Gone up a little bit, but not much on the nonhomeless population. Obviously the fact you have a broken down by battalion shows the real problem is in battalion two. All of this is really good information. The question is, how do we use it . I will just put that out there. Maybe we can figure out some ways to put it put ideas to our benefit. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Commissioner cleveland . Thank you. Thank you for your reports. A couple of quick questions. You mentioned and Emergency Response map. Is that something you can share with the commission . Emergency response map is part of what we call the 103 or battalionbased dispatch. If our communications go down in the Fire Department and there is a horrible disaster, than what we do is we break down the Fire Department into ten different departments. Each battalion, it becomes its own department, so in battalion two, each station has their response area, they have a laminated map, and what they would do is do a quick survey which they call a windshield survey and report back to the chief. The chief stays in the firehouse and basically becomes or she becomes their own dispatch center. We have our maps, our boards, we have some cad computers in the battalion chief houses, and we can become dispatch and run our own little Fire Department, and then through the a. C. , we can start sending some resources to other battalions depending on that. It is a drill that we practised before and we will continue our practising. We will just continue to improve with the new maps so they can pick up with schools, places with hazardous materials, some high occupancy loads, buildings that are prone to possibly collapsing, such as educating all the companies in their area. It is just more training. You were doing that on a regular basis . Yes. We have [simultaneous talking] hopefully we will deliver it this week. Were just waiting for approval. We would love to have more information on that issue. Sure. Like my fellow commissioners, i am concerned about the amount of resources our department spends on the frequent flyers. I just want to try to understand a little bit better. With the m. S. Six program, 95 of our 911 calls are frequent flyers, correct . What is the overall percentage of all of our 911 calls that come to us that are not fires, what percentage of those are frequent flyers . With e. M. S. Six, they are e. M. S. Six encounters. They get specially called from the frequent callers. It is 95 of their encounters that were highfrequency users. That is not just all of our medical calls, it is just the e. M. S. Six. What is the overall percentage of all of our 911 calls that art fires, they are medical in nature, what percentage would you say are 80 of our calls are medical in nature, and of those 80 , last month i believe it was 35 that was a person with an unknown address. It varies between 35 and 40 of those medical calls that are persons with an unknown address. What we are not sure how many are frequent fliers . Total number of calls generated by highfrequency collars is 1047, and that is 60 5 excuse me, sixpoint 5 of total calls. His only 6. 5 so only six might five of our 911 calls are frequent fliers . Correct. That was much lower than what i was expecting here. I also appreciate getting the number 2 reason that people are making calls, injury is number 1 , and altered mental his mental state. I do believe we need to delve into that a little further and get more detail. What does that mean, what the percentages are, drugs versus alcohol, versus diabetes attacks , or whatever it might be i would love to have that information. Thank you very much, chief. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your comprehensive report, as always. It is thorough and comprehensive with information. Again, this commission appreciates it. As with the other commissioners, i appreciate the visual in terms of the hose tenders. I know that this is a model from new york, but this model helps, and with the comments from the Vice President in terms of more enhanced visuals, it helps in the education process of that. Other than that, i just wanted to congratulate you, chief to wit, in terms of your position. That he so much for that, as well as i wanted to acknowledge chief Anthony Rivera for his 20 years of Service Within this department. At this point, i would also like to congratulate you, chief nicholson, on the accomplishment of your 100 days in the trenches thank you so much for that. Thank you very much. Madame secretary . Item seven, commission reports. Report on Commission Activity since last meeting on july 24th , 2019. Commissioners, to be have any items you would like to raise at this particular point . The only item i would like to raise is at the last Commission Meeting we were talking about myself and the Commission Secretary trying to organize our retirement ceremony, if you will again, 4. Of information, there are 210 retirees. One of the discussions was trying to have a location. There are some advantages here at city hall with the t. V. Cameras, with the accessibility and the all beyond of city hall, but there is a limitation in terms of the seats in the house, as members come with their family and friends. So one of the ideas was perhaps we could, at a Commission Meeting in october, and the Commission Meeting in december, if we would be able to entertain those concepts as point of information as point of information, the last Commission Meeting in october is october the 23rd, which is a night meeting. Correct me if im wrong, madame secretary, generally at the night meetings were not hardpressed to vacate this room correct. In terms of november, theres only one meeting in november, in this meeting is november 13th, which is a day meeting, which generally means we start at 9 0e this room