let me let me use your microphone, president peskin. thank you. thank you so much. and first of all, thank you all so much for being here. i want to just start by expressing my appreciation to mary ellen carroll for her continued support of manager king and facilitating the various meetings that take place with the disaster council. there's a

lot of work that needs to be done in san francisco to address this. many of the things that we know could happen that we may be surprised by. in addition to those things that we know are coming and having some consistent meetings with our various city service agencies, law enforcement and others who will be responsible when and if anything happens in our city is critical to ensuring the safety of residents of our city. this this conversation and us coming together. i know has been sparked by my push to start to look at the renewing of our alarm system that used to sound . at 12:00 every tuesday, something that, you know, especially those of us who grew up in san francisco, we would hear consistently and if you

heard it outside the scope of that time period, you knew that there was a problem. and the whole point, again, was to test it to ensure that the system was working the way that it should. unfortunately, with technology and with people who started to invade the system, we were put in jeopardy. our safety of our city and using this system was put in jeopardy because we unfortunately had people who had access to the system and who could use it for the wrong reasons. cybersecurity has has been improved. we know it's important to san francisco and the ability to ensure the safety with reliable information is also equally important. we did make at one point the hard decision to scale back, to shut the system down, to avoid problems. but more importantly, this disaster council has had numerous discussions about the costs related to investing in this system, to bring it up to a

place of modern technology, but more importantly to ensure that when this system is operating, we are protecting it. and we are using the appropriate cyber security to ensure that it doesn't get in the hands of the wrong people. so i know mary ellen is going to be talking a little bit about what we plan to do, what it might cost and how we can move forward. but let me also just say san francisco is a place that, you know, it's a major city. so anything could happen, whether that is an earthquake more recently, even though it didn't directly impact us, hurricane ian, we know that there also is the threat of terrorist attacks. we know that there have been various events and other things that have occurred in san francisco, and we have developed new systems that exist that will allow for people to be made aware whether

it's our ability to break into the systems, the various communications around the radio and television. but also the alerts that we have on alert that people can sign up so that they can get alerts as well as our ability to break in and get through to people's cell phone to communicate information using the fire department with, you know, the various microphones, megaphones that they carry on their various trucks and rigs. the ability to get information out there using a lot of different modes of technology is something that currently exist in san francisco. i know that conversation happens around tsunamis and the possibility of tsunamis in san francisco. i know the conversations around the challenges that existed in treasure island with the drinking water and other things we have never since this system has been down been enabled to

distribute information in to the public to protect public safety . but i will say that many of you have heard through the news that i was actually in maui during, you know, the very devastating hurricane and fire that took place. and in fact, the winds were probably more significant than i've ever seen or experienced anywhere. and on top of that, it to have a fire to happen of that mass attitude that swept through the town of lahaina in such a significant way with no alert system, with no sound, when power was down, no internet, no technology, no ability to communicate to anyone what was going on, really renewed my commitment to look into this particular system and

the need to bring this system back up to par for the people of san francisco, because, as i said, we have a number of different communication tools at our disposal. all that we are able to use to address public safety in san francisco in a way to distribute information in. but the question is what happens when we are faced with winds that are so problematic that the power has to be cut when we are faced, faced with challenges that don't allow us to use technology in the same way to distribute information to the public. we need to make sure that we have all levels of redundant communication systems in this city to make sure that we are able to get information out to the public. so it's time for us to really look at upgrading our system. i'm

upgrading the work that we need to do together to ensure public safety and also i want to take this opportunity to just mention nert the neighborhood emergency response team and a desire to try and recruit people. there are thousands of people registered for nert, but we have to make sure that they maintain in their certification so that they are up to date on the latest of technology and information so that when our fire department, our police officers, our sheriff deputies, our disaster service workers and others are not always able to get to everyone in that. people in our various community cities all over san francisco have the training to be able to help their neighbors and to help us as a city get through this. so i think there are a lot of different layers to our need

