We would quickly be in the very same position we are in. I get why superficially that is an appealing way to go, but the volume of cases, we represent over 20,000 people a year. So we would very quickly be in the same position, i think. What i think my suggestion would be that there be some soulsearching in each department be reallocateing staf until they get until and unless they get new staff. So these are we have an 11 million budget plus, and i cant remember how many hundreds of millions for the Police Department, and a lot of staff. So the question is what should be prioritized . And the public has a right to these records. And so what priority does that public right have . In my view, in 2020, year two after this law came into effect, we should have a plan for fulfilling the mandate. And i dont hear any solid plan. I dont hear goals, internal goals, that are set. I hear a lot of, you know, theres nothing we can do. And i dont accept that in my own work when i push up against a wall, i try looking for other avenues to try. And so to me, and we come to the commission, because we understand that accountability is here, right . And so the questions i would have is what can be reallocated over the next year so that we are not having this conversation year after year after year, but that in 2020, the public can have the records they have a right to. The allocation, i appreciate your thoughts on this, but reallocation is a dangerous proposition. You are talking about not only your request for 2300 officers but the examiners request for every officer ever since the beginning of time. And the business of d. P. A. Is bringing complaints before us so that we can appropriately admonish, discipline, terminate officers who shouldnt be on the streets. If you are saying that should be delayed and we should have officers on the streets who shouldnt be so that d. P. A. Can respond to 1421 requests full time, thats a dangerous proposition too. So i completely understand your frustration, but its not simple. And the more we unpack this, the less simple it seems to me, because choices have to be made when youre talking about four attorneys, right . So at d. P. A. So the more i hear about this, the more frustrated i become, because it seems impossible, because yes, there is a mandate, but there is a mandate from the examiner, from you, from p. O. A. , and they all have to be responded to, and we have a business of the commission of making sure that the officers, the sworn members who are on the streets to protect you should be there. Right but thats a little unfair for d. P. A. , because d. P. A. Has records the only records they have are based on when someone complains. Right . So theyre presumably the San FranciscoPolice Department would have even more records, right . Because the sfpd has records that include people who have complained and people who have not complained. So i feel like the target has been d. P. A. And why they arent producing records but there needs to be accountability on the sfpds side as to why they arent producing records. I am speaking to both agencies. I dont mean to be focusing on d. P. A. Here tonight. I mean, what i said is that the five percent is even a more dismal figure. And while there is an issue with dishonesty based on the legal advice d. P. A. Is getting, that issue doesnt apply to sfpd and we still have not one single dishonesty finding, which seems unconceiveable to me. I had a question for sfpd. I realize you were called up here, but you are still waiting in the wings. I think my fellow colleagues, just to kind of wrap up, i do actually, i enjoy the proposition, because it was one that youve given. So i do appreciate that. However, also what im kind of hearing too is do you feel that the Public Defenders Office should get priority over these other requests that are coming in to both sides . We do feel when our clients are incarcerated, that gives them should give them a certain level of priority over folks who are at liberty to move around. So in that instance, yes, we do. We do. And i just want to say, im not saying this is easy. Im not coming in here saying, why is this a problem . Why are we talking about this . Im saying if we dont if we only say theres nothing we can do, instead of asking what can we do today to make this better im hearing you. Saying theres nothing they can do, thats not what ive heard. Ive heard about process challenges, work being done. Its not the speed thats ideal but thats not what ive heard today and thats not what i heard on this issue. I was responding, i thought you said it seems impossible. Yes. Thats what i was responding to. I see more from d. P. A. About what they are doing. Im more confused about what sfpd is doing and how theres only been 32 records disclosed in almost a year and why theres no thought to increasing staffing in this area. We already but i havent heard it. Lets go back to the department you are answering my question to the department. Commissioner taylor. Thank you. I have a couple of questions for you. The first is, can you talk about why there are only two people workingthon and talk about the things you are doing in terms of resources . And much less what d. P. A. Is, give us some clarity on that. And i have a question about the numbers. You said there were 113 requests, about 32 percent of the requests you received, youve gone through. I think the numbers from the p. D. s office was like five percent so im trying to figure out where the disconnect is here in what they are saying they have gotten which is five percent and the number youve presented which is much higher. I dont know what records we are responding to nonjust the Public Defenders Office with our productions. So got it. But weve released over 30 records and d. P. A. Said theyve released 14. And they say there are 1414 percent and we are at 15 percent so i dont know where they got their math from or if its because we are releasing more than just them. But the closure rate and the volume of what each request encompasses. Thats the thing is one request from the Public Defenders Office is basically 9,000 requests, because its different records that are stored in different places that have to be evaluated differently. So it seems, the one request could be closed out because it was one person or the attorney said could you look and see if i say im not able to provide the use of force determination as quickly, because i have to go through all these records, but i may be able to look and see they have no complaint history and provide a record of the termination regarding the Sexual Misconduct or dishonesty, because i have no record of any complaint. I cant do