>> clerk: [roll call] we have a quorum. president alexander-tut would you like to go ahead with the land acknowledgement? >> president alexander-tut: yes i'm sorry, i just closed my browser and i was trying to pull up something. i had everything open and then it kind of -- just press the

wrong little button. >> clerk: no problem. while we're working on that i read for the members of the public who are calling in, the public comment kewell-in number is 1-(415)-655-0001. and access code 2481-608-6837 and to raise your hand for public comment on a specific agenda item press star, 3, when prompted by the meeting moderator. >> so this is the ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement. we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants

of the san francisco peninsula. as indigenous stewards of this land and the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of the place as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community be, and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> clerk: okay. so our next item is going to be item b, approval of minutes and discussion and possible action to adopt the minutes from meetings held on october 20, 2021. and november 17th, 2021.

is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> motion to approve. >> clerk: there is a motion and a second. any public comment on the minutes? i'm seeing none. are all commissioners in favor? >> aye. >> clerk: any opposed? so the minutes are approved. thank you. and our next item is item c, revision of the abatement appeals board procedural rules. discussion item. the board will discuss the current procedural rules governing baitment appeals and possible revisions and updates to those rules. >> president alexander-tut: thank you. so can somebody remind me if -- were these posted with the proper notifications that we can adopt them today? are we kind of -- what are our action items before us --

possible today? >> clerk: today it wouldn't be to -- we have to do 10 days notification for next time. so it would be good if the commissioners have any input or to do that today and the next meeting they'll be ready to be -- to approve -- to be approved. that is correct, deputy city attorney? >> yes, it is. so alexander-tut, i can do a quick overview with the vice president tam if you like. >> president alexander-tut: that sounds great. >> so over the past few months i have been working with vice president tam to basically memorialize the processes and procedures that the board has been operating under for approximately the last 25 years the board has an informal rules and procedures. so this is a first step to

refine those practices that may have been ambiguous and get a procedure down. so what you see before you, there's nothing that should be -- should be new to the board. it is basically, again, memorializes the procedures. however, i did want to highlight two significant changes to them and it's under section 3d and 3 erch. so these changes are that when an appellant files an appeal, the appellant pulls out the notice of appeal form and there's two short lines where the appellant is able to describe the basis of the appeal. this doesn't provide a lot of information for the board or dbi in terms of understanding what the basis for appeal is. so the rules now allow the appellant three weeks before the hearing to submit a written statement explaining the basis for the appeal. and so -- that's one -- one new

addition to the rules with the hope that this will provide the board more information and also allow the appellant to articulate the reason for the appeal. and the other -- the other change that's in there is that currently dbi submits it and there's a report but there's never been a firm deadline for that. so the rules now sets the deadline for dbi to submit the report one week before the hearing so that way the board can have sufficient time to review. a copy of the staff report will also be given to the appellant, so the appellant can see dbis. the basis for a dbi wanting to sustain or uphold the order of abatement. so those are the two significant changes. otherwise, everything else that is in there is the standard operating procedure. and vice president tam, did you want to -- did you want to turn it over to you and in case you

wanted to add anything to that? >> vice-president tam: thank you so much, and thank you, madam chair. and i really want to thank you city attorney porianda for everything that you have done here, and it's phenomenal. giving the opportunity for the appellant to actually explain their case now and providing us with additional information, i think that it is key here in efficiency, and sometimes, you know, with maybe a second -- or with the statement that they provide, sometimes they may not even have to come to us and, you know, and allows the staff to better understand the situation that they're dealing with. i think that having this opportunity and these changes will hopefully help the department run more efficiently and also help us, you know, more efficiently. and also i think that the -- the wonderful thing here too is that as we evolve -- or as these guidelines if they get adopted, as it evolves, we have the opportunity to kind of amend these things to kind of tailor

them as we move along in the future. because there's going to be things that are going to come up and having that -- that, you know, that option and the possibility there to amend these as they go and tailor them so that the efficiency is more streamlined and, you know, the process gets better is a huge plus here as well. so that's pretty much, you know, -- i'm all for these new guidelines. thank you. >> president alexander-tut: thank you. before we go to questions, deputy city attorney porianda, did you want to add anything else? >> no, that's it. at this point, i'm sorry, just circling back to your original question -- so at this point it's really just an opportunity for the board to propose any further amendments to it, to get public comment on it. if there's no further amendments, then they'll be posted in january before the january meeting for formal adoption at that time.

