could better fulfill our mission, be more effective and more efficient by focusing on the level of information that would be necessary for us to carry out, you know, our responsibilities. so if you have any ideas, please e-mail -- >> excuse me, commissioner? >> i would just say it sounds like this is going in the right direction, and i'm interested in getting more information on what your thoughts are and what these templates are. i think it would be great for any new member to have that in addition to the training that's already provided, which is good. i think focusing on what the core issue are and our motivation should be here is important rather than getting off on tangents, so i think that would definitely be very

helpful. >> yeah. i just support everything that's been said. i think the increased reliance on bonds for funding city infrastructure is going to grow and not shrink, and to the extent that we can stream line or capture the relative information that we need to weigh the handling of the bond expenditures is a great idea, so thank -- i support it. if there's something i can do, let me know. >> good. let's go to the next item, which is expenditures audits. i think that this committee decided it's part of our work plan to conduct three expenditures audits in this fiscal year. so perhaps we can be updated on that plan. >> good morning, committee

members. mark dela rosa from the controller's office. as of today, we have completed six out of the ten active g.o. bond programs. the last one that we completed was actually the 2014 eser bond program, which we issued on september 27, 2018. according to the results from cumming that we have completed so far, all of the bond funds that were actually audited were in accordance with the border mandates, so none has been with anything that was not appropriately expended. we do have one currently ongoing audit. that is the 2014 transportation bond. we will be issuing that in january . after that one, we have three

additional ones that are in the pipeline that will be either started or will be completed within the next -- either this fiscal year or the beginning of next fiscal year. >> well, thanks for that update. so we've delegated this task to the controller's office, obviously. so you feel confident that in our work plan of these -- of these three expenditures audits -- external audits, that you feel comfortable that we'll be able to complete this by the end of the current fiscal year or at least the first quarter of the next fiscal year. >> exactly. so we have -- so the seventh one will be completed in january of this current year. the next one after that will be the 2015 affordable housing bond, which we'll start in q3, and be finished by q4.

we'll start the affordable safety and public housing either q1 or q4 of this next fiscal year. >> any questions on the expenditure audits? thank you, mr. delarosa. i think that concluded all of our administrative comments. we're now open for public comment. >> i have some handouts for the commission members. [inaudible] >> i did not see any discussion on the prebond expenditure cost problem on the annual report.

it would be useful to see what progress cgoboc has made in the current year. point number two is no longer valid. point number three is the public deserves to under how the san francisco whistle blower program benchmarks against 20 international best practices of the government accountability project. i've handed out two copies of that. cgoboc should require the c.s.a. to benchmark the current program against international best practices each year. the c.s.a.'s whistle blower program sends some complaints back to the department where the complaint occurred. the c.s.a. calls this cosourcing. it is unrealistic to believe the offending department can objectively investigate themselves. this is a bad practice and should be disclosed in cgoboc's annual report. number five is just there's a statement in the report which i

believe you folks should review because it's probably not the message you want to send. number six is benchmarking cgoboc is a good idea, benchmark is against other san francisco bond oversight committees is not because of the limited sight and diversity of the peer group. number seven is a word issue. the report says performance audits, which is incorrect. and then lastly, there are three items in the report i'd like to commend cgoboc on. one is what i mentioned earlier, mr. bush's comment. also, mr. carlson's regarding the 9 million budget problem and

how it was resolved. and lastly, the commission made a motion and voted on it without public comment, so while the agenda item might be discussion, that's inappropriate. thank you. >> any further public comment? let's go to the next item. under other matters, maury, i think let's clarify the next meeting schedule for goboc. i believe it's january , but i believe that date is on martin luther king day, so it needs to be rescheduled. >>clerk: right. and so that date was changed to monday, and i'll send a follow up to everyone immediately following this meeting. >> thank you.

seeing no other comments, meeting's adjourned. >> i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago.

