now this is a voluntary programg to this. the san francisco public utilities commission is providing two rather large buildings to come online to do this kind of on site reuse. the proposed fees .%on this are very high. i know the acting director have expressed concerns on that. we have asked fh supervisor chu toy)ó try to geta clearer definition of what this would entail. it would include annual fees that would amount to'rñ $1,500 t for the puc to review certain reports. ñrwe are expecting some sticker stock -- shock reaction, if in fact this goes through. at any rate, it iszh a great program. it is not like everyone will be affected by this.

'[áhráem i wanted to r to earlierir referring to borrowed light, and the blazing that is going back to the green building subcommittee"t. ñii believe that they will be having a discussion on that in september. they may be looking to tie that full concept to leed standard. that is to be decided. e7know, supervisor wiener has bn tried toñr come up with new definition of that. some of the other supervisors still have questionsz that matter has been continued %ei resumes from its september. so that item is still very much pending. cop

with supervisor chu again, who is interested in modifyingñr the apartment conversion ordinance, the so-called chapter 41a. a couplec'z of discussion were e department has provigu about this, particularly from our housing inspection division, which acts as the enforcing human on that particular legislation. i am expecting draft legislation to be introduced by supervisor chu early in september. where this new legislation may be going. maçoó the long ealing ohwith commercial space and disability requirements for small businesses, that was passedl÷ unanimously in its fit readingjñh on july 31.

adopted at the september 4 meeting, the first meeting back. we will havegó[ new guidelines a> good morning.

the second page where you talk about annual hearing on the assessment of liens. 93 properties confirmed on the list for this year. what do we do with these properties this year, as bic? / putsmñ an encumbrance on those properties because they are ina not corrected]dw either the thpviolation or paid the fees. so they will not be able to do anything with the property until those matters are remedied3la. we have this annual process or the board looks at it. . by the time the boardñr makes is final vote, we seem to get into thism? 90-range of those that e recalcitrant, not available -- i

do not exactly know what the holdup is. at least those have property w3incumbrances that they will nt be able to evade their responsibility. we will put it that way. >> vqee withinñrvjfáh"epartmento handles that, who keeps track of this. certainly, the director is made are. they" any action that may come through for other activities so that)zfn alarm would go off if somebody was trying to do something that. >> so in foresman does not get to the place where we start spending people out tod7y try to collect? ñr>> i do ñri am not aware of us trying to collect that way.

some of these cases could get referred to liu$ey )q" through the city qa.tójá@&e%ei office. ññ>> typically, in ae the situation, if there< fines or assessments made, the property owner will be billed. when they fail to pay the bill in a timely way7dç, it can move into the lienvsk process. usually what i see from various departments, they have a list of various properties, the hearing starts, they continue the hearing and asked the department representative to meet with various owners who have showed up at the board hearing to see if they can resolve some of those matters. a couple hours go by, their return to the board hearing and the board says we are going to impose it. izçthe department will recommend

how many properties remain outstanding. the board then votes. usually, it would go as a tax lien against the property owner, so it would need to be paid off in the next tax cycle. >> thank you.mjqj it is from the milkenzv instit. basically,ñr it shows the best cities for successful aging. we are ranked no. 11. that is pretty good. i am sure dbi has something to do with that. theresáy are some interesting statistics in health care, living arrangements -- which are not so good -- 73rd in that. thank you for the report. next item. >> 6c, updateç8 on permit tracking÷qm system. >> good afternoon, commissioners.

moving ahead. we go1sñ through all of those divisions!u and then we can gie you an update next?e÷ month.óxrn training right now. any questions? >> no, i look forward to it. next item. >> 6d, update on other technology projects. >> in the last month we have tried to improve our 3r and records request process. cóywe now have been accepting 3 requests over the web. we did that are doing more, in terms of

making the form easierñr, the process workázr better. but we immediately put on our w3website and on the side that people canirzp)e acceptiq g>ñwe will provide them by e-ma. we have not had that many requests for+jop'd it is interesting. we get complaints that either you have to come in and get the results of your are we have 3r,e to get back to you, but we found that it was not being taken kéadvantage o receive record requests over the web. those things are going forward. several of theepartment's ncreased their fees during the lastudget process.

we are doing our regular update of the fee schedule so that we collect the right amount. our cash management:9 system, s is a projectx1u that we are worg on with death treasurer tax collector. they are supposed to start the implementation on september. they received the equipment. this project has been delayed several times. s to get their equipment, get the implementation, training, and then we were goingo go second so that we can take advantage of what was learned. we are still looking at some time in october. theñr field tablets forg[z the ñrinspectors, the idea was to gt a small group of tablets, test them out, put them on various applications, including a f application, and then putting

them out into the field, e how it works, learn! then get a full array of tablets. by the timemyz wehave the permit tracking system, it will be able to bused out in the field on these tablets. they have done some preliminary development for those tablets. we are going to have a demonstrationñr for the inspects and then do the beta testing. i did hear some oof the results general sessionanaáhat you havet the beginning of any conference. you know, when steve jobs would come up and get everyone excited. they are doing some really

exciting things with the technology in the next version. we should be able to get a lot originally thought. we were pretty happy with what kind of functionality we can get in the field. that is exciting. and then the mission corrido ]8serving room equipment proje. hthat is expected to have a kickoff inñim8ñ augu. the construction and installation of the chller, other things -- chiller, all the things that need to be done to make,tyá functional, wil be done in december. once we get this setup, we will move planning out of the fourth floor, and then we will be able to reuse that room for our best

and highestfáy purpose. we can expand some of the thing that records management is doing.  3rñoñv report, have to the realtor community, board of realtors, -- at what level have çkcontacted people? they were probably the most critical of that department and the report. amazing thm n place right now. oéña lot of the complaints we all of that. now that it is in=fc hand, you y that they are not taking advantage of it? afternoon with them, so we will reiterate. we will try tomhs gather their concerns and see what we can do to make the rest ofdvq the 3r ñh

that -- >> i want to commend the department because we are reacting to theseçó issues. when we do react, -- nobodyñr takes notice. i want to make sure that the people thathnu are affected by s change, that they know about this. how long have they been on line? >> first of all, i meet with various teams,ñr the san francio association. ñr promised them that we would try to do it through the mail. ñne didñrnot do any reques

>> i do not know what the number is now, but it was not huge outpouring. it takes a while for people to get used to asking for it.seconr that what comes through is not -- what is out here is not what was put in here. some people are much more comfortable with comg here. we need to do morew3 outreach to let people know it is available. that is why we bring it up. >> it talks to the point here, stakeholders. where i get stubbornñr about the issue, staff has done a lot of everything to facilitate, and when they do, the stakeholders do not react. it is just aoint.

if you could make that point, as the acting director. we do put new policies inñr plae and we expect them to be used. if it is therefore only -- almost one month and there are only a couple of p them -- it was a big issue f them. anyways, more to the point. thank you for reacting. q that youe5k had done that. >>w3 again, it is part of our jb oue constituents we represent. some of this is our job, to contact the folks that have complained and let themr that we have respondedrñ. >> well, we have, right? >> i am talking about us, commissioners. >> this afternoon we havepa a

meeting. on the sixth floor. >>íg- .g÷ a meeting. you are more than welcome to come. /jt &e%ei the debate. >> what time is the meeting? >> 3:30 i have been easy questin about the tablets. i think it is wonderful that we ñrare moving to tablets staff. my basic question is, who is going to be developing the programs÷ñ for the tablets -- r the employees to use? will it be our own staff, hiring someone from the purchasing something? >>k the program that already exist, we have to g ;4ñ8í÷fema3mw had a free -- we r tas, i guess, not really free. they have some programs

available. acela has some products that they are developing specialized for us. to the extent that there are uk, we do have some application staff that can write certain things. is a mixture. w i bring that up because i know we are spending a lot of money on technology. lvvp'%3÷ understanding of who will actually be working on developing th%ha)ograms and stufxvuuch. >> initially, in ter of what was available for underlying program that would work wit-- ua@the operating system that wod work;n÷ with the fema program limited us in terms of what kind of tablet. then you have the operating limits limiting you from other things.

we hopthat they will be dynamic, the vendor they have extended things so that you can use it on an apple, android. oaxqwhat we are stuck with righw is oracle. we are hoping that this other stuff will be much easier. >> i have a few words i wanted to rert. you received my he knelt on the starting time on august 97. -- e-mail on the starting time

on august 27. we are meeting at 7:30 to help small homeowners and contractors pickup their contracts. then we will open up the whole building, except other departments, as they may not open at the same ti, like planning,xd pucñr. fire may be open bute need to talk with them. seconitem is regarding the code discussion. we haveñr had a problem before. if anything needs to come back to the advism'ñ committee to make any changes in the code for fámay issue an information sheet

to the staff. " also, os week, august 7,s avenue, [unintelligible] thatú director, acting deputy director lowry,s officer, -kq