we are now adjourned as the abatement appeals board. we'll take a ten minute recess and reconvene as the building inspection commission. thank you. >>> >> good afternoon, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. i'm scott wiener, the chairman of the committee, to my right is commissioner kim, supervisor chiu is not able to attend this meeting today. i would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting. >> any announcements? >> yes. please make sure you silence cell phones and electronic devices. items will appear

>> great questions. >> well, i'm the graffiti guy, graffiti abatement guy. [laughter] (applause) >> as far as the guys i use on my paint overs, i have a group of 3 to 4 guys and i pick them -- they're hand picked by me. i tend to pick guys who are patient, good with kids, guys who are school resource officers. that's a big plus. you know, you've got to like kids, maybe have experience in teaching, coaching, working with kids. like i said in my presentation, you don't want the guy with the rack shock and smoke mirror glasses who looks like he's working on a chain gang. you want someone who can maybe not talk to them in their own vernacular, but who can see eye to eye with them, talk to them about kid things and most of all be patient. and who can document trouble and kind of see things on the horizon that might be issues coming up and who are familiar with the san francisco landscape. you know, i don't let just any cop come and do the overtime. very, very picky about who i get. and i get guys who are dependable and who are most of all good with kids. >> larry

dpw as a rule does not do the abatement. so, whether they are or aren't using the correct materials to remove it off of brick, it's based on who they hire or who they get to do the work. we are aware for the time when we did do t we have several different products based on the type of surface. and staff was trained at that time, but that's when we were doing abatement on private property. >> i can just help a little bit. again, from the historic building perspective, of course, private property can be historic, too. but there's a difference between, of course, when it's a public owned building or private owned building. perhaps some of it is an awareness or an education about resource he he that are available. there's a whole gamut of people available to remove graffiti, people who have never done it before, maybe they're painters but they just have access to materials and they are used to taking paint off. i guess farther down the spectrum of people that have never done it before and just want to be good citizens to remove

we are now adjourned as the abatement appeals board. we'll take a ten minute recess and reconvene as the building inspection commission. thank you. >>> ♪ >> i am so looking forward to the street fair tomorrow. >> it is in the mission, how are we going to get there? we are not driving. >> well what do you suggest? >> there are a lot of great transportation choices in the city and there is one place to find them all, sfnta.com. >> sfmta.com. >> it is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. >> sitting in front of my computer waiting transportation options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. >> the new sfmta.com is mobile friendly, it works great on a tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. >> cool. >> but, let's just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay? >> it might be much more fun to ride our bikes. >> i am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. >> okay, how about this, we can ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home

>> yes, this is actually for enforcement and abatement. i have two similar questions actually from the same city so i'm kind of going to blend them together. they're interested in restitution cost formula to charge individuals caught tagging the restitution labor, materials, equipment, costs. so, i don't know if that could be split between -- pointing at you. abatement and enforcement. >> i was going to point to dwight, but i guess i'll take it. >> or martin. >> just from my experience, you look at the amount that you've -- the amount of time that you've spent abating the problem. that starts with lugging paint over to the van, driving it to the site, putting on one coat, putting on a second coat, making sure it's not bleeding, possibly putting on a third coat making sure it's covered up, reloading it and driving back. the cost of the supplies is minimal. the cost of the labor is where you justify the cost because you're looking at someone's hourly wage, time, plus the amount of time that they spent abating the problem. and that's what's g

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. >> hi today we have a special edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san fra

this is a meeting of the abatement appeals board. the first item on the agenda is roll call. president clinch, commissioner mar, commissioner mccray, commissioner mccarthy, commissioner lee, commissioner walker and vice-president melgar is expected. we have a quorum. the next item is item b. i have and announcement. there is going to be a continuance of item b. presidio avenue. this case will not be heard today. the next item is b. the oath. please raise your right hand to be sworn. do you swear the testimony that you are about to give to be the truth to the best of your knowledge? thank you. be seated. item c. approval of minutes. discussion and possible action for adoption of minutes of april 17, 2013. >> move to approve. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all in favor? aye. any opposed? the minutes are approved. >> the next item b continued appeals. i want to announce that since these cases were previously heard, the appellant and department will have three minutes to present their

charge -- with the abatement side, william hogan. i'll give you his number and stuff. he can tell you how they do an audit. they do a yearly -- every two years they do an audit and that's how they get their pricing on how many square feet that they have to do. and it just moves up and up and up. when i first started it was like 17 bucks. now it's like 54 bucks. so, inflation, man. so, yeah. this is a great thing. even if you don't know what some of the graffiti is and you start typing it, you can figure out one of the letters if this computer goes. back in that search area when it gets back there, they say you see that [speaker not understood] right there. that's merc. if you see merc right there and you don't know what it said but you can see the first two letters, m.e., you can go up here in the search area and

