we don't have any budget analysis >> so okay at this time colleagues we'll break at 1:30 but we do have the building inspection here so why don't we have the d b i come up as well as before we break. >> good afternoon supervisor and controller and budget committee. thank you for letting us to make our presentation before you. my name is tom acting director of building inspection. it's my honor to present our budget for the next two years. we're very lucky to have the

economic up turn right now as indicated by the 35 - right now i would say to present to you the first slide. first of all, our goal of the department is safe gaud the community by plumbing and other things. the second slide is the budget we proposed to increase our budget to various new program like the soft story green building and others but smart including the new legislation housing authority. what they want to assist them

and the new condo conversion program. the first slide i want to show you is our manpower. but the see the downturn we decreased our staff 40 percent and we starting to hire our staff, you know, to adjust for the new allow. as you hear from previous did not like planning and others they mention about a number of permit increased substantial but the number of impacts in town is getting more. that's why the inspection getting more complicated. the fourth slide if you can see.

like i mentioned we also emphasized in the code enforcement operation in our department due to the number of projects increasing in other areas and more generated we doubleor code enforcement staff and also the housing inspector we're trying to have a schedule to june 20th to hire more housing inspectors. we going to hire. and then the filth slide you can see our budget position right now n is increasing depends on the new program we're going to adjust later on. either level off or increase our staff.

i want to emphasis on the slide number 6 we used the major unit politics in our department is hiring and training and about replacing the new car. we're trying to a propose the new electrical car but we want to get it stations in our building. we opposed to the study to see what is the capitalization plan 40 in our believe and why we have the one stop permit center on the fifth floor. on slide 7 i want to emphasis

having bilingual service besides the chinese and spanish and also, we have staff that can speak russian or those different kind of language. also to emphasis our department we consider to help the small ambitions and a working closely with the department of small business by raising the fee on the may have last month and also, we have helped the - we have major corridors like gary street. and we trying to help the s r o all those to wave the fee to

encourage them to come in for any - to go to the bathroom. and one more thing i want to consider to have like noticed you say we have fewer housing inspectors due to people retire or whatever. and we also have, you know, some of the new program. we need to do the code enforcement >> before i end presentation first of all, i need to make some announcement. i need to thank my fin manager gail and also my deputy director

pamela. and also, we have to approve with the budget analyst to approve the budget. also our department is - we don't take any money from the general fund. that concludes any presentation if you have any questions >> thank you for your presentation and thank you for your work. my office has been talking with the d b i with a lot of issues there are a lot of tenants that are living in single-family homes r that are not designed to handle tenants. in the next couple of years we can figure out a way to sought

homeowners and bringing the buildings up to code and often the secondary unit are created by the homeowners so homeowners can actually help to afford their mortgages. a lot of houses are underwater. we want to make sure that the homes can be more inhabitual. i want to say that often immigrants that are highly chinese and filipino and they're in secondary unit as well. we have to have a policy that's flexible by neighborhoods and citywide that can resolve a lot of the issues. there's building inspector

issues and land use issues. i want to work with our office to work with some common ground >> definitely we can work together and resolve it. the best thing is the single-family >> thank you. i wanted to thank mr. hugh i didn't and his staff. there's the in-law section. it makes me concerned with the families are crammed into the garages or behind the garages. i'm hoping that the legislation for the bigger buildings that we work on the smaller residential units

you mentioned the ada projections how many are there in assisting >> we have two cast certified inspectors. we have the training for the past exam but unfortunately, they changed the exam format and we didn't have the update. also to help the small business generally if they have in constructions that's under ada we have no control but they come

into our department >> i'm appreciative to the equatable approach for example, with the hardship businesses that are adding the requirements and our efforts to increase the inspections. >> we'll go to our budget analyst report. mr. rose >> mr. chairman and members on page 20 our recommendations is now i've added the ongoing savings and they're one time savings. those refresh my recollection would still allow 1.28 million. the department has stated

there's no general fund support. we're also recommending that you place a $2,000,467 in reserve and our remedies is that should be released when the department has a spending plan. and all of those funds are orng and again regarding the new lease we recommended a reserve of $2 million that providence to the capital improvements when the budget committee releases those plans >> any colleagues any

questions? do you agree with the previous statements? >> so we have a few recommendations from mr. roses office. do i have a motion to move? >> thanks colleagues i think to our departments if we have none you don't have to show up next week. colleagues at this time it is 145 i'll make a motion to adjourn until 230? > >> we're in recess until

>> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk

about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it

means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say

that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are --

>> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some

of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at

that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so

interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining