more resolve by looking over that horizon to see what else we should be doing. this is not a buckle ladies and gentlemen. that first city college we're going to save city he college period no, ifs or maybe so it's too important to give up open our students or training of our workforce in the future. it's the fit and second the affordable care act is important. we're focused in marking our residents and encouraging resident to purchase affordable insurance via the california marketplace but we need to provide guidance to our local

businesses how it integrates namely the health care security ordinance. this is a complicated policy issue that's why i've ask you to serve on our council with barbara garcia and many others. we'll lead a data process so we can make informed policy positions and file the gaps of everyone so we can all be covered. we're san francisco we're going to be a model for that prelims. i want to close with a few thoughts. people as me it is good economy going to continue? how are we going to extend the prosperity that so many of our enterprise

part of the answer is the everyday decision by each of you to keep investing 90 in our city. yes investing in businesses and start up and innovative ideas but investing in our young people, our schools and community and neighborhood organizations. san francisco is the greatest city in the world not just because of our bay and at all beautiful buildings but our human talent we know is at the heart of our success. so i ask you help us save city college and help us rebilled and reimage our bettered education for our children. help us higher young people

making our neighborhoods safer and stronger. i ask you to get involved and volunteer and i ask you to help with more resources to be able to do this. that's how we're going to be able to sustain this economic recovery and extend our prosperity we'll be able to continue to build the infrastructure structure for our city today and tomorrow. thank you very much

>> good morning, this is the regular meeting of the building commission, and i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. the first item on the agenda is roll call. >> president mccarthy. >> here. >> mccray. >> present. >> lee. >> here. >> melgar. >> here. >> walker is excused. we have a quorum and the next is the president's announcement. >> before i get into the announcements i will do a little bit of housekeeping.

line item six, i would like to move to the second to last item just before ten here. >> okay? >> okay. >> and then, so with that, president's announcements. obviously welcome everybody, and thanks to dbi staff for staffing this year's annual sunset community festival. i believe that is going to be on the september 20th,; is that correct?? >> yes. >> where they will answer the customer questions about inspections and code enforcement and dbi matters. the big commissioner mar has indicated that he plans to visit the dbi and it will be available for most of the questions there that afternoon and he put in a request for the other commissioner to show up. so that he does not have to deal with it all himself. it is time for the third employee of the quarter award. and those were recently set and

in the all memo and requesting new nominations for thethieringth and one we have the new nominations for the committee and we will meet and select the third quarter winner and plan to introduce the second quarter winner and the third quarter winner in the october meeting. we will do that then and finally the dbi and the big joint response for the 2013 grand jury report was delivered to the proceeding judge of the superior court on the 11th and a copy of the responses are posted on the dbi website and we are expected to be part of the hearing on the grand jury findings and the responses at the government, audit and oversight committee and this is more than likely going to take part in some in october and so with that, madam secretary, that is all of my president's announcements for the next item. >> agenda item. please? >> is there any public comment on the president's announcements

>> item number three, general public comment, the bic will take the public comment on the matters in the jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. >> and with that i would just like 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 the remarks to the commission, as a whole and motto individual commissioners or department personnel. thank you. >> first speaker, please? >> so you are saying that i can't speak, you are saying that i can't speak on the possibility of mr. hewe y being appointed a director because it is not an agenda. >> yes, you can speak on it on that... >> on the closed session. >> there is public comment prior to the closed session. >> i think that i am going to procedural error, i apologize.

>> next speaker? >> item number four, discussion and possible action on the following new proposed administrative bulletin, ab, 106, strengthening of the five story wood building and procedures. >> we are here to get your approval for the ab 106 and this, procedure on the soft story program. and you could have a copy of this in front of you and i am able to page it in red so we can follow it. and the main portion of ab 106 is the screening form and i just wanted to fill out one in front of the commissioners today. is going to help me, and the inform starts on page six and so if you can start on page 6, so, on the

15th we sent out 6,000 to the home owners and on page 6 it starts. the block and lot number actually is automatically populated from the data base. so, after it is filled out. >> if you could speak into the mic. >> okay. >> that is already filled out. now, let's go to the next. okay, so the home owner has to fill out sections 1, and 2. and the engineers fill out section 3 and 4, and then the engineers and home owner will fill out section 5 together. and so, let's go to section one and this is to be filled out by the home owner and we will ask the commissioner mccarthy to help us on this. >> thanks for the advanced notice. >> so the telephone number will put 999 on here. and for your e-mail address, we

will say mccarthy at sfgov.og. >> that is close. >> for the mailing address we will put city hall and if it is a condo we do not want one form returned to us and so on page 15. show them the building that will be filling out. so this building is actually in the instruction on page 15. and it is a building on mccalister and park their was constructed in 1927 and this is the building that we will look at. okay. let's go back to this, we need more. so, we will continue on the second portion of this green form. okay. so, you know, this asks, you know, supplement of the previously submitted form and in this case, this is the first

time that commissioner mccarthy has filled it out and so the answer is no. >> okay has this building been completed and the answer is, no. >> no. we did not get a quote. >> no. >> it is actually part of his final interview.

