by mr. matthias to you, for your consideration, that you considered or were available for your consideration in june 15 months ago, that was before you. that's what happened here. and as a result of that, and other things that i'm going to talk about, you decided to basically devastate the business of mr. montoya and his club. that's what you did. and if it can be argued that at the time you didn't know those 52 reports, 92% of which were false and invalid, if you did not know then, you know now that those are fake reports, false, fraudulent, fake, phony, dishonest. moving on to another subject. weiland has indicated that mr. and mrs. diamond have a complaint about noise.

first thing i want to say about that is, when you move to a venue, when you move to a condo, which is the busiest entertainment block in the city, you're going to expect there's going to be noise. the people who sold them that should have told them that, they should have known that, and here they are. nobody wants noise, but mr. montoya has given them, the diamonds, his cell phone number, and he's given them the cell phone numbers of several staff members. on four or five occasions, i want to make this clear, every time there's been a noise problem, mr. and mrs. diamond has called. they have turned down the volume. but let me say this, never, never once, has there been a violation of the decibels, the level of decibels that have been mandated. never once. never once. never once. now, yeah, the thumping, the

bass is a problem. so call. and mr. montoya, every single time he's gotten a call, he has turned down the bass and there's not been a problem. that's what you do. police code, article 29 talks about repeat complainers. what we have here, mr. diamond, a repeat complainer. he's supposed to be ignored if there's not a problem, and there's not a problem. there's never been a violation, a noise violation. there's never been a determination, as far as i understand it. i stand to be corrected if i'm wrong about that. send people out. send the -- mr. burke, if he gets called, he's supposed to go out. mr. montoya can give you further details about that. sound is not an issue. rowdiness, let's talk about what happened on may 27th.

on may 27th, there was an incident involving a gun -- somebody firing a weapon. mr. montoya himself called 911. he called 911. i'm going to say it a third time. he called 911. and when the police came to investigate, mr. montoya had one of the security employees assist him in identifying the person. that's called being a good neighbor, doing what you're supposed to do, doing what they had to do, doing what they were required to do. they could not do any more than that. they can't chase the person, they can't arrest them, they called the police, mr. montoya personally called the police. he did what he was supposed to do. i'm almost finished.

these documents and photographs that were sent to the commission and by officer matthias, they depict a discussion, an argument, just outside a store, a convenience store, across the street from this club. it had nothing to do with this club, nothing. now, even assuming that maybe one of the people may have been in that club, i wonder if i today, right now, i'm allowed in this room. i have been in this room, i have license to do what i'm doing here. what if i go out in the hallway and i shoot somebody? does that mean everybody in this room is responsible for what i do outside this room? of course, not. it's absurd. that's absurd, and that's what they are doing with this club.

anybody who may have been a customer in this club, i don't know if he or she was or was not, but you cannot hold a person responsible for something that somebody who'd been a patron in your club did not do in the club, and indeed, there was cooperation, as i said several times, by mr. montoya and his security staff. i don't know what you expect of him. what is the reason -- what is the reason, limited hours, what is that about? what is that about? how does that deal with the noise? how does that deal with the rowdiness? we're talking about people drinking, people coming out of these clubs all at the same time. that's the problem. the police, that's when they should have a presence there. last time we were here, officer matthias told us something that was not subject to

cross-examination, that there was not a police presence at closing time on the night of st. patrick's day, and he told a story about, well, there was a fire in north beach earlier in the day. well, wasn't somewhat earlier in the day, it was 12 hours earlier in the day. had nothing to do with why there was not a police presence. if there's ever going to be a police presence, it should be at 1:30 or 2:00 a.m., at closing time when these clubs get out. that's one police officer in uniform, whether it's officer matthias or anybody else, or former commissioner frost's son. anybody in uniform could obviate the problems that are caused by everybody full of alcohol gets out in the street. so, if there's going to be some action, it should be against the police department. now, of course, we'll answer any questions. pardon my tongue, but this is

