Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Hi, im corn field and welcome to doing building San Francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. Lets take a look at that. Here at the spur urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. I have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both Structural Engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do . Both structural and maybe even important nonstructural things. You hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. What you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. If you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. If you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is nonstructural and your chimney and water tank. Lets talk about what the structural things might be. And he is exactly right. You dont want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. There are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the Building Department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a Building Permit and hire a contractor. But you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i dont have to worry about going to a government shelter. That is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. Here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. If you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. If you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their Due Diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. When i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. Especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. And the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. On top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. And that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. If you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the Fire Department is going to have to fight and we dont want to have any more fires than we need to. So bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. And so easy, and you go online and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the Hardware Store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. That is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. If you are in other types of building it is complicated. If you are in a highrise building you just cant anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owners and the managers about earthquake preparedness and dont take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. That is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. What is the right question . Will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake . Is that a good question to ask . Yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. Thanks, pat. Thanks, harvey. And thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on good morning, everyone. I am your city librarian. I want to extend a warm welcome to the beautiful and historic Chinatown Branch library, and thank you mrs. Lee for joining us today, it is an honor to meet you and an honor to have you present this morning. Special thanks to our city administrator, naomi kelly, and your entire team. Merely mayor lees staff and our own library team for coming together this morning to launch this book, highlighting mayor ed lees leadership. The library appreciate this opportunity to add such important work to our collection for future generations to learn about his leadership and his contributions to the city and county of San Francisco. The book mayor lee and the city he loved will be a treasured asset for the San Francisco public library. As a student of history and leadership, i look forward to reading this book myself. It highlights not only his leadership, but also his concern for the residents of San Francisco. His dedication to this city, and his humour and his kindness. I remain so impressed by the love and devotion his staff showed for mayor lee and the joy and friendship you brought to our city family. What you might not know is that mayor ed lee and his family were regular library users, and tremendous champions of the branch system. In fact, his leadership of the citys Public Works Department paved the way for the Branch Library Improvement Program which saw the renovation of 16 neighborhood libraries and the construction of eight brandnew libraries. This program ensures that all branches were seismically safe, a. D. A. Accessible, and prepared to deliver 21st Century Library services. The Branch Library Improvement Program was the largest Capital Program in the librarys history once the branches were completed , he turned his focus to the main library, supporting the creation of a stateoftheart Digital Media lab lab for teenagers, the mix. The mix provides a safe space for teens to come together and create music, videos, learn coding, and do homework. The mix is a great legacy for our mayor who recognized the growing need for our youth to have access to technology and opportunities to compete in the newtek economy. Mayor lee also helped us launch the bridge, our literacy and learning centre on the fifth floor of the main library. This space features two awardwinning literacy programs. One does not help models, and the other designed to help young people learn how to read. It also features a veterans resource center, and an accredited online skies high school program. As the city prospered, mayor lee ensured the Library System and our residents prospered as well. He provided the critical support to allow us to hire more staff and open every Library Every day , creating sevenday a week service at all 28 library locations. Our libraries are a basket of democracy for all residents, and mayor lee recognize the importance they served as anchors in our neighborhoods. It is fitting that we launch this book during asian and Pacific Islander heritage month. As the first asianamerican to leave the San Francisco public library, i stand on the giant shoulders of mayor lee, our first asianamerican mayor. I aspire to shepherd our Library System in the same professional manner that mayor lee dilute directed the city. It is my pleasure to introduce our city administrator naomi kelly. [applause] thank you, michael. I have to say that i have some fond memories of working with mayor lee and supporting the library. He personally had me fundraising for the teen Digital Center Digital Center down at the main library, one city hall turned 100, we worked closely with michael and Susan Goldstein to make sure that we honor the beauty and the history of San Francisco. I just want to recognize, as michael did, that i am so happy that you are here today, anita lee. We talked the last year and more about honouring mayor lee and his legacy, and all that he has done for this city, and i