Transcripts For SFGTV Building Inspection Commission 20240711

In advance if i mispronounce anybodys names. Im president of the building inspection commission. And im joined by fellow commissioners and director, Patrick Oriordan and staff. Mayor breed of the Public Health director, the city is unfortunately experiencing another increase in covid cases and hospitalizations. Resulting in more than citywide measures as of november 13 that hopefully will reduce the pandemic infections. D. B. I. Leadership and staff for the ongoing hard work under these complicated circumstances. Even though the Public Health protocols, our new space is open on a limited basis to the public and the department continues to issue permits, conduct and schedule onsite job inspections and respond to complaints and task Code Enforcement steps as warranted. The director and the staff have been communicating regularly with customers and stakeholders on the departments progress and issuing more permits and addressing customers needs. Well hear more on this in the commission meeting. I want to take a minute to congratulate the city newly elected and reelected supervisors based upon the november 3rd election results, including one of our own, we look forward to working closely with her in district 7. Supervisor melgar. It was a good race. Im proud to be in district 7. Look forward to working with her. On behalf of the commission, i want to thank who ever is washing their clothes, can you stop i want to congratulate lily maddist who is leaving the department and moving to the new position with the transbay joint authority. She began her career in november 2006 with the Public Utilities commission and with the mayors Communication Office and joining d. B. I. In august 2014. Lilys professionalism and skills have been much appreciated and valued during her tenure and we wish her every success with her new exciting responsibilities. Is lily online with us today, madame secretary . Hi, angus. Im in the middle of president comments, but i wanted to congratulate you. Thank you, angus, take care. President mccarthy finally i want to remind everybody we continue to achieve our safety and on behalf of all the commissioners, we say thank you, again, to our hardworking and dedicated professionals for the terrific jobs theyre doing and have been doing under this enormous stress caused by the deadly virus. These constant adjustments and flexibility, and were deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. Obviously, i want to wish everybody a happy thanksgiving to all our staff and to all the city family and to my fellow commissioners and all out there, stakeholders and everybody who uses d. B. I. Have a happy and safe thanksgiving. Thank you for joining our Virtual Commission meeting today. And please continue to participate and that concludes my comments. President comments, madame secretary. Secretary thank you. I just wanted to we have our certificate of appreciation from the commission for lily. I dont know if you can see it. Well give it to her in person. And also director oriordan wanted to wish her something as well. President mccarthy can we do that now . Yes, we can do it now. President mccarthy great, thank you. Lily, youre back on. Yes. Lily . Is it okay if i say a few words. Maybe you can allow me to share my screen if you wouldnt mind, thank you. Yes, yes. You can begin while i figure the screensharing privileges. Id just to like to say lily, d. B. I. Communications director is leaving us after six years of service to the department. I want to congratulate her on her new position at the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. And thank her for her many contributions to d. B. I. It has been an eventful six years in the department, especially in the last six months. And her role is critical to keeping our customers and stakeholders informed about d. B. I. Services. Thank you, lily, for your service. We wish you well in your new position and youve got to promise to keep in touch. Were going to hold you to that. If i can share my screen here, i will try to um okay. So can you all see my screen . So this is not going to be a virtual award. It is actually a piece of paper behind glass in a frame and it is a real award that will be presented to lily here at the office today. But i just wanted you all to see what is being presented to her. And we truly appreciate her service over the past six years like i said. And we wish her every best wish for the future. Thank you, lily. Would you like to say a few words . Hello, everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Sorry, im speaking on behalf of john because my computer wasnt working. Its been my pleasure to work for the department of building inspection. Its been great to work with you, the commission, the staff. The different programs weve had, mandatory, accessible business entrance, accessory dwelling unit. Now i have a better understanding how the Building Code works and the Different Things that im very proud of and im proud of the different work weve done over the years. Thank you so much. Its definitely bittersweet. Again, im actually leaving the city. Ive been working for the city over 14 years. I joined about 14 years ago during thanksgiving week. And im leaving actually during thanksgiving week. Which is kind poignant i guess. So its going to be really interesting on my next adventure at the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and working on the transit center. But i thank you again. I thank everyone on staff and our different partners throughout the city and working together on d. B. I. And the initiatives and efforts. Thank you so much. Thank you, lily. And thank you, patrick, for that. And thank you fort certification. Were