[music playing] [bell ringing] [music playing] [music playing] with the heart of warriors together were victorious together we are all [drums beating] together we are voirous yeah announcer ladies and gentlemen hi today we have a special edition of building San Francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about San Franciscos earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. The next episode of stay safe, we have Alicia Johnson from San Franciscos department of emergency management. Hi, alicia thanks to coming it is a pleasure to be here with you. I wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in San Francisco. Well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. Having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. How long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in San Francisco. It depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. What kind of neighborhood and Community Involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. It is important to have a Good Relationship with your neighbors and your community. Go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. It is important to have a batteryoperated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the Community Around and how you can communicate with other people. One of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. Yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. So a title to a home, a passport, a drivers license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any Vital Information on your computer. Back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. In your home you should be prepared as well. Absolutely. Lets take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. We have no water, what are we going to do about water . It is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. We have this big container and also in peoples homes they have a hot water heater. Absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well what other things do people need to have arent their home. It is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. Here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. And this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. Yes. So in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. Having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. It is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. And here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. I hope that you have an alternative one at home. Oh, i forgot. And in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. I have them right here. Good. Excellent. That is great. Additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. Markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. I am okay and i will meet you at. Exactly. Exactly. Water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. We have matches here. And my spare glasses. And your spare glasses. If you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. If it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. Inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. Very important. We have a little first aid kit. And lots of different kinds of batteries. And another spare flashlight. So, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we dont have damage . One of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. Make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. Also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. Becoming prepared is not that difficult. Taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra everyday items on hand helps to make the difference. That contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. Absolutely. If you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. We are all proud of living in San Francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. So, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. Absolutely, it is my pleasure. And thank you for joining us on another edition of building. 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 so good morning and welcome. Im jack gardner and president of the John Stewart Company. On behalf of our related partners in california, San Francisco housing corporation, and ridgepoint nonprofit housing corporation, its my great pleasure to welcome you to the grand reopening of Hunters Point west and westbrook. Give it up. [ applause ]. Hunters point eastwest in westbrook are two of the citys rental assistance demonstration projects. The Overall Program consisted of transferring 29 of the Housing Authority profits to local nonprofit and private housing organizations for recapitalization, renovation, and private management. More detailed information is available if youre interested. This mammoth Citywide Program which included almost 3500 units of Affordable Housing throughout San Francisco required the collaboration of a host of public agencies, developers, consultants, contractors, funders, and, most importantly, the residents of Hunters Point eastwest and westbrook themselves. The program demonstrates the citys commitment to leaving none of its residents behind and we are very proud to have been part of it. None of this would have been possible without the vision and leadership of our local elected and appointed officials, many of whom are here today and well do some shoutouts a little bit later. Thank you for celebrating with us. Lets get started. It gives me special pleasure to introduce our first speaker. Ill tease you a little bit here, see if you can think about who that would be. Shes a native san franciscan. A former Redevelopment Agency and Fire Department commissioner. Former executive director of the africanamerican art and culture complex in the western addition. President of the board of supervisors. You might be getting it. Presently our current and future mayor. So a steadfast champion of Affordable Housing, community empowerment, and the creation of a more just and equitable San Francisco for all. Great pleasure to bring to the stage our very own mayor london breed. Mayor. [ cheering and applause ]. Mayor breed thank you. Hello, everyone. I am really excited to be here today because this is a long time coming. When we first set out on a path to just reenvision Public Housing throughout San Francisco, it wasnt easy. I remember when i first became a member of the board of supervisors and i went to our mayor ed lee and talked about our priorities, i made it clear that Public Housing was my number one priority. He supported those efforts. In fact, i grew up in plaza east in the western edition, where i lived in Public Housing for over 