System kind of i dont know if the system failed but we werent alerted and luckily nothing bad happen but it definitely makes me on edge and that so, i forget this other point, we talked about Emergency Preparedness for our population in the city and it was suggested to us by a police officer, sf police officer, to go down to our local Police Station and kind of let them know if you have a vulnerable Family Member in your home that might need assistance in a particular emergency. So i did that. Police station said no, we dont do that. Try the Fire Department. I went to my local Fire Department i love these men and women. No one is to blame. Im realizing more and more and i hope your agencies realize this, theres a huge disconnect between the needs of our population and what the citys current response is or what they can do. Our local Fire Department, the guys were lovely and they took my address and name and the name of my daughter and said we canf they can put it into a data base as an
Into my unit to do a routine power check. This was not an emergency. It was not anything. This is just a routine check. I emailed pg e and said im a wheelchair user. I cant let you in very easily. I need help. There are multiple people in my building who are able bodied and can let you into check those meeters. And their response was, oh, we already tried them and we couldnt get a hold of them. I gave them specific instructions for how to get into my unit. [please stand by]. Handling our power infrastructure. I want to thank the Council Members for their questions and very well intentioned and very reasonable concerns here today. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you. Were going to take a were going to proceed to hold on, im waiting for the panel. Thank you. Were going to information item number 7. The dahlia housing portal. I want to thank our presenter Maria Benjamin, the Deputy Director of Mayors Office and emily shore, dahlia manager, Digital Services. Thank you for waiting. Thank you so muc
They expect and deserve. That helps them live their lives and run their businesses. And this weighs heavily on everyone, including us at pg e. This is not how we want to serve you. And this is not how we want to run our business. Were actually in the business of providing power, not taking power away. So we feel the impact of the decision, and i understand how it alters, how it disrupts the normal flow of life and the normal flow of community. But theres another part of the reality that were in. With winds like we saw over the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation, we simply could not continue to run parts of this system given the risk to Public Safety. We struggle with this decision, as we do with any decision to turn off power. We weigh the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances, the wind, and the vegetation, and we determine that we must have zero risk of a spark. So what exactly was the risk . Well, we know from history that wind speeds, the wind speeds
I think that alex and myself and a number of other people here are really primarily concerned about how were being informed. And i my personal opinion about pg es efforts to get information out is i havent known them to be particularly robust and so im wondering who is monitoring pg es approach to this . Is that your responsibility . How do we make sure theyre going to accomplish what they claim theyre going to accomplish in a comprehensive way . Our responsibility and ill speak for the larger Emergency Management Community Working with all of our partners. Working with nicole. So when the California Public Utilities Commission is doing their rulemaking process, we have made explicit requests that theyre going to be notifying individuals on their data bases, although as jan mentioned there are limitations to that. Theyre notifying public safety, which is including Emergency Management, fire, law, health and this is something throughout the bay area, we are asking pg e to do. Where we s
I think that alex and myself and a number of other people here are really primarily concerned about how were being informed. And i my personal opinion about pg es efforts to get information out is i havent known them to be particularly robust and so im wondering who is monitoring pg es approach to this . Is that your responsibility . How do we make sure theyre going to accomplish what they claim theyre going to accomplish in a comprehensive way . Our responsibility and ill speak for the larger Emergency Management Community Working with all of our partners. Working with nicole. So when the California Public Utilities Commission is doing their rulemaking process, we have made explicit requests that theyre going to be notifying individuals on their data bases, although as jan mentioned there are limitations to that. Theyre notifying public safety, which is including Emergency Management, fire, law, health and this is something throughout the bay area, we are asking pg e to do. Where we s