>> 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] television.

>> in 1948 swensen's ice cream used to make ice cream in the navy and decided to open up an

ice cream shop it it takes time for the parent to put money down and diane one of the managers at zen citizen in arena hills open and serve old-fashioned ice cream. >> over 20 years. >> yeah. >> had my own business i was a firefighter and came in- in 1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. maker the manager and lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s- was obvious choice he sold it to

him and he called us up one night and said i'm going to sell the ice cream store what you you talking about diane came and looked at the store and something we want to do and had a history of her dad here and growing up here at the ice cream store we decided to take that business on. >> and have it in the family i didn't want to sell it. >> to keep it here in san francisco. >> and (unintelligible). >> share worked there and worked with all the people and a lot of customers come in. >> a round hill in the adjoining areas loved neither ice cream shop in this area and support russia hills and have

clean up day and give them free ice cream because that is those are the people that keep us the opportunity to stick around here four so many years next generations have been coming her 20 er thirty or 40 years and we have the ingredients something it sold and, you know, her dad said to treat the customers right and people will keep on coming back and 75 or 74 years, you know, that is quite an accomplishment i think of it as our first 75 years and like to see that, you know, going into the future um, that ice cream shop will be around used to be 4 hundred in the united states and all gone equipment for that one

that is the first and last we're proud of that we're still standing and people people are you tell people it's been around in 50 years and don't plan on

>> i'm a project manager at department of technology. i like the roll because i get to work with a variety of different projects and the people i work with, the space i work, telecom, wifi, the work that interest me a lot, and the service you are providing to the different departments. i say the most significant barrier, especially early in my career was getting the trust and the credibility in the work space. i feel i'm

lucky and blessed to have been given the opportunity to work in this space. i feel if you have a good mentor and support group that will help in the journey. in my family i'm the first lady who got the opportunity to go to graduate school, and i feel that was a major break-through and a blessing for me. especially i come from a family of doctors and engineers so being the first lady to go to graduate school-my mother is the biggest source of inspiration and strength. she encouraged me to go to school and study hard and i do it no matter what and always there for me. i would say to my younger self-that time is pressure precious and be aware how you spend it. early on in life finguring what your priorities are, managing your

time accordingly, investing your time in the things that matter to you, because that grows and you want to-when you are young you have time on your side so you want to make the right choices. you want to understand what you want out of life, prioritize accordingly and go from there. and love what you do and the rest will follow. >> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment

of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we

worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken

swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.

by for the san francisco homelessness and behavioral health select committee meeting of may 12, 2023. >> good morning. this is may 12, 2023 homelessness and behavioral health select committee. i'm hillary ronen and joined by supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton. the clerk is stephanie cabrera and like to thank michael and (indiscernible) at sfgovtv for broadcas casting the meeting. >> the board and committees are convening hybrid meetings. while providing remote access, public comment will be taken on each item, those in person will be allowed to speak first then take those waiting on the telephone line. for

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