this is public comment for the abatement appeals hearing. seeing none, we have item f, which is adjournment. commissioner lee: ok, we will adjourn for 10 minutes and we will reconvene as the bic. >> thank you. >> thank you.

there is nothing to abate. commissioner walker: but our department does not have any record that there was any inspection of whatever the permits for the funding was at that time. my question is, you have done a rebuild after the fire. what is the current heating source? >> it is a water heater. commissioner walker: ok. commissioner lee: any other questions, commissioner? commissioner murphy: director sweeney, explain to me what is going on. commissioner lee: we will go to the appellant first and then talk to the department again. any other questions for the appellant? i have a question. my understanding is that there was a fire and you rebuild the building, changed the heating system. >> there was fire damage before, and it for part of our roof off. the place was vacated. commissioner lee: you must have had permits to -- >> we had a demo permit and everything. commissioner walker: what is the current heating system? electric? >> yes. commissioner lee: that was indicated in your construction project? commission

this is public comment for the abatement appeals hearing. seeing none, we have item f, which is adjournment. commissioner lee: ok, we will adjourn for 10 minutes and we will reconvene as the bic. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking

the order of abatement you are reviewing originally give 30 days. you would be providing 90 days from today's date. commissioner murphy: ok. i will second that motion. >> upholding the cost until the time when the permit was applied for. vice president mar: 90 days from today. commissioner walker: yes. >> i mean, there has to be some process that is consistent. i do not see that this is -- i will not go into it. thank you very much and i will complete the work in 90 days. commissioner walker: do we have a second on that? commissioners, just a clarification. i believe the department stated they were $1050 as of the day the permit was applied for, but there are additional costs since that time. and commissioner walker: can i get clear on the additional costs? commissioner murphy: my understanding is that before you today is to uphold the order of abatement and to approve the assessment of cost to this point -- i'm sorry -- to the date of the hearing. any other costs since then i would assume would be dealt with when we did our final fee. it would not

this is public comment for the abatement appeals hearing. seeing none, we have item f, which is adjournment. commissioner lee: ok, we will adjourn for 10 minutes and we will reconvene as the bic. >> thank you. >> thank you. we are ready to begin. good morning. today is wednesday, may 18, 2011. this is a regular meeting of building inspection commission. at this time, i would like to remind everybody to please turn off electronic devices. the first item on the agenda is roll call. president hechanov commissioner murphy? >> here. commissioner walker? >> here. the next item on the agenda. president's announcements. commissioner lee: there is no president's announcements today. >> an update on dbi. >> good morning, commissioners. good morning, vice president mar and commissioners. today we have a brief item. as requested last month by president hechanova, we're here to provide you a tentative timetable for the plan. we will adjust it as needed. our primary focus right now is on our human resources. that is our dbi staff preparation, education, a

there is nothing to abate. commissioner walker: but our department does not have any record that there was any inspection of whatever the permits for the funding was at that time. my question is, you have done a rebuild after the fire. what is the current heating source? >> it is a water heater. commissioner walker: ok. commissioner lee: any

this is for the abatement of pills. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give us the truth to the best of your knowledge? thank you. we can move on to item number c, which is new appeals. order of abatement case 1, case number 6748 1429 hyde street. the act it -- the action requested by the appellant is assessment of costs and fees imposed by the order abatement be waived. we will hear from the department first for seven minutes and then the appellant. then we will have discussion, and then there is a three-minute rebuttal for each side. if we could hear from the department representative first. >> good morning, commissioners. i work for the department of building inspection as a plumbing and mechanical and specter. -- inspector. the original notice of violation was written by myself based on an actual physical inspection of the premises on 4/19/04. at which time, we observed several code violations, which are delineated on the report. we issued letters, followed procedure, and some of these code violations

abatement hearings never quite happened. i'm thinking that the complaints are going into a round file. i made one last year and have never been called to a hearing. here we have a contractor who is working with impunity without permits. if cal-osha cannot stop him and dbi cannot stop him, why do we even need permits? i think it is easier to require him to get one than to figure out a way to make the city safe if no one has to get one. can we spend a little time so we do not have to come back in a month and tell the same story? i have been working with nancy for more than one year. i've never seen such a bad set of plans as what was submitted in 2010b

process and abatement process is essentially over. the abatement order should have been recorded. we are here with what the city family starting with d.b.i. ordered us to do, bring a permit and work with the staff and i want to thank the staff. they have done an excellent job. it took us two years to get through the d.b.i. process. i'm here as a resource to answer questions and i want this to be focused on the denying that we are presenting and i will turn it over to toby morris, the architect, who will walk you through the rest of it. thank you. >> good afternoon. toby morris. the scope of work of this project consists of three parts. at the back, a reduction along the eastern side, more reduction reductions and at the front the demolition of existing two-story over garage structure and reconstruction in a smaller format. again on the back, we are reduce being the two-story envelope and pulling it back to a foot and a half off of the side property line where there is no side yard requirement and they are at grade encroachments that will be removed as part of the settlement with t

