property is valid on the request is valid and everything is paid up properly. that is what they're doing in the back office. they are taking a peek at this. the next step on the part that darrell was talking about that is automated, the parts that can be automated ids we are wrapping up the intake and we will -- at that point, we can review the permit history that we have existing today and to display its. that is what the three r. is all about. this is the worksheet that shows the permit history and that is what you can see. that is the worksheet that popped up. >> go ahead. >> this is where all of the research is aggregated. they can then select from these

which ones they want to include on the reports but there is no photocopying. all of the records they select are associated with that records so they have a complete record of everything they have included >> that is the completed report. now what goes on behind the scenes is not necessarily captured here. it is all the research they have to do. is this complete? was or something done where there were adjacent properties and somebody wrote at 16 b. and we are at 16 a cleat they do a ton of research to make sure the list is complete. depending on if the work was done prior to 1980 they have to go hunting through boxes and hunt down the information and to manually add that. this only shows you what is captured. >> so if they find something that isn't captured, do they add it to the database? then it becomes digitized.

>> they are able to add it to the report. >> as you saw the three art reports generated, that gets -- if the applicant wanted and e-mailed it to them they can automatically e-mail it out. those documents are automatically attached to the record. >> so next time someone brings it up -- >> so if someone requests the report, same address, people aren't starting from scratch they pull that off and they can see all the permit history that was, at the time done and they simply have to augment that going forward. it will be a real timesaver for them. it is one of those examples of something that is -- it is a good thing but it does require change management and understanding. >> exactly.

>> thank you for the demonstrations. it is something we can all look forward to. i do have two questions. regarding the uploading of the plans to the system, have you tested it to see how much volume it could hold on the speed of the uploading? because plans can be very big. >> yes. uploads do work and one thing i want to caution is we are not implementing any form of electronic plan check but basically this is replacing what they do by e-mail today. they were able to upload it. the exact thing happens today with existing infrastructure. the only difference it is through e-mail instead of up to -- uploaded. >> the occult -- the electronic plan check will come later. >> are we going to -- is the permit systems going to be handling -- do they have to

respond to the same system? will they be done separately like they do now through e-mails and letters? >> it is largely done the way it is done now. everything is visible online. if we had to ask the applicant to change some plan pages, this process is what happens today. >> it will be documented and it will not be -- >> you should be able to see that or request went out and that is what we are waiting on right now. >> since we have embarked on this whole thing, one of the most major changes has been demands on data security and backups and redundancies. i know you have addressed in the past many of the redundancies that are built into this but could you specifically speak to any modifications or changes you

have seen necessary? >> the data security, this will be hosted at a site and there are processes that they must go through. there is a number of audits. there is an i.s.o. audit that they must complete and adhere to and send documentation and proof that the audit was conducted by a third party and compliance was confirmed. and there is a number of audits that they are subjected to to ensure that the data is secure and the data transmissions are encrypted appropriately and not visible to the outsiders. they have submitted and provided that information. it is very good. these are industry standard audits and do, in fact, have proven compliance. thank you.

>> we don't store any credit card information or any of the transaction that happens and we passed that to your city third-party payment providers to do the actual transactions for payments. we don't run the risk of having this data available. >> thank you. >> thank you, for the presentation. i want to stress that this is a gargantuan list that has been going on for a while and i think it is important to make sure that all of the bugs are worked out and not focused on a specific date. it would be horrible to roll this out after all this work and have it not work. i want to thank you for what you are doing. i am wondering about, forgive me if this has been discussed earlier, in terms of staff training that you have spoken a lot about, are there other plans for training the public?

