is there a list of repeated violators, given certain categories, there are owners of buildings looking to selling their buildings. there is a continued maintenance and care and the district inspectors would be aware of that. >> this particular case has an antiquated boilers system. when it was brought to my attention, we have one person who specializes in boilers. he brought back some pictures and issued a notice of violation. there was a lot of asbestos and we told him to clear that out. he identified certain things that had to be updated on the system and we expect they will probably get a new system in there. >> can i talk about responding to these complaints and how the owners fix them quickly? you talked about having outside contractors go in there and fix -- >> of the code allows us to do it. >> is there anyway we can implement that? >> there are very few that they would not step forward and fix the heat. this particular property owner, it seems to be problematic and we have sent down a boiler specialist and there is a notice of violation on that particular boiler and we are foll

it is an and the category that does not -- and m c category that does not exist. -- empty category that does not exist. the way to do it is not to have it listed. back when this was drafted, we have heard banks lobbied hard to have this exempted. it makes almost no sense to have sales and services listed if it is a category with no potential uses in it. that is the argument put forward by the planning department, because public services have not been pulled out of the general category it sits in but is otherwise listed, apparently it is exempt, so we are asking for your help in having the city and county follow the rules. there is no way to have some way in. they are not here today about whether or not people like corporate thanks. it is about following the formula retail block. it is about following notification from neighbors, and is about following the planning code. to continually manipulate the law makes no sense, and frankly, is sort of an affront to all of us who worked to pass this law in the first place. >> excuse me. i have a question. would you handed in -- is that what we ha

it is an and the category that does not -- and m c category that does not exist. -- empty category that does not exist. the way to do it is not to have it listed. back when this was drafted, we have heard banks lobbied hard to have this exempted. it makes almost no sense to have sales and services listed if it is a category with no potential uses in it. that is the argument put forward by the planning department, because public services have not been pulled out of the general category it sits in but is otherwise listed, apparently it is exempt, so we are asking for your help in having the city and county follow the rules.

and then projects in programmatic category that are bundled together into broader categories, pedestrian improvements, bicycle improvements. and that way it allows us to not have to decide today about 2017 and gives us a little flexibility. we try bundle projects as much as possible. so what we're requesting from you today is approval of the local projects screening criteria that would determine what projects we submit to this kind of big picture, large list of projects coming from san francisco. i should note that we already had to, given the quick time line of the process, had to submit a draft, staff recommended project list. but m.t.c. is going to be allowing us to revise that based on your feedback through the end of may. and the project also includes both the projects and the programmatic categories. so the project screening criteria, the main thing we want to do here is not prevent projects from moving forward that need to be in the r.t.p. so with that, the screening criteria are pretty basic. project that support the r.t.p. polls that are appropriate for submission that have plan

. >> i would like to ask if whether the category here, the difference by the public on the violation and this not only is a health safety issue but also on the light category because it seems to run a parallel course that's violations that require capitalization of costs. at a certain point, if there is negligence by the public, the proper agencies goes and then makes the correction. it goes into this whole category of the tax lien and judgment lien and it would be great if you can or the director can may be at the next meeting make some categories of what are possibilities of where code and a or a legislation or policy adjustments can be made necessary to correct this. we seem to be continuing to do the same thing over and over again and we're not getting any results. given we are at a point of this negative direction, i would like to neutralize it is not get into a category that would move both the department and incentivize property owners, especially those who are not going to look toward selling their property but in the long term can say keep doing the improvements. i'm not goi

the category here is that they have a boy served the city and have more importantly always put their good work through the efforts of the department, and for that, we will always be thankful. also, i would like to commend the staff. dan lowry, chief building inspector. steve penelli, the chief plumbing inspector. rosemary, a housing inspector. john, and the acting senior building inspector. they have provided a whole range of categories of performance ranging from addressing nov's and inspections. when i look at the numbers, it is really commendable. again, thank them for their continued service, and good job and good work. also, i would also like to say the effort of the commission would be to also maintain and keep moving forward with the balance of the year, strong support for not only staff, but for the categories of how the department will continue to perform and take on the challenges of reduced staff, but at the same time, probably the ingrowing load of good work that is coming into the city. all of that, i hope, will provide an uptick to not only the growing economy in san fr

