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certain building permits require the issuance of the certificate of final completion and occupancy, for adding units and major change of use, if that was correct you would no the revoke that. but the question that also presumes is there some kind of a license that was not revoked for the operation of what you were really getting at and we used to have a permit of occupancy and we don't issue those any more, they have to pay a licensed fee to defray the cost of our inspections, but dbi does not currently admin trait over a licensing per se of these hotel to operate, what we are doing is essentially, implementing over the code enforcement of the various codes, so if they failed to maintain it or do the work without the permit, then we have jurisdiction, and the assessor does have, a licensing program for any apartment building or a
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hotel for the four unirts or more, for the dwelling units but they don't use that particular process as a way of pulling away the ability to operate so the issuance is that you have done, something beyond a legal use and you need to ultimately in this case, when they legalize this, they will need a new cfc that will reflect in the new use. but it is not the type of document that this is revoked. if we did a license, if that was under the jurisdiction of the department and the commission, then that will be something, but we found that to be unproductive. because we were really after maintenance and doing work under the particular permit. so the focus now, is within the confines of those requirements. any more questions? thank you for the summary, i thought that it was helpful and
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i thought that we needed it as a commission because over the years we have been hearing the different issues and the occupancy is very. >> it is difficult for the plant check and difficult in the building and inspection and so you can see the building inspector go out and the issue, and go door-to-door, come and the units. and it is an issue with housing, and we look at that we are cautious on that, when the plan check and printed application, to look at the unit count in the building, because it is not only a cfc for the story, and it is the permit that comes to the office. >> yeah. >> we have to look at that closely >> with the in you system, the strategy is not going to change, it is going to be the same format, with the new system. >> yeah. >> and so, give me now, just one quick question. could you talk a little bit about temporary occupancy? that is given sometimes by and how that kind of relates to this? >> yeah, before. >> for a tco, temporary. >> yeah. >> we do it like some of the large buildings downtown and we
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even do it to the smaller structures and if you get a high-rise building, it shows complete, what they would ask for the temporary when you occupy the half of the building and we look at the life safety are complete and the inspections are complete, and want to occupy a certain portion of the building and we will look at that and the fire and plumbing and if it is okay to occupy that we will issue a temporary certificate to occupy that concern area. for the rest of the building is completed. there is a time line on that. and we give it a short period of time. a good example of that is like i said, a restaurant next to a building there, and the restaurant wants to open up but complete but the rest of the building is not. >> so that is, certificate or that temporary occupancy can
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translate into the residential and commercial as well. >> the commercial or residential. >> yeah. >> it could be commercial or residential. >> yes. >> and just on the time frame, what is the time frame that you normally give it? >> in the project? >> no, a lot of times what we will limit it because we want to observe it and so the temporary certificate we will get to 90 days, and we want to know and if we want to extend that certificate they have to come back with a request letter telling us what they did, and what they proposed doing, and ad more days for that certificate of occupancy before it will allow the second certificate. and we do track it within an inspection. >> right. >> and the single family homes are they held to a different standard than say multiple units? >> well, there is we will not issue a certificate for the family, because there is just
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occupancy. >> right. say for the five unit building, three of the units for 100 percent complete and get the work done on two units we could issue a temporary certificate for those three. but for a single family home, obviously, it is gone and it is built to what it is supposed to, and for example, if there was a planning issue, would you allow someone to move in and would you certificate a building? for example, planning says you know, they don't like the windows but the family needs for move in, would that hold you up from issuing a temporary certificate? >> no, we could issue a temperature certificate, and on the singling family dwelling, but we don't do it but we can do it if it was a planning issue, where we had just to see the windows or, you know, size of a window or something. >> it is not life and safety issue. >> yeah. >> so you do have the atonomy. >> that is important, because sometimes, the stuff goes back to planning. and i am seeing a lot like for
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the separate issue. and well i am seeing a lot, to addendums, which we had a great hearing on here, and we were told very time certain dates would be given and from what i am hearing now the addendums are quite the opposite, they are taking quite longer. then and so you have a single family home or a family trying to move in and they are waiting to at deny dumb and they want do the thing and they are waiting on the planning to get back. and so that is another conversation and another topic that we want to talk about again, but i want to make sure that we have flesbility for the families that are going through the stressful situation. >> the issue brought up about the aaddendmuchlt, planning want to to see all, and oci wanted to see all. we had discussions with planning and explained that you are holding it up.
