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Will be uninhibit tabl and people cant stay in their homes after an earthquake. They may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we dont want that to happen. We want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. Thats right so that means the Housing Needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former Building Official knows better than anybody t...

Know what that is . What is that . Cookies and cream. Oh, they are beautiful. Yes, so we got to get. All right, all right. We treat the cookies like wine tasting. I dont ever want anybody to bite into a cookie and not get what they want to get. Were Training Staff because they can look at the cookie and tell if its wrong. Oh, here we go. You smell it and then you taste it, clean the plat palate with the milk. I could be a professional painter because i know how to do this. I can tell that its a ...

These are the homes in west would park. In westwood park. How did this perform . The composite the assembly comes assembly composite assembly. They would stucco it. They would put chicken wire on it. When i inspect buildings that are being remodeled, i see that the chicken wire mesh is completely gone. It is galvanized. The saltwater was enough to rest it out. It people think stucco is waterproof it is not waterproof. It sucks the water in. You have to water protect it and paint it. The above th...

Were here at spur in San Francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. And this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. And we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Well talk about things you can do you dont have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. I want to talk about things a homeowner can do. We have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if you...

Commission. We are just proud to be a part of this Great Community event. We started this 3 years ago, this thing called met pole. It was part of sunday to participate in a pedestrian oriented family way. 3 years later. The pingpong festival has taken on by itself and wanted to take on the diplomacy for china and also to focus on a community of youth, family and seniors to play pingpong and pick up this exercise for all to participate in this community. A long time ago when i was little, i playe...

Ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. And its the thought child and the physical manifestation of hard work, of a few Community Leaders that got together and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. And tonight i have the honor to introduce one of the cofounders, his name is jeffery betcher. Where are you . Get up here. And jeff is going to introduce to you as he escorts ms. Annette young smith to the stage. This lady, ladies and g...

Lot. The scare you part is that commissioner arce, youre absolutely right. They could set the not to exceed rate next week. They could move forward with a Shell Program and no other program, which as i said is only less than 4 of what we envision. So, but with that said, the reason that advocates have recently voted and said to the sfpuc and to lafco we would like them to proceed with these not to exceed rates is because they are now competitive with pg e. Especially if you compare it to a pg e ...

We need the resources to hire the people to get the job done, and a lot of the stuff is because there are not people in the department to do it. And you know, that is going to take the money and so hopefully, you will look at it that way, and i guess that it was item number five and it is going to talk about this a lot more and you are going to hear from a lot more people. And i just wanted to get it kick started. Thanks a lot. Is there any more Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is cl...

Any unique things that we may need to do will have to be addressed sort of in that context of it being a state regulation. The task force has two meetings left and so, the last two meetings we will be setting forward some recommendations, and i will let you know what those are primarily we have been doing fact finding and getting some information, and the one thing that has happened which i thought to me which is sort of a key element of the direction to go in, that we can identify, and i hope w...

Different if they interviewed the department, and not to fault them, they may not have understood it being a component. Hi, sa ra. Hi. So, i really appreciate the work, that everyone has put into this whole system. And i really enjoyed having inaudible and john over to my house and we talked about all of this and we really thank you for all of the time and energy that you put into it. And the guideness that you bring to us. I think that we as a policy body, need to look at it from that angle and...