[laughter] mike coy cook, personal photographer, and no. 1 critic. I know i forgot so many people tonight. You know who you are. If i can give more to the city, i will. Thank you. [applause] they have extra photographers that travel with them. Lets hear it one more time for jocelyn and her family. Thank you very much. [applause] i graduated from the university of california berkeley with a degree in civil engineering. I started with the department of public works in 1984. In 2003, i was asked to come to San Francisco Public Utilities commission to take the meat on the program. Im responsible for all the Large Capital projects for water, waste water, and power. Its about 12 billion of capital projects. We have a lot of projects. Our water system improvement program, 80 products that span seven counties. We have a staff of about 400 City Employees and about 500 consultants. Puc is really embracing technology. We wanted to make sure we really had a system that would elevate all issues so
Forest when you dont have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire . Its an excellent question, sir. We spend a large time in cal fire on Public Education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or Vegetation Management program in cal fire, we have a Robust Program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and Vegetation Management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u. S. Forest service. So twofold program, Vegetation Management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a Public Education stand point. What we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be selfsustaining and selfsupporting. They need to be prepared. We try to educate them in respect that we say well provide the offense, you provide the defense. We talk to them about hardening their structures in a defensive measure
Behalf of all of us. We are also very lucky to have a bunch of people from sfmta, many of them are here. My job is to introduce the awardees. Please join me and give a hand for jay primus, george reynolds, steven lee, and lorraine fuqua. Thank you. This is a tremendous honor. It really does feel fabulous to be recognized. One of the relief fund things about this project is that it is just complex enough and just big enough that it is truly a case where hundreds of people were required to really get it off the ground. Theres really nothing thats the kind of thing we dream about. Working shoulder to shoulder with that many people to make something happen. It has never happened before. What a pleasure. Unfortunately, the mfac award is limited to four people. We are up here representing an entire team. Some of that court team is here tonight, including lauren, alex, lisa foster, hank wilson, lesley, jason lee, and brendan monaghan. [applause] those are some of the folks those are just some
We did not expect the house to be so packed tonight, so i apologize for lack of seating in the back. I am inspector john wrote a and chief inspector secretary. John monroe. I would like to welcome you to the 2012 middle of valor ceremony. Can we all please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. Into the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You can have a seat. I would like to acknowledge and introduce some of the people we have on the stage with us. First, at the Police Commission president , thomas mazzucco, commissioner kingsley, Paul Henderson from the Mayors Office as representing because the mayor was unable to come tonight. Also, we have commissioner loftus. Also, the command at steep. D staff. Deputy chief james that lake, lyn tomioka, leanora militello, and next to lyn commander biel, corrier from field comman. I would like to introduce chief gr
Deputy chief james that lake, lyn tomioka, leanora militello, and next to lyn commander biel, corrier from field comman. I would like to introduce chief grigory p. Suhr. Good evening, and hopefully lyn still wants to be your boss tomorrow. I know it is quiet and there are a lot of kids in the room. That is terrific. The medal of valor ceremony is the best event that we get to attend. It is when there is a crisis, emergency, extreme danger and takes everything you have to go forward, and everyone else that would want to run away, the people you will hear about tonight not only went forward, but they stood their ground, they saved lives, they promoted Public Safety, and i have been attending the medal of valor ceremonies as a captain since 1996, and i can honestly tell you the stories you will hear tonight in the roster we are born to go down tonight is the most impressive night of the medal of valor ceremonies i have had in however many years. It really is something. Tonight is for a of