the case is closed if violation doesn't exist or continue the case for violation. this is a sample of notice for violation. request for access. this is a sample of a door hanger we use when we can't gain entry. results based on investigation, if a violation is verified, a notice of violation is issued. if a violation is not verified, the case is closed. if documents are requested for enabling appropriate action. if access is not possible, a request for access is left at the property door, door hanger. a letter is also sent to the owner and a letter to gain access is scheduled. if a second attempt is unsuccessful, another request for access is left for the property. another letter is sent requesting access. requirements for compliance with those violation. time of filing, object obtaining work on a permit established, documents, monetary fee documents. >>supervisor scott weiner: i have a question, so i understand you have a very well delineated process, but we've had some situation and i can only speak for my district where there have been some pretty extreme, i'm s

we comply with violations. there were almost 8,000 complaints. we look at every complaint and we are able to move on these complaints. we have probably over 4,000 complaints. we take the notices of violation and we look at them and move them to code enforcement. some of these have to do with planning but they take a long time. some of them are complying and we have to wait for the work to be complete before we an abate the notice of violation. >>supervisor malia cohen: thank you, we are not calling you here to embarrass you or beat you up, we are just calling on information that is important to us and want to convey that the department is taking care of. thank you. >>supervisor scott weiner: thank you for your presentation. i'm now going to ask the zoning administrator, scott sanchez to come here on behalf of the planning department. >> thank you, scott sanchez for the planning department. i want to provide the overview of the planning code. zoning code, as such the code enforcement for the planning department located within the division i superv

we issued 25 notices of violation which translate to 320 housing violations. we had additional reinspections and when you get to the different departments that you have not seen before and make sure you get that information to the city attorney. in 2013, 20 notices of violations issued because of reinspection we found additional violations and because of the nature of violations we'll sometimes issue a specific notice for heat or illegal occupancy and separate notice for the maintenance items because they have a separate item for compliance and we take it through that process. some of the cases maybe opened because the work has been done but not seen the payment of cost and this is an overall participation in the city task force case. now, let's talk about what happens as far as civil penalties and cost award. this was not collected but $2.3 million. what was collected $100,000 a little less than that and is still in the process of being collected. when you see these types of awards, other property owners might take notice. when we got the branding award, it g

as code enforcement division, we will issue the notice of violation, second notice of violation, bring it to sharing, bring it to an order of abatement. at the time of order of abatement, the city attorney will decide to accept the case. >>supervisor scott weiner: how many of you plural, dbi how many cases a year? >> we referred two last year to the city attorney. >>supervisor scott weiner: out of how many violations did the department determine, how many of those total? >> complaints filed for last year were 202967. code of violations were 120, new cases shall cases for director was 1238. order of abatements issued were 298. you have to look at this last statement, cases closed were 1161. we were able to work with them to get compliance and close the cases. >>supervisor scott weiner: is referral to the city attorneys office last year do you think that is low or do you think there should be more? >> it's low, what we did is we doubled now the director sharing and code enforcement. during the budget cut we lost 1/3 of our staff. now we slowly got our staff back we doubled code enforceme

so there's an outstanding violation from the health department, the article 26 violation. do we have an outstanding violation for unsafe work practices for the exterior work that was done that created this in the first place. >> no. the notices before the hearing officer are very specific to unit seven and other items so it didn't include maybe some of the other things that david was addressing. >> commissioner mar. >> so some of our inspectors have gone back out there, it seems like a work in progress, they've started some work. we have reinspected. we've -- it's come before us before, these tenant landlord disputes, the work cannot proceed because the tenant will not allow the contractors in. do our inspectors have a sense if that 's true or not or if that's the case. >> you've just had testimony from two attorneys that said the work isn't done because they heave not been able to get access and there's a law site filed. so from that testimony -- it's our understanding that the work has not been done, although it appears that the testimony that the desire is to do that, b

after the inspection if we observed any violation, we issue a notice of violation. with specific corrective actions to be made and depending on the severity of the complaints we may locate from 1-30 days. sanitation as well as 7 days issues with total sanitation is 14 days and 30 days for our total violations. if for example when we go about after notice of violation, if the nov is corrected, the case is closed. if there is no correction, we issue a citation to the branch for the hearing. usually the hearing is held every tuesday each week. at that hearing, some extension might be granted or referred to the department of public health hearing usually it's held once every month. at the hearing, if the case, if the violation is corrected, it will be closed. if it is not corrected, usually the directors orders is final. meaning if the operator or the owner of the property did not cooperate, the department of public health can order a summary abatement. this results into a vacation order especially in sro's. the hearing officer council issues a fine of up to $1,000 by d

