highest level of care we can at the shelters consistently. some individuals may have a particular need, so when an event comes up, we have not pre-identified shelters, but we have a list of places we can have shelters. and we'll let the community know certainly where those are, so they can come to the locations.

>> mr. herman: thank you. >> ms. senhaux (chair): before we move on to the next question. i want to add that in addition to all of this work that is being done so far, we have an active disability functional needs working group that is a combination of many city staff, community-based organizations and other interested parties that are really working through all of the issues that dr. gurley mentioned in very systematic way. so that's another very targeted way we're really trying to look at the needs of folks with disabilities. >> ms. senhaux (chair): thank you. >> mr. madrid: thank you for coming. i have a lot of questions, but i just want to have a few questions today.

when you said in place by now for those people that might need it, just want to clarify when you say this is not shelters with homeless population or people might just slip in, right? >> i want to reframe your question to make sure i understand. the question is, if we open a shelter, will it also include members of -- >> mr. madrid: no. my question was, i just want to make sure that when the shelter is open, or opened up, it's not

homeless shelters. it's just specifically for those people that need to be in there, right? >> when a shelter is opened in san francisco, our intention is to serve the needs of the individuals that are coming to the shelter. we recognize that some individuals may have particular needs. there are many resources available for individuals who may already be homeless. they may already go and use -- or go to the locations where they're already familiar, but they may come to any shelter in the city, if they need assistance. >> mr. madrid: the reason i ask is that as you mentioned before, those places are accessible, but we had a meeting a couple of months ago that most shelters are not accessible.

just wondering information on that and possibly recheck your plan. and the second question is that for your outreach, it has the ability -- and i haven't got any notices that i can sign up for this resources that you were informing us. how do you reach out to those people who might or might not know? >> i didn't mean to interrupt. i was just going to say in answer to that question, which is an important one, it is again our great dem colleagues that do

our alert systems. very important first step that all people in san francisco can do. and if you feel like you're overmessaged, you can sign up just for your zip code. that is an important first step. >> mr. madrid: i didn't get any information. that's what i was saying. >> so if you don't know about it, how do you know what you don't know? the second, there are barriers to getting into the pg&e medically dependent program. many people don't even know about it. their providers may not know about it. it is an opt-in program, so it's another way which we want the message to get out, including important forums like this, that these are available. the third reason and the reason i sort of stepped in, we have found in investigating the empower database that people don't know they're in it. it is pulled from their medicare medical records. it's tightly controlled by the

federal government. including whether they think it's a significant enough emergency to release it, because it is hippa level information. so when we had the geary fire and we were worried about the power shutdown in that neighborhood and how long it would go on, we were told by the federal government that was not a significant or long enough disaster for us to get those names. and i believe that was true. and it was a reasonable control. i mention that because, if you're in the empower database, it's because you have a medically qualifying need and you're on medicare. it does not, however, include peoples' phone numbers. so we will and are creating a robust approach to contacting people who do not know their name may be asked for by the city in an extreme emergency. so you can't actually ask to be in the empower database.

>> mr. madrid: thank you. >> i hope that answers your question. >> mr. madrid: it does. thank you. >> ms. sassouni: hi. i'll try to keep this brief. just a few things. i just received an alert through the system about the outage this morning, so that was good. i use alert sf, but also for my son's school and other things. next door, all of these neighborhood-wide events i try to sign up for all of these alerts. as much information as possible. and these are very general. but in terms of access, i don't know. for me as a deaf person, i do feel like we're responsible to prepare ourselves in advance by having extra batteries at home and things that may last a minimum of 72 hours, so if the power does go out and we're not able to access the news and so

on, we may -- or if the gas goes off and we don't have enough food, so planning for the earthquake preparedness activities, can be part of preparing for a power outage. i think it's also a good lesson for everyone, but in terms of the access part, not sure. i mean the community outreach and partnering with different organizations is going to be so important. some deaf people don't bother to reach out because we're so used to being on our own and taking care of ourselves in those regard. and deaf people may sleep through audible fire alarms. others are barely alerted to their own house on fire, and barely able to get their three children in the car. rental landlords often don't provide ada accessible alerts,

even though they're required under law. and there can be alert animals, but that's not always a flawless system as well. i think there are so many things that we can do to prepare ourselves, but i think having the battery backup is really significant. and again, not sure if people can carry it, what is convenient for people? so just another approach i encourage you to consider. >> thank you, council member. i appreciate the comment. one thing about public safety power shoutoff and prepare willing -- shutoff and preparing for that, if we have a large earthquake, there will be a public outage with everything else, with debris, with many other issues. so the efforts that people are going through to prepare themselves for public safety power shutoff are the same things they need to do for any type of disaster.

i mentioned earlier we had 22,000 people without power earlier today. we could have many more in a public safety power shutoff. if something happens to the phone pole in front of your house, like it did mine, five residences were without power for five hours. that was tough. i had my dog inside. my spouse who works from home. and i had a refrigerator that was off. i've taken steps where she now knows how to turn on the generator and get it going, much to my chagrin as i keep drilling to her do so, but this is how we prepare for an incident that happens to us. but it was small. it was only five. so whether it's five, 500, 5,000 or more, the same steps we're taking are what help us prepare. >> ms. senhaux (chair): thank you. three more council questions to go. thank you for waiting.

