Requirements among the contributions and this is just mirroring the staff recommendation to the conditions. Section 1. 127. The section which you have recommended to delete to the commission. I make the recommendation. I do feel there is such a broad range of matters that we deal with here at the board, whether small, or big such as 5 million project. I assume that our goal was to capture those big projects. I recommend that we have one version. And another version that deletes it. And move forward with both for the Ethics Commission. As long as we can finetune what this section means. The next section, i would like to more clearly define the terms about where the violation occurred. For example, for private financial where it said credit financial, and then where it says representative. To make it clear, what is being done with the violation and who it pertains to. Section 7a3. We would like to add the adding qualifier. To influence the officers actions or judgment with respect to a particular legislative or administrative action. Just to again understand that people who are speaking with influence, what is this about, they are trying to do to an official. Again clarifying the terms there. And then you will see a whole bunch of amendments that i would like to make to section 3. 6. 3. 6. 0 to 3. 6. 30. We wanted to delete actively oppose. The reason being as i mentioned last time around, i am very concerned that by mentioning that if you come out to testify during Public Comments for example, you could actually be in violation of something if you dont follow the rules. I want to make sure we are not free speech. Everything else will remain. We didnt want actively support or oppose. That is found in different pages here. That in a nutshell is the comments to the amendments. To clarify for people who have to follow the rules so they really understand where they are held, you can do a better job of enforcing, there is more clear what the legislation is supposed to do. Those are my amendments. I will answer the questions you may have. Acting chair, i want to concur with the supervisor and thanks the Ethics Commission staff for facilitating the dialogue. I think it is needed as we go through the inner process and i want to thank the federal Ethics Commissioners that i met with over the last weeks. This was last before the committee and i appreciate the fact that they are listening to our ideas and remain open to as i said the last hearing having us discharge our duties, and again i want to reiterate my desire that we be given the space to do our job and that they not put this on the june ballot and if we dont do our job, they reserve to put it on the november ballot. I think that as far as the legislation that was forwarded to us, had an Effective Date of january 1st of 2019 long after the race. Having said that, there was a comment from the public and i am actually going to offer an amendment later. To remove that date of january 1st of 2019. And have at least those provisions that we are able to vote on and pass become Effective Immediately upon passage long before this would become operative work to go to the june ballot. As a threshold matter, i would like to ask the deputy City Attorney and Ethics Commission staff about the nature of this process because my understanding is that we can only pass something that is identical to what the Ethics Commission passed. So to a certain extent making these amendments today is a little absurd if they are not taken in whole by the Ethics Commissioner tomorrow or in future meeting. Is that a correct understanding . Deputy City Attorney. Yes. In order to pass the ordinance or any ordinance amending the chapter, the board and the Ethics Commission must adopt the ordinants. The same ordinants. The board by 8 out of 11. Typically, the way this works is the board will propose something or ethics will propose something and it will go to Board Committee. The Board Committee if they do not agree or wants to amend what ethics proposed, the Board Committee will make amendments and continue it to the call of the chair typically. The clerk will send the ordinants to commission. The Ethics Commission may pass it. They may offer something else. It will come back to committee. It could be a back and forth. Ultimately, both bodies need to pass the same ordinance. What would happen if we had a joint meeting of both parties . That is an interesting idea. As far as i know, that has never happened. I dont think there would be a legal problem with that happening with each body making its own separate vote on the proposed ordinance. We see that. We see joint meetings between the Planning Commission on shadow issues. The Commission Secretaries they have and they have the vote and then they raise the shadow limits unfortunately. The board has held joint meetings with the commission years ago. It is definitely something you could do. I would like to put that out there, particularly insofar as there i dont mean to point fingers at anybody. There is back sliding with regard to my desire that this not be put on the june ballot by the Ethics Commission by the vote. We have the negotiation. The last little bit of information i heard in my office with mr. Ford was that they wanted to put it on the ballot tomorrow. Which means this that they have a handful of dates to take it off. That is the wrong path. I would offer if the president is willing and in the spirit of the amendments that are made by commissioner tang and the ones i am about to make to offer the concept of a joint meeting to see if we can get it done quickly and as i said at the last meeting, get it done right. Again, not to sound like i am picking on anybody, but staff at the Ethics Commission is holding new staff. It is relatively new. You gentlemen are relatively new. The reality is, you guys have been working on the piece of legislation for quite some time. I mean for over a year. And then it comes to you and we have a compressed time frame to discharge our job and up until this week, i personally communicated my disappointment that the level of communication between staff has not been everything it could be. I am appreciative of the meeting we had this week and the fact that my staff is going to your offices and working out language stuff. The issues that we brought up at the last meeting after having not seen a years worth of deliberations. By the way, much of that is stuff that i actually introduced here and was said there and we could have acted on in pieces along the way. But didnt. I mean 1. 