building code violation. the majority deal with safety issues. the department opened unresolved effective august 2010. the grand jury found that only the housing inspection of dbi were collecting the $250 violation monitoring fee for open nov's. the civil grand jury found the failure of code enforcement to collecting this fee resulted in a loss of about $900,000

building code violation. the majority deal with safety issues. the department opened unresolved effective august 2010. the grand jury found that only the housing inspection of dbi were collecting the $250 violation monitoring fee for open nov's. the civil grand jury found the failure of code enforcement to collecting this fee resulted in a loss of about $900,000 which could have been used for building code enforcement. as you know dbi is an enterprise department and dbi has collected $40 million more in fees than you have expended. this enables them to fund necessary infrastructure repairs including systems. the civil grand jury found the dbi building code enforcement policies and practices resulted in a significant backlog of unresolved notices of violations. for example dbi does not have a standard that required nov to be resolved in a specific time period. nor does dbi have the ability to produce management reports to identify cases open in the time period standard. only 54 percent of the nov's issues are

if someone is repeating the violation, the penalties can be higher. in terms of general turn around time, i think we get that notice out within 30 days and we've had really good success within the last couple of years of getting the signs to come down and this has been a result of getting these down and in the last decade of this. we have the a survey of all the signs. it's very difficult for someone to argue that a sign they just put up yesterday is somehow an illegal sign. we have good enforcement on that. it could be like where a sign would go up on a property and we initiate enforcement and it may be somewhere else. if it's somewhere else on the property, they have violators and we are on it. >>supervisor scott weiner: generally for example, in my district on the northwest corner of castro and market, it seems there is a new business opening. it's a little bit out of control at this point. i know complaints have been filed but for the average resident looked into it and nothing changes and there is seven or eight businesses logged. how does this c

contained in the notice of violation or the abatement order or dispute there are issues that need to be addressed at the subject departments. what we're here to discuss is the property owners diligent efforts in addressing the concerns and the notice to the violation to date. they have been diligent since last april when the notice of the violation were issued, have been not only diligent, but have expended substantial resources on addressing the issues that the tenants had an that were addressed in the notice to abatement orders. this is in addition to working with the subject tenants and their attorneys of record, hand in hand to go through the numerous issues cited in the abatement orders concerning the subject apartments. contrary to the sentiments of the tenants at the subject department who claim that the owners of the property have refused to act on the notices of violation an the abatement orders, there have been numerous efforts on the parts of the owners in addressing the concerns over the last ten or so months since last april, 2013. as you will see in the packets that we

and possible violations of the ordinance and there were no violations or possible violations of the ordinance in the year of 2013. 3a, the causes of the violations on possible violations and sections of the ordinance that were violated and 3 b, the actions taken as a result of the discovery of the violation or the possible violation including whether any officer has been disciplined as a result of the violation or the possible violation. and 3 c, recommendations of how to prevent the recurrence of the violation or possible violation of the ordinance that were discovered during the prior year. this was not applicable based on 3a. number four, a complete description of how the ordinance was being implemented in terms of the federal government's cooperation with the ordinance. and the f.b.i. is familiar with our department's policy and procedures, specifically, san francisco police department guidelines for first amendment activities which is governed by 8.10. the general operator, on operations, and the ordinance and they are aware that members of the san francisco police department m

so i want to end on those various points and their violations in the issuance of this and another thing we want to say we have a possibility of erosion along brotherhood way and we believe those trees that they've cut down and are resting on the hillside are the only things that's keeping the held from e rhodes that's another argument we're going to again g argue >> we want to establish the physical connection driving past there their pouring a new situation and that's correct. >> part of one lane is closed. >> that's correct. >> the new sidewalk is connecting to an existing sidewalk. >> actually, it doesn't look like it it looks like a wider sidewalk to accommodate their project. >> he the trees you're referring to are east excuse me. west of the construction site. >> yes we're going to show a video of the rebuttal of those trees laying on the sidewalk there. >> okay. >> we can hear from anyone else from or berrarber well any public comment? is allowed by anyone who's not represent or part of our family yeah. >> we have been down this road i'm sorry i'm with arber well. okay so here we