through this disaster council to start to have conversations that allow for both technology, advanced distribution of information, but also so we're going to have to go back to some basics because in the event of any situation nation, we as a city, we want to make sure that we don't continue to put off the important infrastructure investments. we need to make for this particular system, because it is necessary for the purposes of getting our city to a place where we can ensure that we have every tool at our disposal to address any disaster and whatever may come our way. so today's meeting for the disaster council centers around our system. our system that look at the possibility of bringing this

system back into operation. on what that would entail and what the cost may be be and how we should move forward. and i want to at this time turn it over to mary ellen carroll to provide the details around this. thank you all so much. thank you. mayor breed and i think every disaster, every emergency that we experience or that we see is an opportunity for us to learn. we have in the past decade, cities across the world have increasing faced the consequence associated with our climate change. storms are more intense. temperatures are more extreme, and the impacts of wildfires are more destructive and toxic. in january and march of this year, as we all know, we experienced historic storms that flooded our streets, took down our trees, our utility pole poles and tore

glass off our buildings. as wildfires across the country have resulted in poor air quality and orange sky. as we all remember from 2020. and that new york and the east coast experienced this year and even this past weekend, as we saw hillary. hurricane hilary impacts southern california as it hit the coast as a tropical storm, the first tropical storm in our state in over 80 years. so our changing climate has signified giant impact on how we prepare for respond to and recover from emergencies as our emergency operations center is a critical component of our response, we activate during both planned and unplanned events, and our key responsibilities of the eoc. of course, are maintaining situational awareness, supporting our field operations , providing alert, warning and notification action, coordinating logistics and tracking finance sources and

costs of any disaster. our so just to give an overview, we have as the mayor alluded to, san francisco has a very robust and integrated emergency alert, alert and warning system. our city has made considerable investments that i'm going to just go through pretty quickly here in conventional platforms, technology based platforms, and then community based networks. so we have traditional and social media. so the those are our conventional platforms. the things that we use every day are television, newspapers, online resources, probably social media is the number one, and radio in san francisco. we can use kgw to broadcast out emergency information. radio is super resilient, and it is true that most of us probably have not turned on a radio in a very long

time, and that's okay. but you really should have one that's battery operated in your home and that's part of what we're getting to, is being prepared for anything and really being prepared for when all of our technology is not available to us. we also have the emergency alert system, which sends warning via broadcast cable, satellite. right. and this is the thing that you see on your tv or you hear on the radio, you know, once a month as testing that system and then we have message boards. so those are what we call variable message boards that alert public to various emergencies. you see them when you're driving on the highway. they mostly include information about roadwork and traffic, but they can and they have been used to provide emergency information as well. and then finally, we have our outdoor warning system. and so this is the one we'll talk more about today. this is the network of over 100 sirens across san francisco that can broadcast an audible alert with a

corresponding message in multiple languages. these sirens were taken offline in two december 20th, 19 due to in order for us to mitigate an immediate and serious cybersecurity risk. and it remains our intention to reactivate that system. we have other tech tech logical methods and the one that we use the most and most people are familiar with probably is alert. sf this is an alert that we send in multiple languages to the public . we've sent several today already. we have over 195,000 subscribers for text, which represents 54% of the households in san francisco. you can sign up for alerts by just texting your zip code to eight, eight, eight, seven, seven, seven, and then we also have telephone alerts, which is like a reverse 911. so those are used and can connect to over 383,000

residential and business landlines. and so that's something that we can do to call people when there is a very urgent message that needs to go out. and we did use that during covid to let people know about stay at home orders and mask mandates. and then the final one is the we alert and that's one that you don't have to sign up for. that comes automatically. they're mostly associated with amber alerts. when your phone buzzes very loud or flash flood warnings. we had one last this past winter during the floods. so then finally, i want to talk a little bit about our conventional platforms. so these are like the non we don't need technology for the most part. but our first responders that are represented here, leadership here on disaster council, our police officers, our firefighters, our sheriff deputies, our park rangers, those all play a very important role in public alert and warning they can use their lights and

sirens as well as their public address and broadcast systems with their vehicles. and that is something that we did use during january 2022, tsunami advisory. do you want to play that video just as just people can see how that works. and the nami and advisory in effect, stay out of the water, off the beach and away from the coast. again tsunami advisory in effect, staying out of the water, away from the coast and off the beach . so that is what we did activate that during the tsunami alert. you can't see it in this video, but you'll see many surfers still out there not heeding or warning. as a surfer , i understand that it's hard to get them out. but and then

finally, we have disaster service workers and those disaster service workers during covid were incredibly instrumental. we deployed hundreds of workers across the city to put up fliers and posters, hang things on doors and knock on doors, literally to get information out. so we are we are adept at to adapting to the needs of what of what the community needs to get important information out and finally, we have our volunteers and community groups. so we have, as the mayor said, volunteer groups like nert and alert. we have an auxiliary communication service is a group of folks that do ham radio communication for service providers like the interfaith council, neighborhood empowerment network and the latino task force and megablock. these are all two organizations that really were born during covid and that continue to be

very strong partners with dlm and the city in emergency preparedness. so you know, finally, i just you know, and just to say a few more things about that, we have the neighborhood community network or nen is very proactive. they work with community days and neighborhoods in order so that each neighborhood can kind of cater their plan and their response to the needs of that community. we have a new program , the neighborhood hub and strong block, that allows for more resources in communities. and we are also have a new program, strong building, where we're piloting with alice griffith apartments that are going to be a model for us to say, how do we do it for? you know, we have so many multi unit buildings and preparing those folks also. so just in summary, we have, as you can see, a very robust emergency management program here in the city that

includes diverse, overlapping ring and redundant alert and warning systems and while we are very confident that our systems are thorough and redundant, we always want to improve. and in particular, we're looking to continue our investments in language capacity and community outreach, both things that we learned lessons very important during covid because not everyone receives the message in the right way. we want to make sure that we get the message to people in whatever way is needed so that they receive it and their safety is assured. and so we welcome the discussion that is we're about to have on these improvements. and we really wish to partner with anyone who wants to help us expand our alert and warning capacity, whether through people, through financial or systematic resources. so that's the end of my presentation and open it up

to our council for discussion. mary ellen i just wanted to appreciate the thorough overview and maybe get into the discussion as to what our plans are that we discussed around the bringing up of the system, what our plans are, are we going to repair the old are we going to do a new system? some of the things we talked about and how we can get going with the with the alarms along the beach area and what are some options, options that we should discuss so that we can begin the process of preparing and understand what's possible. yes, mayor. so we have a approximately 119 sirens throughout the city. we did lose a couple of them in the storm. so part of what we need to do now that it has been four years since the they were operating operating is we need

to go in and the plan is what we're going to do is replace the technology. so they are all run on what we call. so they're not cellular but wireless. so they are not dependent on a cellular system. and each of these individual sirens has backup battery. those are the technology that needs to be absolutely has to be replaced. it. in addition, most people have been here a long time know that depending on where you are in the city, the messaging is clearer or not clear. and we know that in some places of the city you cannot hear, you know, have better, better or worse ability to hear the message and the sirens. so part of what our our first plan is to do is definitely to focus on the coastal side, because we know that tsunami is a very like likely scenario in which we would use these. and add each

one. this just to back up the system was built in 1946, just to be clear. so it's a very old system. during that time, you know, it was really a military it was like a bomb warning system that was put into place. obviously, as we've shown, we have built technology has changed. we have so many redundancies. but but getting back to the lowest common denominator of redundancy, when all of the technology that we are dependent on is not available to us, it makes this kind of solution for alert very important. however, what we need to do is take the newer technology, especially on the sirens and the verbal messaging and ensure that each of those is facing the same way that the height of the siren is in the right place. so we anticipate we have a contract in order to start moving forward with the

technology. so the procurement of the technology is not the issue and we will be moving forward. i think we expect in the next six months that this project will be well on its way . the full extent of when this will be complete is harder to predict just because we're going to have to assess each one of these and potentially make some changes in order to really make the improvements to the technology. so it's a better system than we had when we turned it off in 2019. thank you . all right. so it sounds like we are at the point of discussion on based on on mary ellen's presentation and i know we have a number of our members of the board of supervisors and other elected leaders and department heads joining us here today. president peskin, i wanted to know if you had any

comments or any remarks or questions for this discussion. oh thank you, mayor breed. and thank you for convening the disaster council. i think you're absolutely right. lahaina was a teachable moment and we are living with a very constrained capital budget. so i am pleased that there seems to be unanimity in all quarters to find funds to get the outdoor public warning system back up and running. and i think my colleagues and i are happy to assist in any way if that requires legislative action, we're prepared to do so . thank you. that's really great to hear. president peskin, we appreciate your leadership on this. all right. are there any other comments from our elected leaders who are joining us here today? anything you want to ask or say? thank you so much for convening today. we really appreciate it. just really look

forward to seeing the implementation and look forward to hopefully have some results and timeline for the siren. you know, besides the funding part, i'd love to learn more. i think for the west side particularly, i think is to also in addition to the siren, we'd love to see sort of the just learning again from the maui fire. is that we'd love to see a mapping of evacuation route. we on the west side for us, we actually do see a tsunami evacuation routes, signage throughout the throughout west side. i just love to see a mapping of it or updated mapping of it and to see that those signage are also updated or upgraded if need be. knowing that it's been a while. so thank you. thank you. supervisor and you brought something up. i just wanted to mention when we bring these back on, i think on the west side, many people do consider them the tsunami sirens, right. but they

are all over the city. it really should be. we want to make sure that folks understand that when the siren sound, they could be for any event. and part of what we're learning from maui is that the sirens were generally used for tsunami to send people away from the water. but in this case, the fire was coming toward the ocean. and so we want to make sure that we educate the public that they, no matter where you are, that the sirens are indicating something, especially if they're not happening at 12:00 on a tuesday. and that's something that may not be could be any number of things. and so i just wanted to mention that. and to your point on the be happy to share with you the evacuation routes and we can even set up a meeting with fire and police as, as they are kind of lead on helping support evacuation. i just want to add

that the supervisor brings up a good point regarding eyeing the various evacuation plans, because i do think that typically during fleet week, we take that as an opportunity to highlight the challenges that could exist in san francisco and to make the public aware of, you know, emergency preparedness. but i do think that every neighborhood could be unique to the specific events. and we need to make sure that we are not only working with the supervisor, but we're also working with the community to make sure that they understand stand what this all means and how this could be effectively used in case of an emergency, regardless of what it is. so i do think some more outreach and work around and, you know, educate ing people about what these sirens actually represent and also the various layers of

things that could happen. and what things might mean. look we know anything could happen. so i think, you know, the sirens and making sure that the voice and the clarity of being able to hear and the various languages are being used used is going to be critical to our communication system along with our our networking systems that we have in existence. but ultimately, i think some more outreach and work that we can do to start to elevate the conversation around emergency preparedness preparedness with our various neighborhood organizations, our community groups and others could be very helpful to ensuring that, you know, not just when something happens, we're reacting to it. but you know, how are we being more proactive with community so that they are also aware of what exists? and can i ask one question? yeah obviously i'm

very supportive and i'm glad that we can all agree that this is something that needs to be done. i'm just curious if going forward will be looking to work with the same contractor we've been working with a little concern on that. something is two years and then now we're looking at five years and we're over budget. so are there reasons why and will we plan to work with the same contractor going forward? well, it's a it's a combination of so the technology we have to purchase through a vendor and the delay is not a contractor issue. it was more a funding issue on our part. so and the cost escalation is, is what it what time does to our projects. i see karla behind you nodding so we the i think the biggest challenge is it's a very unique system and we are working very closely with tt to make sure that we have the right

people who will be available and be able to hit the ground running to be able to do the installation, the sort of assessment. so it's two parts. there's technology d then there's integration into our system and the integrating part is more a city resource issue that we feel pretty strongly that we're going to have a good team to do that. in fact, bringing some people back from retired agent who really know the system and will be able to enter, interested and willing and available to help on the project. okay. so funding then can expedite the timeline. yeah. i mean, i think that the we have an existing contract, so i feel pretty confident about getting this started immediately. the issue i think the delay or just the i don't want to say delay, but the challenges in moving it as quickly as possible is going to be what we find when we do the when we do these and especially along the coast. i mean, this is just what happens.

