commissioner mccarthy, commissioner warshell and commissioner clinch is excused. next item is the out. all parties giving testimony please stand and raise your right hand. anyone who is planning to speak should stand. do you severe weather the testimony you're about the give is the truth to the best of your knowledge? thank you. you may be seated. how much time would you guys like? normally they have seven minutes. but this is a continued case. do you still want to do that? >> commissioner gilman: we'll do seven minutes. >> secretary: the department will present itself case first and then the appellant. each side has seven minutes to present their case. there is public comment and each member of the public has three minutes to speak and rebuttal time of three minutes each for the department and the apel land. the next aye -- appellant. the next item is item c, approval of minutes. discussion of possible action to adopt the minutes from meets held on december 20, 2017. is there a motion? >> move to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. any public c

at this time, commissioners may make inquiries to staff that are of interest to the commission. >> president mccarthy: vice chair walker. >> commissioner walker: thank you so much and thank you for the confidence in our continued leadership of the commission. i would like to put on a future agenda just an update from our department about noticing tenants, especially in the case of seismic upgrades. i have heard from the public that there might be some issues where tenants aren't being properly noticed about these issues. so, if we could put it on a future agenda, that would be helpful. >> president mccarthy: okay. and commissioner gilman. >> tom, do you have a question? >> no. >> i was hoping when we have our joint b.i.c. meeting coming up, that the issue we were confronted with today around folks moving through the planning process while having notices of violations and abatements kind of what that interplay is so we could get a better understanding. done landlord comes to us staying that might stall or stop their process. i'm hoping that could be an item for our joint meeting which i believe is thi

but i want to remind commissioner mccarthy, preapplication is one good idea, but we should have a check list from each department to outline what are the requirements. i want to be -- make sure they -- you know, the public know because in the preapplication meeting, they need to specify the specific question. they cannot just say, is this permit or this application is code compliant. we cannot go through every item, look at the drawings, you know, half an hour, one hour. each department needs to have a check list to what are the basic requirements. there are certain specific questions they can ask. >> okay. so maybe what i think would be good, maybe if we just kind of itemize what those -- what really it's going to take for this preapp meeting. are you talking about the fire side? are you talking about everybody? >> yeah. each department should have their own check list, and then we can give it to the public, publish it on the website. here, the stack pipe business for some of the buildings and sprinkleer, you ask them to comply with the stand pipe requirement, that's a different thing,

commissioner mccarthy, commissioner warshell and commissioner clinch is excused. next item is the out. all parties giving testimony please stand and raise your right hand. anyone who is planning to speak should stand. do you severe weather the testimony you're about the give is the truth to the best of your knowledge?

i'm in support. >> president mccarthy: commissioner walker and then commissioner lee. >> commissioner walker: i think it is prudent for us to anticipate this. it looks like it will pay for staff going forward permitting this. we've wanted to encourage this for a long time. so, i think it's well worth waiving the punitive fees to encourage doing this. i also want to point out that there is a sunset provision that allows for reinstating these after december of this year. december 21st. so, assuming that that's enough time to encourage all of these to be legal, it's a little late starting. so we could always relook at that. but i think that that's an important thing to encourage quick action on their part and hope we can put this out as a press action so that people understand. because there's 61 you know about. >> well, there's a few we've done so far. >> commissioner walker: yeah. so, we want to education everyone in the city to take advantage of this for fire safety. [please stand by for captioner switch] . >> and then, miss elliott will send it to the state, and they'll get their pap

mccarthy: here. >> vice president gilman: here. >> commissioner lee: here. >> secretary: we have a quorum. president announcements. >> president mccarthy: good morning. welcome to meeting. i have some president's announcements to read into the record. please forgive me up front if i mispronounce anybody's last name. so, first a big thank you goes to the building inspector joe who received a letter of appreciation from helping a homeowner kitchen remodel. he took time to lead him through a complicated process. so, well done on that. i want to mention to the director hui and d.b.i. staff will be briefing managers on february 28th on new accessible business entrance program. this a.b.e. program affects about 12,000 owners that we know of at this point and possibly about 26,000 building throughout the city. this is a huge program. and is designed to help people with disability gain greater access to goods and services offered by local businesses as well as healthy small businesses better comply with state and federal accessibility laws. good luck with that department. that is a big undertaking