didn't mean we can r50u6 a permit there are violations by cal osha and they're still left hand but i can't say you have this osha violation you're not getting a permit but we'll monitor them and not r50u6 them unless their barred in the city which happens on occasion or if they don't have their license because of the past but they need a license to work on the city streets. >> thank you. thank you both very much. any any public comment on this item?. i believe there is. please step forward. and hand our card to the clerk >> hi, i'm a long time resident of san francisco. that's a crying shame when trees are destroyed in san francisco. i know there's a widespread belief that trees are protected i don't know what the laws are you think it's a crying staim shame a monterey pine trees are being cut down on brotherhood way and i wish the city wasn't be more cognizant of the value of trees. we have a there's a widespread perception green trees take carbon monoxide out of the air. i'm concerned about the trees being taken out of park merced brotherhood and i wish the city would prevent it fr

>> they are not able to find a similar case regarding these types of violations. and then, the commission's history. >> okay. >> and then, what about the next two factors? >> was there a presence, or in tent to conceal or mislead? >> i do not believe that this was any intention to conceal or deceive or mislead. >> and i know that mr. st. croix, you mentioned at the outset that there could be questions that would delve into things that would not be public and i want to be cosmic that i don't step into that. >> okay >> but i am curious as to the basis of that determination, what did she say that made it apparent that there was no intent to conceal. because it is a little bit difficult to understand how someone like her does not understand what she is doing when she is accepting $17,000 from an entity that is engaging in a $200,000 contract with puc. >> that is a very legitimate question to ask and so it is a combination of, you know, the staff interviews with the respondent and the superiors, and you know, and in making a judgment call based on those and it is also,

the bottom line in the settlement is that altogether there are several findings of violation of state and local law. for the purposes of simplification they have settled with the respondent for $3500 for a violation of section 8986 of the government code and the ethics commission has four counts of finding a violation in here. the first two counts reflect that the same section of the code that has been adopted for the local code and so for the purposes of the settlement, the state portion of the settlement covers the two and for the other two countses, two and three and four where we proposed and the respondent accepted 2500 each for those two and a total of $5,000 local for a grand total of the settlement for $8500 from the respondent and additionally, the respondent has repaid in the figure 17? >> approximately. >> approximately $17,000 in salary that she received as the acting president of the board of directors green for all during the terms of the violations at least having incurred in the settlement agreement. and so that again, the staff and the city attorney can answer any que

colleagues today we our city agencies against code violations in es our buildings in various parts of the city. this issue affects neighborhoods all over our city and supervisor cohen's district initially but impact all neighborhoods in one scale or another. we have seen buildings or properties with boarded upwind -- windows and broken stairs and piece of a building, significant pieces removed and neighboring construction work and never moves forward. some very tragic examples of extreme hoarding to the point where -- ingres or egress to the building and buyer hazard and obvious violations can sometimes last for years. and inspections occur, but there are times when at least it does not appear to the public that action is being taken by city departments. we have some situations in fact it's pretty common where we'll get calls from neighbors saying i have been complaining about this blaetd dangerous property and nothing is happening. one of our charges is the complicated coding system involves quite a few departments requiring a lot of coordination and inter departmental communication.

and abaited and the complaints of notice of violations was 51 and the second notice of violations was code of enforcement was 17. i will have rose mary speak on behalf of the housing and the code enforcement. >> thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. as you can see from the chart that we or the housing division we keep monthly statistics that include what we have performed, 908 inspections and 338 new complaints coming in. and we have responded to just about almost all of those with the exception of 12 within in three days and some of these are anonymous complaints that require us to try to gain access and we can't get access to some of those, units and accounts for some of the ones that and sometimes, there is delayed entry. and as you can see, that we have got the numbers there, we continued to work on our open cases, to try to get them closed. and later on, this morning, when you have some of the bigger cases in front of you, you will see our efforts trying to get the cases closed and we are still, doing that, between, now, and the last commission meeting, we actually gave deta

but just to get back to the underlying violation, the led violation has not been abating and in fact, we've -- instead of preventing them to do any sort of repair and remediation work, we've actually been repeatedly asking, can you please give us some indication of how you're going to take care of the led? so far we've heard absolutely no plan to take care of the led or the asbestos. the only thing they have been addressing thus for is the mold, which is a huge problem, as you saw, but it is unfortunately not the only matter. you know, characterizing it as our tenants won't let them in is not truly the state of the matter. the state of the matter is that we do want them to go in and do the work, but we want it to be licensed and we want it to be able to pass all of the testing and evening last week i can provide to you some of the test results that we sent to opposing counsel last week showing led contamination, asbestos contamination and the mold that they have admitted is there. still, absolutely nothing as far as letting us know how they plan on moving forward with the led abatemen

