you have to be assessed for that. i think that is a very green thing to do because you do not have to add building. do you have anything to say about general improvement? >> it is a big additional we are talking about attic space. when you are retrofitting for earthquakes two stories up in an edwardian, the expense involved, i think, would be hard to justify in most neighborhoods. >> it is hard to get enough windows with dormers, etc. >> how about converting the attic into storage? >> you said you recently did that, alice. >> that is fairly simple. i would get a permit. and you are allowed a certain amount of space. you have to have ventilation. i do not remember all the rules. >> will the property tax increase? >> i do not think so. >> to convert an existing empty attic into a storage attic? that does not sound like you are converting it into the living area. the a sensible addition would be converting it into a living area. >> it is usually by a letter that pulls down. a staircase would have to be deliverable area w

needs assessment and a staff. could that be measured or what kind of actions would be taken? i am trying to look at a friendly amendment as suggested by the commissioner. if we change this to a needs assessment, does it still serve the same purpose? >> we would then tried to reason with them. >> does it still not achieve the same purpose? >> if i could buy been a little bit on this -- pipe in a little bit on this, i think i feel a little bit better about this now that i understand it. it is a public body. we're going to have a public hearing. if the developer is submitting to us the plan, we're going to have a public hearing. hopefully, we can bring the residents to our hearing. we can hear about it and then we can approve a retail plan. i guess my concern is about how the plan is going to be, but at least it is a public process. we will have the developer come to us, a public party, at a public hearing, have the residents come to us, and then they can tell us what they need. >> the word targeted was suggested by

has there ever been any assessment? any kind of assessment? on the advent upper cbd's in san francisco? in terms of what services they are able to provide? beyond baseline services provided by san francisco city and county? any kind of evaluation? >> not to my knowledge. i do not recall any kind of evaluation. supervisor chusupervisor mirkars still a relatively new concept in san francisco. yerba buena will likely have unanimous support, but i am hoping to segue into another conversation in the near future, some day. between districts 3 and 6, what is the total number of cbd's? >> just in district 6? supervisor mirkarimi: district 3 and the district 6. >> that would be roughly seven. supervisor mirkarimi: where did the number 12 come from? >> that is because i work with 12 of them. the last two being ocean avenue and city center. would it not be true that those who have the larger budgets with the orientation towards capital improvements? >> working with it the community, for many of them capital improvements have come up as something importan

chances are, the assessment will be a little bit different than last year. the original purchase applies plus whatever the inflation factor was on an annual basis. in general, up to 2%. we had a negative inflation factor for the first time last year. everybody got a reduction last year. >> [inaudible] >> this year, cpi based on the final number we saw, is. 5% positive. it is still well below 2%. -- is .5% positive. it is still well below 2%. the economy is still rather flat. >> [inaudible] >> everybody who does not get a reduction will get a .5% increase in their assessment. that is just a proximate. it will probably be pretty close to that. we can show you the website. we follow the same website. it is the state cpi. it is a tracking mechanism for the state. >> [inaudible] >> i think there will vote to finalize in the next month or two. i think the number is done. >> overall, when all is said and done, what is the amount that you're going to receive [inaudible] >> for reductions, it will really just depend on how much your property might have depreciated or

>> so even though we're just learning about these assessments now, the assessments are old and nothing will really change you think in terms of disposition of the prisoners or what happens going forward? gwen: what happened to this idea of moving them to a facility in the us us? >> well, that's now against the law or will be if legislation favored by the republicans vonses. there are only 172 left. about 47 of them are considered to be too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to let go. 36 will be prosecuted. the rebe transferred so we're talking about an ever-smaller group but you're right, 95% of the detainees at guantanamo went there in 2002 and 2003 so these guys have been out of the fight already for eight years. gwen: thank. now we move on to perhaps the most politically bizarre story of the week involved the release of a birth certificate that proved something already known to be true. the president, as they say in the u.k., was not amused. >> we're not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers. gwen: the carnival barker th

