it does talk about nert, and hopefully that is the stepping stone to take the full nert training. the basic training, as you may know, consists of approximately 20 hours of hands on training, again, taught by firefighting instructors, usually split up over six different sessions, each one covering a different topic from light search and rescue to fire suppression, triage, and so on. advanced training. once they take the training and get their certification, which is good for two years, we encourage all of the participants to continue to take extra drills, classes, workshops that are offered throughout the year. and of course, we have our two citywide drills, one in april and one in october, where we take over a school and do a full setup of setting up staging areas and doing all the procedures that we've done in training. and i know many of you have come and seen them hands on. it's really a great opportunity for nerts to not only work with their neighbors but to refresh their skills. and then also throughout the year, outreach. we do tabling events, street fairs within these diff

and in milwaukee, do they have such a body at nert in milwaukee? >> they do not have a standing core of civilian volunteers as such. >> okay. in terms of the years of origin, i'm assuming it's from '89 or loma prieta. and again, i'm not a real good arithmetic person, but how long now? [inaudible] >> and being at candlestick park at that day, i still can easily remember that any time there's a shake. and as i grabbed my little son, and i looked at the crowd, and i saw a minute of pause, i grabbed him, and i ran the heck out of there. and what was amazing was watching the mayor and all the city officials trying to leave candlestick and go into the city. and if i didn't have the help of individuals like yourself, i think i did my arithmetic over it, but it's over like 50 something years of experience that's standing in front of us. and out of the 55 neighborhoods, there's quite a bit of neighborhoods that are covered here. but without you and folks like you in this city and county of san francisco, commissioner nakajo would never have gotten home that

nert did 19 events, classes and outreach presentations. last but you not least, homeland security, assistant deputy chief may travel to new york to our homeland security security. he made lot of good connections and got good information for us in terms of keeping our city safe. new york city has the most grant funding for homeland security and he made lot of good connection, got a lot of good information from them. he also with chief van hoff put together the mayoral inauguration event. great job with that. chief cochran is working on the hazard and resilience planning. he continues to improve upon our disaster preparedness. all those agencies are really working together and mike is doing a great job. that concludes my report. >> president cleaveland: thank you. is there any public comment. public comment it closed. commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: thanks mr. president. thanks again for the nice report. what was that last number we received couple of months ago? 1807 a including civilians and uniforms. >> i don't know if th

. >> volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that havee building skill could be helpful. so, if there is a structural engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. >> here we are with some of the things that you might find in a neighborhood support center. one thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. we say here's a charging station tied up to the generation. the essential coffeepot. >> yes. >> maybe a computer, you can check your e-mail with. >> yes. we have our charging station here. and then over here you can see we've got a whole variety of things, including the all-important different tags. so, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags? >> sure. people want to know what do these tags mean. is my building safe or unsafe. these are the city owe initial tags. staying in your home doesn't require that you get a tag. it just means that you u

our minority wip -- our nert whip. he's renewed his program that he and i worked on beginning in 2010. and yeah, this is the way i want to do it. k. over the years we've talked about make it in america, the ways it can be done, policies and the like. this monday minority whip steny hoyer reenergized the make it in america. i think it's 2.4 or make it in america .40. so encourage entrepreneurship. by ensuring access to workplace benefits like health care and retirement security and promoting -- providing a more, stronger growth to businesses. with ideas and successful businesses. just came across one of these earlier today, i was talking to a sprend out -- a friend out in california, phil wyatt a ph.d. guy, worked out of university of california's santa barbara for some time. and he came across a way of using a machine to analyze what's in something. chemical analysis, analysis of buy y logical components and the like. started a company called wyatt technology. it's an analytical machine used all around the world. used