Make his presentation and follow will be rose mary and then we can answer any questions from the committee. Thank you director and i know that we may end losing a quorum so i know were going to have a follow up hearing so if i could ask you to expedite the presentation but thank you. Supervisor campos i wanted to acknowledge we have building inspectionor warren mar with us. Thank you for being here with us commissioner mar. Thank you director. Good afternoon supervisor. I am Deputy Director of Inspection Services. I oversee Inspection Services divisions that include building plumbing and electrical and housing. We conducted over a total of 120,000 inspections and more than 200,000 commercial and residential knowledges in San Francisco. In addition to the fire and Police Department personnel dbi and other life safety departments on emergency scene shortly after the event. We inspect fire damage buildings for Structural Integrity and protect firefighters after an event and post the build
Right now. We have inspectors out there that do them on a complaint driven basis and systematically as required by the San Francisco housing code but let me tell you what were doing in addition to all of that. When department of building inspection saw a cluster of fires occurring in the mission we immediately instituted a concentrated Code Enforcement Outreach Program and that program included defining a concentrated focus Code Enforcement area. We looked at and identified 126 multiple family dwellings along the Mission Street corridor from third street all the way out to Crocker Amazon and six and a half miles and 67 city blocks. We started to do the inspections. We have done about 35 of those because we need to send a comprehensive inspection package to the Property Owner so they learn in the future what theyre supposed to maintain on an onbasis. Thats been in our website for a number of years. What we found when we looked at some of the buildings were not just fire safety issues bu
Be expanding towards, either r ones with apartments or hybrids that have sro rooms as well as residential rooms because right now one of our great evaluate barriers to hosting these purely educational Fire Prevention workshops are the owners and management of these properties. I even got a call from a property manager who sits on the sro task force to tell me to cancel all scheduled Fire Prevention workshops and if it wasnt for the help of dbi actually who got in the middle that we wouldnt have that actually well received Fire Prevention workshop at one of the sros in the mission so if there is any talk of additional legislation we will be advocating for that and thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker and i have a couple more names im going to read. [calling speaker names] hi. I am Molly Brendan and live in district 9 in the mission and i have been a tenant there and im now a homeowner after many years. I wanted to call attention to we focus a lot on the people who are displaced
Would like to see a focus on prevention via education. I know thats been mentioned by other people speaking as well. One of the things we would like to push for is mandatory workshops, mandatory Fire Prevention work shops in sros and other properties we would be expanding towards, either r ones with apartments or hybrids that have sro rooms as well as residential rooms because right now one of our great evaluate barriers to hosting these purely educational Fire Prevention workshops are the owners and management of these properties. I even got a call from a property manager who sits on the sro task force to tell me to cancel all scheduled Fire Prevention workshops and if it wasnt for the help of dbi actually who got in the middle that we wouldnt have that actually well received Fire Prevention workshop at one of the sros in the mission so if there is any talk of additional legislation we will be advocating for that and thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker and i have a couple mor
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