abatement hearings never quite happened. i'm thinking that the complaints are going into a round file. i made one last year and have never been called to a hearing. here we have a contractor who is working with impunity without permits. if cal-osha cannot stop him and dbi cannot stop him, why do we even need permits? i think it is easier to require him to get one than to figure out a way to make the city safe if no one has to get one. can we spend a little time so we do not have to come back in a month and tell the same story? i have been working with nancy for more than one year. i've never seen such a bad set of plans as what was submitted in 2010 by this building owner/ contractor. the drawings were inconsistent from sheet to sheet. they were signed by an engineer who may or may not have ever seen the plans. some of the plans were photocopied from an earlier set. there's a problem at 23rd ave. the deeper you dig -- he digs -- the more we might find out. it's too late for a slap on the wrist. this has been going on for nin

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

what we are talking about is the assessment of costs that are attended with an order of abatement. that was the intent on this application to file this appeal. we're not asking for that. we need time because of the legal issues involved and the work. and that was the -- the cost done without the permit. the $93,000 was critical before we had to have that ironed out before we could file the permit. so that took some staff. by the way, the staff from the director, chief inspector were very cooperative. very cooperative. very helpful to us in this whole process. so working with staff for the last three, four months to clear this. we simply want to clear it and make the building code compliant. thank you. and mr. sessinger is here. president lee: commissioner murphy. commissioner murphy: does any of the tenants, do you have any -- do any of these tenants have leases? >> here's mr. sessinger. he can answer that. >> there is the original rental agreement which is a commercial rental agreement which we have copies of and that was from 2005 and it's month to month. and the tenants have bee

they are in charming of weed abatement. cuts come even though 12 jobs were already eliminated through attrition this year. >> the effect will be property like this simply wrote get abated as quickly. there will be fewer people will be coming out to make sure that property is taken care of. >> they say they don't have enough money to fund the department. county has not responded to today's claims by the union. >> and rains over the weekend are blamed for the cancellation of the ferry service. strong winds damaged two of the pillars the ferry goes to. they are working on it right now but no time frame when service is going to be running again. they are going to notify commuters on alert system later this afternoon. mike nicco is in the weather center with a look at our windy conditions right now. >> let's go back to 11:00 last night. the gusts were the fastest. 41 miles an hour and 35 in oakland and 21 in hayward and 25 in napa and also in novato. fast forward to now, not quite as fast, sfo is down to 18 miles per hour and li

, regarding declaring illegal dumping on public property a nuisance and providing a mechanism for abating and enforcing that nuisance. supervisor chiu: same house, call? without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. >> item 10 is an ordinance appropriating approximately $6.9 million of loan funding from the california department of boating and waterways for the renovation of west harbor of the san francisco marine a yacht harbor. >> this is an additional loan from the california state department boating and waterways to finish the completion of the marina west yacht harbor renovation. this will be done in time right now for the america's cup in 2013, and a quick point, to make sure people know this is at 0 expense to the taxpayer. this is being done and being paid for by increased booklet fees. good deal for us, bad deal for boat owners, but i think everyone is happy it is getting done. supervisor chiu: can we take this same house, call? the ordinance is passed on first reading. item 11. >> item 11 is a resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a lease with asiana airlin

they are in charming of weed abatement. cuts come even though 12 jobs were already eliminated through attrition this year. >> the effect will be property like this simply wrote get abated as quickly. there will be fewer people will be coming out to make sure that property is taken care of. >> they say they don't have enough money to fund the department. county has not responded to today's claims by the union. >> and rains over the weekend are blamed for the cancellation of the ferry service. strong winds damaged two of the pillars the ferry goes to. they are working on it right now but no time frame when service is going to be running again. they are going to notify commuters on alert system later this afternoon. mike nicco is in the weather center with a look at our windy conditions right now. >> let's go back to 11:00 last night. the gusts were the fastest. 41 miles an hour and 35 in oakland and 21 in hayward and 25 in napa and also in novato. fast forward to now, not quite as fast, sfo is down to 18 miles per hour and li

they were out in a rural area doing we'd abatement. >> -- weed abatement. >> not illegal? >> no. >> something that cal osha would look into it. where the truck ended up is 200 to 300 feet from where the truck was originally at. all of the injuries were taken to the hospital. two by helicopter with major injuries. live in the hills, ktvu channel 2 news. >> our coverage continues on line with raw video of the accident scene. look under the bay area news area on our home page. >>> the tornado we showed you here hitting northern california caused more danger than originally thought. if you look at the video here you get the impression there would be light damage in the rural area. but we have photographs that show the aftermath as the tornado went through an almond orchard. this photo here shown to us by the couple shows a tree tossed in the air. the owners say they suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. >> literally takes it and dropped it over the top of this telephone pole and it lands over here. >> the tornado also destroyed a barn and garage and damaged seve

- 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

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 to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district. >> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 every day. theater productions bring

- 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.

