Today we are going to talk about fire safety. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. Its a wonderful display. A little house in the urban Center Exhibition center that shows what its like in a home in San Francisco after an earthquake. One of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. We are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. Thank you. My pleasure. We talk about the San Francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. How do we avoid that kind of problem. How can we reduce fire hazard . The construction was a lot different. We dont expect what we had then. We want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. If you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. Be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. Absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the Utility Company come in and turn it back on. Here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house.
In relation to a project that is funded for the benefit of the public. And the public doesnt have any meaningful say about what is happening here. And i will illustrate by this Public Private partnership in relation to the inaudible and the shelters in the city in relation to smoking. When you consider what the hotels want and the hotel users in the tourist trade. You say, we wish for the hotels to preserve 75 of their room dedicated to nonsmoking. Not what happens on separate floors with separate elevators. But when it comes to shelters and sros, we allow smoking and provide smoking patios. And we dont enforce no smoking in front of the shelter on polk street. And if you look at the statistics you feel, you find this is a primary cause of death. And that the people that are homeless have 20 year shorter Life Expectancy in the circumstances they are put. None of the developers will devel developer, and you spread the epidemic and you impose welfare costs of smoking through the shelters
Do this on a regular basis to encourage carpooling to schools. Its kind of a followup to our safe routes to schools project. Youre replacing it or in addition . Its an addition. Were still doing the safe route to schools, its an addition. Its all aimed at getting away from single occupancy vehicles taking well, it will never be single occupancy vehicles if you are taking a child to school, but trying to combine trips so we are more efficient in terms of getting children to school. So 11 schools, i mean there are 250 schools in the city, it may seem like a drop in the bucket but it was an initial attempt and i would assume that we will have a lot larger participation the next time we do it. Great. Yeah. Its one of these things its one of many, many ways to try to encourage efficiency in transportation and its a step in the process. Then the other thing that i was interested about was the zero waste enforcement. Uhhuh. I think weve spoken a bit about this before. What happens if building
Holistic approach, the Community Coming together with different agencies , we were able to combat homicides related to Domestic Violence for 44 months. And this kind of graffiti abatement takes a Community Approach as well and shes been a great mentor to all the students and to get them engaged, as you recognize the academy of Art University has a lot of international students, its important to get them engaged to really understand how our country works and the importance of community involvement, also reaching out to the younger students to have respect of other peoples property and also to reach out to those students who might think of art as a career. I hope you give due consideration, you have seen all the great support for her, she is a Wonderful Community leader, Rebecca Delgado rottman . Oo . A any other Public Comments on this matter . Seeing none, supervisor campos, supervisor tang well, very Impressive Group of candidates and i want to thank both miss ross and miss rottman fo
Curriculum and program, maufas is the chair, with fewer and haney. Rules policy and legislation, wynns is the chair, with is the chair with [inaudible] Ad Hoc Committee on personal matters and relations is haney i think its me fewer and murase. Sorry, [inaudible]. And then on the city and School District select committee, its me, sandra lee fewer, mendozmcdonnell, and wynns. Okay. So the Personnel Matters in labor is main, fewer and murase. Thank you. Thank you. Any other reports from Board Members . No. Yes . Yes. Thank you. Little confused. I just have a couple of things i wanted to announce. One is on this thursday were going to be honoring 33 students, 28 of whom are from San Francisco unified School District and 5 are from students that graduated and we invite everybody to come out and support. And then i also wanted to congratulate Fred Blackwell who is the new ceo of the San Francisco foundation and a wonderful partner with San Francisco unified, so fred, welcome aboard. And [in