force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters

all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come within 48 hours. > a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses the gloves. >> you got it. >> you know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. y

should no request be filed and no action taken to abate the violation penalties begin to accrue. these penalties do add up quickly. for example an unauthorized sign larger than 500 square feet will have a daily penalty of $2,500. moving on to talk about this year's progress and really what we've found, i said earlier we have processed 100% of the roughly 1,700 signs in san francisco. commissioners, the top half of this pie chart, the different shades of green comprise about 53% of the city's signs and they're signs that are either in compliance or will be in compliance with the planning code. and it's worth noting here that that roughly 50%, 53% figure of legality has remained constant throughout the program's three years of enforcement work. the bottom half of the pie chart in the red and yellow house, this is 47% of the sign inventory, these are signs which do not and cannot comply with the plank code. both those that have been removed and those that are required to be removed, let me reiterate that. nearly half of the billboards in the city are illegal. that's a pretty big poi

asbestos abatement was also completed. last year we were awarded the buttress shoring package. as you recall, the engineer's estimate was $206 million. we also released the rfd process and are in the evaluation phase. we also addewent into phase twof the webcor/obayashi contract. we were awarded $400 million to build the rail levels as part of phase one of the transit center. turner construction also started working with us in june 2010 and over 28,000 craft hours have been worked without injury to date. with respect to the bus storage, we have close coordination with caltrans on the seismic analysis and we continued coordinating with other state agencies, including the state fire marshal, fire department, and the pdpt. we continue working with high- speed rail and caltrain to finalize the design and growth structured to accommodate a growing population. we prepared design variances and will be presenting them shortly in the first quarter of 2011. program-wide activities, we have 13 properties we have acquired for voluntary sale. last year, the board approved the resolution of

we will go to the -- through the abatement process. usually, we may get compliance. we have two different types of hearings. one for the abatement conference to give you more time to find out why you have not complied, and when there is no compliance, we should add up. taking care of the problem, or you will run the risk of receiving an order to vacate. what that means is that this person typically will be evicted from the room. in many cases, we try not to -- we want to house people. we do not want to kick them out into the street, so we try to work with property management to make sure that we get compliance. once dph is done -- a thick over the past four or five years -- this came back -- came from the fact that back in probably the early 2000, when i came back to a hotel room, i found there was an individual in the room where there was no elevator, and the plumbing facilities were not functioning, and i said that i wanted to see it. he said he was taking care of it, and i said i wanted to see it. so we went, and the patron was in a wheelchair. the room was comple

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 like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye. . >> hello and welcome to the san francisco department of building inspection brown bag lunch series. this is a series that's been going for over 5 years now and we're delighted to have you come on the third thursday of every month where we talk about subjects of interest to you and me and the community at large. today's topic is one that is requested by many people, including the small business counsel -- commission of san francisco and others talking about disabled access for small businesses. and it's something that i have been involved in for a couple of decades and our panelists have been involved in for a lo

i would finally just to say as you do, some of that money is discretionary, which noise abatement plans get done next. i would suggest you remember who was with you when the time comes to make those discretionary commentary. it has always bothered me and you said i believe the faa got close to $2 billion in the stimulus funds. of that $2 billion i'm willing to bet a fair amount went to people who voted against that money. i respect their vote. i do not respect their hypocrisy and do not respect the administration for not noticing that. so i would say the same thing here. when the time comes after safety, safety is safety off the table, when it comes to nondiscretionary items like noise abatement, which one goes first? cut out the ones of the people that aren't willing to pay for it. and be honest about it. not trying to play games. be honest and open about it. there is a cost to an effective faa. and for that don't want to pay for it i respect that position, but you can't have it both ways. so again, i think you've done a great job, i hope you don't have to with you go through these cut

russia is no sign of abating in libya and other regions are people concerned. prices of oil across the world could continue to spike that's now are going to forecast on the news business of the year part of a good to see you your so certainly a big concern for many motorists around the world are we going to see a spike in oil prices a possible record cost in oil what's your forecast. is have been particularly volatile and recent years and we saw them reaching one hundred forty seven dollars a barrel in july two thousand and eight before plummeting to thirty two dollars a barrel that december the financial crisis so and the same we may see them rise up to one hundred fifty dollars a barrel again but all supplies are still moving relatively freely and openly say that it's ready to meet any shortage of supply when it happens but some says is definitely impacted surging oil prices are a big challenge for airliners for example energy prices could turn what could have been a very profitable year into a very complicated here for air carrier i would say the transportat