that. Talk about two people working on this. D. P. A. Said they only have four attorneys. Tell me about your resources. Why there are only two people working on these requests. Chief, you want to direct that . I can take that. Theres more demand than we have people. We have civilians, and this budget process, we are hiring 25 more civilians in addition to the eight for the actually its more than eight, its 11 in all. Theres eight in the process right now with the backgrounds being completed. Theres one attorney plus two additional civilians. So thats adding 11 people. We also have body camera unit that has been civilianized with civilians. We have records unit. We have property division. Theres been a call to civilianize positions and put the sworn officers where they belong in the field, and thats perfectly appropriate. But the reality is we have more to do than we have people to do the work. And we have to prioritize and try to divvy up the work as best we can. We are behind in the bodyworn cameras. Before this commission, the issue with the 6228 issue, and that was a personnel issue as well. So its coming. We are hiring new people. We got the budget for it. We didnt get what we asked for, but we got help, so youll see some improvement, i think drastic improvement when we get these level people online, which eight of them are in the pipeline, we just have to complete the background. Okay. Commissioner elias. In your presentation you said you look at the use of force when those requests come in. Do you look at the use of force logs and tag them and go get the Police Reports and review them them and then din close those records . Im trying to understand the criteria or how you determine which of your records is responsive to this . Because i assume, like for example dishonesty, if you have a police report, you dont know whether the officer was dishonest until someone investigates it, right . Because they are just the dishonesty is a sustained finding so there would have to be a complaint associated with it. So use of force, that doesnt have to be a complaint associated with it. And we may not have the complaint or a record of the complaint if it went to d. P. A. So for use of force, we have to get the physical police report, whenever it is stored, if its laser, our crime Data Warehouse system, access photographs or other records and we can access those records and the person may go to d. P. A. Later and present medical records they did have a broken bone, but i will not have any record that that occurred in my file. So it is hard to make the determination. But if we have if we try to determine look at the use of force log, look at the police report, look at the photographs or other evidence so we can try to determine the levelofinjury that resulted from the use of force. Commissioner mazzucco. Quick question for maybe the chief. How intensive this is, we live by silicon valley. We have sales force in our backyard. Is there any way we can take everything the d. P. A. , Police Commission and Police Department has, have the service go out and put that into the cloud and have it searchable so that when the request comes in, its a matter of going in and using key phrases like we do as attorneys, with major cases, with huge document productions and millions of documents, using relativity and other databases, is there any way we could do that . Maybe its very simplistic of me to say that but i do that with the cases i have in our office, and commissioner elias does it and commissioner hamasaki and commissioner dejesus. Is there a way we could do that . Is that a concept thats reasonable . Yes. I have a meeting set up tomorrow and next week with vendors regarding this issue of the Case Management systems. Something we are exploring in our budget cycle. We do have some issues with having outside people come in to see our records. A lot of our records contain criminal history records that people dont have clearance. But once the records have been redacted to a certain level, they can go into that. And we are hopeful these Case Management systems could help us with the way the requests come in. Because we cant control how people make requests. Its how the public request law works. They can make it any way they want. But for us to sort those and prioritize those and have them make sense, we need to be able to put them in a database that does what we need. Our Current System does not immediate mete that need. But we are looking at ways to do that. I will also just say so if i can go ahead. To answer your question, that is the vision. Weve also talked to other departments that are doing maybe not to the degree that youve suggested, but doing some of that. And so we are reaching out to the other departments in southern california, some of the larger departments, and also we can come up with a system. Weve been talking to vendors to see what they can do in terms of whats out there to do that. I mean, this is new for everybody. Theres one in particular that is reportedly saying they think they can come up with a system to help us. I have a call scheduled with them tomorrow. Okay. Is that going to be something thats tied into what we are working on with d. P. A. About putting everything online . Is it going to be the same system . I dont want to have to that is. D. P. A. Has the finding. But we are working together as much as we can have a database, a system we can all benefit from. Obviously part of the contemplation of that issue, i dont want to forget, its not just the system itself which is forwardthinking and great for whats coming up in the future, but its also the data migration of getting that information into that system in a format that has to be digitized first. So with records that go back to 1982, all the records from back then were and are maintained on cassette tapes which have to be listened to, transcribed, redacted, part of this process on sometimes handwritten documents as well. I dont want to forget that is a big part of even if we had a perfect system that would be able to digitalize that information and make those short sets in the moment, a big part of that is transitioning a lot of the records, which already exist or currently exist today into a format that can proliferate throughout that system and figure out how to use it collectively and individually amongst the agencies. I was going to state for the record, those of us in the nonprofit sector, customer management system. We do a lot of data sharing as well too. Did you have Something Else you wanted to add . All right. Thank you all. Thanks. So i wanted to make a few comments to add context to just kind of the magnitude of this and