that incident number is tracked to our graffiti abatement team. from them i give incident number, 451 4321. okay, we cleaned it up on this date and it was 45 21 for a damage estimate or $54. whatever it took for them to clean that off and how they cleaned it off, that's how we get our damage estimate to make a bigger case. >> [speaker not understood]? >> for the abatement? as that's a whole 'nother ball game and a whole 'nother day. but i can get it for you. they do an audit every year, neighborhood services department. last year we cleaned up $6.4 million in graffiti. so, it's pretty bad. i give you the person to get in charge -- with the abatement side, william hogan. i'll give you his number and stuff. he can tell you how they do an audit. they do a yearly -- every two years they do an audit and that's how they get their pricing on how many square feet that they have to do. and it just moves up and up and up. when i first started it was like 17 bucks. now it's like 54 bucks. so, inflation, man. so, yeah. this is a great thing. even if you don't

for light notice of violation and abatement orders, $693,88 6 .80 for asapx 11 04s for a total of $76 2,701.77. 82 invoices were sent out to property owners of which 43 invoices were paid along with the city to recover $9,0 82.[speaker not understood]. the balance [speaker not understood] sidewalk repairs or inspection costs placed on their property tax or otherwise have not paid the city in a timely manner. in this report we are submitting 39 properties with outstanding invoices totaling $59,73 2.68 to be placed as an assessment on the property tax rolls. >> thank you. unless there are any questions to dpw, why don't i now ask if there are members of the public that have issues with this report or if you have any comment to this report, you are welcome to provide your public comment. and after you do, we'll ask you to have a conversation with our dpw staff to see if this matter can be resolved before we end this hearing. >>> and somewhere down the broken sidewalk road ♪ our roads are going to cross again and somewhere down the broken road i know you're gonna find these funds again ♪

the solution to proactive maintenance of abatement from the publishers of free standing newsracks lies in [speaker not understood] in order to maintain the newsrack certificates. thank you very much. i have my survey in hard copy i'd like to submit to the supervisors. >> great, thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is kevin fong. i'm the circulation manager for the san francisco advertiser paper. i received an e-mail from the city of dpw regarding elimination of the freestanding racks to keep our subway -- sidewalks clean from clutter. i'm very shocked to hear committees consider eliminating newspapers street racks. we have been in business over 43 years and we have held many small business to grow. ~ helped they are like us, they hire local employees, pay city payroll taxes, support local business and pay property tax. we are a weekly newspaper. our readers use our paper to save money, retail, [speaker not understood]. by eliminating freestanding racks on the street, that will negatively impact the larger number of local small business and [speake

that was my thought on that and also concerns speak ing about meetings what the issue is on abatement appeals and how many do we have in line and how many we might still need an abatement appeals meeting to help in that backlog for boeltsdz -- both the staff as well as the people involved with that process. you may want to do this. they are not, so you you can talk about that. >> commissioner? >> yeah, i'm actually fine either way. but i agree that we are in the midst of a director process, director search process and maybe there are things that we can do. i know that we have to schedule special meetings when we are altogether interviewing, so maybe we can do that during july to have a couple of interview meetings that are closed which is what we have to do i believe. if there is applicants? >> yes, i concur, very valid point. i just think if we are going to take vacation that we all concur in july so we are all here for the august particularly because of the business schedule we are going to have with regard to obviously the search for the new director and so on. >> i personally i'm

two seconds, the restaurant owner, previously suggested a system called a malatron odor abatement system, it is a small but effective misting system that removes the grease from the air and that was the previous suggestion and i would request that they use the system that they previously had specified. and it is not terribly expensive, i think that it is an $8,000 system and including i think many of the things that they have in the smaller proposal. this has no air filtration, system proposed. thank you. >> i don't know to get into the specific product. but i don't know, mr. sanchez or staff? >> if you have any suggestions on resolving? , you can correct the staff to look at that further and see if there are other systems that would better address the odor, and the odor is very difficult. >> yes. to address and i would not want this to be an ongoing enforcement issue with the violation of the condition of approval and so that is why i am cautious at this point before they take any action on this item and this has happened on the other cases where if there is a certain expectation and la

after that survey, we saw no mitigation, no abatement, we saw no process to approach the community and do meaningful outreach which means go door to door and say these are the types of things we want to do for you. can you participate in this deliberation. it's very easy to fit far away from the area and remote control say we are going to do this and that and something else. it's very important to do door to door outreach which hasn't been done by those people who produce that survey. thank you very much. >> thank you, any other member of the public who would like to comment? >> seeing none and no more cards. we'll close public comment. >> for the record i would like to note that sf puc received a number of notes to this commission in favor and were submitted. >> yes. we also received some e-mails and all were welcomed with different points of view. >> next item. >> item no. 5. item 5: cleanpower sf >> may i say something? so first of all good morning puc and lafco commissioners. i'm with the public utilities commission. for number of years we've been working together and the developme

we think this will create jobs for the homeless and by developing community gardens and abating graffiti and maintaining streets. i should menace the program we hired thirty local people to jobs and to train and to mitigate community tensions by uncomfortable public safety in district 10. the mayor interim program we're going to pick up jobs. and then i mentioned the mid community agreement to hire the phone calls from the community and providing interimship. i don't have the figures yet >> last it our language assess. as you know the g a immigrant affairs compliant and provides technical resources for all departments and improves the access with folks with limited language proficiency. we monitor bilingual at 60 public events including the town hall and commission meetings. they've translated hundreds of documents and assisted folks in disastrous situation. we have provided assistance and that is for the interpretation. and the he - that concludes my presentation >> do you have any comments on the discussion i understand the discussion with the budget analyst are ongoing. >> yes we're g

