January will not necessarily be where you are maybe mid year in terms of trying to contract with Wheelchair Services or get the appropriate clearances . And i think i heard you say youre trying to work that through to do that. So were starting that process. It takes about a year. Weve been focused on trying to get this up and running since january 1. Now that were there, theyre starting the process to add the benefit. Theyre working with the current vendor to see if they could add it. That would be an easy fix, but we also have to get the systems up to speed to meet the requirements of cms. So to answer your question, i dont know. Were working on it. I will answer to say were committed and working on it. I cant give you a time frame. But i will know more as the year goes on and will be happy to provide an update. I would be interested in at least a quarterly update in the area to track your progress. I recognize that licensing and vendor contracting in your organization, like in most l
Pretty clear theres not a lot of mystery here. Our buildings are a big part of the story. And where those emissions are coming from, cyndy will talk a little bit about that. But more and more, they are coming from natural gas. And while we will be developing a Climate Action strategy that you will hear a lot more about for 2020, we dont wait for that to be finished before we adopt policies along the way. And theres a particular moment in time now that is very important because the Building Code gets updated on a threeyear cycle. And we are and that starts now in 2019, the new cycle. So we wanted to weigh in to be in alignment with that statewide cycle. And im going to let cyndy take it from here. Good evening, commissioners. My name is cyndy comerford. Im the Climate Program manager. And im going to give a brief summary of the presentation that i gave to the policy committee several weeks ago. And so what we are here for today is to ask for your support on two ordinances that anthony m
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 provi
Room is named irving brier i knew. I am 81. I was friends with his son steve and used to go to the brier house on the weekends. I was from the midwest. On holidays i didnt have anyplace to go. Irving brier, the man you named the room after used to espouse social justice and the importance of highquality Public Education. He used to lecture his boys, who you may know are you now prominent judges in the country and me who is not that, but i was there to receive the lecture many times about those messages. Highquality Public Education and social justice. He said those are the keys to the health of American Society and San Francisco society. By chance, because i didnt know we were going to be in this room. I didnt know about the plaque. By chance, that is wha what thee values are of the board of directors. There are about 20 of us. We are here to do all we can as regular citizens who have Different Networks and means and education and we represent 14 zip codes. We have six africanamericans
So as commissioner sullivan can attest to, we had a really interesting policy Committee Meeting on these issues. And we wanted to ask cyndy our Climate Program manager to give you a brief outline of what was discussed not nearly in the same level of detail. But as lowell said, when you look at our where weve got emissions coming out, its pretty clear theres not a lot of mystery here. Our buildings are a big part of the story. And where those emissions are coming from, cyndy will talk a little bit about that. But more and more, they are coming from natural gas. And while we will be developing a Climate Action strategy that you will hear a lot more about for 2020, we dont wait for that to be finished before we adopt policies along the way. And theres a particular moment in time now that is very important because the Building Code gets updated on a threeyear cycle. And we are and that starts now in 2019, the new cycle. So we wanted to weigh in to be in alignment with that statewide cycle.