7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe Neighbors Park Fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that Public Investment has transformed our neighborhood. The playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the childrens play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. The playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. We want kids to be here. We want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. We are given a real responsibility to insure that the publics money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. We generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. And it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. We have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp and we are sending a strong message that San Francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. This park is open. Mayor breed thank you all so mu. Thank you so much for joining us today. Im sheryl davis the executive director of the San FranciscoHuman Rights Commission and thank thankful to have you in the in this space. The hrc was created in 1964. At the time, mayor john she will she wi dg she willy was responding to local and National Organizations confronting what we walike to cl at this point in time anti blackness, really wanting to ground the fact people are always telling me this and its not something that im very comfortable talking about, but that the sthian Francisco Human Rights Commission was created because there were people that were trying to buy cars that werent allowed to buy them in this city, and those people were black people. Sometimes as we do this work, i would say africanamerican afri s and peopblack ipeople in San Francisco felt like we were continuing to forget about them and continuing to repeat bwhy Te Commission was created in the first place. So as we secelebrate the 55th anniversary of the Human Rights Commission, as we remember the 5 55th anniversary of the civil rights act, i was challenged and really encouraged to revisit why the Human Rights Commission was created and to pause during this time. Somebody says, who selcelebrats5 years . I guess we do. [ applause ]. It is an off year, but im going into my third year at the Human Rights Commission and i felt like this was a good tooim to pause and recognize the intention to call out whaen so often im in community to call out to recognize. Im really grateful at this point in time to have an amazing a administration and leadership that is creating programming that is inclusive and is focused on creating opportunity ies for everyone, creating a space for everyone and being very intention intention al about that. Im grateful to be in this work with our mayor, london bried breed. [ applause ], who as an afric africanamerican woman who grew up in San Francisco thouknow s firsthand what its like to be black 234 in San Francisco. Im sure shes seen the last black man in San Francisco more times than anyone seated here and knows people ooes fear s ot becoming a reality. I know shes offikay having thi conversation and okay in this space and that she not only has lived that experience, but is trying to make sure the experience is for the future having been part of the task force formed years years ago, but being committed to make sure that everythione is counted and represented and secelebrated. So thank you so much, mayor london breed. [ applause ]. All right. Thank you so much for coming and thank you for your patience in starting this event. First of all , i want to really thank sheryl davis for her leadership and her advocacy and for her fight for inclusiveness and making sure that no San Francisco an is left out. The investments and work that were doing with the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco has been an example for the rest of the world to follow, and i am so proud and tha thankful to all the commissioner s who are joining us here today sitting in the front row smiling because they love and they do. Thank you so much for being here to secelebrate 55 years of the Human Rights Commission in the city and county of san franci o francisco. [ applause ]. Mayor breed yes, there is much to secelebrate. Sheryl mentioned the out app Migration Task force that was started ten years ago. We were secelebrating ten yearsf the out appmigration report, bu what was not mentioned was the fact that i along with a few other folks on the Redevelopment Agency commission felt it was important to do something more than talk about the challenges that so many people in the afternoonameri africanamer community face and we cant be afraid to have those discussion s. The fact is when you look at the data and see what has happened over the years, specifically to the Africanamerican Community in San Francisco, we know that we still have more work to do. When you look at the fact that sadly so many of our afric africanamerican boys are drippi dropping out of high school, so many sadly ending up dead or in prison, this is not a new conversation. There needs to be new solutios s to address this issue, and this is why im excited about the work that is happening at the Human Rights Commission. Also, in looking at whats happening all over the country and now how in particular sadly we have a president that has taken us back 60 years, thats taken us back with a lot of his homophopic policy ies, his poli s that have really attacked our i mmigrant community and the needs need for the Human Rights Commission is so important now more than ever to make sure that we stand together, that we support one another, that we push forward the kinds of policy s, and we analyze those policies and make sure that they work for the communities that theyre intended to work for. I am so decidexcited about whate going to be doing in the future in this city and in particular i want to take this communiopport and sheryl will tell you a little bit about some of the secelebration s that are going be occurring and some of the great things that were going to be doing to highlight the work, but i want to take this opportunity to make a special announcement because we are taking things a step further. Currently