dpw gave notice during the same time. that is the 15-day period. it so happens, and my client will show you prove, that off the grid did have a location within 300 feet of grumopy's during the 15-day period before it expired -- within 300 feet of grumpy's./ you can have it in the 50 days, and that food truck was there, and grumpy's very well could have appealed. no malice was attended here. you just heard that the client purposely located 300 feet away from grumpy's and the others to avoid notice. that is one way to look at it, but the reason that off the grin has a fantastic record of notice is that they do the research to find locations that are three a hundred feet away from other businesses with similar food. why? it is not to avoid an appeal, is to make sure the other businesses feel comfortable that their customers will go to their place. the client wants to make sure that it does not give the competitors, potential competitors, a feeling that this will be so close as to interrupt their business. by the way, we do not feel it in trust their b

dpw gave notice during the same time. that is the 15-day period. it so happens, and my client will show you prove, that off the grid

good >> i am wondering what dpw is doing in terms of the law library. i saw that was under your project. >> we are working to relocate the law library itself. >> you are helping to guide the relocation process? >> yes. >> thank you very much, and we want to thank you for coming, and we will see you next week. the next apartment is our own department, the board of supervisors. we have excellent -- angela. >> good afternoon, members of the committee. gooby my side is several landis- debra landis, who helped me present this budget. we are presenting it in the framework of the budget for 2014. goothis resources our offices to meet our mandates, and while doing so in a cost-effective manner. i would like to thank katherine newman for her work, and the staff, thank you for attending to answer any questions you may have a rigorous slide now two reflects historic net revenue budgets. this shows the measures implemented during the economic downturn has resulted in a flat budget from year to year. examples of cost savings measures include an accord eliminating it

-- ok, we will hear from the department. >> hello, a junior engineer for dpw. we did do a 300 notice with off the grid, and once we send out the notification, we noticed that their location -- at dpw, we cannot issue a permit on the jurisdiction, so we moved them around the corner on to the dpw jurisdiction. let me show you where we move them on the map here. the yellow is port jurisdiction right here, and this x, that is where the wanted to get their proposed location. we sent out a mailing, recognizing that, so we move them right around the corner, which is the dpw jurisdiction. we made the changes to our notice, and then we uploaded that information to our website. after that, we did not receive any objections to this location. the application did have objections, but that one was withdrawn. president hwang: i am sorry to interrupt you. would be helpful to understand the chronology. the process? >> i do not have a notice dates with me, but the application i believe was in march, and the notification takes 30 days, and right around april is when we sent out t

what are you doing to make sure dpw does not become a bottleneck? >> could you repeat the question? >> there are many capital projects that will come to us. i am wondering what dpw is doing to make sure it does not become a problematic area. >> part of our restructuring, for example the new bond now falls with the twdpw. with the public safety bond, we are staffed up on those projects appear eager -- as projects. we hire the project manager and work with all the other agencies that are involved. good >> so you work with other agencies to do that? >> our budget can be flexible. good our budget presents all but we have been involved in. >> if i can size some of the key point here. >> i can do that in a timely manner. the next slide has to do this partnership. we have increased the number of youth involved. also many of our thoroughfares. goowe also have an apprentice program, which is a partnership, and we have a partnership in the agency. we have 100 people involved, and they are being prepared to move into actual apprentice programs. we are in the process of getting it under way wit

we got a call from somebody asking, is dpw doing this? we said yes. i have $50,000, i will support it. we are a private group. this is not tax deductible. we do not care. and they rebuilt some houses. the problem with most people is they could not even teardown their homes. but this is the burning man twist. i love telling this story. being who they were, the culture, at the end of each day, the landscape was strewn with debris. you have to seeing the pictures. they gather up the debris, at night, they turn it into a bonfire. that is part of our culture. then locals started to come around and one woman said, i have never seen anything like this. i have never seen anything like this, but i like it. pretty soon, they were making art. fema is not going to do that for you. and that was just a spontaneous effort. now it has expanded around the world. this came out of burning man, this wild, crazy party. >> let us start over here with a question. >> i would like to ask a question about dpw. the people that build infrastructure. i want to know why they do no

i think dpw is very under- resources in those areas. we have seen a hollowing out in recent years in those functions. i would love to have more. i just want to raise that point. this is more a technical adjustment and would not in any way -- it is not really an ad back, but doing whatever we can to increase those positions so we have even more cleaning capacity. supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rose, any comments? >> no, madam chair. supervisor chu: ok, colleagues, can we take a motion for dpw. without objection. to ethics commission. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the commission agrees with the revised recommendations from the budget analyst. supervisor chu: any comments? >> madam chair, and no additional comments. supervisor chu: 2 we have a motion to accept a budget analyst recommendations? we have a motion. we do that without objection. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. in the past week, the city administrator's office work with the budget analyst and came to agreement on many things. on the current cut list, we agreed to th

