00:00:12 GOOD MORNING EVERYONE THIS MEETING WILL COME TO ORDER
00:00:14 WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY
00:00:17 AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES COMMITTEE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO
00:00:20 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR THURSDAY, JULY 23RD, 2026.
00:00:23 >> I'M SUPERVISOR MATT DORSEY, CHAIR OF THIS COMMITTEE.
00:00:25 I'M JOINED TODAY BY FELLOW COMMITTEE MEMBERS, THE FELLOW
00:00:28 COMMITTEE MEMBER VICE CHAIR DANNY SAUDER.
00:00:31 WE'RE GRATEFUL TO OUR EVER CAPABLE CLERK TODAY AS MONIQUE
00:00:35 CREIGHTON FOR WHOM WE THANK IN ADVANCE FOR STAFFING US
00:00:36 AND KEEPING US ON TRACK AS WELL.
00:00:39 WE ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATIVE FOR THE ENTIRE TEAM AND AS A GOV TV
00:00:42 FOR FACILITATING AND BROADCASTING TODAY'S
00:00:43 MEETING AND THAT IS ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR OUR PRODUCER TODAY WHO
00:00:47 IS MR. JAMES KAWANA? >> MADAM CLERK, DO YOU HAVE ANY
00:00:50 ANNOUNCEMENTS? YES.
00:00:51 PUBLIC PLACE. EXCUSE ME PLEASE MAKE SURE TO
00:00:54 SILENCE ALL CELL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES.
00:00:57 DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED AS PART OF THE FILE SHALL BE
00:00:59 SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK. PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE TAKEN ON
00:01:02 EACH ITEM ON THIS AGENDA ITEM OF INTEREST COMES UP AND PUBLIC
00:01:05 COMMENT IS CALLED PLEASE LINE UP TO SPEAK ON YOUR RIGHT.
00:01:08 ALTERNATIVELY YOU MAY SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT IN WRITING
00:01:09 IN EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS FIRST YOU MAY EMAIL THEM TO
00:01:12 MYSELF THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES
00:01:16 COMMITTEE CLERK AT MEMO IN IQ U E DOT C R A WHITE OR IN AT G OF
00:01:21 YOURS G OR YOU MAY SEND YOUR WRITTEN COMMENTS VIA U.S.
00:01:26 POSTAL SERVICE TO OUR OFFICE IN CITY HALL NUMBER ONE DR.
00:01:29 CARLTON BE GOOD PLACE ROOM 244 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94102
00:01:35 IF YOU SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT IN WRITING IT WILL BE FORWARDED
00:01:38 TO THE SUPERVISORS AND ALSO INCLUDED AS PART OF THE
00:01:39 OFFICIAL FILE IN WHICH YOU ARE COMMENTING.
00:01:42 >> FINALLY, ITEMS ACTED UPON TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO APPEAR ON
00:01:44 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AGENDA OF SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026 UNLESS
00:01:47 OTHERWISE STATED. THANK YOU MADAM CLERK.
00:01:50 AND BEFORE WE GET UNDERWAY I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO MAKE A
00:01:54 MOTION TO EXCUSE SUPERVISOR ALAN WONG FROM TODAY'S MEETING.
00:01:57 >> MADAM CLERK, MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL IN THAT MOTION?
00:01:58 YES. I'M IN ON THE MOTION TO EXCUSE
00:02:01 MEMBER WONG FISCHER. SARTOR.
00:02:04 FISCHER. SARTOR I CHAIR DORSEY I SURE
00:02:08 DORSEY I HAVE TWO EYES WITH MEMBERS WITH MEMBER WONG
00:02:12 EXCUSED THANK YOU MADAM. MOTION PASSES AND MADAM CLERK
00:02:15 WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER ONE?
00:02:19 >> YES. ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A HEARING TO
00:02:20 CONSIDER THAT THE PERSON A PERSON PREMISE A PREMISE
00:02:22 TRANSFER OF A TYPE 48 ON SALE GENERAL PUBLIC PREMISES BEER,
00:02:26 WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRITS LIQUOR LICENSE TO OUT OF SIGHT
00:02:29 PRODUCTIONS LLC DOING BUSINESS AS REGGIE AND MODS LOCATED AT
00:02:33 456 THROUGH 460 LARKIN STREET IN DISTRICT FIVE WILL SERVE THE
00:02:38 PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
00:02:39 FRANCISCO NOTING THIS ITEM MAY BE REFERRED TO THE FULL BOARD
00:02:43 AS A COMMITTEE REPORT AT THE JULY 2026 JULY 28TH 2026 BOARD
00:02:49 OF SUPERVISORS MEETING. >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK.
00:02:53 WE WANT TO WELCOME OFFICER BRANDON ERICKSON FROM THE SAN
00:02:56 FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT'S LIAISON UNIT TO THE CALIFORNIA
00:02:58 DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL OR ABC.
00:03:01 OFFICER ERICKSON, WELCOME BACK TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY
00:03:05 AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES COMMITTEE.
00:03:06 >> THE FLOOR IS YOURS. >> THANK YOU FOR BEING
00:03:09 FRIENDLY. YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A REPORT
00:03:12 FOR OUT OF SIGHT PRODUCTIONS LLC AS REGGIE IN MODS THEY HAVE
00:03:16 APPLIED FOR A TYPE 48 LICENSE AND IF APPROVED THIS WOULD
00:03:19 ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE IN ANSELL GENERAL PUBLIC PREMISES AT
00:03:23 4562460 LARKIN STREET THERE ARE ZERO LETTERS OF PROTEST
00:03:27 AND ZERO LETTERS OF SUPPORT. THEY ARE LOCATED IN PLOT 553
00:03:30 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH CRIME AREA.
00:03:34 THEY ARE IN CENSUS TRACK 124.03 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH
00:03:37 CONCENTRATION AREA TENDERLOIN STATION HAS NO OPPOSITION AEW
00:03:41 RECOMMENDATION APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS
00:03:44 CONDITION ONE EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN CONDITION TWO BELOW
00:03:48 NO NOISE SHALL BE AUDIBLE BEYOND THE AREA UNDER THE
00:03:52 CONTROL OF THE LICENSEE CONDITION TO ANY NOISE CAUSED
00:03:55 BY ENTERTAINMENT OR AMPLIFIED SOUND THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE
00:03:59 PROVISIONS OF AN ACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT ISSUED BY
00:04:03 THE SAN FRANCISCO ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION SHALL BE AUTHORIZED
00:04:06 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LIMITS ESTABLISHED BY THAT
00:04:09 ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT INCLUDING ANY LIMITATION ON HOURS DURING
00:04:14 WHICH ENTERTAINMENT OR AMPLIFIED SOUND IS PERMITTED A
00:04:18 VIOLATION OF THE ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT OR AMPLIFIED SOUND NOISE
00:04:22 CONDITIONS OF THE ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT AS DETERMINED BY THE SAN
00:04:25 FRANCISCO ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION SHALL BE DEEMED TO
00:04:27 BE A VIOLATION OF THIS CONDITION.
00:04:30 ANY NOISE THAT IS SUBJECT TO OR IS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THE
00:04:32 ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO CONDITION ONE ABOVE
00:04:35 ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT MEANS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING A JUST ADD
00:04:39 MUSIC PERMIT A LIMITED LIVE PERFORMANCE PERMIT A PLACE OF
00:04:43 ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT A FIXED PLACE THE AMPLIFIED SOUND
00:04:46 PERMIT OR ANY SIMILAR SUCH PERMIT ISSUED BY THE SAN
00:04:48 FRANCISCO ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION.
00:04:51 CONDITION THREE PETITIONERS SHALL ACTIVELY MONITOR THE AREA
00:04:55 UNDER THEIR CONTROL IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT THE LOITERING
00:04:58 OF PERSONS OR ANY PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE LICENSE
00:05:03 PREMISES AS DEPICTED ON THE ABC FORM 257.
00:05:05 LASTLY CONDITION FOR THE PETITIONER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE
00:05:09 FOR MAINTAINING FREE OF LITTER THE AREA ADJACENT TO THE
00:05:10 PREMISE OVER WHICH THEY HAVE CONTROL AS DEPICTED ON ABC FORM
00:05:16 257. >> THANK YOU OFFICER ERICKSON.
00:05:20 IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT REGGIE AND MODS IS A SOON TO
00:05:22 OPEN BAR AND AN EXPANSION OF OUR SITE WHICH IS A HIGHLY
00:05:26 REGARDED PIZZERIA THAT THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE IDENTIFIED
00:05:29 AS ONE OF THE BAY AREA'S TOP 100 RESTAURANTS.
00:05:32 THE BUSINESS OWNERS HAVE THE SUPPORT OF DISTRICT FIVE
00:05:34 SUPERVISOR BILAL MAHMOOD AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THIS
00:05:36 APPLICATION. MADAM CLERK, DO WE HAVE
00:05:38 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE APPLICANT PRESENT?
00:05:41 >> WELL, I DON'T BELIEVE SO, MR. CHAIR.
00:05:42 OKAY. WELL THEN.
00:05:45 OH THEN SO CUSTOMARILY, YOU KNOW WE WELCOME IF YOU THERE'S
00:05:48 NO REQUIREMENT BUT YOU'RE CERTAINLY WELCOME TO SAY A FEW
00:05:49 WORDS IF YOU'D LIKE. JUST TO THE LECTERN.
00:05:57 >> MY NAME IS ERIC TAYLOR, ONE OF THE OWNERS OF OUR SITE PIZZA
00:06:01 AND OUTSIDE PRODUCTIONS LLC STANDING ON BEHALF OF MY
00:06:02 PARTNER PETER DANCE WE ARE JUST EXCITED AND THRILLED TO HAVE
00:06:06 THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO AID TO THE GROWTH AND POSITIVE
00:06:10 ENRICHMENT OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA .
00:06:13 AND WE THINK THAT HAVING REGINALD'S OUR BAR ON THE
00:06:14 CORNER OF TURK AND LARKIN WILL PROVIDE AN AREA FOR PEOPLE OF
00:06:17 THE COMMUNITY OF ALL WALKS TO LIVE TOGETHER, HANG OUT FUTURE
00:06:20 WORLD CUPS AND TO JUST CONTINUE THE VIBRANCY OF THE AREA TO
00:06:25 BRING BACK. THANK YOU.
00:06:28 >> GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:06:29 SO SUPERVISOR SLAUGHTER THANK YOU CHAIR.
00:06:32 I JUST LIKE TO ADD MY SUPPORT AS WELL.
00:06:35 YOU KNOW I KNOW THIS TEAM FROM OUT OF SIGHT WHICH IS ONE OF
00:06:39 THEIR LOCATIONS IS LOCATED IN MY DISTRICT IN CHINATOWN
00:06:43 FINANCIAL DISTRICT AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITEMENT FOR
00:06:46 THIS EXPANSION. AND JUST THIS MORNING I WAS
00:06:48 WALKING BY AND SAW THE CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY SO
00:06:50 SOMETHING EVERYONE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO
00:06:52 SUPPORT. THANK YOU.
00:06:54 SUPERVISOR SARTOR VICE CHAIR SLAUGHTER MADAM CLERK, MAY WE
00:06:56 OPEN THE SITE UP NOW TO PUBLIC COMMENT?
00:06:58 >> YES. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH
00:06:59 TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE SHOULD LINE UP NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY
00:07:02 THE WINDOWS ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
00:07:08 MR. CHAIR, WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM.
00:07:12 >> THANK YOU MADAM. THIRD PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS
00:07:14 ITEM IS NOW CLOSED AND SEEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS OR
00:07:17 COMMENTS I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE CLERK PREPARE A RESOLUTION
00:07:21 DETERMINING THAT THE ISSUANCE OF A TYPE 48 ON SALE GENERAL
00:07:23 PUBLIC PREMISES BEER WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRITS LIQUOR
00:07:27 LICENSE TO THE APPLICANT WOULD SERVE THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR
00:07:30 NECESSITY AND THAT THE RESOLUTION BE FORWARDED TO THE
00:07:32 FULL BOARD AS A COMMITTEE REPORT.
00:07:35 >> MADAM CLERK, MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL ON THAT MOTION?
00:07:38 YES. I'M ON A MOTION DIRECTING THE
00:07:39 CLERK TO PREPARE A RESOLUTION AND FORWARDING THAT RESOLUTION
00:07:42 TO THE FULL BOARD ASK COMMITTEE REPORT VICE CHAIR SARTOR
00:07:46 FISCHER. SARTOR I CHAIR DORSEY I CHAIR
00:07:49 DORSEY I HAVE TWO EYES WHAT MEMBER WONG EXCUSED THANK YOU
00:07:53 MADAM CLERK THE MOTION PASSES CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
00:07:54 APPLICANT MADAM CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER TWO?
00:07:58 >> YES. ITEM NUMBER TWO IS A HEARING TO
00:08:02 CONSIDER THAT THE ISSUANCE OF A TYPE 64 ON SALE GENERAL THEATER
00:08:05 LIQUOR LICENSE TO UPTOWN TENDERLOIN I AND SEE DOING
00:08:09 BUSINESSES TENDERLOIN MUSEUM LOCATED AT 835 LARKIN STREET
00:08:15 IN DISTRICT FIVE WILL SERVE THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY
00:08:17 OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTING THAT THIS ITEM
00:08:20 MAY ALSO BE REFERRED TO THE FULL BOARD AS COMMITTEE REPORT
00:08:23 AT THE JULY 28TH 2026 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING.
00:08:27 >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK AND WELCOME BACK OFFICER
00:08:30 ERICKSON. THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
00:08:31 THANK YOU. YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A REPORT
00:08:34 FOR UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC AS TENDERLOIN MUSEUM THEY HAVE
00:08:38 APPLIED FOR A TYPE 64 LICENSE AND IF APPROVED THIS WILL ALLOW
00:08:39 THEM TO OPERATE A SPECIAL ON SALE GENERAL NONPROFIT THEATER
00:08:42 AT A THREE FIVE LARKIN STREET. >> THERE ARE ZERO LETTERS OF
00:08:48 PROTEST ZERO LETTERS OF SUPPORT.
00:08:49 THEY ARE LOCATED IN PLOT 547 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH
00:08:52 CRIME AREA. THEY ARE IN CENSUS TRACT 122.02
00:08:55 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH CONCENTRATION AREA.
00:08:59 TENDERLOIN STATION HAS NO OPPOSITION AEW RECOMMENDATION
00:09:03 APPROVAL OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR CONDITIONS CONDITION ONE EXCEPT
00:09:06 AS PROVIDED IN CONDITION TWO BELOW NO NOISE SHALL BE AUDIBLE
00:09:10 BEYOND THE AREA UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE LICENSEE
00:09:13 CONDITION TO ANY NOISE CAUSED BY THE ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT OR
00:09:15 AMPLIFIED SOUND THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACTIVE
00:09:19 ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT ISSUED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO ENTERTAINMENT
00:09:22 COMMISSION SHALL BE AUTHORIZED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LIMITS
00:09:26 ESTABLISHED BY THAT ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT INCLUDING
00:09:29 ANY LIMITATION ON HOURS DURING WHICH ENTERTAINMENT OR
00:09:30 AMPLIFIED SOUND IS PERMITTED A VIOLATION OF THE ENTERTAINMENT
00:09:34 FOR ENTERTAINMENT OR AMPLIFIED SOUND NOISE CONDITIONS OF THE
00:09:39 ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT AS DETERMINED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO
00:09:42 ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE IN VIOLATION OF
00:09:45 THIS CONDITION. ANY NOISE THAT IS SUBJECT TO OR
00:09:49 IS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THE ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT SHALL BE
00:09:51 SUBJECT TO CONDITION ONE ABOVE ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT MEANS ANY
00:09:53 OF THE FOLLOWING A JUST ADD MUSIC PERMIT A LIMITED LIVE
00:09:56 PERFORMANCE PERMIT A PLACE OF ENTERTAINMENT PERMIT A FIXED
00:09:59 PLACE AMPLIFIED SOUND PERMIT OR ANY SIMILAR SUCH PERMIT ISSUED
00:10:03 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION
00:10:04 CONDITION THREE PETITIONER SHALL ACTIVELY MONITOR THE AREA
00:10:08 UNDER THEIR CONTROL IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT THE LOITERING
00:10:12 OF PERSONS ON ANY PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE LICENSED
00:10:16 PREMISES AS DEPICTED ON ABC FORM 257 AND LASTLY CONDITION
00:10:19 FOR THAT PETITIONER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING
00:10:22 FREE OF LITTER THE AREA ADJACENT TO THE PREMISES OVER
00:10:26 WHICH THEY HAVE CONTROL AS DEPICTED ON ABC FORM 257.
00:10:30 >> THANK YOU OFFICER ERICKSON THE TENDERLOIN MUSEUM PRESERVES
00:10:34 AND CELEBRATES THE STORIED HISTORY OF SAN FRANCISCO'S
00:10:35 TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE
00:10:38 MUSEUM'S COMMITMENT TO FOSTERING COMMUNITY AS IT
00:10:41 ENTERS INTO AN EXCITING PERIOD OF EXPANSION.
00:10:42 I UNDERSTAND THE APPLICATION ALSO HAS THE SUPPORT OF
00:10:46 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING IT AS
00:10:49 WELL AS SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN TO MANY EVENTS THERE MADAM
00:10:52 CLERK THAT WE HAVE APPLICANT REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT WE'D
00:10:56 LIKE TO HAVE ANY REPRESENTATIVES FROM TENDERLOIN
00:10:57 MUSEUM. >> OKAY, SURE.
00:11:00 NO WE DO NOT. OKAY THEN WHY DON'T WE OPEN
00:11:04 THIS ITEM UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT? >> YES.
00:11:05 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM TWO SHOULD
00:11:08 LINE UP NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY THE WINDOWS.
00:11:09 ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
00:11:14 MR. CHAIR, WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT.
00:11:15 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS
00:11:18 NOW CLOSED AND SEEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS
00:11:21 I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE CLERK PREPARE A RESOLUTION MAKING A
00:11:23 DETERMINATION THAT THE ISSUANCE OF A TYPE 64 ON SALE GENERAL
00:11:26 THEATER LIQUOR LICENSE TO THE APPLICANT WOULD SERVE THE
00:11:30 PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY AND THAT THE RESOLUTION BE
00:11:34 FORWARDED TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AS A COMMITTEE
00:11:35 REPORT. >> MADAM CLERK, MAY WE HAVE A
00:11:38 ROLL CALL ON THAT MOTION? YES, I'M ON THE MOTION
00:11:39 DIRECTING THE CLERK TO PREPARE A RESOLUTION FORWARDING THAT
00:11:42 RESOLUTION TO THE FULL BOARD AS COMMITTEE REPORT AT THE JULY
00:11:46 28TH BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING VICE CHAIR SARTOR
00:11:49 FLEISHER SARTOR I DORSEY I CHAIR DORSEY I HAVE TWO EYES
00:11:53 WITH MEMBER WONG EXCUSED THANK YOU MADAM CLERK THE MOTION
00:11:57 PASSES AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE APPLICANT MADAM CLERK MAY
00:12:01 PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER THREE YES.
00:12:03 ITEM NUMBER THREE IS A HEARING TO CONSIDER THAT THE PERSON TO
00:12:04 PERSON PREMISE TO PREMISE TRANSFER OF TITLE 21 OFF SALE
00:12:07 GENERAL BEER WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRITS LIQUOR LICENSE A
00:12:11 MISSING LIQUOR AGENCY DOING BUSINESS COLLEGE MARKET LOCATED
00:12:15 AT 95 L STREET IN DISTRICT TWO WILL SERVE THE PUBLIC
00:12:18 CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
00:12:22 FRANCISCO NOTING THAT THIS ITEM MAY BE REFERRED TO THE FULL
00:12:26 BOARD AS COMMITTEE REPORT AT THE JULY 28TH, 2026 BOARD OF
00:12:28 SUPERVISORS MEETING. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
00:12:32 >> WELCOME BACK OFFICER ERICKSON.
00:12:33 THANK YOU. YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A PIECE
00:12:36 IN REPORT FOR MISSING LIQUOR INC OPERATING AS COLLEGE
00:12:40 MARKET. THEY HAVE APPLIED FOR A TYPE 21
00:12:41 LICENSE AND IF APPROVED THIS WILL ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE AN
00:12:44 OFF SALE GENERAL LIQUOR STORE AT 995 ALICE STREET THERE ARE
00:12:49 ZERO LETTERS OF PROTEST AND ZERO LETTERS OF SUPPORT.
00:12:51 >> THEY ARE LOCATED IN PLOT 546 WHICH IS A CONSIDERED A HIGH
00:12:54 CRIME AREA. THEY ARE IN SENSE OF TRACK
00:13:00 160.00 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A LOW CONCENTRATION AREA.
00:13:04 NORTHERN STATION HAS NO OPPOSITION AEW RECOMMENDATION
00:13:05 APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS CONDITION ONE
00:13:08 PETITIONER SHALL ACTIVELY MONITOR THE AREA UNDER THEIR
00:13:11 CONTROL IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT THE LOITERING OF ANY PERSON OF
00:13:15 ANY PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE LICENSED PREMISE AS DEPICTED ON
00:13:19 THE ABC FORM 257 CONDITION TO THE PETITIONERS WILL BE
00:13:24 RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING FREE OF LITTER OF THE AREA
00:13:25 ADJACENT TO THE PREMISES OVER WHICH THEY HAVE CONTROL AS
00:13:28 DEPICTED ON ABC FORM TWO FIVE SEVEN.
00:13:31 >> THANK YOU OFFICER ERICKSON. MADAM CLERK WE HAVE
00:13:33 REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE APPLICANT COLLEGE MARKET
00:13:36 PRESENT ANY REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT FOR THIS ITEM?
00:13:42 >> OKAY. AS I SAID CUSTOMARILY WE INVITE
00:13:43 PEOPLE UP. THERE'S NO OBLIGATION
00:13:46 AND THAT'S FINE. >> SO SEEING NO ONE ON THE
00:13:50 ROSTER WITH QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS MADAM CLERK, MAY WE
00:13:51 OPEN THIS ITEM UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT?
00:13:53 >> YES. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH
00:13:54 TO SPEAK ON ITEM THREE SHOULD LINE THEM NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY
00:13:57 THE WINDOWS ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
00:14:03 >> MR. CHAIR, WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT.
00:14:04 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS NOW
00:14:07 CLOSED AND SEEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS I'D LIKE
00:14:11 TO MOVE THAT THE CLERK PREPARE A RESOLUTION MAKING A
00:14:12 DETERMINATION THAT THE ISSUANCE OF A TYPE 21 OFF SALE GENERAL
00:14:15 BEER WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRITS LIQUOR LICENSE TO THE APPLICANT
00:14:18 WOULD SERVE THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY
00:14:22 AND THAT THE RESOLUTION BE FORWARDED TO THE FULL BOARD AS
00:14:23 A COMMITTEE REPORT. >> MADAM CLERK, MAY WE HAVE A
00:14:27 ROLL CALL IN THAT MOTION? YES.
00:14:28 I'M A MOTION DIRECTING THE CLERK TO PREPARE A RESOLUTION
00:14:30 AND FOLLOWING THAT RESOLUTION TO THE FULL BOARD AS COMMITTEE
00:14:34 REPORT AT THEIR JULY 28TH MEETING VICE VERSA ORDER!
00:14:40 FISCHER'S ORDER I CHAIR DORSEY CHAIR DORSEY I HAVE TWO EYES
00:14:43 WITH MEMBER WONG EXCUSED THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
00:14:45 >> MOTION PASSES. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
00:14:48 APPLICANT AND MADAM CLERK MAY WE CALL ITEM NUMBER FOUR?
00:14:52 >> YES. ITEM NUMBER FOUR AS A HEARING
00:14:55 TO CONSIDER THE PERSON TO PERSON PREMISE A PREMISE
00:14:57 TRANSFER OF A TYPE 20 ALL SALE BEER AND WINE LIQUOR LICENSE TO
00:15:01 H GHG M.W. ENTERPRISE LLC DOING BUSINESS HELLO MART LOCATED AT
00:15:09 2135 BUCHANAN STREET IN DISTRICT TWO WILL SERVE THE
00:15:10 PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
00:15:14 FRANCISCO NOTING THAT THIS ITEM MAY BE REFERRED TO THE FULL
00:15:17 BOARD AS COMMITTEE REPORT AT THE JULY 28TH, 2026 BOARD OF
00:15:20 SUPERVISORS MEETING. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK
00:15:24 AND WELCOME BACK. OFFICER ERICKSON.
00:15:25 THANK YOU. YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A REPORT
00:15:28 FOR H.J. M.W. ENTERPRISE LLC OPERATING AS HILO MART.
00:15:32 THEY HAVE APPLIED FOR A TYPE 20 LICENSE AND IF APPROVED THIS
00:15:36 WILL ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE AND OFF SALE BEER AND WINE
00:15:39 CONVENIENCE MARKET AT 2135 BUCHANAN STREET.
00:15:42 THERE ARE ZERO LETTERS OF PROTEST AND ZERO LETTERS OF
00:15:45 SUPPORT. THEY ARE LOCATED IN PLOT 531
00:15:47 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A LOW CRIME AREA.
00:15:51 THEY ARE IN CENSUS TRACT 135.00 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH
00:15:54 CONCENTRATION AREA. NORTHERN STATION HAS NO
00:15:57 OPPOSITION. AEW RECOMMENDATION APPROVAL OF
00:15:59 THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS. CONDITION ONE.
00:16:01 PETITIONER SHALL ACTIVELY MONITOR THE AREA UNDER THE
00:16:05 CONTROL IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT THE LOITERING OF PERSONS ON
00:16:09 PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE LICENSE PREMISE AS DEPICTED ON
00:16:12 ABC FORM 257. CONDITION TO THE PETITION
00:16:13 PETITIONER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING FREE OF LITTER
00:16:18 THE AREA ADJACENT TO THE PREMISES OVER WHICH THEY HAVE
00:16:22 CONTROL AS DEPICTED ON ABC FORM 257.
00:16:25 THANK YOU OFFICER ERICKSON. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT HILO
00:16:29 MART IS A NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET AND CAFE.
00:16:30 IT OFFERS COFFEE PASTRIES, BEVERAGES, LOCALLY SOURCED
00:16:33 PRODUCTS AND MORE. IT'S LOCATED IN PACIFIC HEIGHTS
00:16:36 AND HAS THE SUPPORT OF DISTRICT TWO SUPERVISOR STEVEN CHERYL.
00:16:40 MADAM CLERK, MAY I ASK IF THERE'S ANY APPLICANT
00:16:41 REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT? >> I BELIEVE NO REPRESENTATIVES
00:16:45 WERE PRESENT FOR THIS ITEM. OKAY THEN WHY DON'T WE INVITE A
00:16:48 PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? >> YES.
00:16:49 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM FOUR SHOULD
00:16:52 LINE UP NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY THE WINDOWS.
00:16:53 ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
00:16:58 MR. CHAIR, WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT.
00:16:59 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS
00:17:03 NOW CLOSED AND SEEING NO ONE WITH FURTHER QUESTIONS OR
00:17:06 COMMENTS I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE CLERK PREPARE A RESOLUTION
00:17:09 MAKING A DETERMINATION THAT THE ISSUANCE OF A TYPE 20 OFF SALE
00:17:13 BEER AND WINE LIKE LIQUOR LICENSE TO THE APPLICANT WOULD
00:17:16 SERVE THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY AND THAT THE
00:17:17 RESOLUTION BE FORWARDED TO THE FULL BOARD AS A COMMITTEE
00:17:21 REPORT. MADAM PERK, MAY WE HAVE A ROLL
00:17:22 CALL ON THAT MOTION? >> YES, I'M ON THE MOTION
00:17:25 DIRECTING THE CLERK TO PREPARE A RESOLUTION AND FORWARD THAT
00:17:29 RESOLUTION TO THE FULL BOARD AS COMMITTEE REPORT AT THE JULY
00:17:32 28TH, 2026 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING.
00:17:33 VICE CHAIR SLAUGHTER FISCHER SLAUGHTER I CHAIR DORSEY I
00:17:37 CHAIR DORSEY I HAVE TWO EYES WHAT MEMBER WONG EXCUSED.
00:17:43 >> GREAT. THANK YOU MADAM CLERK.
00:17:44 THE MOTION PASSES AND MADAM CLERK MAY WE CALL ITEM NUMBER
00:17:50 FIVE? >> YES.
