kenneth maley. >> supervisor safai: supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: can you share your proposal to close down golden gate park to cars? >> i'm not familiar with that proposal, unfortunately, so i can't speak to it in an "au" authoritative way, but i look forward to reading about that and developing a more opinionated point of view. >> supervisor yee: it's just pretty straightforward. they're thinking of closing it down to cars, basically. >> so not just for sundays, but for the whole week. >> supervisor yee: right, so do you have any thoughts about that? >> as a researcher, the way that i would approach this question is to undertake a more holistic analysis of what that would mean. what would that mean for traffic in the city of san francisco? what would that mean for kind of transportation in the city of san francisco? i think i would need to understand what the impact of that would be and then weigh it

against the obvious benefits of access to golden gate park, people being able to walk in the roads, not having to worry about the, you know, potential of being hit by moving vehicles in the park. >> supervisor yee: i appreciate your analytical approach to this, and i won't push you too far on this, but at the end of the day, it's going to be, you gain something, you lose something. >> yeah. >> supervisor yee: you gain something where -- for people at the park that's just walking around. it's going to be great for them, for biking and so forth. what you lose, then, are people having access to the academy of sciences and the museum over there, especially those hours for seniors that can't get moved from one place to another. and then, you lose some families that may have babies in strollers and might be a

little hardship to actually stroll all the way in there for them. so it's really not so much analytical, it's what you believe in. >> i see. thank you for that perspective. yeah, i look forward to learning more about that. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any members of the public wishing to comment on this item, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. these are district appointments, one from district four, one from district three. i think both supervisors spr conveyed to us that they support these appointments. we'll move those -- >> supervisor yee: make a positive recommendation to appoint or support -- support -- appoint them to their procespective seats. >> supervisor safai: julia pfeiffenberger for seat four, and kenneth maley for prosc.

[ gavel ]. >> supervisor safai: thank you. call the next item. [agenda item read] >> supervisor safai: great. okay. so mr. mario plaz is here. >> thank you, supervisors. i learned a lot through the process so actually i sort of joyed saying. my -- enjoyed staying. my name is mario paz. on a personal level, native san franciscan, grew up in the mission, two blocks away from good sam. my journey has been a full circle. my mother went there as a young child to get support, .

my work with cpac has been fulfilling. i've surrounded by a lot of great leaders. we continue to really fight fo the state level, we continue to fight for our youngest children here in san francisco. we feel strongly that there's no better investment in early care and education, and we know how important that is to san francisco in general. i think we have the most expensive cities in the world. we are struggling and reaching critical stages for workforce development, with retaining and recruiting teachers in workforce that's high caliber and high quality so we are working hard to ensure that the investments increase so that we can pay teachers more. they are the lowest compensated

a month in the nonprofit sectors. just barely make above the minimum wage, so we are working hard to improve those conditions knowing this is a priority for san francisco. so i really appreciate your reconsideration, your consideration of my repayment. i'd also like to lend our support to my colleagues who can't be here, gretchen ames and matt pemberton. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. paz. i don't think we have any questions, i think we went through it because you were so recently appointed. i think we're happy to support you again. and thank you for the support of your felly commission members. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. do i have a motion in supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: i make a motion to reappoint matt

pemberton, and mr. paz, and -- [inaudible] >>. >> supervisor safai: great. we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor safai: next item, please. i want to state for the record that miss rothsubmitted an e-mail in support of her reappointment. today is yom kippur, and she is not able to attend, but she has the full support of the office. and then, we have the other applicant here, mr. rick johnson, if you could come forward. >> i'll make this quick for

you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >> it's been an interesting 3.5 hours. >> supervisor safai: i'm sorry it's been so long. >> no, it's okay. good afternoon. my name is rick johnson, and i'm a proud resident of district seven where my husband and i have lived in the midtown terrace neighborhood for the past 29 years. to give you a little bit of background, i enjoyed a long career in human resources, and i developed programs to recruit and maintain employees with disabilities. i've spoken at many conferences over the years and have been awarded numerous awards and commendations for this work. i've also been humbled to serve as president of the midtown terrace association, an association of 820 homes for the past five years and have served on supervisor yee's neighborhood council where i worked with other community

