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disaster council meeting. mary ellen and i just asked when was the last time this meeting occurred and it was maybe two years ago. i know we’ve been prepping for tsunamis and earthquakes and you all keep us on track on that front but i think it’s good that we’re all in the same room. we communicate, we get this this council meeting going a little more often. so i appreciate everybody

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making time. obviously we all talk about this public safety being our number one priority in this city. we have to keep our people safe and preparing and making sure that we’re all lines when it comes to potential earthquake or fire or some other national of natural disaster. let’s be ready. so with that i’ll turn it over to you, mary ellen. >> thank you. mayor lurie and welcome to your first disaster council since our last meeting a department of emergency management has really remained at the center of the city’s disaster preparedness and response work. we’ve also taken on a little more of expanded role in special event planning and management. i’m very proud of the accomplishments over the last year or so and the many dedicated public servants who do work 20 473 65 to keep the city safe. you are going to hear from

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several of them today on their presentations. we have three presentations that we will go into on preparedness on our our eoc activations that we’ve done in the past and then what’s upcoming. i do want to thank you all for being here and just remind the council and members of the public that we will call public comment after each item and item six is general public comment for all matters within the council’s jurisdiction we will have each comment will be limited to two minutes and we will take those times if and when we have public comment . so we’ll jump right into our first report which is preparedness and our assistant deputy director for emergency services kim bowman will present. all right, thank you, marilyn and thank you for your time.

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disaster council we’re going to go through the plans that we’ve done we’ve completed over the last little bit over a year and before we begin over going over these plans, i just want to highlight the fact that while the department of emergency management holds these plans and participate in their revision, these plans are drafted and contributed to by subject matter experts across many departments in san francisco depending on their roles and responsibilities within the plan. >> we also have an emergency operations plan which is the city’s citywide base emergency plan that was revised last year. it goes through a vetting process with the state and some of these plans are associated as annexes with that plan and you’ll see them as esf or emergency support function plans. so just to provide a little context for that. >> all right. we’ll begin with esf five. so this plan basically

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describes a framework of emergency management in san francisco. >> this was a pretty robust revision when we did our emergency operations plan update a lot was removed from that and put into our emergency management plan. it describes a framework that occurs within the eoc or emergency operations center or department operations center and our gic and how all of those bodies work together in a disaster. >> we removed duplicative and outdated concepts. this plan had kind of aged out since covid when we learned quite a bit from our response there and then other real world and planned responses since then it now includes a concept of operations that kind of outlines that response in the eoc and discusses how we coordinate with our partners throughout the region the state both public and private as well at the federal level. >> next is esf eight emergency

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support function eight public health and medical services. this plan was really led by dpi to update roles and responsibilities to reflect the move of the emergency services agency over to d.m. and also clarify the roles of the department operations center and the eoc. the esf eight plan details the discipline specific resource ordering process that is separate from our regular resource ordering. so i kind of better explains how that process flows. >> go ahead, jackie. we also revised the family excuse me the family assistance center plan or we call it the fac plan for short the city under certain circumstances will establish a family assistance center. there are other assistance centers that we may establish a resource center or a family reunification center.

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this plan was revised for the family assistance center which is a centralized location for victims and their families. >> so these are folks who were who were victims of typically a violent incident, something like terrorism or a shooting. this center provides them with resources and services as well as helps identify works with the family to identify the remains of those victims. >> this was a very significant revision. the old plan belonged as kind of an appendix to another plan . we felt that the roles and responsibilities could be clarified, updated it to include best practices and built out a really kind of specific detailed and robust oversight structure and the roles and responsibilities of different departments within the city when it comes to standing up family assistance center. >> we also revised the tsunami playbook. folks might recall we’ve had a

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couple tsunami scares in the last couple of years. actually just in the last year. we originally began revising this because we had updated inundation zone maps from the us geological survey and the california geological survey. that was primarily due to sea level rise so our inundation zones increased throughout san francisco. >> this has also led to us installing more tsunami sirens and kind of building out our tsunami capabilities. then we had the december 4th tsunami advisory and through the lessons learned from that which was a near source basically we don’t really know how long until the tsunami is going to get here incident we updated the plan to kind of reflect what we’re going to do in that circumstance which we had not really contemplated in the past. the revisions from that incident were put to the test

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in july of 2025 this year when we had a tsunami warning and the plan to plan tested well. >> so obviously we’ve improved the response plans in there. there’s some checklists and critical action guides to help provide city leadership with what the steps are we’re going to take based on the amount of inundation and the time frame expected. >> so we have also revised our senior leadership playbook. that playbook is an executive level plan that was in place just prior to covid. i believe the last draft was from 2019. >> during this revision we took a lot of the lessons learned from covid and built a new policy group framework, established some new roles and responsibilities for department heads for board members for the mayor. >> really updated how the city

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is going to respond included some critical action guides in this and it was really very extensively revised. >> and so go ahead, jackie. and so then we had to revise the office of the mayor’s emergency response plan that was completed very recently and was significantly revised. that plan was originally from at lee’s time so obviously required some work. >> this plan now reflects the new structure of the mayor’s office including policy chiefs. >> we also added roles and responsibilities in great detail for key staff within the mayor’s office and incorporated them into the policy group framework of the senior leader playbook. and with that i am open to any questions. >> any questions about the plan updates. i know there was a lot of plans all right. not seeing any do we have public comment on this item?