we are going to hire for the Human Rights Commission ms. Felisha jones who will help connect apartments [ applause ]. Mayor breed and review the recommendation of the out migration report and hold this citys feet to the fire a. Shes onnibeen doing it with gr initiatives, whether working with s cvmenfiu, the locoalitio justice for mario woods and all the amazing work that she has been doing to hold the city accountable to do right by not just our Africanamerican Community, but people who oft oftentimes feel neglected, were excited and happy to have you in this work. Thank y thank you so much, felisha f, f joining us. [ applause ]. Mayor breed you really take an therapeutic thunt conscience thuopportunity to reflect, we have come very far. I mean, i the first africanamerican woman elected to serve as mayor of San Francisco are [ applause ]. Mayor breed our fire chief, the first lgbt fire chief in this in the history of our city, gentlemjanine nicol soson. We have so many members of our board of supervisors and youll thank them soon, norm entan yee sandy few er, two in ceecredibl leaders who actually grew up in San Francisco, went to Public Schools in San Francisco, served on the school board in San Francisco, and still doing the hard work for the residents of San Francisco. So we have a lot of work to do. 55 years is just really about hopi opening peoples eyes to knowing what we need to do im grateful for Susan Christian sson and ma keller and others who serve on the commission because they really care about getting the job done, they really care about not just equity in about how you talk about it, but what our Small Business community. Thank you, nicky for being here. There are three generations continuing to support and feed people in the community. [ applause ]. Mayor breed our business community, whats happening in our Public Schools, whats happening in our cityies, and making sure that our programs serve various populations is something critical to the needs of making sure that we are a more equitable and inclusive city. I lastly want to point out and thank supervisor few er and supervisor valleybrown for their leadership in establishing the office of equity, to really dig deep into the dis pparity i that continue to exist despite despi all the investments that we ma e make, despite all the programs that we continue to fund. Why is there continuing to be dis pparity in particular communities that make it difficult for so many wonderful people throughout our city to succeed. Before i bring up the next speaker, i just want to take this opportunity to talk about quickly policy and how policy has made a difference. Neighborhood preference. Some of you remember that fight several years ago, and Amelia Ashley war from the sun report er knows this city all too well and building Affordable Housing and the challenges with making sure especially africanamerican in those communities have access to those Affordable Housing units. We passed neighborhood preference legislation so that 40 of the units built in a community go to the people who live in that community. What is now kennedy apartments where we built 98 new units for seniors, typically we would be lucky to have maybe a few africanamericans who are housihoused there and today we have 29 africanamericans that made it through the neighborhood proc s process the neighborhood preference process are and are now housed in will by kennedy apartments. Yes, we have people of diverse races in that property, and the point is if we are truly going to be the best city in the wo d world, if we are going to truly be what everyone talks about in terms of diversity, in terms of inclusiveness, in terms of all these great things, we have to make the right decision. We have to make the right investment. We have to be on the same page and know that if one person is suffering over here, then its all of our responsibility to lift that person up. Thats what i learned from my grandmother, ms. Brown, oxygwhee didnt have much, she still took that government food and cheese and she still would not turn anyone away from our door when they were hungry. That is what San Francisco is about. We have work to get to a better place, but in secelebrating thi in cecredible milestone with alf these in cecredible leaders wits and serving San Francisco, i know well get there soon er rather than later. Thank you all so much for being here. With that, i want to bring up the supervisor from district 5, supervisor valleybrown. Thank you, mayor breed. I really appreciate this and all of the supervisors that are here today and president yee and the community. For me it really starts with the community when were discussing these issues. Im so proud to see the legacy of the Human Rights Commission evolve over the last 55 years. And hope fulfully there will be another 55 years that it cawill we keep moving forward. This keweek i feel even more p d proud, this week and tomorrow at the board of supervisors meeting, supervisor few er and y groundbreaking legislation will create San Franciscos first equity Racial Equity office will be realized. This office will build on the work and legacy of the Human Rights Commission. This legislation is a powerful start to break down years of structural and institution enal racism. I want to tell the community we will Work Together, we will acknowledge and address our past harm, for more of a hopeful future. We need better policyies and f d funding to combat racial dis r disparityies in housing, healthcare, education, tr transportation and employment we need to continue the fight for equity, to make sure that our black, latin, native americans, asian and Pacific Island er s, d all the communityies list eed t i list ed have what they need t be successful. Now, i want to pass this off to my partner sandra few er with this legislation to say a few words. Thank you. [ applause ]. Thank you very much it is on only fitting that our legislation to establish an office of Racial Equity is being voted on at the board board of supervisors during the same week we secelebrate the in ceecredi 55year legacy of the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco, founded