some couple slides, especially the organizational chart that i'm sure it isn't printed on this paper and just impossible to read. >> definitely. we will keep that in mind when we print the report. thank you. >> the colors are great and when the smaller things are sharper it will look fabulous. thank you. >> perfect. thank you so much. >> vice president green. >> i think this is terrific report and i love the numbers because i think they speak louder then anything to convey the amount of work and the accomplishments of the department. in reading this makes me feel so proud and looking at the man power we had to work with in everything and every area that is so successful and plus understanding the community we serve in greater detail is so helpful and i was wondering where people who want to see

this can easily find it. is there distribution list or is it it will be on the website or it is so wonderful. >> thank you so much. we appreciate that. disbution we plan to provide hard copies to all the health commissioners and we plan to make it available on the dph website. we'll also work internally within the department to make sure everybody has access and able to point any community stakeholders to the report. >> it is a great resource. >> thank you so much. >> i also deliver a copy to librarian so always on hand to the public. >> commissioner guillermo. >> i want toland congratulations to well done report. it gets better every year and also glad to hear behavioral health data will be included when you think how much of the budget is

spent on behavioral health and the realty of what is happening in san francisco with regard to substance abuse and behavioral health is really important both the demographics as well as the quantity of services and type of services that are provided. that being said, i think what is important about this report and to have distributed as widely as possible is the uniqueness of san francisco's helths department compared to others in the country, most don't have a health network incorporated in the public health department so it important for folks to see what san francisco provides and how it provides because there is so much criticism focused on san francisco and what we are not doing or what we are not responding to, but when you think what this health department has done to integrate a whole health network and integrate

that with population health and public health it is still a model and just pointing to covid is a stellar example of how that has really sort of made a difference as small as the city is but as dense as it is what we are able to accomplish so the fact san francisco has this integration of all the different services is really important i think for the rest of the country and other health departments to be able to see and us to toot our horn. >> thank you so much. >> commissioner chow. >> i also want to thank the staff for accepting some of the input and i think that each year the report becomes much more useful. i think that with

the also your click ing for the website that is nice so people can actually use this and will become useful. a small note, i am appreciative of the colors you are using. people are using reds or greens and some are red, green color blind so becomes a real problem trying to distinguish and this is nice in terms of blues. and only just comment, i think the legend could be a little larger in terms of the blocks the colors represent, but-again, commendable report for us. like commissioner green said, we can all be very proud of the work this entire department is doing for the residents of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. again, it is a excellent report. particularly appreciate the highlights, because not only is it important for people of san francisco to see the leadership

of san francisco and san francisco department of public health, but for our own team members to see the work reflected in the report and know the pride we take in the great work they do and the recognition they receive. i believe this is your first time presenting before the commission, so welcome. >> thank you so much. >> your presentation was excellent and thank you again for your great work on the report. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate that. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> okay. our next item is the consent calendar, all related to laguna honda and approved by laguna honda jcc at the may 9 meeting and recommended for approval to full commission. let's see-who should--commissioner guillermo. >> i wasn't at the meeting last week where the policies were presented so differ to dr. chow.

>> commissioner chow. >> yes, these items on consent were reviewed by the two commissioners present and they represent also to great extent the some of the issues that have been raised and help represent us for our corrections for the milestones and all. recommended that the commission approve these. >> second it. >> alright. do we have any public comment? >> i do not see comments. we are on item 9, press star 3 if you like to make comment. no hands. >> comments or questions from commissioner before we vote? seeing none, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion-the consent calendar is approved. next back to commissioner chow for the laguna honda jcc committee report. >> thank you. in the absence of commissioner guillermo

pleased to be able to report to you that we received a report from the human resources report which does show a great effort and in fact some improvement on the nursing services this month. we also received a regulatory report, much of which you already heard along with the certification efforts that we saw this afternoon. the committee was pleased to hear about the hiring process and you got a update today and in our closed session we approved the credentials report, the pifs mntss and medical quality report. >> any public comment? >> yes, one comment. james, please unmute. >> it's patrick again. excuse

