Good afternoon, i am jeremy spits with San Francisco public works government affairs. Thank you for calling this hears. A brief overview and then turn it over to our assistant superattendant with the bureau of human forest tree and the Deputy Director of operations if you have any questions. Public works is committed to fire safety and has a long history of partnering with the Fire Department. We are committed to greening San Francisco and positively impacting climate predictions. It includes rightofway and street trees and not many undeveloped parcels. We have proactive Maintenance Plans and work with the Fire Department to address areas of concern even on private property. We have quick reactive response when hazards are brought to our attention. As i mentioned. We have very little space near homes or residential areas. Our main areas of responsibility include medians and scattered parcels throughout the city such as along the boulevard and the areas around brotherhood bay and sunset
[inaudible conversations] welcome to the 24th annual texas book festival. I name is katie vine. We are here today to talk to amaryllis box author of the new book life undercover. Encourage everyone to pick up a copy of this. She is going to be signing copies. I will give a quick introduction and then i will ask a few questions in leave the last ten to 15 minutes for audience questions. Please silence your cell phones before we start. Even before she finished studying in oxford before september 11 before her writing mentor was captured in killed they have already invested in International Affairs having taken a great risk when she was just a year out of high school. She eventually got a masters in conflict. She developed an algorithm that could predict terrorist attacks based on 200 years of data. At age 21 she was recruited to the cia where she analyzed classified information. Soon afterwards she was selected for advanced operations and training in the middle east and asia. Its not a h
We dont have it on the screen [ overlapping speakers ] the first chart i want to pull up here, this is a i know that the Fire Department is going to show you this map as well. This is the San Francisco department of Emergency Management and cal fire, fire hazard severity zone map. You can see that San Francisco is depicted there and as per cal fire criteria, San Francisco has a low wildfire risk and some areas of fire risk, but no moderate or extreme. On the righthand side for comparison weve inserted the sonoma county, the same map for them where the horrific kinkaid fire was. You can see their circumstances are markedly different. I only put those up for context since we were talking about wildfire, the circumstances very wildly throughout the state and there is a point of comparison in how the city compares to the most where the most recent wildfire in california just occurred. For us, our best practices, first and foremost, we consult and stay aligned with the San Francisco Fire De
Jeremy. Good afternoon, i am jeremy spits with San Francisco public works government affairs. Thank you for calling this hears. A brief overview and then turn it over to our assistant superattendant with the bureau of human forest tree and the Deputy Director of operations if you have any questions. Public works is committed to fire safety and has a long history of partnering with the Fire Department. We are committed to greening San Francisco and positively impacting climate predictions. It includes rightofway and street trees and not many undeveloped parcels. We have proactive Maintenance Plans and work with the Fire Department to address areas of concern even on private property. We have quick reactive response when hazards are brought to our attention. As i mentioned. We have very little space near homes or residential areas. Our main areas of responsibility include medians and scattered parcels throughout the city such as along the boulevard and the areas around brotherhood bay an
Correction notice voluntarily by the permit holder. A lot of people sometimes architects put that down or someone just on their behalf. It could be double that, probably. Depends on the interior work thats being done, as well. So on the demolition, obviously, we spoke on that before, as well. If they end up exceeding the scope of demolition thats shown on the approved plans, or if they get into a situation where theyre potentially seeing inferior framing that is shown on the plans to remain, and it cant because its inferior, they should contact the department of building inspection, get an inspector out there, we will actually issue an inspection notice. The project would have to go back to planning, and that changes the democounts, and thats a process that we have in place for those types of projects. Were trying to get away from people saying oh, it was rotten. We just took it down and ask for forgiveness. Were actually calling people ahead of time and making sure they dont get into