and now d.p.w. does have a new manager for that division which we will be working with very closely on this. chairman murphy: ok. thank you. public comments on item 5? three minutes. >> john, from san francisco coalition for responsible growth. president, commissioners, director, i'd like to bring to your attention, commissioners, a recent application for an electrical permit. last monday an electrical contractor got his electrical permit online, and it went really very smoothly as it always does now with the online system. he paid his fee. and then a short time later he called in for the inspection. and the earliest date he was given was a full 10 days later. now, this contractor is still in shock. when you consider that the permit was for a temporary power for a building, for construction, having gone through a very lengthy process in the planning and the sponsor getting all of the construction package together, they're now ready to go to the d.b.i. for some of the permitting and to find that this

>> the d.p.w. has tree planting guidelines which isn't about specific guidelines and the various han handles and if you are required to plant a tree as is often the case, you will require a street permit and they do have lists of trees that they would approve. >> it would be zes interesting to look at that with sidewalks throughout the city and are are breaking up. >> and my sense is they have to learn over time about which trees work better and were planting 20 years ago and to be not ideal and are learning from that. >> can you tell me about the survey that was in the survey and about the better streets plan and a limited number of options and they wanted to know about that survey. >> that is on a related project and we sent it out to the same mailing list that the better street plan goes, but the project is to develop a sort of centralized city web portal for people who want to make street improvements and the point of the survey is to try and understand what types of improvements that people ar

and now d.p.w. does have a new manager for that division which we will be working with very closely on this. chairman murphy: ok. thank you. public comments on item 5? three minutes. >> john, from san francisco coalition for responsible growth. president, commissioners, director, i'd like to bring to your attention, commissioners, a recent application for an electrical permit. last monday an electrical contractor got his electrical permit online, and it went really very smoothly as it always does now with the online system. he paid his fee. and then a short time later

so we reached out to d.p.w. and the planning department to see if there were any legislative policy changes we could make, and when we did that, we discovered that a lot of our colleagues had been fielding similar complaints from their constituents so we got involved in a series of stakeholder workshops and meetings to try to see if we could find a legislative solution and eventually we wound up being the lead sponsors for the legislation that you had before you today. there has been interest by many of our colleagues that you will see supervisor east are co-sponsorses and they have been tracking the progress and gotten a lot of interest out of their constituents as well. so it addresses not just our constituents' concerns but obviously across the city. and so what you have before you today is a result of numerous stakeholder meetings and conversations between our office and other supervisors' offices, d.p.w., the planning department, advocacy organizations and neighborhood associations as well as industry repre

and the d.p.w. are working to improve communications around the permit process. this is an agenda item that marginally comes up with the small business commission. i'm a member of the subcommittee called the permitting committee. one of the things that we are trying to implement is some sort of an improvment to the overall permitting process for anybody trying to open up a small business in san francisco ordeal with permitting processes in any way, whether it's a developer or somebody or whatever. so i think it ties in with that. it also tied in to a discussion about the online permitting system. i noted with interest that you have the ability, director, right now to put electronically format the process for departments today without any need for software coming in or new applications brought in. i thought this was pretty significant. and i thought it would be great if you could have this on the same system in every other department. that would be a great step forward. the mayor was talking about implementing a new group task force that would get involved with im

d.p.w. says you can't get it until you get the permit. then we go to the building department, the building department says you can't get it until you get the permit to get the lot line adjustment. you know, you go in and you work with the staff -- [tone] and you just feel like -- you know, they're just -- they're just passing time. you know? i mean, they do a certain amount of work. but it's almost like there's a limit to which they're willing to work and, you know, they're willing to do their job. they're not goinw, they're willing to do their job. they're not going to take any responsibility for anything. you know? and that goes all way -- the way up to the top. i've got a situation where they told me that -- [tone] can i have a couple more minutes? president murphy: no. no. sorry. three minutes. >> all right. >> shane o'reilly. first of all, i'd like to, again, applaud the fifth floor. i've been there on several occasions. president murphy: speak into the microphone. >> sorry. i'd like to a-president murphy: the microphone. >> sorry. i

commissioner antonini: my understanding is that most of this would be heard by planning staff or by d.p.w. and perhaps park and rec depending on the jurisdiction and would be rare to be involved in the hearings on one of these type of installations and not to dismiss the concerns and safety but the same issue exists on private property. and i think you have an issue to look at and not just for public installations and in fact, probably it is more of a concern on private property than it would be on public property in the middle of the street might be less of a hazard. you have to look at that issue separate from this issue. ceremony rr there is a motion -- secretary avery: there is a motion to approve this. secretary avery: thank you, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously. president miguel: why don't we take a 15-minute break. secretary avery: commissioners have a 15-minute recess.

we also look at d.p.w. other projects and funding, for example, and the restriping of fulsome has been a way of coordinating that and came to the foreground as one project and that is one way and also looking at community interest and there has been, for example, some interest by community needs and plans on the intersection and that is the project we didn't necessarily put on the priority at first, but it seems that it's very interested. and taking the plan and make it theirs and now they are advocating for that. it can be a mix of action. >> it depends on where other departments are already doing work and we are trying to coordinate with them when they are doing work on the street. so it is often very much opportunity driven. >> and the fulsome median would be several feet wider, too, so it will be nice. president miguel: commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: it seems that the planning department is in a good position as he said to kind of coordinate it and i think you were mentioning that, too, where

muni, d.p.w. is currently in the middle of implementing the major bus shelter program which much to my horror is creating absolutely untenable situations and actually taking it away from well designed, well coordinated pedestrian realm into it's got to be here and take it or leave it. and i hope that you will be able to stay on top of not letting that happen. and the ideas really are bringing streets into the realm of people and neighborhoods and car driven corridors and i see something at this point in three instances that does exactly the opposite. i hope that you will be able to coordinate that and be in the driver's seat. >> it is a very good point because as i was mentioning at the beginning the related planning efforts going on. one is the effectiveness program that's been led by the m.t.a. and it's going to affect some of the mission. so one way we approach it is to take that idea into consideration and left this flexible enough to have a future collaboration about the major corridor. one w

certainly not -- i don't know that d.p.w. does.are we talking about when we say educational leave? what are you talking about? what do you mean? >> what i'm seeing is very specific. for instance, if the m.o.u. with the nurse's union says that nurses are given 40 hours of paid leave a year, and then we go back and we say, nurses are required to do 40 hours of continuing education each year, then the m.o.u. would really be in line with what that job requires. but are there other areas, and i can't tell you right off hand, are there other areas where there's a pot of money setaside for education needs that's either not used or the criteria are not specific to the job? is that really where the city wants to put its resources? we are looking from the position of an m.o.u. provision and what the city has been obligated to do under the m.o.u.'s. this would be one aspect of what we would look at. this is not the total of what we are recommending to look at in this evaluation. >> one that i think would be looking at the m.o.u.'s if one barg

we gave a lot of advice to d.p.w. as they were working on it. i'm so proud of the work. happy to the with the mayor and supervisor maxwell and the partners in the community to make this something. a few facts about why it is important to us. you see the lights here. those are l.e.d. lights, providing better height for the community and it saves 60% of the electricity it would take to light normal streetlights. this sidewalk and -- there's only a few blocks here. you're talking about. but the perm i can't believe pavement, that means five -- 500,000 gallons of water per year that used to go in the waste water treatment plant won't, it will go back in the ground water and recharge and can be used for other things. you do that across the city and you could change the way we treat storm water. the amount of money we spent on pumping the water, all that changes. in the waste water improvement program, we're looking at taking 1% of the city per year and take it from hard escapes to this kind of -- this kind of look with the pavement. it'll make a dramatic change in san francis

barbara used to attend from d.p.w. i don't know if the new manager will. pu p.u.c. comes. the actual people that do the plan check comes from p.u.c. there and they're on staff. so i'm trying to get as many people. we have a representative from the health department that comes normally. chairman murphy: so do we have somebody coordinated to let people know when the meeting will be? >> yes. we have a regular agenda. we post the agenda. it's normally on the third thursday of every month. so we will have one on the 21st of this month. that's our next scheduled meeting. >> do we have an attendance sheet? >> we have the sign-in sheet and the original b.p.r. sheet and we send out notices to all the b.p.r. people that were on it and as people join the list, they're added to the list. so we email the agenda out to everyone before the meeting. >> why don't we ask -- could we ask for a copy of the sign-in sheet and the distribution list for our next meeting and just for -- chairman murphy: have it in our package for each month? >> sure. >> that would be great. chairman murphy: that's

this district would provide and so close coordination with d.p.w. and their services would happen, there would be no duplication of services, this would be above and beyond that. beautification and greening, so fundraising could be focused on getting capital improvements in the area, street furnishings, planting, lighting, these districts tend to fundraise for those kinds of capital improvements throughout the district where needed. and they have, again a $743,000 proposed budget annually to serve this district as a whole and right now we're in the petition phase, we're asking for your support, some of us went to the city hall preservation advisory commission and they approve -- they supported having city hall be part of this, we're also going to the library commission today and we'll be going to the other city department commission to inform everyone what's going on and also ask for your support. and then if the petitions come in, if we receive 30% support, we can ask the board of supervisors to have the department of elections send out ballots and

provides that this district would provide and so close coordination with d.p.w. and their services would happen, there would be no duplication of services, this would be above and beyond that. beautification and greening, so fundraising could be focused on getting capital improvements in the area, street

provides that this district would provide and so close coordination with d.p.w. and their

we're hearing the gunman was wearing a d.p.w. uniform and has not been caught. right now workers cannot get into the facility. it is roped off by d.c. police. we have crews on the scene and we'll bring you more as we get it into the station. >>> now back to our breaking news out of chile this morning as one by one the miners who have been trapped underground in the mine for two months are now finally being brought to the surface. you are looking at the san jose mine in chile when the rescue operation began at 11:00 last night. a custom made capsule has carried the 9th miner, mario gomez, to the surface. 28 more wait below. some have been calm and others have been more emotional such as this one. [ chanting ] [ cheering and applause ] >> you would think they want to keep the cheerleader down there to keep the spirits up. but he was the second one out of the mine. and a similar scene here in the district last night at the chilean embassy gathered to watch. we want to get a better understanding of the mine rescue and some of the technology that is going into freein