>> what is your name? >> ben, katie. >> thank you. >> and i believe that you have already spoken, haven't you? >> i have to... there are guidelines and rules that i have to play by. and the next speaker. >> my name is chris baker and i have lived in 1049 market for eleven years and i am a film maker and the windowless room is my sound stage my roommate is a painter and she works as a communication manager at a non-profit in the tenderloin and of course, if we are evicted we will certainly have to leave the area. and she will no longer be able to work at this non-profit which serves hiv positive homeless, and drug using members, the most vulnerable community and the most vulnerable neighborhood in our town. i just wanted to say, thank you all so much. we appreciate so much what you

have done to help us stay in your homes, and i am going to, i am going to be home for the inspecters tomorrow and i am going to spread the word to all of my fellow tenants and i will have an array of refreshing non-alcoholic beverages on ice. >> is there anything else we can do to help the inspecters, to help you with the great work that you have done to help us? >> contact the media, and tell them. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> inspector? >> he mentioned that i feel compelled to make one quick comment. and this all of this has come about because this case was schedule for a director's hearing. and it is an example of the unintended consequences of code

enforcement. you guys have been encouraging us to get the cases to healing and we have been doing that over the past ten months and this is an example of a case that was in a backlog for good reason, the management were working with the this property owner and the previous one. and to try to come to a solution, because, they knew, once it went to the hearing and an order was issued, probably the owner would be ordered, to change this back to what it was. and in effect, put in place the tenants and the department has a long history of not wanting to do that. and but, you know, it is clear the back logs that we put this on for hearing and it is under the advisement for now and so in a week from now, unless, some other alternative arises, we will be forced to go ahead and issue the order of abatement. but, as has been said out there, we are not trying to displace, tenants.

we are simply trying to have a code compliant space. thanks for your time. >> next speaker? >> hello, my name is sarah, and everyone calls me fred and i am an organizizer with the housing rights committee and i am one of the organizers working with the tenants and they have been very organized and doged in saying that they are going to stand up for their housing and it has been really inspiring watching all of the eviction and watching them stick together in a really stressful time and our big concern is making sure that the folks can stay and making sure that it stays affordable and under rent control. these are serious issues for folks and this is a lot of folks. and in these buildings, and thank you all so much for the work that you have put into this. it took a lot for the city to step forward on this one and dbi to step forward on this one. >> thank you. >> is there any other speakers

on this item? >> thank you, all for coming out here this evening. and... >> could i have... i have a question. >> yeah, thank you all for coming out here this evening. and this morning, actually. sorry. and we will hopefully have more updates for you through the department after the inspection happens. >> and commissioner walker. >> and then commissioner mar. >> regarding the director's hearing. is there a way to give us more time, again, i don't want to give a mixed message about the importance of code enforcement. but when something like this comes up and we are working on the resolution, is there a way to continue that? or delay that? >> what i can do is return to staff and go back to the inspection and to work on a solution to resolve the issue. >> okay. >> but, i think that it is, we should probably do that. i mean, that i don't want, and i think that it, and it looks

like we are trying to come up with a pretty important resolution. >> right. >> and so..., commissioner mar. >> i just wanted to follow up on some previous comments that i made about at code enforcement. i am glad that the department is working with folks to do this and in a way, i think this is an example of how we are hearing about it at the last minute, and even though i want to applaud the people who are organizizing and the tenant and stuff. because here is the deal, you know, the tenants, housing clinic and the housing organizizers, you guys are part of cot and you are part of dbi in a way, you are a contractor with dbi to do some tenant work. and so, while i applaud, the staff for going on the website, if this question, you should not have to go on the website, you should be run ng here or making phone calls to the department and saying, what is this permit? what is this permit for?

for, you know, changing it back into office space or whatever, and so that is the other thing and the other thing is, i am not against, going after that backlog of novs i think that we have to have a better approach. and i would like to actually raise the discussion, but that is for a later discussion for this body about moving things quicker. it is good that the legislators and i am sorry that supervisor kim's aid left. but in some ways this was inhe inevitable. you cannot to me, allow, all of these commercial property to go up and now the owner is making a market decision, and he has figured out and it pisses me off that he has it under residential for so long you guys have been his tenants for so long and some of the previous speakers and now he has decided that he can make

more money going back to office space, ten years ago when there are empty buildings on the street, and it was to his best interest, now he has figured out that i get more renting it out for companies just working and some of that we are kind of playing defense here. and you know, it is like going to the sheriff's office and telling him to hold off eviction, that is last, we are the second to the last, the sheriff is the last. and so while i am happy that the department is doing what it is doing, i would like to just kind of implore some of the tenant groups that are organizing that we should know about this ahead of time and i think that we can know about it ahead of time. and i am still not willing to let the landlord off the hook. and i think that we have to did our job with the media, and the media, the media, they love the building, the buildings going

up on, mid, market. i think that we have to do more education among the only community in whatever way possible because this guy is making a market decision and i agree with president mccarthy and he knew what had to be done and he decided that i don't want to do this because i can make more money doing it the other way because this is what we are up against now. >> and commissioners, if there is any more comment? >> thank you, for agendaizing this. >> oh, believe me, i would not have shown up here this morning if it was not. it was too important. and i knew that a lot of the commissioners seem strongly about this and i think that in some ways, i think that the inspections we will see where we get from that sxai report on that. is that something that can be sent out to the commission without having to have a meeting and how it is going and kind of a state of the union type of thing?

>> yes. >> yeah. >> that would not be in any violation of any rules? >> no, because it is not an official meeting. >> okay >> that will be greatly appreciated and then your kind of conclusion that this is all doable and what needs to be done and so on. >> and we will have it on the next meeting again. and if needed. and thank you all for coming out here this morning. and good luck with everything. and congratulations on organizing and bringing it to everybody's attention here. i will see where this ends. okay. thank you. >> next item madam secretary? >> item 6, director's report. 6 a, update on dbi finances. >> good morning, i'm gale the acting chief financial officer and i wanted to talk about where we are with revenue and

expenses this morning. and as you guys probably saw and in our last report, with revenue we are doing quite well. our charges for services are at 33 percent, of the year. and the year is only 25 percent completed and so we are ahead of where we are budgeted for the year. and you probably also saw in the report that we are slightly behind where we were last year in terms of revenue. and we do have more permit thises year than we had last year, but they are not as high in evaluation. so, the permit revenue is slightly down from last year, but it is more than we budgeted. so we are doing really well for that. and our apartment rental unit, license, and revenue comes in twice a year and we will not get that for a few more months. so, it is expected that we will not have any revenue there yet. and the other category is a transfer from fund balance, and then the interest to that kind of thing. and we just have not done the transfer yet and once we do that, we will receive 21 of the 22 million or so all in one big chunk and so the revenue we are

doing quite well for this time of the year. our expenses are also, doing quite well, we have hired more people this year than last and so our employee salary numbers are much better than last year and we are less than the 25 percent of the year. and we do have positions that we are still trying to hire right now. and but we are doing better than last year. and we are also doing much better in terms of salary. and material and supplies, and contract and that kind of stuff and so we are right on track with the expenses to where we were last year and one area, that we have spent much more than last year has to do with our work orders and that is mainly one big work order and real estate has charged us rent for the entire year and so the balance looks like we spent much more than 25 percent but they will not bill us again and if you back that out we are doing quite well. >> and the last thing that i wanted to talk about in the finance arena has to do with the new cash management system and so we have quite an old

system in the department for a long time and it is seven registers that are shared throughout the whole building and that means that a lot of stocks share registers which is not a good accounting practice. it is better if the people have their own, it came up in an audit a few years ago and we are almost done with a process of having a new cash system and so the staff is training for that this week. we will be live with a new management system on october 28 and this so we will go from having, 7 registers in the building from having 42. and there are no more shared cash drawers, and so that is it. >> pretty much it for finance. >> and thank you, gale. >> thank you. >> right, item 7 b, update on proposed legislation. >> good morning, again, bill strorm, legislative and public affairs there has not been a great deal of activity since the last report on this as was mentioned in the president's

announcements. and we did have a very strong interest in our first workshop on the mandatory soft story retrofitting we probably had almost 300 people in a space, that only really handles about a third of that. and so, we have scheduled a d second workshop and we will be in the main library on october 28 and this i think that will present a good opportunity for at least another 230 people to get more of the program details. robert chun as you know is the manager of running this program and he has told me that we have already had more than 100 of the screening documents, returned. and even, though, the way that the program is set up, there is about, a one year, period for those screening documents to come back to us. and so, i would just see that

as an indicator that a lot of people want to get going on the retrofitting as quickly as possible. and i key part will be the financing and patrick along with the san francisco apartment association and dbi, are hosting this special workshop at fort mason on october 23rd. and so, if any of you have time, that is between 6:00 and 8:00. in the evening. and a number of financial institutions will be there to essentially advice building owners what options they might have in order to manage the retrofitting cost. and the only other thing that i guess that i will report on is the we did make a presentation last week, at the government audit and over site committee, this is the committee that looks at all of the grand jury reports and as you know, we