official say for the present the supply crisis has been dealt with is abated for now all regions have received their required medication the only drugs which are still on their way to children's pills between a stand they will be delivered within a few days but doctors say within six months the hiv positive may feel the damaging effects of the recent halt in supplies and roundabout that sign they are expecting another shortage of anti-viral medicine you know hopes she and her son will be able to make it through all of this once more. see reporting from key of. ukraine. and you all with r.t. and bear in mind you can always keep up to date on our website that's r.t. dot com it's a taste of what's waiting for you online right now a memoir from sarah palin's x. eight is set to focus on the politicians obsession with her image in the media it alleges pailin wrote letters to editors praising her own actions under various pen names. as russia celebrates men's day a new survey suggests almost a third of women in the country would rather swap sex find out why dot com. but a quick look now at s

we have sound abatement. it is not moving as fast as we want. >> it just another question, the other alternative is to get a recycling dumpster. you can do that. this is just a suggestion. this is up to your sanitation company. >> i want to open the door to public comment. >> ayman nurse at kaiser sector but joe. -- i a and interest. i would like to clarify the situation. -- i am a nurse. this is the view for my unit and this is the door in question. when i first moved in, this was a very quiet cantina. this opened as a very loud at night club. i have had excellent experience to come up with solutions, i have to let you know that for several months to throughout the night about every 45 minutes, the store would open and bottles would be dumped into the alleyway. this spigot was used for doing cleanup throughout the night. during the day, this door would remain propped open. the entire courtyard was flooded with high-voltage noise from the interior. this store is really what is in question. just a couple of ot

so that we can schedule them systematically and in advance so that the attorneys that are produced abating, everybody involved in it, will know maybe one month or two months in advance when all the discipline cases are, and if we can revisit that, to stay on track, i think it would be helpful to all of us. commissioner hammer: i think that is a great idea, and i think that may be part of our packet that we did friday afternoon, the confidential packets -- that we get, i think that is a great idea, and i think it will be fairly helpful. commissioner kingsley: they are providing us with a charge. -- chart. commissioner hammer: i am saying -- commissioner marshall: not just the hearing here on wednesday, but everyone? commissioner hammer: we all have homework over the weekend. i think getting those distributed each week. commissioner slaughter -- secretary: i did that for awhile. we can try that. commissioner hammer: i understand in two or three weeks, it changes. and it is all confidential. if we can put it into the commission packets, that would be great. president mazzucco: any public com

you roll the budget up, there is a lot of things that are not jumping out at me, but there is an abatement of reimbursement backing up those expenses along the top, so that we are prepared. commissioner murphy: can we go a little further down the page? improved plan review. how much is this construction on the first floor lobby area -- how much is that going to cost? >> -- >>>> what are you referring to? commissioner murphy: the renovation on the lobby, the entrance. >> where is that? >> it is on page -- commissioner murphy: commissioner walker, you will have ample opportunity to talk when i'm finished. >> page 7. >> thank you. >> we have a place holder in here. we have a plan. we have to work with the department of real estate. it has to go through them and dpw, and there are markups for what we would get if

you roll the budget up, there is a lot of things that are not jumping out at me, but there is an abatement of reimbursement backing up those expenses along the top, so that we are prepared. commissioner murphy: can we go a little further down the page? improved plan review. how much is this construction on the first floor lobby area -- how much is that going to cost? >> -- >>

so we are pretty close on track, allowing some of the issues we had with abatement work we addressed earlier. utility time line. those packages were released last month by the board and they are getting started this month. that is it for me, unless i can answer any questions. >> great. now that concludes my report. director ford: thank you. >> moving into item six. an opportunity for members of the public to address you on items not on the calendar. we have not received any indication that members of the public wish to speak. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. -- director ford: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item seven. approving an amendment to contract no. 08-04-cmgc-000, authorizing webcor/obayashi joint venture to award a trade subcontract to m. squared construction incorporated as the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid in the amount of $2,452,000 for tg04.1: natoma street from first street to fremont

