proprietaries if director o'riordan was only acting, uh, qualified and misclassified by the building inspection commission as interim, then a refund by director reardon is due. if there was an error in the compensation to refund the dbe coffers, it probably was an unfortunate oversight. but the bic commission led by president angus mccarthy, the chief building inspector official test is a test that less than a day to take and there are online preparation classes that you can pay for a lot less. uh uh, hours than a four year college degree. uh previously required under the minimum qualification. uh the total pay and benefits for director reardon is shown online in google's transparent. california is almost 350,000 per year. um director reardon was appointed interim in march 18th, 2020. this overlaps the timeline overridden states in his deposition from my recollection, available online from, uh, mission local joe dennis richards. uh, if you google that, uh, that he or reardon talked to bernie, his direct subordinate, to not go out of his district over a period, i believe, of 4 or 5 years, but appeared to t

the hearing is convened pursuant to administrative code 77.3, which provides that the building inspection commission, sitting as the arb, may hear and decide appeals of abatement actions pursuant to san francisco building code 105.2. before we proceed, the hearing, we will administer the oath. um will all parties giving testimony today? please stand and raise your right hand. okay. do you swear the testimony you're about to give is the truth? to the best of your knowledge? yes. okay. thank you. you may be seated. okay. the hearing procedures are described in section three g of the arb rules of procedures. the appellant and the department will each have seven minutes to present their position on. the department presents first, followed by the appellant after the presentations, we will have public comment. members of the public have three minutes each to speak after public comment. each party will have three minutes for a rebuttal. first the department and then the appellant. after rebuttal, arb members may ask questions of either party. the department may now present their case. good morning, preside

this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to please mute yourself. if you're not speaking, the first item on the agenda is roll call. interim president alexander tutte present commissioner chavez present. commissioner newman present. commissioner shaddix present. commissioner sommer and commissioner williams present. okay we have a quorum and

went to building inspection that recommended to the board of supervisors so this isn't a lot of non expert folks jacks of all trades, namely the 11 of us. this went to building inspection commissiondividual offense. in the future if we have one of these, tip the board president off please. supervisor stefani. >> thank you president peskin. i just want to say something. there is no need to cast dispersions on one another when we have questions about legislation that come before us. this is our job to ask questions. as a attorney a question came up late in the game that i thought was worth asking the city attorney office. i ask the city attorney office that question and i was met with hesitancy which made me very trepdacious about it. i made calls and did due diligence last minute because it didn't rise to my level of knowledge until brought to my attention. so, based on what i'm hearing from the fire marshal today and discussion we should have as a legislative body of city county of san francisco which is why we are here, based on what i heard today in the room and based on conversation with our deputy city attorney john gibner i'm comfortable voting yes and following throughout t

went to building inspection that recommended to the board of supervisors so this isn't a lot of non expert folks jacks of all trades, namely the 11 of us. this went to building inspection commissiondividual offense. in the future if we have one of these, tip the board president off please. supervisor stefani. >> thank you president peskin. i just want to say something. there is no need to cast dispersions on one another when we have questions about legislation that come before us. this is our job to ask questions. as a attorney a question came up late in the game that i thought was worth asking the city attorney office. i ask the city attorney office that question and i was met with hesitancy which made me very trepdacious about it. i made calls and did due diligence last minute because it didn't rise to my level of knowledge until brought to my attention. so, based on what i'm hearing from the fire marshal today and discussion we should have as a legislative body of city county of san francisco which is why we are here, based on what i heard today in the room and based on conversation with our deputy city attorney john gibner i'm comfortable voting yes and following throughout t

twice a year, in spring and autumn, all apartment buildings in the country are inspected by a commissionether it is time to overhaul the building or not. usually the first major overhaul is needed in a house 40 years after construction. at the same time, they inspect all houses without exception, both those where the housing and communal services are in charge, and those that live under the management of the owners’ association. and situations often arise when a house with a private control system needs repairs, on the accounts where they should be. the money for it turns out to be empty, they didn’t collect enough, didn’t collect it at all, and used it for other needs. the state cannot leave people in a building that is uninhabitable. we also consider charging them the full cost of reconstruction. unacceptable, because funds for major repairs are taken from a common boiler into which residents of houses under the wing of the housing and communal services dumped. the new edition of the housing code will oblige the owners' association to transfer money for major repairs to the same accoun

the hearing is convened pursuant to administrative code 77.3, which provides that the building inspection commission, sitting as the arb, may hear and decide appeals of abatement actions pursuant to san francisco building code 105.2. before we proceed, the hearing, we will administer the oath. um will all parties giving testimony today? please stand and raise your right hand. okay. do you swear the testimony you're about to give is the truth? to the best of your knowledge? yes. okay. thank you. you may be seated. okay. the hearing procedures are described in section three g of the arb rules of procedures. the appellant and the department will each have seven minutes to present their position on. the department presents first, followed by the appellant after the presentations, we will have public comment. members of the public have three minutes each to speak after public comment. each party will have three minutes for a rebuttal. first the department and then the appellant. after rebuttal, arb members may ask questions of either party. the department may now present their case. good morning, preside

several other high ranking employees involving building inspection and the public utilities commissione either resigned or have been charged with crimes. there are growing complaints about california's fair plan, an entity that provides fire insurance to property owners who can't get insurance anywhere else. there are now 350,000 land homeowners who rely on the fair plan, about two and a half times as many as just six years ago. now, insurance companies and homeowners say they're facing cancellations and delays in mortgage approvals because they can't get confirmation of flare plan coverage. the plan is supposed to be a temporary solution, but many people say even after years they can't find any other place to get fire insurance. coming up, a family is heartbroken after a woman dies when she's hit by a boy on a bike at an east bay mall. they're calls for accountability and a warning to others. plus, discussing the ongoing response to the opioid and fentanyl crisis here in the bay area, how local leaders are working with federal and state officials to address a growing threat (vo) if yo

