Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Improvements, and that might be transit priority on the Treasure Island itself. The bay bridge is a very difficult, obvious, issue, because we dont control that. We have to work with caltrans. And we have been in talks with them about preliminarily what can be done. Were hoping that there will be a marked improvement once the Transit Center opens back up. Thank you. I appreciate that. Right now there is no other option for people who dont have cars who are on Treasure Island. And were working towards some significant changes around transportation. And it relies on the people there having access to transportation that is affective and reliable, and they have faith that as it grows and changes and all of that, it is going to be there when they need it. Because, really, they dont have any other options. I hope we can keep an eye on the ontime performance and the frequency. Thank you. Chairman seeing no other colleagues with comments or questions. Thank you, mr. Kennedy. Are there members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Good afternoon commissioners. My name is mary claire, and im with the south Market Community action network. A huge component is affordability. In light of last weeks fare increase, im here to raise concerns of people who are negatively impacted by the yearly fare increases. They say they have done an analysis to see if the fare increases will unfairly impact parts of the population, and their findings have found it will not impact those of low income, but we have conducted our own tests, and our findings showed of 400 surveyed, 82 of participants expressed being negatively impacted by fare increases, and switching to alternative modes of transit over muni. So clearly there is a disconnect in how we are conducting our analysis. We have great free and slow income programs that cover 90,000 people out of the 725,000 people who are reliant on muni every day. But they only cover youth, seniors, people with disabilities, and those who live 200 below the federal poverty line. Weve done the calculations, and people who make minimum wage in this city, who are still struggling to get by, dont even fall 200 below the federal poverty line, which is probably why the Lifeline Program has the lowest number of enrollment. 3 for a cash fare is inequitable, and just before inflation is rising it doesnt mean peoples incomes are rising. We demand no more fare increases in s. F. M. T. A. s next budget cycle and future budget cycles. And we hope to work with the city to address this issue. Chairman thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before i close Public Comment . Public comment is now closed. Mr. Chang . This is in response to the prior conversation about the Development Plans for Treasure Island. I wanted to clarify for the public that the planning worry doin program is r the affected new growths. But there are needs that precede all of the planned growth that were working together to meet. So there are existing crowding and other reliability issues that as commissioner haney mentioned we hear very frequently from the residents, and i wanted to distinguish that between the new work were doing for future growth. Chairman thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item 11. Item 11, for the planned barrier 2015. This is an action item. Good afternoon, commissioners, in light of the time, im going to kind of zip through this and just bug me with questions. The other good news on this is that the may 21st Board Meeting here, michelle bellu has been working on issues, presented and update and basically gave an information item on the action. I want to remind people what planned bay area, or p. B. A. Is. The first is approval of goals for San Francisco that will guide our advocacy, and approval of the s. F. Project list. This requires a board action to go along with it. This slide here is an update, the schedule for horizon and plan bay area. That was a staffled future planning effort that let m. T. A. Explore some topics and issues without having to follow all of the rules and regulations. That work is wrapping up this fall. Thats what the black bar is on this screen. The end of horizon indicates the beginning of the planned bay area efforts. Unlike horizon, which as i said was staffdriven and had next to no actions on it or actions from our board or others, plan bay wilplannedbay will be very different. In the window where it says craft preferred scenario, so between when mid2020 and when they adopt the craft preferred scenario, you will see a lot of activity. And the adoption of the final scenario will be back with similar actions and information. This is a Sustainable Community in that graphic there. And it applies to the nine barrier region. It looks at transportation investment, jobs and housing allocations by jurisdiction. Theyre done every four years. The last update was adopted in 2017. As you saw on the last slide, the 2050 update will be adopted by mid2021. The c. T. P. S serve as a primary transportation input, and thats the San Francisco transportation plan, which was last adopted in 2015. And were in the process of updating that. So those countywide plans and other local plans, like communitybased plans, p. D. A. Investment, the bike plans, all of that flows into the planned bay area. What is planned bay area . When the document is done, this slide shows the three sort of highlevel elements that you get out of it. The first is a roadmap for a vision of how the bay area will grow. That includes primarily housing and job growth targets for each jurisdiction in the nine barrier region. It includes a transportation investment package. A list of projects and programs that is constrained by the amount of revenues the region is expected to receive during the first year of the plan, 202 1, and the last year, 2050. That is state and federal funding, that is assumed in there. Were talking really big numbers. Planned bay area 2040 had a 300 billion re revenue forecast. The first two items there but also how to advance goals, like equity, economic development, and resiliency. This is the first part of the action that is before you today, which is adoption of the goals, which are listed as attachment one in your packet. We built on the goals that