sheltering area. this is a large dog area where pets were able to cohabitate there. that way their owners could continue to care for them. they had a cat room and small animal room. they did a phenomenal job. they provided micro chipping and vaccinations. they did an amazing job providing services to families and their pets. resident services, really the basics of a shelter, showers, i want to give a shout out. it was fantastic. saint mary's, that's the one piece we know we have to set up, mobile showers. they allowed us to use their trailer. they also coordinated with urban

balcony to provide shower services and that was great to have them as a partner as well. medical care, pet care, supplies, and technology. i know you pointed this out as well. initially people want to be connected to the outside world. they want to know what's going on, they want to communicate with their families and be connected to their communities. d.t. provided some wi-fi boosting within saint mary's and allowed residents to have a connection through wi-fi. also event information. there was a p.i.o. that came from the actual response area to give residents realtime information about evacuation orders that have been lifted. they talked about everything from the change in the wind to the direction of the fire. it was really useful and i think people felt really connected in that they were given the information they needed to determine if they could leave the shelter or if they had to stay longer.

for us in the shelter, that was a real positive. i was happy to learn that this is provided to residents. in terms of shelter management, we do things a little different in san francisco, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. generally the red cross will manage the shelter or the jurisdiction. here in san francisco, we do a hybrid management structure. we work hand in hand to manage the shelter. the human services agency works regularly with the red cross to activate fire shelters for people that are displaced here in san francisco and we do it the same way. these small events really help us in having smooth operations within this shelter space. it's fantastic. we cooperated the shelter space. we established field coordination in the shelter. we had the agencies come and coordinate with us. that's when we collaborated

around logistics and operations. what we need, what we have, and were there unmet needs that we had to identify. then we all went up to our individual area. we as a.r.c. up to their headquarters, and so we were able to work that through. this is a model i'm hoping we will keep using, and continue to use as we move forward. it works really well and it was great to have so many eyes at the shelter level. we demobilized on friday, november 1st. two notes on demobilization. it went really smoothly. one of the things that we need to tighten up and this comes up in the lessons learned, is our tracking of resources and donations. in fact, the resources, we're borrowing things from various jefr agencies and partners. with we -- we need to tighten up

our documentation on the shelter level on that. then getting people back home. so there were many people that came over that needed gas or who had been dropped off. so, we were on thursday developing a plan to get people back to sonoma county and we had to work with sonoma county e.o.c. to obtain gas cards and schedule rides. it was great that they were able to step in, but if we're thinking of a larger event, this is going to become an issue. we have to do some preplanning around how do we get people back to their home jurisdiction. so overall strength and lessons learned. again, the pre-existing relationships really made this a smooth event within the shelter piece. so the small incident practice helped us hone in on some of these skills within the shelter. the staff was generous with

their time. everyone was all in. at the e.o.c., people were making calls, take what you need, borrow what you need. it was fantastic to see everyone galvanize and come together for this. lessons learned, four big ones for us. additional planning around supporting residents on their journey home. donation management and resource tracking. so, we got lucky with donations. we received some really useful donations. we seen this could become a disaster within a disaster where people just drop things off at the shelter location. we need to come up with a better plan on how to manage that piece as well. so, the human services agency provided all of the shelter staff for this event. the red cross provided management staff. many of our staff are trained. we have historically supported pop-ups, wet weather shelters, so we have done extensive training in the past. we need to continue to provide

training and ensure someone is there from the city to answer questions around reporting and all types of things that come up when someone is doing this type of work in the shelter space. the last piece, which is really important, is communications around shelter accessibility. we make all of our shelters accessible. if they're not accessible, we have the resources to do that. i think something that got lost is that we know they're accessible. we hope that everyone knows they're accessible, so we need to do some more targeted messaging and ensuring that our access and functional needs community know they are accessible, they're welcome, and we are willing to work with them on any issues that come up. we are working with our public information team on that. that's all i have. i was going to report out with alison from the red cross that she was ill today and she wasn't able to make it.

i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you doris. anyone have any questions for doris? i just also want to highlight saint mary's has been an unbelievable partner for us. i spent a lot of time that week at the shelter and part of the reason is they let us practice in there and they were unbelievably accommodating so we're very grateful. yes. >> i just wanted to thank everybody who participated in this. this was, i think the mayor's first local emergency that she had to declare. it was a sunday afternoon, sunday evening. we did not schedule this and it was her first experience getting that phone call. mayor, you have to come to d.e.m. and we have a few things we need you to do. it was a good exposure for her to see how everyone works well together. i was in communication with a lot of people in this room and others not here and everybody

just responded great. in particular, in the grand scheme of things, everybody played a role, but i would also like to highlight the city attorney's office who during that time had just suffered a tough loss and had to pick up and get going and didn't have time to deal with that loss and they were very helpful. thank you everybody. >> thank you shawn. do we have public comment on this item? okay, seeing none, we're going to move on to resilient san francisco and recovery initiatives. charles is going to present on the public engagement activity related to the earthquake safety and emergency response funds, otherwise wise known as eser.

