Forward with the Public Safety power Shutoff Program where they made Power Transmission lines during certain climate conditions and weather conditions to decrease the ability of fires starting. As noted, the c. P. C. Approved this adoption of the guidelines for this as a preventive measure against imminent and significant fire risk. San francisco is consider add tier 1, which is the lowest risk for fire, but the transmission lines run through the east bay hills and up the peninsula. Those both are tier 2 and tier 3, which are higher risk areas. Turning off either side transmission lines, either south or east could lead to blackout conditions in San Francisco. This loss of power outage could be 24 hours and potentially longer. D. M. And other agencies have been taking steps to manage for the consequences of these potential power outages. Last week, we had over 120 participants from city departments that came together at bill graham, to really sit down and work through preparedness and coordination, looking at impacts of these. Im going the turn this over now to our acting Deputy Director for Emergency Services and he will continue to talk to you a little bit about what weve been working on. Thank you director carol. When we brought everyone together we had three primary objectives. We wanted to gather information on what the potential impact of this may look like and we wanted to make sure we were sharing information among departments so they knew what the consequences might be and what steps they would need to talk and that third piece was form a future preparedness activity for what the city could do. What were going to do is show you a quick video of what actually took place last thursday and ill ill talk to you about some of our learnings and what some of the next steps are. We are here today, we have almost every city and county of San Francisco department represented to prepare for the possibility of power shut downs, complete loss of electric power to San Francisco, as a result of the Public Safety power shut off program. This program is intended to mitigate the affect of wildfires. San francisco is not so much at risk of those fires, but due to the configuration of the electric grid should they do a transmission shut off on east bay or the peninsula, San Francisco can be affected. We have all the major Public Safety departments, and the health department, and all our infrastructure departments, the p. U. C. And Public Safety, and our support departments. The power outage will affect everyone and our ability to perform city services, so it was important to have all the representatives from across city programs here today. We in d. P. H. Are working very closely with the rest of the city to help people prepare. For us in d. P. H. , we really want people to make a plan, and especially make a plan with the people they care about. Its time to reach out to your neighbors, to think about your best circle of people. In a disaster, its trust that saves live and thats why in d. P. H. , were working with all of our partners as fast as we can to put together a network to respond in a diaster. Were having really productive conversations around the table here today. I think one of the most fruitful results is our expanded understanding of the inner dependencies of different departments and infrastructures, for example, communications will be disrupted so how do we coordinate when we dont have our normal mode of communication, fuel, transportation, traffic lights will be out, it will be difficult to get around town. We have a lot of follow up after this meeting and lot more work to do, but this is a great first step for San Francisco. [applause] thank you to sfgov tv for helping us pull together that brief. For mary ellen, a lot of stuff is going to happen and we need to know more about it. Some of the Key Takeaways is the Significant Impact to Public Safety and our health system. Were so dependent on power now. Two of the big agencies that will be impacted, the routine forms of communication, these devices calling our public cell towers, on data systems, theyre all going to be impacted. We also heard about challenges traveling. People dont respect that four way stop when the lights go out. It will be challenging to get around the city. Were also going to have other disruptions because of child care centers. They may not be able to function. Having our own staff come to work, that will be a challenge. There will be some extended operational periods. Were not asking people to come in to work 8 hours, but we may have to expand that. When we dont have power, one of the other things we will rely on is fuel. Fuel for our vehicles and generators. Mary ellen mentioned that were not going to be the only ones facing this. If our power is out, other peoples power is out as well. This will be a bay area concern and one we need to make sure we need to get ahead of. Also, this is one of the learning elements. Power outages will require a time for recovery. Just because the lights and the power comes back on, it doesnt mean that everything will be fine. We need to make sure if there are individuals that may have been specifically impacted, we need to reach out to them. If there are data systems that are impacted by an automatic shutoff, then those are brought up properly. Things wont go back to normal immediately. We looked at whats next, our people, processes we need to have and technology. For people in particular, its working and making sure were extending out to our private sector partners, vendors, an contractors. What are their plans . How are we going to coordinate with c. B. O. S and other groups to make sure neighbors are helping neighbors and theyre checking on one another during and after the event and cross train staff. If transportation isnt working, are there other Staff Members that may be able to provide some of the front line services, which goes along with departments identifying those essential business functions they have, what are the continuity of the plans they have. Thats part of the process, identifying the plans, identifying functions that can be done remotely. Maybe not all the bay area is out. Can someone be at home use their personal devices and Access Systems and process things . Also, should we need to, going back to paper forms. We heard there was a cyber attack in baltimore, they went back to paper form to process things. On the technology and equipment side, we have a lot of fuel in the city, how do we get whats in the ground, out of the ground, looking at ways we can use that resource while were getting additional sources brought in. Also, talking to Capital Planning about why are some investments we can make now, perhaps for solar and storage, so we have some other back ups available and also integrating, if we need to, the replacement of electronics if things go down. Those are some of the initial things we identified from this exercise, but this isnt the only workshop were going to do. Some of the follow up steps will be in the middle of july, were going to meet with our private sector and c. B. O. S from what we heard from p. G. E. And how were going to work together. The frequency of these e. M. S. S may come up. Something that director carol mentioned before, often these types of events doesnt happen in isolation, but when its hot or when theres an air quality event. We heard of all these things were doing. If we have this unfortunate trifecta, this will put a lot of train strain on our resources. These are some of the steps we are taking to make sure that we as a city family can all work together. Director. Thank you, does anyone have any questions or comment . I want to thank everyone who participated. I believe it was a good use of time. Im very cognisant of using all the city salaried people into the room and not wasting our time, but we do have some good followup and we will be meeting with our private sector partners in a couple weeks, and however, we have to be ready to flex at any time. We already had our first heat wave and pg e did implement their plan. We