we want the city to be better, we want the city to be a great city, especially for future generations and dennis, you have definitely done your part in making san francisco a better place for all. thank you so much. (applause) and to the members of your team, all the great people, i see jessie is joining us today, we are still here and when people try and credit me with the fact that san francisco did so well in covid, we couldn't have done it without the incredible people who work for the city and especially you and the city attorney's office. thank you jessie smith. (applause) and i've got to say, replacing someone like dennis, it's a lot of pressure. but it was also the worst kept secret in san francisco because you all knew exactly what i knew exactly what dennis knew, that there was no better person to step in and to do this very challenging, independent, complicated job than david chiu. see, david and i have a very long history. in fact, david was the chair of the democratic party at one point, remember that? or was that scott? well, you guys were there together. two peas in a p

that cities are used. and people who are there i referenced in the opening in san francisco and also oakland and san jose, many major cities in the bay area where we work that is largely empty still. we have not seen a return to office even though we are 18 months into this pandemic. so we are really grappling with the malfunction of the system that you're been describing before we start to get into solutions i'd love to share from you a bit about what was important to write this book.what is it about the health of cities. securing the help of cities for the future of humanity that was so important to each of you . >> certainly i believe very strongly that cities have been the home for humanity's most importantcollaborations . through the partnership between plato and socrates 2400 years ago, for the creativity thatgave us the italian renaissance . they are at their best, their entryways to poor people to find opportunity. there places where the young can learn and can see their wagesgrow. at their best th

is this a life-sized city? the city's made up of just what i would call ordinary, discreet people spaces that are very human scale, very local and it's all very people-oriented. that's what makes this place just so liveable. - when this guy, luc ferrandez... and full disclosure here, he's become a very good friend of mine... was first elected as borough mayor of the hip plateau mont-royal, he triggered a wave of very cool moves, all aimed at giving citizens their neighborhood back. over the course of just a few years... are you ready for this? luc's team added seven new parks, revamped six others, installed 226 planters on street corners, made 93 intersections safer for pedestrians, lowered average speed limits, created 17,7 kilometres of new bike infrastructure, installed 5,000 bike parking spots and greened 43 alleyways. somebody pinch me. people don't see the need for public spaces. you want to go through, you want to park, you're busy. people think: "hey, this guy is going to remove parking, take out roads

we have re-opened the city. schools are back in session and we resume so many of these activities that make us feel whole again and it really is because of you. the results show for instance with vaccines, our vaccination rates. our vaccinations among people of color are highest in the nation and lead our vaccination rates in the city. and it's no accident. it's because of your work that vaccines and testing are readily available. we have 100 vaccine sites. and san franciscans are within a 10 minute walk of a site and that's why we managed to get 80% of our eligible population. and i was just talking to several of you before the event, needles are going to kids' arms. they're getting the shot and we're doing over a 1,000 a day great progress. now, that is one thing, but i think one of the key things in our responses is they're only one thing. they are so important. they're key to getting out of this pandemic, but there's so many other key issues that are of importance for us to address. the wide ranging emotiona

ah, 10000000 new yorkers who built this city made this city the city that it is today. they should not be forgotten. they need a better space to be resting. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah, i i i, [000:00:00;00] i, [000:00:00;00] i, [000:00:00;00] i ah. oh we're seeing high levels, one certainty creeping in to economic life. and i think we're all aware of the disruption of global supply chains with spike in the cost of energy. we're seeing a reappearance of inflation and i think all of these constitute the economists cool down the sign risks which could mean the weather is still ahead of us despite the moderation of the severity of the day making juice. and people is something that cause right on police report, it's an all cash in december 2020 a group of anti fascist. sell out a film crew access for 3 months. so if people are organization, if an idea that fascism must be opposed to check out the game while they may come with their faces. but they can say what they believe in. we believe in helping our community. we believe that our fascism is one of the major threats to th

first, non city organizations lack city oversight. we found there was no consistent for non city organizations city wide and lack of transparency in reporting of the relationships. some of the accounts operated like city accounteds but were out of the city's purview. we recommended that city should require departments to formalize relationships through memorandums of understanding. second, our review found no restrictions on solicitations of payments and that the city needs to improve compliance restrictions on and reporting requirements for acceptance of gifts from outside sources. solicit itting funds from parties, this creates a perceived pay to play relationship. at the time of the report, the city did not require the payment form with the ethics commission. and we found that the interested party definition is unclear. we recommended that the city should amend city law from soliciting and definition of interested parties should be expanded. third, we found that the friends of organizations did not publicly report donors or reporte

the city used to be a number of these clean team city initiatives all over san francisco. my hope is that you will continue to join us and i will be out there with you and we may even have some sort of contest so you can clean with me because i'm determined to clean up this city, get it done and all of you play an important part in making that happen. so we are so appreciative to have you all here today. let's get san francisco clean and the person who is also a fellow native san franciscan who cares so deeply about this community and this city. she spent some so much time with this department of public works making sure we get every nook and cranny and ladies today in charge of the department of public works, join me in welcoming dejada. >> thank you so much. i appreciate that. thank you, mayor for the kind words. look at all of these volunteers. it's a long time coming and well deserved. thank you, next door. give yourself a big hand. so as deputy director of operations, it's tough to keep the city clean, do our job with the sweeping, but we can't do it alone. we need re

to show off the city of san francisco. and this community in particular, this part of san francisco has so much to show off to visitors and to the world. we have some of the most important and dynamic arts institutions in the world right here within a block of where we're standing. we have beauty and open space. we have cultural institutions and arts institutions and night life. this is in so many ways, apart of san francisco that we want to show off and when we show it off, we know there are tremendous benefits to our entire city. this area accounts for billions of dollars in revenue that's being brought to our city and spending that comes here. tens of thousands of jobs, folks who work in our hotels, folks who work in all of the surrounding businesses that rely on the people who live and work here. so when we are opening up and welcoming people and when we are making it safer and cleaner and more welcoming overall, it's something that all of us benefit from. i represent this area here, this is a dense residential neighbo

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it creates a progressive mentality that drives the city, even within the walls of city hall. as one of taiwan's first openly gay city councillors, miao poya knows all about the challenges of shifting old ways of thinking in order to embrace a more open, inclusive future for everyone. so she made the move into municipal politics and is now one of 13 elected councillors of the social democratic party in the wenshan district. my job is to be the connection between the grass-roots movement and the politicians. before becoming a politician, miao poya was on the other side of the fence, with the protesters. she was part of a massive social movement now known as taiwan's sunflower movement. triggered in 2014, when student protesters occupied taiwan's national legislature for three weeks, fighting a proposed free trade agreement with china. named after the floral gift sent to protesters as a symbol of hope, the movement gained widespread public sympathy in taiwan. and the students were successful in preventing the agreement. but instead of retreating back into silence, the group and

better use technology to improve our city functioning. city government functioning. so this opportunity to access the bloomberg foundation funding sounds like it is connected to a cohort of other cities so that is exciting, too. it sounds really positive. i think my only concern is that this is sort of really new. you know, it's sort of moving -- it's really trying to -- it's like new tools and strategies for the city government to improve how we function so that is all positive. but it is a business fuzzy. in the b.l.a. report, i mentioned three potential priority projects. that this new team would focus on. small business navigation, mental and behavioral treatment coordination and government accountability for city-funded programming. is that -- is that pretty set? >> no, our original application went in of november of 2020 and they asked for some sample projects that the mayor might prioritize. at that time, that is kind of what we came up with. i think we have since done a little bit of delving. certainly at least for the first project. and it is a media problem

it's a great city. there's a lot of noise everywhere and what we are going to continue to do is make sure that we protect our venues like bottom of the hill. they've been around for 30 years. it's a great venue. there's just something about being in an intimate space and listening to live music and also walking into a place where people know who you are. where you feel like you're connected to the bartenders and the staff. it just makes you feel good and so part of what i wanted to do today to recognize bottom of the hill for their resiliency, for staying here, for working with us, for providing the input in the changes to policies and resources that we needed to provide as a city, i wanted to take this opportunity and recognize you and bottom of the hill on your 30th anniversary and come on up. and just present you with a certificate of honor because we know that bottom of the hill is now eligible to be a legacy business. so we need to be well on our way to protecting this institution in san francisco

which was the city of tokyo and everything was delicious and she raved about her life there in the city and it struck me so powerfully that this was a voice that i recognize in effect this could've been my own voice writing back for my own trip to tokyo in 1997 work everyone is still delicious and the archives reported that it had many other documents in the letters to and from her in the archives and it was incredibly intriguing and so i went to back to japan and went to those city archives and looked up at first about 100 of those letters and that's how i in concord park printed. >> you wonderfully described how sono's family constructed this archive for respectability and documenting in the bus a very destructive presence take a date over so can you explain to us what that looks like we did the main printed. >> yes oh early modern japan was a highly literate society so even people in the villages, could read and write especially theeo men and people in high social positions for example your village admitted in your elders and in her case her operated out of this temple and if you are

greenest city. this project, for instance, when it's fully growing, we'll have a live in time for thought area as green area. so why go to all this extra effort to, to swadell you buildings in plants, a huge one in the hot climate like singapore is the plants are the only thing that when the sunlight falls on it, they don't heat up. they actually take that energy and use it for the chemical processes of building carbohydrates and things. so the calculation for singapore, for instance, is that before the city was built, singapore was 5 degrees cooler. and all that heat ends up being converted into fossil fuel use as people use air conditioners to cool the spice, and throw even more heat out into the city. if substantial plant covered even reducing a pull by 2 or 3 degrees celsius, the energy saving for the entire country would be, you know, in the billions of dollars a year is a lot of the argument. you have the also much of the cities do you know it doesn't matter. one or 2 buildings? what differenc

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where they have a city manager. we're calling it a new office. it's a team, and it's a cross departmental team that pulls from new resources. they ask that you not repurpose existing positions because that is what their grant is trying to fund but i don't know that they require nor do i believe we are creating a new one. >> thank you. so how many of the new positions proposed here are to be union positions? >> four of the five. the one in the mayor's office, i think it is 0904 is not, but the other that are more i.t. positions, i believe they are. we have to kwie probably half of it by next october, and the other by the next [indiscernible] in june of next year, but we do hope that that would be philanthropically done or working with the bridge program, for example. >> supervisor preston: but at this point, there's no commitment of that some or all 1.1 million. >> that's correct. i think [indiscernible]. >> supervisor preston: i think my question is different. do you have commitments -- obviously, we are being warne

with new york city is just for vacation, new york city is just to come and have fun where your city is not a place actually be live in sloughing or packaging. i wanted to bring in today and talk a little bit about where we are with the case in the position in arguments the cities making in the fight that i'm having with the city continues. and i told them that you and i have talked about before, like if you tell us where the baby is, they'll drop the lawsuit today. that's what this is all about to. we're trying to find out, they don't believe us. we think it's about money. it's time, it's about a search for the truth. one of the issues for the city here katrina is if we establish here that they don't know, there are other cases like yours that are out there pending. and they don't want to make bad law. they don't want to make their precedent so the further they could push us back and slow us down both ladder to do things bad things will happen to the city. so they're part of their delay is to not but just case come to trial because there are other cases that are going to fall shortly b

certainly a city of would. >> heavily a city of would. but chicago was at a crucial moment in history. it explains why the city rebuilt so quickly. chicago was built out of nowhere and out of everywhere and the modern chicago that we know in 40 years before the fire, 100 white settlers in 1830, they kick the indians, native americans out three years later and growth takes off so there may be for thousands people at the center of 1840, there are 330,000 at the time of the fire. between 1850, and 1871, 30,000 to 330,000 people, no place grew so fast. it is the expression as i was saying earlier of the nineteenth century. industrialization, immigration, westward movement, transportation, and communications revolution. >> the stock yards had been built as big as they became but you had this wonderful river flowing through into lake michigan and it had become a real rail hub by then, had it not? >> chicago came into its own as chicago in the 1850s and 60s. you talk about 1848 where the board of trade is, the first train and the first telegraph

residence of big cities the majority of them want to a big cities. they always kind of happy where this idea a lot of people want to live in big cities. most people would like to live in a smaller city or suburb or a small town but the numbers now are the same as it were one month after 9/11 when pew asked, like a person of people in big cities say that would be the top choice overdeliver which is down considerable amount from a few years ago. every something going on. not just in san francisco but elsewhere that people feel there's a crisis. remember what it was like 9/11 to be in a big city after that you felt like you had a target on your back. when you ask people what's the number one issue here concerned about in your local community it's overwhelmingly crime as you'd expect but the second issue is poverty and homelessness. crime even in suburbs is a concern right now. it's kind of gotten in the water but that seems to be those two issues are huge drivers for why people are not so enamored with larger city life right now. i i said as a longtime

