then i think that we want to again, the point is to abait, not to assess the fees. and i think that we have some discretion there and the only other point that i would like to add is that i know the time and planning does not go together. and so my only thing is what do you do when someone says it is in planning. i do feel that we do have discretion and the discretion of two times verses nine times, is the only hammer that we have. if they are going to take the time they should go for the maximum fees. >> good point. >> we need to look at this and we are speeding up our director hearing, now. this is two hearing per week and then, when, you know, we may suggest to the home owner or the permit holder to come in and go for the hearing, and you know, and speed up the process, and you have seen the incentive to come in to clean up and then we can put it in, and you know that kind of a suggestion for them and we could enter into the code that we could say that if you come in within, 30 days and put in for a building permit. we will work with you on your penalties. >> and

and during this period, we abaited 219 cases so that concludes our report. >> commissioner mar? >> just a quick question on the cases under advisement, is there a time limit for those? >> 30 days. >> if they don't get the permit issued and inspected and signed out during the 40 day period, we move forward without any further hearing, and issue the order of abatement and assess fees. >> thank you. >> i was going to have rose mary talk on behalf of housing and so i will just mention it for her and she is comment on it if she comes back, the housing performed were 895 and the complaints were 412, and the complaints response within 24 to 78 hours were 763, the notice of violations 168, the mraints for notice of violations were 596 and the number of cases since the director's hearing was 33 for the housing. >> okay. >> that is good, thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. >> great. >> is there any public comment on item 4 athrough 4 e, of the director's report? >> seeing none, item five, discussion and update regarding october 17, 2013 inspections and planning department request to s

and with those complaints and notice of violations, 70 percent, 71 percent of them, abaited. and all of the issues you know, for the calendar year, here. and the nov from the complaints 3 percent. and in the open ones with the 26 percent. >> make sure that the grand jury gets that report. will you? >> okay. >> that is very good. i think that is a very good statistics and i think that we are getting there. >> we are trying very hard. >> the staff are trying very hard and the housing and everybody is paying close attention to this. >> and a lot of these novs are just housekeeping. >> that is correct. >> well done. >> and if i could just add the report that we did for a monthly statistics show that we have abaited a lot of cases and our, and we are in a significant increase in the amount of inspections, because the 7 new inspecters are now in the districts a couple of months and writing notices of violations quite frequently and

abaited complaints with notice of violations 86. and second notice of violations refer to code enforcement of 46. >> out of all of these inspections performed, i want to commend my staff for the response and of all of the complaints last month, 69 percent were responded within 24 hours. so, above and beyond their duty of performing the building inspections is responding to almost 70 percent within 24 hours. and 18 percent was complaints response, and 72 hours, which is allowable, and 13 percent, response over 72 hours. and we have had 100 percent response in all complaints for the second month so that is i commend my staff for that and that is a great effort. and as far as housing, i will let rose mary report. >> good morning, commissioners. what i want to tell you about these numbers is that there are some anomolies here with respect to june and july that we were not able to fix and the numbers in the september numbers are actually truer to what the production is. and we did note, that our director's hearing referrals did fall off

with gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street. irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. >> thank you. >> okay. >> put the drop cloth. come on around. >> there you go. force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i