>> we're slated to go back to the voters in 2026. the bond breaks down as indicated here. we have some continuing participants, if you will, in the bond. fire, police, p.u.c. we have two new additions within the historic complement of eser participants, and that's the facility for d.e.m., at the 9-1-1 dispatch center and as well this category of disaster response, which i will speak about shortly. we all know the threat. we have facilities completed through the first two bonds, significant facilities. i call them generational so far as we probably will not build another such facility for 50 years or more. these are very important projects to the various departments i mentioned.

that medical examiner is one of the departments that joined the eser group of projects. we worked in every neighborhood throughout the city, both in regards to fire stations, police stations, and facilities that result from the emergency firefighter water system. again, the p.u.c. exclusively manages the project within the eser bond program. there are a good number of facilities and i will speak about them shortly. there is work completing with regard to eser 2014. we have a new police crime lab and motorcycle facility. we have a new floating firehouse. it's immediately behind fire

station 35. we're considering to do work in regards to the backbone of the efws pump station number 2 at aquatic park is under way and we will be completing it in a year and a half. there are a number of projects within the context of our bond, clearly. this slide speaks to them. i'll leave that for you to review. priorities, well we have a greater need than the bond funds are able to respond to. so prioritization amongst the needs is very important for police and fire station projects, and regarding the, efws, regarding the conditions of facilities and the fact cal importance. it speaks to the opportunity to provide for post disaster

recovery and coordination at a particular facility or facilities, that is to be decided. amongst the prospective projects for fire and police, these are the ones that present most prominently amongst the variety of facilities throughout both facilities for police and fire. the efws. the bond in 2020 will be speaking to an improvement of the west side, which has been outside the traditional or the normal realm of awss, and we also intend to address needs on the east side, along the waters edge, the base edge, with a particular man fold -- manifold

project. it's nan expansion in that regard, and in a second, i'll show you how that makes a difference. there's two phases to the west side. one will be spring, if you will, and the second phase under a future eser bond from the pump station. fire response areas, f.r.a.s are defined by the fire department sprung from the initial alarm. these are the particular areas throughout the city and as you can see -- well, i apologize if i shown you the one become eser began, you would see less of the blue. we're making quite a bit of head way as we move through these bond measures and ensuring the city has parity in the access of

the water system throughout. this is clearly the preferred status as we continue forward with eser. the 10 year capital plan, i believe you all know. we did have community outreach. joining from the outreach is representatives from police, fire, d.e.m., and p.u.c. we had a dozen such presentations in the community. they were very well received. again, clearly the need is apparent to you all. you see the importance of first responders capability to deploy quickly and effectively throughout an event and certainly subsequent to an event. with that, i'll close for any questions you may have. >> thank you. any questions for charles on this item? okay, any public comment on this

item? all right. thank you charles. >> thank you. >> our final report is under emergency planning. we're going to be talking a bit about emergency support function 18, which is cyber security. we have a new emergency support function here that we're going to learn about that is dedicated to cyber security threat and response and to present to us is michael from the department of technology and our own bijon for emergency management. take it away. >> thank you mary ellen for giving us space and time to talk about the newest support function 18. it has definite joined the ranks of other likely disasters so the

city can be expected to withstand and respond to cyber security and cyber emergencies have affected recently many of the neighboring jurisdictions, union city, and of course you probably heard about that recent emergency that has been declared and cities of pensacola, new orleans, and the latest one is new orleans. we seen the disasters affect both the tra decisional operations of the city and public safety agencies, which needs significant response from all of the agencies together because the most likely scenario

is that no one will be untouched. to help the city prepare we started the work in june with all the city departments to create the support 18 function and our first work is to define what is an emergency, how do we speak to the emergency and what's the normal operation. that is probably hard to see. it is available in your handout and is also on the plan. we defined truly emergency conditions and in the plan itself, we've talked through what will happen, right? i think we realize we have a robust emergency measure process in this city and we want to take an advantage on what we know to do well. so cyber emergencies would join the set of potential responses

that we may need to take. we've seen a really strong uptick on precipitation from all the city departments in the newest sf-18 plan. we will speak about the new discipline we're building between the security offices and the department preparedness coordinators. this is the start of the work. i think there's a lot of work left to do in terms of the testing the newest function and really stepping up and preparing for the cyber emergencies. my team that supports all of the city departments is monitoring the situation very closely and i think this is absolutely a necessary first step for us to start preparing and really elevating our preparedness level to where we would expect to be.