>> president alexander-tut: great. i'll go through and i'll save myself through to the end and i'll go through -- and, sonya, can you help me, because it's in alphabetical order and we have new folks and so could you call through the commissioners and i'll circle over to either give comment or ask questions. >> clerk: okay, sure. i'll just call the names listed on my roll call. >> president alexander-tut: thank you. >> clerk: [roll call] >> vice-president tam: i think that i gave my two cents earlier. but the other thing they wanted to point out too is that having -- you know, i think that it was second 32b, the department response -- us getting that kind of earlier on also significantly helps us to do our job more efficiently as well. so that's -- you know, that's another big plus there too. thank you. >> clerk: thank you.

commissioner -- [broken audio] >> can you hear me, madam secretary? no, i have read through it and i don't have any further comments thank you to the deputy district attorney and vice president tam for their efforts. >> clerk: commissioner epler. >> and i have a few questions and i apologize, because this is the first time that i have read through the document. starting at article 2, part a, time and place, it sets the meeting time at 9:00 a.m. i note that this morning we began at 9:30. should we have a procedure or a sentence here that says unless noticed, you know, for the start time, to give us the ability to have flexibility like we exercised today? >> sure, i could definitely have

a provision like that. >> thank you. in part c of the same article, i know that there's a line saying that communications, regarding any communications should go to the secretary. certainly there will be from time to time when an appellant accidentally or purposefully violates that rule. should there be an affirmative responsibility for a commissioner to forward to the secretary any communications that they receive from an appellant so they can be shared with the rest of the group? >> i can add a provision to that effect but i believe that -- sonya, maybe you could clarify that. i'm not sure -- have access to the commissioners' email addresses, because for some reason -- >> typically for procedures, appellants that don't have

commissioners' email addresses and they would either reach out to myself or like a code enforcement or housing staff inspection person. but if they do for some reason happen to reach out to you directly, if you could give that correspondence to me and then i'll check with the deputy city attorney or if something that all of the commissioners should receive, i would forward it to everyone. >> i think that because -- i mean, that makes sense and i think that it would be nice if the procedures say that we are obligated to do that, so if we have new members they will know, that, okay, we have to forward this on to the secretary. >> thank you. absolutely. >> thank you. >> certainly anything anytime that there's a filing or an appeal, the timing is very important. there's circumstances when we talk about if it's a city holiday we go to the next business day and there's a

couple times where we deny. does it make sense from the timing to do two things. one, to kind of make a blatant -- instead of referring to business days at certain times with it, to just make a blatant permission that says if anything is, you know, that if a -- that if a document is due on any day that is a weekend or a city holiday that it's due on the next business day? so that we are sure that it applies to each of the timing provisions within the code. we don't define business day, we kind of imply what it is. it might be nice if we formally say that a business day for these purposes is any day that is not a weekend or a city holiday. business days get spread all over the map and if we don't actually define it, you know, there's ambiguity in what is actually a business day. >> i can have language to clarify that. >> thank you.

and in terms of the written submittals and we go to some specificity on the size and double spaces. the five pages double space. but we don't recommend the font size. so, you know, there's like one thing that they can still play around with and if they want to get in more information. could we specify a font size as 12 points or something like that, to just give that some more toothsomeness? >> absolutely. >> okay. and looking at -- what is this -- article 3, section d3, we say that you can deliver copies to the office. is there a particular person at the office that it should be delivered to so that we have more specificity of what actually constitutes delivery to the office? i don't know if that is a receptionist or what the appropriate person is for that,

but to make it more clear exactly where a hand delivery of a document seems to go? >> well, that kind of changes that -- if it's a board code enforcement or housing. maybe we could say -- [indiscernible] maybe say the 4th floor reception or something like that. >> where you know precisely where it goes and it provides a little bit of comfort to the appellant to know that they have followed the procedure correctly. and, thankfully, i think that is it from my side. >> clerk: thanks. commissioner mccarthy.