that includes city and non-city people. most of them are non-city so those are contractors. most of them city contractors, two individuals from oncology and a number of executives from other citycontracting companies. >> so total city . that's important. let's take it down to who in the city. >> it's a narrower subset of individuals who are actually city officers or employees so there are two city department heads. two city employees and one former city commissioner so of course the former city commissioner of dvi or rather bic commissioner. one of the city employees or dvi employees and the two department heads, general manager of the publicutilities commission and director of public works . i think i skipped it but the other city employee is in the mayor's office.>> president: okay.so in dbi there is one. or two, sorry. >> you have theformer commissioner and one employee and the former department head in charge . i count that under the category of resigned orterminated . those are not people who have been charged but they left city service. >> president: as part of the inv

that is not a vibrant city, that is not a healthy city, that is a city that's in jeopardy of losing its identity. we know when we have a good mix of folks living in the city, the city functions better, and it's better for visitors, it's better for everyone. so i really want to emphasize how important it is for everyone, working men and women, to live in this city. that is the emphasis of our report. that is the emphasis of what needs to happen in san francisco, san francisco that we have always cherished. san francisco was built by working men and women and they're being pushed out. these are folks with really good jobs who at one point could afford and buy and live in the city, but they're being pushed out, and we need to revamp the current housing policy so they can live back in the city and come back to the city. >> clerk: thank you so much. >> thank you. >> clerk: so we have ten folks in the queue. let's take the next speaker, matthew. >> hi. this is zachary from young community developers. it's important that the city prioritize housing based on the people that live and work here.

i have as many cities in that we know our cost when we worked with some of the other vanguard city they say how do you know what you need for that ? we have good information and good data on what our costs are forplanting . workingwith our nonprofit partners, working with other community partners . i think we're well-placed. we have a dedicated maintenance stream.most other cities don't have that. that makes usattractive as a recipient for sure because you know the long-term care is already in place . so the plan is in progress but ithasn't slowed us down from applying for funds . we're doing that simultaneously but we do hope to have that plan ready for presentation by next summer. >> chair: great. thanks again carla for all you leadership and your work . i look forward to your continuing to work with you and the apartment on especially on resourcing our treeplanting strategy and course working with the supervisor peskin and our budget chair on that as well. colleagues, any other questions orcomments . well, thank you supervisor peskin, thanks again calling for this hearing. and these

it's a city that is growing like every city in the 19th century. new york more than think -- more than any other. so the city is growing. it needs roads, it needs buildings, it needs a lot of stuff. that's true. but how the stuff was built was how tweed enriched himself. so he's dealing with other people's money, borrowed funds. how does he make himself rich? does he simply stick it in his pocket and kind of straight embezzlement? that would be a little too easy and a little too easy to get caught at. his typical method was simply to add -- excuse me, to pad building contracts. so say, say a building, you know, you talk to the contractor and the building would cost maybe $10,000 this 1870 dollars to build. okay, so tweed says give me a bill for $20,000, and you'll get your $10,000, you know, what you expect, and then me and my buddies will guide the other $10,000 among ourselves. he could -- and with this arrangement, he could pretty much divide the extra funds between the big four and then a couple of accountants. gotta keep track of this, and you

but san francisco is a beautiful city and the golden gate bridge, this is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and people come to visit from all over the world because it's magical, but we do have challenges. like any other major city we have serious challenges around car break-ins like fisherman's wharf, like the palace of fine arts, like alamo square. just imagine going to visit the most beautiful city in the world and coming back to your car and actually witness someone breaking into your car and sadly as we just saw holding you hostage to gun point, how terrifying that would be tragic. it is tragic. it's really embarrassing for our city. it's frustrating and it gives people the impression that it's not safe to come here. now, we have been implementing a lot of great policies including our tourism, deployment plan which since july when we announced it who may be able to replace all of the valuables which may not cost much in the resell market, but it means everything to them. this is what we're dealing with. yes, we've seen a reduction, but there's more, of course, that needs t

[inaudible] the state and the city the state of emergency in the city. >> we really want to get that vaccine approved for them right, dr. baba. do you have someone under 12 at home? you're asking for others. >> for others. >> i'm still going to get asked by potential students what's step one and step two how to go about. >> i hope you'll correct me if i'm wrong. we have things set up all across the city. we'll do that annually and run that against our add missions records. one of those schools have their tuition covered for eight consecutive terms. >> do you mean physical or online? >> the physical site. we're going to send them out. >> thank you. >> placed across the city. >> i'm from the san francisco examiner. we know people from all walks of life and also the age group between 25 to 34 is really the lowest vaccinated age group right now. so can you talk about why this is specifically for the age group that it was and kind of what your thoughts are with kind of getting that younger adult age group vaccinated too. >> we're focused on this group because they are so far our largest i

