it is actually a resolution. so we are moving forward with recommendation, and we will take that without objection. thank you for your presentation , and we do not have any more items, correct? >> that completes the agenda. supervisor avalos: then we are adjourned.

>> this has been interesting and exciting week in san francisco, the last week of september. this was a company that is well known to many people, but boat -- that will be well known to many more people. >> we are home to twitter, wikimedia, foursquare, and we are home to a 270,000 square foot headquarters at 8th and brannan, zenga. it was leaked they are announcing their new headquarters. >> this is an online gaming company in san francisco. this employs roughly 1200 people they had 398 employees,5

, and competing against president berlusconi in italy, and we are down here with all the attributes of this natural amphitheater which is the san francisco bay, and the opportunity to be the only american city to defend the america's cup. those of you not familiar, you should just care on this basis, besides the love of the sport and showcasing the natural beauty and wonderment that is sailing in the san francisco bay, you should care because of those 9000 jobs.

the economic stimulus for the region is the equivalent of three super bowls. if we succeed in getting the america's cup to defend the cup here, there is great expectation that they will win that defense and continued to make subsequent investments for many years to come, so this is an extraordinary moment and opportunity to really jump start our regional economy and our local economy, and i want to congratulate everyone that has worked their tails off to get us this far. the reason i mention this is because this week, we submitted our term sheet to the board of supervisors, laying out the scope and commitment we are making to being the host city. we have a lot of work ahead of us. we expect a decision in the next weeks, but the determination of which of those three countries will host the 34th america's cup will be determined very soon. i just cannot say enough about all the elected family here in san francisco, and the corporate

commitments we are getting from ceo close of companies large and small throughout the bay area that have really stepped up -- from ceo's of companies large and small. king juan carlos and berlusconi have been involved in the country's bids. we have a different kind of political system in terms of expectations and other folks -- other things that falls in d.c. are focused on. there is a lot going on. we hope to get rid elections and then see that same kind of enthusiasm. i expect we will, back in washington, d.c., not just the state. again, thank you to speaker progress -- speaker perez for release stepping up. third thing is we had a really exciting announcement as well -- at least i thought it was -- because we actually competed

against cities large and small across the country for a $12,000,000.30-year grant that cames from the great -- from the gates foundation -- $12 million three-year grant that came from the gates foundation. there were years where they were not so sure that we had our act together as it relates to public education. in this case, we are one of four cities that received a multi- year grant, millions of dollars used to focus on college going culture and partnerships that will be developed. we call it a bridge to success. 2.9 million students in the community college system. we often forget how important the community college is for vocational training and the community track and for people regardless of their time in life to get quality education, but we needed to create a framework to streamline our data collection, to streamline our collective

efforts, and the gates grant will allow us to do that over three years. here is a good idea that his generated money and resources and support. our job is to implement it and deliver on this promise, and that will happen with your good work and your good judgment, and so in closing, let me thank you in advance for that work. let me thank you in advance for your collaborative and these partnerships that you will advance. let me thank you for your wisdom in getting us here today and remind you -- the future is not in front of us. it is inside of us. we will determine the fate and that future of this program and whether or not more money will flow because we have aligned our collective strategies in a new and profound way. again, as one of four cities that will be receiving that $12 million. i want to applaud hydro mendoze

for really leading that charge. and everyone at the community college system for release stepping up to the plate and showing what we can do. and we built public-public partnerships, not just public/private partnerships, and really worked in a collaborative. my core beliefs has always been that money should not be the limiting believe, meaning a lack of money. if you have a better idea, the money can start flowing. i have always believed that. that is why we did universal health care. it was not that we had hundreds of millions of dollars at our disposal. we had a better idea. same case here. because of the work we have done with kindergarten and college and because we are handing out college savings accounts to many kindergartners that are entering the system, because of the work we did for san francisco promise and the guarantee of a four-year education for our sixth graders, because of the work that has been vance by the school board, all of those things contributed

to us getting in the mix and getting this grant, and now, the eyes of this foundation and others are upon us to actually deliver on promised, so i cannot be more complementary and enthusiastic about what this means. i have always said that once the mine is stretched, it can never go back to its original form. once we create that kind of imagination in the mind of a young child that now has a streamlined pathway to that bridge to success, which is a college education or career track through community college, then great things happen, so that is really where we celebrated earlier this week, down at that community college campus, and out in ocean avenue. complement's and hats off to everyone who made that happen. finally, a bit of sober news, but also new is that i think should give us pause and a little bit of optimism. we are going to lose the federal funding it looks like on this jobs now program, which is

arguably a back breaker for hundreds of thousands -- and i mean that literally, hundreds of thousands of families across this country that may lose their jobs, but rather than just accept that fate, we have some ideas. we have 4127 families that have been benefited because of the jobs now program. most aggressive expansion of this program of any city or state in the nation. they should be complimented and truly elevated in people's minds in terms of the good work they have done. we recognize that this federal money may go away, and we are still fighting for it. we have not given it up completely, but we are going to take some existing job-training money and redirected and realign it so we can keep roughly 470 slots available to those families that would otherwise lose their jobs. the hope is that roughly half of those 4000-plus families will keep their jobs because a

