Supervisor mandelman to implement ab 1784, so id like to make a motion to add that language. President yee okay. Theres a motion to amend. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor peskin. If theres no objection, then well take these amendments outlined. [gavel]. President yee colleagues, can we take this item, same house, same call, as amended . Seeing no objection, then, this resolution passes unanimously. [gavel]. President yee number 62. Clerk 62 is a resolution to support the rights of San Francisco veterinary specialists. President yee supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes. I am so proud to have the cosponsorship of every single colleague on this board. Thank you so much for standing by these workers. As i stated last week, sfvs is owned by v. C. A. , a company that owns 800 animal hospital. In 2018, v. C. A. Was purchased by mars, the candy company. The next step is for the company and union to negotiate a contract. That started 14 months ago, but unfortunately has resulted in delays, not a contract. Colleagues, bypassing this resolution unanimously, we are sending a strong message to marsv. C. A. And San Francisco veterinary specialists that we expect them to honor the law and do right by their employee. They need to know that San Francisco is a strong union town that will always fight for justice. President yee okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Okay. With no objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel]. President yee number 65 . Clerk 65 is an authorization to written ballot arguments for submittal to the voters for the 2019 consolidated municipal election. President yee okay. Colleagues, the amendments to the motion have been distributed to authorize preparation of ballot arguments for the november 2019 election as follows. Number one, president yee to write the proponent argument for the Charter Amendment regarding the disability and ageing Services Commission and department. Number two, mayor breed to write the proponent argument for the g. O. Bond regarding affordable housing. Number three, mayor breed to write the proponent argument for the Initiative Ordinance regarding the tax on net rider fares. Number four, supervisor fewer to write the proponent argument for the initiative regarding the Affordable Homes for educators. Number five, supervisor mar to write the proponent argument for the Initiative Ordinance regarding prohibitions on campaign distributions. Number six, supervisor walton to write the opponent argument for the petition Initiative Ordinance on vapor products. Can i have a motion for on these amendments . Motion by supervisor walton, and seconded by supervisor fewer. Then, without objection, these amendments are adopted. [gavel]. President yee on the resolution, can we take this item, same house, same call as amended . Without objection, this amendment is approved unanimously. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go back to item 60 which was scheduled pursuant to motion m19. Clerk this is where Public Comment to enter into closed session was taken for the board to convene in closed session for the purpose of receiving advise or conferring with the City Attorney in a case which pacific gas and electric is an adverse party. President yee okay. Weve already had Public Comment on that, and well go into closed session. [inaudible] president yee members of the public, we ask that you exit the chambers and the sheriffs to lock the doors behind them. We will open. President yee okay. We are back in open session. May i have a motion that the board finds that it is in the best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose this closed session deliberations. Motion made by supervisor ronen, seconded by supervisor mandelman. Then without any objection we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. Madam clerk, please read the in memoriams. Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the of the following loved individuals, motion made a supervisor walton by the late mr. Walton, sr. , and on behalf of Clifford Benjamin henry, on behalf of supervisor brown on behalf of the late hannah sigri, and on behalf of supervisor stefani, on behalf of the victims of the gilroy shooting. President yee colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes this session. President yee this is our last meeting before our recess session. Have a great summer, and we are done with the agenda. [gavel]. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc good morning. So im mary ellen carol, the executive director at the department of management. Welcome. Were here to talk about the 911 which is so going to help us from a Technology Perspective to bring our 911 system to what we call next gen, next generation. So ive been the director here for a year, and its just amazing how much we are able to accomplish, but with technology that is literally decades behind. Were so grateful to leadership, of our mayor and our governor, to help us to bring forward this funding that honestly is going to help us come to technology that most people in their daytoday lives in their personal technology have above what 911 is. This is going to make our calltaking more efficient and honestly its going to save lives, which is really the bottom line and why were here. Thank you so much and ill hand it over to our mayor. Mayor breed thank you so much for being here today. I want to add to what mary ellen said about what we need to do to take our Emergency Response system to the next level. Nowadays its not just about making phone calls. People are Text Messages and delivering messages in a