Transcripts For SFGTV Disaster Council 20240713

You have questions, if youre presenting, please use the microphone as we are filming this and we want to make sure we capture everyone. So, we are going to start with our first item with a report around preparedness. Before i start that, i just wanted to say that since the last meeting, we have gone from summer to winter and from fires to floods, as is how it goes in San Francisco. I just wanted to say thank you and to acknowledge the department of Emergency Management, the p. U. C. , public works, m. T. A. , fire and rec park. We met yesterday to review the citys response to the december 7th storm and recent flooding. As folks are probably aware, we had an out of nowhere, almost tornado, technically a micro burst, but it dumped a whole lot of water on the city in a short period of time on a saturday afternoon. So, due to that, we have been working on adjusting our plans to be more ready to respond in a no notice storm event, which is fairly unusual. However, due to the variability in weather and Climate Change and changes on the planet, we have to be ready for the unexpected. So, we are working on improving our situational awareness, operational response, and our public messaging regarding the storms when they do happen. Secondly, were going to move into the recent activities also this week. We had a Safety Assessment program, proof of concept. It is also known as s. A. P. , which is really a state program that engineers throughout the state to do building assessments, building and structural assessments after disasters, in particular earthquakes. We had this exercise on monday lead by the City Administrators Office with other department participation. I was really, really pleased of the progress that the group has made. We had cal there also who took me aside and is very thankful for San Franciscos work. We are leading the way in this state to do assessments. What we did is set up equipment at a potential area we may activate. You can see, its not just about bringing engineers in and sending them out. Its a list to pull folks from all over the state to come and assist us. We need to provide sheltering. These may be folks not familiar with San Francisco. We have to orient them. So it was a great opportunity to actually practice taking information in, both manually and electronically, pulling that information up and being able to get that information out quickly. I really want to do a big shoutout to the Planning Team because they had only a few months to pull this together. Ed, libby, nick, danielle and ray. Hes heres a photo of them. A great looking group up there. This is a significant deliverable from the Tall Building study that was published last week. Im very proud of the progress we made on it. We will be continuing to work going forward. It was published last year, Tall Building study. Yes, published last year. Another major preparedness effort we have been working on is power Public Safety shut off. Hopefully everyone here is well aware of what they are. The program that proactively deenergi deenergizes wires during high fire risk. This was activated several times this year. One of the Big Questions for the Public Safety shut off is what does this mean for San Francisco . Pier 3 districts are the ones most at risk. Were a tier 1. We dont have a high risk for wildfires in San Francisco, thankfully, however there are transmission lines that go through those districts. In general, we feel like we have to prepare for these outages. I am thankful that we saw significant regional outages and we in San Francisco did not experience those outages. I think that was reassuring for everyone. Nonetheless, we are preparing. We had a number of workshops over the last year and particularly over the summer. In june, we had a workshop just for City Departments. In july, we invited our private sector and nonprofit partners in, and in august we went regional with our fellow partners at the regional level, both other counties and the state. The objective for the workshop were really to gather information, share information, and look at consequence management. Should we have a major power outage, what would be the consequences . Its similar with our private sector. To understand where their vulnerabilities are, what we can do to support and help them and also generally share information on what they can expect if this were to happen. Those were similar objectives for the regional workshop and sha sharing Public Information and getting them aligned. So our citywide findings were basically included how essential services will be maintained or how we will maintain continuity during a power outage, especially those services that serve our most vulnerable populations. We discussed the scarcity of fuel, and other technologies. If this sounds like what we would be preparing for, for an earthquake. It is. The only silver liniing is that we have made some significant progress in some of our planning and preparedness that will serve us well during an earthquake. For communities around us, thats the same. For the private and the nonprofit sector, we really highlighted continuity for businesses of all sizes and sort of are learning more which businesses have more to deal and operating is on their own and which will need our help or support in the longer term. Then finally the regional workshop was eye opening. It seemed that we were pretty much ahead in some jurisdictions around the continuity of the operati Operations Planning process in particular. Many departments have been working, doing a lot of work on this. This will be a big follow up for us in the coming year. So, just looking at the pfps events that did happen, there were seven major events. The three big ones happened in october. You know, when you can see on the slide number of customers. A customer actually is usually more than one person. Thats the power connection. So the numbers were really huge. While we did not in San Francisco experience a power shut off, many, many of the folks that work for us did. Many of our own employees. So what we learned really was the impact to essential service is significant for San Francisco, even if were not losing power. So i really wanted to shout out to d. H. R. , mickey, and your staff. Im so thrill