when that is rolled out to, where there be days where you'll be training at d.b.i. for contractors? >> there is a full outreach plan that is pending at the ready upon completion of a good rounded test but there is a lot of outreach planned and there has been a lot of forethought into exactly how that will unfold. we need to get to the point where we are confident those dates are legit by the time we start publishing things and putting them in journals and reaching out to all the organizations. once we put that out there, the dates are stuck. so we do have a plan. it has been worked on in detail. it is on hold until we believe we are ready to proceed. >> commissioner walker has another question. >> to that point, the commissioner should be invited

again. i have been one to one of one training which was very helpful in understanding. and even though we were not able to move through everything, it really does give you a hands on so hopefully we all can go in and give her a run when it is time. >> definitely. >> not all at the same time three at once, right? >> i think that does it. thank you once again for your continuous dedication to getting this finished. >> thank you, very much. >> item eight. director's report. >> good morning, commissioners.

before you is the september 2018 financial report. it provides first-quarter information on revenues and expenditures. that is july, to september. revenues are at $60 million or $1.2 million more than the same time last year. that is primarily because of about a 600,000-dollar settlement that we received from a mitigation case. that is where the bulk of that comes from. on the expenditure side we are roughly the same. about $11 million. right now we have a projection that are at budget simply because it is so early in the fiscal year. if you look at the first page of the memo, you see services of other departments on a 16 million. it is really hard to make any projections because these aren't real expenditures yet. we are waiting until we have more expenditures. in the first quarter we normally

set up eos and start working on ordering things pick may be by six months we will make more accurate predictions. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> and then one other comment, last month i stated that we provide a separate report. it has taken a little bit longer citywide. we did go to a new financial management system. i hope to have that year in our report from the next fiscal year , next month. thank you. >> good morning. i am a legislative and public affairs manager. i will hit a few highlights from the documents that we sent along to you this morning. as you probably know, there is a government accounting and oversight.

that has started about the same time and restarted today. they are still on the first item and dealing with contractor safety. that was tied to the accident in the west portal tunnels that you probably already about. but the last item on the agenda is the standard building standards. the assistant director and i will be going down to participate in this. we understand that supervisor peskin is actually going to have the city administrator and some of the participants in the recent tall building study make a presentation to the committee and answer some questions. we are also there to answer questions. the director has already established an internal implementation team that is cochaired by the deputy director and senior engineer.

that they have already had a couple of meetings and begun to look through the various recommendations and timing from the tall bidding -- tall building study. we will provide you with more details on that as we have them. in addition to that, we do have supervisor tang dealing with expediting solar approval. the department of environment asked us to withdraw the finalization of that in order to add to battery storage and ev charging. the idea is to have an omnibus bill that will cover all three of those areas. we are working with the department of environment and with supervisor tang's office to make that happen. it will probably happen between now and the end of this year. that other item that you approved here a couple of months ago where we establish a formal

process for reviewing legislation that comes from the board of supervisors has now passed. it will take formal effect as of the 19th of november. as a mention to you before, this is a process that we do right now there, it only codifies and puts it into an ordinance that had been missing. the -- with that, i would say, the one other item that rules the committee today is supervisor ronan has recently introduced ordinance to give the building official and the fire marshal additional authority if a building owner has two or more outstanding notices of violation they could require such things

as upgrades of sprinkler systems or fire alarm systems. i will be going through that hearing at 1:00 today, even though i expect that there won't be much questioning around that and that there is uniform support on the board for it. with that, i will be happy to take any questions. >> thank you for the update. i have been seeing there is an initiative from the mayor's office to add a position to help expedite housing development. i want to talk about that a little bit. >> i can't talk about it because i don't know much about it. >> i am just curious what we are doing around that.

>> to answer your question, we have a meeting with the mayor and the department head and then we come up with recommendations to have somebody oversee all of the department to smooth out the process for all the housing projects. then we will create a position. they are still changing the name they are thinking about the name but i send you the e-mail copy this morning. actually, yesterday, i think i sent you and president mccarthy the funding source from our department and the department of public works. we agree to help this is overseeing all the housing project because of lots of issues.

they have their own interpretation. >> so it will be included in our next budget as an additional position or something. >> right away, because they need to hide to the person they are. they already announced that person. >> but we will put wider funding >> that's good. >> but they need to work out with the city attorney and budget office. i sent the e-mail. i said it was ok with me. we need to work it out with this city attorney office. >> perfect. i wanted to make sure everybody -- great. thank you. >> thank you. >> update on major projects. >> the major project is roughly a little bit increase and we also add the number of units into the summary. and any other question you have.