have enjoyed and treasured each of those conversations because i still feel have, and malcolm has been part of many of those conversations, i feel that together, we are going to keep this story alive, and everything that he has done for the city of San Francisco. I also want to give a heartfelt thanks to all of his former staff and his colleagues who contributed to this book. They all came through with stories, with facts, with data, just so that the residents in the visitors of San Francisco know the history of what was accomplished in his time as mayor, and i see many of my colleagues here in the audience today and i want to thank you for being here. Todays presentation is to formally memorialize mayor ed lees accomplishments, and as a historical document, it will remind generations to come about the amount of work you put into the city of San Francisco. There was a time of growth and transition. Ed literally rolled up his sleeves and got down to business , and not without his signature smile and his humourous jokes. Although his time with us with the city was way too short, we can all agree that he was able to accomplish many things during his administration from 2011 to 2017. He was kind, he was generous, he was thoughtful, he was humourous he was influential in addressing street homelessness with the first Navigation Center model during his administration. He launched and invested in neighborhoods, for neighborhoods and Small Business along local merchant corridors. He improved Public Housing, including one right down the street. When he became mayor, it was during the recession. He focused on job growth and local higher, and as always, from the time he was city administrator to the time he was mayor, he focused on our infrastructure and our infrastructure and our resilience, and keeping future generations of San Francisco safe, but theres not enough time for me to go through all his accomplishments, which is why im so very happy to formally present mayor lee and the city he loved, a summary of his accomplishments from 2011 to 2017, to the daniel e. San francisco Historic Center which contains the official archive for the city and county of San Francisco. With this, i would like to invite former ed lee staff member, malcolm young, to the podium to say a few words. [applause] thank you, naomi. My name is malcolm young, i am a current im currently over at Chinatown Community Development Center where we build Affordable Housing and really try to make sure that chinatown is a Great Community and remains an immigrant gateway. I want to say congratulations to michael on being the new director of our library. You are inheriting a great system and we are excited you will make it better. We are excited we are doing this event here. I had the privilege of working for mayor lee in 2011 and 2012 as his first Affordable Housing advisor. I think people forget that prior to mayor lee becoming mayor, Affordable Housing isnt exactly the issue that we have today. When people say Affordable Housing in San Francisco, the question isnt, whether we need Affordable Housing, really the fight is over how much Affordable Housing we need. I think people forget that prior to mayor lee, this city hadnt passed a single Affordable Housing ballot measures since 1996. In 2012, coming out of recession , he really reshapes the conversation around Affordable Housing in San Francisco. It was a moment whenever the Housing Market was down and theres a lot of contentiousness around whether or not we needed to do Affordable Housing, but mayor lee had a vision. He understood that this city is always going to have that issue, and he knew coming out of the recession that we were going to recover, and affordability would be important. With a Housing Trust fund process, he pulled together a working table that this city really hadnt seen, in probably 15 years. It was a table consisting of housing advocates, of whom i was formerly in their rank, market rate developers, landlords, it was really a truly remarkable table at that time, and i think what people forget is that prior to that moment, that table wasnt happening. We successfully went on to passed the Housing Trust fund in 2012, and then subsequently, the mayor mayor used the same model to past the housing bond to pass the housing bond in 2015. He is the first and only mayor to pass two Affordable Housing ballot measures ever. I mention this because we are in a moment right now where we will be putting another Affordable Housing bond measure on the ballot in november, a 600 milliondollar bond measure, and it is critical. We need to pass it. It is the largest ever. Mayor breed has been a staunch champion of this bond, but i think in this moment, we need to take a step back and remember ed s role in putting that table together, and refashioning the conversation around affordability in the city. In addition to that, in many ways, we are also standing in ed s neighborhood. There is no block on this neighborhood where ed hasnt had an imprint, and i just dont mean in his role as a city. Well prior to him joining the city, he was a young attorney at the asian law caucus. Those were his early years coming out of law school. During that time, he led the way in fighting for civil rights, particularly within the city, disaggregating the Fire Department is one of the lawsuits that he filed, but near and dear to my heart, he was also a champion for tenants writes an Affordable Housing, yet again. He fought so many anti eviction battles in this neighborhood, including the famous one at orange land, you know, where it really set the tone for chinatown and chinatown valuing the rights of tenants, and the rights of people to remain. Ed also was the attorney who represented the opinion resident Improvement Association in the first affordable Public Housing rent strike, to really drive for safer conditions. He won that one, too, and that had a Lasting Imprint on ed, which led to his work around Affordable Housing. Lastly, i just want to say, i am really glad that this book was pulled together, as an airport commissioner. We do have an aviation library, we typically dont really put anything in it that doesnt include aviation, but, you know, in about a week, we hope that we will be able to make another great announcement regarding ed s legacy. I cant vote on it, but i believe that this coming tuesday , the San Francisco<\/a>, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. Lets take a look at that. Here at the spur urban center on Mission Street<\/a> in San Francisco<\/a> talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. I have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both Structural Engineers<\/a> and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do . Both structural and maybe even important