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. >> welcome. we are here doing our building san francisco tour. we're going to have a very interesting tour of elevators in sanford cisco. we have all gotten into an elevator, the doors have closed, and it has carried us to our destination. have you ever wondered how elevators were -- work? we check out the need outside the elevator using current technology and we learn about the latest destination elevated technology all here in san francisco. we will also visit the machinery where all the behind- the-scenes gears control these incredible machines. we are very fortunate today to have an expert with those who is go

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

it needs to be standardized, so that there is proof of abatement. just a letter from the past control operator to the city saying that they spray three times is not enough. in these guidelines, i think the working group could go further with the city on coming up with minimized standards. i am willing to work with them, as a pest control operators. i am sure there are property managers that would be willing to come forth. we need your help. put these procedures together. supervisor kim: thank you. supervisor avalos: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: thank you, supervisor kim, for taking the lead on this issue. thank you as well to the working group. i have a couple of questions. on the summit's happening around a bed bugs, is there new technology that is being utilized, like high heat, steam, short of the negation and pesticides being used in other parts of the country? >> yes, there is a new process called rapid freezing. every personal item of a tenant can be frozen on site. there is heat treatments. the problem with some of those -- we have a lot o

well, there was no prostitution abatement for 3 or four weeks, because we had them there to abate gang violence. we were also supplemented by officers from the gang task force, members of both units who did phenomenal jobs. they were right in there on the frontlines with us and we're very diligent, and we really appreciate their assistance. we also conducted numerous adult probation searches, accompanied with an adult probation officer who was very helpful. we conducted numerous juvenile probation searches with a juvenile probation officer. these probation search is resulted in a number of arrests, parole and probation violators, and seizure of large quantities of narcotics. in february, the plane closed units were involved in 50 incidents which resulted -- the plainclothes officers were involved and 50 incidents which resulted in arrests. 13 were on probation. they served two search warrants. there were large seizures. at 175 grams of methamphetamine, 366 grams of cocaine, three at 60 grams of crack cocaine, -- 360 grams of crack cocaine, numerous other drugs, assault weapons, and to

that is one of the reasons these complaints are being abated. there is a public perception of bed bugs driving the complaints. the actual violations are much less than the complaints. i do not have those numbers with me. supervisor kim: do you have the number of all violations that are bed bugs? >> i do not have that. supervisor kim: how many environmental health inspectors are assigned to bedbug code enforcement? >> we do not assign inspectors to a particular pest. we assigned inspectors to two different programmatic areas. we have two inspectors handling roughly 500 sro's. they are investigating complaints and doing some room by room inspections. these have been designated as family sro's or where the city has the master lease function. for the apartment inspection program, we have 10 inspectors distributive citywide. supervisor kim: 10 for apartments and two for hotels and shelters. you say that is roughly 530 hotels and shelters? but there are roughly about 500 sro hotels. with tourist hotels, is 800 total. supervisor kim: these two inspecto

the truth of the matter is, the tenants we work with, they will have the hardest time abating it. we have heard statistics that emphasize that. they say in hotels and shelters, 60% of all cases will be resolved in 15 days and 80% will be resolved in 60 days. there is another 20% where we do not know what is happening. in my own personal experience in dealing with tenants, i have seen people dealing with bedbugs four months, if not years. that is a big problem. i dealt personally with a tenant who had bedbugs because the manager actually put a bed bug infested matters into their room. when i talked to the manager, the manager said he did not want to do anything about it because his tenant complaints to much. in a perfect world where there are good managers and has control operators, tenants can get this updated, but even then it is a months-long process. this tenant went for six months. six months from the time i got involved. it was not until we got a petition that something was absolute -- something that actually done about this. anyone who has had even one night dealing with bed

the abatement of the buildings for demolition on natoma street has been completed. the backfill has begun, the member in that goes below the backfill material. that is in the central section of the project. that is the screen wall at 301 mission in progress, some of the utility relocation work on minna, beale with the water. on howard. as we said before, evans brothers has had 30,000 craft hours, of which 28,000 have been local labor. 90% or more total crap hours of the demolition team has been local. -- kraft hours of the demolition team had been local. -- craft hours of the demolition team has been local. if there are any questions, i believe that is the end. >> before i conclude my report, i wanted to welcome supervisor kim, who has joined us as one of our board members. we are pleased to have you, supervisor. i look forward to working with you. i have heard wonderful things about you and are pleased that you are joining our board. thank you for being a part of our team. directors, that concludes my report. director ford: ok, madam secretary, let's move on. >> yo