department of public works and the public utilities commission were on the scene to inspect their underground equipment, and workers told us the basements of buildings in the area have been flooded. car thefts still rising in the bay area just yesterday, police say a woman in san jose was found safe after being the victim of a carjacking and a kidnaping. >> officers say they believe the victim was inside a vehicle as it was being stolen. the woman was found safe several hours later. ktvu south bay reporter lamonica peters has more about the case and the rising vehicle thefts. >> 31 year old asela pineda silva is safe after police say a good samaritan took her to the police station around 3 p.m. saturday after seeing missing persons reports initially sounded like a vehicle was stolen and during the investigation where we determined that there was another victim inside of the vehicle, we did not leave willingly. >> and that's why we were treating this like a kidnaping. >> silva's ordeal began after the car she was sitting in early saturday morning was stolen by two people near north fifth street in saint john in san jose. >> during the course of the i

francisco public works and the public utility commission were on scene to inspect their underground equipment. workers there told ktvu crews that based outs of buildings'm bailey o'carroll, ktvu, fox two news. >> all right, bailey, thank you for that. >> a young boy and his father were pulled from the ocean right near pacifica. this happened just after noon today. west of sharp park golf course. the rescue included two fire companies, a rescue unit, a chp helicopter, state park personnel and coast guard air and water units. now, the father and son were taken to a hospital in san francisco. right now, no word from authorities about what the father and son were doing prior to being rescued or what their conditions are tonight. this weekend, san francisco firefighters rescued a surfer who got into some trouble. it happened yesterday out at point lobos. not far from the land's end lookout. two boats were dispatched to rescue swimmer with rescue swimmers who helped the surfer get out of the water and onto the boat. fire department officials have not released the surfers condition or how the person got into trouble. >> alameda county prosecutors have filed

building inspection. this ordinance would make technical edit to the local 2022 san francisco building roads. just a bit of background for you. last year consistent with the try annual commission code cycle this board of supervisor as dopted the 2022 building codes comprised of the building code, green building code, mechanical code and plumbing code and as part of that process, the board made express findings, section by section that each san francisco amendment was reasonably necessary due to local conditions, typically regarding topography, geology and climate. the findings are contained to each of the 22 codes and on file with the clerk of supervisors. here you can see a list of findings in the 22 codes, there are 17 of them. and here you can see an excerpt from the san francisco building code. listing san francisco local amounts and the associated findings. so what is the issue? and what why ordinance necessary? in its review, the building commission discovered some technical emissions through the findings through the 2022 codes and questioned correction to the files. this would make the corrected by updating the local index for each of those ordinances and they would upd

francisco public works and the public utility commission were on scene to inspect their underground equipment. workers there told ktvu crews that the basements of buildingse area had been flooded in the newsroom. i'm bailey o'carroll, ktvu, fox two news. >> extreme winter weather gripping much of the country this weekend, affecting the campaign trail in iowa. even the start time of an nfl playoff game, storms and extreme cold now reaching as far south as texas, louisiana and bringing subzero temperatures across the midwest and northern plains and buffalo, new york. blizzard conditions prompted the nfl to postpone today's bills playoff game to tomorrow afternoon. >> as part of our critical efforts to keep new yorkers, motorists and fans safe from this wildly unpredictable storm lake effect snow coming off lake erie is creating whiteout conditions, reducing visibility to near zero, and more snow is in the forecast. >> the bills are bringing in multiple shifts of snow shovelers to get that stadium ready for kickoff tomorrow in the sierra, many roads remain covered in snow from this weekend's winter storm. as we give you a live look out at interstate 80 up n

building inspection. today sb is seeking approval of a retroactive accept and expend grantergy commission for participationit processing program for you in 2022 california lawmakers passed senate bill 379, the solar access act, authored by senator scott wiener, whichequires most california cities and counties to adopt an automated online permitting platform for standard residential, solar and storage systems year. actually, the department of building inspection chose to adopt solar a-plus, an online application developed by the national renewable energy laboratory. solar plus automates and standardizes the processes for simple residential storage asks the contractor a series of questio solar system's design is up to code. it then runs annd plan check, and then for compliant systems automatically issues a permit so that the installation can begin. solar a-plus application is permanently available to customers on dbis website as of october 1st, 2023. it will he ime and money, reduce our staff workload, helping san francisco with our goal of transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2025 anenergy or sorry ele

systems and annual inspection of fire alarm and detection systems, mtech the clerk of the board of supervisors to forward this ordinance to the california building standards commissionpon final passage. >> thank you mr. clerk we are now joined by the supervisor in district one supervisor chan the sponsor of this legislation and supervisor chan sie floor is yours. >> i appreciate it thank you for hearing this item today. before we go into the presentation on this legislation if i may would like to give some remarks as a reminder and a remark when i introduced "legislation. but just wanted to reiterate why this legislation is before you could i there are lessons from the deadliest fire in any way maui but not insure when it took place our fires have gone to maui to provide support and lessonss learned back to the basics we understood every second counts of a fire um, because we can't be sure which contradiction we're going to go how it will be and the circumstances for the people living in ooze spaces or working those spaces we know that emergency firefighting water system will buy people time to satisfy people to get out 6 building when the fire occurs so the legisla