roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. the next item is item b, the oath. will all parties giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand? anyone giving testimony? no. the next item is item c, continued appeals, orders of abatement, case #6752, 1743 12th avenue.

action requested by appellate to reverse the order of abatement. >> good morning. the two parties are under an accord situation. this may resolve the matter. you have a request in your package for a continuance. the department would be ok with that. >> do we need a motion? >> questions? >> move to continue. >> second. >> there is a motion to continue the item. all in favor? any opposed?

is there any public comment on this item? >> i am the attorney for and james wong, in downtown neighbor of the subject property. we agree with the request for a continuance that was submitted by heather wolnick. we believe this will be sufficient time for the arbitrator to give his decision. >> any other public comment? >> seeing none, all were in

favor. were there any opposed? the motion to continue the case is granted. item d, new appeals, orders of abatement. case no. 6759, 575 shotwell street. action requested by appellant, to reverse the order of abatement and assessment of costs. >> we are happy to announce the appeal has been withdrawn because they provided us with the necessary permits, so the order of abatement is revoked. there are no costs outstanding. in the letter you received related to the withdrawal, you will see in the first paragraph of the first two in the case before you today, a second

paragraph in the letter referring to another complaint that is not before you today. just making that clarification. thank you. >> item e. general public comment. is there anyone here for general public comment relating to abatement appeals board? seeing none, item f, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> motion. >> second. >> the building inspection commission meeting will begin at 9:45 a.m. we are adjourned.

>> we will call this meeting to order. this is our second disaster council of 2012. i will turn this over to the mayor to make a few remarks. >> thank you, everyone, for participating on this meeting. as you know, it is obviously not

a high priority. we're using every opportunity to practice. we are engaging our businesses, making sure that everyone has the supplies. i do strongly feel that what we're doing is going to allow us to recover so well after any major incidents. i just came back from celebrating the final signing and recognition of the america's cup. the reality is 500,000 people, maybe a weekly basis.

we have posted 3 different workshop scenarios to handle crowd and responses and getting ready for all of the anticipated populace that will come into the city. while we enjoy of course the big economic contribution to the work force and to business, we also have to be focused on everyone's safety. that is partly what makes the event so successful. the more that we do that with all of our partners here, the more the event will be safe, therefore more successful. i am also very interested in every type about reach that we do in our neighborhoods and thank you, supervisor cohen, for joining us. i know that we are trying to be creative and constantly

reminding people about to the equipment and products that they should have. there is going to be another effort to make sure that we have a campaign to educate our public to get the right equipment and have it available to them. this is being planned and it is called "what are you shopping for?" we take every opportunity to remind everyone. thanks to our fire chief and his wife and to her work that we properly use the month of april. this takes advantage of the commemoration of the 1906

earthquake. those of you that did that, we will thank you for next year. it does what it is supposed to do. it gets everyone's attention. this is a commemoration, also a reminder of what we can do. the more kids that we can get attention to your club of the more they will have a culture. this should be the way that we live our lives in the san francisco bay, to be ready and to be a collaborative. to be ready no longer just to help yourself. we will move beyond that. it is about you being prepared and then being prepared to help someone else. that will be thematic for everything.

we celebrate this and all of our relationships. this is with our business community or with our groups. thank you for being part of this and keeping a vigilant with the education. the collaboration with the nonprofits, from the red cross, to the interfaith council, and our business leaders. i do think that our emergency response department has really felt that they are no longer by themselves and they have a lot partnerships to respond with because everyone has elevated their attention and preparation. >> thank you. >> i have a very brief directors report today.

i wanted to let everyone know that the board of supervisors will be approving the 2011 -- appropriations which will bring about $35 million into the bay area. of that, 5.5 million is going to san francisco. we were waiting for the guidelines for 2012. the bay area receive a reduction in funding. this coming year, year 2012. even though our relatives for went from 5 in the nation to numberfour. we received a larger cut than chicago. they received a 13% cut. given that our mayor and other local mayors sent a letter to secretary of paul lozano

expressing their distress with this -- secretary napalitano expressing their distress with this. we are really hoping that the attention that we have given this is going to help us in 2013 and that we will not be hit again and hopefully our allocations will go back out. i wanted to update you on the system, the interoperable communications system. i talked about it before motorola got the funding. 1 of 7 areas in the country to receive this finding to start to build out this system. we have put together a regional joint powers agreement which the chief and myself sit on 4 san

francisco. lots of good things happening. congress in february, you have probably heard this come up last new lead -- probably heard about this, passed new legislation. there will be a larger area of legislation. the problem is that it is transferring responsibility from the fcc over to and cia for developing this program. over to ntia for developing this program. the new board that congress establish will be set up in august and we are not sure yet exactly what will happen. we are continuing to move forward although ntia has cautioned us to slow down a little bit. we were trying to meet every single 1 of the federal deadlines because the original finding was