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Good morning, and welcome to the Transbay Joint Power Authority board of directors meeting for thursday, november 14th. Can we take roll call please . Sure, i will note for the regard due to the scheduling conflicts, sartipi and lloyd are absent and lee will join us. Harper, present. Here. Lee. Present. Metcalf. Here. And director reiskin . Present. And chair kim. Here. Madam chair you do have a quorum. Thank you, are there any communications today . Seeing none, any board of directors new or old business . Seeing none, we will move on to the executive directors report. Good morning directors ...

Private. Okay. Any comments . I think ultimately this comes to two views and as the acting da said the views are not protected. Id make a motion to uphold deny the appeal. Uphold the permit on the boos that the planning and code im sorry what. Dont error. Thank you for correcting me. Im sorry its okay. We have a motion to uphold this permit on the basis its code compliant. On that motion to uphold commissioner fong is absent calling names thank you. The vote is 4 to zero and the permit is upheld on that basis. No other business. Okay. The meeting is hello, s lee here with activities worth buzz...

If youll notice right up next to the building theres not that many bricks. Tilt up buildings, premade buildings. They are made on the site. Generally speaking, you see warehouses, large expanse buildings are made out of them, usually one story buildings. In other words theres not a story on top. They didnt make their corner connections very well. When they didnt make their corner connections very well, they moved independent, one side would go this way, one side would move that way, then the roof will fall down. How about high rises, are they safe buildings to be in . What happens in a high ri...

Class, go over some buildings and how you assess buildings. You already had classes on utility controls, correct . How about medical . Did medical . Okay, as i said, my name is alec, im on truck 11. Lets go into some light search and rescue. Before you start, what do you do . Stop, look, listen and think. Any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you are going to do. Those are all components of what we call the sizeup. There are many components to size up. Whats one of the components to size up . ...

Under 34 percent. Now you are always going to have your Safety Equipment with you, correct . When you get together as you assemble, make sure you have, at least one person has something here that you guys can all use. Different types of buildings are in the city. We have wood, unreinforced masonry, you have high rise and you have tilt ups. Whats the safest construction type to be . Four stories or less. Wood . Yeah, wood framed building. Why is wood the safest building to be in, 4 stories or less . It flexes, yeah, its flexible. Whats the danger here . Chimney, yeah, fireplace. Be aware of the...