affecting my life, the people that i know. >> [speaking vietnamese] >> i hope you are going to pass the ordinance today. hopefully, that will replicate in marin county, where i live. thank you very much. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker please. >> hello, i am here on behalf of the breast cancer fund. we are a national organization but we are based in san francisco and we focus on breast cancer prevention by identifying and advocating for the elimination of the environmental causes of breast cancer. we're also a founding member of the campaign for sit cosmetics.

in 2007, california passed a law to require cosmetic manufacturers to list the chemicals used and their products. we also began a campaign against product manufacturers to take out the toxic trio of their products. while these campaigns have been successful, they have been successful only up to a point. product testing shows that the toxic trio is still in many different products and even if they are in some products and not others, the consumer has no way to know what is safe and what is not. i am expecting mother. i love to get pedicures. it is one of the few joys you have as you are pregnant. i would love to know that the product being used on maine are safe, especially considering the health affects associated with these chemicals.

what we found at the breast cancer fund over our research in the past 15 years is that a little toxic chemical is never okay. you are never exposed to just one toxic chemical. it adds up over time, and mixes with others. it is one thing if you are a consumer, but quite another if you are a worker, being around these chemicals for up to 10 hours a day. i want to applaud you for bringing this ordinance forward. i hope this ordinance is replicated across the country. i urge the board to support this measure. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is kimberly irish. we are also members of the california healthy nail salon collaborative.

we support this ordinance because it encourages nail salons to prioritize worker and consumer health. we thank you for introducing this ordinance, supervisor chiu. we hope that it passes. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is alicia harris. i am also part of breast cancer action. one of our areas is to educate and due out reach about the influence of involuntary exposure is to toxins on health. as well as having a professional interest in this topic, i am also a resident of san francisco. i pass by a number of nail salons to and from work every day. i notice every day when i pass burn, the smell lingers for a long time.

and this is just walking by outside. when i think about that every working inside for up to 10 hours a day. i have the opportunity to cross the street or take a different route to work, but that is not something thati i am grateful, supervisorzb chi, for the introduction of this ordinance. i hope it passes. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i am here on behalf of work safe. i am here to express our support for the ordinance. i am also a resident of san francisco. i am here to support it as an individual resident. we work to help people advocate for a self -- safe and healthy

workplace. we support the ordinance because it will encourage the use of safe products. there are approximately 1800 workers in the nail salon industry in this city. as we have heard, they are in the process of implementing a dream chemistry initiative, which will protect californians from harmful chemicals. however, the process has taken a long time to implement a meaningful protections that california desert. in the meantime, encouraging the use of safer products is an example of san francisco leading the way to protect its residents, workers, and consumers alike, and to provide a model addressing health and safety issues. thank you to supervisor chiu for your sponsorship, and to the rest of the supervisors for your leadership. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker.

>> thank you. my name is jenny. i would ask that you support the policy. we want a safe and healthy environment for students to learn. we hope that this law will pass. supervisor chiu: if you wish to speak, please speak closer to the microphone. >> good morning. all the superintendent the authority of san francisco business school, our school all support the ordinance. we hope the law can pass because of the training for the co-worker like a really safe place. thank you.

supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is fong. i am a manicurist and i'm working at a nail salon. i know that every day we have really hard time to smells and all the chemicals and products. it's really -- i really want to have the safer products for everyone. it's good for people that work like us every day there. and also everyone would be -- have a baby there in their life they'll have one or two children. and protect for clients come to us. it's really helpful if we have a safe place to work. and protect for everyone that come to our salon. thank you very much. supervisor chiu: thank you.

next speaker. >> good morning. my name is kim. i'm the owner of nova nail spa located on 811 mission street in san francisco. my husband and i, we have been our nail spa, we using the recycles, recycling materials. also we using all the nail products is natural. we don't do the acrylic at all. anything in our nail spa is -- we are using nail polish remover, it's nontoxic, lotion and cream. everything. so basically we are already green.

i think this is a very important for myself. and the worker at my salon, for example. i would like to -- i'm here today so i think this ordinance will improve the health of the nail salon worker. i hope the city will approve. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is chris. i'm with arabian law caucus. my organization is a member of the arabian american center for advancing justice. we are a co-sponsor of this ordinance. i'm also a resident of district five. i wanted to offer a few comments this morning from a civil and human rights perspective about the importance of the proposed program. everyone in the city deserves access to a clean and safe work

environment. this is especially the case in local nail salons where extended periods of exposure to toxic chemicals is common. a california occupational mortality study indicated, for instance, that cost mowtologist vs. a 1.8 times greater incidence rate of breast cancer. this proposed program is essential because the regulatory agencies at the federal level such as the f.d.a. do not conduct independent premarket assessments on personal care products like nail products. san francisco is taking an important step in making nail salons healthier and safer. for the vietnamese community, small business and nail salons in particular are an important economic force. for the last several years my colleagues at a.l.c. have worked hard to establish key relationships in the community to build support for this initiative. this recognition approach is a much needed step to making the industry sustainable for the work force and lays an important foundation for increasing health and safety standards for san francisco workers, business

owners, and consumers. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is henry and i work at a nail salon. i think 24 program--this program will help nail salons have a healthier salon environment and i think this is a good idea for nail salons. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. could you pull your microphone back.

