department of homeland security through the california office of emergency services for the period september 1, 2013, through may 31, 2015. >> okay. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you very much. and supervisors, i am with the department of emergency management, and so the item before you is an expense for 1 million dollars from the u.s. department of homeland security the money is from the urban area, funds planning and training and exercises for emergency management agency and fire departments, and police departments and sheriff departments and other public agencies around the region and san francisco, is the chair of the regional organization, that distributes this money. and in the bay area, and the city is also the fiscal agent and that is why it is in front of you, and dhs, the department of homeland security awarded this grant, to the bay area. and about a year ago, as a 22 million dollar grant and back in may, the department funded additional one million dollars and that is 967,000, is going to go to the northern california, regional intelligence center and it is for cyber

offices role as disability access coordinator at the emergency operation's center. we offer this perspective from a city side, but there were other speakers that included richard zelder from the california office of emergency services who spoke about his work at the state level. we had another speaker who provided a regional response and yet another who came from another smaller city perspective, the city of fresno that has a lot less resources than we all do. so richard delveder and california oes asked you to participate in a workgroup webinar that took place yesterday, july 17th. that workgroup is going to be looking at best practices in order to develop a comprehensive evacuation plan for people with disabilities. in looking at evacuate ugsz, what we are really talking about is multiple stages. we are talking about evacuations from buildings and also evacuations from portions of the city or leaving the city entirely. this is a focus really on concerns about multistory buildings and especially high rises. and the discussion was informed by new york's experience following hurricane sandy. and as i think everybody remembers there were thousands of people that were stranded in their multistory and high rise homes b

of southern california and the mono lake area have been using more. >> the community is on the verge of running out of water. there are folks getting water trucks delivered to them through the office of emergency services>> the restrictions start on august 1st. now, people face fines up to $500 a day for a variety of things, including watering your lawn to the point of creating runoffs, washing a car without a shutoff valve and using drinkable water to hose off hard services like a sidewalk or a driveway. local law enforcement and water agencies, they will be in charge of enforcing these new rules. violaters will probably get a warning first before the fines kick in. >>> a study released by uc davis suggests the drought has already cost california 2.2 billion. researchers say 430,000 acres of crops were not planted this year because of the water shortage. the study found the drought cost more than 17,000 part-time farm jobs. agriculture in california is a $45 billion a year business. >>> 20 minutes before 8:00. final legal arguments start today in a public access to a beach. the billionaire owner put a gate that leads to martins beach. the only way to get to the beach is from the ocean. the surf rider