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the only one that they want to see now is the architect you areal. for the new buildings, or large additions. >> or before we were sending over for the foundations and the mechanical. >> that is interesting, and so if you have right now, the requirements are exterior of the buildi building. >> no, the layout. >> that is usually at the beginning of the project. what it kills is when someone wants to cover up when you are going to do the insulation or the sheetrock and you don't have the addenda yet and you built it using the structural. >> yeah. >> that sometimes causes trouble. >> okay. >> and then just finally, because you kind of opened up another kind of part here. and this is.
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>> and so, inspectors changed toward the project, and you know, the job card is a very important part of the sign-off of coming to the certificate of occupancy, that they have for all of the different departments and sometimes in the job cards, you will have an inspector saying, that it is okay to cover up, however, aband c needs to be addressed, right? and then aband c is addressed. >> and if it is minor, yeah. >> and yeah, okay, fair enough, it is not major, but then aband c is fauld on to the other inspector who says that you need to go back to the other inspector who said that he would sign it off, based on a, b, and c, and so to your point, that it becomes this trying to figure out to get the signature, and how do you get around that and how do you feel? >> okay, we ask and we bring it up to the staff meetings and the
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steve also. if there is an inspector and the abc has to be done, and a secondary, or a second inspector goes out with the different inspector. look at those and, make sure that they are there and sign up the cover up. >> and don't tell them to see the original. what do you do then? >> i am going to see a supervis supervisor. >> okay, you are clear on that, and you are not dead in the water. >> that is correct. >> all right. >> okay. that is really good, it you so much, for that. >> appreciate it. is there public comment on item
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seven? >> seeing none, item 8, the up date on the budget inn hotel on 1139 market street. >> members of the commission, this particular hotel is on market street, between 7 lth and 8th street. and it is a large residential hotel and it has # had guest room and one department, and 63 of those are tourist units and 31 are residential, the building is migrating for a for profit operation and it is going to go under a program under the new department of homelessness, and support of housing. and that office has asked us to do a room to room inspection for those purposes. and so there has been a significant amount of renovation of the building, as you can see from the colored photographs, we have distributed, they have recently, now replaced all of the, or most of the doors and they have tiled and they have
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spent a lot of work and what is outstanding in the notices of violation, that we have, the adding of the two bathrooms to the floors of occupancy on both floors and they are working on a stairway system. so that is td work that we have, and now i know that there was some testimony before the commission at the last hearing, regarding invier mental factors associated with the renovation, shgs i can't tell you on the scope of the house gs division that when we went out there on a complaint, with he go out that same day or the monday of the complaint comes in on a saturday to 311 and nound that all of the work was done and it was wiped clean and an hepa vacuum in the hallway, so it was a very, very,
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clean site. there has been probably an inconvenience to some of the occupants as you look at those photos, this is going to be one of the nicer hotels in the city with respect to what you are seeing in the common areas.
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>> we will be conducting the requested inspection, which is separate, but they are proceeding with the permit and there was a point at which they had exceeded the scope for one of the bathrooms and they need knife on one floor and six on the other and so they are working on that and watching that carefully, and we will then be summarizing all of this in a letter to the department of homelessness before the items before it actually goes over into their program, but we see quite a lot of great improvements to this building than what previously had been there. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> no questions. >> is there any public on item eight? >> item nine,? the process and the time frame? >> nichlt good afternoon, the
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director for the department of inspection, and i will take a few minutes to go over the department's hiring policy and procedures. so basically the hiring procedures are what the city's are, and we are governed by the civil service rules and that means for for the permanent positions we have to make sure that there is a competitive process and we are selecting from a certificated list and normally what happens is that dvment hr, because that is a class that is used throughout the city. but a lot of times we have to establish our own list and
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establishing that entails a variety of things and so it takes a little while and so the thing that you do is you have to make the job description in the minimum qualifications and you approach that for two weeks or so, and it is a minimum of two weeks, and that allows the people to submit the information or resume, to meet the qualifications and then, the department will have to go through that list of everyone as selected, that submitted applications and in determine who meets those minimum >> once there is a ranking for the test scores, and those who take it and maybe, protest it and if they have questions about it and then we have a certificated list and then and
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only then, are we ready to start the hiring process, and then that means, we are going to request a referral of those who are on the list, and usually, if you have a list, and it is a rule of three and depending on how many applications you have, and that is how far you can go down the list and you can send it out to the people for that position and, there is an interview, process, and so this takes three or four months, and originally before, for a couple of the ones that we did, for instance, the building inspectors and it took a little bit longer because although that we have the bulk, we have some of the other departments that are going to use our list too. as i said before, a lot of our jobs are ospecific to the dbi,
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we have to go and establish our list and, so over the past three years, or so, we have done about 20 different examples and those have been exams for permit clerks, and building inspectors and the plumbing inspectors as well as the it, positions too, and so we have done a variety of exams. and with he have done a lot of exams and from us doing those exams, i think that over the last, i have it here. for the last three or four years we have been able to fill, and we have been able to hires, however the net is lower, as we bring in the people we also lose people, although we have done, 120 hires that does not mean that we have increased the fte count by 120, because a lot of times for instance, for the senior positions, that still is by the internals and although we may have gotten a promotion in a senior position and that means
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that they can see in the other position and, there have been retirees and the people that have moved on, for the transfers and so the net pretty much is, and i put that up here, so that you can just get a sense. i thifrpg that back in 12, 13, we were at 243, and now as of early in october, 281, full time positions. so i don't know if that was what you needed if you have other questions, about the hiring process, about you that is basically what we used to hire. commissioner walker. >> thank you for this, i have a couple of questions, how long are the lists active once we have a list that we can draw from, how long do they stay? >> they usually stay active for about a year, but we have extended a couple of lists, and i think that we may have extended the housing inspector list a couple of times.