00:17:51 ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS A HEARING ON SAN FRANCISCO'S READINESS
00:17:54 FOR EXTREME HEAT EVENTS INCLUDING OPERATIONAL PLANNING
00:17:58 PROCEDURES, INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS AND PROGRESS ON
00:17:59 ARITHMETIC AVIATION. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
00:18:03 I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME BOARD PRESIDENT RAFAEL MEHLMAN TO
00:18:07 TODAY'S MEETING AND TO THANK HIM FOR JOINING US.
00:18:08 HE CALLED THIS HEARING TO EXAMINE SAN FRANCISCO'S
00:18:11 PREPAREDNESS FOR EXTREME HEAT AND TO TAKE THE STEPS NEEDED TO
00:18:14 PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS FROM THESE EVENTS AS THEY BECOME
00:18:18 MORE FREQUENT AND MORE SEVERE. PRESIDENT MENDELSOHN, I I'LL
00:18:22 NOW TURN IT OVER TO YOU FOR OPENING REMARKS AND TO LEAD US
00:18:24 THROUGH THIS DISCUSSION. THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
00:18:28 THANK YOU. CHAIR DORSEY THANK YOU VICE
00:18:29 CHAIR SAUDER THANK YOU FOR FINDING TIME FOR THIS HEARING
00:18:35 ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE DOWN A MEMBER AND IF ANYONE NEED TO
00:18:39 TAKE A BIO BREAK, PLEASE DO. >> WHEN WE CAN IT'S FINE.
00:18:46 COLLEAGUES, THIS HEARING IS ON SAN FRANCISCO'S READINESS FOR
00:18:50 EXTREME HEAT. TWO DAYS AGO SAN FRANCISCO
00:18:54 REACHED 85 DEGREES, THE HOTTEST JULY DAY IN THE CITY IN 11
00:18:57 YEARS. FOUR MONTHS AGO ON MARCH 20TH
00:19:00 THE CITY HIT 90 DEGREES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 152 YEARS OF
00:19:05 RECORD KEEPING AND TWICE SO TWICE THIS YEAR SAN FRANCISCO'S
00:19:09 BROKEN RECORDS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO HOLD FOR ANOTHER
00:19:11 CENTURY. WE OFTEN THINK OF OURSELVES AS
00:19:14 A CITY OF FOG AND JACKETS AND FOR MOST OF OUR HISTORY
00:19:17 THAT HAS BEEN TRUE. BUT IT HAS ALSO LEFT US
00:19:19 UNPRETTY SCARED FOR VERY HOT DAYS.
00:19:22 OUR BODIES NEVER BUILT A TOLERANCE FOR HEAT BECAUSE OUR
00:19:25 HOT DAYS ARE RARE STILL AND RELATIVELY BRIEF.
00:19:29 DATA SHOWS EMERGENCY VISITS AND HOSPITALIZATIONS IN THE
00:19:34 CITY START CLIMBING ONCE TEMPERATURES CROSS 85 DEGREES
00:19:38 EXACTLY WHERE THE THERMOMETER SAT EARLIER THIS WEEK.
00:19:41 THE BULK OF OUR HOUSING STOCK WAS BUILT ON THE ASSUMPTION
00:19:46 THAT IT WOULD NEVER NEED TO KEEP ANYONE COOL.
00:19:48 JUST 34% OF SAN FRANCISCO HOUSEHOLDS HAVE CENTRAL AIR
00:19:52 CONDITIONING AGAINST THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF 92%.
00:19:55 AND BECAUSE OUR NIGHTS NO LONGER COOL THE WAY THEY USED
00:19:58 TO, OUR BODIES HAVE LESS TIME TO RECOVER BEFORE THE NEXT HOT
00:20:00 DAY ARRIVES. >> HEAT DOES NOT AFFECT THE
00:20:03 CITY EVENLY. NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE SOMA BAYVIEW
00:20:07 HUNTERS POINT AND CHINATOWN RUN MEASURABLY HOTTER THAN THE REST
00:20:10 OF SAN FRANCISCO. AND OF COURSE THAT IS THE
00:20:14 LEGACY OF DECADES OF DECISIONS ABOUT WHERE TO PLANT TREES
00:20:17 AND WHERE TO POUR CONCRETE. THE RESIDENTS LEAST EQUIPPED TO
00:20:21 COPE WITH HEAT. SENIORS THE UNHOUSED SRO
00:20:24 TENANTS AND RENTERS IN AGED BUILDINGS ARE CONCENTRATED
00:20:28 IN EXACTLY THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS. FOR THEM HEAT IS NOT SIMPLY AN
00:20:30 INCONVENIENCE A CONVENIENCE BUT CAN BE A MATTER OF LIFE
00:20:33 AND DEATH. SAN FRANCISCO HAS GOTTEN A
00:20:37 TASTE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEATHER GOES WRONG.
00:20:40 ON SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2017 THE TEMPERATURE HIT 106 DEGREES THE
00:20:44 HOTTEST EVER RECORDED HERE. SIX PEOPLE DIED THAT DAY IN SAN
00:20:48 FRANCISCO AND SAN MATEO COUNTY EACH OF THEM ELDERLY, EACH OF
00:20:51 THEM ALONE. PARAMOUNT PARAMEDICS COULD NOT
00:20:52 KEEP UP. >> AT THE PEAK OF THE CRISIS 19
00:20:55 PEOPLE WERE WAITING FOR AMBULANCES THE CITY DID NOT
00:20:59 HAVE. COOLING CENTERS DID NOT OPEN
00:21:01 UNTIL AFTER TEN THAT NIGHT HOURS AFTER THE EMERGENCY HAD
00:21:03 PEAKED. A LATER INVESTIGATION FOUND SAN
00:21:05 FRANCISCO HAD A DECADE OLD HEAT RESPONSE PLAN THAT WAS NEVER
00:21:10 ACTIVATED. >> SO IT'S NEARLY A DECADE
00:21:14 LATER. AND THE QUESTION I HAVE IS IS
00:21:17 SAN FRANCISCO PREPARED TO DO BETTER IN 2023?
00:21:22 THE OFFICE OF RESILIENCE AND CAPITAL PLANNING AND DBM
00:21:28 RELEASED THE THE HEAT AND AIR QUALITY RESILIENCE PLAN.
00:21:31 A SERIOUS EFFORT BUILT ON INPUT FROM 23 CITY DEPARTMENTS
00:21:36 AND RESEARCHERS AT UCSF AND UC BERKELEY.
00:21:40 >> ONE YEAR LATER MOST OF THE STRATEGIES HAD YET TO BE
00:21:47 IMPLEMENTED. AND LAST DECEMBER AT ONE OF THE
00:21:50 PLAN'S OWN COORDINATION MEETINGS, PARTICIPANTS RATED
00:21:51 FUNDING AS THE WEAKEST PART OF THE PROGRAM.
00:21:55 TODAY WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM DR. AT THE CORE OF UCSF ON THE
00:21:59 HEALTH DIMENSIONS OF THIS RISK FROM THE OFFICE OF RESILIENCE
00:22:03 AND CAPITAL PLANNING FROM DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT ON
00:22:06 THE IMPLEMENTATION STATUS OF HACKER AND OTHER PLANS
00:22:10 INCLUDING PROGRESS ON BUILDING WEATHERIZATION.
00:22:14 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM DPM ON THE CITY'S EMERGENCY SYSTEMS
00:22:18 WOULD RESPOND TO ANOTHER EXTREME HEAT EVENT AND WE'RE
00:22:21 GOING TO HEAR FROM JACKIE BRYANT OF RESILIENT BAY VIEW
00:22:23 AND WINNIE VIEW OF SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY.
00:22:25 WE'RE GOING TO SPEAK ON WHAT THESE RISKS LOOK LIKE ON THE
00:22:27 GROUND FOR OUR MOST VULNERABLE SAN FRANCISCANS.
00:22:30 >> I WANT TO THANK EACH OR ACP TEAM AND THE DEPARTMENT OF
00:22:33 ENVIRONMENT FOR THEIR HELP PREPARING THIS HEARING.
00:22:37 DR. THACKER, WINNIE AND JACKIE FOR SHARING THEIR PERSPECTIVES
00:22:41 ON THE CLIMATE GROUPS THAT ARE PRESENT TODAY AND EVERYONE
00:22:45 WHO'S SHOWN UP TO COMMENT. I DO ALSO WANT TO THANK RONELL
00:22:51 BUT JOY SOMEWHERE OUT THERE WHO HAS WORKED ON PULLING THIS
00:22:55 HEARING TOGETHER. I SEE BRIAN STRONG FROM RCP.
00:22:59 >> I THINK WE WERE GOING TO START WITH DR. THE CORE BUT SHE
00:23:03 MAY NOT. >> THERE YOU ARE.
00:23:06 >> GO FOR IT. YEAH.
00:23:07 ALL RIGHT. DR. NEED OF THE CORE YOU ARE
00:23:11 THE, UH WITH THE UCSF PARTNERSHIPS FOR RESEARCH
00:23:14 AND IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE FOR EQUITY THAT IS PRIZE CENTER.
00:23:18 AND YOU'RE GOING TO TALK TO US FOR A BIT?
00:23:21 >> YEAH. THANK YOU AND GOOD MORNING.
00:23:22 I REALLY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THIS
00:23:25 IMPORTANT ISSUE. SO I'M A FACULTY MEMBER AT THE
00:23:28 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO.
00:23:29 I ALSO SERVE AS A CO-CHAIR FOR RESEARCH FOR THE U.S. WIDE SO
00:23:34 ALL TEN INSTITUTIONS CENTER FOR CLIMATE HEALTH AND EQUITY AS
00:23:38 WELL AS THE PRIZE CENTER. I ALSO AM A PHYSICIAN.
00:23:41 I'M THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR OUR CHEST CLINIC AT SAN
00:23:44 FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL. IN THESE DIFFERENT ROLES I CARE
00:23:48 FOR PATIENTS, TRAIN PHYSICIANS, CONDUCT RESEARCH AND PARTNER
00:23:51 WITH COMMUNITY AND CITY AGENCIES.
00:23:52 AND THESE EXPERIENCES HAVE GIVEN ME A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE
00:23:57 ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AND MORE SPECIFICALLY EXTREME HEAT IS
00:24:00 ALREADY AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF THOSE LIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:24:03 >> TODAY I'D LIKE TO MAKE THREE POINTS.
00:24:05 FIRST, SAN FRANCISCO IS ALREADY EXPERIENCING UNPRECEDENTED
00:24:09 CLIMATE AND HEAT EVENTS WITH TANGIBLE HEALTH IMPACTS ACROSS
00:24:12 OUR COMMUNITY. SECOND, AS A CLIMATE TEMPERATE
00:24:15 CITY, SAN FRANCISCO WAS NOT BUILT FOR INCREASING HEAT
00:24:19 LEAVING MANY RESIDENTS VULNERABLE DURING EXTREME HEAT
00:24:23 EVENTS. >> AND THIRD, OUR GREATEST
00:24:24 CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THROUGH OUR WORK IS
00:24:27 THAT WE NEED HELP WITH IMPLEMENTATION.
00:24:30 THIS INCLUDES DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE
00:24:31 INFRASTRUCTURE AND SYSTEMS TO ENSURE THAT EVIDENCE BASED
00:24:35 SOLUTIONS REACH AND PROTECT POPULATIONS LEAST ABLE TO
00:24:38 ADAPT. >> SO AS A PHYSICIAN I SEE
00:24:42 HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF EXTREME HEAT EVERY DAY.
00:24:43 MANY PEOPLE THINK OF HOT DAYS AS AN INCONVENIENCE BUT FOR
00:24:47 MANY OF MY PATIENTS WHO HAVE CHRONIC LUNG DISEASES IT CAN
00:24:51 BECOME A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. >> I REMEMBER CARING FOR A 68
00:24:54 YEAR OLD MAN WITH EMPHYSEMA WHO WAS HOMEBOUND AND COULD NOT
00:24:58 AFFORD AIR CONDITIONING DURING THE SAN FRANCISCO RECORD
00:25:01 BREAKING 106 DEGREE HEAT EVENT IN SEPTEMBER OF 2017.
00:25:05 HE STRUGGLED WITH HIS BREATHING .
00:25:09 >> HIS ONLY SOLUTION WAS TO SIT IN A COLD BATH WITH A WET TOWEL
00:25:13 AROUND HIS NECK. THIS KEPT HIM FROM STRUGGLING
00:25:14 TO BREATHE AND ALSO AVOIDING A HOSPITALIZATION FOR HIM.
00:25:17 >> IT WAS REALLY ABOUT STAYING SAFE RATHER THAN JUST BEING
00:25:22 COMFORTABLE. >> THIS SAME HEAT EVENT AS YOU
00:25:25 HEARD OFFICIALLY WAS ATTRIBUTED TO THE CAUSE OF DEATHS OF FOUR
00:25:29 SIX PEOPLE IN THE BAY AREA. BUT WE KNOW THAT THIS IS A VAST
00:25:33 UNDERESTIMATION OF THE TRUE HEALTH IMPACT.
00:25:36 EXTREME HEAT IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS A SILENT KILLER BECAUSE
00:25:39 IT EXACERBATES UNDERLYING CONDITIONS SUCH AS HEART
00:25:41 DISEASE, LUNG DISEASE, KIDNEY DISEASE AND MANY OTHER CHRONIC
00:25:45 ILLNESSES. AND THESE IMPACTS AREN'T
00:25:47 LIMITED TO JUST OLDER ADULTS. THEY REALLY HAVE HEALTH IMPACTS
00:25:51 ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE. >> MY OWN RESEARCH HAS SHOWN
00:25:55 THAT EXTREME HEAT ALSO INCREASES ASTHMA ATTACKS
00:25:56 IN KIDS ACROSS THE BAY AREA. AS OUR CLIMATE CHANGES, EXTREME
00:25:59 HEAT ARE BECOMING EVENTS ARE BECOMING MORE FREQUENT.
00:26:03 AND COMPARED TO TWO DECADES AGO WE'RE SEEING ALMOST TWICE AS
00:26:07 MORE HEAT EVENTS IN THE LAST DECADE.
00:26:08 HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN FRANCISCO IS PARTICULARLY
00:26:12 VULNERABLE BECAUSE IT'S A CLIMATE TEMPERATE CITY.
00:26:14 OUR HOUSING STOCK IS OLD WITH ALMOST 50% OF PEOPLE IN SAN
00:26:18 FRANCISCO LIVING IN HOMES BUILT BEFORE THE 1950S.
00:26:22 AS YOU HEARD OUR AIR CONDITIONING OWNERSHIP IS ONE
00:26:26 OF THE LOWEST IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:26:27 >> MANY OLDER BUILDINGS INCLUDING SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY
00:26:30 HOTELS AND OLDER APARTMENT BUILDINGS OVERHEAT DURING HEAT
00:26:34 EVENTS. IN OUR OWN WORK WITH BRIGHT
00:26:35 LINE DEFENSE WE SHOWED THAT HE IN BUILDINGS THAT DO NOT HAVE A
00:26:38 CENTRAL COOLING SYSTEM ARE ABOUT TEN DEGREES HOTTER DURING
00:26:42 EXTREME HEAT EVENTS AND RENTERS OFTEN HAVE LITTLE ABILITY TO
00:26:46 MAKE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD HELP KEEP HOMES SAFE.
00:26:49 THESE REALITIES MEAN THAT CLIMATE RESILIENCE HAS TO MEET
00:26:53 PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE. WHILE COOLING CENTERS REMAIN AN
00:26:56 IMPORTANT EMERGENCY RESOURCE, OUR RESEARCH FOUND THAT LESS
00:27:00 THAN A THIRD OF PEOPLE REPORT USING THESE REGULARLY DURING
00:27:01 EXTREME HEAT EVENTS. >> IT REQUIRES INVESTING IN THE
00:27:04 HOMES BUILDINGS AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD INFRASTRUCTURES
00:27:08 THAT ALLOW PEOPLE ESPECIALLY THOSE LEAST ABLE TO ADAPT TO
00:27:11 REMAIN SAFE WHERE THEY LIVE. TO HELP INFORM THE HEAT AND AIR
00:27:15 QUALITY RESILIENCE PROGRAM, UCSF PARTNERED WITH SFD AND THE
00:27:19 S.F. OFFICE OF RESILIENCE AND CAPITAL PLANNING BACK
00:27:24 IN 2022 TO FORM THE COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE WITH SIX
00:27:28 COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS HERE IN S.F..
00:27:32 >> THIS COLLABORATIVE IS AN INDEPENDENT PARALLEL COMMUNITY
00:27:33 ENGAGED PROCESS THAT ARE WRONG OPERATES ALONGSIDE HACKER
00:27:37 CENTERING RESIDENTS CONCERNS AND LIVED EXPERIENCES
00:27:41 GENERATING SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND CO-DEVELOPING DATA DRIVEN
00:27:44 SOLUTIONS TOGETHER. >> THIS WORK HELPS INFORM
00:27:48 AND PRIORITIZE THE HACKERS PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
00:27:52 WHICH ADVANCE IT WHILE ALSO ADVANCING COMMUNITY WIDE
00:27:55 RESILIENCE STRATEGIES. THROUGH THIS COLLABORATIVE WE
00:27:56 HAVE SURVEYED MORE THAN 500 RESIDENTS FROM PRIORITY
00:28:00 POPULATIONS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND BOTH THEIR
00:28:03 EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES DURING EXTREME HEAT EVENTS.
00:28:07 >> WE FOUND THAT 95% OF THOSE SURVEYED REPORTED EXPERIENCING
00:28:11 AT LEAST ONE NEGATIVE HEALTH IMPACT DURING THE EXTREME HEAT
00:28:12 EVENTS. WHILE MANY PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO
00:28:16 TAKE SIMPLE PROTECTIVE ACTIONS LIKE DRINKING EXTRA WATER OR
00:28:19 STAYING INDOORS WHEN POSSIBLE, THE MAJORITY WERE UNABLE TO
00:28:23 MAKE THE STRUCTURAL CHANGES THAT WOULD MEANINGFULLY REDUCE
00:28:26 THEIR HEAT EXPOSURE SUCH AS IMPROVING INSULATION IN THEIR
00:28:28 HOMES, INSTALLING COOLING EQUIPMENT OR MODIFYING THEIR
00:28:31 HOME. THE MAJOR CHALLENGE IS TO
00:28:35 IMPLEMENTATION WERE STRUCTURAL IN NATURE.
00:28:36 THIS INCLUDES THE HIGH COST OF IMPROVEMENTS.
00:28:39 BEING A RENTER AND HOUSING INSTABILITY THESE FINDINGS
00:28:43 REINFORCE WHAT I SEE IN CLINIC EVERY WEEK.
00:28:47 THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE RISK.
00:28:50 THE PROBLEM IS THAT MANY LACK THE RESOURCES TO ACT ON WHAT
00:28:51 THEY KNOW. OUR WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY
00:28:54 CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE HAS IDENTIFIED THREE PRIORITY AREAS
00:28:57 FOR IMPLEMENTATION. >> FIRST, WE NEED MORE CLIMATE
00:29:01 RESILIENT HOUSING SO PEOPLE CAN SAFELY SHELTER IN PLACE DURING
00:29:05 EXTREME HEAT EVENTS. THIS INCLUDES INVESTING
00:29:09 IN PASSIVE AND ACTIVE COOLING EFFORTS AS PART OF OUR
00:29:10 WEATHERIZATION AND HOUSING DECARBONIZATION PROGRAMS.
00:29:13 OUR WORK HAS SHOWN THAT COOLING IS OFTEN NOT INCLUDED
00:29:17 IN EXISTING RETROFIT PROGRAMS AND THAT DEFERRED MAINTENANCE
00:29:21 AND OLDER HOUSING CAN MAKE THESE IMPROVEMENTS DIFFICULT OR
00:29:23 IMPOSSIBLE TO IMPLEMENT. >> WE ALSO NEED TO BUILD
00:29:27 IN EVALUATION AS PART OF THESE PROGRAMS FROM THE START.
00:29:29 MEASURING WHETHER THESE INVESTMENTS ARE REACHING
00:29:32 PRIORITY POPULATIONS AND IMPROVING HEALTH OUTCOMES
00:29:36 NOT SIMPLY COUNTING WHETHER OR NOT THEY'VE BEEN DEPLOYED.
00:29:40 SECOND, WE NEED STRONGER CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE HEALTH
00:29:41 CARE SYSTEMS, PUBLIC HEALTH AND TRUSTED COMMUNITY
00:29:45 ORGANIZATIONS SO THAT THE PEOPLE AT HIGHEST RISK ARE
00:29:48 IDENTIFIED EARLY AND CONNECTED TO THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED
00:29:52 TO PREPARE FOR AND RESPOND TO EXTREME HEAT AND OTHER CLIMATE
00:29:56 EVENTS. THIS INCLUDES FROM SUPPORTING
00:29:57 HOUSING AND FOOD ASSISTANCE TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
00:30:00 AND OTHER COMMUNITY SUPPORTS. CBOS ARE BEST POSITIONED TO
00:30:04 PROVIDE THESE CONNECTIONS. YET WE OFTEN INVEST IN THE
00:30:08 PROGRAMS THEMSELVES WITHOUT INVESTING IN THE ORGANIZATIONS
00:30:11 THAT HELP ACCESS THEM. AND THEN LASTLY, MORE THAN 50%
00:30:15 OF THOSE THAT WE SURVEYED REPORTED A LANGUAGE BARRIER AS
00:30:19 A CHALLENGE TO BEING ABLE TO PREPARE AND RESPOND TO EXTREME
00:30:20 HEAT EVENTS. WE NEED MULTILINGUAL
00:30:23 AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE COMMUNICATION AND DELIVERED
00:30:27 THROUGH TRUSTED COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
00:30:28 NOT JUST EMERGENCY ALERTS OR NOTIFICATIONS SO PEOPLE CAN
00:30:32 RECEIVE TIMELY ACTIONABLE INFORMATION THAT THEY CAN USE
00:30:35 FOR PREPARE FOR AND RESPOND TO EXTREME HEAT.
00:30:39 >> I AM ENCOURAGED BY THE EFFORTS BY THE CITY AND ACROSS
00:30:42 MASSIVE CAPACITY PARTNERSHIPS THAT S.F. HAS BUILT THROUGH THE
00:30:44 HACKER PROGRAM. THE NEXT CHALLENGE IS ENSURING
00:30:47 THAT THE PRIORITIES AND THE STRATEGIES IDENTIFY THROUGH THE
00:30:50 HACKER PROGRAM ARE TRANSLATED INTO MEANINGFUL IMPLEMENTATION
00:30:54 AND PROTECTIONS FOR THE COMMUNITIES MOST AT RISK.
00:30:56 THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING THIS ISSUE AND I WELCOME ANY
00:30:59 QUESTIONS. THANK THANK YOU FOR YOUR
00:31:03 PRESENTATION ALL. >> I GOT SOME QUESTIONS I MEAN
00:31:08 FROM THE ENCOURAGING PART ABOUT YOUR PRESENTATION IS THAT IT
00:31:17 SOUNDS YOU KNOW AND FROM WHAT I GATHERED IN PREPARING FOR THIS
00:31:20 HEARING THERE HAS BEEN REAL WORK OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS
00:31:23 IN KIND OF PLANNING AND VISIONING AND THINKING
00:31:27 ABOUT WHAT THE RIGHT RESPONSE TO THIS PROBLEM IS AND PUTTING
00:31:31 FORWARD STRATEGIES TO GET THERE .
00:31:34 >> IT ALSO SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A REAL GAP IN TERMS OF AN ACTUAL
00:31:39 PATH AND FUNDING TO GO DOWN THAT PATH TO IMPLEMENT THE
00:31:43 STRATEGIES THAT THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.
00:31:47 IS THAT BASICALLY GENERAL LEE, WHERE WE ARE AT THIS POINT
00:31:51 IN YOUR VIEW? >> YES, I THINK THAT IS TRUE.
00:31:54 WE'VE THERE'S BEEN EXCELLENT WORK BY THE CITY TO REALLY
00:31:55 IDENTIFY WHERE THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ARE
00:31:59 IN SAN FRANCISCO THROUGH USING DIFFERENT GEOSPATIAL ANALYZES.
00:32:03 WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY WHAT STRATEGIES ACTUALLY WORK
00:32:07 ACROSS COMMUNITIES AND WHICH STRATEGIES WOULD BE MOST USEFUL
00:32:11 FOR SAN FRANCISCO GIVEN ITS URBAN AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
00:32:15 >> THE STICKING POINT IS THAT THERE'S NOT FUNDING
00:32:18 AND IMPLEMENTATION AND THIS IS BOTH ENVIRONMENTAL ZATION FOR
00:32:22 INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE AND THEN FROM OUR WORK AND SERVING
00:32:25 ACROSS THE NINE COUNTIES THERE IS A LACK OF FUNDING FOR
00:32:29 SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS WITH STAFFING AND PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY
00:32:33 DO THE WORK. >> IS ANYBODY DOING THIS RIGHT
00:32:36 ? >> THERE ARE CITIES THAT SERVE
00:32:37 AS MODELS SO I THINK YOU KNOW OUR SISTER CITY IN L.A.
00:32:41 RECENTLY PASSED A A POLICY WHERE INDOOR TEMPERATURE
00:32:45 MAXIMUMS CANNOT BE ABOVE 78 AND SO THAT SETS A TARGET.
00:32:50 PORTLAND HAS ALSO SIMILARLY PASSED THAT AND NEW YORK CITY
00:32:53 AND SO THESE KIND OF POLICIES CAN REALLY HELP BRING BOTH
00:32:57 FUNDING BUT ALSO RESOURCES TO CENTER AROUND AN ISSUE.
00:33:01 AND SO I THINK THOSE ARE PLACES THAT WE CAN LOOK TO AND TO TRY
00:33:05 TO MODEL WHAT WE CAN DO HERE FOR SAN FRANCISCO AND ONE OF
00:33:14 THE I MEAN THE TOUGH THING FOR A GOVERNMENT LIKE SAN
00:33:18 FRANCISCO'S IS THERE'S A GAZILLION DIFFERENT PRIORITIES
00:33:21 ,A GAZILLION DIFFERENT RISKS AND IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN
00:33:26 EVENT LIKE THE 2017 HEAT DE IT SEEMS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO
00:33:33 MOVE QUICKLY AND DO SOMETHING. >> BUT OF COURSE YOU CAN'T MOVE
00:33:36 THAT QUICKLY AND IN TEN YEARS LATER IT DOES FEEL LIKE WE'RE
00:33:40 NOT SIGNIFICANTLY LIKE THE PLANNING IS GOOD AND THE WE'VE
00:33:44 DONE A LOT OF THINKING BUT ARE WE BETTER PREPARED IF IF IF WE
00:33:51 HAD ANOTHER ANOTHER DAY LIKE THAT OR ANOTHER SERIES OF DAYS
00:33:53 LIKE THAT, DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE ARE IN A SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER
00:33:56 POSITION NOW THAN WE WERE TEN YEARS AGO?
00:33:59 >> WE ARE PROBABLY BETTER PREPARED AND THAT OUR AGENCIES
00:34:02 ARE BETTER CONNECTED. WE HAVE BUILT BETTER
00:34:06 RELATIONSHIPS WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND OUR
00:34:09 NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS ARE BETTER THAN THEY WERE IN 2017 WHERE WE
00:34:13 LACK PREPARATION AND IS REALLY IN SUPPORTING THE BUILDINGS
00:34:17 AND THE INFRASTRUCTURES TO HAVE PEOPLE BE ABLE TO AVOID EXTREME
00:34:21 HEAT AND I WILL ECHO MY PARTNERS FROM THE COMMUNITY
00:34:25 COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE AND ONE OF THEM HAS SMARTLY
00:34:29 SAID IS THAT WHEN WE'RE CONSIDERING HOW TO SUPPORT
00:34:33 COMMUNITY RESILIENCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE WE SHOULDN'T BE
00:34:36 THINKING ABOUT ONE SINGLE EVENT BUT THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN
00:34:40 BUILD STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT COMMUNITIES WHERE THEY ARE SO
00:34:43 THEY'RE PROTECTED THROUGH ALL EVENTS.
00:34:44 >> SO THINKING ABOUT COOLING BUILDINGS FOR EXAMPLE, THAT CAN
00:34:48 BE COUPLED WITH THE CITY'S DECARBONIZATION EFFORTS.
00:34:52 IT CAN ALSO BE COUPLED WITH OUTWARDS TO MAKE HOMES MORE
00:34:56 HEALTHY WHICH DOESN'T JUST PROTECT PEOPLE DURING AN
00:34:59 EXTREME EXTREME HEAT EVENT BUT PROTECTS THEM FROM INDOOR
00:35:04 CONTAMINANTS AND IMPROVES AIR FILTRATION WHICH WOULD HAVE THE
00:35:08 BENEFIT OF PROTECTING THEM THROUGH OUR WILDFIRE SMOKE
00:35:10 EVENTS. >> AND SO I THINK OF THESE AS
00:35:14 INTERVENTIONS THAT COULD HAVE TRIPLE BENEFITS.