leaders in awarding grants for the participateatory process. i worked with supervisor yee's district in always active, providing opportunities for our seniors twice a week. i also service on the police advisory board where i have served under captain john sanford and captain bailey. i've completed the simulated use of force training at the sfpd academy, which i would highly recommend for everybody. should i be confirmed, i look forward to working with all aspect of the ageing and adult services council, but i'm particularly concerned with two areas, first ensuring that all residents of san francisco are aware of all the resources and

services available to them, particularly as they are transitioning into their senior years. secondly i'm concerned about securing services for the ageing lgbtq community, especially those who are survivors, meaning those who are living with aids over 25 years. i very much look forward to working with the council, the commission, the board of supervisors, and the ageing residents of the city and county of san francisco. thank you for your consideration. >> supervisor safai: supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: no, i -- i -- rick, thanks for even wanting to do this. as you were ageing in your seat, waiting for your turn. >> supervisor safai: we probably should have taken you first. sorry about that. >> no, that's quite all right. >> supervisor yee: rick has been a phenomenal resident in district seven, being very active.

you can tell from what he just said, what he's involved with. it's the exercise class, i guess, has been a great success for that area, and it's almost like the model i use to tell everybody else. and i would love to be able to make the motion to appoint rick johnson to seat six and juliet rothman to seat four. [inaudible] >> thank you. no problem. [inaudible] >> thank you. [ gavel ]. >> clerk: that completes the agenda. i assume the meeting's adjourned.

>> i have been living in san francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42 years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it's been remodelled and i like

it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much. we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in. i went to quite a bit of the

meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot. it's just that i've been here so long. most people that enjoyed their life would love to always retain that life and keep that lifestyle, so it was a peaceful neighborhood. the park was always peaceful, and -- i don't know. i just loved it. i wanted to be here, and i stayed.

>> good morning. today is wednesday, september 19 th, 2018. this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] >> we have a quorum. the next item is item to. president west as announcement. >> thank you madam, secretary. welcome to the inspection commission on september 19th. thank you to director key reit for joining joseph along union

street to make people aware of the accessible business entrance program. we have now received the required documents from just over 2,000 property owners in this program and ahead of the january 1st, 2019 deadline. only 10,000 remain to act. well done. it is going in the right direction. thank you to housing inspector, chris grady who received a letter of appreciation after doing a section of their department dose of their apartment. and then on to other quick notes , commissioner walter and i and mr jeff buckley and supervisor -- supervisor randleman was with us. >> edgar lopez was also with us and sam dodge from d.p.w. >> thank you. they joined us there last week in which we -- commissioner walker graciously rented a

lovely family minivan and we all piled into it and it was news to me that commissioner walker doesn't drive around the city but she did an outstanding drive around the bay area and we were fairly moving around the place. it was very good. we got from a to be very quickly >> you are welcome. >> our destination was to two places. one was in vallejo. and we were met there with the staff who are doing the march of homes and they walked us through the facility and gave us a really good insight on where the building industry is going, and particularly to marginal units. we got from the very start of the line, all the way to the ends. they gave us many hours of their time to explain every aspect we have. we were very impressed with the tour and on that same day, we

went from there then over towards stockton where we once to another factory who are also doing marginal homes. they are doing it a little bit different than the other location in that they are more metal and they can do higher, higher, higher, taller buildings more like high-rise buildings. they are a bit more established order and had some very strong ideas of where the industry is going. that was an incredible education for us. at the end of the daily pack driving back, we all agreed that this was something that we needed to explore more, right from having members from the department, and take a look at what is going on out there. also to encourage the mayor's office of the mayor for a site visit because the picture paints