what you will see in the planned revenue part of this section it is a revenue category. that could include land sales. if we were to have land sales close in the upcoming fiscal year, it would move from planned to committed. >> at ac transit, we had been concerned about this land sale and what about the really is for that. >> ok. is there a motion to receive this? all those in favor? opposed? >> although this was a public hearing [inaudible] item nine. authorizing the executive director to execute a contract modification with evans brothers for additional construction services. [inaudible] >> steve will report on this item. >> good morning again. this is a change order for modification for ebi, who is doing a demolition. the majority, the two components. $238,000 for the removal of unforeseen contaminated soil that was found under what used to call the humped area on the crescent in the central terminal. that had to be hauled off for special handling. the other large component of this is the 979 dows and dollars for the demolition of the eminent domain buildings, the fou

that is primarily in the debt restructuring category and on wage and benefit expenditures. all-in-all, i think we have made a real effort to try to submit a budget that is consistent with the five-year financial plan, and i hope that will be the trend and the guiding principle that we use over the next five years to try to follow that road map that was adopted by the board. just in terms of where we are, we have got a $6.8 billion budget. as has been the case in the past, a little less than half of that is in our general fund. a little bit more than half is outside the general fund. the total budget is about $266 million increase, compared to the current year. one of the things that we have discussed quite a bit here and elsewhere is why the budget is growing when we are also cutting, and i think that that is both expected but also a theme of some of the analysis that we have been doing about our city's finances over the past couple of years. the trend that we have seen in the five-year financial plan is that we have our costs outpacing our revenues. so we can anticipate th

it comes from the capital improvement category. every other category of expenditure plans, next month i will be able to bring you a table showing exactly what is left. i will come back to the green light rail project at the end. i wanted to mention that on page 56 uc, as mentioned in the prior item, a match for school construction for school projects. to keep us on our toes, there are three or four different flavors. i also wanted to take note that the implementation project is a project working on the mayor's pedestrian directive and staff basically has a comprehensive approach to reduce speeds and put pedestrians first over vehicles and so forth. i am excited to see this move forward to see how well that it works. on bicycle parking requests, $125,000, before the june california transportation commission meeting we are working to seek allocations out for $235,000 in federal transportation enhancement funds for parking and focusing on public facilities like libraries and schools based on the public and others calling for parking t

it depends on the category. it's a little inconsistent. certain categories like discreet audio components are doing fairly well because of the explosion in flat screen tv sets so people really want a great audio component. but on the price of the screens themselves there is a tremendous amount of competition out there among the screen sellers. and that obviously presses on margins. this is a business where you ino vate and you die or you cut your cost and you die. so it is a pure competition in the marketplace. >> what about the retail environment, again as we ramp neup that holiday season. you mentioned volume. we mentioned price. what about at the retail level. what are those members telling you? >> well, certainlies there a a tremendous competition in retail. some of the styles like circuit city have gone away and best buy, target and wal-mart have pikted up some of the slack. the independent dealer is certainly under pressure there. but they're providing a more higher value add service. and then the internet retailers are coming in pre

this is in the safety category. that category is doing ok. in part, there are not a lot of discretionary fund sources for pedestrian safety. that is why we are lobbying at the mtc for more funds to be available for pedestrian safety projects. the last two, and the curb ramp project, designed is pay for by state transit development article 3 funds at the department of public works. lastly, the 24 mission board project, overall, the leveraging is matching bart funds and regional transportation standards for livable communities. in addition to recommending the funds shown, we are recommending a commitment to allocate next fiscal year funds for bicycle safety glasses and bike to work day. that is simply because in the five-year partition process, they want to shift to three contracts a year because of efficiency reasons. commissioner campos: thank you. commissioner wiener? >> when this came up before -- commissioner wiener: when this came up before, i requested a breakdown by supervisors will dictate -- supervisor district. it looked like there w

that the entire category has a 15-minute time limit. i have no speaker cries. commissioner olague: is there any general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. >> thank you. commissioners, we can now start your regular calendar with items six, business and informational presentation on the annual limit program. >> commissioners, good afternoon. planning departments that. we are here this afternoon to give you a brief update on your annual limit program, bring you up to speed with where the program is today. in response to your questions, the item is informational only. no action is required of you today. madam secretary, when you have a moment, the overhead would be fantastic. in terms of the -- thank you -- in terms of how we would like to structure the next 10 minutes or so, we're going to give you a bit of background, talk about the process and a few notable projects and will want to the sponsors of two particular projects. we first need to answer the question of what is the annual program. this is something th

