Deaths of kids under 1 occur in their home with this this is the holidays hospitals and suicide by gun increases during the holiday so you want to be involved in helping out here it is right here the great matt scott we want to go to graduations not funneled and able or be part of the solution not the pollution were involved well not wait until things happen we dont want to go to funnels or hospital where a person is Walking Around with a bag once you get shot and die you aint never coming back those brothers it theyll be standing with us but it needs to be heard im not against people that have guns, you know who responsible knows how to do it or the safety behind guns we live in a real world but people with 34b9 issues people shot reck also no questions asked and make sure we honor the mayor the police chief, the medical marijuana store, the community people, the vip and project level and most important the mothers youre fierce District Supervisor jane kim love you girl and the School District right here matt haney our capita of our neighborhood sherry right and the leader the rest of you guys and brothers and sisters who came home from prison whos out here doing good okay shout outs to mike and the rest of the guys please ask questions thank you for coming power its all around us in the sun and the winds and caves waves power that lights our homes while protecting our Natural Resources clean power will provide power to san franciscans how about works right now our power is from pg e from nonrenewable systems that comes over pg e maintained lines with clean power your energy about think generated by caesarean more renewable sources come to our home e. R. Businesses to the pg e lines good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming to city hall first of all, thank to all the departments it under the general umbrella of the Emergency Management public works and area our Economic Workforce Development office including our faith cbo community and penguin and others weve been explicit expecting some big storms to come our way as conversations with meteorologists i think thats their property name and scientists warn us of the el nino storms that are coming here that will certainly our city and our area will be a focus of what necessary expect to be flooding i havent seen any rain yet but i want to be and so our department desirable reduce if we lucky well be offeringly prepared we deal with unexpected dangers about you it is good he appreciate the departments and our direction coming together and doing everything we can to prepare not only themselves and their operations but to the public to the medium large and Small Businesses particularly to the residents for most now we know that with the exceptions weve been working in the private segment and Public Sector as well as with the faith based partners to make sure were all ready and reemphasis that everyone should continue at their time when there isnt a big flooding going on to assess sf 72. Org that is where there is good information we work on that site very well to prepare everybody and again thank our department of Emergency Services for putting out robust sets of information for i cannot we will definitely be taking care of people on the streets as much as possible and hear more detail but 11 hundred more beds more than the shelter beds and in addition to the winter she will not beds that enter Faith Council is helping us to identify that are Human Services will identify an additional 11 hundred shelter beds for those people that that she will not should that large storm come our way were preparing those sites and want to make sure that people who are on the streets know we have your outreach teams letting them know we have additional shelter so we simply do not try to experience the effects of a large storm by themselves but reach out to as much as possible thank you to public works and the Public Utilities commission for Work Together ive seen the crews and done videos with their volume trucks i know how loud 38 they are theyve been looking every catch bacon and with all the leaves theyll be plugged so we have to refresh those catch bacons by unfleg influencing them and any residents that see them plugged for trash or leafs report those to 311 and those agencies will get out to take care of them and make sure our infrastructure can go as much as they can to deal with 9 emergency our office of Economic Workforce Development i want to thank them theyve been in communications aimed at our Small Businesses that are particular flowed prone areas their preparing and making sure we know what they can do and the services we Office Public works and other agencies working on those sites well have those sites up where residents and visitors can object 10 i think 10 free he moomd for their use at locations that convenient for them this is one location well have them at a number of locations nearby historically identified places of flooding but i do want to say our attitude as city hall is one we want everyone to know that alert sf and the 72 hours. Org is there were preparing for a disagreeing discharge that is man made or otherwise were prepared and want to put out as much free information as possible so when people plan for those disasters it is less changing more before corning sea making sure they take care of the communications and their families and businesses and their neighbors i want to say again, thank you to our event our Police Department theyll be out there making sure they respond to any specific needs that are there along with public works as we have our deniable that can assist people in inspecting areas the city or the homes and apartments what might be needed as well as public works we emphasis that if there is any lifethreatening emergency people for sure call 911 but when no