The big scissors. Why dont you guys come on in here. All right, hold on, were not there yet. Lets not do it yet. Be careful. All children with scissors, please be careful. All right. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah ladies and gentlemen, Lafayette Park is officially open yea hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are talking today about earthquakes and we are going to talk about the issues that make us particularly vulnerable in San Francisco and talk about the policy issues and do Earthquake Response and hopefully in our earthquake recovery. Pat, who is a Structural Engineer and a guy that has looked at earthquake building upgrades in San Francisco, yeah. Than anybody and he has his earthquake dog harvey. Okay. Thats enough. And john paxton who is a part of caps and its a Community Action plan for seismic safety and sponsored by the department of building. And what are the significant impacts of earthquake and how can we mitigate that to meet
So that is incredible unity in the city. Moving to another topic because we will cover these later i wanted to make sure i mentioned that within these last few months through the cooperation of our city administrator naomi kelly we have appointed a manager of the caps program, and of course that is the Community Action plan for seismic safety. It is a plan we wanted to make sure that was lead by someone who can immediately get on the ground and figure out all of the things that we need to do to make sure the soft story buildings which are the most important focus that we have to have for the next seismic event and starts with that planning with all of us, so i wanted to make sure to introduce and congratulate patrick otiline who has come aboard to take care of this incredible responsibility. Patrick, thank you very much for being here today. [applause] i will note that currently the caps program is lodged under city mmptdors office and a conversation i had when i was city administrator
Turk street Emergency Operations center. First of all i want to thank everybody. Anybody wearing orange gets a special treat in my eyes today. Anyway were still celebrating and i never knew that wearing orange and the giants and sports will be so closely connected to what we do in Emergency Management but it is and it is for good reason because our citys success is really dependent upon inviting thousands more people here to enjoy our resources here in the city, to tax us a little bit on it, but this is what we do as a Great International city. All of you have a very distinct role in all of this and its my pleasure to begin telling you how proud i am and the months of september and particularly october have all been full of great events, and numerous events, and sometimes on schedules that while we had mentally took note they would be on the similar weekends, we were of course needing to really communicate with each other, and make sure we did all the things in the background that no o
Good afternoon. This is our Disaster Council meeting of october 26. Thank you all for coming. Welcome to our Emergency Operations center. As you know we generally meet at city hall but today is a very special day that you will learn about as we unfold our agenda and thank you again for coming. Im going to turn the table over to mayor lee who is going to give some opening remarks. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to our turk street Emergency Operations center. First of all i want to thank everybody. Anybody wearing orange gets a special treat in my eyes today. Anyway were still celebrating and i never knew that wearing orange and the giants and sports will be so closely connected to what we do in Emergency Management but it is and it is for good reason because our citys success is really dependent upon inviting thousands more people here to enjoy our resources here in the city, to tax us a little bit on it, but this is what we do as a Great International city. All of you h
Encouraged all of the Public Safety departments to work well ahead of this, and i want to thank them for constantly keeping me and many of you on the sf Alert Program and texting us and making sure we were assured that the critical departments were working together just in case and its always about just in case. Right herald . The red cross knows this more than anyone and its about being prepared and again i want to give great kudos to all the Public Safety divisions of the city from the police and fire to the paramedics working behind the scenes and people out on the streets from dwp and to building inspection and you have to inspect some of the structures that go up whether its putting on a bmx bike or skate board and allowing a hill of dirt to become controversy in front of city hall. I didnt know that. To our public works area that make sure that we are doing everything right on the streets and accounting for both pedestrian and the various traffic modes that we have. Its all being