my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the apartment for the program come along. you wouldn't have believed it. so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn't have been brought back. we wouldn't have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i

welcome it. they had to hire a company and they came in and cleaned up all the walls. they didn't paint the whole apartment, they just cleaned up the mildew part, cleaned up and straighted it and primed it. that is impressive. i was a house painter. i used to go and paint other people's apartments and then come back home to mine and i would say why couldn't i live in a place like that. and now i do. >> my name tom hewitt. first of all, i would like to welcome everyone to come to this fair. this safety fair, we trying to

educate the public regarding how to prepare themselves during and after the earthquake and then to protect themselves for next 72 hours. >> hi. my name's ed sweeney. i'm the director of services at department of building inspection, and we put together a great fair for the city of san francisco to come down and meet all the experts. we've got engineers, architects. we have builders, we have government agencies. >> well, we have four specific workshops. we have the accessible business entrance. >> my name is leah, and i am the assistant manager with the department of small business. i am leading the new

accessibility ordinance that helps existing owners better comply with existing access laws. so all buildings that have places of public accommodation in san francisco, they must comply with this ordinance. >> the a.d.e. was setup by the board of supervisors, and the ordinance was passed about a year ago. >> one of the biggest updates that we have is that the deadlines were extended, so all of the deadlines were extended by six months. >> and it's really to help the public, the business community to be specific, to cut down on the amount of drive by lawsuits. >> so on this workshop, we're going to be covering what the compliance looks like, what business examiand property owne need to know how to comply with the ordinance. we'll also talk about the departments that are involved, including the office of small

business, department of building inspection, planning department, as well as the mayor's office on disability. >> hi. i'm marselle, and i manage a team at the building department. today, we'll cover the meaning of a.d.u.s, more commonly known as accessory dwelling units. we'll talk about the code and permitting processes, and we'll also talk about legalizing existing dwelling units that are currently unwarranted. >> this is the department of building inspection's residential remodelling workshop. my name is senior electrical inspector cheryl rose, and at this workshop, we're going to be answering questions such as do i need an electrical permit when

i'm upgrading my dwelling, when do i need to have planning involved in a residential remodel, and what's involved with the coerce process? we're going to also be reviewing inspection process, and the permitting process for residential remodel in san francisco. there's always questions that need answers. it's a mystery to the general public what goes on in construction, and the more we can clarify the process, the more involved the consumer can be and feel comfortable with the contractors they're working with and the product they're getting in the results. if you have questions that aren't addressed in this workshop, you're always welcome to come up to the third floor of 1660 mission street, and we're happy to discuss it with you and find out what you need to do. >> the program is very successful. the last piece is already 60% in

compliance. >> well, we have a very important day coming up. it's sept 15. last four has to be compliance, which means that the level four people that have to register with us and give us a basic indication of how they're going to deal with their seismic issues on their building. >> i'm francis zamora, and i'm with the san francisco department of emergency management, and today we talked about how to prepare for emergencies in san francisco. and so that's really importantiimportant. in san francisco, it's no secret. we live in earthquake country. there's a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we don't have to be afraid. these are going to be your first responders outside of the police officers, paramedics, first responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. by getting to know your

neighbors, you're going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. one of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, san francisco neighborhood emergency response team. it teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. san francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf. if there's some kind of an emergency happening in san francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. all you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and your mobile phone is automatically registered for alert sf. >> my name is fernando juarez, and i'm a fire captain with the

san francisco fire department. we have a hire extinguisher training system. you want to pull the pin, stand at least 8 feet away, aim it at the base. if you're too close, the conical laser that comes out, it's too small, and the fire won't go out on the screen. if you step back, the conical shape on the screen is bigger, and it will take the fire go out faster. so it can tell when you're too close. >> my name is alicia wu, and i'm the director of a san francisco based nonprofit. since 2015, we go out to the

public, to the community and provide training in different topics. today we're doing c.p.r., controlling external feeding and how to do perfect communications in each topic, and also, i hope that they can bring it home and start gathering all the supplies for themselves to. >> on any given day in san francisco, we're very well resourced in terms of public safety professionals, but we all know in the event of a large scale disaster, it will be hours and days before the public safety professionals can get to you, so we encourage people to have that plan in place, be proactive. there's websites. we have a wonderful website called 72hours.org. it tells you how to prepare yourself, your family, your pets, your home, your workplace. we can't emphasize enough how

important it is to be - >> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many

people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through

the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it

so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community

what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons

not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how

they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have more

>> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here

i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient

lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it

>> hello, this is the building inspection commission meeting. we are reconvening. i wanted to make a brief announcement that those commissioners that are not in compliance with san francisco campaign and governmental conduct code section 3.1-1031 a.

