Reports were presented to you, in 2010, the public Advisory Community there was unanimous support for the program. This program, the south story ordinance actually was brought to you first four years ago today. You wonder why it has taken many of us wonder that as well. It was actually four years ago today that the report hear today hear tomorrow was brought forth to you. There is caps has evolved into esop the Earthquake Implementation Program which is a 40, excuse me, 30year program. The soft story ordinance is the first step in that. It is the low hanging fruit. This is where we get the biggest bang for the buck. This is going to be the easyist and cheapest of the problems to solve and we will look forward to your support in the other efforts on the esup program as well. But i strongly encourage your support on this. Thank you commissioners thank you, thank you for all of your service, so far. Next speak ner good morning, it is char on short with the housing rights committee. This o
Friday, we have hired, we have hired nine individuals the majority of which eight of those nine are clerks and their sprinkled through the department. They are in training right now. So, as you know with training mode, any of us remember starting a new job it takes a little while to get the hang of it. We promoted two people from being temporary to being permanent in the clerk positions and we have hired two prop f people who have come back. One for housing inspection and one for the permit bureau. So, we are slowly staffing up. We are still working as rosemary mentioned. We have issued the job announcements for the housing inspecters. We are having those out for eight, i am sorry, ten Business Days so people have ample opportunity to be able to apply. We have right now today, we are having some interviews for selecting a list for electrical inspecters and march we are going to have interviews for the building inspecters and so we are moving on, we just have a lot of interviews a lot o
I strongly support and urge action on this to support the mandatory retrofit. The category of great risk at hand is the earthquake, but more importantly is the risk of not taking action. Timely action, because what we have here is a land mine. What we will have when that land mine goes off is going to be great damage. The damage to both social, cultural and economic, the categories of our neighborhoods are the most vulnerable within this spector of disaster and it is not just what basically will effect the neighborhoods, but also the economic recovery. Because, the ability for people to go back to work is basically the ability to live where they live and if not, in their neighborhoods, and if not, the neighborhood support services, the cafes the restaurants. Those that they basically within the walking distance of their neighborhoods would continue to support. I urge action on this, the action is never too late if it occurs yesterday, but the em pending earthquake is coming at this mom
A lot of interviews a lot of Selection Process going on at the same time which makes it a little difficult for staff and we are trying to get as much help as we can from Human Resources. They also as i said before, continue to help us on the exam process for the rest of the positions that we are trying to hire which are some it positions and some senior electrical inspecters and our permit technicians. As we expected the nonpersonal services are under nonexpending because we get a lot of the bills at the end of the year. And then, in terms of the other expenditures, you know we continue with our services of other department and we have gotten the billings for the larger work orders so this is the. The City Attorney services have come in less than i expected so i am going to discuss with them on this because we have referred many cases to them and i am not sure whether those are being picked up. And then, our program expenses, you know, are so small that it would not make any sense to s
Stations and we kind of joked around with that with the Controllers Office, yng that is going to happen. But absent that we are trying to work on what could be done. The other thing is i have told you the Controllers Office is working with us in coming up with some recommendations for reserved policies and areas that we may want to look at using some of our fund balance. And it would be great if there was some way that i could talk to them about the discussion that is going to occur as you develop a code change to be able to do some of the lower interest loans, so i am going to try to see if there is a way that i can communicate with that without jumping forward past your process of coming up with policy and taking it to the board of supervisors. I think that anything that comes from the Controllers Office has a lot of weight in terms of future financial policies. Any exacting any change is not really exacting, but encouraging any changes to occur with the Mayors Office and our office