we used for the last planned bay area. And we have the Regional Transit operators, m. T. C. And caltrans. You can roughly divide those goals into the three shown on the screen. In terms of funding, for example, we seek to include all of the San Francisco Party Projects and programs that need to be in planned bay. It is kind of like your dance ticket. If youre not in or consistent with planned bay area, you cannot seek many regional funds or state and federal funding for most projects. We allocate for new revenues for transportation. Kind of following up on the prior disurks youll discus, youll see in our goals, we have a portion dedicated to equityrelated goals. So were looking in planned bay area to advance some of our San Francisco equity initiatives, both in s. F. , but also across the region. Two examples are we have been pushing last cycle and this cycle, transit affordability. I believe several operators are participating in that. And also pushing vision zero, trying to make it el availableligible, that can fund visioner zero projects. And lastly, leadership. We want to be able to help shape how our region deals with the future, what were going do look lib in thlikein the future. Two good examples are were trying to make sure all of the jurisdictions in the region take on their fair share of housing and jobs growth. And another area where were ground zero for a lot of the emerging technology ill call them improvements that are happening very quickly, we want to be able to share our experience and our knowledge about these to help shape how these technologies get incorporated into planned bay area. I think given the time, im just going to say one thing on this, but one example of how these goals translate into something tairchtangible that we get, there is project performance evaluation that happens. The bottom of this slide here, youll see we had four San Francisco projects that were among the to top perm performers in te region. Another good example is we had a focus on the transit investment last time. This because cal tran and muni and bart tried to deal with current growth, and we have a lot more growth in the pipeline. That led to things like m. T. A. Funding, and helping get planning on the second tube going and so forth. It makes important differences both at a longer term scale and a shorter term scale. So im moving on to the second part of our action about the financially constrained investment strategy. So we have to wait for a couple of things to happen before we can get there. The first is that m. T. C. Will come up with the regional forecast that i spoke to you about. I can say that it has changed over time. Like our transit fares and the prop k sales tax. So youll find when we get this huge revenue forecast, the vast majority of money is already dedicated to current parties, subject to local decisions, but there is a small wedge or piece of that is subject to m. T. C. Discretionary action. And that will be the focus of a lot of the actions we bring before our board. On the policy funds, ill say that sometimes you see policies that happen directly in planned bay area. Two key examples that will be of interest to this body are, the region will adopt a new list of Regional Transit expansion parties that ship get us in the cue for the federal funding. Gary b. R. T. Is on that list, and we want to make sure it stays there. We had a desire to link transportation and Housing Production to try to incentavise Housing Production. So unfortunately, m. T. C. Has made the process of developing the transportation investment strategy, that package of projects, really confusing to explain. Im going to try to keep it super high level for you. There are basically four blue bars on there. Think of those as four different processes. At the end of the day, San Francisco county and the other eight counties are going to be given a financial target and asked to schmid submit a complete list of projects. Right now m. T. C. Has four different processes. They had a public solicitation for projects that were transformative. And one of the key criteria was a billion dollars or more. So there is a list in your packet of what those transformative projects are there. There are regionally significant projects, which ill talk about in a second. And there is a need assessment. What is our funding gap. That process is led by m. T. C. And is under way, and lastly and important, the vast majority of projects in planned bay area for m. T. C. Guidelines are incorporated in the categories. Youre fa familiar with prop k and so forth. So very few projects actually need to be called out specifically. Among that those do are the subject of todays action item, which is for this purpose, m. T. C. Is looking for roadway and transit capacity increasing projects over 250 million. I want to emphasize this is gis just like going into a forest and looking at three trees. What is not in here, when youre looking at your list in the packet, which is attachment three behind the resolution, projects that are under way but expect to be completed by 2021 are not in here. So you wont see central subway. And then, importantly, new projects that we come up with, the next suite of the tube crossing, extensions to the west side, the east side, whether it is bus or rail, those are not in here if theyre only going to be in the project development phase, like preconstruction between now and the next update four years from now. So what you see in the list in attachment three are mostly things from the last cycle that arent yet done. Things like expanding m. T. A. Suite, west side bridges, and developmentrelated projects like the southeast waterfront improvements. I wont go over this here, but i think attachment four in your packet is something well come back to later with approval of the categories, just to see where most projects will be. Categories 13 and 14 are very important categories to allow for additional project development and planning for core capacity transit improvements, like the second bar tube. So what youll see coming in the fall, well bring you information on the state of good repair short shortfalls. Well get the revenue forecast from the m. T. C. , which will give the target for the San Francisco project list. Well see some project performance evaluation results from the 250 billion project. And somewhere between september and december, well come back to you with ou target an our target. And ill be happy to answer any questions. The other slides have additional information. Chairman i do not see any comments or questions from my colleagues. And so we will open this up for Public Comments. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. We have a approval resolution in front of us. Is there a motion to adopt that . Moved by walton. Is there a second . Seconded by mar. Please call the roll. Rol[roll call] we have first. Chairman thank you. Please call the next item. Item 12, award threeyear professional services contract, with an option to extend for two years. In a combined amount not to exceed 1 million for oncall Legal Counsel issues. Cynthia fong, deputy executive. This is a item i have before you. It had come to the board back in 2015. We had Legal Services back on june 6th,and we received six proposals. We interviewed three of the firms. Three firms are here before you today. We thought each firm had the skills necessary to help carry forth our plan for the transportation authority. They have a proven tract record with us, and were adding myers to the roster of legal attorneys. They demonstrate a strong approach management approach and qualifications. In addition, were really impressed with them. This item has gone before with an anonymous motion of support on june 26th. This contract will be funded over the next three years with state, federal, regional, and the local prop k funds. With that, im happy to open it up for questions. And i have representatives from all three legal firms here with me today. Chairman thank you, misfong. Ms. Fong. I do not see comments or questions. I think my colleagues are eager to get prepared for the afternoon meeting. So well open this for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Can i have a motion to approve the award of these contracts . Moved by yee. Seconded by brown. And we can take that same house can we take that same housecall . Yes, we can. Great. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item . Item 13, introduction of new items. This is information item. Chairman commissioner mar. Thank you vice chair, vice cr mandelman. I would like to make a request that on july 23rd, the board receives an update from m. T. A. In the office of Workforce Development on the construction mitigation on the Business Impact fund, which is the 5 million that this board advocated to be set aside from the m. T. A. Allocation to support neighborhood businesses impacted by Major Construction projects. When i discussed this with director chang briefly, she had asked if we could have this update in september because the july 23rdt be a bit from my perspective, there is an urgency to have this update on july 23rd. Particularly with the Improvement Project moving to construction phase in july, and theyre without a construction mitigation plan in place. And in my conversations with m. T. A. Staff. They had indicated that they needed direction from the board on the Business Impact fund and allocation of it. I wanted to get an update and some clarification on where things are at in us being able to access those resources that were set aside. Chairman thank you, commissioner mar. Thumbs up from director chang. All right. Fantastic. Commission safai. I think we gave some very specific instructions last time. It was very much about looking at the receipts from previous years of businesses, what the current receipts were, and how that money could be utilized to help support these Small Businesses. And so, you know, this is a perfect extreme. I read in the paper the other day about the el taraval situation, and the construction happening there and a lot of businesses around there there was no notice given, or very little, two weeks, if that, and the impact is significant, and has the potential to the significant. In most cases the Small Businesses are lever raismleveragingtheir own homes. This is exactly why we set up this fund for van ness and any other part of the city. It should be incumbent upon the s. F. M. T. A. And the t. A. To coordinate when these types of projects are coming on line. There should be a plan put in place, and the businesses should be notified in advance that this fund exists. That is a very simple request. So it absolutely blew me away when i read it in the paper its not even my district, but i happen to be down there because i was picking up my son at camp, and to see this work would be happening without any notification to the businesses is not okay. I share in your frustration, supervisor mar ander and anywhere else in the city, but i agree we cant wait until september because this is happening now. Chairman director chang, do you want to speak . Sure. I would just say we certainly heard the boards direction last time. If you want to say a few words now before inviting them back at the july 23rd meeting. Thank you chair mandelman and commissioners. Yes, we got the direction last time, and we are certainly doing our best to work with o. E. W. D. , mostly because we wanted to make sure that the funds for those programs were working very closely and in conjunction with some of the services that o. E. W. D. Already had in place. So the hope was, i think, to augment the programs that they had they were we were already doing around places like central subway and other places. When i let the staff know that this body was thinking about making this request, they would hoping we could push back because we do want to put it in front of our board before we actually make any final direction. But if we just want to get an update, we can do that as well. Chairman so not going too far into this, as we are going to have a fuller presentation discussion on this on our next agenda, commissioner brown . Yes. I mean, this is the issue about pushing it back. And i do agree with commissioner mar and others, is that right now i hate ashbury. It is being torn up. Just this morning i got a message from the mer merchants that ashbury andiate and yates e being torn up. And this is their main season. Most of them make their money in august, and wait until after labor day. It has been very confusing as to what kind of mitigation. When we put forward this money, we were looking at giving them cash to help them with their rent or whatever, and could it be worked out as like square feet, how much youre paying for rent. Let us give you a few months when theyre tearing up your sidewalks and it is very difficult for people to shop at your store. I feel, and maybe im speaking as the only person, but i just felt it was to give the businesses directly cash. It wasnt to do the mitigation of oh, well do marketing and banners. I just dont think that is going to work here. So for me, asking for this in july is going to help me because i have to go out to that community and say, this is exactly what we can do. Ive heard there might be some loans, lowinterest loans, but in reality, does a business want to take out a loan and then filpile on their debt . So i think we have to really hear exactly how this money is going to be used and really understand, can we get a little more creative with it . And not just using the programs that are already at o. E. W. D. To help people go shop there. Because if people come and there is not parking or the sidewalks are being ripped up, theyre not going to go shopping. I dont care how much you advertise it. It is just going to be really tough. So i think really having some kind of an even if it is brief, what exactly they have planned to do and what they are doing. I would love to have that in july, also, so thank you. Chairman thank you, commissioner brown. Mr. Alman, you can probably sit down because were not going to be engaging with you in a dialogue right now. Commissioner walton . I wanted to emphasize the importance of the report at the next meeting, and also in line with supervisor brown and supervisor safai. We were very clear this is was more of a cashtype subsidy to help address loss of revenue that we could predict over a period of time. I was not envisioning it alone. When we had a conversation about these resources, i was really envisioning a process where we look at what businesses have typically made over a duration of time, and how much resources can we provide and come up with a strategy to make sure we do as best we can for as many businesses to benefit. And, hopefully, this body will work to find more resources because the mitigation impacts and the affects we need to do our Due Diligence to support our businesses during these times. In some cases, it could be up to a few years of businesses losing revenue. I hope that message is clear to all departments involved, that we are envisioning this, at least in my case, and i hear from some of my colleagues, actual tangible resources to address loss of revenue. Chairman ms. Fewer . I want to say i concur. I think we should have that update in july, and the sooner the better. I was here when we actually voted on that. So i just wanted to lend my support. Chairman thank you commissioner fewer. Any Public Comment on our introduction of new items . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item. Any Public Comment on items not on our agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And mr. Clerk, do we have any further business . No other. Chairman we are adjourned. The hon. London breed almost. Good morning, everyone. Im london breed, mayor of San Francisco, and im so excited to be here today with so many amazing people to talk about something thats so important. Just this past week, we had a big event celebrating a 600 million Affordable Housing bond that will go on the ballot this november. [applause] the hon. London breed and i want to thank the board of supervisors for passing that unanimously, and i want to say that theres something in there for everyone, for our lowincome families and seniors, to our middleincome residents, to our teachers. We know that Housing Affordability is critical to the success of our city, and im grateful to the board of supervisors for passing that ballot measure, and i am hopeful with fingers crossed that the voters will support that, and we are putting forward that housing bond without raising property taxes again, so i just want to say that over and over and over again. [applause] the hon. London breed so today, we have another opportunity. Today, we are signing the legislation to put a 628 million bond on the ballot to help with our emergency facilities all over San Francisco, and we are also doing that without raising property taxes. [applause] the hon. London breed the goal is to put this on the march ballot, and so were going to have to work hard to get voters to approve this one, as well. I just want to start by that i thinking naomi kelly, and the work of the Capital Planning committee. Because of the work of the Capital Planning committee over the years, weve been able to have a very wellthoughtout plan for investing dollars in facilities that the city owns, especially our Public Safety facilities. And in 2010 and in 2014, voters passed these bonds without raising property taxes but with almost 80 of the vote to support rehabilitating facilities all over San Francisco. And just this year, i was really excited about cutting the ribbon on station 5, which is my home station, where i used to get my toys as a firefighter. Our firefighters and our police officers, fixing our buildings and making sure that they can sustain an earthquake is so critical to protecting the lives of our citizens. In fact we are all reminded from last week, the major earthquake that happened in Southern California and the devastating impact it had on that community, we are reminded that we have to be prepared. Its not about if, its about when a disaster strikes. So what are we going to do to make sure that our Public Safety personnel can focus on the work that they need to do to save lives and not necessarily the challenge that exist with the buildings that house them and what could happen to people that we need to shelter in a disaster. Kezar pavilion is not seismically safe. It is one of the facilities that could qualify for additional revenues so that if necessary, we can use that as a shelter facility in case a disaster hits. We have to be thinking ahead in not only repairing the buildings that we know need to be repaired, like park station, which is currently undergoing some renovations like police and fire stations and Public Safety buildings, and 911 buildings where we send our