so to talk more about the response and preparedness, this is rachel gordon, the communications director for san francisco public works. rachel, a busy day for you. so thanks for coming on. >> hi, kristen. thanks for having us. uh, it's let's just be able to talk. >> where are things right now in terms of situation out there? i'm sure you're monitoring, you know, flooding roads, drainage trees. >> right. so i just got off of a coordination call with other city departments in san francisco, and so far, so good as spencer mentioned, the rains have been relatively light, so we haven't had big problems here, but we have had crews on the ground in san francisco starting very early this morning , making sure that the storm drains are free of leaves and debris litter, so that if the water comes down fast, it can go into the storm drains and not cause localized flooding. we also have in san francisco flood barriers that are out, and the lower mission area at folsom and 17th street, which is a known flood area. so that is trying to keep the any rains that come in keeping them out of the homes and

who was also getting calls about this over the weekend. >> commissioners, rachel gordon, director of communications. the tracks for the cable car were not impacted by this but the cable car was temporary shut down. mta brought inspectors to look and the cable car service resumed. >> thank you. >> any further questions or comments on this item? open the director's report to public comment. [public comment] we do not have any in person callers on this item. and we do not have any callers wishing to make comment on this either, so that concludes public comment. >> thank you. no further questions for the director, secretary fuller, please call the next item on the agenda. >> item 3 is general public comment, which is for topics under the joint commission mandate but not related to a specific item on today's agenda. [general public comment] general public comment is limited to 15 minutes and can be continued to the end of the agenda if we exceed that time limit. it is now 10:13 a.m. appears we do not have in person speakers on this item. and we do not have callers for general public co

uh, rachel gordon, director of communications. so this like other infrastructure projects, uh, has a very robust communications plan. director shaw started with the eir is really the start of that process. but for an infrastructure project like this , we do a series of written notices, community meetings, uh, social media posts. we really focus on things like next door, which you can target to neighborhoods. then we will have an assigned public information officer and a web page on this. so they know both with the project manager and the public information officer who they can get information from of a project of this magnitude will also have opt in emails. we can't do proactive emails. it's not allowed. but if someone signs up saying i'm interested in this project, we'll send out the opt in emails every week to two weeks to every month, depending on how the construction is going and what the changes are and then it's really going to be important because the biggest impacts are going to be with transit and traffic that the mta, ou

uh, rachel gordon, director of communications. so this like other infrastructure projects, uh, has a very robust communications plan. director shaw started with the eir is really the start of that process. but for an infrastructure project like this , we do a series of written notices, community meetings, uh, social media posts. we really focus on things like next door, which you can target to neighborhoods. then we will have an assigned public information officer and a web page on this. so they know both with the project manager and the public information officer who they can get information from of a project of this magnitude will also have opt in emails. we can't do proactive emails. it's not allowed. but if someone signs up saying i'm interested in this project, we'll send out the opt in emails every week to two weeks to every month, depending on how the construction is going and what the changes are and then it's really going to be important because the biggest impacts are going to be with transit and traffic that the mta, ou