-mary ellen: hi, i'm mary ellen. -lemonis: mary ellen. -mary ellen: nice to meet you. ary lou: mary lou. -lemonis: mary lou. chuck: call me chuck. lemonis: chuck, nice to meet you. -chuck: pleasure to meet you. -charlie: charlie. lemonis: okay, so you guys are brother and sister. -mary ellen: yes. -lemonis: is this your dad? -charlie: correct. -chuck: c.e.o., designer. charlie: when i go home, at the dinner table, he's my old man. he's my dad. i love him to death. in business, it's chuck because i'm going to get a little emotional. lemonis: and who's in charge? charlie: i kind of run the show. mary ellen: i mean, the loudest person usually does. lemonis: the loudest person. charlie: i think everyone can agree. -mary lou: no. -mary ellen: [ scoffs ] charlie: everyone comes to me. i'm the one person that you all communicate to. lemonis: and whose name's on the door? -chuck: oh, my name. -lemonis: okay. just wanted to clarify that. it doesn't say, "swim by charlie handy." chuck: no. lemonis: do you have a business card? charlie: yes. lemonis: vice president, that's you. an

so, we have had conversations, i know mary ellen was the first one to bring this up. i don't know if you want to have thoughts how we take this work. do we focus right now, scale it around, scale it to other neighborhoods, what are your thoughts around this? >> liquifaction or in general. >> both. >> we have done a lot of great work in planning around our response. the immediate response. but really looking at a recovery discussion and i'm so happy to say that we are just on the precipice of kicking that off. also because that discussion goes well beyond the city. we have, and that's why you are all here. we are only 30,000 strong, and we have really got to get everybody involved in this conversation. we want to understand what you need to know from us, what your assumptions and expectations are. it will -- it will fire us and force us to really dig into, more into some of these discussions. for me, i think the issue of lifelines, and looking at lori johnson and other people here who have done a lot of work on this, really our ability to get in, back into the city and

. >> thank you mary ellen and everyone for being here today. i remember the year before last when we had one of the first heat waves, one that we knew was coming, but didn't really understand how significant it would be because it wasn't something that we as a city was use to. we love san francisco because we love the cold weather, probably. we all know that climate change is real and there are a number of issues that are impacting our environment and that includes challenges with wildfires, the issues around, you know, unanticipated increases in temperatures, which has really put us in a different situation. i remember when i was on the board of supervisorsers -- supervisors, we had hearings to talk about, where did we go wrong to respond and address the issues to support our residents, but in particular, our very vulnerable communities, especially our seniors. at that time, so many of the departments came together to talk about ways to work with our community-based organizations to improve our response to addressing any type of challenge, whe

we want to talk about the downtown recovery plan and framework, mary ellen carroll will be back up again to give an introduction. she's going to get her next note. but we do want to say we have >> we have brought experts to be on this panel and ryan strong is coming to the stage, bash graph, shawn mclyn and laurie johnson. >> while our panel get satellitessed hear. i'm the director of the department of emergency management. here if san francisco, one of the reasons why we're here, our philosophy, really, is that we want recovery and we believe that recovery will be most successful when we as a city and when i say we as a city, that's were, are in the driver's seat. and so, i really applaud all of you for joining us here to help in the right direction.to help last year, the mayor asked the administrator and i to establish the city -- >> so we are reconvening the budget and finance committee and i would like to recess again, so sorry, apologies to everyone spent their whole day here. but we're crunching some numbers and we are very, very close. so i would like to reconvene until 5:30 and w

the different cycles around immediate response, then the midterm and the long-term response and mary ellen and i have had lots of discussions about when does, how do you coordinate your response with your recovery. reality is this longish one, the long low oval that comes over is the recovery process, and this comes from our, not only our experience, you know, with the 2006 earthquake and the 1989 earthquake, but a lot of the other hazards around the world. recovery, if you want it to be effective, needs to start immediately. the response effective, and recovery immediately, and as you begin to recover, you address the response, you'll see the recovery activities pick up more and more but can be there for as long as 5, 10, you know, still seeing recovery activities in new orleans after katrina now 10, 15 years later. so, that's part of the trajectory there, one thing to keep in mind is that we know the early decisions you make in your response or in recovery have a big impact on the decision later on and i think sean can talk to some of those impacts for what they faced in santa rosa. the

mary ellen carroll here. >> yes. mary ellen carroll, department of emergency management. as you know, i was appointed in august. this is my first go round, and it wasn't too painful. i want to thank everyone from the board, the budget legislative analyst, and everyone on my staff who got us through this. we are in agreement, and thank you for having us. >> chair fewer: thank you for your service. and not everyone is on elder sf, they should get on it right now. >> thank you so much. >> chair fewer: mr. controller, could you note it is the intention of this committee to accept the recommendations from this department. now could we hear from the department of accountability. do we please have a -- could we please have a b.l.a. report. >> the department's proposed $11,409,,000 for fiscal year 19-20 is 36.3% more than the original 18-19 budget of $8,363,576. the department's proposed $11,625,046 for fiscal year 20-21 is 2.2% more than the mayor's original 2019 budget of $11,400,009. our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total $297,851 in fiscal year 2019-20, all o