so with that, if you want to take us through the next steps. >> the cyber security steering community is the one that initiated this process. a lot of work went into creating esf-18. there is one slide missing that mike would have discussed some of the con tentses tents of esf matrix is a part of how things fit together. as we were going through this process, we realized the city overall needs a plan, but each of the different departments need a plan. the intention here is showcased on the information technology side, we have esf-18 what the city is working on and the complement of that, the information technology, that's the virtual world. on the physical world in emergency management, we have

the emergency operations plan. at the department level, what we needed to do is create the coop cyber appendix, which effectively forms the link between the continuity of operations plan, the thing that mary ellen talked about earlier and esf-18. what we discovered through this process is we had the city departments come together. information technology folks and emergency management folks are not speaking the same language. what we ended up needing to do was to give some basic explanations to an emergency marg manager. what is a network when our i.t. partners are talking about servers, firewalls, switches, and end points? what does that mean to an emergency manager? at the same time, we need to talk to the i.t. folks on how does emergency management look at something when it goes wrong?

really, there was this connection of the virtual and physical world to let the information technology professionals in the department know that when you're getting the virtual system going again, so that essential functions can take place, here's what your emergency management partners are doing. here's how they're keeping things going that are identified in the continuity of operations plan so we can maintain those essential functions. so, what we developed after a lot of these discussions was the information technology folks said just give me a list of questions to answer. we can do that as emergency managers. so really what we started with is what are the essential functions that have been identified in the continuity of operations plan. then what are the supporting systems? then we went to the i.t. folks and said before an event, during, and post cyber event,

what are the types of things you're using to analyze a system as it's going, how can we make sure staff is responding if there is a problem, who's evaluating it? how does it link to the overall city plan? we also appreciate that not all departments are built the same. some are very large departments, very capable i.t. staff. some are much smaller and they may need the assistance earlier. that was the whole point of developing this cyber appendix, to help the department identify here's what we're capable and here's how we're going to communicate to the city's department of technology, so d.t. can make sure all other departments are aware of what's going on. there was one city department that had an incident take place. they let d.t. know and the department of technology pushed out city wide. if you see this type of behavior, be aware. that let everybody else know if there is something strange,

let's not effect anything else that's going on. the final step in the coop appendix, the cyber appendix is an exercise. you can develop a plan, but let's test it. in the last month or so, departments were provided with two different scenarios. they pick which they want to use. one was a ransom-ware attack and the other is a data breach. for departments to use this to test their own plans. now they're going back, making a modification, and then we're going to provide feedback to the city-wide plan and what mike is doing so then we'll be able to have our newest emergency support function esf for different departments to use. >> thank you. this is one of those things we always say earthquakes, that

it's not if, but when. i feel like this is one of the things for us too. i appreciate the work and the collaboration with d.t. on this. any questions from the council? any public comment on this item? okay, so we have a special presentation for a special person who is seated right here with us. so sheriff hennessy is -- [laughter] >> sheriff hennessy is the city's first female sheriff. her career spans nearly 45 years. when she became captain with the sheriff's department, it turns out she was the youngest to make this rank within the entire state, male or female, i

understand. [laughter] >> she also sat in the position that i sit in when she was the director of the department of emergency management and i just want to say on a personal level. i've worked next to you for a long time. i worked next to you before you were sheriff and i was at the health department and i started in this field. then when you became director and truly, i just want to say thank you. i felt always inspired by you and also incredibly supported. this field, luckily we have a lot more women in it now, but it's not always that case. a lot of times, it's a lot of people in uniform and it's a club that is not always easy to break into. you were very kind to me many times, and i always felt that

you encouraged me, you know, as a person in this field and i'm always going to be grateful for that. so, i just want -- i think we all just want to honor your service and maybe your last disaster council. i told her she's welcome to come back and yell at us at public comment or provide support. we just have a certificate for you and just wanted to thank you for all your years of service and just from all of us. we appreciate you so much. [applause] >> thank you mary ellen. that's very nice. i'm glad to know that i was