side of the city . so i really want to support this. and lastly i just as someone who is latino and hispanic i find it quite ironic that there's so many homeowners primarily white and wealthy who are so concerned about gentrification and are so concerned with supporting and uplifting bipoc communities but at the same time are stoutly against any construction of housing in the city that makes no sense to me. so again, as someone who want tocontinue living here i support both of these proposals and i hope the commission supports them as well . >> caller: my name is gloria and i'm executive director of community action and obviously i'm going to speak in favor of this legislation. i think it's good we're thinking about local solutions in addition and partially because the state is led by san francisco legislators who are demanding that san francisco and every community across the state get more serious about our need for more housing. and while i appreciate the urge to do things in a particular san francis

postal service to city hall. that's 1 carlton goodlett place, room 244, san francisco, california, 94102. and finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda november 9th unless otherwise stated. that concludes my announcements. >> chair haney: great. thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call item 1. >> item 1, resolution approving the 2021 grant application for the united states department of housing and urban development continuum of care program in an amount not to exceed $59.3 million and fulfilling the board of supervisors review and arrival process for all annual or otherwise recurring grants of $5 million or more. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item, should call 1-415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 2491 382 3145. then press pound twice. if you have not already done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak. mr. chair? >> chair haney: thank you. welcome emily cohen from the department of housing. >> good morning, chair haney. supervisor mar, tha

but she also shaped the city. every copper coin, every piece of clothing, every tray she carried, the big decision to migrate and every tiny choice she made later they send them on their rounds and made it possible for the city magistrate to issue and sent them out to the fields and the wholesalers to the market conduct. they lit lanterns and the stores. it wasn't just a backdrop about a place that she created day by day. other women, other unknown people would take up her work. will you join me in thanking >> . >> now, television for serious readers. >> is my great joy and privilege to introduce all of you to our >> it is my great joy and privilege to introduce you. our speaker today who lives in england she has lived for a number of years. she is the biographer, historian, and the author of several books in addition to the condÉ

so a little background on the city's climate. san francisco is a leader in many areas and climate is just one of them. in 2004, they released the first climate action plan and since then, successful policies have been around the areas of greenhouse gases, zero waste and toxic reduction. the updated climate action plan set to be released this fall was developed with greater stakeholder input with updated signs and much more rigorous data backing the policies and recommendations. there are 98 strategies and actions and six key sectors of transportation, housing, building operations, responsible production and consumption and healthy ecosystems. a successful implementation of the plan is still in the works and will require coordinated and deliberate actions from city leaders. so when we were talking to these department leaders, the main challenges that we heard were around funding and resources. there's a limited funding specifically dedicated to climate. so leaders working within this space to try to push forward climate action fac

but she also shaped the city. every copper coin, every piece of clothing, every tray she carried, the big decision to migrate and every tiny choice she made later they send them on their rounds and made it possible for the city magistrate to issue and sent them out to the fields and the wholesalers to the market conduct. they lit lanterns and the stores. it wasn't just a backdrop about a place that she created day by day. other women, other unknown people would take up her work. will you join me in thanking thank you. that was lovely. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> walter pincus has worked in journalism over 60 years. until 2015 he was a national security correspondent for the "washington post." on the cover of his new book called love to help, it is subtitled america's deadly betrayal of the marshall islanders. it was in those islands that served as the staging ground for over 60 nuclear tests conducted by the u.s. government beginning in 1946 and ending in 1958. the castle bravo test over bikini atoll in 1954 was where american

where they have a city manager. we're calling it a new office. it's a team, and it's a cross departmental team that pulls from new resources. they ask that you not repurpose existing positions because that is what their grant is trying to fund but i don't know that they require nor do i believe we are creating a new one. >> thank you. so how many of the new positions proposed here are to be union positions? >> four of the five. the one in the mayor's office, i think it is 0904 is not, but the other that are more i.t. positions, i believe they are. we have to kwie probably half of it by next october, and the other by the next [indiscernible] in june of next year, but we do hope that that would be philanthropically done or working with the bridge program, for example. >> supervisor preston: but at this point, there's no commitment of that some or all 1.1 million. >> that's correct. i think [indiscernible]. >> supervisor preston: i think my question is different. do you have commitments -- obviously, we are being warne