>> commissioner mccarthy: , no i'm good, thank you for all of your work. >> clerk: commissioner moss. >> commissioner moss: no comment at this time, thank you very much. >> clerk: okay. thank you. and commissioner sommer. >> commissioner sommer: i had a couple of questions. all right. i am on page -- well, i guess that i'm in the information that was attached, the supplementary materials for this meeting. section -- sorry -- section 3 appeals. okay. part a talks about sort of why someone appealed and this was helpful to me as a member of this board. when someone is submitting an appeal, that would be granted upon a showing of substantial error by the department of building inspection. so that -- that to me is always the thing that we are looking

for, right? i was curious -- and in the temporary rules that we had looked at earlier this year, the actual form that the people filled out was attached at the back so that we could see it and i know that there was discussion of that potentially being revised or updated. the thing that i was curious about is if there's a possibility to make it more clear that that is the thing that someone needs to be showing us. or if there are other things that, you know, that we're seeking from someone, that -- [indiscernible] but i feel that the cases we have seen recently have been -- the descriptions and the arguments and the information presented to us have all been regarding sort of what has happened with the project, and not at all regarding the showing of the substantial error by the department of building -- i shouldn't say not at all -- but that's not necessarily been the focus and i'm not sure that needs to be the focus for them. and i hate to have people thinking that they're appealing one thing coming to us and we

say, well, here's the one thing, did you show that? no, i'm sorry, we can't grant that. so i just wanted to ask if there has been discussion about that form and sort of clarifying that requirement? >> i believe that the language in that provision is applicable to the abatement appeals board. and that section also appears on the top of the notice of appeals form. so any appellant should be on notice that is applicable standards. in terms of whether or not they base their argument for that standard -- you know, that's where the disconnect, i think that you are pointing out, has been. and so hopefully now that is expressly in the rules and it will heighten awareness that is what the board is going to be reviewing for. that's the standard that will apply.

and another step, and at the beginning of the hearing announcing that is the standard or when the notice goes out, that the hearing, there are other steps that we could take to, again, heighten awareness for the appellant. >> commissioner sommer: so the form that they fill out, is that revised or updated or is it already -- whatever -- in circulation? >> that will be the next step. we'll be looking at ways to provide it. unfortunately, the form is so old that it will take a complete overhaul of it. so the rules need to be formalized and then we'll kind of attack the form. >> commissioner sommer: got it, got it. sounds good. to me that's one of the things that would be helpful -- anywhere that we ask them to put reasoning or the information referring back to that, you know, indicating that is the

thing that we are seeking to understand, you know, to understand from the appeal. a couple other items. in section -- the same section appeals -- the following page part f. appellant's failure to appear. in this section, it says that the appellant does not appear, the order of abatement would be immediately effective. essentially, you know, if the appellant does not show up we show the case is closed. i know that we've done continuances and i know that the section above talks about continuances which may be granted for a good cause. i'm curious if there needs to be some link between those two items that is more clear? or maybe, you know, they're independently adequate, but i'm

just curious and i read that and it seems to me if they don't show up, you know, there's not much that we do or could do really, in the past we've had that option to do the continuance. do you have any thoughts on that? >> so that -- so that section is taken -- sorry -- we have some street cleaning going on so you may hear in the background. that reflection is taken directly from the code section. so that language is pursuant to ordinance in terms of what happens if an appellant fails to appear. i believe that the circumstance with the appellant failed to appear recently, the board gave some leeway, given that we're all virtual right now so we weren't sure if there were technical issues. but in the kind of pre-covid world, if an appellant didn't show up, that is where the code