00:35:15 SO DECARBONIZATION AND HEALTH IMPACTS AND THEN ALSO HELPING
00:35:19 PEOPLE THRIVE. AND SO THINK ABOUT THE CITY AS
00:35:23 NOT JUST THINKING OF THESE AS ISOLATED SOLUTIONS BUT HOW CAN
00:35:27 WE IMPLEMENT SOLUTIONS THAT HAVE THESE TRIPLE BENEFITS.
00:35:33 >> IT STRIKES ME THAT THE EXAMPLE THAT YOU USE FROM L.A.
00:35:37 OF YOU KNOW, SETTING THIS GOAL IN TERMS OF MAXIMUM INDOOR HEAT
00:35:44 STILL DOESN'T I MEAN THIS SEEMS RELATED TO ME TOO LIKE THE THE
00:35:51 GENERAL PROBLEM A LOT OF PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES ARE HAVING
00:35:52 AROUND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING FUNDING
00:35:56 DEVELOPMENTS LIKE WE IN THIS CITY.
00:36:00 I THINK WE SYSTEMATICALLY UNDERINVESTED IN INFRASTRUCTURE
00:36:03 . >> WE'RE NOT WHERE WE NEED TO
00:36:04 BE IN A WHOLE HOST OF WAYS AROUND INFRASTRUCTURE AND THIS
00:36:08 FEELS LIKE IT'S PART OF IT'S AND SO IT FEELS JUST LIKE A
00:36:15 PIECE OF AND A VERY SIGNIFICANT AND IMPORTANT PIECE OF A LARGER
00:36:18 PROBLEM OF NOT HAVING NOT DOING THE INFRASTRUCTURE WORK THAT
00:36:23 YOU NEED TO DO OVER TIME FOR THE FUTURE AND YOU KNOW PAST
00:36:27 GENERATIONS DID WE ARE NOT AND THAT CREATES ALL SORTS OF
00:36:31 PROBLEMS INCLUDING NOT BEING ABLE TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE
00:36:34 CHANGE. >> YEAH I WOULD I WOULD AGREE
00:36:38 WITH THAT. >> YEAH.
00:36:39 YEAH. I THINK THAT'S A GOOD SUMMARY.
00:36:40 YEAH I DON'T IF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANY OTHER NONE FROM ME
00:36:45 THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS OKAY FORWARD THANK YOU.
00:36:49 >> THANK YOU. >> SO NOW I THINK WE HAVE BRIAN
00:36:56 STRONG COMING BACK UP. OFFICE OF RESILIENCE
00:36:57 AND CAPITAL PLANNING AND THEN I THINK AND THEN ENVIRONMENT.
00:37:03 YEAH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:37:04 GOOD MORNING CHAIR AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND BOARD
00:37:08 PRESIDENT MANAGEMENT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HAVING US HERE.
00:37:12 I THINK AS DEPARTMENTS WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE
00:37:15 OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE WITH YOU WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN SOME
00:37:17 OF THE AND A LOT OF THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE
00:37:21 SINCE 2017. >> AND CERTAINLY I ALSO
00:37:22 APPRECIATE THE QUESTIONS AND THE DISCUSSION WITH NITA
00:37:26 ABOUT ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:37:30 AND I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR SOME OF THAT RICO IN THE
00:37:34 PRESENTATION THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE PROVIDING TO YOU.
00:37:35 I I THINK MOST SOME OF YOU MAY NOT BE AWARE BUT HE IS THE
00:37:42 NUMBER ONE KILLER OF WEATHER RELATED DISASTERS IN THE UNITED
00:37:45 STATES. IT'S HIGHER THAN FLOODS,
00:37:49 HURRICANES, TORNADOES HER IT'S CERTAINLY EARTHQUAKES IN IN OUR
00:37:53 COUNTRY AS WELL. YOU HEARD PROBABLY ABOUT THE
00:37:56 RECENT HEAT EVENTS IN EUROPE. SO CLOSE TO 10,000 PEOPLE HAVE
00:38:00 BEEN HAVE DIED AS A RESULT OF THE HEAT EVENTS AND THAT'S
00:38:07 REALLY JUST IN GERMANY, FRANCE AND ENGLAND ALONE.
00:38:11 SO THAT DOESN'T CONSIDER THE ITALIAN CITIES OR THE HUNGARIAN
00:38:15 PLACES. SO ANYWAY, IT'S A REALLY IT'S A
00:38:19 REALLY BIG PROBLEM AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE REALLY
00:38:23 STARTED TO THINK ABOUT AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW SINCE 2017
00:38:26 SINCE WE HAD THAT REALLY LARGE EVENT WHERE WE DID SEE A LOT OF
00:38:30 OUR INFRASTRUCTURE FAIL AND AND AS WAS ALREADY MENTIONED, YOU
00:38:34 KNOW, WE SAW PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIFE.
00:38:38 IT WAS IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT TYPE OF EXPERIENCE.
00:38:39 WE'VE SEEN OTHER EVENTS HAPPEN UP IN SEATTLE AND OTHER CITIES
00:38:42 SORT OF LIKE OURS NEVER HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT HEAT PASSIVE
00:38:45 COOLING SYSTEMS WHERE THEY HAD A HEAT DOME EFFECT THAT
00:38:49 IMPACTED THEM AND AND PORTLAND WE DO KNOW IN OUR CITY
00:38:53 AND YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THE DATA THAT WILL BE PRESENT THAT WILL
00:38:55 BE PRESENTED THAT YOU KNOW 911 CALLS GO UP BY 73 AS MUCH AS BY
00:39:00 73% DURING HEAT EVENTS. >> SO WE KNOW IT'S SIGNIFICANT.
00:39:03 WE TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE HEATING AIR QUALITY
00:39:08 RESILIENCE PLAN, THE INITIATIVES.
00:39:11 YOU KNOW, THE GOAL IS REALLY TO PROVIDE CLEAR FORECASTS DRIVEN
00:39:14 EMERGENCY ACTIONS AND LONGER TERM INVESTMENTS.
00:39:18 YOU HEAR A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT MID AND LONG TERM
00:39:19 INVESTMENTS. THESE THINGS DO TAKE TIME.
00:39:22 THE IDEA IS REALLY TO PROMOTE COOLED PUBLIC SPACES, GREENER
00:39:26 STREETS, SAFER HOMES ENABLING PEOPLE TO STAY IN THEIR HOMES
00:39:32 WITH THE GOAL WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF REDUCING ILLNESSES WHEN
00:39:36 EXTREME HEAT OR WILDFIRE SMOKE HITS.
00:39:37 RIGHT. THAT'S THE OTHER THING WE
00:39:40 SHOULD MENTION. WE DO SOMETIMES GET THAT DOUBLE
00:39:41 WHAMMY OF HAVING A A MAJOR WILDFIRE THAT'S IMPACTING HEAT
00:39:48 AND THAT'S IMPACTING AIR QUALITY WHILE HE IS ALSO
00:39:51 IMPACTING RESIDENTS. SO MAKES IT THAT MUCH MORE
00:39:53 DIFFICULT IF YOU CAN'T GO OUTSIDE AND YOUR INDOOR
00:39:56 TEMPERATURES ARE MUCH HIGHER. SO WE'RE GOING TO HIGHLIGHT
00:40:00 SOME OF THE KEY DATA AND PROGRESS THAT WE'VE DONE
00:40:02 WHERE IN SOME OF THE SORT OF CROSS-SECTOR COORDINATION THIS
00:40:07 IS SOMETHING THAT DOES INVOLVE MANY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
00:40:08 NO ONE DEPARTMENT IS SORT OF RESPONSIBLE FOR HEAT THE HACKER
00:40:13 PLANT, THE HACKER I GUESS EFFORT WAS CREATED IN 2021
00:40:17 RIGHT NOW IT IS REALLY SPLIT BETWEEN TWO PART TIME FTE SO
00:40:24 IT'S ABOUT ONE FULL ONE FTE TOTAL WITH MAYBE ANOTHER HALF
00:40:28 AN FTE OR SO GOING TO SORT OF SUPERVISE AND SORT OF WORK WITH
00:40:33 THOSE PEOPLE. SO A LOT OF THE WORK WE'RE
00:40:34 DOING WITH DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND STUFF IS THIS
00:40:37 IS SORT OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF TIME THAT THEY CAN GIVE US
00:40:40 AND THAT'S CERTAINLY THE CASE WITH COMMUNITY BASED
00:40:41 ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL THOUGH WE HAVE MADE A VERY CONCERTED
00:40:45 EFFORT THROUGH GRANTS AND STUFF TO BE ABLE TO COMPENSATE PEOPLE
00:40:46 FOR THEIR TIME AND WE THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
00:40:51 YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GOING TO EXPECT COMMUNITIES TO
00:40:53 PARTICIPATE WITH US, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO TO COMPENSATE THEM
00:40:56 FOR THAT. SO WITH THAT I'M JUST GOING TO
00:40:59 GO I MENTIONED THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COME UP AND THEN WE'LL
00:41:03 WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO THEM. SO MATT WOLF FROM H IS GOING TO
00:41:09 START OFF AND TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE THE VARIOUS IMPLICATIONS
00:41:12 AND SOME OF THE WORK THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING.
00:41:14 ALEX MORRISON FROM MY TEAM THOSE ARE THE TWO TWO FOLKS
00:41:17 THAT ARE REALLY DEDICATED TO THIS EFFORT IS GOING TO TALK
00:41:21 AND THEY'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM CINDY COMERFORD WITH THE
00:41:22 ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT. WE WILL TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE
00:41:25 EFFORTS THAT'S GOING ON THERE, ESPECIALLY AROUND
00:41:29 DECARBONIZATION AND SOME OF THE THE HEAT THAT THE HUB THAT THEY
00:41:32 PUT TOGETHER AND SOME OF THAT TYPE OF WORK AND THEN THEY'RE
00:41:36 GOING TO TAKE A QUICK BREAK FOR QUESTIONS BEFORE WE HEAR FROM
00:41:37 MARY ELLEN CAROL WHO WILL TALK YOU KNOW, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT
00:41:40 HOW SAN FRANCISCO'S RESPONDING TO HEAT EVENTS OR HOW WE INTEND
00:41:44 TO RESPOND TO HEAT EVENTS. SO WITH THAT I'LL PASS IT ON TO
00:41:48 MATT. I'M GOING TO MOVE OVER TO THIS
00:41:55 ONE SO I CAN CONTROL MY SLIDES .
00:41:58 THAT'S ALL RIGHT. SO MY NAME IS MATT WOLFE.
00:42:02 I'M A THE CLIMATE HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGER WITH THE
00:42:06 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH I SET WITH PUBLIC HEALTH
00:42:07 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE BRANCH AND I CO
00:42:10 MANAGE THE HEAT AND AIR QUALITY RESILIENCE PROJECT.
00:42:13 LET ME SEE NEXT SLIDE. >> I DID NOT GO THERE AS YOU
00:42:20 HEARD FROM BOTH BRIAN STRONG AND DR. TUCKER CLIMATE CHANGE
00:42:24 IS MAKING SAN FRANCISCO'S EXTREME HEAT EVENTS HAPPEN MORE
00:42:26 FREQUENTLY AND MORE EXTREME AND THE HEALTH IMPACTS OF THESE
00:42:29 EVENTS HAVE SIGNIFICANT CASCADING AND COMPOUNDING
00:42:33 IMPACTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH. AND SO OVER THE LAST DECADE
00:42:37 SINCE THE 2017 LABOR DAY HEAT EVENT, SAN FRANCISCO'S CITY
00:42:40 AGENCIES AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND ACADEMIC PARTNERS HAVE
00:42:44 WORKED TOGETHER TO TRY TO DO TWO THINGS AT ONCE.
00:42:47 AND THE FIRST IS TO DESIGN AND EXECUTE SHORT TERM
00:42:50 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PROCEDURES TO
00:42:54 ADDRESS SHORT TERM HEALTH IMPACTS.
00:42:57 >> AND WE'LL HEAR FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
00:42:58 MANAGEMENT LATER IN THIS PRESENTATION TO TALK ABOUT HOW
00:43:01 THE CITY ORGANIZES AND DEPLOYS EMERGENCY MESSAGING
00:43:05 AND RESOURCES DURING THAT HEAT EVENT AND IMMEDIATELY BEFORE
00:43:09 AND AFTER. BUT THESE EMERGENCY RESPONSE
00:43:10 AGENCIES WORK WORKS BETTER IF THERE'S 3000 PEOPLE THAT GET
00:43:16 SICK INSTEAD OF 3000 PEOPLE THAT GET SICK.
00:43:17 SO THAT WORK NEEDS TO BE PAIRED WITH MEDIUM TO LONG TERM
00:43:20 ACTIONS TO REDUCE SURGE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
00:43:24 AND THAT'S THE SECOND THING THAT HACKERS THAT WE NEED TO DO
00:43:27 IS BUILD A HEAT RESILIENT SAN FRANCISCO WITH MEDIUM TO LONG
00:43:31 TERM ADAPTATION STRATEGIES. >> SO THIS SLIDE IS MOSTLY TO
00:43:35 DEFINE OUR TERMS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EXTREME HEAT IT'S LIKE A
00:43:36 VOCABULARY SLIDE. HISTORICALLY EXTREME HEAT
00:43:39 IN SAN FRANCISCO AN EXTREME HEAT EVENT IS AROUND 85 DEGREES
00:43:45 BUT 85 DEGREES MEANS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT IN SAN FRANCISCO
00:43:49 THAN IT DOES PHENIX THAN IT DOES HOUSTON THAN IT DOES
00:43:53 IN THE OTHER DIRECTION ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.
00:43:54 >> SO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN 2024 DEPLOYED THE
00:43:59 HEAT RISK TOOL THAT IDENTIFIES EVERY HEAT WAVE ON A SCALE OF 0
00:44:07 TO 4 WITH ZERO BEING LITTLE TO NO IMPACT OF HEAT TWO FOUR
00:44:10 BEING EXTREME IMPACT AND THIS GRID IS MADE UP BY NOT ONLY
00:44:18 TEMPERATURE BUT WHAT TIME OF THE YEAR THE HEAT WAVE OCCURRED
00:44:21 ,THE DURATION OF THE HEAT WAVE, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
00:44:23 CURRENT TEMPERATURE AND AVERAGE TEMPERATURE.
00:44:26 SO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 100 DEGREES AND AN AVERAGE
00:44:29 TEMPERATURE OF 70 DEGREES IN SAN FRANCISCO IS REALLY
00:44:31 SEVERE AND THE HEALTH IMPACTS THAT HISTORICALLY HAS OCCURRED
00:44:35 IN THAT LOCATION FROM HEAT AND THIS IS COMPILED BY THE CDC
00:44:41 . >> SO THIS IS A CHART THAT SAID
00:44:45 THAT LOOKS AT THOSE SAME FIVE CATEGORIES AND SAYS ON EACH OF
00:44:49 THOSE FIVE CATEGORIES WITHIN THE LAST DECADE HOW MANY EMS
00:44:53 CALLS EMERGENCY MEDICAL CALLS FOR SERVICE DO WE GET
00:44:57 COMPARATIVELY ON THOSE DAYS? SO THIS CHART LOOKS AT LIKE ON
00:45:02 THE NORMAL DAYS WHERE THERE'S NO HEAT RISK.
00:45:05 WE HAVE A BASELINE AMOUNT OF EMS CALLS AND ON DAYS WITH
00:45:07 MAJOR HEAT RISK IN RED WE HAVE 15% HIGHER EMS CALLS ON THE TWO
00:45:13 DAYS THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE LAST DECADE THAN IN PURPLE EXTREME
00:45:16 RISK. >> WE'VE HAD 73% HIGHER CALLS
00:45:20 AND THIS IS BORNE OUT ALSO IN EPIDEMIOLOGY.
00:45:24 THERE WAS A STATEWIDE RESEARCH IN A 2006 HEAT WAVE THAT HIT
00:45:27 THE WHOLE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THEY FOUND THAT EMERGENCY
00:45:30 DEPARTMENT VISITS INCREASED MORE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND THE
00:45:32 COASTAL AREA THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA JUST
00:45:39 A COUPLE OTHER DATA POINTS IS EARLIER THIS YEAR IN MARCH WE
00:45:40 HAD A HEAT EVENT WHERE TEMPERATURES ONLY HIT THE
00:45:43 ORANGE CATEGORY, MODERATE HEAT RISK AND WE SAW EMS CALLS GO UP
00:45:50 AT 20%. SO THIS IS NOT SO THIS IS JUST
00:45:51 AN AVERAGE GRAPH BUT WE KNOW THAT OFTENTIMES OUR HEALTH
00:45:54 IMPACTS OUTPACE THIS. >> SO THESE ARE CLIMATE
00:46:01 PROJECTIONS. THIS IS FROM THE STATE CLIMATE
00:46:02 PROJECTION RESOURCE. THEY IT'S NOT EXACT THEY'RE
00:46:06 SAYING BY THE END OF THE CENTURY WE'RE EXPECTED TO HAVE
00:46:12 BETWEEN 6 AND 28 EXTREME HEAT DAYS A YEAR.
00:46:13 BUT WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, SAN FRANCISCO MIGHT HAVE A SEASON
00:46:17 LIKE LAST YEAR THAT WE HAVE VERY FEW EXTREME HEAT DAYS
00:46:20 AND WE MIGHT HAVE A YEAR WITH A LOT OF EXTREME HEAT DAYS.
00:46:24 SO THE SHADING IN PURPLE IS THE RANGE OF POSSIBILITIES THAT THE
00:46:28 MODEL PUT OUT SO NOT WE DON'T HAVE TO PLAN FOR 6 TO 28 DAYS.
00:46:31 WE HAVE TO PLAN ALSO FOR WHAT THE MAXIMUM COULD LOOK LIKE
00:46:35 WHICH COULD BE 50, 60, 70 HEAT DAYS A YEAR OVER 85 DEGREES.
00:46:42 >> SO WHY IS SAN FRANCISCO VULNERABLE TO EXTREME HEAT?
00:46:43 AND A LOT OF THIS HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT ALREADY TODAY.
00:46:45 THE FIRST ONE IS THAT WE HAVE LITTLE HOME ADAPTATION.
00:46:49 SAN FRANCISCO HAS THE LOWEST RATE OF COOLING OUT OF ANY CITY
00:46:51 IN THE UNITED STATES. OUR HOMES WERE BUILT TO KEEP
00:46:54 HEAT IN NOT TO LET HIM OUT AND MOST OF THE HEALTH IMPACTS
00:46:58 OF EXTREME HEAT IN SAN FRANCISCO HAPPEN INDOORS WHERE
00:47:02 TEMPERATURES GET HIGHER AND STAY HOTTER LONGER THAN
00:47:05 TEMPERATURES OUTDOORS. THERE'S ALSO A SIGNIFICANT
00:47:09 OVERLAP BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO EXTREME
00:47:12 HEAT AND PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN BUILDINGS THAT ARE ILL
00:47:16 EQUIPPED TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE HEAT.
00:47:19 THE SECOND VULNERABILITY IS OUR URBAN HEAT ISLANDS.
00:47:23 SO THIS IS A GRAPH OF A SURFACE TEMPERATURE MAP FROM THE 2017
00:47:30 LABOR DAY HEAT WAVE. SO IT SHOWS THE TEMPERATURE
00:47:31 DISTRIBUTION ACROSS SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN FRANCISCO'S
00:47:34 MICROCLIMATES CAN VARY BETWEEN 15 AND 20 DEGREES ACROSS OUR
00:47:38 CITY AND THIS IS AMPLIFIED BY THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT
00:47:44 WHICH IS THAT AREAS WITH TREES AND SHADE MIGHT ARE WARMER THAN
00:47:49 AREAS WITH PAVEMENT THAT ABSORBS HEAT OR BUILDINGS THAT
00:47:53 BLOCK WIND. AND ONCE AGAIN THESE PATTERNS
00:47:57 SHOW THAT THE HOTTEST NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE SOUTHEAST
00:47:58 SECTIONS OF THE CITY ARE THE SAME NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE
00:48:02 CARRIED THE HIGHEST HEALTH BURDEN OF AROUND HEAT.
00:48:05 THE THIRD ELEMENT IS THAT WE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T GET AS HOT
00:48:09 IN SAN FRANCISCO THAN A LOT OF OTHER PLACES WERE LESS
00:48:13 COMPETITIVE. TOO MANY GRANTS LIKE GRANTS
00:48:16 THAT ARE STATEWIDE GRANTS THEY MIGHT GIVE IT TO PLACES THAT
00:48:21 HAVE MORE HEAT DAYS A YEAR THAN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:48:23 SO WE TEND TO LIKE GET PASSED OVER WHEN IT COMES TO FUNDING
00:48:28 OPPORTUNITIES. AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS THAT
00:48:29 WE JUST DON'T HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WITH HEAT.
00:48:31 OUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE AGENCIES RESPOND TO EXTREME HEAT EVENTS
00:48:36 BUT THERE WASN'T ANY SUSTAINED LONG TERM STRATEGY BEFORE 2017
00:48:39 TO CENTRALIZE HEAT AND OR CITY DEPARTMENTS WORKED ON PROJECTS
00:48:43 THAT WE KNOW HAVE HEAT RELATED OUTCOMES LIKE WE PLANTED TREES
00:48:47 AND WE WEATHERIZE BUILDINGS BUT THESE PROJECTS WERE NEVER
00:48:51 INTENTIONALLY TARGETED TOWARDS THE COMMUNITIES WITH THE
00:48:52 GREATEST HEAT RELATED VULNERABILITY.
00:48:57 >> SO TO ADDRESS THOSE VULNERABILITIES IN 2021 WE
00:49:01 ESTABLISHED THE HEAT AND AIR QUALITY RESILIENCE PROJECT.
00:49:04 THE HEATING AIR QUALITY RESILIENCE PROJECT IS MANAGED
00:49:05 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE OFFICE OF
00:49:08 RESILIENCY AND CAPITAL PLANNING WITH LEADERSHIP SUPPORT AS WELL
00:49:12 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND SAN
00:49:13 FRANCISCO ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT.
00:49:15 AND THE IDEA THAT UNDERLIES HACKER IS THAT EXTREME HEAT
00:49:19 AND HEAT RELEASE RESILIENCE TAKES MANY DIFFERENT
00:49:20 DEPARTMENTS, COMMUNITY AGENCIES AND ACADEMIC PARTNERS ALL
00:49:23 WORKING TOGETHER AND HACKER IS AN INITIATIVE TO DO THAT TOO
00:49:27 BRINGING TOGETHER THE STAKEHOLDERS TO PLAN, IDENTIFY
00:49:31 AND THEN IMPLEMENT THE STRATEGIES NECESSARY TO SUPPORT
00:49:35 THOSE EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTIONS TO BRING THAT AMOUNT OF
00:49:39 PEOPLE THAT GET SICK FROM 30,000 TO 3000.
00:49:42 AND THE PURPOSE OF THIS COORDINATION IS NOT TO DESIGN
00:49:46 ITSELF NEW EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROCEDURES OR TO PLANT TREES
00:49:49 BUT TO EMPOWER THE DEPARTMENTS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
00:49:54 THAT ARE DOING THAT WORK WITH THE BEST DATA TO MAKE SURE
00:49:57 THEY'RE AWARE OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL BEST PRACTICES,
00:50:00 THAT THEY'RE CONNECTED TO ALL THE MOST RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS
00:50:02 AND TO THEIR COLLABORATING TO MAKE THEIR WORK AS EFFECTIVE AS
00:50:05 POSSIBLE. SO THE FIRST OBJECTIVE OF
00:50:08 HACKERS TO SILO EXTREME HEAT PLANNING SO WE CAN DO JUST
00:50:13 THAT. THE SECOND HACK OBJECTIVE
00:50:15 FACTOR IS THEN TO FACILITATE THE IMPLEMENTATION
00:50:19 AND EVALUATION OF SPECIFIC HEAT STRATEGIES THAT ARE NECESSARY
00:50:23 TO REDUCE THAT HEALTH IMPACT SURGE.
00:50:24 AND SO OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL SLIDES MY COLLEAGUE ALEX
00:50:28 MORRISON WILL DISCUSS SOME OF THE DELIVERABLES THAT HAVE COME
00:50:31 FROM OUR WORK SO FAR BOTH ON THE COORDINATION SIDE AND THE
00:50:34 IMPLEMENTATION SIDE. HELLO JUST MY CHECK.
00:50:45 YEAH. SO AS MATT WAS MENTIONING
00:50:46 THERE'S BEEN A STRONG FOCUS ON COORDINATE ACTION AND THROUGH
00:50:49 THIS COORDINATION WE'VE CREATED THE FIRST HEAT IN AIR QUALITY
00:50:52 RESILIENCE PLAN FOR THE CITY IN 2023.
00:50:53 THIS PLAN REALLY REPRESENTED THE LARGEST COORDINATION EFFORT
00:50:57 TO DATE AROUND HEAT AND AIR QUALITY AS AN ISSUE AND IT
00:51:01 BROUGHT TOGETHER NUMEROUS CITY AGENCIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
00:51:04 COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND IT'S BEEN THE GUIDING DOCUMENT TO
00:51:08 SET THE AGENDA FOR WHAT WE WORK ON ON THESE ISSUES FOR YEARS TO
00:51:12 COME. AS YOU'LL SEE HERE, THE PLAN
00:51:14 CONTAINS 31 MEDIUM TO LONG TERM STRATEGIES THAT WHEN
00:51:16 IMPLEMENTED WILL FURTHER THE RESILIENCE OF SAN FRANCISCO.
00:51:19 THAT'S BEEN A CONSTANT THEME THROUGH THIS HEARING.
00:51:22 BUT EXTREME HEAT IS AN ISSUE THAT KIND OF CROSSES MANY
00:51:26 SECTORS AND DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AS
00:51:27 WELL AS EMERGENCY RESPONSE. SO WHEN WE ARE PUTTING THE
00:51:31 STRATEGIES IN THE PLAN WE BROKE THEM DOWN INTO THESE DIFFERENT
00:51:34 PATHWAYS THAT REFLECT THAT FACT.
00:51:35 SO IN THE PLAN IT FOCUSES ON STRATEGIES TO WEATHERIZE OUR
00:51:38 BUILDINGS, COOL OUR URBAN HEAT ISLANDS AS WELL AS STRATEGIES
00:51:42 AROUND COMMUNITY READINESS AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND THE
00:51:45 DATA EVALUATION AND GOVERNMENTS THAT'S REALLY ESSENTIAL TO
00:51:49 IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN STRATEGIES AS WELL.
00:51:53 >> THE COORDINATION FUNCTION THAT HACKER SERVES IS THE THING
00:51:56 THAT REALLY HELPS US MOVE THESE STRATEGIES TO IMPLEMENTATION.
00:52:00 SINCE ITS INCEPTION, HACKER HAS MADE PROGRESS ON MANY CAPACITY
00:52:03 BUILDING ACTIONS AND THIS IS INCLUDING KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE.
00:52:07 SO WE'VE HAD THESE 17 QUARTERLY ALL HANDS MEETINGS AS WE
00:52:11 MENTIONED AND THESE ARE SPACES THAT BRING TOGETHER OUR
00:52:12 COMMUNITY PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND ACADEMIC PARTNERS TO BUILD
00:52:16 CONNECTION, PROVIDE PROGRAM UPDATES, SHARE RESOURCES WHEN
00:52:19 WE DO FIND THEM AND IDENTIFY THEM AND IDENTIFY THESE LESSONS
00:52:22 THAT WE'RE LEARNING AND SHARE THEM BROADLY TO THE COMMUNITY
00:52:26 AND ALL THE CITY AGENCIES THAT TAKE PART IN THESE MEETINGS AS
00:52:30 WELL. >> WE'VE INCLUDED IN THESE
00:52:32 MEETINGS SPOTLIGHTS FOR NATIONAL BEST PRACTICES.
00:52:34 WE HAD SOME GUEST SPEAKERS INCLUDING THE CHIEF HEAT
00:52:38 OFFICERS OF MIAMI-DADE AND LOS ANGELES AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO
00:52:41 USE IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO UPLIFT OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY
00:52:44 PARTNERS AS WELL AS SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS ROOM
00:52:46 TODAY INCLUDING BRAZILIAN BAYVIEW BRIGHTLINE AND BOTH
00:52:49 CITIES COLLABORATIVE AS WELL AS MANY OTHER CITY PARTNERS AS
00:52:52 WELL OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AS WELL.
