i'm here to report on code enforcement and dbi monthly update. for building inspection division rkts building inspection performed for 5397. complaints received, 354. complaintss response within 24-72 hours, 286. complaint for first owners for violation, 64. complaints received and abated, 164. abated complaints with notice of violation were 44. second notice of violation refer to code enforcement were 10. for the housing inspection services housing inspection performed were 957. complaints received, 362. complaints response within 24-72 hours, 338. complaints with notice vileshz issued 108. abated complaints, 391. number of cases sent to director were 17. routine inspection is 175. for the code enforcement services, number of case sent to director were 58. number of order abatements issued, 16. number of cases under advicement were 10. number of cases abated were 48. for the code enforcement inspection performed were 514. that's the code enforcement update and there are graphs in the back that shows all divisions response for the last 12 months.

. >> just a couple of things commissioners joe duffy dbi this is the overhead sorry so on those water department records typically the number of families is usually written up here it is b a bad copy i don't know if that is where we go to oftentimes the units number of families where it starts is usually on there i can't make that out so i wanted to point out that. >> and get a better copy other thing about the you know i'm not here to take sides but the facts the notification i said something that is the compliment that issued from dbi and this is what we generate when a complaint is filed by someone who contracts contacts the department the complaint was angela in san francisco the complaint was about mold in the unit that which is back on the authenticating of december 2014 or sorry the 30th of authenticating of december 2014 the senior inspector davidson investigated the complaint and met with the tenants at unit 57 a precisely the case property as an 3-r the violations were piloted, however, research is needed for the downstairs units and the notice of violation was generated fro

take sides but the facts the notification i said something that is the compliment that issued from dbi and this is what we generate when a complaint is filed by someone who contracts contacts the department the complaint was angela in san francisco the complaint was about mold in the unit that which is back on the authenticating of december 2014 or sorry the 30th of authenticating of december 2014 the senior inspector davidson investigated the complaint and met with the tenants at unit 57 a precisely the case property as an 3-r the violations were piloted, however, research is needed for the downstairs units and the notice of violation was generated from that. but i just i want to say it didn't matter but the exclaims there were meeting with the housing inspector maybe they didn't understand the notice of violation but the complaint was generated it is unfortunate i think that maybe they especially\realize and came down to the department to talk about the violation but had been in the unit for 10 years that's a procedural thing the department of water & power we're not going to give pe

. >> it has been grandfathered in dbi just did it. >> all right. and like a week or two weeks ago. >> we'll hear from the department and any other questions. >> thank you very much. >> sir. >> members of the board charles owner of 57 eureka appellants are here simply for the purpose of delaying my compliance with a notice of violation their appeal must be depend based on the following appellants arguments are previously been addressed by the board in a prior hearing and in the case no. 15 o-4 arguments regarding the legality of the appellants units and the correction of the notice of violation and the alteration permit have been determined in case 15043 appellants discussions in their brief about the configuration of the units are irrelevant to the issues currently before the board the electrical and plumbing permit to allow the work to be performed under this previously approved alteration permit this board very own decision in case no. 15 dash 043 upholding the site another permit one needs to check the wiring to code was permitted the electrical

smith so our preliminary focus was dealing with the dbi we talked with them and introouf and preceded to work on a solution as joe said the only issue what the 2002 plans in the process the correct location of a third-story was shown in the wrong place so essentially, we immediately reached out and hired an architect and contractor and hired a permit consultant was time was of the essence and they advised us essentially to apply for a variance that's the best course we look at the wording of the notice of violation there is room to do that we decided to bite the bullet and make our constriction consistent with what was shown on the 2002 in fwooth and got the permit and got a contractor, we worked for one today efficiently i might add no coverage except for the tarp the parapet is begun we were toeflt non-flushed when we got the appeal of the permit we feel it is groundless and based on no facts and we strongly hope that you will uphold our building permit. >> question this is guess nonsensical to the containment our neighbor is protesting the city issued a building permit based on the

i'm here to report on code enforcement and dbi monthly update. building inspection division rkts building inspection performed for 5397. complaints received, 354. complaintss response within 24-72 hours, 286. complaint for first owners for violation, 64. complaints received and abated, 164. abated complaints with notice of violation were 44. second notice of violation refer to code enforcement were 10. for the housing inspection services housing inspection performed were 957. complaints received, 362. complaints response within 24-72 hours, 338. complaints with notice vileshz issued 108. abated complaints, 391. number of cases sent to director were 17. routine inspection is 175. for the code enforcement services, number of case sent to director were 58. number of order abatements issued, 16. number of cases under advicement were 10. number of cases abated were 48. for the code enforcement inspection performed were 514. that's the code enforcement update and there are graphs in the back that shows all divisions response for the last 12 months. las