with the progress you made and were able to identify employees and get information out to them and back and forth. Its something were definitely going to need in other events. Thank you. In addition, we had to activate, for a number of reasons. We had our own in city planning, we were coordinating with if state, looking at other utilities. Ive lost my thank you my handy assistant here. Okay, moving forward, we will hear more about this. What we realize again is our employees are affected. We will do a follow up meeting in the First Quarter of 2020 to review what all of the marching orders that we put out last year, to see where departments are. Looking at how the tsps did impact us, and i think one of the big things we learned was the fact that we have to provide assistance to our neighbors. Unfortunately, what the state is saying in other jurisdictions is the likelihood of fire happening regionally, this is not something thats likely to go away any time soon. So, our ability to provide mutual aid and well talk more about that in a meeting, is going to be critical. So, lets see. Finally the Public Awareness campaign for pfps is one of the deliverables that we put forward that were most proud of. This is a regional, coordinated regionally, really need to get this information out. So, we have put this out through social media and neighborhood organizations and community groups. Its because we had so many significant cal pspfs that the public is fairly aware of this program and what they need to do. In addition, if we do have an event, we have a robust plan to notify people ahead of time, asuturiining assuming we get that notification and reaching out to our partners, and other stakeholders. The other thing is that were paying close attention to the other counties that have been through this and looking at their Lessons Learned, incorporating that into our planning. So thats pfps. Are there any questions from the council or anything to add to that . The only thing i would add really good presentation, is that the Lifeline Council which brings together all the different utility providers, and there are 12 or 13 lifelines around the city. They had a discussion in september about the program and the different events that happened. We had several events happening around power outages, earthquakes, and so forth in october through november. We had an open discussion able that. There is going to be a follow up meeting to focus on the telecommunication issues that we heard, some of the challenges with cell phone access or mobile phone access, and the towers going out because the battery lives didnt last long enough. Were going to have follow up discussion on that and some of the other solutions as well in the march meeting of the Disaster Council i mean the lifelines council. Were going to continue to get at some of these issues through that body as well. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Anyone else . Okay, at this time the public can address the Disaster Council. Is there any Public Comment . Okay. Hearing none, we will move on to our third item or the third report, Emergency Response. Again, in october, as you saw in the previous presentation, there is significant fire risk and fires. In october, the kincaid fire ignited. It burned over 77,000 acres and prompted the biggest, or the largest Mass Evacuation in california history. So although we werent directly impacted, as we look at these events, San Francisco is called on to respond. Several agencies, including d. E. M. Sent Public Information officers to assist with public notification alerts and warnings and helping evacuees with coordination. I want to offer fire, police the opportunity to speak. We can start with fire. Good morning. On the 24th, we received a mutual aid request for one of our oes engines. Thats an engine supplied to us by the state of california that we staff and make available to respond on a mutual aid request. We have one of those in San Francisco. That was staffed with four individuals. It was sent in the early mornings of october 24th. Later on that day, we received another request as the fire was developing for what is called a strike team. A strike team, being fire engines in this case. Its usually with five fire engines and strike team leader, which is an individual that has been certified and passed off on how to manage a Major Incident and strike team of the 20 individuals that will be deployed out. That deployment left early in the morning at 4 00 and responded out to the kincaid fire. On the 26th, we received another request for additional resources, and we sent two additional engines with a total of eight firefighters to that. They were attached to another strike team, which is called a multicounty strike team. We did not have the ability to give them five engines, but we have other counties that may have one engine or two engines and together we can combine one full strike team. All together are eight engines that were out there. We were out there for roughly seven days. They did a multiple variety of tasks, including fire suppression, fire mitigation, meaning going up and making sure that fire lines werent coming up to the communities, evacuations, feeding animals while they were out as a collateral duty, doing rescues. For the second strike team, the five engine strike team, they were on the line for about 28 hours prior to being able to get whats called a they call it a day off. Its not a day off, but its a rehab, reevaluation of all their equipment, cleaning. When they say its a day off, they get off the fire line from fighting the fire, doing evacuations, from helping people in need. Then they go back and they have to clean the apparatus, they clean all their tools, make sure everything is working, make sure all their supplies are set, and then they get a chance to get some rest to go back on to the fire lines. Those personnels are available to get called back they call it blowing up, as if the fire progresses rapidly and thats unexpected. In our circumstance, that did not occur. On an internal note, we did have a shelter here in San Francisco. The incident has Public Information officers that are attached to the incident. We have a Public Information officer for our regional shelters, from san rafael to alameda county. The