mary ellen: that's pretty. i like that. savings into their swimwear company... i leave here inspired by your story. ...only to find themselves out to sea. i mean, you guys are, essentially, out of business right now. that's a lot of pressure on you. there's no clear leader... charlie: i've kind of run the show. -mary lou: no. -mary ellen: [ scoffs ] lemonis: ...no design process in place... charlie: i just don't have the time. chuck: no, you did. you did. you absolutely did. lemonis: ...and now, there's no money left either. mary ellen: they have put their finances into running this company. i don't want to see you guys lose everything. mary lou: i don't want you to worry about me. lemonis: if i can't help them swim with style, it won't be long before they go under. -mary lou: i'm afraid. -lemonis: listen, listen.

two cops came over and grabbed me and escorted me to the front of my house. >> reporter: mary ellen andestigators what was going on. they were handed the search warrant stating investigators were looking for anything connected to bomb making. >> i said how do you know it was a bomb? we don't even know it was a bomb. >> reporter: that was the first you heard of such a thing? >> because we thought it was an accident. >> reporter: did they seem to be accusing the two of you? >> yes. >> reporter: both of you. >> yes. >> reporter: were you frightened? >> oh, yes. >> reporter: what were you afraid of? >> that they thought we did it. >> reporter: around colusa the raid on peter's house just days after roberto's death was big news. the neighbor began sending out real time updates on facebook. >> there was a parade of cars driving around the whole neighborhood. >> as these detectives were asking their questions and as they were ripping my house -- going through my house. >> reporter: when they left? >> they took our computers and our cell phones. we had a business. nobody could call us. >> repor

sister mary ellen? >> thank you, sister chief. thank you so much for having us again. i'm thrilled to be here to represent all of the ems providers and our dispatcher mccullough. we say these guys save lives and in the case of mariah, she helped bring life into the world on this particular call, which is why she's being honored. she's been a dispatcher -- at the time it was barely a year, so this is just the start of the career. i was like, okay, i'm not sure how you're going to beat this, but... i just want to say thank you. we can't do any of this without each other. so we're a total team. and i, too, am so thrilled to work with you, chief, and with all your folks. it was great to see everyone at dm yesterday for the open house. i never saw so many firefighters and paramedics. i felt incredibly safe. thank you so much for taking the time out to honor these great heroes. >> president yee: before supervisor stefani, i join you for our ops. supervisor brown? >> supervisor brown: yes, i really want to thank supervisor stefani for honoring our ems crew. i have a personal

. >> chief nicholson: and if i can just say that i'm working closely with mary ellen carol frcarol -- carroll in terms of getting some answers from pg&e. we understand the need for up-front information from pg&e. we get it, and we want some answers, too. and so like i said, i am working with mary ellen carroll, and we will be meeting with some of the higher-ups from pg&e. while this is going on tomorrow, we're looking to have some meetings with some of the higher-ups with pg&e. >> commissioner covington: okay. i appreciate you having a list of questions to pose to them. it would also be good to have some suggestions to give to them as to what they can consider doing so that we're not slammed. >> yes, ma'am, i agree. >> chief nicholson: and chief cochran has been working on fuel, where we're going to get our fuel from, to all sorts of things. we don't just come with questions, we come with solutions, as well. >> commissioner covington: thank you. >> thank you. >> president nakajo: vice president covington, you've concluded? >> commissioner covington: yes. i'll just have my discussions

mary ellen mentioned that we're not going to be the only ones facing this. if our power is out, other people's power is out as well. this will be a bay area concern and one we need to make sure we need to get ahead of. also, this is one of the learning elements. power outages will require a time for recovery. just because the lights and the power comes back on, it doesn't mean that everything will be fine. we need to make sure if there are individuals that may have been specifically impacted, we need to reach out to them. if there are data systems that are impacted by an automatic shutoff, then those are brought up properly. things won't go back to normal immediately. we looked at what's next, our people, processes we need to have and technology. for people in particular, it's working and making sure we're extending out to our private sector partners, vendors, an contractors. what are their plans? how are we going to coordinate with c.b.o.s and other groups to make sure neighbors are helping neighbors and they're checking on one another during and after the