the town. there's a lot of good information that could be asked. the cost, i will not get into that now, but the cost, based on what we were told was quite revolutionary when it comes to what we could do with these types of things going forward considering the cost that we are dealing with right now and the rising cost of construction. obviously, if you want to add any comments, you are more than welcome before i close out the rest of my comments. >> i appreciate everybody who went to. it was a full day of learning the processes that are going on to create modular components that get incorporated into you on site construction for woodframe and metal frame housing. both of the factories were underway. they are basically constructing projects right now. they line up similar to a

manufacturing line where different functions happen at different stations and they move along, either on a conveyor belt or the workers come to them. but it's quite fascinating. i know that as we have looked at this, we have been concerned about how it works and it was really educational to see the quality and the speed at which these modular units are constructed and then they will be shipped in on ferries to the locations and brought in and installed in the framing that exists on site. is revolutionary. i think that not only a cost-saving, but a time savings. which is really, really important in this housing crisis that we are in. i know our mayor is really putting this as a priority to

see if we can actually do some of this manufacturing here. it would be ideal to be able to provide jobs in our community. in the meantime, this is a good component to add to our housing policies and inventory. i think it's a really -- it is good we are getting involved in it and the department and commission is paying attention. i know the director is planning another because it was some of our inspectors and plan checkers and hopefully the mayor will join in too and go look at what is going on there. it is revolutionary, for sure. >> thank you pick finally, i just wanted to commence the staff, particularly the director and his team and the mayor's office on their constant due diligence on keeping on top of three '01 mission street which has been -- on 301 mission street.

particularly surrounding the cracked window. is ongoing and i just wanted to confirm that things -- life safety issues have been dealt with error and they have come up with tremendous ideas on how to deal with that. i just think you guys deserve credit. it is a very big issue and we appreciate you as a commission on the hard work you have put in there and making sure everything is done to make sure that both people on the streets and people in the building are met to the highest standard of safety. it is ongoing so i'm sure we'll have updates on that as we go along during the weeks here. with that, madam secretary, i have no more further comments. thank you. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the president's announcement? >> the next item is item three. general public comment. the bic will take public comments on matters within the commission's jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. is there any public comment?

seeing them, item four, commissioners questions and matters and inquiries to staff. at this time commissioners make -- may make inquiries to staff on various documents which are of interest to the commission. >> commissioner walker, please. >> i put this request to the director. i am interested in an inventory of the vacant commercial spaces and vacant residential units that are in our city. as much as we can. i know that that is a hard thing to put arms around, but we constantly are dealing with this issue and various ways the vacant spaces can create light in neighborhoods. vacant residential units, obviously, in the housing crisis create a problem. if we can get a sense of what that universe is, it would be really helpful.

thank you. >> ok. next item is liked him he. future meetings and agendas. you may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting or determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the building inspection commission. our next regular meeting is scheduled for october 17th. is there any public comment on item four a and b.? seeing none. next item is item five. discussion of possible actions to a point that a member to the nomination of subcommittee that was continued from our august meeting. >> if it is ok, madam secretary, we have supervisor business first and then we can move to -- is it item six? >> five.

>> yes. which one is six? >> that is supervisor -- >> why don't we take that one first. ok. we want to make sure your workday is very productive and you are not sitting in the gallery. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> good morning. i'm a legislative aide to district 11 supervisor safai. thank you for continuing the item. i want to thank the directors. they have been working hand-in-hand with us to get this through. as well as our gentleman here, rob, he has been helping. i am here and open for any questions or comments or feedback you may have. thank you. >> well, obviously i get it.

as we said in the last meeting, there was a lot of unintended consequences. that is primarily our concern when we have good pieces of legislation that come after us. for example, the first thing that jumps out at me is existing homes who now see their front lawn or they're perceived front lawn as parking spaces. how do we deal with that? >> this is meant to keep the status quo. we have a meeting with the supervisors and followed up with rob as well. this will be complaint driven. it will not be retroactive in the sense that they will have to be out there with paper and pen in hand and visually observing. it is still complaint driven. someone will have to call in and say, my neighbor did this. please come back and check it out. >> in other words, it was regarded before and now all of a sudden it is paved driveway? >> that is correct.

so going from the city's attorney office, what we are doing, and this is in conversation with both departments. i also want to thank the planning departments. the folks agree that d.b.i. is more equipped to handle the enforcement. distance just transferring the enforcement. everything else is status quo. it is still complaint driven. it is still the same trigger. that is what we are looking at. i do want to jot that for you guys. the percentage is 20%. unpaved front yard setbacks. we are trying to come out and create a solution and conversation with planning and to d.b.i. if that is the best way to capture this. obviously it is not working right now. >> )-right-parenthesis -- right. this legislation needs to happen on the conversation needs to happen. there is a lot of people who feel differently about that and

they will be upset. i personally think it is the right piece of legislation. go ahead. >> i seem to recall that i have a question about the penalties and the legislation actually says, civil and criminal penalties. what are those and to will assess them? >> that is where we are speaking -- i will let rob chime in. that his current law. that is already on the books. the civil penalties will be a last resort. it is still not a code violation the person will be given an opportunity to rectify and then only after then, if they do not rectify, it will be addressed. that again is, we are not creating this. this is already on the books. >> this is standard with our enforcement. we always include these provisions at all three different ways you can think about enforcement, administrative, civil.

>> yeah, we have rarely used criminal. but it is there. but there is a de facto practice we don't intend to change that or have prescribed for change either the director of the department or staff that we start going after criminally. the matter is just to start enforcing this. from what we have heard from both departments is that once someone is given an n.o.v., it gets their attention and they immediately call in and we starts -- people give a list of here are some things you can do to rectify the situation. penalties of the sort would be last resort. >> so the n.o.v. will be issued by our department and the appeals will come to our department? >> that is correct. it will be handled by the code enforcement. >> i like it. >> thank you. >> thank you. my supervisor apologize he could not be here. he is the chair of the rules committee and they are in

session right now. he sends his apologies and thank each of you for your time and support. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> is there a motion? >> public comment? is there any public comment? seeing none. >> commissioner walker has a comment. >> i move to support this, approve approved this, whatever the language is moving forward. >> we recommend. >> i moved to recommend. >> second. >> who did the second? >> samba. >> there is a motion and a second to recommend this legislation. i will do a roll call vote. [roll call] >> the motion carried unanimously.

what is the next item? >> we go to item seven. >> item seven, discussion and possible action on a proposed ordinance to the building housing, fire and administrative codes and authorize the building and fire department to require the installation of a new fire safety system or the improvement or upgrade of an existing system to current code in addition to other requirements. >> thank you, very much. good morning, commissioners. thank you so much for having me. supervisor ronen could not be here today so she asked me to present. we are very excited about this legislation. essentially, to give you some background, in 2015, one supervisor --dash when a supervisor wasn't supervisor of district nine, there was a horrendous fire. still a hole in the ground. it went -- it led to the displacement of 58 families and one tragic death.

had there been other fires as well, as you know in the mission in particular, we have seen really devastating the community and leading to permanent displacement of families. after that, we had a fire task force that d.b.i. helped convened i was very helpful in coming up with a number of recommendations. short-term and longer-term. the shorter term legislation recommendation is where they did a legislative package with those short-term recommendations that came out. but one of the pieces that was really discussed and we gave a lot of time to think through, was around how do we look at the issue of sprinklers? how do we ensure that our most vulnerable building buildings that are vulnerable to this type of devastating fire, have the strongest possible fire safety mechanism? there was a recommendation that came out of the task force that said we should really consider sprinklers, and in particular

situations where we have bad actors or continuous negligence on the part of landlord his. let's look at if we can craft legislation that can really focus. it is a huge cost to require sprinklers in older buildings. we really took that and have been working closely with d.b.i. and members of the tenant and landlord community to craft the legislation you have before you today that provides d.b.i. and the fire department with a student -- with a tool they can choose to use once a landlord has shown a pattern of negligence or of not debating n.o.v. or allowing multiple, different fire safety issues to continue in their building. it is a very specific and targeted legislation. it is really aimed at providing a deterrent so we can let