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seeing none. we’ll move on to our next item doris pedia who’s our deputy director for emergency services will present. >> great. good afternoon. >> thank you to disaster counsel for giving us the time to talk today about our recent eoc activation so last time disaster council met was october of 24 and over this one year span we have activated that you’ll see for a total of 21 events that led to 27 full days of eoc activations here within the city and county of san francisco. and those activations have ranged from celebratory events and parades to no notice events per cam’s comment related to tsunamis and tornadoes. so we kind of will activate the eoc for a variety of events here. just as a quick reminder we

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activate our emergency operations center from a level four which is a monitor and warm to a level one which is a full activation where we bring in representatives from various departments and our state and regional partners as well. >> so our activations vary. we have created six buckets of response for this particular presentation. we have activated four weather events which are heat and winter weather. those are standard response protocols as well as the tornado at and to tsunami events, parades and celebrations on new year’s eve carnival parade pride lunar new year which actually married up with nba all-star events this year and the fleet week airshow music events. this was a little bit different for this year but we got to be in partnership with a lot of different folks around those concerts that were going on

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in golden gate park to make sure that we were maintaining situational awareness across departments and ensuring that we were ready to respond to elections. the general election in 2024 and our mayoral inauguration sports and races and all-star weekend and beta breakers and then demonstrations all of the first amendment activities that we see here across san francisco. >> next slide a really brief kind of outlook for 2026. we have as i mentioned our standard activations related to weather and then our planned annual events. but there are four marquee eoc activations that we are planning for in 2026 as we’ve taken a larger role in special event planning. we have been building out our posture and what it will look like for both super bowl and world cup. >> so february 2nd through the eighth here in san francisco will be hosting a number of

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events celebrating the super bowl. and so we are projecting a seven day activation here in the eoc including sunday the eighth which is game day for super bowl. moving into world cup june 11th through july 1st, we are anticipating about a ten day activation period between june and july specifically for the games that are going to be held in the bay area. those are going to be held in santa clara pride weekend which is our standard event but one that we activate for every year is the june 27th and 28th and then the 4th of july which marries up this year with america’s 250th anniversary july 4th and fifth. we are anticipating potentially some first amendment activities and so we’re we’re creating some plans and getting ready for those as well. we just want to highlight that between february and the end of july we’re going to be very, very active with planned event

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response. and of course we always layer on all of the unexpected or the unplanned events that we’ll see across the city as well. thanks, doris. any questions? looking back? >> yes, please. so you and we had do you want to answer that because you know exactly how we were postured. >> yeah. so we activated our emergency operation center at a monitoring posture and so we had our watch center a full staffed. we also had our own call staff so within the we have an on call team that was ready to be in the eoc if necessary. mostly we were monitoring coordinating really, really closely with various departments and agencies such as hca and dpa and the the unified school district and oca. >> so mostly we were monitoring we were waiting for operations and to better understand what was happening citywide before

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activating into that that higher posture we did downgrade our activation for the weekend and we’re monitoring. yes, happy to report. it’s a very normal weekend in san francisco. so thank you. any other questions? >> okay. we’ll go now looking forward. go ahead, doris. >> great. so upcoming events i’ll talk a little bit about our recent emergency exercises and then we’ll jump into a little bit of the exercises that are coming up at the end of 25 and then 26. >> we just completed three significant exercises here in san francisco. first i’ll talk about the top and the bottom which are focused on world cup and super bowl. we had communications exercises both locally so how departments are communicating with departments within the city and county of san francisco for

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any large scale event preparing for response. and then we also participated in a regional interoperability workshop which really spoke to how as a region we are coordinating the way that we communicate. we’re keeping each other aware of things that are happening and making sure that those systems are in place and are functioning the way that we expect them to during any kind of an emergency especially for large scale events. >> if there is something that happens in santa clara for either world cup or super bowl, it’s going to impact san francisco. it’s going to drive some of our decision making about the events that are happening here. so that communication exercising is really important for us. >> the third exercise is our fleet week exercise. we conducted a communication exercise as well as an equipment interoperability testing exercise. so it was the locals we had been planning with our federal partners for months and months. we weren’t able to bring