did you have a risk assessment? the answer is no. they are in the process of ramping up the program now. every year furnished being has increased. we assume that would be justified by a cost-benefit analysis although they have agreed to complete both a risk assessment and cost/benefit analysis. but traditionally weld expect to find that at early program interception, not four or five years after you deploy the program. >> thank you for your testimony. mr. chairman, i would say for the record it would be good to get a cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment before we spend another $20 million, $2 million, or $2 on the program. thank you very much. >> mrs. adams, you are recognized. >> thank you, mr. chair. the program has been ongoing since 2007. is that what i heard? >> the validation research study has been ongoing since 2007. >> since 2007. and i heard you say there was no system out there that you could use that was validated or availab available. is that correct? >> we are unaware of any behavioral bill based program t has been

did you have a risk assessment? and the answer was, no. they're in the process of ramping up the program now. every year, you know, funding has increased. we assume that would be justified by a cost benefit analysis. they don't have one yet, although to their credit they've agreed to complete both risk assessment and a cost benefit analysis. but traditionally we would expect to find that early at program inception, not four or five years after you deployed a program. >> with well, thank you -- well, thank you all for your testimony and, mr. chairman, i would just say for the record it'd be good to get a cost benefit analysis and risk assessment before we spend another, you know, $20 million, $2 on the program. thank you very much. >> i agree with ms. edwards. ms. adams, you're recognized. >> thank you, mr. chair. the program, mr. willis, has been ongoing since 2007s that what i heard? >> the validation research study has been ongoing since 2007. >> the validation research study since 2007, and i heard you say there was no system out there

we go through a community needs assessment.neighborhoods throughout the city, we have community meetings as well as intensive focus groups with certain populations. we gather that information, and with what we gather through the mayor's budget office, we do the allocation plan. this is how much money we have. how do we prioritized and early impact and have better outcomes on those needs? after we do that process, we go through the implementation of that. which essentially is called the request for proposal processes which is the competitive solicitation process. both the community needs assessment and the application plan mandates within the target, but within our own philosophy, it mandates that we work very closely with community members. both of these processes take up to a year to complete. it makes us go back to the community's many times do that some of these ideas. and within the children's amendment, it requires us to do an assessment of the services. we continue to have high-quality programs that will improve the outco

with the white house spokesman has come out and said that the detainee assessed assessment briefs fornstance one that may have been written in two thousand and six and leaked may or may not have the same significance to this government and to this administration now that it did four or five years ago so even if a detainee assessment very late for the person may be at low risk the government can reassess that again many of these people are cited as having been cooks drivers and even farmers who were picked up for questioning and then have to work at guantanamo bay now the white house also has come out and said that president barack obama still holds and is very very important to be shutting down this this prison but at the same time congress is making it very difficult when it comes to taking those prisoners out and trying them on u.s. soil so as more details come out with these d.t.p. detainee assessment briefs that will be very interesting to see which way this argument goes on whether or not to move the over one hundred seventy people still located at this present out for trial or t

this is a general assessment that everyone makes. is your building damaged or not? that's the first question. and the follow-up will be who you will team up with. but it will take place per hour director and that action will need to take place. president hechanova: thank you. commissioner murphy: this department really needs to carry the ball in this, take the leadership? >> absolutely. clearly in terms of the building that's out there for the city. we are -- our initial response, there's a whole sequence. there's charts, flow charts that show each function, how it's supposed to occur. there's a timeline, the first four hours, the next 24, 47, 82, things that is supposed to be happening as the time progresses. all those things are identified. we are updating and filling in any details that are vague and in terms of what we need to do. so that's the -- commissioner murphy: yeah. but it's going to be absolute chaos. the plan should be very, very practical. it should not get complicated. we have, you know, the bay bridge over there, for example. that thing should have

we continue to work with that the city on the collection of assessments. we have completed review for the first year in a full audit that you have in front of you. we regularly conduct board orientations, community chair orientations, and board officer orientations on the board and brown act. we have reports that we have mailed to the property owners. in addition, mundane things like securing office space and hiring staff. for neighborhood cleanliness, again, we are on the streets 365 days per year. we contacted the property owners if they had special issues of a sidewalk treatments or what have you that would be affected by the cleaning, to make sure that we did not damage property. we've recently developed and improved performance for neighborhood cleanliness that we were about to measure. we continue to reach out and meet with residents, homeowners association, and businesses. we regularly attend homeowners' association meetings. neighborhood security -- supervisor chu: a quick question on neighborhood cleanliness. is this a voluntary team or a paid tea

and within the children's amendment, it requires us to do an assessment of the services. we continue to have high-quality programs that will improve the outcomes of our children. it is mandated to meet four goals. these are in the charter and are called the quality of life benchmarks. they are ready to learn, they live in state-supported families and viable communities. and contributing to the development and vitality of san francisco. i have highlighted the second bullet. as well as the allocation process, we found that the resonating comments and requests for the communities of from parents and educators was that we needed to make sure that we focus our energies on helping young people get ready to go to school. even beyond that, going into secondary. we made the decision to prioritize this particular goal in our request for proposal. this is just a graphical representation of all the things i just described. your community needs assessment, the allocation plan, and the implementation of the allocation plan to request for proposal. what is the 2010-2013 allocation plan

union and it sound eventually got here on earth and the commander explanation for a seven day i assessed. he talked to us from the international space station. during your guns words let's go and when taken off the space were a signal to the world the door into orbit was open on the day away bill twelfth nine hundred sixty one the people of the world were united and political systems religious beliefs and skin color didn't matter it was a time of romantics dreamed about the unimaginable possibilities of this great step brought. says the early seventy's space has been kept populated first it was obvious cosmonauts later they were joined by their colleagues from other countries and now those nordic leaving work together at the international space station to a joint project sponsored by sixteen governments. xander thank you for coming to our studio today you know we also welcome mitri constructive who is joining us from the international space station lock with your wishes for. first of all i would like to say that we are celebrating cosmati is day to day the anywhere syria the first man to

>> we're doing language assessment primarily at the epc, but we're doing some out and the community. then the next couple of weeks we going out. there is a schedule and flyer, and when families submit their application, we will look at that to see if lined with the assessment is necessary. we contact families. >> thank you. again, i also wanted to support the commentary that our meetings are televised. that is an important issue, that these meetings are televised. we specifically ask them to support us in this conversation, and we have multiple cbo's who are in partnership with us. they know how to access communities that we as a district organization do not have access to, at and we have been able to nuance some of the conversation. some of the conversations are a little bit ahead, but others need to be explained in a different manner and come back again and again so they clearly understand. i want to let the public know these conversations are televised, they are on the radio, they are available later on the computer, all types of ways to access this information, and hopefully we w

. >> of holding the assessment. >> yes. commissioner lee: ok, that is the motion on the floor. let's call a vote. >> ok. commissioner lee: yes. commissioner walker: yes. commissioner clinch: yes. commissioner hechanova: commissioner mar: yesmar yes. commissioner romero: yes. commissioner murphy: yes. >> okay, the motion carried unanimously. 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 r

and behavior assessment. defense department criminal investigation task force and the national science foundation. ip are today representing only myself and not any of the organizations i have been employed by. on december 22, 2001, while assigned to logan international airport, i was part of a large team of public safety officials who responded to the american airlines flight 63 diverted to boston from a flight from paris france to miami. onboard was a passenger named richard reid who attempted to detonate an improvised explosive device ask that if successful would have killed all passengers and crewmembers aboard. as i stood only a few feet from reid who is now securing custody in the back of the state police cruiser it hit me that this man was the real thing and the threat of another terrorist attack by al qaeda was nonstop and we need to do more, much more to properly screen passengers than merely focusing on weapons. thus began development of what would become the behavior assessment screening system in

and finally, an adequate risk assessment. what we saw was a lot of ad hoc and tunnel vision decision making, particularly in the last two weeks leading up to the blowout. that is because there were serious gaps, we think, in bp's risk regime and risk assessment regime. we also identified problems with safety metrics and process safety. cost is easy to measure. people understand that. if some decision will increase costs, people appreciate it will be a costly decision. process safety is much harder to measure. up front and even after the fact. so there will be a tendency for decisions, unless there is a real robust risk assessment regime, fort decisions to be biased toward costs safety. that leads into the last point, focused on efficiency by institutions toward cost savings. >> you have about five minutes. >> this is just an example of how many companies are out there. the charge can get very complicated. this is an example of the cement job, and numerous examples of the problems with diffuse decision making. little to no com