somewhere no later than 12 15 p. M. There is limitation in terms of that. One of the discretions of that at headquarters was to have it at headquarters. It is just not that easy to get to headquarters now with all of the construction that is going on. If it is a night after eight game at the ballpark also the discussion is if we have a night meeting or a special, we would have to do it somewhere between veterans day, which is around november 13th to december 11 th, which is the last december Commission Meeting that we have. Again, the holidays are generally dominated by family commitments, et cetera, so i dont know quite frankly if a special meeting would accomplish that. Definitely headquarters does not seem like an amicable resource for us. Commission secretary and myself talked about breaking the Retirement Group into two fiscal years because thats where the 210 come from. And if we can, control the calendar of the commission on october and do it at the last Commission Meeting on october the 23rd here is one fiscal year, and then the other fiscal year do it on November December the 11th. So we havent finalized all of this, it is just that we are trying to move towards some dates that would be accommodating for both the retirees and for the commissioners and for the general audience. We will still work on this, if you will, and if you have some feedback to the commission, to the secretary about some ideas one of the issues and the challenges to get a room that is big enough to hold the abundance of family, friends, it is such a limitation of chairs here, a limitation of chairs at the headquarters, and at headquarters, if you have been down to Second Street lately, it is very difficult with all the construction. I just wanted to report that out commissioners . Commissioner hardeman, you had something on this item . I didnt on this item, but i think a few years back we used delancey street for an event, matteroffact with the couple of times we have done that they have been very generous with the Fire Department. That might be a bigger spot. Point well taken. I think we could do an investigation on that. Thank you very much. They are very open. I did have a couple things on the commission, though. As i mentioned last meeting, i watched that seven part series, it was made in 2006, a video on government t. V. Somebody will know the name of that series, but there is a seven part series. Are you talking about the battalion . It is about the Fire Department and all the things you do. It is under the title it was fascinating. I learned so much. I have seen bits and pieces of it before, but i watched the whole series. It was fantastic. I enjoyed that. If you have nothing to do at one in the morning, that is something to do. [laughter] im sure you can pick it up online. The other thing is, i wanted to say i attended chief turners Retirement Party at local 798. It was quite heavily attended. It was very nice. You had the former chief there, and everybody was happy. They were a big crowd and a lot of fun. It was an elvis theme pick you would have liked it it was an elvis theme. You would have liked it. It was quite fun. And then interesting on 911, we also have our regular meeting day, so that will be an interesting day. We will have a meeting following the remembrance. We start at 6 45 a. M. You will have time. That was it on the commissioner report. Im sorry i missed that meeting. I do have here and v. For sure. I do wish chief rivera the best. I did want to report that i did meet with the chief yes yesterday to discuss amending the animal policy. I hope we can come up with something. I think we may be able to come up with something that the commission should see hopefully soon. Other than that, thank you. Thank you very much. Vice president covington . Thank you. Chief rivera his oneofakind, and i will miss him. [laughter] but you are here now, so thank you for taking on this assignment. I wanted to say, i attended two events, one was the earthquake safety and Emergency Response bond, which is going to be ruled out in 2020. The mayor introduced that, and it is going to help with the seismic upgrading and needed improvement to neighborhood fire stations, it is also going to assist in the building of a new, modern firefighting training facility, and also renovate and upgrade the aging emergency firefighting water system. And then i did see our chief of the department at the signing of the budget for the city and county of San Francisco, which is quite exciting. I think the budget is is it 12 billion . That is a new record for the budget for the city and county of San Francisco. So those. I think this 2020 bond is going to be fabulous for us. I really appreciate the Mayors Office and the board of supervisors for supporting that. Thank you very much. Commissioner hardeman . I did have lunch with a small group of us with Nancy Pelosis chief of staff. It was very informative and gave us a different perspective of what we read in the papers. It was very nice to have that. He made time for us. Thank you very much. Before we move on to the agenda, again, i was able to attend with the chief and officers the ceremony of the topping of station 49, the new station 49. I wanted to acknowledge the department of public works. Commissioners, i thank you would be greatly impressed. Basically to see rendition his and then to walk onto the lot and stand in front of this amazing building, station 49 is just going to be totally exciting for us. I wanted to acknowledge that, as well. Thank you for that. Madame secretary . Item h. , agenda for next and future fire Commission Meetings. I will call for Public Comment on this item number 8, agenda for your future and next fire Commission Meetings. Seeing then from the public, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner cleveland . Thank