mr. pacheco, if you could have a vote? secretary pacheco: on the motion not to disclose, commissioner peterson, commissioner garcia, commissioner hwang, and commissioner peterson is absent. the vote is 4-0. director goldstein: which i am would you like to call next? -- which item would you like to call next? commissioner goh: item number six. director goldstein: all right, we will call item no. 6, katherine viranyi and khaled hegazy, on 829 geary street, with the reason of suspension of smoking in enclosed area without an approved exemption from dph. this is on for a hearing today, and we will start with the appellant. please step forward. >> hi, good evening. we are appealing the decision because we are in small business. my name is katherine viranyi. we are appealing this. we are a small business, unlike some that have restaurants or bars. we do not have anything else to sell. we opened this at the end of december 2008. there was an exemption for places that were prior, opened prior to 2009, december, which was the year.

mr. pacheco, please read the world. secretary pacheco: on that motion, commissioner fung, vice president garcia: , commissioner peterson, that is rescheduled to december 14. director goldstein: thank you. moving back to a regular calendar, item number one, public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on something that is not on tonight's calendar? please step forward. >> my name is ross wilkinson. good evening, commissioners. i am a tenant, and i brought an appeal in 2006, regarding with fans that the property owner was putting in the exterior walls of each unit, and i essentially got a 50% victory in that appeal. we got an agreement from the landlord to put on off switches on those fan units so that tenants could turn them off to prevent all of the conditioned air from being exhausted from the apartment. i recently discovered that the department of building inspection disregarded your order. they were very aggressive in opposing my efforts to have them make the building order to comply with

mr. pacheco? secretary pacheco: on that motion to deny the rehearing, vice president garcia, president goh, commissioner hwang. it will be denied. commissioner goh: -- director goldstein: no further business. commissioner goh: we are adjourned. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since

mr. pacheco? secretary pacheco: on that motion to deny the rehearing, vice president garcia, president goh, commissioner hwang. it will be denied. commissioner goh: -- director goldstein: no further business. commissioner goh: we are adjourned. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> thank you for joining us. this is the regular meeting of the board of education. i am sorry. i woke the baby. september 13, 2011. the roll call, please. commissioner fewer: here. commissioner maufas: here. commissioner murase:. here. >> if you like, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. thank you. the approval of board minutes from the regular meeting. any corrections? seeing none, roll call, p lease. >> yes. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner wynns: yes. vice-president yee: yes. president mendoza: yes. >> six ayes. >> for the last few meetings all of you a separate hearing that we keep mentioning the state law that requires 7-12 grade students to show proof of a whopping cough a

mr. pacheco, if you are ready, could you call the roll, please? secretary pacheco: there is a motion from commissioner fung, at no additional briefing allowed to allow for the revision permit to be issued and possibly appealed by the dobrows. on that motion, president goh, vice president garcia: , commissioner peterson is absent -- vice president garcia, commissioner peterson is absent, commissioner hwang. this item is continued. director goldstein: we will call our last item, the subject property at 1633-1649 haight street. august 17, 2011, the board voted to deny the appeal and upheld the denial of the permit with a finding that the billboard does not comply with the planning conception planning code section -- does not comply with planning code section 604-h, the billboard to be replaced exactly in kind, exterior work only, not associated with any commercial space. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners, president goh. i asked for a re-hearing, and i will explain. at the end of the hearing, as we were arguing, presidents -- president goh ask

mr. pacheco? director goldstein: i just want to make sure that the department of building inspection and understand that as far as the self closing door and hinges, they are the ones to be enforcing that, so i just want to make sure that they'll understand what it is that would be required. vice president garcia: commissioner fung, i do not want to put words in his mouth. these are apparently pressurized, so you can vary the rate at which they close. >> department of building inspection. there are several requirements for doors, depending on what purpose they serve. there is maximum and minimum force, and depending on the location of the door, it may be self closing or automatic closing. those are generally terms that we use for fire doors, off and just for clarification, it closes upon activation of a smoke detector or alarm. the self closing door is normally closed, and it would close automatically, so it is in a normally closed position, and then they have the hardware. and just to clarify, a d

mr. pacheco, i think we are ready to have the roll called. >> to reiterate, the motion is to grant the appeal, a poll this permit, with two conditions, that no work be done on the ground floor deck that is adjacent to note -- commissioner fung: the ground floor. >> adjacent to ms. ireton's. >> i think it was as long as the code allows in those locations. >> and there are two iretons. commissioner fung: there is only one on the ground floor. commissioner garcia: if they were returned to the exact condition they are now, and that is not code compliance, if they can be put back onthe deck that is compliant, your language includes that? commissioner fung: yes. >> once again, to uphold this permit on condition that no work be done on the ground floor adjacent to appellate ireton's unit and on condition that the laundry units be returned as long as the code allows them to be replaced on the deck. on that motion to uphold with those two conditions, it commissioner fung, presidentgoh, commissioner garcia, commissioner peterson, commissioner hwang. the item is upheld. >> no further business. commissio

mr. pacheco, i think we are ready to have the roll called. >> to reiterate, the motion is to grant the appeal, a poll this permit, with two conditions, that no work be done on the ground floor deck that is adjacent to note -- commissioner fung: the ground floor. >> adjacent to ms. ireton's. >> i think it was as long as the code allows in those locations. >> and there are two

mr. pacheco, if you could go over the guidelines and go over the swearing in process? secretary pacheco: please turn off all devices and carry on conversations in the hallway. all of representatives, each has seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. members of the public who are not affiliated with the party set up to three minutes each to address the board and no rebuttal. -- who are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes. submit a speaker card or business card to staff when you come up to the lectern. speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the lectern. the board also recommends -- welcomes your suggestions. there are survey forms on the left side of the lectern, as well. if you have questions about requesting a re-hearing, please speak to staffed during the break or call the office tomorrow. -- please speak to the staff during the break. this meeting is broadcast live on san francisco government television, sfgtv, cable channel 78, and d b d -- dvd's are available directly from sfgtv. at this time, we wi

mr. pacheco? secretary pacheco: on that motion to deny the rehearing, vice president garcia, president goh, commissioner hwang. it will be denied. commissioner goh: -- director goldstein: no further business. commissioner goh: we are adjourned. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--