so he is going to... >> to be able to fill this out. >> right. >> and so, tom, the question number one, is this building, the wood frame building and your answer sir? >> is? yes. >> and yes, it is a wood frame building. and so the question number two, was it constructed before 1978, it was in 28. so the answer is yes. is the building two or more stories.

you see the first question and does it contain it on any of the floors, if the answer is yes, then the building is tier one. to be filled out by the engineer, and what tier are you in, tier one? and essentially, you have finished completing it, so section five, is to be filled out by the owner and the

engineer. and, basically, you know, under perjury, we certify that this is correct, tom has a stamp and so he will stamp it and sign it and submit it. he can send it into us, and he can e-mail it to us, and essentially, the meat of the ab. we also want to briefly talk about the list of buildings that is on the website now and also. >> so this list is posted on our website? >> which is sfdbi.org/top story and the whole excel sheet is available and it will be populated with block and lot and address, and both in or out and the status and most of them are just noticed right now. but some of them have permits issued and you can find that on

the sheet. i was going to pull up the website for you guys. so this is our website. and that is the sheet right here. dbi contact information. there is an faq guide. and this is an excel sheet with the legend, and to help describe all of the sections in this excel sheet.

the middle of the time line and procedures. and if all of the forms on-line. process of how to obtain a permit. the compliance time line and the year time line. >> and the engineering criteria. >> that concludes the presentation and if you have any questions we are here to answer. >> commissioner melgar? >> i was going to tell you that it looked really great. >> when it is going live? >> we sent them out on

september 15th. >> 6125. >> and any calls yet? >> tons of calls and we are handling it. >> yeah. >> we are handling it. >> and are you getting the support, for the phone calls? >> and you get a lot of people, anxious, eager and then you get some, i think that we are going to have to and i think that we are going to have to pull the teeth and that is fine. >> commissioner mar, did you have a question? >> no. >> sorry. >> commissioner? >> i also think that it is a really good document and well done, you guys. >> i do have a question about our role and it says and i don't know if you are able to answer this and maybe, i want to tell the commissioners and it says that they can appeal to the bik, and what the formality or the procedure for that? it is not in the appeals board? >> good question. >> because we really don't have

a venue during these meetings for people to come in and appeal to us. >> it is just a regular board of appeals, you know, if they present drawings to us and let's say that we disagree with the engineering, for example. >> sure. >> and then it goes through the process and it will go. >> good morning commissioners. the appeal poll says that it especially in the other job, do you remember that we have add two more members for those, and soft story to go through the examiner and also through the board of appeal. >> got you. >> and hopefully we will not go through the board for the wood frame building. >> i see, thank you. >> the permits, is it a posting the soft story permit. do you have to post it on the building? >> they have seen to the other permits. >> it is appeal able up to 15 days or something like that. >> yes. >> and it is just a regular

permit which happens to be a seismic upgrade? >> yeah. >> just a regular building permit. just the regular process. >> i think that the questions were answered. >> okay i am good. >> thank you for your presentation this morning. good luck with the 6,000. >> is there any public comment on item four? >> okay, seeing none, item five, code enforcement out reach program staff and providers reports on a recently completed best practices comparative survey of housing stock preservation and inspection services available nationwide. >> good morning, commissioners and mr. president, rose mary, the chief housing inspector, and you have before you commissioners a table that is pink and green that we would like you to look at. and i want to commend commissioner mar for asking us to prepare this for the

commission and also thank director in the deputy director for the staff to allow us to periodically, independent of audits or grand jury reports or whatever, to seek out the best practices that are out there. and so what you have here is a comparative survey done, by fema inspector matsu and with the participation of all nine of our code enforcement out reach vendors, who look at 24 jurisdictions nationwide and find out what their best practices are in relationship to preserving aging housing stock and specifically around rental units and inhabitbility issues and so as you can see, the, the green indicates yes, and the pink indicates, no, to them and i am going to have jamie come up and talk with you and the vendors and talk with you further about this.