you, mr. President. I just had a couple of things that i would like to see on a future agenda. Obviously, you know, i guess it has been almost maybe a year ago it seems like that we had a retreat for our commission. Were supposed to get some kind of report on the outcome of that , and i would like to see that if possible on a future Commission Meeting. Also, we sent a letter out to the guardians of the city, and weve gotten a response, but i think that response needs to be explored a little bit more and we need to have a more comprehensive discussion about the guardians of the city and the Fire Departments relationship with the guardians in the near future. Obviously the civil grand jury report that came out recently is going to be and needs to be a topic of discussion and we need to have that more thoroughly discussed at a future meeting, and i would like to have the grants coordinator of that or the new grants person, whenever that person is finally hired by the department, to meet with the commission and be at the committee at a Commission Meeting so that we have an opportunity to meet her or him and discuss publicly what we think that grants position person could do or should do for the department. That is it. Thank you very much. Duly noted. At this point, Vice President covington . Thank you. Yes, i certainly agree with commissioner cleveland that we should have a report out on the retreat. We have had, as you are aware, a lengthy process of going through the candidates for the chief of the department, and we also had a lengthy transition. We have been otherwise engaged, but soon to be back at it. But i agreed that it should go on the agenda. Thank you. Thank you very much. Commissioner hardeman . Yes, just a reminder that we requested captain coughlin of the port, and anyone who might be i was going to say captain lee who was working on the chase to get a little run down on the waterfront and what is going on down there with all this activity. It has been a couple years since we had a report specifically on that work. We know that this is with the discretion of cheek chief nicholson in terms of that regard in terms of an update with what commissioner hardeman suggested in terms of the port update and such. It is up to your discretion. Yeah, we can do that in a deputy chiefs report, absolutely. Okay. Yes, i believe in october, which is only a couple months away, we will be at the oneyear mark since his commission asked the chief of the department to come back to us with since this commission asked the chief of the Department Come back to us acknowledging the chief his new here and she is getting her feet wet, 100 days in, and most of that time is spent in the prior administration. I would really like to get that at some point before the year is up, or soon thereafter. And then also, yesterday i met with cal fire, who onto who on this topic, they just got a bunch of money in their budget for this and they will put some administration behind it and maybe looking into doing this work, as well. There may be some help from cal fire in this respect. It would be great to put that on the future agenda so that we can get an update on it, but it would be even better if we could put it behind us. Okay. Thank you very much. We will coordinate with the Chiefs Office on that particular update in terms of what you were talking about. Appointive information, madame secretary, next the next Commission Meeting, we have the grand jury report on agenda. Correct. To your question, commissioner cleveland, and we also will have a presentation by the department of physicians. At some point, there will be a conference and discussion with the department. We will try to schedule that over the city discussion. We can look at that particular issue, as well. And through the coordination and discretion through the Vice President , the update report on the retreat summary. Having said that, i think we got most of those items on the table or at least on the docket. Commissioners, we will try to schedule this through the remaining meetings of the year. Hopefully with a retirement ceremony, as well. Madame secretary . Item nine, correspondence received since last meeting, a letter from james lee, chair of the guardians of the city. Commissioners, we will take Public Comment at this particular item at this point. Any member of the public . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, any questions or discussion . I know that it is a discussion that will come up in the future Commission Meeting. We also wanted an opportunity for staff to be able to review the latest correspondence from guardians over the city so that we have some information. Other than that, it is acknowledged. Madame secretary . Item ten, Public Comment on item 11. I will ask for Public Comment on item 11. We will go into closed session, but is there any member of the public that wishes to comment on item 11 . At this time, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madame secretary . Vote on whether to conduct item 11 be in closed session. All right, commissioners, we have a motion in terms of ob hard for us to go into closed session. May i have a motion . So moved. Moved by commissioner cleveland and seconded by Vice President covington. All in favor . Back in open session. The time is 12 04. Item 12. Report an any action taken in closed session. At this point, i would like to report that the commission has reaffirmed and approved evaluation conducted, performance evaluation conducted to our Commission Secretary. That was voted unanimously as an approval. And item 13. Vote on whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session. Well take Public Comment on this item first. Seeing no member of the public here, that item is closed. Move to not disclose our discussions. I have a motion not to