>> my name is nip. i work at the nail salon in san francisco. i feel bad that i don't understand a lot of everything that was said, but then i couldn't understand -- i don't want to repeat this again. however i think this is a really good program that can help for everyone's health working in

salons. [speaking in foreign language]

>> i want to get to the problem that we could talk to the manufacturers to reduce the concentrations and the chemicals inside nail products. especially nail polish that once you open and you start coughing. she just wants to reduce the concentrations or toxicity in that so she won't have to cough anymore. she think the program would really help for everyone's health working in the salon.

>> i have been using this product and it doesn't have a lot of smells an i think it really helps improve the salon's conditions. i would hope in the future there are more products like that so we won't have to smell these chemicals. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is van nguyen. the owner of new york nails. i am here today to speak on this. thank you. supervisor chiu: next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors and

everyone here. my name is christine, um' with the center for environmental health based in oakland. we also work statewide and nationwide on getting toxic chemicals out of products and manufacturing processes. for almost 15 years the septre for environmental health has worked to get toxic chemicals out of children's products, prior marely children's products . about a decade ago we were part of the bay area working group on precautionary principle, the simple yet vital idea when it comes to toxic chemicals we need to look bothways before we expose our most vulnerable, children, elders, and pregnant women. today c.e.h. stands with and continues to work with all the groups today urging you, the san francisco board of supervisors, to continue to be at the forefront as you were with the precautionary principle to protect your city's workers and residents from the toxic three. your leadership can protect our most vulnerable. we can work with small businesses to ship markets to to

safer alternatives and be a beacon for other cities to follow. thank you. supervisor chiu: i'm marty martinez, within district eight. i'm with the california pan ethnic health network. a statewide health policy organization working to improve health of the communities of color we strongly support this ordinance. thanks thanks. supervisor chiu: thank you. let me ask are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on this topic? seeing none at this time, the public comment is closed. i want to thank all of you for coming out today. it's funny with at love legislation sometimes good legislation comes from identity december of my colleagues and i, but this is an idea that was really brought by the community. it was brought to us by public health advocates, by advocates for immigrant workers, by advocates for the environment, and all these folks coming together in the coalition and collaborative as helped it move forward. i want to thank you both for

bringing it to us as well as the work i know you're going to do in the coming months and years to make sure this program hopefully does become an ideal model for the rest of this state and country. with that, colleagues, could i ask if we could move this without -- yes, supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to complement our colleague, supervisor david chiu. i also have co-sponsored on to this legislation. in san francisco for a good 20 years before we eeven had a department of environment has really been testing the boundaries of the federal government's registry on what they consider to be acceptable or not in terms of household and workplace toxic that -- toxins that people are exposed to on a daily basis. and that we understand that due to the powerful interest of the chemical industry, especially their grip on washington, and how that influences the kind of

registry in giving the acceptable means of toxins just like what is being evaluated here today because of the relationship to nail salons, etc., that that on a national level is considered to be ok. well, it's not ok in san francisco. and i really do appreciate how this legislation helps sets up a framework that while we navigate the strata between state and federal government, san francisco continues to push forward and says that we will not allow these hazards to be in our workplace environment, especially which is predominantly administered by immigrant communities and nonspeaking communities where they are off taken advantage of and that, of course, in our households. our job here is to be clean, green, safe, and smart and this legislation leads right to that. thank you to the many advocates who really helpedpropel us into this position. it's smart legislation but it's also really common sense.

supervisor chiu: thank you. with that, colleagues, could we have a motion to send this to the full board with recommendation? motion by supervisor mirkarimi. without objection, that should be the case. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor chiu: at this time this meeting is adjourned. i've been clean four years! fifty-six ys! i've been in long-term recovery for 23 years. i've been in recovery for six months and love it! i've been in recovery for over 15 years! every september, people gather all across the country to celebrate recovery from addiction. i am so grateful for 19 years of recovery. it's changed my life, changed my children's lives. for information or for events near you, visit recoverymonth.gov

get involved and join the voices for recovery. >> good morning, today is thursday, october 7, 2010. this is a special meeting of the building inspection commission, at this time i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices first item on the agenda is roll call. president murphy? >> present. >> vice president. >> commissioner lynch? >> commissioner mar? commissioner mayor and walker are excused. we have a quarm and the next item on the agenda is president's announcements. >> i don't have announcements. >> seeing no announcements, item 3 g is electric report.

