a world scenarios in which to implement this stuff. >> how one of the things that we should probably mention is the target audience. the code probably affects residential, business is, other buildings. maybe if we do presentations, you should look at the target audience -- this applies to residential. this portion applies to new commercial buildings perhaps, renovations, so we need to consider that. >> last time lawrence put together a presentation, is have an escrow green building amended for published. part of the reason is homeowners are a diverse group.

architecture is mainly commercial work. it is easier to target them. but trying to get to the individual homeowner to say all i wanted to do was change my water here, what do you mean i have to do this? it is hard to get that message out to them. i would in courage using multiple ways to get the news to folks. >> i want to thank you again, along with staff. i take pride in being part of the commission where we were ahead of the curved to pass the greenest building code in the country, and along with that, progressive ideas will continue to push forward these ideas in a way that everyone wants to catch up the performance curve for both residential and commercial buildings will be the leading

edge for energy conservation. any closing comments? >> thank you very much. the action we are requesting is that you approve the code and for them to the board of supervisors. i think that is it. >> so approved. >> public comment? >> good morning, commissioners. [inaudible] this green coat sounds wonderful but we should always -- code

sounds wonderful but we should always remember in this progress of endeavor, we need justice, it needs to be clear. we need to have seminars in our neighborhoods, public hearings -- what do you call it when they get together in a big high school and are encouraged to learn more? also, we are going to proceed to be able to make the people, let them know that this will be a fair game.

not just a game of the rich. thank you. i will keep on coming to make sure that we all have equal opportunity. that is what life is all about. the rich and poor should all live together happily. there should be no favoring of rich people. thank you. >> thank you, mr. morales. any additional public comment? >> move to approved. >> is there a second? >> roll call on the motion to

approve the 2010 california code. [roll call] the motion passes unanimously. item 6. discussion and possible action regarding the 2010 cost schedules of building a valuation data. >> are we going to go back to public comment? >> no, we are going to do number six and then go back. >> hopefully, this will not take too long, although you may have questions. every year, the department of building inspection, we have used the cost of valuation.

cost the valuation under the building code is the basis for which we put a valuation on permits, which in turn, is the basis upon which we charge permit fees. the building valuation is not the valuation used by the assessor's office, the real cost of the building, but is a unifying format so everybody is charged the same amount of fees for the same amount of work, under the premise that we are being reimbursed for the services we are providing. if someone has their brother in law doing it for free, a professional contractor, it does not matter. we value everything equally. in order to do that, the building code says we shall use the marshall swift building adopted schedule -- excuse me. with local modifiers.

every year we look at the marshall swift index and attach a local modifiers. it comes to you to consider whether to adopt or not, revisions to cost schedule. this year, nationwide, there has been a decline in construction valuation under the marshall swift index. not necessarily -- well -- when me and my team study valuation, if we were to adopt a wholesale change in the marshall swift, we would see a reduction in cost evaluation. we do not recommend that for a number of reasons. we do not believe it accurately reflects san francisco. we have seen an increase of about tuition -- the valuation,

not the total amount of construction, the cost has not declined significantly. our service cost, secondly, have not proportionally declined either. they have stayed the same or gone up. my recommendation, even though i provide the documentation, my recommendation is we defer consideration of any adjustment or modification of cost of tuition until next year when we get the next cost valuation from marshall swift and then reconsider what our trends and costs are. the goal here is to match income to our scope of services. the only way we can do that is to charge a correct amount of money. if we were to reduce cost evaluation year, we would have to find out a way to increase fees to increase services. there has to be in balance.

we have the authority to maintain it, of course, and this is a simple way without doing a fee revision, on the leaves. -- i believe. >> is the marshals with updated on a yearly basis, nationally, regionally, how often are the numbers -- how often do they reflect accuracy? >> they may updated more than annually. we get an annual update. it comes at the beginning of february. it is a national scale, but we have local modifiers as well. bay area multipliers. it is not really locally focused. it is pretty broad. regionally, modified. that is -- we do our best to

make a reflection of san francisco, but it is not intended to be specific to san francisco. five years ago, we had discussions with builders, developers, city staff, asking whether if this is the way we wanted to do things. after a lot of analysis, looking at alternative ways to do this, we decided that this was the best thing that we could find, as long as it reflected the local index reasonably. >> have any questions? vivian? >> i agree with the suggestion that we keep the 2009 martial swift downey is in effect -- marshall swift values in effect.

>> public comment? >> motion to approve? >> motion to approve that we adopt the 2009 cost schedule -- >> we are actually not adopting in. that we keep the 2009 rates in effect. >> ok. >> [roll call] >> and the action is to not adopt.

[roll call] the motion passes. are we going back to 3? item 3. directors' report. update on tbi finances. >> good morning. i am the director of dbi. i am pleased to announce for the month of july we are showing an increase of revenues over last year's july figures, by about 16%, which is significant to our department. through the first half of august, we are still showing a percentage increase. we are not showing any declines. we are actually over budgeted in

revenue right now. what we have done it is offset the overage in revenue right now with projected refunds, which we will reevaluate at the end of three months to see if we need that. if not, we would try to reach appropriate that for the staff. also, our expenditures are showing a decrease from the projected, due to the delay in the budget being adopted by the board. we were not able to build some positions as soon as we wanted to, plus we had additional retirees that we did not expect to have at the end of june. we are showing some decrease in expenditures. overall, we are on track with our budget, if not over budgeted, so to speak. we are doing good in the department right now with the help of all staff. i would be happy to answer any

questions. >> commissioners, any questions? >> good news. >> item 3b. update on proposed legislation. >> we are revising the current editions of the codes that we have to adopt. along with that, we will be bringing back some ab's back to you to bring them back up into more current standards, in the way that we actually process office policies, procedures, how we process administrative bulletins, to take out some of the delay in the processing

what is coming down from the state, what is there, and how we can get it to service in san francisco. bringing the ordinance forward with storm water runoff and other ordnances, you will see

that coming forward. the draft mandatory legislation will be ready at the city attorney's office for a slight review for the mayor to introduce shortly. maybe next month. on the other point of the proposed legislation is how to write off as policy and procedure. what i will be doing in the meantime, drafting new office policies and procedures that are current with the comptroller's office and the city attorney's office, bringing those forward

to you for review also. we are requiring any owner the they will have to have signatures from the tenants in the building to change the address or that they will notify the tenants as they take place. that will be coming out shortly, hopefully before the end of the year. it all depends on how fast i can get it approved before i can do the office policy. >> in streamlining the process, how much time will we be able to look at? you mentioned about 90 days. >> hopefully at least one month. going to the coda advisory subcommittee, it is signed into

effect. others do not. >> bringing me to the first comments on storm water ordinance, is there a way that they could harvest rainwater in those categories >> -- categories? >> puc is following that in the great wall or harvesting and usage right now. i can bring those forward to show you where they are. >> hopefully this will be integrated in the effort that

lawrence and both committees are involved with that area >> chair? >> to follow what on the process change around tenant notification, putting this on the agenda to present with you are doing in september. >> that would be great. >> mr. martine has brought this up. thank you are about. mr. morales? >> this points out how they are

responsive, although not as swiftly as he wanted in the category of addressing the issues that the public brings up that we will continue to follow up on. >> we will have a public comment at the end of item #3. threec, an update -- 3c, an update on permit drafting systems. >> yes, it is nearly ready for review. we have nearly deleted and combined air lot of the elements that we wanted address in the permit tracking system to address the needs of all the apart -- all of the departments.

using a less detailed method for assistance rather than downloading everyone here and having them on interface tracking basis with a planning system. many departments already have records stored in electronic formats but in different venues, so we would need an interface for each type. we do not want to bring them into one system right now where they exist on different servers. a different way of approaching it, but we have got it figured out. we have been working and planning, meeting twice a week on this. we met three or four times this week already. it will be about september 15 before we get it out to the agency, so we are hoping to put out by the end of the year.

>> how long after acceptance and review of the bids before the award happens? >> it takes approximately one month to two months to go after the intense, we figured out, and then we go into negotiations with the proposed vendor, so it will be spring of next year before this is implemented. >> so, this will be part of the budget for the current year? >> no, we put nothing new in the budget from this year that we have not expended on this project yet. the department has been covering the permit tracking system out of existing funds. in house, what we have spent on lacoste's for our staff, we have not taken that out of the

projects. hardware, software, and licensing, but without professional staff. >> any questions? >> item 3b, an update on activities affecting the administration of the department. >> we will be revising every single position for the office policy procedures manual for the entire department. we will have subcommittees' doing that to address some of the concerns being brought forth by the comptroller's office and other departments about policies and procedures. >> will you provide progress reports on a monthly basis? >> probably quarterly. this is a huge undertaking, it has not been done since 1996.

>> ok. thank you for the effort. a long time coming. commissioners? >> perhaps public comment on items three a through b? >> seeing no one. >> item #4, general public comment. we will take public comment on matters within the commission that are not part of the agenda. >> it is good to have all of

these reports, but i feel we are not participating in a democratic process. i was evicted because of the housing number on my building. i would like to inform the commission that they should start inviting the heads of organizations once every year, where the invitation for them is to come once every month or three months, so that they will really tell you how much we are suffering. we have been taken to the cleaners by the landlords. everything is so expensive.

as an example of my life, when i came here in 1965 for the first time, it was only $80 per month. what happened in the year 2008? my rent went to $800 each month, which was supposed to be very low, but this is not what we think of as low because there is no vacancy control. the landlords have the upper hand. all of us are being evicted like cattle in 7 cisco. you should read a paper.

to summarize, my name is jose moralez, and we see the people coming in, crying and suffering from because the tenants are being all the time abused and harassed. i will be leaving with you a copy of the tenant tiesmes, of used to be produced every four months on four pages, now it is just one sheet because there is no money. people looking for reform once again.

[tone] >> may i have one more minute? >> you can provide that to us instead of reading it. thank you very much. >> are there any additional public comments? >> good morning, commissioner. i am here regarding 135 el camino del mar. this is part of an appeal case coming up next month. as you remember, your request was to the public to give you updates every three months.

so far nothing has been done as far as i am concerned. i cannot find any record for any report to submit to you. besides that, nothing has been done. in january of this year, the submission from some people in the notice requirements of february, i would like to know what will happen next month during the expansion and what you will do about this. that is why i am here. >> we will follow up. i think that the director