fire sent myself to assist that individual, to acclimate them to what we have here in San Francisco and assist that individual with a couple of their presentations at the actual shelter we had. Thats what we have for the Fire Department. Any questions . Thank you. Chief scott. Thank you. The Police Department also received a mutual aid request from Sonoma County. We started with our deemployeement on the 26th. We sent a contingency of officers to Sonoma County for the purposes of assisting with evacuations and also prevention of luting for those who have been evacuated. Our deployment was in shifts. We had 24 hour coverage and our officers were basically stationed there with equipment to make it logistically easier. The officers were transported by van to then assume their evacuation duties in sonoma counties. So overall, the deployment varied from the night shift to the day shift. We basically were able to assist that county we Evacuation Services and prevention of crime. I think there was one arrest by San Francisco p. D. Officers during that period, but basically that was our role and duty. Thank you chiefs. Sheriffs department. Thank you mary ellen. The Sheriffs Department had our Field Operations division converted to a 12 hour shift plan. At the kincaid fire, we deployed nine operational periods of 12 hours each, 24 hours a day. The department ended up deploying 190 sworn staff for mutual aid, much of the same way as the Police Department did. We had a number of various assignments, ranging from patrol of the effected areas. We assisted in road closures. We secured areas under evacuation orders. We checked on businesses, escorted residents into areas closed off to the general public and patrolled the area near the safari zoo. We also were part of the evacuation shelter that was set up at saint marys cathedral for five days, and we had deputies assigned there for nine operational periods. Thank you. Thanks to everybody, including d. M. Staff who deployed. We always bring back very important Lessons Learned when we go out to these things. So, 3 Million People in the bay area without power due to the weather conditions that made the kincaid fire so concerning and it resulted in over 185,000 people in Sonoma County under evacuation order, due to the fear that the fire would spread. So, because of that large number of evacuees, San Francisco was asked to open a shelter in order to house residents that were leaving their homes and did not have space up in sonoma or marin county. So the Operation Center here in San Francisco opened on october 27th to identify and ready a location that could help these folks and Human Services agency and American Red Cross worked together to staff that shelter while the e. O. C. Was activated to support the operations, provide public messaging, and coordinate employee notification and serve as a link to the state. Im going to introduce doris, the Disaster Preparedness and response manager who will brief us on that operation. Thank you for setting the stage and sharing with everyone a little bit about the incident. So here in San Francisco were asked to support our neighbors in the north and open an overflow evacuation shelter for 500 residents from marin and Sonoma County. So as mary ellen mentioned, its the fire coupled with the pspf event which made the response really challenging, especially for those evacuating and looking for a place to stay while the incident was being taken cared of. So, when the request came in from San Francisco, our mission is to provide an accessible shelter and environment where they can feel safe and secure. We know from past fires that people evacuate with their pets and prefer to go to shelter environments where they can bring them along so they can provide care for their pets. In addition, basic medical care is really essential. People lose their prescriptions. People need to be seen and providing that in the shelter space is very important. Thank you to her staff for providing that. People evacuate in their vehicles, all of their possessions are in their car. So parking, safety of parking was a real concern around this event as well. We talked about some various options, but what it came down to is having a parking area large enough to accommodate residents in their cars, which can be a challenge because we are challenged by parking. The security piece. We dont allow media and those who are not to be in the shelter to be in that perimeter. We had police and sheriff to provide support there to make sure no one was coming on to the campus that didnt need to be there. So when we got the notification that we were being asked to ramp up and activate shelters, we activated the emergency Operation Center. We do the Human Services, health and Human Services branch in the emergency Operation Center began to coordinate what the scope of the shelter was going to look like. We were looking at the number of people, considerations around accessibility, parking was a big one to think through. What did the shelter space need to look like primarily . Secondly, we also looked at our databases and our resources to identify what we had on hand, and what we could bring to bare, and all the departments in the city that could support us in activating the shelter, and identifying gaps. So any gaps were then pushed out to our partners to see if anyone would step up. We reached out to our networks. They are all types of organizations that create a network to do this type of work and support us. Meals on wheels came through. It was very valuable to have that. Then our faith based organizations, thats where saint marys came in. Saint marys cathedral participate in wet weather sheltering during the winter. They do this frequently. We practice at their shelter space last year for the command exercise. It was very successful. It was great to have that Strong Partnership with them and be able to lean on them for that. Then the other piece was identifying how long were going to run this operation, which was really difficult to pinpoint because of the actual event was fluid. So we planned for and week long operation, understanding we may need to go longer than that. So the schedule allowed us to determine how quickly we needed to get resources out to site, including staff, and how we were going