. >> we will be reconvening as the building inspection commission in the next ten minutes, and there is a separate -- . >> clerk: october 21, 2020. this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. the first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: okay. we have a quorum, and the next item is item 2, president's announcement. >> good morning, everybody, and welcome to the b.i.c. for october 21, 2020. i apologize in advance if i miss anybody's names. once again, good morning, everybody. i am angus mccarthy, president of the building inspection commission, and i am joined with my colleagues, along with interim director patrick o'riordan, and staff. as everybody knows, we continue to face continuing health crises from the pandemic. last month, we were dealing with the worst local air quality in california history, but this month, california fire was able to obtain some containment over fire management, and therefore, our air kwult has improved. i ask the public to understand we need to abide by all the public health measures in place. i thank for d.b.i. staff

the building inspection commission hearing is running a little long. it is not live but it is streamed live. we will receive public comment for each item on today's agenda. communities or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available by calling (415)655-0001. and turning access code (146)088-7048. when we reach the item you are interested in submitting public comment for, press star then 3 to be added to the cue. each speaker is allowed three minutes. when you have 30 second remaining you will hear a chime. i will announce your time is up and take the next person to speak. best practices call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and please mute volume on your television or computer. we will take roll at this time. president hyland, vice president matsuda. >> here. >> commissioner black. >> yes, i am here. commissioner foley. >> yes. >> commissioner johns. >> yes. >> commissioner pearlman. >> here. >> commissioner so. >> yes. >> thank you. first on your agenda is general public comment. at this time members of the publ

the building inspection commission hearing is running a little long. it is not live but it is streamed live. we will receive public comment for each i

that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the building inspection commission, and our next meeting will be on november 18. >> okay. commissioners, any questions before i get on this? >> i'm sorry. we had said that we wanted to do -- i forget the exact language, but something around abbo anticorruption language. i'm forgetting the language. we passed so much this year before the pandemic, but we said they wantwe wanted to do the end of the year, and it's coming up to the end of the year. >> sonya, if you could remind me. i know we agreed on the wording of it because it was important. i don't know, sonya, if we could look back on what the wording was. >> clerk: i can, but commissioner alexander-tut, are you regarding implicit bias training or is it regarding the racial resolution that was done? >> no, it was in resolution when the issues came up from the previous director, we had made some kind of statement about wanting -- i can't remember exactly. >> clerk: oh, okay. i can research it, though. i don't remember off the top of my head now. >> it would have had t

the building inspection commission hearing is running a little long. not live but it is streamed live. we will receive public comment for each item on today's agenda. communities or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available by calling (415)655-0001. and turning access code (146)088-7048. when we reach the item you are interested in submitting public comment for, press star then 3 to be added to the cue. each speaker is allowed three minutes. when you have 30 second remaining you will hear a chime. i will announce your time is up and take the next person to speak. best practices call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and please mute volume on your television or computer. we will take roll at this time. president hyland, vice president matsuda. >> here. >> commissioner black. >> yes, i am here. commissioner foley. >> yes. >> commissioner johns. >> yes. >> commissioner pearlman. >> here. >> commissioner so. >> yes. >> thank you. first on your agenda is general public comment. at this time members of the public may

this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: okay. we have a quorum, and the next item is item 2, president's announcement. >> good morning, everybody, and welcome to the b.i.c. for october 21, 2020. i apologize in advance if i miss anybody's names. once again, good morning, everybody. i am angus mccarthy, president of the building inspection commission, and i am joined with my colleagues, along with interim director patrick o'riordan, and staff. as everybody knows, we continue to face continuing health crises from the pandemic. last month, we were dealing with the worst local air quality in california history, but this month, california fire was able to obtain some containment over fire management, and therefore, our air kwult has improved. i ask the public to understand we need to abide by all the public health measures in place. i thank for d.b.i. staff and everyone for their hard work during these truly heroic circumstances. and even though our new space at 49 south vann

have this other administrative bulletin for this but there would be rulemaking at the building inspection commission it would be a public process and everybody would be able to participate and there would be some set of cases and in which -- you could go further than that and allow natural gas hook ups in more or all cases but i do think that that does start undermining the intent of the legislation which is to be moving us towards a future which is at some point between now and 2050 when we don't have natural gas connections or if we do we're not relying on them and so, we don't want throwing in a hook up for a restaurant that may or may not happen on the groundfloor, i think. i don't think if we're trying to move towards a natural gas free future, and also in terms of the they don't even want a restaurant on their groundfloor and they know but a lot of times they don't and if after the fact, i guess i was trying to convey what i i've heard from those -- >> to your last point on the development agreements, with regard to the affordable project, and make sense for them. the stating language, as we w

something that goes -- flies against a hundred years of san francisco architect, planning commission and building inspection wisdom. it's really amazing to me that it's now being allowed to be developed. my father had a chance to buy these lots, the lot, two times in last 30 years. each time the restrictions that were placed on it were too significant regarding access, the inability to safely egress in this small hallway. in terms of the developer, the meetings that he's scheduled sometimes were not posted and i never received any kind of notice of them. and the one time that i was going to go to a meeting because i had heard about it from neighbors, he changed the meeting at the last minute and posted a simple 8.5-by-11 piece of paper on the fences. and his attitude towards me is dismissive. after a planning commission meeting i asked him very politely, i would like a larger setback, please. please don't build an 18-foot-tall by 37-foot-wide wall with no windows, no architectural merit at all, simply a monolith right against my fence. he said, impossible, turned away and there was nothing left to be said e

building inspections and the city administrator's office, all of this were implicated in the f.b.i. investigation. the city attorney's office has received some of these complaints, and likely the ethics commission also. how many of these complaints pointed to the very corruption that the f.b.i. eventually uncovered? i have two suggestions. the controller's whistle-blower program, the city attorney's public integrity team and the ethics enforcement division should audit the complaints that they have received in the past five years to determine how many previously warned about this corruption. second, instead of solely promulgating more regulations and laws, laws that will not enforce themselves, why not encourage decent employees who report wrongdoing? that can be done by doing a better job investigating complaints. [bell ringing]. including retaliation complaints. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, caller. are there any other public commenters in the queue? >> please stand by. madam chair, there are no more callers in the queue. >> the chair: i did want to say in response to the last public comment, we have i think extended an invitation to the controller's office whistle-blower progr