reconstruction offered sort of tactical assessments but i haven't seen an overall assessment of theommitted over the last two years and measuring the effects of those resources particularly on the governance structures. there is a very strong argument to be made that the strategy which is now centered on a counterinsurgency strategy, we're using our resources and our power as a weapon against us inadvertently. we're not obviously trying to do that. we're trying to identify gaps and whols in the strategy. we have a senior commander working on anti-corruption initiatives but there's a serious question i think that is out there, do we have a seriousness of purpose from our afghan partners that i know most of, all of our troops, most of our troops share out there. people are serving in the u.s. government. i think this is why we go back to that question why can't we get political support on capitol hill? there's this question of the viability of all of this. that if the two big gaping holes that have been repeatedly identified, the rural pakistan and afghan governance and their politica

we need to assess the training needs and develop training goals for all department staff consistent with fema and california office of service management. that involves training, etc. as well as postdisaster earthquake design of buildings. two is to resign and update the d.b.i. emergency response plan to conform with all current city standards and ensure compatibility and integration with the city and county of san francisco all-hazard strategic plan. three is to sign and update positions and to clarify duties with the assessment team, verify recall costs, documents and reporting requirements are current. item four is going to be to attend regular emergency operation center meetings and workshops, participate in tabletop exercises and support the emergency resource planning work group which is participating and apply for available grant funding opportunities through the department of emergency management. last month, we on a monthly basis there's emergency resource planning work groups that are intradepartmental and those have been important for us communicating information and resources

in the recent california assessment, we used three of these scenarios. or at least models that were based on those to guide us in assessing what might happen in the state of california in sort of a broad base of different impacts ranging from water resources to forest, human health, beeches, coasts, agriculture and so on. let's go on to the next one. okay this is kind of one of those tricky power point graphs and this is where i pretend i'm al gore. now we're taking longer point of view and these three traces here at the bottom is global temperature, surface temperature of the earth. this is made out from proxy records and we did not have thermometers a hundred and fifty years ago so this is reconstructed from sediments and ice ansisotopes and so forth and the top is co2, so this is in hundreds of thousands of years and it's interesting that you see this pretty remarkable sigh lick or cycles and this is the climate and other periods of earth history we would be huddled in a cave right now or something. the - one of the primary factors in causing this per

now you can have your teeth cleaned and assess your risk of developing head and throat cancer all at the same time. some bay area dentists are now offering a simple saliva test. you go to the dentist to get your teeth cleaned, your gums checked, and prevent cavities. now you can also get a potentially life-saving medical test when you're sitting in the chair. >> we're going to do this saliva test. >> reporter: with a simple swirl and spit your dentist collects a saliva sample, then sends it in to a lab to check for hpv, or human papilloma virus. research shows people infected with hpv are 32 times more like i. to develop oral cancer than those not infected. most people visit their dentists much more often than their doctor. so this test gives them an opportunity to get their teeth cleaned and an important medical test at the same time. another perk? they don't have to get poked with a needle. >> reporter: dr. patel, a dent invest concord, already checks her patients' mouths for signs of cancer, but often by the time she can see it it's too late to treat. >> when it actually can be vi

the soviet union alexander prevention here on earth and the come on expedition twenty seven today i assess that if he talks to us from the international space station. during your guns words let's go when taken off a space where a signal to the world is a door into orbit and was opened on the day away bill twelfth nine hundred sixty one the people of the world were united and political systems for religious beliefs and skin color didn't matter it was a time of romantics who dreamed about the unimaginable possibilities of this great step brought. us is the early seventy's space has been kept populated first it was so obvious cosmonauts later they were joined by their colleagues from other countries and now those in order to even work together and the international space station a joint project sponsored by sixteen governments. xander thank you for coming to our studio today and we also welcome mitri can drop ship who is joining us from the international space station log good wishes. first of all i would like to say that we are celebrating because mardi gras day to day they were serial the