. >> the alternative to bringing the ships here is having the ships fully abated and ready to go to panamat a taxpayer expense of almost $2 million and then burning the fuel to get it there. >> we hope it's a minimum of ten years. we hope for it to be longer. >> reporter: more years could be more jobs and nothing would make these folks folks happier. >> i couldn't tell you right off when the job is supposed to start. but you just have to come down every day like we do. >> reporter: back live out here at this dry dock here on mare island. it used to be a very busy area out here we saw a lot of workers on the dock ready to go in the last 0 minutes it's calmed -- last 30 minutes or so it's calmed down. live at mare island, claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> new details are emerging about a pg&e pipeline as the utility tries to prove the pipeline is operating within safe limits. a survey shows that three leaks were found in a nearby pipe and describe the one that exploded as a steamed pipe when -- when it was initially seamless. >>> concerns about pit balls is leading to -- pit bulls is l

twenty four hours a day protests across the middle east and north africa have shown no signs of abating by the example set by egypt that governments. are exclusive pictures on the streets of the capital demonstrations for health attacks by police and appeals for calm from the military. straight days protests have hit some of the arab world's poorest country. two people were killed and the president to step down . in bahrain security forces have dispersed thousands of reforms by the country's ruling in the center of the capital manama the opposition at least three dead and more than one hundred injured and in egypt where the military has replaced the government the situation. manes tents with spots of protests in different parts of the country. ortiz poor looks at whether the weeks of unrest there has made change any closer to egyptians. mubarak's out the army is in and the question now who's next. that after this.

we were also able to use this change to give specialized hazmat and abatement training for another 85 out of work construction workers that we would not otherwise have been able to serve with these dollars. the additional item on the agenda, the federal training grant is part of the work force investment act funding that was received by our office. these are discretionary dollars that were granted to us in a special grant. we will use these to provide staffing and cdo support really to coordinate the variety of green program that we have running currently, including both of our youth programs and the green academy we were speaking of earlier. i am happy to answer any questions you might have. supervisor chu: on item two, a $750,000 grant going primarily -- almost 100% of that going to contractual services. the 71 is going to fund a position with a bit of contractual services, $30,000. >> exactly. supervisor chu: why don't we open up these two items to public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. -- is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? >> t

to the protests in egypt, they show no sign of abating. mubarak has not signaled any willingness to go before the election is scheduled later this year. he has been speaking to the bbc. he says that as commander in chief of the army, mr. mubarak is on likely to give in and stepped down. >> i know what it is like to be a commander in chief. there are statesmen and politicians. a politician might look at this as a game. i do not care. i am a commander in chief. he is a commander. if they abandoned their posts, they are shot. i respect him very much. you see the demonstrations from everywhere supporting the president to stay until the end of his term. this is a mission. this is a difficult mission. this is a very difficult mission to do. the easiest thing is to live his years away in luxury. he does not do that. >> he is a member of the policy committee of the ruling national democratic party. you can keep up to date any time on our website. you will find live commentary there. you will be updated around the clock. the latest headlines for yo

. >> violence ignited by the disputed election on ivory coast shows no sign of abating. supporters of the incumbent president and his rival have been fighting battles on the streets of the main city. hundreds of civilians are trying to get out of the crossfire. the battles have spread to the capital and the west of the country. he is refusing to hand over power to the internationally recognized winner of the november elections. in germany, hundreds of people attended the funeral of three soldiers killed last week in afghanistan. their deaths bring the total number of german casualties in afghanistan to 48. >> chancellor merkel and the defense minister joined the mourners for the emotional funeral ceremony. the three men were shot dead by someone they thought was on their side, and afghan soldiers trained by the german military. it was called a cowardly attack. he called for continued support of joint operations with afghan security forces and said the approach was paying off. ♪ >> we will stand fast on this difficult road. we owe it to those who have been killed or wound

but koch also poured hundreds of millions of dollars into tax abatements to sub subsidize construction of office buildings and luxury housing and to keep corporate headquarters from leaving the city. such construction was one of the primary engines of growth left in new york after the long period of deindustrialization and had the side benefit of providing a significant source of minority employment. but determining whether the city ultimately got its money's worth from the tax abatement program is difficult because i few data exist to show whether the incentive actually altered the behavior of developers. koch was both a free-wheeling showman and a hard working policymaker, but his rhetoric and policies did not always cohere. when observers tried to sum up his political ideology, for example, they often resort to paradoxes, however insufficient. for example, one historian maintains that koch, quote, talked like a republican sometimes but governed like a new dealer. more precisely, koch's pro-corporate policies made the rich richer even though he tried, though with less success, to avo

