moving on to item no. 9, a report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. joanna >> good afternoon. actually my report will be extremely brief. as you know, the dupc now meets every other week -- every other month so we didn't meet last month. however, a small group, a small subcommittee, has been working on putting together a grant application for a fema innovation challenge award which is about $35,000 to do a small innovative project. after long deliberation we decided to work on a disaster preparedness initiative for sro owners -- for sro tenants. these, as you know, are some of the most challenging populations who have traditionally been ostracized or kept away from the typical disaster preparedness can urricula. our project is proposing to develop an innovate i've can you remember rim klupl using collectives and community organizers to get folks, around 300 residents, to develop a structure for developing culturally appropriate disaster can urriculum. we believe very strongly this is a project worthy of funding and possible to create some important wo

disasters call for preparedness. disasters call for some sort of plan because people don't plan to fail. they just fail to plan. but the disaster i'm most concerned about is the disasters that the recreation and park department cause. man-made disasters and what are citizens to do when all of a sudden they find their most treasured recreational resources vetoed? that constitutes a disaster. equestrians living in san francisco have been through a political disaster, and i don't see the recreation and park department doing anything about it, or even having a table for them to crawl under. yes, it's pretty bad when the people that are supposed to protect you in a disaster are the ones causing the disaster. isn't that right megan? thank you for your comment -- thank you for your time and i hope you listen to my comments. >> is there anyone else who would like to make public comment on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. we're on item four, general public comment. at this time members of the public may addres

preparedness coalition for animals. i try to work with a number of groups in the city, including spca, acc, pets unlimited, sos and paws. so, i think i have a lot of experience to bring just working with those groups in general. i recently was appointed to the disaster preparedness committee for the state with the cdma as well. any questions on my qualifications at all? >> no questions from the board. thank you so much. >>> thank you. >> thank you for your service already on working on our disaster preparedness plan for animals. we have no further applicants. so, at this time we will open up for public comment. i do have one speaker card, glendon high. if there are any other speakers, please do line up. commissioner, good to see you. >>> good to see you, hello, how are you doing? i'm here to speak on behalf of the very passionate jamie yorck. i think it is apparent he knows a whole lot about what is going on. he spends a lot of time there at the committee making sure he's up on what's happening before he came to apply h

that applies to earthquake preparedness and it's not clear to me whether we are instructed to do that at 10:18 a.m. but it might be possible. >> i will be under the deck. >> you will? it won't be the first time. never mind. strike that from the public record. >> too late. >> so we will see what happens. i'm not quite sure. i of advised to advise everybody of this, so let me also comment that we have our bond -- measure b coming up on the election, and i would like to encourage everybody to not only get out and vote, but get out and get your friends to vote and tell everybody about it. it's enormously important to this program of continuing to improve all the parks in the city. let's see. commissioner low i think you had a couple of items you wanted to comment on. >> thank you mr. president. last month in september i had the pleasure of touring mccarren park which is a great resource to the city and asset to the valley portolla area and the friends of mc claire an park i would like to say thank you for being such a gracious host and feeding me cookers and going to the community gardens

report from the physical access committee. 9, information item, report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. 10, the november election, access to information, polling places and voting machines. 11, information item, sfmta multi modal accessibility advisory committee update. 12, public comment items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc 13, information item, correspondence. 14, discussion item, council member comments and announcements. 15, adjourn. >> thank you, ken. item no. 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. the first person i have is walter. would you come up, please. >> there it goes. good afternoon, mayor's disability council. just wapted -- wanted to let you know that hovaround takes me where i want to go, where will it send me next? and i was hoping that adele was going to be here because i was on her show and it was great and it was great to call adele, ring per bell, ding, ding, ding aling alink, you can ring adele, ring her bell, ring ading, make your city swe

i wanted to make sure the public was aware this resource exist and had was thinking about preparedness since we live in the earthquake zone. >> could you please name the app so people know? >> it's called the earthquake app and look under red cross earthquake app. >> thank you. commissioner antonini. >> thank you. a few things. number one, just acknowledging that the american dental association is meeting in san francisco beginning today through sunday and it's a large convention and we're happy to have it and we're one of a rotation of three or four cities that is able to host that throughout the country. secondly, the secretary search subcommittee met last week and will meet again this coming wednesday on the 24th to move forward, and we will, you know, discuss that when we can. the body as a whole, it's actually going to be calendar in the future if i'm not mistaken en. >> it's actually following this item. >> it is on the calendar, great. and thirdly, i always wonder why we've been so fortunate in san francisco to be the origin of so many innovative projects, inventions, concepts a

and i really thank them for joining this whole week of both celebration, but preparedness.rian activities that go on, that get practiced, that engage our neighborhoods are one of the most important and exciting things that we could be doing. so, we take these fleet week opportunities not only in celebration, but great opportunities to practice. and we will always be ready as a result of that. and i want to thank the people of san francisco for allowing us to be more ready and to allowing us to spend resources and money and federal monies and stimulus monies to make sure that our communication, all the things work. because we'll be that much more of a successful city and a city that's prepared. thank you very much. (applause) >> thank you, mr. mayor. and i'd like to call up now major general mike may, the khmer -- chairman of the fleet weeks association. (applause) >> thank you, louis. i want to take the opportunity first to thank this group of volunteers that has worked the last 10 months to put this event together. they are wonder of people and wonderful citizens in the ci

please have an emergency preparedness response for your household that does not include candles. and have enough water to last three days and this might be something you would automatically think of but have enough water for your pets, as well. luckily, my husband is working on that so at least one gallon per person per day for drinking and sanitation. we have radio, flashlight, water. it's simple to get yourself ready and the reason why it's so important for citizens to get prepared is because it helps our first responders stay focused on true emergencies during the storm period. if you're prepared at home, that helps us stay focused on protecting lives and property. as i say, now is the time to check. i was in there during the -- as we're listening, putting my list together of elderly relatives i need to check on. it's the time to check on elderly neighbors, relatives, sick, disabled. make sure they are prepared and if they can't prepare, please help them get to some place that is prepared. this is critically important beginning tonight through monday and tuesday, citizens shou

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in terms of preparedness, we have emergency pipe yards, we have emergency stand by facilities, we have vendors who are on emergency stand by so those facilities, the material we might need, we have plenty of it and it's stored throughout the entire service territory. we have 3 major services, supply service chains, that are open and available to us 24/7 if we need them. we also have contractor arrangements, maybe it's pipeline welding or electrical service work, line man work, and we also have mutual service agreements and pg&e participates in those. we have sent folks to hawaii and we have sent folks back east and we have certainly sent folks to oregon and washington and idaho on a regular basis as we all in the west suffered through storms. so we have those activities in place and then of course we do just our normal emergency response activations on an on-going basis just to make sure everyone is trained and veilable and ready to go. in terms of the big 1 that we always talk about, we have an earthquake play book. the gas side and electric side has very specific actions to take, we

>> our main message is preparedness. one of the things we would like people to do is make sure at home you have three days of basic supplies. that information is on our website, redcross.org. the other thing is if you're an eligible blood donor, once the storm passes, we strongly suggest that you come give blood because many of the blood drives up and down the east coast that we were depending on for life saving blood have been postponed of course. >> cheryl, there are a lot of families if they are forced to evacuate, they do have pets. we remember during hurricane katrina, people were forced to abandon their pets. are there any shelters that you know of that will accept families with their animals? >> i don't know right now, but i would say everybody should keep in touch with media, like yourselves, because as shelters open, they will let us know if they are pet friendly. but certainly if you are sheltering at home, you should have what you need for your pet and have it now and have it ready and have three days worth of

what preparedness was in place?ntingency plans were in place and why did the nyse originally on sunday afternoon say, well we'll go ahead with our opening with the electronic trading. then there was a revolt. then they changed their mind? nicole: i'm bursting with excitement i have to say, i really am, for tomorrow morning to get back on the floor after two days of trading. that will be very key, right? we've been closed for two days. we'll have our special with neil cavuto tomorrow morning. don't miss that. we'll probably have duncan niederauer back on again. the traders i spoken to were on the original phone call and looking at regulators as well. but, we'll have charlie gasparino look into it. the idea here was to i guess they could have gone electronic but it was really safety issue, number one for the people that may have had to go into the offices, so few people may have had to go in. ashley: nicole, we would talk about the insurance angle of all of this story with regards to the storm but to your point charli

. >> we have told stokes ahead of time to have an emergency preparedness kit. when the lights go out and the winds are still blowing, this is a major hurricane/nor'easter. in a 24-hour period where the bucket trucks will not be able to go up and work on the wires. during that period, the power could be out. this is going to affect millions of people. >> we will talk with you again soon. 51 degrees on this monday morning. >> much more to come on "good morning washington." we have a live report >> good morning. i'm jacqui jeras with the latest on hurricane sandy. 410 miles away from d.c. we're getting hit with rainfall pretty hard especially off to our east. it was moving all day yesterday northeast. now it's moving north. we will be watching later today to see if it turns towards the north and west and towards the coast. we expect it to potentially intensified a little. as it interacts with the trough to our west of that broad in the cold air. a couple things we need to be worried about today. since the storm system is expected to go north, are wind will probabl