the only item on the calendar that this category would pertain to would be item number 8. that is the final certification of the final eir for the pier 36 brannan street project. president olague: is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public, disclosed. secretary avery: thank you, commissioners. you are now that consideration of findings and final action or the public hearing is closed. item eight is the only item in this category,e 2,009.0418, pier 36 brannan street project, certification of the final eir. >> good afternoon. i am with the planning department's staff. the item before you certification of the final environmental impact report eir for the proposed pier 36 prince street project. the copy of the draft eir certification motion is before you. the draft eir was published february 9, 2011. the public hearing on the draft eir was held march 24, 2011. the project -- the public, timeframe closed march 28, and comments and responses document was closed on june 1, 2011. the planning department prepared the eir for this project because it has significan

and i'm desperately interested in what's going to happen with the mobile phone category. we actually have the new quarterly survey coming out, actually not coming out, it's being administered, literally, as we speak. and probably in the june or july issue we're going to run this information again because the mobile phone category is something i'm particularly interested in terms of device growth. but it's also incredibly worth noting where barnes & noble sits in all this because the nook and the nook color, let's start with the nook rather, has only been around for a very short period of time. and when you're looking at this information, you really start to think about how these devices are sold and how they actually make it into the hands of the 20-some-odd million e-book consumers there are out there now. now, this sounds incredibly obvious, the first bullet, but if you buy something on amazon, you can't touch it first. the, i think the most overlooked story in e-commerce over the past few years has been amazon's move to push the kindle into stores like walmart, target

there are two categories of homelessness. this is on the end of been able to afford to live in san francisco. that live paycheck to paycheck. when they do not get that next paycheck, they could be homeless the next week on that level, we need to continue to support economic development, support job creation, small businesses, the act would create 60% to 70% of the jobs in san francisco. we need to push legislation white -- like local hire, which is supervisor avalos's legislation. we demand that companies hire folks from our city. that is one end. we have to do what we can use to subsidize other essential services, whether it is transportation or public health, so people can afford to live in the city. then you have another category of homelessness, which is chronic homelessness. it is not just living paycheck to paycheck, but other issues like mental health or drug addiction. that is a much harder population to address. i think -- the district that i represent as many of the community organizations. it continues to be a pres

>> there are four categories of street repaving work that we're looking at. one is, as you said, street reconstruction. that is where we have failed to do ongoing maintenance of the street and have failed to make capital investments to preserve the life of the street. so those blocks that have fallen apart, you know -- concrete is spending up, buses are rolling over pot holes. you are right, it is obviously a capital investment. it costs upward of five $1,000 per block, and we have 11,000 blocks in the city. the second thing we tried to do is what we tried to do to prevent streets from getting to the point where they need that major reconstruction. we called it resurfacing for repaving. that is where we grind off the top two inches of asphalt and replace it with new as all -- asphalt. those streets that are fairly simple, about $70 -- $70,000 to $90,000. those streets have a useful life of 20 to 30 years, depending on the level of traffic. supervisor chu: so that extends a st.'s useful life 20 years? >> in some cases, on little-used streets, they do not need

. >> and what's another one of those service categories and an example? >> >> well, another interesting example is food pantries or organizations that provide emergency food assistance. you'd expect these to be located close to concentrations of low income populations, and they are, it's just that in those cases the demand for services is so great that there isn't great access necessarily. for instance, if you're living next door to a food pantry that serves 100 people but there's demand for help by 10,000 people that live in your neighborhood, that may not be true access compared to a setting where there may be 100 slots for 100 or 500 people. so in central city communities even though there are food pantries, they're not staffed or resourced to meet the needs of the surrounding communities, and that creates gaps as well. >> what did you find was the reason for this change in how we deliver social services? >> right. one of the interesting things about the way that we provide assistance today is that social service programs aren't authorized by a single

of game that fits into that category.s not told us whether we need to judge -- if it is 17-year-old, it would not restrict anything because nobody will convince a jury that this is an 18 year-old game, not a 17-year-old game. >> we do it for drinking, driving. >> here you are assessing works of expression. i do not think that works. if that is the test, the test just as boris just, then the statute restricts nothing. >> maybe it would restrict the gratuitous torture, and if so, why is that such a terrible thing? you could discover you could limit it to that. >> then maybe is telling, your honor. subject of hundreds of millions of dollars of penalties. >> why when the first step be they follow your rules, the x things would be limited to people who are over 18? if we ever get prosecuted -- might never. >> our rules would not help you at all. these ratings that the state wants to -- a conflict with the packaging that is being used by parents everyday to make these judgments. it is interfering with the prospect of the inform