127 land use matters, originally introduced in 2008. And subsequently introduced a year ago. Last night, i actually got an email from a member of the public with the staff recommendations. I was taken a back that the members and the supervisors and the members of the finance committee that we will grapple with it today did not get the email. I am not i will to say those things. I want to thank the supervisor for duplicating the file. I think that shows that there is it is a message that we are willing to go both ways. The language is something that i have been interested in now literally for a decade. I introduced that in 2008 toward the end of my first go around on the board of supervisors. I am looking for that harmony and maybe the way to do it is to have that joint meeting. I would like to introduce an amendment to delete the operative date. It means it would be effective 30 days after the mayors signature. And i want to signal the commission that the board can approve the changes and vote them effective long before the january 1st, 2019, date that is in the legislation before the board. I think this is necessary, prudent and i will work with staff to ensure that they have what they need to implement the changes in advance of the november election. And to the extent in advance of the final lap in the final june election. On page of line 1. I have in section 4, and i have given that to my colleagues. The City Attorney has a copy of that and the clerk. Section 3. 209 subsection b. This is the repeated recusals. Section page 31. Line 23 through 32. I would delete this section. In my reading of this, i still think the section poses a problem. You have spoken to the fact the board supervisor should be taken out. As part of the community, i dont mind being regulated. But the 2 weeks ago, under state law, any of us are presumed as a matter of law to have a conflict if there is an appeal within a thousand feet of Real Property that we own. In my case last year in 2017, this never happened to me in the years i served on the board until last year, lo and behold by chance, there were two land appeals in 1,000 feet of my property. I didnt know what to do. I talked to the City Attorney and recused myself of the board. Had there been a third, my neighbours are upset i was not able to actually vote. I would recuse myself. I hear you about the broad nature of the jack of all trades and expert at none. I hear you. And it does make sense in the commission context. In my office, discussion with the Ethics Commission staff, i think the responses have been in adequate as to how the commission intends to calculate the one percent threshold in subsection 2. And more critically, i dont know understand why there is a penalty for taking the proper step to recuse itself. That is a disincentive to recusal. A couple of weeks ago, isnt a recusal a good thing. We want people to do the right thing and recuse themselves. The bottom line is that absent clear objective rules when the board should recuse himself for a conflict of interest, we cannot allow the member to decide for themselves whether they should make the call. I am not satisfied with the explanation i received from staff that, you know, what is good for los angeles is good for San Francisco. I am certainly open to that. Lastly, the staff has new recommendations for the Commission Deliberation tomorrow. I would like to introduce formally my major donor disclosure amendments. As my colleagues on the committee know, i introduced stand alone ordinance this tuesday that would require major donors to disclose Additional Information regarding business interests in San Francisco. We cannot ban the behaviour, unfortunately because political mediators before the supreme court. The people of San Francisco deserve to know why the individuals and the entities who are dumping millions of dollars into the local political economy are doing so. I think that is good public policy. That should be implemented as quickly as possible. And i am so far impressed by the willingness of my colleagues to move this forward expeditiously. I want to thank the board president for the willingness to waive the 30 day rule. I want the Ethics Commission to waive is properly and send it to the board of supervisors. I distribute a new section, 1. 158. Major donors Financial Disclosure that begins at line page 20, line 4 and extends to page 22, line 2. And at page 22, line 2 page 23, line 11. A number of members that require realtime disclosure and audio and video requirements as to who the contributors are no the advisors. This is commonplace in other jurisdictions. Lastly at page 24 lines 1 through 8. Clarifying that the advertizers, the top three contributors must be disclosed. As i am thinking about it, and maybe i can hear from colleagues with regard to the recusal, maybe what staff is saying works for the panel, i might hold on to my notion of deleting the recusal. One possibility is we can delete the recusal in one of the copies and not in the others. We are showing the commissioner willingness to hear from them and try to come up with something to pass quickly. Delete it in one maybe, and not the others, the amendments are on the table. Any comments . Refer to public comment. Are there members of the public that wish to speak to the item . Super San FranciscoHuman Services network. I want to comment today. On content of the legislation. I want to express our deep appreciation to the board of supervisors for taking a thorough look at at this legislation that is deeply flawed and many of your proposed amendments to address some of the serious concerns. We have not seen a written version of all the amendments that are on the table. And there is also a new version for the Ethics Commission. There was a new version on tuesday and then another version on wednesday. That is what they are discussing for putting on the ballot for friday. We have not really had time to read what they are proposing. We do appreciate and support and urge everybody to