turned ours into the presiding judge on time and i have not had any communications from the court, relative to that, but, the board committee did make some recommendations in his resolution, and essentially, following up, again, on our bpr program. and which i believe that you may remember from our own response, that the director is planning to reconvene, the steering committee, and to take a look and see where exactly we are in the inplimentation and to get that going again. that is still going to happen the recommendation in the committee was that we consider, hiring a consultant to assist us in that and so we are going to look into that. and other than that, i think that the governor has signed a number of bills that nothing,

that really is terribly... to us and with that, i think n >> did the consultant aspect, when you actually have the consultant aboard? >> well the draft resolution asked that we have this in play in the next six months by the early part of january of the new year. so, i think that once we have been able to do a little reach and find out, if there is this particular type of consultant, i know from my own, involvement with the original bpr process, that, that looked at virtually every step in the process and not a lot of management consultants, would necessarily be familiar with how the building and planning and the department and the other approval agencies works. and so, it would be a specialized skill to find the consultant that we are looking for and we shall look. >> if you can't find that person in the time frame, how

do you propose that handle that? because you are restricted? the time frames? >> then i will go back to the committee chair and supervisor cohen and explain to here where we were in our search and if we needed more time and request a little bit more time to complete the assignment. >> i think that you might have trouble getting someone in that time frame but you never know. >> perfect, thank you. >> 6 c, update on on permit tracking system. >> i am the project director of dbi and i am here to update the permit and status on the tracking system. and we are reviewing the configuration with the business experts on the managers and our chiefs and our staff and also making changes as we do the reviews. and we are also along the lines preparing for user acceptance, testing and round two that is

schedule to begin in mid novemeber, and this will span over four weeks through mid december. and so we are also have begun the process of planning for training, which is going to be before go live, and we are training as we go along but this is the extensive training for the entire department staff. and also, more, advanced training for the staff and the daily users along with the staff. and that is coming up. and also planning for testing and training sessions for the stake holders on this and the access for the on-line permitting. >> answer your questions if you have any. >> has there been some dates set for the training of the on-line users or we start rolling it out. >> so the testing is going to begin in november. and for, internally, towards the end of that testing, we are planning to bring in the stake holders who do the day-to-day on-line permitting so we can get their feedback and have them hands on and so that is going to be their testing slash

train and that is more informal. but the more formal training is going to begin in march of next year. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> item 6 d, update on major projects. >> eric, dbi. and like you can see, come better, last month is roughly, slightly the same, still along (inaudible). and then, any questions? >> no. any questions? >> major projects? >> no. >> commissioner mar? >> you know, it might be not something that would you want to include in this report, but i also know that the department is doing a lot of work in other public projects, such as the central subway and we did some

work in the you know, metropolitan transit day. and that area, and also, on the america's cup and so i was wondering if in some way in the reports that we could also show some of the public projects that our staff helped with, to really help it move along. >> yeah, commissioner mar is included in this package. >> okay. >> thank you. >> okay, everything is there. >> okay. >> just, and now that things are kind of... would we ever guess the six billion compared to other cities where we stand in the industries? with regard to new development and stuff? >> as far as i know, i don't (inaudible) you know, la, and are slow and oakland is slow and i think that we are, you know, no (inaudible) the city

now. and i don't think that any other city has that much work now. >> okay. >> okay. >> all right. thank you for that update, director. >> item 6 e. update on code enforcement. >> good morning commissioners, this is the monthly update of code enforcement and dbi monthly update. you have the attached forms, and i will have rose mary speak on behalf of the housing and john speak on behalf of the code enforcement and as far as the building inspections, there is 4292 inspections performed by the building inspecters last month. and complaints that received were 276. complaints response within 24 to 74 hours is 241.

and complaints for the first notice of violation, 765, complaints without notice of violation, 611. abaited complaints with notice of violations 86. and second notice of violations refer to code enforcement of 46. >> out of all of these inspections performed, i want to commend my staff for the response and of all of the complaints last month, 69 percent were responded within 24 hours. so, above and beyond their duty of performing the building inspections is responding to almost 70 percent within 24 hours. and 18 percent was complaints response, and 72 hours, which is allowable, and 13 percent, response over 72 hours.

and we have had 100 percent response in all complaints for the second month so that is i commend my staff for that and that is a great effort. and as far as housing, i will let rose mary report. >> good morning, commissioners. what i want to tell you about these numbers is that there are some anomolies here with respect to june and july that we were not able to fix and the numbers in the september numbers are actually truer to what the production is. and we did note, that our director's hearing referrals did fall off in september due to a couple of things, one was that the week that we had the staff at cal bell training and the fact that we were integrating the new inspecters into their assignments which is just it took a while to do that.

and as of yesterday, they are now all in their new district and they have their assigned supervisor and they are out there writing notices as we speak. however, because we look at our numbers, historically, we have always looked at these numbers on a weekly basis and e-mail went out to the housing division about a week ago so that they could see these numbers and understand that they need to be able to get and when they do the work to get the information into the system within the performance time frames, otherwise they have done the work and it does not reflect, so you can see from a number of complaints, that we have received, in our responses. that we are, or from 404 to 372, that the difference there is, that at least ten of those cases are illegal unit and anonymous complaints where we have not been able to get access and a couple of others were delayed entries and it is

a hectic time of getting the seven new inspecters into the rotation, i reiterated what the policy is as far as that is concerned, for the last eight years, we look at these statistics on a weekly basis. and so, i don't, for see a problem with that and so we will be increasing these numbers and you will see as the months come up that these numbers will increase as far as the number of cases sent to a director's hearing and by the way, when we sent a case to a director's hearing we don't recommend a continuation or referred back to staff. and we typically, if you look at our data on each individual referral that we make, you will see on a consistent basis that we are making a specific recommendation that an order be issued and so, you know, those referrals are when we make that referral, it is so that we want to get an order and we hope that when we come to you on appeals that you, confirm and

up hold those because that is so helpful to us and that is all that i have to say unless you have questions, the numbers will increase because we have seven more people doing notices and making referrals. and before we made the transition, we were really working very hard on the existing cases that have notices but here is the problem and it kind of gets to what is commissioner mar was saying, and that is, that, once you write a notice of violation and you send it to a directary hearing and you get an order abatement and you bill them and we bill the 52 dollars since day one and the case is right for the city attorney and the other code enforcement tools are some what diluted and meaning referrals and criminal citations the question is what do you do? and as i side before, i don't want the cases to sit around for years and years it is face time and manifesting presence and now we will be able to do that and later today i am going to be having a meeting on that

case that you said to anywhere we had the dispute between the property owner and the tenant on the bathroom and i have the meeting with them and we are going to see if we can resolve this a second time. here we have an excellent example of a case that has been going on for a number of years, yet it is not a city attorney case and we are trying to get the two parties together. and so, sometimes, these cases, take more time than we would allow. or that we would like. and so maybe the next thing that we look at, and i will tell you right now that i am working on an s-o-p, that deals with the anonymous complaints and how they look at those across the board and how they apply to the illegal units and the next thing to consider is whether or not we want to do this or not is the administrative penalty and that means that you don't fix something in addition to the assessment of the cost you get find which is independent of a penalty and with this economy that is something that we have to think about, whether or not that is something that is fair or he equitable.

and so that is the next step and part of this, but we do expect the numbers to increase. any questions? would be more than happy to answer them. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on directors report item 6 a through 6 e? >> i am sorry, code enforcement? >> john engine for code enforcement. and so, we took the 99 cases and to hearing. 51 of those you know had orders issued of advisements and we abaited 188 cases. and so that concludes our report. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. >> okay. further commissioner comments?

>> public comment? on the director's report, item 6 a to 6 e? >> commissioner? >> good morning, my name is robert davis and i am a bay view resident and i would like to ask for a little help with this case, this is 38 and 31rd street and on the corner of third and oak dale. and if you will look at the summary all of the details are here. we lost some money by not collecting the multiplier, and this case has gone on for many, many years, all of the details are in the back. and we would like to resolution. thank you. >> thank you, mr. davis. >> mr. davis, on these you bring them in to us in the morning of the hearing is there any way that you could get them into the office before the hearing so that we can review them? >> of course.

>> yeah. because i know that you go to so much work with these but it would be nice before you would make a presentation on it. >> no problem, i have been talking about this, more than four years. >> yeah. >> the next up is 5122 third, and it is the silo church and another case of blight and notices of violations and director's hearings and orders of abatement and i will bring that one up next month. >> 5122 third street. >> okay. >> item 7. >> could i have a comment? >> sorry commissioner mar? >> so, i know that the commission has been pushing the staff hard on this back logs of nov so i just wanted to thank mr. louy and everyone who has worked on updating this regularly, and that i think this is very helpful. i had a question, because this came up in the previous discussion regarding putting