can do. they have had conversations about how do you make the industry stronger because they are constantly being bombarded with tax and craziness and labor issues and labor boards and on and on and on and why is it important? everybody who has an entertainment license, i would say that 99 percent of them have a liquor license and it is not in the code to make the community out reach, but how much money is that person going to save by going at the beginning and talking to the alliance for better district six, talking to jane kim and getting everybody on their side before they start putting in the protests for the abc because what does that cost them? they get lousy conditions and they have to hire me and spend a bunch of money or somebody to deal with that and maybe they are going to pay the rent for 6 months and then what happens? now they are going into the business weekend and what do they do? >> they start taking chances and book parties that they should not take and bring in

promoters and then the police have a problem. you know, in one sense, it is not good to spoon feed them, but in another sense, you got to help these people. because they have so much coming at them and you got to keep them stronger and i think that community out reach is absolutely right there. get them out there talking to people and making friends in the community, and realizing that they are part of a greater community. and help them. because if you don't, you end up with lousy operators and the people that we see up here, because you know i am always here. the people that you see that don't do the community out reach, they come back and they are shootings and there is craziness and they don't give a damn, and it is like, you know? and so i think that it is important to help them right from the beginning, this is important and this is who you ought to be talking to and get them out there doing it so they don't get the protests on the liquor license >> thank you, any other public comment? >> public comment is closed. >> commissioners i want to thank, commissioner hyde

because our bedazzled gavel is so entertainment commission, it is so cool. all right? >> that was from the harvey milk from for my birthday made last year, by dee lightener. naoe. i am bringing it to be here in the office because other than cracking my roommate over the head i have no use for it at home. >> all right. any items for the next agenda? >> seeing none, i move to adjourn.

>> we're ready to begin the meeting, everyone. good morning. today is wednesday, february 20th, 2013. this is the meeting of the abatement appeals board. i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. the first item on the japed is roll call. president clinch? >> here. >> vice president mel berg? >> here. >> commissioner lee? >> here. >> commissioner mar? >> here. >> commissioner mccarthy? >> here. >> and commissioner walker? >> here. >> and commissioner mccray is excused. we have a quorum. and the next item is item e, the oath. would all persons that may be giving testimony today please

stand and raise your right hand? do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth to the best of your knowledge? >> yes. >> thank you. you may be seated. next item is item c, approval of minutes, discussion of possible action to adopt the minutes for the meeting held on october 24th, 2012. >> move to approve. >> second. >> all in favor of approving the minutes? >> aye. >> any opposed? seeing none, the minutes -- i'm sorry, public comment. is there any public comment on the minutes? the minutes of october 24th are approved. item d, new appeals, orders of abatement, case no. 6771,

[speaker not understood], agent for the appellant, james grossman, action requested by appellant, the appellant is requesting that the order of abatement be revoked and assessment be waived. >> good morning. [speaker not understood] for the department. in reviewing this case for this board, we discovered that executor of the estate got all the permits and cleared the violations, inspections done, signed off, so taking that into consideration, we would recommend that you grant the appellant's request and it would be appropriate there would be no assessment of trust. that's our presentation. thank you. >> thank you.

>> so, the appellant has asked that you waive the abatement and [speaker not understood] the assessment of vote. you need to vote and have public comment. >> public comment first? >> yeah. >> [speaker not understood]. >> is the appellant present? would you like to speak at all or -- you don't have to. you don't have to. [inaudible]. >> come up to the microphone. >> the recommendation is to reverse the order and negate the fees, is that correct? i'm in total agreement with that. i appreciate it. >> okay.

>> well, that's the department's recommendation. i just wonder, what do you feel? you couldn't say anything to us, too. no, i think we're just glad that the action is being considered and the recommendations are positive. appreciate it. >> we need a motion. >> yes, there needs to be a motion. is there any additional public comment on this item? then there needs to be a motion. >> commissioner walker? >> yeah, i move to take the recommendation of staff and reverse the action and not assess these. >> second. >> okay, there is a first and a second. i'll take a roll call vote.

president clinch? >> yes. >> vice president melgar? >> yes. >> commissioner lee? >> yes. >> commissioner mar? >> yes. >> commissioner mccarthy? >> yes. >> and commissioner walker? >> yes. >> motion carries unanimously. case no. 67 77 3, 13 16 to 2022 mariposa street. owner of record and appellant richard e. thomas. action requested by appellant, the appellant is requesting that the order be reversed and that he be reimbursed for the cost of this appeal. >> is there somebody from the department to present? >> yes, rosemary. >> oh, sorry. >> good morning, members of the board. rosemary goff, housing inspector. the reason it took me a bit

getting up here is i understand the appellant on these items has requested a continuance. and i do not believe he is here. >> looks like it. >> yes, he requested a continuance on all three cases. and the secretary of the abatement granted his request for continuance. so, all of you would just have to vote on that. >> okay. is it a motion or just a vote? >> i guess just a vote on this. >> i think the president can grant the continuance if the department concurs and there are no objections by any of the parties. >> okay. is there any need for public comment? grant the continuance. >> just to clarify, that's for all three matters. >> all three matters, yes. >> do you want to list them just so the record is clear?