accept this collaborative process where everybody can Work Together to look at what is on the table. There is no reason whatsoever to rush to the ballot in june. The supervisor noted, there is no reason to wait for a january date. It can take effect earlier. Also once it goes on the ballot, there is no opportunity to tinker with little thinks when we find out in the real world that does not work. There are unintended consequences. We live in a city with a spirit of collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement and Public Participation in the process. There is a reason why we have a high threshold before the members of the Ethics Commission. Thank you very much. The next speaker. Good morning. We have 180 members who are part of our association. I just want to appreciate the thoughtfulness brought to the process. We are encouraged by the spirit by the board of supervisors and the members and staff of the Ethics Commission and are encouraged on the legislation. As noted by the folks, this is important legislation and to get it right. To ensure that not only public trust is felt by institutions and unintended consequences that will harm the San Francisco residence or hinder the ability for philanthropy to address the complex issues affecting the city. We hope that the commission and the board will continue to Work Together. We are in support of the supervisor suggesting to hold joint hearings so the legislation can move forward actively and effectively. Working together to get it right. Thank you. Good morning. I am on the California Council for alliance for justice. A National Association of nonprofits and we focus in large part on helping other nonprofits and provide better voices to advocacy. From that perspective, i would like to thank the board for its very thoughtful and meticulous work on the legislation. I would like to thank ethics staff for clearly having taken into account some of the things that we along with the nonprofit partners have been stressing throughout the conversation. On that note, i will say that i do agree with the supervisor thoughts about the repeated recusals provision that i share. Some of the concerns that not only in state law rather forceful requiring recusal, including the political reform act and the section 1090 of the government code. This is the area of expertise. And serving on the commission allows them to further serve their communities by bringing that expertise to the board. I would like to emphasize that we really support a lot of the changes that we have seen made to the legislation. Particularly being in a financial rather than vague terms such as favours. And also tieing the influence to voter official action. On the matter of recusal. Thank you very much. I am with the council of Community Housing organizations. I want to say thank you for the process. I think it is moving the legislation forward in a good way. I have not read the new amendments. I think it sounds like they are moving in the right direction. We encourage you to continue to work collaboratively with ethics on creating legislation that works well. I think this is the way to do it. Working down a legislative pathway. Rather than a ballot measure. Again, thank you for all the work that you are doing on this. Thank you. Thank you. Issues to members of the committee for consideration. We are appreciative of the fact that you are taking time to add additional things. To tell you what they are, we do think that the land use issue needs to move forward now. This is the time when land use decisions are being made. We think that is important to happen now. We think that the bundling provisions should include contractors, somehow making contributions, they left out bundling. And the thought of the Ethics Commissioner, [no audio] fundraiser for people who are going to make decisions. The answer is yes, you can. Unless you change that. We think that influencing the provision about influencing decisions should not be limited to financial. If you take a look at the lobby page that is downloaded in excel and look at the government decisions, you will find that a very significant of lobbying in city hall. And what kind of policies will take place. With this, that and the other. It is all in financial interest that take place. I think that the language that was there before about attempting to influence legislative or administrative decisions can be modified. The commissioners making contributions is too narrow. There is places where there is no commission for hundreds of millions of dollars. The language means that you cannot contribute to [indiscernible] thank you very much. The im an officer of the Ethics Commission. I have been onboard of nonprofits for 20 years. I will bring my experience forward. I have two process questions outside specific the legislation. First, we dont know whether the supervisor has considered technical issues, we dont know if there is the two supervisors voting or not. That is something that the public ought to know who can vote or not. Because you will have a split vote if it is two people. I want to go back to some of what we have been saying from our end of advocacy. One of the Ethics Commissioner voted against it because he thought it was not strong enough. There was no private action. If you want to look at comparability and have across the board which has been around for decades and not include it in here, that there is no [indiscernible] i bring to mind the scenario of a few years ago, where a real estate professional on a Building Inspection Commission handled [indiscernible] i am suggesting for clarification. For nonprofit people, there were open communities. They need better training by the ethics of the nonprofits this will not cause the sky to fall. This will not cause it will not chill the silence. Thank you. Any other questions . The comments are now closed. Colleagues, discussion. Yes, supervisor . I just wanted and i will need help from the supervisor and maybe from the deputy City Attorney, but i was kind of recalling the cannabis conversation that we had two different files. It is slightly different, because we had the discussion with the Ethics Commission. I was thinking that perhaps one duplicate file could incorporate all of the recommendations because there has been no action by the Ethics Commission that have been made by Ethic Commission staff. 