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

i think there was a general lack of knowledge on bedbugs, protocol, abatement, low level of compassion, a level of incompetency and inadequacy. sometimes they were even rude. i have since been abandoned by these organizations and the building managers in this past year have tried to set me up for election twice. the first time was for nonpayment of back rent church, which is bs, and two, and to cure the bedbugs, to get a two- week notice. i have gotten through most of it, but i ended up getting seriously depressed. even sewage asat -- suicidal. i even started drinking again. a lot of attention is to be drawn to this issue. everyone needs to know more. about the bedbugs themselves and how to treat them. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> we will be speaking as a bloc, but i will introduce myself first. good morning, supervisors. tina chung. in my professional capacity, i have had a variety of issues dealing with the daily living conditions of san franciscans. i work with a lot of modeling or chinese immigrants. one issue that our organization has seen is an increase in the number

explosions and heavy gunfire libya's capital for a full night with coalition is fraud showing no sign of abating experts and pointing out a lack of strategy and coordination among the forces. and holes in japan's attempts to cool the reactors of the quake damaged fukushima power plant are rising black smoke prompted back the way she worked as the fire fighters high levels of radiation have already reached tokyo with people being advised not to bring. the belgian heads for a political record as the country has been gripped by deadlock over forming a new government for almost a year visions of fuel separatist moves many experts say the e.u. member state may break up so there is a domino effect to me. and that starts and talks to the president of the belgian senate about the possibility of devolution in the e.u. . peters may kill off the country that he leads he senate president but also part of the new flemish allies party which works to split flanders from belgium mr peters how can you work for an organization you want to destroy the. other difficulty for me because. we have always participated i

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

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

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. >> thank you for your patience. i m leader pelosi's district rector in san francisco. i've been with the for about nine years, and we are excited to put on this forum today to help people learn how they can access credit and capital for their small business. click background on some of what was accomplished in the last congress when later closing was speaker of the house. she had had 16 tax cuts signed into law to help small businesses grow and thrive. as we know, during the last 15 years, small businesses account for about 2/3 of the job growth in our country, but when the bush recession hits in 2009, 2010, small

media to fear of a third blast of the fukushima nuclear power plant have abated after steve was pointing to an unstable reacted to cool it down to its systems failed eleven people were injured on monday morning in a second blast obviously to see prince friday for devotees make. two pounds and people have. piles of still missing more but a hundred aftershocks of the magnitude of by hit japan since friday that make a quake rescue service is stretched the limits are around the country. emergency officials are on high alert as a russian spy raised in fact early in the region close to japan's pulled are concerned about the threat of nuclear contamination. japan's economy is such a suffer significant losses after being hit by one of the worst earthquakes in its history more in business in twenty minutes. the news libya's rebels and losing ground as colonel gadhafi forces push through your position the stronghold in the east but with no plan of action allied constant struggle local c b n c they're rare instance. a very warm welcome to you this is are you live from moscow with me alice heard the

to abate the two 1994 nov's. it is listed as being, quote, complied with, without any mention that it would be referred to the planning department. nor was there a copy of the nov or the permit. it was to replace plumbing fixtures that i just described. these fixtures empty into a sewer that was replaced without a permit, for which there is a four-year-old nov. it was never inspected, but dbi issued a permit any way to allow the illegal bathroom to continue. this authorizes re-roofing excluding the dormer, which was clearly done to avoid addressing the illegal nature of this structure, not that it makes any whether proofing cents. my complaint against this addition is that it is being legalized. now is the time to legalize or remove both structures in conjunction with the repair work. even though the condition -- it did affect where the events were placed. my complaint about this remodel was open for 19 months, and nothing was ever happening. this past january, without ever taking place. mechanical code violation

taxpayers can elect to have a small portion of their tax bill set aside for essentially graffiti abatement and other neighborhood beautification projects, and then, finally, the hotel tax. according to local code, it is allocated to a variety of cultural and housing and convention-related activities. every year, i would just kind of said way into this next slide, which shows in more detail -- i would just kind of segue into this next slide, which shows in more detail -- chair chu: revenues that come in, and majority of that being services, puc, water, airport, and about $3 billion, almost half of that is general fund revenues that come in. what would you say is the percentage of that amount that is restricted? >> the $216 in tax set asides, and in addition to that, we have about 380 that go to baseline, so the total is $600 million, i guess. also, there are a few other expenditure requirements that have nothing to do with the amount of revenue that we get the things like fire station staffing, minimum staffing levels, the requirement of the office of economic analysis, another few hundred

