Out theres problems they send us a request for suspension not us to you know were not the Health Monitor review on all the reports you know they supposed to review it because review the permit and issue it with us, however, were the final one to issue the permit but they review spoerld to monitor it. Were the teeth here. Were the teeth in process of the enforcement but were relying on the expertise of another department that you know smells e seems like they havent dot all the is and cross the ts. I director do you want to weigh in on this im looking at this but to commissioner melgars point obviously the Health Department are kind of missing in action on the scenarios we are trying to figure out what do we have to make them do their job do we have any jurisdictions i know that were doing as much physically inspection question are a demo as part of our jurisdiction. We can you know reach out to Health Department again to make sure they know follow those guidelines wherever they approve
Incident and we have a 24 hour on call inspection services. Inspects the damage property for integrity and inhabitantity and red tags make sure that pg e turns off the utilities and notice of vlzs tacked on the building and in mail and the owner has 30 days to file the permit and usually 90 to 120 days to complete the work. [inaudible] engineering report if there are questions about structural safety. The owner is required to provide one as well. We usually try to work with the owner on a need to comply with the issue notice of violation. We understand the need to work with the Property Owner to remove obstacles to fast track the permits and inspections make sure that damaged properties get back on market and residents are back in their homes as quickly as possible. We realize that the owner insurance negotiations often take some time. In the case of the fire on 22nd street our building inspectors and engineers were on scene the day after the fire and worked with several departments to
On 22nd street our building inspectors and engineers were on scene the day after the fire and worked with several departments to escort them back into the businesses and homes to get values. We issued citys engineering report and received one from the engineer. We inspect buildings daily in the city and rely on residents and tenants especially in older buildings to call us directly or call 311 to report matters they believe are life safety issues and demand that the inspectors in the Community Economy we have to have those living in the buildings to work and assist with us and the owners responsible for the safety of the well being of these buildings help the city by letting us know immediately if they see matters of concern such as blocked fire exits, missing smoke alarms. I would like now to hand this over to chief rosy mary [inaudible] Housing Inspector and shell go over the place in regards to housing inspections and how they do routine inspections and outreach of the enforcement O
That we serve. Were trying to mimic what the Building Department does where you can go online look up your residence, where you live, and look up if there is any complaints or pending inspections et cetera and if you have concerns you can call. They can call us directly on that. In addition the Fire Department is working with the american red cross. They have reached out to us and were happy to work with them identifying high risk areas and the goal there is to provide and install smoke alarms to needy residents, and the new smoke alarms starting this july and with the california fire marshal need to have 10 year battery lives in them so thats a new provision thats out there, and its worth noting that 2 3 of all fire deaths that cause that have occurred that where residents had smoke alarms 2 3 were due to they were disabled or they didnt have them either, 2 3, and the reason theyre disabled is nuisance alarms or sometimes the battery fails so this is a step in the right direction and
Work 90 in house how to charge it it could be somewhere there are a lot of factors not incorporated into that price that helps cca and it might get into what is coming up in accident next group of slides on may 12th so there is a lot of good things that cca is moving forward it can help power the enterprises and have comments on the transition line but that will wait until another time. Good afternoon commissioner eric brooks San Francisco green party San Francisco i want to say what jason fried lafco said those points are good points ill get to joid was not able to get to the elephant that the room that has been written about for decades if not more the trick of the nicole substation and the last 15 miles the assets on the screen because of quote unquote reregulation would be good assets if we make sure our power line ran from the hetch hetchy to San Francisco without toughing any per diem touching any wires you keep wires separate we should have bun or duplicate that with the transit