And first of all, thank you all so much for being here. I want to just start by expressing my appreciation to Mary Ellen Carroll for her continued support of manager king and facilitating the various meetings that take place with the Disaster Council. Theres a lot of work that needs to be done in San Francisco to address this. Many of the things that we know could happen that we may be surprised by. In addition to those things that we know are coming and having some consistent meetings with our various city service agencies, Law Enforcement and others who will be responsible when and if anything happens in our city is critical to ensuring the safety of residents of our city. This this conversation and us coming together. I know has been sparked by my push to start to look at the renewing of our alarm system that used to sound. At 12 00 every tuesday, something that, you know, especially those of us who grew up in San Francisco, we would hear consistently and if you heard it outside the scope of that time period, you knew that there was a problem. And the whole point, again, was to test it to ensure that the system was working the way that it should. Unfortunately, with technology and with people who started to invade the system, we were put in jeopardy. Our safety of our city and using this system was put in jeopardy because we unfortunately had people who had access to the system and who could use it for the wrong reasons. Cybersecurity has has been improved. We know its important to San Francisco and the ability to ensure the safety with reliable information is also equally important. We did make at one point the hard decision to scale back, to shut the system down, to avoid problems. But more importantly, this Disaster Council has had numerous discussions about the costs related to investing in this system, to bring it up to a place of modern technology, but more importantly to ensure that when this system is operating, we are protecting it. And we are using the appropriate Cyber Security to ensure that it doesnt get in the hands of the wrong people. So i know mary ellen is going to be talking a little bit about what we plan to do, what it might cost and how we can move forward. But let me also just say San Francisco is a place that, you know, its a major city. So anything could happen, whether that is an earthquake more recently, even though it didnt directly impact us, hurricane ian, we know that there also is the threat of terrorist attacks. We know that there have been various events and other things that have occurred in San Francisco, and we have developed new systems that exist that will allow for people to be made aware whether its our ability to break into the systems, the various communications around the radio and television. But also the alerts that we have on alert that people can sign up so that they can get alerts as well as our ability to break in and get through to peoples cell phone to communicate information using the Fire Department with, you know, the various microphones, megaphones that they carry on their various trucks and rigs. The ability to get information out there using a lot of different modes of technology is something that currently exist in San Francisco. I know that conversation happens around tsunamis and the possibility of tsunamis in San Francisco. I know the conversations around the challenges that existed in Treasure Island with the Drinking Water and other things we have never since this system has been down been enabled to distribute information in to the public to protect Public Safety. But i will say that many of you have heard through the news that i was actually in maui during, you know, the very devastating hurricane and fire that took place. And in fact, the winds were probably more significant than ive ever seen or experienced anywhere. And on top of that, it to have a fire to happen of that mass attitude that swept through the town of lahaina in such a significant way with no alert system, with no sound, when power was down, no internet, no technology, no ability to communicate to anyone what was going on, really renewed my commitment to look into this particular system and the need to bring this system back up to par for the people of San Francisco, because, as i said, we have a number of different communication tools at our disposal. All that we are able to use to address Public Safety in San Francisco in a way to distribute information in. But the question is what happens when we are faced with winds that are so problematic that the power has to be cut when we are faced, faced with challenges that dont allow us to use technology in the same way to distribute information to the public. We need to make sure that we have all levels of redundant Communication Systems in this city to make sure that we are able to get information out to the public. So its time for us to really look at upgrading our system. Im upgrading the work that we need to do together to ensure Public Safety and also i want to take this opportunity to just mention nert the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team and a desire to try and recruit people. There are thousands of people registered for nert, but we have to make sure that they maintain in their certification so that they are up to date on the latest of technology and information so that when our Fire Department, our police officers, our sheriff deputies, our Disaster Service workers and others are not always able to get to everyone in that. People in our various community cities all over San Francisco have the training to be able to help their neighbors and to help us as a city get through this. So i think there are a lot of different layers to our need through this Disaster Council to start to have conversations that allow for both technology, advanced distribution of information, but also so were going to have to go back to some basics because in the event of any situation nation, we as a city, we want to make sure that we dont continue to put off the important infrastructure investments. We need to make for this particular system, because it is necessary for the purposes of getting our city to a place where we can ensure that we have every tool at our disposal to address any disaster and whatever may come our way. So todays meeting for the Disaster Council centers around our system. Our system that look at the possibility of bringing this system back into operation. On what that would entail and what the cost may be be and how we should move forward. And i want to at this time turn it over to Mary Ellen Carroll to provide the details around this. Thank you all so much. Thank you. Mayor breed and i think every disaster, every emergency that we experience or that we see is an opportunity for us to learn. We have in the past decade, cities across the world have increasing faced the consequence associated with our climate change. Storms are more intense. Temperatures are more extreme, and the impacts of wildfires are more destructive and toxic. In january and march of this year, as we all know, we experienced historic storms that flooded our streets, took down our trees, our utility pole poles and tore glass off our buildings. As wildfires across the country have resulted in poor air quality and orange sky. As we all remember from 2020. And that new york and the east coast experienced this year and even this past weekend, as we saw hillary. Hurricane hilary impacts Southern California as it hit the coast as a Tropical Storm, the first Tropical Storm in our state in over 80 years. So our changing climate has signified giant impact on how we prepare for respond to and recover from emergencies as our Emergency Operations center is a critical component of our response, we activate during both planned and unplanned events, and our key responsibilities of the eoc. Of course, are maintaining situational awareness, supporting our Field Operations , providing alert, warning and notification action, coordinating logistics and tracking finance sources and costs of any disaster. Our so just to give an overview, we