i went by and saw deputy director sweeney hanging out to see if he could help. it plays well with our community that you are out there and talking during these difficult times. the director and deputy director, ed sweeney and also i was at this meeting, there were a few names here, met with supervisor jane (inaudible) on monday to discuss legislation that she is considering that amends supervisor david chiu's vacant building ordinance. it was a productive discussion and we look forward to working with the supervisor to finalize her proposal amendments with review and recommendations and that will come in front of us, to the code advisory committee and the bic eventually but just another good example how when everybody gets together problems get solved and can be a good outcome for amendments for legislation, particularly the board of supervisors. supervisor kim also worked with dbi housing inspection staff on new legislation addressing the additional department of hub health action steps to deal more effectively with the bedbugs infections which we read a lot ab

regardless who hughey and sweeney have to go. the complete lack of written policy are a symptom of the real problem at the department and at the monthsv. let's not forget the mayor. the real problem is you and the mayor condone this pathetic situation * with the willful lack of oversight. you have allowed these people to get away with so much for so long they're starting to believe their own bull sheet that they can get away with anything. you ask they are wrong. i'll see you next month. thanks for listening. >> any further public comment? >> the next speaker. >>> commissioners, good morning, my name is robert davis at the bayview. and i'd like to ask to bring up some topics. i have some prepared notes. one is an emergency demolition order that was signed by the acting director back on august 7th for property located at the corner of thornton and 3rd street of the bayview. the owner has done nothing and the 30-day period is past. the next item is 48 01 3rd street, which as you see in my notes was the subject of a lien. went to th

sweeney. >> commissioner mar? >> did she move? >> getting any permits or apply for any permits or anything? >> she has not applied for any permits. >> i have a question for counsel. does the rehearing request stay our action? >> i believe it does. >> and there is a deadline for rehearing? for requesting a rehearing? >> yes, but i can't tell you what it is right off the top of my head. i think she complied -- my recollection is she complied with the time frame for requesting a rehearing. >> and now she's continuing it? >> my understanding is on september seventh, requested a continuance based on the fact that because of the high holy days. >> so, she knew when she scheduled it when it was going to be or no? my concern is that this is a delaying tactic and i wonder -- i guess we have to allow for a continuance request. but my concern is what it does to implementing our decision. so, if it stays our decision, i guess, do we have to grant a continuance? * 7th >> no. however, given the building department has agreed to it -- >> okay. >

sweeney, the chief inspector, he's going to ask me where are the permits. that's all he wants to know. it doesn't matter what the assessor says, it dosment matter what the client says, there are no permits for anything that's down there. all the research i found showed it was legally a two unit building, converted to 6 units. there's a cfc that says it's a 6 unit building. any questions? >> anything further from the department? no, okay, commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> i mean, to me it's pretty clear that the unit is illegal and needs to be removed. i'm troubled by the timing, i'm troubled by the acceptance of rent and what looks to be the timing with respect to the one year lease and i don't know if there's anything we can do, but i believe that the permit itself needs to be upheld. >> i would agree with that. you know, it's really troubling to hear that and i think the remedy is probably in the landlord-tenant context for the tenant here. but it does trouble me that the rent was accepted and that there is this claim that there was a lack of kno

director sweeney, directors? >> let me stop you right there, commissioner. what is in front of us is item -- >>> i'm explaining why you should speed things up. >> i'm telling you now you need to -- >>> stop the clock, please. >> not refer to staff. confront us here about the item on the search for the director. please keep your comments to that. and i asked you that once. >>> very good, sir. there are reasons to speed up this search. so, okay. no directives from staff. i think that's a big problem. you need a director who will direct. furthermore, how can this commission allow a department to exist with no written and authorized policies and procedures? how can you allow these persons whose actual title includes the word director to not direct? i insist a director who has not issued any directives is committing administrative malfeasance at the level of official misconduct. the lack of written direction for a lengthy period of time has resulted in complete confusion at the department from operating by word of mouth only. has the department become criminal or

on september 11th, i joined acting director huey deputy sweeney and chief henchon as we sat with six top staff from the los angeles building department who visited san francisco to learn about our procedures and code enforcements and inspects and plan review we discussed earlier in the last item. * inspections at the recommendation of acting director huey, we will be establishing a new committee to recognize and award outstanding dbi employees on a quarterly or annual basis. an initial organizational session was held yesterday and i was there. vice president mar was there. i was pleased to be part of this new committee. other members include emilie morrison and jeffery mar and bill strawn. it was a good discussion and as i joke with bill in good fashion, we find issues we want to address first before we can agree on it. we'll have another meeting and the goal here is to have this program in place here starting next year and do it on a quarterly basis. i think it will be a very, very good policy to have in place to recognize all the -- particularly the people in the dbi family who are

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we maintain a do not call working group and i've got marguerite sweeney many states pulled together so we are active with our national association of attorneys general. when it comes to robocalls, indiana as another unique experience. we have banned the use of auto- dialers since 1988 recognizing the growing opportunities for scams. we have even banned the political calls. that has engaged a number of legal challenges, as you might have guessed. it has been successful up through the courts and the supreme court of india and that successfully arguing that the rights to privacy trump a political free speech to blast out tens of thousands of calls to hoosiers. it is subject to a federal case we want at the district court that is now in the seventh circuit court of appeals. i think there is opportunities there that indiana and other states have shown to have stricter do not call and no boat rolled -- and no robocalling options. some of the current work will again be subject to additional challenges and we look forward to many more days in court. [laughter] >> thank you, let's shift gears a

." >> announcer: sweeney strikes out swinging. >> reporter: casey dagle pitched in the major leagues.> announcer: a 3-2 pitch to bonds. he struck him out swinging. >> reporter: his wife jenny finch upon olympic medals in softball. >> announcer: called strike on the outside corner. quickly finch is is ahead in the count 0-2. >> reporter: their proud careers were built on talent and, although they don't like to admit it, a little superstition. some of it pretty strange. >> before the game, i would always put my socks on a certain way. >> i would always put my bat bag in the same spot. my helmet. >> if we were the home team, i would go to the bathroom in the fifth inning. >> when it came down to it, i had two favorite sports bras. i wanted that same sports bra for the game. >> if we were away team i would go to the bathroom in the sixth inning. even if you didn't have to go to the bathroom, you went to the bathroom. >> announcer: how about casey dagle. >> reporter: in baseball such routines are routine. legend wade boggs ate chicken before each game. pitcher turk wendell brushd his teeth

veteran of shows like anything goes, sweeney todd.on quixote in a special presentation this saturday night, performing to benefit the clock tower players. it is a very fine community group with which i manage to land a role every decade or so. and, yes, i will be up on stage on saturday night as well. your narrator's going to be meredith viera, jim layman from beauty and the beast, all these big hollywood broadway-caliber entertainers up there on stage, and me. jenna: definitely broadway caliber. jon: no, i am not. but everybody wants to see some of these legended on stage. if you're in the new york area, you want to catch it, check out irvington theater.com, and i'll put something on our blog page. jenna: i have attended one of your performances in the past -- jon: yes. jenna: what was -- jon: that was camelot. jenna: jon has an excellent singing voice,. jon: thank you. jenna: do you get stage fright? jon: it's terrifying. it's not like televn.

it all down for us, former senior advise tore president clinton and new yorker.com writer richard sweeneyll kane who does have electricity this morning. i have to warn you about the moods right now. electricity, no electricity. >> the other way. >> sorry. this may cheer you up. we have some new state polls out, just minutes ago from the new york times and quinnipiac show the race close but in one key state barack obama appearing to open up a lead. that's ohio. look at that. 50 to 45. florida, 48 to 47. virginia, 49 to 47. i want to talk about ohio, richard, bauds we have seen a number consistently because two to five points the last week. do you think democrats are feeling pretty safe now about ohio? >> i think we all think it is still very close. i think it is, you know, all the polls in ohio consistently have shown the president with a slight or small lead. we think we are going to win ohio. no republican has won the presidency without ohio. we think we saw the other numbers in florida and virginia. if the president wins ohio, florida and virginia, it is over. >> will? >> i don't know i

it was started by john sweeney and bill burton, who would come out of the white house.sean, who has served as chief of staff to rahm emanuel, the single worst title, chief of staff, chief of staff. and did a great job. and the two of them had left the white house to start his superpac and begin the process of trying to help barack obama get reelected. and it started out slow. the way to raise money is to go to donors that are interesting in helping the president, who were shot at interest in trying to help the president. and it's a very different fundraising strategy. it is for a lot of them you think about barack obama and the power of his campaign in 2008. what we know is how much of that is fueled by little donations, by people in this terms spending $5 or $3 or whatever it is in the ucs and the small donors. well come you can't do that. you are serta spending your time trying to go out and raise six figures, seven figures. it's not a common thing. sure i cannot do under 50 bucks for some charity and helping. can i have a million bucks? that's a tough conversation. a

i have margarete sweeney from my office who's the chairman of that, so a lot of state still pull together some of these issues. so were very active with her national association of attorneys general. when it comes to robocalls, indiana has another unique experience. we ban the use of autodialers since 1988 and recognizing the growing -- let's say the opportunities for scams. we've even banned the political calls so you won't get political calls. that has engaged a number of legal challenges as you might've guessed. but it has been successful up to the courts and the supreme court of indiana, successfully arguing that the rights of privacy in the home trump the political free speech to blast out tens of thousands of calls to hoosiers. it is subject to a federal case. we want the district court on the seventh circuit court of appeals. so i do think that there's opportunity say that indiana and other states have shown to have stricter do-not-call and no one robocalling kind of operation. some of the work we are currently doing though is going to again be subject to additional challenges them

it was started by two gentlemen, john sweeney and bill burton, who had come out of the white house, bill with a communications job, seajohn serd as chief of staff to rahm emanuel. was no presidential blessing for a super pac to exist. we were actually to the game appeared priorities usa action, the two of them had left the white house reelected, and it sd off slow. reyes -- the way to raise money is to go to donors who you might think will help the president, people that have donated before, people that have shown an interest in trying to help the president. it is a very different fundraising strategy. i am not a fundraiser, but for -- if he think about barack obama, the power of his campaign, reelected, and it stad off slow. reyes -- the way to raise money is to go to donors who you might think will help the president, people that have donated before, people that have shown an interest in trying to help the president. it is a very different fundraising strategy. i am not a fundraiser, but for -- if he think about barack obama, the power of his campaign, what we know is, how much of that

with stronger do not call statutes, so womaned a do not call working group, and i have margurite sweeney from my offic who is chairman of that. so we're very active with the national association of attorneys general. when it comes to robocalls, indiana has another, let's say, unique experience. we've banned the use of auto dialers since 1988, and have recognized the growing, let's say, opportunities for scams. we've even banned the political calls. so you won't get political calls. that's engaged a number of legal challenges, as you might have guessed, but it has been successful up through the courts and the supreme court of indiana. successfully arguing that the rights of privacy in the home trump the political free speech to blast out tens of thousands of calls to hoosiers. it is subject to a federal case we won at the district court and are now in the seventh circuit court of appeals. so i do think there's opportunities there that indiana and other states have shown to have stricter do not call and no robocalling kind of operations. some of the work we're currently doing, though, is g

it was started by two gentlemen, charles sweeney and bill burton, who came out of the white house. -- >> we need served as the chief of staff to rahm emanuel, the single worst person to serve. and t