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if any probationer violated the rules, they would be punished immediately. >> in some ways h.o.p.e. is parenting 101. a lot of the folks in the program i think grew up in families where there wasn't a lot of structure, there wasn't a lot of tie-in between behavior and consequence, so they didn't have a chance to learn from it. >> make sure you call the hotline every weekday morning. >> reporter: the h.o.p.e. program targets probationers with highest risk of breaking the rules. al estimates about 80% of them abuse drugs and alcohol. unlike regular probation where offenders can anticipate a drug test, the tests are frequent and random. probationers are assigned a caller and number. >> today's color are blue is two, green is three. if their color and number are called, they must report by 2:00 p.m., no excuses. short jail stays, sometimes just a few days long are immediately imposed for positive drug tests and other violations like missing appointments. but there is some leeway here. >> anybody who shows up attest dirty and admits to it is telling me that, you know, they're having prob

if there is notices of violation will indicate if there is a permit required and in some extreme cases we might initiate a danger order. and there is a time frame for compliance and we'll do reinspection until we achieve compliance and depending upon the reaction of the property owner and i should say most property owners react and act in a timely and responsible way, but not all, but the majority do. so we will then take the case through an administrative process where we'll send it to a directors hearing where the property owner has to show cause as to why they have not complied. >>supervisor scott weiner: when you receive a complaint, this is a question i'm going to ask each department. when you receive a complaint to what extent do you check with other departments and how so to determine if a, they have received any complaints, or b, to bring them in because it may or may y not be a safety or fire code issue? >> depending on the complaint, the housing code has an overlapping jurisdiction with the health code and fire code. if it's a bedbug complaint, we might make a report to the h

when one branch violates the other to bring it back into compliance. nothing in the constitution gives the supreme court the right of judicial review. john marshall he thought the fifth chief justice, as soon as that power. as soon as the power to declare a federal law unconstitutional. although jefferson challenged him, jefferson lost. clearly the supreme court is not defamatory. the president does not have the right to send troops to war. yes, sir. yes. >> my question is about the whiskey rebellion. do you think that george washington was ever on any level sending troops in battle, or do you think that a sort of went to western pennsylvania and got this general -- just this sort of spectacle. >> the answer is yes. 13,500 troops to put down a rebellion of an estimated 5,000 rebels. >> my question is whether or not he himself was intend to. >> he was too old, too fast and could not give into his uniform. he and alexander hamilton wrote out to carlisle, pennsylvania in a carriage and decided that he was -- washington decided -- well, his colleagues deci

until the rest of the bay area is issued violations you should focus on the violations t interfere with muni. we're not getting the information of the accountability that is helping to cab drivers there's millions of app based ride services interfering with our ability to do our jobs google is blocking our cabstand and that's not employment. make them piano pay us for pickup and drop of or charge them a lot of - >> anyone else wants to address the board. first of all, i want to thank you for your report. it's a good fouling follow-up from the february 4th meeting and to folks who that this is the only opportunity to weigh in on this this is not. >> for the t e p we're having meeting in every supervisorial district but also budget town hall meetings the slides weren't working but it will be posted on our website there's tall town hall meetings and other ways through contacting us dribble for feedback through the public. >> i know we're here to hear from the public. one of the issues to the members of the board i personally want to know about how it would be administered and from the diff

so the problem is no violation nothing must be wrong. so we're really appointing all the capital investment to continue to achieve compliance and having a good record. i wanted to elevate that but we need to highlight we're doing it with duct tape that's where we continue to invest the resources to accomplish that >> thank you for that input. >> as you can see we rely on the puc we're data driven organization we run over one hundred thousand test we do with in partnership with the water quality folks with steve's shop. we've had something one of the tests went outside the promoter you can s you can see there. this was the slide i was talking about. this is the strrment guidelines. we started this program i want to showing you this. there are over one hundred astronomer water plant we're having to loonth look at the staff is reviewing actually to implement pitting in place. this is a significant changed from the last couple of years that went into effect and shows you the workload and where all the projects are. now this is from our maint