>> seeing none. >> also, i want to take this opportunity to remind the commissioners here, we have a departmentwide meeting next wednesday. you are more welcome to join us and we will pass all the information to all staff. >> is that at eight? >> next wednesday. >> at what time? >> 8:30 am. >> said the 24th? >> coffee is provided. >> we should schedule the commissioners to stand in different areas. >> item eight b. is enforcement. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm the chief building inspector this is an update on code enforcement for the month of september. 396 cases complaints were received. of those, 375 were responded to

within 24 hours. that is a 95% response right. of those complaints, there were 27. complaints with first notice of violation was 50. and complaints that were received unabated without an nop for that period was 156. and abated complaints with no n.o.v., the number was 278. additionally, i have some numbers for you on vacant and abandoned buildings and vacant commercial storefronts. for the week of october fifth 2018, a total of 326 vacant abandoned buildings were on the list. and a total of 507 vacant commercial storefronts were on the list. >> wonderful.

>> thank you. i was not expecting that update on the storefronts there. when you say the storefronts are vacant, are they vacant because there's no for least signs in front of them? is there a reason why they are vacant? >> the chief inspector is here and he will but you better equipped to answer that question >> i was actually going to ask for an update on that. i did not know -- how far into your survey have you done now? that is hugely labour-intensive to get that information. >> good morning. most of these cases are on the list because we are triggered by complaints. the reason they're saying

they're staying on the list is because they are partially compliance to the ordinance. they are either being leased but we are having problems where the persons are saying, we are putting it on the market but three months down the line it is still being shown as a lease. we still have to keep it on the list for vacant storefronts. >> so in some retail it is hard to lease right now for a lot of reasons. we will not get into that right now. we are just trying to figure out how do you know a bad player to a good player, how are you defining that? >> at this point, what we are doing is if they come up to us and say that we will apply and we will put it on the list, sometimes we update the case and the reason this number is big because a lot of these cases are a yearly thing.

where it goes through the list and next year it is up on the list again. because they paid their fees and they are still open for a whole year. i think there is only a few cases where we have one owner having multiple open spaces or open storefronts or vacant storefronts. and now we are working on it and figure out whether it is a good thing to send it to a hearing and preparing those cases for a hearing. it is kind of difficult when they come in and they partially comply with the ordinance. and now ok you have to hold onto our case. >> i was going to call and have an update on that. who would be giving it? would it be dvi or housing? >> d.b.i. >> ok. so i want to have a conversation

about planning to understand how we define these vacant storefronts. i'm getting mixed information on how we get there and i know there is some strong opinions about some of the retail uses and that will never be able to be filled for one reason or another because of the zoning issues and so on. we will have another conversation about that. i was not expecting an update on that but it is great you're putting that in front of us as well. would that be done on a monthly basis as well? >> yes. great. >> commissioner moss? >> in terms of the public reporting vacant storefronts, i do believe that is an asset that so far has not been tapped as much as we can. i know your office only has so much manpower. is a possibility that the department could issue some type of e-mail that -- and explainer

of how to tell if something is vacant and how to report it that can be e-mailed out? like if you are on the city's e-mail list? i am asking how to get to neighborhood groups. i can think of a couple of citywide groups that i think would be happy to participate. i believe it was supervisor if fewer who had a weekend where they went out and did that. certainly with the elections coming up everything -- everyone is busy. i do think eyes on the streets is something we can tap. i guess i am wondering if this has been contemplated. >> we have something on our website to file a complaint for vacant buildings and we know that d.b.i. and inspection services are proactive and providing us properties when they go out into the field. but we do have that on our website. >> right. i am wondering how often, or if ever we are telling the public

