we're working on trying to figure out how to charge rent and electricity, whether it is metered or some way. we're going to share in the cost, the benefit for them is they will not be located somewhere else where they did not want to go. there is efficiencies that can be in terms of just bought efficiency, which is i am not going where i do not want to go, verses we will have inefficiencies and operation and cost sharing. >> will that be defined by an mou? >> yes. right now we're trying to figure out the costs so we can share them. we have experience with human services agencies in terms of sharing things.

wheat contract with them for the help desk. we have a history of really cooperative working with them and i am sure there will come through. i do not want to do little ones, i want to do a larger one of the actual construction. >> thank you. >> the other one i wanted to talk about is the cash management system, because this will also have a large impact on the project. it is looked at favorably because we are partnering with the tax collector on this project. it will actually replace the p.o.s. system that is extremely antiquated. we now have the first requirement document, and we hope to sign off by january that we're still looking at project launched by the end of april.

we have an integration point that we built into the scope of work with the permit tracking system, so these things can work together. >> thank you. commissioners, any questions? >> item 7g, update on new hires. >> we have not hired any new positions since we last talked to you, however, we do have several requisitions out. we are interviewing for three electrical inspectors on of the 14th, sometime this week. we have a couple of other positions that are stuck in the

human-resources department for additional information, and as i mentioned, the clerks are just plain that stock, and we're talking to everyone we can about getting those moved. >> how long will they stay stuck? a month? two months? >where are they being held at risk and diminished services? >> i have talked personally to our analyst in the mayor's office about four times on this. i have talked all the way to the deputy director of human resources department on its commo and,, and we are told thel try to do research and figure out -- there is a committee that

consists of the mayor's office, a human-resources, and i believe the comptroller's office, and a review of requisitions. for some reason it has been sitting there for almost a month, and we are doing our best to try to get it through. i expected to be released this month. >> thank you. >> any public comment on the directors' report items 7a-7g? seeing none, item 8, commissioners questions in matters, increase to stop. at this time commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding practices and procedures that are of interest to the commission.

>> commissioners? >> i know a couple the months ago we met with staff to review the program. subsequently there was a hearing at the board of supervisors specifically dealing with seniors and s.r.o.'s. it would seem we may have issues to resolve as to the out reach to the seniors community. i talked a little bit with the president about this that maybe we could meet with clabber this -- collaboratives and see where our department and our reach organizations could communicate better to help with code enforcement. maybe just an ongoing thing we could look at, especially how it affects seniors.

>> i know the category here is we're providing the funding, but they are the ones doing the work. they are the ones responsible for the execution of that, and we continue to see that there is some shortfall on the level performance. >> there is some sort of disconnected i think could be helpful to discuss. >> are those mou's pending or on going? >> i think they are up this coming year. >> we did you an r.f.p. and received proposals -- most or all of our current vendors are currently negotiating price with them. we did it proposals that were slightly higher than we are

budgeted for. we will the fiscal year 2012-2013 and discussing that with the mayor's office. hopefully -- we're doing grants this year. we should have the grant agreements finish before christmas so the current contracts do expire at the end of the year. we're hoping to have everything done before christmas. >> maybe it is time to look and see if we are recovering. i have concerns about the senior community, which is only going to get larger are over the next few years, and making sure that we are addressing the needs that might be unique to that population as we talk about multiple family buildings. >> the real challenge here is the fiscal responsibility where the department is being asked to ratchet down 5 percent signed, and then there are those that ask for more than what they had

been advocated from last year. that is a very difficult task in the category of what they want more than what has been allocated. >> that is something that will have to be discussed as part of next year's budget. >> yes. thank you. >> i am still not comfortable -- i know we went around and around to date about that. i still think there has to be a way to break this down where properties that have not been turned over -- let's use a number of 20 years that have been sold, changed hands. at that time there would have been a 3r report issued.