me--i'm sorry. for the may 9, jcc update, it was disappointing not hearing commissioner chow say anything about the fact that president bernal had gone to great lengths during this meeting to illicit a statement from mr. pickens, laguna honda must be recertified before applying for a waver to retain the 128 beds at laguna honda. the commissions meeting minutes indicated however mr. pickens had clearly stated laguna honda is only received through "verbal interactions" that we certification must be laguna honda number one

priority. the minutes also clearly stated that "pickens had stated ", cms indicated verbally, i repeat, only verbally, that request for the waver would not be well received before recertification is received". so, there is parently nothing in writing commissioner bernal preventing laguna honda from applying to that waver now and should do so. after all, there is strong community support and now over 800 signatures on my petition which remains available online urging you guys to get that waver submitted. there is nothing in the protocol

and regulation number that previously provided to you that says anything about making a waver request is contingent on recertification, so it is time to stop quivling over this and do it. thank you. >> that's it. >> any commissioner comments or questions on the jcc? laguna honda jcc? seeing none, our next item is other business. any other business? seeing none, we'll move- >> check public comments to for due diligence. any other comments on item 11? no hands. >> our next item is closed session. that closed session-we need to

vote on whether to hold a closed session in relation to the laguna honda hospital rehabilitation center quality update regarding recent regulatory survey activity. do we have a motion to hold a closed session on the previously mentioned topic? >> so move. >> second. >> any public comment? >> i don't see a hand. would you like to comment on item 11, consideration for closed session? >> seeing no comments or questions, all in favor. opposed. we are entering closed session. >> give you >> >> i move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion

carries. we'll not disclosed. the final item is motion to adjourn. >> so move. >> second? >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manner. today's special guest is carla short. >> hi, i'm chris manner and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining the city. our guest is carla short the intric director of public works and here to talk about the storms we had and much more. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> great to have you. let's start by talking about the storms that started beginning of the year. there fsh a lot of clean up recovery and remediation. can you talk about what your team did? >> sure. the 17 inches of rain we got starting on new year's eve through the first 2 and a half weeks of january made it one of the wettest periods in recorded history for san francisco, so as you imagine we had a lot of work to do. we gave out more then 31

thousand sand bags, we were operating all most non stop from new year's eve to san francisco residents and businesses out of our operation yard and frequently working thin rain so it was a beautiful dance to watch. we had a corio graphed where people drive in the stop and load with san dags and get on it way so thats was the most visible thij weez had to do. responded to all most a thousand calls for localized flooding for the corner of the street with catch basin. our team trying to address that. we clear and pick up anything to block and it hopefully get the flooding to go down. if we are able to respond we call in the san francisco pub utility system and are responsible for the sewer system under so they bring ing vack trucks that vacuum out debris

inside the catch basin. we also dealt with lots and lots of calls about trees and tree limbs down. i think we actually faired better then some other places in terms of loss of full trees. we did have whole tree failures and that is not that uncumin with super satch waited soil conditions. we had over 950 calls about trees or tree limbs down. a lot of calls were about loss of a limb and we could save the tree. we are still assessing the data to figure how many were full tree failures versus limb failure. >> also had land movement too. the great highway comes to mind. what is your approach to managing rock mud and land slides? >> that is a great question. we had 28 different slides over the course of that period. it is kind of a interesting process, so the first step is we have our geotechnical or structural engineers take a look to see is the

hillside safe, do we need to stabilize it in some way or just need to do some cleanup? once they made their assessment they will recommend the next steps. often times to protect public safety we will place k rails the giant concrete rails at the base omthe slide area to make sure that any debris doesn't get on the edroway and bring ing the heavy equipment to scoop up on the ground and move off the roadway and try to open the roadway. some cases, we will actually inject some rocks or other stabilizing forces either into the slide area or sometimes below the roadway. right now there is nothing that's unstable out there but be are keeping a close eye on the areas including the gray highway area. >> right, right. well, so talking about the storms in the city response, brings us to southeast community scepter when there is rain

remediation projects going on. can you talk about the inconstruction project kblrks that is a favorite project. a beautiful new community facility. we were involved in pretty much every aspect of developing that project for the public utility commission. they were a client. we design project management and construction management and the landscape design for that project. and one thing that we included was storm water management throughout the entire project site. so, that project encapturealize the rain water that lands on the roof and flows into the landscape where we have rain gardens so intent is slow the water down to and give areas to collect to percolate into the ground rather then the sewer system. when we have sewers that are overloaded, because our rain water mixes with the

