>> first off, i want to of course welcome all of you to san francisco, my name is carmen chu, san francisco city administrator. i hope as you have all come to san francisco, i believe monday was the first day that many of our folks, our partners across the country have come to san francisco, that you've had a chance to take in the breathtaking views of san francisco and the wonderful food and the people and community that is here. a monthly jiez, i'm a little bit under the weather -- i apologize, i'm under the weather. this is resilience from my three-year-old's germs and i want to welcome you from across north america to san francisco. we're here today along our partners and cities from houston so montreal to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to building a stronger and more

resilient san francisco. it's no secret that san francisco grapples with some of the most daunting challenges that face cities of our time. we have challenges around affordable housing, it is not unique to san francisco. but lasting impacts of a global pandemic, the shots and stressors of climate change and our seismic risk in the bay area. san francisco has never shied away from these challenges from the great earthquakes and fires of 1906 so the loma prieta earthquakes to the boom and bust of past economies, we have proved that we can rise up and come back stronger when we face these challenges head on. in the coming years, of resiliency of our cities will be tested by our ability not only to respond quickly but bounce back from climate related events. that's why it's so important we are investing in strategies and programs that improve our resiliency and capacity to extend climate emergencies while

strengthening our economy. i'm grateful for the work of elaine forks, the director of the port who you'll hear from, with preparing our waterfront ages to the challenges of sea level rise and flooding. i'm grateful to work of brian strong who is our chief resiliency officer for overseeing, yes, applause is great. [applause] for overseeing and coordinating citywide resiliency initiatives including our earthquake city implementation program. in a few minutes, we'll be here signing a letter that affirms san francisco's continued commitment to the resilient city's network, a global network of committees committed to urban resiliency. this signing underscores our pledge to build a city that meets the demands of the future, and we value the opportunity to share our knowledge and best practices with our partners cities around the globe and hear what everyone else is doing. in only that way will we build a stronger community. so i want to

thank the resiliency partnership and supporting this work and bringing cities from around the globe together and for being here and choosing to be in san francisco. so thank you for that. i'd like to bring up elaine forbes who will share a few remarks with you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, city administrator chu and welcome, climate experts, resilience folks from around the city and public officials trying to build a safer and resilient community. we're happy to host you at the port's waterfront today. it's really an honor to have you here and i thought my comments to uplift what our city administrator has provided to you, would be to say, what it's like to be an agency that is in a city that is totally dedicated to resilience. so, here you are at the port. we have 7 and a half miles of waterfront property and about ten years ago, we began a journey of figuring out we have something

very, very challenging to solve in a hard place to solve it and we had to get to work. we got our seawall put into the city's assets and ten years ago the city said, what's under there and protecting our shoreline and provides flood protection to the downtown and city administrator's team and the mayor's won a grant called the city administrator's award and we went to other cities to see how we would insure flood insurance along this important shoreline. we started investigating very deeply, learning about all layers of mud down to the bottom, down to the top, how this, how this shoreline is stable and then, the city family decided we would go out to our voters with a general obligation bond, now six years ago, i believe or yes. to say we know we have a bad problem. look at all this earthquake risk. we know the tide is rising and we know the

waterfront is important and protects all the city infrastructure and what we love about this town but but we don't know what to do. can we have a ten percent down payment to figure it out. i was shocked the city officials were willing to be that proactive and aggressive to say this is a problem to solve. and amazingly, 84% of the san francisco voters agreed with these city officials, so where are we now? now, after this long journey of forward planning, we know all of the soils of the 3.5 miles of the historic shoreline that projects so much city infrastructure, transportation systems, et cetera, and we know how to prioritize city improvements and we have a study we're doing with the army corps of engineers and we're months away of figuring out a plan for flood protection, that the city and our city family will engage in. it's the long-term vision and such an honor to be an agency that serves the city completely committed to our future and so i'm very proud to be here and i

see my resilience team members are here, brad benson and adam barrett and others on the front lines of working on these challenges so excited to be here today with you all and excited to see an exchange, great ideas about how to make our community stronger in the face of climate change and the resiliency challenges we face and i would like to invite brian strong, the resiliency officer and he'll remember everything i described to you. with that, brian strong. [applause] >> thank you, elaine and yes. it has been a long journey and i remember every step. there's more to go. yeah. i'm brian strong, the resiliency officer of the city and county of san francisco. i want to echo what carmen and elaine next pressing gratitude for the resiliency networks and the partners coming

to the bay area. we were in oakland yesterday and learning this knowledge sharing, it's so important. these are really difficult and difficult issues and the more we can work together, i think the better it lifts all of us up, right, in ways we can't think about now. the synergy that gets formed. so, i oversee citywide programs and initiates to bring city departments and community partners together in san francisco to strengthen our resilience. we've been a long-time champion of coordinated citywide resiliency planning and initiatives because we know meeting the challenges of today and the future requires working and innovating together. that's why we really appreciate and participate in organizations like the resiliency network. yesterday and today we're learning from these cities like norfolk, miami and miami-dade who are experiencing their sea level rise challenges and

working closely with the army corps of engineers so we're learning and working together and learning from vancouver, los angeles and berkeley and other places where they have similar challenge was seismic risks on top of climate and sea level rise risk we face, that we know are somewhat unique to different regions of the country. san francisco is the first city in the 100 cities network in the globe to hire a resiliency officer. we released our first strategy in 2016 and completed 90% of the objectives in that strategy. to date, we are now following through on a next set of action items and a lot of those are really focused on and has resiliency climate action planning effort and around our retrofit programs that we're successfully completed but we're