our beautiful coastal coastline is hard on equipment. and so i think that will be the issue more than anything. but we have we have the contract. we have availability on that contract and a new quote. so we're we're really ready to go on this. thank you. but mary ellen, this is a motorola product. yes. and part of what supervisor mentioned in terms of the current contractor, are there other options that we have in our various list of contractors that are possible other than the one that we've been working with ? um i don't have the answer to that right now, but i will we'll find out. mayor that's something that we can explore, especially as we're taking a look at different technologies and what might come from the assessment, because it might not just be the technology, but other things that might need to me need to be done to repair polls and other

things. yeah and i think that, you know, part of what mary ellen is, is doing is, is taking my direction to move as quickly as possible because because the goal is we want to have this system online. but at the same time, this does give us, you know, we have an opportunity to, you know, take a moment to look at what is what has changed. we can't just neglect the fact that the technology, the advancements with artificial intelligence and everything else that's out there . we definitely need to look at what other options exist so that we are not creating a new system where that will need to be updated and improved in the next five years. yeah, i definitely don't want to come back to you in five years for that. so all right. any other questions or

comments for discussion. did you. nobody okay. all right. we do have to we do have to open this item for public comment. but is there anyone here for public comment. it doesn't look like it. all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. and at this time, without any questions, further discussion or public comment, this meeting is adjourned. thank you all so much for being here.

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you

think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard

of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the

tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse.

>> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a

conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get

up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ?

>> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't

really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for i'm anthony i'm owner of scoop ice cream in the bayview. >> the environment sit down environment to enjoy a bananasplit. root beer floot. shake, et cetera . just creating that environment for people to come and enjoy. they can experience this is cultural driven. we pretty much replicate what our culture means in the bayview. >> a back story me and my

siplings my aunt took us out for ice cream all the time. spend hours eating ice cream and talking and catching up with friends and family of came with an idea. why don't you bring the ice cream shop back has not been one here in a time since the 90's. i thought it would be good to bring something back to a community where i grew up and something with me in business community. my fate is the apple pie flavor made from french cashew milk it is vegan. homemade cashew milk and cocoa nut milk. apples upon cinnamon and nutmeg and create a great desert. my great grand mother made it

from scratch. made ice cream for kids in the neighborhood and made different flavors. sugar free and dairy free. got passion to do it being here in the community and from my family. >> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the

city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns,

sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future.

>> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is

a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy

behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the

paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the

storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different. >> welcome back to 49 -- hang on , have you seen our first video? >> if not, click on the link before in the description and watch before you watch this one. >> welcome back to 49 south van ness. we are excited to show you around today as we have now topped out and we are well underway for construction. >> early in june this year, we had a topping out ceremony. it was the very last steel beam that was placed at the roof penthouse level. we had a number of speakers who came to join us. >> it was a great event and we can't wait to show you what is

going on inside. [♪♪♪] >> what has happened in the last year is steel construction is now topped out at the top. down below us, as you can see, as a full foundation. the basement is almost complete. we have concrete, we have steel, we have framing, we have a little bit of everything. to get started, i would love to walk you through what we call the form. it is a really exciting new way to get from here into 49 south then ness. >> it is a new public open space that cuts through the walking allows people to walk through there and gives the civic building three or more ways to be connected to this really big block. [♪♪♪] >> we are in the pavilion gallery. right behind me as south van ness. it is very close to the street. you will see a curved wall with an l.e.d. screen. this space will be used for a number of different purposes. it will be also one of the most prominent spaces in this

building. >> we are here in the main atrium lobby. behind me here, there are the grand stairs that will eventually be fully finished with wood and this will go to the level to permit center. >> welcome to the permit center. we are now on the second floor of the building. the permit center is the driver for this project. picture this. i am a plan checker and i'm sitting on the inside of the permitting counter. >> and i am a member of the public, and i get to come in here and enjoy this big, open, beautiful space as well as tables and chairs behind to open up my plans, review them. the terrace is just outside. tons of windows, daylight views. it is very exciting upgrades and improvements. [♪♪♪] >> now we're on level three, which has a really great building amenity, the childcare center. >> in fact, we are standing at

