church in dubois where it's service trains or farther out, for example, the end line, they could have change at ocean beach, instead. i was wondering if the community could take a look at that, perhaps propose a change in that regard so that congestion coulding fixed, at least in the short-term. thank you. >> thank you for those comments and we will make sure that they are looked at by the appropriate body, which is the sfmta and seeing no other members for public comment, public comment is closed. and the ta is adjourned. don't forget to vote.

>> good morning, everybody. welcome to the november 8, 2019 public safety and member service's committee. i'm chair of the committee. to my right is our vice chair and our clerk is john carroll and i want to thank jason goldhammer for staffing our meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements. >> yes, please ensure you've silenced cell phones and your completed speaker cards to be

included as a part of the file shall be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. clerk. could you please call our first item? >> an ordinance amending the police code to require the cannabis retailers permitted events, hold cannabis business permitted issued by the city and that permits identify the retailers selling cannabis goods and affirm that said retailers hold the goods and only retailers will sell such goods at cannabis goods and that they commit to specific actions to support the equity goals as a commitment of permanent issuance and an application for a cannabis event permit may be subject to administrative penalty and application for a cannabis permit and cause for suspension or revocation of an

existing business permit and affirming the appropriate findings. >> thank you. colleagues, we heard this item and amended it at the last regular meeting on october 24th and those amendments were substantive and had to wait until today to take action. if there are no questions or comments, i would like to go to public comment. are there members who wish to testify? seeing none, public comment is closed and with that, i would like -- i'll move we forward this to the full board with positive recommendation and we'll neighboring that without objection. thank you all. mr. clerk, please all the next item? >> number 2 is a hearing to consider the premise to premise transfer of type 21 off-slobbish wine and distilled liquor license doing business as target at 1690 fullsome will serve in

the city and county. >> can we take item 3 out of order? >> number 3 is a hearing to consider the transfer of type 21 off-sale beer, wine and liquor license doing business as senya trading at 1262 stockton will serve the city and county. >> so let's hear from the alu on item number 3. >> good morning. you have before you applying for

a type 21 license and this would allow them to sell off-general and zero letters of protest and zero letters of support, located at 138, which is a high crime area and in 107. central station has no opposition. alu recommends approval with the following conditions, sale, service and consumption of beverages shall be permitted between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. each day of the week and number two, petitioners shall actively monitor the area under their control in an effort to prevent loitering of persons on any property adjacent to the license premise as depicted on the most recent form and noted on octobet agreed to the above-listed conditions. >> great, thank you. >> is the applicant here? come on up.

, if you want to say anything. >> hi, board members. so i'm representing the owner of senior trading who is the applicant for the alcohol license transfer. >> can you say your name? >> raymond. a little bit of context, the previous owner of the license retired and she held two stores, one which is where we're operating and the other is directly across from the store and held the alcohol license. so they were previously a grocery store and we are a grocery store now. and we tell products ranging from fruits, vegetables, frozen goods and dried goods and it's important for our business to prosper by having this alcohol license and important for our customers to have access to all of the different products so it acts as a public convenience.

>> great. any questions? thank you. you may sit down. we will open this item to public comment. any members of the public who would like to speak on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i understand that supervisor peskin is supportive of the application and believes it will meet public conconveniencconvenienceand necn recommend that it will meet public necessity and then i will make a motion to forward that resolution to the full board and we can take that without objection. great. >> item 2 is still called. >> let's go back to two, thank you. honey mo mahogany.