the other thart part is saig dbi has known for years of the existing problems. working dirt know about the problems in january and had the ceiling not collapse said in april [inaudible] the tenants wouldn't have a safety and hazard issue that they need to be removed in 72 hours, so i think ample notice. >> hello again, my name is liteesia and i'm here to speak a little on the issue of the units. each bedroom provided separate rent payments through the landlord. perhaps 2 or 3 people sharing a room but the tenant have no say in who got to move into the property. they were not roommates splitting rent, they provided separate rent payments to the property owners. each had their own agreement with the property owners when they first established a tentancy. second of all, i am unclear as to what relocation payments mr. freedman was speaking about. there were relocation checks issued at some point and canceled and thetenants were harassed by the check cashing places they went to because they were asked to pay back the money they were cashed because the checks were can

duffy. >> good evening, commissioners joe duffy dbi building springtime a restriction to constrict the changes in the existing is front stairs around the stairs with the landing the permit was filed on the 30th of march 2015 it was evolving approved on the 22nd of 2015 and issued on april 2015 and suspended by the appeal on may 13th that was reviewed by the building inspection division because of a complaint and from a building inspection point of view it is a relatively innocent permit not a revision to an earlier permit we'll be used to seeing the revision permits not on all projects but a good youth authorities people make changes all the time and document them by a revision permit that was an active complaint on the property earlier in dose regarding the underpinning of the i think it was described as that issue got resolved between moving the foundation around their - that was not on that tangle around the time the permit was filed i heard a complaint i think commissioner driscoll mentioned earlier do you want me to give you the timeline. >> the appellant said the construction was

so that $20 will go into the dbi general reserve. this motion will move that $2 million into a code enforcement newly created reserve. in addition the fee reductions being proposed in item number four will scale those back to the tune of $1 million per fiscal year creating another $2 million that we will then redirect into this newly created code enforcement reserve fund. so, i think totals so, i think totals about $3.75 million and so we distributed the amendments. on page 6 of 50 ordinance and we've double underlined sections. part of this is really a positive step forward, and ask for your support and that is my motion. >> thank you supervisor winner. first take public comment on item number four. anyone was to pop comment on this item? seeing none seeing none, public on undisclosed gallo >> i want to thank supervisor winner for bring this forward. this is not the brightest of the word [inaudible] so i want to thank either motion by supervisor winner on the amendment. second by supervisor mar we can do that without objection gallo

there is another backlog that is separate there, so for example i know we have fire department here, dbi, so i would like to bring them up as well if they're here in the audience today, but again we have first them quickly through other departments so i think that the new person, the client service manager that will be hired soon i hope will help with that facilitation of the process through the multiple departments but from the fire department's perspective if you could talk about your backlog. how is it that you treat the businesses that you have available? so for example i know that planning department you're making the effort to really move through the cue of businesses that don't have to go through a public hearing or smaller nature but does fire have a similar structure or how does that work? >> good morning supervisors. ron thomas assistant director at the office of building inspection. our colleagues from the fire department have just arrived. >> [inaudible] >> hi good afternoon. i have talked with all my inspectors how we can try to speed up the process of permitting the restaur

the planning department on the production platform and compared to dbi they have a much smaller set of data and transactions they perform. they noted performance issues. they are quantifying those now so we give excela what time of day and the trangz action we are doing and the response time they experienced because they need those details to investigate, but we also had a similar performance issue on our test platform a month and a half ago where a transckz scheduling inspections on a existing permit, normally once you put in the details you schedule the time of day and date it is 2 to 3 seconds before you get the confirmation. in this case we did it a few times and it took up to 8 minutes which is completely unacceptable. that was escalated and a support ticket input. we did have notice from excela and operation on july 6 and-junjune 2 and july 2 that they had issues at the west coast data center. we got later messages saying they were resolved but don't know what the frb was or the action to fix it. we do have a meet ging next week where they are going to come on site and tell us ab