d. P. A. Had a slide they included. They looked at basically 15,000 pieces of paper. And for us, its that exponentially. And as was mentioned, for d. P. A. , they have quite the challenge like we do. We are looking at the case files that are brought to their attention. We have that, and we have a whole lot of other documents. And the question i think commissioner hamasaki had asked, how far back we go. And we are going to go back as far as the records exist. And i can use myself as an example. Lieutenant spoke with use of force. So in 2006 we began to capture use of force data in whats called the aim system. So thats readily accessible in a Record Management system, but for anybody still with the department, and there are many of us, we have to do a hand check. And the starting point for that is to look at use of force logs and go through those logs, those actual pieces of paper to see, using myself as an example, did sullivan use force in 1995, 1998 . There are going to be case numbers associated with that. That entails that the staff actually look at those reports, they have to find the reports and then have to read through the reports to make it come to a determination of whether or not the force that was used falls within the category that we are talking about Great Bodily Injury. So there can be associated photographs with that. Sometimes making a g. B. I. Determination isnt as readily apparent as one might think. To come to that decision, there are other pieces of evidence, if you will, that need to be looked at. Any one case, ill use officerinvolved shootings as an example. Those case files can contain, i know many of you know this, but those case files can contain thousands of pieces of paper. So to be responsive to just one officerinvolved shooting, that requires a staff member or Staff Members to read through those thousands of pieces of paper and make the appropriate redactions. And lastly, when we issue a request, the entirety of the department, and to use round numbers, 2300 sworn members across four categories, which are included in this particular section, this penal code section, thats roughly 9,000 searches we need to do. Any time that same request is made six months later, and i think the comment was made commissioner hamasaki in terms of the work that you do, you need the most current information, correct . We have to be responsive to not only that first request that covers a defined parameter of time, but now we need to go back and look at those same 2300 officers in that second time frame. Theres a lot of different components to this. Its not been for a lack of effort. Its not impossible. We recognize its not impossible. Its a matter of, in my opinion, its a matter of getting the right systems and having the requisite staff to address the issue. And in a more perfect world, this would have been come gone into effect in january of 2019 and there would have been plenty of lead time to afford the representative agencies here today to put those systems and those people in place. But thats it dont tell the reality that we have. And theres complaining about that. But we are reacting in a very proactive and aggressive way to address these issues. And i think that just kind of in closing, i think the conversation the dialogue that has been mentioned, the ask of the respective agencies, i do feel will go a long way, because certainly the Police Department, and i think i can speak for d. P. A. , we dont want to chase your tail around this issue. We want to get out the information and respond in the most expeditious way but also be able to prioritize those particular requests and be responsive to it. Thank you. Thank you, commander. Thank you, lieutenant. We are ready for the commission presentation. You have 12 minutes, but dont feel the need to take all 12. Exactly. Thats why i have no powerpoint. I am so sorry, commissioner elias. Dont worry commissioner, chief scott, director henderson, members of the public, im rachael here to present on behalf of the Commission Office regarding the questions you all had about the production of public records related to penal code section 832. 7 also known as s. B. 1421. Tonight both the department and d. P. A. Have discussed and described their processes and challenges for the intake and production of s. B. 1421 records. The Commission Office has many of the same processes and challenges. And while i may be repeating myself, i feel its important to underscore the fact that compiling these records is complex and lengthy, although i will keep it short, commissioners. The Commission Office receives 1421 records in the same manner as explained by the sfpd and d. P. A. , through gov qa, email phone or fax. The request is entered into the Case Management section of gov qa where its given a unique tracking number. Its also entered into the commissions internal tracking system that you mentioned, commissioner elias. But i do have to say that that spreadsheet that you commended, we stole from the sfpd. So they do have that. And its as robust as ours. As the requests are fulfilled, both gov qa and the database are updated. Then a confirmation the request has been received is sent to the requester using the unique tracking number. Once opened, the request is reviewed to determine which of the four categoryies under s. B. 1421 is being asked for. And then the search for the records begins. Once records have been identified for disclosure, we have to determine which parts of the record are authorized to be released and which parts, if any, need to be redacted. The search for the documents and review is the area the commission has had the most challenges. Ill go into that later. One a record is completed, we send a letter to the officer notifying them their record is subject to release. The record is sent to the requester through gov qa using the unique identifier along with notifying other agencies. Throughout the process, Commission Staff works closely with the City Attorneys Office for advice on specific files. To date, the Commission Office received a total of 12 requests for s. B. S. B. 1421 records. While that is not as many as the sfpd and d. P. A. Received, the number of requests itself does not tell the whole story. The 12 requests fall into two categories, those for specific officers by name and those asking for any of the four categories within s. B. 1421. Those requests asking for specific officers range from naming one officer to naming approximately 2300, which means we have to search for each officers record individually to determine whether there are potentially responsive records. For requests asking for records related to the four categories, the