>> good afternoon. i'm here representing supervisor hainey's office. with this item, we ask it be continued to make sure the applicant did their due diligence in terms of community outreach. since then we have received many letters in support of this liquor license approval and so we are feeling confident that it will be of benefit to the community and serve the public good and we're recommending approval of this item. >> thank you. >> we'll open this item for public comment, if there are any members who would like to speak? i don't see any so i'll close public comment. and we heard if the alu and the applicant on this last time, so i will move that we -- well, i think we can direct our clerk to prepare a resolution, finding

this license transfer will meet public convenience and necessity and then, i will move that we forward that to the full board for positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. great eve within joaned bwe've r marr. item number 4. >> a hearing to consider the premise to premise transfer of an off-sale beer and wine liquor license to queens sfllc doing business as queens lf at 1235 to ninth avenue will serve the necessity tor city and county. >> let's hear from the llu. >> they've applied for a type 20 license and if approved it will allow them to sell off-sale beer and line. no letters of protest. also no letters of support. located at 909, which is a high

crime area and they are in census track 30202, which is high saturation area. taravel police station with no opposition. alu recommends approval with following conditions. that the sale service and consumption of beverages should be permitted between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. each week, number two petitioners shall monitor the area to prevent the loitering on the form and should be noted october 9, the applicant agreed to the above conditions. >> thank you. and is the applicant or a represent here? come on up? >> my name is ed o-kim and we run queens in the inner sunset.

we come from an education be background and we're here to educate on traditional korean rice wine which is hard to find. i group in l.a. my wife in new york and we moved here five years ago and that's the hope that we're trying to do in terms of the storefront, as well, to, you know, bring more traditional key ingredients, as well as some of the rice wine that is harder to find here in san francisco. >> great. thank you. >> and i will open this up for public comment. any members who would like to speak on this item, please make yourselves known and it looks like there are now. so i will close public comment on this item. and supervisor brown, my understanding thi is supportivef this application and based on that, unless anyone has other

thoughts, we can direct our clerk to prepare a motion to determining the license will meet public convenience and necessity and i will make a motion we forward that to the full board with positive recommendation and we will take that without objection. congratulations. mr. clerk, our next item. >> number 5 is a resolution tea clearing a state of urgency to rapidly expand the city's emergency firefighting water system to protect all neighborhoods in an event a major earthquake and fire calling for an efwx action plan to expand the efws to cover all unprotected nakeds by 2034 and expand the firefighting apparatus and provide neighborhoods not currently covered and to require an annual report on the state's preparedness for a major earthquake and fire.

>> supervisor marr, this is your hearing. take it away. >> thank you for this opportunity to consider this resolution declaring a state of ungency to rapidly expand the city's emergency firefighting water system to protect all neighborhoods in the event of a major earthquake and fire. this urges the city to create a comprehensive action plan including three key points. first, to expand the water systems, high pressure water lines to all unprotected areas within 15 years and to create interim protections within three years by increasethe emergency firefighting capacity currently unprotected by high pressure pipelines. and number three, to strengthen public oversite and accountability by requiring an

annual report to be presented to the board of supervisors on the status of the emergency firefighting water system's preparedness for a major earthquake and fire. as we recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the lumnar earthquake, there's been attention on earthquake preparedness and safety and for good reason. the loma quake of october 17, 1989 caused 63 deaths, nearly 3,800 injuries and an estimated $7 billion in property damage. over the past 30 years, the city has taken many important steps to protect residents and our city from the next big one, including wide-spread seismic retrofitting of buildings and creation of nert, our response team, to train and engage community members in disaster preparedness. however, one very critical area of disaster preparedness not

addressed is wide-spread fires following a major earthquake. the even more devastating 1906 earthquake caused up to 3,000 deaths and destruction of 80% of our city, mostly due to fires following that earthquake. following the 1906 earthquake, the city took the important step of building a high pressure emergency water supply system dedicated for firefighting independent from our drinking water. the emergency water system includes 135 miles of high pressure pipelines and two salt water pushin pumps stations. this increased the reliability in the event of an earthquake. the efws was originally built over 100 years ago when most of san francisco's population lived in the northeast segment of the city. so as a result, the network of high pressure water pipelines