20 years of my life. Those conditions were very challenging. It wasnt just sadly the poverty and the violence that existed in my neighborhood. It was also the actual physical conditions of where i lived. The mold, the bathroom that basically had a number of challenges. We never even had a shower in the Public Housing unit that i lived in. The roaches, the lack of support that we got from our facilities crew to actually make the kinds of repairs where we could live in a place that was safe and live in a place that was the way that it should be for any resident of this amazing city. It was important to me that we made a change in San Francisco because the same conditions that i lived in are, sadly, some of the same conditions that still exist in Public Housing today. So we set down this course to try and make changes. No, we didnt have the resources completely to basically start all over from scratch, but we did have an opportunity through the r. A. D. Program, the rental assistance demonstration program, to really make investments now so that we can change the conditions of where people live now. That was so important. There were people who were concerned, including the residents who were skeptical about whether or not what happened in the filmore would happen in the bayview Hunters Point community. I too was concerned about that. In fact, the Public Housing development i lived in had 300 units and after it was rebuilt through hope 6 which was a whole other program before hope s. F. , there were only 200 units built. So clearly, everyone was not coming back. Thats why when i first started as a commissioner on the San FranciscoRedevelopment Agency and we set out on our path to try and rebuild double rock and other places, it was important to me that we did it differently than we did in the past, so that residents played a Critical Role in not only deciding what fixtures and windows and how they wanted their community to be, but they remained a part of their communities. So thats exactly what we did. It did require a lot of patience and moving around and a number of things. Yes, again, i know that people were a little uncertain as to whether or not we would get this project done because promises have been made over the years and promises not kept. But today a promise is kept. 439 units of Affordable Housing for people, for families, for this amazing community. Through the r. A. D. Program, we have already been able to rehabilitate more than 3,000 Public Housing units in San Francisco. No longer are we going to treat our residents, who happen to live in Public Housing, differently than we treat everyone else. Thats why this investment is so important. Not only in rehabilitating something as simple as making sure that the windows can open, that the heater is working, that the showers are working, that there isnt opportunity for mold or other things to impact the living conditions, but free wifi. Free wifi for all of the residents here so that folks have access to do job searches, housing searches, or anything else that anyone else could do in our great city. So i am really happy and excited to be here because this is a new day in San Francisco. Part of what my goal is to not only change the physical conditions of our community, but to make sure that we take care of these communities and we take care of each other. Because we are one community, were one San Francisco. Sadly, we have lost so much over the years due to violence, due to hopelessness and frustration. Part of my commitment to communities all over the San Francisco that feel neglected, that feel like theyre forgotten and not necessarily a part of San Francisco is that im coming to your neighborhood. Im coming to make sure that we make the right kinds of investments, that we provide Job Opportunities or opportunities for you to start your own businesses, that we make sure that we are taking care of kids in this community. In fact, our investments in our Public School system has been one thats unprecedented. Over 80 million of investments, including additional teachers stipends so that we can focus on Teacher Retention in schools that serve this community. Making sure when our kids are dealing with trauma, that we have Mental Health experts in our Public Schools. My commitment is to make sure that there are Wellness Centers in every Public School in San Francisco. It starts with our kids. It starts with taking care of each other. It starts with developing a new generation of hope for San Francisco. So this project is so much more than just rehabilitating units. Its really changing a community and making things better now and for the future. It starts with us and were in this together. Were going to get there one step at a time. I want to thank the John Stewart Company, Mayors Office of housing, bank of america, and who else was part of this project . Related. Thank you. It means a lot to have incredible partners. We dont do this work alone. But most importantly, i want to thank the people who live here, who trusted us to make this happen, who work with us every step of the way. It means a lot to have the support and trust of a community in order to get things done. Thats exactly what we were able to accomplish through this amazing project together. So congratulations. This is just the beginning of i know more thats get to come. Thank you. [ applause ]. Thats what im talking about. Mayor, youre so good at that. Youre just flying without notes. Im hanging on to these things for dear life. We do the work, but thats the leadership that gets it done. Thank you also for the 23 million in local financing and rent subsidies that made this effort possible. [ applause ]. And your unwavering support for Affordable Housing and ending homeless in our city. [ indiscernible ] im about to do it. Okay. Thats what i was going to say. Most recently the leadership, in the form of the proposed 600 million housing bond, which we are going to pass in november, okay. [ applause ]. Thanks also and a shout out to our current supervisor for his ongoing leadership around the housing issues in district 10. Thank you. Supervisor walton. Our next speaker is bill witty, chairman and c. E. O. Of related california. One of californias Largest Developers of affordable and mixedincome housing. Since founding this company 30 years ago, bill has overseen the development of 16,000 residences, including over 12,000 Affordable Housing units and he has more than 5,000 units in development. He is a busy guy. Earliest this year also completed the rehab of another r. A. D. Cluster, 300 units. Its my pleasure to my friend and colleague bill witty up to say a few things. Bill. Thank