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

the blight ordinance focused on the abatement process. these two ordinances now address that. the rest will submit. >> with no other names on the roster, that concludes roll call for introduction. president chiu: why don't we move to public comment? >> the opportunity to address the board for two minutes on items within the jurisdiction of the board. and excluding items that have been considered by a committee. they will be allowed at twice the amount of time to testify. if they would like a document to be displayed, clearly states such and remove the document when the street should -- screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. president chiu: yo uhavu have to minutes unless you're using a translator. they will have equal time. >> [speaking foreign language] we want to discuss with you about the problem we have in the city. the first time i have seen as the mayor of this city working together. supervisors, i thank you. i would like to thank each of you personally because we need to discuss and we need to resolve the problem. [unintelligible] now, he thinks he is --

this is to strengthen the city's's abatement efforts. the legislation will also give the city attorney's office the specific power to seek remedies from parties responsible for illegal dumping. this will help in cost recovery, both for cleanup work done by the department of public works, and for attorneys' fees incurred by the city. i commend the city attorney for his work in cracking down on illegal dumping. let that be a warning to all the illegal dumpers out there in the city and county of santa and cisco. i consider this a minute -- you are no longer welcome. in closing, i would like to offer a memorial for gentleman born and raised in san francisco, lived in six years -- lived for six years in the bayview area. he lost an heroic battle against cancer. he was born in 1951 in san francisco. he was the fifth of 10 children. "chucky" was decertified equipment operator trained in the afl-cio operator engineers, local no. 3. unfortunately, he succumbed to a long battle with cancer. those who knew him can testify to his kindness and willin

with the violence in libya continuing, this exodus shows no sign of abating. >> one other libya and related story, the minister of economics has resigned over his links to colonel gaddafi. he said he had to quit. he accepted 300,000 pounds from a firm run by a one of gaddafi's sons. another person said he will stay in office until new elections are held in july. for all of the latest news on the situation in libya, head to bbc.com, where you will find a minute to minute coverage and analysis. troops in ivory coast shot dead at least six women. hundreds were taking part in a demonstration when they were approved -- when they were under fire. john james reports. >> this place has been nicknamed baghdad. a peaceful protest by women on thursday was broken up when the police fired live rounds into the crowd, killing several women. over the past few days, the district has seen increasingly heavy gunfire as the president's ofces try to gain respecontrol the area. >> i was cooking outside and there was shooting several times. i decided to move my children and hide them in the house. i did not want

she was pretty ruthless including the noise abatement measures and limited service hours and includine final dinner seating at 8:45, absolutely no music and the large parties would be restricted to indoors. and past tenants had trampled on those rules and sharon and arianna won't have it. and they are helping to make a stretch of divisadero into a real destination and the expansion has my full support. president olague: thank you. any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner miguel? commissioner miguel: in the spirit of what we said in this morning's session on keeping things moving, anyone who is willing to take out a 20-year lease on a restaurant business in particular in this climate deserves applause. i would move to approve with tremendous vised conditions. >> -- with the revised conditions. >> second. >> commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i am not going to go on long, but i agree 100% and i have been there and i really like ragazza. it is wonderful. but you need more space. i understand that. and so i am very supportive. president

this is to strengthen the city's's abatement efforts. the legislation will also give the city attorney's office the specific power to seek remedies from parties responsible for