00:52:55 >> CAPACITY BUILDING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HAS
00:52:56 BEEN REALLY IMPORTANT. AS WE'VE MENTIONED WE HAVE THIS
00:53:00 STANDING BODY IN THE FORM OF THE COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDER GROUP
00:53:03 THAT WE PARTNER WITH UCSF FOR. WE'VE ALSO BEEN IDENTIFYING
00:53:06 AND SECURING RESOURCES AS MATT MENTIONED, THE COMPETITIVE
00:53:11 NATURE OF THESE GRANTS HAS BEEN A DIFFICULTY BUT WE'VE APPLIED
00:53:14 FOR FIVE GRANTS SO FAR WE'VE WON TWO AND WE CURRENTLY HAVE
00:53:17 THREE MORE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE IN PROGRESS RIGHT NOW TO
00:53:21 TRY TO SECURE FUNDS TO MOVE THESE STRATEGIES INTO
00:53:22 IMPLEMENTATION DATA AND EVALUATION HAS BEEN REALLY
00:53:25 IMPORTANT. WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO CREATE NEW
00:53:29 DATA TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND HOW HEAT WILL BE IMPACTING THE
00:53:30 DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE CITY. AS WE SAID, THIS WAS AN
00:53:34 UNDERSTANDING THAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY AND WE'VE DONE A LOT
00:53:37 OF WORK TO SHOW HOW THE DIFFERENT INTERVENTIONS THAT
00:53:38 WE'RE TRYING TO PURSUE CAN HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT IN THE
00:53:40 COMMUNITIES THAT WE INTEND TO SERVE AS A CITY.
00:53:44 >> SO ON MAKING OUR CITY FACILITIES MORE HEAT RESILIENT
00:53:48 THE CONDITION OF OUR FACILITIES AND THE AMENITIES OFFERED THERE
00:53:51 IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THAT EQUATION.
00:53:53 SO THE CITY HAS INVESTED IN RENOVATIONS TO MULTIPLE
00:53:56 LIBRARIES SUCH AS THE MISSION DISTRICT OR THE MISSION BRANCH,
00:53:59 THE CHINATOWN BRANCH AND THESE HAVE BEEN DONE WITH THE
00:54:01 EXPLICIT PURPOSE OF ENSURING THAT RESIDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO
00:54:05 AIR CONDITIONED PUBLIC SPACES AS AN OPTION FOR THEMSELVES.
00:54:09 THE GEO BOND MEASURE INVESTMENTS THAT WE'VE MADE
00:54:12 IN HEALTH FACILITIES ENSURE THAT WE CAN REMAIN IN OPERATION
00:54:15 DURING EXTREME HEAT HEAT EVENTS AT THESE FACILITIES.
00:54:19 SO THIS LOOKS LIKE THE IMPROVEMENTS WE'VE MADE TO
00:54:20 CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC AND THE NEW SOUTHEAST HEALTH CLINIC
00:54:23 IN BAYVIEW. AND AS WE'VE MENTIONED BEFORE,
00:54:27 NOT EVERYWHERE IN THE CITY HEATS UP TO THE SAME DEGREE.
00:54:28 THE BABY WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE HOTTEST AREAS OF THE CITY
00:54:32 DURING EXTREME HEAT EVENTS. ON THE POLICY SIDE, THE
00:54:35 MUNICIPAL GREEN BUILDING CODE REQUIRES THAT ALL REQUIRES ALL
00:54:38 ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION FOR CITY
00:54:40 FACILITIES WHICH ENSURES THAT THEY HAVE RESILIENCE TO HEAT
00:54:43 THROUGH HEAT PUMP INSTALLATION AND AS WELL AS ENERGY
00:54:47 EFFICIENCY MEASURES. AND CINDY FROM THE ENVIRONMENT
00:54:50 DEPARTMENT WILL BE TALKING MORE ABOUT THAT IN DETAIL LATER.
00:54:52 >> FINALLY I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT HAS PURCHASED
00:54:55 AND DEPLOYED A TEMPERATURE AND AIR QUALITY SENSOR NETWORK
00:54:58 THROUGHOUT OUR LIBRARIES AND SELECT HEALTH CENTERS AS
00:55:01 WELL. AND THIS REALLY ALLOWS US TO
00:55:02 BETTER UNDERSTAND AND MEASURE THE IMPACT THAT THESE EVENTS
00:55:06 ARE HAVING AND HOW WE CAN USE THAT TO INFORM FUTURE
00:55:09 IMPROVEMENTS AND INVESTMENTS AS WELL INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF
00:55:12 OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS IS ANOTHER KEY OBJECTIVE OF HACKER
00:55:17 AND TEAM HAS REALLY BEEN PLAYING A CENTRAL ROLE IN THAT
00:55:20 THROUGH THE EXTREME WEATHER RESILIENCE PROGRAM WHICH ALSO
00:55:23 STARTED IN 2023. SO THIS PROGRAM REALLY BEGINS
00:55:28 WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE WAY TO KEEP RESIDENTS SAFE IS
00:55:31 TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY'RE AT PROVIDING RESOURCES THROUGH THE
00:55:32 EXISTING TRUSTED COMMUNITY SITES THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE
00:55:36 RELATIONSHIPS WITH. >> SO THIS PROGRAM LOOKED AT A
00:55:40 NUMBER OF THESE COMMUNITY SITES AND PROVIDED THEM WITH AIR
00:55:43 CONDITIONING AND AIR PURIFIER UNITS AS A LOW COST MEASURE TO
00:55:47 CREATE A KIND OF COOL ROOM WITHIN THEIR FACILITIES TO GET
00:55:51 RELIEF FROM THESE EVENTS. >> SO THERE'S CURRENTLY ABOUT
00:55:54 86 LOCATIONS CITYWIDE AND THE OFFERING WAS REALLY MASSIVELY
00:55:58 SUCCESSFUL TO THE POINT OF ACTUAL OVERSUBSCRIPTION.
00:55:59 SO THERE ARE OVER 200 LOCATIONS ACROSS THE CITY THAT WERE VYING
00:56:04 FOR THE 90 SPOTS THAT WERE AVAILABLE.
00:56:05 UNFORTUNATELY FUNDING WAS DONE WITH A ONE TIME LOCAL, REGIONAL
00:56:10 AND STATE SOURCE AND THIS INCLUDED A BAY AREA AIR QUALITY
00:56:14 MANAGEMENT DISTRICT GRANT. AND SO EVEN THOUGH IT'S A
00:56:18 REALLY SUCCESSFUL PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR WHAT THIS CAN LOOK
00:56:21 LIKE, THE TEAM CURRENTLY DOES HAVE THE CAPACITY TO KIND OF
00:56:25 SCALE UP THE INTERVENTION AT THE TIME.
00:56:28 >> SO AS WE MENTIONED MEETING RESIDENTS WHERE THEY'RE AT IS
00:56:30 OFTEN THE MOST EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO EXTREME HEAT
00:56:33 INTERVENTIONS FOR SOME RESIDENTS.
00:56:37 GETTING TO A RESILIENT COMMUNITY LOCATION OR EVEN A
00:56:38 CITY OWNED COOL SPACE DOWN THE BLOCK CAN HAVE ITS OWN SHARE OF
00:56:42 BARRIERS THAT ARE HARD TO GET PASSED ON.
00:56:45 JUST FOR EXAMPLE, TRANSPORTATION IS A BIG ONE.
00:56:47 SO BEING ABLE TO SHELTER IN PLACE AT HOME DURING THESE
00:56:52 EVENTS IS SOMETHING THAT OFTEN RESIDENTS KIND OF PREFER TO DO
00:56:56 AND WE TRY TO MAKE EFFORTS TO SUPPORT RESIDENTS IN DOING SO.
00:56:59 THE FIRST STEP THAT WE'VE DONE TO TRY AND DO THAT IS REALLY TO
00:57:02 UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS SPECIFICALLY IN THE
00:57:04 PREFERENCES THAT RESIDENTS HAVE AROUND SHELTERING IN PLACE.
00:57:07 >> SO AS MENTIONED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UCSF
00:57:10 AND THE COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDER GROUP, WE SURVEYED OVER 500
00:57:13 RESIDENTS ABOUT EXTREME HEAT IMPACTS.
00:57:14 WHAT THEY'RE CURRENTLY DOING AND WHAT ARE THE LARGEST
00:57:17 BARRIERS TO BEING MORE RESILIENT TO THESE EVENTS.
00:57:20 THE MAIN TAKEAWAY OVERWHELMINGLY FROM THIS EFFORT
00:57:21 WAS THAT THE LARGEST OBSTACLE THAT RESIDENTS FACE IS ACTUALLY
00:57:25 MAKING CHANGES TO THEIR LIVING SPACES LARGELY BECAUSE THEY'RE
00:57:29 RENTERS. >> SO RENTAL UNITS FACE THE
00:57:32 MOST CHALLENGES TO INCREASE COOLING DUE TO APPROVAL
00:57:35 REQUIREMENTS FROM LANDLORDS AS WELL AS OTHER OBSTACLES AS
00:57:39 WELL. BUT THANKS TO AND HACKER
00:57:43 PARTNERSHIP WITH UCSF WE HAVE KIND OF THIS RESEARCH TO BETTER
00:57:47 UNDERSTAND THESE BARRIERS AND WE'LL BE TURNING THAT INTO
00:57:50 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RENTER'S GUIDE TO HOME COOLING ACTIONS
00:57:51 THAT DON'T REQUIRE LANDLORD INVOLVEMENT.
00:57:55 THIS WILL BE COMING SOON AS WE WORK THROUGH THE DELIVERABLES
00:57:59 FOR THAT BROADER PROJECT. WE'RE ALSO ACTIVELY SEEKING
00:58:02 MORE RESOURCES FOR COOLING RENTER OCCUPIED AND LOW INCOME
00:58:05 HOUSING THROUGH THE GRANT APPLICATIONS THAT WE SUBMIT FOR
00:58:09 THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT COME ACROSS OUR DESK.
00:58:11 AND AS WE WILL BE GOING MORE INTO DETAIL ON THE PROGRAMS
00:58:14 THAT THEY HAVE THAT SUPPORT DIRECTLY RENTERS AND LOW INCOME
00:58:18 RESIDENTS IN TRYING TO RENOVATE THEIR HOMES AND SHELTER
00:58:22 IN PLACE MORE EFFECTIVELY. >> SO IN ADDITION TO COOLING
00:58:25 AND WEATHERIZING BUILDINGS COOLING OUR URBAN ENVIRONMENT
00:58:28 IS ALSO CRITICAL TO REDUCING HEALTH IMPACTS AND THE
00:58:32 ACCOMPANYING ENERGY DEMAND THAT WE CAN SEE SPIKE DURING THESE
00:58:36 HEAT WAVE HEAT WAVE EVENTS. WE'VE BEEN WORKING TO SUPPORT
00:58:38 PUBLIC WORKS SPECIFICALLY THEIR BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY
00:58:41 AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SECTIONS TO BETTER INTEGRATE
00:58:45 PUBLIC HEALTH DATA IN THE DECISION MAKING ON HOW THEY
00:58:49 SITE TREES. THE IMAGE TO THE LEFT KIND OF
00:58:50 SHOWS THE CITY'S HEAT VULNERABILITY INDEX AND THIS
00:58:53 CHARACTERIZES THE RISK OF HEAT RELATED ILLNESS BY
00:58:56 NEIGHBORHOOD. WE'VE ALSO PROVIDED DATA LIKE
00:59:00 THIS AS THE INFORMATION BASE FOR A LOT OF GRANTS THAT ARE
00:59:01 BEING PURSUED BY A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE
00:59:04 KIND OF A PART OF HACKER AND WE TRY TO SUPPORT.
00:59:07 SO PUBLIC WORKS ACTUALLY RECENTLY APPLIED FOR
00:59:11 AND RECEIVED A $12 MILLION GRANT USING DATA THAT WAS
00:59:12 PRODUCED BY HACKER. AND THIS GRANT WILL PLANT 3500
00:59:16 TREES IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE CITY.
00:59:19 AND WE CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT THEM
00:59:23 WHILE THEY IMPLEMENT THAT GRANT FURTHER.
00:59:25 >> AND THESE TREES WILL REALLY BE PROVIDING ESSENTIAL SHADE,
00:59:28 CLEAN AIR AND ACCESS TO GREENING THAT WE KNOW ARE
00:59:31 REALLY IMPORTANT TO IMPROVING THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF THESE
00:59:33 COMMUNITIES. >> CURRENTLY THE NEXT STEP FOR
00:59:37 OUR PROGRAM IS TO PURSUE THE GRANTS BEING OFFERED FROM THE
00:59:41 PROPOSITION FOR STATE CLIMATE BOND THAT WAS PASSED IN 2020
00:59:44 FOR THESE GRANT APPLICATIONS WILL FOCUS ON SOME OF OUR WORK
00:59:48 ON COMMUNITY RESILIENCE CENTERS, GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
00:59:51 AND HOME WEATHERIZATION TO TRY TO PUSH THAT FORWARD TO GET
00:59:53 MORE IN THAT IMPLEMENTATION SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM.
00:59:56 >> WE'RE CONTINUING TO DO OUR WORK ON DATA AND EVALUATION LED
01:00:00 LARGELY BY DPA THROUGH UPDATING THE HEAT ENVIRONMENT, THE HEAT
01:00:04 VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT AND FURTHER TRACKING HEAT
01:00:07 RELATED ILLNESSES BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO REALLY BETTER
01:00:08 UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC IMPACTS TO THE HEALTH
01:00:11 SYSTEM SO THAT WE CAN MEASURE THE EFFECTS OF OUR
01:00:15 INTERVENTIONS AS THEY MOVE FURTHER.
01:00:18 >> SO AFTER THAT OVERVIEW OF KIND OF THE SCOPE AND THE
01:00:19 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF HACKER OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE WANTED
01:00:23 TO DIVE A LITTLE MORE DEEPLY INTO ONE OF THESE TOPICS THAT
01:00:26 WE KNOW IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO THIS AUDIENCE
01:00:30 BUILDING WEATHERIZATION. FOR THAT I'M GOING TO BE
01:00:33 TURNING IT OVER TO CINDY COMERFORD WHO IS THE CLIMATE
01:00:34 PROGRAM MANAGER AT SRP TO GO MORE DETAIL INTO THEIR EFFORTS
01:00:44 . >> GOOD MORNING SUPERVISORS.
01:00:45 MY NAME IS CINDY COMERFORD. I'M THE CLIMATE PROGRAM MANAGER
01:00:48 AT THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT. I OVERSEE OUR SIX RELATED
01:00:52 CLIMATE PROGRAM. THE TWO WHICH ARE MOST RELEVANT
01:00:57 TODAY ARE OUR CITY WIDE CLIMATE ACTION PLANNING AND BUILDING
01:01:00 DECARBONIZATION. MY TEAM DEVELOPS POLICIES,
01:01:03 PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT HELP REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS
01:01:07 EMISSIONS AND ALSO MAKE OUR HOMES AND BUILDINGS MORE
01:01:11 RESILIENT TO THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE LIKE EXTREME
01:01:15 HEAT. >> SO TO GROUND EVERYONE TODAY
01:01:19 IN THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT'S MISSION I JUST WANT TO TALK
01:01:24 ABOUT THAT WE PROVIDE SOLUTIONS THAT ADVANCE CLIMATE PROTECTION
01:01:28 AND ALSO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL SAN FRANCISCANS.
01:01:31 >> SO CLIMATE ACTION ISN'T JUST ABOUT REDUCING EMISSIONS.
01:01:35 IT'S ABOUT IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH, LOWERING ENERGY COST,
01:01:39 CREATING SAFER HOMES AND PREPARING COMMUNITIES FOR
01:01:43 THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE WHICH INCLUDE HOT DAYS AND MORE
01:01:47 EXTREME HEAT EVENTS. >> SO WHAT DOES OUR
01:01:53 DEPARTMENT'S MISSION MEAN IN TERMS OF EXTREME HELP?
01:01:57 >> THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT HELPS REDUCE EXTREME HEAT BY
01:02:01 BUILDING LONG TERM BUILDING RESILIENCE BEFORE EMERGENCIES
01:02:05 OCCUR. >> WE IMPLEMENT SAN FRANCISCO'S
01:02:09 CLIMATE ACTION PLAN WHICH SETS A GOAL OF REDUCING GREENHOUSE
01:02:13 GAS EMISSIONS BY 61% BELOW 1990 LEVELS BY 2030.
01:02:16 AND WE PLAN TO BE A NET ZERO CITY BY 2040.
01:02:22 >> A MAJOR PART OF THIS STRATEGY IS BUILDING
01:02:24 DECARBONIZATION. SO BUILDING DECARBONIZATION
01:02:27 ADDRESSES THOSE CHALLENGES BY REPLACING FOSSIL FUEL EQUIPMENT
01:02:34 WITH MODERN EFFICIENT ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT SWAPPING.
01:02:38 THIS EQUIPMENT IS REFERRED TO AS ELECTRIFICATION AND THE
01:02:42 TECHNOLOGY WE PRIMARILY USE IS CALLED A HEAT PUMP.
01:02:46 WHEN WE DECARBONIZE BUILDINGS WE ALSO INCLUDE BETTER
01:02:50 INSULATION AND AIR SEALING. AND THIS IS REFERRED TO AS
01:02:54 WEATHERIZATION. OUR HOMES ARE WHERE WE SPEND
01:02:57 MOST OF OUR TIME. AND AS YOU HEARD, THIS IS WHERE
01:03:01 WE ARE ALSO MOST VULNERABLE TO HEAT.
01:03:04 >> SO BUILDING DECARBONIZATION IS NOT ONLY AN IMPORTANT
01:03:06 CLIMATE STRATEGY, IT'S AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH
01:03:09 AND RESILIENCE STRATEGY. >> >> SO BUILDING
01:03:16 DECARBONIZATION PROVIDES MULTIPLE BENEFITS.
01:03:17 >> WE HAVE HEARD THIS THROUGHOUT SOME OF THE
01:03:20 PRESENTATIONS. >> SO WHEN WE INSTALL HEAT
01:03:24 PUMPS IN BUILDINGS THEY PROVIDE BOTH HEATING AND COOLING
01:03:27 CAPACITY. SECOND, THEY INCREASE ENERGY
01:03:32 EFFICIENCY WHICH KEEPS BUILDINGS COOLER LONGER.
01:03:38 ELECTRIFICATION CAN ALSO REDUCE LONG TERM ENERGY COST.
01:03:42 >> IT ALSO IMPROVES PUBLIC HEALTH BY REDUCING THE
01:03:46 COMBUSTION OF NATURAL GAS IN HOMES AND SOMETIMES
01:03:50 PROVIDING ADDITIONAL AIR FILTRATION.
01:03:53 WE CAN ALSO COMBINE ELECTRIFICATION WITH SOLAR PLUS
01:03:55 STORAGE WHICH PROVIDES LONG TERM RESILIENCE DURING POWER
01:04:01 POWER OUTAGES AND HELPS US MAINTAIN SERVICES.
01:04:05 AND FINALLY BUILDING DECARBONIZATION HELPS REDUCE
01:04:10 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. THE PRIMARY DRIVER OF CLIMATE
01:04:13 CHANGE AND EXTREME HEAT DAYS. >> SO THE NEXT TWO SLIDES I'M
01:04:18 GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT BUILDS
01:04:21 RESILIENCE THROUGH OUR POLICIES AND PROGRAMS.
01:04:25 >> FIRST WE HELP DEVELOP PLANS THAT HELP GUIDE THE CITY'S
01:04:29 TRANSITION TO NET ZERO. I TALKED ABOUT OUR CLIMATE
01:04:32 ACTION PLAN. OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN HAS A
01:04:35 180 STRATEGIES OVER SEVEN DIFFERENT SECTORS FROM ENERGY
01:04:39 TO BUILDINGS, TRANSPORTATION, HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS, CIRCULAR
01:04:43 ECONOMY, WATER HOUSING, LAND USE.
01:04:46 >> AND THESE STRATEGIES NOT ONLY HELP US REDUCE OUR
01:04:51 EMISSIONS BUT MANY OF THE STRATEGIES HELP US ADAPT TO
01:04:55 EXTREME HEAT. >> ALEX SAID EARLIER WE ALSO
01:04:59 LEAD ON THE MUNICIPAL GREEN BUILDING CODE.
01:05:02 WE HAVE PROGRESSIVELY STRENGTHENED THAT CODE OVER THE
01:05:05 LAST SIX YEARS. >> WE REQUIRE ALL NEWLY
01:05:06 CONSTRUCTED MUSICAL FACILITIES TO BE ALL ELECTRIC AND MAJOR
01:05:12 RENOVATIONS. WE ALSO PROHIBIT THE
01:05:13 INSTALLATION OF FOSSIL FUEL EQUIPMENT IN EXISTING MUNICIPAL
01:05:17 BUILDINGS. AND WE REQUIRE SOLAR PLUS
01:05:21 STORAGE WHERE APPROPRIATE. WE ALSO HAVE WORKED ON LANDMARK
01:05:25 POLICIES FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR .
01:05:28 ALL NEWLY CONSTRUCTED PRIVATE SECTOR BUILDINGS MUST BE ALL
01:05:32 ELECTRIC AND THAT ALSO INCLUDES MAJOR RENOVATIONS TO.
01:05:36 >> BUT WE KNOW POLICIES AREN'T ENOUGH.
01:05:39 WE ALSO NEED TO HAVE PROGRAMS THAT HELP IMPLEMENT THIS WORK.
01:05:43 ONE EXAMPLE IS THE CLIMATE EQUITY HUB, WHICH SUPERVISOR
01:05:48 RANDALL MANN HAS BEEN A STRONG SUPPORTER OF.
01:05:50 AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP TO MAKE SURE
01:05:52 THIS PROGRAM WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE THIS YEAR.
01:05:55 THE CLIMATE EQUITY HUB HAS THREE MAIN COMPONENTS.
01:05:58 >> ONE IT DOES DIRECT INSTALLS OF HEAT PUMPS FOR LOW INCOME
01:06:02 COMMUNITIES. >> TWO, IT HAS A WORKFORCE
01:06:05 TRAINING COMPONENT THAT ACTUALLY TRAINS CONTRACTORS ON
01:06:09 HEAT PUMP TECHNOLOGIES. >> AND THREE, WE ALSO DO
01:06:12 COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WITH
01:06:16 OUR COMMUNITY ADVISORY GROUPS AND DIFFERENT CBOS.
01:06:21 OUR ENERGY GROUP ALSO RUNS A BAY RUN PROGRAM.
01:06:25 THIS IS A REGIONAL PROGRAM THAT'S FUNDED THROUGH THE CPC.
01:06:28 THIS HELPS BUILDINGS WITH PERFORMANCE ENERGY EFFICIENCY
01:06:35 AND HELPING HOMES MAKE OUR TRANSITION TO BE NET ZERO.
01:06:39 AND WE ALSO HELP DO PILOT PROJECTS AND OUTREACH WHICH
01:06:46 HELPS US KIND OF TEST NEW APPROACHES.
01:06:47 >> IT HELPS US ENGAGE COMMUNITIES AND IMPROVE OUR
01:06:50 FUTURE PROGRAMS. >> SO HERE'S JUST AN EXAMPLE OF
01:06:54 A SNAPSHOT OF OUR WEBSITE. THIS IS WHERE RESIDENTS CAN GET
01:06:58 INFORMATION ABOUT ELECTRIFYING THEIR HOME.
01:07:01 FIND OUT ABOUT REBATES, INCENTIVES AND RESOURCES THAT
01:07:06 MAKE ELECTRIFYING THEIR HOME MORE AFFORDABLE AND MORE
01:07:10 ACCESSIBLE. OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:07:11 OUR RESIDENTS KNOW THAT THIS INFORMATION EXISTS AND HOW THEY
01:07:15 CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. >> SO TO APPRECIATE WHY THIS
01:07:24 WORK IS SO IMPORTANT, WE NEED TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND THE SCALE
01:07:27 OF THIS CHALLENGE. THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN SETS A
01:07:29 SPECIFIC GOAL AROUND BUILDING DECARBONIZATION.
01:07:33 >> AND WE WANT TO REDUCE OUR BUILDING EMISSIONS BY 20% FROM
01:07:39 2020 LEVELS WHICH TRANSLATES TO A DECARBONIZING ABOUT 18,000
01:07:45 BUILDINGS. AND OUR GOAL IS TO BE HAVE ALL
01:07:46 BUILDINGS BE ZERO EMISSIONS BY 2040.
01:07:50 SO THE CHART ON THE UPPER LEFT OF THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE NUMBER
01:07:54 OF RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS CURRENTLY USING NATURAL GAS
01:07:58 AND HOW MANY WE WILL NEED TO TRANSITION OVER THE COMING
01:08:01 YEARS. AND THAT EQUATES TO MORE THAN
01:08:04 15,000 RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS. THE CHART ON THE UPPER RIGHT
01:08:09 SHOWS HOUSEHOLD INCOME. >> AND WHILE THIS IS NOT A
01:08:12 DIRECT COMPARISON TO BUILDINGS, IT ILLUSTRATES WHY
01:08:15 AFFORDABILITY MATTERS. APPROXIMATELY 42% OF OUR SAN
01:08:19 FRANCISCO HOUSEHOLDS EARN BELOW THE MEDIAN INCOME MAKING
01:08:23 EQUITABLE ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND FINANCING INCREDIBLY
01:08:27 IMPORTANT. AT THE BOTTOM WE SHOW THE
01:08:30 COMMERCIAL SECTOR. SO COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS ARE
01:08:35 MEASURED IN SQUARE FOOTAGE, NOT IN UNITS.
01:08:36 AND WHEN WE CONVERT THE SQUARE FOOTAGE TO BUILDINGS WE NEED TO
01:08:42 DECARBONIZE. >> ABOUT 2000 COMMERCIAL
01:08:43 BUILDINGS BY 2030. SO THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT
01:08:49 UNDERTAKING. BUT IT'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY
01:08:53 FOR US TO MODERNIZE OUR BUILDING STOCK TO IMPROVE
01:08:57 PUBLIC HEALTH AND REDUCE ENERGY COSTS AND IN INCREASE OUR
01:09:00 RESILIENCE AS A CITY. SO THIS IS MY LAST SLIDE AND I
01:09:05 JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES
01:09:08 AND CHALLENGES TO MEETING THESE GOALS.
01:09:09 >> FIRST WE NEED TO CONTINUE ADVANCING KEY POLICIES.
01:09:15 ONE IMPORTANT POLICY THAT'S COMING UP IS THROUGH THE BAY
01:09:19 AREA AIR DISTRICT FOUR RULE NINE AND RULE FOUR.
01:09:23 >> THIS WOULD PHASE OUT THE SALE OF NEW GAS WATER HEATERS,
01:09:30 FURNACES AND EQUIPMENT IN LARGER BUILDINGS OVER THE
01:09:31 COMING DECADE. THE AIR DISTRICT IS EXPECTED TO
01:09:35 TAKE A VOTE ON THIS IN NOVEMBER.
01:09:38 SECOND, INCENTIVES REMAIN CRITICAL TO HELP LOW INCOME
01:09:42 HOUSEHOLDS PARTICIPATE IN THIS TRANSITION.
01:09:45 ALSO TO ACCELERATE MARKET TRANSFORMATION AND TO REDUCE
01:09:49 COST OVER TIME. THIRD, EDUCATION OUTREACH IS
01:09:53 CRITICAL. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:09:54 RESIDENTS HAVE CLEAR TRUST RESOURCES ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF
01:10:01 ELECTRIFICATION AND NAVIGATING SUPPORT FOR THESE RESOURCES.
01:10:06 AND THEN ONE THING NOT SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE.
01:10:07 YOU KNOW SAN FRANCISCO HAS THE ABILITY TO BE A REAL LEADER
01:10:10 IN CLIMATE TECHNOLOGY. MAKING SURE THAT COMPANIES CAN
01:10:14 LOCATE HERE AND DEPLOYING NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT LOWER THE
01:10:18 COST OF ELECTRIFICATION AND MAKE IT MORE ACCESSIBLE.
01:10:21 SO TOGETHER THESE PROGRAMS POLICIES AND PARTNERSHIPS WILL
01:10:25 NOT ONLY HELP US MEET OUR CLIMATE GOALS BUT THEY ALSO
01:10:29 CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER AND MORE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
01:10:33 THAT CAN BECOME MORE RESILIENT IN THE FACE OF MORE EXTREME
01:10:37 HEAT DAYS. SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO STOP
01:10:40 HERE AND TAKE QUESTIONS FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE PRESENTATION
01:10:44 BEFORE WE TURN IT OVER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
01:10:48 MANAGEMENT TO TALK ABOUT HEAT RESPONSE.