kind. sometimes you don't know the effect you have on people. i appreciate the job you're doing now and it's exciting to see the position you're in. i've been fortunate in my career. i've been lucky to work for the city of san francisco. i love the work i do in the city of san francisco. i was born and raised here. i will stay here. i will be around, i will be at disaster council meetings. i did want to thank you for all the work you do and i know there are a lot of department heads, and there are other people here in their place. even those of you, everybody in every department that's supporting the department, that's supporting the department heads, working for the city of san francisco, i've been honored and privileged to serve with you. people don't understand. i just have to say one time years ago, you know, when i

became the director of d.e.m. and i started bringing my husband around to different meetings with different people. he was a retired police officer. he's like all these people are making money, what are they doing? then when he met everybody, he realized how talented and exceptional the group of people we have here working for the city of san francisco. i'm glad to see the light went on with him and we agreed on that. also, we do have the sheriff elect here, right? >> yes. >> did he just step out? okay. [laughter] >> i was going to say we have a new sheriff, and i'm sure he has a wealth of experience. he'll be great. i look forward to turning over the mantle to him so i can go on my way. thank you again. i really appreciate this. [applause]

>> okay. i think we still have to have public comment for that. so if there is any public comment. seeing none. our last item is just to open it up to the disaster council round table. any disaster council member is welcome to make an announcement or comment. yes, please. >> hi there. i'm from supervisor norman yee's office. mine is more a comment. it was based on the presentations today when we were talking about lessons learned. specifically you mentioned sledding in the beginning, and although

online in other languages, but we didn't have it in other languages at that time. one of the things that i'm sure you all read about, which was connected to the flooding, but if the house wasn't flooded, some of the houses experienced sewage coming up through the houses. we had residents asking our office was it safe to clean up. i actually don't know if we -- this is something we'll discuss through the hearing, but is that d.b.i., department of public health, p.u.c., where is the appropriate contact for residents to find out if it's safe for them to clean up. so, yeah, i just wanted to share some comments here. we'll get more answers at the hearing, and i do think this is an opportunity because it was 12 hours impacted or if this was a larger disaster. thank you so much. >> thank you.

uh-huh. >> just wanted to give kudos to some of our personnel from our homeland security unit. captain chris put together an exercise that basically involved the station being incapacitated. we had an opportunity to pull out our continuity of operations, and it's an enlightening exercise. there are a lot of areas we need to get better at. captain has done a good job and it's something we plan to do in other districts in our police departments. just for the group, if you haven't done that in a while, it was a very good exercise. i know from a city-wide -- and i know you have been working on table tops as well, but i wanted to put that on everybody's

minds. those opportunities rarely come up. it's always good to practice. >> yeah. thank you. that's music to our ears. someone opened their c.o.o. plan. anyone else? >> yes, i just wanted to let people know that the hazard plan is our hazard mitigation plan required by fema every five years. it will be sent next week, and i wanted to thank all the departments, all the people, every department here has a strategy in that plan. it really takes some bold steps to move us towards mitigating disasters and being more resilient. i appreciate you and if you could pass it to your staff that helped formulate strategies or spent time looking at the different hazards and putting it together. the department of public health, planning department, department

of emergency management, and department of the environment. thank you all for that. we're going to continue to work on this as it goes out. we're not going to wait five years to open it up again. we're planning to do public outreach in the next year and to continue making it much more of a living document where people have access to the hazards, to the strategies online or through public meetings. thank you so much for that. >> thanks brian. anyone else? okay, with that i believe we can adjourn the meeting. thank you all for being here and we'll see you in the new year. [♪]

san francisco, 911, what's the emergency? >> san francisco 911, police, fire and medical. >> the tenderloin. suspect with a six inch knife. >> he was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of your emergency? >> welcome to the san francisco department of emergency management. my name is shannon bond and i'm the lead instructor for our dispatch add -- academy. i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or

medical? >> san francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer emergency and non-emergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. >> we staff multiple call taking positions. as well as positions for police and fire dispatch. >> we have a priority 221. >> i wanted to become a dispatcher so i could help people. i really like people. i enjoy talking to people. this is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. >> as a 911 dispatcher i am the first first responder. even though i never go on seen -- scene i'm the first one

answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them instruction. the information allows us to coordinate a response. police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency. it is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that you've also saved a citizen's life. >> our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> this is shift work. that means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes that's mandatory. >> this is a high stress career so it's important to have a good balance between work and life. >> we have resources available like wellness and peer support groups. our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances. >> i received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones.