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do rehave active lists for the positions. >> we do, if we needed to ramp up quickly, we would not have to go through the process. we have an active building inspector list, and the active electrical inspection list because we know that it takes a little time to get it done. >> all right, thank you. >> and thank you, and i asked for this because, just to kind of looking down the road here to
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commission walker's point, you know how we are situated in going back to the gray days, where we were trying to ramp up, and it was extremely difficult for us, you know, the list exists and stuff, but there was a real kind of a long period of time before we actually saw the out come of somebody be hired. >> to that point, has that changed in any way, i know that it is a civil service kind of a position. and with he have the service departments that are hired quicker than the departments and so maybe it was because of the qualification and so on and all of that took a bit longer, and i am just wondering, i tlifrng that we had a 7 to 8 month period before somebody actually what would that period be now in your best estimation. >> so, i think that what has changed that before the hiring process used to include approval from the dhr in any budget and
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this was not just a dbi, it was a city wide issue where it had to be approveddy dhr and the mayor's office. >> and sometimes if there was a justification or questions about that, that could wait before you got to that point. >> at this point, dhr is not involved in that. >> for the most part when we issue a requisition, and we want to hire a position, it only goes to the mayor's office and that is speeded up a lot. >> yeah. >> i will give you an example. >> i believe that the 63, 23, which i think interviews are being held right now, possibly, i think that we began that process of establishing a list maybe about four months ago or so, and we are at the point now where we are at interviewing and with he have been able to get that pretty quickly. and i mean for another reason that we are able to do it quickly, because now they are established examines and i think that in the beginning, we were creating the examines from the very beginning too, so all of notes things and it was everything that could go, happened and you needed to have
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have all of those things happen. it has been four months or so before you can actually get to the point where you are interviewing. and then, once you fill a position, like we said that we have gone through a list and we have done the interviewing and made a selection, and there is another point where you don't bring someone on and you have to go through fingerprinting, and that has sometimes taken a little bit longer than anticipated too, just depending on not necessarily because of the person fingerprinted but it is just how much are in the cue, if you are doing the hiring who will get through it too. and so that sometimes impacts how quickly we can go from being asked some nonand having that person start. because you can't get started until there is a clearance. >> yeah, that really refreshing to hear, because it was the time frame that you would expect, and the few more reasons, in regard when you do the budget.
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are you snou able to say, okay, i can have those people in place, by the time that the new year, kind of budget comes on you. and then i guess, that they would take what you had last year and move it over to this year and so you were always chasing us. you no he what i mean? satisfying that dollar amount that you put aside on that year was a big challenge for you. >> i think that that may have been a challenge before for the department and for us it has not been a challenge, and we usual an exceed our attrition because it has been taking a while, at this point in time yes, i don't think that we will have problems with meeting our attrition because we usually have had savings, but once again, even though we are hiring i think that every month, three or four new people are coming on, maybe even more than that, but and that is a good thing, and that is what we are having control
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over, what we don't have control over, is the retirees or someone going to another department or for the most part, promotions, so we, if we have a position, and most of the qualified person is the person in the department and that person is going to promote and it isn't like they are getting in the extra position, and like you are losing them in the lower level position, and so then we have to kind of backfill that too. >> but the actual hiring has been going, and it is pretty aggressive. >> and finally, i will let you, and during the difficult time when we are trying to -- and one of the ideas and that commissioner mar or someone in the commissioner brought up, about this kind of universal person. who could cross over and be okay with all of the different departments to cover and if you had trouble meeting certain you know, people to fill certain positions. on the temporary basis, was that already explored any further or do you think that is something that is necessary.
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>> it is preyour time as well. >> we do do temporary positions because for instance if we need something right away. there are temporary positions and we do project positions, i am not sure of having finance float in, because once in that
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necessarily it can float from the different departments to help out but not necessarily what is a part of that department. >> right, and so, i think that the closest thing to that would be a temporary inspector, but even for the temporary positions all hires is based on position, you have to have a specific position, we don't just have a generic position, if there is a vacan vacancy, in the building or the plan check or something like that, we have to submit it for that specific one, and then, so if, the easiest way to if there is not a list available and we don't have time, the easiest way to address that is to back so that temporarily, and we have done that. although, sometimes it is difficult to get people to come from the outside to come back, so temporary, because as the temporary employee you are not getting all of the benefits that you get as an actual permit employee. and also, there is usually a limit on that. 1040 hours is the limit on that.
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>> yeah, and just for the record, the terminology that we use for those people who are retired and come back, and the temporary --. >> yeah. >> the prop f. >> yeah. >> and so we do have, and we can do that too. >> okay. ? ewe can bring them prop f to come in. >> do we have many prop fs working for us now? >> i am not aware of very many, there may be a few. >> ed said two. >> yeah, i am not aware. there are only, a few. >> yes. >> but it has come in on as-needed basis and they do a good job because they have done the work before us and so there is no training. >> but hard to come by, though? >> right, the prop f and not everybody wants to come out of the retirement and so really that is really, and in answer to my question, you answered it for me there, it is the only real mechanism in place is to go out and find the people who worked in the different department and beg them to come back and cover us until we get it. >> or, you can do a temporary. i mean that you can get someone that didn't work in a
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department, you are just not getting the expertise and someone to come for right abay. >> okay. >> thank you, for that. and i am sorry commissions, no, and if there is any further in noechlt no, thank you. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> any public comment on this is em. >> seeing number, item ten, director's report, up date on dbi's finances? >> good afternoon, commissioners, deputy director for the department of building inspection, and before you is a september 2016, year to date, financial report, and in it discover covers the revenues for the first quarter of first calhoun year, cal quarter. and i think that last year we collected about 17 million this time and we are just a little bit under that. and however, the revenues are
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high, 1 and 16, and i think that it was the highest on record and so it is higher than the other procedures, and it is just a little bit lower than last year, and it is basically, a reduction and a major place that we see a reduction in would be the premium r plan review and that is $500 noushgs less than it was the same time last year, on the expenditure side, we are slightly higher, and than we were at the same time last year and that is due to we just talked about this to the salaries, and as we hire more people, and we are spending our salaries a little bit faster and a couple of other, non-personal items that we spending a little bit earlier, over all, this first quarter, report is a very preliminary, if you noticed in the first page that we did not bother putting in the projections and just because the first quarter is not enough data, on the expenditures side, we are just setting it and to the pos and we are setting up the work orders and all of those things and so a lot of bills
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don't come in through july and september. later we will start to get more and more bills, so that we can get a chance to really look at and see what our spending is doing. >> and i will be happy to answer the questions if you have any. >> thank you. >> ilt em ten, b. >> up date, on proposed recently enacted state or local legislation. >> good afternoon, commissioners, and president mccarthy, communication director presenting on behalf of bill strong and he is out today. so there is an up coming land use subcommittee meeting on october 31st, regarding the code cycle and the new code that is to go into effect on january first, 2017, and so, that one is up coming, and we are planning for that and we will be reaching out to the board and kind of
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briefing them before the land use subcommittee meeting. and another quick announcement or up date to you guys, as president mccarthy had talked about in his president's announcements. t mandatory soft program is moving ahead and we are happy with the progress and we do have tier three that most of you know about, there are 3,000 properties fortunately, 1,000 of them have turned in paperwork ahead of the deadline, next year. the buildings tla are yet to be comply, and they thud be completed as well. and those are the two updates, if you have any questions, i can answer them. >> thank you, lily.