lot of different ways. So it is time that our systems reflect the changes in technology. So ab 911 is just an incredible step forward that will provide us with the resources necessary to improve our system throughout the entire state of california. I want to thank our governor for signing the legislation and his leadership and vision on moving us forward to the 21st century, because we know that when someone reaches out and they are in a situation of an emergency, that they clearly need help and we need to have a better response system. Im sure many of you remember years ago when people when cellphones just began well, that was a long time ago, but cellphones first became a thing and how people would use cellphones in some instances to call 911, but they would be transitioned to another county and there was some difficulty in communication and how we provided Emergency Response to get to that location. So things have definitely gotten better since then, but there is so much that we can do to make it even better. Having the funding necessary to invest in new technologies so that text messaging and all the things we do now to communicate are used in a way to address any situation, whether there is a wild fire or a heat advisory or all of those different challenges that sadly weve had to endure, we want to be prepared, we want to respond in a timely manner, and we are ready to move forward in making those investments to do just that. I want to introduce at this time our governor, who has again been a leader in this effort and on new technologies and used to have my job as mayor. Welcome home to our governor. Thank you, mayor. Thank you all for being here. It is nice to be back. This is my first day on the job as mayor was in this building when i convened what we called at the time the disaster council. I was, i guess in looking back, overly anxious during my time as mayor we would experience a major earthquake. Thankfully we did not. I maintain that anxiety as your governor. That anxiety was only heightened after ridgecrest. Its been heightened certainly after the last two wildfire seasons as well. As ive navigated this state and learned more about our 911 system, it goes without saying its only reinforced that anxiety. The 911 system as we know it today was established in 1973. The technology is outdated. The technology lazily can be referred to as analog technology. It predates the internet, as the mayor suggested, it predates smartphones. 80 of the activity that occurs around a call center is smartphone based not landline based, though we have a system to finance our call centers that predates this new technology. Were overly relying on burdening landlines and as a consequence we have not been able to modernize our system and weve been disproportionately burdening those holding on to that technology, tend to be people on fixed income and seniors. Weve been fortunate. Theres been efforts over the last few years to update our system that have fallen short. We were successful this year in pushing through our budget and ultimately in this what we call trailer bill to get to the point where today we can formally announce that by the end of this month we have identified the vendors and we will be moving forward with updating not only the state lay of the 911 system, moving from analog to digital but our four Major Regions that define this state. There are about 437 other call centers like this, 438 in the state of california, which is an extraordinary number. The reality is they dont have the technology, they dont have the tools to connect. They dont have the capacity to redirect call volume if something goes wrong or theres a surge in that volume. It is selfevident to anyone in San Francisco if theres a major earthquake, the surge volume here will simply overwhelm this call center. Our ability once this new technology is deployed will allow the call volume, as an example, potentially to be redirected to sacramento, redirected to eureka, redirected to l. A. , wherever the capacity will allow. Thats what this technology does. It has a geospatial component. It allows for a substantial amount of bells and whistles. I can get into that and ask our executive director of this and i can ask the o. E. S. Director to fill in the blanks, but it allows us to meet the challenges and the needs of a multiplicity of issues that we face when it comes to mercy planning in the state. This is a big deal. I appreciate the reference that this is about lives because quite literally this is going to save lives. Im proud of the legislature including the by partisans. Final word on this topic, there is a fee attached. I know that generates headlines. We are still among the lowest in the nation in terms of that new fee thats been established. I think thats a nice and important thing to point out. Usually were one of the highest in areas. This is where were among the lowest. So i know there was some anxiety related to that, but i hope that assuages some of those concerns. This, by the way, in closing, has been part, this announcement today, part of our week of announcements around Emergency Preparedness and planning. Yesterday i was up with governor schwartzeneggar. We were talking about some of the work were doing on vegetation management, prescribed burns, making sure were more resilient in 200 communities across this state. Were stepping up our game and getting more ready for Emergency Planning and preparedness. More than 1 billion has been spent to make sure california is more resilient and prepared than ever. Im grateful for the support we received up and down the state. Im grateful for the mayors