The materials. I guess i want to highlight, my kids were moving online. A lot of content i think its good because we used to have to carry 50 pounds of books in our backpacks, so moving things online is good. Id be interested in hearing from the high school students. My kids have trouble accessing content in the textbook loaded online. Sometimes physics text. Its a good idea to be using online resources, but then it brings into question my concern around access to technology for students who are expected to do their instructional kind of work is loaded on google classroom or their textbooks are uploaded. My kids are sharing the concerns, but i dont know how other than a parent sharing with principal, how that would come back to you and then us. I want to raise a question because were moving online, a lot of the instruction is moving online and that its a funny space because its not a textbook per se, but it is the curriculum materials. Kids dont have access to if they dont have access to Laptop Computers or wifi. Its my understanding that we dont have a Technology Policy around access to curriculum. Do you know about that . Not know about that . Ive asked and it doesnt seem like we have an explicit policy around ensuring students have access to online and technologybased curriculum . So that sound like its two different concerns. One being the materials themselves and being accessible online. And then the technology to actually access it. So i think part of the solution might be in looking at what is available and making sure that we have resources equityably distributed online so thats available to all of the high schools and partnering with melissa dodd and technology and making look there. She appeared. And what is available in terms of actual tools. President cook before we go into a deep discussion, this is about approving this particular item. I guess my concern though, this is a williams complaint, if kids dont have access to online textbooks. President cook maybe we can have a discussion about it outof approving this item because this is about textbook sufficiency. Can we i guess my question is, where i mean, and parents wouldnt know i feel like this could be a potential williams complaint if student dont have access to online. Would that be a williams complaint issue or is it only covering solid textbooks . Yeah, honestly, commissioner, i dont know off the top of my head. But i do know that wasnt a question that we solicited in response to this survey to meet the statutory requirements. I understand. Thats why im saying there is a gap. Because if were uploading textbooks online and expecting students to do homework and they dont have access, in my opinion its an access equity issue. So i would i want families to know they should be able to file complaints if they dont have access. And i guess im hoping that we as a district push out more information directly to families so that they can let us know where theyre having problems, that we might not be aware, just talking to principals or site leaders am leaders. Looks like an item for the next curriculum meeting. A lot of the questions were around that. And sort of the list of materials we provide. But i will hold them. What im wondering, this survey, i recall like in my classroom at the beginning of the year, our staff would go around and count the books and then log them. Is that process no longer happening and now its the principal filling out a survey and sharing we have them provided . The survey allows for us to collect information about the number of books they have in the school, so, yes, in some instances theyre counting them and saying how many they need and they ask for a specific number of books in the request. So we fill the request that they make in terms of the amount. So theyre you know, meeting their student need as well. Sometimes as the population grows, they might need more textbooks so we fill that as well. So there is a variety of ways that number is derived. Thank you. Vice president sanchez thank you. Im wondering if instructional materials also include mentor texts, for example, in elementary school, most or many of the teachers are using units of study and in those units of study, there are mentor texts used as well as so we dont have textbooks, these are novels and chapter books. And also im wondering if its sufficient to have or to not have included sufficient classroom libraries in our schools because especially in the k5 where teachers are expected to be performing or having readers and writers workshop operation. And if they dont have a robust Classroom Library, theyre unable to teach the workshops. If this doesnt apply to this item, id like to start moving that that direction as a district. To supply for teachers in the first years, who really dont have anything in their classroom. So id like to know if we can move in that direction. First, let me answer your first question, just in earls terms of what school were requesting. The majority of the Elementary Schools specifically requested homework and practice books or social studies. I would say that was probably about 80 of the requests. Are they availed of the opportunity to ask for a Classroom Library . Not necessarily a Classroom Library. That is not part of the survey. That would be in addition to technology and what is accessible. That would be a growth area. Vice president sanchez maybe we can add that to the curriculum, informational item we can pursue. Thank you. President cook roll call vote. Thank you. [roll call [ ] six ayes. President cook this public hearing is now over. Were now back to the regular session. Section j. , discussion of vote on consent calendar, items removed at a previous meeting. There are none. Section k, introduction of proposals and assignments to committee. Number one, proposals. Number two, the first read two board policy, 1312. 