it's the business or tenant. has there been funding or that type of thing identified to help no. 1, the owners of buildings do this work in a way that doesn't negatively affect their bottom line or the tenants bottom line living or working in these buildings and have we engaged groups that we already have on board at dbi, a tenant organization to help with logistical issues around displacement. i know it's not our job and sorry to bring it to you but it is our concern. >> thank you. i have known robert for a long time. he's a very knowledgeable engineer and very much able to solve problems. we are very happy with him. as far as tenant issue goes, i would like to direct you to our website which is www.capss.org/soft story. we created a website that deal with all the circumstances issues around the ordinance with financing, landlord concerns, tenants rights. that is a great resource to the whole community. putting something on the internet doesn't necessarily take care of outreach. we've been talking about doing a

because the tenants have come and i have seen the other tenants object to the facility and sometimes they bring the landlord and sometimes they are here on their own. >> actually the commissioner, the requirement is different. for a regular operation, the businesses are notified within 30 feet. and when this late night operation, and the evening operation, and then the residents and the property owners are notified and there in lies the difference. >> and this one it felt, where is the, or the hours, do the hours fall within the evening hours too? >> yes. >> in this specific case it does not, the merchant starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m. >> would that then not require the property owner to be notified? >> that would be correct. >> thank you. >> i don't have any further questions. thank you. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? >> okay? seeing none, then commissioners the matter is submitted. >> i have a question for miss murphy. >> you accept that last answer as to the reason why west field did not get noticed? >> well, with respect to which notices, this verse

i have represented tenants. at some point, i represented both because they have a common interest even in that. obviously, they both have to make the space accessible either now or later, so it is best that they work together if they can. and work together to save us -- to hire a single lawyer. they can make repairs or what ever is in their agreement. sometimes, when the tenant is the small business and does not have much cash flow, one way to do is to renegotiate the lease, where the cost is amortized over a longer period time. it is another way to spread the payments back to the less financially available person. would you do if you get one of these notices? if you have not had your property inspected already, or if you do not do it following this program -- which i recommend you do -- you should have an inspection by an architect who is familiar with ada issues. we call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. there are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the ca

so, again, i sympathize with my tenants. i have always tried to work with them to the best of my ability. i don't want to seem to them that i mislead them or somehow lied to them. i am open to that idea. that's not a problem. i can go ahead and say that in front of you in whole honesty. to me, if i was misunderstood, at this point to give them a whole year would be difficult for me. but i am open to some flexibility where they don't exactly have to get out in 60 days, sir. >> i'm totally in agreement. i think you have been an outstanding landlord. i think that most people who have gotten their permits and had the legal right to proceed would have. is there a number that months or days that you would be willing to commit with and you might want to speak with your council? >> i would say can you pause for about 90 seconds? >> while you all confer. go ahead. i don't have any questions of you. i want to offer my comments. this is a jurisdiction request, the written submissions as well as the testimony today, i found compelling i

do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenantsd do? >> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of the building, whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and bandages and know how to use a toilet when there's no sewage and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank you so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for joining us (applause) >> well, thank you and welcome to california. it's a great place to come and talk about solar energy because we are in the forefront of certainly the rest of the states, pro

when we approved the legislation i commit today following up with trailing legislation to help tenants who had financial hardships better access exemptions granted by the rent board. according to the rent board the current exemption process takes about five months, three months for a hearing to be scheduled and two months for a decision to be made. our legislation would streamline this process by directing the rent board to make an administrative decision in lieu of a hearing based on specific eligibility criteria. if a tenant can demonstrate he or she receives means tested public assistance like ssi or has a household earning of less than 80% of the area median income and pays more than one-third of their income to rent, or if a tenant faces exceptional financial circumstances due to circumstances such as significant medical bills, the rent board could approve a hardship exemption administratively. this legislation also requires that the rent board provide notification to tenants of the hardship exemption procedures and the physical application. the goal of the legislation is to ensur

the tenants as well. i think i can be flexible, but i felt that it would be very difficult for me to give them a whole year at this point which is what they originally requested. i'm not saying that, hey, in 60 days, again, that's why i retained council. i'm not familiar with this process that you need to get out in 60 days. so, again, i sympathize with my tenants. i have always tried to work with them to the best of my ability. i don't want to seem to them that i mislead them or somehow lied to them. i am open to that idea. that's not a problem. i can go ahead and say that in front of you in whole honesty. to me, if i was misunderstood, at this point to give them a whole year would be difficult for me. but i am open to some flexibility where they don't exactly have to get out in 60 days, sir. >> i'm totally in agreement. i think you have been an outstanding landlord. i think that most people who have gotten their permits and had the legal right to proceed would have. is there a number that months or days

the circumstances out of which it enters "cotton tenants" as bourn. and under the study reading of which he stands up into his distorted shape. and beneath the reach of which he declines in to death. the fact that his circumstances are merely a local specialization of the huge and ancient and all but racial circumstances of poverty. the lives are continuously and entirely consumed into the effort, nearly and barely able to sustain itself. so probably deprived and the harm they have atrophied in the courses of that effort. though it can be called life at all the biological courtesy. this fact should not confuse and indeed can only sharpen our defendant. we would be dishonest for instance to cure ourselves with a thought that is in the reading the status of "cotton tenants" alone in committing the central problem, whatever would be solved. and we would be fools to comfort ourselves with the reflection that the south is a backward country. our story, however, is limited. we would tell you only of the three living families, chosen with all possible care a