>> ms. pelzman: thank you for your comprehensive approach to this. it makes me feel a little bit better about what is going to -- what we could anticipate happening in both the disaster and also in turning off the power. i'm going to follow up again on outreach. especially as it relates to pg&e as a renter, i don't have a pg&e bill. and i'm not sure how you all have incorporated renters or folks like myself who don't pay the utility into your calculus of how to get inform us. as somebody who has done a lot of outreach in the past, i would encourage you to report back to us to let us know how you are

going to be expanding both the method and person to person outreach if that's what it takes. [please stand by]

>> i think that alex and myself and a number of other people here are really primarily concerned about how we're being informed. and i -- my personal opinion about pg&e's efforts to get information out is -- i haven't known them to be particularly robust and so i'm wondering who is monitoring pg&es approach to this? is that your responsibility? how do we make sure they're going to accomplish what they claim they're going to accomplish in a comprehensive way? >> our responsibility and i'll speak for the larger emergency management community working with all of our partners.

working with nicole. so when the california public utilities commission is doing their rulemaking process, we have made explicit requests that they're going to be notifying individuals on their data bases, although as jan mentioned there are limitations to that. they're notifying public safety, which is including emergency management, fire, law, health and this is something throughout the bay area, we are asking pg&e to do. where we see gaps and a psps was initiated in june in the clear lake area. it was pg&e did as much outreach as they could. they used a different data base and information they had so residents in that area, there wasn't a lot of complaining about not being notified. that doesn't mean that the converse is true that everybody that got it. it seems to have worked in terms

of the current plan that they have. but certainly, we still want to ensure that it's going to be successful for here in san francisco and in any populated region in the bay area. >> how are you going to do that? >> it's continuing to participate in the rule-making process and i can only point up north of how it went. >> there was one in marine that was successful if i remember correctly. so, that i understand you correctly, we're counting on pg&e to follow through on the rulemaking and that's where we are right now, correct? >> yes. the cpuc will set the guidelines for notification that pg&e needs to follow. >> thank you. >> thank you, council member. thank you for waiting.

>> just a couple of -- i'm learning how to use the microphone here. i just want to say, this is unrelated but with the climate strike happening today and us using fuel for back up generation, i just want to -- and san francisco wanting to be a green city, i want us to try and be more proactive in terms of thinking about how we want to power our back up generators. that's just a mini comment. so the other -- i have two mini questions. one is with the power outage that happened today, i did get the text which was great. it looked like it lasted about an hour. how do you think that went? do you think there was total uproar or do you think you were prepared when something like that happens? >> i felt the response today went quite well from when the -- one of the first notices happened in tandem we got a call from our pg&e representative direct low to our center saying i want to let you know, this power outage is happening around that same time, our dispatch

center got notice. we got sense of the area impacted and we did some initial polling of departments to find out what the impact was and we sent out the notice and on the phone and did a brief of what e knew was going on because of the weather. should it have been a much warmer day, not having power that would be an impact. we had different departments briefing including pg&e about the cause and then what different departments were doing and then we identified -- actually a lot of it was d.p.h., what are the medical concerns that we had and what would the next steps be if we did not have a quick restoration. >> so, we rapidly pulled all of the hospitals in the effected area to find out who was

effected and on generator? they all were. who was not effected? interestingly, despite being in the middle of the power outage area, several hospitals were not effected at all. we also now know that health changes though and so they were out patient clinics that had elective procedures going on but their generators were working. we checked to make sure that important resources like vaccines that must be refrigerated were being safely managed in a rapid response manner and then we started the process again this morning of requesting our empower data base to figure out, because we didn't know how long this was going to last for a few hours. so we requested it and started looping in both our regional partners and the federal government to let them know we were going through this and that we might be asking them for that information. >> great. thank you. >> we just had pre prepared

messaging around food spoil age that we prepared with environmental health under the circumstances when it happens. >> thank you. my other question/comment is around -- it sounds like reports were submitted on august 30th from the department. and it looked like a lot of what you were outlining in the slides with the different meetings that it happened. we're all potential needs or disruptions in business and so i was wondering what the timeline is for you and the businesses to come up with a public -- i'm not quite sure what it's called. like a public summary of when -- because we're coming on to fire season, unfortunately, probably within the next month or two. so we kind of need to know what the information is or where these emergency shelters are located if people need to go to home. >> so we are finishing the executive summary right now on