. >> lehrer: the protests in egypt showed no sign of abating today, after 16 days. but the country's foreign minister charged the u.s. is trying to impose its own solution. ahmed aboul rate made the accusation in an interview with the newshour's margaret warner in cairo. >> warner: prime minister abbuell gheit, thank you for having us. >> thank you, thank you for coming. i'd like you to define the spelling i got. is this an uprising? a movement? a revolution. >> it is an uppooefl, upheaval that is transforming egypt from one era to another era. we are moving into a new era, no doubt about it and the country has changed tremendously since the 25th of january. that is it in a nutshell. >> warner: now, the united states has had a lot to say about all of this. and just yesterday vice president biden called your vice president suleiman and asked for a prompt and meaningful change, immediate progress. how do you take that? i mean, do you regard that as helpful advice from a friend? >> no, not at all. why is it so? because when you speak about prompt, immediate, now, as if

graffiti abatement and street and walk. many projects come in and they are both categories not to worry about that. the point is that there are a lot of things we don't fund. in our workshop somebody wanted to know if we were talking about a bathroom in a park. we don't do that. it's an object that should come out of an agency's budget. it's not something you that you can involve the community. community will not build a bathroom or maintain a bathroom for 5 yeeshs. they might but that was not the application submitted. >> let's talk about briefly the match because that has to be that requirement has to be met before we talk about the scoring. the point of the match the reason the program was retooled and called the community challenge grant is the idea is to encourage neighborhoods to value themselves and their own work. the grant is unique in the city and in many other cities in that we have placed a dollar value on your volunteer time of 14 dollars an hour. you are allowed to include your volunteer time as the match. as

clock this is are two life from moscow now with street protests in egypt showing a little sign of abating the dispute is now moving to a political background the government is holding talks with the country's main opposition groups and already agreed reforms to try and end the uprising over the last two weeks president mubarak but the opposition says this is just not enough to end the standoff. life here in downtown cairo is slowly returning to some kind of normality a short time ago i got caught in my first traffic jam and apply.

abating the authorities by luck or design makes him into a hero. in the rundown neighborhoods the poor are all on his side. if i know you have got it problem way here he wouldn't even need to us i doubt he's welcome here any time in our home he's welcome with open arms he will always be welcome. escobar also finds easy refuge with his cronies from the cartel and other traffickers on whose loyalty he can rely now more than a decade and a half later most i'm no longer alive. all that's left are some members of the escobar family who alone know how the godfather managed to remain at liberty for so long. maybe they might finally talk. according to some reports his son from pablo and his widow maria victoria have sought refuge in argentina. his brother roberto. that is younger sister. well still in. the escobar family had been untouchable for so long the brother and sister used to go out quite openly these days they choose to keep a much lower profile. a local journalist helps out by providing the address of escobar. is this where mrs escobar lives. yes

and eat you do not abated and the 30 to order and does not apply, then you are in violation of section 21.1 of the city's administrative code, which requires competitive bidding for these contracts. we learned only after we submitted a response -- [bell rings] supervisor chu: thank you. i'm going to call a few more names. [reading names] >> ok. madame chair, supervisors, the vice president in charge of recology san francisco. i'm pleased to be before you today, but i think the issues that i'm hearing today being discussed, the landfill contract, the transportation agreement, and the 32 ordnance -- we are happy to talk about the issues. we think it has worked well for you. but today, really, the issue is about the landfill. it is a good deal. i was not here, you would be paying $125 million more. two, transportation, we propose rail. during the negotiation, the city of san offices go ask us to commit to the price for that theory that was our out of box thinking. therefore, the agreement committed to transportation, and why now? because that agreement would be in jeopardy with the land.

i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now with street protest in egypt showing little sign of abating the dispute is now moving to a political battleground the government is holding talks with the country's main opposition groups and already agreed reforms to try to end the uprising over the last two weeks against president mubarak but the opposition says this is not enough to end the standoff artie's policy or has more from cairo the talks are progressing slowly which is not a surprise to anyone here because they really are a lot of issues that need to be discussed and a lot of players who are putting the.

involving construction messes assemblies or materials or where safety is involved, and any order or abatement resulting from the chief harbor engineer hearing and any notice of violation order issued pursuant to section 102a of the port building code. a review board is not responsible to hear appeals related to the enforcement of design or accessibility. the term limits of the current building code review board have expired. during that review board's term, only one appeal was filed. that case had no action taken, due to the lack of three or more affirmative votes on the matter. for a new term starting today, the executive director has nominated four of the sick -- existing board members for reappointment. one individual for appointment to the following position -- the recommendations for the technical board members are gary hoy, california registered architect employed by the department of public works, sagiv weiss-ishai, california engineer, employed by the five apartment, and hanson tom, employed by the department of building inspection. the non-technical board member recommendations are j

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