i know commissioner warshell wanted to include some comments. >> commissioner warshell: yes.ast friday, we had a meeting called by supervisor breed to talk about the mansion, 930 grove, which is one of the city's true treasures that is in derelict condition. i wanted to thank director hui, bill strong for representing the department so well at that meeting. it went from 5:30 supposed to be to 6:30. there was so much interest, it went to 7:00. and it was very productive for the entire community. and i really appreciate the department's strong show of support and engagement in saving this historic asset. >> president mccarthy: thank you commissioner warshell for your comments. that concludes the comments. >> secretary: is there any public comment on the president's announcement? seeing none, item three. general public comment. the b.i.c. will take public comment comment that are not part of this agenda. no general public comment. item four, election of b.i.c. president and vice president. >> president mccarthy: thank you, madame secretary. as it is believe it or not this time o

commissioner mccarthy, commissioner warshell and commissioner clinch is excused. next item is the out. all parties giving testimony please stand and raise your right hand. anyone who is planning to speak should stand. do you severe weather the testimony you're about the give is the truth to the best of your knowledge? thank you. you may be seated. how much time would you guys like? normally they have seven minutes. but this is a continued case. do you still want to do that? >> commissioner gilman: we'll do seven minutes. >> secretary: the department will present itself case first and then the appellant. each side has seven minutes to present their case. there is public comment and each member of the public has three minutes to speak and rebuttal time of three minutes each for the department and the apel land. the next aye -- appellant. the next item is item c, approval of minutes. discussion of possible action to adopt the minutes from meets held on december 20, 2017. is there a motion? >> move to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. any public c

. >> thank you commissioner warshell. >> i'll close out comments. obviously thank you all for coming out and having a meaningful conversation about a topic that kind of haunts our building community for many, many years. so i -- mr. duffy, you wanted to say something? >> just before you finish, joe duffy d.b.i. mr. butler referred to me on a building permit. i want to say it was temporary shoring of a building. those do not go to the planning department. we need to approve them, when it comes to someone on the third floor, we're doing the process and refer to engineers for approval. so the permit he's referencing that i was so wrong on, i was actually right on. a temporary shoring permit. i wanted to correct on that item. >> thank you mr. duffy. i do get it, there's a lot of permits out there. i think in the spirit of the conversation, it's hard to monitor and track, but thank you for clarifying that. >> and just one other thing -- the misrepresentation on plans is as big of a problem as demolition. i don't know if you're getting all that, that's on

i know commissioner warshell wanted to include some comments. >> commissioner warshell: yes. last friday, we had a meeting called by supervisor breed to talk about the mansion, 930 grove, which is one of the city's true treasures that is in derelict condition. i wanted to thank director hui, bill strong for representing the department so well at that meeting. it went from 5:30 supposed to be to 6:30. there was so much interest, it nt

commissioner mccarthy, commissioner warshell and commissioner clinch is excused. next item is the out. all parties giving testimony please stand and raise your right hand. anyone who is planning to speak should stand. do you severe weather the testimony you're about the give is the truth to the best of your knowledge?

commissioner lee, commissioner warshell. commissioner clinch is excused. we have a quorum. next is item 2. discussion and possible action on the proposed double it of the department of knowledge inspections for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, 2018 and 2019. >> good afternoon. deputy director for the department of building inspection. before you is the proposed fiscal year 18-19, 19-20 budget. we submitted a memo a week ago. i will present this as a powerpoint presentation so it will be easier to go through. first, similar to prior years, the budget funds positions, budget, training, it project to assist us in the strategic plan goals. that including performing inspections, delivering high customer service, quality customer service, effective administrative practices and engaging and educating the customers and other stakeholders. that is what our budget is geared towards. this year in addition to focusing on those items, we are also going to focus on funding priorities. this year our funding priorities are going to be the executive director 1702. trying to get to streamlining t

commissioner warshell please. >> much of what i have to say is reinforcing my colleague's recent comments. discloser, i should mention as well as serving here, i'm president of san francisco victorian alliance, which is preservation organization and so hearing these concerns about demolition of historic properties is more than troubling. it's infuriating. along with all the citizens who contributed to the good journalism that brought the awareness level up on this and the good journalism of the chronicle in making us more aware of this and bringing it to our attention, these are things i think we cherish and i think we should take this moment as there is no point in time we can now go back and say we're not on notice, that there is something very, very wrong here and we need to address it. all of the concerns about deficiencies in the current legislation, which have insufficient penalties, we need to relook, we need to cooperate and work with our colleagues, such as supervisor peskin who is fortunately expressed strong interest in getting resolution to strong reform on this. i share the c

. >> commissioner warshell, please. >> two questions. the first one is really getting to the -- how many of these are single-family homes. adding one unit, it would seem that knowing san francisco's housing stock, that would be the dominant thing. if you have any data on that, that would be useful. the second one is almost like your seismic upgrade question, you know, one of the programs that, you know, i think has been tremendous has been when seismic upgrades are done and soft story garage buildings, when they convert them to apartments and they're subsidized or below market rate, permanently affordable, there are financial incentives to do that, and they're quite good, and many owners have taken advantage of them and there's been a tremendous benefit from that. so i was just wondering, are there financial benefits, you know, that can be identified that, you know, in particular, complement this program of the seismic upgrade. but in particular, what i was thinking about, you know, you'd mentioned if a building is rent controlled alread