disclose. Second. Seconded by the vicepresident. All in favor say aye. Aye. We have concluded this meeting in open session. This meeting is adjourned. Good morning. So im mary ellen carol, the executive director at the department of management. Welcome. Were here to talk about the 911 which is so going to help us from a Technology Perspective to bring our 911 system to what we call next gen, next generation. So ive been the director here for a year, and its just amazing how much we are able to accomplish, but with technology that is literally decades behind. Were so grateful to leadership, of our mayor and our governor, to help us to bring forward this funding that honestly is going to help us come to technology that most people in their daytoday lives in their personal technology have above what 911 is. This is going to make our calltaking more efficient and honestly its going to save lives, which is really the bottom line and why were here. Thank you so much and ill hand it over to our mayor. Mayor breed thank you so much for being here today. I want to add to what mary ellen said about what we need to do to take our Emergency Response system to the next level. Nowadays its not just about making phone calls. People are Text Messages and delivering messages in a lot of different ways. So it is time that our systems reflect the changes in technology. So ab 911 is just an incredible step forward that will provide us with the resources necessary to improve our system throughout the entire state of california. I want to thank our governor for signing the legislation and his leadership and vision on moving us forward to the 21st century, because we know that when someone reaches out and they are in a situation of an emergency, that they clearly need help and we need to have a better response system. Im sure many of you remember years ago when people when cellphones just began well, that was a long time ago, but cellphones first became a thing and how people would use cellphones in some instances to call 911, but they would be transitioned to another county and there was some difficulty in communication and how we provided Emergency Response to get to that location. So things have definitely gotten better since then, but there is so much that we can do to make it even better. Having the funding necessary to invest in new technologies so that text messaging and all the things we do now to communicate are used in a way to address any situation, whether there is a wild fire or a heat advisory or all of those different challenges that sadly weve had to endure, we want to be prepared, we want to respond in a timely manner, and we are ready to move forward in making those investments to do just that. I want to introduce at this time our governor, who has again been a leader in this effort and on new technologies and used to have my job as mayor. Welcome home to our governor. Thank you, mayor. Thank you all for being here. It is nice to be back. This is my first day on the job as mayor was in this building when i convened what we called at the time the disaster council. I was, i guess in looking back, overly anxious during my time as mayor we would experience a major earthquake. Thankfully we did not. I maintain that anxiety as your governor. That anxiety was only heightened after ridgecrest. Its been heightened certainly after the last two wildfire seasons as well. As ive navigated this state and learned more about our 911 system, it goes without saying its only reinforced that anxiety. The 911 system as we know it today was established in 1973. The technology is outdated. The technology lazily can be referred to as analog technology. It predates the internet, as the mayor suggested, it predates smartphones. 80 of the activity that occurs around a call center is smartphone based not landline based, though we have a system to finance our call centers that predates this new technology. Were overly relying on burdening landlines and as a consequence we have not been able to modernize our system and weve been disproportionately burdening those holding on to that technology, tend to be people on fixed income and seniors. Weve been fortunate. Theres been efforts over the last few years to update our system that have fallen short. We were successful this year in pushing through our budget and ultimately in this what we call trailer bill to get to the point where today we can formally announce that by the end of this month we have identified the vendors and we will be moving forward with updating not only the state lay of the 911 system, moving from analog to digital but our four Major Regions that define this state. There are about 437 other call centers like this, 438 in the state of california, which is an extraordinary number. The reality is they dont have the technology, they dont have the tools to connect. They dont have the capacity to redirect call volume if something goes wrong or theres a surge in that volume. It is selfevident to anyone in San Francisco if theres a major earthquake, the surge volume here will simply overwhelm this call center. Our ability once this new technology is deployed will allow the call volume, as an example, potentially to be redirected to sacramento, redirected to eureka, redirected to l. A. , wherever the capacity will allow. Thats what this technology does. It has a geospatial component. It allows for a substantial amount of bells and whistles. I can get into that and ask our executive director of this and i can ask the o. E. S. Director to fill in the blanks, but it allows us to meet the challenges and the needs of a multiplicity of issues that we face when it comes to mercy planning in the state. This is a big deal. I appreciate the reference that this is about lives because quite literally this is going to save lives. Im proud of the legislature