really gotten me agitated. this is really wrong what has happened. it has devastated his business, when this civil rights action in federal court gets resolved, i'm hoping for some positive results, especially in light of the clear and detailed and well reasoned finding by the abc appeals board, which i hope you have a chance to read. you want to speak? let me sit down here. it will take me a moment. >> commissioners, i know you're all tired, so i'll make this brief. but i am also tired. not just tired right now, i'm tired of the past four years that i've been put through. i'm tired of the lies, sit here and listen to the false reports that are presented to you guys. you know, in 2014 this same commission when i was up here,

commissioner tan and commissioner lee, you were on the commission, as well, and i took cab reports that were given to me, line-by-line, compared them with video, our own video, compared them with a third-party security company on the street, and compared them with our reports, our own security reports, and showed there were false supports. commissioner joseph at the time even stated that really brings into question how these police reports are generated. there are a lot of discrepancies between these videos and police reports. sfpd later, as mr. bloom stated, brought 52 accusations and revoked my liquor license. four and a half of those had merit. we're talking about 90% that were dismissed. just recently, as we stated earlier, the abc board of appeals ruled that sfpd was

selectively targeting my venue. in june of 2017 this commission ruled to commission my permit of 65 cads. that's nine years of no violations, no sound violations, and commissioner lee even touched base on c-mac about how cad reports don't necessarily represent what's going on. roughly 80% of those 65 cads that were presented to you guys, matter of fact, this was from 2015 to 2017, we're talking about three years here. about 80% of those had nothing to do with you. in fact, out of these 65 cads, only six police reports were made, that's in three years. from that time period of 2015 to 2017, well over 100,000-plus patrons have patronized our venue in those three years, meaning that we are operating at

less than 1% of incidents happening per patron that came to my venue. as far as sound goes, we have always operated with our guidelines and we stand strongly that we have never been outside our sound guidelines given to us by this commission. i have a simple question of why hasn't this commission had an inspector come out and run tests on my venue? why haven't we got our neighbors together and run a test? from 2008, that was the last time. just to give you guys a little update on sound, every night we take our test, video, take pictures, they are e-mailed to me every night by our staff. the space is taken pictures of outside to make sure that it's clean, neighborly, just so we

have that documented. i'm here to answer any other questions, but i'm just tired. tired and frustrated what this has done to my family, our business. i'm here to answer any questions, if you guys have questions. >> thank you both for coming up. i am curious what you're asking for today. are you asking to have no conditions on your permit in terms of, like, hours? i see you're nodding. what are you asking for? >> i'm asking for my conditions to go back to what they were before in 2008. >> seven days a week, 2:00 a.m. >> great. from my memory, i think there was a sound test done at least a year or two ago, and that you passed, and that, you know, despite complaints from neighbors, you were in

compliance. and i don't think that was the issue that we were the most concerned about. you know, we are on this commission concerned about sound, making sure that you keep it within the limits, but also about security, and i think that's where -- i hear what you're saying, i remember the cad reports not matching and, you know, maybe they are located at your intersection, but they didn't always triangulate back to you, but i think the most recent conditions that we put on there really resulted from seeing that evidence that your security wasn't the tightest. and so just so you know, the way i'm thinking about it, as time goes on, i think i want to see a record that is clean, where we don't have more incidents, more complaints. to me that shows that you're finding some sort of equilibrium with your neighbors and the neighborhood and the police. and i hear what you're saying about, you know, i'm not here to

support any sort of racist police system. i know there's some evidence towards that. i know that you guys have your suit, and i can't really speak to that. i think what we're concerned about is making sure that there's safe -- a safely run nightclub, a safely run street that draws in patrons. i'm kind of curious, you know, i don't want to get into the second amendment or anything, but people have the right to have guns in this country. how do you try to make sure that they are not in your venue or within the proximity of your venue? because that's eventually what sort of the police come to us and say, hey, shots were fired. whether or not that was related to you, how do you as a community member and as a business that, you know, gets people from all over the bay area coming to your nightclub, how do you make sure that they are not bringing these kind of

