into the space >> tomorrow it sound like they're going to be there and tommy can work with the inspectors. >> they're willing to do anything to keep their places and we want to work with dbi to make sure that happens, you know. we don't want any of the tenants here displaced, you know. so a good position to take would be, you know, such as you can be cooperative to let the inspectors be there to do the inspections like the light issues. the window issues have been addressed there is an answer to that >> okay. thank you >> good morning. i'm manuel rodriguez i'm a tenant for 3 and

a half years. following up on that last comment i'm not to be there do i tomorrow and let dbi look at the unit. we want to provide access so maybe they can take a look at and see what the changes the landlord is going to have to make to the point the tenants can stay. i'm thankful for annoying looking at this. i was - the landlord said on the permit that was issued i looked at the permit and i don't know if it applies to my unit because 6 units that the landlord had applied for a conversion for 48

unit and the permit says 6 unit so legally do they know does that apply to my unit. can the dbi look at the permit is there something that dbi can do to look at that and say you may be that permit was 6 units and it's incorrect we need to revoke it so a permit can be issued >> it's a good question. first of all, the conversion they have a legal use on the sixth floor. the latest permit is to remove all the operations. that one i suggest from if you want to appeal it to the appeal

board and is it wently? when was the permit issued >> i think that deputy sweeny would be the best to. >> the appeal process, ed sweeny you have to do it within 15 days. >> when was the permit issued? >> i think let me see - >> it was - it's over 15 days already. >> i do know you can appeal to the board to review whether or not their situations for delay. >> that's part of the jurisdiction. >> so you can still do that. >> okay to the appeal process

yes. and then we'll get back to the process >> my understanding it's going to take more than 40 days and i'm concerned why this is taking longer a eviction and tenant have to fight a u d. >> if i may commissioners we'll table that and we'll think about it and we'll have some conversations and, in fact, one of us can get back.

if - >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>. is there anymore speakers on this issue >> good morning, commissioners and director i'm the agency that provides services. one of the things we said to explore was the idea of doing a survey of similarly swaltd buildings along the stretch of market street and perhaps thinking about the boundary of that but having that some kind of moratorium on the removal of housing uvents from market street while the square is being done i think this creative prove that is something that can

definitely be applied to other buildings. by do have access ice so if it's possible to hold-off on, you know, any demo permits on any buildings any units being removed from residential use during the time that we do the survey let's assess whether there are other buildings. for example, 1057 it's almost an ideal situation as 10349 market. it's not an isolated case. there's so few affordable housing unit in the district overall but especially in the mid-market area it seems worthwhile to see if this is a creative people approach for

other buildings so no other tenants receive eviction city attorney and how to do that. >> and yeah, yes. >> but, you know, i think that we, we can use, you know, that we can work together, and

obviously our department is working to try and i know that there have been past cased where we have done this, that did not get press one way or the other that really are successful and i know i live in a building that is an accessory use, building. >> and the task force really recommended that ten years ago as a solution to try and accommodate, what we were trying to do with the lib work, which is the space to keep affordability. and so, you know, that, hopefully that will be part of what the, what comes of this is, the focus on affordability, and one of the failings as i said earlier of the existence, of the live work, waus that there was no enforcement of occupancy or affordability. it was just assumed that if they built it, to be what it was, that it would be

affordable. so i hope that we can resolve this. i think that it is a good opportunity to put forward and some real good solutions for maintaining these kind of spaces. >> okay. >> and i am sorry. >> two comments. first of all tomorrow, the inspection, is 1049 and 1067 together. >> right. >> it is not only looking at 1049. and then, second thing is that we are going to go more on the properties and the jurisdiction of the plan because it is not ours. >> it is actually the board. >> obviously the supervisors are all over it, but the mayor's office have been good here too. and so everybody, have got to draw a line to do the right thing. >> sure, i think that there should be a pursuit of the appeal even though it is not timely, the board of appeals is really the jurisdiction and they can choose to take it and

you probably should get advisement on how to approach that and they are the ones who can put the breaks on this. >> that is right. >> we can't, but, an appeal too. and a successful appeal. >> so, we want to give them thanks to the director, and to the tenants to hrc, because without them notifying us of that whole situation, was going down, i think that it would have been, it would have been a lot worse. of a potentially really disasterous out come that we are in the process of trying to stop right now, thank you to the commission for really, for first of all for choosing such an awesome director who really has been able to work with us and to really be creative about using city resources, to right a potential wrong, which you don't see every day. and so we really want to applaud dbi in the commission and the mayor's office for their assistance.

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> and next speaker. >> good morning. and too, want to thank you personally as a person who has received an eviction notice, i feel a lot more comfortable or safe at the moment that i did not feel previously. and i did think that it was worth bringing up that you know, the fact that this has already changed the lives of a lot of the people in the building and we have a number of people who have actually moved out already, due to the circumstance. i have not spoken with anyone personally, but, you know, what i hear is that the people who have left without, the compensation, that was, you know, should be guaranteed to them and also i thought that it was worth noting that during this whole situation, none of us was aware that anything was coming up and we were seeing the changes made to the building that we all assumed were for our own sake, you know? and then to find out in the

last moment that we are actually being evicted and you know, and trying to find out what the actual situation was, was very difficult as well. we still don't understand whether it was a commercial change, or a residential change. but, having said that, i do, feel a lot more hopeful. i hope that the people who have left the building, have a chance to move back in if they like if they have not left the city. and definitely thank you for your efforts and we will keep on paying attention, thank you. >> thank you, for coming. >> 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 st