nonstructural things. You hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. What you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. If you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. If you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is nonstructural and your chimney and water tank. Lets talk about what the structural things might be. And he is exactly right. You dont want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. There are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the Building Department<\/a> is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a Building Permit<\/a> and hire a contractor. But you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i dont have to worry about going to a government shelter. That is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. Here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. If you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. If you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their Due Diligence<\/a> and find out what the deficiencies are. When i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. Especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. And the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. On top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. And that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. If you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the Fire Department<\/a> is going to have to fight and we dont want to have any more fires than we need to. So bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. And so easy, and you go online and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the Hardware Store<\/a> and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. That is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. If you are in other types of building it is complicated. If you are in a highrise building you just cant anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owners and the managers about earthquake preparedness and dont take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. That is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. What is the right question . Will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake . Is that a good question to ask . Yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. Thanks, pat. Thanks, harvey. And thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on good morning, everyone. I am your city librarian. I want to extend a warm welcome to the beautiful and historic Chinatown Branch<\/a> library, and thank you mrs. Lee for joining us today, it is an honor to meet you and an honor to have you present this morning. Special thanks to our city administrator, naomi kelly, and your entire team. Merely mayor lees staff and our own library team for coming together this morning to launch this book, highlighting mayor ed lees leadership. The library appreciate this opportunity to add such important work to our collection for future generations to learn about his leadership and his contributions to the city and county of San Francisco<\/a>. The book mayor lee and the city he loved will be a treasured asset for the San Francisco<\/a> public library. As a student of history and leadership, i look forward to reading this book myself. It highlights not only his leadership, but also his concern for the residents of San Francisco<\/a>. His dedication to this city, and his humour and his kindness. I remain so impressed by the love and devotion his staff showed for mayor lee and the joy and friendship you brought to our city family. What you might not know is that mayor ed lee and his family were regular library users, and tremendous champions of the branch system. In fact, his leadership of the citys Public Works Department<\/a> paved the way for the Branch Library<\/a> Improvement Program<\/a> which saw the renovation of 16 neighborhood libraries and the construction of eight brandnew libraries. This program ensures that all branches were seismically safe, a. D. A. Accessible, and prepared to deliver 21st Century Library<\/a> services. The Branch Library<\/a> Improvement Program<\/a> was the largest Capital Program<\/a> in the librarys history once the branches were completed , he turned his focus to the main library, supporting the creation of a stateoftheart Digital Media<\/a> lab lab for teenagers, the mix. The mix provides a safe space for teens to come together and create music, videos, learn coding, and do homework. The mix is a great legacy for our mayor who recognized the growing need for our youth to have access to technology and opportunities to compete in the newtek economy. Mayor lee also helped us launch the bridge, our literacy and learning centre on the fifth floor of the main library. This space features two awardwinning literacy programs. One does not help models, and the other designed to help young people learn how to read. It also features a veterans resource center, and an accredited online skies high school program. As the city prospered, mayor lee ensured the Library System<\/a> and our residents prospered as well. He provided the critical support to allow us to hire more staff and open every Library Every<\/a> day , creating sevenday a week service at all 28 library locations. Our libraries are a basket of democracy for all residents, and mayor lee recognize the importance they served as anchors in our neighborhoods. It is fitting that we launch this book during asian and Pacific Islander<\/a> heritage month. As the first asianamerican to leave the San Francisco<\/a> public library, i stand on the giant shoulders of mayor lee, our first asianamerican mayor. I aspire to shepherd our Library System<\/a> in the same professional manner that mayor lee dilute directed the city. It is my pleasure to introduce our city administrator naomi kelly. [applause] thank you, michael. I have to say that i have some fond memories of working with mayor lee and supporting the library. He personally had me fundraising for the teen Digital Center<\/a> Digital Center<\/a> down at the main library, one city hall turned 100, we worked closely with michael and Susan Goldstein<\/a> to make sure that we honor the beauty and the history of San Francisco<\/a>. I just want to recognize, as michael did, that i am so happy that you are here today, anita lee. We talked the last year and more about honouring mayor lee and his legacy, and all that he has done for this city, and i have enjoyed and treasured each of those conversations because i still feel have, and malcolm has been part of many of those conversations, i feel that together, we are going to keep this story alive, and everything that he has done for the city of San Francisco<\/a>. I also want to give a heartfelt thanks to all of his former staff and his colleagues who contributed to this book. They all came through with stories, with facts, with data, just so that the residents in the visitors of San Francisco<\/a> know the history of what was accomplished in his time as mayor, and i see many of my colleagues here in the audience today and i want to thank you for being here. Todays presentation is to formally memorialize mayor ed lees accomplishments, and as a historical document, it will remind generations to come about the amount of work you put into the city of San Francisco<\/a>. There was a time of growth and transition. Ed literally rolled up his sleeves and got down to business , and not without his signature smile and his humourous jokes. Although his time with us with the city was way too short, we can all agree that he was able to accomplish many things during his administration from 2011 to 2017. He was kind, he was generous, he was thoughtful, he was humourous he was influential in addressing street homelessness with the first Navigation Center<\/a> model during his administration. He launched and invested in neighborhoods, for neighborhoods and Small Business<\/a> along local merchant corridors. He improved Public Housing<\/a>, including one right down the street. When he became mayor, it was during the recession. He focused on job growth and local higher, and as always, from the time he was city administrator to the time he was mayor, he focused on our infrastructure and our infrastructure and our resilience, and keeping future generations of San Francisco<\/a> safe, but theres not enough time for me to go through all his accomplishments, which is why im so very happy to formally present mayor lee and the city he loved, a summary of his accomplishments from 2011 to 2017, to the daniel e. San francisco Historic Center<\/a> which contains the official archive for the city and county of San Francisco<\/a>. With this, i would like to invite former ed lee staff member, malcolm young, to the podium to say a few words. [applause] thank you, naomi. My name is malcolm young, i am a current im currently over at Chinatown Community<\/a> Development Center<\/a> where we build Affordable Housing<\/a> and really try to make sure that chinatown is a Great Community<\/a> and remains an immigrant gateway. I want to say congratulations to michael on being the new director of our library. You are inheriting a great system and we are excited you will make it better. We are excited we are doing this event here. I had the privilege of working for mayor lee in 2011 and 2012 as his first Affordable Housing<\/a> advisor. I think people forget that prior to mayor lee becoming mayor, Affordable Housing<\/a> isnt exactly the issue that we have today. When people say Affordable Housing<\/a> in San Francisco<\/a>, the question isnt, whether we need Affordable Housing<\/a>, really the fight is over how much Affordable Housing<\/a> we need. I think people forget that prior to mayor lee, this city hadnt passed a single Affordable Housing<\/a> ballot measures since 1996. In 2012, coming out of recession , he really reshapes the conversation around Affordable Housing<\/a> in San Francisco<\/a>. It was a moment whenever the Housing Market<\/a> was down and theres a lot of contentiousness around whether or not we needed to do Affordable Housing<\/a>, but mayor lee had a vision. He understood that this city is always going to have that issue, and he knew coming out of the recession that we were going to recover, and affordability would be important. With a Housing Trust<\/a> fund process, he pulled together a working table that this city really hadnt seen, in probably 15 years. It was a table consisting of housing advocates, of whom i was formerly in their rank, market rate developers, landlords, it was really a truly remarkable table at that time, and i think what people forget is that prior to that moment, that table wasnt happening. We successfully went on to passed the Housing Trust<\/a> fund in 2012, and then subsequently, the mayor mayor used the same model to past the housing bond to pass the housing bond in 2015. He is the first and only mayor to pass two Affordable Housing<\/a> ballot measures ever. I mention this because we are in a moment right now where we will be putting another Affordable Housing<\/a> bond measure on the ballot in november, a 600 milliondollar bond measure, and it is critical. We need to pass it. It is the largest ever. Mayor breed has been a staunch champion of this bond, but i think in this moment, we need to take a step back and remember ed s role in putting that table together, and refashioning the conversation around affordability in the city. In addition to that, in many ways, we are also standing in ed s neighborhood. There is no block on this neighborhood where ed hasnt had an imprint, and i just dont mean in his role as a city. Well prior to him joining the city, he was a young attorney at the asian law caucus. Those were his early years coming out of law school. During that time, he led the way in fighting for civil rights, particularly within the city, disaggregating the Fire Department<\/a> is one of the lawsuits that he filed, but near and dear to my heart, he was also a champion for tenants writes an Affordable Housing<\/a>, yet again. He fought so many anti eviction battles in this neighborhood, including the famous one at orange land, you know, where it really set the tone for chinatown and chinatown valuing the rights of tenants, and the rights of people to remain. Ed also was the attorney who represented the opinion resident Improvement Association<\/a> in the first affordable Public Housing<\/a> rent strike, to really drive for safer conditions. He won that one, too, and that had a Lasting Imprint<\/a> on ed, which led to his work around Affordable Housing<\/a>. Lastly, i just want to say, i am really glad that this book was pulled together, as an airport commissioner. We do have an aviation library, we typically dont really put anything in it that doesnt include aviation, but, you know, in about a week, we hope that we will be able to make another great announcement regarding ed s legacy. I cant vote on it, but i believe that this coming tuesday , the International Terminal<\/a> is going to be named after mayor ed lee. It is the culmination of about a year, year and a half of work by a joint, you know, Community Efforts<\/a> with contributions from everybody, and i dont know if naomi wants to also say she contributed, too, but i think it would be appropriate to have this publication in the airport s library as well, and we commit to buying a million copies. I think we will stand together so that you can see the official. We will present it to mrs. Lee. Here we go. 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