lifethreatening emergency please call 311 steady and that will be taken care of and the distinctions are in the tree branch falls on the street none it hurt thats the 311 but if a life wire ryan falls and people around that that is a 911 it is lifethreatening we need to distinguish that so we dont have our lines filled with inappropriate calls to those lines we want the public to be read i again offer my thanks to the departments that are here today they are ready and theyre willing theyre able to engage in the departments and we want our city to be safe and prepared and doing what we do early and often so again, thank you and up now with more details along with the other departments is ann from our department of Emergency Services. Thank you, mr. Mayor and good morning in the early 80s and the late 90s we had huge storms here in the bay area well, actually throughout california according to a recent released e released report 46 days of rain in january and february of 1998 thats a lot of rain we learned from each experience each large storm that go things happy you you know you have downed power lines and the mayor said and Power Outages and flooding all sorts of thing we need to prepare weve gone through 4 years of drought a lot of trees coming down they dont have the root structures and the mudslides we have been preparing for this the impact is on the whole community of San Francisco we started developing plans last fall working with all of our city departments agency and our nonprofit partners in the Faith Community and developing a game plan for el nino this year our concept of proclamations or game plan is continuous operations through a storm it if a severe storm tweezer in constant contract with the National Weather service that provides us with information on point telling you the impact and severity of the storm and the potential hazards to San Francisco we will queen a Conference Call with the city storm Incident Management Team or i m t to update the Partner Agencies what to expect with the upcoming storm if necessary well open our Emergency Operations on 1011 turk to make sure were Court Reporting our response activity with rains as the little spitting rains out p there and right now our city is preempt twentyfour hour to make sure that the residents and citizens and the visitors to San Francisco are safe our game plan relies on the corridor response at all levels of government navigate our lead integer managers my lead el nino plan is meeting with fema to talk about our Court Reporting response effort our success relies on all our partners like pg e, and our communitybased organizations who are integrated with us at all levels of Emergency Operations in the field on the tv monitor youll see sf 72 hour or city now the information hub and find information updates id like to take the opportunity when not an emergency this is a live site i encourage people to go check it out and finally with alert sf our text Merchandising Service in San Francisco we have a new feature that will make that easier for people to sign up all you have to do a text 888777 triple 8, triple 7 and type in alert sf youre connected to this Environmental Service i encourage all people in San Francisco and visitors to sign up for alert sf by registering youll be able to keep yourselves save. What to expect as we approach the el nino storm on that note im going to turn it over to trent roar the director of our Emergency Services. Thank you. Im trent the Human Services and hsa is the lead agency for providing shelters in emergencies and were stepping up for el nino on both ann and i were actually involved that the shelters in the 7, 98 a lot of lessons we learned the biggest one we dont want a single shelter with one thousand plus people but shelters where the homeless are and a plan as the mayor said 11 hundred shelter beds with others depending on the demand located throughout the neighborhoods in San Francisco admission and south of market, tenderloin, civically and southeast part of city and bayview and the hatred Golden Gate Park but the process well undertake when we prepare for this storm will be meeting with the National Weather service well look at winds and temperature and duration and amount of projected precipitation based on those factors well decide whether or not to activate the shelters well prepare in phases so if we do make the determination we need to activate for our long phases do it in phases the way we stage the locations allows us to bring the shelters up to two or three hours so that excludes mats and partnering with meals on wheel easy this Salvation Army and others meals on wheels and staffed with city staff as well as the nonprofits the shelter will operate on to a form 700 to project how long it will last and probable a half or a day after the transitioning out of the shelters the types of location the first thing we look at where are the existing be shelters are providing shelters for folks our Emergency Shelter some is 15 hundred and 25 beds right now at hsa and thats 1 hundred plus for single adults women and families and some have drop in areas or cafeterias to allow individuals thats the first place well look and activate and have our partners with the rec and Park Department their 3 rec centers that will be used and then the nonprofit partners and others who have facilities we can use and lastly other facilities ymca for example, has stepped up to provide their give him nature in the western edition and activating weasel be learning was a as we go it is hard to anticipate but in 1998 we had a thousand beds that seems to me you looked at sort of the homeless places in the at any given time 3 thousand people on the streets some dont want to good indoors and at risk of our harming themselves partnership with other agencies and temporary