3. Uniform complaint procedures. May have a motion and second for First Reading to the board policy. Second. President cook lets see, we dont have any Public Comment on the item. Any board comments for the First Reading . Referring this item to the rules committee. Section f. There are none tonight. Section m, board member reports. Lets see, we have reports from our recent Committee Meetings. So this is where ill call on Committee Chairs to give updates if you had a recent meeting. Student assignment. Ms. Norton we did have a meeting. Im just pulling up my notes. That came up fast. Suddenly. We had a Student Assignment meeting on october 8. We had a good sort of overview of the process that staff gave us, as well as some comments on the plan for community engagement. We had a good discussion from staff on sort of how the district is starting to look at designing quality schools. What is going on . [laughter] i was like, what is everyone laughing . What did i say . [laughter] and then a really good discussion, the beginnings of a really good discussion. I want to thank all the commissioners that came. I think we pretty much had a full house. So that means that i think i win, right. [laughter] and we are getting closer i think to a staff proposal so i just really am glad that everybody is engaged with this process. Whatever i can do to support you in staying engaged. Because this is going to move quickly. So i do expect there is going to be were going to have a one last Committee Meeting in november. And then well do a committeeofthewhole where we will actually see what is going to go to the community for engagement on the assignment process. As i said, this is moving quickly. And but i think weve had were not i dont think there is consensus on the board yet from what i read. But i think people are asking really good questions and talking about the right thing, so i feel good about the process up to now. The next meeting is november 21st. Isnt it . Monday, november 18, at 6 00 p. M. That makes way more sense. Thank you. President cook Vice President sanchez. Vice president sanchez committeeofthewhole met tuesday. Free muni program. We focused on the free muni program that has been around, i think, going on six years in the district. And the fact that there is extremely low participation rate. And misunderstanding in a lot of the communities what constitutes free. Means there is a lot of paperwork and red tape around the program. And i would say that most of the Board Members agreed we would like free muni to be really free muni for every student. Not just in the district, but in the city. We noted that at the m. T. A. Received 38 million from the funding last november. And we estimate around 5 million to complete the freeness of free muni. So i think we know there is funding out there to make this a reality. We also noted that m. T. A. , the board itself of directors, meets monthly. And that we are committed to interacting with them to ensure they understand that this is a real need for our district and our city. Thats it. Hi. So i was just wondering if there was something that could be made about students having free bart in San Francisco, because bart is expensive. And thats the only reason i dont take bart personally. But i was wondering because there are bart stops here in San Francisco, if that could also be included. Because i think a lot of students would really appreciate that. I think it did not come up in the discussion, it was particularly around m. T. A. , but we do know that a lot of our students and members in the public as well, our own staff, especially teachers, who have to commute long distances to the city and then in the city, should be availed of at least a reduced rate. But bart is something we should be taking up as well. There is definitely money out there for that. President cook is there a free program for bart . Im looking at chief. Okay, okay. I guess you have work to do. Commissioner lopez. Ms. Lopez im reporting on the curriculum committee. Great. Okay, i had notes. Thats why im trying to find them. I know. We had a lot of items. We met last wednesday. The biggest piece, the biggest crowd drawer was the Charter Renewal for both kip, bayview and kip s. F. There was a lot of Public Comment. We discussed how many students starting in fifth grade end up leaving our classrooms. Kip is not as transparent as sfusd. Noting their board meets four times and only one during the day and no way to share with the public. Any ideas around providing families more access to substantial decisionmaking . They dont have representation. The closest is el dorado. Its a two hour thrive from drive from here. There are only three in the states, so Charter Schools dont have much representation. We voted without recommendation. Then we had a few presentations. One was special education strategy, five years strategic plan. What is going up, there is work in progress, working around transportation and placement program. And then we had a discussion on history, social studies updates. Specifically, around the 4th Grade Mission projects. And halloween and Indigenous Peoples day. Jennifer began the meeting with the land acknowledgment. And read a piece where that information came from. There is a draft of big ideas. Love and appreciate who we are, and studying the truth and beauty. Creating something that is longstanding and sustainable. Partnersh partnership. Guidance and how to share information. It will go out in the weekly bulletin, hoping that partners would publicize it. We talked about how to get information to parents involving the pacs, not just relying on principals. The equity study resolution came up and how we need a heritage calendar, not specific to one. Then my notes got spotty because this was in the third hour of the meeting. I wrote many people were happy. [laughter] that was a note that i made. And then we ended it. President cook thank you. So at the buildings, grounds and services committee, we had on monday, we got an update on the districts efforts to build more educator housing. And currently we have a tentative plan of trying to support 750 educators through a mixture of either brick and mortar or a potential program which were exploring how to execute. In the upcoming meeting which will probably be the most exciting Committee Meeting of all of 2019 [laughter] is were going to get an overview of bond financing. Oooh. Exciting. President cook which could be the cureall for housing. In San Francisco. Stay tuned. Number 2. Board delegate to the member organizations. So i just got back from louisville, kentucky, the council, the great city schools conference. Its a conference every year in a big city. 75 