the terrace, or the outdoor space that is connected to the childcare center. >> the kids will have access to a huge area for playspace, as well as a really nice interior space for three classrooms. >> when the kids are out here playing, they will get a very close up view of the historical clock tower. >> a some of you may have seen, we have preserved a historic clock tower that one point was the coca-cola bottling plant, so we have tried to integrate this into our building and thoughtful and meaningful ways, and preserve some of the character of the site. [♪♪♪] >> the two have so the tower joined in the center. >> the idea was to create a scene where all of the collaboration spaces can rise vertically to the architecture is a public -- as the public comes to the office building, they are physically within a public realm, but visually connected to the inner workings. >> the theme is going to be a collaborative center that includes an atrium nested by a

series of stairs. >> this is the bottom of the three-story stack. at the bottom of this, would be a collaborative breakout space where you can have meetings, have lunches, just talk to your coworkers. [♪♪♪] >> we have conference rooms throughout the building, including the coffee center and the training center which will be used by staff and potentially for things like city hearings. there are a lot of amenities in the building that make it really be unique -- really unique and special. [♪♪♪] >> one of the unique aspects of the building is it is clad in eight and a system that will adjust the intensity of the tent of the glass as the sun moves around it and is whether patinas -- weather patterns change. everything from the glazing that covers the glazing, to the water system, -- we're really excited to bring this tower to san francisco. [♪♪♪] >> it is a pretty exciting project.

a civic office building for the city of san francisco. it is pretty unique. i don't believe the city has built a new building of this type in at least 50 years. we're really excited to partner with the city to create a new experience for you and for all of us. >> thank you so much for joining us today. we hope you really enjoyed the tour inside the construction of 49 south of then ness. >> watch our next episode when we give you another update on the projects being that -- >> see next time. [♪♪♪] [laughter] >> today preezentation is a overview how to file a compliant about the dpa. any questions can be e-maileded at sfdpa at sfgov.org. independent of the san francisco police department. investigating allegations of

police misconducting recommending disciplineitary action to the chief police and police commission and suggesting policy provisions when not meeting 21 century policing practice. if you speens or witness police misconduct we have several ways to submit a complaint. file with dpa online asfgov.org/dpa or (indiscernible) in person at the office located at 1 south van ness on the 8 floor or any district police station. there are key pieces of information that anyone filing complaints should provide, including your contact information, so we can ask for follow-up questions, the location, time and date of incident. officer name and star number, and specific details including words and actions by all involved parties. it is important to

remember anyone can file a complaint and you do not have to be a witness or victim to initiate a complaint. this next slide provides a overview of dpa mediation division. mediation is alternative to dpa investigationing a complaint. the goal of mediation are improve the relationship between the community and sfpd. mediation allows both parties toprint perspectives that resulted in a complaint. may request mediation when you file a complaint or referred to the mediation team. mediation is voluntary for the person making the complaint and officer. both must agree to resolve through mediation. unpaid volunteers not dpa employees trained and experiences in helping people resolve differences in a conductive manner. because mediation is voluntary, there is a greater chance of parties want to resolve the problem

mutually agreeable fashion. not every complaint is eligible for mediation. cases can go to mediation include those involvingcocts and not (indiscernible) that concludes today's >> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best park to come to. it's safe. it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and can wander around and go from one stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what

is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience. this is why i live here. >> the culture out here is amazing. it's san francisco. >> this is a legacy of the old warren hel ment and receive necessary funding for ten years after his death. >> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come.

before meeting of august 17, 2023. at this time. hey, just give me one second here. get me organized. i'm doing my survey. all right. okay welcome, everyone. thank you for all the participation on the board level and i'm madam secretary. do you want to call the roll, please? thank you, commissioner. commissioner connor. present mr. thomas. present. present. helfen. present mr. driscoll. here mr. gandhi. present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance