Are required to review new Tall Buildings in the citys class f soils and most at risk seismic safety zone. And last but not least, since december 2016, we took steps to improve d. B. I. Tall building retention and require all peer review documents and design letters to be scanned, indexed and made readily available. If i may, assistant director, go back to the im working hard trying to get educated myself. No, can we the last two paragraphs on the geo tech and so on. Since november so im a little bit confused about these definitions that keep appearing on some of these new policies and procedures. With regard to the type of class of seismic and how we get to the definition of whats really bad and whats buildable. Im saying it as a point of view, i think we need to be kind of more simpler in our approach to like for example i hear class f is the worst and then i hear c is not great but okay. Its usually all in the seismic safety zone areas. As a matter of procedure and policy, i dont know, you might be doing this, is there a map we could put together where we go to the map and say if a building or design would say this is where were building a 240 foot Tall Building in this area, these are so were not kind of mixed up with all the different soils. I think the most important thing to consider, the history of San Francisco, you have your outcroppings, quarries. As you get toward the water, the history of San Francisco has been to fill in the bay so to speak. To create a very rather uniformed shore line whereas it was never that way to begin with. And the fact that you would like to map out specific sites will be somewhat difficult but not impossible. But whats more important, as you focus on each site itself, the lot or parcels, they themselves can have a profile very different from the general map you might want to assemble. You may not know theres a dropoff right within the same parcel that has a different has rock very close to the grade line. It could drop if that was the bay so to speak. Its difficult to know that, even on a regional basis, downtown shore line. You could craft a map but you would never know the specificity of the lot until you do the borings. In the borings, depending on how large it is, you may find very different soil classifications. Thats why it would be very difficult to create that kind of a map and say youre on this site, therefore you shall do this or that for the foundation. Director hui may want to add because of his experience as Structural Engineer and having soil reports and looking at sites with different profiles. I do understand the dilemma. Director, did you wants to Say Something . I understand what youre saying about the soil conditions can vary. But couldnt we possibly just say any Tall Building in the zone regardless of the soil has to be reviewed this way . Would that be more practical so people can understand that any Tall Building in this area they are going to be reviewed. The thing here i think pointed out, we want to have a peer review thats more than just a Single Person reviewing the work effort of the technical engineer worker. When we get into higher risk and its a Tall Building, those require us to have a better view of this from not just one person but at least two. So on top of that yeah. Yeah. Needs to be site specific, a map is difficult in San Francisco because we have a lot of landfill, a lot of soil line, just tell the experience for myself redesign [indiscernible] when they do 160 next door, 100 feet away, completely drop. To answer your question, why we put class f, this spell out in the report what kind of soil, and then depend on what kind of foundation youre going to build on those soil. For example sunset or richmond we know the soil type, sand dune and so forth. Downtown area is more difficult. They will be on pile. Now look into it with a housing project. When you go down to the ferry building, those are lots more complication because bedrock 300 feet down and then few rubble in the area. Need to have this requirement for settlement and peer review and all those. We look closely at the association, we put more geotechnical. Thats why we have those stuff, cannot be in the old days, design a building and put number of story times 10 for the way of the building, we are different now. We need to depend on the soil type, the soil in the building. Thats why these will be cut from the geotechnical what parts of soil and base that to calculate all those the soil profile, we effect that. Commissioner lee. Follow up question, if were doing it this way, weary lying on the project sponsors soil engineers to determine what type of soil is underneath that land, right . How are we sure their report is accurate . Do we keep the core samples . We dont keep the sample. We have we have a panel to review it with. If theyre class f we have additional peer review. You review the report first . Beside our staff, we have additional peer review for 240 feet or higher. If theyre not going to bedrock, right . We didnt say go to the bedrock, we say over 240 feet they need appear review. If theyre class f, they have additional technical or civil later on they changed back saying Civil Engineer with geotechnical background can do geotechnical work. Its a little complicated. Im getting it. If you have we used to study geologists, rock formation and soil mechanics and all those, for us to understand as a Civil Engineer, we learn all these classes to learn. Commissioner lee. If you have a geo tech report reviewed first, i assume youll have a geo tech expert reviewing that. Yeah. Will the same be reviewing the entire process or will you have somebody else. Is that why you need more geo techs on the contract, on the rfq because youre going to need you see what im saying . The peer review is intended to be able to issue a permit and have the confidence that the Design Professional and the team has executed their work in a professional manner. This process is not intended to have an oversight of the construction process itself. Its for the purpose of issuing the permit. I understand that. But to determine if the building needs additional review, youre going to have a geo tech review the report, right . Its more than just review. Its collaboration meaning that im you can say commissioner walker is the engineer of record retained by the owner to do the geotechnical investigation and produce a report and d. B. I. Will hire someone to review commissioner walkers work and provide recommendations in a dialogue. And its they have meetings, they have meeting minutes, they have meeting action items. Those are the things we want to have in our records that we have implemented the end of last year. We didnt have the requirements last year. We just had the final letter, now we have the process being documented and captured and put in the system. So youre asking through the chair guys. After the review, youre saying the building or project, the soil is class f, we require you to design a building that whatever the standard is, it is going to be, to be seismically strong. Then youre going to go into the peer review, right . Thats a separate review. No. Youre going to have the geo tech engineer on the review body as well. Will that expert be the same as the first one you hired. Okay. Commissioner lee director and then come back to you. I think hes i think youre adding a level thats not in the process. I mean it requires all the reviews. You have the soils person who is hired by the developer, theres a review panel that reviews that report along with all of the other parts of the application to determine if its accurate. Its a separate person. You cant have the same geo tech or soils expert on the review panel as youre hiring. I know that. But im saying okay. Let me explain to you let me explain to you the process first commissioner lee. First as a developer, they get the site. Then they have the entitlement, before the entitlement, the design Team Including geotechnical engineer and do all those things and how tall is the building and then meanwhile, most of the time they run parallel to d. B. I. And application meeting at that time, we say just a minute, youre over 240 feet. We need to peer review. Previously we those peer reviewers only seismic, now we want to recommend by the association, they have one more geotechnical review now, including the design of the foundation and settlement and all those. Then the review panel will be after the process, if we can do it by next year, it will depend on having a pool of people we can pull. And then we say mr. Developer, well set up this Peer Review Team to review your job. Okay . To set the criteria. And then the design team. And then we review the geotechnical. They find out its a class f, we say additional geotechnical expertise to review the requirements. After they finish all those, they submit the site permit with the recommendation and so forth and then also with the foundation and superstructure addendum. Thats the process. I tried to what i hear is theres two geo tech reviews, right . One for the soil report and one for the peer review its the same one . Same one. Okay. All right. I thought it was two separate. No. If its class f you might need to have an additional expert. Yeah on the panel. The same panel. No, i thought it was two separate reviews. No, its just an additional, maybe more than one geo tech. We more welcome for the developer to review again, but in our panel, we set up that way. Right now we have tentative interim controls in place until its finalized. If we have a building who might be performance based or predescriptive, we have controls in place recommending a large building concrete thats heavy or whatever. Is that correct . Yes. Thats the number sat information sheet. Its very inclusive and there are a lot more conditions in there. There are many conditions related to that. Perfect. Thank you. Appreciate that. Commissioner. Do we at this point account for cumulative effects on adjoining buildings. Now you have forced me to read a couple items. So a few of the bull it points are considering land slides and other geotechnical site hazards. Can we get you up on the screen . This is s18. Interim guidelines structural technical Design Review for new Tall Buildings. These are the bullet items i wanted to respond to ill just read them. Soil Foundation Structure under static that is gravity and seismic conditions. Liquid factions, land slides and other geological site hazards. Ground improvement, effects of the watering on the project site and vicinity. Foundation performance of neighboring structures. So numerical model of seismic hazards and soil structure interaction issues, foundation or building settlement and for projects in an area soil class f or the worst soil high risk seismic zone subject to liquid, such would require more than one engineer for the Peer Review Team. Does that help to answer . Yes. Second question. I understand completely why supervisor peskin was so insistent about changing who hires the peer review and who pays them and on the face of it, think hes made a good judgment in recommending the separation. I do wonder if there are any legal implications that need to be considered when you change from the developer hires them, selects and hires them and pays for them versus the city has their pool, they select. Deputy City Attorney robb kapla, we discussed some of these with the ordinance that allowed the Third Party Recovery that we reviewed a few months back. The change as with all permit evaluations, the developer eventually pays the cost of the city to review. In this instance, weary moving theyre still what we pay for, the expert review its just we have the duty to hire experts that actually the city wants to contract with to review and provide the information we need and then pass those costs on to the developer. So it is Still Necessary to process an application that the do developer brings forward. It doesnt change that these are our experts designing a building in anyway. Its still to evaluate what the developer brings forward to the city. Its not intended to change the relationship or any way get the city more involved in the development itself. The developer produces the building designs. These are the expertise we need to evaluate the design and information. So the ultimate liability as it were, professional liability is on the primary engineers that the developer hires and because they have had primary. Theyre not embedded in the documents issued by the department. In other words they dont show up on the plans produced by the engineer of record. The day in the pass. Record day in the pass. Very early on thats what happened. Yes. Okay. Thats why we now have a separate retention policy to make them readily retrievable. They dont become part of the records, its kind of logical, right . You render an opinion, a professional opinion and to link the liability back to the opinion by placing it in the contract document, you wouldnt be able to find a Design Professional who would be willing to participate in the process because i wouldnt. Youre not being paid to be on the design team. Youre being paid by the department of building inspection to Render Services to us because maybe we lack a level of expertise in our own staff. The last in your presentation, the comment i want to read it one more time. The information sheet or your presentation. When you say you can prove d. B. I. , i think im good on that. I dont know if anybody has questions on that. Questions are answered. Any other commissions have anything else to add there. Any Public Comment on agenda item 6 . Seeing none, were on to item 7. To close out on item 6, i have it as an action item but i dont think we need to take action. I put that in in case we had testimony. I thought we had a good discussion, to the director, theres still a few moving parts. I think the imitations were trying to put in is what we need. I just want to reinforce with you maybe you could get back to the commission, when would you say, we could get another update, in a couple of months time. Im trying to figure out the time frame and a letter confirming what we discussed here is now in place and we have all these new Tall Building procedures in place Going Forward on i want to make sure this keeps on a timely manner and i see a lot of things happening in january, so i just want to make sure the dates are kept and so on. Is there something you could give us back towards in january that would work . Yeah, okay january. And then to see, you know, can we get the final lines on the recommendation for the 82 and then we can send it through cac . Yeah. In the meantime, everything we can be proactive in, lets get that in. Hopefully well have the first round of decisions and in 2019 more updated decisions. Is that 2019 i think ron said in comments. Its fine. I believe youre going to hear something january 2018. Right . Yep. Thank you. Item 7 discussion on the accela tracking system. Good afternoon commissioners, im project manager at the department of building inspection, ill be giving our project status report in the absence of shawn today. Things are proceeding well. Since our last meeting we have accomplished some good milestones, we have concluded our Enterprise Security audit based on permissions in the last excel implementation. We have brought in an accela report person to work and go through and align our report requirements. And we have been working with a Third Party Company called Click Software that accela has chosen to help us with inspector scheduling module. That work has started last week and actually wrapped up at this point. That is a very important piece of software to help with the scheduling of the complex inspections, we have so many requests coming in every day, Click Software makes it more manageable. We have wrapped up accela citizen access which is the web portal. And we brought all that information up in the current. Well be able to proceed with that once we hit the build stage. And as far as stage milestones, our biggest challenge is getting things finished up with stages two and three. We expect to have that done by the end of the year, december 28th and were marching towards that goal line. We have no new risks or issues to report this period. And as far as our current and next months activity, we are continuing with our sessions part of the 2b foundation builds. Those are working with d. B. I. Subject manner experts. Our Click Software process has been with the excel people making sure Click Software understands what the needs are and like i said, all that came out very well. The last part is the reporting. We are continuing refining our work on the reporting requirements. Reporting requirements are statistical and form related. Something like an mov is actually a report. Any questions on this portion . Commissioner walker please. Are we still getting the staff commitment from our vender . I know theyve expanded and signed up a couple more cities. I just wanted to make sure were still a priority. Yes. The team we have is very good. Im actually thrilled with the people im working with. Theyre going to stay . They are staying. One of the persons that was scheduled to come off the project is actually been extended to help with the reports. All that is to help pull that timeline and keep us on schedule for our dates. Yes, i do not expect any significant personnel issues. Great. Thank you. The next thing i want to go over, the ppts process improvements. This is something were very proud of. This is these are the results of the build process. What we have found are some key benefits that are going to affect our staff, its going to affect our Business Partners and our customers. Ive got a list of about 15 here. Im going to ask you for your guidance president mccarthy. Do you want me to go through each or just do highlights . Quick highlights are fine if theres no objection. Thats fine. Okay. So our first one, number one is based on redesign of the work fill process. We currently have an informal process with planning and fire where we dont track the process in our current system. We brought that into the work flow. All of that will be tracked so customers know where their plans are at any time. Another good one, number four, a new process to provide 60 day notice, this is similar to what ron mentioned, where we can expire the Building Permits automatically but well give advance notice so the benefit to our customers is if theyre not familiar with the process, they will get notice so they know to extend the permits. That wont get expired out from under them. Number six, we improved and simplified the implementation of the third party inspections. Well have a better way of tracking all that process through the software. Number seven, were able to apply for no plan alterations and roofing permits via the web. So those are where we were restricted to electrical and plumbing, well be extending those permits through the web as well. Number 10, Code Enforcement will be coming into the same module. All of our complaints are going to be following the same type of formats. Our benefit is the management of the whole process, everything is going to be very similar. Commissioner walker please. Will issue notices of violation rest in that as well . In the complaints. Great. Thank you. Number 14, our night noise permit for construction will be formally recorded. Those will be in the system. And our online inspection scheduling will be extended to the public and not just licensed professionals. Right now homeowners are only to schedule those through ibr or contacting staff. They can do it through the web as well. Those are the highlights for those. Well present new ones as each month goes by but i think these process improvements are something we can take pride in and its an important part of the reporting. Any questions . I think thats a good update. Thank you. Appreciate it. All good news. Any Public Comment on item 7 . Jerry dratler. Its promising to see them taking advantage in the accela system. I see theyre in the process of finalizing report specifications. My question relates to, one, establishing b. I. C. Reporting objectives to allow b. I. C. To monitor management and provide statistics on questions like hoarding, abandoned property, stalled Construction Projects and descriptive statistics on serial permit violators. Accela is an enterprise or city wide system and therefore there should be department objectives, board of supervisor, district reporting objectives and citizen reporting objectives. Can these reporting objectives, not the reports, be presented and reviewed in a future b. I. C. Meeting. Thank you. Thats a great point. Any additional Public Comment . Seeing none. Directors report, update on d. B. I. Finances. Good afternoon commissioners. Deputy director for the department of building inspection. October 2017, year to date Financial Report which includes revenues and expenses for the first four months of the fiscal year. Ill take a couple of minutes to go over the highlights. On the first page, we have projections as to budget so you dont see differences right now because the numbers are preliminary. Its only the First Quarter, barely the First Quarter of the fiscal year, we just projected to the budget. Well start making more accurate projections on revenues and expenses after six months. Northernly normally we have a better understanding. Basically were at 21 million and we continue revenues are still strong. And thats due primarily to increases, continued increases in checking revenue. Were doing well there. Also if you look at the table, were doing well when it comes to evaluation. Youll see we have a lot of permits, a million and over, our change is about 700 million and during the reporting time we had a couple of big projects that came in once again. Were seeing more and more big projects coming in and its impacting evaluation. On the expenditure side, were a little less than last year but still about equal. 200,000 less. Thats primarily due to work order billings we have not received. So once again, the numbers are preliminary. Well start seeing a real pattern probably by december and make a better estimate of what we believe the revenues and expenses will be. Im happy to answer questions. Seeing none. Thank you. Item 8 b. Update on proposed or recently enacted state or local legislation. Good afternoon. Just mentioned a little update on tier three mandatory seismic retro fits. We have noticed with notice violations and the earthquake warning plaquards now, 218 non compliant buildings. So from the last report i gave you, we had been at about 364 non compliant buildings, we had roughly 40 come in in the last six weeks or so. And were about 66 through the Code Enforcement initial round of notification. Once the notice goes up, the owner has an additional 30 days to come in and respond and make the building compliant. Maybe by the time of our december report, well have better news on the compliance side of things. The only other item i will mention is that supervisor peskin is reworking updating the slope protection act that he original authored in 2008, our office is working with his staff on that right now. He is going to reintroduce that item and i believe he knew understands the departments argument that came from the Code Advisory Committee that the older map from 1974 that includes a hand drawn boundary and creates all kinds of dispute potential is likely to be removed and will go to a digital map that we are actually already using with the planning department. So i think that improvement will be with us very soon. And also ill mention, as i think i mentioned before, were working on the mandatory accessibility improvements and this building entrance program. We now have a finalized initial mailer that will be going out to approximately 10,000 of the estimated 2025,000 different Property Owners we think may be in this titlely likely pool. We hope to get that mailing out in the next week or two. And then the department will begin Holding Public workshops to help explain this to Property Owners, along with colleagues from dpw and the Mayors Office of disability and the planning department. So with that, im happy to take any questions. Seeing none. Thank you. Item 8 c. Update on major projects. Tom Hui Department of building and inspection. As you can see, the value for the major project goes down roughly 5 but still okay i think. Any question . Just to reinforce to make sure we have all the policies and new guidelines were working on, the interim control, New Buildings coming down the line falling under the category of Tall Building. Yeah, well have it to work on. Any of the major projects, lets be ahead of the curve making sure theyre following the interim policies. What about issue the tco, we ask them to do it. Yeah. Thank you. Great. 8 d. Good afternoon commissioners. The numbers for october, Building Inspections performed 6044. Complaints received 400. Complaint response 2448 hours, 371. Complaints first violation sent 69. Abaited complaints with notice of violation 65. Second notice of violations 65. Housing inspection performed 1,042. Complaints received 335. Complaint response 321 within 2448 hours. Complaints of notice with violations issued 150. Number of cases sent to directors hearing 33. Routine inspections 219. Code enforcement number of cases sent to directors hearing 132. Number of order of abatements issued 40. Number of cases under advisement, 16. Code enforcement inspections performed 190 and no Litigation Committee in october. Thank you. Deputy director. Any Public Comment on the directors report . Item nine. Review and approval of the meeting of october 18, 2017. Move to approve. Second. Theres a motion and second. Any Public Comment on the minutes . Are all commissioners in favor . Aye. Any opposed . The minutes are approved. Our next item, item d, discussion of annual performance evaluation for the director. Is there any Public Comment on prior to going to closed session . Seeing no public, is there a motion to convene a closed session . I make a motion to convene in closed session. Second. All commissioners in favor. Aye. Were now in closed session. Deputy City Attorney robb kapla. We met in closed discussion to discuss items 10 and 11 and move to reopen in open session. Thank you. Is there a motion to reconvene open session . Move to reconvene. Second. Motion and second. Were now in open session. Commissioners. Mission accomplished. So thank you for your patience on the review. We should be more efficient in getting them done and set a more regular schedule to get ahead of that. Thank you, thank you for your service and all your hard work. Thank you. So we are we done or . Move to adjourn. Next item, adjournment. Motion to adjourn . Move to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second, were now adjourned. It is 12 50 p. M. Thank you madam secretary. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. My name is todd rufto of the Workforce Development program. Its great to be here at the San Francisco museum of ice cream. I want to thank the entire team here for hosting us for this event. This is a special day. We are doing the Fourth Annual launch of the mayors shop and dine in the 49 local shopping campaign. This is a really big deal because it is a partnership between a great many members of the Small Business community and the neighborhood throughout the city focused on helping san franciscans spend more money in our local commercial corridors and at Small Businesses in San Francisco. But it is also an opportunity to celebrate the entrepreneurs that are making that keep San Francisco strong, that are keeping the city thriving and vie brand. One of the things that im really excited about and want to focus on today is the incredible partnership of all the members of the Small Business community that are here today. Where are you, jason . Raise your hand. Hi, jason from shop small saturday. Thank you very much for your partnership and continued klb ration. Collaboration. We have mark quite thesing, regina dickendreezy, the council of district merchants has been a critical partner of ours as well. We have the Council District of merchants here as well. Juan of the things that were really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. The mayor came to us four years ago, the office of economic Workforce Development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. Increase the amount of spending to support jobs and Small Businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. And we, through the incredible work of Mariane Thompson and gloria chan, Joaquin Torres in the office of economic Workforce Development launched this program to do exactly that. To encourage and challenge san franciscans to do more in our Small Business community. Mayor lee has done more than any mayor that i know to invest and support in Small Businesses, directing more money and investing more money than any administration in the citys history to support Small Businesses through the invested neighborhoods program, by launching a Small Business portal, by meeting constantly with our Small Business leaders and as a tireless advocate for the issues that they care about most. It is my honor and privilege to introduce mayor lee. [applause] thank you. Thank you, todd. Good morning, everybody. Let me correct todd because i want to make sure you understood the challenge. I challenged him to find me more ice cream. That was the real challenge. And im really happy to be here. At the ice cream museum. This is one of those innovative ideas, very unique to the city and, of course, theyre getting booked up like crazy and were in the heart of our shopping and union square and, of course, the chief and i already have enough chants. We need some opportunities to smile and, of course, were about to jump into this speckle pool. Forgive us if we have too much fun. The holidays are beginning. Were going to have lots of fun. I want people to not just come to the city but take advantage of really supporting the backbone of our Business Community and Small Businesses and people here, karen fled knows union square is at the heart of a lot of things that we do during the holidays. You have jeffries toys, my favorites. Theyre a legacy business in the city. And keep supporting them. [shouting] well have all of the different Business Associations that are working together with us. But the experience is all about fun. Safe fun. And that is why the chief and i will be doing a lot of things over the holidays to make safe shopper programs, to provide the safety level that people have. Reduce the Harm Reduction program on our streets. Make sure people, as many people can get off of our streets. While work on those hard things. In between those difficult, challenging things, we want to work with our Business Community to provide safe fun for the kids that will be here. Thousands of kids over the holidays, families. People from all over the world that are taking advantage of this wonderful city that we have. And were doing this with programs, yes, that we funded but we want to make sure that Everything Else is working for folks on the longterm. Small businesss are so important to cities like San Francisco. More than the backbone, they provide the innovative, the Cultural Diversity all over our neighborhoods. This is one big area. But listen, shop and dine in the 49 is about shopping in all of our neighborhoods. Allow them to give you cultural innovation, Small Business innovations, shopping small innovation because when people put their entire lives behind their Small Businesses, you should see the innovation that comes out of their ideas, their service, their good patronages of products and designs that are locally sensitive and culturally rich. Wanted to say thank you to this museum for starting out their innovation. I think kids already have ice cream in them because they are jumping up and down before they come in. To our restaurants, our Golden Gate Restaurant Association will be very full this year. Probably hard to get reservations. But persevere. Use every app that you can or, like i do, walk in with a 5 bill or something and hand somebody. Then they will give you a seat. The oldfashioned way. But i know mark is excited because Small Businesses really are our engine and creating even more and they not only love our support, we love supporting them. But i want to emphasize shop and dine in the 49. Go to that app. If you really want to have a lot of information about those stores. And well be on the streets to make sure everybody is safe and enjoying themselves. Of course, this is thanksgiving. So, were going to, just after this, well be handing out a lot of turkeys to people if their need. We have fire victims up north that are in need. We have people on the streets that are in need. I want to make sure that the spirit, the principles that we operate on, are right in front of us. Right in the front of everything that we do, that we support, everybody that needs that help and thats why these this is so wonderful because they are often the untold, unknown heroes that come out and do a lot of gift donations and support that never gets covered and i want the media to cover them. Cover all of our Small Businesses as they really are the help that we want to have. So thank you very much, everybody. And shop and dine in 49. Happy holidays. [applause] thank you, mayor. As the mayor said, this Holiday Season is about shopping local and shoppinging safe. It is my honor to welcome our fantastic chief of police, chief scott. Thank you. [applause] good morning, everybody. I couldnt have said it better than mayor lee. [kids shouting] and this place is fun in here. Im not a big ice cream eater, but my entire family is. Im sure i will be here many times during the holidays. This is my favorite time of year and it is my favorite time of year because the Holiday Season, thanksgiving, the Holiday Season, it brings out the best in communities. It is a time where were selfless, we give, we come together as a community. And definitely shop and dine in the 49 is, i think, the way to go. This time last year, even before i got hired by mayor lee to be the chief here, we were here during this period last years and i remember Walking Around, basically Walking Around this area and just going to the different businesses and it was an experience. For those of you who have lived here all your lives, when you come here from another city and experience this great city, it is really something to behold. So, we want to make sure that that experience is shared and that people can do that safely. I have a couple of tips that i want to share with you. I have a long list. But im going to be very quick in reading rattling off this list of safety tips. First of all, cell phones. We all have em. We all use them. And sometimes im as guilty of it as anybody else. Im walking and texting and on the phone and im not paying attention to what im doing. Take a minnesota Pay Attention to your surroundings. I know were a cell phone generation. We live on these things but they can be distracting. It is really important when you are shopping, particularly going to the bank and the a. T. M. , buying things for your family and loved ones, Pay Attention to your surroundings. There is nothing more important than vigilance. If we are to be a resilient city, there is some basic things that we can do. If youre using your a. T. M. , block your p. I. N. Number so it is not visible. Really basic thing. But unfortunately we still have people if our society that will make a living and make a profit off of stealing p. I. N. Numbers and then getting into your bank account and taking your funds. Block your p. I. N. Numbers. Make sure you look at your surroundings when you are at the a. T. M. No matter what you are, look at your surroundings. If you are driving to your location, number one, Public Transportation is great here. Take advantage of Public Transportation. But if you are driving, make sure you lock your car, first of all. Make sure that you put things away that are visible. If you have a trunk, put it in the trunk. Dont leave valuables if your car. We have a program were calling park smart. It has been very successful. But that means to park smart. Dont leave your valuables if your car for somebody else to take them away. The last thing you want to do have your hold day season ruined by somebody else breaking your car window and taking out the things that you work hard to provide your family and friends and loved ones. So park smart. The next thing, if you are shoppinging, make sure when you some people will shop and theyll go and load up their car and then go and shop. There are things you can do to prevent being an easy victim for that. If you are shopping, if you are going to load your car, take the time to move your car to another location. Because people that are going to prey on innocent people, they do watch what you do. So move your car around. I know it is a little bit of an inconvenience, but it does help. If youre Walking Around with packages and loaded up on the arm, again Pay Attention to your surroundings because you dont want to become easy prey. Our city overall is a very safe city. But there are things that we can do to be resilient and individual lends and some of these things may sound like common sense. When you are caught in the moment of the day sometimes you lose track of what you are doing and you get distracted. The main thing is to Pay Attention. Pay attention to what you are doing. If you do that your resiliency goes up and your vigilance goes up. The last thing is look out for your nei