01:10:50 >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.
01:10:55 I HAVE QUESTIONS I CAN LEAP IN. >> OKAY.
01:10:58 I MEAN MAYBE I'LL I'LL START WITH THE DEPARTMENT.
01:11:03 WELL, MAYBE A GLOBAL STATEMENT AND THEN TURN ON THE
01:11:05 ENVIRONMENT. >> SO IT'S GREAT TO HEAR ABOUT
01:11:09 THE WORK THAT IS BEING DONE. IT SEEMS IMPORTANT.
01:11:13 IT ALSO SEEMS TO ME LIKE THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT GAP BETWEEN
01:11:17 WHAT SEEMS LIKE THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM AND THE LEVEL OF
01:11:21 INVESTMENT AND ACTIVITY GOING INTO ADDRESSING THAT PROBLEM.
01:11:27 >> I MEAN TO SORT OF START WITH DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
01:11:32 BECAUSE YOU'RE UP THERE, CINDY AND NOT TO PICK ON YOU BUT
01:11:35 AND ACTUALLY STARTING A STEP THIS IS RELATED BUT IT'S NOT
01:11:40 EXACTLY ON THE CENTRAL CORE OF THE OF THE HEARING BUT IT WAS
01:11:46 OCCURRING TO ME AS I WAS SEEING THOSE GOALS AROUND
01:11:48 DECARBONIZATION AND THAT FIRST 2030 GOAL AND IT OCCURRED TO ME
01:11:51 LIKE WE SET THESE GOALS IN 2016 RIGHT 2021, 2021.
01:12:00 >> SO WE'RE LIKE HALFWAY TO 2030.
01:12:04 AND THERE WERE PARTICULAR GOALS AROUND CONVERT NOT JUST THE
01:12:08 WORK WE'VE DONE AROUND ENSURING THAT NEW BUILDINGS WILL BE
01:12:12 ELECTRIC BUT THERE IS THIS OUR PLANS RELY YOU KNOW DEPEND ON
01:12:19 EXPECT ANTICIPATE A CONVERSION OF EXISTING BUILDINGS TO AWAY
01:12:23 FROM FOSSIL FUELS ARE WE ON TRACK FOR THAT HALFWAY TO 2030
01:12:31 ? >> THAT IS THAT IS A GREAT
01:12:32 QUESTION. SO WE MEASURE AND I SAY THAT'S
01:12:35 NOT EXACTLY I MEAN BECAUSE IT'S NOT EXACTLY THE PURPOSE OF THIS
01:12:38 HEARING BUT IT DID IT'S AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
01:12:40 >> SO YOU KNOW, WE MEASURE TO OUR GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY
01:12:43 EVERY TWO YEARS. THERE'S A TWO YEAR ALLOWED
01:12:47 WE'LL BE RELEASING OUR 2024 INVENTORY WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH
01:12:50 THAT DOES SHOW RIGHT NOW WE ARE ON TRACK BUT THE PACE IS
01:12:57 STARTING TO SLOW DOWN IN REDUCING EMISSIONS OVER THE
01:13:00 LAST FIVE YEARS. THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO
01:13:04 NOW ARE HARDER. >> THEY'RE MORE COMPLEX
01:13:08 AND THEY REQUIRE MORE RESOURCES.
01:13:08 AND SO YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'VE HEARD ABOUT JUST THE COMPLEXITY
01:13:15 AROUND HERE AND THE IMPACTS. AND SO WE DEFINITELY NEED MORE
01:13:20 INVESTMENT IN THE SOLUTIONS AND YOU KNOW, DECARBONIZING OUR
01:13:24 BUILDINGS. FOR SOME IT CAN BE REALLY EASY.
01:13:25 FOR SOME IT'S MORE HARD. BUT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO MAKE
01:13:28 SURE WE'RE SUPPORTING OUR EQUITY COMMUNITIES AND MAKING
01:13:32 SURE WE HIT OUR GOALS AND WE PROVIDE SAFE AND HEALTHY
01:13:35 ENVIRONMENTS FOR THEM. DRILLING DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT
01:13:42 MORE THOUGH I MEAN YOU'RE MEASURED WHEN YOU SAY THAT
01:13:45 WE'RE WE'RE ON TRACK BUT WITH SLOWING THAT'S A MEASURE OF
01:13:47 EMISSION NEEDS. >> IT'S WE'RE NOT WOODS.
01:13:50 SO ON YOUR CHART YOU HAVE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF BUILDINGS
01:13:53 THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CONVERTED FROM FOSSIL FUELS NOW
01:13:57 TO NOT FOSSIL FUELS BY 2030. >> ARE WE ON TRACK?
01:14:01 SO MOST OF OUR EMISSION REDUCTIONS ARE COMING FROM THE
01:14:04 BUILDING SECTOR. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF EMISSIONS
01:14:08 SHOULD REPRESENT OUR BUILDING GOALS RIGHT?
01:14:11 >> SO SOME OF THE BUILDING YOU KNOW WE'RE HELPING LOW INCOME
01:14:15 HOUSEHOLDS DECARBONIZE. >> A LOT OF THEM ARE DOING IT
01:14:19 MARKET RATE HOUSING. SO WE ARE MOVING TOWARDS THAT.
01:14:23 BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE ANTICIPATE KIND OF LIKE AN
01:14:25 S-CURVE CURVE AND THE ACCELERATION OF DECARBONIZATION
01:14:29 WHERE IT'S REALLY SLOW IN THE BEGINNING AND THEN IT
01:14:32 ACCELERATES. AND SO AS SOON AS WE GET MORE
01:14:33 INVESTMENT IN THE COMMUNITY AND SO AGAIN MORE INVESTMENTS
01:14:40 NEED IT TO STAY ON TRACK AND MAKE SURE WE CAN HIT THOSE
01:14:41 GOALS AND AT LEAST AT THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL WE'RE NOT
01:14:44 RAMPING UP INVESTMENT IN THOSE THINGS AT LEAST MY PERCEPTION
01:14:52 IS I MEAN I'M I'M GLAD. THANK YOU COLLEAGUES ON THE
01:14:53 BUDGET COMMITTEE FOR WE'RE RESTORING $400,000 OF OUR WORK
01:14:58 ON YOU KNOW PROVIDING HEAT PUMPS AND HELPING FOLKS PAIRED
01:15:03 WITH GRANTS OF COURSE TO TO GET HEAT PUMPS INTO HOMES OWNED BY
01:15:09 LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS. BUT THAT'S LIKE A LITTLE IT'S
01:15:13 IT'S A BLIP. >> YEAH.
01:15:14 I YEAH JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE AND I KNOW NEW YORK
01:15:18 CITY IS A MUCH LARGER CITY IN THAN SAN FRANCISCO BUT THEY
01:15:21 INVEST $34 MILLION IN HEAT PUMPS FROM THEIR CITY THIS YEAR
01:15:27 AND WE'RE DOING 400,000 WHICH I'M THANKFUL FOR BUT RIGHT
01:15:34 AND THEN I MEAN ON THE TOPIC OF THE HUB, I MEAN THAT 400,000
01:15:38 HELPS CONTINUE SOME OF THE HUBS WORK.
01:15:41 THE HOPE I THINK FOR SUPERVISORS MA AND HAYNIE
01:15:46 AND ME BACK IN THE DAY WHEN WE I THINK WE FOUND INITIAL
01:15:49 GENERAL FUND FOR FOR THE HUB WAS THAT IT WOULD GROW OVER
01:15:54 TIME. AND IN FACT THE THE THE
01:15:57 OPPOSITE OF THAT HAS HAPPENED FEEL LIKE THAT WAS MY HOPE AT
01:16:03 THE TIME TOO. YEAH WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO
01:16:05 SECURE SOME GRANTS SO WE'VE GOTTEN A GRANT WHERE WE ARE
01:16:08 ACTUALLY DECARBONIZING HOME DAYCARES WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLY
01:16:11 IMPORTANT ENDEAVOR. YOU KNOW WE'VE WE'VE RAISED
01:16:19 ABOUT $800,000. WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO LEVERAGE
01:16:22 THAT GENERAL FUND SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL $800,000.
01:16:25 BUT I THINK AS YOU SAID, IT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH.
01:16:28 AND HOPEFULLY PEOPLE CAN SEE THAT THERE'S MULTIPLE BENEFITS
01:16:30 TO BUILDING. DECARBONIZATION IS NOT JUST
01:16:33 ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE TODAY WE'RE HERE TALKING ABOUT IT
01:16:36 IN THE CONTEXT OF EXTREME HEAT AND ALL OF THAT HEALTH
01:16:40 AND SAFETY BENEFITS IT WILL PROVIDE FOR OUR CITY
01:16:44 AND THERE'S A LEVEL OF GENERAL FUND INVESTMENT BELOW WHICH YOU
01:16:45 CANNOT GO AND GET THOSE GRANTS AND THEN IMPLEMENT THEM.
01:16:49 AND SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE'RE PRETTY I MEAN AT SOME
01:16:52 LEVEL WE'RE BENEATH THAT LEVEL BUT WE'RE WE'RE IN WE'RE IN THE
01:16:55 NEIGHBORHOOD OF LIKE NOT EVEN BEING ABLE TO GO SEEK OUT THOSE
01:16:59 GRANTS. >> I THINK THAT'S ACCURATE.
01:17:02 >> OKAY. ALL RIGHT.
01:17:03 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU.
01:17:07 >> MAYBE IF MATT WOLF AND MATT AND ALEX COULD COME BACK, SO
01:17:18 ARE YOU BOTH IN DEEP SNOW? >> I'M WITH THE OFFICE OF
01:17:23 RESILIENCE AND CAPITAL PLANNING, BOTH RCP AND MPH
01:17:27 AND YOU ARE LIKE THE DYNAMIC DUO.
01:17:30 YOU ARE THE TWO PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE 30,000 PERSON CITY
01:17:34 AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO WORKFORCE WHO ARE CHARGED WITH
01:17:37 STAY WITH STAVING OFF EXTREME HEAT CALAMITY.
01:17:47 YES. HOW'S IT GOING?
01:17:53 >> ARE WE SAFE? WELL I WOULD SAY THAT A LOT OF
01:17:58 OUR EFFORTS AROUND COORDINATION AND DATA SHARING HAVE BEEN
01:18:01 GOING LIKE LIKE PRETTY WELL CONSIDERING HOW MUCH TIME OTHER
01:18:05 DEPARTMENTS HAVE TO DEDICATE TO THE US.
01:18:09 SO THERE HAS BEEN LIKE WE'VE BUILT A BIG NETWORK BASED ON
01:18:13 THE FACT THAT I THINK THERE IS BELIEF WITHIN THE CITY OF SAN
01:18:16 FRANCISCO THAT THIS IS A THREAT BUT RIGHT NOW MOST OF THAT IS
01:18:20 LIKE VOLUNTEER TIME THAT IS TAKING AWAY FROM OTHER THINGS
01:18:22 THAT THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING.
01:18:25 >> HOW WORRIED OH, GO AHEAD. >> NO, YOU GO AHEAD.
01:18:29 WELL, I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD THAT OFTENTIMES YOU'LL SEE THE
01:18:31 PROGRESS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IS ON YOU KNOW, THE
01:18:32 EMERGENCY RESPONSE SIDE, THE THINGS THAT TAKE MORE RESEARCH,
01:18:36 EVALUATION, COORDINATION. BUT YES, ON THE BUILDING SIDE,
01:18:40 THE MORE CAPITAL INTENSIVE ELEMENTS OF WORK THERE IS LESS
01:18:44 READY, LESS PREPAREDNESS AND THAT'S ALL RIGHT TO SAY
01:18:45 THAT EVEN MORE SLOWLY FOR ME. SO YOU LIKE YOUR YOUR WORK YOU
01:18:48 FEEL LIKE HAS BEEN MORE SUCCESS THIS COORDINATION I MEAN REALLY
01:18:52 WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS COORDINATING GETTING
01:18:56 DEPARTMENTS TALKING TO EACH OTHER AND THAT THAT HAS BEEN
01:18:59 HELPFUL. YOU THINK IN TERMS OF WHEN
01:19:02 DISASTER STRIKES THE CITY WILL WE HOPE BE IN A BETTER POSITION
01:19:07 THAN IT WAS IN 2017 TO DEPLOY WHATEVER IT WHATEVER EMERGENCY
01:19:13 RESPONSE RESOURCES WE HAVE AVAILABLE FOR THAT AND AND
01:19:17 MAXIMIZE THAT IN A WAY THAT WE WERE NOT LIKE NOT TURNING ON
01:19:18 THE THE PLANS THAT WE HAD AT THE TIME TO DEAL WITH THE EXACT
01:19:24 THING THAT WAS GOING ON. >> I YEAH, THAT IS A CORRECT
01:19:25 ASSESSMENT BASED ON AND I'M LESS CLOSE TO THE PUBLIC TO THE
01:19:29 EMERGENCY RESPONSE OF PREPAREDNESS I'D PERSONALLY
01:19:33 JUST SITTING IN OR SEP BUT RIGHT AND WE'RE GOING TO SAVE.
01:19:36 >> MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THAT IS TRUE AND MARY ELLEN IS
01:19:37 SUPER EXCITED TO COME AND AND WE'LL WE'LL WE'LL GIVE HER HER
01:19:41 MOMENT BUT OKAY SO THAT'S THE PIECE THAT THIS SO THANK YOU
01:19:47 BUT AGAIN IT SOUNDS LIKE IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL LIKE
01:19:51 CHANGES TO OUR BUILDINGS AND TO THE WAY LIKE LIKE THE BIG
01:19:58 EXPENSIVE STUFF LIKE TO GUYS LIKE YOU CAN'T REALLY MAKE THAT
01:20:05 HAPPEN. AND SO MY QUESTION THEN IS LIKE
01:20:09 HOW WORRIED ARE YOU ABOUT THAT AND HOW WORRIED SHOULD WE BE?
01:20:15 I THINK I'M PRETTY WORRIED. I THINK THAT I THINK THAT ONE
01:20:19 OF THE THINGS WE'VE SEEN IS LIKE THE THINGS THAT KICK
01:20:23 CITY'S INTO ACTION OFTEN IS HAVING A MAJOR EVENT LIKE WE'VE
01:20:27 TALKED TO SEATTLE IN PORTLAND SINCE THEIR 2021 HEAT DOME
01:20:34 AND WE'VE HEARD ABOUT A LOT OF THE WORK THAT'S HAPPENED THERE.
01:20:35 WE TALKED TO THEM IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS AND THEN WE HAVE
01:20:38 CONTACTS WITH THE SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
01:20:42 ABOUT THEIR HEAT PROGRAM. BUT THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH A
01:20:45 HEAT DOME TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE THERE WAS ENERGY TO
01:20:49 SUPPORT A LOT OF THE HEAT ADAPTATION EFFORTS AND HOW IS
01:20:51 WHAT THEY'RE NOW DOING AFTER THE EMERGENCY DIFFERENT FROM
01:20:57 FROM WHAT WE ARE DOING AND WHERE WE ARE?
01:21:00 >> I THINK THAT THERE IS THEY HAVE MORE RESOURCES TO LEVERAGE
01:21:04 ON IMPLEMENTATION THAN WE DO. I THINK THEY'RE STARTING FROM A
01:21:05 VERY SIMILAR PLACE AROUND COORDINATING THEIR DIFFERENT
01:21:09 DEPARTMENTS AROUND CREATING A PLAN.
01:21:12 I THINK THEY'RE ALSO FOCUSED ON DATA AND THEY'RE DOING A LITTLE
01:21:16 BIT MORE ON LIKE EVALUATION. SO THEY HAVE IMPLEMENTATION
01:21:20 AND THEN THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS EFFECTIVE
01:21:24 SO THEY'RE ABLE TO USE THAT DATA TO DO THAT.
01:21:25 IT EVALUATION. I KNOW THAT THERE'S ALSO A LOT
01:21:28 OF WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING AROUND SUPPORTING THEIR
01:21:31 COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS BECAUSE YOU KNOW A LOT OF FOLKS
01:21:36 WILL BE LOOKING TO THEIR TRUSTED PARTNERS AS THE FIRST
01:21:39 LINE OF DEFENSE DURING A HEAT EVENT.
01:21:40 SO IT'S ALSO HOW DO YOU BUILD AND BROADEN THE NETWORK OF
01:21:44 PEOPLE THAT ARE IMPACTED BY THIS RESPONSE AND DO YOU HAVE A
01:21:50 SENSE OF THE THE DIFFERENCE IN SCALE BETWEEN WHERE WHERE
01:21:54 THEY ARE AND WHERE WHERE YOU ARE NOW?
01:21:55 >> YEAH. WE ACTUALLY MATT AND I WERE
01:21:58 ABLE TO PARTICIPATE WITH SOME FOLKS FROM KING COUNTY ON A
01:22:02 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FORUM PRESENTATION SO WE BASICALLY
01:22:04 PARTNERED TO MAKE THIS PRESENTATION ON A NATIONAL
01:22:07 FORUM ABOUT THE DIFFERENT WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.
01:22:08 SO WE WE WERE ABLE TO LIKE HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE
01:22:11 SPECIFIC PROGRAMS THAT THEY HAVE LIKE DEDICATED FUNDING
01:22:14 STREAMS FOR GETTING AC TO IDENTIFY VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES
01:22:17 LIKE VARIOUS VERY SPECIFIC PROGRAMS THAT THEY HAVE THAT
01:22:21 HAVE FUNDING SOURCES THAT ARE KIND OF RECURRING AND SO LIKE
01:22:25 THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I THAT POPPED OUT IN IN THAT
01:22:29 CONVERSATION. BUT YEAH YEAH I MEAN IT STRIKES
01:22:36 ME I MEAN OF COURSE AS YOU POINT OUT A TERRIBLE EVENT
01:22:43 FOCUSES THE MINDS OF POLICYMAKERS AND THEN LEADS TO
01:22:48 INVESTMENT. >> BUT WHEN YOU SEE AWFUL
01:22:51 EVENTS HELPING HAPPENING IN OTHER PLACES IT WOULD BE
01:22:56 GOOD TO SEE THAT THIS IS NOT DIRECTED AT YOU.
01:22:59 >> IT'S DIRECTED POLICYMAKERS IN SAN FRANCISCO LIKE US
01:23:00 AND PEOPLE OVER THERE AND YEAH AND 200 BUT IT WOULD SEEM LIKE
01:23:06 YOU WOULD LEARN FROM THOSE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING
01:23:10 IN OTHER PLACES AND SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING AFTER THE
01:23:13 TERRIBLE EVENT AND THEN START MAYBE GETTING A JUMPSTART
01:23:17 BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU'RE GOING TO BE JUSTIFIABLY ACCUSED OF
01:23:21 BEING DERELICT IN YOUR DUTY. YEAH YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUT IF
01:23:25 YOU WELL I MEAN I JUST HAVE A THOUGHT I THINK THAT WHEN WE
01:23:28 WERE CONCEPTUALIZING THIS PLAN IT WAS HONESTLY WAY BACK WHEN
01:23:31 WE HAD TO DEAL WITH BOTH HEAT AND AIR QUALITY IN THE AIR
01:23:36 UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF COVID AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY WHEN WE
01:23:39 MATT AND I STARTED WORKING TOGETHER AND WE'RE SUMMER OF
01:23:42 2020 SUMMER 2020 DOING SOME OF THIS WORK AND PART OF WHAT WAS
01:23:46 IMPORTANT IN THAT MOMENT WAS FEELING LIKE OH THIS IS A
01:23:47 CANARY IN THE COAL MINE MOMENT NOT ONLY SEEING THAT EVENT BUT
01:23:50 THEN ALSO THE PORTLAND EVENTS TO BE A BIT PROACTIVE AND MAYBE
01:23:54 GET AHEAD OF THE CURVE BALL AND SO THAT THAT I KNOW IS
01:23:58 SOMETHING THAT WE THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT ABOUT THE
01:23:59 OPPORTUNITY THAT HACKER REPRESENTS AND HOW WE'VE TRIED
01:24:02 TO BRING THAT LENS INTO THE WORK AS WELL.
01:24:05 >> BUT I WOULD SAY FUNDAMENTALLY I THINK THAT THE
01:24:08 GOAL OF HACKERS SO WE NEVER SEE A PACIFIC NORTHWEST HEAT DOME
01:24:11 HERE AND IF IT DOES HAPPEN HERE WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO NOT
01:24:16 HAVE IT IMPACT US ONCE AGAIN I THINK OF THE YOU KNOW, OUR
01:24:21 EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS WORK BETTER IF 3000 PEOPLE GET SICK
01:24:23 THAN 30,000 PEOPLE SICK GET SICK.
01:24:24 SO HOW DO WE NOT HAVE THAT SORT OF SITUATION THAT HAPPENED
01:24:27 THERE HAPPEN HERE? >> RIGHT.
01:24:31 AND MY IMPRESSION IS YOU'VE GIVEN US THE ROAD LIKE WE HAVE
01:24:34 THE MAP NOW BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO ACTUALLY GO
01:24:41 DOWN THE PATH AND GET TO THE PLACE WE WANT TO GO.
01:24:43 >> I THINK THAT'S CORRECT. >> YEAH.
01:24:46 ALL RIGHT. WELL THAT FEELS LIKE A
01:24:49 CONVERSATION THAT THE POLICYMAKERS IN THE CITY
01:24:54 AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD BE ENGAGING IN AT A MORE
01:24:58 SUSTAINED AND AND AND A MORE SUSTAINED AND DEEPER WAY
01:25:01 AND WOULD DEFINITELY INVITE THE MAYORS OFFICE TO ENGAGE WITH MY
01:25:06 COLLEAGUES. I'M INTERESTED IN THIS
01:25:09 CONVERSATION OVER THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS THAT I'M AROUND.
01:25:11 I HOPE THAT MY THAT OTHERS ON THE BOARD ARE ALSO INTERESTED
01:25:14 AND WILL CONTINUE IT AFTER I LEAVE I LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION
01:25:20 WOULD THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH HERE I RECALL BECAUSE I
01:25:24 WORKED ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES IN A DIFFERENT CONTEXT THAT
01:25:28 CALIFORNIA'S DEADLIEST HEAT WAVE WAS BACK IN 2006 I BELIEVE
01:25:34 IT WAS MOSTLY CENTRAL VALLEY. BUT THE THING THAT I REMEMBER
01:25:38 ABOUT IT WAS THAT THE INITIAL ESTIMATES PUT THE FATALITY
01:25:42 COUNT STATEWIDE AT SOMETHING LIKE I WANT TO SAY IT WAS 140.
01:25:45 I JUST GOOGLED SOME OF THIS AND THEN THERE WERE SOME
01:25:49 SUBSEQUENTLY ANALYSTS WENT BACK AND JUST LOOKING AT THE EXCESS
01:25:52 OF DEATHS REALIZED THAT IT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN I
01:25:56 THINK IT WAS BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE AND IT DID HIGHLIGHT
01:26:00 THAT SOME OF EVEN EVEN THE HORRIBLE NUMBERS WE'RE SEEING
01:26:04 MAY BE UNDERCOUNTS AND THAT WE MAY NOT BE FULLY APPRECIATE WE
01:26:09 MAY WE MAY NOT FULLY APPRECIATE HOW DEADLY THESE THINGS CAN BE
01:26:12 BECAUSE THEY'RE MISDIAGNOSED AS OTHER CAUSES OF DEATH.
01:26:19 >> HOW CONFIDENT ARE WE NOW THAT WE'VE GOTTEN BETTER OR ARE
01:26:20 WE? I THINK THE SAME PATTERN
01:26:23 EXISTS. I THINK THAT ALL OF OUR COUNTS
01:26:26 BECAUSE IT RELIES ON THE WAY THAT A DIAGNOSIS IS HAPPENING
01:26:34 AND WHETHER IT'S HEAT RELATED CAUSES AND SOME OF THEM WILL BE
01:26:36 DIAGNOSED AS CARDIOVASCULAR AND THERE'S ONLY A REALM OF
01:26:42 DIAGNOSES THAT ARE EVEN IN THE HEAT RELATED CLASSIFICATION.
01:26:46 I THINK THERE WAS A L.A. TIMES REPORT ON THIS ABOUT A MAJOR
01:26:50 HEAT WAVE THAT HAPPENED IN L.A. TWO YEARS AGO AND THEY DID A
01:26:53 FULL LIKE EXPOSÉ ON HOW HEAT COUNTS ARE UNDERCOUNTED.
01:27:00 >> OKAY. OKAY.
01:27:01 ALL RIGHT. WELL THANKS YOU TOO FOR YOU
01:27:05 KNOW, DOING A LOT WITH ONLY A LITTLE AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN
01:27:12 GET YOU SOME MORE RESOURCES IN THE YEARS TO COME.
01:27:13 >> SO THANK YOU. THANKS FOR HAVING THE HEARING.
01:27:15 >> THANKS FOR INVITING US. YEAH.
01:27:16 ALL RIGHT. MARY ELLEN CARROLL, DEPARTMENT
01:27:20 OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. GOOD MORNING.
01:27:27 I THINK IT'S STILL STILL MORNING.
01:27:31 MARY ELLEN CAROLYN, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE
01:27:32 DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
01:27:35 THANK YOU. CHAIRMAN DOLMAN SUPERVISORS
01:27:38 DORSEY CHAIR DORSEY I'M JUST A MEMBER HERE.
01:27:43 I'M SORRY, CHAIR I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HAVING US ALL
01:27:47 HERE. >> I WANT TO THANK MY
01:27:48 COLLEAGUES AND ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THE WORK THAT THEY ARE DOING
01:27:51 EVERY DAY. I JUST WANT TO ADD A FEW EXPERT
01:27:57 SORT OF OFF OFF SCRIPT COMMENTS BASED ON SOME OF THE QUESTIONS
01:28:02 THAT YOU'VE HAD IN COMMENTS. AND YOU KNOW, I THINK BEING
01:28:09 IN BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOR THE CITY
01:28:10 FOR THE LAST ALMOST EIGHT YEARS, YOU KNOW ONE OF OUR
01:28:14 BIGGEST CHALLENGES IS IS THAT WE HAVE IT'S A CHALLENGE
01:28:21 AND IT'S AND IT'S A BLESSING THAT WE HAVE NOT SUFFERED
01:28:24 GREATLY BY ANY MAJOR, MAJOR EVENTS.
01:28:28 WE'VE CERTAINLY ALL EXPERIENCED A GLOBAL PANDEMIC TOGETHER
01:28:32 WHICH WAS MAJOR MAJOR. BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT WE'RE
01:28:34 WAITING FOR THE EARTHQUAKE, OUR HEAT, THE LAST REAL REAL
01:28:40 SIGNIFICANT HEAT CRISIS WAS ALMOST A DECADE AGO, AS YOU
01:28:44 SAID. AND UNFORTUNATELY THE REALITY
01:28:45 WITH EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND MANAGEMENT IS THAT ALL
01:28:51 CITIES ARE DEALING WITH A LOT ALL THE TIME.
01:28:56 THERE ARE A LOT OF EMERGENCIES THAT ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR
01:28:59 FACE EVERY DAY. AND SO TO GET THE POLITICAL
01:29:01 WILL, THE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS AND STRATEGIES IN PLACE THAT WE
01:29:07 NEED TO DEAL WITH THE MANY EMERGENCIES THAT MAY HIT US IS
01:29:11 LIKE IMPOSSIBLE. >> SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
01:29:15 THAT WE DO THINGS LIKE THIS TODAY SO WE REMEMBER LOOKING AT
01:29:22 WHAT HAPPENS IN OTHER PLACES LIKE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT L.A.
01:29:26 AND SEATTLE AND YESTERDAY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT
01:29:27 HAPPENED IN EUROPE WHICH WAS REALLY SIGNIFICANT.
01:29:30 THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT DEATHS THAT HAPPENED DURING THAT THIS
01:29:33 LATEST HEAT WAVE ARE REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE CAN
01:29:40 COMPARE OURSELVES TO THAT AND LEARN.