private employer will keep them on, particularly through the holidays because so many of those jobs are in the service industry. in january, to make sure we can build that bridge, we are going to create some incentives and open up the opportunity for folks to continue to get some benefit for continuing to employ some of these individuals so they can support their families. it requires us to redirect about $9 billion that we will be asking the board of supervisors to help us redirect. the other money was going out anyway, but not totally dissimilar programs. we think the best job training is on the job training. we think the best job is not receiving $450 a week in unemployment, but $447 a week which many people do through our transitional program, but that comes with the dignity of the job itself and a paycheck and the work ethic behind it.

this is important, and i think i have brought this up in these weekly videos probably 20 times. i would say 30, but that would be exaggerating. we are fighting hard in congress. speaker pelosi has been a great. senator feinstein and boxer has been a great. the president said he would sign the extension of the bill. it is just pretty damning that we have a program that is creating private-sector jobs, creating a real opportunity, giving people a real opportunity, and a costs for many folks less than it costs the taxpayers to just hand out an unemployment check. yet, there is no debate about extending it, even though we rightly extended the unemployment insurance benefits. this is frustrating, but nonetheless, we will keep fighting, and that frustration has borne some ingenuity and entrepreneurialism on our part to think about our existing job- training programs, again, so we can provide at least a framework

of 1740 slots and the opportunity to extend this program for many families. that is the update for the week. a lot of things to talk about, but those are four important things, and we look forward to checking back in in a week or two talking about our progress on jobs now and america's cup, and those other companies i mentioned that will be making some big commitments to our city.

>> good morning. today is wednesday, september 29, 2010. this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. at this time i would like to remind everyone to please turn off all electronic devices such as cell phones and pagers. the first item on the agenda is roll call. president murphy? proim here. >> vice president hechanova? commissioner hechanova: here. >> commissioner clinch: commissioner. any announcements? proim i don't have any announcements. 6 >> the next item is item number three, directors report, 3 a, update on the d.b.i. finances. director day: good morning, commissioners, president

murphy. vivian day, director. our revenues are up 13% over the same time last year. net they're up 15%. so that's a good indication that we are still recovering and going on up the scale for the recession problems. president murphy: is that because of big projects? director day: there have been several large projects submitted, also due to the impact fee deferral legislation that was introduced. we are experiencing several projects of our taking advantage of the deferral process for the impact fees. so it's allowing some larger projects to go forward. we have one on 299 that's ready to go forward. and then we have another large one for the redevelopment agency that's going to go forward.

we also have another large project at ocean. it's are the to issue and ready to go for the avalon bay ocean avenue condos and the big whole foods market that's going in on 1150 ocean avenue. that's a large project that will be coming forward. the other part of our revenue increases that we have been taking in and doing plan check for, more of the port projects lately. so that's helping. president murphy: thank you. director day: also, our expenditures have decreased a net of about 3%. that's mainly due to our inability to hire right at the moment. there was a hiring freeze on. we have some position that will become available in october that we will be asking to have made available for hire so that will be happening in on the.

those are the positions requested in the budget for last year, that when the budget committee approves the new position or a requested position, they only budgeted at 3/4 of the position. so that means i can't even advertise the position until about october. so hopefully we'll have those people in place by the end of the year also. so that's going to help. but we're still on target with the budget. and we are doing very well. and our request for refunds have decreased. so that's also a good indication that we're not having projects just go by the wayside now. president murphy: it looks like a request for refunds are balancing out with the -- what did i say the figure was? $800,000 for the refund? director day: right. in other words, our surplus -- it's not surplus. our additional revenue, we are putting it aside for refunds.

we will reallocate when we do our mid-year budget adjustments. if we see that we do not have a need for that money, we will reallocate it back into expenditures for the department. president murphy: ok. now i understand. >> item 3b, update on proposed legislation. director day: right. the proposed legislation -- president murphy: do we have to take public comments on that? >> do you want to do it at the end or after each item? at the end of each item? president murphy: let's talk with counsel here. my choice. [laughter] i'd like to do the public comments on each item. >> ok. president murphy: if the public are like me, they'll have forgot by the time we get to the next item. >> ok. public comments on item 3a? president murphy: seeing none. >> then item 3b, update on proposed legislation. director day: right. i did have a meeting with supervisor

supervisor alioto-pier: regarding the need for m.o.d. to have a copy of the agenda and minutes for the access appeals board. and there is another way that we can address this without putting it into the building code. we can address it in the bylaws of the access appeals commission so i've requested a meeting with -- i am going to request a meeting with the access appeals board to see if they're in the process of modifying their bylaws now. if they could just add the sentence that -- they could have -- any city agency can have a copy of the minutes and agenda that would so request. it's just a courtesy to other city departments. that would be a better way to handle it so that it is in the bylaws. it is always handled for any city agency. and then it can go forward without having to be in the building code where it really doesn't belong. president murphy: ok. any questions, commissioners? public comments? >> public comments?