president chiu: we have a representative from dpw. members of the public, if you have received a notice, the representative from dpw will outline the subject of the report, and members of the public who wish to contest this are welcome to make public comment for two minutes. i would ask staff and members of the public to step outside to see if you can resolve these issues. once that happens, we will finish the hearing. >> i am with the department of public works. this report is for properties inspected and notified, and repairs made and invoiced under the sidewalk inspection and repair program on april 2011 through april 2012. the department inspected and retired sidewalks and curbs along city blocks and portions of the western edition, in and out for sunset, inner and outer richmond, the financial district, and the south of market. they issued notices to repair sidewalks, 1300 modifications to various city agencies and utility companies, of which the city repaired sidewalks fronting 173 properties. it has cost us 848,000 in front of

it is akin to attitude of the p.w. -- the can-do attitude of dpw. in everything that we're doing, there's a positive result if we all work together. that is the message here. if i can add to this, two things. i want to continue thinking our san francisco general hospital foundation. as this building goes up, there'll have to be a lot of expensive equipment that goes in there. judy has a wonderful team and all the board members are here, to fill it with the most modern, lifesaving equipment, the greenest technology there is to make the best hospital so we take pride in that. why? because it is for these kids. they are going to be the future doctors, the future nurses, the future hospitals administrators. is all for you that we are doing this. because it with this team effort the promise was made, the promise with our board of supervisors was made a couple years back. we promised to create the best hospital. hopefully, for all of our future kids so they can work get it, they can be there to be part of a wonderful community that is san francisco. that

[applause] thank you, supervisor kim, and thank you, dpw. with that, why don't we go to our next accommodation, provided by supervisor chu. supervisor chu: thank you. today, i have the honor of recognizing phillips -- phillip katulas, if i can ask you to come up along with your family. bill is what we would call a sunset legend. he is the beloved proprietor of a chicken coop, a restaurant in our local community. 10 months ago -- this is actually a belated certificate. 10 months ago, chicken coop closed its doors. we were distraught. we did not know where to find a bill. finally, through good fortune, my dental hygienist is his daughter. we talked about how businesses impact his community and having deals with family. i wanted to talk about how important chicken coop is for our district, and how much it is missed. when i first talked to deena about this, he did not want a big fuss made over him, but i am glad everybody convinced you to come out today, finally. he was going in greece. he moved to the united states 1957. he has been in the food

coupled with that our partners, dpw, the department of public health. it is really a collaboration above and beyond any single project. that is what makes the difference in some of these ceremonies. i have been to a few of them. this one will have a special place the cause of, it will be there, not only when it is needed with regular emergencies, but true emergencies. and the city has gone through those in the past. when you think about it -- the next earthquake, the ball bearings this is sitting on keeping the building will move as much as two and a half feet either way. when that all settles out and there are the needs and the demands pressed on the hospital, this hospital will be here to serve. to serve the community, the people who need it. that is why we are here today. something much larger than all of us. thank you to the engineers, the designers, are partners at dpw. this was really a team effort. if a guy is standing up here in a suit, the guy's not in the suits in the background are the ones really doing the work. we look for the next couple o

>> a lease was signed earlier and the construction is being managed by dpw. my understanding is that the target for opening is december. although the director of dpw has expressed off the record that he is interested in trying to be that timeline. commissioner borden: i think that is right. many of the people who are the bad actors in that area do not reside in that area and come in to prey on tourists and others that are callable in that committee. we can make it so the families and others who live in the community and would like to be out on the street. going back to the issue around the housing that this report identified that people are living in. there is a real lack of space is for people to go and to hang out during the daytime which is why there are so many people sometimes hanging out in the street. some people feel intimidated because they see people on the street but the point is they do not have other places to go. i would love to figure out how you do like the parts list or something along the sidewalks where you have -- park list or something al

i want to recognize mohammed nuru from dpw. he works 24 hours. we have a lot of requests from the tenderloin, and mohammed nuru is always there. i know the captain is not here. i think we have the best police captain. sari, carmen. i think we have the best police captain in the city. he is not here, but he does an amazing job in keeping our neighborhoods safer. , to recognize the work of the men and women who serve our residents. we work really closely also with jeff buckley from the mayor's office. he has spent years being an organizer and service provider in the tenderloin. answers every single one of our calls. of course, naomi kelly and bill barnes from the city administrator's office. thank you for working so closely with our office. we care deeply about our neighborhood. it is a rich neighborhood that deserves a lot of our attention. and to keep it to be what it is. to talk a little bit about our neighborhood, we have several of our small business owners to talk a little bit about what their experience here, particularly in little saigon, w