see a lot more direct water heaters used. in europe when on demand water heaters started xing out they were used at point of locations. they were not in the garage in the house, they were outside the bathroom near the kitchen, inside the kitchen area. i have a family that have homes with that sote up with that water heater. the energy is less and in the location of the ekitchen near. it makes sense to have. one of things i try to advocate with our inspector squz builders doing large remodels is something we spoke about was restirkulating systems for these types of water heaters coming in: you see more people putting recirculating lines and pumps and how to distribute the water so you don't wait 20 minutes on the third floor for a shower. it is a waste of energy. you see the industry coming to make that happen. one that came out not too long ago is something you put under your faucet and hot and cold side with a pump that is on a timer or temperature that passes the water through that's gives instant water. it works at my house >> it fillathize pipe up- >> it passes the warm water to the cold water system so you just by pass that and it keeps the hot water going. at my house it works. maybe we need to take a look. [inaudible] >> you may need a permit. >> it make as lot of noise >> i don't have that issue. when it come tooz the drought and i know we had commissioner lee was at the work shops we did about 2 weeks ago, and it was talking about gray water, reclaimed systems, how to use rain water more efixantly. the questions brought to us were straight forward and easy but we were able totell everybody how to make their systems work. suggestion we gave out is come and see us 1660 mission on the third floor and ask for the plumbing commission and show your system and drawings and how you plan to install them and we'll guide you low the process. we have worked with the puc as well and outreach on different types of systems and how to get everybody involved in collecting the storm water once we have rain in san francisco. how to reuse the laundsry water and take it to the back yards because we don't want to see brown patches every where. a lot of our systems could be used to that. we are looking at people who use gray water system, filter it and take it into the house. more comeplex system. labeling and piping and how to disperse the water. with dbi and tom hewys help and pr with lily and bill straum, we had that what we moved forward in order to get puc involved in how to get everybody tupe date and up to speed on what to do next. we do have a lut of homes were the work is done. we have homes biment for 50, 60, 100 years where nothing has been done. we are trying to help people to collect the water and size for the backyards and worry about overflow. safety ish sues and how to use the water. that is where we are at now. >> any questions >> commissioner walker >> i requested we be proactive not just in letting people know about this, but in researching how-because of the drought, there is a different priority where maybe electric-like residential hotels i don't think you can have gas, you can only have electric as i understand in those type of buildings. at some point when water becomes so scarce it may make sense to be doing it. i'm hopeful that we can come up with plans like we do, like we have done with the seismic problems where we actually lead and because we are in a area that is experiencing severe drought, i want to spote and encourage our department for coming forward with really sort of state of the art solutions to this >> i think over the past 6ory 8 years we have moved leaps and bounds above a lot of other jurisdictions trying to get more communities or areas and residences involved in collection and use of just not just laundry water but rain water and other sources to try to make it better. there has been a lot of bending over backwards i say to make this happen. there is a lot of stuff-i don't agree with that come through and fought certain things and there are reasons for it but have seen the good and agreed to make things work to make it happen. for instance, we had a rain water system that wasn't permitted-now [inaudible] and up in sacramento and now they want a permit for it. they are 50 gallons and way 500 pounds, it falls over and kills someone. overflow, where does it go? we don't have a acre of land between properties , we have 3 feet or 3 inches and that water goes to the neighbors property and you have a problem cht those are the basic things and where we made chairchgs over the years >> chief plumbing inspector is right. we want to encourage anybody to consider implementing a gray water in the house to contact our department, contact and see what can be done because some of the things that you ask i may think is common knowledge or not common knowledge but we won't even consider. for example, i learned you can't keep rain water forever. there is a limit and there is a safety concern and we don't want gray water spilling out, we want to regulate it or inform the property owner they need to take steps to make sure the gray water is used praerply and appropriately and doesn't cause harm. >> damage or health concerns. everybody has a different way of doing things from the nice lady at the work shop that says she takes a bucket and puts it under the kitchen sink recollect to the person that thought they collected the toilet water can use it for something else. they don't know the answers. send somebody down and talk to us and we'll direct you the right way. we are not here to stop you from doing it, just make sure you do it the right way. we have done the outreach so far and do more and any outreach we can make [inaudible] bill straum is involved in getting in contact with the puc. it may put outreach and work together as a happy family. >> it would be great. i know when we want to encourage facade improvements we wave fees or have grants attached to it, so i would hope that maybe we can look at that. i don't know if our department can do, but encouragement and incentive to do that. >> there is one out there with the puc, which is if someone have a rain water system the barrel is provided and attachment squz the fee for the permit would be reimburseed with the puc and that is a grant they are going through now i believe. i don't know if it is solidified but it is something they are talking about and it was a great thing and people behind it are pushing for it because they want to make sure the systems are done correctly and track where they are so if people need assistance and just something we can watch. >> i think it is smart to see the field as it is coming and come up with standards based on san francisco's particular lot lines and all of that and just like the puc had that effort to give out low cost rate barrels, i wonder what we can do to be proictive and insure there are standards. last year you unveiled the system to have standard plans