Of the department of building inspection. As you see starting march this year i created a camera because we see the problem with the elevator and we had a survey first of all, i want to acknowledge my staff my chief Housing Inspector and rosemary and their spending one thousand hours to survey roughly one hundred and 61 s r o buildings have elevators and all 5 of them is not working. And also this is the first time in history the department to do all this statistics to find out each elevator in each building what year they built you know what cart they have and from thereon i ask my staff to, you know, have a series meeting with all you tell public and our staff to come up with some kind of recommendation still on next monday well schedule another one. You know, as director Carla Johnson mentioned theyve got lots of issues but dbi is trying to revolve issues there are lots of issues regarding this kind of elevators when we look at the history most of them over one hundred years old and
Both have director tom huey and another colleague so director hughie. Good morning. Im director of the department of building inspection. As you see starting march this year i created a camera because we see the problem with the elevator and we had a survey first of all, i want to acknowledge my staff my chief Housing Inspector and rosemary and their spending one thousand hours to survey roughly one hundred and 61 s r o buildings have elevators and all 5 of them is not working. And also this is the first time in history the department to do all this statistics to find out each elevator in each building what year they built you know what cart they have and from thereon i ask my staff to, you know, have a series meeting with all you tell public and our staff to come up with some kind of recommendation still on next monday well schedule another one. You know, as director Carla Johnson mentioned theyve got lots of issues but dbi is trying to revolve issues there are lots of issues regardin
Broken elevator is disrupting do you have my what are some of our thoughts in terms of our responsibilities and its a major challenge and potential liability so with when those matters are brought to our attention we try to work with the individual department to see what other building in the portfolio to get people roenld one of the things weve considered in the past is increasing the budget for temporary relocation costs. For place like the department of Public Health so that someone might have an option to stay at the regular hotel so a s r o for the duration of the elevator repair thank you so much ms. Johnson. So next, we have department of building inspection and we both have director tom huey and another colleague so director hughie. Good morning. Im director of the department of building inspection. As you see starting march this year i created a camera because we see the problem with the elevator and we had a survey first of all, i want to acknowledge my staff my chief Housing
The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the San Francisco Transportation Authority occurring december 10, 2013, will begin shortly. Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority, finance committee, im scott weiner the vice chair of the committee and i will be chairing todays meeting to my left is commissioner david chiu and to my right is commissioner mark farrell. Our clerk today is erika cheng and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays hearing. Are there any announcements . No announcements would you read, or call item two. Item two, approve the minutes of the november 19, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. Any changes or comments regarding the minutes . Okay, is there any Public Comment on item two . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Could we have a motion to approve the minutes . Motion. Okay could we take that without objection . That will be the order. Please call item three. Recommend award of construction contract no. 043a6404 t
Sometimes confused with rent control. Rent control is not necessarily meaning the units are affordable. Rent control means that you dont get the significant increase in your rent. Your landlord is only able to raise your rent by a small percentage compared to those that dont have rent controlled units. But sadly it is a problem in our city, and why these rent control units are so incredibly valuable. So, i agree with supervisor cohens comments earlier that, yes, this is something great that were doing, but we have to look at the larger picture here as well and how we try and deal with rentals and what this means in terms of Affordable Housing in the city in order to not be forced into a situation where we have to continuously push emergency legislation that is a gray if i can, a temporary fix, but theres a larger problem here. We have some great minds in this chamber. I know if we continue to Work Together and put our heads together, we can come up with something even better that is mo