leadership in this space. She was on the Fire Commission leading these efforts for many, many years and as conversant as any mayor in the state of the needs and desires not only of her constituents, but as it relates to the need to update these technologies and recognizes she cant do it alone. The state needs to do their part and were honored to now be doing our part in this space. Were grateful for that. Were also grateful for you being here and happy to answer any questions on topic. Then we are happy for any questions for mayor breed off topic. Any questions on this subject . Reporter question i was just wondering what you observed in your tour today . To be honest with you, a lot of familiarity, and i think that goes to the reality. We were talking to the o. E. S. Director and asked how does this compare and contrast to other call centers up and down the state. It is put in the top tier, but that bar is not as high as it can be. At the end of the day that capacity is limited because of resources. Our new fee will generate 175 million a year. It will allow the services to go in around october. Well start implementing these new tools and technology up and down the state. Thats what was missing, that state support. This will allow you know better than i the capacity to do things you are losing sleep over currently and do it in the next few months. This is going to move pretty quickly. August 20th were going to identify these vendors. And as soon as october, right, were going to start seeing the application of this promise and promotion. Anybody . Im going to hang out more in San Francisco. [ indiscernible ] i shouldnt say that. She never speaks anyway. I actually sleep pretty well because i compartmentalize as well. As an example, one of the technologies that we all use every day to grab an uber and your uber can find you in a moment or even ordering a pizza, that kind of technology for us when calls come in has not been available to us until really the last few months. And after extensive effort to work with Third Party Vendors who are helping to kind of pull this data together. A lot of it has to do with the state of our technology, which makes it a lot harder. Moving from this analog to a more digital level is going to make that Technology Much more accessible to us, so that we can use that type of quick information that you use to catch a ride or to get your lunch to get help to you, whether its Law Enforcement or a medical response or fire. So it just speaks to the ability to have access to this kind of Technology Much quicker. We alone would have been able to go to. Secondly, this is probably just as important, this will provide us with a lot more resiliency and redundancy. The governor explained a little bit and mayor breed about how this allows us to have more mutual assistance between other jurisdictions and their 911 centers because we dont have to put everything in a suitcase and walk across the street. Well be able to flip a switch and work out so that if we have an earthquake or a potential power outage thats extensive, we very quickly will be overwhelmed at our center. So this allows us to go to other jurisdictions who can pick up and get those calls and make sure help is getting to people when they need it in the time they need it. You mentioned the fee. What is the fee and who pays it . Its going to be one flat fee across the board. We have multiple fees right now. 0. 33. We are authorized to go higher. We are very confident that we will not need to go to what is authorized, which is closer to 0. 80. 0. 33 puts us on the lower tier. Current landline users are paying 0. 50. That will use to 0. 33. A disproportionate amount of smartphone use is text and data, not voice. So we have a system thats collapsing in terms of its funding capacity, and thats why we have been struggling to get this up in sacramento. Fortunately we were able to get it in the budget. We had a few supporters from north state that experienced the ravages of mother natures fury as it relates to the campfire, and i think that really truly brought home this reality and need. So i just want to acknowledge them because they did something within that party that often is not done when encouraged to do the right thing despite the political consequences. I couldnt be more proud of those two individuals as well as the others in the legislature who supported this. The first day in the nation since 1973 that mandated 911. We have lost our leadership a bit. Were now going to reassert our leadership. 27 Million People use this system. We have 1. 4 i think just here in San Francisco. You drop even for a minute the calls, that literally puts lives at risk. So it is not, again, an exaggeration at all. This is a lifesaving fee that will go a long way to making california more resilient, more capable in emergency environment to do justification to it, that is to have someone to answer the phone in an emergency 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [ indiscernible ] those companies are competing for these contracts, so all of this is in collaboration and partnership with those companies. Well see. I dont know who will wind up winning these business, but theres some wellknown brands in the state that are competing. I dont know if you want to talk more about the deeper collaboration with Cellphone Companies or maybe just flesh out other attributes of this system very, very briefly. Sure. Thank you. In regards to the cellphones, what this will do is harden that 911 connection from our Community Member on the street, whether youre using a cellphone, your office phone, your home phone. That connection thr