dbi contact information. there is an faq guide. and this is an excel sheet with the legend, and to help describe all of the sections in this excel sheet. the middle of the time line and procedures. and if all of the forms on-line. process of how to obtain a permit. the compliance time line and the year time line. >> and the engineering criteria. >> that concludes the presentation and if you have any questions we are here to answer. >> commissioner melgar? >> i was going to tell you that it looked really great. >> when it is going live? >> we sent them out on september 15th. >> 6125. >> and any calls yet? >> tons of calls and we are handling it. >> yeah. >> we are handling it. >> and are you getting the support, for the phone calls? >> and you get a lot of people, anxious, eager and then you get some, i think that we are going to have to and i think that we are going to have to pull the teeth and that is fine. >> commissioner mar, did you have a question? >> no. >> sorry. >> commissioner? >> i also think that it is a really good doc

obviously welcome everybody, and thanks to dbi staff for staffing this year's annual sunset community festival. i believe that is going to be on the september 20th,; is that correct?? >> yes. >> where they will answer the customer questions about inspections and code enforcement and dbi matters. the big commissioner mar has indicated that he plans to visit the dbi and it will be available for most of the questions there that afternoon and he put in a request for the other commissioner to show up. so that he does not have to deal with it all himself. it is time for the third employee of the quarter award. and those were recently set and in the all memo and requesting new nominations for thethieringth and one we have the new nominations for the committee and we will meet and select the third quarter winner and plan to introduce the second quarter winner and the third quarter winner in the october meeting. we will do that then and finally the dbi and the big joint response for the 2013 grand jury report was delivered to the proceeding judge of the superior court on the 11th and a copy of

this is a very difficult task for the dbi. because, first of all, you are doing construction. and the equipment is already there. and then, the only thing that they look at the pack only, and the equipment. i cannot... but i cannot measure how much, you know, pollution in the air that is why we are still working on that with the health department. and maybe, then, you will want to answer and i don't think that we can, you know, enforcement, point, and it is hard to control. on the emission part. >> my understanding is that it is projects over certain sizes it is not necessarily smaller projects. >> >> good morning, commissioners. on this proposed legislation, it is going to be hard, and we will have to work with the health department and we will have to work with dbi to figure out how to enforce it, on the large projects it is hard and you have it coming out every day as far as the poe lut ants, and the noise, and it is hard to regulate, what goes on with those. and so, it is going to be another layer that the contractor will have to give us a list of what the items are and th

admin code gave that jurisdiction to dbi. i will say that the additional floors that are proposed to you today are paying the transit center impact fees which were not in place when the original project was approved and permitted. >> as a follow-up question to that, perhaps to mr. rubin's project sponsor. in terms of the deferred fees, when do you expect those to be paid to the city? because those are based on, is it occupancy? >> deferral fees. >> the first certificate of occupancy. we expect that to be early 2015. >> okay, thank you. >> just to clarify. so, the transit center fees would be -- they're at the current height or at the proposed height? based on -- >> transit center for the additional floors. the original building was before the transit center plan was adopted. >> got it. >> commissioner hillis. >> so, i would agree with commissioner sugaya. i'm supportive of the six floors [speaker not understood] the 700 feet we have zoned for. my question back to the fee deferral, i'm confused. the staff report, i believe the

from the grand jury were specifically directed at (inaudible) and some of the others were adjusted to dbi which was the staff really. and so ultimately some instances it will be for example, our own functioning as the bic that we feel that we exercised enough, you know, authority on certain matters that be... and it was really appropriate for us to answer and it was less to do with staff functioning and i was wondering in the report if we could distinguish the two areas clearer. >> and i am sure that we could go through and make sure that it clear. >> of course. >> commissioner walker and thank you for going through this process with us and i agree with commissioner mar, that when the question was directed out, the commissioner it seems more appropriate for the commissioner to be more responsive. as opposed to the department, i also, getting back to the item number four, regarding public perception, i will not be supporting, disagreing with that because i have received the public input to remain anonymous and i think that we can always learn from that and i don't think that it does any ha