>> yes. good morning, commissioners, viffian day. commissioner. i don't have any updates on the -- but i do have a permit on the tracking system. we did get our rfp out, they are reviewing it so we should have it back before the end of the month. so we are doing something on the permit tracking system. thank you matic system which is the customer cuing system within the department, we're waiting for one more piece of equipment to be installed on the fifth floor before we put it into protection which hopefully will be around the first of november. >> do you know how many bids we're going to get on that? >> on the permit tracking system? i do not know. i do know there are more companies in existence. there are several other companies that are now doing this type of work, software

programming for this. so we're hoping we will get a good, sufficient number of bids for this. >> and some good pricing, i hope. >> ok. do we have any public comment on the director's report? >> good morning commissioner. the district court on the queue matic. i would like to sort of see how that is going to work. we have concerns about thou routing's going to be so, we don't get stuck waiting for the architectural plan check and then have any other stages checked. and we really haven't seen this process, so i was hoping from what the director said the last meeting that this would come to -- for us to have a look at it

before actually implement it, so i'd like to see that happen before actually going, because once it's in and you know what it's like to change and reverse it after i would just hope we would do that. >> thank you. >> yes. the next pac meeting is scheduled for later this month, i believe it's on the 21st. 7 and yes. and yes. we will have l will be -- we will have a demonstration of that meeting of the queue matic system. >> commissioner homestretch nova? >> i'm sorry. >> has there been any material change from where it began earlier this year come fired what's going out now? >> in the queuematic system, no. it's just queuing system. the original queuing system was set up back in the b.p.r. process, which was over two years ago. and we've tweaked it internally. to make sure that the -- if a

station is available for review, and another station is on hold, that the customer would be routed to the station that is available first. and so we will be testing it before we put it into full implementation with you know test cases as soon as we get all of the equipment installed. >> the full body of the permit tracking system that is going out? >> oh, you're talking about the r.f.p.? >> yes. >> the body of the r.f.p. has changed significantly with d.b.i. taking over control of the core system, the core software system and others coming on as modules to tho that system, so we will be purchasing that hardware, the core system and enterprising license for the whole city in other words maintain both the hardware and software for the city and special implementation will be done for each department as they come on in the system.

>> any further questions? seeing none? >> and just as general information, i believe it was asked at the last meeting regarding the p.a.c. meeting. those meeting a jendas and minutes are on our website. so i just wanted to make that clear. carolyn, the director secretary takes care of those meetings, and if anyone has questions about how to find it on the website, you can give carolyn a call. >> thank you, anne. >> thank you. >> any further public comments? seeing none. >> ok. we can move on to item number four, public comments, the b.i.c. will take public comments on the jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. >> any public comments? seeing none, then. >> seeing no public comment that the time we are going to move items number seven and eight to be heard next regarding the cap program so,

that we can let these people give their presentation. the item number seven is update on community action plan for seismic safety. we have mr. tom toen from a.t.c. here. >> mr. president, members of the commission, good morning and thank you for having me on your agenda for today. what i would like to do is to make a brief presentation. i've made a few power points to keep myself on track. and lit only take a few minutes. but i wanted to describe the approach that we're taking to the caps project. secondly to discuss the status

of it and tell you lastly what we see are the third or final steps. this graphic fetishes you'll look on the handouts i think it's the second to the last page is a little larger version of it that you might follow. basically what i wanted to point out is the process we're following, one, is that our first step is to establish what are the policies? what are the objectives that the city has during a performance during an earthquake? to do that we look at several sources of information. the san francisco general plan and the community safety on in familiar provides that kind of policy ginets for the city. we also -- guidance for the city. we also rely greatly on our advisory committee. it consists of 50 or 60 people. they don't attend every meeting

but meetings throughout the year and their insight gives us attitudes and insights of individual groups within the city, and the third source has been spur. as you know spur has published reports on what it sees as recommendations as the way the city of san francisco should perform after an earth quake and for existing buildings have set recovery targets based on their sense of priorities. after that we are not doing anytime consequence but this is the miffedology if you will. our two report which is near the complete is the study on the losses we expect would happen in san francisco before reasonnably respectible earthquake scenarios. though there's lots of data, and rather than doing everything fourl times, we've told the story using a magnitude 7.2th quake on the an andres