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,

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.

complete in 2012, whereupon the program will then undertake final site of fruit -- improvements and abatement and demolition of wings. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rose. >> as we point out on page four of our report under fiscal impacts, this modification of $893,000 would increase the not to exceed amount of this existing contract from $15.3 million to $16.2 million, about a 5.8% increase. i would point out that the existing agreement was previously awarded based on a competitive rfp process. although the original award of the contract was $601,000 and now the new not to exceed amount, if you approve this, it hundred $93,000 modification, would result in a total not to exceed amount of approximately $16.2 million. mr. thomas notes that the significant increases occur because the agreement was negotiated in stages. where the agreement was modified annually based on the work plan for the particular year involved, but we recommend that you approve this resolution. supervisor chu: thank you very much. supervisor kim: i just have two questions for

there were some delays in receiving the division of safety approval for the abatement stability assessment. now that we have that, we should be able to move forward with our temperamental documents. i hope that we will be able to reach that milestone this upcoming quarter. on the regional side, we actually had a large number of milestones. we actually have 13. we achieved 12 of them. actually, 11. we missed the lauren livermore milestone. the delay was due to the fact that the -- was issued late but more importantly, the wet weather conditions we encountered prevented us to move as quickly as we would have liked to. we are dealing with a key different headings to. tunneling operation started in late april. this was very exciting. this was taken yesterday. we will do all the work under the bay for 5 miles. this will be followed by a year -- a gear which will spend about 600 feet. on march 30th, we had an event to commemorate the start of construction on four different projects on the upper peninsula. we were pleased to have some of our regional partners as well as elected officials. this sh

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there were some delays in receiving the division of safety approval for the abatement stability assessment. now that we have that, we should be able to move forward with our temperamental documents. i hope that we will be able to reach that milestone this upcoming quarter. on the regional side, we actually had a large number of milestones. we actually have 13. we achieved 12 of them.

this is public comment for the abatement appeals hearing. seeing none, we have item f, which is adjournment. commissioner lee: ok, we will adjourn for 10 minutes and we will reconvene as the bic. >> thank you. >> thank you. [horns honking] [siren wails] announcer: big dreams and goodrades aren't enough to get into college. there are actual steps you need to take. finding someone who can help is the first and most important. for the next steps, go to knowhow2go.org. >> welcome to the rules committee. my name is supervisor kim. joined by supervisor farrel. the court today is linda wong. they record each meeting and make the transcripts available online. are there any announcements? >> this adams ammendment will go to the full board. >> and can we excuse supervisor ellsbernd? call item number one. >> motion to appoint mirkarimi to the council. >> we will open up for public comment. public comment is now closed. are there any comments or questions on this item? we can move this forward without recommendation. may you pleace call -- please call i

the fight was abated prior to the police arriving. >> any questions? >> just tell me, do you agree with me that the new weapon of choice is high heels? >> we're seeing high heels more and more. >> i have seen high heels used at least on two different occasions. makes me think i have to start wearing high heels. just to keep safe. >> i don't go out without them. [laughter] >> looking at the injuries, they are pretty significant. they have a puncture. >> i saw a girl's cheek pierced by a high heel. >> any other questions? any public comment on the report? thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right. >> i bet you look cute in high heels. >> you bet. hearing and possible action regarding an -- applications for permits under the jurisdiction over the entertainment commission. item a, michael o'connor, d.b.a. brick and mortar, 1710 mission street place of entertainment. >> this was received last month, april 13. in your pact, yourl find a detailed resume detailing prior experience as an operator as well as through a thorough business plan. the recommenda

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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 approv

there was some sort of weed abatement. as you can see here, it does not appear that that fire spread to the neighboring homes. again, it looks like this house suffered major damage or is a total loss. >> firefighters on the scene for a while. >>> we wanted to talk about the weather. rain, warnings of tornado. >> tornado warning extended to 6:45 in butte county. tornadoes towards chico. i will back it up a little bit. these are the cells i am tracking. right about here. the doppler radar picking up rotation. these severe thunderstorms moving towards chico. brings it up to the current right here. you are having heavy rain right now. you could be getting tornadic activity. as this system moves into the foot hills and brush creek and highway 32, they will fall apart. the spin in these. the tornado fear goes way as they move towards the east but they are still severe thunderstorm that are capable of producing hail up to dime size. crazy day. mountains, closed because of snow. snowing hard. we got just that kind of weather and i