so this is a slide about the typical tenant rand company -- contributions. for a typical homeless single adults, the average household income if he or she is on disability is approximately $800 a month re. rent famous standard is typically 30% of household and come. however, for the dp hh unit, the city is providing more intensive services including tenant care. tenants are required to pay 50% of their household income as rent payment. even requiring the higher rent payments, it would still not be enough to cover the full operating costs which services the unit, which could range from $6,000 to $12,000 per unit. the local operating subsidy program ensures that a homeless person can be taken off the streets or out of the city's emergency care system and housed and provided services, even if he or she has a zeroing come. -- zero in come. now what would like to talk to you about the process for the local operating subsidy approvals. eligible projects are permanent supportive housing that have been approved by the city-wide affordable housing loan committee whic

i have represented tenants. at some point, i represented both because they have a common interest even in that. obviously, they both have to make the space accessible either now or later, so it is best that they work together if they can. and work together to save us -- to hire a single lawyer. they can make repairs or what ever is in their agreement. sometimes, when the tenant is the small business and does not have much cash flow, one way to do is to renegotiate the lease, where the cost is amortized over a longer period time. it is another way to spread the payments back to the less financially available person. would you do if you get one of these notices? if you have not had your property inspected already, or if you do not do it following this program -- which i recommend you do -- you should have an inspection by an architect who is familiar with ada issues. we call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. there are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the ca

it also increases the notice that tenants, a commercial tenants of commercial -- potential liability if they're not in compliance and forms a small business tenants about their obligation. it requires the office of small business creates multilingual templates explaining how federal, state, and local disability access laws intersect and the critical part of it -- better education of our small business sector. this has been an important step forward and i am proud to be a co-sponsor and urge your support. president chiu: any further discussion? supervisor chu: i wanted to thank president chiu. many of our districts has seen a number of businesses that have suffered hardships from some of the lawsuits that have occurred. if we -- as we look into the issues, there are intersections are rarely with small businesses. the issues are focused around the ability to make the repair. the legal resources to understand how to deal with some of the issues and understanding what the responsibilities are. in terms of capital, the mayor pose a revolving loan fund, something the board has approved wil

call tenant improvement work.o what he we have here is a big raw space. the tenant comes in and says i want to lease this space. they typically can lease a whole floor or a piece of it. with the designer they lay things out. how do we get out, whethe wheree exits? >> generally the exits are at the tremendous end of the building and so the issue is, do you have a corridor to tie those exits together? or do you not have a corridor, because it's one big tenant space. >> with a big room you request see the exit. >> you are going to need a walkway with those low-rise folding partitions. >> what's interesting, if you look at the concrete floor, see what this rests all the difbts in thdivotsin the floor? there was a metal track that formed the corridor. you could follow along, see where the walls used to be. there's a wall right there. and they put the wall in by putting a little metal track and shooting it into the concrete. how would they attach -- what would they do for a ceiling in here? >> they would have to rub it

we were able to relocate the tenants as well as a sandwich shop. we have been in contact with those tenants, and someone in the neighborhood has a web site which keeps everybody informed with what is going on. even though this project has been fast-tracked, 11 months later, we are just now getting before you. i do not expect we will be able to accommodate anybody for another year. maybe 18 months. it is a little premature for us to sit down and say this will be real. commissioner hillis: but a tenant has the right to move back into a comparable unit? >> if the have a studio, they would get another studio. if they have a one-bedroom, they will get a one bedroom. it will be at the same when they were paying before. commissioner hillis: 3 twins? >> they want to move back in as well. commissioner sugaya: i had a similar question because of an experience i am well aware of. . a building across the street from me when a fire. i will not go into it. the formula retail -- one of the considerations is whether there are other formula retail establishments in

i have represented tenants. at some point, i represented both because they have a common interest even in that. obviously, they both have to make the space accessible either now or later, so it is best that they work together if they can. and work together to save us -- to hire a single lawyer. they can make repairs or what ever is in their agreement. sometimes, when the tenant is the small business and does not have much cash flow, one way to do is to renegotiate the lease, where the cost is amortized over a longerer

concealment of the tenant of the downstairs unit of 47 avenue was a little. the concealment to the department of building inspection that in 1996, a restriction was placed on the deed and that no borders could live in the downstairs unit, and concealment that a permit was filed 16 years ago to demolish the illegal kitchen and reconvert the downstairs unit into a single-family home. in 2002, when my clients moved into this downstairs unit at 47th avenue, they were never told it was illegal. they were never told the downstairs unit was not intended or designed for a living, sleeping, dining, and cooking, and they love their unit. they have devoted time and attention, created this extensive garden, and now they have learned the unit is a legal. and they have been forced to move out and it would place on due hardship on them. they are considered a protected tenant with the assumption they tended to live there the rest of their lives. on behalf of my clients, we request they are given three- four months to move out. i have included numerous pictures of their garde

>> we are going to do a special outreach to all the tenants.e will have been another town hall meeting in the next couple of weeks. we will have our staff call e . we will do everything we can do to reach out to everybody. our website is a great location. we will put signs up down at the harbor. relating to someone's comments that the port was the dillydallying on sending out list of tenants. the request was sent in by e- mail to the ports, who sent it to the city attorney, who came back to us and said that information is proprietary and against the law to send it out. we will explore it further. we are reacting to a specific legal opinion from the city attorney. if there is a way to get around it, we will try. but i do not know how. i do want to thank the advocates for south beach harbor. we do have a good relationship. we will continue to meet with them on a regular basis. it is not easy. there are some difficult questions. regarding the america's cup, that is an opportunity. we are housing five or six of the chase boats for the race that wil

for one property owner to another, to one tenant to another. congress intended to be flexible and left a -- it vague. it is a case by case basis. it is not possible to have one- size-fits-all. that leaves part of the problem. each business's circumstances are different so you will not enough -- have necessarily one size fits all. i want to go back one slide. the ada through the department of justice which is the agency that is charged with setting forth guidelines to enforce the law through regulations, had a list of priorities for folks, business owners, and property owners to identify, to address. here are some that i have on the slide. the first one is access from the sidewalk or parking lot to the front door. when she never moved those barriers, you have to allow someone with disabilities to access goods and services that are made available to all non- disabled individuals. if the food service related entities such a -- such as a restaurant, you must have a restroom and the rest must be accessible. there are other items such as telephones a

we are the tenants affected by it, not mr. flynn. goothe other issue i would likeo bring up is the gate open or closed. i have not watched it, but two weeks running, the gate is closed. your order is affixed to the wall. it says seven days a week, and the manager does not work on the weekends, so the gate is closed. gi want to ensure your order is so vague. thank you. -- is obeyed. thank you. >> any other public comments? please step forward. >> my apartment faces the alley way. i have also witnessed negate being closed. the whole reason the gate was installed and now is because of safety. i think mr. flynn has done and not to create safety for the alley. good -- has done enough to create safety for the alley. he has a camera to see what goes in and out. there is a private security that comes in in the evening to patrol the building and the alleyway. he says there is a property manager. you're there might be a new one, but for the past two and not -- there might be another one, but for the past two and a half months there was an 0no

please come forward. >> there are probably 40 tenants in each building. we could give each kennan -- tenant a key when they move in. >> they have been waiting for months. >> we have given out quite a few, but we could give them 100% to every tenant, whether they need it or not. but as the other building. we have no reason not to give them a key. it keeps people from coming into the building, so there are quite a few people. good and we cannot have security of the police force, and there is a lot of activity. we did think we were going in the right direction, but then anybody could come and go. you could leave. gowe have the design pretty well done. there are some tweaks. >> you currently have security cameras that would expose what is going on in the alley? >> i think so. >> how long have you been doing this? >> six months. 5 i think it would be great if we could use some of the footage of the time during regular -- if you kept the gate open 24 hours and show as the footage on your security cameras and see what kind of activities are actually take place i

-- tenant desert. is the land blurred permitted to collect rent? -- the landlord permitted to collect rent? >> [inaudible] >> that is an excellent point. we will talk about the value. let me say, if it has existed for a long time, that does not make it ok. it means they got away with it for a long time. that does not mean it is ok because it has been there 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years. that does not make it ok. >> they can come in and kick up a tenant in clear out all of the room? >> we do not inspect those on a routine basis. we only look at them if we receive a complaint. we do not kick the people out. retell the property owner, you have this problem. you have to figure out how to solve the problem. legalize the unit. they can make some other change. >> anybody can come in and make trouble? >> they can. >> when we go to sell a property like that, if your friend wanted to sell the single-family house and had a tenant in the legal unit, if we write up the statement we hand out to all the people that co

president chiu: the legislation requires the city to get prior building applications for tenants that want to come into compliance with the ada laws. this is an amendment in 38.3. this would require landlords to bring common areas to make sure that they come into compliance with ada laws, or they are required to disclose to a tenant that the current property may not meet accessibility standards. we want to make sure that in places that tenants are informed that could be financially or legally a bet -- required to comply and require their baby in future releases the addressing of respective obligations of landlords and tenants to bring premises into compliance. another major portion which is an amendment that i have circulated at section 38.6 was suggested by the small business commission to develop notices and pamphlets in multiple languages that the small business commission would help to distribute regarding the federal, state, and local laws that could comply -- applied. what i'm trying to do is to make sure that the parties that could be impacted, commercial and large and small bu

it is so important that we have come up 500 + tenants. some people have fleets and so forth. the people do not know what is going on. it is going to fall back on the port. it is not going to fall back on any but -- anyone but the port. this does have to go to the board of supervisors eventually. i really cannot plead with you enough to come up with the way that we can communicate to the entire tennessee. i do not see how you are going to be able to make all the pieces come together between now and september. one of the issues i am pretty familiar with, you currently get your power from puc. and by california puc, at energy commission, you cannot become a utility. if you are putting meters in, they have to be put into the san francisco puc. they have not talked to ports at all. they were unaware of this going on. i am trying to say, there are so many loose ends that you cannot possibly get it by september. if you put that as a deadline, it will make it difficult for the staff to dig down the enough to come up with the solution. we need to have access, it be able to give you so

we did hear a few weeks ago from the tenant of stairs, the business sense name -- who from the tenant upstairs. we talk with them, and the owner hired a sound consultant to go in and do sound tests, and we have tried to assure the tenants of stairs it is pretty much oldies and goodies and soft jazz and dixieland. there will be a house band, and the application has met all of the requirements. the application is still not in its entirety. the building is sound. goothey already were handling security on powell street, so they are familiar with how it is done. most people are supportive or remained neutral. the tenant of stairs was also concerned about garbage and smoking, and all of those are covered in the lease. the new tenant will abide by those conditions. this is the founder and owner of the gold dust lounge. >> i want to thank you. i am sorry, but i was not prepared. we have to view your permit. >> i will be 65 this year. do you offer it senior discounts? if not, i would like you to consider that. >> jim, who you want to add anything? >> my name is jim, and we have worked with the

and then when the tenant comes in you've got another tenant improvement. to have the exit signs working, during the courts of demolition they wanted to make sure that the workers could get out in an emergency. there is a whole system to making sure that you keep the life safety codes in place while you're doing the de demolition. >> even if a house is mountain, shs. >> that light will remain on 24/7 and the smoke detectors are on. >> the one thing we didn't talk about is the trench here. >> that's getting a little high-tech. >> is that getting a little high-tech? >> we can explain if you want. in certain classes of buildings, who have what i consider sophisticated owners, they have put in electrified floor and they can lift up the steel plate here, and there is a trench here with wire trenches going out this way. and so they can come in and say, i want an electrical outlet right there where your foot is. and they can open up this plate, run a wire down a sleeve, drill a hole where you're standing, and pop utd a wire -- up a wire, and never go down to the t