commissioner walker. commissioner walker: i have a couple of questions. what was the permit applied for in march for? is it for legalizing the residential use or is it for returning it to its original approved use? >> i believe -- i don't have the information in front of me. i believe it was to put it back to its original use. commissionerwalker: is this occupied? >> yes it is. commissioner walker: how many tenants? >> seven people the second floor and i believe five the rear property. so a total of 12 if my math is correct. commissioner walker: do you have any indication of how long this tentants is? >> i do not. president lee: so the tenants are still there? >> as far as i know, that's correct. president lee: commissioner hechanova. commissioner hechanova: how long has this -- the two units been rented? >> as far as our history shows, the inspection was done on may 4, 2010. so our history starts at that point. hoich but there could be a track or history of when payments were made by the tenants to the current owner, correct? >> that's correct. commissio

commissioner walker: thank you. commissioner lee: did you have anything else to add? >> i did not mean it like that, but i had to go up to the building department and renew my existing building permit to get the parking passes that i had. i know i did that, and i paid them something, so i do not know what that is. they looked up the files and said that they updated the permits, and i paid the fees on it to get my parking permit and everything. i do not know what i can say. if i need to pull some more permits our, then i will have to do that. >> [inaudible] >> i thought that was included. i thought that was in the original building permit. commissioner murphy: are you a general contractor? >> yes, i am. commissioner murphy: i think a general contractor should note to pull separate permits. >> i am an electrical contractor. i have a general license. i do not act as a general very often. i am not a general general contractor. i have the license, but i do not utilize it as my source of income. i am more of an electrical

commissioner walker: great. commissioner lee: thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment? item three. the next item on the agenda, item four, public comment. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm a 30-year resident of san francisco. i would like to read a prepared statement. with the one interruption. i would like to begin by thanking president hechanova for stopping by the department, meeting some of the staff, and i've had the distinct pleasure of seeing commissioner walker and commissioner murphy. i first came before you two months ago and made two increase. one regarding an additional deputy director and how a additional deputy director was created. the other inquiry was a request to know have no homhow many directives have been issued. i appeared one month ago to hear the result of those inquiries. nothing had been done. i used to the director of malfeasance for failure to provide written directive to staff. the director is not pulling the functions required by her position. i'm here today to fir

commissioner walker: thank you. commissioner lee: we're back to the original motion, 90 days. >> president lee? >> yes. commissioner walker:? >> yes. commissioner murphy:? >> yes. >> commissioner mar? >> yes. >> the motion carries. next item is item e, which is public comment. this is public comment for the abatement appeals hearing. seeing none, we have item f, which is adjournment. commissioner lee: ok, we will adjourn for 10 minutes and we will reconvene as the bic. >> thank you. >> thank you.

commissioner walker: i have a question. maybe it has been answered in previous reports, but the seismic retrofitting budget and our actual are significantly different. were we estimating more people would be taking advantage of a voluntary retrofitting program? >> yes, but that is not in this funding. we had -- i do not have the figures of how many permits have been issued, but it is a small amount. commissioner walker: it is underperforming what we anticipated we would be getting as a result of the voluntary program? that is a good thing to look at because it is pretty significant. being under revenue, just for that particular thing. >> we can report back on that. >> is there any public comment on item 9a? seeing none, -- oh. >> good morning. member of the san francisco coalition for responsible growth. i just want to commend you for the to stop you will be hauling, began with the electrical, because we have been behind and we have been trying to get appointments with them. like the building department, which are great. we

commissioner walker: that is permitted? >> i think so. >> a similar question, was the wood for domestic hot water supply or heat as well? -- was the boiler for domestic hot water supply or heat as well? >> it was both. since that was the case, when we had the fire, we just demo the whole thing. >> thank you. when you did the rebuild, the heating system was installed and a domestic hot water supply system was installed. >> that was part of the building permit. >> at the time, there was no reminder of an outstanding violation? >> no, because there was no violation. i told one of the inspectors back then that the boiler was put down. i did not realize that i had a violation at that time. there was no violation because the boiler is not there anymore. how do you get fined for something that the trouble is not there? i mean, the boiler is gone. >> because the apartment building was vacant after the fire and because it was reoccupied, was there an inspection, and that was passed before it took place? it is not occupied now? >> i

as chief and he was assigned all of judge walker's cases. walker himself drew the case by random draw at the start like all these cases are assigned. it just was happenstance. now months and months after the ruling, it's being challenged on the ground of bias. i should say -- i should mention also the same prop 8 proponents are saying judge walker illegally -- took and played videos of the trial and they're trying to get those confiscated from him as well. >> there seems to be no confusion about your story, troy, apple has done something a lot of people are upset about and that's a tracking file inside of your iphone and other devices, i assume. >> right. yes, there's a big controversy that sprang up last week when two researchers at a conference in santa clara announced they discovered this file on the iphone. which appears to keep track of where that iphone has been over time. it turns out and the bigger controversy, people in forensic field, people that dig into files, hard drives on mobile phones, had known about this for a year and they

vice president mar: commissioner walker? commissioner walker: i move we approved the participation of our director in the state why discussion about building code issues and approve the recommendations as put forward. commissioner lee: second. vice president mar: there's a motion on the floor that has been seconded. >> commissioner walker? >commissioner walker: yes. >> commissioner lee? commissioner lee: yes. >> commissioner murphy? commissioner murphy: no. >> four to one. thank you. item six. report on the progress for setting standards for gray water systems, including permit approval for dbi and coordination with the puc. >> good morning, commissioners, vice president mar. chief plumbing inspector, san francisco. i've been asked to come and speak as part of rainwatgray wa. i have been working with the puc for the past two years now, incorporating a manual for homeowners, customers, contractors that want to start installing the re water systems. one of the things i have right now is a draft that explains how systems are to

commissioner lee: commissioner walker, mar. commissioner walker: i have a question, and it may be better to the staff. in the original store permit -- 2005, did you say? >> i believe it was 2006. we had our first lead in 2005. commissioner walker: my question would be when the zero original permit was applied for, would there have been a mention of the backflow or not, and would that have been a time when we might have said, "should they have a back flow?" >> the permit was for the house track and the building's sewer. we did not get inside the building. there was no work that was done inside. it was after the fact that the permit was obtained. commissioner walker: we would assume it was already in there? >> we would not know that there is anything underneath there. we're looking at just what they have -- the house track and the sewer. there's no work being done inside. we are not going inside to look at it. we are looking at what is being replaced. there should have been some kind of that water protection. from what i understa

vice president walker. commissioner walker: yes. commissioner murphy, commissioner mar and commissioner romero. we have ran unanimous decision. president lee: thank you. ok. next item, number -- number two. >> our next item is case number two, number 6746, 149 bohna vista terrace. the owner of record and appellant is billy w. ewing and the action requested by the appellant is that the city and state have been slow in their assistance. we will first hear from the department. seven minutes. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm the chief plumbing inspector. we have 149 bohna vista terrace. we had a -- buena visa terrace. we had a complaint filed november 4, 2008. one of my inspectors went out to the premises, met with the owner and found that work was being performed without a permit at that time. posted the building for correction notice to make corrections to what was installed. it went through another visit on december 12, an office visit from george wilson who told us he would come down with the permits of worbling that was performe

walker today. he's away at meetings.he said 65 years of age it simply made sense to retire but he wanted to stick around to realize his dream of health care reform n.martinez, abc 7 news. >>> facebook now admits secre secretly hired a public relations company to plant negative stories in the media about google. p.r. says facebook hired it to convince blogers that google was in vaiding privacy with social circle. as part of the deal they were not allowed to reveal the facebook paying the bills. campaign uncovered by a blogger who refused to take part. facebook says no smear campaign was authorized or intended. the issues are 0us and we should have presented them in a serious transparent way. >> well, you can't buy happiness but if you are an america cup fan you could buy a pretty good view on the bay. 2 apartment at the square dead on view of the yacht racing rented for very short stays. according to the san francisco business time 2 bedroom costs brace yourself. 208,000 dollars for 14 days. one bedroom is going for 1 abo

big deal to levels first this means that now more than three months into the fight governor scott walker has not been able to implement his agenda and the core part of his agenda is to shut down the state's public employee unions to make it impossible for them to collect dues and to really function not merely in the workplace but in a political sphere so that's a big deal he clearly did not know and boy even if the republicans try to bring it back at some point in future he's very very significant that's one level the second level is the public image their public impression you have a very respected jurist somebody who has not been seen as a big liberal stepping out and saying that he walk or administration and its allies attending to break the law in fact have roca a lot of wisconsin in order to push their radical agenda that helps a lot i think for those who are trying to suggest that this governor and his allies have gone too far can you give us the the ten or twenty second version of what this law was that got struck down and what it would done had it not been struck. sure the govern

wisconsin governor and scott and koch brother lapdogs scott walker is in washington d.c. today he'll be the keynote speaker at a summit to promote education privatization was right wingers call it school choice it's unclear if walker will also be signing autographs or posing for pictures or running his own kissing booth for the all the right wingers who are now falling over him since he had the so-called courage to screw over average working joes and janes in his state the last time walker was in d.c. was because chairman of a government oversight committee and were. just manning congress and former small time criminal. wanted to honor him with an appearance before congress for busting up labor unions in wisconsin meanwhile is walker is being treated like a rock star here in d.c. today his republican co-horts back in wisconsin are scrambling because they know their days are numbered this summer six republican state senators will face recall elections for supporting scott walker's anti-union efforts those elections could begin as early as next month so right now these guys

union busting republicans is in full swing today a federal judge in wisconsin struck down scott walker's anti-union bill was passed in the dead of night with little notice of the public a judge ruled that the way the bill was asked violated the state's open meeting laws by not giving the proper twenty four hour notice for the public to review that bill in her ruling judge marion so he wrote the court must consider the potential damage to public trust and confidence in government if the legislature is not held to the same rules of transparency that it has created for other governmental bodies our form of government depends on citizens trust and confidence in the process by which our elected officials make laws at all levels of government the state supreme court will take up the case next week meanwhile in nearby ohio there's a bad news for another union busting governor former fox news talking head john face a just a half a year. he was a life with the office just a few months after he signed a controversial anti-union bill into law a new poll by public policy polling shows that if the el

william walker retired in september. he is performing the same job as a contract employee for the county. >> they can work for the agency up to 960 hours of year for pay. dr. walker is working for half time of pay. >> walker's income 294,000 . 80,000 as an on call physician. now he is collect being half of the 190,000 base salary and a pension of 264,000. from a fund that the county subsidizes. walker now gets $360,000 peryear. >> these are costs that are coming out of the county's budget. chris hunt is the executive director of the contra costa taxpayer's association. >> it is smart on his decision to make but the county not so much. the pension and the additional salary to pay. >> the supervisor said walker is a handful of managers that required and returned to the county as contract workers. >> there may be people retiring after age 50 and coming back. that is the case where there appears to be abuse. dick >> we are not comfortable with it. >> larry is supporting assembly bill 340 and curtail of the practice of retiri

and walker really is not, personally not someone to be admired. and americans of the time are badly divided. the lead up to the civil war and you can see the argument about him and keeping with the argument that led up to americans killing each other. vanderbilt has to effect for the freelance on the foreign policy the presidential administration by civil strife they had essentially no function for the policies of the did it himself. >> shivers indy 500 khedives and secretary war. he thought he was a great thing. >> i love the irony of vanderbilt as part of what one of the characters of your book calls a mushroom aristocracy. that is a particularly telling commentary. people were just mortified that now family connection really didn't have anything to do with the position in society any more because people like vanderbilt and their enormous wealth and so for the longest time he was sustained. and he was kind of a rauf individual any way at times. but now of course the vanderbilt name in america is the name of old money aristocracy. so, anderson co

william walker retired in december. yet the 65-year-old walker is still performing the same job as a contract employee for the county. >> state law allows public employees who retire to work for their agency up to 960 hours per year of pay. so what dr. walker is doing is working full time for the half time pay. >> in 21st century 2010 his grs $291,000, a sum that included more than $80,000 in pace as an oncall position. now, that he is retired he is collecting half of his base salary and a pension of $264,000 from a fund the county subsidizes. he now gets nearly $360,000 per year. >> these are costs that are coming out of the county's budget. >> kris hunt is the executive director of the contra costa tax paidzs association. >> it is a smart decision on his to make. to the county not so much because now that pension is there and a in addition you have the additional salary to pay. >> the super vaser says walker is among a handful of managers who retired and returned to the county as contract workers. >> there may be peop

. >> reporter: more than 200 of those walkers are breast cancer survivors.hey received a hero's welcome at the grounds of the national monument, where the closing ceremonies were held. >> even though many medical oddsmakers wouldn't have given me more than two years to live, immediate surgery, intensive treatment, lots of love and support from my family, and friends, enabled me to beat the odds and survive. >> reporter: at von foundation presented more than $3 million in grants to nine local organizations to offer services to breast cancer patients as well as better treatments and strategies. johns hopkins received $750,000 for care and research. >> the johns hopkins breast center has several programs, including research, so a lot of this will go to research for finding a cure and better treatment for breast cancer. >> the majority of that money will stay in the d.c. and maryland and vrng area, which is nice because they worked hard to raise the money and nice to know the money is staying locally and going to organizations that they know. >> reporter: each w

first, that in most cities walkers make up about 12% of all traffic deaths.n san francisco, the number is close tore 52%. a couple of reasons behind this. one is that a lot of people walk here. it's dense, it's accessible. we just spoke with one man who was walking this morning and he says drivers in the city, oftentimes they're just too much. >> they could be a little radical. you know, it can be a little tough with the drivers here. you know, it gets so congested. seems like the city is getting crowdeder. it's a little difficult at times. i drive a bus. >> reporter: the study also found a couple of other reasons could be that efforts to make thoroughfares slower often work out better for drivers than they do for pedestrians. they support mayor ed lee's proposed bond measure to upgrade roads and street scapes. they think that could help. the study also found that overall when you take other parts of the bay area, including the east bay, it is pretty safe to walk in the bay area. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, "today in the bay." >>> 6:32 ri

the arelious walker stairway is an important access route for the residents of the housing authority's westbrook development. this development connects hunters point hill within with its avenue and as well as route 19 for the muni bus line. this resolution will dedicate by a vue generated tax incement money to the event ration of the stairway. which will foster a safer pedestrian environment for residents and visitors of the housing authority development in the area. with that i ask that the redevelopment agency staff provide a brief summary of the proposal before with us. thank you very much. president chiu: do you need any assistance or are you good? great. >> can everyone see what's on the laptop first? hi. good afternoon president chiu, board of supervisorses. i'm lyla hussein. i'm here today to present on the arelious walker stairway improvement project and provide findings for section 33445 which requires the board of supervisors to hold a public hearing to consider making certain findings for the use of tax incement for public improvements. these findings must include that the p

i'll speak with former comptroller general david walker. >>> and michael j. fox on his battle with parkinson's and funding the research and finding a re. "the wall street journal report" starts right now. >> this is america's number one financial news program, "the wall street journal report." now maria bartiromo. >>> here is a look at what is making news as we head into a new week on wall street. disappointing news about america's economy. another look at the gdp for the first quarter by the federal government showed an annual increase of just 1.8%. that's a slower pace than economists had expected, and a sign of a softening economy, even though it is a backwards-looking indicator. the week started off with a blue monday as the markets fell on concerns about europe, but broke a three-day losing streak by wednesday. the markets were back up later in the week. >>> encouraging news about the housing market for a first time in a while. new single-family home sales hit a four-month high. that was a surprise to analysts, and was the second straight month of gains.

the poor walker arts center said, "listen, this is in the bill of fare. "it's very, very far out on the left. "you're right in terms of performance art, "but it is just a few performances "that our community is happy to support, a few people in the community." so in the overall scheme of things, it's what our community wants, and we feel-- so it was a real problem for us. and i kept saying-- and the interesting thing was, at the same time i was touring the united states of america. and i had witnessed-- i had been part of a circle dance in the dakotas of american indians. and one of the circle dance songs had to do with ritual scarification and bloodletting. and we were supporting that through our folk and traditional arts program. so at the same time i was dealing with this modern man, gay man who was doing some modest bloodletting but bloodletting nonetheless, i was also dealing with american indians who had had this as part of their culture for thousands of years. and then there was a legislative attempt to prohibit art that involved any kind of depict

walker's case his arrangement saves contra costa county $300,000 a year.ey they would hire in hiring a replacement. >> if you are looking for a job. how does working for disney in hawaii sound? bloomberg business report coming up. >> and how a senior is about to make medical history at his graduation. >> and small army of volunteers that will soon be on call to protect the bay area against oil spills. >>> good morning, we are looking at nice day across the state. temperatures will climb into the upper 60s along the coast near big sur. 87 in fresno. a dry day. enjoy it. we have much cooler air headed our way tomorrow and wet storm system on sunday and continue cool with chances of showers into next week. >> eric: it's now almost 5:47. >> kristen: time to take a look at stories. they want to talk to a san francisco mom who admitted on "good morning america" that she gives her eight-year-old daughter botox injections. she helps her to compete in duty pi ti pageants and other pageant moms gave her the idea. >>> yemeni man trying on get into cockpit returns to

ok what's going to walker of two in wisconsin writes to same sex couples this week walker announced the state will no longer defend a law that gives individuals and same sex relationships the right to visit each other in the hospital where i was granted to them back in two thousand and nine thanks to a law passed by democrats but now walker saying it's unconstitutional since it doesn't serve the public interest therefore he shouldn't have to be funded but isn't granting more rights to people in the public interest is in the idea of progress giving more rights and not taking rights away which. one thing you forgot the fact that in two thousand and six people of wisconsin pass constitutional amendment saying that they were against same sex marriage and they didn't want the same rights of marriage given to same sex couples that's a constitutional amendment that was approved by the people and then a democratic governor in wisconsin said oh well we're just going to i'm going to go ahead and challenge that and say that same sex color was. right but much against the will of the people and so w

commissioner walker: ok. commissioner lee: any

(laughter) walker ruling on prop 8 would be like thurgood marshall ruling a case about race or sandra day o'connor ruling a case involving reproductive rights or judge judy trying to be impartial in a case involving sass and moxie. (laughter) or a dog judge ruling on a case concerning public ball-licking. (laughter) idea for a show. (laughter) dog judge. we'll call it "justice of the paw." (laughter) i'll work on the title. meanwhile air, cross the country in tennessee, gay rights opponents are taking a different tact. >> now to tennessee where a proposed bill would prevent elementary and middle school teachers from talking about homosexuality to kids in the classroom. no public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality. >> jon: you know, keeping people from saying the word "gay" is not really going to keep people from being gay, you know. (laughter) being gay isn't like beetlejuice. if you say it outloud so many times, you're gay. (laughter) the bill was introduced by state senator stacey campfie

will consider a plan to put a stripe down the sidewalk, one side for bicyclists and the other for walkers. >> i think they don't know which side of the walkway to go in. i don't know know what the right of way is but the fastest man rules. >> bridge officials are still considering a speed limit for bicyclists. one rider hopes that common sense prevails. >> everybody should stay to the right and if you pass them go to the left. be aware of what is around you and try to stay safe. >> reporter: work is going to be going on for about four months and then the west side reopens and they started work on the east side. it's raining over here, mike you got it right. >> he knew that. still ahead, why scientists says virus linked to chronic fatigue may a be a false alarm the and cellphones, a new report that may have you talking less. >> and endeavour prepares for one more landing and tonight's final landing may be the more difficult. we'll update the mission. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is stacy. who runs circles around asthma. and dan. he never lets high cholesterol get h

will consider a plan to put a stripe down the sidewalk, one side for bicyclists and the other for walkers. >> i think they don't know which side of the walkway to go in. i don't know know what the right of way is but the fastest man rules. >> bridge officials are still considering a speed limit for bicyclists. one rider hopes that common sense prevails. >> everybody should stay to the right and if you pass them go to the left. be aware of what is around you and try to stay safe. >> reporter: work is going to be going on for about four months and then the west side reopens and they started work on the east side. it's raining over here, mike you got it right. >> he knew that. still ahead, why scientists says virus linked to chronic fatigue may a be a false alarm the and cellphones, a new report that may have you talking less. >> and endeavour prepares for one more landing and tonight's final landing may be the more difficult. we'll update the mission. >>> breaking news in san jose where you can see in this live picture from sky7hd, crews have knocked down a mobile home fire, san jose