accommodations for two or three nights and others for the homeward bound the Transportation Program in other cities and shelter the remainder as we assess the storm and the demand and already have contingencies for hundred additional beds should we need that the facilities will not be some discussion or word on the street to have tents theyre not tempts those are permanent structures that will be adding mats and other things to some of the facilities some of the bigger sheds might be heat and in those cases erect a tent inside of a structure but no plans for tents on the city streets and thanks to the partnering with tdm and others nonprofit partners with the department of health well be doing the street outreach and the hope sf so we feel that were prepared and almost finished with the memorandum of understanding and contract for locates well be ready to activate within a couple of weeks we anticipate the weather is hard to anticipate but the heavy el nino rains from january so february well be prepared for the homeless residents thanks. Thank yous interpreting well hear from barbara garcia. Good morning the district will have roving teams to make sure that the medical needs and the Mental Health needs of clients are taken care of were working with the outreach teams for the serviced to make sure they know that the sheltered will be available particularly our Homeless Outreach team that have mooeveng relationships with the people over the years will have the ability to get the people into is the she recalls we feel confident about that and our teams will insure that any individuals that Needs Services and ongoing support will be provided by the teams the roving teams are ready to go thank you very much. Thank you bearing now well hear in Mohammed Nuru the director for public works from San Francisco. Thank you like the mayor said over the last few months all the agencies have been working to present prepare for the upcoming storms as part of work weve done over the last few weeks had a couple of sandbags give away gaze and 15 thousand sandbags were given out we still have a large supply of sandbags and any residents feels their vulnerable to any kind of flooding through the garage or door or the back of their house come to our yard chavez a large number to supply people and in addition our crews are scheduled to work around the clock performing inspections of trees any potential tree hazard that the public seize they should let us know when we have storms were vulnerable to branches and trees falling so call 311 number will allow us to get and work on that emergency preparation for the storm it is fall and with the fall we all see the leaves with a little bit of wind the wind leaves can clog our cap baselines so if you see any catch by an that has a number of leaves again call the 311 number the 311 comes through the system to us well have crews that will be out there to clean up the catch baselines with the rain like el nino can flowed pretty fast and if that catch by an is not clean quickly water raise and jumps the curbs and gets into homes the public can help us you know when you see a situation like that it is an easy job get a rack or broom and put the leaves in a bag so were ready for the storms and well be working around the clock but possess importantly the public eyes on the streets so when you see things you believe that creates a situation please call 311 and well be out there thank you. Thank you, mohammed next Michael Deputy general manager of the Public Utilities commission. Michael. Good morning so were youre wart and Power Providers in San Francisco and the bay area many of the remarks are my remarks on that and i think to emphasize with the mayor said we need to be prepared we are we have been working on this for quite sometime and corridor with the public works and actually working with the City Attorneys Office if we do get into a situation where there is damage in the city one of the things that mohammed said i want to emphasize youll help yourselves by clearing storm drains 25 storm drains in San Francisco we can get to 9 thousand plus so many well not be able to get to if you get out there and make sure that the water goes away from buildings and protects the property the other thing in a low lying area youre there elevate our belongings and put them up high to not get disadvantaged i dont know wants to lose their prized possessions and fled insurance you can take out flowed insurance and lastly we have a Grant Program at the Public Utilities commission for eligible pertaining to help to protect their property from flooding and finally if flooding 311 were monitoring that our crews without with the department of public works and thats the best way to respond to our concerns thank you. Thank you very much, michael this time id like to acknowledge our partner here with us today ashley from the meals an wheels, bruce makinna with the corporation thank you. Major sheryl with Salvation Army and marty with project open hand thank you. And charles from st. Anthonys and Berry Anderson from pg e that concludes our press conference well stick around and answer questions if i want to do individual interviews thank you all for coming thank interviews thank you all for coming thank ui want to do indi interviews thank you all for coming thank want to do indivi interviews thank you all for coming thank ladies and gentle afternoon, we will go aled and get started. Welcome you tathe regular scheduled meeting of inSan Francisco eployment retirement system. I [inaudible] cohen [inaudible] vice president. Are there any announcements . No. Could you call roll, please . Commissioner cohen, aye. Commissioner [inaudible] on the way. Commissioner makras, here. Commissioner meiberger [inaudible] all are present. Lets rise and say the pledge of allegiance