01:29:41 BUT YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T FEEL IT UNTIL YOU FEEL IT AND THAT IS
01:29:47 THE CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE. >> SO I WILL JUST JUMP INTO
01:29:51 THESE SLIDES QUICKLY BECAUSE I KNOW WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR A LONG
01:29:55 TIME. >> YOU KNOW, WE COORDINATE A
01:29:58 EMERGENCY RESPONSE. >> WE RUN NINE ON ONE DISPATCH
01:30:02 . WE ACTIVATE THE EMERGENCY
01:30:03 OPERATIONS CENTER. WE ARE THE ONES THAT SEND
01:30:06 PUBLIC INFORMATION ALERTS AND ALSO LEAD IN MOST CASES
01:30:10 PUBLIC INFORMATION. WE'RE 24 SEVEN OPERATION
01:30:13 AND THE TEMPO OF OUR ACTIVATIONS HAVE DEFINITELY
01:30:18 RISEN. WE HAD 17 EOC ACTIVATIONS
01:30:26 IN 2017 AND THAT IS THE MOST IN ANY YEAR SINCE 2016 WE'VE
01:30:30 BEEN AVERAGING 14 A YEAR AND A LOT OF THIS IS DRIVEN BY
01:30:35 EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS TO UH SO YOU KNOW WE YOU KNOW I WOULD
01:30:47 SAY THAT WITH EVERY HEAT EVENT, EVERY YOU KNOW EVERY DEPARTMENT
01:30:54 HAS THEIR LANE BUT PRIMARILY IT'S REALLY AROUND PUBLIC
01:30:58 INFORMATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH IS KEY AND SO HACKER AS YOU'VE
01:31:02 SEEN HERE IS LIKE THE BLUE SKY DAY EVERY DAY THEY'RE WORKING
01:31:07 ON THAT TEAM IS PART OF THAT. BUT YOU KNOW THE RESPONSE IS
01:31:10 WHEN THE HEAT HITS. SO GOING INTO FORECAST TO
01:31:17 ACTIVATION, YOU KNOW WE ARE CONSTANTLY MONITORING NATIONAL
01:31:18 WEATHER SERVICE. >> THEY ARE OUR BEST FRIENDS.
01:31:22 THE HEAT TRIGGERS THAT YOU'LL SEE ARE SET BY PUBLIC HEALTH
01:31:26 AND THEY'RE INFORMED BY THE NATIONAL HEAT RISK SCALE AND WE
01:31:30 HAVE A CLEAR ESCALATION PATH. SO ONE THING IS THAT SINCE 2017
01:31:36 I THINK IT WAS MENTIONED THE CITY DIDN'T SEEM TOTALLY
01:31:40 PREPARED. >> WE WERE KIND OF BACK ON OUR
01:31:41 HEELS. THAT HAS DEFINITELY CHANGED I
01:31:43 WOULD SAY FROM AS FAR AS PROTOCOLS AND OUR READINESS
01:31:48 AND KNOWING WHAT WE DO AND HAVING A CLEAR SCRIPT FOR
01:31:51 THAT. >> IT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT
01:31:52 WE ARE IS THE STRONGEST FOR THE CITY.
01:31:55 WE HAVE PRE-SCRIPTED ALERTS, THEY ARE ALREADY TRANSLATED
01:32:02 AND WE MAKE SURE THAT WE GET INFORMATION OUT WE HAVE AFTER
01:32:06 ACTION REVIEW SO ANY TIME WE DO ACTIVATE FOR THE USE WE REVIEW,
01:32:10 WE SEE WHAT WORKED, WHAT DIDN'T AND OUR PLANS KEEP GETTING
01:32:14 BETTER AND THEN YOU KNOW THERE ARE OTHER THINGS AROUND THIS
01:32:18 THE WHILE SAN FRANCISCO DOESN'T GET AFFECTED DIRECTLY BY PUBLIC
01:32:22 SAFETY POWER SHUTOFFS OR EVEN OTHER TYPES OF, YOU KNOW,
01:32:30 WILDFIRES, THERE IS THE IMPACT FOR US TO BE IMPACTED BY POWER
01:32:35 OUTAGES DUE TO THE OVERALL GRID BECAUSE SAN FRANCISCO JUST
01:32:38 DOESN'T HAVE ITS OWN GRID. WE'RE ALL CONNECTED AND SO IT'S
01:32:42 IMPORTANT TO LEARN FROM THAT. ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE
01:32:46 THINGS I SAW WAS I CAN'T REMEMBER THE YEAR IT'S PROBABLY
01:32:49 IN HERE BUT WE HAD A FEW YEARS AGO THE STATE WAS IN A
01:32:56 STATEWIDE HEAT CRISIS AND THE GRID WAS REALLY ALMOST ABOUT TO
01:33:00 FAIL. >> THE GOVERNORS THE STATE PUT
01:33:04 OUT A WE HAVE A AN EMERGENCY ALERT ON EVERYONE'S PHONE
01:33:08 ASKING THEM TO TURN OFF THEIR LIGHTS.
01:33:12 DON'T USE YOUR AIR CONDITIONING.
01:33:15 >> AND IT WAS IT ACTUALLY WORKED THE ENTIRE YOU JUST SAW
01:33:19 THE GRID GO LIKE THIS SO IT JUST SHOWS THAT WE DO HAVE THE
01:33:20 ABILITY TO TO EFFECT CHANGE AND QUITE FRANKLY I WAS
01:33:23 SURPRISED IT WORKED PLEASANTLY SURPRISED.
01:33:30 SO EVERY EVERY HEAT EVENT HAS A DIFFERENT COMPONENT TO IT.
01:33:34 >> WE FORECAST WE HAVE OUR BENCHMARKS AND THEN WE ACTIVATE
01:33:40 AS NOTED, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC INFORMATION IS INCREDIBLY
01:33:44 IMPORTANT. >> IT'S PROBABLY OUR NUMBER ONE
01:33:45 TOOL THAT WE HAVE TO HELP PEOPLE AND TO PREVENT HARM WE
01:33:52 HAVE A BECAUSE OF OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH RCP AND PUBLIC
01:33:57 HEALTH, WE KNOW WHERE THESE HEAT ZONES ARE AND WE'RE ABLE
01:34:00 TO GET BOTH FOCUS OUR MITIGATION STRATEGIES LIKE THE
01:34:07 EXTREME WEATHER CLIMATE PROGRAM OR TO GET INFORMATION OUT
01:34:12 DURING AN EVENT SO WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS DURING HEAT.
01:34:18 WE KNOW PEOPLE DROWNED AT THE BEACH SO THAT'S AN IMPORTANT
01:34:22 MESSAGE. UNFORTUNATELY YOU HAVE CHILDREN
01:34:23 THAT FALL OUT OF WINDOWS THAT HAPPENS.
01:34:26 WE KIND OF KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AND SO WE'RE ABLE TO
01:34:30 PROACTIVELY PLAN FOR THAT AND RESPOND.
01:34:33 >> WE REBUILD OUR PUBLIC PREPAREDNESS SITES READY S.F.
01:34:38 LAST YEAR AND THAT HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL.
01:34:42 WE'VE GOTTEN THOUSANDS OF NEW ALERT S.F. SUBSCRIBERS FROM
01:34:46 THAT AND THEN FINALLY PROBABLY MOST IMPORTANTLY IS COMMUNITY
01:34:53 PREPAREDNESS BECAUSE AS HAS BEEN SAID, OUR VULNERABLE
01:34:57 COMMUNITIES ARE MORE VULNERABLE WHEN THIS HAPPENS.
01:35:01 >> WE DO WE'VE DONE TABLETOP EXERCISES WITH COMMUNITY BASED
01:35:05 ORGANIZATIONS. >> WE HAD A COMMUNITY BASED
01:35:09 CONFERENCE EARLIER THIS YEAR AND WE GO OUT TO COMMUNITY
01:35:13 EVENTS ALL THE TIME TO TRY TO GET INFORMATION OUT.
01:35:17 THE NUMBER ONE LESSON FOR US FROM COVID IS THAT COMMUNITY IS
01:35:24 THE KEY TO RESPONSE. YOU HAVE TO GIVE COMMUNITY
01:35:27 UPLIFT THEM TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE MESSAGING AND THE
01:35:31 SOLUTIONS THAT ARE GOING TO BE THAT DOES WORK FOR COMMUNITIES
01:35:33 WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO. YOU KNOW, I IN JUST TO CLOSE
01:35:39 SAN FRANCISCO WE ARE VERY WELL POSITIONED TO RESPOND TO A HEAT
01:35:44 EVENT. WE'RE CONSTANTLY IMPROVING OUR
01:35:47 OPERATIONAL COORDINATION. >> BUT THE FACT IS THAT IT IS
01:35:54 GOING TO GET WORSE AND WHY WE PLAN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE WE ARE
01:35:59 LIVING IT AND I THINK THAT IS THE THING THAT IS IMPORTANT TO
01:36:03 TIE WITH OUR MESSAGING WITH OUR PARTNERS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
01:36:07 ENVIRONMENT AND RCP AND FOR ALL OF OUR ELECTEDS
01:36:14 AND POLICYMAKERS WE ARE IN WE ARE IN THE CRISIS.
01:36:18 WE ARE IN THE EYE OF THE STORM. WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO
01:36:23 HAVE THESE EVENTS AND YOU KNOW IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE PREPARE
01:36:29 . WE HAVE OTHER I HAVE I'M VERY
01:36:33 CONNECTED WITH A LOT OF OTHER EMERGENCY MANAGERS THROUGHOUT
01:36:34 THIS COUNTRY. WE HAD STORMS THAT HAPPENED A
01:36:38 COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND MY COLLEAGUE IN TEXAS SENT ME HIS
01:36:41 PROTOCOLS. HE GOES I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU
01:36:44 CALL THAT BUT THAT'S WHAT WE CALL OUR HURRICANE.
01:36:45 HERE'S MY HURRICANE CHECKLIST. SO THOSE KIND OF THINGS WE'VE
01:36:49 HAD TORNADO WARNINGS. YOU KNOW, WE JUST HAVE TO BE
01:36:53 ADAPTABLE TO THESE THINGS THAT OCCUR.
01:36:56 >> I THINK ONE OF THE VERY FIRST THINGS THAT HAPPENED WHEN
01:37:00 MAYOR LAURIE MAYBE HE WAS MAYOR LAURIE ELECT WE HAD A
01:37:03 TORNADO WARNING AND I THINK HE TEXTED ME LIKE WHAT DO WE DO?
01:37:08 AND I KIND OF LOOKED AT JACQUI, DO WE HAVE MESSAGING FOR THIS
01:37:11 LIKE WE'VE NEVER DONE THAT. >> SO WE'RE IN A CONSTANT
01:37:14 PROCESS OF ITERATION LEARNING BUILDING OUR RESPONSE.
01:37:18 >> BUT THAT'S WHERE WE ARE AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY
01:37:22 QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR CAROL I
01:37:31 HAVE A COUPLE I JUST WANT TO CIRCLE BACK ON THE GRID
01:37:35 CONVERSATION BECAUSE I'VE HEARD DIFFERENT THINGS ABOUT THE
01:37:38 GRID. I GUESS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
01:37:40 CAN BE VERY BAD IN EXTREME WEATHER HEAT EVENTS IS YOU CAN
01:37:46 HAVE THE EXTREME HEAT EVENT AND THEN YOU CAN LOSE YOUR
01:37:50 ELECTRICITY AND THEN THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE AIR CONDITIONING LOSE
01:37:53 THAT AND THE WHOLE THING GETS WORSE UNLESS WHY DON'T WE LAYER
01:37:57 THAT WE'RE HAVING AN AIR QUALITY EVENT AT THE SAME TIME
01:38:00 BECAUSE THAT IS VERY, VERY LIKELY TO HAPPEN AND KIND OF
01:38:02 ARE THE WORST CASE SCENARIO FROM A PUBLIC HEALTH
01:38:05 PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE THE THE WHAT YOU SHOULD DO FOR HEALTH
01:38:08 OR FOR HEAT IS OPPOSITE WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO FOR AIR
01:38:15 QUALITY. THE ANSWER IS YOU YOU GO WITH
01:38:19 THE HEAT PROTOCOLS BECAUSE HEAT WILL KILL YOU BEFORE BAD AIR
01:38:23 DOES. >> BUT YES, ALL OF THOSE THINGS
01:38:24 CAN HAPPEN AT ONCE. >> OKAY.
01:38:29 AND AND I AND THE POINT THAT YOU WERE MAKING IS THAT SAN
01:38:31 FRANCISCO NOT HAVING ITS OWN GRID BUT BEING PART OF A LARGER
01:38:35 GRID IS LIKE IT IS NOT THAT WE WE DON'T HAVE A TON OF AIR
01:38:42 CONDITIONING IN THE CITY WHICH IS IN SOME WAYS SOME OF THE
01:38:45 PROBLEM THAT WOULD POTENTIALLY REDUCE THE RISK OF ALL OF THESE
01:38:52 THINGS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME EXCEPT THAT OUR
01:38:56 ELECTRICITY USE IS NOT JUST A SAN FRANCISCO THING.
01:38:57 >> IT'S A REGIONAL AND STATEWIDE THING.
01:39:00 AND SO IF THERE'S A HEAT EVENT GOING ON THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA
01:39:04 AND EVERYBODY IS TURNING ON THE AIR CONDITIONING AND OTHER
01:39:05 PLACES WE COULD STILL GO DOWN. YES.
01:39:08 YEAH. OKAY.
01:39:11 ON COOLING CENTERS I MEAN COOLING CENTERS ARE PROPOSED AS
01:39:15 KIND OF A SOLUTION OR A ONE RESPONSE.
01:39:18 BUT DO PEOPLE USE COOLING CENTERS?
01:39:22 >> NO. OKAY.
01:39:22 THAT'S WHY THEY REALLY AREN'T PART OF OUR PORTFOLIO.
01:39:26 OKAY. >> WE HAVE INSTEAD INVESTED
01:39:30 IN EXISTING COMMUNITY FACILITIES THAT PEOPLE GO TO
01:39:37 AND WANT TO GO TO. SO THAT'S COMMUNITY.
01:39:41 SENIOR CENTERS ARE HUGE COMMUNITY CENTERS WHERE
01:39:45 CHILDREN GO BECAUSE KIDS AND SENIORS ARE THE MOST
01:39:49 VULNERABLE OR SLEEPY. I'LL GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR
01:39:53 HELPING US AND THE LIBRARY AND COMPONENTS OF COOLING
01:39:58 AND AIR FILTERING TO THE LIGHT TO SOME OF THE LIBRARIES AS
01:40:02 THEY WERE GOING THROUGH THEIR RETROFIT WHICH IS AMAZING
01:40:05 BECAUSE THAT'S A PLACE PEOPLE WANT TO GO AND WE ALSO JUST YOU
01:40:09 KNOW, WE DO SEND PEOPLE TO WE HAVE HUGE LIST OF PUBLIC
01:40:13 ACCESSIBLE BUILDINGS LIKE MALLS AND OTHER PLACES THAT ARE WE
01:40:18 KNOW ARE AIR CONDITIONED. >> THIS IS TRUE KIND OF
01:40:21 THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. YOU'LL YOU'LL FIND MOST CITIES
01:40:25 KNOW THAT COOLING CENTERS GENERALLY ARE NOT REALLY USED
01:40:28 OFTEN. AND I THINK MY LAST QUESTION
01:40:36 FOR YOU IS JUST TALK TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE 2024
01:40:38 TABLETOP EXERCISE. >> SOUNDS LIKE THAT WAS
01:40:41 PRODUCTIVE POSITIVE. YEAH.
01:40:44 >> I MEAN I MEAN ANYTHING WE HAVE A WE HAVE A UNIT WITHIN
01:40:47 OUR EMERGENCY SERVICES A TEAM THAT IS DEDICATED TO COMMUNITY
01:40:52 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE AND REALLY I WE WE ALL SEE IT
01:40:55 AS A CONTINUATION AND NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT COVID.
01:41:00 BUT THE FACT IS WE IT HAS BEEN A GOAL OF MINE AND IN OUR
01:41:03 DEPARTMENT TO MAINTAIN THOSE RELATIONSHIPS THOSE CONNECTIONS
01:41:10 AND THE LEARNING WITH THE COMMUNITIES THAT REALLY WERE
01:41:14 CRITICAL TO THE RESPONSE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND WE WOULD NOT HAVE
01:41:19 HAD THE SUCCESS WE HAD WITHOUT THE COMMUNITIES ENGAGING AND SO
01:41:26 HOW MESSAGES GO OUT TO DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES NEEDS TO
01:41:31 BE DIFFERENT AND IT'S NOT JUST LANGUAGE.
01:41:34 THERE ARE CULTURAL, YOU KNOW, INDICATIONS THAT ARE IMPORTANT
01:41:38 AND SO THOSE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS THAT WE'RE CONSTANTLY
01:41:42 TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE CAN CONNECT AND THAT WE CAN
01:41:45 ACTIVATE AT THE TIME THAT IT HAPPENS.
01:41:48 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TONS OF ALERTING THAT YOU KNOW, THAT
01:41:50 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MANY TIMES BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE ARE
01:41:53 PEOPLE THAT NEED DIRECT OUTREACH AND SO WE'RE NOT ABLE
01:41:59 TO DO THAT TO THOSE FOLKS. BUT WHAT WE DO IS WE CONNECT TO
01:42:04 THE EXISTING NETWORKS THAT WE HAVE WHETHER THAT'S THROUGH
01:42:05 DOS, WHETHER THAT'S THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH, THE COMMUNITY
01:42:08 CENTERS, MEALS ON WHEELS, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
01:42:12 SO WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO REALLY UTILIZE THOSE NETWORK THOSE
01:42:16 EXIST EXISTING NETWORKS BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE LONGEST REACH
01:42:20 AND THEY ARE THEIR TRUSTED VOICES.
01:42:24 >> UM AND IS THAT I MEAN ARE YOU GOING TO BE DOING THAT KIND
01:42:28 OF AN EXERCISE ON SOME KIND OF REPEATED CADENCE OR YES.
01:42:32 >> AND LIKE I SAID, WE HAD A CONFERENCE THAT WAS REALLY WELL
01:42:35 ATTENDED A WHOLE DAY LONG CONFERENCE THAT WAS COMPLETELY
01:42:42 FOCUSED ON NONPROFITS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS.
01:42:44 THIS WAS LIKE TWO MONTHS AGO AND DID ALL KINDS OF WORKSHOPS
01:42:49 AND TRAININGS AND THAT KIND OF THING.
01:42:51 WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT WAS WHEN THAT WAS GRANT MONEY WHEN WE
01:42:57 USED TO GET GRANT MONEY FEDERAL GRANT MONEY.
01:43:00 SO YOU KNOW HOPING KNOCK ON WOOD THAT THAT ALL COMES
01:43:02 THROUGH AGAIN IT'S SOMETHING WE'D LIKE TO CONTINUE TO DO ON
01:43:04 AN ANNUAL BASIS AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF ONE MORE QUESTION.
01:43:11 SO OUR EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM RIGHT NEVER RELIES HAVE
01:43:15 BASICALLY IT'S TEXT MESSAGES, RIGHT?
01:43:16 >> IT'S TEXT MESSAGES. >> WE CAN ALSO DO REVERSE CALLS
01:43:22 . >> WE CAN ALSO CALL PEOPLE'S
01:43:23 PHONES THAT ARE LISTED. >> YES.
01:43:26 AND HOW CONFIDENT ARE WE THAT THAT WILL WORK THAT THAT DO WE
01:43:30 TESTED IN A HEAT EVENT OR ANY EVENT IN GENERAL YEAH HEAT
01:43:34 EVENT OR OTHERWISE. >> YEAH.
01:43:34 I MEAN WE FEEL VERY CONFIDENT BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH A LAYERED
01:43:41 SYSTEM AND EVEN WHAT I JUST DESCRIBED TO YOU, YOU KNOW
01:43:44 TAPPING INTO EXISTING NETWORKS THAT IS WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO
01:43:49 HAVE THOSE CONNECTIONS BECAUSE WE CAN DO THAT PRETTY
01:43:52 SEAMLESSLY AND VERY QUICKLY TO GET INFORMATION OUT.
01:43:56 >> TO ME THE WE YOU KNOW THAT THAT WE INCIDENT WHEN THEY WERE
01:44:01 ABLE TO EFFECTS SUCH CHANGE STATEWIDE WAS REALLY A GREAT
01:44:05 INDICATION THAT THAT SYSTEM IS VERY EFFECTIVE.
01:44:11 WE'VE SEEN IT DURING THE TSUNAMI EVENT UNFORTUNATELY I
01:44:16 MEAN FOR BETTER OR WORSE THAT ONE OF OUR TSUNAMI EVENTS WENT
01:44:20 SORT OF REGION WIDE WHICH CAUSED SOME CONFUSION BUT THAT
01:44:26 WAS SOMETHING THAT THE THE STATE OR THE FEDS SET OUT NOT
01:44:30 US BUT THE FACT IS WE CAN GET INFORMATION OUT REALLY QUICKLY
01:44:35 AGAIN FOR BETTER OR WORSE, WE ALL HAVE THESE THINGS NOW.
01:44:38 THEY'RE HONEST A LOT OF THE TIME AND SO FOR NOT EVERYONE
01:44:46 BUT THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT INFORMATION CAN GET OUT QUICKLY
01:44:49 . SO IT'S REALLY THE REDUNDANCY
01:44:50 IN THE LAYERED APPROACH TO NOTIFICATION THAT WE HAVE.
01:44:54 WE DON'T DEPEND ON ANY ONE THING AND WE TEST THOSE THINGS
01:44:58 ALL THE TIME. >> IT STRIKES ME THOUGH THAT
01:44:59 THE GROUP LEAST LIKELY TO BE REACHED BY THAT KIND OF AN
01:45:02 ALERT SYSTEM IS PROBABLY ELDERLY.
01:45:05 >> YES. YOU KNOW, YES, MONOLINGUAL YES.
01:45:10 >> ELDERLY LIKE I MEAN I ASSUME WE SEND OUT MESSAGES
01:45:11 IN MULTIPLE AND THAT IS WHY WE WE DO NOT THAT'S WHY I SAY WE
01:45:16 DON'T DEPEND ON ANY ONE THING AND WE REALLY DO DEPEND ON OUR
01:45:18 COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT ARE MOST CONNECTED WITH THOSE
01:45:21 INDIVIDUALS SO THAT WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION TO THEM
01:45:26 QUICKLY AND ALSO THAT WE HAVE A WE HAVE A WELLNESS CHECK
01:45:30 CAPABILITY FOR PEOPLE TOO BECAUSE FOR EXTENDED HITS
01:45:36 EVENTS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO THAT ALSO.
01:45:40 >> RIGHT. THANK YOU DIRECTOR CARROLL FOR
01:45:41 YOUR PRESENTATION AND FOR YOUR WORK.
01:45:44 IT'S GOING TO I IT OCCURS TO ME THAT THE I THINK THE CIVIL
01:45:48 GRAND JURY YESTERDAY ISSUED A REPORT ABOUT OUR ALERT S.F.
01:45:54 OUTDOOR WARNING SYSTEM. I PRESUMABLY IF WHEN IF
01:45:57 AND WHEN WE GET THAT BACK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR THIS KIND
01:46:01 OF OUTREACH. >> I WOULD NOT USE A OUTDOOR
01:46:06 WARNING SYSTEM FOR THIS KIND OF OUTREACH UNLESS IT WOULD IT
01:46:14 WOULD DEPEND I MEAN OUTDOOR WARNING SYSTEMS ARE GOOD
01:46:20 REDUNDANCY AND I'VE ALWAYS SAID IF IF WE WERE IF WE HAD THE
01:46:25 FUNDING AND THE POLITICAL WILL TO GET THAT DONE, I THINK IT
01:46:29 WOULD BE A GOOD REDUNDANCY. REMEMBER WE'VE ACTUALLY REALLY
01:46:32 NEVER USED THEM SINCE THEY WERE BUILT IN THE 1950S SO THERE
01:46:35 ISN'T REALLY A TRUE KIND OF USE CASE AND WHATEVER IT WHENEVER
01:46:43 WE USE THEM WE HAVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH THE SAME KIND OF
01:46:46 NOTIFICATIONS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE A SIREN
01:46:50 JUST TELLS YOU SOMETHING IS GOING ON AND YOU ALSO RISK A
01:46:54 LOT OF PANIC IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN IMMEDIATE WAY TO KIND OF
01:46:56 NOTIFY PEOPLE WHY YOU'RE SCREAMING AT THEM RIGHT.
01:47:02 SO AGAIN, I I DO NOT SEE IT AS A NUMBER ONE PRIORITY FROM AN
01:47:06 ALERTING PERSPECTIVE. I THINK IT IS A GOOD REDUNDANCY
01:47:10 IF WE'RE ABLE TO GET IT. BUT I DO HAVE A LOT OF FAITH
01:47:14 IN OUR EXISTING IN OUR EXISTING PROTOCOLS AND AND REDUNDANT
01:47:18 PLANS THAT WE HAVE NOW FOR REACHING PEOPLE.
01:47:21 >> OKAY. HOW MUCH WOULD THAT SYSTEM
01:47:24 COST? >> IT'S FUNNY I WAS JUST
01:47:28 REVIEWING THIS THIS MORNING WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THE
01:47:29 DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY. SO THESE ARE A COUPLE OF YEARS
01:47:35 OLD NOW, MAYBE A YEAR AND A HALF BUT TO DO THE WHOLE SYSTEM
01:47:40 AT THAT TIME WAS $20 MILLION. >> THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE
01:47:46 PROBABLY ABOUT $3 MILLION ANNUALLY FOR MAINTENANCE
01:47:51 AND OPERATIONAL NEEDS. >> IF WE WERE THAT'S FOR THE
01:47:54 WHOLE SYSTEM. >> IT'S AN AMAZING HEAT PUMP
01:47:57 BUDGET. I WOULD PROBABLY ADD I WOULD
01:47:59 PROBABLY ADD ANOTHER TEN TO AT THIS POINT.
01:48:02 YES. AND THAT IS THAT IS THE ISSUE.
01:48:06 THAT IS WHY I AM NOT HERE SAYING DO SIRENS NUMBER ONE
01:48:09 BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER
01:48:13 PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE THAT I THINK WILL PROVIDE MORE HELP,
01:48:16 MORE SAFETY FOR US AS A CITY THAN THAN THOSE.
01:48:23 >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR CARROLL.
01:48:27 >> THANK YOU. AND NOW WE HAVE TWO MORE
01:48:28 SPEAKERS JACKIE BRYANT FROM RESILIENT BAYVIEW STAFF.
01:48:38 GOOD MORNING SUPERVISORS. FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO
01:48:43 THANK YOU PRESIDENT MANDELL MIN FOR REACHING OUT TO OUR OFFICES
01:48:45 AND BRINGING THIS IMPORTANT ITEM TO THE BOARD.
01:48:49 MY NAME IS JACKIE BRYANT. I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
01:48:51 THE PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE. I'M JOINED BY CURT GRIMES.
01:48:53 HE'S MY MY SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER AT EPRI AND HE'S ALSO A
01:48:58 BAYVIEW RESIDENT AS ARE MANY OF MY STAFF MEMBERS AND IN
01:49:05 ADDITION I SERVED ON THE BUILDING OPERATIONS TASK FORCE
01:49:09 WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT RECENTLY AND WHAT
01:49:12 WE HAVE DONE IS WORKED IN A COLLABORATIVE OF ORGANIZATIONS
01:49:20 WITH THE COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER WHICH IS A PRIMARILY
01:49:24 CHINESE-AMERICAN SERVING ORGANIZATION THE BABY SENIOR
01:49:28 CENTER WHICH ALSO ESTABLISHED RESILIENT ALICE GRIFFITHS.
01:49:32 SO NOT ONLY SERVING OUR SENIOR COMMUNITY BUT ALSO SERVING
01:49:35 RESIDENTS IN A VERY LOW INCOME HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND WE'RE
01:49:39 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BAYVIEW YMCA WHICH SERVES AS ONE OF THE
01:49:44 COOLING CENTERS IN BAYVIEW. IT'S ALSO WE ALSO WORK WITHIN A
01:49:47 HUGE NETWORK OF SERVICE PROVIDERS.
01:49:51 SO YOU GUYS HAVE HEARD MANY, MANY TIMES ABOUT HOW CBOS ARE
01:49:54 ACTUALLY THE ONES THAT INTERFACE WITH RESIDENTS DAILY
01:49:58 AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO WORK IN A NETWORK OF FOLKS THAT ARE
01:50:06 WORKING WITH RESIDENTS EVERY DAY BECAUSE WE ARE ABLE TO
01:50:09 TAILOR OUR MESSAGING AND CONNECT WITH PEOPLE
01:50:13 IN NEEDS EVERY DAY NOT JUST WHEN AN EMERGENCY HAPPENS BUT
01:50:17 WHAT RESILIENT BAYVIEW IS. IT'S A COMMUNITY LED INITIATIVE
01:50:21 FOCUSED ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND CLIMATE
01:50:25 ADAPTATION AS WELL AS COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT.