have as the mayor alluded to, San Francisco has a very robust and integrated Emergency Alert, alert and Warning System. Our city has made considerable investments that im going to just go through pretty quickly here in conventional platforms, Technology Based platforms, and then Community Based networks. So we have traditional and social media. So the those are our conventional platforms. The things that we use every day are television, newspapers, online resources, probably social media is the number one, and radio in San Francisco. We can use kgw to broadcast out emergency information. Radio is super resilient, and it is true that most of us probably have not turned on a radio in a very long time, and thats okay. But you really should have one thats battery operated in your home and thats part of what were getting to, is being prepared for anything and really being prepared for when all of our technology is not available to us. We also have the Emergency Alert system, which sends warning via broadcast cable, satellite. Right. And this is the thing that you see on your tv or you hear on the radio, you know, once a month as testing that system and then we have Message Boards. So those are what we call variable Message Boards that alert public to various emergencies. You see them when youre driving on the highway. They mostly include information about roadwork and traffic, but they can and they have been used to provide emergency information as well. And then finally, we have our outdoor Warning System. And so this is the one well talk more about today. This is the network of over 100 sirens across San Francisco that can broadcast an audible alert with a corresponding message in multiple languages. These sirens were taken offline in two december 20th, 19 due to in order for us to mitigate an immediate and serious cybersecurity risk. And it remains our intention to reactivate that system. We have other tech tech logical methods and the one that we use the most and most people are familiar with probably is alert. Sf this is an alert that we send in multiple languages to the public. Weve sent several today already. We have over 195,000 subscribers for text, which represents 54 of the households in San Francisco. You can sign up for alerts by just texting your zip code to eight, eight, eight, seven, seven, seven, and then we also have telephone alerts, which is like a reverse 911. So those are used and can connect to over 383,000 residential and business landlines. And so thats something that we can do to call people when there is a very urgent message that needs to go out. And we did use that during covid to let people know about stay at home orders and mask mandates. And then the final one is the we alert and thats one that you dont have to sign up for. That comes automatically. Theyre mostly associated with amber alerts. When your phone buzzes very loud or flash flood warnings. We had one last this past winter during the floods. So then finally, i want to talk a little bit about our conventional platforms. So these are like the non we dont need technology for the most part. But our First Responders that are represented here, leadership here on Disaster Council, our police officers, our firefighters, our sheriff deputies, our park rangers, those all play a very Important Role in public alert and warning they can use their lights and sirens as well as their public address and broadcast systems with their vehicles. And that is something that we did use during january 2022, tsunami advisory. Do you want to play that video just as just people can see how that works. And the nami and advisory in effect, stay out of the water, off the beach and away from the coast. Again tsunami advisory in effect, staying out of the water, away from the coast and off the beach. So that is what we did activate that during the tsunami alert. You cant see it in this video, but youll see many surfers still out there not heeding or warning. As a surfer , i understand that its hard to get them out. But and then finally, we have Disaster Service workers and those Disaster Service workers during covid were incredibly instrumental. We deployed hundreds of workers across the city to put up fliers and posters, hang things on doors and knock on doors, literally to get information out. So we are we are adept at to adapting to the needs of what of what the Community Needs to get Important Information out and finally, we have our volunteers and Community Groups. So we have, as the mayor said, volunteer groups like nert and alert. We have an auxiliary Communication Service is a group of folks that do ham Radio Communication for Service Providers like the interfaith council, Neighborhood Empowerment Network and the Latino Task Force and megablock. These are all two organizations that really were born during covid and that continue to be very strong partners with dlm and the city in Emergency Preparedness. So you know, finally, i just you know, and just to say a few more things about that, we have the Neighborhood Community network or nen is very proactive. They work with Community Days and neighborhoods in order so that each neighborhood can kind of cater their plan and their response to the needs of that community. We have a new program , the neighborhood hub and strong block, that allows for more resources in communities. And we are also have a new program, strong building, where were piloting with Alice Griffith apartments that are going to be a model for us to say, how do we do it for . You know, we have so many multi unit buildings and preparing those folks also. So just in summary, we have, as you can see, a very robust Emergency Management program here in the city that includes diverse, overlapping ring and redundant alert and Warning Systems and while we are very confident that our systems are thorough and redundant, we always want to improve. And in particular, were looking to continue our investments in language capacity and community outreach, both things that we learned lessons very important during covid because not everyone receives the message in the right way. We want to make sure that we get the message to people in whatever way is needed so that they receive it and their safety is assured. And so we welcome the discussion that is were about to have on these improvements. And we really wish to partner with anyone who wants to help us expand our alert and warning capacity, whether through people, through financial or systematic resources. So thats the end of my presentation and open it up to our council for discussion. Mary ellen i just wanted to appreciate the thorough overview and maybe get into the discussion as to what our plans are that we discussed around the bringing up of the system, what our plans are, are we going to repair the old are we going to do a new system . Some of the things we talked about and how we can get going with the with the alarms along the beach area and what are some options, options that we should discuss so that we can begin the process of preparing and understand whats possible. Yes, mayor. So we have a approximately 119 sirens throughout the city. We did lose a couple of them in the storm. So part of what we need to do now that it has been four years since the they were operating operating is we need to go in and the plan is what were going to do is replace the technology. So they are all run on what we call. So theyre not cellular but wireless. So they are not dependent on a cellular system. And each of these individual sirens has backup battery. Those are the technology that needs to be absolutely has to be replaced. It. In addition, most people have been here a long time know that depending on where you are in the city, the messaging is clearer or not clear. And we know that in some places of the city you cannot hear, you know, have better, better or worse ability to hear the message and the sirens. So part of what our our first plan is to do is definitely to focus on the coastal side, because we know that tsunami is a very like likely scenario in which we would use these. And add each one.