. >> vice president melgar? >> here. >> commissioner mar? >> here. >> commissioner mccray is expected. >> commissioner mccarthy? >> here. >> and commissioner lee? >> here. >> commissioner walker? >> here of the >> we have a quorum and the next item is item b. the oath. would all persons that may be giving testimony today please stand and raise your right-hand? [oath >> you may be seated. >> and have an announcement that item d, for a new appeal case number 6779, 3580 san bruno avenue has been withdrawn and this case will not be heard today. >> the next item, is c, approval of the minutes, discussion and possible action to adopt the minutes for the meeting held on may 15th, 2013. is there a motion to approve in >> i move. >> second. >> are all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> are any opposed in >> is there any public comment on approving the minutes? >> seeing none, the minutes are approved. >> next item is item e, continued appeal order of abatement. case number 6778-326330. the owner, brandon acase no. 6778: 326-330 presidio avenue owner of rec

. >> vice president melgar. >> yes. >> commissioner mar? >> yes. >> commissioner mccray? >> yes. >> mccarthy? >> yes. >> commissioner lee? >> you know, i think that is what we are doing is a fair thing because if the work does not get done, it effects the tenant, i mean the tenant really should allow access, and if he does not allow the access he is actually hurting himself. and if the property owner can't do it, then, yes, you are right. the order of abatement should stand, so i vote yes. >> okay. and commissioner walker? >> yes. >> the motion carries, unanimously. >> and on to item s, general public comment, is there any general public comment for items that are not on the abatement appeals board agenda? >> seeing none, item g, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> second. >> okay. all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> any opposed? >> public comment? >> and we are the motion carry and we are adjourned it is 10:03 a.m. and we will take a five to ten minute recess and reconvene as the building inspection commission. >> yes. >> today is

. >> a motion with commission melgar and who seconded it? vice presidents mar seconded the motion. okay. a roll call vote on the motion to continue the item to september fifth. and president mccarthy? >> aye. >> mar. >> yes. >> commissioner clinch yes. >> commissioner lee. >> yes. >> mccray. >> yes. >> melgar. >> yes. >> commissioner walker. >> yes. >> and that motion carries. and okay >> we will go to item five, but i kind of want to talk about five and six, just before you read it in. i have as you noticed commissioners a potential closed session on item 6 there and the reason i put that in there is in case, there was a forwarded conversation needed above and beyond item five today and so, it is there, if it needs to go further, i hope that we will not have to. i just

. >> commissioner melgar? >> yes. >> commissioner walker? >> yes. >> is that motion carries unanimously. and on to item number 7. discussion and possible action regarding proposed ordinance (clerk of the board file no. 130782) amending the buildingcode to modify some of the evaluation and retrofit criteria for the mandatory earthquake retrofit program and add seismic members to the board of examiners; amending the housing code to require a report of residential building record (3r report) to include information on whether a building is included in the program and whether the required upgrade has been completed; adopting environmental findings and findings of local conditions under the california health and safety code; and directing the clerk of the board to forward the legislation to specified state agencies. >> always a pleasure and before you is a few things and so i would like to focus on item 7 specifically which we are looking for action from this commission today on. and the other items that he will be presenting are for information o

. >> vice president melgar? >> here. >> commissioner mar?

. >> let the record show that commissioner melgar is excused. >> afternoon commissioners. i'm here to report status on the project tracking system. at the end of the report, senior inspector will provide a demo of the devices, the mobile devices that was requested of us last time. the project tracking system were going strong. we have several of our business staff reviewing and testing the functionality everyday. there is a lot of functionality to be tested not to mention the complexity of fees and back and forth and then we have additional changes and requirements that are coming in with the new legislation, not just for dbi but for other we are doing for. i know in july we intended to do the planning in july. round 2 has been moved to october and which is again pushing out the goal life date from november to the first quarter of 2014 which is march 2014. i know this is a shift in our original plan, but i think the department implementing this kind in dbi as well as the vendor feels the need to invest this extra time to go through testing and make sure everything we need

. >> vice president melgar? >> here. >> commissioner mar? >> here. >> commissioner mccray is expected. >> commissioner mccarthy? >> here. >> and commissioner lee? >> here. >> commissioner walker? >> here of the >> we have a

. >> melgar. >> yes. >> commissioner walker? >> i am sorry she was excused and so this motion carries, thank you. >> item 11, update on the new condo conversion legislation. >> bill strong, again, and you have heard president mccarthy run through some of those updated numbers for our condo conversion team. and they have actually improved each a little bit more in the last day so that as a understand it we now have 240 applications, and instead of the 220, that was in the president's announcements. so we have seen about 27 percent increase in these applications, since the passage and enactment of the new, ordinance, on july 29th. >> and it is still, as, i think that most of you know, one of these issues where there is a poison pill in the draft and if the lawsuit is filed, then, the people who are not yet in the system could be put on hold until a court ruling, comes out on it. and for that reason, i think that both we and the department of public works, were anticipating kind of an avalanche of applications. and so we have not h

. >> commissioner melgar in >> here. >> and commissioner walk sner >> here >> we have a quorum and the next item is item 2, president's announcements. good moefrng and i hope that everybody had a good break, we took last month off and so it has been two months and so i have a lot of things to read into the president's announcements and so bear with me and i apologize for mispronouncing half of these names and forgive me. keep an eye as i go through them. >> edswe. eeny, and pamela leven received letters individual dbi staff for outstanding customer service. and cora ella who works with the technical staff and (inaudible) who work in accounting administrative services. thank you, cora and kristine for do everything possible to assess dbi customer and a big thank you to the records management division and who received the thank you letter from mrs. jennifer (inaudible) thank you all for your excellent customer service. >> thank you to the dbi staffers, whose staffed dbi booths at the annual china town festival held on the 18th. there was an excellent community out reach to inform and it

. >> commissioner melgar? >> hello, how are you? >> good. >> so, you know, i as a group that is hearing the appeal, i need to see some evidence, you know, to make a decision. i heard from the landlord and it sounds to me like he is ready to go. i don't have any evidence, where i can assume that he is acting in bad faith that he only intends to do a cosmetic repair. and so i... you know, so far it is only to me, forgive me it has been your word for it. we can only rely on the professional expertise of the department's inspectors that is what they are there for and we trust that they are assessing the situation. i don't have any evidence in front of me to say that this type of repair and replace work necessitates permit to enlarge the bathroom. so that to me is still a question, you know? whether the code mandates, you know, father than the permit that he has pulled. and you know, i would ask that we get that. but, is it the case that you are not permitting the work to proceed if it does not meet with your professional, you know, opin

. >> melgar. >> yes. >> commissioner walker. >> yes. >> and that motion carries. and okay >> we will go to item five, but i kind of want to talk about five and six, just before you read it in. i have as you noticed commissioners a potential closed session on item 6 there and the reason i put that in there is in case, there was a forwarded conversation needed above and beyond item five today and so, it is there, if it needs to go further, i hope that we will not have to. i just kind of wanted to tell the commissioners why it is there and i believe that we have the parties here, and to start item five and they can give us a scope of what is going on. i don't know who... >> okay. >> good days, commissioners i'm sheryl (inaudible) of alliance resource. >> and i want to read this to the record. we are addressing item five and discussion on the recruitment process of the director of the department of building inspection. >> i want to recap the progress to date, on june 4th we sent out invitations to the target list of individuals, these individuals were based on our res