01:50:28 >> AND WE OPERATE THROUGH WORKING GROUPS SO SENIORS,
01:50:31 FAMILIES, LOCAL BUSINESSES WHAT WE DO IS CREATE NEIGHBORHOOD
01:50:36 ACTION PLANS FOR EMERGENCIES INCLUDING EXTREME HEAT,
01:50:40 EARTHQUAKES, SEA LEVEL RISE AND WE WERE RESPONDING TO COVID
01:50:44 WHEN WE WERE NOT EXPECTING A PANDEMIC RIGHT.
01:50:50 >> AND WE'VE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH HACKER AND THE
01:50:51 CITY'S EFFORTS TO RESEARCH AND STUDY MUCH OF THE DATA
01:50:55 THAT'S HELPING INFORM OUR COMMUNITIES AND IDENTIFY THE
01:50:58 NEEDS WE HAVE DURING EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS.
01:51:02 SO I REALLY DO APPLAUD THE WORK THAT MATT HAS DONE THAT ALEX IS
01:51:07 DOING IN CONNECTING WITH ORGANIZATIONS LIKE OURS.
01:51:13 A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE TO RECEIVE A
01:51:17 THREE YEAR GRANT FROM THE HAAS FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY
01:51:20 RESILIENCE AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT FUNDING ENDS THIS YEAR
01:51:24 AND AS YOU GUYS HAVE HEARD MANY, MANY TIMES OUTREACH IS
01:51:28 ESSENTIAL. YOU GUYS EVEN HEARD IN THIS
01:51:31 HEARING THIS MORNING THAT WE HAVE TO MEET RESIDENTS WHERE
01:51:36 THEY ARE. I'VE HEARD THAT MANY TIMES
01:51:37 TODAY AND SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS IN BRINGING COMMUNITY TOGETHER
01:51:43 WE'VE ALSO CREATED INITIATIVES FOR PEOPLE TO GET INVOLVED.
01:51:48 SOMETHING AS SIMPLE IS PASSING OUT EMERGENCY FIRST AID KITS
01:51:51 MAKES A HUGE IMPACT ON THE FOLKS THAT ARE MORE AWARE
01:51:55 GETTING MORE INVOLVED ON A DAILY BASIS.
01:52:00 ONE OF THE INITIAL THINGS THAT WE DID WHEN ALERT S.F. WAS
01:52:03 LAUNCHED WAS WE NOTICED THAT DISTRICT TEN HAD A VERY LOW
01:52:06 PARTICIPATION RATE. SO ONE OF OUR FIRST INITIATIVES
01:52:10 WAS TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION, INCREASE SIGN UPS AND I THINK
01:52:14 THAT'S WHY YOU SEE SOME OF THE RESPONSES THAT YOU SEE TODAY
01:52:15 WHEN THERE'S A TRAFFIC THING OR YOU KNOW, A WEATHER RELATED
01:52:20 ISSUE THAT COMES UP. PEOPLE ARE JUST MORE AWARE.
01:52:24 WE'VE HOSTED SUMMITS IN BAYVIEW AT THE SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY
01:52:29 CENTER WHERE OUR DISTRICT TEN SUPERVISE THERE SHERMAN WALTON
01:52:32 HAS SUPPORTED EVERY YEAR AND THAT EVENT REALLY BRINGS
01:52:35 TOGETHER THE DEPARTMENTS AND RESOURCES TO COMMUNITY TO
01:52:40 INCREASE AWARENESS AND INSPIRE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP.
01:52:44 IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP THIS ISSUE TOP OF MIND WITH FREQUENT
01:52:48 OPPORTUNITIES WE REMIND RESIDENTS TO GET AND STAY
01:52:51 PREPARED AND ONE OF OUR OTHER INITIATIVES WE HAVE LAUNCHED
01:52:59 WAS OUR RESILIENT YOUTH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AND THOSE
01:53:03 YOUNG PEOPLE ACTUALLY PREPARE MESSAGING CAMPAIGNS.
01:53:07 >> FOR EXAMPLE THE POSTERS IN THE BUS SHELTERS THEY HAVE
01:53:11 CREATED YOU KNOW, THEIR OWN IMAGES WITH MESSAGES ABOUT
01:53:18 TACKLING CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE
01:53:22 CHANGE AND THEN THEY ALSO GO AHEAD AND POST THAT ON SOCIAL
01:53:24 MEDIA JUST TO INCREASE AWARENESS AND GET EVEN THE
01:53:27 YOUNGER GENERATION INVOLVED. BUT A LOT OF WHAT WE DO IS ALSO
01:53:32 PROJECT BASED LEARNING SO I WAS JUST HERE LAST WEEK TALKING
01:53:35 ABOUT THE INDIA BASIN WATERFRONT PARK PROJECT
01:53:38 AND THAT LOCATION IS ONE IN WHICH YOU KNOW WE CAN USE AS
01:53:42 AN EXAMPLE AND REALLY CONNECT CONCEPTS TO LEARNING FOR FOLKS
01:53:46 THAT ARE OUT THERE ON THE SHORELINE THEY CAN SEE WATER
01:53:51 INUNDATION AND POTENTIALLY BIG INVASION.
01:53:54 WHAT HAPPENS AS WE CONTINUE TO ADDRESS CLIMATE ADAPTATION
01:54:01 AND NOT TOO LONG AGO WE WERE PLEASED TO HEAR THAT THERE WAS
01:54:05 A POTENTIAL AWARD FOR A SAN FRANCISCO CLIMATE ACADEMY
01:54:09 THROUGH IWD AND OUR PARTNERS LIKE BRIGHTLINE DEFENSE AS WELL
01:54:13 AS EPRI PROPOSED ON THOSE FUNDING SOURCES.
01:54:16 >> BUT WE WERE ALSO DISAPPOINTED TO FIND OUT THAT
01:54:20 NO ONE OF THOSE PROPOSED PROGRAMS WERE AWARDED.
01:54:24 >> SO EVEN JUST PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION OF WORKFORCE TO
01:54:28 TALK ABOUT AND BE MORE AWARE AND TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE OUR
01:54:32 CITY IS SORT OF STRUGGLING TO FIND RESOURCES TO DO THAT.
01:54:39 >> WE'VE CONTINUED TO PROPOSE ON FUNDING RESOURCES THAT ARE
01:54:44 AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW THERE ARE STATEWIDE RESOURCES BUT SOME OF
01:54:45 THE CHALLENGES WE FACE IS EVEN PARTNERING WITH THE CITY
01:54:48 IDENTIFYING THE RIGHT PERSON AT DPW THAT WILL GIVE US THE OKAY
01:54:52 TO WORK WITH DPW TO IMPLEMENT MORE TREES OR YOU KNOW,
01:54:58 CONTINUE WITH A LOT OF THE RESILIENCE NETWORK THING THAT
01:55:03 WE'VE DONE. YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD IT'S HARD
01:55:06 TO KIND OF COLD CALL DPW AND FIND THE RIGHT PERSON THAT
01:55:07 WILL SAY YES THAT MAKES SENSE. LET'S LEVERAGE THESE RESOURCES
01:55:11 TOGETHER. IT'S MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN
01:55:14 EVER FOR OUR CITY TO REALLY FOCUS AND INVEST IN CLIMATE
01:55:18 ADAPTATION BETTER MEASURES AND PROTECT THE MOST VULNERABLE
01:55:25 . SO PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU
01:55:26 AGAIN FOR RAISING THIS ISSUE, BRINGING IT TO THE BOARD.
01:55:30 THANK YOU GUYS FOR ENTERTAINING OUR FEEDBACK ON WHERE WE ARE
01:55:34 IN THE CITY AND UNDERSTANDING THAT WE STILL FACE CHALLENGES
01:55:38 AS CLIMATE ADAPTATION GETS HARDER AND HARDER.
01:55:42 AND SO IT'S JUST IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE RESOURCING
01:55:46 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ALREADY DOING THE WORK NOW
01:55:49 SO THAT WE WILL BE PREPARED AND WE'RE NOT JUST RESPONDING
01:55:53 ENDING TO CRISIS IN EMERGENCIES.
01:55:54 >> SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU.
01:55:57 MR. BRYANT THANK YOU, MR. GRIMES.
01:56:03 AND NEXT WE WILL HEAR FROM WINNIE U FROM SELF-HELP FOR THE
01:56:06 ELDERLY. >> GOOD MORNING, PRESIDENT
01:56:14 GENTLEMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
01:56:15 >> MY NAME IS WINNIE. YOU AND I SERVE AS THE CHIEF
01:56:19 PROGRAMS OFFICER AT SOUTH FOR FOR THE ELDERLY.
01:56:23 >> THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY
01:56:24 ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO'S READINESS FOR EXTREME HEAT AND ITS IMPACT
01:56:27 ON THE OLDER ADULTS THAT WE SERVE.
01:56:30 SULFUR FOR THE ELDERLY SERVES MORE THAN 55,000 OLDER ADULTS
01:56:34 ANNUALLY ACROSS THE BAY AREA, INCLUDING MANY LOW INCOME
01:56:37 HOMEBOUND LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENT AND SOCIALLY
01:56:41 ISOLATED OLDER ADULTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
01:56:45 >> I LIKE TO SHARE TWO LIVED EXPERIENCES FROM OUR WORK EVERY
01:56:50 DAY THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF THE OLDER ADULTS WE SERVE
01:56:53 AND SUFFER FOR THE ELDERLY IS EXPERIENCE AS A TRUSTED
01:56:57 COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION SERVING THEM.
01:56:58 >> I'LL BEGIN WITH THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF OLDER ADULTS.
01:57:02 FOR MANY OF THE SENIORS WE SERVE PREPARING FOR EXTREME
01:57:06 HEAT IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS STAYING COOL OR GOING TO A
01:57:10 COOLING CENTER IN THE COMMUNITY.
01:57:13 SOME OLDER ADULTS DON'T FEEL THIRSTY OR MAY SIMPLY FORGET TO
01:57:20 DRINK ENOUGH WATER INCREASING THEIR RISK OF DEHYDRATION
01:57:23 DURING EXTREME HEAT. MANY LIVE ALONE HAVE CHRONIC
01:57:25 HEALTH CONDITIONS, MOBILITY LIMITATIONS OR DEPEND ON
01:57:29 CAREGIVERS. OTHERS ARE EXPERIENCING
01:57:32 HOMELESSNESS OR HOUSING INSTABILITY.
01:57:35 MANY ARE RENTERS LIVING IN OLDER APARTMENTS OR SINGLE
01:57:36 ROOM OCCUPANCY HOUSING WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING ELEVATORS OR
01:57:40 PRIVATE KITCHENS AND BATHROOMS. THESE HOUSING CONDITIONS MAKE
01:57:43 IT MUCH HARDER TO STAY HYDRATED, PREPARE COLD MEALS OR
01:57:48 COOL DOWN DURING EXTREME HEAT. >> AS RENTERS, MANY ALSO CANNOT
01:57:52 INSTALL AIR CONDITIONING OR MAKE OTHER HOME MODIFICATIONS
01:57:56 EVEN IF THEY WANT IT TO. >> SOME TIMES EVEN WHEN COOLING
01:58:02 CENTERS ARE AVAILABLE TRANSPORTATION, LANGUAGE
01:58:04 BARRIERS, MOBILITY LIMITATIONS ,PHONES AND SOCIAL ISOLATION
01:58:08 CAN PREVENT OLDER ADULTS FROM ACCESSING THEM.
01:58:11 >> FOR MANY HOMEBOUND OLDER ADULTS SHELTERING IN PLACE MAY
01:58:14 BE THEIR ONLY OPTION. MAKING PROACTIVE WELLNESS
01:58:18 CHECKS, MULTI-LINGUAL COMMUNICATION AND NEIGHBORHOOD
01:58:19 BASED SUPPORT ESSENTIAL. >> I ALSO LIKE TO SHARE A
01:58:24 SELF-HELP EXPERIENCE AS A COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION.
01:58:27 WE APPRECIATE THE CITY'S INVESTMENTS THROUGH THE HEAT
01:58:32 AND AIR QUALITY RESISTANCE PLAN INCLUDING PORTABLE AIR
01:58:35 CONDITIONING UNITS, AIR FILTRATION EQUIPMENT,
01:58:36 WEATHERIZATION STRATEGIES AND RENTERS GUIDANCE TO SHELTER
01:58:43 IN PLACE. >> THESE ARE REALLY IMPORTANT
01:58:44 INVESTMENTS. THE NEXT CHALLENGE AS MENTIONED
01:58:47 IS IMPLEMENTATION. >> MANY LOW INCOME OLDER ADULTS
01:58:51 CANNOT AFFORD COOLING EQUIPMENT OR HIGHER UTILITY COSTS.
01:58:55 >> LIKEWISE, MANY NONPROFIT PROVIDERS OPERATE AND LEASE
01:58:59 FACILITIES OR CITY OWNED BUILDINGS WHERE WE DO NOT HAVE
01:59:00 THE AUTHORITY OR FUNDING TO MAKE THE ELECTRICAL FACILITY
01:59:04 IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED TO UTILIZE THIS EQUIPMENT FULLY.
01:59:07 FOR EXAMPLE, SEVERAL OF SUFFER FOR THE ELDERS CONGREGATE MEAL
01:59:12 PROGRAMS OPERATE IN SAN FRANCISCO REC AND PARK
01:59:15 FACILITIES. MAKING CONTINUED COORDINATION
01:59:16 ACROSS DEPARTMENTS ARE ESSENTIAL.
01:59:20 >> ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S GREATEST STRENGTHS IS THAT WE
01:59:23 HAVE ALREADY DEMONSTRATED WHAT SUCCESSFUL COORDINATION LOOKS
01:59:25 LIKE. DURING COVID 19 PANDEMIC THE
01:59:27 DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, THE DEPARTMENT
01:59:31 DISABILITY AND AGING SERVICES DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH,
01:59:34 COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS, HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
01:59:35 AND VOLUNTEERS WORKED TOGETHER TO PROTECT VULNERABLE OLDER
01:59:39 ADULTS. IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF
01:59:42 THE PANDEMIC, THE DEPARTMENT DISABILITY AND AGING SERVICES
01:59:45 FOUND ITSELF TO DELIVER 300,000 HOME DELIVERED MEALS WITH
01:59:49 WELLNESS CHECKS SUPPORTED BY 300 VOLUNTEER DRIVERS WHO MUST
01:59:53 MAKE SURE THAT HOMEBOUND OLDER ADULTS RECEIVE NUTRITIOUS MEALS
01:59:57 WHILE INSTRUCTS AND A TRUSTED CONNECTION DURING A TIME OF
02:00:02 ISOLATION. >> WE ALSO LEVERAGED INNOVATIVE
02:00:05 CHAMP'S RESTAURANT BASED MEAL PROGRAM TO PROVIDE TAKEOUT
02:00:08 MEALS FOR MOBILE OLDER ADULTS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS.
02:00:12 >> THAT DEMONSTRATES A PROVEN MODEL FOR ADAPTING EXISTING
02:00:13 COMMUNITY RESOURCES DURING EMERGENCIES.
02:00:16 WE ALSO SHARED CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY APPROPRIATE
02:00:20 PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
02:00:23 THROUGH ETHNIC MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.
02:00:24 WORKING WITH THE ALL-AMERICAN MEDICAL GROUP VOLUNTEER
02:00:28 PHYSICIANS AND OUR SOCIAL WORKERS TRANSLATING VOLUNTEER
02:00:32 DRIVERS WE HELP VACCINATE HOMEBOUND OLDER ADULTS FROM THE
02:00:36 CITY'S WAITING LISTS INCLUDING 103 YEAR OLD RESIDENT
02:00:38 AND SUPPORT AT MORE THAN 40 VACCINATION EVENTS THROUGHOUT
02:00:42 THE CITY. THAT EXPERIENCE DEMONSTRATED
02:00:45 THE VALUE OF COORDINATOR COORDINATED PLANNING TO FIND
02:00:49 ROLES AND TRUSTED COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS RESOURCES SUCH AS
02:00:53 MULTILINGUAL ALERT NOTIFICATIONS CAN QUICKLY
02:00:57 DELIVER URGENT INFORMATION WHILE COMMUNITY BASED
02:00:58 ORGANIZATIONS REINFORCE THOSE MESSAGES THROUGH TRUSTED
02:01:01 PLATFORMS AND ALSO MEAL DELIVERIES, WELLNESS CHECKS
02:01:05 DIRECT OUTREACH TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS WHO MAY NOT
02:01:09 UNDERSTAND OR OTHERWISE RECEIVE EMERGENCY ALERTS.
02:01:13 >> WE ALSO APPRECIATED PARTICIPATING IN THE COMMUNITY
02:01:17 PLANNING PROCESS FOR THE FUTURE DESIGN AND USES OF PORTSMOUTH'S
02:01:21 SQUARE PARK AND LOOK FORWARD TO IT SERVING NOT ONLY AS A
02:01:24 VIBRANT GATHERING PLACE FOR THE COMMUNITY BUT ALSO AS A COOLING
02:01:28 CENTER FOR CHINATOWN. >> BY 2030 NEARLY 30% OF SAN
02:01:35 FRANCISCO RESIDENTS WILL BE AGE 60 OR OLDER WITH ADULTS AGE 80
02:01:38 AND OLDER REPRESENTING THE FASTEST GROWING AGE GROUP.
02:01:42 AS OUR CITY RESIDENTS CONTINUE TO AGE, STRENGTHENING
02:01:46 PARTNERSHIPS BEFORE EMERGENCIES OCCUR MAY BE ONE OF THE BEST
02:01:49 INVESTMENTS WE CAN MAKE TO PREVENT TO PROTECT OUR MOST
02:01:53 VULNERABLE RESIDENTS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP
02:01:57 AND YOUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO SERVING SAN FRANCISCO'S
02:02:00 OLDER ADULTS. >> I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY
02:02:04 AND WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE.
02:02:05 >> THANK YOU. MISS YOU FOR YOUR FOR YOUR
02:02:09 PRESENTATION. MR..
02:02:12 MR. CHAIR, I THINK WE CAN GO TO PUBLIC.
02:02:16 >> GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. THANK YOU.
02:02:17 OKAY. SO NOW THAT THE PRESENTATION
02:02:20 PORTION OF OUR HEARING IS CONCLUDED I THINK MADAM CLERK
02:02:21 MAY WE INVITE A PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM?
02:02:24 >> YES. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD
02:02:26 LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS HEARING SHALL LINE THEM NOW ALONG THE
02:02:29 SIDE BY THE WINDOWS. ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO
02:02:31 MINUTES. >> FOR SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:02:44 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS SUSAN GREENE AND I'M
02:02:48 WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CLIMATE EMERGENCY COALITION.
02:02:50 THANK YOU BOARD PRESIDENT MANDELSON FOR CALLING THIS
02:02:53 HEARING AND SHINING A LIGHT ON THE RISK OF EXTREME HEAT.
02:02:56 >> FORTUNATELY WE HAVE GOOD PLANS.
02:03:00 AS OTHERS HAVE NOTED THIS MORNING.
02:03:01 WE KNOW WE NEED RAPID BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION ACTION TO BUILD
02:03:05 HEAT RESILIENCE AND TO REDUCE THE CARBON POLLUTION THAT'S
02:03:08 MAKING EXTREME HEAT MORE FREQUENT AND MORE DEADLY.
02:03:12 ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO THE CENTER FOR LAW ENERGY AND THE
02:03:16 ENVIRONMENT ESTIMATED WE WOULD NEED A HALF $1 BILLION TO MEET
02:03:19 OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION GOALS
02:03:23 TO SPUR PRIVATE BUILDING OWNERS TO ELECTRIFY AND TO MAKE CITY
02:03:26 INVESTMENTS IN PRIORITY COMMUNITIES.
02:03:27 >> SINCE THEN THE CITY HAS DONE NEXT TO NOTHING TO COMMIT ITS
02:03:32 OWN FUNDING IN THE WAYS THE CLEAR REPORT RECOMMENDED NO
02:03:36 CLIMATE BOND IN OUR BOND SCHEDULE NO CARVE OUTS FOR
02:03:39 BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION IN HOUSING OR OTHER BONDS.
02:03:42 NO NEW TAXES OR FEES AS OUR PEER CITIES HAVE CREATED VERY
02:03:46 LITTLE IN PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND JUST A FEW
02:03:50 MILLION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT ANNUAL BUDGET ANNUAL
02:03:53 CLIMATE ACTION BUDGET. BUT EVEN THAT HAS BEEN
02:03:58 SUBSTANTIALLY CUT SINCE 2023 IN TERMS OF INVESTMENT.
02:04:01 WE'VE BEEN MOVING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION WHILE HEAT RISK HAS
02:04:04 BEEN GROWING. >> GOING FORWARD WE NEED BOND
02:04:08 FUNDING FOR HEAT PUMPS IN LOW INCOME HOUSING, COMMUNITY
02:04:12 CENTERS AND OTHER BUILDINGS. WE NEED SIGNIFICANT STABLE
02:04:16 FUNDING STREAMS FOR LOW INCOME FOR EXCUSE ME FOR INCOME
02:04:20 QUALIFIED HEAT PUMP INCENTIVES AND DIRECT INSTALL PROGRAMS
02:04:23 LIKE THE CLIMATE EQUITY HUB. WE NEED THE PUBLIC BANK AND LOW
02:04:24 INTEREST LOAN PROGRAMS TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES AND MIDDLE
02:04:28 INCOME RESIDENTS FINANCE HEAT PUMPS.
02:04:31 WE NEED THE PUBLIC SAFETY LEADERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
02:04:34 WE'RE FACING A KIND OF HAIR ON FIRE LEVEL OF RISK FROM EXTREME
02:04:38 HEAT. AND WE NEED YOU TO DEMAND THAT
02:04:39 THE CITY COMMIT SUBSTANTIAL SUSTAINED FUNDING FOR CLIMATE
02:04:43 ACTION. >> THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR
02:04:46 YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:04:50 >> I'M ROBIN COOPER. I'M A PSYCHIATRIST WITH OVER 45
02:04:57 YEARS OF PRACTICE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND I'M ON THE
02:04:58 VOLUNTARY FACULTY AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY UCSF.
02:05:02 TODAY I REPRESENT SAN FRANCISCO PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL
02:05:06 RESPONSIBILITY. >> I'M AN ACTIVE MEMBER WITH
02:05:09 THAT GROUP. YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD THE CRIME.
02:05:13 CLIMATE CRISIS IS A HEALTH CRISIS.
02:05:14 THERE ARE ENORMOUS IMPACTS ON HEALTH AND IT'S CONSIDERED THE
02:05:18 SILENT KILLER. YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT MY FOCUS
02:05:25 TODAY ARE THE COMMENTS THAT I WILL BRING TO THIS DISCUSSION
02:05:30 ABOUT MY PARTICULAR EXPERTISE WHICH IS MENTAL HEALTH AND THE
02:05:33 BRAIN IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE .
02:05:37 >> I'M THE PRESIDENT OF A NATIONAL NONPROFIT CLIMATE
02:05:41 PSYCHIATRY ALLIANCE. >> CLIMATE CRISIS IS ALSO A
02:05:45 MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. EXTREME HEAT.
02:05:46 HEAT WAVES ARE SERIOUS IMPACTS ON OUR MENTAL HEALTH IN OUR
02:05:53 BRAINS CAUSING COGNITION, COGNITIVE CHANGES, DECISION
02:05:58 MAKING IMPAIRMENTS ESPECIALLY FOR THE ELDERLY, LEARNING
02:06:02 DIFFICULTIES ATTENTION DIFFICULTIES, RISK PERCEPTION
02:06:06 AND ACTION EMOTION AND MOOD DYSREGULATION SLEEP IMPAIRMENT
02:06:13 AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES. IN FACT EXTREME HEAT CAUSES
02:06:18 VIOLENCE AND AND SERIOUS VIOLENT CRIME BIG CONCERN FOR
02:06:25 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. >> IT ALSO CAUSES INCREASE
02:06:29 IN SUICIDE RATES. >> MANY OF THESE IMPACTS ARE
02:06:33 DRIVEN BY CHANGES TO THE BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING
02:06:37 NEUROLOGICALLY DAMAGE ITSELF. >> AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF AS
02:06:44 A PSYCHIATRIST I DID NOT MENTION THAT THE SEVERELY
02:06:49 MENTALLY ILL DIE AT THREE TIMES THE RATE.
02:06:52 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS .
02:06:55 >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HELLO MY NAME IS ASHLEY PACK
02:07:03 AND I'M WITH BRIGHTLINE DEFENSE, AN ENVIRONMENTAL
02:07:04 JUSTICE NONPROFIT. EXTREME HEAT IS THE DEADLIEST
02:07:08 WEATHER RELATED HAZARD IN THE COUNTRY.
02:07:10 IN 2017 THREE SAN FRANCISCANS DIED DURING EXTREME HEAT EVENT.
02:07:14 AND OUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM WAS OVERWHELMED.
02:07:18 WE KNOW THESE EVENTS ARE BECOMING MORE FREQUENT.
02:07:19 OUR RESIDENTS ARE STILL LIVING IN BUILDINGS THAT WEREN'T
02:07:23 DESIGNED FOR TODAY'S CLIMATE IN THE LEAST AIR CONDITIONED
02:07:26 METRO AREA IN THE COUNTRY PREPARING FOR EXTREME HEAT IS
02:07:30 ESSENTIAL. >> THROUGH SIX YEARS OF
02:07:31 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE TENDERLOIN AND SOMA BRIGHT
02:07:35 LINES CONSISTENTLY HEARD THE SAME CONCERNS FROM SRO TENANTS
02:07:38 WHO MAKE UP AROUND 18,000 S.F. RESIDENTS IN OVER 500
02:07:42 BUILDINGS. >> MOST SRO IS TRAP HEAT, LACK
02:07:45 VENTILATION AND LEAVE RESIDENTS WITH A DIFFICULT CHOICE KEEPING
02:07:49 THEIR WINDOWS CLOSED TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM POLLUTED AIR OR
02:07:52 OPENING THEM TO TRY TO STAY COOL.
02:07:54 TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THESE CONDITIONS, WE'RE LAUNCHING A
02:07:57 PILOT THAT COMBINES TENANT SURVEYS INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE
02:08:00 AND AIR QUALITY MONITORING AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
02:08:01 TRAINING. WE'LL SHARE THIS DATA WITH S.F.
02:08:05 TO HELP INFORM FUTURE PLANNING. >> THE CITY'S HACKER PROJECT IS
02:08:09 AN IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF HOW GOVERNMENT AND CBOS CAN WORK
02:08:13 TOGETHER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND NEIGHBORHOOD NEEDS AND BUILD
02:08:14 LONG TERM RESILIENCE. WE SEE THREE PRIORITIES FOR
02:08:17 S.F. MOVING FORWARD. COLLECT MORE NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL
02:08:21 DATA. >> SUSTAIN FUNDING FOR CBOS
02:08:22 DOING THIS WORK WHICH INCLUDES THE CONTINUATION OF PROJECTS
02:08:25 LIKE HACKER AND THE NECESSARY FUNDS AND STAFFING TO KEEP
02:08:29 MOMENTUM GOING. AND LASTLY CONTINUE LEVERAGING
02:08:33 STATE INVESTMENTS THAT PRIORITIZE COMMUNITIES FACING
02:08:34 THE GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL BURDENS.
02:08:37 >> WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE THE
02:08:38 TENDERLOIN, SOMA, CHINATOWN AND BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT ARE
02:08:41 ACCURATELY RECOGNIZED AS COMMUNITIES FACING
02:08:44 DISPROPORTIONATE CLIMATE RISKS. TO SUPPORT THE RESILIENCE
02:08:47 INVESTMENTS THAT THESE COMMUNITIES NEED.
02:08:49 THANK YOU, PRESIDENT MENDELSOHN FOR YOUR IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP
02:08:51 ON THIS ISSUE. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:08:56 NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR DORSEY
02:09:00 AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. MY NAME IS ALEXANDER CHEN
02:09:03 AND I'M A THIRD YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT AT UCSF WITH A STRONG
02:09:06 INTEREST IN NEUROLOGY PSYCHIATRY AND BRAIN HEALTH.
02:09:10 I WANT TO BRIEFLY OFFER A PERSPECTIVE ON WHY PREPAREDNESS
02:09:13 FOR EXTREME HEAT MATTERS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BRAIN
02:09:15 HEALTH. EARLIER THIS YEAR SAN
02:09:18 FRANCISCANS VOTED TO APPROVE OVERWHELMINGLY MEASURE EIGHT
02:09:23 AUTHORIZING $535 MILLION IN BONDS TO STRENGTHEN
02:09:24 EARTHQUAKE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.
02:09:27 THAT INVESTMENT REFLECTS AN IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE
02:09:30 IN PREPARING FOR FORESEEABLE DISASTERS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN.