section is kind of strict, if you don't show up, the board of abatement remains in effect. >> commissioner sommer: got it, got it, okay that, makes sense, thank you. yeah, i think that those were my main questions here. i was curious for one more question and i realize this is also section 3, perhaps the sections need to be renamed. section 3 is appeals and then a couple pages later section 3 requests the hearing. just remember that -- and the request for re-hearing, roman numeral iii, and the grants for re-hearing, i was wondering who -- what the process is for granting the re-hearing? so it talked about the abatement appeals board may grant a new hearing request. when we have done the re-hearing

it just sort of appeared. i don't know president alexander-tut if that is your purview? and i was just curious who approves those in that -- it says here the reason one may request a re-hearing is that they have presented additional information that was not known at the time of the original hearing that may have changed the outcome of the original hearing. and sort of -- you know, being clear that is the thing that grants a re-hearing. it's not just to re-hear something. so i was curious what the process is for approving a re-hearing and if that is -- that's not what we as the board do, right? we don't approve the re-hearing we only hear the re-hearing if it's been approved. who approves it? >> president alexander-tut: no, no, go ahead. >> that's another section that is also codified so that provision is taken from the code

section. the board has put in that language. but the way that it works is that much like filing the initial appeal where there's notices of appeal form, there's also a notice for re-hearing form which is actually -- sonya correct me if i'm wrong -- i think that it's on the back of the notice of appeal form. and it cites to that standard. and then the appellant fills out the basis for the appeal. >> commissioner sommer: got it. >> when that comes before the board, the appellant basically has to make that showing, you know, there was some evidence that came to light that would have changed the outcome. and then it's -- based on that threshold showing that there's a basis to re-hear it, then the board at that point votes to allow the re-hearing and then it goes forward and then the appellant can present whatever additional evidence that the appellant believes that would have changed the outcome.

>> commissioner sommer: okay, got you. thank you. awesome. that is it for my questions. i really appreciate your work on this and this is a really helpful document. >> president alexander-tut: okay, great. >> clerk: back to you president alexander-tut. >> president alexander-tut: so, thank you. i have a few kind of just things to ping. i thought that we had changed this but maybe we should just make sure that the election can reform to the regulations. which is like nomination notification in january and then the vote is in february. just so that we don't have, like, the same people doing things differently, you know, it could be kind of confusing. if we could conform those. one thing that i'm a little bit confused about -- and maybe it's just my reading of it -- when things get submitted to the department versus when they come before the board, and so, like, if somebody submits something, like, seven days before -- like, you know, the 21 days and the

seven days they submit their report -- i'm not expecting a same day turnaround, but, you know, when can we kind of -- like, when will we as the board actually get those things? if they're submitted 21 days before, will we see the appeal before the department does? or will that allow the department to -- kind of like what discretion does the department have? and also kind of i heard vice president tam say that there was a possibility that the department is seeing them make changes. so i'm a little -- (please stand by)

>> it's in the board's discretion whether you wanted the full packet, that being --

and that's the current procedure, you know, the information it's all before the hearing. but staff can put together the notice of appeal, the appellant's form can be put together. >> yeah, because just, like, a lay user -- i think that's helpful. thank you for that explanation, and we can -- so what i'm hearing from you is that we as a board can determine what our practice is for when we receive those so it doesn't have to be, like, in our roles and our deliberations? okay. great. and then, is it the right

procedure if somebody can contact us, or does it matter, the procedure, to either inform them of the correct procedure; that if you have a problem, you can contact sonia or you can just contact sonya. we're very encouraged never to forward anything to any other commissioners, so i just wanted to ask that question since it came up earlier. like, is there a procedural impact or some impact not forwarding it to sonia, or to forward it us and then to sonia? >> so the better practice,

because we're sitting as a quasi judicial body, is there's no contact. so if you do receive contact from an appellant, the better practice is to forward it to sonia or whoever is serving as the board secretary, and then, that person will get in contact with the appellant. it wouldn't be completely wrong if you replied and said, i'm forwarding this and this isn't the correct procedure, but forwarding it would be the correct way to handle it. >> and that would be to that comment. >> clerk: commissioner, if you can make a comment. >> yeah, no, please.

>> clerk: i know it's confusing because we work in tandem, but currently, joe duffy is the secretary to the a.a.b., but i'm the appointed -- i'm one of the main points of contact to provide information. so he's listed as official secretary, so it's going to go to either one of us. i just don't want people to be confused. >> well, it's funny you say that because sonia is the secretary, and she's not even under the director, so just that secretary language, does it matter? do we need to kind of codify that or is it okay for sonia to step in on that role as she's hired officially by the b.i.c., even though we're not sitting as the b.i.c. right now, do we

need any language from that? >> clerk: i think it says something about, like, a d.b.i. staff person or something because we all kind of change our hats a little bit, so it's fine to contact me because i'm the secretary at the building inspection commission, so should there be any long around staff? >> so mr. duffy serves as the secretary but can designate a person to sit in that role. there seems to be the division of labor there, but he has the authority to designate any staff person to serve as his representative who would be the point of contact for the board

there and for the public. >> okay. thank you. and my final question is -- we haven't been doing this lacely because when i came on, i was confused what it meant -- or i was practicing it, but i was confused about what it meant. uphold, not uphold, or to continue for good cause. i don't see anything about putting something in abeyance, so is my understanding correct is that our options on appeals is to uphold or to not uphold or to continue for good cause? >> correct. that's the section -- again, that's the authority you have for some specific -- the code. the board is able to end upholding the order in abeyance for a period of up to 60 days as part of that ruling, but that's not codified.

that's been a practice -- that's within the board's discretion to do that. >> okay. but we do have a 60-day limit on that. >> correct. >> okay. that's all of my questions. thank you so much. this was the kind of work -- it is so user friendly, so don't let my diving in questions take away from the appreciation i have for, like, how much work went into this and how i'm just really grateful for you all. >> i just -- i don't want to interject, i just wanted to make one additional comment, and the way that vice president tam and i were working on it, this is kind of like the constitution in that the board really hasn't had a formal document, so once we have it, the board can make amendments going forward, so don't feel, like, everything's not perfect right now, you're locked into it. it can be refined over time,

so -- >> that's great. and maybe we can have -- like, maybe that's our december meeting, like, check in, maybe does this thing need to be codified? like, maybe check in would be a good practice. >> president, i have one question for deputy attorney. we have the ability to write a space. that was one significant one, but i didn't catch the other. >> the two changes were for the appellant to submit a statement 21 days before the hearing date, and then, the second is it sets a deadline for d.b.i. to file a staff report one week before the hearing.

>> all right. thank you. >> madam chair? >> yes? >> just again, thank you, zach, for collaborating on this and working through the certain lines. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. is there any public comment on this item? >> operator: no, there's not. >> clerk: thank you. then, the next item is item d, general public comment. is there any general public comment for items that are not on the abatement appeals board agenda? >> operator: there are no hands raised. >> clerk: okay. then item e, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> clerk: is there a second? >> second. >> clerk: and all commissioners in favor? okay. we are now adjourned. it is 10:10 a.m. there'll be about a five-minute recess, and we're going to try

to quickly reconvene as the building infection commission. thank you. >> thank you. -- building inspection commission. thank you. >> thank you.

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the most hospitalable to youth -- hospitable to youth playing in the streets. >> one day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. so i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, i've got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i joined, and it was the best experience ever. >> a lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. it's a pretty lengthy process. >> here, i am the only one with my dad. we were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. my sister, she's in my country, so i realize that i have a lot

of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know? yeah. that's the -- one of the most important things that challenge me. >> my dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. i came here, finish elementary in san francisco. after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my team. they're just like a family.

it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay.

>> president walton: good afternoon. and welcome to the december 14, 2021 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madame clerk, would you please call the roll? >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: present. >> supervisor haney: present. >> supervisor mandelman: present. >> supervisor mar: present. >> supervisor melgar: present. >> supervisor peskin: present. >> supervisor preston: present. >> supervisor ronen: present.