and i know abating graffiti is a passion, if not an obsession of his. so i just want to acknowledge the great work. [applause] that mohammed does for the city day if in and day out. so i do want to -- i'll just share one little anecdote as well before i talk about a few specific things. this morning, i had the opportunity to hear i guess directly from a self-described spray can ar cyst, spray paint artist, i think he called himself, that paul and i had the pleasure of somewhat conversing with. and he made a statement that it's been troubling me all day long. and part of the discussion was graffiti art, is it vandalism? is it ok? is it not? he made a statement to the effect that, well, a lot of what i did was i just looked for out of the way places to do it. and he named a few places and one of the places he named was hunter's point off of third avenue, off of third street. and, i mean, think about what kind of statement that's making. people live in hunter's point. it's a neighborhood. it's a community. there are kids. there are older people. there are

president lee: the question is whether the abatement is upheld and the abatement is filed what happens to the tenants? >> nothing. it's just an abatement ordered and issued against the property. president lee: and leave it with commissioner murphy's motion. >> again, that motion is for 120 days. >> second. >> so 90 days. 90 days to get the permit. 30 days to get the work. do you want to specify? 90 days to get the -- commissioner murphy: 0 days to get the tenants out. -- 90 days to get the tenants out. >> i don't know 90 days to get the ten athants out. commissioner walker: 30 more to begin work on the permit that's already applied for. i think that's the case. >> ok. commissioner murphy: i don't any to begin but i'd say to complete. and if it's not complete -- 120 days to complete. >> and the assessment of costs is upheld. president lee: so 120 days to complete the work and cost is upheld. >> all right. we will take a roll call vote. president lee. president lee: yes. vice president walker. commissioner walker: yes. commissioner murphy, commissioner mar and commissioner romero. we hav

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

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 resultedin

this is a meeting of the abatement appeals board. at this time i'd like to remind everyone to turn off your electronic devices. first item on the agenda is roll call. president lee. vice president walker. commissioner clinch. commissioner hechanova. commissioner mar. commissioner romero. and commissioner walker. sorry. called you twice. >> you didn't call my name. but i'm here. >> commissioner murphy. how can we miss you? we have a your up and the next -- we have a quorum and the next item is the oath. will all parties giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand? do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth to the best of your knowledge? ok. thank you. we may now go on to item number c which is approval of the minutes and there are three sets of minutes that we will take each one of them separately. first set of minutes is from may 19, 2010. >> a motion to approve. >> second. >> ok. all in favor. motion to approve and a second by commissioner walker. commissioner walker: yes. >> any public comm

most private property owners do abate the graffiti, and that's a good thing. you know, we don't really want to be penalizing property owners who themselves are victims of graffiti. my private property was vandalized and i certainly felt like a victim. but we do recognize that it's important to clean it up as fast as possible. you know, having a tool like the blight ordinance will be very helpful to us. so thanks to the graffiti advisory board for the idea. thanks to the board of supervisors for making it real. the board has been -- [applause] yeah, i think that's worth some applause. the board and the mayor have been working with some of our state legislators to strengthen what's called the civil compromise process whereby those who are prosecuted for graffiti, maybe make somebody whole in terms of paying the cost of abatement, but they're not necessarily making the broader community whole. and so what this effort is is to have a stronger requirement for community service. so not only do you have to undo what you did in effect, but you have to go and undo graf

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

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

driver of this ordinance came from the graffiti advisory board and it was a request that the time to abate on private property be shorter, and it's a recognition of the fact that everybody knows that the longer you leave graffiti up there the more likely it is to attract yet more

>> the idea is the more that you continually abate, they usually end up going somewhere else because it doesn't stay up long enough for them to get any credit. let me just say, though, having that paint doesn't help all the problems. here's where we get the biggest problems and here's where we get some of the more difficult nuances. when they are on statue. we don't want to paint our statues in this paint. this is a historical city. brick ware. you don't want to paint your brick to just deter the graffiti. if you have a porous etching and the paint soaks in, a lot of times it's just not practical to use that paint to preserve all of the environment. and the real solution has to come from stopping the graffiti, not just the preventative measures. because it's just so expensive. that's how big the problem is. >> want to get someone in the back? >> i just want to understand -- you guys saying we should -- i want to know why you -- what do you think about -- [inaudible] -- helping him become president with the graffiti writers that got convicted 12 times. also he's from the city -- using

the city's comprehensive 2008 ordinance focused primarily on the abatement process, but did not consolidate the process for issuing administrative citations for nuisance law violations. supervisor avalos: ok. we also have a presentation from the director of dpw? >> good morning. i have a presentation if you want or need it. otherwise, just happy to answer questions. supervisor avalos: i think briefly if you could discuss the benefit of the ordinance for your work and the work of your department. if you could briefly talk about that, that would be great. >> it is really -- the enforcement responsibilities that the department has for maintaining the public rights of way to be safe and clean and accessible are scattered amongst a number of different parts of the municipal code and health code, the police code an ad in code, the public works code. we have two pieces of the existing legislation. the blight ordinance and our sidewalk inspection and repair ordinance, which actually work very well. they are very effective because they are designed to enable us to, once we have identified a problem,

and i know abating graffiti is a passion, if not an obsession of his. so i just want to acknowledge the great work. [applause] that mohammed does for the city day if in and day out. so i do want to -- i'll just share one little anecdote as

- a bidding -- abating graffiti. those are the areas we have worked really hard to preserve services where we can. we only cut front line services after we have cut materials, supplies, managers, admen support, vehicles, workers' comp costs, which we do everything we can to preserve those for online services, but we are down to a point where it is getting more difficult to preserve those. a final note -- one of those services at risk are the maintenance of street trees. we're getting to the point where all we will really be able to do is respond to emergencies. one of the things we are contemplating is relinquishing responsibility of city- maintained street trees to the property owners, which is the case in most parts of the city, but in some parts of the city, some streets the city maintains the trees, and most parts, the property owner maintains. so it is not fair or equitable. it is not sustainable. that is one solution that we are looking at. i look forward to your comments, and fax, all, for coming out tonight.

our next item is item e, general public comment for the abatement appeals hearing. commissioner lee: seeing none. >> seeing none, we can move on to item f, which is adjournment. all those in favor? commissioner lee: ok. we are adjourned. >> we will be adjourned for approximately 15 minutes while we set up for the building inspection commission meeting. captioned by the national captioning institute ---www.ncicap.org--- >> good morning. today is wednesday, april 20, 2011. this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. at this time i would once again remind you to please turn off all electronic devices. the first item on the agenda is roll call. president, vice president. commissioner clinch. commission murphy. commissioner romero. commissioner walker and commission lee is excused. we have a quorum and the next item on the agenda is president's announcement. president hechanova: good morning. would love to add that april 27 will be administrative assistants day and would like to recognize all of those who in all departments but more importantly the d