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Scissors. Electeds, join me. If you are a kid, come on up. And what i will do with the kids is together we will use the big scissors. Why dont you guys come on in here. All right, hold on, were not there yet. Lets not do it yet. Be careful. All children with scissors, please be careful. All right. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah ladies and gentlemen, Lafayette Park is officially open yea hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are talking today about earthquakes and we are going to talk about the issues that make us particularly vulnerable in San Franc...

Story basement. We have unusual soil conditions and then, on top of that, we have built environment. We have buildings built of all different kinds of construction types and dates. When you put those together. Maybe you are sitting on rock areas that are built solidly that will have little impact and you have other buildings, soft story buildings and people have essentially the same expectation. And the Building Department would come knock on my door and tell me it wasnt safe there are very few retrofitted laws. You have to make brick buildings saver. You have to reduce the risk of life lost. ...

The big scissors. Why dont you guys come on in here. All right, hold on, were not there yet. Lets not do it yet. Be careful. All children with scissors, please be careful. All right. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah ladies and gentlemen, Lafayette Park is officially open yea hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are talking today about earthquakes and we are going to talk about the issues that make us particularly vulnerable in San Francisco and talk about the policy issues and do Earthquake Response and hopefully in our earthquake recovery. Pat, who ...

So that is incredible unity in the city. Moving to another topic because we will cover these later i wanted to make sure i mentioned that within these last few months through the cooperation of our city administrator naomi kelly we have appointed a manager of the caps program, and of course that is the Community Action plan for seismic safety. It is a plan we wanted to make sure that was lead by someone who can immediately get on the ground and figure out all of the things that we need to do to make sure the soft story buildings which are the most important focus that we have to have for the n...

Turk street Emergency Operations center. First of all i want to thank everybody. Anybody wearing orange gets a special treat in my eyes today. Anyway were still celebrating and i never knew that wearing orange and the giants and sports will be so closely connected to what we do in Emergency Management but it is and it is for good reason because our citys success is really dependent upon inviting thousands more people here to enjoy our resources here in the city, to tax us a little bit on it, but this is what we do as a Great International city. All of you have a very distinct role in all of th...