are affected if the conditions are closer to the peninsula on the east bay, which is why we have to be prepared for the trifecta effectiveness. So i want to thank everyone for coming together. One of the im trying to find a Silver Lining in all of this and one of them, ive been talking about this a lot and feeling like im bumming everyone out all the time, but one of the great things about this, and that we will accomplish over this summer is increased preparedness. The data shows when there is an actual event or a truly perceived threat that people take action. So, i think that the call to action for everybody in this room and anyone watching this is a call to action to do something, get your plan together, reach out to your neighbor, think through your mind what would happen if you did not have electric power for one, two, and three days, and take some steps now if you are able to prepare yourself. This will be the most important thing that we can do. Frankly, the conditions that well experience after an event like this are similar and would be worse after an earthquake, so if nothing else happens, my hope is carl the fog stays around all summer. We spend a lot of time getting ready and were just that much further along when the rain comes again. So thank you. I want to open it up to Public Comment, if there is any on this item. Okay, seeing none, oh, im sorry. Please. Sorry, can you use the microphone . Thank you, my name is nick mccoy. So i just wanted to make sure you dont under state the value of the staff, the people that you work with, or the folks that have actually served as the support and done the research, made the calls, put up with the late hours and also put up with people that dont have the same level of knowledge as you may have in your careers, or in your time that you spent on the subject, or you spent in the city. Like none of the ideas, none of the theories would be worth anything without your structural help and processes to put that in place. So thats part of like the integration of what youre talking about in the interagency work. I think working with state partners as well, and other International Organizations who may have some sort of the resources or the stake in seeing how we deal with our upcoming challenges or the things that we already face. I think that opens up new Revenue Streams as well. It also produces an opportunity for us to grow, i think scientifically, as well as just the hypothesis of what could happen. You guys, all of the presentati presentations were sound and like, the information was great. I just wonder if like, the worse case scenario, what is it like if we dont succeed . What will those numbers look like . Are we prepared to have that sort of conversation prior to, with the community at large. Also dealing what is the heart of escape, if we have to vacate a particular part of the city or have to change our strategy in regards to whether or not we go up, down, out, and then like even the scale of like equipment that could possibly be used or need to be used. Where would we store that . You know, that light production, i think there are entities out there that are interested in building cities for their own corporate purposes, so they can build the perfect city. You guys already did that. For hundreds of years, like the work has already been put piece by piece in the place. Anyway, thank you i just look forward to participating in the conversation. Thank you. Do we have any other Public Comments . Okay, seeing none, well move on to number 7, the Disaster Council member round table. If Anyone Around the table have a diaster announcement. Michael. Sure, the San FranciscoInterfaith Council in collaboration with major faith institutions have been posting vigils following terrorist attacks on houses of worship. The mayor has been faithfully attending and offering comfort at each of those vigils and she said that people should feel safe when they go to worship. As a result of that, were responding and taking action. We assembled a Steering Committee consisting of the f. B. I. , San Francisco police department, the sheriffs office, the antidefamation lead, Muslim Community center, the San Francisco human rights commission, the jewish federation, the department of emergency management, the department of public health, the archdiocese, and the San Francisco foundation. Its an Incredible Group of folks and what were looking to do in early september, were going to have a workshop for congregation leaders to provide them with the resource us that they need to keep their houses of worship safe and in the event that something should happen locally here, we taken that initiative. Thank you michael. Thats so incredibly important and thank you for your leadership on that. Is there anyone else . Yeah. About two weeks ago, i got notice from our chief medical examiner that he will be moving on to another county, so today is his last day in the office and as of today, were going to start a national recruitment. In the interim, well have acting chief medical examiner be dr. Amy hart and the assistant acting chief medical examiner erin moffett. Well keep you updated. Thank you. Anyone else . Any general Public Comment we havent already heard . Then we will adjourn the meeting, thank you all for being here. [applause] [ ] in 201,755. 7 million passengers traveled through San Francisco international airport. We have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. Flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. The wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the San Francisco therapy Animal Assistant Program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. I amgen fer casarian and i work here at San Francisco international airport. The idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9 11. An employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9 11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passengers jitter. When we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. Passengers. We find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and cant have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. I love the wag brigade. One of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and its on a different level. More of an emotional level. I just got off an 11. 5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. We look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. I like coming to airport its a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. They are required to compete a certification process. And they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. I think toby really likes meeting kids. That is his favorite thing. He likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. Our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. There is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. We get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. The dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. There is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. I think its great. One of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. He wears a wheel around. He has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. He loves it. Little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. He doesnt seem to mind at all. Probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. Many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. What i absolutely love most about it is the look on peoples faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. I am the mom of lilo the pig and she is San Franciscos first therapy pig. Lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. Wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a yearandahalf ago. Our visits last 1. 5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. I feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. Its very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. Its been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. Its been an extremely successful program, so the