sewer treatment storm sewer system, we actually can end up dist charging into the bay which we dont want to do. anything we can do to just prevent those combined sewers from overpm loaded is a good thing and in this case allows the water to collect onsite and percolate to the ground which is the best way to manage the storm water and it is beautiful and provides habitat. i encourage everybody to see it. it is special place. >> that's great. there was recently news about how city (indiscernible) powered by steam, which is super unusual i think. i understand public works ablgtually does the maintenance on the system. can you just talk about that a bit? >> sure. that is a unusual situation. that steam loop was actually built when the city was recovering from the 1906

earthquake. it only provides to steam about 4 buildings in civic center but that is how we keep buildings like city hall warm. the steam goes into the radiators and provides the heat. it is a old system and if you see steam billowing out of the man holes or other spaces, that is indication of a leak actually. we spend a lot of time trying to fix the leaks because it's a old system. it is managed by the real estate department and at one point they were looking trying to replace the whole thing but think that is a massive undertaking so now they focus on making as needed repair said. we did a big repair on growth street where we spent a month and a half working on the known leaks s in the area. it is a very tight spot and have to use blow torches to seal up the leak so a intense operation and seeing more leaks

on polk street so we will be out there once it warms up to fix the leaks. >> excellent. let's discuss what is the reunifiquation of public works. there fsh a proposal or plan to split off the division, called the street and sanitation. now that has been shelved and public works is going to just retain being a single entity. can you talk through the process? >> sure. yeah. the original proposal was a ballot measure voted on to split the department into 2. it basically create the department of sanitation and streets that was really going to incompass all our operation divisions so it was a street cleaning department but encompass everything we refer to as operations. when we worked preparing for that split with the city administrator office, we found there were actually 91 what we call touch points between the operations work and

our engineering and architecture side, so we really felt like it could be very difficult to split into two departments. we have so many areas of overlap. there was a new ballot measure last november to reunit the department. technically we split october one and did split in some ways. we did put on hold some of the behind the scenes things like rebranding all the vehicle jz giving everyone a new e-mail address in the sanitation and streets department, but on january 1 of 2023 we came back together so we are reunited i want sing the peaches and purb song and think it is a good thing for the 91 areas of overlap. we making #2c3w50d use of the research. preparing for the split. looking at all the touch points and trying to strengthen the department so we are

more streamlined and efficient. one of the most important component from the original ballot measure is commission oversight. we retained two commissions, the public works commission which oversee the over-all department and approve the budget and contracts. and sanitation and street commission and their mandate focus on policy and deliverable for street cleaning and basically the operation division. reporting to them regularly how we are doing, we think will help make sure we are as efficient and effective as we can be as a department. >> that sounds great. thank you so much for coming and talking to me today and appreciate the time you have given. >> thank you so much for having me. it was a pleasure. >> that is it for this episode. you are watching san francisco rising.

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exciting things to see. like -- what is that there? what is that for? hi. buddy. how are you. >> what is that for. >> i'm firefighter with the san francisco fire department havings a great day, thank you for asking. this is a dry sand pipe. dry sand pipes are multilevel building in san francisco and the world. they are a piping system to facilitate the fire engineaire ability to pump water in a buildings that is on fire. >> a fire truck shows up and does what? >> the fire engine will pull up to the upon front of the building do, spotting the building. you get an engine in the area that is safe. firefighters then take the hose lyoning line it a hydrant and that give us an endsless supply of water.

>> wow, cool. i don't see water, where does it come from and where does it go? >> the firefighters take a hose from the fire engine to the dry sand pipe and plug it in this inlet. they are able to adjust the pressure of water going in the inlet. to facilitate the pressure needed for any one of the floors on this building. firefighters take the hose bunked and he will take that homes upon bundle to the floor the fire is on. plug it into similar to this an outlet and they have water to put the fire out. it is a cool system that we see in a lot of buildings. i personal low use federal on multiple fires in san francisco to safely put a fire out. >> i thought that was a great question that is cool of you to ask. have a great day and nice

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