losing for my commissioners familiar were losing a really good one here. Calm, cool, collective. Never panics under pressure and gets the job done. Shes always watched my back and told me, no, angus, thats not the way we can do it, we can only do it this way. And was always diplomatic with me and helped me through and had me scripted and was there for me and had my back particularly in the public arena. We lost bill, now losing why you, im feeling alone here. But im so happy for you, its a huge job youre taking on and i know it was a hard decision for you after many years at d. B. I. Good luck to you. Youre going to be amazing no matter where you go. Thanks, angus, thanks, everyone. [applause] congratulations. Thank you, lily, congratulations. Thank you, commissioners. Is there any Public Comment on the president s announcement . Seeing none, then our next item is item 3, general Public Comment. Well take Public Comment on the matters within the jurisdiction which are not part of this agenda. We have one caller, john. Sorry, lily was handing off the computer. No problem. Caller 4159, youre unmuted. This is me, Kevin Oconnor, am i unmuted . Good morning, thank you. Members of the b. I. C. Thank you for the opportunity to share my story and seek resolution in arabance with of our Construction Permit for our home. My name is Kevin Oconnor im a fourth generation san franciscan and speaking on behalf of myself and my 87yearold retired teacher, marilyn james, who is in hospice care. Back in december 2017, we applied for a permit to remodel and expand our home. A street both of us were raised on. Now three years later, were farther from issuance than we were when we applied. Were in limbo as every time we achieve approval, he has more tasks. In fact, not only does he admit he cant get it done soon, he wont even explain what needs to be done. I still to this day have not received any other answers. At this point, patience is not the issue. The countless delays have my mothers savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars as the neighborhood nuisance and liability. And that is why i appeal to you. My questions are. Number one, why is our permit delayed while identical permit was issued . Why are the new requirements what are the new requirements and why were they added . Why is d. B. I. Declaring when it was wasnt required for 159 meryeta. And number four, why still no work order in place even though i have other valid permits like exterior. And why has no one answered my previous request to remove the order like the failing safety fence . And then why did d. B. I. Issue us an n. O. D. Even though i had not built retaining walls. The policy dictates that this be treated try to wrap up. In fact, many of the actions i bottom line i want to thank all of you for what has been done and chief inspector, i appreciate all the help, but have no one to turn to, so please help. Thank you very much. Sorry i went so fast. Thank you, caller. Appreciate your comments. This is commissioner clinch. I just want to state for the record that mr. Oconnor did reach out to me. I basically reminded him explained to him that the only real way i could help him as commissioner and as a if he wanted to get the if he wanted to state his case to the commission in Public Comment. I want to say that for the record. Thank you. Are there any further callers . Seeing none, next item is item 4. Commissioners questions and matters. A. Inquiries to staff. At this time commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices and procedures which are of interest to the commission. And just as a reminder, before we get to this item, if you arent speaking, if you could mute yourself. Members of the public, again, im sorry, we are meeting remotely. If you are listening and you would like to call in, the call in number is 14156550001. Access code, 146 145 0470. And to raise your hand for Public Comment on a specific agenda item, press star 3 when prompted by the meeting moderator. Thank you. And then back to president mccarthy. President mccarthy secretary, i guess commissioner moss, Vice President moss, has any comments . Vice president moss no comment at this time. Commissioner alexandertut is chief Housing Inspector [indiscernible] secretary i dont see him on the call. Yes, i do. Yes, i do see him on the call. President mccarthy yes. Commissioner alexandertut i wanted to ask about as its getting colder, specifically in the housing code section, 204 violation, it specifically calls out fire hot water and heat as the possibility of a misdemeanor or infraction. You know for failing to for outstanding violations. And i just wanted to ask for your response to what is the departments procedure for as were getting to the colder months and the rainy months, for the heating ordinance . Before i answer, id like this acknowledge commissioner alexandertut, happy birthday . Commissioner alexandertut thank you [laughter]. Yes. We enforce the heat ordinance when were in buildings to check boilers. Make sure that the time clock is properly set. Within 24 hours. We do that even under the code of restrictions. An essential violation allegation that we respond to in 24 hours. I dont know if we have candidates for the criminal citation right now. There is one that were looking at. And you know, i wanted to acknowledge your help in helping us to connect with the new District Attorney during the really early days of the covid emergency when we were able to use the criminal citation power to enforce the health order, the s. R. O. S, where Christina Dang has been doing some of her work. I really helped turn around the situation both with a number of s. R. O. Hotels, and there was another one. We saw a really miraculous turnaround with some of those. And