and, as you can see, san francisco which is highlighted there for you at the bottom. and we do all of these things and all 24 of the other jurisdictions do not. but with that i will have jamie come up and explain it to you. >> good morning, matsu, housing inspection service and code out reach program. and thank you commissioners and commissioner mar. and we have seen a variety of discussions over the last few months on the subject of housing code enforcement. and consultation of commissioner mar and the code out reach program has put

together this survey to provide the context for these discussions by looking at the best practices of american cities and we also found however, the practices that are not so great and the city and the master plans calls for the preservation of the affordable housing and the city's rental housing stock. and we believe that enforcing the minimum standards of the code for ha bitbility and rental housing is a vital step toward achieving those goals. and inhabitbility are items like floors, doors, sinks, showers, tubs, light fixtures water damage, and leaking into the light fixtures and electrical and exits, and fire escapes and alarm systems and stairs, stoves, wall and ceilings and plumbing and drainage and sewage and lack of heat. thus we have ha bitbility code enforcement and its elements are set forth on the chart before you and each of which

are established by this commission. and if you look at the chart we have the 24 most popular cities in the united states on the last and then we have what percent renter is the housing stock? and you can see the percentages, and san francisco is 70 percent. housing code, you can see that there is a few cities that don't even have a housing code. and housing inspection services, and then we have accepts tenant complaints via telephone or internet and you can see that there are some cities that will not accept those complaints from either source. and the city of charlotte north carolina you have to petition the government in order to get an inspection. in phoenix, you have to undergo counseling first to get an inspection and see if you qualify. and then we have notice of

violation issued in response. and then we have the department hearing for resulting non-compliance. and you could see that is where the cut off is for a lot of these, a lot of america does not do that. excuse me. is that a director's hearing that you are referring to? >> yeah. >> and this is a very important step that we find that we do not get compliance without having the at least the plausable threat of having a director's hearing. and then we have fines or fees resulting in the no one compliance in the next category. and then we have a department lein applied to collect the penalty that has not been paid and we have a department

request out standing penalties attached to the bill that we just went through last month in august and you saw what happened there. and we have the department initiates and funds litigation if it is a series case and it still has not been taken care of by the landlord. and the last two categories that we have are on-line complaint tracking, and there are four cities and we are one of them that has that. and the code enforcement out reach. and so, i am going to bring up one of the people who helped us do the research, charlie goes from the san francisco department association. and he is going to talk about chicago. >> yeah. >> good morning commissioners and my name is charlie goss and

i manage the program for the san francisco department association and i reported on chicago which has a 56 percent renter population. and they do have a housing code, but do not have housing inspection services, and they do not accept the tenant complaints, they do not issue notices of violation in response to the tenant complaints. and they do not offer the director's hearings, and do not, issue fees or fines. for non-compliance and they do not issue liens. and they do not fund litigation or initiate litigation or provide on-line complaint tracking to get this information, i spoke with a colleague at the chicago apartment association. and which is a similar association to mine in chicago and i also used the city of chicago housing website and briefly spoke with tenant's

rights group in chicago. questions? >> okay. >> well, first of all i want to thank you guys for giving us this report. because i heard about it accidentally by providing a meeting and i thought that it will be presented to the rest of the commission. because i think that it is valuable to find out what other cities are doing. i think that we could do a better job of doing that in other areas as well. and even if we are doing things that are better, and it seems like from other cities which are very clear from this chart, i think that it is still very good for us to learn from other areas i was interested in particular, in los angeles which seems like like us they have a lot of rental stops. and much larger population, but, they also seem to be doing a lot of things right.

and i wanted to speak about it of >> absolutely. >> we heard from a daniel snider who works down in the housing department in los angeles. and in the late 90s they sent a team of people up to san francisco for a week to study everything that san francisco does. and then they went back and implemented 90 percent of what we do down there. the harvard award for innovations for their program. but they are not allowed, and they had the power at first to do the liens and going to the board of supervisor and then the council took that away from them. but yeah, they do have a good program down there and i would like to bring up pativa, she is going to work on and she worked on some of the texas cities. good morning, commissioners.

>> my name is pativa and i work in the city collaborative and the housing clinic and we work in the area and so one of the, and so i would presume that the texas, the city in texas but as you can see, some of the cities in texas have not much written against them because either we were not able to reach anybody there, or did not know how to go about finding information about it. so, that is a lot about it. so, as you can see, in austin, there are like 63 percent of those for the housing stock and then, they do have housing code, housing inspection service, and they do accept tenant complaints from the internet or via telephone. and they do respond, but in order for the violation and but there is no further after that, there is nothing further to it. and so, to be honest, i was not

the one who did this research, and so i am just presenting it and so i don't know why there is nothing further to it and i am guessing that after you followed the chain, to find out what next steps and you, and you probably don't get more information that the end of it, the end of the information. so, that is austin and then as you can see, i will go through el paso which is 38 percent renters there and there is no housing code there but they do have housing service division, i think, and then they do acts of tenant complaints and internet, or by phone and they do have notice of violation, but, it does not further to that and there is no director's hearing or no lien. and there is no other things that we do have here. in the city. >> houston,