dispatchers, all of these places matter, so when a disaster hits, their only focus is on saving lives of the citizens of San Francisco and not worrying about the condition of their buildings and whether or not theyre in a bad place themselves. So today, we are announcing a 628 million Public Safety beyond for earthquake safety and Emergency Response for the march ballot, as i said. And i am just so excited and so proud of the work that we did collaborating with the board, collaborating with the Capital Planning committee to do this in such an incredibly responsible way. And i just want to thank all of you for being here, joining us, because this is exciting for the future of San Francisco. We know that there are challenges in our city, and we have to make the right kind of investments, not only the issues that we face today but for the issues well face tomorrow. This is just taking one step further to doing just that, and so im really excited to be here with so many incredible people, including the supervisor who represents district 5 [applause] the hon. London breed many of you all know vallie brown. Shes been a Community Advocate in this district for so many years. Not only does she spend time cleaning it up, i mean, personally, literally in the morning, picking up track with her own picker, but she also spends a lot of time fighting for resources in this community. Whether its our Public Safety locations or our community locations, shes been a real advocate, and some of you know the work that was done here, also, the track that was repurposed. And commissioner buell, what was the location over here by the triangle . What is that called . Yeah, with public and private dollars, were transforming this area. And when i served as supervisor, the person who was really actively engaged in working with the community and helping to bring together public and private resources to get these projects done for this community was no other than your current supervisor for district 5, vallie brown. [applause] supervisor brown thank you, mayor breed. Im really happy to be standing here today and to be talking about this. Just a few months ago, we were at fire station 5, brandnew opened. Not only is it absolutely stateoftheart and beautiful, but it is going to be a hub if anything happens in this city. And when i think about we have so many other stations and buildings that we need to have this kind of bond money to be able to fix them up so if we do have earthquakes, if we have things that happen in this city, that were prepared. When we look at i know that mayor breed was talking about kezar and other places, but when we have a major earthquake, and if we think about the earthquake that just happened in Southern California, and how strong it was, but it was in the desert. But think about what if it was here, and what it could have done to our city. I think about that every day, and what i would do if my place was flattened in the city. I probably would be camping in the park unless i had someplace to go that was safe, right . I would. I know the notent rule, but i think they have a cot there for me. I asked them, can you put a cot . So i just feel that its so important that not only is this city ready for anything that could happen, unfortunately and we know it will someday, but we have to be ready individually. We have a responsibility. I actually just went to a fire in my district a few weeks ago. Everybody ran out of the building. There were, like, 12 people. The things they forgot when they ran out they forgot their i. D. , they forgot their medicine, all of those things, and it keeps going into my mind, am i ready . Am i ready for an earthquake . Am i ready for a fire or anything any other kind of emergency . So i went home, and i remembered an emergency kit that i had put together probably 12, 15 years ago, when i did nert, and nert was first starting. My water was expired, the batteries expired, the food expired. Im like, im not ready, and i didnt have the emergency little pack that youre supposed to have by your door to grab and run if something happens. I wasnt ready, and i think about that because i think about what about my neighbor thats elderly, and she has a hard time getting down the stairs . We should be going out, talking to our neighbors. We should be going out, training with nert. Please sign up. If youre not a member, its kind of fun. We need to start thinking about our neighbors and what we can do individually. Are you signed up for the alert, emergency alert, everyone on your phone . Your neighbor . This is the kind of thing that we need to do because it really takes us as an individual and our neighbors to really protect each other if this happens. And believe me if we have an earthquake, im heading down to cafe revelry, and if his coffee machine is working because these are the places were going to have to go to see, are they left behind . Do they need help . I say that because i appreciate all the work in this city that everyone does. Our police chief, fire chief, naomi kelly, and especially our mayor to say we need to look at this, we need to do this now, and being so creative for doing this. I want to thank everyone for coming to district 5. Its nice and foggy here, but cool you down a little bit before you go back to your job. So thank you, everyone. And the next speaker are you going to bring him up . All right. Thank you. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you, supervisor brown. And just a reminder, anyone can go to sf72. Org if you want to get prepared for any emergency situation in San Francisco. A lot of great information from emergency management. Sf72. Org. Now i want to introduce someone whos ae be whos been a 25year veteran of the San Francisco Fire Department and has a very thorough knowledge of how to deal with emergency situations and is why she is currently serving as the chief of the department. Please welcome jeanine nicholson. Good morning, everyone. I love our San Francisco summer weather. Speaking of nert, as supervisor brown just mentioned, i want to recognize, we do have some nert volunteers right here, and nert is going to be critical in the event [applaus [applause] in the event in the event of a disaster. We know its not if, its when. I want to recognize mohamed nuru. Hes been a great ally for us and working with us. In the event of a disaster, our Fire Department needs to respond immediately. Our firefighters and e. M. S. Workers work 247, 365, and we need to be able to respond immediately. And this bill will provide the funding that we need to invest in our Public Safety infrastructure so we can continue to bring the city and the citizens the best service that we possibly can, but especially during a disaster. So thank you all for being here today. Good day. [applause] the hon. London breed all right. Our last speaker for this program before we finally sign this legislation is the chief of the police department, bill scott. [applaus [applause] thank you, mayor. Ill be brief. I just want to reiterate what the mayor said. We have 13 San Francisco Police Departments and 14 other buildings. Many of our stations are over 25 years old. These stations, from the day that the doors open, they are open 247. They have always been in use, and many of them are in need of seismic improvements, significant seismic improvements. And we dont want in the time of an emergency, we dont want to have to worry about whether or not the station is going to be standing, even though we plan for that if it happens. Thats the last thing we want to worry about, so i, too, want to thank you all for being here. The vision of the mayor, city administrator kelly, and the vision of our city for looking forward so our city has the proper infrastructure to respond properly, so thank you for the leadership, and thank you, mayor. The hon. London breed thank you. And again, i want to thank all of you for being here. Again, this is only the beginning. The real work beginning when we have to begins when we have to campaign to get this ballot measure passed. We have been successful in 2010 and 2014 in getting almost 80 of the support of the voters for a previous eser bond, and i want to make sure that we top that, so im going to need your help. Its incredibly important that we shrine a light on the measure that will be going on the march 2020 ballot for voters to support. I appreciate you all being here, and also dont forget to vote for the housing bond on the ballot this november. All right. Lets get this signed. [applause] the hon. London breed 7, 11, 19, done. [applause] hi today we have a special edition of building San Francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about San Franciscos earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. The next episode of stay safe, we have Alicia Johnson from San Franciscos department of emergency management. Hi, alicia thanks to coming it is a pleasure to be here with you. I wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in San Francisco. Well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. Having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. How long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in San Francisco. It depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. What kind of neighborhood and Community Involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. It is important to have a Good Relationship with your neighbors and your community. Go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. It is important to have a batteryoperated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the Community Around and how you can communicate with other people. One of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. Yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. So a title to a home, a passport, a drivers license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any Vital Information on your computer. Back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. In your home you should be prepared as well. Absolutely. Lets take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. We have no water, what are we going to do about water . It is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. We have this big container and also in peoples homes they have a hot water heater. Absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well what other things do people need to have arent their home. It is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. Here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. And this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. Yes. So in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. Having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. It is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. And here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. I hope that you have an alternative one at home. Oh, i forgot. And in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. I have them right here. Good. Excellent. That is great. Additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. Markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. I am okay and i will meet you at. Exactly. Exactly. Water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. We have matches here. And my spare glasses. And your spare glasses. If you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. If it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. Inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. Very important. We have a little first aid kit. And lots of different kinds of batteries. And another spare flashlight. So, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we dont have damage . One of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. Make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. Also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. Becoming prepared is not that difficult. Taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra everyday items on hand helps to make the difference. That contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. Absolutely. If you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. We are all proud of living in San Francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. So, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. Absolutely, it is my pleasure. And thank you for joining us all right. Hello, sunny day. [cheers. ] so, so excited to be here with each and every one of you. I am sorry for those we dont have chairs for. We didnt expect a big crowd, but when you talk about the city budget, i guess everyone shows up. I