a jobs stake holder forum which is led by miller, and so the office of small business has been invited to be part of this. because taking a look at individuals, some individuals are you know, want to work for other individuals and some, when we talk about the job innovation and job innovation also can be a small entrepreneur as well. and so this is really taking a look at our diverse communities with an emphasis on african american youth. and which sort of just does tie-in with what commissioner dooley talked about during the new business last week in terms of what can we do to work with small businesses, to have around hiring and employment and but our focus and our participation with this forum is how do we also help these

individuals who may have a business idea, be able to instead of going the job route, and you know, working for someone else, and understand what is the route and the avenue and the resources available for this them to start a business? >> i have provided you with a list of workshops and conferences that are coming up. a couple of things to highlight is you received some invitations to the mayor's winter of love. celebrating the ten years of mayor, and then mayor newsome or the governor in terms of doing the gay marriages then there is the lunar new year we have the sf, nighty awards coming up and i did want to take a quick discussion to maybe talk about the small business retreat and we are having some difficulty in being able to schedule all commissioners to be there.

and so, we can tentatively have it on the fifth. and march fifth and but we will be minus one commissioner, or what i would like is some direction to either push that out in to later march, to try to find a date, for all commissioners to be able to attend. so that is kind of open for some feedback for you. >> i don't think that anybody should get a bi, on this. >> we need to have the retreat. >> and i am okay with the fifth if everybody else is. everybody is okay with commissioner... >> is it all day? >> well, that time slot is proposed that seemed to work for most of the commissioners was 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

>> is everybody good with that. >> good by me. >> all right. so, good, and then i will be following up with everybody to start, i would like to start thinking about, i have in your binder, is the strategic and action plan from last year and so you can use that to reflect on and then think about for this coming year what you would like to put on that and i think that i will just close out my time and unless there is any questions. and you know, there is a list of all of the legislative matters that are before the commission. >> i would like to let this

gentleman know that the broad way restricted alcohol use will be heard at our next meeting on february the 24th. >> it is not supposed to be put before... i was told that it will not be put in front of the, it has not been heard by planning, and it will not be heard in front of the board of supervisors until the end of march? >> early march. >> so we will hear that before they do. >> okay, any other comments? >> next item? >> item number 8, legislation and policy committee report. this is a discussion item. >> everything that we had at the legislation and policy was moved to this body. so we will be hearing, and we

heard two items today and we will hear the other two items in two weeks. >> right. the two items that didn't make it on today aagenda were the ecigarette legislation and the broad way alcohol. >> right, but we will be hearing those at the next meeting >> right. >> at this point, definitely the broad way, i am not sure about the ecigarettes, the supervisor has not... he indicated that there is still some more work that they are doing. >> okay. >> hopefully. >> it will be broad way, and so we told them that we would hear it and we need to hear that one. >> so that is all that i have for legs and policy. >> takes us to 9, the president's report, a discussion item. >> the only thing that i have to say is small business week is coming up, quicker than..., and already.

>> and in may, and so we are already starting to meet on that. and more to follow at future meetings, also, i attended the council of the district of merchant's dinner last week which was interesting. and i also caught a ribbon for the euro's express that opened up on saturday with supervisor weiner and senator leno which is kind of fun. that is all that i have to report. >> thank you. >> item ten, vice president's report. >> nothing to report, i did it also, attend the san francisco council, dinner. as well. >> thank you, that takes us to item 11, commissioner reports discussion item? >> do you have any commissioner? >> dooley. >> i also attended the council of district merchant's dinner, but what i really wanted to

report on is what i had brought up at our last end of our meeting which about encouraging minority use, especially african americans, to get more involved in different industries, and to that intent i met last week with the folks at the elama hutch community center and starting next week, i am going to be starting a program, that is going to train interested youth there, on how to get involved in the floral industry. we are, aiming to actually create at the center a group of kids that will be well trained enough that they can participate and designing flowers and making some money, in the community, and bidding on different contracts, and i

will be there to be the team leader as they do that and our first event will be may 8th, they have an event coming up at the admiral's house and we will be doing the flowers, myself and the kids that i am going to be putting together for that. >> awesome. >> also, i mentioned to them that i would be able to have some speakers come to talk to them about opportunities in the pet-related industry. and so, we are going to be inviting pet store owners, and pet walkers, to show them, you know, we just, i want to open up, some ways for people to be thinking about careers that maybe had not occured to them before and especially if we are going to be not as much encouraging large big box stores coming in. and we need to have an alternative for people coming