in 1964, to address anti blablack racism, Human Rights Commission has done important work to address the needs of margin ental alized communities in San Francisco. With this new office of Racial Equity that will be housed under hrc, there is a renewed focus on Racial Equity and addressing s dispar ityies facing communityi of color in a range of color areas s, including economic security, housing, health, criminal justice, and more. Our legislation will require a citywide Racial Equity plan withoutcomes identified and a tool of Racial Equity analysis at t pending legislation on tat the d of supervisior s. It is long past due that San Franciscos renews its commitment to civil rights and Racial Equity and this anniversary is a reminder of the importance of making that commitment real. The new office of Racial Equity under hrc will help hold us accountable as a city to ensure that we are snaefiaddressing ra dis pparity ies for communities color and making sure that everyone in San Francisco has an equitable opportunity to thrive. Thank you to the Human Rights Commission for all your work in the past, present, and future and con grgratulation s. [ applause ]. Thank you, supervisor few er and i just also want to take this opportunity, we have planning commissioner melgar who is with us, we have michael p a papas and rita simal. Thank y thank you so much for bookiein e here. Daryl, i feel youre on a commission but i dont know. You guys have to bear with me because i dont know everyone who is on what circumcisiommiss you never know. I also want to take this opportunity to recognize someone who im actually going to be swearing in after i think this particular event, a new commissioner for the Human Rights Commission, thank you so much james deluca for being with us here. [ applause ]. Mayor breed with that id like to introduce the supervisor from district 10, supervisor walton. Supervisor walton good afternoon. Lets give it up for 55 years of the Human Rights Commission. [ applause ] you. Supervisor walton you know, ive been given two minutes to talk about the unfinished agenda for black folks in san franci o francisco. That unfinished agenda actually goes back a couple of hundred of years. It goes back to slavery, it goe s back to reconstruction, it goes back to csegregation perio here in this country and what was supposed to change and happeni happen after brown versus board of education. It definitely goes back to major reports that weve had right here in our own city, the u unfinished agenda and the o outmigraines report, awhich a lt of folks in this audience some in the back have worked on at this point a couple of decades now to make sure that the wrong s that have happened to us in this city, and in particular people of color, people in the Lgbt Community, i mmigrant s, a people who have had a different starting point than a lot of other folks here in this city and country. With that said, it is an exci exciting time for us because we have policy ies in place now tt are focused on putting actual resources in to addressing the things that have been promised from reports. Programs like black to the future that provide resources for organizations that serve black familyies to be able to Work Together more seam lelessl programs like road map to peace, where were bringing the organizations and community and the Latino Community together, where they get to set their own agenda for the policyies needed to improve the lives of latinos here in San Francisco. The resources that we put in the budget for the Lgbt Community and for resources for transition al youth and housing for all communities here in San Francisco. So we know that un employmeempl exists differently for those populations that i mentioned. We know that housing is different and created differently for those population s that i mentioned. We know that our mayor has done an amazing job even as a member of the board of supervisors to pass legislation like neighborhood preference to make sure that housing outcomes end up different. And this 600 million housing bond that were all fighting for is a big piece of how we deal with equity here in San Francisco as well. So i just want to thank fur our mayor, colleagues on the board of supervisors. I definitely want to give a major shout out to the executive director of the Human Rights Commission, ms. Sheryl davis for all of her work. [ applause ]. Supervisor walton that did not start as a result of her serving as executive director of the Human Rights Commission, but it started years prior to that in her work. So i just want everybody to know that we have work togeth do. We have work to do. But the office of Racial Equity and what it will require from departments to get busy, to put reports together that will be attached to the resources that you receive, if we dont make a real effort to provide Better Outcomes for heour communities here in this city. Thank you so much and, again, happy 55 years to the Human Rights Commission. [ applause ]. So again thank you to all of our previous speakers. I want to as we get ready there are two final speakers that we want to have and as we do that, just recognizing that once that we do this work with our commission, and i wanted to recognize the commissioners that are here with us today. The chair of the Human Rights Commission, Susan Christian, our new eest addition to the commission, james deluca, commissioner karen clopton, chirg cirg commissioner jason pelegrinni. Thank you so much for being here today. And commissioner anton is joining us as well. Our commissioners do this work and they help advance it and i wanted to just be able to show the impact of the work and our form er commissioner michael p a papas, when we talk about this work, we cannot talk about it without the intersection ality f race and gender and orientation and socialeconomic levels. So commissioner papas supported us, was an amazing member of the commission, and i just wanted to afford him a couple of minutes to Say Something about the work that he started at the commission that hes now continuing to work on i was going to say with the department of aging and Adult Service s, bt i know theres a pending name change. Commissioner papas. Thank you, director davis. I am grateful for this invitation to address you today on occasion of the 55th anniversary of the San FranciscoHuman Rights Commission. I was privileged to serve on the commission for over six years. As one of mayor lees very first appointments in 2011 and his very last appointment to the Commission Commission on ages and Adult Services just a few day s befor he passed away. They were exciting years to be addressing issues of human rights in our city. During that time we saw the p d pendulum swing on some very serious and pronounced issues from prop aid to marriage equ equality and simultaneously from a did he haevastating recession prosperous tech boom. As add to that the increase in the outmigraines of the Africanamerican Community and an emerging black lives Matter Movement and local instances that prompted justified voluntevocal concern over law enforcements excessive use of force. Throughout this journey in time, the Human Rights Commission was present and relevant in its response to issues of discrimination and the cl collateral human rights challenges that en ssued due to these social changes. For me personally, perhaps the most re wawarding dimension of t service quus was following in the steps of commissioner s knu sen, swapark s, young as chair the lgbts Advisory Committee which in the very yenniend i sh with commissioner kelleher. During that period i was privileged to work with some of the most bright and passionate Lgbt Community leaders in our city. Together we addressed issues ranging from repairative therap to sensitivity to lgbt clients in city shelters, economic wel wellness, em powpowerment, dis e displacement of lgbt non profi s, hiv prevention as well as services to and the stigma suffered by those living with hiv, the particular challenges of trans women of color, the lgbt life beyond the neighborhood of the kcastro. The special needs of lgbt, deaf and dis ababled persons, immigration concerns, most especially those seeking asylum, the nuance s of bisexuality and the everevolving understanding of lgbt familyies, the need to e revise city forms to better reflect gender identity, and concern for cyber bulbullying o lgbt youth as well as our citys gr growing lgbt youth home leless population. Perhaps the most impactful contribution over our time was an effort in cubated under commissioner knutsens tenure as cha compare a chair and birth of my service at the a cvmec. That was a group that recomme recommended the formation [ cheering and applause ]. They know the punch line. Of this lgbts seniors task force. Thanks to the leadership of supervisors wooe s weaiener, ca and owen, the board of supervisors allocated the necessary funding to make that recommendation a reality. Iron ically commissioner knutse and i sit together on a board where we vote regular regularly for funding of programs that respond to the lgbt seniors task force. Now we are in new times and a different era. As human rights are fright ening frighteningly and incessantly under attack daily, never has the rechlevance for the San FranciscoHuman Rights Commission been so valued and needed. I am confident under the insp e inspired leadership of mayor breed, chair christian, and director davis, that the commission will continue to distinguish San Francisco as a moral campus compass and protective voice for all who suffered discrimination and whose rights, both civil and human, are unfairly jeopardized. With that, i wish a happy 55th anniversary to the San FranciscoHuman Rights Commission and the commissioners, to the chair, to the director and to our mayor and members of the board of supervisors. [ applause ]. Just by way of the future of the Human Rights Commission and the he haevolution thiand ithis discussion around intersectionality, i thought it really fitting to have gineta t johnson share more about the work shes doing and the importance now more than ever about the work of the Human Rights Commission, ginetta. [ applause ]. Hello, everyone. Thank you all. I wanted to say thank you to mayor london bried breed, thank you to the board of supervisos s and sheryl davis. I am the executive director and we work with black trans women coming out of jail s and prison black trans, agennon agendgend m conforming people coming out of prisons. The reason the work is so important and im passionate about it, im a form erly in k s incarcerated person and i spent time in jail and prison. During my time in jail for 13 months, i noticed that there was so many black trans women like in and out of jail. During my period of time, i knew that i had made a bad decision and i knew that i was going to get back out eventually and i knew that i needed to create a change. Thats when we developed our r Reentry Program for non binar people coming out of jails and prison. We are working through the support of the hrc in providing employment opportunityies for trans people coming out of jails and prisons. I think that one of the biggest issues that i have faced is housing. Its very, very challenging for me to employ them and they have no housing because the housing is so difficult and t in the cid county of San Francisco. I think going to a lot of different hfa meetings trying to make a request that whmen tran people come out of jails and prisons, they have a more immediate access to some a cotyf comfortable bed space because a lot of people dont know that trans people experience a lot of sexual trauma while on the inside and physical trauma. So im happy and grateful that we have an opportunity to create this Employment Structure and that our homes for trans people is happening i thi. I thank everybody thats been involved and making that happen because black trans women face a lot more dis pparity than peopl really, really understand, a lot of discrimination and stuff like that. Tho thats why re we are doing the best that we can to create more opportunityies for their safety and welfare. So i just want to thiank everybody here that contributs s in this work. Thank you. [ applause ]. So as we prepare to kiclose t out, i just want to invite up the chair of the Human Rights Commission to come and say a few words, and then just to also share very quickly the calendar that we have for this week. This evening we have a conversation with cornell west at the commonwealth club. Tomorrow we have a sim pymposiu 12 to 5 at the war memorial. On wednesday evening, 6 00 at the stf jass jazz center we wil te secelebrate 55 year s, recognii some of our leaders and having a little bit of music. Then on thursday, the young people part of mayor bried breeds opportunity for all will share their presentations at the pal aace of art s. If you have additional questio questions, please feel free to talk to us or ask questions. I also want to recognize a form er director of the commission, mayor vic ban mba. He served as the executive director of the Human Rights Commission and is now a proud support er he eer during her wo clark construction. Final words from our shachair sn christian. [ applause ]. Thank you, director davis, form er commissioner davis. I had the privilege of working with sheryl for several years as commissioners on the Human Rights Commission before we convinced her to take on in this role that we are thrilled she is in and has done so much for the city that she has been appointed to be the executive director. One of the things i appreciate most about sheryls work is you know, 55 years Human Rights Commission started to deal with ant anti blablack discrimination ie city. What we found ourselfves at 50 years looking at the same problems, maybe in just a slightly different way, happening to black people in the city and people who are otherwise dis advantaadvantaged, but particularly black people in the city, black communityies continuing to suffer the same kinds of discrimination. So clearly the question and the issue of structural in equequal and structural discrimination has not been screfdressed addr in a way that impacts and prevents this kind of dis advantage. That has been my passion, my the thing that i want to really tie try and accomplish during my time on the commission and as chair of the commission to look for ways and the mayor talked about programs that work that provide outcomes, looking for what ways that we can interrupt and address structural problems so that we dont continue to rep i replicate the in equequality. You know, the Human Rights Commission over the last at least teb ten years ago i think has been the commission itself and the people who have worked on the Advisory Committee s have made major contributios s to not only the city but National Conversation about national in equequality. The lgbt and lgbtq right now, i dont know that weve officially chang changed the name, the liegeq liege blooej lgbtq committee has picked up reports. This is work that came up from the community through the commission. We have the agency and the commission. So its in cecredibly important work. Also, ban the box started with the Human Rights Commission, the equity Advisory Committee. Now thats also something thats traveled nationally and gets stronger and stronger every year in different places. One of the things that i am personally most proud of is that we instituted a pilot under mayor lee to deal with implicit bias. So we were able to it was an idea we had at the commission. I brought it to the commission. I wasnt the first person to think about this obviously, but we were able to get a Pilot Program going with the mayors support and the supporter support of the family. Kimberlypapinon, we were able to work with her to create a program and the mayor funded it. So that was an amazing thing. And i know now that the department of human rights is dism administering a program and i really look forward to hearing how its going and seeing what were doing with it now, but its that kind of thing the commission has done and can do and were all looking for ways to do that whas we move forward. So i want to thank everybody o whos here and all the Community Members who over time have supported, cajoled, ciriticized lobbied the Human Rights Commission. Its going to continue and im grateful for that as well, but we have a lot of work ahead of us. I really do feel like we are now getting at programs that will address structural in equequali. Sheryl, im going to hand it back to you. For those saying we are going to be in room 201, we have the recommendations from the out appMigration Task force as well the unfinished agenda, as well as the environmental safety. There have been has felisha said pneumonnumerous time s three rsd what has changed. This year as the mayor talked about, we are going to spend some time looking at those recommendations and seeing what, if anything, has changed. If nothing has changed, really consider what we can do to see what we can do forward mo moig forward. We can see what the office of Racial Equity can institute. Lastly i would ask before we start to disperse, some of the members part of the original task force, if you could stand so we can thank you for your time as a part of that. Ken montero, daryl davis and ms. Saxon, thank you and please join us in 201. Thank you. [ ] hi everybody, we down here at the ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. We were going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about San Francisco. How are you doing kelly . Very well, thank you for having us here. In front of us, we have a typical soft story building. When i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. A lot of people dont know these are problematic buildings. Why dont you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings . Soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. When we talk about the soft story, what were talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. So were looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. Now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in San Francisco look like. And the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. They have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea its significantly less country srabl in those stories. Now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. That very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. That wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. When the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and theres very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. So we know theyre vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing is this only a problem we see in sentence france . San francisco . No, this is certainly a national problem. More acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. This kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. When youre involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. We had a Community Group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. Tell us about how that conversation went. Why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings . There were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are vulnerable. And that effort brought in a lot of people from different aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the Housing Stock and the possible ramifications of losing this houbgs in the case of an earthquake. The financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make San Francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. Its such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this seurb but we actually did something about it. Now we have an order unanimouses put in place to protect 100,000 residents in San Francisco and retrospective in 2020. So on behalf of residents and employees in San Francisco, we want to say thank you for the work youve done in pushing this forward and making people more aware of these issues. And it was a fantastic community effort. So in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings . What happens when an earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. Its mostly the horizontal that were worried about. It starts moving the Building Back and forth and pushing on it. When you see im pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. Luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so its a lot easier. Now kelly, obviously these arent real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff . The easiest and most costeffective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall thats already there where you dont need to have an opening is where you maybe have a garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. But some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength thats required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant and less vulnerable. Ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above. If im a property owner, what is the first thing i should do . The first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. And third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. Well kelly, i cant thank you enough for being here today. Thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in San Francisco. And you the viewer, if you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website feel like it really is a community. They are not the same thing, but it really does feel like theres that kind of a five. Everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. The best lit in San Francisco. Friendly, free, and you might get fed. [applause] this San Francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. She was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990s and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi its ic in the mission. Although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. People writing poems about being jerks. Beatty their chest onstage. She was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. Touring the country and sharing genx 7 as a. Her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. Theses San FranciscoPublic Library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. A lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. Theyre just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. Coming in to the library is awesome. Very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. At first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really . Things like that. As a documentary, there are interviews [inaudible] radar readings are focused on clear culture. Strayed all others might write about gay authors. Gay authors might write about universal experiences. The host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. There is no cultural barrier to entry. The demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. It is very simple. If we want more people of color, you book more people of color. You want more women, your book more women. Kind of like that. It gets mixed up a little bit. In general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. Their ages and very. We definitely have some folks who are straight. The loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. Established authors bring in an older audience. Younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. Raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. It ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. And there are so many different literary circles in San Francisco. I have been programming this reading series for nine years. And i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. The supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. A deep explorationer of a single work. After the talk, she bounces on stage to jumpstart the q a. Less charlie rose and more carson daly. San francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. Multiple Reading Events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. Radar was voted the winner of these San Francisco contest. After two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her fulltime job. I am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. If i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. It is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. I can match that person with that person. It is really fun for me. It is nerve wracking during the actual readings. I hope everyone is good. I hope the audience likes them. I hope everybody shows up. But everything works out. At the end of the reading, everyone is happy