it's a great city. there's a lot of noise everywhere and what we are going to continue to do is make sure that we protect our venues like bottom of the hill. they've been around for 30 years. it's a great venue. there's just something about being in an intimate space and listening to live music and also walking into a place where people know who you are. where you feel like you're connected to the bartenders and the staff. it just makes you feel good and so part of what i wanted to do today to recognize bottom of the hill for their resiliency, for staying here, for working with us, for providing the input in the changes to policies and resources that we needed to provide as a city, i wanted to take this opportunity and recognize you and bottom of the hill on your 30th anniversary and come on up. and just present you with a certificate of honor because we know that bottom of the hill is now eligible to be a legacy business. so we need to be well on our way to protecting this institution in san francisco

of our city-wide corridors. as an example of things we've done this year to support city-wide activations, some of you will have [inaudible] activations in which we [inaudible] [audio is muffled] we will be bringing you a holiday trolley with caroler and along with these types of things. for the next three years, we'll be bringing you more opportunities that will highlight these individuals to our corridors to shop and hopefully support our economic recovery. i'm here if you have any questions. >> this is a time when folks really need support and want people to get out and support our small businesses. so thank you. is there another report on this item? >> no, chair haney. >> please call public comment. members of the publics who wish to provide public comments on this item should call 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. 2495-103-7123. press pound twice. please dial star 3 to line up to speak. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates you've been unmuted and that will

in the city. i uncovered i have to say harrowing memoirs, letters and diaries of the women who suffered enormously when the army came in to berlin, the soldiers were literally drunk on victory and they were drunk and came through and they raped and abused many of the women in berlin. it was very important and a difficult story to tell and a difficult story to read. but it was very important to tell it because it was part of the story that women of berlin would live with this for decades "afterwards". it also explains partly why the women in berlin were so desperate for the americans and british and later the french as well. desperate for them to arrive to bring some sense of order because it's not only a city in ruins, it's a city without any government at all. without electricity or gas or water without anyone, anything. the americans in the city bringing in 25000 troops each, they are coming in to a place of total anarchy. it's important for people to realize just how trashed the city was at the

it was certainly a city of wood. >> it was a very heavily city of wood. but chicago was a kind of at a crucial moment in its history and sort of also explains why the city rebuilt so quickly. chicago was built -- i would say out of nowhere and out of everywhere. and basically the 40 -- modern chicago that we know in the 40 years before the fire. maybe 100 white settlers here n 1830. they kicked the indians native americans out of three years later, basically, and the growth takes off and so there are maybe 4,000 people at the time of the census of 1840. and there are 330,000 at the time of the fire. between 1850 and 1871 it goes from something like 30,000 to 330,000 people. no place grew so fast and it is the expression as i was saying earlier of the 19th century industrialization, immigration, westward movement, the transportation and communications revolution. >> now the city already was the stockyards have been built not as big as they became -- but you had this wonderful -- [laughter] this wonderful river flowing right through into lake michigan. and

you're going to continue to do work in the city and i know the city is not without its challenges. and i hope that you see how all of you working together, how we are able to accomplish so much more than working apart. so much compromise has been made to get us to this point and my hope is that this is the start of what can be transformative about this program so that it doesn't depend on who's the mayor, who's the supervisor? but we have a structure now in place to allow for consistent increases in the threshold to make it easier for someone to make it into the program and succeed in the program in the first place. so i'm really excited about the future of this. [ applause ] and the last thing i'll say before i turn it over to the president of the board of supervisors shaman walton is, you know, getting an opportunity like this i know has been amazing for you for so many and what i really love about miguel is the conversations we have and the push he has not just to make his company a success, but how he wants other companies in the program and how he has given back he's provided

we're a resilient city. we bounced back and made san francisco even a better place as a result of the '89 earthquake. when you think about the freeway that was down at the embarcadero, many people may not remember that, but it was dark, dreary, it's not a place you went unless you were in a car. now, people are loving and enjoying our water fronts and spending time down there at restaurants. it's a part of keeping you and your family healthy and safe and to protect our amazing city when an earth quake occurs. i want to introduce the department of public health, mary ellen carol. [ applause ] sorry. it's hard. go ahead. >> dr. colfax is on vacation. i'm mary ellen carol and the director of the department of emergency management. and, mayor, you can have my job. she really laid out exactly everything to every detail about what to do to be prepared and we are really lucky to have the leadership of this mayor who takes emergencies seriously. i'm happy that we're all here in person again on 10/21. we got distract