that it is on the website. [laughter] >> good morning. i'm a communications director for d.b.i. i wanted to respond to your question, commissioner. it is something that we are developing right now. the website is definitely something that we have had online. i do think, is more focus and -- this has been since beginning of this year, more focus has been on vacant storefronts with supervisor fewer, supervisor ye, there is also some legislation that is looking into possibly providing stricter adherence to the registration requirements for vacant storefronts. we will be doing a number of outreach and marketing efforts on that. whether it is notifying businesses along the corridors. we are trying to figure out with invest the neighborhoods also in

how to best do outreach. we unfortunately don't have e-mails as you are saying. it is something that they have to sign up with us and that we use for that purpose only and then also we only have property information. there is about 26,000 of them. >> yes. thank you. >> thank you. >> clearly the vacant storefront is a huge problem and the 500 looks like a big number but it is probably a fraction of what is really out there. these are just the ones we know about and have cited. they have been either noticed by your inspectors support when they're out there or they have received complaints, so we have this tremendous problem and i know we are trying to address it in a variety of ways. while i applaud any efforts to do things like temporary uses

and quicker permitting of that, do you have any sense of how big the problem really is? apart from the 500 we have actually cited, even if it is anecdotal, are we looking at a magnitude of three, four, five, you know, what is your personal sense of how big this is? >> to be honest, it is difficult like you said, we have different cases and different ordinances that we have to deal with. this is one of the ordinances that actually has multiple inspectors. we want to be proactive. you have to have inspectors go out there every single day, every single time to walk the streets and march. and then the next week i will guarantee it will go off the list and then you go back the next street. you see what i am saying? it is difficult for us to take

-- make an assessment and say this is an initiative that we need to recruit every single time. for us, like i said, the best thing we have done is we have different inspectors and signed for it -- assigned for this. he will get more help. for right now, he is the only one that is following up and all of these issues. >> a second question, regarding the 326 other vacant and abandoned buildings, do you have any finer grain on that as to how many of them are single-family homes or two or three family versus commercial? >> 326 are residential buildings and then 507 are vacant commercial buildings. >> so the commercial is retail storefronts in and any commercial industrial? >> yes.

>> thank you for that. >> i might add one more thing. i think that this is a good point. this is a very fluid situation. these businesses are coming online and going off-line all the time and coming up to the holidays, we may see some more retail spaces being used. the effort is every week. it is changing. it is ongoing. it is fairly a big task. >> totally. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on the director's report? item nine is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of september 19th, 2018. >> moved to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. is there any public comment on the minutes? are all commissioners in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed?

the minutes are approved. item ten is adjournment. >> madam secretary, before we adjourn, i would like to close our meeting in honor of sean mcnulty who is a very seasons chief of the building inspector for the city for many, many years. he joined the department in 1983 and he retired in some time and three. he was brave enough to come back in 2007 to help out for a year or so and bring his expertise. and his relationships back to the department to help. he was very well respected by the file. he treated everyone with such great respect. somebody pointed out to me it was like as if you are family the way he mentored you. i would like to close out, if i made this meeting in honor of sean and our condolences to his family. >> thank you. >> i join in that. thank you.

>> we are now adjourned. it is 11:34 am. [♪] >> president cohen: good afternoon. garn good afternoon, ladies and

gentlemen. madam clerk, will you please call the roll for attendance. >>clerk: thank you. [roll call] >>clerk: madam president, you have a quorum. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]