let's say the same property in the past 20 years has gone through renovation and had permits for that job. deputy sweeney could probably answer that better. doesn't that get put into the database? that should be very easy to retrieve an updated and issued a report. why should that take a week and a half, 10 days, the same as the one when you are going back to the 1920's or 1800's? i can understand why that one would take two weeks. but a new building, that information should be right there. is there a way we can break this down so that we do not get stock 100%? we're stuck, what say we get

stuck 50 percent signed, but the other 50 percent signed it -- is there a way to release that? i would love to have someone take a look at that, and i believe there is a way. >> any other commissioner comments? >> any other public comment on item 8a? >> nancy again. i would like to ask the commission to request a follow- up to the information you heard today on can't swing it permits, because once a permit has been cancelled, sometimes people want to actually then read new expired permits, and i think that is a separate issue, and it would benefit everyone if we had an update from the department to identify what is the process whereby an expired permit is

then able to be renewed? what are the apostasies, time lines, cost? i think it is the kind of procedural issue that interjects with planning. we have heard they have a three- year entitlement, which then expires, so you have an obligation but -- because you own and control the flow of information of any permits over to them. you are their agent. i would recommend we have a complete update so everyone is on the same page on how this works and what is required. thank you for your consideration of those requests. >> thank you. >> any additional public comment? item 8b, future meetings or agendas. at this time the council make this as a future meeting were determined items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future

meetings of the building inspection commission. the next meeting is on january 18, and in january, as gail mentioned, is when we hear the budgets. there may be a possibility of having a special meeting if needed. that date will possibly be on june 3 31st. >> when is the next pact meeting? >> thursday. at 2:00. >> any commissioner comments on item b? any public comment on 8b? seeing none, review and approval of the regular meeting. >> tis everyone in agreement

that this meeting is finished? >> i want to thank you for trying to catch us up on this. thank you. any public comment on item 9? >> i would like to wish everyone a happy christmas. happy new year. >> happy holidays. 9 > >> all the staff. >> item 10, adjournment. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> we're now adjourned.

>> please join me in welcoming our mayor, ed lee. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i am very happy to join all of you here today. it is an exciting day to join our high school kids, our high school, here at john o'connor. principal gomez, our deputy superintendent, our school board

president, and our building trade, thank you for being here. the director of the joint power trended authority. we have the sfpuc, the school alliance, school district personnel. we are all here because we are excited about this wonderful announcement. we are here in a very green, multipurpose use building that has just been opened. this is going to be representing something that i am quite familiar with. i know mike and others closer to my age, we had a wood shop. we had metal shop in middle school. we had exposure to how to deal with graphs. more importantly, you are talking to somebody who used to spend five years at the department of public works, as

the director. we're having to pay attention to our infrastructure, one of the most important things any city can do. when we are trying to grow a new economy -- and as you know, i have gone around the city selling this idea about how the economy is about tech jobs, but we also have an important infrastructure to take care of. if we do not take care of the infrastructure, these other jobs will not be here. jobs at the transbay terminal, which we are already building, celebrating and historic project labor agreement. we also have a commitment to our growing kids, that we are going to get them there. they are not just going to school to get bored. they have to have those jobs here, and we need them trained and ready for those jobs.

so, in this new economy, when we are investing, like our city is, my commitment to the city is making sure we pay attention to infrastructure. we are going to do it right and make sure that our kids know, by fulfilling their educational goals, being exposed to a facility like this, where you are building our labor representatives with the curriculum that the school district has offered to work with the infrastructure agencies that we have just mentioned, we have a curriculum that will train them in the jobs to come. being able to pay attention to this overt -- capital structures of the city, our high school kids can be exposed and get the experience, whether it is automotive, engineering, architectural design. they will get that exposure here in the center with all of

the participants. so i am excited about this because it blends so much of what i believed in, what we have been doing in the city. all of our facilities that we are building in the city, whether you look at the mission bay, the building's at hunters point, treasure island, a partner said, all of these projects, or the hospital's going up, they will all meet plant engineers, in infrastructure commitments. for our high school kids, as you often heard, maybe not enough, i want to welcome you to the million-dollar club. that is the difference, what our school district is trying to teach all of you, to make sure that you know there is a difference between someone who just graduated from high school, and someone who will go after their college education. it is a million-dollar

difference. i want all of you to participate in that million dollar economy, because that will be the difference. and we will be working, not only through the school alliance, city colleges, local colleges to make sure we reinforce that. i am here to celebrate, participate, and the knowledge all of a great, wonderful entities that have come together to create this tech 21 center, where this exposure and experience will happen, with your leadership, printable gomez. these kids will be able to see they have a way forward in this challenging city, but one that will be there city, when they have all the skills. thank you very much for being here. [applause] >> thank you. mr. mayor, we want to thank you on behalf of the 56,000 students

in the san francisco unified school district, children of our community, for your tireless work on their behalf. we look forward to calling you a long-term partner. thank you. the mayor was gracious with his time. as you can imagine, he has a full schedule today and asked to be part of this ceremony today to show his appreciation for the work being done here. we want this to be a celebration and i would probably take until now until 3:00 to thank all of the dignitaries here, but i wanted to recognize some of our elected officials and dignitaries. of course, you met mayor lee, and we also have with us today two commissioners of our board of education. commissioner sandra fuhr.

