with the true inspector arrest warrant deny. >> and if so at least the admire can give me an update to the commissioners will know about the actions and let's presume there's no issue the contractor is doing their job but it's suspicious and this signage of the demolition and construction and general construction dust it is definitely a need for improvement as to the posting of phones and not getting message things it's a genetic message. >> we've got the debate that person on site anybody can call that person regarding the permit thing. >> it should be. >> it is required already. >> in the plan whether you see it in actuality. >> in actuality.

>> yeah. and . >> that's a good phrase. >> from the concept we're hearing that the existing map is not consistent with that what is true about where the monitors are that's misinformation. >> we have to clean up it and make that pub available i'm watching the information. >> whoever the person is get the contact number. >> work with them and okay. everybody and we're - thank you for coming. >> okay i'm not sorry dr. we've kind of i'm sorry please no, i'm in - i said i'm in enough trouble i miss managed everybody's time i did it because this is important so, please all the commissioners are quite satisfied we know the

next steps and thank you for coming out here today. >> (inaudible). >> so the next item. >> are we. >> item 5. >> director's report 5 a update on dbi's finances. >> good morning, commissioners deputy director for the did you believe and before you is the february 15th year to date financial report and similar to other months i'll start with the revenue highlight revenue side a new beginning based on what we collected through february 2015 we're projecting we'll have about $2.3 million than actually budgeted we thought we were going to get $56 million in charges for services we'll get

58 percent plus we're collecting no more than budgeted the second page it budget to budget on page 2 look at revenues we've compared to where we were last year at this time so there's a difference and it is consistent over the past few months we've been doing well as it related to our budget but compared to last year we're a lot lower so february 2014 we collected $52 million now $44 million that's a drop from last year and once again the primary reason if you look at the next chart the evaluation as you can see the permit activity is bust it is issued for permits this year than last year, however the valuation is going down in a reduction of revenue every month i say the same thing.

>> stop. >> on the expenditure side once again we've we'll have some savings because of other items we're continuing to hire every month as we said before two or three new hires and a copy of examines for a couple of the classes some the building trade classes and i guess that's about it on the fee study the last meeting of the controllers report the controller's office mentioned they'll be back here with information on the feasible study and they're close it's been 1re79 by the consultant they'll set up a meeting this month and hopefully within a few weeks we'll be able to have information i took once again they were doing ant more due diligence from prior years numbers and moving those things we're on schedule for that and as an

update you've approved that in january so this past anniversary of the board it may have passes again, i didn't check but that keeps it retroactive i'm happy to answer questions. >> commissioner walker kind of come up at ever meeting you've talked with the director as we've seen fires in the older buildings it's occurred to me and continues to be a concern we may be understaffed as our housing inspection i want us to be more pro-active with the buildings and our routine inspects and our universe of routine inspection and how frequently we've had a lot of fires in the older buildings and

many tenants that are displaced assault and we lose those residents in san francisco so it's been no way to get back in i personally as a tenant representative on this commission want to support increasing our housing division staff and i know it's noted been included in the budget but the fact on the ground support needing us to be more pro-active in our inspection hopefully, we'll have a conversation about this i mean i've brought it up a lot i think nothing is happening i don't know what else to do about it as we talk about our finances this is wasn't i want to see dealt with as we project. >> commissioner walker just for your information item 7 we're going to be talking about steps.

>> okay. >> is that it. >> i'll bring it up wherever. >> any other questions. >> deputy thank you. >> item 57 b update on the proposed b update on the proposed legislation. >> bill strong to tie the last point the board passed unanimously for the second reading yesterday the fee reductions extension that will effectively take official effect i think about the 18th of april so that is basically passed and will probably be signed by the mayor on friday there are another piece of legislative that was pass by the board may affect us down extreme is mr. nolan's new clean

construction emissions legislation this ordinance requires public projects to actually submit an emissions plan for the kinds of equipment being used at the job site some of the projects come to us for permits there are a possibility there can be details in the issuance of the if the emissions have not been signed off by the dbi another physicists legislation is supervisor wiener's additional unit legislation so that anytime anyone is doing either a volunteer or may or may not seismic retrofit they're eligible to add a unit or more than one unit in the building envelope permits the emission and meets other code requirements we have been meeting internally

to take into account what the impact maybe on the department and information sheet with guidelines is being developed it is possible because there's providing an intelligent for additional rental unit albeit it even more affordable level those are essentially legalized 234789s types of units it remains to be seen how much response we actually get from this is too passed yesterday unanimously and will be signed by the mayor this week and take effect often 18 or 20th of april we'll soon be seeing whether or not there is interest in pursuing that opportunity only other item i know i'll mention is i'm sure you're aware of on the immunity soft story

promissory note program we're down to 7 out of 6 seven hundred that have not submitted screened forms therefore i think it is safe to say we have one hundred percent compliance in the next stage, of course is they have the next two years to actually complete the work we've had 23 hundred and 47 permits taken out i believe one hundred and 33 jobs have actually already been completed so retrofits are underway through that soft story program and payroll for the legalization of in-law units we're up to a total of 8 permits i understand there are 3 that have been approved basically but have not yet been picked up and paid for by the owners there are still will 60 under

receive at planning a possibility, of course that we may see more permits issued in the next few weeks for those i think it is safe to say by the time we get to the first anniversary by the medal of may and the next report jointly is due from planning and dbi to the board will probably be in the 10 to 12 or 15 actually issued permits for those legalized unit so for whatever reasons we can speculate quite a bit open what some of the reasons might be a lot of the original units are code compliant where planning is waving the issue those

applications is not coming in i know we've been talking with planning about it maybe by the end of this report we'll have a better understanding of why this is happening but other than that that's it. >> commissioner walker. >> on the secondary unit legalization the first step is to be advised by some outside people; right? are we seeping e keeping track of how many people are doing that. >> we've had about 15 hundred inquires since the program start; right? and typically they'll come to our council and get informal advise but note an architect or engineer do a screening and look at the specification addressed

required. >> thank you thank you, bill. >> good afternoon tom director of building inspection one correction i want to make the soft story it is not 7 it is only one non-compliant and also, we send a warning letter to those of the tier one due to complete their work by 2017. >> no other questions on item 5 b move on to item 5 c update on the major projects. >> tom as you can see the slightly increase on the project for the major project by 2

percent any other question you had? >> nope thank you. >> thank you. >> item number 5 d update on code enforcement. >> good afternoon, commissioners dan deputy director of building inspection i'm here to give you the code enforcement and the monthly update for the building inspection building inspection was performed for the most month of february 5 thousand 89 complaints were 3 hundred and 29 complaints response between 49 square miles to 20urz 21 and notice of violation complaints without abated were one hundred and 62 and complaint of notice of violations were 32 and second

with code enforcement for thirty for the housing inspection services performed 9 hundred and 33 complaints received were 3 hundred 89, complaint response fine 49 square miles to r78z and abated complamdz with notice of violations were 3 hundred and 16 the number of cases sent to directors were 39 and routine inspections were one hundred and 10 as far as the routine inspections the chief inspector we'll report to you on the 13 inspects that are what they're currently doing and it's an agenda item she'll address as far as code enforcement the number of cases 33 and number of abatements 26 and number of cases 6

and number of kinds abated were one hundred and 12 and code enforcement inspections performed one hundred and 36 thank you. >> thank you deputy director. >> no questions do we have any public comment on any of the items under item 5? >> okay. as previously announced item 6 not being heard we move on to item 7 discussion and update regarding routine inspections performed by the housing division. >> good morning with respect to routine inspections and commissioner walker mentioned we're effected by 5 vacancies we actually had 6 an individual open medical leave that is back the department has been pro-active in the acceptance we have within the

last few weeks interviewed for new housing inspectors i believe there will be some positions filled with respect to that effort i do want to thank deputy directors teresa teresa madison and others for assisting on the panel to get the positions filled awhile that's happening we continue to be required to respond to all complaints that come in within 1 to 3 business days for the task force and the field inspects, etc. that's not enough we recognize that things happening in various part of the city and the ongoing inspections citywide that the things need to be done we've got a concentrated safety concerns that periodically cluster community and building types and yes, i'm

talking about the fires in the mission district we've done we've identified one hundred and 28 building longer than third street to amazon and have notified the property owners coming in into a routine inspection ear concerned with the loss of life and serious bold injuries and also looking for reoccurring problems with life hazards related to egress and other fire issues of the one hundred and 28 all of 6 had their nos sent out this is hollow happened with within the last three weeks and 35 of the inspections have occurred and we're moving so fast two cases as a result of this effort went to the litigation committee yesterday two property there

were 3 but 2 as a result one property owner the history with the building this is the second and third time we've been out through we're seeing add locks and chains on egress let me show you a picture a picture of a cadillac that looets leads to a roof door this is important there's a fire escape that is a building along the moikts corridor we've cited this before i pook took one look at this it is not even through to the directors hearing it didn't have to be we'll go through this pro is it is referred to the city attorney the message we want to send if you're doing something like that you need to stop we understand there are a phenomena going on along the mission

corridor with unauthorized entry people using fire escapes to going get into the building we can't have that we can't have the central alarm system out of use there's no skews the fire department tagged it we need to get that into the housing code to have broader coverage we're working with the code enforcement outreach program with the mission sro collaborative and housing rights committee and working with them they give out and they get into buildings fire working groups we're continuing to help them our district inspectors is to assist them to grow this not only in the sro's but the apartment buildings and the buildings that have a

combination of other building we realize we've got limited resources we want to focus them on what we call the code enforcement focused areas we'll actuates them we hope that the needs arises in other parts of city we'll shift gears and focus somewhere else we know with respect to they're being a lack of housing especially with the tree fire and the devastation we are being pro-active with replaced we'll continue and i want to congratulate our new housing inspector under lopez that helped with this without his experience because this

happened as a housing inspector for many years we couldn't have done it without you so the staff held and i had four district inspectors we got everybody together to the clerical staff brought their database together and awhile everything else is happening with additional resources we'll do more commissioner walker then commissioner mar. >> i want to congratulate i and thank you both and the director for supporting this again, i think that our - my personal request is that we actually increase the assets that you need the personnel you need and focus on that over the next year to continue this and make that part of our regular response to making sure that the buildings are safe we have tens of thousands if not hundreds of

thousands of these kinds of building are old don't have the engineering and this safety requirement that the newer buildings have i think this is a really good response and i encourage you and the director to count on the commission to support this effort ongoingly thank you, commissioner. >>the other thing we're trying to do this in a sensitive way the last thing to displace them but not put in in jeopardy a lot of the inspectors are former individual that worked in outreach they have a sensitivity they have that people skills to be able to deal with that and work in collaboration because we understand the 0 moment we leave that this as american people inspector things can change padlocks can go anticipating on

and things with respect to fire safety this is a calming of the individuals that occupies the building we're collaborated with our outreach partners too >> as a followup is maybe it's time to look at our outreach program to see if we need to increase that effort i think we've talked about that in terms of the seismic program as well as this secondary unit i mean there are issues very sensitive issues around folks in currently illegal secondary units that our priority is to legalize them we've had that issue it has come up even more in those times so if there recent a need for expanding coverage or shifting things around the commission will be willing to listen to that as well and support it. >> we actually commissioner are

having that dialog we can get an unanimous complaint an illegal unit we may not have the history with the property owner or the building to see there's an issue one the things we intact administration person will ask a series of questions to get nor information so just not to say there's an illegal part of some type of building if we don't have the information there isn't proximate cause to proceed this is i've been looking at the language to see or is to the property owner if you don't let us in there are hazards you need to address them we want to do this in a sensitive way we've reached to our contractors to get feedback before we do that.

>> commissioner mar please. so thank you very much for this report one of the reasons i was pushing for the rounded inspectors to come back and down or deny nor often property owners pay for those inspections it is supposed to be a service it's to the punitive so what fires happened in the mission the property owner with others proud i have no - of course not we're - we have the practices of having response to the squeaky who's also or the complaints doesn't mean there was not problems if we did a routine inspection if we did one earlier a lot of times a lot of property owners will say to me it's to the punitive the routine six the rupert happens and the problem

is 30i89d they'll fix the problem and we did a follow-up and you know it was appointment when i met with her the reinspection there's no charge it's not punitive not only the tenant that want the routine inspections by the property owners feel they should have it, too they're paying for it i want to encourage you to keep doing it and any issues regarding staffing commissioner walker and myself will support you and the director in getting all the staff we're entitled to and we have a line i know there are issues about the lists before but that is something else we should make sure is up to date for i to work with that human resources is responsible for

i want to go back to the way we used to actually district inspectors all doing routine because the district inspectors know best and know to go back to doing the routine inspects and i'm glad for some of the changes that recently happened but hopefully, we'll go back to that and you know that's you know that's all i have to say oh, one other things i appreciate the report but i was wondering if just like the nov report if we could get routine reports so i know that i support your tell us on the mission right now but this itself squeaky wheel i imagine the tenderloin is a

close second that's where the orderly property are and problems i want to make sure that if we get a written report just like others novs we could a track it, it's great we move on the mission and the tenderloin let's keep at it so see where the routine are happening not just complaint driven but inspectors are going. >> yes. commissioners we give you monthly records and it seems to me there's a miss comics we're doing rupert inspections on short staffed we can't do inspections because of the amount of complaints that will reoccur when we are fully staffed this is what we're doing in the interim and with respect to the service you talked about the property owner gets a

detailed package that you know includes the you know 36 items their supposed to look at it before the inspection occurs the affidavit with reporter to smoke detectors and smoke alarms that's in the package and the other thing if we write a notice of violation and do a inspection they're not charged that's part of their annual fee after that point if we have to do it, it's different than a complaint we'll continue to do those and the new inspectors that'll that's one thing to make sure based on a detailed procedural manual all of the materials it is detailed what the property owners get it let's us know they're ready to go that's part of the process when we