including the by partisans. Final word on this topic, there is a fee attached. I know that generates headlines. We are still among the lowest in the nation in terms of that new fee thats been established. I think thats a nice and important thing to point out. Usually were one of the highest in areas. This is where were among the lowest. So i know there was some anxiety related to that, but i hope that assuages some of those concerns. This, by the way, in closing, has been part, this announcement today, part of our week of announcements around Emergency Preparedness and planning. Yesterday i was up with governor schwartzeneggar. We were talking about some of the work were doing on vegetation management, prescribed burns, making sure were more resilient in 200 communities across this state. Were stepping up our game and getting more ready for Emergency Planning and preparedness. More than 1 billion has been spent to make sure california is more resilient and prepared than ever. Im grateful for the support we received up and down the state. Im grateful for the mayors leadership in this space. She was on the Fire Commission leading these efforts for many, many years and as conversant as any mayor in the state of the needs and desires not only of her constituents, but as it relates to the need to update these technologies and recognizes she cant do it alone. The state needs to do their part and were honored to now be doing our part in this space. Were grateful for that. Were also grateful for you being here and happy to answer any questions on topic. Then we are happy for any questions for mayor breed off topic. Any questions on this subject . Reporter question i was just wondering what you observed in your tour today . To be honest with you, a lot of familiarity, and i think that goes to the reality. We were talking to the o. E. S. Director and asked how does this compare and contrast to other call centers up and down the state. It is put in the top tier, but that bar is not as high as it can be. At the end of the day that capacity is limited because of resources. Our new fee will generate 175 million a year. It will allow the services to go in around october. Well start implementing these new tools and technology up and down the state. Thats what was missing, that state support. This will allow you know better than i the capacity to do things you are losing sleep over currently and do it in the next few months. This is going to move pretty quickly. August 20th were going to identify these vendors. And as soon as october, right, were going to start seeing the application of this promise and promotion. Anybody . Im going to hang out more in San Francisco. [ indiscernible ] i shouldnt say that. She never speaks anyway. I actually sleep pretty well because i compartmentalize as well. As an example, one of the technologies that we all use every day to grab an uber and your uber can find you in a moment or even ordering a pizza, that kind of technology for us when calls come in has not been available to us until really the last few months. And after extensive effort to work with Third Party Vendors who are helping to kind of pull this data together. A lot of it has to do with the state of our technology, which makes it a lot harder. Moving from this analog to a more digital level is going to make that Technology Much more accessible to us, so that we can use that type of quick information that you use to catch a ride or to get your lunch to get help to you, whether its Law Enforcement or a medical response or fire. So it just speaks to the ability to have access to this kind of Technology Much quicker. We alone would have been able to go to. Secondly, this is probably just as important, this will provide us with a lot more resiliency and redundancy. The governor explained a little bit and mayor breed about how this allows us to have more mutual assistance between other jurisdictions and their 911 centers because we dont have to put everything in a suitcase and walk across the street. Well be able to flip a switch and work out so that if we have an earthquake or a potential power outage thats extensive, we very quickly will be overwhelmed at our center. So this allows us to go to other jurisdictions who can pick up and get those calls and make sure help is getting to people when they need it in the time they need it. You mentioned the fee. What is the fee and who pays it . Its going to be one flat fee across the board. We have multiple fees right now. 0. 33. We are authorized to go higher. We are very confident that we will not need to go to what is authorized, which is closer to 0. 80. 0. 33 puts us on the lower tier. Current landline users are paying 0. 50. That will use to 0. 33. A disproportionate amount of smartphone use is text and data, not voice. So we have a system thats collapsing in terms of its funding capacity, and thats why we have been struggling to get this up in sacramento. Fortunately we were able to get it in the budget. We had a few supporters from north state that experienced the ravages of mother natures fury as it relates to the campfire, and i think that really truly brought home this reality and need. So i just want to acknowledge them because they did something within that party that often is not done when encouraged to do the right thing despite the political consequences. I couldnt be more proud of those two individuals as well as the others in the legislature who supported this. The first day in the nation since 1973 that mandated 911. We have lost our leadership a bit. Were now going to reassert our leadership. 27 Million People use this system. We have 1. 