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happen with the fees next year i don't expect to grow cybill but with the change in fee - we are going to collect 07 percent more than our base budget. so revenue is going to grow not as fast fast and we're going to recognize $2 million for the next phase of the b t s project. we want to add some of the other departments in our current system related to the process related to the program. we do have some money in fund balance already recognized to look at the elevators and stuff that was approved last year. so you see our revenue is going
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up slightly but it looks like a big dip. last year, we put $15 million in a capital reserve and we're not doing that again. in 9016 we're estimating an increase and eliminating all the operating fund balance so again, it looks like we're dropping but we're increasing our charges for service revenue in the following year. so that expenditures we're increasing for work orders. the city has changed it credit card approach the new credit card platform the city would take care of the fees but their sending it out to the various
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department so each department has to pay the fees. we do quite a bit of revenue it equals $50,000 a month it's a large hit for us. you'll see an increase of $600,000 for the year and it's to cover the cost of accepting credit cards in our building >> from a business point of view i know when businesses do volume can we negotiate a better fee. >> the city has negotiated it because they do a lot of credit card volume. my understanding is dbi has the highest volume of credit card in the city. we probably have the largest fee charged but it's negotiated citywide >> which department does that. >> the treasurer tax clerk.
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the 6 hundred thoughts would be for the whole fees. we collect fees from other departments so i've had a brief discussion with planning they need to pay a portion of the fees we collect for planning but since the fee is so new since at the end of the september but as we move through the budget process they may pay a portion but since i don't know what it is i've put the whole thing in dbi's budget. there's a small increase in training not huge to help with other code changes. we've gotten new servers and want to make sure that the people can go to the conventions. materials and supplies sees on increase.
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we want to increase our spending on emergency supplies. we have funding in our budget for helmets and things but we want to add funding for emergency backpacks and food so all the departments can go forbid two days. they're not budgeted so we want to make sure we add budget for those things on an ongoing basis. the loose is an comprehend. we're looking at the facilities at the 1616 mission we have more staff budgeted than fit in the building currently, we need more conference rooms and areas to meet with staff. it is going to - to do any capital project you need to do a
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facility master plan, which is ongoing. we're about a quarter of a way through that. one of the attachments in the budget dochlts that was sent to you was a draft of the current workshop analysis. they're saying we're thirty percent shy of space in a perfect world the building would be thirty percent bigger. they need to look at the right sizings of the building how many conference rooms do we need. we need to do some kind of capital improvements to improve our building. we don't know what that is. once we get a clear idea it will come back to this body so you guys can look at the study. we know we need to do something
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0 whatever that is. hopefully, we'll have decided by july what we need to do and keep working on it before the next budget process and can add money. i've put 5 hundred thousand in the first year and one mill in the second year. the mayor's office looks at it and you guys have more feedback but i want to point out that's a new capital project and in the budget >> that's important looking at for 2014 the conditions are very, very tight for such a busy busy building. i know the director this is a priority so whatever support you need i'm sure the commotion wants to see the working
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conditions improved >> so thirty percent more. >> b it's about thirty percent more. >> that's important. thank you >> so authorized positions. we've grown as you see. during the downturn we laid off one hundred and thirty people. your permit volume as picked up we're going to rehire people. with this 13 and 14 budget back around the downturn that we were budgeted for. we've been hiring and we want to add more positions. we're leveling off we don't need much more. in our budget this year that was
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approved last year, we have more building inspectors two. and we're going to ladder to work with sfoir. we're asking for 4 more bodies that are above and beyond that are permit techs and in the service to help with the customer calls. we're looking for more you assistance with the management position and one with pr. we're looking at part of the add we're technically asking for two positions we're going to give up two position. that's to fill 4 more positions. you can see in the graft we're leveling off we're asking for
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more positions but on the whole you'll see there. so a few other changes to highlight. the fringe benefits has increased due to the new positions we've added. equipment we've also are continuing our vehicle replacement a program so in the current year we have 10 vehicles scheduled for replacement and last year is part of the budget process we got 26 vehicles to handle the new staff on inspections. 10 are purely electron getting smallest cars and hybrid electric mix. we don't have the structure to do more electric so as we get
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more infrastructure to plug them in we can still use them as a hybrid. and in the event of an emergency we have an earthquake and no power we still have cars that run. cars can't be procedural electric. because we have so many cars we're continuing 10 cars to be respected. we have old cars that are reaching the end of life they're only good for 15 years and fleet will take the car and they thrills to come and get our stuff out of it. with other cars they say you have a new car coming but
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they're not save after 15 years they confiscate the car. work orders are increasing and the department of environment has asked for additional positions one for green building and one to help with demolition recovery. we've put some money in that dwp to help are things. there's some money there that's unassigned but over the course we get things like repairing phones and i'd like to have a cushion. hopefully, we'll get those worked out but right now there's
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a little bit of money that is flex. our project is continuing we have a contract with dbi. there's 0 money to continue that project and the other two projects i've mentioned. a that's my overview of the request >> commissioner walker. >> can you point out where our code enforcement grants. >> you our code enforcement outreach entrants are in the housing department and the summary of 038 is in housing. >> summary by division. >> they're on page 8 of attachment a.
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>> there it is but there's nothing in there. >> it means this there's no change. their current getting 5 point something million and the board of supervisors another money to the grants and we're proposing to maintain that increase and not an additional there for this year >> thank you. anything commissioner. you mentioned work orders what's the total amount of work orders >> sure. if you look at the very first page of attachment a there's 0 a-1 and it's $8.8 million. and then you'll see a negative
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140 >> okay. it's broken down per section. >> our work orders are budgeted by areas so we budget them for admin and we don't break them down to the division level. >> commissioners. commissioner melgar >> yeah. a comment this was a great presentation. it's thorough and thoughtful but has a good compact for explaining so thank you very much this was great >> i want to concur. i know that since deputy left you're doing an einstein job. i could sit and a listens elin to you all day and numbers kill me to that's good
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>> is there any further commissioner discussion on this item that is. i wanted to note that the commission is required to hold two hearings of the budget and we're having a special meeting on february 4th to have the second hearing. >> okay. >> any public comment on item 5 seeing none. item 6 update from nomination subcommittee >> they met last thursday. we decided we are going to open the period for accepting applications and resumes for all the expired seats on the code advisory committee and the board
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of xherpz. all the seats extraordinary in august of 2013 and 3 of the seat on the commission extraordinary. all the seats on the board of commercial escorted in 20122013. the application will list the seats and the criteria for filling the seats. the noontime should be posted on the dbi website soon i hope. so potential plants and interested persons that want to apply should check the dbi website. anyone wanting more information should contact the respective secretaries the code advisory committee is neil. yeah, we changed it to rick.
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and the board of examiner is - . we need to fill 3 new seats on the board of examiners. this is posted on the dbi website. those 3 seats were created by the soft story legislation and they're one think for the tenant seat it needs to be an architect or structural engineer. the homeowner or property owner needs to be an architect or structural engineer. the deadlines for applications for the expired seat and the new seats will be the end of february, february 28th. the nomination committee will moot in early march to review
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the applications then we'll figure out what to do after that. regarding the current members on those 3 bodies we want to thank all the current members and ask that they're interested in continuing to serve they submit an application or letter of interest by the deadline as well. all current members sitting on an extraordinary seat will be asked to stay until another person is appointed. we're encouraging them to help with outreach to help fill the 3 seats on the board of examiners. >> thank you commissioner lee. any comment from the commissioners >> thank you so much for going through this. i know those sub bodies help us a lot with all of us staff and
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commission in helping to move forward things forward so we really encourage all of you out there to go to our website if you're interested in putting some service into the city please apply. it's important the discussions that happen at that level. we invite you all to apply for the seats >> thank you. many of the seats require special expertise but - >> on access appeals and code advisory both have members at large for public input. >> any public comment on this
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stem. if there's none >> if it's okay for the commissioners we'll take our recess and be back here hopefully by 10:30 and go straight into item 7 which is crown terrace and we'll have our discussion on that. if there's no objection i'd like to recommend that we go into recess for thirty minutes or so continue. >> thank you. >> i made it back mr. president. >> you said you were going to drink champagne. >> i think we're ready. >> week to week we appreciate us to have that thirty minute break. with that, ma'am secretary our
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next item >> item 7 discussion regarding 1 with 25 ground terrace. >> before we go to general public did you want to say something there city attorney. >> there's a dbi is still in the process of its oppose investigation of the site. you may have seen in the newspapers that the city attorney's office is also doing it's own independent investigation. so you recommend at least for the time being in order to keep those investigations ongoing and not undermine those that the commission just take public testimony and we can revisit this at another time >> with respect to revisiting another time we'll calendar it
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again once we have everything in front of us. commissioner melgar do you want to talk about it >> it would be great to have some perimeters of what we can and can't do. if there are issues that proton for the policies and procedures that are affiliate i didn't that permitted this to happen or improper supervision of staff at which point do we discuss it. what are the perimeters as far as our own investigation >> i'm from the city attorney's office. there's a divided line between the jurisdiction of the inspectors commission and the
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jurisdiction of the department in terms of enforcement of code requirements. and investigations of the department in inference or friday afternoon e furtherance of enforcement. the commission can how old hearings and receive input from the department and public and ask questions of the department or the public but because of this jurisdictional boundary there are limits as to what the commission as a body can actually do with regards to individual projects. in addition the commission wears two different hats so one of your hats as the san francisco building inspection you have the conduct of building inspection
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and the amendment of the code that the dbi is involved with but you also wear the hat as the abatement appeal board. so there are instances in that regard you act as an entirely different body and your acting more in the capacity similar to a judge. so there's different rules of conduct so oftentimes that issue comes into play where the roll you may be take as the san francisco building inspection can come back to the abatement appeal board for enforcement type of acts is that trigger that process. i urge, you know, caution in that regard because you don't want to do anything as this san francisco building inspection
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that my undermine the abatement appeal board if a project comes before you >> commissioner walker i'd be interested in hearing hearing our comments. >> yes. it's a fine line but of most importance there are several investigations going on and until those are complete and we have the reports before us it's inappropriate for us to to do anything other than taking any public comment? i want to know that the property is safe. there's the issue of the permitting etc., but this was a building that fell so i guess we may want to know with things are
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secure on that property there's not going to be anymore - >> if i may there is any public comment? here let's take that and circle back on this issue. is there any other commissioners. commissioner mar >> i know the department, you know, is working very hard to come up with its oppose report and i would encourage the director to come to that conclusion as fast as possible. i'm sure we have less control over the city attorney's office feedback. but when we get those reports i would like to withhold and agenda did i see it and discuss it how we view those two reports >> i'm john from the city attorney's office.
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i want to point out that the city attorney is not necessarily going to be submitting a report on its investigation to you. it dpoopdz the outcome of that investigation what actions our office might recommend >> okay my final point. i concur with my fell commissioners when this came to light back in december we we have a hearing we told the public we'd e we'd get to the bottom no stone unturned. just reassuring that to the public this is exactly what's happening and we'll have a comprehensive report that i believe will explain our concerns.
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so i look forward to that. i believe the director has been working i know this for a faculties taken a lot of man-hours and i believe we should have it shortly. i don't want you to commit to a timeline but everything involved here down to the starldz this report will be done pretty soon and we'll bring it back. we can have a special hearing but we'll cross that bridge. we'll have a good long time to digest what's in the report and ask the hard questions if they're not in the report >> director huey. >> yeah. i agree with you. the report should be, you know,
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shortly maybe few days or early next week will be ready with the final input from everyone >> okay. all right. . thank you personally for all the hard work along with our staff. so with that, ma'am secretary we'll take any public comment? >> okay. >> good morning, commissioners i'm the structural engineer for the terrace. happy new year mr. president, in regards to this project. the entire team from the design team to the construction crew apologizes for the incident.
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we take full responsibility for it. the structural design perhaps commissioners you're not aware of this the design was reviewed by the structural advisory committee. this is a group of experts. we spent hundreds of man-hours coming up with a comprehensive set of structural drawings that included every detail in regards to the complexity of that project. dbi attended those meetings. the committee made out of a soils engineer a going lost and she or he engineer and architect. dbi did everything right.