1. 1. 27 would be stricken, all of the recusal provisions that staff discuss would be all in one file. The other file would have the amendments made by supervisor tang and myself. I forget what you have a nice word for what we call the two files. Clean file and the amended file or Something Like this. It is two amended files. One would take the staff recommendation. The other would include all of our amendments. And the cannabis context we call them clean and dirty. please stand by and we could actually then work out the remaining details. Lets see, all 16 of us. Supervisor tang thank you. So i think its fine to do the bulky and clean version. I want to qualify that the land use amendment that i would like to propose then, it would be in the bulky version where the land use piece is removed and then the clean version where the land use stays. Maybe in this context we should use different terms. Because there is the ethics version which where you would be removing the land use piece, because the ethics staff is recommending removal of section 1. 127. Maybe call it the ethics version and the committee vrgs. The Committee Version you would keep 1. 127 and make all the amendments that you and supervisor peskin are proposing. Supervisor tang thank you. And then i also wanted to ask, attorney givener, is this technical, i would think its not technical. Yeah, both sets of amendments and nearly every piece of each of those amendments is substantive. As i mentioned earlier, not only does this committee need to act on the amendments again, but the Ethics Commission would need to act. So the only action you could take after making these amendments is to continue the item. So i see supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani just a quick question with regard to the amendments. I want to make sure, acting chair, are all the amendments that you discussed and supervisor tang, are they in this document . Or were there additional amendments made that are not in the document . I believe theyre all in the document, but the three that i made were to the operative date to repeated recuesals and the addition of 1. 158, major donors and then supervisor tang made a series of additional amendments. I believe theyre all loaded. I just want to make sure we have everything in writing. Yes, weve got two different documents. One that supervisor tang has prepared and one that supervisor peskin has prepared. And everything that was mentioned by the two supervisors has been drafted. My office is going to have to put those two puzzle pieces together, but they will fit. Ok. Then with regard to the amendments put forth by the Ethics Commission staff, are those before us today . I know theyre out there, but if were talking about adopting them, i dont think theyre before the body in terms of i mean, theyre not in front of us physically at this time . You could adopt those amendments. Its within your authority. The document that the Ethics Commission staff prepared is on the Ethics Commissions website as attachment to the agenda. I have it up, i could email it to you, but my office doesnt have hard copies of it. If i may, madame chair, for the purpose of continuing this conversation inso far as it does exist on the welcome back site and its a message to the Ethics Commission we are playing ball and have a bunch o balls in and the air and were not taking action today. This is forwarded by the clerk to ethics and both items will be continued to the call of the chair. There is obviously merging that has to be done. Eventually, it would appear again in committee and again at the full board. Supervisor stefani thats right. Is there a motion on the item . If i could just reiterate. Ive duplicated the file which any Single Member of the committee can duplicate the file and you can amend each one. I would love if it a member was willing to duplicate the file, have the Committee Version file and ethics commit file as discussed by members and nonmembers of the committee. Yeah, so i would like to make a motion to duplicate the file and adopt the amendments put forward by supervisor peskin and supervisor tang today and also thats my first motion. Supervisor fewer i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the next committee meeting. Right. Supervisor stefani ok. Supervisor fewer does that motion cover what we discussed. You still have to have the duplicated file that contains ethics. Shall we vote on this motion and we can make another motion to continue the ethics version to the call of the chair as well . Yeah, i recommend two motions, one on the ethics verse and one on the Committee Version. I understand that we have a motion before us to duplicate the file to accept the amendments that have been presented before us and to continue this meeting, this item, to the call of the chair. Is that correct . Yeah. Its my understanding that the matter has been duplicated. One of the duplicated files will include the Ethics Commission amendments and the other will include the committees amendments. And both items are to be continued to the call of the chair. My understanding. Supervisor fewer yeah. Supervisor stefani we dont need another motion. Supervisor fewer then, i dont think this requires a second. And can we take this without objection . Ok. I just have one question for the clerk, can we ensure that the entire ethics agenda item 4 packet including the staff recommendations and our amendments is included in the board legislative file Going Forward . Clerk yes, i will include it. Do you want me to include it in both versions . Yes, both versions. Clerk i will retrieve that in place it into the file. Supervisor fewer we can take that without objection. Clerk the matters were duplicated, amended and continued to the call of the chair. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Mr. Clerk, any items before us today . Clerk completes the agenda for today. Supervisor fewer there is no further business before the committee, the meeting is now adjourned. Thank you very much. Let me begin by saying good afternoon to everyone. I am Mohammed Nuru, the director of public works. I want to thank everyone for joining us today to celebrate this construction milestone of station number five. It brings me great joy to honor the progress made on this tremendous project located here in the west end neighborhood. This will deliver a crucial piece of City Infrastructure to thousands of nearby businesses, residents and visitors. Our agency, public works, is proud to have designed a modern fire station that is expected to exceed National Accreditation standards and serve the essential needs of our first responders. It may not look like it yet, in less than a years time, a seismically sound fire station will be standing in this very place. It is true public works fashion, the project team has been working hard to ensure this facility will be delivered in timely and fiscally responsible manner. On time and on budget. With that said, its important that i think the entire public works staff, our project team led by our city architect, project managers and i want to thank all the staff from public works who worked on this project. But most importantly i want to thank our construction partner in this, alton construction, leading the project and getting it this far. Youll hear from a lot of speakers about the station itself. It will be the most resillent station of all the fire stations here in San Francisco because it is a very well designed facility and will meet all the standards as i said earlier. We have quite a number of speakers. Ill start by introducing the president of the board of supervisors and supervisor of the district london breed. Please welcome her. applause good afternoon everybody. Thank you all so much for being here today. You know, i have a special love for this fire station because i grew up just a couple of blocks from here. Every year, every time i look at this fire station, all i can think about when i was a kid is toys. This is where i actually came on the door that was located on turk street, thats where we went to pick up our toys during the Christmas Holiday because of the firefighters toy program. And so i know tom oconnor who is the president of local 798 is here, thank you for continuing that program and your leadership in this city. You know, theres another reason i love this place is because many of the men and women behind me, this is where they work every single day and my aunt, who was mentally disabled, she would come here all the time. Sometimes she would be in a good mood and compliment the guys especially and talk about how handsome they were, but sometimes she had difficult times and the people at station five treated her like family, they took care of her, and i know who is our deputy chief was a captain here during that time, they love michel so very much and i want to thank you for taking care of my aunt and being there for her. This is really a family, and the folks here, they save lives every single day and take care of this community and love this community. So this station is really not just a gift to our city, its to demonstrate to the men and women of this department, we want to make sure they have a great station, a station that works for them. A station that is state of the art so they can do the job theyre doing for our citizens and city and county of San Francisco. I want to say thank you to all the folks working on this, to alton for their work on the construction project, moving on time and on budget thus far. And thank you Mohammed Nuru for leading Construction Projects all over the city, i know theyre not always on time and budget but thats okay, well get to that another day. And our chief will be saying a few words later and our commissioners. This station is going to be a jewel in the city, its the station we deserve for our residents. I look forward to being here and cutting the ribbon when we open in one year. Take care. applause thank you supervisor breed. And also i have to say from the bottom of my heart, the last few weeks have been very difficult for all of us. London woke up in the middle of the night and took over the city and really did an excellent job. Lets give her a hand for that. applause now i want to introduce our partner who has worked with us from the beginning all over our city, whether its trying to work on systems, whether its remodelling fire stations or building new fire stations, leading the effort of going through the whole effort to make sure we have resillant structures and the correct tools that the Fire Department needs to do its job, welcome chief hayeswhite. Good afternoon everyone. The job is looking great. First and foremost, i want to acknowledge four of our five Fire Commissioners that are here. The Fire Commission is under the direction of president cleveland. Thank you for your support every step of the way. applause as director nuru eluded to, theres been a lot of change and difficulty in the past several weeks and i would like to also acknowledge the great vision and support always of Public Safety that mayor ed lee had, if not for mayor lee we would most likely not be standing here. I want to acknowledge mayor lee and certainly president breed, this is near and dear to her heart. This is a vital part of this neighborhood and community. We are all very excited about it. So thank you president breed for being here. And certainly it is a partnership. I have a lot of respect and admiration to my colleague, director of public works, theres a phenomenal team, all those standing here. Thank you for what you do. And i want to acknowledge tom oconnor, vigilant making sure we have healthy safe work places and the men and women standing behind me, members of this very station looking forward many drive by each day to look at the progress of the station. Hats off to alton construction. These are the men and women who will be working out of the station, led by the assistant chief here at this division house. We only have two division houses in the city, one at 19th and the other right here. Its a vital part of our operation. Assistant chief is with us and the members assigned to engine five, truck five and battalion five, who by the way are still at work, reassigned to local stations. I just wanted to say thank you, great job and we look forward to cutting the ribbon as president breed said. Appreciate it. applause we all know no project happens without the partnership