we couldnt have done it without your help. So thank you. Thank you. And just to clarify. So you do a citation, you respond to a complaint, you issue the citation and then at what point im just im curious about this enforcement power you have under section 204. At what point does it become you know it seems like you look at directors hearings. You know, we hear penalties from the department. What is the difference between those actions and misdemeanors and infractions . Can they coincide . Can you just explain how those three things interact . Well, its an important tool. Its a tool that i was involved in helping to develop in the 90s with supervisor roberta. If anybody remembers when she was a member. A lot of people in the community and myself and the supervisor had a series of meetings where we felt a criminal citation would make the property owner, the landlord take the violation more seriously. So the department it was kind of a trial and error process. When you saw an owner that was not going to comply, thats when you used that. We didnt have much luck using it, because it ended up in the hall of justice with judges who see more difficult arent really interested in the housing Code Violations issue, so they got tossed. But we met with the District Attorney and renewed that tool. It has helped a lot. There is a building with a fire exit issue. Weve been discussing it. And see if that would be a good candidate for using that tool. Weve talked to a couple different people at the District Attorneys office. So we talked to one person originally. We found another person that helped us move on. So thats where were at right now. Commissioner alexandertut thank you. Thats all my questions. Thank you, president. President mccarthy thank you, commissioner. I do agree with you. I know you will see some of these cases coming up, particularly with the heat and the cold coming in. Turnaround time to get the boilers up and running was the big one we used to come across. But you know, hopefully every landlord will be doing the right thing. Okay. Commissioner clinch . Commissioner clinch nothing for me, thank you. President mccarthy commissioner jacobo. Commissioner jacobo i wanted to thank commissioner tut for bringing that up and wish her happy birthday again, but no, nothing else for me thank you. Commissioner tam it doesnt look like he has comments. Commissioner tam i had technical difficulties. Thank you. President mccarthy okay. Madame secretary, no Public Comment on that . Secretary all right. So the next item is 4b, future meetings agendas. At this time the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting and or determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and the other future meetings. Our next meeting is december 16. President mccarthy so december 16, if thats okay with everybody. I always check in. Do we have enough for quorum . Is there anybody ill open the floor. Is there anybody who would not be here . Okay. Ill reach out again as it gets closer. President mccarthy yeah, and obviously, if anyone has action item, for special meeting between now and then to let you know. Okay. Through the chair, if i could say that not a question about the next meeting. I need to say that i need to leave at 1 00. Does that affect the quorum . I do believe were going to be okay. I think were going to be out of here by 12 30. Ive been trying to keep it light fort holidays, thanksgiving, christmas. Ill hit you heavy in january, so dont be making any appointments then. [laughter] secretary any Public Comment on 4a or b . Seeing none, item 5. Update regarding d. B. I. s initiatives to accelerate permit processing during the health crisis. President mccarthy interim director, thank you. Hi. Sonya, can i share my screen . Secretary sure. President mccarthy justine, sorry, is doing the presentation. Thank you. Good morning, president and commissioners. This is the department of building inspection. And in my presentation this morning, ill provide an update on our permit services and our initiative to heat up the permitting speed up the permitting process. Quick recap. Our current permit processes, weve converted all overthecounter permits, paper, as well as the inhouse review, from the digital system. We have auto generated permits, reroofing permits. People go online and pull those permits down. We have a system to expedite any emergency permits. And we continue to use the electronic plan review. We just want the accessory dwelling units, which ill talk about more later in the presentation. And we still take inhouse review. Were still processing inhouse review permits that were already submitted electronically and were taking permits for 100 Affordable Housing and Development Agreement projects. Our inperson overthecounter services we continue to do our note plan dropin service from 7 30 a. M. To 9 30 monday through friday. The volume fluctuates, but we average two a day in the morning. The fire takes in the fireonly permits down on the first floor of the building. And from 9 30 to 3 30 p. M. , customers can drop off over the counter permits am indications. Thats applications. Thats by appointment only. Our numbers are tracking about the same as what i reported last month. Precovid, before march of this year, we were issuing about 110 permits a day. And last month we issued approximately 100 permits a day. Were just below our precovid numbers and continuing to look at ways that we can increase the number of permits were issuing per day. We also issue on average about 130 trade permits a day, and those are the electrical, mechanical, plumbing, boiler permits that are on our online system. So addressing some of the permitting challenges and the initiatives that weve implemented over the past few months. We