the private sector and then we'll have the more detailed information going to them in the next couple weeks. unfortunately the one correction i would make is we're always in fire season. there really no start to it it's something that is always part of it and it's -- any time the weather is going up and the wind comes up and there's that possibility. we're always preparing and you are right, we want to get that information and that's the intended executive summary is going to be. the things that many of you spoke about and this is what we encourage everyone to do because they're private sector we can't necessarily require that they do all these things but the continuity of operations plan that is kind of the most basic thing they can do. one of the most important things and what would be impacted if there were a power shut off.

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> hi. thank you for being here and thank you for speaking. i found myself getting angry while you were speaking and i realized my anger is really directed at pg&e. i wish they were here instead of us. again, kudos for, as my colleague said, your comprehensive approach. it's reassuring to a certain extent. although, a couple of quick questions. if the electricity is cut in the city, would it be city wide or would it be by neighborhood or it depends on what happens? >> it's the latter. it depends which i know makes it very difficult for the planning. we have asked pg&e for explicit outage maps that if transmission is cut off in different areas, what will the impact be to the city? and they don't have a specific example for that often citing that each outage may be

different and so they don't want to say this is the whole area that we'll be out when that may not be the case. >> ok. >> it could be up to four days or it could be a few hours? >> it can. one of the things that pg&e does emphasize is if the power is turned off, it may -- whether it's for five minutes, five hours, five days they have their procedure to safely reenergize the system. they need to inspect the transmission lines to make sure the event that caused them to deenergize. they don't want to bring the system back up only to then have issues. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. it's not just a fire has started or they're trying to mitigate this spread of the fire? or they're trying to prevent a

fire. it could be for something a tree falls down? >> it is for -- a windy day. >> my understanding is the intention of the psps event is when the conditions exist that may cause a tree to fall into a power line or some other continue that may increase the likelihood of a transmission line causing some type of power, that's when they're going to turn it off. and so when they turn it off, they need to come back through and inspect to make sure that nothing is touching any of the lines or something happened so they can bring the system back up safely. and as they say, that takes time. they can do some of it with helicopters but in other areas they can't. they need to send line crews out in somewhat rugged terrain so they say it could be a minimum of 24 hours when the conditions no longer exist for psps for them to inspect everything to

turn it back on. >> right. it just strikes me as -- well, i'm worried because in the past, and i would think it was a year ago. i do kind of think of this as our fire season here, specifically. when it was the sanoma-napa fires and air got so bad in san francisco, you know, i have a medically fragile kid. she's in a manual wheelchair. she is on a pulmonary machine. it shakes her lungs to keep them clear. and we also have an elevator. so that's how she gets access to and from our home. those are our main concerns with that. with electricity. it was a relief initially to be able to stay in our home when the air was so bad. in the city. and now we're saying huh, if the air is so bad we don't want to

leave the house but we won't have electricity in our house. i mean, my first thought is we leave the city, right? we just get in our car and drive. that's assuming though we get notification. we get some kind of warning. and a real life example of us not getting warning is i was one of the homes directly impacted by that geary explosion. i have signed up for sf alerts for the last two years, i didn't get an alert. the only way i knew about the fire, you would think oh maybe you heard it, right. it was an explosion. my house shook and i'm five houses, i'm seven houses down from the intersection where it happened. my house shook, what do you think i thought it was? an earthquake, right. i'm facing west. i don't see the smoke. i hear some helicopters. i go outside my house and i'm on the top floor. i assume it's a car accident on

geary. again, i don't smell smoke or see smoke. i hear the helicopters. i go back in my house and put on my music. luckily, mother o neither of my 8-year-old twins were home. i got text from friends to alert me what was going on. i walked east and looked out my third floor windows and run downstairs and open my front door and i see police officers in the middle of parker street. at this point, i've been in my house at least 10 minutes and i'm hearing the fire engines. i asked them, you know, what are we doing? what's going on. they said you are being evacuated. and i couldn't go back to my house. i said my front door is open and we're a family prepared for the 72 hours. nope, ma'am, you can't go back

in. so, that was our experience. and luckily no one was hurt, luckily i didn't have my kids. we got back in the next morning. my question -- later i thought, you know, i get all the alerts about traffic in soma, i get all the alerts about everything outside of my zip code even though i signed up just for the zip code specific once. i couldn't understand why i didn't get the alert for my own neighborhood. i realize maybe, maybe, although it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, i had a new phone with the same phone number but it was a new phone that's my public service announcement that you need to resign up for sf alerts and even if your phone number is the same. so anyway, my point is that's a