one and b. one will not participate in the voting of items today. our next item on the agenda is item three, general public comment. the b.i.c. will take public comments within the commission charge a jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. >> seeing none. >> no general public comment. next item is item four a. commissioner questions and matters. for inquiries to staff, you may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices and procedures which are of interest to the commission. >> i see no commissioners. >> seeing none. >> you can contact me later in the month if there are items you would like to bring for next month's meeting. our next item is four b.

future meetings and agendas. the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting and determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting, and other future meetings of the build and endorse building inspection commission. our next meeting date is december 19th, 2018. >> seeing none. >> okay. is there any public comment on items four a and b.? seeing none, item five for discussion and possible action regarding ab 082. administrative bulletin presenting guidelines and procedures for instructional just instructional, and seismic engineering design review of buildings and other structures. >> good morning, commissioners. and the deputy director of permit services. i want to wish you a happy holidays and a safe holiday coming up. for our bulletin, 082, it was at the last hearing and it had a trapped marker does watermark on

it is why it wasn't approved. i want to thank our engineers and our staffing group who worked over a year on this to put it together. there are guidelines and procedures for constructional -- constructional and geotechnics reviews. the purpose of the administration bulletin is to present guidelines and procedures for structural, geotechnical and seismic hazard engineering design review of buildings and other structures. i will also add it was up for tall buildings over 240 feet. they will be required for repair review. i will give it to our geotechnical engineer, -- and also for large projects where the foundation does not go -- go down to the bedrock. >> no point of clarification -- >> this needs a vote right now. >> okay.

got it. i guess public comment. >> yeah,. is a public comment on this item claw seeing none, i will do a roll call vote on the item. [roll call] >> the motion carried unanimously. thank you. >> next item. >> our next item is item six. discussion of possible action regarding a proposed ordinance, file 180-0166, amending the building code to enact an expedited and streamlined permit process for electrical vehicle charging stations. >> good morning, commissioners. i am a legislator in public affairs. this is an item we have talked about over the last few months. supervisor tang introduced this sometime ago. essentially, we are conforming with recently passed state law

that requires all jurisdictions in california to expedite electric vehicle charging stations. san francisco has been doing that as a matter of policy and practice for a very long time. this ordinance enables us to codify already existing practices. there was a slight strengthening of the event -- amendment courtesy of the department of environment. we have barry huber uber here who can speak to that, or if you have any questions. we have our chief electrical inspector here to answer any detailed questions. but i would urge you to go ahead and support this. it is a very good thing to ramp up. thank you. >> is barry going to update us on the amendment?

>> i hadn't planned to. the amendment that his proposed was suggested by the code advisory committee. it was asking for the ordinance to include a 12 month timeline for completion of the administrative bulletin that is called for in the ordinance. no substantive change. >> no change to that? so it is just a timeline -- what was the original? >> there wasn't a timeline. there was a suggestion to add one. >> twelve months. that is all the amendment is. okay. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? is there a motion to approve? >> moved to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. we will do a roll call vote. [roll call]

>> the motion carried unanimously. the next item is item seven. update on s.f. permits and project wrecking systems. >> good morning, commissioners. i am a project manager with the department of technology. i want to give you an update on the permit project. i wanted to start off to let you know that due to some personal circumstances, shawn beal and has had to leave the project team. he is transferring his responsibilities to me. for those commissioners that do not know me, my previous capacity on the project, i have been involved with the project since 2014. i have been involved daily on the project since it relaunched in may of 2017. in terms of this change of project leadership, there is not going to be an eruption to the

timeline and the activities. i'm sure you have questions about sean. i'm happy to take those off-line it would not be appropriate to discuss it in a public form. all right. now to the status reports. says the update of last month, we have completed a user acceptance testing in round three. as you can see from the statistics shown here in the top left box of the status read out, the suspects -- of the success right back of the testing was not at all at the quality mark that we expected or need. [please stand by]

>> now, the system is completely developed at this point, so we're not at a point where things are still in development. we're in a mode of testing, fixing the defects, and testing, so i wanted to make sure that was clear to the commission where we are in the state of development. and so as -- as linda, the city c.i.o. presented a few months

ago, we are still wanting and [inaudible] >> that does conclude my comments, and i'd be happy to answer some questions. >> commissioner walker, you had

some questions? >> thank you for stepping in. you addressed my concern, because that is my concern, you can't be two people. you are wonderful, but you can't be two peoples, so i just wanted to make sure we have staffed up whatever you and sean were doing covered adequately. i wonder if we could drill down a little bit on what the failures are and the high rate? what was that about? can you sync it into a sentence or two? >> yes. well, the use cases, if you were to uncover some of the cases in the d.b.i. division, if it was central plan review, their main charter review is getting applications in, getting them through reviews and getting permit cases, so their use cases are all centered around their processes. in terms of the failures, these

use cases are a series of steps basically going through a process from start to finish that's within their job role, and so as they were going through each of those steps, there's steps that are not working. to characterize those in a blanket statement is difficult because they vary, but it's -- it really cancered around discreet function points, you know, not meeting the requirements, and there are issues that are involved with -- with work flow is one of our items. we're moving from a platform, the p.t.s. legacy platform that really does not have -- there's a concept of, of course, tracking the status as they go through permit reviews, but it's not exactly a work flow structure. but we're migrating that status into accela, so it has to mold

itself and morph itself into the more sophisticated work flow status of accella. we have -- although fees with working very well, there are -- now we're testing now -- there's a lot of -- as you guys know from our fee structures, that i know you guys review regularly, there's a lot of complexity in that, so we're teasing out the fine points on fees. >> but that one's working better than it was. >> yeah. fees are being generating. there's just some subtlies that are getting teased out. it's really teasing out those types of things as well as getting through the use cases cleanly. >> being ookay. i got it. makes sense to me.

so refeeliare you feeling confi about the process as we are in it, even with the high level of one and two severity cases beyond what we wanted? >> yeah. i think the actions that we're taking now and planning around now to make sure the next round of u.a.t. to go more smoothly will address the causes of where we are now. and i did want to address your question of i can't be two people. already i do have from the d.t. staff, linda is already giving me a person that will work with me. they are also working to recruit another senior project manager to join, but in the meantime, i do have another resource from d.t. available to me that's going to be stepping in and helping me out. >> okay. >> on the -- kind of the back office-bookkeeping aspect of the project which will be very, very

helpful. >> beiokay. great. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>clerk: is there any public comment on this item? >> jerry dradler. i recognize the complexity of the task that's being undertaken, but i think there's some questions that could be -- or should be asked that could be helpful in pinpointing where we are. my first question is in what area are the bulk of the system failures? my second question is what are the resources that are most c straining using -- constraining moving forward? and my last question is are the business processes changing at this time and causing problems or have the business processes been frozen or locked down? thank you. >> thank you, jerry.

no further public comment? >>clerk: any further public comment? >> no? okay. >>clerk: no. >> obviously, i -- there's three questions that were called out for public comment there. could you address any of those questions. >> oh, i could respond, yeah. the first one, i'm open to coming back or providing a report in the interim that better describes the nature of the failures that we're seeing because as i said prior when commissioner walker had asked, it's hard to just have a blanket statement that covers all bases, and i'd rather provide enough detail that you have an accurate accounting. >> perfect. >> on the other two questions, in terms of resource c constraints -- so -- the d.b.i. staff is fully participating. we have an excellent business

sponsor in ron tom. so if the project needs anything from the business, we generally just go and ask the business ourselves, but if there are any challenges that we need help with, ron tom is our go-to person in that area, and he helps on u helps out, and he's available to us every single day as our business s business sponsor. in addition, accela, they have added their staff when we need it, and p.r.o. which would be a combination of department technology and d.b.i. -- additional d.b.i. staff, apart from this morning's announcement with the departure of sean, we are fully staffed there, as well. so we're not hampered by any resource constraints at this

point. and then, the last question in terms of process and requirements, yes, requirements are frozen. they've been frozen. we wrapped up the design discussions, which was the last opportunity to introduce anything that hadn't been discussed through all the rounds of requirements that happened all the way through the ten months of 2016. those were frozen at the end of january , beginning of february of this year, and that's when our build phase started, which means we've told the developers, these are requirements, please go build it. so that is locked down, and we do have a formal change -- what we call change control process with the product in place because it's just human nature as you're going through discussions with users and they're testing, they'll say, well, what about this? this isn't quite working. so we as a project team is looking at each one of those as

they come up, and saying is this a requirement and it needs to be met or is this something we haven't discussed prior? and if there is not a pressing business need to have to introduce it, then, we put it into our parking lot for ideas, which is actually called or idea factually, which we've got a long list of all the great ideas that have popped up during the pronl that we can't take on as new scope, but we don't want to lose those ideas from the staff. so that is in place and has been in place all year. we do react to legislative changes. we've had a few of those in the timelines of a project where we have to deal with that. if we do have a gray area, where something has been discussed by

staff, is it strictly a requirement that needs to be built or is it something new, then, we go back to our executive committee and ron tom and discuss those and make a determination. >> great. >> see no -- >>clerk: our next item is item 8, 8a, update on d.b.i.'s finances. >> good morning, commissioners. taris madison, deputy department of building inspection. before you is the october 2018 report, and it gives you revenues and expenditures from

july through october 2018. i'll just give you the highligh highlights. it's almost equal there. on the ex-pension side, we did see an increase of almost $1 million, and that's due to early billing of some other departments. basically, that's the other funding we give for services -- departments that provide services to us, and last year, we had a lag in building improvements, but this year, we've got those going. because we're so early in the fiscal year, our projections are just as budget. the data is very preliminary. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, deputy. >> thank you. >>clerk: next item is 8b, update on proposed or recently enacted state legislation.

>> good morning again, commissioners. bill strom, legislative and public affairs. there is a similar solar -- expediting of solar energy permits that again, d.b.i., from a matter of practice and policy has long expedited. there is another state law that we are passing another local ordinance to conform with. supervisor peskin did introduce that ordinance about a year ago. somehow it fell between the cracks, and we're getting it revived. i hope to bring it back to you for your review next month before the end of this year. and again, as i say, that's really just a codification of already existing practices. i will say with respect to supervisor safai's proposed

ordinance to have d.b.i. do additional code enforcement regarding paved over front laws, there will be an enforcement hearing on next friday, the 26. we expect to move that forward with no debate or questions about it. i guess i would also mention that the recently enacted supervisor ronen fire safety additional ordinance did pass. that actually takes legal effect on december 10. but that's the one that both the fire marshall and d.b.i. will have additional property if an owner has a property with still two open fire safety related notices of violation that haven't yet been corrected. somebody in that situation -- and i'm told we don't have very many of those, then either the fire marshal or the building

authority, building official could ramp up the requirements and say you must do sprinklers or you must upgrade your fire alarm system. but with that, i think everything else is covered in my report unless you have any questions. >> commissioner warsaw? >> near and dear to my heart is supervisor peskin's ordinance on demolitions, and i saw the update that it's being discussed with city attorney and d.b.i. and all parties but there is as of yet nothing. if you can continue your diligence to try to get some dates as to when we anticipate this really coming up, it is one of the most important pieces that we need to stage our next joint commission meeting with the pnn