to set up the actual shelter. We have practiced a lot on the set up of saint marys went very smoothly. This is a basic timeline of operations. We activated on monday at 8 00 a. M. It was a 16hour window to plan for a 200 person shelter initially. Understand that we may need to open a secondary shelter to get to that number. We were continuing to look at facilities and other resources we needed to fill the need. Tuesday the 29th, we recognized that most of the families that were in the shelter have children between newborns, 4 weeks old to 12 years old. There was a need for entertainment for the children, for other activities. We were happy to have comcast step in. I believe they were providing support for the other shelters during the event. They created a kids area with crafts. They brought in television, cable services, so it allowed the adults to be linked in to the outside world and little bit of fun in the shelter for the family and kids. Thursday we geared up for some halloween activities because we wanted to create a normalcy and some distractions to the kids that were there. We closed down the shelter on friday the 1st. This is a basic picture of the family and individual shelter area. Its broad, big. This is the actual picture of the shelter space as it was set up. We set up for 50 individuals, understanding if more arrived, we would bring in the footprint. You will see way in the back we had privacy screens where the department of Public Health was doing some medical support back there. In the front, we have some resource tables. We had an Organization Called corazon heals, and provided Translation Services for those coming in the area. Most of them were spanishspeaking residents in communities within our shelter. One of the Amazing Things i thought was animal care control, small by but mighty stepped up in setting up the pet sheltering area. This is a large dog area where pets were able to cohabitate there. That way their owners could continue to care for them. They had a cat room and small animal room. They did a phenomenal job. They provided micro chipping and vaccinations. They did an amazing job providing services to families and their pets. Resident services, really the basics of a shelter, showers, i want to give a shout out. It was fantastic. Saint marys, thats the one piece we know we have to set up, mobile showers. They allowed us to use their trailer. They also coordinated with urban balcony to provide shower services and that was great to have them as a partner as well. Medical care, pet care, supplies, and technology. I know you pointed this out as well. Initially people want to be connected to the outside world. They want to know whats going on, they want to communicate with their families and be connected to their communities. D. T. Provided some wifi boosting within saint marys and allowed residents to have a connection through wifi. Also event information. There was a p. I. O. That came from the actual response area to give residents realtime information about evacuation orders that have been lifted. They talked about everything from the change in the wind to the direction of the fire. It was really useful and i think people felt really connected in that they were given the information they needed to determine if they could leave the shelter or if they had to stay longer. For us in the shelter, that was a real positive. I was happy to learn that this is provided to residents. In terms of shelter management, we do things a little different in San Francisco, which shouldnt be a surprise to anyone. Generally the red cross will manage the shelter or the jurisdiction. Here in San Francisco, we do a hybrid management structure. We work hand in hand to manage the shelter. The Human Services agency works regularly with the red cross to activate fire shelters for people that are displaced here in San Francisco and we do it the same way. These small events really help us in having smooth operations within this shelter space. Its fantastic. We cooperated the shelter space. We established field coordination in the shelter. We had the agencies come and coordinate with us. Thats when we collaborated around logistics and operations. What we need, what we have, and were there unmet needs that we had to identify. Then we all went up to our individual area. We as a. R. C. Up to their headquarters, and so we were able to work that through. This is a model im hoping we will keep using, and continue to use as we move forward. It works really well and it was great to have so many eyes at the shelter level. We demobilized on friday, november 1st. Two notes on demobilization. It went really smoothly. One of the things that we need to tighten up and this comes up in the Lessons Learned, is our tracking of resources and donations. In fact, the resources, were borrowing things from various jefr agencies and partners. With we we need to tighten up our documentation on the shelter level on that. Then getting people back home. So there were many people that came over that needed gas or who had been dropped off. So, we were on thursday developing a plan to get people back to Sonoma County and we had to work with Sonoma County e. O. C. To obtain gas cards and schedule rides. It was great that they were able to step in, but if were thinking of a larger event, this is going to become an issue. We have to do some preplanning around how do we get people back to their home jurisdiction. So overall strength and Lessons Learned. Again, the preexisting relationships really made this a smooth event within the shelter piece. So the small incident practice helped us hone in on some of these skills within the shelter. The staff was generous with their time. Everyone was all in. At the e. O. C. , people were making calls, take what you need, borrow what you need. It was fantastic to see everyone galvanize and come together for this. Lessons learned, four big ones for us. Additional planning around supporting residents on their journey home. Donation management and resource tracking. So, we got lucky with donations. We received some really useful donations. We seen this could become a disaster within a disaster where people just drop things off at the shelter location. We need to come up with a better plan on how to manage that piece as