-- oldest * this event is october 7 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. finally department of public works has just announced one of the chronicles most experienced and most respected reporters rachel gored enhas accepted dpw's offer and will join public affairs. great catch. great to get somebody from the other side of the press. with that, i have no more announcements, madam secretary. so, next item, please. >> okay. is there any public comment on the president's announcements? seeing none, item 3, general public comment. the bic will take public comment on matters within the commission's jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. [inaudible]. >> before we start comment, i just want to read into the -- members of the public may address the commission on items not appearing on the agenda for a period of time not to exceed

three minutes. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. thank you. good morning, commissioners. my name is spencer gash. i've been a building inspector for the city and county of san francisco for 22 years i've been a resident 32 years. i'd like to request all persons who had a bad experience with this department to come to the meetings and let the commissioners know about the problems. meetings occur the third wednesday of the month in city hall room 40 16 assuming the president doesn't reschedule the public comment for some other less usable time, let's say. i'd like to read a further prepared statement. folk, i don't want to be here. my presence is a direct result of the persons who are allowing the mismanagement of the department of building inspection, that's you. racism, i was here last month stating the facts. you are now after multiple notifications continuing to foster and condone racism in

the department you oversee. this exists in hiring, promotional opportunities, job assignments and exhibits itself in other ways. i would like to -- you to make efforts to stop it immediately. in spite of the city attorney's foolish and erroneous opinion that you need to do nothing about my complaints, you are responsible. i suggest you seek outside counsel regarding your responsibilities and liabilities. the statistical evidence of the charge of racism is that according to current organization chart. civil structural engineering class of dbi 80% chinese ethnicity, remaining include vietnamese and filipino sympathetic to the chinese leadership. the first white engineer was hired two months ago. other racial disparities could be found. should we look? topic of official misconduct. i would like to address a larger problem. discussion of racism you refuse to do anything about, the larger problem is the lack of written authorized direction to staff.

for the last four plus years there have been no such documents produced by our management. once again, how can this commission allow a department to exist with no written and authorized policies and procedures? how can you allow these persons whose actual title include the word director not direct? once again a director has not issued directives is committing malfeasance at the level of misconduct. the lack of written direction for a lengthy period of time has resulted in complete confusion in that department. from operating by word of mouth only. should this department become criminal or operating in a criminal manner? regardless who hughey and sweeney have to go. the complete lack of written policy are a symptom of the real problem at the department and at the monthsv. let's not forget the mayor. the real problem is you and the mayor condone this pathetic situation * with the willful lack of oversight. you have allowed these people to get away with so much for so long they're starting to believe their own bull sheet that they can get away with anything. you ask they are wrong. i'll see you next month.

thanks for listening. >> any further public comment? >> the next speaker. commissioners, good morning, my name is robert davis at the bayview. and i'd like to ask to bring up some topics. i have some prepared notes. one is an emergency demolition order that was signed by the acting director back on august 7th for property located at the corner of thornton and 3rd street of the bayview. the owner has done nothing and the 30-day period is past. the next item is 48 01 3rd street, which as you see in my notes was the subject of a lien. went to the board of supervisors. it was taken off of the lien list because alan davidson from this department or the dbi said receipts have been received and the fines have been paid, but no receipts actually have been forthcoming from the department showing that the fines have been paid.

i'd kind of like to clear that up. thank you for mentioning that, open directors hearing, thank you for that also. key matic, i appreciate you mentioning that. i have a easy solution for that and i offer to show commissioner lee did have a look at that. it seems to have gotten nowhere. and the last thing is 18 81 oakdale just to refresh your memory, this is a property that i think about last year in november, about four months later had a fire. about 30 people were displaced including men, women and children. fortunately nobody was injured, but, of course, being displaced is a certain kind of injury. and the building just needs to be knocked down. it needs another emergency demolition order, i believe. it's just been on the radar for too long and too many people have inspected it. too much has gone on and there's been no action. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> can i just say -- >> not in public comment.

>> i'm just asking if we can get a response from the director -- >> we'll finish public comment and then -- yeah, go ahead. hello, i'm carl shier. i've been working on a project on 17th street for two years. we've been trying to get a permit. this permit has zero issues. we still do not have a permit yet. i sent letters to the department heads certified, even to the commission, you folks as well, pdf files. as of this date i have not received any response and these were sent out last spring. we're just trying to -- actually you talked earlier about derelict buildings. as a brief history, this building has been vacant for 15 years. and, so, it's just a shell of a building. we've been trying to kind of rehab it, actually move into it as a home.

we've had zero help from the city, zero. * in fact, it's been a stumbling block every part of the way. i'd like to ask your assistance into looking into this and somehow have some response, have some accountability from the department. your help and assistance would be greatly appreciated. thank you. >> would you give the address? it's 4388 17th street. >> 43 -- >> 88 -- 4388 17th street. and what's on the plate right now is when we purchased the property, it was actually held by the city. it was a probate sale. the house was so bad that we wanted to secure it. and, so, we were immediately hit by the city with fines from the previous owner, which was the city. we got a permit and now we got a permit to do more work.

we now have two permits that are intertwined and we can't close out the first permit because it's attached to the other permit. and, so, now what we've -- we have an order of abatement for the first permit even though there's nothing we can do to close out the first permit. so, i'm going to be back hooer in just a few days for an abatement hearing for that. * here and i have not been able to talk to anyone about this or get any communication whatsoever. so, again, your assistance, any possible way, to have some kind of communication from the department, i'd appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. is there any more public comment? [speaker not understood]. the previous speaker made a reference to 48th and 3rd street. that address was sent to the

board of supervisors lien cycle. that is a common practice and procedure where if a property owner appears at the board, the borden courages the department to work with the propertd quite pulled from the calendar. now, when the address is pulled, it's not that the fee is waived. the fee is still outstanding. but we work with the property owner. and if it's not paid during the following year, it is on the calendar for lien for the following year. so, just like to clarify that. as regards the speaker before that, once again i'd like to distance myself from that speaker. i don't like to have any association with people that spoke, you know, something of a negative nature. i'm with the department a long time. i work with a lot of different individuals, different backgrounds, races, you name

it. and, you know, we're all very proud of the department, with the diversity we have and how we all get along, and how our diversity is a strength because in working with each other we're better equipped to deal with a public that is very difficult verse also. so, i'd just like to make that comment. thank you. * diverse >> thank you. next speaker. seeing none. >> we're on to item number 10, adjournment. >> public comment is closed. >> public comment is now closed. is there a motion to adjourn? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> are all commissioners in favor? >> aye. >> we'll now adjourn the meeting. it is 11:50 a.m.

close the meeting with a moment of silence for james mccrayv senior. thank you. we're now adjourned. [adjourned]