landlords know that this city takes this issue very seriously. if you cannot continue to be unsafe and you have attendance in your building. we hope that this is a tool that can be useful to our departments and just in those extreme cases. i want to add that one piece we will add in the legislation that is not here yet is that we realize and talking through with the various advisory committees for d.b.i. and others, there isn't a warning process explicitly listed in here. so we will add that. i think once you have shown that you had to watch a separate n.o.v. of different issues but both related to fire safety, and d.b.i. or fire says this is starting to show a pattern that this actor can become eligible for this very serious fire safety notice and order, that a warning will be sent to the building owner. we will be incorporating data and working with the city attorney to have that before we

go to committee. we do want to make sure that people are aware of the consequences and we hope that this can be a deterrent to help landlords really take the life safety of the tenants very seriously and can be useful tool for the city. >> commissioner walker, please. >> thank you very much for this. we see, in many neighborhoods, the holes in the ground resulting from fires. they are not only -- there is not only the fire in the first place, but there is the rebuilding. i think this will be great. that was my question about looking backwards. are we able to automatically put this into effect and capture all of those who are already serial offenders, so to speak? or do we have to start from the gate? >> once the legislation passes, we can go back and say, you know , you have now had this many

n.o.v. warnings of different type of fire issues and we are going to send you the warning and then have a hearing if it feels like you need to be doing something much more serious to address the issue. >> thank you. >> commissioner lee. >> i have a question about what happens after the order is issued. what happens afterwards? >> after it is issued, there will be a hearing character landlord calms and shows that they have really addressed the issues and they have created their own checklist of things to really show and can prove that none of these issues -- they can determine that you have mitigated the issue. if they have not and they say that you will have to go ahead and do this, then the landlord can appeal. there is a one appeal process. if the appeal does not go through, then they would be required, and the fire marshal

and d.b.i. would work together to say what is the appropriate thing that they have to do whether that is the fire alarm system. if the landlord does with clear timeline, if you need to do this by this day, and whatnot, if they do not, like in any other case with d.b.i., where there is an n.o.v. that continues to be ignored, and if this is ignored, it can go to the city attorney. the difference between this and n.o.v. as we are not making clear requirements of what you have to do. we are saying you need to proactively improve the situation. but eventually, if they continue to be ignored to, it would go to the city attorney. the difference is now, if it does go through a court case, they would still have to create -- builds the fire and sprinkler and implement the fire alarm. it would not just be monetary but they would have to be -- they could be required in that situation distill implement it. >> i asked that question because i would hate to think that a

negligent property owner would be ignoring this and not doing anything. and then there is no teeth behind the order. for example, i will order abatement process. >> it is appealed to us as an order of abatement. it is like a notice. >> ok. i have a follow-up question. what about the other outstanding n.o.v. that lead to the order? >> they will also have to be abated. you still have to deal with those as well. you still have to address whatever issues. but we are staying together that you have shown a pattern of negligence that requires a higher level of seriousness but you still have to be able to build it. >> ok. >> it would just be added on as an item on the abatement appeal? >> i just wanted to clarify that >> i appreciate the question. >> count a land -- can a landlord to be forced to sprinkler a building? >> yes. if the fire marshal and d.b.i. -- this could happen through the

fire and d.b.i. if it goes through d.b.i., they still have to consult the fire marshal. if they determine that is what is required through their expertise and really looking at the case and the certain circumstances, they could be required to. >> just because they got that far? >> depending on the situation. we have seen cases where a sprinkler system is so old and broken down and it is perpetually not working. we could say you know what, this has continued on and we have seen you have also done these other dangerous things. we will require a new spengler system because this broken system is not working. it is actually dangerous because people think there is a spengler system that is not there and it doesn't work. that as an example of what the fire department has seen happen that they wish they could require something beyond just penalties. that is what we are enabling