date range is from 2014 through 2018, which means searching for the types of records for over 2300 officers who were employed although any time during that time frame. If an officer or incident is identified, the file must be pulled and reviewed to determine whether the records are releaseable under s. B. 1421. The research can take from 15 minutes to many hours depending on the length and complexity of the record. Of the 12 sorry. Of the 12 received requests, the Commission Office closed eight and is currently working to fulfill the remaining four. The four remaining requests include a request for any s. B. 1421 record for the approximately 2300 named officers employed on may 30th, 2018. A request for any 1421 record related to any employee during the period of january 1, 2014 through december 31, 2018. A request for s. B. 1421 records for an officer who is no longer an sfpd employee. And lastly a request for s. B. 1421 records for 48 named officers. The commission has released responses for nine officers, two with records related to the Great Bodily Injury category and seven with records related to the discharge of a firearm at a person category. In addition to the release of responsive record, the Commission Officer has determined that there are no responsive records for approximately 1,000 of the 2,300 officers named. And that information has been provided to the requesters on a rolling basis. The research and determination done for the no responsive record notification does take a significant amount of time to make that determination. We still go through the same process and spend the same amount of time, to determine that there are no records to produce. So while it seems like there is nothing to show for the 1,000 responses of no responsive records, that is not the case. A lot of work goes into making that determination. The Commission Office continues to use the order of priority it used from the out set, which is the consistent with the priority of release included in the current commissions protocol for release, s. B. 1421 that you discussed earlier tonight. And finally, the challenges the Commission Officer has encountered are similar to those of sf p. D. And the d. P. A. Commission records were not stored in any anticipation of having them to be released in the future. So to mention our challenges, the commission has in the past only had a basic internal tracking system, with rudimentary information for each case, meaning for every potential case we have to pull the paper file, which is oftentimes in the longterm Storage Facility and then read the file to determine whether documents are releaseable under the statute and whether redactions need to be made. This is a timeconsuming process for each file. The Commission Office doesnt have the technology to reproduce many of the requests records, specifically the audio cassette tapes. And it must send those records to a Third Party Vendor for reproduction and redaction. Our third challenge is ensuring coordination between the requests when responsive record has been identified and produced, similar to what the sfpd has. There are numerous requesters asking for the same records. And when we release something, we need to make sure it goes out in the same time for all requesters. We need to work with the sfpd for some cases to determine if a case has a sustained finding. Many of your cases are returned back down to the chiefs level. So while we may have records, we actually need to coordinate with the commission or the department to see if in fact they were sustained. And then lastly, the amount of time it takes to conduct the research on named officer and the incident is timeconsuming. Moving forward, there are some internal processes that should assist us in fulfilling these requests. First as alluded to by lieutenant warren, we are waiting on a new feature in gov qa that will help staff prioritize and assist in the store anage and release of records, making them easier to produce for subsequent requests. Second, the sfpd and commission are working with the d. P. A. As we mentioned tonight, for their project, the d. P. A. Received funding to develop more sophisticated software. We are happy to partner with them. Lastly, someone will begin assisting when available. What form is the release . Is it electronic . How do we get it out . Yeah, unless requested otherwise, under the public records act, you can request it how you want. But most of them, rerequest through gov qa, their unique identifier. Okay. Then it can be accessible by thery quester . That can be what . They can access that . Correct, yes. Do we have any times we send paper out . We have not had any of that for s. B. 1421, no i dont see any questions. I thank you very much. Count on doing this again in march and giving us on update then. Next line item. Public comment online item 4. Any Public Comment on the presentations we just heard . Thank god. [laughter] thank you. Public comment is closed. Next item. Line item 5, general Public Comment. The general public is welcome to address the commission that are within the jurisdiction of the commission. Under rules of order, during Public CommentNeither Police or d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and police and d. P. A. Personnel should refrain from any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comment. Okay. We are ready for general Public Comment. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. As usual, i like to use the overhead. Im here again concerning my son. He was murdered august 14, 2006. As thanksgiving and christmas, thanksgiving has passed and christmas is coming. And my feelings are just coming up again concerning my family and my son. I am still asking and worried about when are we talked about all the homicides this year, 33 or however many was this year. One is too many. We are not talking about all the unsolved homicides that have been happening from when my son was murdered. I am still asking for justice for my son. As i come here, i just dont talk about my son, i talk about other homicide victims too. Im saying that because none of these homicides have been solved. And these are before my son. And it doesnt matter whether its Police Killing or community violence. I bring this picture because when i say it doesnt matter whether the police kill you or community violence, the grief is still the same. Its there. We make a big ruckus about Police Killing but we dont make it about community violence. Im saying this because, again, im happy to come here every year, but i still need not every year, but every weekend, to get justice for my son. Im tired. Im going to go home. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have the hotline number. I dont have the tip number in front of me . The tipline is 415 5754444. I think theres still a 250,000 reward out there. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Next item, please. Line item 6, adjournment. Action item. Is there a motion . So moved second. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. We dont need Public Comment . No okay. We are adjourned. My name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in law enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. 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We are here at the San Francisco urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and im joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. What are things we should be concerned about water. You want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water. We recommend that you have at least 35 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. The storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. Right. Of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. Its free. It comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. So find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. I use it to water my garden. Of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. Yes. Its an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. Just make sure you check the label. This one says june 2013. So convenient you have an end date on it. And there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. Sure. If you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. In any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. There is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is to use basic household bleach. The recommendation is 8 drops of bleach for ever gallon of water. You add 8 drops of bleach into the water and it needs to sit for 30 minutes. The other option is to boil water. You need to boil water for 510 minutes. After an earthquake that may not be an option as gas maybe turned off and we may not have power. The other thing is that puc will provide information as quickly as possible about recommendations about whether the water is okay to drink or need to treat it. We have a number of twice get information from the puc through twitter and facebook and our website sf water. Org. People should not drink water from pools or spas. But they could use it to flush their toilets if their source are not broken. Lets look at those issues. Sanitation is another issue and something people dont usually or like to think about it but its the reality. Very likely that without water you cant flush and the sewer system can be impeded or affected during an earthquake. You need to think about sanitation. The options are simple. We recommend a set up if you are able to stay in your building or house to make sure that you have heavy duty trash bags available. You can set this up within your existing toilet bowl and once its used. You take a little bit of our bleach. We talked about it earlier from the water. You seal the bag completely. You make sure you mark the bag as human waste and set it aside and wait for instruction about how to dispose of it. Be very aware of cleanliness and make sure you have wipes so folks are able to wash up when dealing with the sanitation issue. Thank you so much, a way of life in San Francisco. When the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. Tell me a little about the soft Story Program. What is it . Its a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. Did you the soft Story Program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame . It only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. Its aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. But the openings at the garage level and the street level arent supported in many buildings. And without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. Many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so its to everybodys advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. Notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially atrisk properties but fewer than onethird have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. Lets talk worst case scenario. What happens in a collapse . Buildings have the tendency of rolling over. The first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. In an earthquake the building is a total loss. Can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit . One of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. In an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. You have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. Where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. So, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. Can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs Property Owners might expect . Its a very simple process. We deliberately tried to keep it that way. So, whats involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. This adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake youll get movement but not collapse. And that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. So, potentially the wood and the steel it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30 . Thats exactly right. Thats why were hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. Great. Lets take a look. So, lets talk steel frames. Tell me what we have going on here. Well, we have a steel frame here. There are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. It can be done in about two weeks time. Voila, youre done. Easy. For more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,excited. When we had that big rainstorm last year that was racing down this hill i went out and when there was a break in the weather to make sure that was clear and that was definitely debris that draws down i make sure i have any bathroom we me and sweep that away that makes a big difference sfwrts can fleet floated and every year we were coming home he it was rainey noticed it the water with hill high on the corner and she was in her rain boats so she had fun doing that. I saved our house. So adopt a drain 25 good morning. Welcome to the november 20th, 2019 meeting. I start off congratulating the staff attending the community event. The director and d. B. I. Staff provided detailed information on programs including seismic retrofits, a. D. U. S accessible business entrance as well as responding to questions about building safety. Also thanks to the director for hosting the departments annual allstaff meeting october 31st, where commissioner