well. So, the Human Services agency provided all of the shelter staff for this event. The red cross provided management staff. Many of our staff are trained. We have historically supported popups, wet weather shelters, so we have done extensive training in the past. We need to continue to provide training and ensure someone is there from the city to answer questions around reporting and all types of things that come up when someone is doing this type of work in the shelter space. The last piece, which is really important, is communications around shelter accessibility. We make all of our shelters accessible. If theyre not accessible, we have the resources to do that. I think something that got lost is that we know theyre accessible. We hope that everyone knows theyre accessible, so we need to do some more targeted messaging and ensuring that our access and functional Needs Community know they are accessible, theyre welcome, and we are willing to work with them on any issues that come up. We are working with our Public Information team on that. Thats all i have. I was going to report out with alison from the red cross that she was ill today and she wasnt able to make it. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you doris. Anyone have any questions for doris . I just also want to highlight saint marys has been an unbelievable partner for us. I spent a lot of time that week at the shelter and part of the reason is they let us practice in there and they were unbelievably accommodating so were very grateful. Yes. I just wanted to thank everybody who participated in this. This was, i think the mayors first local emergency that she had to declare. It was a sunday afternoon, sunday evening. We did not schedule this and it was her First Experience getting that phone call. Mayor, you have to come to d. E. M. And we have a few things we need you to do. It was a good exposure for her to see how everyone works well together. I was in communication with a lot of people in this room and others not here and everybody just responded great. In particular, in the grand scheme of things, everybody played a role, but i would also like to highlight the City Attorneys Office who during that time had just suffered a tough loss and had to pick up and get going and didnt have time to deal with that loss and they were very helpful. Thank you everybody. Thank you shawn. Do we have Public Comment on this item . Okay, seeing none, were going to move on to resilient San Francisco and recovery initiatives. Charles is going to present on the Public Engagement activity related to the earthquake safety and Emergency Response funds, otherwise wise known as eser. Were slated to go back to the voters in 2026. The bond breaks down as indicated here. We have some continuing participants, if you will, in the bond. Fire, police, p. U. C. We have two new additions within the historic complement of eser participants, and thats the facility for d. E. M. , at the 911 dispatch center and as well this category of disaster response, which i will speak about shortly. We all know the threat. We have facilities completed through the first two bonds, significant facilities. I call them generational so far as we probably will not build another such facility for 50 years or more. These are very important projects to the various departments i mentioned. That medical examiner is one of the departments that joined the eser group of projects. We worked in every neighborhood throughout the city, both in regards to fire stations, police stations, and facilities that result from the emergency firefighter water system. Again, the p. U. C. Exclusively manages the project within the eser bond program. There are a good number of facilities and i will speak about them shortly. There is work completing with regard to eser 2014. We have a new Police Crime Lab and motorcycle facility. We have a new floating firehouse. Its immediately behind fire station 35. Were considering to do work in regards to the backbone of the efws pump station number 2 at aquatic park is under way and we will be completing it in a year and a half. There are a number of projects within the context of our bond, clearly. This slide speaks to them. Ill leave that for you to review. Priorities, well we have a greater need than the bond funds are able to respond to. So prioritization amongst the needs is very important for police and fire station projects, and regarding the, efws, regarding the conditions of facilities and the fact cal importance. It speaks to the opportunity to provide for post Disaster Recovery and coordination at a particular facility or facilities, that is to be decided. Amongst the prospective projects for fire and police, these are the ones that present most prominently amongst the variety of facilities throughout both facilities for police and fire. The efws. The bond in 2020 will be speaking to an improvement of the west side, which has been outside the traditional or the normal realm of awss, and we also intend to address needs on the east side, along the waters edge, the base edge, with a particular man fold manifold project. Its nan expansion in that regard, and in a second, ill show you how that makes a difference. Theres two phases to the west side. One will be spring, if you will, and the second phase under a future eser bond from the pump station. Fire response areas, f. R. A. S are defined by the Fire Department sprung from the initial alarm. These are the particular areas throughout the city and as you can see well, i apologize if i shown you the one become eser began, you would see less of the blue. Were making quite a bit of head way as we move through these bond measures and ensuring the city has parity in the access of the water system throughout. This is clearly the preferred status as we continue forward with eser. The 10 year capital plan, i believe you all know. We did have community outreach. Joining from the outreach is representatives from police, fire, d. E. M. , and p. U. C. We had a dozen such presentations in the community. They were very well received. Again, clearly the need is apparent to you all. You see the importance of First Responders capability to deploy quickly and effectively throughout an event and certainly subsequent to an event. With that, ill close for