continue to work on Technology Improvements and work flow improvements to streamline the digital processing system. [please stand by] we are hiring an executive level permit services administrator. We have finished the interview process for that. We have chosen a candidate going through the background check process. We hope to have him on board in the next few weeks, and we continue to add permits tech. We are helping with that administrative work with possessing permits. We continue to offer over time to the staff so we can continue to work through the backlog. We dont have much of a backlog right now in house because of the way we are manning the appointment system. We offer over time to folks making sure those are moving efficiently. We have partnered with other permitting agencies. The fire department, we finished the training so they are managing the intake of the fire only permits and working with planning to process a. D. U. Permits through electronic plan review that went live on november 2. On november 2 when this went live, the Planning Department got about three dozen permit applications. That is now up to around 50. They are again, you know, this is a pilot to relaunch the electronic plan review process so we can continue to make improvements to that and then we will scale that up in the coming months. Overthecounter with plans appointments. Since we started taking pointments for customers to come in and drop off the applications after a few weeks the wait times for that started to get longer and longer. That became a big point for customers. What i talked about last month we were going to actively begin to manage that appointment process and the appointment list and work thruways to speed that up and get people in here sooner. One of the things we did was to add appointments. We expanded capacity for the number of permit applications we take in every day. Starting on november 2, we added six appointments that week per day. We went from 24 a day to 30 appointments per day. Next week we added 12 appointments per day. That is what we are going to do going forward. Now we have 36 appointments per day. Customers can bring in two permit applications. That is averaging around 60 permit applications per day we are taking in. The way we added capacity was not by just adding more appointments per day but by launching await list. We did an analysis of who had appointments. There were some customers banking appointments with dozens of apappointments on the books over the next several weeks. To make it more fair, we set up await list system so people can move up in line. If you already have an appointment in the next few weeks, you are okay. For the people who are waiting two or three months, we wanted to set up away for those people to move up and make sure it was distributed equitably. In the first two weeks when we lunched the wait list we received 313 eligible wait list requests and by eligible i am talking about people who didnt already have an appointment in the next few weeks. All 313 customers were offered an appointment in the next three weeks, and those customers moved up an average of 77 days or two and a half months. It was a big impact for a lot of these customers. This is just an explanation what the rules are around that wait list. Again, we set these rules up to make sure that those are being distributed fairly. If somebody has an appointment in the next two weeks we want somebody else to get a chance to come in. I also want to give an update on the electronic plan review. Over the last few months we were talking about when we launched the electronic plan review and closclosed to the public we recd thousands of permit applications. Since april 8th, we received 5356 permit applications. Through an amazing effort, our staff has gotten through every single one of those permit applications, and done the initial possessing. By initial possessing that means that they have reviewed the application, assigned the permit application number, opened up the blue beam session and routed the permit application to plan checkers. At least 210 permits have been 2100 are issued, 400 approved and waiting to pay, several thousand are being reviewed by plan checkers. D. B. I. And partnering permitting departments fire or public works. 500 waiting for customer response. Maybe the application was not complete. Then about 1300 were not valid. That means either that application was not completed accurately. It was not some of them were duplicates, some converted to paper, some were applications of the applicant deleted or canceled, but really proud of our staff for the amazing amount of hard work that went into getting through every one of those 5356 permit applications. I want to talk about the stakeholder and customer engagement. We have been busy over the last month reaching customers to explain service changing and permitting and giving people an opportunity to give feedback how to do things better or differently. We hosted customer update and q and a webinair friday, october 23. We had 2 0 people participate in 200 people participate. On october 28 we launched a new public advisory forum. This is a reformatted public advisory committee. We wanted that to be open to everyone rather than a certain subset of people. We had about 75 people who participated in that. There was a lot of great engagement and ideas. We participated in stakeholder meetings with the San Francisco Housing Action coalition. Earlier this week the building owners management with 90 people attending that. We regularly send email updates to our customers. Over the next month we are going to focus on continuing to work on technology and process improvements bringing on board the chief Administrative Officer procurement services. Fingers crossed it will go smoothly. Next is reviewing in House Renewal process. How we handle revisions, especially for projects that are actively under construction and making sure that those wait times are transparent. Some of the feedback is that people dont know how long the wait time is for when their project will go through intake. I want to make improvements to make sure those people are fully informed when how that process is going. Before i close i want to thank the many members of the staff who face a huge workload and are working over time. Also to serve customers. You know how critical our work is to economic recovery of the city, and our staff has really stepped up. Thanks to all of you commissioners for your support as we work through these challenges. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. Thank you for the update. I would like to open up to Public Comment and commissioners could weigh in if there is anybody in line for Public Comment. One caller for Public Comment. Caller. Thank you again, this is Kevin Oconnor. That was impressive what i just heard. Over the last few years i have been there daily and i have met so many incredible people, made friends and such dedication. I felt they were a little strong by old policy not going forward. It is such a great experience. When you go there and find out it is so difficult to work on that user end. It seemed like every concern i had moving forward were addressed in the presentation. I want to commend you and tell you that i really appreciate your efforts. Thank you very much. Merry christmas. Happy holidays. Thank you. If there is no further Public Comment . There are no more callers in can queue. Vice president , please. I want to thank staff for all of the great work. It is sometimes a thankless job, we all know. You do incredible work. I am happy to hear about the electronic approvals. One thing i would like us to take a step back when we have time when we can breath down the road. What changes came about because of covid . What did we have to do quicker because of covid that perhaps should stay around this terms of moving forward in the postpandemic world. I do think that the electronic approval to streamline and housing. I think some lemonade can be made from the lemons of 2020. I commend the staff again. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner, for your comments. I just want to thank the staff. Impressed by the progress that is made monthtomonth. Especially the report and the breakdown of the permits and what is happening was very helpful. 24 not valid did make me nervous. When you explained it, it did make some sense. My support for your work and your leadership. Thank you, commissioner. Nothing for me, thank you. Commissionerqua kobe, please. I want to thank you for the presentation and just for the pandemic we havent experienced leadership positions or the work we have done through pandem hics. This is impacting every sector of the society. Thank you for your leadership. I appreciate the presentation and move the ball forward to all make the things we need to have happen for our city. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. I want to echo what my fellow commissioners said. I want to wish everybody happy thanksgiving. Once again, i echo the comments. Christine, thank you so much and to all of the team. I really, really understand and realize the work that had to be done. The backlog was that ugly backlog work was coming at you and hard for you to decipher what was and wasnt and you did it. I really do commend all of the people who worked on this and i am curious, christine. These are really good data to be shared with the stakeholders to make the phone calls. What are we doing to send this out to let them know the progress that has been achieved by your staff . We hosted the webinair and go to the meetings when invited. We dont say no. I think if you add it all up it is about more like 400 with all of the events. I am still getting calls and i am shocked how misinformed people are on the progress down there. When i get in and question them, it doesnt add up. I am more confident now that we have this work. I am bullish about getting out there to make sure everybody gets informed. I am getting less and less calls, which is good. When do you hope to have the chief officer on the ground january this year. I can speak to that, commissioners. He just went through the fingerprinting process. That normally takes a couple or a few weeks. We hope that person can be on board by the first week of december. That is wha what is our goal. We will leave him alone to january. Thank you for that. Otherwise thank you for the update, folks. It is a very good thanksgiving outcoming. We are looking forward to being in good shape by january of next year. Thanks again, staff, for all of your work and everybody associated with putting this together and interim director for your leadership. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on item 5 . No. Seeing none. Next is item 6. Update on the Single Room Occupancy Program regarding covid19 actions. Good morning. We have a member of our team from housing Christina Dang doing work in chinatown to enforce the health order for covid safety. She is still at the Covid Command Center day in and day out. It is a thankless task. She is doing excellent work. We have our team in the tenderloin in south market inspecting the inspectors barber, chris, rob and there are two supervisors who are incredibly busy fielding calls, investigating complaints. There are all types of issues. Incredibly busy and difficult work and circumstances. We are holding our own, i think, in that sense. November 1st was the deadline for the annual admissions report. The department maintains that from every Residential Hotel regarding the hotel converting ordinance. There are a couple supervisors on the board interested in the reports on a regular basis. We collect from all 500 of these follofolks. Hopefully not too many to get the report but it is important and people are interested in it. The collaboratives. A lot of good issues regarding sros. The conversation yesterday was a multimillion dollar report on sros and homelessness published on the coalition on homelessness website. An Oversight Committee is established for prop c from last year which was the new funding for the programs to help people. This are expecting assistance from the federal and state level so people can make their rent. A few outliers there is not an exodus from the sro like we have seen around town. They are mostly pretty full. That is the report on the sros. Commissioners. Thank you. Any Public Comment be on item 6 . No Public Comment. Next is item 7. Directors report. A. Update on the d. B. I. s finances. Good morning, commissioners, Deputy Director of building inspection. I will share the october 23, monthly report. This is the october monthly report. It includes revenues for july 2020 through october 2020. I will take a couple minutes to go over the highlights. On the revenues we are still projected t to have a surplus, which is good news. The budget is based on the last two months in the last fiscal year. March, april, may. They are conservative how the things are going now we are collecting more than anticipated. That is good news. On the second page when we compare yearoveryear last year at this time versus this year, that is when you see the huge drop. Last year we collected 25. 7 million in revenues from july through october. Now we are at 13. 2 million. You can see these revenues primarily because of the major revenues which is the Building Permits we reduced they are down a lot. The Building Permit data is reflected in the valuations as well as the number of permits. You can see that basically last year we had issued 13,000 almost 14,000 permits. The valuation is going down by 60 . On the expenditure side we dont make any projections this early because the budget is so new. We will probably do the actual expenditure projects after december. We wait six months. I am happy to answer any questions. No comments at this time. Commissioner taout. No comments. Commissioner consent. Nothing. Commissioner. Nothing at this time. Commissioner. No comment. The 60 . Were you expecting that . I know you are reading tea leafs is that a bigger jump than you thought the 875,000 . Actually there really. [ inaudible ] the revenues are one thing and the value situation. Really what this Building Permit data helps explain where we are with the revenues. It is calling to make a projection on what we believed the valuation would be. Would you interpret it the smaller projects are going through and larger projects are coming down . Is that the interpretation . Yes. That is the interpretation. If you look at even 5 million to 50 million. Last year 15 now 7. What is happens is that the valuation the number of permits on the first chart are going down as well as valuations. Both of them are happening simultaneously. We have seen a lot of overthecounter. A lot of overthecounter permits are coming in. The larger projects are reduced. Every single valuation permits are reduced. That impacted the fees there . Yes. That is the money we need . Right. The larger evaluations when we get to the checking down 5. 9 million and the Building Permits are the largest revenues based on valuation. Commissioners that is what we have got to watch here. Thank you as always for breaking down the numbers. Next month we will talk again. Thank you. We are still on the same item. Directors report. Update on major projects. Good morning again, commissioners, this is the update on major projects. There has been a. 74 en crease in october over september in total construction valuation. Also 1 increase in number of units that came in line in october over september. Thank you. That is your major projects. Update on Code Enforcement next. Thank you. Mr. Duffy will be doing that report. Good morning, commissioners, acting chief building inspector and Deputy Director for the week. I will read out the october Code Enforcement Monthly Update for 2020, october. Building inspection division. [indiscernable] response 2472 hours. [indiscernable] and violations 37. Second violation for the Code Enforcement 12. Moving on to housing inspection services. Performed 249. Complaints 218. Response within 2472 hours, 159. 41. Complaints 149. [indiscernable] inspections 12. Just to finish up with Code Enforcement number of cases to directors hearing 77. Abatements issued 10. Cases under advisement two. Cases abated 53. Code enforcement inspections ped 144. Referred to the litigation zero and to the City Attorney in october is zero. I am available for questions. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on the directors report . You skipped legislative update. 7b updates on represent bely enacted state or local legislation. Good morning, john murray, legislative affairs. Supervisor mandelmans ordinance was passed yesterday at the board of supervisors meeting. It will go into effect on june 1, 2020. They pushed back the implementation date so we have a bit more time to get everything in place for that. Supervisor peskins ordinance renewing the shelter requiring building owners to provide replacement power and water if shut down for construction work was introduced last month is pending in land use committee. We are keeping an eye on that. The flued plain management ordinance was approved by the mayor last week. We are working to impact this for buildings in the fema flood hazard zone. It is about 66 existing buildings and 200 parcels. We are working on the implementation for that. Supervisor safais legislation to require demolition debris to obtain permits from department of environment is pending in land use. The hearing to review access and involvement in the Building Permit process will be heard at tomorrows gao Committee Meeting at 2 00 a. M. Tomorrow. We have an ordinance supervisor fewer proposed an ordinance two weeks ago to require the rent board to maintain an inventory of Residential Rental units and report information on those units. This is mainly a rent board issue. I note it because d. B. I. Would have some role in providing information to the rent board about buildings. Finally, proposition h passed. This is the save Small Business proposition mostly regarding planning code issues but it does add a 30day deadline for permit possessing for certain Small Businesses, mostly just change of use permits for Small Businesses. We are working with the Planning Department and other permitting departments to figure out how to implement that. We will have more to update you in future meetings. I am happy to answer any questions. I have some to you. Chair. No comments at this time. Thank you for the report. Commissioner took please. Thank you. Nothing for me, please. Commissioner jacob. Nothing. Commissioner tam, please. Nothing for me. John, i do. Yothe rent board what are we dog with that . We have provided information to the rent board about building size, what we have in our system. It is us and the assessors asss office. There is no real change or impact on d. B. I. Operations. We are mentioned in the legislation as providing information to the rent board about building characteristics. We are not d. B. I. Has no role in collecting the information . No. I had all of these questions. Who collects that information . How do they collect this . I am curious. I think my read of it is i would have to doublecheck. The rent board is responsible for all of the enforcement and collection of this information. Does it say what it means or does d. B. I. Enforce noncompliance . No, we are mentioned in providing information on number of rooms and that kind of thing. Where is it now . It is in land use. Why is it in land use . Is there a committee for that . I have to doublecheck. That unusual. Is it today or this week . No, no. Iit is on the 30day calendar, two weeks ago. I dont have it up in front of me right now. The 30day calendar. Okay. That is good. I will do my own research on it. Thank you. Madam secretary. Thank you. Sorry about that. There dont appear to be any callers. Is there any Public Comment on 7a through d . No. Madam secretary. A point of order. I should have brought this up in commissioners questions item 4 inquiry to the staff but i missed the slot. Is it okay to open that up for one second before we go to approval of minutes . I think so. If there is no objection by other commissioners. To be quick, i was wondering if staff could give us insight and it can be done to update me offline on 7 marriott drive on how the difficulties are being experienced there. Obviously, i am weighing in here and maybe we can help this gentleman mr. Oconnor, Kevin Oconnor on the there is anything we can help with his mothers property, i would appreciate it. I would be happy to put a report together regarding where we are with that and report back to you when we have that generated. Thank you. One correction. It is in budget and finance committee. That may beings more sense. My apologies. Thank you. We are at the next item 8. Review and approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of august 19, 2020. I may being a motion to approve the minutes. Second. There is a motion and second. Who seconded . Kevin. All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . Any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, the minutes will be approved. Thank you everybody. Item 9. Is from a motion for adjournment. So moved. So moved. Great. All in favor. Aye. We are now adjourned. It is 12 08 p. M. Happy thanksgiving everyone. We are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. Say hi. Hi. Whats your favorite . The carrots. The pizza . Im not going to eat the pizza. You like the pizza . They will eat anything. Yeah, well, okay. Sfusds meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. The program came about when the shelter in place order came about for San Francisco. We have a lot of students that depend on School Lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. We have families that cant take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. For the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. Right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk. We heard about the school districts, that they didnt know if they were going to be able to provide it, so weve been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. Theyve been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure theyre staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so thats a great thing when youre working with many kid does. The feedback has been really good. Everybody seems really appreciative. They do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. Growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up. I have kids at home. I have six kids. Im a mother first, so im just so glad to be here. Its so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families dont have access to this food, and were just really glad to be the market is one of our vehicles for reaching out to public and showing them how to prepare delicious, simple food. People are amazed that the library does things like that. Biblio bistro is a Food Education program. It brings such joy to people. It teaches them life skills that they can apply anywhere, and it encourages them to take care of themselves. My name is leaf hillman, and im a librarian, and biblio bistro is my creation. Im a former chef, and i have been incubating this idea for many years. We are challenged to come up with an idea that will move the library into the future. This inspired me to think, what can we do around cooking . What can i do around cooking . We were able to get a cart. The charlie cart is designed to bring cooking to students in Elementary Students that has enough gear on it to teach 30 students cooking. So when i saw that, i thought bingo, thats what were missing. You can do cooking classes in the library, but without a kitchen, its difficult. To have everything contained on wheels, thats it. I do cooking demonstrations out at the market every third wednesday. I feature a seafood, vegetable, and i show people how to cook the vegetable. A lot of our residents live in s. R. O. S, single resident occupancies, and they dont have access to full kitchens. You know, a lot of them just have a hot plate, a microwave, and the thing that biblio bistro does really well is cook food accessible in season and make it available that day. We handout brochures with the featured recipe on the back. This recipe features mushrooms, and this brochure will bring our public back to the library. Libraries are about a good time. I hired a former chef. Shes the tickle queen at the ramen shop in rockwood. We get all ages. We get adults and grandparents and babies, and, you know, schoolage kids, and its just been super terrific. I was a bit reluctant because i train teachers and adults. I dont train children. I dont work with children, and i find it very interesting and a bit scary, but working here really taught me a lot, you know, how easily you can influence by just showing them what we have, and its not threatening, and its tasty and fun. I make it really fun with kids because i dont look like a teacher. In the mix, which is our team center, we have programs for our kids who are age 13 to 18, and those are very hands on. The kids often design the menu. All of our programs are very interactive. Today, we made pasta and garlic bread and some sauce. Usually, i dont like bell pepper in my sauce, but i used bell pepper in my sauce, and it complemented the sauce really well. I also grated the garlic on my bread. I never thought about that technique before, but i did it, and it was so delicious. We try to teach them techniques where they can go home and tell their families, i made this thing today, and it was so delicious. Theyre kind of addicted to these foods, these processed foods, like many people are. I feel like we have to do what we can to educate people about that. The reality is we have to live in a world that has a lot of choices that arent necessarily good for you all the time. This is interesting, but its a reaction to how children are brought up. It is fastfood, and the apple is a fastfood, and so that sort of changes the way they think about convenience, how eating apple is convenient. One of the things that i love about my program out at the market is the surprise and delight on peoples faces when they finally taste the vegetable. Its been transformative for some people. They had never eaten those vegetables before, but now, they eat them on a regular basis. All they require is a hot plate and a saute pan, and they realize that theyre able to cook really healthy, and its also tasty. They also understand the importance of the connection that were making. These are our Small Business owners that are growing our food and bringing it fresh to the market for them to consume, and then, im helping them consume it by teaching them how to cook. It connects people to the food that theyre buying. The magic of the classes in the Childrens Center and the team center is that the participants are cooking the food themselves, and once they do that, they understand their connection to the food, to the tools, and it empowers them. Were brokering new experiences for them, so that is very much whats happening in the biblio bistro program. We are introducing kids many times to new vocabulary. Names of seasonings, names of vegetables, names of what you call procedures. I had my little cooking experience. All i cooked back then was Grilled Cheese and scrambled eggs. Now, i can actually cook curry and a few different thing zblz a. And the parents are amazed that what were showing them to cook is simple and inexpensive. I didnt know this was so easy to make. Ive only bought it in the market. Those comments have been amazing, and yeah, its been really wonderful. We try to approach everything here with a well, just try it. Just try it once, and then, before you know it, its gone. A lot of people arent sure how to cook cauliflower or kale or fennel or whatever it is, and leah is really helpful at doing that. I think having someone actually teaching you here is a great experience. And its the art of making a meal for your family members and hope that they like it. I think they should come and have some good food, good produce that is healthy and actually very delicious. Cooking is one of my biggest passions, to be able to share, like, my passion with others, and skills, to h h h h h h h hh clerk this is the remote hearing for the Planning Commission on november 19, 2020. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene remotely through the end of the shelter in place. This will be our 29 remote hearing. Remote hearings require everyones attention and, most of all, your patience. If you are not speaking, please mute your microphone and turnoff your video camera. 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