this murder rate in the city and county of san francisco should be abated. if we're short please we're investigators we should at least bring the department up to par which is about 40. i'm not sure. so we can get a handle on this and many that those murders solved and unsolved should be announced at this meeting so the public will know how serious this is. you look at this at least whose son was murdered and go on about your business. i think if you look at what's tavern in other cities and other cities that san francisco is a crossroad between the east and west should at least have something or department capable of having investigations to the full ability. i intend for your time >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> call the chiefs report review recent pedestrian safety. good evening conceive and interested public. i don't want to let ms. brown's comments go. ii have had many conversations unfortunately, we have no physical evidence or technical evidence we're actually seeking evidence if anyone has new evidence our main priority is to give the mo

may want to be a landscape motorbikes worker are repair are things of that nature or awe by itself abatement because it's danger. so i just feel like the more we open it because i think this spirit of this was to open up opportunities for our students. now i have a suggestion that we can add under one of the sanctions might make this more agriculture able to the board. and this comes from any tainted a meeting with the mayor's construction workforce advisory committee and what i heard from the regional directors the electricians and the carpenters and also from the other krashts is that the reason they have open apprenticeship. there wasn't enough work hours to have an apprenticeship there. that's why they have not had the open apprenticeship hours. under number 2 and i'll reader read this. the contract is able to provide written xhichlgs that despite a concerted forever - oh, i mean involving their project and at least one city graduate or successful graduate of the sf internship program has been sponsored to work on the duration of that contractors work that despite the work the qualified

the heat not really abating. nor will the dry conditions abate all that much in the southwest as well. we might get a stray thunderstorm. that would only serve to maybe spark new wildfires in the southwest. hot and dry conditions prevail with this upper-level ridge of high pressure. high pressure, sinking air. the air compresses, heats up. but then we've got this upper-level trough in the east. that is what's keeping us cool and wet. so wet around the new york city area we've seen two to three inches of rain just today. flooding of underpasses has been a big deal as well as flooding over roadways and even some of the transit systems have been affected by the high winds that have knocked over some trees with these thunderstorms. we'll continue to see wet weather not just today but also over the next couple of days. very slow-moving system here so even into midweek we'll continue to keep it wet throughout much of the eastern united states. as far as the rainfall amounts, they could be very, very profound, as much a

those are the sole cost of the expense of the tenant and provides for a rent abatement period when no rent is paid for nine months for the improvements and one time rent credit for core and shell improvements. this lease is subject to the board of subject to the board of supervisors' approval and they anticipate sales of $2.3 million and translates to $14,000 per month. the investment translates to net investment of $450 a month i believe per square foot which is very good investment, and john cane and sara cane who are the principals are in the audience today as are the developers, premier structure and staff and i appreciate them digging in with us as we went through the due process and they're still willing and i seek your approval to send it to the board of supervisors. >> so moved. >> second. >> any discussion? >> we've talked about this quite a bit in the past but i just want to say to everyone involved thank you for making it such a green project and i think it will really be a new beacon on the waterfront in terms of creativity and showing how we can have sustainable uses for

. >> really could increase the risk of exposure for children by creating led dust through abatement. >> reporter: experts call that hogwash. the risk is pealing paint. >> causing brain damage. and the other part is it takes so little to poise an child. >> reporter: 23,000 california children have elevated led levels. both sides presented opening arguments. there is a long list of expert witnesses in this trial. reporting live, health and science editor john fowler ktvu channel 2 news. >>> new research suggests california consumers are paying more for certain drugs because they delayed releasing generic versions. many brand name drug companies pay off generic manufactures to delay putting the drugs on the market. as a result consumers end up paying hundreds of dollars more. >> people paid as much as $465 for the brand name. that is 33 times the price of the generic that is now available. >> a bill is making its way through the senate to make it illegal. >>> the head of the california lottery stepped down today after a year and a half on the job. he took the job in december of 2011. th

today, abated spokesman said they are simply following the schedule set by the negotiator. union leaders say they want to talk now and want b.a.r.t to send them someone with the authority to bargain. >> it is up conscientious that the computers and the community and the workers will be held in such risk just for the point of having we leverage at a bargaining table. >> with no nets in the 30 day sedge july. it makes us feel there is still time to reach a fair contract. >> no formal talks scheduled until next tuesday when hawk returns from his vacation. also, today, b.a.r.t offered a preview on a new train car. reporters got access to the life sized mark up. the model will stay at mcarthur station in oakland all this week. in the afternoons, passengers can walk there and fill out a survey to help guide the final stein. >>> paul, we're used to seeing clouds. today was a little don't it is more humid outside. the clouds are not the low cloud cover that comes in. this is a change because of tropical moisture. told you about this friday that monday and tuesday will likely be clo