dbi said they need a further setback more than that 5 feet that brings it further away so the police vehicle considered and exhausted approved there is impacts think light it comes to the privacy concerns that were raised here so with that, i'm available to answer any questions. >> mr. sanchez we saw a drawing that indicated that the deck is less than 6 feet below the ceiling the bedroom, in fact, how much further blow is the deck than the sill of the window of the appellant. >> i would like to defer to the diagrams that were prepared by the project sponsor for this dimension but relative it is lower but the subject deck is lower than the apartments floor so i don't know the exact dimension but the permit holder can provide that on the previous plan and come back on the 3 minutes. >> if it is less than 6 feet than you know there's merit to the argument that if somebody choose not 6 feet but if you were 6 feet which is not an unusual height as - and average for that a male is less than 6 feet. >> i'll say that if the sill was 8 feet above the deck is more amp than 6 feet we're looking

dbi said they need a further setback more than that 5 feet that brings it further away so the police vehicle considered and exhausted approved there is impacts think light it comes to the privacy concerns that were raised here so with that i'm available to answer any questions. >> mr. sanchez we saw a drawing that indicated that the deck is less than 6 feet below the ceiling the bedroom, in fact how much further blow is the deck than the sill of the window of the appellant. >> i would like to defer to the diagrams that were prepared by the project sponsor for this dimension but relative it is lower but the subject deck is lower than the apartments floor so i don't know the exact dimension but the permit holder can provide that on the previous plan and come back on the 3 minutes. >> if it is less than 6 feet than you know there's merit to the argument that if somebody choose not 6 feet but if you were 6 feet which is not an unusual height as - and average for that a male is less than 6 feet. >> i'll say that if the sill was 8 feet above the deck is more amp than 6 feet we're looking i

smith so our preliminary focus was dealing with the dbi we talked with them and introouf and preceded to work on a solution as joe said the only issue what the 2002 plans in the process the correct location of a third-story was shown in the wrong place so essentially we immediately reached out and hired an architect and contractor and hired a permit consultant was time was of the essence and they advised us essentially to apply for a variance that's the best course we look at the wording of the notice of violation there is room to do that we decided to bite the bullet and make our constriction consistent with what was shown on the 2002 in fwooth and got the permit and got a contractor we worked for one today efficiently i might add no coverage except for the tarp the parapet is begun we were toeflt non-flushed when we got the appeal of the permit we feel it is groundless and based on no facts and we strongly hope that you will uphold our building permit. >> question this is guess nonsensical to the containment our neighbor is protesting the city issued a building permit based on the c

to answer your question, so the dbi determination of 12 units we believe is correct. the issue here or the confusion is regarding the fact there are 12 units that have been occupied and one of them at the time the determination was made, there was one room that was not occupied at that time because somebody had moved into another room. there were 12 yoounts and were occupied for the majority of the past 20 years but one at the time was determined it was a inhabited space and people were living there but it wasn't currently occupied. there are 2 issues because one is the determine aition of amount of money oweed versus how many units there actually were. >> let me-the person who had been living in the 12 units moved where? >> moved into another room. >> in the same- >> i think either they moved into another room or it was the person who moved out because of health issues. >> if they moved inoo another room they are perhaps getting a double payment? >> no because there wasn't payments for 12 units, there was only payment frz 11. it is the difference between what was pai

. >> consolidated is that a consolidated permit new permit to be filed with dbi or consolidate plan. >> to be deposited by this board. >> so reviewed by mr. sanchez and planning still under this permit to be submitted to us okay. >> okay. >> just to make it clear to the permit holder and sxhurngz you'll have those plans submitted to the boards thursday before no other briefing but the submittal of the plans to the board. >> that's correct. >> there's a motion on the floor from commissioner fung to continue this to september 2nd the public hearing has been held and this is to allow time for the permit holder to submit a consolidated plan set no additional briefing is loud except for the submittal of the consolidated plan set. >> right. >> on that motion commissioner president lazarus commissioner vice president honda commissioner wilson is absent commissioner swig thank you the vote is 4 to zero this matter it continues until september 2nd. >> we'll take a very short break break. >> that derivatives extra sun or shade it mildews my house it was built built in the 1950s and none 3 that

the deparchlt of building inspection may say to remove a unit but [inaudible] i hope to work with dbi to [inaudible] with the new program to legalize in-law units there is no reason we should continue to allow these units to be removed. land use last week we amended the controls to oonl apply to urge merger of legal unit and ask for your support on this resolution today and look forward working with the dbi and planning department to work with unpermitted unit many which are in district 11 >> seeing no other names on the roster, colleagues can we take this item same house, same call? without objection the resolution sudopted unanimously >> item 23 is a resolution to establish a board of supervisor policy that police staffing levels be adjusted to account for population and neighborhood growth >> supervisor wiener >> thank you madam president. colleagues today before us is a resolution and authored along with altogetherers supervisor cohen and supervisor farrell calling for a increase in the police staffing level to take population grouth and staffing into account. by any measure colle

