Ive turned off my phone this time. Im not going to talk about the numbers chl im going to talk about maybe one tweak to the probable cause. People get a complaint, they go to the directors office. Most people want to qualify, but its a few that causes a problem for all of us who view the process as a financial cost. They go to the hearing, and then they get an order of abatement, and then they get it to you, and they ged t it recorded on title, and they dont get it. I think there needs to be a process where people can point out the projects that are causing problems to everybody and have that conversation, maybe just a simple form, little written description that comes to litigation commit see so you guys can bring in the City Attorney. Because once the City Attorney gets involved, everybody pays attention. Theres not a financial cost that anyone can afford when the City Attorney sends you a letter say you go youre at 500 a day or 1,000 a day. So a homeowner who knows something is going on could fill out that form, give it to you, and a lot of problems will still when you guys have the extra information on cases that need to be referred to the City Attorney. Any way, thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment . Okay. Seeing none, item 12, review and approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of january 17, 2018. Is there a motion to approve . Move to approve. Second. Theres a motion and a second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . Okay. Seeing none, are all commissioners in favor . Any opposed . Okay. The minutes are approved. Item 13, review and approval of the minutes of the special meeting of february 2nd, 2018. Is there a motion to approve . Move to approve. Is there a second . Second. Okay. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, are all commissioners in favor . Any opposed . Those minutes are approved, as well. Item 14, adjournment. Is there a motion to adjourn . Move to adjourn. Second. Being a second, all commissioners in favor. Were now adjourned. Its 12 15 p. M. 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,you. Today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum clapping. compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of Community Meetings and were he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. The family Forum Benefits throughout San Francisco im supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they dont thinks the planning. What youll notice if you walk around todays activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have oneonone free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. We did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to Community Meeting to tell people about this event well have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews im thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better good morning, everybody. First of all i would like to thank our california state attorney general and the staff for working so closely with the city and county of San Francisco. I want to begin by thanking our late mayor ed lee for initiating the Police Reforms and responding to create a Historical Partnership with the attorney general offers. I would like to acknowledge a number of people, chief of police bill scott. London breed, senior cohen and the Mayors Office and all those who made it possible. I would like to thank them for engaging with us. In 2016, our city grappled with crisis seen in a lot of american cities, the dissolution of trust among the community and Law Enforcement. Responding to cries from our community for improvement, mayor lee reached out to attorney general lynch and the department of justice and San Francisco entered into an agreement to evaluate the Police Department and get independent analysis of how we could serve our city. The department of justice presented recommendations and our city embraced all recommendations and to work closely with the justice department. To date we have started more than half of those reforms and huge credit to the police chief bill scott and the men and women of our Police Department that have embraced the reforms. We have some of the best officers in our country. And we are seeing promising improvements with use of force incidents down 18 just last year. Unfortunately, attorney general Jeff Sessions announced that the department of justice would no longer provide assistance or guidance to departments seeking to improve the trust between the police and the public. But under mayor lee, we were determined to push forward as a city. That is why mayor lee turned to our state partners to push forward the reform process. With the help of an independent partner. Today, were here to announce that the California Department of justice will evaluate and report onion going reforms ongoing reforms. This partnership demonstrates our commitment to the reform process and includes measures needed to ensure it will be unbiased and transparent process. Today, marks the beginning of a chapter in the reform process. One that stays true to our goal of transparency, accountability and most importantly of trustbuilding here in San Francisco. Mayor lee started us on this path and i will continue the journey he began. Again, i want to thank our police chief scott and the Police Commission for their leadership and the men and women of our Police Department. I want to close by thanking our attorney general for his commitment to our city and to the reform process. His leadership here and at the state level are unparalleled and were incredibly happy to have him here. I would like to introduce our attorney general of california. [applause] first, mayor, thank you very much for bringing us together to chief scott, thank you for so early on reaching out as well to see if this could be a possible course of action and i have to tip my hat and give a shoutout to mayor ed lee. Because from the very beginning of my tenure as attorney general, mayor lee reached out to me and said the city of San Francisco wants to be your partner, we want to continue to make improvements and any way we can work together, i want to do that. So when we