we also have commissioner moss. [applause] we are very happy to with us also -- the mere mention her -- our transbay executive director maria ayerdi-kaplan. thank you for being here with us. and the executive vice president for the united educators of san francisco, linda, thank you. and our president of united educators of san francisco, denis kelly. thank you as well. whenever you go down this path, you are going to miss someone. with all due respect, as i see you, i will call you out as we go through the program. thank you for being here. i serve as the separate -- deputy superintendent for social justice. what i would like to think

about, as the good to this dedication ceremony, this is a tangible, real world artifacts of social justice. if we believe social justice is about kids having opportunities to explore career paths, opportunities to have jobs in the real world, if it was not for these types of opportunities, that is social justice. we are happy to have you here to be part of the celebration of social justice. on a personal level, i will say to you, this is so important to me, because i stand before you as the son of a dirty man she metalworker. local 353 in tucson, arizona. why is that important? it is important because mayor lee mentioned, you cannot run a city, have infrastructure for a city, without these jobs. there is a connection between

college and career and career and college. they are very much interconnected. as my father, who never graduated from high school, later earned a ged, the person who taught me geometry was not my geometry teacher, who had a master's degree. she was wonderful, but i was just one of those kids. i learned geometry with my father actually doing the work. when you are cutting out sheet metal, bending the angles, you have to make it fit and you have to measure. i learned about ankles and how geometry works by actually doing it. when i say that career tech education is about college readiness, it is about utilizing all of those skills that we send kids to school every day to learn. this gives you a reason to read and write and do arithmetic,

because you get to apply it. that is the duty of what is happening here today. happy to have you here. what a wonderful building. what do you think? do you like this building? [applause] this is our flexible use green building. we call it the text 21 building. we have not named it officially yet, but there is a naming opportunity for you, if you want to take advantage of that. just kidding. before we dive into the program, i would like to talk more about all the wonderful individuals that have made this a reality. this has truly been a collaborative effort on the part of our partners, union partners, labor partners, educators, former administrators. you will hear from the former principal, dr. schultze, who was part of the original work.

before we get to that, i want to introduce the current principal, martin gomez. this high school is named after one of san francisco's own labor champions, and john o'connell. i want to introduce to you the man leading the academic work in collaboration with all the wonderful teachers here at john o'connell high school. [applause] >> it is a lot more full than it was five minutes ago. as principal, i want to welcome everyone to this event. it is important, not only for o'connell students, but all of san francisco. the district is making a push to include, improve, and pushed toward education. today, we are here to celebrate

another reason of how o'connell is supporting and encouraging all students to be prepared for college and for a career. while some people are spending their time looking at what students are going to college, which are going to a career, with this new tech 21 program, the courses will support students to be prepared for a career, and for college. that is the difference between the programs of before and now. the new tech 21 courses will require students to be able to apply tougher math concepts. the program will recruit students that are college-bound and students that want to go straight into the workforce. the whole purpose is to make sure that these students are prepared for the requirements

that internships and jobs are asking for out of high school. we want to ensure all of the graduates are prepared for these requirements because we are promising them jobs and internships, which is huge for our students, and for san francisco. i want to thank mark, david, the entire ct department, all of the stakeholders, dr. schultze, the previous administration, for making this building, and the course of the reality, which is much needed in san francisco. it is an exciting time to be a high school student in san francisco, but particularly, that john o'connell, and if you are excited about these tech 21 classis, please stay in touch with us as we figure out ways to

continue supporting students. thank you for your time, thank you for coming out, and let's move this forward. [applause]

supervisor avalos: good morning, and welcome to the city operations and neighborhood services committee. my name is supervisor mar avalos, the chair. i am joined by supervisor elsbernd. we will be joined shortly by supervisor mar. the committee clerk is ms. gail johnson. >> all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you submit copies of materials to the members of the committee, please submit an extra copy to the file. if you wish to