any questions you may have. Thank you. Any questions for charles on this item . Okay, any Public Comment on this item . All right. Thank you charles. Thank you. Our final report is under emergency planning. Were going to be talking a bit about Emergency Support function 18, which is Cyber Security. We have a new Emergency Support function here that were going to learn about that is dedicated to Cyber Security threat and response and to present to us is michael from the department of technology and our own bijon for Emergency Management. Take it away. Thank you mary ellen for giving us space and time to talk about the newest support function 18. It has definite joined the ranks of other likely disasters so the city can be expected to withstand and respond to Cyber Security and cyber emergencies have affected recently many of the neighboring jurisdictions, union city, and of course you probably heard about that recent emergency that has been declared and cities of pensacola, new orleans, and the latest one is new orleans. We seen the disasters affect both the tra decisional operations of the city and Public Safety agencies, which needs significant response from all of the agencies together because the most likely scenario is that no one will be untouched. To help the city prepare we started the work in june with all the City Departments to create the support 18 function and our first work is to define what is an emergency, how do we speak to the emergency and whats the normal operation. That is probably hard to see. It is available in your handout and is also on the plan. We defined truly emergency conditions and in the plan itself, weve talked through what will happen, right . I think we realize we have a robust emergency measure process in this city and we want to take an advantage on what we know to do well. So cyber emergencies would join the set of potential responses that we may need to take. Weve seen a really strong uptick on precipitation from all the City Departments in the newest sf18 plan. We will speak about the new discipline were building between the Security Offices and the department preparedness coordinators. This is the start of the work. I think theres a lot of work left to do in terms of the testing the newest function and really stepping up and preparing for the cyber emergencies. My team that supports all of the City Departments is monitoring the situation very closely and i think this is absolutely a necessary first step for us to start preparing and really elevating our preparedness level to where we would expect to be. So with that, if you want to take us through the next steps. The Cyber Security Steering Community is the one that initiated this process. A lot of work went into creating esf18. There is one slide missing that mike would have discussed some of the con tentses tents of esf matrix is a part of how things fit together. As we were going through this process, we realized the city overall needs a plan, but each of the different departments need a plan. The intention here is showcased on the Information Technology side, we have esf18 what the city is working on and the complement of that, the Information Technology, thats the virtual world. On the physical world in Emergency Management, we have the Emergency Operations plan. At the department level, what we needed to do is create the coop cyber appendix, which effectively forms the link between the continuity of Operations Plan, the thing that mary ellen talked about earlier and esf18. What we discovered through this process is we had the City Departments come together. Information Technology Folks and Emergency Management folks are not speaking the same language. What we ended up needing to do was to give some basic explanations to an emergency marg manager. What is a network when our i. T. Partners are talking about servers, firewalls, switches, and end points . What does that mean to an emergency manager . At the same time, we need to talk to the i. T. Folks on how does Emergency Management look at something when it goes wrong . Really, there was this connection of the virtual and physical world to let the Information Technology professionals in the department know that when youre getting the virtual system going again, so that essential functions can take place, heres what your Emergency Management partners are doing. Heres how theyre keeping things going that are identified in the continuity of Operations Plan so we can maintain those essential functions. So, what we developed after a lot of these discussions was the Information Technology folks said just give me a list of questions to answer. We can do that as emergency managers. So really what we started with is what are the essential functions that have been identified in the continuity of Operations Plan. Then what are the supporting systems . Then we went to the i. T. Folks and said before an event, during, and post cyber event, what are the types of things youre using to analyze a system as its going, how can we make sure staff is responding if there is a problem, whos evaluating it . How does it link to the overall city plan . We also appreciate that not all departments are built the same. Some are very large departments, very capable i. T. Staff. Some are much smaller and they may need the assistance earlier. That was the whole point of developing this cyber appendix, to help the department identify heres what were capable and heres how were going to communicate to the Citys Department of technology, so d. T. Can make sure all other departments are aware of whats going on. There was one City Department that had an incident take place. They let d. T. Know and the department of technology pushed out city wide. If you see this type of behavior, be aware. That let everybody else know if there is something strange, lets not effect anything else thats going on. The final step in the coop appendix, the cyber appendix is an exercise. You can develop a plan, but lets test it. In the last month or so, departments were provided with two different scenarios. They pick which they want to use. One was a Ransomware Attack and the other is a data breach. For departments to use this to test their own plans. Now theyre going back, making a modification, and then were going to provide feedback to the