moving to vulnerable buildings in san francisco. we are also doing a lot of work in passing critical bonds, elaine mentioned seawall bond, we've done a significant, over billion dollars of housing bonds because we understand affordable housing is critical to resilient and focused on equity to make sure our most vulnerable communities are also being lifted up and not left behind. we know there's more to do and we need to continue to push forward with the various programs that i've talked about. ultimately, you know, resilient is about improving structures, processes, to make sure people's lives and communities more equitable, and safe and able to respond and thrive is what i would say, thrive -- you know, benefit from the challenges we're going to be facing. with that, i would also like to thank my boss, city administrator carmen chu, again, for taking on this mantle and

being a champion in san francisco for this work. i would like to introduce my very good friend and someone i've been working with for several years, laurian farrell. she's the global director of the knowledge, transportation, of knowledge transformation, sorry for the global cities resiliency city's network and oversees the north america chief resilient officer who's are here today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, thank you, brian. good morning, everyone. thank you, city administrator chu and elaine forbes for your words. through your examples you have shown the examples that all cities can take to move toward a resilient future and we're joined by 189 cities from -- 18 cities from across the united states and canada. when we started our regional convening and chose the bay area, we did it in part because of this amazing beautiful geography of

the area, of course, but also in part because of the breath of resilience activities that you are all undertaking across the bay area. but i would say that we truly picked this area to come and visit because of the people that are here doing this work in resilience, and you truly are leading the pack in resilience. you see building a resilient city is extremely hard and it takes technical know-how across many disciplines, but it also takes people with holistic mindsets with coalition building skills and the optimism and belief that it really is possible for us to build urban resilient cities that serve every member of our communities. and we know we must do this because the shocks and stresses that cities are facing are inevitable. we must deal with them. we recognize the

leadership of san francisco and fine strong and thank you for supporting the work of the network, since it was originally formed in 100 resilient city days and reinvented as resilient cities years ago. it's vehicles for knowledge sharing and cocreation. personally, i'm a water resources engineer by trade from toronto canada and i started thinking about resilience when i was work nothing the city doing flood risk management, so i'm happy to be beside the water this morning. i feel comfortable here. i worked in, i was a person drawing the flood lines, the person telling people where the risks were. i was issuing flood warnings to get people to stay safe and stay away from the rivers and i was the person trying to figure out mitigate plans for flood risk. along the way, i realized there has to be, there was something missing in my practices in engineer and it

was the people element. i've spent a lot of time looking at maps and drawing lines and doing budgets this led me to resilience and how did i bring in my scope of practice and become a better engineer. in resilience, i have many people who are different discipline was the same mindset, how do i become a better economic person? how do i become a better politician? how do i become a better person working on social coalition? and we come together to form resilience, to build resilience. brian strong was one of the first people that i met, when i started this journey. bryan exemplifies why we need cro's working on resilience. bryan was instrumental in shaping this network from its inception. he embraced the idea that our network is city led, meaning our cities tell us what they need help on and we help to bring everyone together to share

ideas, to share knowledge. yesterday, brian spoke about how the city established funds to implement resilience actions, something that many of our cities sought up in their seats and said how did you do that and how can we learn from you? during the pandemic, when cities were really struggling in the early days, brian came to our group and talked about the economic recovery plan that the city of san francisco was developing and many, many cities took lessons away from that and applied them to their cities and these are practical tangible solutions that's not easy but san francisco found a way to get things done. we want, in this network, to share our knowledge in a way that transforms action so changes the way we can build cities, so we can build stronger and resilient cities when we work together and brian said that word along much i want to

thank brian strong and city administrator carmen chu for your support and the continue support of this network and global community of resilient cities. and with that, i would like to thank you all for joining us this morning and i will turn the mic over to city administrator chu, thank you. [applause] >> i think often times as we do the work, we are doing our work in front of au a computer and planning documents and meeting and i think being out here, which is a rare thing for me to be able to come out of my office, but to be able to stand out here at the waterfront with all of you, serves as a reminder of what is at stake here and i want to thank the team who is here for all the work they are doing because what is at stake is the city, right. what is at stake are the people who live and work here and the economy that thrives here and it's this

beautiful place we call san francisco and the cities and we need to do right and do the right thing and plan and prepare for the things that may not come tomorrow, but we know surely are coming. we know earthquake risk is real. we know that climate change is real and sea level rise is real. and so, these are things we can't just pretend don't exist and we don't plan for. what's at risk is making sure we have a city that's resilient and that can withstand all of the shocks that will come. and that's our responsibility, that's all of your responsibilities. so, again, i want to thank all of you for being here and again, on behalf of the mayor, we are very, very excited to have you here. we're glad you have a chance to see our city. we hope you have fallen in love with the city as much as we love our city and will come back again. with that, i would like to i object viet our chief resiliency officers, all the folks who joined us here to come as we sign now. thank you so much. come on up. [applause] we're not going to sign until

you're up here, okay. [laughter] >> all right. are we all ready? >> yeah. >> okay. i wish my signature was longer, but.... [laughter] yay! [applause]

as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in

the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flowers, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them

into the next word, the next life. >> keeps us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us

to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of times they don't

represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the

dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part

that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know?

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