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i think that is important leaving relieving is volunteer if the school choose to there's no deadline or requirement if they want to do it in phases their more than welcome two too. >> if san francisco unified school district owns the property and lease the building to a private school since it's not in your is it in our jurisdiction. >> the siren way to talk about there's a couple of works the charter schools sometime they're related to in san francisco unified school district owned buildings in d s a is the authority having the jury instruction they're not required to follow the san francisco building code if it is something that the city is - >> is there a way to hide as a
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charter school because they're on city property and not in d s a. >> i haven't seen a case like that. >> it property comes up where they skis through the krangdz. >> anecdotal it is profoundly d s a. >> the second question i have you mentioned when we're going through the revving there are a lot of private schools that are very old we're going to be going through preservation alsz lights; right? and correct. >> we did a s i there was a trial i want to let people know that is a full review by the building inspection and all the parts of building inspection. >> yeah. i think that is a
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previous thing to talk about for case management what we want to do is set i up for success if you're planning on doing a construction project let's have that conversation we worked with others thirg things did you think about accessibility if you do this it will trigger xyz that's what we want to do walk you through it and give you an idea construction k is expensive and downtime for school is hard to keep with we're going to minimize the downtime and maximum the time for a building permit historical review if you're doing exterior work think about having a conversation with the denial having we have a
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interagency working group we've identified one key person in every city department with the plan process department of building inspection, san francisco fire department work sf puc and everybody else that touches is dph we have point people in the departments it's on our website those are the right people to talk to we recommend if you have general questions start with us we're happy to make the connections the late thing call a number and get passed around we want to give you a superior service to get you set up. >> one quick question i apologize to the audience more of a question to you david i was
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curious about the evaluation form whether or not it recognizes the benchmark from the a s 41 are we still required to fill out the form if it's a benchmark building. >> i'm david i was the structural engineer answer is yes, the engineering criteria tore this evaluation tlaits there's a national standard i get the advantages for s c 41 one it the relatively new buildings are benchmarked structural non-structural so that goes to the question of those who had a retrofit that meets the safety standard i can use that to benchmark and be done. >> we talked about the possibility of fingering ada issues b what about california energy. >> it is triggered on a couple
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of things you'll trigonometry envelope the way your building reattains energies so if you're basically changing opposing that's something you want to consider basically, the only time for example you touch the lighting this transitions the lighting system it is localize so it will work with the right consultant and same thing for your mechanical. >> do daefrz come under this or two or 4 unit buildings or large. >> so it is about single-family daefrz not intended to be under the ordinances there's a couple of examples first of all say the kind of at home a single-family home and someone b is watching several children it
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is not e occupancy no, not required a subsequent requirement less than 25 children no requirement to evaluate so seems like the situation is not required unless a larger daycare well, if i don't see anyone else we'll conclude we have a list of engineers just a prompt if you want to look at it is we're going to take the recording it will building available twenty-four hour a day we've hosting this on a friday night 6 is 3 day weekend we're here to help with questions or services you myers guides might need so thank you very much for atte as registered voter in san
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francisco before each election you receive a voter information pamphlet in the mail it has the digest for each local proposition on the ballot how does a context sometimes proposition get semido if i had. >> inning. >> i don't know the specific process. >> it's done by a committee a ballot tim simplification. >> 3 steps the city attorney's office create a working digest
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the ballot committee holds public meats and creates final digest the simplified is published in the guide let's look at how this work after a proposition has been approved the sxhoofz drafts a city digest each digest we prepare has a couple of different saektsz the first is the way it is now provides an overview of the state of the law before the measure goes into effect addressed the second section is the material turn of the measure and finally at the bottom there are two sections one is called a yes vote and no vote means and if prep those we try to tell me the voters if the measure passes are not passed uses the city attorney's office delivered it
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is to the 5 member committee created in 192376 the members are nominated business the leak of women voters two members are appointed by itself may and 2 by the board of supervisors the committee holds public meetings for two weeks before each election arrest you the chairman has the sterilized ability to direct the meeting and lead the discussion. >> there's no politics involved at all because we're all journalist or people that worked with communications that has our goal the free right to communication without agenda or boys or political involvements all. >> before the commission meets each member reviews the digest along with the material.
