Commissioner constant didn ande are excused. We have a quorum. Welcome to the dbi. Youll see a strong tone of earthquake awareness and readiness in my comments today. Tomorrow, as most of you know marks the 30th anniversary of the leoma skwaeurb earthquake ae city is hosting numerous events at the marina, as well as holding a tabletop exercise at the department of emergency management, include within of ie Structural Engineers seok and brop is the terminology for that and the annual duck and cover exercise held at citywide. Thats actually an earthquake event. While much has been accomplished over the past three decades to strengthen buildings seismically. Seismically, we must prepare for earthquakes around the world. With our Retrofitting Program in its final phase, we are at 98 compliance in terms of filed permits and thats quite an achievements. So welldone and 65 completion and that could be stronger but well get there. Private Property Owners have invested approximately 250 million
Good afternoon. I would like 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 i
For continuance until july 14, 2016, item 2 south van ness 26 street is proposed for continuance until july 21st 2016 items 3 ab for cases pears street conditional use authorization and various are proposed for indefinite continuance commissioners further on our agenda in under the discretionary review calendar im pleased to announce that case at 21st street discretionary review has been withdrawn the dr application has been withdrawn i have no other items and i have no speaker cards. Are there any speakers for the continuance as proposed . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner wu move to continue items 1, 2, and 1926 a thank you, commissioners on that motion to continue commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner wu and commissioner Vice President richards so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and director rahaim could you be so kind as the acting Zoning Administrator continue the variance yes. Ill continue the va
Said as a firefighter with 53 cents. [applause] been unfairly just like to say that theres so many things you can do. Weve given awards to members of congress. They love to get awards. They want to be loved. We have taken ads out in their local newspaper which is really cheap and thank them for what they did. We persuaded the clinton to veto a very controversial liability bill by surrounding them with the dems. He was so happy to veto that bill even though he hated vetoing bills. So ill just say we also helped Robert Redford defeat to secretary gerald ford nominated in the governor of wyoming. The race that jc and we got so much media in bath that they continue the ms edition and prove to engage a fraud ahead of design. You never know where theyre going to be. We are the ones im on the side of the ledger and we are the ones who raised a key issues people care about. And we often win even though we have so little help. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you, john claybrook. If youre lo
Discreti creation of a threshold illegal unit therefore the department of building inspection recommend to abate the violation the assessment costs that happened. Thats great. Okay. So do we need to take action. No, we had to pubically announce that another thing was already done. So before we adjourn i would like to welcome our two new commissioners to the appeals board so welcome commissioner konstin and my good friend gail thank you very much and really looking forward to having great wo work. clapping. thank you. Thank you. Thank you general Public Comment theres no public so item f adjournment motion to adjourn. Move to adjourn. All in favor, say i. I. Were adjourned it is 914 and reconvene as the building inspection at okay good morning today is thursday, february 4, 2016, this is the regular meeting of Building Inspection Commission please silence all electronic devices. The first item on the agendas is roll call. Commissioner president mccarthy commissioner gilman commissioner