weapons? >> we've never had a weapon in our venue. we have metal wands, and we do full pat-downs and search bags. we have never had a gun or a dangerous weapon in our venue. >> right. they might keep it in their car or something. >> or there might be people who don't even attend -- enter my venue, which has happened a lot in the north beach area in the past couple of years, past couple months, you know, happens up the street, happens down the street. i don't know why that doesn't ever get discussed. that happens. >> yeah, i mean, i think it's a wider community issue that, you know, you're not the only person that's a stakeholder in that neighborhood to talk about. and i don't like that anyone would want to scapegoat any one place or any one industry, but,

you know, there's a role that you have to play, and i'm kind of curious, this is stepping away from just thinking about the conditions on your permit, but this is a concern of the community. >> very serious concern. it's a very serious concern not just for the community, for me, for the safety of my staff, for the safety of me, for the safety of the community, for me to run a business. it's a huge concern. and i don't think it's just a concern just for one person. it's everyone's. >> i'll have more questions or comments later, but i just wanted to kind of at least start off by saying, you know, i think we are here to try to support the night life community and night life operators, and that, you know, i think there's two sides to every story, and we're going to try to uncover that the rest of this hearing. >> so, i want to just say for myself, i don't base my opinions on cad reports, even when i ran

a club, i felt the same way about cad reports, and i stand everything i say about cad reports in whether it's c-mac or anything, it's all about the evidence, okay. what i saw on the video, you didn't have enough security, in my opinion. whatever happened to make my decision wasn't racist. my decision as an operator, i see poor security planned outside that venue when that incident happened. now, that's my opinion. and i don't know if they have the experience, but i've been in this position before at my own business, and for my opinion, mine was based on poor security planning. you didn't have enough security. why did it put a condition on your permit to say you had to have at least six security guards outside? i mean, that's basically my opinion. and again with the sound issue. the sound issue was a physical

problem, okay, and according to our inspector, he said he was out there making the tests. or not that you wouldn't have gotten, you know -- well, i have to remember, been so many times if you did get a violation or not, but obviously there was an issue where you had to spend some money on getting your soundproofing done. if you had such a strong case that sound wasn't an issue, then why even do it? anyway, i'm just saying we're going to get further, if we are going to get further, but this is how i based my opinion, and whether you showed me videos on your side that counteracts what the police were showing me, but me as a club owner or former club owner, i wouldn't have run my security. i wouldn't let people hang out front. i would get them on their way, and that's my own opinion, that's not theirs. that's how i base my vote. >> can i respond, please?

as far as the security goes, i would love to send you the video that wasn't shown of all our security helping out and saving probably someone's life that night. and i would like -- i would like to, you know, point out that there was a huge issue up the street separate that we're not even talking about on st. paddy's day. as far as the sound goes, as far as making improvements to something that we have already within our limits, we're doing that to be a good neighbor. we're doing that to decrease the sound even more, even though we are under the sound limitations that were supposed to be, that we are given by you guys. as far as there actually being a sound test, no, there hasn't been an actual sound test since 2008. we've been presented with something. we've been presented with being at 110 dbs inside, which i have, which after running tests

myself, have realized that we can't be running 110 inside, because that would put us over our limit. >> bottom line is, you got approved, our sound inspector had to give you the grace period and say, yes, they are in compliance. so there has to be some kind of official test. >> in 2008, yes. >> no, you just got -- before you got kicked back, we let you have your sound -- we patched your sound, and we did give you that extension back to at least to 130. >> what i'm telling you -- >> you're telling me there's no official sound, from the city, our inspectors that go there to give you your permit, there's no official -- you're telling us there's no official -- they are not official? >> i'm not saying at all they are not official. >> you're saying we didn't give you an official sound check. >> i'm telling you, commissioner lee, there was not a sound test done. i was presented with a piece of paper, a permit, saying what our