up into the workforce, and show them a way that they can be more independent, and earn a good living and have a skill that they can take with them ever wherever they go. >> thanks, thank you very good that is cool. >> okay. >> any other commissioner reports? >> so, i did attend the quarterly meeting with the mayor. and obviously the hot topic is minimum wage and so, i think we are going to be need to prepare for a lot of discussion on this matter, because it will effect small business, as a matter of fact it will have the most dramatic effect on small business. and so, i think that there is a lot of research that needs to be done and a lot of case studies that we should be soliciting from, businesses who can describe how changes in minimum wage are going to change their profitability and their viability. and so, this will be an ongoing discussion, and i am going to

be part of it. >> as will i. >> yeah. >> okay, any other commissioner comments? >> seeing none, next item? >> item 12, general public comment, this is a discussion item and mr. president, i have one speaker card from ace washington. >> okay. >> good evening, commissioners my name is ace washington and as i mentioned before i was just about my first time or second time coming here. but i am not a person that don't know about the city and i have been here 25 years. probably longer than most of you all. i was around in the 5th district and i have credentials and ross was the boss, in my district. let me speak clear and frank and i don't want to get attention. i am glad that commissioner came to hutch and you mentioned african americans and two or three teams which is good and

which i am an african american. and which i am also here to also to share some information that you may or may not know. the issue in the fillmore, we have been devastated by redevelopment agency in the city, for over 50 years and i am 60 years. and it is my, next tuesday. and you know, i am a historian in the fillmore. and i am also here talking about, the things that is going on one of your commissioners is a former lady and what do you call it a merchant association and i have been there for over 25 years and i was there when you had one merchant association and i worked for them and created everything that what they are doing now for the last ten years. and i am apauled for what is going on for the individuals with a strength on the community that won't let go and won't let go. and they are leadership, is just clickish, and it has set us back a number of years. and it did that 50 years ago, and it has done in the last ten

years but i am going to break it up this time, the thing about is it that we are going have to a request about a public hearing and it did not take place and kristina, the last supervisor for the planning commission and also for the oewd and the workforce development, and which are very integral in our community, black community, and we have got a strong hold on what is going on, my credentials show that i have been involved in 25 years and i have been in the state commission and talking about the redevelopment agency and i was there for the jazz agency and currently right now yoshi is closing, our businesses that are closed down and it is iron nick that you are trying to launch some business thing and talking about you going to help disadvantaged communities, well when he came to our community, he just started closing down, and i don't have to go into the history of that, i have a history of three supervisors. and i was there with yoshi and

i opened it and there are articles on how we gave the money to the business in the fillmore that failed us, and we cannot use a facility at that fillmore, whatever it is called, yoshi but i am here to going to tell the city that i am going to intervene if i have to go to jail i will go to jail. hands out, we need all hands on deck. in the western edition and i am glad that you came we have problems, big problems. that on the surface it looks like with the name, doing a good job, she has done a good job up until recently things have changed. and the other thing that i have been up to the state and talked about it. this is the biggest problem that we got here. millions of dollars that failed us, that we gave on our tax increment and you talk about the black businesses and we don't have none in there and we talk about the people working and not on fillmore street and even at the established businesses that are owned by our own people.

there is a, and i am going to do a report, and that is going to reveal, everything, and it is called the faces, the places and the traces that is on ace's cases and it is going to reveal what happened to the last ten years and that have been did he devastating to the community. >> and i don't know how long the organization is together but it does not really help us out at all. your director came to a meeting to talk about yoshi and explain and all of them and nothing has tooken place, i am here to tell the city and county and ed lee, which he knows me quite well, i worked with him when he was not even in politics. and so i am here to say ace is on the case. and i am not new to this i am true to this. but i am very upset the way that things are going right now. particularly in this... >> you will see me on a regular basis from here on out. >> stew. thank you.

>> any other members of the public? >> closed. >> item 13, new business, discussion item. >> do you have any items for new business? >> seeing none, that item is closed. next item? >> item 14, adjournment, action item. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> i move. >> i second. >> meeting is adjourned, thank you. >> good morning, today is

tuesday, february 4th, 2014, this is the special meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to please turn off all electronic devices. the first item on the agenda is roll call. >> president mccarthy? >> here. >> mar. >> here. >> clinch? >> here. >> lee. >> here. >> mccray. >> present. >> melgar. >> here. >> commissioner walker? >> here. >> we have a quorum and the next item is item two, discussion and possible action on the proposed budget of the department of building

inspection for fiscal years 14, 15, and 15, 16. in order to pass, it will have to have a vote of five out of the seven. >> good morning, my name is gale and i am the acting chief financial officer for dbi and i made the presentation of the budget at the last meeting. i am happy to say that i have not made any changes to. and the only question that i have received between the two meetings was whether or not we had any funds available for promotional activities related to the 25th anniversary of the earthquake, we don't have anything specifically for that event but we do have funds for promotional activities in the department as a whole. and we can definitely do something with the existing funds that are in the budget. but that is the only request that i have received in the last 2 weeks. i do except some minor changes to work orders and i thaneds one of the work orderses is

going to go up a little bit and the hsa worker is going to be down and they all come out in the wash and minor charges over all and i have nothing else to present at this time. >> i think that this might be the quickest meeting, and i just wanted to obviously take you again and the one thing that and we did talk about this last week and more and more the expansion plans and the office, and i know that it is director has talked about a numerous occasions the key for me and you have, and i forgot the dollar amount but i think that it is over a million dollars that you for to do the investigation and how to expand the space and all of that? >> and so in this current fiscal year we have $400,000 to do a facility master plan and so we have partnered with the department of public works and

they have hired a consultant and they have looked at our existing staff and space and come back with a recommendation that we need more space and the question now is there is fine tuning that is going to happen with how many people do you think that bewill grow to the near term and how many conference rooms do we need and we are going to expand that analysis a little bit into, once we determine exactly how much space we need and what spaces or what are our options and that is going to happen this year with the money that is already budgeted. so if we decide that we need the current building is 66,000 square feet, if we decide that we need roughly 95,000 square feet, these are very ballpark numbers, then they will say okay, if you need 95,000 square feet you can add on to your building at this cost, you could move into a building in the civic center plaza which would be about this cost or we

can build a new building and it would be about this cost so next year i suspect that they will finish all of that type of analysis and we will be moving forward with whatever option and the consultation with us and the mayor's office and there are a lot of people that will be involved so we will take the next step next year and starting over towards whatever resolution seems best, so all parties involved. so what we did since we don't really have an idea of what that resolution is going to be, at this time, we put a half a million in next year's budget for general planning for whatever it is that we decide that we want to do and then we know whatever that is going to cost money. and so we put in another million in the following year, a million and a half between the two years. as you guys know, that we have to and you have to approve the budget today, hopefully and, then it goes to the mayor's office at the end of february and the mayor does not actually present the budget to the board until june first and some time between now and june first if

they have a better idea they may change those numbers and may say we have this perfect building at the corner of market and van ness and give the exact amount of space for x, money and then we might change what is in the proposal that the mayor will put forward to the board, but we don't really know, so the money in the budget is a place holder. >> commissioner walker, so they will do that without us approving it or having any say about it? >> i will expect to come back to you guys to have a say. >> that would be good. >> yes. and my understanding is that you guys need to have a say, the mayor's office, well obviously will have a say and so will the capitol planning committee and we have been clear that all players need to have a say before we spend what is likely to be a significant amount of money. >> great. >> is there a time line when the mayor has to get back to us about any changes, for example, if they get the budget in february, do they have to come back to us before by april or march. >> they don't have to come back

to this body at all and so they can make changes all the way up to the week before they present the budget in june. and they generally do that in consultation with me and the director. but, it does not necessarily come back to this body. and any large changes we will communicate back to the body but we may not know when they are and may happen at the last minute. >> but we do as a commission have an opportunity to go to the budget hearings and voice our concerns. >> you always have that opportunity. >> i guess that the big thing and what i am hearing is, even if we were to hire more people, now, which we look like we are going to be constantly building here, we don't have anywhere to put these people, it is not a hiring problem that we have right now, the bigger problem is a space problem. >> that is true. we could add a few more people into the existing space, but we could not add a significant number of people to the existing space. the other part of the discussion that we have been having recently with the

department of real estate and the mayor's office is could we do a satellite office? is there another office in the close vicinity to dbi that we could rent for more space? and that is still in discussion and one option that was given to us was too far away and so they are looking for an option that is a little closer as a possibility for hiring more staff. >> all right. okay. i think that will be our big challenge, when we first, twoiers ago we were trying to get on it three years ago trying to get back on a mode of hiring people now we are catching up now and the next problem is to keep that flow of nutrition, and of good people coming aboard over the years, where are we going to put them. i think that this should be a big focus on that. so, but otherwise, congratulations, well done. >> thank you. >> and hopefully they will not give you too hard of a time at the supervisors, and the budget committee may i say. >> is there any more questions? i see none, and it looks like we can call the motion. >> okay. >> is there public comment on

this item? >> seeing none, is there a motion? >> i move to approve the budget. >> i second. >> a motion, and a second. so the roll call vote. president mccarthy? >> yes. >> vice president mar? >> yes. >> commissioner clinch? >> yes. >> commissioner lee. >> yes. >> commissioner mccray. >> yes. >> commissioner melgar. >> yes. >> commissioner walker? >> yes. >> the budget is approved and passes unanimously. >> and as a reminder, our next regular meeting is on february 19th. >> okay. >> and the next item is adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> thank you. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> closed and adjourned.

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