4 i think just here in San Francisco. You drop even for a minute the calls, that literally puts lives at risk. So it is not, again, an exaggeration at all. This is a lifesaving fee that will go a long way to making california more resilient, more capable in emergency environment to do justification to it, that is to have someone to answer the phone in an emergency 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [ indiscernible ] those companies are competing for these contracts, so all of this is in collaboration and partnership with those companies. Well see. I dont know who will wind up winning these business, but theres some wellknown brands in the state that are competing. I dont know if you want to talk more about the deeper collaboration with Cellphone Companies or maybe just flesh out other attributes of this system very, very briefly. Sure. Thank you. In regards to the cellphones, what this will do is harden that 911 connection from our Community Member on the street, whether youre using a cellphone, your office phone, your home phone. That connection through your provider, thats up to that vendor to be able to harden their infrastructure. But once it recognizes that you have a 911 call, were going to create redundancy and resiliency in the network so it can get to our local dispatch center. Thats what our job is, to make sure that 911 call is received, routed to the appropriate peace app as quickly as possible. We believe it can be done in 3 seconds from the time you hit 911 to the time the dispatcher receives the call. Full disclosure these things will take a few years. They dont just happen overnight. By december 2022 it should be fully operational. [ ] San Francisco, 911, whats the emergency . San francisco 911, police, fire and medical. The tenderloin. Suspect with a six inch knife. He was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. San francisco 911 whats the exact location of your emergency . Welcome to the San Francisco department of emergency management. My name is shannon bond and im the lead instructor for our dispatch add academy. I want to tell you about what we do here. This is San Francisco 911. Do you need police, fire or medical . San francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you . Youre helping people in their what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. So be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, its really rewarding. Our agency is a very combined agency. We answer emergency and nonemergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. We staff multiple call taking positions. As well as positions for police and fire dispatch. We have a priority 221. I wanted to become a dispatcher so i could help people. I really like people. I enjoy talking to people. This is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. As a 911 dispatcher i am the first first responder. Even though i never go on seen scene im the first one answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them instruction. The information allows us to coordinate a response. Police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency. It is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that youve also saved a citizens life. Our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This is shift work. That means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes thats mandatory. This is a high stress career so its important to have a good balance between work and life. We have Resources Available like wellness and peer support groups. Our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances. I received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones. So for them to, you know, recognize me for that i appreciated it. I was surprised to even get it. At the end of the day i was just doing my job. A typical dispatch shift includes call taking and dispatching. It takes a large dedicated group of fifrst responders to make ths department run and in turn keep the city safe. When you work here you dont work alone, you work as part of a team. You may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. I was born and raised in San Francisco so its really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that i have a part in you know, even if its behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow and helping people out that live here. The Training Program begins with our sevenweek academy followed by on the job training. This means youre actually taking calls or dispatching responders. You can walk in with a high school diploma, you dont need to have a college degree. We will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. We just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good dispatcher. If its too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. Good. Thats right. From the start of the academy to being released as a solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. Training is a little over a year and may change in time. The training is intense. Very intense. Whats the number one thing that kills people in this country . So were going to assume that its a heart attack, right . Dont forget that. As a new hire we require you to be flexible. You will be required to work all shifts that include midnights, some call graveyard, days and swings. You have to be willing to work at different times, work during the holidays, you have to work during the weekends, midnight, 6 00 in the morning, 3 00 in the afternoon. Thats like the toughest part of this job. We need every person thats in here and when it comes down to it, we can come together and we make a really great team and do our best to keep the city flowing and safe. This is a big job and an honorable career. We appreciate your interest in joining our team. We hope you decide to join us here as the first First Responders to the city and county of San Francisco. For more information on the job and how to apply follow the links below. Hi, in San Francisco were doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. And today were going to be talking about the Neighborhood Support Center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. Were here at the urban center in San Francisco with sarah karlewski, Deputy Director of spur. Were talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. And part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. And thats what this little Neighborhood Support Center is for. Thats right. What are some of the services that might be provided in a Neighborhood Center like this . Yeah. So, we think of the Neighborhood Support Centers as really being homes away from home. So, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. People are going to need to try to meet up with other people. Theyre going to need a lot of information. So, a lot of what the Neighborhood Support Center is going to provide is that information. Basically were going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. What you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walkitalkies. This helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. Over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. Were really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. I know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. And everybody should, but theres going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. So, thats what weve got right here. So, this Neighborhood Support Center, this doesnt look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. It can be a small commercial space, even somebodys garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. Thats right. Thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. And probably be operated by volunteers. Volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. So, if there is a Structural Engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. Here we are with some of the things that you might find in a Neighborhood Support Center. One thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. We say heres a charging station tied up to the generation. The essential coffeepot. Yes. Maybe a computer, you can check your email with. Yes. We have our charging station here. And then over here you can see weve got a whole variety of things, including the allimportant different tags. So, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags . Sure. People want to know what do these tags mean. Is my building safe or unsafe. These are the city owe initial tags. Staying in your home doesnt require that you get a tag. It just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether its a safe place to stay. You might want to know because regular City Services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. Also in the Neighborhood Support Center, that kind of information would be available and weve got a little of that up here. Trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. Thats right. Please mark your human waste. Thats right. So, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening citywide. And, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. My cat is missing, call me. Exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if youre really trying to save some of your Precious Energy minutes, et cetera, or its not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people. And, so, thats what were showing here. You can see people are going to be looking for their pets. Theyre going to be looking for rides. People are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. Another thing that you can see here is theyre going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be able to stay safer within their homes. So, were just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here. But then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. So, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these Neighborhood Centers are and help deliver some of these supplies. They could come from a neighbor, maybe not. Thank you so much for allowing us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. And thank you for hi. My name is carmen chiu, San Franciscos elected assessor. When i meet with seniors in the community, theyre thinking about the future. Some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood thats closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. Thats why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. So how does this work . Prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. Under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2 growth a year. But when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. Compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. Thats where prop 60 comes in. Prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved. Remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the Property Value must be equal to or below around your replacement home. If you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. This means that if your existing home is worth 1 million in market value, your new home must be 1 million or below. If youre looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105 of your exist egging home. Which means if you sell your old home for 1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than 1. 15 million. If you sell your existing home at 1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than 1. 1 million. Know that your ability to participate in this Program Expires after two years. You will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. So benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. Just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. For more, visit our website, sfassessor. Org, we will start the meeting with the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] roll call. [roll call]