>> well, before we do that, i'd like a clarification on the other two matters. i understand one of them is a request for jurisdiction. what's the last one? is that the same request for jurisdiction as well? >> the two remaining cases, one is eight cases that were clearly filed way after the 15-day period after orders were issued. >> okay. >> and then the other case is a situation where the property owner is appealing to you to waive the assessment of costs, which is not attached -- >> but no order was -- >> no order -- >> that's what i was confused -- >> there has been time spent on the case. >> okay. >> and you do have some substantive information in the staff report on that with respect to a building permit that -- >> okay, got it. thanks for the clarification. that's what i was wondering. okay. >> so, for the record, the

cases are going to be continued for case no. 677 3, 13 16 to 13 22 mariposa street. case no. 677 2 35 58 san bruno avenue. 355 2 san bruno avenue number 1 and 2 and 135 80 [speaker not understood] and case no. 677 4 to 64 7 brewin owe aka 12 65 gerard street. >> this will be next month? >> yes, at the march -- on march 20. item f, general public comment, is there any general public comment for the abatement appeals board for items not listed on the agenda?

seeing none, item g, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> okay. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? >> no. >> okay, we're adjourned as the abate baitment appeals board and it's 9:13 a.m. thank you. [adjourned] >> good morning, today is wednesday, february, 20th, 2013, this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone

for turn off all electronic devices. the first item on the agenda is roll call. >> president mccarthy? >> here. >> vice president mar? >> here fl >> commissioner clinch? >> here. >> commissioner lee. >> here. >> commissioner melgar. >> here. >> commissioner walker? >> here. >> and commissioner mccray is excused and we have a quorum and the next item is president's announcement. good morning, everybody and thank you all for being here on this morning and i have president's announcements. thanks for the staff who are staffing this year's chinese

festival will be held on february 23rd and 24th, including joe chan and danny low and maria lee, from the plan review services. and tony who is supervising the fifth floor and then quan from building inspection. special thanks for commissioner mar who will be volunteering at the volunteer, it is not a kissing booth. >> congratulations to the story

was actually about the planning hiring and staff to catch up on the growing project's backlog but the examiner knows that this handsome inspector when they see him, the image from the story published two years ago and got the front page cover and well done, even though you work for dbi thanks for calvan e and vanbon. >> for the enforcement efforts on 308 turk street this is getting a lot of headline, it is a multiunit where the owner has a long neglected building, and supervisor kim issued a press release applauding the effort to bring this building into code compliance and urging the city attorney to litigate

this especially egregious case, and thanks to everyone involved in that and to the supervisor. special thanks to tom hewy for providing the mayor with an update on the actions to extend the permits and to give the customers more time to complete projects that have been stalled by the economic recession. the acting director updated the mayor at the end of january at his request on these matters and including the board of supervisors and the approval of the dbi new permit extension on february fifth that madam secretary, and also, actually there is one other thing, so actually i might as well update you, we are doing well with the search firm and i will have update you and we hope that it will be going along with the

director and along with ted and that it is going well and going in the right direction and so we have put together the kind of qualities of kind of a director that we are looking for and we are going to enfold them into the search firm for them to go out and look. so, if there are any questions or anything that anybody has on that, and they can contact me on that as well. that is all my announcements. on to the next item. >> is there any public on the announcements? >> seeing, none, item three, general public comment, the bic will take public comment on the matters within the commission's jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. >> good morning, my name is robert davis and i live in the bay view and i would like to begin by thanking the staff, inspector, sorry, acting director tom, hewy, and the rest of the staff for the

demolition order and the knocking down of the orderses on third and long time coming, and it looks great and i know that it was long and hard, but, we really appreciate that. and we would like to get an update on the open notices of violation and the open director's hearings and there are 6,000 novs and it looks like someone went through and closed off the ones before the year of 2000. and i have no idea how that happened. i would like to make a comment on the open director's hearing and attending the director's hearing and a group of 15 people clouding myself went down to speak at a director's hearing about 900, and we were told at the last minute that the building owner had just decided to postpone it and we were not notified and there is no notification process for people who want to show up be heard and we would like to get a little bit of information about that building and there is a long, sort of complicated of the notices of violation and

the neglect of the building. it is a historic building, it is on the shore line and i would like somebody to look into that please. and then i would like to get a little support from the building commission about a special economic zone and part that have zone and what i need your support on, is rating the dbi fees, not the permits but just the permit fees for an area of third street between evanand williams. and i did try to get an idea of what that would cost the dbi in lost revenue, and i was unable to but we are working on that and i would like to get a little support. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> is there any other general public comment? >> seeing none, item four, this is a possible action to appoint commissioners to serve on the

litigation subcommittee. >> commissioners, if i may, i would like to kind of make this as straight as possible. i have served on the commissioner walker served on it and commissioner clinch. if there is no objection, we kind of would like to stay on the litigation committee and i would put a motion forward that we stay with the same committee if there is no objections. >> no objections, so i move that we keep the same members on the litigation committee. >> thank you. >> is there a second? >> second. >> okay. >> is there any public comment on this motion? >> okay, take the roll, please? >> okay, are all commissioners in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? >> the motion carries and the current commissioners serving will remain on the litigation