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>> we get the protective technicalities and the actual yaurgd background and letters from different departments and from the advocates and perpetrate for the meeting sometimes for and 5 days in japs sometimes someone will sigh did you understand it no one understand those bond measures of one hundred and one hundred owe 25 packages down to three or four had found words. >> amendments and the general obligation bond members it is marred to explain what a general obligation bond is. >> wow it gets interesting sometimes. >> we'll talk about it but we talk about it in session we don't talk about it before we get here. >> the committee acceptance the city attorney's draft or edit it. >> the reason we rewrite the
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city attorney's digest is because it oftentimes in more legalize than the voters see understand we're quick to ask questions we don't is this is the way it's going to be we come in as journalist questioning exactly which that is to put out into the digest exactly what the legislation means. >> the committee may hear from drafrt of the digests and they consultant with the committee educational specialist to make sure if meets the requirement to be written as closed those as possible to the eight grade level. >> we say is that really an eight grader words sometimes yes and sometimes grab the addicts and find substitute and it requires the city to maintain
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all the golden gate park. >> during the editing of the digest it's displayed on large monitor. >> there's no mystery of what the public sees. >> they hear outline your discussions they know what we're thinking and after the committee makes the changes the proceedings radio on inform the public for comment. >> poach have a right to voice their opinions in democracy people come before us are dead serious depending on obtain on the side and their passion is strong. >> july 4th with 9 committee there's a lot of airmentd argument pro and con and well, you could take out the voter initiative. >> i want to address someone that was mentioned. >> i take exception to the previous comment. >> 0 hopes 0 provisions thank
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you. >> after public comment the committee discussed all the points in an open session. >> sometimes, we change our draft sometimes, we literally tear our draft apart. >> after the possible changes made the committee takes a final vote to adapt the digest. >> i move we adapt the measure. >> at least 3 members must agree. >> all in favor, say i. >> the public hearsay twenty-four hours hours for the submission of a reconsideration to the department of elections. >> the following week the committee meets publicly to discuss the appeals and take public comment and decided wloovr whether or not to adapt the final digest. >> what we really want is for the voter to think for themselves read what we say and read for themselves and look and make up
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their own mind we're in their corner ready to fight for them and the administrations fight often it didn't matter your obligation is to the voter we want them to be able to look at it and understand it. >> learn marrow missouri bhr the committee at sf election.org before every election find a ballot simplification in the ballot it is rankle 1 english chinese spanish and filipino it is mailed to all voter and can be found at sf election.org.
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>> it seems like everyone in san francisco is talking about housing san francisco housing prizes are among the highest it tops anyone million dollars and rent rise unfortunately, this is not the first time housing has been in the news thought california the cost of a home has made headline the medium prices for a house in the the $207,000 in california it is more than twice that amount and the laura u bay area is higher it's more than doubled the states so while more than half of the americans can afford the medium fewer in california and quarter in the bayer and now fewer than a 6th of san franciscans can afford it so why it housing in san francisco so
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go cheven condition tharz the obviously a high demand to live here the city is known for cultural diversities that attacks new residents and the credible opportunity our city diverse and will daytime committee grows jobs as a result we estimate the number of jobs is at ann an all-time 0 hive of 6 hundred thousand in the 80 the population was 6 hundred and 75 thousand now, it's grown steadily and quickly the recent estimate is 8 hundred and 40 thousand the highest in the city's history and it's not only san francisco it is greek the bay area has $2 million for residents and jobs then in the 80 and the growth is expected to
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continue by the year 20403.9 million people unfortunately, our housing supply does not keep up with the demand i might not realize the majority of construction is housing that's been suspended for years due to the 2008 recession while population is increasing the housing is only increasing that i 9 percent if we don't pursues housing the cost of housing about only increase how do we plan the regional allocation identifies the total number of housing unit by affordable level to support the new residents san francisco incorporates it into the housing elements that guides the housing policies the arena data places it in the investment
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plans for the growth throughout san francisco those plans developed by years of community planning laid the ground work for the construction so the city he e sets the goals in broad terms the private sectors builds market rate housing and non-built affordability housing that majority of housing in san francisco as well as throughout the country market rate houses built by private developers within guidelines of the city some below market rate you howls paid pie public and private dollars and prized to be variable to certain population housing is considered affordable if it costs less than 1/3rd the medium income for a 2 percent householder is $70,000 this householder will have to pay no more than $7,150 to be
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affordable san francisco has see long applied federal, state and local money often built and nonprofit tint for individual families the news cities in california what the inclusive program requires that 10 or ottawa more units to certain blow income levels or contribute to the fund that supports the blow market rate unit almost 25 thousand have been supported by city funds and more than 6 nous thousand of the unit were built between 2000 and 2012 what you can't afford a million will home you're not alone in response san francisco mayor ed lee has set a goal of creating thirty thousand
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now e-mails homes by the year 2020 most will be in outreach of the san franciscan with federal and state funds drying up the san francisco ethics commission is, taking an iv i of actually roll is providing housing across all levels we're working diligently for everyone to live here and mr. chair protect the housing semiand strengthen goals against evictions we're commented for housing needs for all san franciscans to learn more visit highway
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