Leave. Youre going to be leaving the city. Yes. Going back to massachusetts to be close to any family and all likelihood going book e back teaching. Youll be in the office. Yep. I want to thank you for your services and hopefully, we can find something between now and the first of august to be a little bit more well, its a problem if we have a function with all 5. Yes. Unfortunately. Thats not possible so well have to. Just by way of comment not if we dont discuss Commission Business its not a meeting. If we dont talk about business. With that explanation. Peppering id like to thank you for everything uss america pier 30 32 youve done ive served with you a long time it is not an easy job and youve weathered difficult storms well and appreciate the devotion youve given this job. Thank you mr. Sincroy. I had a bit of a birds eye internal verify spending time with the staff and in terms of the commission and for staffing structure and responsibility and the culture which was very clear th
Working and dictated thats why we learn from him the department of building inspection our mission so to protect life and property for the public thats why today we are proudly to have our honorable mayor mayor ed lee to come over to you know make that announcement please welcome mayor ed lee clapping. director id like to give a quick interpretation. speaking foreign language. clapping. . speaking foreign language. laughter . I just want to say thank you to the young people here to the family people here and not so young folks that are here to come together to receive this very good news of our citys willingness to support grants that are aimed another residents Small Business owners are Property Owners as well and visitors get educated about the very strong possibility of the next big earthquake i wanted to first of all, say thank you to tom when i was a young attorney many, many years ago my for at a in chinatown was to do hours i want to venture have an active department of building
speaking foreign language. most importantly is you who are the residents people that work in chinatown, people that live here and the people you invite and also the Invaluable Services leaders like sarah or other youth person speeding i know that many of you in in this room in english or chinese saw the san andreas movie that is im not sure i cannot but we have 3 serious facility lines that come into the city and county of san francisco. speaking foreign language. supervisor christensen and i have had many discussions about making sure that our communities all over the city but particularly those that maybe immigrant and low income communities like chinatown and mission and other areas of the city get attention when it comes to education and preparation to withstand and survive successfully an earthquake. speaking foreign language. im very fortunate and so are other agencies to have a department of building inspection leader in the name of tom huey that made sure the building fees resu
Anywhere from one week to upwards to two, three weeks. We have been witness to that process as well, so we know that even before you have your first customer walk through the door theres a lot of work to be done and more than just getting your certificate of occupancy or temporary one to operate so within our department a more holistic look at the process discussion between the interdivisional agencies, towards inspection and any subsequent revisions during the course of construction that are needed to be approved in a timely manner we will continue to look at that and engage our own staff and we started that recently and bring in staff and expand it with more staff and both in the inspection and the plan approval side so we can focus on this and make it better more efficient, and usable customer friendly process. All right. Thank you. I think thats a great segue to something that im going to make a request of from some of the departments here. I realize we cant solve all of the proble
To call to order the meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. [roll call vote] item 4, Public Comment. Mr. Do costa. Commissioner, the last timei was here they were not here. Some of our constituents Steve Lawrence i could name another eight or nine. They paid their dues. What it means to pay their dues in the old days, as i can remember, you did your homework. If your heart was in the right place. You did what was right to make things right. So now, i know people come here and they listened to the deliberations. But you commissioners should ask yourselves, how many of you that are here really know the history of San Francisco. How many of those who are here participated in the workshops, the sewer assistance Improvement Projects. And what was said about them that made sense. Not the Little Things that were said about legalities by those that were to take us to a better place. If you look at a shipyard. Any time you look at a shipyard, it is a superfund site. If you lo