sound level should be at. that's what i'm telling you. i'm not saying at all that you guys are not official. you guys are 100% official. >> what we're saying, there is no violation. there is no finding of any sound violation by anybody, nobody, nobody. this commission has not found a violation. >> you appealed this, didn't you, sir? >> appeal what? >> this whole process that we did something wrong, that if there was a problem with our sound check, or there's no violation, if you don't agree with our findings, you would go to the board of appeals. >> what is the finding? can you cite a finding that there was a sound violation? >> funny that you mention that, because we did appeal that and we haven't heard anything back. i have the documentation here. >> i'm sorry, can i interject? i'm so confused. what did you appeal, and also last year when we went to board of appeals -- okay. huh, all right. >> it's a certified mailed

certificate saying that you received it, as well. >> that we received this? >> not necessarily you as far as the commission, but where it is sent to the city as far as the board of appeals. >> okay. i'll have to look at this, bennett, because this is the first time i've seen this, and i don't know exactly what this is from, so this is from december of last year? >> yes. >> that's right. >> okay. and you appealed this to us, or to board of appeals? >> board of appeals. >> so you've got -- it's all written in here that you can appeal, okay. >> as you can see -- >> why wouldn't you have reached out to me about this? >> because that's the way you're supposed to appeal. that's what they tell you, appeal by filing something with the court of appeals. >> mr. bloom -- being yelled at, thank you, i think we can communicate by talking.

okay, this is the first time i've seen this, fyi. thanks. we came and did a sound test for you after you went to board of appeals last year, because of the fact one of the commissioners on board of appeals added a commission to have you at ambient. >> who did you do that sound test with -- >> what do you mean, inspector burke did the sound test. >> who did you do it with? >> you mean which of your employees did he do it with? >> or -- >> how did he get access to hue? >> we'd have to look at the records for that. honestly, i think we're getting sidetracked a little bit here on the procedure issues, and i know you might argue otherwise. let me just lay out what i want to say, and i really want to hear from the police, and then i want to hear from the neighbors, and then i want to bring you back up here and i think some of this conversation would be best suited, my personal opinion, for the end, where we kind of have

to maybe ask you more questions based on the information we're getting. for me, when your license is approved, it comes along with the good neighbor policy. you know, there's some very measurable sound science and you're stating very clearly that you've not violated any of the sound science from what we had there. the good neighbor policy's a little more -- it gives a little more room in our minds to make decisions that are for public safety or are for great neighborhood relations or is kind of ensuring that the operators they have are acting responsibly, and i can just say from personal experience, my personal experience, that i also, as commissioner lee said, as a business owner myself in the nighttime business, i don't believe any cad records without a lot of backing. and i know that i was here and, you know, the police made that presentation, but to me that

wasn't where my decisions were coming from. so i want you to understand where my decision was coming from, and then i want to bring up the police, i want to bring up the neighbors. but for me, we saw very compelling video evidence that violence occurred outside, directly outside of your club, and that patrons were involved, who had been in your club. and we saw that from the st. patrick's day video. >> we did not get to cross-examine that when officer matthias presented that, and i would like to talk about that, so please save room for that. >> thank you. that evidence is very compelling to us, and previous to that, when i see something like that, i want to make sure, okay, certainly, violence happens, it happens in clubs all over san francisco, right. that wasn't run-of-the-mill violence. that was higher, significantly higher than the regular order of violence. and the next step what i want to see personally, have a trust that the operator is taking his

or her responsibilities very seriously, right, and when i was first here, which these -- when we first imposed the operating restrictions on you, it was due to a series of -- well, there was another violent incident, but it was due to a series of neighbors who came up, who maybe detailed sound issues, but for me that's not compelling to me, you know, clubs are loud. if you're not in violation of -- and this is personally, if we're not finding violations of sound, then you're acting within the limits of your sound, and maybe somebody could take issue with the science that's being used or the code, but that's just a fact. but what i do like to see and have seen, and i have to do it myself is kind of you have to live in the ecosystem with neighbors, and you have to respond to them, and you have to be responsible, and if you make a promise, you have to keep it. and for me, i saw a series of neighbors who are claiming with

