Commissioner constant didn ande are excused. We have a quorum. Welcome to the dbi. Youll see a strong tone of earthquake awareness and readiness in my comments today. Tomorrow, as most of you know marks the 30th anniversary of the leoma skwaeurb earthquake ae city is hosting numerous events at the marina, as well as holding a tabletop exercise at the department of emergency management, include within of ie Structural Engineers seok and brop is the terminology for that and the annual duck and cover exercise held at citywide. Thats actually an earthquake event. While much has been accomplished over the past three decades to strengthen buildings seismically. Seismically, we must prepare for earthquakes around the world. With our Retrofitting Program in its final phase, we are at 98 compliance in terms of filed permits and thats quite an achievements. So welldone and 65 completion and that could be stronger but well get there. Private Property Owners have invested approximately 250 million
Showers and receive emotional support and working on disaster assessment at both sites and got 3 removing care teams combing the effected Community Like case be mental workers and working closely with the state face teams in order to go and make sure that as many as possible people are being reached and theres not a lot of people that need services were going out and providing water including trash bags and shovels whatever they need as well as snacks. We have so far served 2 thousand plus meals and snacks and described bulk items like trash bags and provided Mental Health contacts to 5 hundred and 45 individuals provided over 9 spaces in the shelters since sunday and weve got 2 hundred members of the American Red Cross working in the relieve effort weve set up the operation across the country and our services are equal for any and all who have been effected by a disaster something id like to authenticities thats important while this has happened in San Francisco there are local disast
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San francisco with the workforce are 911 and public works and mta and other groups that are receiving the alert and received them only supped morning whats next, we want to turn this into a public early alert system were working harder 80 hard to get even though Political Support i told us what it will cost theres a great deal of interest when we look at the alert japan installed theyre after 10 thousand people were killed and japan after 6 thousand people and china is building a system after 80 thousand people were killed in an kweerth i hope that this is the final kind of proof that is needed to show the value of earthquake Early Warning and get that necessary investment thank you very much. Im sorry one other thing this has been planned an International Conference on Early Warning at uc berkley next week focused on how to get the necessary funding the signs behind that people are welcome to attendee and im pleased the mayor is going to be joining us in the discussion next week thank
The final kind of proof that is needed to show the value of earthquake Early Warning and get that necessary investment thank you very much. Im sorry one other thing this has been planned an International Conference on Early Warning at uc berkley next week focused on how to get the necessary funding the signs behind that people are welcome to attendee and im pleased the mayor is going to be joining us in the discussion next week thank you, dr. Allen. Alicia johnson of my staff is going to give us a brief review on this. Thank you antonio. Sf 72 is designed to build a momentum to create a platform you see did digital and the physical in front of in front of you i focuses on a more resilient thank you sf 72 needs to be inclusive and human and clear. Is it so designed to be co ordinary with the residents of San Francisco. We want to have san franciscans to talk about preparedness and take simple steps to prepare and take care of each other in the first 72 hours after an emergency. This is