found the u. S. Cops program and you the u. S. Department of justice abandoned its work with the city of San Francisco, right away mayor lee and i were in conversation. And i just got to say to ed lee, we miss you, but were here doing your work. This is a product of what ed lee wanted to see happen and i think its important for us as leaders here from the city and county of San Francisco, the leader of the Police Department here and certainly the city mayor to say on behalf of all us, we all owe ed lee a great deal of gratitude for always putting the people of San Francisco first. [applause] he said something very important when he began this, to help families in San Francisco, our men and women in uniform, believe there could be confidence and trust to do the best job. He said, fair and just policing that treats everyone the same and places the sanctity of life above all else was important. I think today, thats our mission. Those of you who reached out and have been reaching out to help all of us come together so that families throughout the state, certain here in San Francisco, can feel confident about the work that is being done to provide them with the Public Safety should look at todays announcement as a sign that in San Francisco theyre serious about getting the job done. We need that kind of focus. And we need this memorandum of understanding between the city and county of San Francisco, the Police Department in San Francisco, and the state of california through the department of justice, to make live those reforms that were proposed by the city more than 270 of them, and make sure they get implemented. That is how you gain the confidence of the people of your city and county. I think its important to note that simply because the federal government decides to abandon ship, did not mean we were going to let the ball drop. There is fumbles that can cost you a whole lot and we saw a fascinating game yesterday at the super bowl, but i will tell you this, at the end of the day, the people in the city and county of San Francisco are going to be the big winners, because we picked up the ball and were going to run with it and do this for the people of california and San Francisco. [applause] my team at the department of justice stands ready to be with you as a partner. I cant tell you how important it is to have independent eyes overseeing these reforms. Accountability, transparency, confidence and trust all come from giving people a sense there will be independent review of the work that is being done. I believe the people of the city and county of San Francisco should be heartened that it was the leaders of the city and county of San Francisco and their Police Department who asked for the independent eyes to come forward. So its all about working together. And i got to tell you, Public Safety is as much a team sport as anything youve seen on tv in the last 24 hours. We have to do this together. Nothing is more important than Public Safety. Nothing is more important than public trust. We hope to build that public trust by working through this memorandum of understanding. And if i can send one last message to the people of this great city and county in San Francisco, this is the work that we must do. We hope that what is done here will become a model for what other communities can do. I will tell you that the work at the department of justice wont end with this. In the next few months, the men and women in uniform here in San Francisco will start to employ the work that they must do now to make sure that identity profiling is not something that is a reality anywhere. Well begin to see the ripa regulations take effect where all the contacts there are made of people on the streets, in our communities, will be documented. And well be working closely with the men and women in uniform to make sure that happens. Well look forward to working with the city and county of San Francisco and the Law Enforcement agencies to make sure as we go about documenting who is in a gang and who is not, we get correct information into the cal gang system and not Incorrect Information that could harm the lives of people moving forward. So were going to be doing a lot of work to get people that confidence. And that trust. That we in Law Enforcement are doing this to provide Public Safety. So i am pleased to say that todays announcement is just the beginning of a process that the city and county of San Francisco began and i hope that what we can say, it wont end with the city and county of San Francisco. That many communities will see what you do here can be replicated elsewhere and there begins the trust and confidence that people need, that our leaders are working in our best interests. With that, id like to now turn it over to your leader when it comes to Law Enforcement, chief bill scott. [applause] thank you, attorney general, and mayor farrell. I would start my comments off with thanks as well and then touch on things that are important for you all to know. Let me thank the members of the community that are here and those that couldnt be with us, because really this is about policing the community with the community. The people you see in this room, many of them, we sit down have indepth discussions about Public Safety, keeping our city safe, when there are things, whether Violent Crime or car breakins, these are the people we partner but, but at the same time, theyre demanding a Police Department that is fair and just. Its that commitment that is a win that pushes aura needs to change, where we need to change and reform our department and the way that makes us better. Let me start with my thanks to the members of the community who are there with us, hold us accountable and again, theyre here with us this morning, so thank you. [applause] also, the people standing with me at the podium. Attorney general, who has been willing to work with us, mayor farrell who is continuing the work started by mayor lee and got continued by acting mayor london breed. And today, is the beginning of the rest of the journey in terms of making this department a better department. Also to my left, i cant i would be remiss without mentioning supervis