mccarthy. vice president walker. commissioner gilman, commissioner constance. commissioner lee, commissioner warshell. commissioner clinch is excused. we have a quorum. next is item 2. discussion and possible action on the proposed double it of the department of knowledge inspections for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, 2018 and 2019. >> good afternoon. deputy director for the department of building inspection. before you is the proposed fiscal year 18-19, 19-20 budget. we submitted a memo a week ago. i will present this as a powerpoint presentation so it will be easier to go through. first, similar to prior years, the budget funds positions, budget, training, it project to assist us in the strategic plan goals. that including performing inspections, delivering high customer service, quality customer service, effective administrative practices and engaging and educating the customers and other stakeholders. that is what our budget is geared towards. this year in addition to focusing on those items, we are also going to focus on funding priorities. this year our fund

mccarthy. >> yes. >> vice president walker. >> yes. >> commissioner gilman. >> yes. >> commissioner constance. >> yes. >> commissioner lee. >> yes. >> commissioner war shall. >> yes. >> that carries and the budget is approved. item three is continued to the next meeting. the next item is item four add adjournment. >> motion to adjourn. second. >> all in favor. we are now adjourned at 9:21 a.m. >> thank you for everyone coming out. >> supervisor peskin: good morning. welcome to the transportation authority meeting for tuesday 13th 2018. alberto, could you call the roll please. (roll call) >> supervisor peskin: could you please call the next item? >> item two, an information item citizens advisory report. >> good morning chair peskin and vice chair tang and members of the transportation authority. i will be presenting the report today. starting with item five on the agenda, approval for allocation of appropriation of prop-k funds, but there were concerns about the lack of lighting on bayshore, cesar chavez, potreto and if the project budget could be increased. there was discussion about the muni tracks

mccarthy. >> yes. >> vice president walker. >> yes. >> commissioner gilman. >> yes. >> commissioner constance. >> yes. >> commissioner lee. >> yes. >> commissioner war shall. >> yes. >> that carries and the budget is approved. item three is continued to the next meeting. the next item is item four add adjournment. >> motion to adjourn. second. >> all in favor. we are now adjourned at 9:21 a.m. >> thank you for everyone coming out. >> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories an

mccarthy. >> yes. >> vice president walker. >> yes. >> commissioner konstin. >> yes. >> commissioner lee. >> yes. >> commissioner warshell. >> yes. >> it carriers unanimously. >> thank you for bringing this forward. >> item eight tracking system. >> commissioner walker will you cover for me? >> yes. >> good morning commissioners, i'm with the department and department manager on the project. i'm happy to report as promised last month, we were hoping to wrap up our initial sessions where we work on exactly what the new system is expected to do and that was wrapped up at the end of december as we hoped. it was a major milestone. not to be underestimated -- and i must say director hui and his team they put the right people in the rooms at the right time. they pushed hard for dates, pushed hard to make sure we did our side and that the vender did their side and everybody worked very well together. and it was a major accomplishment to wrap that up. we had to spend a lot of time in december on walk-throughs and sign off procedures to make sure we were all signing off and make sure we all understood what w

my name is denise mccarthy, and i am a former port commissioner. i operated a cbo in san francisco for many years, and i'm currently cochair of the giants community center. excuse me. community fund. i had a long history with the port in the past including waterfront planning issues as well as being on the commission when key developments such as the ferry building and the giants ballpark were developed. today, the port has chosen the giants as a partner on the mission rock project. it envisions really something that we put together in the very early stages of waterfront planning. so i encourage you all to support the project. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> tom gilbert. i'm a neighborhood at south beach marina apartments. thank you. i'm going to go outside the line here because i believe this is -- for this little strip, this amendment. i said before that i was againsn probably in the city against the giant probably executive mostly because there's 900 units of market rate rentals, and a market rate rental is a cavity in the tooth of a h