02:09:32 I HOPE WE CAN BRING THAT SAME PREVENTIVE MINDSET TO
02:09:35 PROTECTING BRAIN HEALTH DURING DURING EXTREME HEAT EVENTS.
02:09:39 IN MEDICAL SCHOOL WE LEARNED THAT HEAT STROKE AND EXHAUSTION
02:09:42 ARE NEUROLOGIC EMERGENCIES THAT CAN CAUSE PERMANENT BRAIN
02:09:46 INJURY AND IMPAIRMENT SEIZURES, COMA AND DEATH.
02:09:50 EVEN WITH INTENSIVE MEDICAL CARE, SEVERE HEAT STROKE CAN
02:09:51 CARRY MORTALITY RATES UP TO 65% AND MANY SURVIVORS ARE LEFT
02:09:55 WITH LASTING NEUROLOGIC DISABILITY.
02:09:58 THESE RISKS ARE NOT MERELY THEORETICAL.
02:10:01 DURING CALIFORNIA'S RECORD BREAKING TEN DAY HEAT WAVE
02:10:04 IN SEPTEMBER OF 22, THE STATE EXPERIENCED AN ESTIMATED 385
02:10:07 EXCESS HEAT DEATHS. AND AS AS CHAIR DORSEY HAD
02:10:11 MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY DURING THE OH SIX CALIFORNIA HEAT WAVE,
02:10:15 RESEARCHERS ESTIMATED MORE THAN 650 EXCESS DEATHS.
02:10:18 EXTREME HEAT INDEED DISPROPORTION CERTAINLY AFFECTS
02:10:23 THE VERY PATIENTS NEUROLOGISTS CARE FOR MOST OFTEN.
02:10:24 FOR INSTANCE PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA WHO ARE AT PARTICULAR
02:10:27 RISK BECAUSE THEY MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY RECOGNIZING THE
02:10:31 SYMPTOMS OF HEAT ILLNESS AND THUS END AND SEEK HELP AS A
02:10:34 MEDICAL STUDENT WITH A STRONG INTEREST IN NEUROLOGY ARE
02:10:35 ENCOURAGED TO CITY TO THINK OF CLIMATE RESILIENCE NOT ONLY AS
02:10:39 PROTECTING BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE BUT ALSO AS
02:10:43 PROTECTING THE HUMAN BRAIN. EVERY CASE OF HEATSTROKE
02:10:44 PREVENTED IS A CASE OF BRAIN INJURY PREVENTED.
02:10:48 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.
02:10:51 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> WELL, HELLO EVERYBODY
02:10:55 AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
02:10:59 MY NAME IS MARK POLSKY AND I'M THE DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES FOR
02:11:01 TDC, WHICH IS THE CITY'S LARGEST AFFORDABLE HOUSING
02:11:03 PROVIDER. THE VERY VULNERABLE RESIDENTS
02:11:06 THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING ABOUT TODAY AND REFERENCING ARE THE
02:11:10 RESIDENTS THAT I CARE FOR SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, 365 DAYS A YEAR AS
02:11:16 DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES AT 38 YEARS IN THIS INDUSTRY OF
02:11:17 ENGINEERING, IN SYSTEMS OF MAINTAINING, OPERATING
02:11:22 AND INSTALLING THESE TYPES OF SYSTEMS THE VERY SYSTEMS THAT
02:11:25 ALLOW US TO SIT IN THIS ROOM TODAY FEELING COOL
02:11:26 AND COMFORTABLE. IT'S A LUXURY FOR SOME BUT NOT
02:11:29 FOR ALL. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THAT WE'VE
02:11:33 BEEN DISCUSSING HERE THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IS
02:11:37 FINANCES. WE'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT THE
02:11:38 COST OF HOW ARE WE GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THIS?
02:11:40 AND I'D LIKE TO FLIP THAT AROUND AND SAY WHAT IS THE COST
02:11:44 OF NOT DOING THIS IN MY BUSINESS?
02:11:47 PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE IS ALWAYS CHEAPER THAN REACTIVE
02:11:48 MAINTENANCE SO YOU ARE PAYING FOR THIS IN THE REACTIVITY WHEN
02:11:54 MATT AND I WAS ABLE TO WORK WITH MATT AND ALEX ON THE
02:11:56 HACKER COMMITTEE I WAS ALSO ABLE TO WORK WITH CINDY ON THE
02:11:59 SFE FOR THE BUILD UP FOR THE DECARBONIZATION EFFORTS.
02:12:03 THE COST OF NOT DOING IT, THE COST OF NOT INVESTING
02:12:06 IN PREVENTATIVE CARE OR PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE OR
02:12:08 ANYTHING PREVENTATIVE IS TWO, THREE, FOUR TIMES HIGHER IN A
02:12:11 REACTIVE COST. >> IF I DON'T REPLACE
02:12:15 AND MAINTAIN A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND AIR CONDITIONER
02:12:19 FOR $1,500 A YEAR $10,000 A YEAR, THE COST OF REPLACING
02:12:21 THAT IS 30, 40, 50 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
02:12:28 IN ONE OF OUR BUILDINGS AT 680 HOWARD I WAS ABLE TO WHEN I
02:12:31 FIRST STARTED WITH TNA DC IT WAS BROUGHT TO ME THAT IT WAS A
02:12:32 HEAT SINK BUILDING. THE TENANTS WERE SUFFERING
02:12:35 TERRIBLY. WINDOWS FROM THIRD FLOOR UP CAN
02:12:37 ONLY OPEN FOUR INCHES NO AIR CONDITIONING IN THE BUILDING
02:12:41 POOR VENTILATION. I WAS LOOKING AT BIDS FOR 234
02:12:45 MILLION DOLLARS TO INSTALL AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS WITH A BIT
02:12:49 OF CREATIVE ENGINEERING AND I WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE AIR
02:12:50 CONDITIONING TO EVERY RESIDENT FOR $50,000 WITH CREATIVE
02:12:54 PROBLEM SOLVING CREATIVE ENGINEERING.
02:12:58 >> WE CAN SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS AND THE COST OF HOMEOWNERS.
02:13:01 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NEXT SPEAKER GOOD AFTERNOON
02:13:08 PRESIDENT LINDEMANN AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
02:13:09 MY NAME IS TRACY FLORA FIGUEROA WITH THE SIERRA CLUB SAN
02:13:13 FRANCISCO BAY CHAPTER. I'M ALSO A RESIDENT OF SAN
02:13:17 FRANCISCO DISTRICT SIX. THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THIS
02:13:20 IMPORTANT HEARING AND FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON STRENGTHENING OUR
02:13:22 CITY'S CLIMATE RESILIENCE. EXTREME HE IS NO LONGER A
02:13:28 FUTURE THREAT. IT IS ALREADY AFFECTING OUR
02:13:29 COMMUNITIES. WHILE SAN FRANCISCO HAS
02:13:32 HISTORICALLY BEEN SPARED THE WORST IMPACTS, NEIGHBORHOODS
02:13:36 LIKE THE TENDERLOIN AND CHINATOWN ARE EXPERIENCING
02:13:40 THE CITY'S MOST SIGNIFICANT URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS
02:13:42 CLIMATE CHANGE IS INCREASING BOTH IN FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY
02:13:46 OF HEAT EVENTS PLACING OUR OLDER ADULTS, OUR CHILDREN
02:13:49 AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
02:13:52 AND COMMUNITIES WITHOUT ACCESS TO COOLING AT A GREATER GREATER
02:13:56 RISK AS THE CITY INVESTS IN CLIMATE RESILIENCE
02:14:00 INFRASTRUCTURE. AND I URGE YOU TO PRIORITIZE
02:14:04 BUILDING WEATHERIZATION AND THE TRANSITION TO EFFICIENT
02:14:08 ELECTRIC HEAT PUMPS. >> HEAT PUMPS PROVIDE BOTH
02:14:12 HEATING AND COOLING HELPING RESIDENTS STAY SAFE DURING
02:14:16 DANGEROUS HEAT WHILE ALSO LOWERING ENERGY COSTS,
02:14:19 IMPROVING AIR QUALITY, REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.
02:14:23 >> WEATHERIZED BUILDINGS ALSO KEEP HOMES COOLER DURING HEAT
02:14:27 WAVES AND ARE MORE COMFORTABLE ALL YEAR ROUND MAKING THEM THE
02:14:31 MOST EFFECTIVE RESILIENCE INVESTMENTS WE CAN MAKE CLIMATE
02:14:34 RESILIENCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH GO HAND IN HAND BY INVESTING
02:14:39 IN CLEAN RESILIENT TODAY SAN FRANCISCO CAN REDUCE HEAT
02:14:42 RELATED ILLNESSES, PROTECT THOSE VULNERABLE NEIGHBORS
02:14:46 AND PREPARE OUR COMMUNITIES FOR FOR CLIMATE CHALLENGES AHEAD.
02:14:49 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTINUE
02:14:54 INVESTING ON EQUITABLE COMMUNITY CENTERED CLIMATE
02:14:57 RESILIENT SOLUTIONS THAT PROTECT ALL OUR SAN
02:15:01 FRANCISCANS. >> THANK YOU.
02:15:02 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. >> WE HAVE.
02:15:06 DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTERS FOR THIS ITEM?
02:15:12 MR. CHAIR THAT COMPLETES PUBLIC COMMENT.
02:15:13 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK. PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS
02:15:17 NOW CLOSED. VICE CHAIR SARTOR I THANK YOU
02:15:20 CHAIR AND FIRST AND FOREMOST I WANT TO THANK PRESIDENT
02:15:23 MANDELSON FOR YOUR WORK TO ORGANIZE THIS HEARING.
02:15:24 I THINK YOU DID A REALLY NICE JOB OF BRINGING TOGETHER THE
02:15:27 DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE WORKING ON THIS AND IT WAS NICE TO HEAR OF
02:15:31 THE DETAILS OF YOUR WORK BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS
02:15:34 AND HEARING WHERE THIS IMPACTS OUR NEIGHBORS THE MOST.
02:15:38 >> I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO WITH THIS.
02:15:42 I LOOK FORWARD TO FINDING OUT MORE.
02:15:43 BUT I WILL SAY I HOPE WE TURN MORE ATTENTION TO INSIDE THE
02:15:46 BUILDINGS AND YOU KNOW, WE HEARD ABOUT THE THE RENTAL
02:15:51 STOCK. WE HEARD ABOUT THE AIR
02:15:55 CONDITIONING AND I THINK WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THE CONCEPT
02:15:59 OF REQUIRING LANDLORDS TO MAINTAIN A MINIMUM TEMPERATURE
02:16:03 IN THE WINTER. AND I'M HAPPY TO SEE THERE'S A
02:16:06 MOVEMENT WE HEARD ABOUT OTHER CITIES.
02:16:07 THERE'S A MOVEMENT TO DO THE SAME FOCUSED ON THE WARM
02:16:11 WEATHER AND A MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE AND THAT IS
02:16:14 SOMETHING I WOULD CERTAINLY SUPPORT AND LOVE TO WORK ON
02:16:17 WITH YOU. SO AGAIN THANK YOU FOR YOUR
02:16:18 LEADERSHIP ON THIS WORK AND I HOPE WE CONTINUE TO MAKE
02:16:22 PROGRESS. THANK YOU.
02:16:25 VICE CHAIR OF SUTTER PRESIDENT RANDLEMAN.
02:16:26 THANK YOU CHAIR DORSEY AND VICE CHAIR SAUDER FOR FOR MAKING
02:16:33 SPACE FOR THIS CONVERSATION TODAY AND FOR YOUR ENGAGEMENT
02:16:37 AND SUPERVISOR SAUDER FOR YOUR INTEREST IN POTENTIALLY
02:16:40 PURSUING LEGISLATION. I WANT TO I WANT TO HAVE A
02:16:45 LITTLE ONE LAST LITTLE BIT OF DIALOG WITH BRIAN STRONG COME
02:16:47 ON UPRIGHT STRONG. >> YOU ARE IN THE UNENVIABLE
02:16:59 POSITION, SIR, OF HAVING TO KIND OF OVERSEE THE CITY'S
02:17:07 CAPITAL PLANNING EFFORTS WHEN WE PLAY ONLY OUR
02:17:13 UNDER-INVESTING IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS IN A HOST
02:17:18 OF WAYS AS YOU KNOW. SUSAN GREENE TALKED ABOUT THE
02:17:29 2023 CLEAR REPORTS AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF A SCALE OF
02:17:34 NEED IN THE RANGE I THINK OF A HALF $1 BILLION JUST ON
02:17:41 BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION AND HAVING THE SUBSIDIES
02:17:44 AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT DOING THE WORK THE CITIZENS DO AND THEN
02:17:46 HAVING THE SUBSIDIES AVAILABLE FOR THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO
02:17:49 HAPPEN FOR LOWER INCOME FOLKS WHO MIGHT STRUGGLE WITH THAT.
02:17:52 >> YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN OVERCROWDED DID OVERSUBSCRIBED
02:17:57 BOND PROGRAM THAT DOES NOT KEEP UP WITH THE BASIC NEEDS OF OUR
02:18:02 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. >> OUR RESIDENTS ARE FRUSTRATED
02:18:09 WITH THE STATE OF OUR STREETS BUT IT GOES SO FAR BEYOND THAT
02:18:12 . ANYONE WHO RELIES ON MUNI KNOWS
02:18:16 THAT WE YOU KNOW, THEY MAY NOT KNOW WHY BUT THEY EXPERIENCE
02:18:21 THE DELAYS AND THEY'RE FRUSTRATED AND SOME CHUNK OF
02:18:25 THAT IS ABOUT UNDERINVESTMENT IN OUR TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE
02:18:29 AND NOT DOING THE I THINK IT WAS T&E CS SPEAKER WHO WHO
02:18:36 TALKED ABOUT LIKE THE BENEFITS OF INVENTING ON THE PREVENTION
02:18:39 SIDE AND THE MAINTENANCE SIDE RATHER THAN HAVING TO LIKE SO
02:18:41 SO AS A CITY WE JUST AND THIS IS NOT UNIQUE TO SAN FRANCISCO
02:18:45 I DON'T THINK BUT WE'RE BLOWING IT ON BUILDING FOR OUR FUTURE
02:18:51 AND INVESTING IN THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES OF OUR FUTURE
02:18:55 AND THIS BECOMES PARTICULARLY CRITICAL AND PROBLEMATIC WHEN
02:19:00 WE KNOW WE'RE FACING EMERGENCIES YOU KNOW, CRISIS
02:19:03 EVENTS LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE, A CLIMATE CRISIS THAT IS GOING TO
02:19:11 SOMETIMES COMBINE WITH THE EARTHQUAKE.
02:19:12 >> RIGHT. LIKE WHATEVER YOU KNOW, THE
02:19:15 THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO OUR SEAWALL AND TO OUR YOU KNOW,
02:19:18 WHEN THESE THINGS COMBINE WILL BE PRETTY AWFUL.
02:19:22 >> I DON'T KNOW. DO YOU IT'S YOU HAVE IT'S
02:19:26 TERRIBLE, SIR. >> IT'S TERRIBLE AND I KNOW
02:19:29 AND IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT. IT'S THE FAULT THE POLICYMAKERS
02:19:31 YOU'RE YOU'RE NOT A POLICYMAKER BUT DO YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ON OUR
02:19:34 SYSTEMATIC UNDERINVESTMENT IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS
02:19:38 AND ESPECIALLY OUR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS?
02:19:41 >> YEAH, I MEAN I THINK I MEAN WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT IF
02:19:45 YOU LOOK AROUND CALIFORNIA AND IF YOU SPECIALLY LOOK AT
02:19:47 OUR GEO BOND PROGRAM, WE'VE DONE SOME SOMEWHERE IN THE
02:19:50 NEIGHBORHOOD OF $7 BILLION WORTH OF BONDS IN THE PAST 20
02:19:52 YEARS. WE'RE ACTUALLY QUITE A BIT
02:19:56 FURTHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ANGELES OR ANY OF THESE OTHER
02:19:59 PLACES BUT BUT THAT IS HOW BIG THE PROBLEM IS AND THE BIG THE
02:20:03 GAP IS AND I THINK CERTAINLY WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE FEDERAL
02:20:07 LEVEL FOR A LONG TIME WE WERE SAYING OH, THE FEDERAL
02:20:08 GOVERNMENT'S GOING TO HAVE TO STEP UP AND THEY'VE ACTUALLY
02:20:11 OBVIOUSLY WITH THE RECENT ADMINISTRATION HAS GONE IN THE
02:20:14 OPPOSITE DIRECTION. RIGHT IN TERMS OF SUPPORT
02:20:15 AND NOW THERE'S EVEN MORE OF A REALIZATION THAT WE'RE GOING TO
02:20:18 HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES AND YOU CAN'T RELY ON ON THE
02:20:22 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, YOU KNOW, TO PROVIDE TO PROVIDE RESOURCES
02:20:26 AFTER A DISASTER AND CERTAINLY NOT BEFORE A DISASTER AS
02:20:30 DIRECTOR CARROLL WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BUILDING RESILIENCE
02:20:33 AND COMMUNITIES PROGRAM HAS BEEN SORT OF PUT ON HOLD THERE
02:20:37 RE MAYBE PUTTING IT PUT IT PUTTING IT BACK BUT THERE'S
02:20:40 THERE'S NOT ENOUGH RESOURCES THERE TO REALLY ADDRESS THE
02:20:44 PROBLEMS I THINK ARE WHAT WHAT MAKES ME SOMEWHAT OPTIMISTIC IS
02:20:48 THAT WE ARE BUILDING CAPACITY WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THESE
02:20:52 THINGS IN COMBINATION. SO A LOT OF THE HEAT RESILIENCE
02:20:56 WORK THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT TODAY AT OUR CLINICS IN SOME OF
02:20:59 THOSE PLACES IT AT THE LIBRARIES IT'S RELATED TO DOING
02:21:03 SEISMIC WORK RIGHT SO WHEN WE'RE DOING SEISMIC WORK UNLIKE
02:21:06 TEN YEARS AGO WHERE WE WERE NOT THINKING ABOUT HEAT NOW HE IS
02:21:10 IS SORT OF A CENTRAL PART OF IT AND THINKING ABOUT YOU KNOW,
02:21:13 GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS AS
02:21:15 WELL. I DO THINK WHEN WE PUT TOGETHER
02:21:18 SOME OF THESE LIKE THE TEN YEAR CAPITAL PLAN, WE WERE NOT YOU
02:21:24 KNOW, THAT WAS TAKEN WITH WITH SORT OF EVENTS THAT WERE
02:21:28 HAPPENING AT THE TIME. SO HEAT WAS NOT CONSIDERED
02:21:31 PUBLIC HOUSING. THE HOUSING CRISIS WAS NOT
02:21:32 CONSIDERED THERE. YOU KNOW, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU
02:21:38 ,MTA WAS SORT OF DOING ITS OWN THING.
02:21:39 SO ALL OF THESE HAVE BEEN FOLDED INTO THE CAPITAL PLAN
02:21:42 BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY ADDRESSED THE NEED TO TO ADD CAPACITY.
02:21:46 YEAH. SO I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE
02:21:50 THIS DISCUSSION. YOU'VE BEEN ON THE CAPITAL
02:21:51 PLANNING COMMITTEE NOW FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
02:21:54 WE SORT OF HAVE THIS DISCUSSION EVERY YEAR AND AND I THINK IT
02:21:58 YOU KNOW WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO AT SOME POINT REALLY THINK A
02:22:02 LITTLE BIT TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.
02:22:03 PART OF IT'S THINKING MORE LONG TERM TOO.
02:22:05 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT DOING TEN YEARS MAY NOT BE ENOUGH
02:22:09 TIME BUT THINKING OUT 20 TO 30 YEARS BECAUSE THAT'S HOW LONG
02:22:12 IT'S GOING TO TAKE TO REALLY GET AT THE BACKLOG SO THAT
02:22:15 WE'RE SO FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT T&E IS DOING.
02:22:19 SO WE CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY YEAH, WE'RE NOT LETTING THESE THINGS
02:22:22 LET AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME ADDRESSING SOME OF THE CLIMATE
02:22:25 THAT THE CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION YOU KNOW
02:22:29 MEASURES THAT THAT WE DISCUSSED TODAY AND THAT ARE PREVALENT
02:22:33 YOU KNOW WE COULD HAVE A SIMILAR HEARING TO TALK ABOUT
02:22:37 FLOODING AND SEA LEVEL RISE BECAUSE THOSE ARE TWO OTHER
02:22:41 THINGS THAT WE KNOW ARE COMING THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS.
02:22:45 SO. ALL RIGHT.
02:22:45 THANK THANK YOU, DIRECTOR STRONG YEAH, I MEAN THIS IS A
02:22:49 HUGE PROBLEM AS THE DIRECTOR STRONG INDICATED THE LARGER
02:22:53 IN THE UNDERINVESTMENT INFRASTRUCTURE IS A STATEWIDE
02:22:57 NATIONAL PROBLEM BUT WE'RE SEEING IT IN SAN FRANCISCO
02:23:01 AND IT IS CROWDING OUT OUR ABILITY TO RESPOND TO CRITICAL
02:23:05 CHALLENGES AND IT'S NOT GOING TO GET SOLVED ON MY WATCH.
02:23:12 BUT I DO I AM INTERESTED IN SPENDING A LITTLE BIT OF
02:23:13 TIME IN MY REMAINING MONTHS LIKE PURSUING THIS CONVERSATION
02:23:19 ABOUT GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE GENERALLY
02:23:24 ABOUT YOU KNOW, GETTING THE CITY SET UP NOT JUST TO AND TO
02:23:28 THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE IN THESE DEPARTMENTS DOING THIS THIS
02:23:32 WORK UNDER RESOURCED MAKING GOOD THINGS HAPPEN BUT NOT AT
02:23:36 THE SCALE THAT YOU KNOW NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
02:23:37 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. THANK YOU FOR PRESENTING THIS
02:23:43 TODAY BUT I'M HOPING WE YOU KNOW, TO CONTINUE THIS
02:23:44 CONVERSATION IN MY REMAINING MONTHS.
02:23:47 I'M HOPING THAT THE SUPERVISORS WHO REMAIN ON THE BOARD WILL
02:23:51 CONTINUE TO ENGAGE AROUND INFRASTRUCTURE AND ESPECIALLY
02:23:54 OUR OUR CLIMATE NEEDS AFTER I LEAVE.
02:23:59 AND I REALLY THINK WE DO NEED TO GET MORE ENGAGEMENT FROM THE
02:24:06 MAYOR'S OFFICE AROUND SETTING THE CITY UP TO SORT OF DEAL
02:24:11 WITH THIS IN THAT IN THE YEARS AND DECADES TO COME.
02:24:14 >> SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M GOING TO
02:24:18 WANT TO THAT I WILL USE THIS BUT I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE
02:24:21 THIS HEARING TO THE CALL. THE CHAIR IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE
02:24:23 TO BRING FOLKS FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE BACK IN HERE AND AND
02:24:26 HEAR FROM THEM A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THEIR THINKING ABOUT, YOU
02:24:30 KNOW, ENVIRONMENT INFRASTRUCTURE, CLIMATE WHAT
02:24:33 WHAT YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE PLAN AND WHERE ARE WE GOING SO WE
02:24:37 WILL I MIGHT MY REQUEST FOR THE COMMITTEE WOULD BE TO CONTINUE
02:24:42 TO CALL THE CHAIR. >> RIGHT.
02:24:44 I APPRECIATE THAT. I WANT TO EXPRESS MY OWN THANKS
02:24:48 TO PRESIDENT RANDLEMAN FOR HIGHLIGHTING THIS TIMELY
02:24:52 AND IMPORTANT SUBJECT. I THINK THIS WAS A REALLY
02:24:53 EXCELLENT AND INFORMATIVE DISCUSSION AND SO FOR THAT I
02:24:57 WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR PRESENTERS AND PARTNERS AS WELL
02:24:58 AS ALL THE STAFF PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THEM.
02:25:01 THANKS AS WELL TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY FOR
02:25:05 BEING HERE TODAY AND AS PRESIDENT MOUNT CLEMENS REQUEST
02:25:07 I WOULD LIKE TO NOW MOVE THAT THIS HEARING BE CONTINUED TO
02:25:09 THE CALL. THE CHAIR MADAM CLERK, MAY WE
02:25:12 HAVE A ROLL CALL IN THAT MOTION?
02:25:13 >> YES. AND ON THE MOTION TO CONTINUE
02:25:15 THIS HEARING TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIR VICE CHAIR SLAUGHTER
02:25:19 FISCHER SAUDER I CHAIR DORSEY I CHAIR DORSEY I I HAVE TWO EYES
02:25:23 WITH MEMBER WONG EXCUSED THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK THE MOTION
02:25:27 PASSES. I'M KIRK.
02:25:28 WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER SIX?
02:25:31 >> YES. ITEM NUMBER SIX IS A HEARING ON
02:25:32 THE VICIOUS AND DANGEROUS DOG UNIT INQUIRING ABOUT THE PLAN
02:25:35 TO HIRE A HEARING OFFICER. WE START HEARING PROCEEDINGS
02:25:39 ADDRESS THE EXISTING CASE BACKLOG AND IMPROVE PROCEEDINGS
02:25:43 THROUGH DOG BEHAVIORAL COURSE REQUIREMENTS.
02:25:46 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. THIS HEARING WAS ORIGINALLY
02:25:47 CALLED BY SUPERVISOR CHERYL AND I'D LIKE TO WELCOME LORENZO
02:25:51 ROSAS FROM THE SUPERVISORS OFFICE TO SHARE SOME BRIEF
02:25:54 REMARKS ABOUT THIS HEARING RIGHT NOW MR. ROSAS WELCOME TO
02:25:57 THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES
02:25:58 COMMITTEE. >> THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
02:26:01 THANK YOU CHAIR DORSEY I PROMISE TO BE QUICK.
02:26:04 THIS ITEM WAS ACTUALLY HEARD AT THE GOVERNMENT AUDIT
02:26:05 AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE PREVIOUSLY AND WE ARE GRATEFUL
02:26:09 TO SAY DUE TO SOME INTERDEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION
02:26:13 THAT THE VICIOUS AND DANGEROUS DOG HEARING OFFICER HAS BEEN
02:26:16 HIRED WE COMMENDED HER ON HER RETIREMENT EARLIER IN JUNE AS
02:26:20 WELL SO WE'RE EXCITED FOR THE HEARINGS TO BE RESTARTED
02:26:24 AND DUE TO A MISCOMMUNICATION IN JUST CLERICAL ASPECTS WE
02:26:28 JUST NEEDED TO FILE THIS HEARING AT THE PUBLIC SAFETY
02:26:31 NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES COMMITTEE TODAY.
02:26:32 SO ON BEHALF OF SUPERVISOR CHERYL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TO
02:26:35 THE DEPARTMENTS WHO COLLABORATED ON GETTING A
02:26:38 SOLUTION HERE AND PLEASE FILE THIS HEARING TODAY.
02:26:42 >> THANK YOUR COMMITTEE. THANK YOU MR. ROSA SO I WANT TO
02:26:44 THANK SUPERVISOR CHERYL ROAD MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS FOR THEIR
02:26:46 WORK ON THE HEARING. MADAM CLERK, MAY WE OPEN UP
02:26:49 THIS ITEM TO PUBLIC COMMENT? >> YES.
02:26:50 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM SIX SHOULD
02:26:54 LINE UP NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY THE WINDOWS.
02:26:55 ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
02:26:59 >> MR. CHAIR, WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT.
02:27:01 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS
02:27:04 NOW CLOSED. AND MADAM CLERK, I WOULD NOW
02:27:05 LIKE TO MOVE THAT THIS ITEM BE HEARD AND FILED.
02:27:08 >> MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL IN THAT MOTION?
02:27:10 YES. >> I'M ON THE MOTION THAT THIS
02:27:13 ITEM BE HEARD AND FILED. VICE CHAIR SLAUGHTER I USHER
02:27:15 SLAUGHTER I CHAIR DORSEY I CHAIR DORSEY I HAVE TWO EYES
02:27:20 WITH MEMBER WANG EXCUSE THANK YOU MADAM CLERK THE MOTION
02:27:24 PASSES. CONGRATULATIONS.
02:27:25 SUPERVISOR CHERYL AND MR. ROSAS.
02:27:27 MADAM CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER BUSINESS BEFORE THIS
02:27:28 COMMITTEE TODAY? >> MR. CHAIR THAT COMPLETES OUR
02:27:31 MEETING AGENDA. THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK,
02:27:32 AND THANK YOU TO ALL FOR YOUR CIVIC PARTICIPATION TODAY.
02:27:35 OUR MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED