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and water records. that will help us to see how come it becomes too as opposed to one-family dwelling. after picking the document we do and other research, just to make sure. we provide a package with that the building permit. every document that we have. we bring it up to the dirt -- deputy director of inspection services. we handed to him. he will look through all the documentation and give that determination. yes, this can be a legal close
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family dwelling. >> does that accommodate the fee structure? when an inspection has to be made of a unit or building? >> really, there is no fee involved. but if there are building permits, i guess. >> is there a significant of occupancy in the code that can be a problem? >> sometimes. >> how often does that take place? i know that when there was the glut of construction that was taking place, the certificate of occupancy sometimes lead before
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>> how many stations are available for public use? >> we have three machines. and we have three other machines with four computers bore the new work permits. >> additional questions? is there a direction by which much of the microfiche film is going to get scan? >> we have that problem in the budget, the project is going forward as we speak to convert all of our existing current records, be they microfiche roles, applicant cards, or other media and we do end with the
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funny is funded >> more important -- funny. >> by itself, making a profit from it is hard to read. >> what the current that does in order to print copies from the rolls of each image so that they can print from the card rather than the film images, which do not print well. even that is a link that they have processed. >> part of the system, it would
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be buying in view only. we would have to knock down the permit images? >> plans are copyrighted and prepared by a designer. you can view them, but you cannot print them. they would have to go back through a process. some bank buildings and so forth and so the senate plans to get them to people who will use temps there are all sorts of
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levels that need to be done manually. they will have to figure out if this building is available to be viewed publicly. this is part of the technology that will interface with the permit tracking system. crosse links so that you can pull up the information in the scan. >> in terms of security if i have not, at -- cad take a picture with it. and that it is caught be written.
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that student public records would be available online. anything that is not being made public record, we would have to go through the records management or 3r process. >> some of these have been world war i processed. [laughter] >> questions and matters, commissioners? any inquiries employe? >> commissioner walker. >> as i did if we could get an update as to what is happening, it is a responsibility.
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any questions? i congratulate commissioners [applause] hechanova and mar. i look forward to working with you. >> further comments? >> also, the new vice president. >> thank-you. >> item #9, future meetings and agendas. our next meeting is in april, the third wednesday. >> what are the schedules of the
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nomination committee? >> litigation met yesterday. the nomination i do not think there are any appointments to do until 2013, but we do have -- ken cleveland was appointed to something by mayor newsom. we have one lady, jane martin who was going to come on board, but decided not to go through the process. i will send out the information to the commissioners. maybe you can help recruit for those two seats. we are ok as far as quorums, agendas. all of those committees are doing fine. commissioner hechanova: that is
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>> he has looked at the quality. he believes in people and human rights. he's one of the greatest guys i know and i'm so happy that he is our major. i bring to you mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> good afternoon. welcome. thank you very much for that wonderful introduction. i have a lot to be happy about. this is the 100th anniversary
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celebrating international women's day and to tell you we have quite a bit to celebrate. we probably have the highest number of women commissioners ever in the history of the city today. isn't that wonderful we have clearly a good and growing balance of women on the board of supervisors, commissions, agency appointments, and department heads. i'm proud to be heading up this very complicated city. [laughter] one that does not let me sleep very much. certainly -- i said this in many occasions. these last eight weeks, i've fallen in love with the city evening the for the eight weeks ago because it's such a wonderful place to be.