heavy gunfire gong to be accountable for a fortnight with coalition airstrikes showing no sign of abating that's kurds are pointing out a lack of strategy and blocking gratian among the forces. and hoping japan's attempts to cool the reactors at the quake damaged fukushima power plants as rising blunt smoke prompted the evacuation of workers and firefighters high levels of radiation have already reached tokyo with people being a prize not to drink water. than severe constant financing forced the b.b.c. world service to seek funding from the u.s. state department but many are concerned washington will use the broadcasters won't reach the most its own agenda. coming up next our interview with the president of the belgian pardo mint flemish nationalist danny peters says the country has no other option but to break up and spoke to our chief daniel bushell about how such a split could change the shape of the u. . only peters may kill off the country that he leads he senate president but also part of the new flemish alliance party which works to split flown those from belgium mr peters how can

heavy gunfire rocked libya's capital for a fourth night with coalition airstrikes showing no sign of abating experts pointing to the lack of strategy and coordination among the allied forces. and you hold in japan's a trance to cool reactors of the quake damaged fukushima power plant is wising black smoke prompts the evacuation of workers and firefighters high levels of radiation of already reached tokyo with people being advised not to drink tap water . and belgium head for political record as the country's been gripped by deadlock over forming a new government from mostly here as ethnic divisions fueled separatist moves the experts say to give member state may break up triggering a domino effect immediately. coming up next a special report for you about profiteers in the u.s. medical drugs market the program where the human health is being sacrificed for big bucks. in two thousand and two the top ten drug companies in america made more profits than four hundred ninety of america's wealthiest companies combined helping raise profits are cancer drugs which in two thousand and five alone rose

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this is to strengthen the city's's abatement efforts. the legislation will also give the city attorney's office the specific power to seek remedies from parties responsible for illegal dumping. this will help in cost recovery, both for cleanup work done by the department of public works, and for attorneys' fees incurred by the city. i commend the city attorney for his work in cracking down on illegal dumping. let that be a warning to all the illegal dumpers out there in the city and county of santa and cisco. i consider this a minute -- you are no longer welcome.

gunfire rang libya's capital for a fourth night with coldness of their strike showing no sign of abating experts are pointing out a lot of strategy and coordination among the allied forces. a new halt in japan's attempts to contain the answers of the quake damaged fukushima power plant as rising black smoke prompted the evacuation of workers and firefighters high levels of radiation have already reached tokyo with people being advised not to drink tap water. belgian pipes for political record of the countries gripped by the deadlock over forming a new government for almost a year. old separatist moods many experts say the e.u. member states may break up triggering a domino effect in the e.u. . coming up next a special report on profiteers in the us medical drugs market. my mother was diagnosed with cancer at the age of forty nine she did not smoke she ate five fruits and vegetables a day exercised regularly and her parents never had cancer yet she was diagnosed with the disease what caused her cancer no one could say i kept wondering why. a. every day about three new synthetic chemicals

patrol officers also used 311 systems so we can utilize situation such as the abatement campaign. officers can prefer members of the public to 311, so people are not bogged down by the bureaucracy of the many things they need to get done in their neighborhoods. community policing today is all about working together with other city service providers. patrol officers at some assistance for homeless members of our community in need of services. we also work closely with the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs to acquire interpretation, translation services, and train members of the immigrant affairs for by cultural community ambassador programs. we have a meeting monday where we will share the strategies, explained everything so we can reduce those barriers to communication, and we worked side by side with them translating the forms that we hand out. patrol officers summoned the community awareness treatment center when somebody needs a sobering center, somebody who is down and out and they need assistance in that regard. we also partner with the state. we worked very cl

or "tepco"-- did the customary bow of remorse, apologizing for a disaster that shows no signs of abating. their president, conspicuously absent from public view for several weeks, has checked into the hospital, complaining of high blood pressure. the latest alarming news from tepco? radioactive iodine in seawater near the fukushima plant has surged to 3,355 times legal limits. officials continue to argue seawater contamination won't ruin japanese fisheries, but these assurances are cold comfort to the agriculture and marine industries, which have lost consumer confidence here and abroad. meanwhile, tepco dropped another bombshell today. businesses are being asked to slash their energy use by a whopping 25%, or tokyo could face a long, hot summer of blackouts. lucy craft, "nightly business report," tokyo. >> tom: as we reported earlier, part of president obama's latest energy plan is focused on expanding the use of natural gas. that has tonight's "street critique" guest drilling for stock ideas. she's hilary kramer, editor of gamechangerstocks.com. nice to see you. your focus is using nat