Public Safety, Finance and Strategic Support Committee (psfss)
May 19, 2022

Public Safety, Finance and Strategic Support Committee
City of San José
Disaster Resiliency Annual Report
Item (d)1
May 19, 2022
Raymond Riordan, Director
Nancy Ta, Resilience Coordinator
City Manager’s Office of Emergency Management
Key Questions
What resources and
support did the City
provide?
How did the City continue to
create and build resiliency
within our own organization?
2 Resilience Themes
• Serving and investing in our most
vulnerable
• Promoting inclusion
• Supporting businesses
• Promoting public health and workplace
safety
• Infrastructure improvements and
developments
3 Serving and Investing in Our Most Vulnerable
Action Impact
Food Distribution Program Provided over 106 million meals Eviction Help Centers Assisted at least 1,500 households at risk of eviction
Hotspots
3,200-3,600 hotspots to schools for
students in need
4,700 hotspots circulated to general public
through San José Public Library
4 Promoting Inclusion
Action Impact
Resilience Corps
Served 205 young adults
>85% of the participants were from low
resource census tracts
~93% are Black, Indigenous, and people of
color
Digital Inclusion Fund
1 st grant round = 3,215 broadband adoptions
2 nd grant round = 926 adoptions (pending)
3 rd grant round = 2,150 adoptions (goal)
5 Supporting Businesses
Action Impact
Special Events
2019 → 97 events, 2 million attendees
2020-2021 → 9 events; 640,000 attendees
2021-2022 → 46 events, 1.6 million attendees
Business Walks
Talk with and hear from small business owners
Walks conducted in every Council district
San José Career Center
Offerings meant to advance job seekers’
competitiveness and help employers meet their
talent needs
6 Promoting Public Health and Workplace Safety
Action Impact
Vaccination Task Force
100+ vaccination events in direct
partnerships with providers
Partnered with 40+ organizations
Supported delivery of 43,000+
vaccinations in the City
Provided 148 Vaccine Champions to
support County’s effort
Emergency Public Information
Social media platforms received:
• 2.3 million impressions
• 67,670 engagements
• 2,900 shares
7 Infrastructure Improvements and Developments
Action Impact
Grant for Soft Story Retrofit Program
Help preserve housing stock
Reduce displacement of residents during
seismic event
Community Wi-Fi 3 million sessions logged from January
through March 2022
Transportation Infrastructure Investments
$31.5 million directly attributable to:
• Pavement maintenance
• Americans with Disabilities Act ramp
repairs and replacements
• Bridge preventive maintenance work
8 Looking Forward: May 2022-May 2023
Resilience Theme Action
Serving and Investing
in Our Most Vulnerable
Efforts linked to $3.6 million in Emergency
Connectivity Funds
Promoting Inclusion Resilience Corps Phase 2: continue focus on low resource census tracts
Supporting Businesses Revamp current BusinessOwnerSpace program
Promoting Public Health
and Workplace Safety
Vaccination Task Force will continue
monitoring
Infrastructure Improvements
and Developments
Emergency Load Reduction Program
residential pilot
9 Recommendation
Accept the annual report on San José’s
community resiliency in responding to disasters.
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