November 10, 2009

Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (CAPSS)

Public Advisory Committee

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

1660 Mission Street, Room 2001

11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

The agenda for this November 10 CAPSS meeting will include:

• Project team update, including current status of Impact Assessment technical review and revised project schedule update.
  
  
•  Overview of ATC 71-1 project: Development of Simplified Guidance for Seismic Rehabilitation of Soft-Story Wood-Frame Buildings presented by David Mar, S.E., Project Technical Director.
  
  
• Overview of the DBI Building Occupancy Resumption Program (BORP) to allow rapid post-earthquake evaluation and reoccupancy of buildings in San Francisco (L. Kornfield)
  
  
• Discussion of future CAPSS Advisory Committee schedule and meetings, including the following proposed topics
• January: Task II report (Impacts) to be presented in draft form
• February: Longer meeting to review Task 2 outcomes, including consideration of recommended acceptable building performance standards
• March: Task III review with Bill Holmes (post-earthquake repair standards)  
  
  
• Overview and invitation to attend the upcoming SEI/ATC Conference in San Francisco in December 2009: Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings . CAPSS Advisory Committee Members are invited to attend as guests of the conference organizers, ATC (Applied Technology Council) and ASCE - SEI (American Society of Civil Engineers - Structural Engineering Institute).
  
  For more information about this conference, please visit http://www.atc-sei.org/ .
  
  To register as a CAPSS guest at the conference, please view this PDF file.

Please see attached minutes of October 14, 2009 CAPSS meeting.

Thank you for your continued participation.

This meeting room is accessible to persons with disabilities. For further information or to request any specific accessibility needs or other accommodation, please call Laurence Kornfield directly at (415) 558-6244. Thank you