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in their components into the exercise but nonetheless it was a really successful exercise. we activated the emergency operation center and we had various departments come in and practice an exercise. so we felt that that was very successful and that was a catastrophic earthquake scenario. so a little bit different. >> we’re looking at different scenarios with these exercises that we’ve completed and moving into 25 the end of 25 and 26. all five of these exercises as is are focused on again large scale special event response planning. the two top exercises are local exercises here in san francisco. we’re going to have a tabletop exercise and then we’re going to have two tabletop exercises . and the first one is related to core cities. so san jose, oakland and san francisco will be exercising separately and then together and we’ll share information about what that looks like. and that second event the

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golden eagle county special events exercise will be just for san francisco. >> the last three exercises are regional. so again we talk local first san francisco. how are we planning? what are we planning to do and then we integrate that into the much larger regional exercise cadence. it’s a big deal because we really need to be prepared and i’m i’m excited to highlight that d h will be helping to co facilitate and really co lead an exercise related to patient movement for special event planning as well. so we’re we’re cooperating, we’re collaborating, we’re making sure that we’re all prepared locally and regionally . >> thank you. before we go to member announcements i just want to first of all thank all of you for you and your staff because it is true that we don’t do this in a vacuum. >> all of the plans all the exercises require the participation of all the

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departments and it’s often on top of other people’s regular jobs. but that commitment is very important and also when we do activate for things that are not emergencies but that are usually happy things like events it is the same kind of work that would go into in many ways when we have to do respond to an emergency. so i just want to underscore that that participation whether for an exercise or for a planned event really helps us to be more prepared as a city. and we’ve been very fortunate not to have been tested at that level and so we want to test ourselves all the time so that when that does happen we’ll be prepared. and secondly, i just want to say the regional component of our coordination is very critical even with events over the last week or two. i have been in contact with

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every one of my colleagues within all the counties around the bay area because what does happen in another county will impact us and vice versa. so we are very focused on that regional coordination and any questions for doris? >> any comments? i do need to call up public comment again. i forgot on the last one any public comment for this item or the previous item? okay. seeing none at this point we do have the opportunity to go around the table for the members. >> anyone who’s in a member of the disaster council to make any announcements yes, please. >> just looking forward to see i think as would be forward for the legislative branch and have the senior leadership especially if there’s a division and you see how it all surprises a lot more. i think too much and that’s

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something that a lot of us as well definitely also want to see the family assistance center plan now that there’s a revision to it and i think that better maybe for the next discussion to add to with the family assistance center to add the aspects of potentially to immigration and how would that be set up should that happens? so we’re going to have that for the next discussion. expect us to have next tuesday. last but not least you definitely know where i’m going to now is to look forward to have a presentation with mr. diaz or the city strategy on a to be able to see for our system. i think that necessarily just a siren but just to give guidance that is necessary for an emergency system outside of just us.

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thank you, sir. any other comments? >> but we’ll get that. yes. yeah, great. >> just a report on when the fire department. that’ll be great. they’re working really hard on upgrading our emergency water supply system obviously with a lot of leadership and help from the b.c.. we don’t have our pump station number two up and running so we have to pump stations which get more water in from the bay tournament. our emergency firefighting water supply system which also installed 30 systems in the sunset district just provides static water supply sources. >> we have three new hose tires that do implement our above water ground above ground water supply system. >> so working hard on that. we’ve also upgraded dr. an army response plan to make sure it’s getting congruent with the plan. >> great. thank you. thanks, chief. so thank you, chief brown fire

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department point of order for this disaster counselors to recognize the activities of nurse so that the nurse volunteers are covered by full disaster service for the volunteer program. and so i’ll bring to this body that nurse program is providing 2 to 3 four month and operating every last saturday for offers training and practice drills. and then drills the third saturday, april 30th, saturday over for the foreseeable future. so that was for this audience if you have it and if you don’t maybe you could fill us in because i know the chief and i we talked about this early days of we need it to increase the number of nurse volunteers and captains. do we? how are we doing on on that front and do we need to keep it going? >> we have numbers we’ve had some improvement with constant

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area of necessary improvement for us. to a lot of stakeholders we’re trying to implement a plan where we provide some motivation for our members to actually be instructors because they’re there’s a shortage of instructor we have a great program on these those programs these are learning in spanish and we’re working on developing one equally as strong that speaks to some cases. okay working with our members well if anybody is watching this recording or this live we want you need to to be nurse captains in your neighborhoods to help our disaster response. it’s an incredible program and i know the fire department. it needs your help. thank you both. any other comments? >> and if not, we’ll just open the final public. general public excuse me. >> public comment and seeing

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that we do not have any public comment we can join the meeting. >> thank you everybody. >> thanks for (music). >> i started the o was with a financing and had a business

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partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn’t used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a

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space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even

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with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can’t let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so

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while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we’re doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don’t realize how much we affect the community around there when he i

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want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the re two one welcome to the small business commission meeting on october 27th 2025. the meeting is being

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