large urban districts, member districts, im the delegate for this board. I went with jill and eva. And a lot of workshops and sessions revolving around best practices in different districts. The one that all four of us attended that we got a lot of information out of and reported back to the superintendent and i talked to president cook about today, was using a system that will help us with our chronic absenteeism, as you know in past meetings we talked about. That was informational and helpful. Im going to put in in your email boxes, Board Members, more information about the conference. Do you want to add anything . I wanted to add just a little plug for that conference in particular to commissioners because even though Vice President is the delegate, you can still attend because were a member district. And the council, its a really interesting conference, its a Different Group of districts than you see at csba, than you see at nsba. Much higher participation. I found the valuable. You dont have to go every year, but to go once during your tenure would be interesting. The other is cube. Thats a subset of the National School bus school board association. Again, were members of all of the boards, so you can attend their events and theyre worth while. I mentioned it to one other board member. They also have a spring event, a conference, which is always in d. C. Its a legislative overview where we get an opportunity to lobby our representatives and also get to meet and chat with our best friend, who avoids us like the plague. I do concur with commissioner norton, that cube, the council of boards of education, which ive enjoyed in the past. I think it something we should reconnect with. I dont know if any of our Board Members have gone in the last three or four years. We should reconnect with them. They represent urban boards and districts, where youll be interacting with boards of color, which is not the same for the National School bus. 10,000 members and not a lot of flavor. President cook thank you, Vice President sanchez. Any other reports by Board Members . Commissioner collins . I wanted to reiterate, i appreciate the work that is going on in curriculum and instruction. Specifically the one that they were reporting out to longterm, to look at how we teach social studies, but also to specifically address indigenous History Month in november. And i wanted to make a plug for this book, an Indigenous Peoples history of the United States for young people. I think its something we should all read. Because im realizing i have been miseducated. There is a lot of history in here. Its written for young people. Its something you could read with your kids. This is the new book. The original for adults has been out for a while, but this is something we might want to adopt in our district. And i would hope that you guys are reading books like this, as were approaching really making all students cultures and histories visible. I would like to have conversations with where we should be moving as a district. Thank you. [please stand by]. President cook it was a really, really beautiful event, seeing all the students together, excited to talk about how to organize themselves to improve their sites. And so hopefully, we can find more ways to elevate them as student leaders, to bring their voices to the forefront, and i so appreciate the organizers allowing me to come and speak to the students last friday. Seeing no other updates, im going to announce the next upcoming meetings. Budget and Business Services is wednesday, november 6, at 6 00 p. M. Rules, policy, and legislation is monday, november 4, at 5 00 p. M. Creek limit program which is not as cool as buildings andti Public Comment for those who have submitted speaker cards. Section p, closed session. The board will now go into good morning, everyone. What an exciting day in the city of San Francisco right here on jefferson street. I want to thank you all for coming out like they say. It takes a village to really come up with a great project and this project is a great project that involved many people from many city departments, many years ago. It started with the fishermans worth plan and there were many agencies that were involved. I see john brown from the Planning Department is here. Harlan kelly from p. U. C. , our friends from the port are here. The San FranciscoTransportation Authority is over there, and many agencies, of course, public works. They are part of this project. And when this project first started, it was a five block project and we could only find funding to do the first part in the first part was from hyde to jones. But we also had to do it in quick time, in under six months we were able to build the only the first part of jefferson street before the americas cup and i can tell you that project has been a fantastic project. So this phase two is also going to be done in record time, under a year, starting today after this groundbreaking. With that said, i would like to introduce someone that has been a champion for Pedestrian Safety , implementing vision zero , and really making our safety the beautiful city that it is, im making sure that well work together. Lets welcome our mayor london buried. [cheers and applause] london buried. Thank you to all the Community Members who are here today to celebrate phase two of four phases of really changing the future and the landscape of fishermans worth in this area, which is not only visited by people from all around the world , theres actually an Incredible Community of merchants, of people who live here and who walk these streets every single day. We want to make sure that it is safe, it is walkable, it is enjoyable and people have incredible experiences when they come to visit San Francisco. Today we ordered the sun to shine so that people can happen even better experience. This project is an example of how when city departments come together for a common goal, with Community Members and the fishermans worth, Community Business district in the San Francisco chamber, thank you, rodney, for being here today, that we can make incredible things happen. Im excited that public works and the port and the Planning Department and so many of our agencies have made this a priority. We know that money generated from tourism actually helps to support so many incredible things that we do in San Francisco so we want the experiences to be that much better. And looking at how we are taking a street that used to be a oneway, turning into a two away , widening the sidewalks, making it more clean and more green, and at the same time, thank you to harlan kelly, the director of p. U. C. For digging into the ground, and we are taking around the fiberoptic cables that all the things that we need to do to make sure that the pipes and infrastructure is working so that we dont have to go back into the ground is absolutely how we should be working on public projects like this. Im excited. It took a lot of money, yes from a lot of different resources, and i want to say a special thank you to david chiu for his work in providing resources, working along with supervisor aaron peskin and supervising estate resources to make this project a reality. It does take a village. It does take a lot of money and here we are at the end of what is phase two to make something incredible happening for this particular neighborhood. Thank you do all the folks involved and im excited that mohammed has promised to do this in record time and within budget we will be watching very closely because that is what i care about the most. I know that one of the most fiscally conservative persons on the board of supervisors cares about that as well. Ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, aaron peskin. [applause] thank you. Good things come to people who are patient. As down from the port to knows, this goes back to 2003 when the community gathered with the port and started a community plan. Some years later, the Planning Department stepped in even before the days of john ram and graham and that led to phase i. Lets be real, there was a little concern. Rodney will remember, back in the days when he had the wax museum, widening of the sidewalks was going to inhibit vehicular transportation here even though we all knew it was going to actually make fisherman s worth wharf keep up. Years ago they brought the f. Line in here and that was a boom to Fishermans Wharf and it is beloved around San Francisco and around the world. After that, we expanded the sidewalks. Fishermans worth is the goose that lays the golden egg for San Francisco. Year in and year out. It is high time that San FranciscoCity Government reinvest so that Fishermans Wharf will continue to be the envy of the world. 600 million in retail sales, 250 million related to hotels, millions and millions, 16 Million People come here every year. Thirtynine is the number one tourist attraction in the city and county of San Francisco. Investing 16 million of city and state funds makes perfect sense for this fiscally prudent supervisor, including, and i am wearing now my hat as chair of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority, not only 1. 2 million of your half cent sales tax, but each of the members of that body get 200,000 to invest. I put my 200,000 into this project. It is just a little bit, but it helped make it go. Congratulations to all the departments and particularly the community that made this happen. Thank you so much. [applause] next, from the port of San Francisco, we are on port property until you get in the middle of that street, then youre on mohammeds property, but we are on the lands of the port of San Francisco. Its executive director, elaine forbes. [applause]. Thank you so much supervisor peskin. Thank you to mayor breed for prioritizing safety and Economic Development and helping this neighborhood thrive. You have heard from the other speakers about this area being the goose that lays the golden egg, which is completely true. 85 of visitors to San Francisco come here and they come back again because it is such a wonderful experience that we have to continue to invest in, but i want to talk for a second about the community that is here we have 500 businesses. Many Small Businesses can eat, many multigenerational businesses that make this place thrive. We have an amazing Fishermans Wharf community. We have the fisherman and women who are the reason for this place you have been fishing and making their life off the bay for generations and Fishermans Wharf is about the Fishing Community and about the small communities Small Businesses in the community. That is why it is a special place to come and visit. I want to acknowledge all the community did to get to this place today, to have our groundbreaking. It is a real celebration to all of you. Thank you for making Fishermans Wharf such an amazing experience for all the people local and visiting that come and again that come again and again. I want to acknowledge my commissioner who is here today. Now id like to turn it over to randall scott. He is the c. E. O. Of the Fishermans Wharf c. B. D. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to all of you. I came here last december to Fishermans Wharf and fell in love with it all over again. I want to encourage each and everyone of you to come down and visit and see what is going on. The pedestrian developments of jefferson street, wider sidewalks, easier to walk through, all around the world, people have been doing this to their cities and the foot traffic and the visitation that comes down with that and the boost of businesses is absolutely fantastic. I cant wait for this to finish. Thank you very much for only promising for one year. As mentioned, we are the tourist heart of the city. People come down here, they have fun, they go back to their homes , they bring back more people. I just want to say, you know, to the city, thank you for reinvesting and Fishermans Wharf. We promised to take very good care of it and we look forward to those people walking down the street. To those of you in the bay area, i would highly encourage you to come down and visit. This place has something for everyone. We have a Treasure Hunt do you can go from bar to bar, attraction to attraction and enjoy an entire full day down here. Again, thank you to the city and county of San Francisco, thank you all for coming. [applause] all right. In fact, this very spot that we are standing will become a brandnew plaza. As everyone knows, it is a parking lot now but we will redo it and it will have nice paving patterns. Those architects at public works , they have had fun with it everybody is okay with it. Okay. Lets go and break ground. We have some shovels. Lets get busy here. All right, come on in. Ready . Squeeze in. Squeeze, we dont have to touch. All right. Are you guys ready . Five, four, three, two, one. There we go. [cheering]. All right. All right. Thank you. What are you going to use it for . [laughter] shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned Small Businesses. It harkens back to supporting local. Polk street doesnt look like anywhere u. S. A. It has its own businesses and personality. We have Clothing Stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. Theres a music studio across the street. Its raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. Again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, its very important that you do so. Welcome back to 49 hang on , have you seen our first video . If not, click on the link before in the description and watch before you watch this one. Welcome back to 49 south van ness. We are excited to show you around today as we have now topped out and we are well underway for construction. Early in june this year, we had a topping out ceremony. It was the very last steel beam that was placed at the roof penthouse level. We had a number of speakers who came to join us. It was a great event and we cant wait to show you what is going on inside. [ ] what has happened in the last year is Steel Construction is now topped out at the top. Down below us, as you can see, as a full foundation. The basement is almost complete. We have concrete, we have steel, we have framing, we have a little bit of everything. To get started, i would love to walk you through what we call the form. It is a really exciting new way to get from here into 49 south then ness. It is a new Public Open Space that cuts through the walking allows people to walk through there and gives the civic Building Three or more ways to be connected to this really big block. [ ] we are in the pavilion gallery. Right behind me as south van ness. It is very close to the street. You will see a curved wall with an l. E. D. Screen. This space will be used for a number of different purposes. It will be also one of the most prominent spaces in this building. We are here in the main atrium lobby. Behind me here, there are the grand stairs that will eventually be fully finished with wood and this will go to the level to permit center. Welcome to the permit center. We are now on the second floor of the building. The permit center is the driver for this project. Picture this. I am a plan checker and im sitting on the inside of the permitting counter. And i am a member of the public, and i get to come in here and enjoy this big, open, beautiful space as well as tables and chairs behind to open up my plans, review them. The terrace is just outside. Tons of windows, daylight views. It is very exciting upgrades and improvements. [ ] now were on level three, which has a really great building amenity, the childcare center. In fact, we are standing at the terrace, or the outdoor space that is connected to the childcare center. The kids will have access to a huge area for playspace, as well as a really nice interior space for three classrooms. When the kids are out here playing, they will get a very close up view of the historical clock tower. A some of you may have seen, we have preserved a historic clock tower that one point was the cocacola bottling plant, so we have tried to integrate this into our building and thoughtful and meaningful ways, and preserve some of the character of the site. [ ] the two have so the tower joined in the center. The idea was to create a scene where all of the collaboration spaces can rise vertically to the architecture is a public as the public comes to the Office Building, they are physically within a public realm, but visually connected to the inner workings. The theme is going to be a Collaborative Center that includes an atrium nested by a series of stairs. This is the bottom of the threestory stack. At the bottom of this, would be a collaborative breakout space where you can have meetings, have lunches, just talk to your coworkers. [ ] we have Conference Rooms throughout the building, including the Coffee Center and the Training Center which will be used by staff and potentially for things like city hearings. There are a lot of amenities in the building that make it really be unique really unique and special. [ ] one of the unique aspects of the building is it is clad in eight and a system that will adjust the intensity of the tent of the glass as the sun moves around it and is whether patinas weather patterns change. Everything from the glazing that covers the glazing, to the water system, were really excited to bring this tower to San Francisco. [ ] it is a pretty exciting project. A civic Office Building for the city of San Francisco. It is pretty unique. I dont believe the city has built a new building of this type in at least 50 years. Were really excited to partner with the city to create a new experience for you and for all of us. Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you really enjoyed the tour inside the construction of 49 south of then ness. Watch our next episode when we give you another update on the projects being that see next time. [ ] [laughter] once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask twice. You can always find me on the court. [ ] we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. They provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a National Paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. We are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i im looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs that these people are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. People can come and check out this chairs and use them. But then also friday evening, from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [ ] 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. Good morning, and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for our meeting today, tuesday, october 22, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Quintanilla. Could you call the roll. [ roll call ]