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>> thanks. >> item 10 c, up date on major projects? >> good afternoon, commissioner. for example you can see last month we had minus 2 percent. and this month we have 3 percent and that means that it is depend on the project coming in, and i think that it is this to the housing project, and to the 30 project is issue, and that is why we have these numbers going up. >> i am here to give you the code enforcement and dbi monthly up date for the month of september. for the building inspections performed, 5054, complaints,
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343, complaint response within 24, 72 hours, 264, complaints with the first notice of violation sent, 47. complaints and abaited would ut notice of violations were 133. abaited complaints of notice of violations were 26 of. as second orders of violation occurred were 15. for the housing inspection services housing inspections performed, 1138. complaints which received the 398. and the complaints response in the 24, 78 hours were 390. complaints with notice of violations issued were 164. and abaited complaints with the notice of violations were 327. and the number of cases sent to the director's hearing were 50. and the routine inspections were 291. with the code enforcement services number of cases sent to the director's hearings were 43, the number of order of abatements issued were eight,
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and the number of cases under avicement were eleven, and the cases abaited were 66, and the code enforcement and were formed rment, and 114, number of cases referred to as the federal committee and this concludes, the code enforcement dbi monthly for september, and there is also graphs and that depict the complaint activity in the housing activity for the past year, thank you. >> thank you, director. okay. >> is there any public on the director's report, items ten a through d? >> okay. seeing none, item 11, review and approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of march, 16, 2016. >> moved to approve. >> second. >> okay. >> there is a motion and a second. is there an any public comment? >> lock. >> seeing none, are all commissions in favor? >> aye. >> any, opposed? okay, the minutes are approved. item 12, adjournment, is there a motion to adjourn.
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>> move to adjourn. >> second. >> second. >> okay. all commissions in favor. >> aye. >> we are now adjourned. it is 12:48 p.m. thank you. >> good afternoon and welcome to the local agency formation commission
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my name is jones avalos the chair of commission joined to to my right is by cynthia logical and scomploomz and supervisor mar is usually here but have him excused and today's local agency formation commission is broadcaster by sfgovtv jim smith and defense attorney risk hernandez madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. very good a motion to excuse supervisor mar motion in schematics and
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sxoufks. >> approval the lafco minutes special meeting. >> colleagues, any questions or comments about the minutes okay. >> public comment is open on the lafco minutes and seeing no member of the public come forward public comment is closed. and motion to approve from commissioner pollock and commissioner campos and without objection. >> we're going a little bit out of order and so what call item 5 first if we can do. >> work plan for treatment and the general landscaping a cooperated and operated in the city and county of san francisco. >> at the last lafco meeting an idea how we could look at the city and how the city takes responsibility in maintaining trees we have different jurisdictions
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the work plan will be ignored to study how to bring the tree maintenance into one jurisdiction our chief executive officer. >> jason fried, executive officer. i know with is where a time crunch with time issues over 2 o'clock in your packet going into how to look at t streetscaping so phase one is 4 to 5 months a lot of interviews and research and questioning of the agencies and reviewing how the jurisdiction deal with the issue of mandatory departments doing similar work and try to merge the process or san francisco is doing to correctly and no more work to be done once
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that phase is done depending on the details a month or two to write and report depending on the detail and phase three something we've looked at and resolved and no more work a future local agency formation commission will deal with that. >> thank you and i'm not clear of the 5 points maybe that might be a little bit long for a report and also important that we build on the work by the urban forestry council there is a report they have i think the report extends into the year 2030 how to take care of our trees but under a different jurisdiction to with that, we have colleagues other
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questions or concerns to be raised about the plan commissioner pollock thank you mr. fried the scope of work is gathering the information that takes four or five months then a discrimination made if a formal report. >> the question how much like there are a lot of other reports that are out there so to a degree did i find a lot of information that is to be looked at from a different angle maybe longer but something short and sweet not much difference in what which is covered a shorter report one of the reasons up to 5 months we're going into the holidays to we are anticipating a future one of the things d c a
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at the end of this year or next year an in depth of the future plan and updating that and other aspects of the cpa program i gave middle-income time and maybe focusing on the cac to be realistic with my workload i would anticipate it takes 5 months i could get that done quicker. >> got it so green house yourselves the time not late but also knowing that is not four to five months of full-time. >> part-time work while i'm working on the cca. >> that make sense. >> did i mention the elephant in the room in the room ask is ruby next year and people are volunteering so i think the report should be ignored something that can be ignored
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vertebral to the board of supervisors to and people to spend what we can do in gentrificational influence in the city i'll put that out as a hope but no control over that in my mind we want representatives here and this report can help guide them as their movng into the next work plan for this organization. >> correct one of the goals i've talked to outlet folks at the board of supervisors and worked on street trees issues and other aspects i've talked with the offices to get information all over the place engaged of time them so depending on what occurs on the november elections we'll be able to determine what is going on with future commissioners.
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>> okay. great so that item anyone wish to comment and seeing none, public comment is closed. and so basically, you want to motion to give you the go ahead to do this report? >> okay. that motion moved by commissioner campos and seconded by commissioner pollock and without objection thank you let's go on to our next item which will be ignored number 4. >> item 4 hearing on how to connect fiber to all resident and businesses. >> jason fried, executive officer. we'll invited department of the environment we have a power point presentation not utilities that given the timeframe but any questions he'll be able to reference that. >> snooemz a bryan and with
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the department of technology and like to thank the commission for inviting us here today, i want to talk about an effort we're engaged in we call it for san francisco and seeking advisory services how to move forward the guiding principles are equity that every resident and business has access to fast and affordable services and that will increase the local employment and economic development jajz and insuring we have a network that is future prove that can be expanded over time just context this project grew out of research efforts one by the budget analyst and the report in march president
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different options wanting the broadband for the city and ct did cost modeling and worked with the d l a costing some of the options and this initiative has been opportunity two the capital improvement plan and committee on information technology for the advisory services supported by d t but it is going to be implemented by public works we're seeking to hire a project manager which has - the reason for this i think broadband especially from the options we're commissioner vice president moran is project construction and the it and the heavy lift the construction key doing the digging, the stripg on poles that kind of thing both a
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an it and construction but the heavy lift with the construction piece the purpose of advisory services seeking technology advisory services and comparing public and private and public option public is the status quo and so the advisory group will recommend and approach gordon's brief decision makers for displacement and forums on this recommendation from the city decided to proceeded with the public option it will gave me in the procurement and emphasis this is a little bit different many features of this project will be ignored new no other by city the size of san francisco has engaged in this ambitious
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project those cities have many of them a little bit smaller us have a unit for electrical utilities as well just a quick question what is the body that is doing the - you mentioned d t and public works but is there an advisory body you mentioned the services so for the project who is making decisions about- >> we're reporting to capital planning and will be ignored that's sort of the advisory group cumber. >> so the capital planing committee. >> yeah. >> in terms of 6 you know we talk about private that is one thing obviously public means another public-private could be kind of lots of forums. >> exactly. >> so do you have a sense of
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belonging what those forums can be ignored at this point? >> right there is two primary types those are new one is an approach that has been tried in a couple of cities alabama and maryland the city owns the fiber in the streets call it dark fiber and engages with the isp in west minister google fiber have thought in the electronics and do the customer service and provide the connection to the internet the approach the city deals with the infrastructure and the private partners deals with the shorter term
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investments in a number of equipment and so forth and the customer service center. >> they lease the use of the private and the leases are structured they pay for on a per pga each home or best that the company passes have to pay a certain amount per month the formula is different in the jurisdictions but that's the model so the i f p pays for the opportunity to serve a customer and in the case of west minority they pay an - a firm will design and build and the city will maintain the ownership and that hadn't been tested in the
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united states yet there is a discussion of it in utah on assess called utopia has gone through a few considerations and they're looking to model to arrive that effort to get more capital for it but enough of the member cities have agreed to go forward with that model yet so those are the two models we've look at it and the pricing exercise on the public-private side. >> i guess i'm not clear can you explain the defense between the two if we have the city providing dark fiber and the i f p provides the electronics i don't know the difference between the approach where the city owns it but it is designed
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built and operateed and it is in the financing of dark fiber piece in the first model the we're not there yet minority hunts model the city will eventually pay for the - takes the reflex for installing the infrastructure the fiber infrastructure on the concessioner approach the city will be making a payment guaranteed payment through a private developer that would finance that more in the financing you can- your right a hybrid two approaches that is just the example if we focus the modeling in the cost effort the d o a focuses the report that is underlined we have an
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opportunity to take the best from both. >> any examples in the country there is a totally public version. >> we do chattanooga is an example and lafayette and louisiana many - month of them municipal electrical utilities it gotten in there are a few not the case sandy oregon has a stand-alone i f p. >> so you'll be able to provide like different ways to do those different oppositions how much appetite for the rest of them this is was it phase one will be ignored flushing out - >> a question from
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commissioner pollock. >> thank you for coming to speak with us i have two quick questions one how does the sfpuc play into this with cleanpowersf or is that something that you'll flush out with the option. >> i think it is something we'll flush out. >> great, great i wanted to make sure that was on the radar and the second i'm not familiar with the capital planing committee we have a number of advocates that come to bosco that expressed an interest in the broadband i wonder in the made up of capital committee has this retention i'm not sure of the make up. >> it is city departments that
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participate. >> okay so for example, on lafco i'm the public person and none not part of city departments. >> i'll need to check or the board is represented in the mayor's office but i'll need to check. >> it is pretty much 9 department heads that deal with the investment last week puc and airport and then the president of the board serves think the capital improvement committee and generally the president of the board staff if there's other you know offices like the board of supervisors participate that and lafco is not part of that it is neat to commissioner tang the dynamics but the composition by the charter. >> that make sense i just wasn't familiar with it so i think this making sure that we
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tie them and put it on their radar they're watching this meeting thank you. >> so the scope for this project is going to be 3 phases one is with the developing not saying it should happen in the first 4 months that's defining one of the options we've talked about and the second is assistance for repairing and viewing and a request based on the analysis we decided to for the record with a public-private option the same advisory group will help us with the procurement and the third to be assistant and negotiations with by vendors in that case the second phase vendors to help with the systems wallow go with the public or
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public-private approach so the rfp were still reviewing the responses so that the rfp for 9 advisory services. >> i'm sorry for the advisory services and. >> and we continued to select a vendor in december and went over the first two phases and phase one is dependent phase one and that was my presentation i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> i know that jason asked. >> we have to be brief so perhaps mr. recorded individual follow-up we'll ask month presentation and if commissioner pollock wants to do that she can double up with me in my office to be able to have.
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>> i'll be happy to. >> that will be ignored a meeting wouldn't it so we'll have to stage that. >> you could do two not 3 that's a meeting. >> got you. >> okay. >> okay. >> i'll defer to you. >> thank you on the composition of the meeting but my contact information is on the first page. >> thank you, mr. robert so open up for public comment anyone wish to comment and seeing none, public comment is closed. and this is just information item so we can go on to the next item. >> aggregation status update on the cleanpowersf and program launch and status on the procedures even if california public utilities commission given our timeframe for today what i have i have an e-mail from the director the cca
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program i'll for the record forward that are incorporated inform save time not read into the record but a copy to the clerk part of official file if it is acceptable to everybody. >> any public comment? the executive officer's report report seeing none, none. >> this is item the cca report. >> on item number 3 none coming forward for opinion public comment is closed. and on to the next item. >> item 6 chovts. >> jason fried, executive officer. the only thing given the timeframe the next meeting december 9th that is the last of this calendar year unless it means special meetings added to the agenda we've share supervisor campos will be ignored their last meeting we
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look forward to seeing you and we'll be able to have a full meeting have a long discussion of lafco. >> okay. thank you. >> okay public comment on the executive officer's report is now open and seeing none, public comment is closed. and good evening to the next item. >> item 7 public comment. >> general public comment is now open and so no one is coming forward for public comment public comment is closed. go on to did next item and item 8 future agenda. >> colleagues we've talked about the fortune future and lack of future for some of us we'll close public comment and our last item. >> item 9 adjournment. >> we're adjourned thank you, madam clerk light for our city
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streets illuminating our ideas and values starting in 2016 the san francisco public utilities commission is xhoefl that light with new led with the did i audits for better light for streets and pedestrian and they're even better for this vitally lasting longer and consuming up to 50 percent less energy upgrading takes thirty minutes remove the old street light and repeat 18 thousand 5 hundred times while our street lights
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will be improving the clean energy will remain the same every san francisco street light is powder by 100 percent godfathers hetch hetchy power in one simple word serious as day tur (shouting.). >> more and more city's high san francisco is committing to dislocate to end all traffic death that means improving safety for people walking and driving and safety on our streets is everyone's
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responsibility people can make mistakes but not result in injury or death all traffic collisions are preventable as drivers you play a large role that will give you the tools to drive safely on streets a recent survey asks hundreds of drivers about save city introduce driving what did they say watch for distracted behavior and slow down and be patient and check for people before you turn the facts about city driving shows how important to be alert most collisions happen in good weather allowance even at 25 mile-per-hour it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop this is almost 7 car lengths
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slowing down makes collisions less savior when a person is hit by a passerby vehicle 25 minor the chance of death is 25 percent 40 percent that increases inform 85 percent slowing down didn't cost much time driving behind a person takes 9 extra semiautomatic and stopping at the yellow light takes only 30 seconds by hitting someone costs you hours and weeks of our time and maybe a life take a deep breath and take you're time cities cross america are being safely for walking and driving some streets are confusing here's what you need to know all intersection kroukz of novelist
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marked some are marked to make them more visible other crosswalks and intersections are raised to the level of sidewalk to actress as speed bump and people are maybe crossing be cautious and watch for people when you approach any intersection advanced limit lines and pedestrian yield signs show drivers where people walk and stop behind the lines at stop signs and for people crossing bulb outs where the sidewalks extends into the street make that tease easy to see pedestrians and remember to slow down whether making reasons and watch for people on sidewalk estimations extensions that maybe closer than you expect and
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bicyclists may motive to the left to get around bulb outs this gives people a head start allowing pedestrians to enter the crosswalk before transfer starts moving makes them more visible pedestrian scrimmage and stop the vehicles in all directions allow people to cross including department of building inspection scrambles are paired with no light restriction and rapid beacons you turn bright whether the pedestrians are there or the center is activated precede slowly as you approach the beacons especially, if their activated a pedestrian crossing light turns yellow before turning sold red back to flash red procedure after making a
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full stop as long as the sidewalk is empty and, of course, stop whenever the light is red traffic circles reduce conflicts you must stop at the strewn and precede around the raise your right hand of the circle watch for people in crosswalks and people in bikes coming around the circle arrows indicate where people with bikes share the intersections and people have ride to people on bikes have the right to use the lane whether or not in the sharing bike lanes are for people protected by parks e.r. parked cars and stay out of separated bike lanes
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unless an emergency dashed bike lanes are a shared zone four for vehicles to change lanes slow bike lanes allow the circles their unusually sprayed before me from other traffic some bike lanes are built to the level higher than the street but lower than the sidewalk they provide a safe separated space sponsor cyclists are around vehicles the box areas are marked with the stencil at intersections act as advanced limit lines for people to garter at a red light this increases the 1r0ir7b9 to drivers people will ride past stopped vehicles at the fronltd of the intersection give them room and stop short of limit line behind the bike without objection and cross only after
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the green light and people cleared the bike box bicycle traffic lights allow people on bikes to proceed while vehicles are stopped be unaware aware of those bike san francisco general hospital but stay alert and only skrans when the vehicle is cleared the intersection let's take a quiz to see what all of learned here we go number one when do month collisions happen did you say in daytime you're correct question two if an intersection is not marched is it still a crosswalk yes did you get it right great job one more before we go on what's one of the best things to do to avoid collisions?
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you can it take a breath pay attention and slow down city streets are crowded and chaotic so seeing everyone every single everything is difficult here's a test how many times did the white team pass the ball? if you answered 11 you're correct but did you notice anything else also be aware ever you're surrounded and remember that is easy 0 miss something if you're not looking for it here's some basic principles driving near peep e people from you're driver's seat it is
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difficult address our mirrors to reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk before starting you're turn watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience
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pays off take a moment to make sure you're clear while it might feel you'll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you won't save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someone's live here's important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the right-of-way people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilities are the most vulnerable think city strits give buses and streetcars a lot of the space or people returning to catch a train don't block the box this creates dangerous situation for people walking how are forced into moving traffic
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and people bicycling out of the bike lane and people on bikes most city streets are legal for bicyclists even without signs people biking can fall in front of you provide a safe amount of space when passing someone on a bike a minimum of 3 feet is required by law in california and people on bikes prefer to be in the bike lane in for the this is often to avoid accidents give them room people on bikes will stay away from the traffic or watch out for open doors whoops that was a close one expect people to go to the front of the light and pass on the right a tap of the horn maybe useful to make you're preservation
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known but avoid using the horn it may saturday night be someone vehicles anybody right turns are especially dangerous important biking always approach right turns properly signal early and wait for people biking through the intersection move as far to the right to people on bikes can pass on the left let's try a few more questions who are the most vulnerable people on city streets? children? seniors, and people with disabilities why do people on bikes ride close to travel there to avoid car doors what is one of the most dangerous situations for people walking and riding bikes?
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turning vehicles and what can you do to make sure that everyone is safe in any situation? thartsz stay patient and alert and, of course, slow down parking and loading a vehicle on accredit city streets is a challenge weather parking and unloading always check for people in our mirrors and blind spots and on the driver's side with our right turn right hand this causes you to look 40 on your left for bicyclists when passersby exiting the vehicle make sure about opening the door know where loading zones are if not
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loading zones available use side streets never stop in bike lanes or traffic lanes. >> bad weathering and visible rain and fog or low lighting make it hard to see you're vehicle is likely to slide or loss control in eye i didn't controls and create issues for people walking and biking they tried try to avoid pulled and umbrellas and construction get slippery for people the safety thing to do in conditions whether wet or icy or dark slow down and drive more carefully remember going fast may on this save you a few semiautomatic but
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speeding may cause you a life or you're job people walking and biking are vulnerable people can be distracted or make unsafe decisions as a driver the responsibility for safety lies with you a collision could mean the loss of our life or you're job and dealing with the legal implementations could take years or an emotional toll if someone is killed in a crash help us achieve vision zero and everyone can use the streets safely. >> thank you for watch and following the important driving tests your remember we're counting on you
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>> good afternoon the commission will please come to order and call the role. >> pating, present. loyce, present. singer, present. chow, present. san chez. >> motion and is there a second? okay motion and second the minutes are before you for approval, are there any corrections or additions? >> yes i like- >> yes, commissioner sanchez. >> just dropped my notes, here. >> what page, commissioner?