>> president cohen: all right. colleagues, today, we are -- or madam clerk, are there any communications? >>clerk: there are none to approve. >> president cohen: colleagues, today we are approving the minutes of september 25, 2018 as well as september 11, 2018 minutes. there a motion? motion made by supervisor ronen, seconded by supervisor peskin. colleagues, can we take these without objection. all right. minutes will be approved after public comment. madam clerk, please call 2:00 p.m. special order. >>clerk: the honest believe mayor london breed is present in the chamber today to discuss with a formal policy discussion with the members of the board. the topic pertains to inclusionary affordable housing. as a reminder, the mayor and the board may not discuss matters that have already been considered in committee and are

on the board's agenda as an action item. the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. comments on this issue will take place during general public comment. >> president cohen: welcome back, mayor breed. i'd like to give you a chance to make some opening comments. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, president cohen. i'd like to thank you for having me back here today. with housing costs so far out of reach in this city, i know that you are committed to working with them to keep them in their housing. we've strengthened rent control protections and expanded and preserved affordable housing, including through our small sites acquisition program. today, we have a crisis that demands immediate action to keep people housed. we must step in to protect some of our most vulnerable residents, those who live in

public housing and those are section 8 vouchers. our immediate intervention will ensure that thousands of low-income residents are protected. this is both a crisis of a funding and accountability. earlier last month, in september, h.u.d. put the san francisco housing authority on notice that once again housing authority over spent its annual budget and would not be able to make its september payments for housing vouchers. this can be a common occurrence. the city initially thought we could work to get h.u.d.s funding assistance to bridge the gap until january . however, we recently learned that the shortfall is approximately $25 million for 2018, exceeds the assistance that h.u.d. is available to provide.

so the city will step in, commit funding to fill the gap to keep tenants in their housing. this immediately becomes our top emergency priority. our action will keep seniors, families -- low-income families and formerly homeless people housed. i'm committed that not a single person will lose their home because of the funding deficit, but as i said, this is a crisis of accountability. the funding gap and the fact that it has only just come to light reflects serious financial mismanagement at the housing authority. it has become abundantly clear that the san francisco housing authority can no longer be allowed to operate as it has in the past, so i'm announcing that the city will immediately step in to impose best practices for management and oversight protocols at the san francisco housing authority. we will also continue our work with h.u.d. to transfer the housing authority's last two properties located in president

cohen's district, sunnydale and potrero hill, to their planned operators. the city has a history of success when we step in to assist with public housing. in 2008, the city launched hope sf after we lost federal funding from hope 6. our local effort to rebuild san francisco housing authority's largest and most poorly maintained public housing, we have succeeded in doing so with hunters view and alice griffith. through our r.a.d. program we have transferred 300 apartments to nonprofit ownership in two years which has included a completion in $800 million in rehabilitation and repair to dramatically improve housing for our residents. the city has succeeded before and will succeed again. to those of you who rely on section 8 vouchers examine low-income housing, the city is

here with you. everyone in this room, i want to make clear that this is a significant, unforeseen investment that must take precedent over all other potential funding needs. i'm committed to stablizing the housing authority in the short-term and bringing accountability in the long-term so it never happens again, but most importantly, we will keep our tenants safe and secure in their housing. thank you. >> president cohen: all right. thank you very much. [applause] >> president cohen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. that was very kind, but we actually have a no applause rule in the chamber just so we can run an efficient meeting, please, if you like something, do spirit fingers, and if you don't like something, do a thumbs down. madam clerk, will you call the next item.

>>clerk: this week, supervisor peskin submitted the topic which was noted on our agenda fortable public housing. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madam clerk. this is something that we all care about, and that is the topic of affordable housing. in june 2016, the voters changed the charter, took the inclusionary percentage out of the charter, and i think we all came to agreement that we wanted to build the maximum feasible number of inclusionary units going forward. we all agreed that we would have a technical advisory committee, we all agreed that we would have higher in lieu fee so that we could get more on-site housing, and we also agreed to what we call it a use it or lose it provision because we wanted people to start building and not to sit on their permits. to that end, yourself,

supervisor kim, and supervisor safai and i sat down, and we worked it out. we gave -- on all sides, and we moved forward. recently, you introduced legislation that -- asubpoenaed with a press release that said would keep endangered housing projects move forward, but in my opinion, it could give impacts to 33% more housing. some of theme are at 13.5% and could be at 19% under our new law, so my real question is after this consensus process, why are you revisiting that policy? >> the hon. london breed: thank you for that question, supervisor peskin. i want to make it very clear, i strongly support the affordable inclusionary housing program and setting the rate as high as we can, so long as it's feasible.

this has delivered thousands of public housing units, and it must continue, but setting the level reasonable is critical to maximizing the results that we do get. as i said to you before, 25% of zero is still zero. when this board of supervisors, including myself and working with you and supervisor kim and supervisor safai made props -- the prop c compromise in 2016 with at 11-0 vote with this board, we all acknowledged that certain projects already in the pipeline could not shoulder a significant increase to their inclusionary rates and doing so would possibly make those projects infeasible, so we grandfathered it in, but we

unestimated how long it takes to get a building permit here in san francisco, which we all know is a very frustrating and long process. typically, we give buildings 30 minutes, but instead, our legislation starting this 30-month count down from when the ordinance was passed. this failed to acknowledge that many of these grandfathered projects hadn't even been entitled yet, and getting entitlements take forever. here we are, the grandfathering for 33 projects are set to expire on december 7. no new projects would get special benefits, and grandfathered projects would get the same amount of time as the other projects. without this legislation, i truly believe we risk 4300 units and over 600 affordable units.

the last thing we need is to lose this desperately needed housing, but i'm happy to work with you to go through this list and have a conversation with the projects that you are most concerned about and to look at the possibility of, you know, the challenges that exist. but again, that causes additional delays, and it causes additional need to reassess these particular projects, and i don't want to continue to delay this much needed conversation, and happy to continue this conversation as we move forward in this legislative process. >> president cohen: supervisor peskin, you may ask a follow up question to the opening statement. >> supervisor peskin: can you, madam president. and i want to acknowledge that your staff gave me a list of the 33 projects with the reasons that many of them have not gotten site permits. and the vast majority of folks actually did get the site permits, so the fact as of opin

or not we should start pulling projects apart and delaying more -- delaying much needed housing, but i'm open to having the conversation to explore possibilities of getting more affordable housing and what that might look like. you know, there's an -- unfortunately, there's a delay housing, the possibility of lost housing. so i just want to make sure that

this is the responsible thing to do for the purposes of getting more housing united on the market sooner rather than later and happy to for having me today. >> president cohen: all right.

thank you, mayor breed. madam clerk, please call the consent calendar [agenda item read] >> president cohen: all right, colleagues, is there anything that needs to be removed or considered separately? >> president cohen: madam clerk, on the questions, if these items should be passed, please call the roll. [roll call] >>clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president cohen: thank you. these items are passed unanimously. all right, madam clerk, let's go

to the regular agenda, call item six. >>clerk: to authorize the chief of police or the chief's diggee to provide sin verification of preapplication meeting for neighborhood restricted liquor licensees. >> president cohen: all right. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? all right. the item is passed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, please call the next item. [agenda item read] >> president cohen: all right. colleagues, same house, same call? without objection, this ordinance is finally passed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, next item. [agenda item read] >> president cohen: all right.

colleagues, we can take this same house same call. looks like we can. without objection, this ordinance is passed on the first reading. madam clerk, next item. [agenda item read] >> preside >> president cohen: all right. same house, same call. without objection, the item is adopted. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, next item. [agenda item read] >> president cohen: can we take this item, same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted.

[ gavel ]. >> president cohen: next item. [agenda item read] >> president cohen: all right. same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, please call itemed 12 through 16. >>clerk: we have five items here, all submitted by the department of public health. [agenda item read]

[agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda item read]

>> president cohen: thank you. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? looks like we can. without objection, these resolutions are adopted. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, please call items 17 and [agenda item read] [agenda item read] >> president cohen: thank you. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: madam president, can we have a roll call on item 17, please? >> president cohen: no problem. is that it? all right.

madam clerk, please call the roll call vote. >>clerk: on item 17 -- [roll call] >>clerk: there are ten ayes, one no, with supervisor peskin in the dissent. >> president cohen: all right. the resolutions are adopted. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam president? >>clerk: that was just item 17. >> president cohen: yes. i realize that. >>clerk: okay. >> president cohen: would you like to read item 18. >> president cohen: excuse me, call the roll on item 18. >>clerk: on item 18 --

[ro [roll call] >>clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president cohen: thank you. so without objection, the resolution for item 18 is adopted. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: please call item 19. >>clerk: item 19 is a resolution to authorize the department of homelessness and supportive housing to apply for the california emergency solutions and housing program grant from the department of housing and community development. >> president cohen: seeing no names on the roster, colleagues, can we take this same house call. [ gavel ] without objection, the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, call item 20.

[agenda item read] >> president cohen: same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. next item. >>clerk: item 21 is a resolution to authorize the acceptance and expenditure of california state senate bill number one, in the amount of 2.1 million for the parkmerced twin peaks renovation project. >> president cohen: name house, same call in without objection, the resolution is adopted. [agenda item read] >> president cohen: same house,

same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. madam clerk, next item. >>clerk: item 23 is a resolution to retroactively approved two contracts for insurance brokerage services for the central subway project with aon risk insurance services west to increase the contract amount for a total contract amount not to exceed 25 million and to extend the contract for two years. >> president cohen: all right. same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted. please call items 24 through 30 together. >>clerk: item 24 through 30, throws itemed are seven ordinances that amend the planning code. item 24 designated 228 through 248 townsend street, also known as the pullman hotel as a landmark under article ten of the planning code. item 225 designated 457 bryant street, also known as pile

driver's bridge as a landmark. item 26 designated 500 through 504 fourth street, also known as the hotel utah as a landmark under article ten of the planning code. item 27 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to add a new pe pe appendix ten and to affirm the seek with a determination, make appropriate findings. item 19 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to change the designation of -- of specific properties located in the c-3

commercial district from no rating to category one, pursuant to article 11 of the planning code based on architectural historic and aesthetic values. also to change the designation of the listed properties located in the c-3 district from no rating to category three, pursuant to the article 11 of the planning code, and to change the designation of various -- this particular property located in the c-3 district from a category five unrated to a category three, pursuant to article 11 of the planning code. that address is 47 through 55 sixth street, the hillside hotel and to affirm the seek withceqa

determination. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. seeing that there are no names on the roster, colleagues, with we take this same house, same call? looks like we can. without objection, these items are passed on the first reading. madam clerk, it's 2:30. i believe it's time for -- >>clerk: time for 2:30 commendations. >> president cohen: time for 2:30 commendations. so colleagues, today, we have four special commendations. first, i'll be recognizing mrs. kelly arm tron to her service from the bayview community for 25 years. then we'll hear have supervisor mandelman who will be honoring a community speaker series in noe valley. supervisor peskin will be

recognizing jack boatwright, and then, finally we'll hear from supervisor kim who will be honoring mike and jean aburama of turk and larkin deli for their 40 years of service in the tenderloin neighborhood. so first, i'd like to bring up miss kelly armstrong. ladies and gentlemen, i'm excited to introduce you to this wonderful lady. she's an exceptional leader. she's been serving san francisco and the community for over 25 years. why don't you come on down to the microphone. currently, mrs. armstrong is the program director for primed and prepped, a mentoring and job training program in the bayview-hunters point, specifically at the ymca. the program introduces young man that are between the ages of 14 and 19 into the fantastic career and profession of -- professional training opportunities in the

hospitality, management and culinary arts industry. under her guidance, the primed and prepped program has expanded to the mission and chinatown ymca, so if you haven't checked it out, you definitely want to check out this program. mrs. armstrong's unwaivering ded indication to the community is reflected through her work on many nonprofits. i'll just list a couple of them. the bayview opera house, girls 2000, the 21st century academy, and the city college of san francisco southeast, just to name a few, the southeast campus. mrs. armstrong has supported the success of three initiatives has had a significant impact on the bayview-hunters point community, like network for teaching entrepreneurship, and the san francisco renaissance