covers just the northeastern and the eastern part of san francisco. and today, one-third is not protected by efws. most of the city's residential neighborhoods on the west side and in the southeast including the richmond and sunset district, oceanview, bayview hundreder's point and visitation valley remain unprotected and are vulnerable to wide-spread fires, loss of life and property destruction following a major earthquake. numerous studies have found san francisco is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world and united states for wide-spread destruction from a major earthquake and fire. we're all well aware another major earthquake will impact our city in the near future and have been rebehinde reminded by the y moderate that have struck in the bay area in fall. the geological society estimates that there is a 72% likelihood

of a earthquake striking before 2043. the u.s. gs warns the pace of large earthquakes is largely to increase due to geological reasons. these warnings and prediction and the 30 also anniversary should be a wake-up call to all of us. the resolution we're considering today is intended to bring greater attention and elevate the urgency at city hall and throughout our city. i want to think my cosponsors, supervisor furer, board president yi and safyae and allen wong for his work on this and also the many neighborhood leaders who have provided invaluable input. i would like to thank the city departments for working with my office on this resolution and all of the important work that you do on a daily basis on these issues of emergency preparedness

and fire safety. so we have some presentations from the city. >> before we do that, i think supervisor safaye would like to make remarks. >> thank you. i'll be brief. supervisor marr said pretty much everything but appreciate supervisor marr bringing this forward. i know there's been a lot of thought and effort into the easter bond that is coming forward. it's an important part of the protection of our city. and one of the things that is interesting as supervisor marr says, when you look at the map is evolution of our water emergency system, a lot goes back to the 1906 earthquake and fire and we had the ability when we were rebuilding our city to ensure that areas where were most populated at the time, over 100 years ago, were the concentration of the areas that you see where the emergency water system is today. in the parts of town we live in, southern parts of the city were

not populated and many areas were still farms and it makes sense in many ways why you wouldn't see emergency water systems built at this time. that being said, we now, at least in our part of town, represent one of the most densely populated parts of the city and it is filled with a large population of children and family and seniors and a lot of non--english speaking families. the issue of fire is a expensive topic as of late as we have experienced a significant number of fires in our part of town. a lot of the homes in our single-family homes in our district have been turned into multiunit properties, some legally and some with the natural growth and some as a result affordability crisis in the city and we have multiple families in the same home but because of that, many of those homes don't have the proper fire and safety equipment. so when we get calls in the

middle of the night or early in the morning, and we see that 15 people, 16 people have been displaced from one home, it's very clear it's multiple families living there and a lot has to do with the unsafeness of the homes. so when we look at the map, as i said, going back to the 1906 earthquake, it's very apparent that the west and southern ends of the city are very vulnerable and so, really want to appreciate the har work that the puc, the fire and the city administrator put into this conversation of our emergency water system and where we will expand on the west side of town. the we havwe have a small area r district that has coverage but we want a further conversation of expanding that. i know that the fire department has now purchased five hose

tenders and so that will allow for mobility. that will allow coverage in a more flexible way, but i know and i want to say on the record after meeting with the city administrator, fire and the puc, that they're in the process of scoping out additional areas that can be expand the i in the sovereigsouthern part of the cih will help our district. we only have so much bon bond capacity and this bond is looking at a certain amount of coverage where there is zero coverage and we have a small amount that can be tapped into for hose tentedders. tenders. but because we only have a small amount, our part of time needs to have a rebusrobust hose tendd we would like to know where

they'll be located and have a fuller conversation about how they will be deployed to protect the residents of district 11, the outer parts of the city. so i know there's a lot of work being done now and we'll have followup conversations so we can update the public on what areas will be scoped out for future work and the timeline of that. but i feel confident after speaking with a fire department, the puc, those hose tenders will provide the safe coverage that we need and we need to have a plan for, a robust plan for expanding the services underground quickly. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor marr? >> thank you. so i think we can move to the presentation from the city department on the current status of our emergency firefighting water system and the plans for expanding it in the future. so i wanted to invite john scarpolo and i wanted to

