provided excellent service and has represented the small business owner commission as well as the liaison city departments. the san francisco small business owner commission extends it's full guide to the commission we we wish you many, many successes. i'd like to make a few remarks to chris's contribution has really i think, you know, really evaluated our position around policy matter and really having different elected offices approaching us ahead of time and has established a wonderful working environment. and that's been greatly appreciated. i hope your proud of your accomplishments and just really want to wish you the best success and think you'll be great in our future endeavors >> come on up. >> i'd like to thank the commission for working with me over the past 3 and a half years. i think some of the commissioners have been here you when i became involved in the smoke free ordinance i was working with a number of businesses that had smoking rooms and i did a lot of advocate with regina and the commission was the sounding where had that really worked with us and worked with the businesse

first speaker up will be gohar [speaker not understood] with the accreditation liaison officer at city college to provide an update. thank you. >> hello, i'm gohar [speaker not understood], the accreditation liaison officer at city college of san francisco. my job is to work on behalf of the chancellor to work with the accrediting commission, to meet the accreditation standards, to help conduct the internal self-evaluation, and again, to make sure we meet the standards. before i start, i want to make sure that it's clear we are open. we are accredited and we're enrolling students. in case anybody is reading the headline there, we have not lost accreditation. we're open. we're accredited and we're enrolling students. before i start, i want to give you a few facts about the accrediting commission and then we'll pass around a flyer so that you've got some of that information before you. accreditation is a voluntary process, a quality review that institutions agree to undergo periodically. it's a system of self-regulation. accreditation standards represent the best practices in higher educ

i also would like [ applause ] >> i also would like to thank our city build liaisons for all of their dedication and hard work and determination. [ applause ] >> and lastly, i would like to thank the mayor's office. because what the mayor's office they make everything possible for all of us. it is huge, and i hope that you continue to back this program up and my classmates. you want them to do unto you, so when we graduate and start working let's get right back just like they did for us. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> super star. >> okay just a couple more shout outs, the dean of city college at evans campus, thank you for coming, sir. [ applause ] >> arm on the executive director of the charity cultural center services is here this evening. [ applause ] >> don marcos, executive director of mission hire. and in the back. and probably the group that came the most distance our friends from the operating engineers in slew house california east of sacramento, dave spader and tammy casteel. thank you for making that trip. >> we want to acknowledge cliff low of consulated engineering as well

liaison contact? >> i believe the report itself will be an a public document will be reported back to the city. it will be complete as we finish highlighting the design of the equipment to work in conjunction with the consultant and replacing the equipment and how it's going to be installed so when they do the test, it will pass the test. >> do you have an estimate of how much time? >> we are probably looking in the fall to start construction. before we get our permit we have to produce that. >> okay. do you have the name yet of who your community liaison will be? >> i don't have the name yet, but we will have one. >> just make sure that it's available to planning department and then the public can ask mr. teeg for that person. >> absolutely. >> commissioner sugaya? >> yes, just to follow-up, the genetic generation -- generator is not there when there is a complete power surgeon or earthquake. doesn't it automatically go on. why else would we have battery back ups. >> it's a backup generator and only be used in case there is an outage from pg & e. we have a battery system that can carry us anyw

city college to complete requirements for a teaching credential. first i want to thank the trustee rizzo for correcting information from our liaison. i was [speaker not understood] liaison [speaker not understood] doesn't know basic facts that i know and i'm not paid to know that. i also want to point out it's been really tough, i felt really disrespected by the administration of ccsf and they're not open. two e-mails came out. one several months ago from interim chancellor and once recently from the super trustees pretty much discouraging the campus community from, you know, trying to organize our speak out or speak their voice about the accreditation process and for an institution of higher learning that's shameful. yes, city college always, you know, has room for improvement and we constantly need to be trying to improve but that needs to be done with the input of students, faculty, staff, the community, elected leaders, not an emergency manager. i just want to quickly say at one point, you know, because who knows, it might come down to, you know, [speaker not understood] sounds like that's what the mayor's office is talking abo

for city folks all our elected are signed up we make sure they get technicalitiess from us during a storm i highlighted things like major lloyd and displaced persons. we are hear directly in the liaison officer who is me who would reach out to other folks. for the general public i want to highlight alert f s and for phone calls folks who were watching go to www. dot emergency organizing you can list our cell phone and we will came back you if there's a problem we'll send you a technicalities or e-mail and say avoid this area due to power outage you can sign up we don't share our information with anyone. we have a tweertd feed we see on the right hand side of the slide you'll see your tweet. ross from the national weather services and the puc b will retreaty those out. we have sirens that are tested everyday at noon and a new program i want to highlight is wireless energy alerts. we have the capacity to do this now in a major catastrophe we can send information out in a cell phone. people are usually visitor and toughest and we can send the information to any cell phone. my last slide after the storm. one of the systems for displaced persons we certainly employ this suppose it's a mul

liaison, chief of staff, chief of policy, six people. >> we have four right now. i'll paying for four people. >> when the cityu have any? >> how will we get things done? the government still needs to work and operate. we still meet on a weekly basis and a potential complaint. i can't do it alone, answer the phone and be in the community. we do need a person in the office. >> thank you, councilman spivey. >> thank you, john, i had a great time. >> i find it frightening our financial future will be determined by politicians like those on detroit's city council. this is a problem for all of america. government officials rarely want to give anything up. last year hewlett-packard fired 27,000 workers. ibm and ge laid off 100,000 when expenses got too high. people were upset but the companies had to do it to survive. in the private sector, we make hard decisions like that all the time. people usually don't even hear about it. but in government they call any cuts a crisis. and even in detroit where you call 911 and no one may respond, officials won't even sell a few paintings or let someone else manage one park or c