verifiable evidence that at that point, and that was a long time ago, at that point there was a series of broken promises. that's what they felt. and they brought up a sound curtain, i.d. scanners, things according to them you claimed would have happened, you would take care of, and ten months to get a sound curtain, things like that. to me it showed a lack of trust, certainly between them and you, and maybe lack of trust for you if you were to act on those, it would make them go away, et cetera, but for one reason or another seemed those weren't being acted on. so for me, i personally have to feel really confident that as an operator you're going to take the issues that come to you very seriously, whether or not you think they have merit or not, i have to do it every day. i have neighbors who complained, who never heard the music, i want to see others are doing the same thing. at that point, even up to the st. patrick's day information, that session, you know, i didn't

have a sense in the beginning that you were taking them seriously. now, that i can say, and you may take issue with that, and that's totally fine. i can say, i can see how a process like this might cause you to, first of all, lose trust in the police that you clearly have lost trust in the police, and possibly in your neighbors and possibly with us, as well, but i would just encourage a kind of new way of thinking when dealing with the powers that be around you or the nonpowers and the neighbors to really jump on issues and try to solve them. i think you made the case you have been doing that. i've definitely anecdotally think that i've seen a visible change in how you're handling situations, so to me that's a good sign. i'm sad it had to take a destruction of your business for that period of time, but to me it is promising. so, you know, to me that's the issue to me. and we can talk about appeals, and we can talk about noise tests and these things. they literally have no bearing

on the decision that i'm going to make personally going forward. so, i just want to make that clear. i don't want to cut anybody else off without asking questions, but i would like to hear from the police. does anybody object to that? >> two words. >> yes, please. yeah. >> i'm more than willing to work with anyone in the community. the only one that is even giving me an opportunity to work with them is actually the diamonds, so i would just like to get that on record, that i'm more than willing to work with the community. >> okay. okay. and, you know, others may say differently, but at least saying that publicly, we might have an opportunity for something here. so, can i ask you to sit down? we're going to ask for the police to come up, we'll hear from them, then we'll talk to the public comment and hear from that, then we'll probably have you come up at the end for some more questions. >> hello, commissioners and staff. steve matthias from central station. i'd like to start off by saying

i'm not going to respond to the demeaning accusations. we are here for a review of the conditions that were imposed on hue back in march -- or in may. i'm going to talk about what's happened since that point, and i have -- you've got some cads, a report, and we also have some video. luckily, at least for the police department, we have other video in here, but in general, i think in the past when mr. montoya has been able to come up here and show his video with the scope of right out in front, as you saw in the last hearing in march, or in may, there's quite a bit happening outside of those angles, and you saw with your own eyes that the customers, patrons from hue, are involved in that. i'm not going to rehash all that

from st. patrick's day. tonight i'm going to talk about what's happened since then. there's been one incident. we've had some cads and a report. i've got some video. i would like you to see it. this is regarding an incident from 5/7 at approximately 1:30 a.m., saturday night to sunday morning. there was a major hue-related fight across the street at broadway liquors, that's at 460 broadway. numerous hue patrons exited hue and walked directly across the street and began to assault a man on broadway. the man retreated into the store and then was swarmed upon by up to eight to ten hue patrons. during the video you're going to see the patrons leaving hue and going in that direction, then you're going to see them then across the street. an incident bystander inside the store was also attacked by the group as he ducked near the corner, near the counter.

the person who was hit was close to -- the person who hit the man was close to 100 pounds heavier. the assaulting hue group then exited the store. next a person ran eastbound on broadway and retrieved a gun and returned. the gunman then fired three to five shots in the air. the gunman was then chased by the numerous hue patrons who were incensed at the firing of the gun. numerous police officers responded and took the suspect into custody, along with a glock .45 caliber smith & wesson .45 caliber and rifle and 28 rounds of ammunition. i do not know if the gunman was inside any club that night, so i'm not going to infer or insinuate anything. the video footage that i have only showed from 1:23 on. i wasn't able to look at any video, so i am not standing up here inferring anything as far as the gunman. i have no idea whether he was in a club or not in a club. however, i will say the hue

patrons most definitely -- however, i will say that the hue patrons most definitely were the catalyst that sparked and set the entire incident into motion. i am relieved that no one was shot or killed that night. other than this one incident, i have not heard of any other incidents since our last hearing.

we have a few vignettes. you should have gotten copies about this. >> okay. i can't bring up this file. is there anyone -- bring this up.