them to do. thank you. >> ok. i think everybody is in agreement. great legislation. we are worried about the implementation of some of these. we are seeing with the a.d.u. that we are trying to improve the life safety. and they physically won't let us do it. i can see where we will have a lot of situations where it will be hard for us to mitigate but i think at least then we are making everyone aware that we have major issues. i am always worried about the displacement parts and these improvements that come on with it. so i think it is a type of legislation that needs to happen >> we did try to address it. that is why we amended the administrative code so no tenant can be displaced. >> ok. well done. congratulations. thank you for bringing this here today. >> thank you for your time. >> is there any public comment on this item?

seeing then, is there a motion? >> commissioner walker has a comment. >> this is long overdue. i really appreciate this is coming forward to. i would like to make a motion to recommend that we support this. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. we will do the roll call vote. [roll call] >> motion carried unanimously. we will go back to item five. are we going to go back to item five? >> apologies for having a little

sidebar. let's go back to item five now. >> item five is discussion of possible action to appoint a member to the nomination subcommittee. this is continued from the august 15th hearing. >> sam? you are going to be sam, right? you are not here the last time. so we nominated you. i would have done the same thing to you. >> ok, all right. be prepared that you will be nominated. all we have to do is to make sure you are ok with that. >> i am ok and honoured. thank you. >> thank you. >> that will teach me. >> as their public comment on this item? the item is to nominate commissioner moss as a member of the nomination subcommittee. >> second. >> are all commissioners in favour? >> aye. >> any opposed?

thank you. congratulations. the next item is item eight. discussion and possible action regarding proposed ordinance and completion of the code and amending the plumbing code to the local amendment referring to the san francisco public utility commission. rules and regulations and a section on cross connection control in addition to other requirements. >> who is making the presentation? ok. >> good morning. i'm the supervising plumbing inspector. what we are trying to do is remove something in the code in addition to the code that was put forth by the public utilities commission, water control eat -- water quality control people. when we put it in, it was a good idea, we thought at the time.

in retrospect and hindsight is 2020, it duplicates a lot of what we have in the code in terms of backflow protection for buildings, and in some cases, it is far more restrictive. to a point where it has been onerous and we find it very difficult to move forward to enforce it in good conscious. to be quite frank with you, the planning -- plumbing code is written by a team of medical experts. the team of experts understand the plumbing have launched backflow protection quite well. it has worked famously for decades. what has happened now as somebody has found a better method is better method. we are trying to build a better mousetrap. we had a meeting yesterday with the public public health department and with the p.u.c. people out water quality control and in essence, there is no criteria or judgement. there is no example is that we can cite for this to be more onerous or be more restrictive in the california plumbing code. so we would like to take it out from the plumbing code and fall

back on the california code as it was written. most of which is identical and some of which is less restrictive to a very very minor degree. i have to be quite candid with you. what brought this to fruition is that the salesforce tower came in and they are putting vending machines and many, many floors. i kept getting calls from the vendor is that the device is used to protect the portable system from carbonate errors that would create carbonic poison. the gas mixing with certain types of materials. i said we have the code. it is very clear. at it states this, and fat. it is a device. put it in and we are good. we will sign off on it. i didn't realize after several phone calls that the p.u.c. or the health department were asking for what is called a reduced pressure device. the cost to do that and to install those is astronomical. if you have a vending machine on each one of those floors and added up to five or $600 on the initial valve, not to mention the installation costs in the

annual fees, there is no justification for something like that. if we look back in the plumbing code, you clearly has stated that this device is approved. when i asked the health department and the p.u.c. for their criteria for making this, they had one example. but they couldn't prove what had really gone wrong. there was no evidence to say that this is what failed. they didn't know if they had a device to begin with that veiled that is what got my attention. i said, look, at this point in time, we want to step back. we reviewed this for months and months through title 17 and title 24 and the plumbing code. we found a determination that we would like to retract from the code if, in fact, the p.u.c. or the health department want to put it back in, than they need to come back to the proper channels which is through your board and the board of supervisors to do so. that is what we are trying to do it is as simple as removing a statement from the code but

should have been no more as a reference but came in as the body of the code. that is where we stand. >> thank you, inspector. is there any comment? thank you for your explanation of that. i understand it now. when i was reading it i was a little bit confused. >> it is helpful. thank you. >> very helpful. >> is there any public comment on this item? is there a motion to approve it? >> so moved. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. i will do the roll call vote. [roll call] motion carried unanimously. >> great. >> our next item is item nine. discussion of possible action regarding proposed ordinance. amending the building code to establish a process for review by the building inspection commission and code advisor to machine -- code advisory

committee. in addition to other requirements. >> good morning, commissioners. i am from the legislature of public affairs. this is an item that we have talked about before. it kind of fell through the cracks between the time that supervisor farrell became the interim mayor and subsequently left city hall. so we have now obtained support from supervisor katy tang, who is willing to reintroduce this. what happened after you heard it initially, and basically supported it, is no land-use hearing was scheduled. so what will happen with your action today, if you support it again, as it will get scheduled for land use, probably later this month or in october. this only codifies the process that we currently go through to make sure that the commission is fully informed about proposed

legislation from the board, that may, in fact,, affect operations and budget for the department. we do have a process that we follow already. at this codifies and provides a timeline. i think it is well worth supporting and moving forward to get into local law. >> ok. thank you. is there any public comment on this item? >> seeing then, is there a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. i will do the roll call vote. [roll call] >> the motion carried unanimously. our next item is item ten. up debt on just update on s.f.

permits and tracking system. >> good morning, commissioners. i am the dt project manager overseeing the project. there has been an update over the last month or so where there has been a lot of progress on the issues that were not covered in the testing cycle. we are making steady progress forward. i would like to say that a number of the areas that are highlighted as significant problems, we are seeing positive and definite progress on them, including areas like these, they are starting -- there is a big problem with big discovery during the testing cycle that fees are starting to test and look good. performance is looking good. that was another big concern. addresses and parcels, that was actually a big surprise and required a significant architecture as to how that was

approached. most of that work is done. there has been some rework required as a result of the re architecture that is still in progress as well. as the city cio, linda emphasized at the last meeting that we are being very milestone in deliverable focus as we move forward. we want to get the reported issues down to where they can be retested and down to an acceptable level. we want to follow up with some end to end scenario reviews with the business and the vendor to make sure we can see that things can progress beginning to end and fees are properly assessed and the property is properly associated with the permit activity and to see that all work in the permit produced on an end to end basis. if we see the end to end processes work properly, then we

will enter a formal testing cycle. [please stand by]

and in fact we're increasing the amount of training that we went on. >> that is great. i have talked to other departments and some of our supervisors and folks in the mayor's office, it would be good to include them in the training

outreach as soon as we start up again. everybody is really anticipating this as you can imagine. >> absolutely. >> great, thank you. >> thank you. is there any public comment on item 10? seeing none, directors report. 11 a. update on dbi's finances. good morning, commissioners. deputy director of dbi. today, i have two reports. i'll start with the second one, that is the final fiscal year budget. in february, the commission had approved a budget we submitted

to the mayor's office. the mayor had a chance to review it and it went to the board of supervisors and was recently passed in july. so this is the final. i want to go over a couple of the changes which you approved. on the revenue side, there were no changes. we stuck with the revenue projections, the only difference in the end, once the final budget, if we have revenues that were needed to make up the full amount of the budget, we'll use our fund balance, so the controls at $5.9 million to get to the full budget. on expenditure side, there were major changes. one was a decrease in salaries. that was primarily due to some increases in attrition. so we had a lot of vacant positions, we're filling them, but others would get vacant. the board of supervisors budget analyst recommended they reduce our petitions from