. >> commissioner mar commissioner mccray commissioner mar commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner walker that motion carries unanimously 6798. >> i move on appeal number 6798 to uphold the order of abatement and hold in abeyance for 60 days and uphold fees and they will get a permit and do the work. >> i second that motion. >> motion and second for case 6798 president commissioner clinch arrest commissioner melgar commissioner mccray commissioner mar commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner walker motion carries unanimously on to item f request for rehearing case no. 6795 originally heard on 2014 action requested by appellant request for rehearing and department the department will come up first. >> for the hearing. >> i think usually for rehearing for the appellant goes first. >> okay. you can come up first. >> morning commissioners well, the reason i came is because of the hearing to say it is illegal error to request to goes abatement based on to demand work to be done in a period of time that's not possible to be done as was evidenced by the previous during the previo

mccray his corporate proceedings ar ongoing. he's charged with fraud and the fire department has put him on paid leave. prosecutorsays pleaded not guilty. eliminating g theft could be impossible for the feds. we asked how many of these cards are distrite and the answer is 590,000. scott macfarlane. >>> terrell mccray isn't the only d.c. fire worker accused of using a government card to steal gas. details on the ce the $11,000 she's taken at nbcwashingtoco clickn "investigations." >>> doug's here with more about our weather. well, are weo break any records tonight? >> no. >> excellent news. >> that's a good thing. really amazing, 4 below zero is where we were early this morning. it won't get close to that tonight. but still the cold side. take a look right now, yeah, cold for sure. we saw cloud cover earlier now starting to see clearing skies. that will allow temperatures to fall absent but a little bit of wind too. 25 degrees bringing our windchill down to 17. current numbers 18 in manassas 14 in frederick, 14 in martinsburg num

continue to stay on so let's move to have commissioner lee, commissioner melgar and commissioner mccray do the nomination committee. >> okay there is a motion and a second any public comment on this item? okay. seeing none roll call vote. >> president mccarthy i commissioner president mccarthy pr commissioner vice president mar commissioner clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner melgar commissioner walker okay. the motion carries unanimously congratulations to all of you okay. on to item 7 appeals that you are not to section b .3254 as a city charter appealed by and repealed by the attorneys for gerrero street and tom to revoke a certificate of final completion and occupancy first, we'll have a presentation by the department and then the appellant each side has 7 minutes to give their presentation and 3 minutes for a rebuttal and 3 minutes for public comment pertaining to this as well. >> good morning chief building inspector with dbi congratulations on your appointments. >> i wish this were a little bit less complicated that situation we have i'm going to give a brief

commissioner clinch commissioner melgar president mccarthy commissioner mar commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner walker we have quorum and the next item is item b the oath we'll all parts giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? to the best of our knowledge thank you you may be seated next the minutes approval of minutes discussion and possible action to adapt the minutes for november 19, 2014. >> move to approve. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second any public comment on item the minutes? seeing none all commissioners in favor >> any opposed the minutes are approved item d continued appeal order of abatement case central avenue owner of record of appellant action requested continued stay of order of abatement to allow the owner time to abate violations. >> good afternoon, members of the board chief housing inspector i'm happy to novice the board since our november 19th meeting to give the property owners additional time to work under the

it's kind of one of the complicated situations. >> i have a question at the time. >> commissioner mccray. >> at this time in which this kitchen was added what was the nature of the cold then what were they trying to do or evade. >> there would be less opportunity inform legalize it back then as it is now. >> because a there's been a weak legislation making it more attractive to legalize other unit. >> through the chair commissioner mccray. >> there's some a tenant lives in this unit now. >> my understanding is that it's a family member. >> yeah, it's relation and in fairness that when it's a family member it's - and less controversial than when it's allowed but authenticity not really from a code perspective. >> commissioner lee. >> what would it take to make that unit or that space area a legal unit is it possible? one of the major issues could be headroom but if no issues where headroom it's likely it may not be that difficult but >> we will hear in the appellant shortly it's not a separate unit only another room within the building the house with the kitchen so we'll hear from the app

mccray. he didn't want to talk. shielding his face and hustling back towards the doors. >> when we tried to a abos recent arrest, this response we got. >> can you tell us about the gasoli thefts. >> mccray is a staff assistant at the d.c. fire department. investigs say he used his credit card to buy gasoline for his own personal use. just since august. at sever gas stations in northwt d.c. including thi bp station on rhode is avenue. some of the gas according to court records, mccray used in his persona jaguar and some of the gas he's accused of selling to other people for 50 cents on the dollar. he isn't the only person recent arrested for this. le near white is another. this is surveile video obtain by the investigators. it shows white illegally filling someone else's car with a gas card. wh was convicted of conspi to steal more than a quarter of a million dolla of taxpay funded gas along with an associate that's currently serving time in a federal prison. the all over the country. they're everywhere where the gov

