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Minutes. Well, well call this hearing to order. Today we are welcoming the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency, mr. Brock long. Here to discuss response of recovery to hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria as well as the wildfires that spread across california. Administrator, thank you very much for being here and for joining us. The magnitude of the disaster activity that were experiencing this year is basically unprecedent unprecedented. I want to thank you and the thousands of dedicated fema personnel who have deployed and who continue to work tirelessly to help communitie...

Of the highest order. As a matter of fact, theres a hepatitis outbreak in los angeles that is spreading into the streets that could easily come to san francisco. There are people dying in fires that are started in tents on the streets and moving to other tents. I dont know what else could be a greater emergency. If were not in every single building and every single district with every single ounce of political will we have all working to solve this issue, as a crisis, and in an emergency fashion, then we are failing to do our job. So i absolutely could not disagree with you more, supervisor pe...

To put the City Attorney through the paces, but these were all foreseeable events. An emergency is an unforeseeable event. And its a really slippery slope when we start applying Emergency Declarations where an emergency does not exist because it was a foreseeable event. 440 turk street, highly foreseeable. This board took unanimous legislative action to not allow the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to use a different site and to require them to use the 440 turk street site, so weve known that for quite a long time, because that happened six months ago. Thats foreseeable. I ha...

As a matter of fact, theres a hepatitis outbreak in los angeles that is spreading into the streets that could easily come to san francisco. There are people dying in fires that are started in tents on the streets and moving to other tents. I dont know what else could be a greater emergency. If were not in every single building and every single district with every single ounce of political will we have all working to solve this issue, as a crisis, and in an emergency fashion, then we are failing to do our job. So i absolutely could not disagree with you more, supervisor peskin, and will not sup...

Good morning, everybody. Thank you all for being here on this mournful day. As im sure you all know, our may mayor, mayor edwin m. Lee passed awau early this morning at Zuckerberg San Francisco general. He was 65 years old. I want to thank dr. Susan orlick who is here with us today and the dedicated professional who is cared for the mayor last night. Our thoughts and prayers are with mayor lees wife anita and his daughters tanya and brianna at this time. When he passed, mayor lee was surrounded by his family, by his friends, and the colleagues who loved him. Ed lee lived a life of service cut ...