citywide plan and what mike is doing so then well be able to have our newest Emergency Support function esf for different departments to use. Thank you. This is one of those things we always say earthquakes, that its not if, but when. I feel like this is one of the things for us too. I appreciate the work and the collaboration with d. T. On this. Any questions from the council . Any Public Comment on this item . Okay, so we have a special presentation for a special person who is seated right here with us. So sheriff hennessy is [laughter] sheriff hennessy is the citys first female sheriff. Her career spans nearly 45 years. When she became captain with the Sheriffs Department, it turns out she was the youngest to make this rank within the entire state, male or female, i understand. [laughter] she also sat in the position that i sit in when she was the director of the department of Emergency Management and i just want to say on a personal level. Ive worked next to you for a long time. I worked next to you before you were sheriff and i was at the Health Department and i started in this field. Then when you became director and truly, i just want to say thank you. I felt always inspired by you and also incredibly supported. This field, luckily we have a lot more women in it now, but its not always that case. A lot of times, its a lot of people in uniform and its a club that is not always easy to break into. You were very kind to me many times, and i always felt that you encouraged me, you know, as a person in this field and im always going to be grateful for that. So, i just want i think we all just want to honor your service and maybe your last Disaster Council. I told her shes welcome to come back and yell at us at Public Comment or provide support. We just have a certificate for you and just wanted to thank you for all your years of service and just from all of us. We appreciate you so much. [applause] thank you mary ellen. Thats very nice. Im glad to know that i was kind. Sometimes you dont know the effect you have on people. I appreciate the job youre doing now and its exciting to see the position youre in. Ive been fortunate in my career. Ive been lucky to work for the city of San Francisco. I love the work i do in the city of San Francisco. I was born and raised here. I will stay here. I will be around, i will be at Disaster Council meetings. I did want to thank you for all the work you do and i know there are a lot of department heads, and there are other people here in their place. Even those of you, everybody in every department thats supporting the department, thats supporting the department heads, working for the city of San Francisco, ive been honored and privileged to serve with you. People dont understand. I just have to say one time years ago, you know, when i became the director of d. E. M. And i started bringing my husband around to different meetings with different people. He was a retired police officer. Hes like all these people are making money, what are they doing . Then when he met everybody, he realized how talented and exceptional the group of people we have here working for the city of San Francisco. Im glad to see the light went on with him and we agreed on that. Also, we do have the sheriff elect here, right . Yes. Did he just step out . Okay. [laughter] i was going to say we have a new sheriff, and im sure he has a wealth of experience. Hell be great. I look forward to turning over the mantle to him so i can go on my way. Thank you again. I really appreciate this. [applause] okay. I think we still have to have Public Comment for that. So if there is any Public Comment. Seeing none. Our last item is just to open it up to the Disaster Council round table. Any Disaster Council member is welcome to make an announcement or comment. Yes, please. Hi there. Im from supervisor norman yees office. Mine is more a comment. It was based on the presentations today when we were talking about Lessons Learned. Specifically you mentioned sledding in the beginning, and although online in other languages, but we didnt have it in other languages at that time. One of the things that im sure you all read about, which was connected to the flooding, but if the house wasnt flooded, some of the houses experienced sewage coming up through the houses. We had residents asking our office was it safe to clean up. I actually dont know if we this is something well discuss through the hearing, but is that d. B. I. , department of Public Health, p. U. C. , where is the appropriate contact for residents to find out if its safe for them to clean up. So, yeah, i just wanted to share some comments here. Well get more answers at the hearing, and i do think this is an opportunity because it was 12 hours impacted or if this was a larger disaster. Thank you so much. Thank you. Uhhuh. Just wanted to give kudos to some of our personnel from our Homeland Security unit. Captain chris put together an exercise that basically involved the station being incapacitated. We had an opportunity to pull out our continuity of operations, and its an enlightening exercise. There are a lot of areas we need to get better at. Captain has done a good job and its something we plan to do in other districts in our Police Departments. Just for the group, if you havent done that in a while, it was a very good exercise. I know from a citywide and i know you have been working on table tops as well, but i wanted to put that on everybodys minds. Those opportunities rarely come up. Its always good to practice. Yeah. Thank you. Thats music to our ears. Someone opened their c. O. O. Plan. Anyone else . Yes, i just wanted to let people know that the hazard plan is our Hazard Mitigation plan required by fema every five years. It will be sent next week, and i wanted to thank all the departments, all the people, every department here has a strategy in that plan. It really takes some bold steps to move us towards mitigating disasters and being more resilient. I appreciate you and if you could pass it to your staff that helped formulate strategies or spent time looking at the different hazards and putting it together. The department of Public Health, planning department, department of Emergency Management, and department of the environment. Thank you all for that. Were going to