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every community that i visite, t fascinates me how so many other people who work here, but even those who do not just love the city and they do what they can to make sure it is running well. it is very natural that as i am thrust with the responsibility of being mayor that i look for talent. i think a lot of the talent is with the women in san francisco. [applause] it has been my pleasure to have been an employee of this wonderful government for some 22 years now. to take you back, i had the pleasure of serving another majoyor some years ago, one that taught me a lot of things. one of the things that i recall back in the late 1990's, the
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early 2000's, was when i was the director of public works. there was this report that came out. it had been a conference at the united nations and this report was being taken very seriously by the commission on the status of women, but one of the things it had not been able to do was penetrate key departments of the city that had been male- dominated for many years. would you think dpw fit that description? it certainly did. this report was handed to me through the mayor's office. of course, the mayor then was mayer brown. and said, "what are you going to do with this?" of course, the first thing you
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do is read it with the understanding that there's probably a lot of information there that's going to be very hard and goals and programs that will be difficult to implement at the department of public works, which have historically been a very male-dominated agency. we made a commitment to the mayor that we would study that report and implement every single one of those as it applied to every level. i was willing to do that. surrounding the were a lot of other powerful women who said it would not be that hard. all you had to do was pay attention. all you had to do was not take no for an answer. all you had to do was look forward, not backwards. with those very little pieces of advice, we took on that task and we found mid-level managers. we found that many women that were trying to get even to the blue-collar work, the work on the streets, had to be treated
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more equally. they had to the processes that were fair. as we went up the ladder, we found it to be easier and easier because we simply paid attention to it in a short time, i was able to report back to our mayor that this program of implementing the principles and making sure that it happened in the very blue-collar department of public works was going on in a very good case. i was able to identify midlevel managers who were women. they were all there for many years, but they just were not invited to become part of management in an open way. i'm here to say to you that a lot of fire successes -- a lot of our successes reflect efforts
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made in the past. i do not think they were too difficult to make one to focus on them. a lot of that also had to do with the enthusiasm that the city has brought to making those goals are real. a lot of that enthusiasm came from the women's summits in san francisco. the one that i remember i did not even get a ticket to because it was so crowded. it's the one mayer brown introduced to the city when he revived the mayor's some -- when he revived the women's summit. i knew there would be a lot of things that came out of that. those of you in those days, you were fighting for those tickets. i just gave up and said what do i have to do. as we looked at the videotapes and the press events that followed, we were blessed with a lot of great insights.
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the encouragement from women of international stature coming from all over the world attending this summit. that makes it easy for me to say to you that the things that i'm doing now and the things that i have done are a lot credited to the predecessors that opened the doors for me and opened the doors for many women. it's very easy to introduce to you someone who has earned this title. this year's man of the year award goes to willie brown, jr. [applause] come on up.
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mr. mayor, thank you very much. i'm just delighted that you are in a position to be able to present this to me. i'm going to work and see if i can win it next year and i'm going to ask you to stick around. [laughter] [applause] and present it to me next year in your capacity as mayor of san francisco. [applause] mayor lee, you have got to know that the women of san francisco that you giave an opportunity to in your capacity as the chief
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administrative officer of the city -- even to the state, the person you designated to replace you, a woman. you elevated women to positions of importance inside of the mayor's office. i saw naomi little out there. one of your deputies -- i do not think they called them deputies anymore. every man has his impression on what happened in this city. i am delighted. i'm going to tell you. many of you on the women's summit when we did those -- when i look around and i see jackie and i think about susan and all the other women who headed the mayor's summit -- i hope that
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as your term unfolds, may yor, you will find athink distinguisn more ways than one. we clearly became the first city to champion what was supposed to be the process being led by the un. we were the very first city to do that with reference to women. [applause] i do not think there is any other municipality anywhere in this country that ever matched what we did in terms of trying to inspire women to become full participants in the pursuit of justice and equality. i'm just delighted, mr. may or, for you to present this
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award. to all of you will have been responsible, shelly, and others, i'm delighted. it's going to go on my wall. i'm going to prove to my daughter susan and to sonia that somebody thinks i'm a man of the year. [applause] [laughter] >> we have one more quick presentation before we do a couple of things. a couple of people mentioned the past womens' summit. jackie is one of them. there are others here. if we could just ask you to stand up. we want to recognize you for the work you did and the history you created. thank you. [applause] >> we have something else for mayor brown.
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i'm having to present him the jet by night -- jdei knight award for all the years he's been working in the death star. you know all the things he has done to support us. we especially want to give him this award for being the first state legislator in the country to find family planning for low- income women. in the 1970's, when he was on the national board of planned parenthood. i do not know if you know that, but i was there. we want to give him a weapon today to help us as a fundamentalists tried to take those rights away from us. mayer brow
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