subcommittee. item number five, discussion and possible action to appoint commissioners to serve on the nominations subcommittee. >> thank you, madam, secretary. once again, if there is no objection i would like to keep the same appointments on this commission. >> is there a motion? >> i move to maintain the same membership in the nomination committee. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> seeing none, are all commission ers in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? >> this carries also to keep all of the current members of the nominations subcommit ti. >> item six update on code enforcement out reach program and single room occupancy

collaborativives priorities for out reach. >> commissioner walker would like to make a comment. >> thank you, president for including this agenda item. i requested an update from our housing division, rose mary and also the program and sro collaborativives this is a partnership, a very successful partnership that our department has engaged in for the past over a decade, i believe. and we have several community groups who help our department and our inspecters both in the housing and the building division deal with issues in some of the most vulnerable buildings both in the apartment houses and the sros in our city. the goal is to actually bring

these units up to code so that they are habitable and so that people can have a nice place to live and call their homes. we have a really substantial history of bringing a lot of these violations that we, all of us, hear about. either in our meetings or in the litigation meeting of challenges conditions for people to live in. and i think that we owe a thank you to the organization to go out and assist our housing division in building inspection division in making sure that these things are brought up to code. we asked them to come and talk about the priorities. i know that we maintain a commitment to this program, and i wanted to make sure that all of the commissioners are aware of the good work that is

happening out there. so thank you for come and we look forward to the presentation. >> thank you commissioners and i am going to keep my comments short because we need to hear from our contractors. and you know to quote someone from a while ago it takes a community and collaboration, we have aging housing stock and a vulnerable population and to keep, safe san tarry and functional housing. this program has been absolutely crucial and the efforts and the information that is communicated between the groups out there and this department and other city agencies, and thank you for the opportunity to give us the snapshot of what is happening right now, the biggest news is seniors and people with disabilities in residential hotels to grab our legislation was just before you. and thank you for your support of this. it was i will tell you there were great facial expressions at the board here that this

commission is waving the fees on that and so we thank you for your generosity on that. but the one thing that i want to talk about is to be able to do this collaboration, and you are going to be seeing some information and i am going to let jamie introduce everybody here in a moment. but just on the grab the situation to be able to deal with identifying the conditions in the rooms and to be able to get more information profile these better so that it ties in with the information that we are giving from the collaborativives and in working with the mayor's office of disability. because we have to work together with other agencies as well. so i just want to show you a survey that we came up with, to be able to identify what is going on in the residential hotels, with respect to what are the bathrooms looking like? this is because of reports that we were getting from the collaborativive and from everyone else telling us about this. so we basically have come up with a survey where my housing

inspecters are going out there and looking and actually doing a diagram of the type of situations and a bathroom toilet room and a shower tub combination and etc., and then identifying the characteristics and so when that information manual comes that we promised you and it was suggested by our vendors that the mayor's office of disability would be able to have actual good information. so this is just one of many things that we are doing that is part of the collaboration. part of the monthly meetings that we have with the vendors and the daily interaction that we have with them and the inspector has. it absolutely makes me so happy when i see one of the inspecters get their heads together with any one of the vendor and they are talking and collaborating and the true spirit of what this program was actually meant to do and so with that i am going to stop and introduce jamie and all of

the people here so they can tell you more about what they have been doing. >> thank you and good morning, commissioners, the code enforcement out reach program was created in 1996 by the building inspection commission. in order to bring our housing services to san francisco ans living in substan ard living conditions. over the last 17 years, this program has you ever covered the worst, more horrifying substandard conditions found in the city for this period of time. and it has worked together with housing inspection services to abait and alleviate those conditions for the tenant whose live there, regardless of race, age, status, or language barriers. provides extensive translation services for these critical issues and filed the complaints on those who are fareful of retaliation. it is one of the few in the city that encourages the tenants and landlords to work

together in a cooperative manner. i want to show you one example here. this is the case, on turk which was featured on the 6:00 news. >> one of san francisco's roughest neighborhoods are speaking out tonight about the conditions in their apartment building, we talked with the building's owner after getting an ugly look at what it inside. >> 50 people live in this tender loin apartment building, this broken window provides only a glimpse into a building so run down, tenants are saying enough is enough. >> tenants in the apartments and pay $1200 a month. it is challenge, next door the pipes that drips so much the counter is rotting and smoke alarms, what smoke alarms?

>> and then there is the mold, take a look at this. it seems to be everywhere. and if you think his is bad take a look at his neighbor's bathroom. they had no heat until two weeks ago and one tenant with a newborn baby... (inaudible) it is kind of scary sometimes. we have people that come in the middle of the night and do drugs in the hallway. >> the ongoing problems here are why the tenants protested. in front of the restaurant that the landlord's family owns. >> they spoke with the landlord about the plight. and the tenants called you a slum lord, what is the reaction? >> i think that they want to call and i can also understand their frustration really. >> they installed cu