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i associate rose pak with the memory of mary ellen pleasant, an african-american woman who came to the city and county of san francisco. she was a woman who actually worked to stop the slave trade in the united states of america and came to san francisco and file a lawsuit in the year 1866, wherein long before a different rose, rosa parks, she sued to stop black women from being ejected from public transportation in the city and county of san francisco. both of these individuals went down as remarkably controversial as characters in san francisco history. i knew rose pak. i did not get along with rose pak all of the time but her attention to the needs of the chinese american population, not only in chinatown but across the city and county of san francisco were remarkable. the fact that ed lee became the mayor for san francisco for which rose and i parted ways, was something that rose was remarkably important in that. the fact that chinese americans and asian americans populated the command staff and ultimately fred lau became the police chief, i acknowledge these truth. the chinese pop

speaker, i send my deepest condolences to pete's children, donna, sandra, carla, joseph and mary ellen, along with the entire family. may they take comfort that he's now reunited with the net and enjoying his eternal reward. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. kennedy, for five minutes. mr. kennedy: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, this administration continues to tell us that our economic recovery is chugging along. that it's even been hypercharged under president trump. they say there's well over 7 1/2 million unfilled jobs and six million people looking for work. that wages are beginning to pick up. stock market has reached record highs and unemployment record lows. so why aren't our constituents celebrating, saving, and spending at equally historic rates? mr. speaker, everyone in this chamber knows what i'm talking about. they can feel it. why does it seem so fragile, like this country is walking on economic eg shells? because that's -- eggshells? because that's how it feels to american families every si

i'm mary ellen carol, executive director of the department of emergency management. and i am going to present our budget to you here. the first slide shows -- there we go. it shows the overview of our division. essentially we have three main divisions, division of emergency communications, which is the 911 operations, the division of emergency services and our admin division. in addition, we are the fiscal agent the department of emergency management for the homeland security grant funds, the urban areas security initiatives, that provides grants for the 12 bay area regions. so we provide the fiscal agent to that and have responsibility for regional preparedness in that capacity. as far as the overview, our expenditure overview, as you can see from our chart here, we have our largest category is salaries and fringes at $52 million. and this represents over half of our budget. the other significant expenditure category includes non-personnel services, which is about 23% of our budget. many of these are professional services contracts, proprietary software, license c.c

so now we will have a presentation by mary ellen carroll on our healthy streets operations center. >> good morning, chair fewer and supervisors. thank you very much for having me today. i'm very happy to be here today to present to you on the healthy streets operations center. as i believe you all are aware, the healthy streets operations center is hosted by the department of emergency management, and we provide dispatch services and coordination and support. the hsoc, as we call it, launched in january 2018. it coordinates the efforts of city agencies involved in addressing unsheltered homelessness and unhealthy street behaviors. the core values of hsoc are to lead with services, believe that everyone can change, empathize with the entire community, and that safe and clean streets can be maintained for everyone. the healthy streets operations center has representatives from key departments working together at the department of emergency management, and representatives from those departments, my colleagues are here today. hsoc directs, plans, coordinates responses to unsheltered homel

. >> it really was a pioneering of the two women, peggy for sister and mary ellen to take the pane off from outside. at that point it was a big deal. >> it was the first time where a gar bar had purposely opened their windows to be seen at a time when just being known to be gay meant that you could lose your job. it was a risk for the bar itself. so they had a no touch policy and kept everyone on their better behaviors. >> there are other bars in the neighborhood that cruising was more prevalent. here, it was a social place. >> just people were more behaved, more community or yenned. >> the bar hasn't changed that much. we're like at the epicenter of the gay community. >> a lot has happened out here right out through the windows. >> ♪ in 199 when i started working here at the twin peaks, the aids crisis was in full swing. sadly, every bartender that i worked with passed away from aids. >> people would come here for information, to share, also a lot of memorial services were held here. >> when they approved gay marriage, then everybody would go gather in the castro area. >> there was li

. >> absolutely, earlier i spoke with mary ellen o'toole she's a former fbi agent and had been for 28rmer fbi profile and she did say there is work being done to put in more protection for employees to report suspicious behavior or warning signs to hr without fear of repercussions is that is something that you would want to go forward? >> absolutely. i think that you don't feel comfortable, it's a stigma and were starting to get over the stigma when have suicidal thoughts but when you're coming into having homicidal thoughts nobody feels couple discussing those. you need to give people the opportunities and let them know that the hundred it's okay to talk to those people. that there are people that will support you. i want to put that in place and we need to work on that. >> finally, how can americans who do not live in virginia beach but want to help how can we do so. >> this is not a problem that's just here in virginia beach, this is a problem we are having as an epidemic in our country so we need to think about our long-term goals and we need to do that together. we need to put po

. >> it really was a pioneering move of the two women, peggy forster and mary ellen cunha, who openedto take the paint off the windows, to expose the customers inside and so the customers can see outside. at that point it was a really big deal. >> it was the first time we know of that a gay bar purposely opened their windows to be seen, and at a time when just being known to be gay meant you could lose your job. it was a risk for the bar itself, so they had a no-touch policy and kept everyone on their better behaviors. >> there are other bars in the neighborhood that cruising was more prevalent, whereas here it was a social place. >> just people were more behaved, more community oriented. >> the bar hasn't changed that much. we are like at the epi the gay community. >> a lot has happened out here right out through the windows. >>> in 1989 when i started working here at the twin peaks, the aids crisis was in full swing. sadly, every bartender that i worked with passed away from aids. >> people would come here for information to share. also, a lot of memorial services were held here. >>

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