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

we have mary ellen carroll, the director of the department of emergency management, and joel coppel, with the planning commission. ok. so, i'm going to ask a very important question and we are just going to go straight down the line, and let's just get straight to it. what do you think is the most important task we can do to strengthen building performance? >> now i'm on. two areas we could do. i can't do just one. the first one is we could improve the repair time numbers that he showed on the screen earlier, changing how we design tall building, affect that by reducing drips and things like that, one piece. but i think the larger effort could be on those impeding factors to reduce that time, where the majority of the down time comes from. improving the program and things of that nature will facilitate quicker recovery times and getting back in the building. >> so for me, i think because we at d.m. are responsible for the safety assessment program and the coordination and resourcing for that, my recommendation would be to expand borp as much as we can, we'll learn more about that, in

[applause] >> mary ellen carroll, director of the department of emergency management is right here. i'm not sure, i don't see her in the crowd but may be, kathy howe, the assistant general manager of infrastructure for the san francisco public utilities commission. but the four of us really started working on the resilience of our tall buildings well, a few years ago. a couple years ago, and have spent a lot of time with the applied technology council, office of resilience and capital planning, brian strong, and to really make sure that we think about these buildings in a different way than we have in the past. you all have a copy of the tall building safety strategy. it's the first of its kind in the nation. and it brings us together today. during the summit you will hear from many people who care deeply about making sure our tall buildings and infrastructure is strong. but we also want to focus on an open public discourse. we want to focus on engaging you on how we should prioritize the 16 recommendations that were in this strategy. and we need to think about the next big earthqua

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 off mic. >> president nakajo: all right. thank you very much. we have additional questions in terms of category of chief's report. commissioner cleaveland? >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, mr. president. one quick question regarding the grant writer, and m

at this time, i would like to invite chief nicholson and mary ellen carroll, the director of the department of emergency management. chief of our fire department, i think this might be -- is this the first time you're in here since being appointed? >> yes, ma'am. >> supervisor stefani: thank you. the floor is yours. >> thank you so much, supervisor stefani, president yee, members of the board of supervisors, i'm thrilled to be here with you all. thank you so much. on behalf of everyone behind me, we're so grateful to be here today. as you know, we do not do this for the accolades. we do this because we're proud and committed to service. so thank you so much for this. the people behind me are the boots on the ground, they're the people that get this done day in, day out. and they do not get enough thanks from us, but i'm really pleased that we get to commend them here today. so thank you very much. 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

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

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