so for them to, you know, recognize me for that i appreciated it. i was surprised to even get it. at the end of the day i was just doing my job. >> a typical dispatch shift includes call taking and dispatching. it takes a large dedicated group of fifrst responders to make ths department run and in turn keep the city safe. >> when you work here you don't work alone, you work as part of a team. you may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. >> i was born and raised in san francisco so it's really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that i have a part in -- you know, even if it's behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow and helping people out that live here. >> the training program begins with our seven-week academy followed by on the job training. this means you're actually taking calls or dispatching responders. >> you can walk in with a high school diploma, you don't need

to have a college degree. we will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. >> we just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good dispatcher. >> if it's too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. >> good. that's right. >> from the start of the academy to being released as a solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. >> training is a little over a year and may change in time. the training is intense. very intense. >> what's the number one thing that kills people in this country? so we're going to assume that it's a heart attack, right? don't forget that. >> as a new hire we require you to be flexible. you will be required to work all shifts that include midnights, some call graveyard, days and swings. >> you have to be willing to

work at different times, work during the holidays, you have to work during the weekends, midnight, 6:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the afternoon. that's like the toughest part of this job. >> we need every person that's in here and when it comes down to it, we can come together and we make a really great team and do our best to keep the city flowing and safe. >> this is a big job and an honorable career. we appreciate your interest in joining our team. >> we hope you decide to join us here as the first first responders to the city and county of san francisco. for more information on the job and how to apply follow the san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to

maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought

to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with

that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has

flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor

station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help and we're willing to help

>> it had been rain for several days. at 12:30 there was a notice of large amount of input into the reservoir. we opened up the incident command and started working the incident to make sure employees and the public were kept were safe there is what we call diversion dam upstream of moccasin. the water floods the drinking

water reservoir. we couldn't leave work. if the dam fails what is going to happen. >> we had three objectives. evacuate and keep the community and employees safe. second was to monitor the dam. third objective was to activate emergency action plan and call the agencies that needed contacted. >> the time was implement failure of the dam. we needed to set up for an extended incident. we got people evacuated downstream. they came back to say it is clear downstream, start issuing problems and create work orders as problems come in. >> powerhouse was flooded. water was so high it came through the basement floor plate, mud and debris were

there. it was a survey where are we? >> what are we going to do to get the drinking water back in. >> we have had several emergencies. with each incident we all ways operate withins dent command open. process works without headache. when we do it right it makes it easier for the next one. >> we may experience working as a team in the different format. always the team comes together. they work together. >> our staff i feel does take a lot of pride of ownership of the projects that they work on for the city. we are a small organization that helps to service the water for 2.7 million people. >> the diversity of the group makes us successful. the best description we are a

big family. it is an honor to have my team recognized. i consider my team as a small part of what we do here, but it makes you proud to see people come together in a disaster. >> safety is number one through the whole city of san francisco. we want people to go home at the end of the day to see their loved ones. we don't want them hurt. we want them back the next day to do their work. >> there is a lot of responsibility the team members take on. they word very -- they work hard. they are proud of what they do. i am proud they are recognized.

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people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's >> my name is amanda

[inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work

in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the

summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. >> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. >> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they don't see someone

strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. >> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no

left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love that. [♪] >> i just wanted to say a few words. one is to the parents and to all of the kids. thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a soccer program in the bayview. >> soccer is the world's game,

and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. >> i coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. it is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. >> when the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. only one or two of them had played soccer before. we gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. >> i think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. >> i get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. >> this is new to me. i've always played basketball or football. i am adjusting to be a soccer mom. >> the bayview is like my favorite team. even though we lose it is still fine.

>> right on. >> i have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. >> my favorite memory was just having fun and playing. >> bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. they are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. >> now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. >> we want to be united in the bayview. that is why this was appropriate >> this guy is the limit. the kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. we have some potential college-bound kids, definitely. >> today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or

eight of the kids were playing. >> this year we have first and second grade. we are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. >> you know why? >> why? because we are? >> bayview united. >> that's right. >> please call roll call. [roll call] this is the recreation and parks commission meeting of december 19th, 2019. welcome to everyone here today. remind you to turn off electronic devices during the meeting and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the