continue to work on this as it goes out. Were not going to wait five years to open it up again. Were planning to do Public Outreach in the next year and to continue making it much more of a living document where people have access to the hazards, to the strategies online or through public meetings. Thank you so much for that. Thanks brian. Anyone else . Okay, with that i believe we can adjourn the meeting. Thank you all for being here and well see you in the new year. [ ] hi today we have a special edition of building San Francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about San Franciscos earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. The next episode of stay safe, we have Alicia Johnson from San Franciscos department of Emergency Management. Hi, alicia thanks to coming it is a pleasure to be here with you. I wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in San Francisco. Well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. Having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. How long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in San Francisco. It depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. What kind of neighborhood and Community Involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. It is important to have a Good Relationship with your neighbors and your community. Go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. It is important to have a batteryoperated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the Community Around and how you can communicate with other people. One of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. Yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. So a title to a home, a passport, a drivers license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any Vital Information on your computer. Back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. In your home you should be prepared as well. Absolutely. Lets take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. We have no water, what are we going to do about water . It is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. We have this big container and also in peoples homes they have a hot water heater. Absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well what other things do people need to have arent their home. It is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. Here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. And this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. Yes. So in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. Having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. It is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. And here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. I hope that you have an alternative one at home. Oh, i forgot. And in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. I have them right here. Good. Excellent. That is great. Additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. Markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. I am okay and i will meet you at. Exactly. Exactly. Water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. We have matches here. And my spare glasses. And your spare glasses. If you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. If it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. Inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. Very important. We have a little first aid kit. And lots of different kinds of batteries. And another spare flashlight. So, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we dont have damage . One of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. Make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. Also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. Becoming prepared is not that difficult. Taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra everyday items on hand helps to make the difference. That contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. Absolutely. If you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. We are all proud of living in San Francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. So, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. Absolutely, it is my pleasure. And thank you for joining us on another edition of building [ ] i just wanted to say a few words. One is to the parents and to all of the kids. Thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a Soccer Program in the bayview. Soccer is the worlds game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. I coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. It is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. When the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. Only one or two of them had played soccer before. We gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. I think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. I get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. This is new to me. Ive always played basketball or football. I am adjusting to be a soccer mom. The bayview is like my favorite team. Even though we lose it is still fine. Right on. I have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. My favorite memory was just having fun and playing. Bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. They are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. Now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. We want to be united in the bayview. That is why this was appropriate this guy is the limit. The kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. We have some potential collegebound kids, definitely. Today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. This year we have first and second grade. We are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. You know why . Why . Because we are . Bayview united. Thats right. Please call roll call. [roll call] this is the recreation and Parks Commission meeting of december 19th, 2019. Welcome to everyone here today. Remind you to turn off Electronic Devices during the meeting and take any secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. If you like to speak on any item , we request but do not require that you complete a blue card. Each person will have three minutes for Public Comment on each item