mccarthy commissioner vice president mar commissioner president clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner vice president melgar commissioner walker we have quorum and the next item is item 2 discussion and possible action on a proposed budget of the department of building inspection for a fiscal year 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. >> good morning commissioners deputy city attorney for the department of building inspection in your packet you have two items and both of the items from january 21st meeting it is did budget that excludes the memo from the director duffy giving a highlight of the budget and also prepared kind of a high-level power point summary i'll go over to be in the on the same page i'd like to go over some highlights of the budget and then especially i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. and an update on the fee study you've talked about with the controller's office i mean that that fee study impacts what will happy with the budget. >> yeah. so why not get started first of all with the budget goals for the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 and so the proposed budget

first item roll call and commissioner president clinch commissioner mar commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner walker we have quorum and the next item is item b the oath will all parties giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you you may be seated next item is item c minutes approval of minutes discussion and possible action to do you want the minutes for december 2014 is there a motion to approve the minutes. >> so moved second there is a motion and a second is there any public comment all commissioners in favor opposed the minutes are approved item d the progress report complaint central avenue staff will if give an update from jan 21st arrest members of the board good morning ross marie we have fox yesterday morning by e-mail from the mayor's office of housing indicating that their preceding and working with the property owner to get the documents executed to move forward with the granted to make the repairs there are issues that are

president mccarthy commissioner vice president mar commissioner clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner melgar commissioner walker we have quorum the next item is president announcements. >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the meeting february 18, 2015, in advance if i miss prosperous any names beginning i dbi has been asked to participate in the high school internship program an 8 week program that high school students are mentored by dbi staff from june to august 7th and dbi has typically had 10 to 15 interim students that provide assistance to the staff and expect them to participate a thank you to chris with the plan review for his assistance in helping a person getting their permit so above and beyond the call of duty congratulation to deputy city attorney ed sweeny and ron tom that got a thank you for setting up the short-term rental applications that's quite a job and controversial one we thank all our staff and director duffy and others participant in the the february 28th town hall meeting from 10:00 a.m. to noon held in a church on turk and third dbi and pla

mccarthy commissioner vice president mar commissioner president clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner vice president melgar commissioner walker that motion passes unanimously our next item is jrnlt is there are a monoxide to adjourn. >> yes. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all commissioner in favor any opposed we're adjourned it's 9:38 a.m. >> thank you >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we're here at sunset recreation center for the program. we want to get a chance to mix in some of the kids that don't know how to play basketball from the hosting of san francisco it's not a matter of the score but at the end of the day it's about having fun kids arelogies or winning their learning to become more open-minded about things. i grew up in playing in the rec and park department and it's good to grow up and now giving back it feels good i'm excited i love being a part of this department especially the junior >> we are going to get started soon we're going to get started soon if you could turn the overhead projector off sfgovtv all right. everyone ladies and gentlemen, please come in and take our

commissioner mccarthy commissioner vice president mar president clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray p commissioner melgar commissioner walker we have quorum and the next item is presidents monopolist. >> good afternoon. welcome to january 21, 2015,

mccray's case being heard in d.c. superior court today. he learned he'll face a hearing in march on a felony fraud charge in this case. prosecutors say he's pleaded not guilty. as you saw, he declined to answer our questions. he is just the latest government employee to be accused of misusing his gorn gas card. an investigi working on for news4 at 11:00 is going to show d.c. and federal workers have illegally swiped those cards to take millions of taxpayer dollars worth of gas in just the past few years. >> they're all over the country. they're everywhere where the government does business. >> reporter: misusing those cards. tonight at 11:00, we'll show you one of the gome workers who was caught in the act, caught on camera doing so. we'll take you inside the investigation to see how federal agents are, in fact cracking these cases. scott mcfarlane news4 i-team. >> thanks, scott. >>> a high-speed chase ends with deadly conseqncn virginia. we're working now for brand-new information on ryras >>> and i'm watching some snow just down to our s

president mccarthy commissioner vice president mar commissioner clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray p xherpg commissioner walker no. >> the motion hospitalization carries 6 to one. >> thank you. >> item number 8 discussion on the planning department project team. >> why not pull the trigger on this one. >> commissioner good afternoon dan with the planning department commissioner president mccarthy and commissioner vice president mar excuse me. congratulations on our reelections thank you for having the planning staff here today on the next item which is i'll state significantly less indicative i'm joined by the assistant director. >> i know i saw you on the commission that you have to come and share this this will be good news. >> it's a bit of good news we think so commissioners we at the planning department have developed and exploited as you seen on the screen a small project team a new avenue we've developed like everything it come out of our department those days we have an acronym let's talk about this commission this plot as you know is largely in response to what you see on

commissioner clinch commissioner melgar president mccarthy commissioner mar commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner walker we have quorum and the next item is item b the oath we'll all parts giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand

. >> commissioner clinch president mccarthy commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner walker motion carries unanimously. >> item e new appeals order of abatement case 6797, 1254 mission street owner on record tom wong attorney is pamela chung to reserve the order of abatement and allow time to work with the tenant to gain access to the property to correct a violation and i'm karen aluminum i'm a nebraska of the property owners ms. wong. >> do we hear if the department first. >> sorry ma'am i'm sorry. >> the department has 7 minutes to present its case and you have 7 minutes the department goes first. >> inspector. >> now you're aware we have two cascades for this address do we hear them separately or wish to deal with did board at the same time. >> what makes more sense. >> unless there's problems with time. >> let's do them together we'll give you 14 minutes and the appellant 14 minutes like in the past. >> so the first one is the appeal 6797 1054 mission street this is a two-story office building and the violation is really a living unit installed without plumbing permits t

commissioner mccarthy commissioner vice president mar president clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray p commissioner melgar commissioner walker we have quorum and the next item is presidents monopolist. >> good afternoon. welcome to january 21, 2015, bic meeting of 2015 i have pointing i have first of all, reading from a different formulate we have the director's report for 2015 and in housing maintaining? what the director is going to be putting together. 2015 in housing and continuing the monument on construction of new preservation for existing housing preserving an existing how's stock for feasible applications and expending and review of approval processes for new housing unit to meet the mayors goal of thirty thousand nor unit by 2020 and by working closely with the planning and mayor's office of housing we have 4 thousand new housing unit online that was an achievement the effective approval 90 percent of approved ♪ 48 hours between the years of 2014-2015 we're on track to issue over 85 thousand permits between 2014-2015 of this year and providing housing priorities for the cer

mccarthy commissioner vice president mar commissioner president clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner vice president melgar commissioner walker that motion passes unanimously our next item is jrnlt is there are a monoxide to adjourn. >> yes. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all commissioner in favor any opposed we're adjourned it's 9:38 a.m. >> thank youyou. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting center visitors can get opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive one-on-one technical assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor and a created bed public commission it will help people to assist people to compete for and performance open city contract a lot of small businesses do have the resources to loblth the opportunity so one of the things we wanted to do was provide ways to access contract >> access to the plans spiefkz and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital traini

despite that mccray says it's usually not your engine or tires that fail you in the cold. he says watch your windshield wipers. make sure they don't stick to your windshield. if you're riding septa -- >> just bundle up warm. that's all you can do. >> reporter: -- fellow riders were heralding seat warmers on the broad street line. >> they have seat warmers in there so when you get in there, get all warm and everything. >> reporter: we found everything includes the trains themselves. septa is keeping as many as possible in tunnels overnight. some may have speed restrictions depending on conditions. septa so far has no train modifications to its normal train schedule. it will run as scheduled tomorrow. the bus schedule is slightly modified. the "nbc10 news" app has all the information on it. we're live at 69th street terminal, mitch blacher, "nbc10 news." >>> and in the meantime our meteorologists are tracking the snow and the cold and as mitch told us, thanks to the impns app nbc10 app you can track it as well. it has an enter akinteractive radar and hour by hour forecast. s

riding his bike across chester pike and they saw a pickup truck on surveillance that led them to mccray. >>> philadelphia is in the spotlight over the next two years, pope francis is coming for the world meeting of families in september following by the democratic convention in the summer of 2016 in light of all of that, pennsylvania's senior senator would like to see the 30th street station get an ungrade before the big event. john rawlins is live with more now. >> reporter: well, this starts with a letter sent to the president of amtrak this morning, it urges the railroad to expedite the action to upgrade key facilities at the station. >> what makes this news is who sent the letter. >> it's estimated millions of travelers go to 30th street station. and now they are asking amtrak to make improvements soon. leading his list is food. >> the dining options, i have eaten here many times i think we probably need more but there is at least one pub and 15 other easeries, one passenger told us that a sit down restaurant would be nice. >> i have known 30th street for years and it's a huge impro

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of contributing an essay along with people like carmen john legend and new york city's first lady mccraye biggest challenges facing the african-american community. and the crucial question where do we go from here? joining me now is "essence" editor-in-chief, vanessa deluc achl. a. >> thank you for having me. >> "essence" has never done a cover like this before. why now? >> we felt that it was absolutely essential for us to chronicle and note and make a point that this is an unbelievable time in our history. that what we are witnessing is a new civil rights movement unfolding right before our very eyes. >> i wrote how long it can take to achieve lasting change. how can "essence" help keep people focused on these things? >> well one of the things is to continually, from now on introduce a civil rights watch. it will showcase people in the movement making great strides, bring attention to people you may not know about or have heard about, the young ladies that have organized the new york city millions march that happened not too long ago, people on the ground in ferguson, people who are in

also el cerrito, george mccray is at 56 balmy degrees.theast breeze -- if that northeast breeze continues, it looks like they will be very warm and in record- setting territory. high pressure taking everything way to the north even the higher clouds. 40s on the temps. there is a couple of that are pretty cool. santa rosa, who. but 54 in the city. 47 san jose, 42 fairfield. 41 napa. and 41 at petaluma. angwin, 1700 feet is 56 degrees already. 40s low. sebastopol. there is a little bit of fog. that won't last long. that will burn off. in the mountains, 20s. they are in the 50s. look at -- i mean, san diego is already 68 degrees. 68. monterey at 55. the cold air, you can see this signature right there plunging deep to the south and then it will go right into the weekend. a lee is coming out of the great lakes. this is going to norm a nor'easter. this would be the european that slams boston with a blizzard. stay tuned. there could be another heavy- duty round of snow coming into the northeast. us, high pressure, winsous. warmer thursday and n