having a real person through the small business commission staff and other departments working with dbi having one-on-one meetings and really helping assist the applicant through this very difficult process and it will never get that smooth and easy. in this city you won't get down to one internet page where you're able to click on buttons and send in the credit card check and get the permits. it's not going to happen that way and having real people help real applicants is ultimately the way it will succeed and we appreciate the efforts and we will work with you to make it a success. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. supervisor tang thank you for doing this work. it's greatly appreciated. [inaudible] and merchantace association in the mission district and invest in neighborhoods. we have been working with the merchants for the last 17 years on the corridor. some of the biggest issues we heard from the merchants is affordability of the permits and affordability of space and the permit process to open up a business and the process afterwards of m

having a real person through the small business commission staff and other departments working with dbi having one-on-one meetings and really helping assist the applicant through this very difficult process and it will never get that smooth and easy. in this city you won't get down to one internet page where you're able to click on buttons and send in the credit card check and get the permits. it's not going to happen that way and having real people help real applicants is ultimately the way it will succeed and we appreciate the efforts and we will work with you to make it a success. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. supervisor tang thank you for doing this work. it's greatly appreciated. [inaudible] and merchantace association in the mission district and invest in neighborhoods. we have been working with the merchants for the last 17 years on the corridor. some of the biggest issues we heard from the merchants is affordability of the permits and affordability of space and the permit process to open up a business and the process afterwards of m

this is the type of thing dbi has had to deal with. here is another photograph. the stairs are gone. this is what we deal with, they say things are fixed and they are not fixed. when you look that's check list of the inspector only a couple things were addressed. there was one item with respect tohad broken windows and a lock, but everything else on the notice of violation issued on the 21, of the 20 items they were essentially not repaired. we do believe based on this history it is crucial that this order be recorded so that when the exstense v remodel or repair is conducted, that check list is sital out there that who ever the contractor is at the time looks at that and make the repairs needed and insure those thingerize fixed. if there was ever a argument to be made a fr a order being issued so that is on there for all to see as a recorded instrument this is the case. that is sth first order, let's talk about the second. there are flee items on it. the property owner taking over in january having conversation in early february did have ability to take care of

more work to be done, so one of the things i would like to ask of all of the departments and planning dbi, fire, tax assessor's office and work with jane kong and the staff and further the small business portal so in the next phase we can take applications on-line and take payments and we need the coordination of all of you to bring the portal to a better place of people. secondly i would like to request that the following departments conduct an internal assessment. as the last gentleman there needs to be an internal look how you do your work and some of the challenges you face so i would like to make a formal request so in six months that all of of the departments conduct a internal assessment of your own processes and keeping in mind with the interactions with other departments that you may interface with and receive a report to the board of supervisors by january 31 and then from there take that information and see what next steps need to be taken given the internal review so some of the things that i hope you think about is eliminating burdens for internal staff and make the processes

and applicants would be -- applications would be reviewed in coordinate workers' compensation dpw and dbi. we believe these modifications reflect the needs of the affected communities and hope you will consider approving this important resolution to help property owners lower their risk of damage due to flooding. >> we have a lot of public speakers, but commissioners, any comments? >> yes, i have a question and comment. so the uptake from the first program two years ago -- because i remember we spent some time reviewing -- >> right, right. >> has it been pretty successful? it sounds like you have done a bunch of outreach and have people really been applying for the grants? >> yes. we have had several people actually going through the grant process right now. but we have run into challenges, because the flood barriers and the back-flow preventers didn't necessarily meet everybody's needs. hence, flood walls, in further meetings we decided that we can meet an awful lot more of these needs with flood walls and grade changes, perhaps plumbing changes. different plumbing changes than the back-

nuisances in english, and as i said it took me two years to really figure out the whole thing between dbi, bureau street use and mapping and historic preservation and if english isn't your first language how much more difficult is it to understand what is required. >> i agree with the comments and the only thing i would add is what i have seen is that there's a need to determine where information can be best disseminated. just one example i was very surprised i had a meeting with the l.a. county library system and they asked us and i wasn't sure how we would connect and to my shock they said we have so many small business owners that come into the branches that we had to create economic development positions within the branches and they have thousands of small business owners coming because there is concern if they go to a city agency or a federal agency they might get dinged or there's that fear whereas the library is a trusted place. oftentimes it figuring out how to best disseminate the information and key to small business owners and shift the mind-set. another thing is again i point