of the actual contractor. So were going to ask the contractor from alton construction to come up and say a few words. I will tell you, i have made quite a number of visits to the site during constructions and some of the beams and bolts are the largest and strongest i have seen in construction. Being built, i know this is not going anywhere. Welcome. Come say a few words. applause they dont usually let us talk at these things. Rolling the dice with that one. Im the Vice President of operations for alton construction. We are the general contractor on this project obviously. For the last 20 plus years we have operated almost exclusively in the public sector, schools, police stations and obviously fire stations. When our group when i said i was going to say a few things, i thought about the common stuff, site constraints like working in a big city and it occurred to me that the aspects of this project are not particularly unique at least for me. This is what we do every day. We work in this environment. And the truth is, the materials that go into a building like this are not often the reason a project like this is successful. Its much more often due to the personalities and work ethic of the people on the ground working on this every day. So you know sorry im happy to have the opportunity to say that the group of architects, engineers and project managers i work with every day out here, sort of lower level are of the highest caliber. You know, the architects who are here, the engineers are here. Shawn obrien, the engineers, im not sure if theyre here. And captain mcfarland, the Fire Department representation at our weekly meetings. So to say that i have been impressed with this groups professionalism would be a dramatic understatement. We operate in the nine bay area counties and have hit every corner of every county and i can say without uncertainty this group is exceptional without question. Theyre workers, theyre not delegators. They get into the problem and get us what we need every day to keep going. We havent always agreed on everything. This isnt a fairy tail but the group has been fair and direct with us every single time and its not as common as you might think. I for one am excited to be part of this team and on behalf of our small team, the superintendent, project engineer without whom i would be under water on this job. Bob and shannon alton, disappointed they cant be here today and on behalf of our entire alton construction family, congratulations to all stakeholders on the milestone and a special thanks to the people i work with every day. Its been a real pleasure so far and im looking forward to a strong finish. applause thank you andrew. And all those guys you name are from public works. This project was from a scratch to getting out to contract was done inhouse and speaks to the capability of what the Public Works Department can do, it wasnt like that many years ago. Now we have healthy projects and were proud of that. The next part of the event, were going to sign a beam. We do have markers that all of the guests can sign. But before i do that, on behalf of public works i want to say thank you to all the men and women of the Fire Department who protect us and make sure our city runs smooth every day. applause thank you, thank you all of you. Supervisor breed, commissioners, we have pens over there, if you can start the signing process on the beam. We will sign the beam and allow everybody to go back to work. Yes, sign. Today we are going to talk about fire safety. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. Its a wonderful display. A little house in the urban Center Exhibition center that shows what its like in a home in San Francisco after an earthquake. One of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. We are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. Thank you. My pleasure. We talk about the San Francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. How do we avoid that kind of problem. How can we reduce fire hazard . The construction was a lot different. We dont expect what we had then. We want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. If you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. Be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. Absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the Utility Company come in and turn it back on. Here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. Where would we find the gas meter . It should be in your garage. Everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. One of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. Yes. The crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. Okay. Lets go inside to talk about fire safety. Many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little Smoke Detector and i see you brought one here, a Carbon MonoxideSmoke Detector. This is a combination of smoke and Carbon Monoxide detector. They are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. If Gas Appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. This is a Battery Powered . This is a Battery Powered and it has a 10 year battery life. A lot of times you may have one or the other. If you put in just a Carbon Monoxide detector, its important to have one of these too. Every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. One thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. What would you recommend . If you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. This kind of a candle, you wouldnt want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesnt rollover. You definitely want to have this in a noncombustible surface. Now, here we have our stove. After a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook . Well, i wouldnt recommend cooking inside of the house. You have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. So it wouldnt be safe to use your fireplace to cook . Not at first. You should check it by a professional first. Outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. Yes. That will be fine. Here we have some alternative cooking areas. You can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. Thank you for joining us. And thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping San Francisco stay safe