duffey. >> what mr. hansen stated is when the penalty is paid and once they paid it, the only chance they can appeal the penalty is the department. just wanted to add that. >> thank you. commissioners the matter's yours. >> i'm very sympathetic to be honest. >> do you have a motion? >> yep. i'll -- i make a motion to reduce the penalty to two times. >> and just for the record, before i vote on this matter, i want to disclose that i am familiar with mr. reid. i've represented him in the past on an unrelated matter, but it would not impact my decision here. >> i have a motion then from commissioner honda to reduce this penalty to two times the regular fee. on that motion to reduce, commissioner fung. >> i. >> long long. hwang. >> no. >> president lazarus. >> i. >> thank you. the vote is four to one. this penalty is reduced to two times. thank you. >> thank you. our next item is item 8, property is at 1626 12th avenue protesting the issuance on december 19, 2013 of an alteration permit to add one bedroom, o

duffey? mr. tom. thank you. >> good evening commissioner. my name is hanson tom i'm the principle engineer with the department of building inspection. i want to add a little bit on the september 30th letter. when i went back to talk to my colleague of whether or not the letter is given to mr. white my colleague informed me what he received us saw the calculation of the requests. so he given all the calculations to mr. strong and mr. strong gave it to mr. white the calculation. there's no request of the letter so, and, secondly, i want to make sure that if you read the september letter it is just a letter proving that the design criteria is sound and the building can be continued the design and carry on through the permit process. so nothing is really hidden from the september 30th letter saying the building is not safe. so the letter you see certified and the review process should be able to continue the review and permit. there is no hidden agenda when i identified that the september letter is available because

. >> there duffey, it appears the planning department feels that this permit was issued in error. >> yes. >> but the didn't went through >> we already have an order of abatement on the the second one issued in february, but there is an order of abatement order in february so that's going to force them to do something. i think the existing grade issue is crucial here. if that can be figured out. i agree the concrete retaining wall closest to the property and whatever it slopes back to towards miss moon's property is the crucial issue here. >> do you work with that? is it your department that works on the grade issue? >> we can. we probably could help them with that. obviously we'd need both parties to -- you know, because we don't want to be showing something that's not right. if this had been done correctly, there's a possibility you could have done some of this work without a permit, but there was a lot of dirt moved so that needs to be shown on a grading permit and the existing grades shown on a section on the plan and the proposed grade. i'm not sure how they want to proceed, but

. >> i'd like to wish joseph duffey a happy birthday. >> i'm 21 again. any other commissioner comments? any public comment? item 3 is the consideration and adoption of the minutes for march 12, 2014. changes or corrections. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, mr. pacheco if you could call the roll. on the the motion to adopt the march commissioner honda. a: i. >> thank you. the vote is four to zero, those minutes are adopted. >> item number for is a jurisdiction request. the board received a letter from christopher delainy asking that the board take jurisdiction over a tree removal permit which was issued on january 14, 2014. the appeal period ended on january 29, 2014 and the jurisdiction request was filed at the board office on march 3, 2014. the permit holder is richard price and the project is approval to remove six existing trees and plant nine new trees. we will start with the requestors. who would like to speak on behalf of the requesters, you have three minutes. >> i need to ma