was there any research at all of the black tenant farmer?> agee was sent to explicitly by "fortune" to find a representative family of whites. a hand in "now let us praise famous men" with the first couple of chapters the first two are about encounters with sharecropper's are brought into saying the end there is another to paragraph the church a and they asked if they could be left in the church did when agee approaches them from behind, but they run. so now he is very aware of the 6 million black sharecroppers in the south did he is not supposed to notice. that is in there but of course, with "cotton tenants" there is the appendix of the black sharecropper. >> the other one is called the current land owners. -- the un-land owners to read that was not the intent of the assignment has been mickey says they think about the destitute sharecroppers of white sharecroppers take away the mule, the cow, the pig, and the shoes, then we will start to talk about the black sharecropper. >> they had so much less. another question? >> you said agee specif

for this request, the tenants would expect the landlord to undertake to protect the request and theestment in the neighborhood, the food program intended to revitalize the neighborhoods, however the area in front of the center is already extremely busy and vital not because of the hundreds of millions of dollars that they invested to build the center but because of the tenants that pay rent there and invest as a result. >> we submit that the situation meets your standards for accepting review and we hope that you will do so. thank you for your time and attention to this matter. >> miss murphy, i have a question, when did west field become aware of operations? >> i believe, i have not yet... from west field nicole is with me here today and i believe that it was after you noticed that they were there operating before or in front of the entrance to the west field center, do you want to speak to that issue. >> nicole with west field. we noticed when they first opened for business. >> when was that? >> i am looking for a date. >> that is the most exact date that you can give me? >> 2012

>> were they not any of your tenants? >> right. they were not any of our tenants. >> counselor i have two questions. first on i think that you alluded to in your brief that you disagreed that this was not within the subject matter jurisdiction? but you did not expand upon that. >> would you like me to right now? >> if you would do it shortly. >> i will do my best. >> yeah, this board and i respectfully, i mean obviously you understand your jurisdiction better than anybody, but i believe that this board has always had the opportunity to have the denova review of the permits that are issued on many capacities from many different agencies. and you really are the board of last resort, when the other boards and there is a mechanism for originally showing this to dpw and their response to us actually did not... it seemed odd to me that it is typically the case that the board of appeals can hear all permits, except for the conditional use authorizations. but i think that it is within the purview of the board to hear the appeals of grantin

i have represented tenants. at some point, i represented both because they have a common interest even in that. obviously, they both have to make the space accessible either now or later, so it is best that they work together if they can. and work together to save us -- to hire a single lawyer. they can make repairs or what ever is in their agreement. sometimes, when the tenant is the small business and does not have much cash flow, one way to do is to renegotiate the lease, where the cost is amortized over a longer period time. it is another way to spread the payments back to the less financially available person.

and lease in place we did not select a tenant it was burk's drive-in and they lasted four years and went bankrupt, they were a small, locally owned company. >> the next tenant bought the business out of the bankruptcy and we also did not select that tenant. >> i am sorry sure, are you the owner of the building? >> one of. >> that will make you part of the project team, sir. >> no. >> thanks. thanks for pointing it out and go ahead and continue. >> the next tenant john frank was involved and a spin off of a company called aden sandal which was also a locally owned business and they were doing well and paying their rent in 1985, we extended their lease. they went bankrupt. and after that, the business was purchased from the bankruptcy, also we did not select this person, but a peter herimus bought the lease and the business he was a successful and he owned greek and he had a karls junior and highly regarded individual in the restaurant field. he personally told me that for five years in a row, he lost $100,000 a year, locally owned small business. he asked that we would sublease it to

the board agreed to the suspension of the guarantees of the tenants in july 2011. originally the airport intended for a less dramatic redevelopment project of the terminal but as we got into the project we realized it was going to be more extensive than we thought so we have a opening date of january 2014. the proposed amendments would extend the previous suspensions by 20 months and we are asking for retroactively to may of 2012. it would allow us to reimburse the tenants for constructions costs they have incurred during the closure. the budget analyst reported in consultation with the airport staff these payments and suspension of mags result in 1.5 million dollars of lost rent. however, airport revenue development staff projected before and believe once the terminal is open in 2014 the increased sales should help us recoup some of the costs. the budget analyst recommends approval and i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. colleagues any questions or comments? thank you very much. mr. rose your report for this item please. >> yes mr. chairman members o

i concerned for my tenants. i hope these people comply because the other company took a long time to comply. so i hope they are true to what they are telling us today. i thank you. >> thank you. all right. thanks to those who are hearing us today. my name is dean den lee. i'm the son of miss donely. i live in my great grand father's house which is not directly behind this building but off one building. the comments that my mom made about the smoke and the noise are relevant to me because i live in the house and i heard them all the time. the previous company was there. it was a lot of lip service saying they were going to build a sound wall and reroute the exhaust for the generator and nothing ever happened. when they finally moved out. it was a great relief to all the neighbors around this building because it finally got quiet. even though we are between portrero avenue, it's very quiet behind my house. the other thing i wanted to bring up is to keep this new company coming in, in check. like i said before, the