great. >> good evening commissioners, joe duffy, dbi. i don't have plans with me and a lot of times when you get these packages you kind of need plans to decide what's going on. i have questions for the project sponsor. if the work that we are talking about that is under the jurisdiction request is duplicated on the site permit. if they are not on the site permit and coming and getting over a permit for a duplicate work to get started. there is not in our code that says that you can't do that. if it's on the permit, why do you need another permit. no one has said that. i have a question about that. the notification process and certainly, i did dig up one sheet of plan with me and it looks like something is going to happen on the property line. there are code issues that would need to be addressed. as i said the permit is probably reviewed and approved, but again, the question is, is the work on the permit on the jurisdiction request shown on the main permit and why do you need to do that. so is there some reason for that. apart from that

department and it is the 15 percent that you should focus on rather than put a laural on the head, dbi total torrey and dysfunctional and that should sting, we find that the evidence that the escalations at dbi are common, and i am not sure what they mean, but that means that they are occurring and in addition they state a review of complaints to a city agency revealed the periodic allegations of misconduct continue. i am responsible for one of those allegations. or, several as the case may be. recommendations for 4.1 an ethical climate survey, could provide management when it it is needed says the grand jury, but my experience as an architect representing clients as clearly shown that it is in fact the leadership, ie the management of the department that is dispensing acts of favoritism and these include senior management approving permit applications for final inspections on projects that have never begun. and senior management ignoring plans submitted for permits that falsely describe existing conditions in spite of their own field visits that proved a lie. and senior management for

we have dbi okay and we have taken the steps to be compliant and we are waiting on this appeal to get our final permit. the only thing holding up is this. we have two other locations, one on valencia street street and one in hayes valley. both of those are commercial spaces under residential apartments and never once in that time have we had a complaint from above. i'm not sure if you have had a chance to look at or not our petitions but we passed around them to the fellow neighbors that we share the building with and we got signatures from nine people above us that it's not too loud. that we are helping the community and they like the improvements made. once before we moved in it was a run down location and as one of the tenants of the building upstairs will attest to and it's in the letter that the blockbuster was noisier noise than the gym and people would be under where the gym is now at 1:00 o'clock in the morning. our gym is only open until 11. furthermore the location was abandoned after the blockbuster moved and before that was essentially a homeless shelter. there was human f

inspection division inspectors worked with them and the housing seems to be doing much better than the dbi as a whole. and there appears to be serious process or procedure problems in the area of building code enforcement, and a root causes analysis needs to be conducted to determine where problems exist, and solutions need to be proposed by dbi to address the problems. >> thank you. >> thank you for your service on the grand jury. >> any more public comment? >> seeing none, >> we need to vote on this item. >> yes. >> call the question. >> this discussion of possible action to approve the response of the civil grand jury report? >> would you like to add and include the comments that were made today? >> or made, or maybe we can continue it until next meeting one more time? >> no. >> i mean we are meeting on the tenth? would another draft be ready by then? >> commissioner walker? >> i am not as support it the way that it is and i would like to, if we all to be on the same page i think that we need to listen to the input and have more discussions about this. i think that the goal of this is t

the dbi responses typically denial of problems.revious grand jury report issued 10 years ago and equally damning is basically ignored. [speaker not understood] current report will also be ignored and nothing done. i am here to request [speaker not understood] involvement. the building inspection commission is about to choose a new director possibly as soon as tomorrow. [speaker not understood] elected representatives of san francisco not yet committed to perpetuating corruption or racism in dbi must immediately call the mayor and commissioners request they not choose any of the persons who are currently departmental political appointees as director. are you listening, mr. chiu? you should further schedule and hold hearings about dbi to allow you to grasp a firm understanding of the corruption of racism and who in that department is allowing it to occur. i [speaker not understood] all seem to be failing. we have a corrupt department, [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, pres

my name is kanty and i am the project direct for dbi, we are getting really close to the user acceptance testing and execution, relative to november the 5th and that is the plan. and the execution would be over a period of four weeks, and that is the wrong two, and then we are going to do the majority of the back office testing during. and our subject matter experts and their staff who do this every day and that they are going to be helping us with this testing. and we are planning to send out communication to the stake holders who are going to be helping us with the review and the testing of the citizen for the permitting and also, the communication, and that the actual review of the citizen portal is going to be in december. and so we are going to try to send the communication sometimes in the next couple of weeks so that they can plan for their time. the same thing will go for the citizen advisory group, and it would help us review the on-line permits and enforcement records on-line. that is all that i have, and just an update, is there any questions? >> >> is it march? is the new dat

i guess it is my job to point out the dark side of dbi. the code enforcement process, listening to this and i thought that i should point something out is that one historic flaw in the enforcement process which hopefully has been corrected, is the easy subor nation of these orders and someone comes in and whoever is in charge of issuing it, will say, they have issued or taken out a permit into is your subordination and there is no longer a loan problem, we can finance on the property because we subordinated. that is a serious flaw in the system. and i don't know if it has been corrected by now or not. back to item b on this proposed legislation or the health department is trying to get us to enforce noise issues, emissions issues, and there is a history in the department of the health department trying to force us to do things. clearly noise issues are in their jurisdiction, and also, emissions and pollution is not in the building department purview it will be the building or the health department and i think that we should put our foot do

and heretofore when you were going to the last desk at dbi and paid, for your permit fee, and you didn't know the system, and you have to take off to the unified school district on vannesss and go in there for the cashier's check for the appropriate amount of money and get a receipt and run all the way back to dbi and pick up a permit and that was a gripe for a lot of people for a long time that is inefficient and so i think that it is going to be effective. september third and you will not be able to pay the tax at the same time that you are paying your permit fees. >>, and we work in small steps and that it. >> great, thank you. >> director? >> well, i want to thank commissioner o'brien, because it is through he identified this through the permitting committee last year and as the committee chair and we have had and he helped identify, you know what the issue was, and then, we have had conversations with director or acting director, and so it is not just the small business commissioners but through the conversations through the acting director and he really wanted to do this and i thin

what goes into this place i'm going to shut them down" and for that reason i stayed away and not until dbi asked me to connect him and i bit the bullet and i did and unfortunate he was gone for the last 90 days and he got back to san francisco last week and i dropped off the packet like required and it was gone the next day. two, our gym doesn't make any noise. it's very quiet. i invite anyone to come by anytime but listening to the laptop making it is noises and the man said himself he's a sound engineer. means he has the ability to manipulate what is happening to his own benefit. i would have spent the money to bring in a third party sound person and i didn't know if it was required and i never got anything from this fellow anyway because he turn in the paperwork and we went in blind. and i didn't spend any money on a lawyer and he's my nephew and a second year law student and he said of course i will do that for you and he did a really good job. that's all i have to say and thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we're not 24 hour fitness. we're a wonderful -- i 30 seconds. okay. let's us

>> besides from the dbi we have not. >> what is the entire structure look like because i understand the appellant's unit is right above the gym and i think he stated that there were 125 or i don't know exact number but the 19 lights -- >> sure. >> reflect -- basically comprise 120 square feet of his unit so i would like to get an understanding of the entire building structure. >> the entire structure is 2500 square feet -- >> no, the whole building. >> we have some pictures. the only pictures are of the construction. >> that's okay. just describe it. >> as you walk into the gym it's a square section with a slightly longer rectangle section in the back. to the left of that section -- if you can visually the box -- >> yeah, the house, the building. >> oh -- >> because you said there were tenants that never complainted. >> there's is probably around 30 units. >> 30 units. okay. >> above the building. >> you can speak directly into the microphone if you're more familiar. >> he does. >> yeah go ahead. >> what is your name for the record. >>i am milton o'brien and i am one of the owners of li

we have our work cut out for us and dbi has their work cut out as well, although dbi is only responsibleor a piece of the work that lies before us. >> right. it's interesting to note that the earth -- and gabriel and i met about this how earthquakes can be divided into daly pieces, how you mitigate the potential hazard before the earthquake and how you respond to the emergency, for whatever period that is, weight, ten weeks, a couple months, and how you recover prosecute the earthquake. a lot of our attention is, of course, focused on how we respond. we want to make sure we're effective. >> eight week window. >> eight week window. it's critical. even though it's short, it's a trying time for everyone. this long hazard period leading up to it is where we're starting to focus on hazard mitigation which is how are we going to get the city rolling back to normal and get thuz infrastructure things fixed. >> particularly when a lot of the units we're going to be using are low income housing units, the buildings on the corners that are rent controlled with grocery stores below in richmond and s