peer review study by a major environmental organization. i would be remiss that i wouldn t mention that mayor bates was part of loma prieta. he and his wife worked hard to make the city of berkeley a national center of disaster resilience. mayor bates will discuss the importance of citizen awareness as loma prieta engaged with the city to address emergency preparedness headon. let s welcome mayor bates to the podium. [applause] thank you, paul. thank you very much. it s a pleasure to be at this beautiful building and i was reflecting back and i was at the baseball game 22 years ago. how many of you were at the baseball game? i am the only one. two of us. i was sitting underneath the canned really stick park underneath second deck when the earthquake happened. the whole deck was like moving over us. i was thinking, that close from being killed because if it came down it would have been a disaster. the trick was trying to get back to berkeley. i come on public transportatio
the trick was trying to get back to berkeley. i come on public transportation and a friend of mine had a tv. as you can imagine one of these portable tv s. we realized that it wasn t running and the bridge was down. so it was quite an adventure getting back. what actually happened, i was able to get a bus that was headed down the peninsula and i asked them if they would give me a ride to the airport. i walked to the airport and rented a car and ended up going around san jose to get back. a lot of my friends did not get back for a day or so. it was quite an eye opener to me. i have been an elected public official for a long time. during that time i have been very interested and concerned about disaster and disaster preparedness and how we can mitigate and plan and demand so when it happens we re prepared. and at berkeley i won t give you the whole litany but berkeley is one of those communities that is highly educated. we have 22 nobel prize winners from brerkly. the gentl
beautiful building and i was reflecting back and i was at the baseball game 22 years ago. how many of you were at the baseball game? i am the only one. two of us. i was sitting underneath the canned really stick park underneath second deck when the earthquake happened. the whole deck was like moving over us. i was thinking, that close from being killed because if it came down it would have been a disaster. the trick was trying to get back to berkeley. i come on public transportation and a friend of mine had a tv. as you can imagine one of these portable tv s. we realized that it wasn t running and the bridge was down. so it was quite an adventure getting back. what actually happened, i was able to get a bus that was headed down the peninsula and i asked them if they would give me a ride to the airport. i walked to the airport and rented a car and ended up going around san jose to get back. a lot of my friends did not get back for a day or so. it was quite an eye opener to m
these bills covered a lot of territories the time. there was an expansion of our public assistance program to cover 100%. to provide 100% funding for damages to government agencies and expanded el jabilty for projects and a project that provided funds for both resident denial housing and rental units. there was a bill that created the gap loan program for small businesses. there was a lot of activity in terms of providing tax relief for individuals and businesses that were affected and most notably, of course in sales tax for 13 months it raised about $1 billion ultimately use topped firned those when i think back now and when i was thinking about what i wanted to say about this event, i was thinking dwhroon the thinking about what to say, i was thinking they couldn t do that today. even with those efforts that were taken by the legislature and at the state and federal levels, and the federal government provided almost $1 million from fema. i think altogether there was
national center of disaster resilience. mayor bates will discuss the importance of citizen awareness as loma prieta engaged with the city to address emergency preparedness headon. let s welcome mayor bates to the podium. [applause] thank you, paul. thank you very much. it s a pleasure to be at this beautiful building and i was reflecting back and i was at the baseball game 22 years ago. how many of you were at the baseball game? i am the only one. two of us. i was sitting underneath the canned really stick park underneath second deck when the earthquake happened. the whole deck was like moving over us. i was thinking, that close from being killed because if it came down it would have been a disaster. the trick was trying to get back to berkeley. i come on public transportation and a friend of mine had a tv. as you can imagine one of these portable tv s. we realized that it wasn t running and the bridge was down. so it was quite an adventure getting back. what actually hap