credit and other costs. so pending your approval today, the next step will be to the bdr. board of supervisors and the controller will certify that we have the ability to take on this additional financial instrument. with that the team and i are open for questions. >> thank you. andinging thank you for your patience, wait for almost the very end of the meeting to go through this. director, any questions or clarification [inaudible] >> good. thank you. i think this is great and as you have noted this is really important and we're kind of late to the game on this and it will give us a lot more flexibility. all in favor? >> actually, madame claire, before do you that, just for the record, no member of public has turned into a speaker card and i don't see anyone moving

forward. >> moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> anyone against? great, the ayes have it. >> item 14, discussion and vote pursuant to administrative code section whether we conduct a closed session. >> move to close.for sfgovtv to come back to us. all right. item 15, announcement of closed session and the mta board of directors met in closed session to discuss bit littgation and the board took no action and to disclose or not disclose, discuss? >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> directors that concludes the business before you. >> one more gavel bang. [ gavel ]

after school at 3. . 30 i hop on the bus and go to work with kids. i didn't realize i was going to get up that early for the rest of my life. >> it's hard to get good jobs. you can get well paid working at restaurants i was making good

money that's not my 50 year goal working as a waitress. it would be better to have something to fall back on i wanted something where i would in 10 years accumulate properties. >> 3 months is a long time to be busy all day. i'm putting myself further in debt with the understanding it's worth the sacrifice. eating raman for 3 months. it's not fun but i think it will be worth it. >> we all want to graduate we are all tired of this class. been 11 weeks. one more week to go. >> i need to get these mraps out. >> my purpose is to get the recruits prepared for the

construction training. >> what you do is get a 2 by 6 sitting on the saw horses. we will cut 10 feet. everybody going to get one and you measure up 6 inches. you sure you got 8 feet. >> as a carpenter you have to let them know what's expected and they need to know the stuff to get going on the trades. >> the main thing they need to know is how to carry the stuff on the job and the hussle. >> you can't work with the gloves. >> my part is a small part. my part is the best part. the part that really teaches them how to go out and fish rather than go to the fish market. my job is how to teach them to fish when the fish market is closed. >> this requires i thinking.

when you go on the job site they will pay you 20-15, dollars an hour you have to think and figure stuff out and get the jobs done in a record time. >> one of the things we try to teach with the construction trades is your attitude going to work. how employers look on new workers and it's about profitability and productivity. it's not how much swings it takes to drive, you know, ita about do you have the right attitude? can you show up on time? can you make the company money? >> 12.5 times 15. >> i don't want you to use the calculator. >> the students go through approximately 420 some hours of

training. we operate at the campus of the community college a 12 week, full time program, 7-3:30. >> if you were going to figure out how much [inaudible] you need you rounding up. >> average age of individuals in the trades is in the 40's from what we are told. in the 50's quite frankly those folks are getting ready to retire. we see a void. >> the average is making 60-80 thousand dollar a year more with benefits much it's hard work i will not lie. >> if you like working with your hands and creative and you look at a building and say, i did that finish and that building is there for a hundred years. come to my program you will work for anyone in the country. >> we send people to the dry

waller the carpenters and the plummers. >> we are conscious who we give a job referral to. >> we look at the skills part as far as hayou do with a hammer and nail there are other components to be able to be a team player. be able to take directs and be precise and punctual things like this you need to help you keep your jobs. >> we will looking at the interviews today and doing the critiquing from the papers. >> i was thinking last week we were talking ask that was so much thinking going on about the

interview and how i was going to do it. >> i feel like, me, as an african-american woman and older woman with children i feel i have to set an example. a lot of people don't know how to deal with anger and conflicts. the kids here look up to me. if i do something and don't set an example then they are going to follow. since i've been a positive roll model, coming to school everyday. some of those kids pick up on that and i see the improvement in them. >> one thing that i knew but the class helped reinstate is that you have to check yourself. we are all grown adults. >> i try to be motivated in everything i do in my life.

if you don't encourage yourself to do something or do things for yourself you can't expect somebody else will do it for you. some people didn't make it to class because they have a bad attitude and decided it wasn't worth it. >> when you do something you have to understand why you are doing it and you can't say and come in and say, i will make good money. construction's not like that you have to want to do it because it's not aedz work. you have to want to get up and go to work and do physical labor for 8 hourses. >> i lived next to biotechnology companies and was a recruiter. i was getting tired and felt sluggish. >> i knew from the first day we were outside being outside having fun, climboth ladder and hammer and the physical labor i

knew it was something i would enjoy. to say i put 15 years into this and not retire a multimillionaire but retire healthy and feel good about the work i have done. >> the greatest accomplishment is you drive by a building or bridge and say, i helped build that bridge or helped build the building on market street. the most greatest reward for me is i taught that student to work on the bay bridge. taught the student operating the crane that student was in my class. >> our goal is to have a core group of people, we are hoping

it's over 50 percent of your grads complete and become journey people andup standing good roll models and citizens. the largest public works our city has season in many years going on now the private project that 1 rincon hill. huge project. we had 5 or 6 people work on that project thus far. the rebuilding of the academy of science in golden gate park. the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there.

that's success. >> i think it ae's public and private property. i'm against graffiti. >> who can get it out the most who can be noticed the most. >> i i've seen seniors doing graffiti. >> the city is art, other people who have their names tag --

>> [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private property. all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come within 48 hours. >> we are a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so.

>> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses

the gloves. >> you got it. >> you know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. you know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you. >> the time where it's visible. a lot of people put it on the ground. >> i like when tourists come and say, you do this for your city and you get paid for that? >> we use the [inaudible] for the holes and the retaining

walls. [inaudible]. white on the fire hydrants. fire box red for the fire boxes. our brown for the pg and e poles. >> we are not painters we do our best. >> i'm assuming it has to do with gang activity. >> if it's territorial i mind. >> in case it's gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. >> anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. with gang related or profanity

we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street. irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility

boxes, mailbox. >> thank you. >> okay. >> put the drop cloth. come on around. >> there you go. force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the

team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye. >> special. >> good morning today is wednesday may 15, 2013 this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. the first item is roll call

(calling names) we have a quorum >> thank you all for coming here this morning. the commission has congratulations for the senior clerk who is retiring after 29 years. and acting director paid tribute to her and good luck shirley with argue retirement and your you invaluable service to the d b i p the commission thanks the building inspector neil who was

thanked publicly in a letter to the san francisco chronicle on may of the building inspectors nothing but helpful. thank you it's good when we get something good out of the chronicle. and a customer sent in a thank you card your compassion and kindness restored my faith in people your obviously a busy guy calming me down and let me walk out of this with dignities and smiling. thank you steve for air customer

service. congratulations and thanks to evelyn who provided great customer service. and congratulations to kari who provided auto standing customer service to a person who sent acting director a letter thanking kari for her professionals and another one to commissioner who participated at the annual festival the staff and commissioners r07bd to many questions about the permit and code inspection process.

and a reminder in early june the staff will receive a nomination for more outstanding employee awards were p. and that concludes my announcements madam secretary. and comments? okay seeing none. >> just as a requirement the public may commit not to exceed 3 minutes and the remarks should be made to the commission as a whole. >> again, this is general comments.

>> good morning tom san francisco fire department i want to let you know since i've been coming to your meetings i'm going to be retiring in june so i have 31 years but i've had 20 plus good years working with the staff it was bureau building inspectors. and anyway, i think about leave the folks we helped to get the sprinkle ordinance that was the best achievements working with the community to get that done. the lady in the back is helpful to try to make thing work and we

always cooperated with the c schedules sometimes, the scheduled with change its table and he'd be behind the times on that. but i enjoyed working with all of you and my lieutenant my associates we're working on the fire code changes and that's another huge job that comes quickly. i know that director huey is going to have his hands full. we're very close to getting things done and we're trying to get it all done once it starts it's process the board of supervisors has a thirty day wait and, of course, it's always

over the holidays. i really enjoyed working with the whole department and commission >> really congratulations. there any further public comment? seeing none did you want - >> if i may commissioner we're against the clock and if it's okay if we go to director's report number a, b, c, and d and take them off the cleaned and get an update and if we could move item 7 sworn testimony for with that i'll move to director

report 4 c. good morning commissioners project director department of building inspectors >> we are continuing to make progress on the several gaps were being logged and corrected. at the same time we're planning for round two of the testing would be the permits requested which will include a wider group of projects. and also along the same lines

we're getting ready to in all the mobile applications on the devises. i can answer questions >> is there public commit? >> seeing none which item is next? if we move to item 5 update on the search >> i'm the lead recruiter on the recruitment. just to give you a quick summary i've interviewed commissioners on the information go and that should be approved and at that

time, we will post the position and we'll send invites out to our targets. the resume deadline is june 28th and i will send everyone an updated timeline for your files as well and i'll life it up to madam secretary and that's it >> any questions? i'm in shock. >> i have a couple of questions where will the process be advertised within the local area and also for the phone calls in the department who might be interested no applying for this position how will that process be made available to them. >> to answer your second question first, we're working

with h.r. to post the position. and the avenues we're working on but it's going to be a full list and we'll post on linkedin and i guess you've got most of the questions answered >> if there is no other comments i'll close. thank you for waiting. and is there any public comment on item 5? seeing none. which item number 8? >> yeah. and discussion and