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>> third thursdays at the commons is a monthly event series to really activate krisk centkrisk -- civic center, fulton mall, and other locations through social operation. >> in 2016, an initiative called the civic center progress initiative was launched, it was launched by a bunch of city agencies and community partners, so they really had to figure out how to program these places on a more frequent basis. i'm with the civic center community benefit district, and i'm program manager for the civic center commons.

also, third thursdays will have music. that was really important in the planning of these events. >> we wanted to have an artist that appeals to a wide range of tastes. >> i'm the venue manager. good music, good music systems, and real bands with guitar players and drummers. >> we turned uc center and fulton street into a place where people want to be to meet, to laugh, and it's just an amazing place to be. there's a number of different exhibits. there's food, wine, cocktails, and the idea, again, is to give people an opportunity to enjoy what really is, you know, one of the great civic faces in america.

when you look from the polk street steps, and you look all the way down the plaza, down market street, daniel burns' design, this was meant to be this way. it's really special. >> the city approached us off the grid to provide food and beverages at the event as kind of the core anchor to encourage people who leave a reason to stay. >> it's really vibrant. it's really great, just people walking around having a good time. >> this formula is great food, interesting music, and then, we wanted to have something a little more, so we partnered with noise pop, and they brought in some really fun games. we have skeeball, we also have roller skating lessons, and we've got a roller

skating rink. >> if you're a passion jail skeeball player like me, and you're deciding whether you're just going to roll the ball up the middle or take a bank shot. >> our goal is to come out and have fun with their neighbors, but our goal is to really see in the comments that it's a place where people want to hold their own public event. >> i think this is a perfect example of all these people working together. everybody's kind of come together to provide this support and services that they can to activate this area. >> there's no one agency or organization that really can make this space come alive on its own, and it's really through the collective will, not just of the public sector, but both the public and our

business partnerships, our nonprofits partnerships, you know, neighborhood activists. >> i really like it. it's, like, a great way to get people to find out about local things, cuisine, like, it's really great. >> it's a really good environment, really welcoming. like, we're having a great time. >> we want to inspire other people to do this, just using a part of the plaza, and it's also a good way to introduce people if they're having a large scale event or small scale event, we'll direct you to the right people at the commons so you can get your event planned. >> being a san francisco based company, it was really important to connect and engage with san franciscans.

>> how great is it to come out from city hall and enjoy great music, and be able to enjoy a comtail, maybe throw a bocci ball or skee ball. i find third thursdays to be really reinrig rat reinriggating for me. >> whether you're in the city hall or financial district or anywhere, just come on down on third thursdays and enjoy the music, enjoy an adult beverage, enjoy the skee ball; enjoy an adult playground, if you

. >> i love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will -- for the longest, i was applying for b.m.r. rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. i pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave san francisco. i found out about the san francisco mayor's office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did home counseling with someone, but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. i told her about the housing program, the mayor's office, and i told her hey, you've got to do the six hour counseling

and the 12 hour training. she said no, i want you to go with me. and then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b.m.i. i was like wow, this could potentially work. housing purchases through the b.m.r. program with the sf mayor's office of housing, they are all lotteries, and for this one, i did win the lottery. there were three people that applied, and they pulled my number first. i won, despite the luck i'd had with the program in the last couple years. things are finally breaking my way. when i first saw the unit, even though i knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, i could see what this place could be. it's slowly beginning to feel like home. i can definitely -- you know, once i got it painted and

slowly getting my custom furniture to fit this unit because it's a specialized unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small. this unit in terms of adaptive, in terms of having a murphy bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as i can. it's slowly becoming home for me. it is great that san francisco has this program to address, let's say, the housing crisis that exists here in the bay area. it will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise

>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. when i meet with seniors in the community, they're thinking about the future. some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood that's closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. that's why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. so how does this work? prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2% growth a year. but when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value.

compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the -- which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. that's where prop 60 comes in. prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved. remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the property value must be equal to or below around your replacement home. if you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. this means that if your

existing home is worth $1 million in market value, your new home must be $1 million or below. if you're looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105% of your exist egging home. which means if you sell your old home for $1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than $1.15 million. if you sell your existing home at $1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than $1.1 million. know that your ability to participate in this program expires after two years. you will not be able to receive

prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website, sfassessor.org, welcome to the did you know that many buildings in san francisco are not bolted to the foundation on today's episode we'll learn how the option to bolt our foundation in an earthquake. >> hi, everybody welcome to another episode of stay safe i'm the director of earthquake

safety in the city and county of san francisco i'm joined by a friend matt. >> thank you thanks for being with us we're in a garage but at the el cap center south of market in san francisco what we've done a simulated the garage to show you what it is like to make the improvements and reduce the reflexes of earthquake we're looking at foundation bolts what do they do. >> the foundation bolts are one of the strengthening system they hold the lowest piece of wood onto the foundation that prevents the allows from sliding during an earthquake that is a bolt over the original construction and these are typically put in along the foundation to secure the house to the foundation one of the things we'll show you many types

of bolts let's go outside and show the vufrdz we're outside the epic center in downtown san francisco we'll show 3 different types of bolts we have a e poxy anchor. >> it is a type of anchor that is adhesive and this is a rod we'll embed both the awe hey that embeds it into the foundation that will flip over a big square washer so it secured the mud sell to the foundation we'll need to big drill luckily we have peter from the company that will help us drill the first hole. >> so, now we have the hole drilled i'll stick the bolt in

and e post-office box it. >> that wouldn't be a bad idea but the dust will prevent the e post-office box from bonding we need to clean the hole out first. >> so, now we have properly cleaned hole what's the next step. >> the next step to use e post-office box 2 consultants that mixes this together and get them into tubes and put a notice he will into the hole and put the e post-office box slowly and have a hole with e post-office box. >> now it is important to worm or remember when you bolt our own foundation you have to go to 9 department of building inspection and get a permit

before you start what should we look at next what i did next bolt. >> a couple of anchors that expand and we can try to next that will take a hole that hole is drilled slightly larger marathon the anchor size for the e post-office box to flow around the anchor and at expansion is going into the hole the same dinning room we'll switch tamet so, now we have the second hole drilled what next. >> this is the anchor and this

one has hard and steel threads that cuts their way into the concrete it is a ti ton anchor with the same large square so similar this didn't require e post-office box. >> that's correct you don't needed for the e post-office box to adhere overnight it will stick more easily. >> and so, now it is good to go is that it. >> that's it. >> the third anchor is a universal foundation plate when you don't have room above our foundation to drill from the

top. >> so, now we have our foundation plate and the tightened screw a couple of ways to take care of a foundation what's the best. >> the best one depends on what your house is like and our contractors experience they're sometimes considered the cadillac anchor and triplely instead of not witting for the e post-office box this is essentially to use when you

don't have the overhead for the foundation it really depends on the contractor and engineering what they prefer. >> talking to a qualified professional and see what >> good afternoon, everyone. i am the mayor of the city and county of san francisco and i am here to welcome mayors from all over the country, including the u.s. conference of mayors on the centre for climate and energy solutions, to this great city. we are all gathered here today for a common cause. of taking meaningful action to combat climate change. as we all no kak this is an issue that is bigger than one of our cities, one of our regions and this country. climate change is the defining issue of our time. and