>> i did not come here today to comment on this item, but i guess i must. i didn't realize it was coming up. i just wanted to thank you for the discussion you've had and for the apparent outcome of that. there's been no discussion with the access appeals commission, whether the president, individual members or the body. so i think i would like to see you do that i'll just point out before the discussion happens that one of the major divisions between the oversight that the building department does and then its appeals commission and m.o.d. does is that m.o.d. is responsible for the accessibility of the program, all programs, of the city and county of san francisco. that's title two of the a.d.a. that's state and local government programs. both facilities and activities. title 3, dealing with privately owned. we'll be happy to share this with anybody and change our

bylaws to do that, as far as i'm concerned. but really, i would not like to see them distracted in their business of making san francisco government accessible to its citizens and visitors by them send spending a lot of time looking at title 3 questions because they have their hands full and they have a tiny staff. and you have your hands full and you have too small a staff. so i think that the division that has happened to throw tens of thousands of title 3 cases on to m.o.d. would be confusing. thank you. president murphy: thank you. next speaker? i see none. next item. sonya? >> ok. item 3c, update on permit tracking systems. director day: yes. i'm pleased to announce that we have an r.f.p. that will be going to the city attorney's office and to the human rights commission by the 15th of october for review. we should be able to put the r.f.p. to the steering

committee before the first of november, which is the steering committee of the permit tracking system which includes members from other city agencies, the controllers' office, the department of technology. and they will comment on the final r.f.p. we home to get it back out on the street and advertised during the month of november so that we can accept bids by the first 6 january. -- -- of january. president murphy: any comments? seems like we hear this report every month since i've been around here, five or six years now. we never get any closer. any public comments? seeing none. next item. >> item 3d, update on d.b.i.'s role in response to emergencies. director day: yes. i've had several meetings with the department of public works regarding the roles that some of of their engineers and

architects will play in the event of an emergency in a callout. i'm also going to be meeting with h.s.a. and the mayor's office of housing regarding their role in response to emergency callouts. we will also include the department of emergency management in that meeting so that we're all on the same page about where people report to in the event of an emergency and how different priorities are going to be handled in the e.o.c. center and rdoc center regarding all buildings for the city and county of san francisco for which we are responsible for as the building department. so whether it's private and public in the event of an emergency, even if it's state-owned, we become responsible for reporting on those buildings so we wanted to have a collective method of reporting. so we are converging and having meetings regarding this so we are going forward on that. commissioner walker: that's great. can you keep us updated on

that. also in light of the san bruno issue with the gas lines, i would ask that our department move that issue. it doesn't seem to move on its own, and we brought it up with some of the wood frame recommendations that the gas lines and auto shutoff valves, especially in large buildings, be looked at. it might be part of this process. especially the ability for pg&e to automatically shut off gas in the case of emergency. and who makes that call? director day: right. they are looking into that with the utility companies due to the fact that they are responsible for the utilities and the public rite of way. and we can only be responsible for the utilities that are on the property. commissioner walker: right. director day: so our building inspectors are look as they go

through the building to make sure there are proper gas shutoffs in the buildings that they do inspect. we don't have a mandatory program at this time to do that, but that's something that we can look into. commissioner walker: good. yeah, that's a big deal. and it's one that we actually -- the ability to have somebody make a call to shutoff gas to quadrants is a big deal. and this would be probably a good process to include that conversation in. president murphy: commissioner hechanova? commissioner hechanova: i would like to add besides just shutoff of gas but the possibility of also water that might not become available to fight the fire that's already going where the gas might have been shut off, but the flame issues. especially on wood frame buildings. that water, as a firefighting component of it, is also essential to the whole effort to have a collective and

comprehensive approach to the emergency response. director day: right. and that was part of the bond issue that just was passed with the fire department to reevaluate the existing supplemental water supply to fight fires. and that is going to be started to be worked on by the fire department and replaced soon. the auxiliary water supply. commissioner hechanova: thank you. president murphy: we have shutoff valves in place for every building in san francisco as it stands right now. we might consider educating the public a little bit on how to shut these valves off. it amazes me how many people have no idea where their gas meter is, how many people don't have a clue how to turn it off. that would be my suggestion, if we could encourage, educate the public.

i know the utility companies are supposed to do that, but they don't always do it. any further comments? seeing none. >> my name is bob melky with small property owners. on the gas shutoff issue, housing inspectors for years have been requiring the wrench be installed at the main shutoff of any r-2 building, three units and more. and there was always a diagram that was there to show them how to turn the lever. so they've been doing that for years. you know, you could amplify that if you wanted to and stuff. but they've been doing that for years. i just wanted to bring that up as a point. thank you. president murphy: thank you. any further comments?