acknowledge, we have brian strong from the office of the resilience and capital planning and chief jose bella from the fire department. >> good morning, i'm with the puc to give out presentation and answer any questions that anyone may have. i want to thank supervisor marr's office for working so collaboratively with all of the city departments as you drafted this resolution. so jumping in and you got great descriptions on what the emergency firefighting, water system, known as efws is, high pressure fire suppression system is built after the '06 earthquake. the owner chiship transferred however, any system improvements, projects that we complete, expansions, all of

approved by the puc and public works and it's a joint effort. we use a hydraulic model to good decision-making and that we can understand if we expand a pipeline, what does that do to the supplies throughout the rest of the city? does it weaken the performance in other areas? so it's a great tool to guide our decision making. so we've heard a lot about the northeast side of the city and this is the original etc efws mp and that's how it looked in 2010. we have the two push station pus and those are secondary water systems that feed in and the jones' street tank, ashbury and are peak reservoir by the water systems, those are your primary water systems.

that's what in these pipelines everyday, used to fight fires on a regular basis. the blue dots are cisterns throughout the city to fight fires. we had to take a look at the condition of the system in 2010. this modeled a 7.8 earthquake on a san andreas fault and it stimulated what type of fires would break out after that throughout the city and we were able to look at, well, how much water does this firefighting water system able to provide to fight these fires? what we found is that the existing system was only able to provide less than 50% of the

water the fire department needed to fight fives after 7.8 earthquake and that was a key finding. based on that finding, we needed to shore up the existing system before expanding the system. that sort of engineering 101. if you expand a system that has a lot of deficiencies, it will make the existing system worse and the new expanded system won't work. so that's what we did and we did so using the 2010 ether bond to shore up the system. how did we do that? first, we had to upgrade the three primary sources of water. so again, the twin peak's reservoir and jones street tank. we needed to make sure they provide water into the existing system after a 7.8 earthquake and we fixed those three. we then went to the secondary sources of water, fixing push

station number one at fires department headquarters, got that all geared up and ready to go and installed a remote control capabilities and rather than having to go there and turn it on, they can remotely control it and turn it on and get water pumping as quickly as possible. we installed three kne new cists is made improvements throughout the efu system to remote control monitor them and we completed six pipeline and tunnel projects. the current projects underway now are all underway here and the sea water pump station, we're upgraduating that second one located at the foot of vanesse by the giradeli square and a 19th avenue pipeline project happening in february of 2020.

phase two is currently out to bid. another key way that we get additional efws infrastructure installed in the city is via large development projects. so what the fire department and puc staff do is negotiate with the developers of these large projects to install the pipelines, infrastructure, not just within their development area but we negotiate hard with them to install it on the areas outside of the development project. so that brings pipelines to existing neighborhoods that didn't have them as they feed these newer districts. so it benefits the new developments but the existing developments and this is key in the south and southeast part of the city. a lot of these redevelopment projects are occurring. so it will bring the pipelines through existing neighborhoodeds to the new projects and benefits both. but we negotiate hard with these

developers and these are some of the projects committed to installing pipelines in their projects and on the outside. so going forward, we'll continue to implement projects but i want to focus on the commitment that we've made via this resolution that supervisor marr and others have brought forward. i will address it for the pfuc and pass it off. by june 30, 2021, a study with a pump station on the west side of san francisco. the fire is committed to completing this hitting the deadline. so what are the steps? we need to contact a multidisciplinary team. any work done on coat of san ofn francisco requires multiple issues. i'm sure folks know and have heard about the ocean beach

master plans and people are pushing infrastructure off of that area. so we have to be really secure in our knowledge of what's going on with the erosion there. we need experts in permitting of any on the coast, coastal commission, state, regional, federal permitting is difficult with that. we need experts on marine life protection and any infrastructure in the sea does not affect any sea life and we need ongoing civil and mechanical engineers. we get the team together, to work together, scope work with them and review the deliverables as they're delivered and we'll provide quarterly updates to the puc-cac, and the cac is our citizen's advisory committee. one of the things we've noticed -- if we could look back, lessons learned is we need to do a better job of keeping the community up to date on all of this great work so they can then provide input. we can take suggestions and continue to move forward.

the final review of the study will be completed by the management oversight committee. as i eluded to earlier, that's the head of the fire department, the head of the puc, head of public works and the head of the water enterprise of the puc. final presentation of study to the board on june 30th, 2021. as we do the annual reports that this resolution requires, we'll include updates on this study. also june 30, 2021, complete a more-day-old analysis of emergency firefighting water needs by neighborhood. so the firefighte puc will comps analysis and this was underway when the civil grand jury started talking to us which is why the civil grand jury noted to continue this work, to keep it going. so this will be updated on an updated ignition model is one of the things i talked about earlier is this model that we have that, basically, models

where fires will break out after a 7.8 earthquake and that's based on building types, density types, street widths, amounts of fuel, basically, within each district. one of the things we needed to do, that was done in 2010. the city has changed a lot since 2010 and continuing to change as it goes forward, especially in the south and southeast parts of the city. in 2010, district ten looked different in terms of buildings that were there than now and what it will look like ten years in advance. so we will be putting a lot of investment into these areas and we need to know what the area looks like, not what it looked like in 2010. we're updating to make sure we have the most accurate data. we're also adding golden gate park to that model and our previous model was like a blank zone because there's no buildings really there.

we need to take into account what fires will break out in that park after an earthquake. we'll look into other parks, especially have our conversation last week, we want to make sure glenn canyon and all of the other parks, we incorporate them as well. that model will then feed into this more died in fire analysis and we'll review it, updating the cac, providing updates to the annual report and having this final presentation to the board, june 30, 2021. i want to show a map on the left, the civil grand jury concerned about. it just seemed too zoomed out and you couldn't say, well, this block is up a hill versus this block is at the bottom of the hill and what's the difference in pressure there and the different needs of the areas? the right is what you'll see we're zooming in on and we get more-day-old. we're not going tmore detailed .

we're going to analyze how fires look differently within a district didn't so this is the more zoomed in. version we're looking at. december 31, 2021, develop a comprehensive efws action plan, including funding sources to deliver efws city-wide by 2034. all city agencies are committed to developing this city-wide plan by the december 31, 2021 deadline. what's the technical work to do this? we need to obtain the fire ignition models which is occurring and complete hydraulic models, analyzing pipelining configurations and piping supplies for the various area. again, we don't want to put a pipeline on a map and not understand what it does to the existing system and what performance we get out of it. we need to review the various scenarios with expert consultants and with need all of

the best folks on this in the country working with us to determine what's the best lay-out, the best water supplies and how should we do this? we need to review the recommendations of expert staff. the san francisco fire department are the experts in terms of firefighting and we need them to look at what's developed and say that works for us, doesn't work for us and we need a pipeline closer to here, et cetera. we rely on the expertise of the fire department is the expertise of puc water engin engineers dedicating their best possible. updates to the cac, updates to the board and a review and recommendation by the management committee and finally, a development of the timeline and the funding needs for implementation. in terms of funding, i'll pass it off to brian strong, but i'm here to answer questions after brian presents.

>> good morning. brian strong, office of capital planning within the city administrators office and thank you for having us here to talk about this. as a chief resilience office, the efss is one of the things we've been focusing on since 2005, since we put together the first capital plan. when we did the first study to look at whether or not we should keep the system. so i'm excited that things have progressed as far as they have from that day and am excited about the upcoming bond and the amount of investment into this system. so the studies that john, mr. scarpola was just talking about will feed into the capital planning process. the capital plan is updated every odd year and it's really during the even years we get

time to sort of dig into different issues. so the even years we call our off-year updates. this even year we're spending time incorporating, you know, housing into the capital plan, housing was always not city-owned so it was considered separately and that is where we're spending this year's off time on and we'll be doing the same and in 2022, when this comes out within it's a good opportunity, 2022, to update the information for the 2023 capital plan. and the only other thing i would say -- i wanted to add two things to what john was talking about. one is that the types of fires, when we're talking about how buildings look differently in the future and thinking about this is an asset that will have to be around for 40, 50 or another 100 years, we want to

recognize the changes in construction. one of the things we've spoken with, the experts on fire following situations is that we're looking at different fuel sources. one third of the fuel from fires after an earthquake comes from gas, natural gas. and we're able to reduce the use of natural gas, which we're pushing through some of the other programs, around fuel switching, that will have a reduction in the number of ignitions that come forward. those are the types of considerations and we also no longer using incandescent light bulbs because they get very hot. those are the types of things to study, as well, to make sure we're building a system that is well situated for the future. and actually, i think that's all i have. so happy to pass it on to the chief and answer any questions you may have afterwards. >> good morning.

i'm here to talk about the hosts and what we're doing. this is a special apparatus, flexible, ability to move water long distances and thanks to you and the mayor, we've got five in the budget for next year. it takes a long time to build an apparatus and we're finished with the specs and it takes awhile for the vendor. a couple of vendors that can build this apparatus and we haven't built one in 30 years. the process is we make sure one is built to our needs and we bring it in, check it out and then we proceed to get the other ones built. so we're now at the stage of oca has the specs and we move from that and we will have one built by the end of 2020 and proceed with more. one of the goals would be to have, in our fleet plan, additional host tenders in the future and hopefully we can get support from the board for that

and five is good. we need more and we will ask for that in the fleet plan. one of the key features about the host tenders, they only supply from cisterns like john mentioned but we can extend the system and areas in the town are covered. obviously when we have better coverage with a new project, we'll expand throughout the city and the more we have, the better we can serve the whole city is cover the area. any questions you have about the firefighting capabilities of the system, how we use it? the host will be happy to answer any questions. >> thanks. actually, i did have a question, chief, for the hose tenders. can you talk a little bit about how many new hose tenders -- when we say hose tenders, that includes a vehicle, right? >> actually, the name of the

apparatus, the one you have on the presentation, five inch hose, much larger than right now to transport water between the hydrant and engines. it has the capacity on a pump, so it's about 1500 gpms and they can deliver high of capacity volume water than our engines right now. the purpose is that would create an above-water system just like imagine the underground system, we can create above ground and when the system is down, we can use the water sources to amend the system and create an above-ground water system to firefighters who need it and from the fire book, pumping into the marina and saving the marina, calling the portable water system. >> it's my understanding that the department has assessed you need approximately 15 additional hose tenders in order to really

meet the current sort of needs? >> that's correct. i mentioned before, the ones we have now are 30 years old and so to replace those and augment the system, that would be a good number and we plan to bring that all in our fleet plan for the next few years in the budget. >> i mean, that will be a very high priority for me and my colleagues to support that. could you describe -- hopefully we can get those additional 15 hose tenders and apparatus into the department as soon as possible. how would that differ from the full, say, build-out of the high pressure pipes underground in terms of the firefighting capabilities? >> it would work in combination. we can then transport. in the event of a breakage of the system, we can tap into those parts that are broken and transport the water distances to fight the fire. so it's our process of doing

everything is plan a, b and c and this is everything we can to do. low pressure system, high pressure and host tenders to make sure we cover the basis when we have fires. >> great. we can open up this u this up tc comment. i have public comment carded. i will read them. but the folks who have filled out card, i would ask them to line up were nancy warfal, joe lighthieser, albert chow, date etzel and if i didn't call your name and you would like to speak, we would ask you line up to your right, our left. speakers will have two minutes. we ask you to state your first and last name clearly and speak directly into the microphone. if you prepared written statements, leave them with the

committee clerk for the official file. no applause or booing and speakers are encouraged to avoid repetition of previously statements. >> i'm nancy warfal. thank you for drafting this state of resolution to expand firefighting protection to all neighborhoods. since we have not had an extension to you our system, i believe it's essential the board of supervisors become engaged to esaul areas are safeguarded by following up with the mayor and city departments on the progress made to achieve this goal. in addition to infrastructure expansion, it is of vital importance to build purpose stations to access saltwater. we need more than just a study for a pump station at the ocean. we need an actual commitment now that the city will ensure an unlimited supply of water essential to saving half the city from simultaneous cities.

this is not a matter for debate. the city made a commitment to preserve the sea wall for saving the east side from sea-level rise and the west side deserves no less assurance being saving with a dedicated water source and delivery system. this is a good start to keep the board involved in monitoring the actions of city leaders who are charged with protecting the lives, property and resilience of the city of san francisco. but it does not go far enough or fast enough. the state of urgency must include additional hearings on one pg skepticism e power shut arches. what are the back-ups in place and for how long will they have fuel to function?

>> i'm near full support of firefighting water capabilities. i would like to thank supervisor marr for sponsoring this legislation. i fully support this to have the budget and legislative an analys provide an analysis of the capabilities. this refers to high pressure throughout the bill, it own references high volume in specific areas and i would urge the committee to recommend this to consistently reference both high pressure and high volume water throughout the bill.

i would urge that stern grove be added to the parks analyzed for fire risked due to the large number of eucalyptus trees. i would urge the board to look at short-term solutions beyond hose tenders and currently only north basin has been retrofitted and that would be an -- if south basin ruptures, that would be a loss of drinking water to the city. i would urge -- beyond house hoe tenders, i would urge others well. this includes the replacement of water is sewer lines, thank you. >> next speaker.

>> hello, supervisors. i'm albert chow. i'm the president of people parkside sunset on taravel street. since 1906 earthquake and the rebirth of san francisco, our forefathers thought it was to build a firefighting system, not in case but when. our city has expandedded to south didn't west and the awss has not kept pace with the growth. we're not projected to be a city of 1.5 million in the year 200 whic2050.we need more schools, s and open spaces. the fact that we have grown does not mean that the big one is going to ignore us. i own a harbour store on taravel street. there was a big fire and my entire supply of dusk masks were

sold out in three years. as a result of that, i keep about 1,000 masks on hand in my store. the new reality this year is that pg & e is shutting off power grids and because it was the lesser of two evils. either shut down the power grid or let the forest fires conflagerate. i'm preparing and doing my small part. you would like to see the city do their part. >> thank you. >> i'm the president of the pine lake park neighborhood, representing stern grove and pine lake park on the west side. as mentioned in 1908, there was a response to the single worse fire in u.s. history and the people of san francisco voted to

construct a high pressure auxillary water system to ensure the city never burned again. it was operational within five years. however, at that time, much of san francisco as we know today was undeveloped. carcarl nolte wrote that in thoe days the city was compromised of only the northeastern section of san francisco and there was a county which was everything else. in the last 100 years, although it's populated with established neighborhoods, the county still does not have a high pressure water system for firefighting. and as a result, it's a very dangerous place today. for example, earlier this year, there was a gas main fire at parker and gerry in the richmond district. this fire, taking hours to extinguish, required host lines to be connect the to low

hydrants blocks away. every street in san francisco has a gas main, just like the one on gerry boulevard and every house has a gas connection. in the next big earthquake that we all know is coming, it is estimated that it could be as many as 20 simultaneous fires in unprotected areas. each fire requiring multiple units to fight it and only a handful of 18 trucks are in use today. this would not be adequate to deal with the inch of that magnitude. therefore, our urgent need is to equipment the san francisco fire department with host tenders to deliver water to the south side of the districts and long-term need.

>> i'm joe lighthiser, a resident of district 11, one of the districts that need this. i was on the survey advisory committee under senator diane feinstein and chairman of the earthquake preparedness project looking at mutual aid projects for the nine-county bay area. so letmy giv let me give you soy lesson looking longer terms. the pacific plate is moving that way, we're staying here. it's going to move two inches or so a year for millions of years and, in fact, there will be a suburb of los angelos in 50 million years. but you don't have to worry about that. the 72% likelihood of an earthquake in the next 30 years

that supervisor marr mentioned is going to be quibbled about, maybe, a little bit, but the earthquake will eventually happen. that said in the sense of gloom and doom and i think, really, the sense you should take and i think you are taking it in as a call to action. earthquakes are not really damaging until you build something over your head to fall down on you. if you're in the mul middle of n open field, you get up and go about your business. structural code takes care of that. fire suppression is another matter and one that has not found its way into all parts of the city and this aims to fix. so just let me conclude by saying fire following an earthquake, losses in san francisco and a large earthquake

can run into tens of billions of dollars. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i'm allen long speaks as an individual to share my hat as a national guardsman. during the last three years, there's been a number of fireses ifiresin california that has std cities like santa rosa causing a number of lives and homes. last week my soldiers and i are activated to the kincaide fires. we have made enormous sacrifice. some have had to cancel school and job opportunities. during the last few years,

guardsmen have seen destruction and entire cities burn to the ground. imagine walking through a city burnt to ash with warped and melted cars and a dark sky b blotting out the sun. we must be ready. that's why this legislation is of paramount importance to me and all of the neighborhoods protected by the emws. we must protect all of our city. thank you. >> next speaker. >> supervisors, commissioners, i'm david hooper and i serve as the president of the new mission terrace improvement association and mission terrace is the one portion of district 11 that is protected by the high pressure efws system. the other neighborhoods, the

ocean view are not. the only reason we're here today is because the civil grand jury took the bull by the horns. we wouldn't be here if they hadn't decided to raise their hands and say that the issue needs to be addressed. at present, our system is inadequate. everybody agrees to that. we're talking about host tenders because we don't have a system adequate now. what we have in districts 1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11 is fuel that people live in. so today, we're here at this commission to hear a presentation by the puc and the fire department about how they'll address the issue by the year 2034. and it's really not enough. and if we talk about how we're going to fight it with water to raise the temperatures to bring the temperature employee tempere

making about golden gate park being fuel. if we try to figure out where we're going to get the water from and if the water system for the efws is so much better than it needs to be extended sooner than 2034. and an in effort to do this, the source of water that is most apparent is the pacific ocean and the bay. that's limitless. we might lose a few fish trying to take care of this and we have to have fish experts to advice us but that's better than losing thousands of homes. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who want to speak on this item before i close public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor marr? >> thank you. actually, i wanted to thank all community members that spoke out today during public comment.

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>> of course, if money were not an object and we weren't having a discussion about taxing people 's homes, we would certainly make the bond a lot bigger, but the idea of having 154 million-dollar bond for 2020 in the spring is a good first step. i know a good portion of the city will be targeted in that bond. i want to say that on the record i think that what i would like to see is the second phase of that to target some of the areas that aren't necessarily targeted in the first round and for that to be accelerated and have that conversation accelerated. having hundred 54 million for the spring of 2020, to make a good first step to continue to add emergency water systems and targeting the areas that have absolutely zero coverage is the first step. i appreciate those who have put the time and effort into having

that conversation. >> thank you. >> supervisor walton? >> thank you. i want to thank supervisor mark for bringing -- supervisor mar for bringing the alternate supply system to my attention a while ago when we first got elected and where the inequities existed across the city. i want to be added as a cosponsor and i want to thank the san francisco fire department, sfpuc, and all our emergency responders for sitting down with my office and sitting down with us and talking through what things will look like in the future and what is on the way, and how important this is that we move on this. so you are correct that 15 years is a long time, but it is under our radar now and we are going to be working and pushing to make sure our city is safe so that when we have a disaster we can adequately respond. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor walton.