for decks. i wonder if there is something similar that we can do-not endorse a particular product, but rather types of products for example collection of rain or gray water and having like a saq sheet for folks. you have to strap it and make sure it doesn't go on your neighbors property. those thingerize helpful >> that is there. we worked together on that- >> people don't usually go to the puc >> they come to me and we direct them to the site. we do have handouts available as well and worked to give them the basic ideas. as far as picking product and placing product or telling this-we don't do that and won't do that, we can't. puc does have programs with vendors they use for their barrels or materials that they have. we technically can't do that so i can't say we use this overthat. that doesn't work well and you wouldn't want me to do that. what we have them now with puc having outreach and what we worked together with and what they have for q and a that they have all the facts that are thrmpt that guideline is already installed and they came windup up with a new 1 with rebate squz has a sheet of how everything is laid out and designed. >> anything else? >> director. >> yes [inaudible] what we can do is link our website to puc and they can answer all those question because they are the expert. we are doing the permit only but they have the fund-commissioner walker mentioned about a grant and how to wave the fee. >> that would be great and to-like when folks come in for small permits maybe hand them a little sheet about what options are available for this to get them think about it if they are not already. >> i think i just spoke with lily that one thing that is something that is very simple to do that we can get, we can have a link that lichcks them to site. if you look for this, here is a link and go there and you have that information so somebody is directed there. >> great >> if they call it is pretty straight forward >> thank you. anything you need to strengthen your program- >> i appreciate that. thank you very much. >> [inaudible] >> any public comment on item 5? seeing none, item 6 directors report. 6 a, update on dbi finances. >> good afternoon commissioners taurus [inaudible] deputy director of department of building inspection. i haven't included a report because june is the end of the fiscal year so we are clouzing out and reconciling revenue jz have a couple of po's that are closed. normally the controllers office will be complete city wide by midaugust so i expect to get a report to you hopefully by septon fiscal year june 2015 which is the year end on fiscal year and then i'll have the july report for you next month. >> thank you. >> thank you deputy. >> item 6 b, update on recently enacted state or local legislation. >> hello commissioners [inaudible] communication director. bill straum is on vacation. just want to highlight a few. the board is busy. there is various legislation either that has been introduced or making its way through committees mpt i want to highlight 2 for you and you'll see them in the legislative updates as well. one is where supervisor wiener has established a cannabis state legalization group. we are part of that and want to let you know that is already passed and will be reporting back to you on that. the second is also supervisor wiener's ordinance that requires use of alternate water sources in new construction projects of 250 thousand square feet or more. they are required to prepare and file a water use budget. those 2 things have been passed and they are waiting for the mayors signature and should be in effect in august. something new introduced last week which the presidents announced earlier this morning was director hewy joined rick cal ran as supervisor tang on introducing the mandatory disabled ordinance. introduce the board make its way to the committee will come back to us in terms of departmental comments and then we'll report back to you guys. a quick note, the fire safety working group, this was established and actually going to be going into effect later this week. dbi has been identified, director hewy identified dan lowery deply director of inspection and chief housing inspector rose mary [inaudible] and building inspector patrick reerden to represent dbi. [inaudible] doctor johnson o joand the fire marshal dan and rich brown will be represented. dates and topics are still to be identified and think they'll start in late august. something related to fire is supervisor tang is expected to introduce legislation to place fire info in a central place on sight at the property and requires the landlord to provide the tenants fire information on safety as well. just want to go over the 3 programs you have been hearing about to give a update on that. legalization of in-law units, we have 39 permits issued so far . over 200 have submitted and they are waiting review from the planning or dbi. ordinance waver i this can you heard about that last month that is still going through committee, and we are expected to see its legal effect sometime in late august and that is a waver of plan review fees from planning and dbi. did you have questions before i continue? additional developing units, 3 permit have been filed so far. we had a workshop last month. bill mentioned i this can it was well attended and hope to have another in august as well and have been doing outreach on that. we sound out a announcement to participants about 5 thousand of the properties to know about the new ordinance they can partake in and kernly we have 493 permits that have been issued. 200 ret row fits are completed of the 5 thousand properties. tier 1 is require said. there are 13 propertys under that and required to turn in permit applications by december and will send out a 2 month reminder to let them know the deadline is xing soon. any questions on legislation updates? consumer satisfy action survey, we started in february so this is a survey of basically our customers. it was a phone survey on site that was about laechb00 people surveyed for that. we also did a online survey and got i think 200 feedback and also did focus groups which ended some time in june. we'll talk to the consultant and get analysis and report back to our senior managers and also to the [inaudible] in august or september dependent on the findings and have recommended steps along with director hewees approval. the last is seismic safety out reach the president mentioned as well. we got add back money to possibly grant additional neighborhoods in the bay view and [inaudible] addition this year as well for the same amount. thank you >> thank you. 6 b update on major projects. >> good morning tom hewy. major project is getting [inaudible] we are fortunate to have a [inaudible] compared to last month. >> did you say 45 percent? >> 5 to 10. >> okay >> any questions. >> 25 percent more than last month? >> yes [inaudible] >> item 6 [inaudible] update on code enforcement. >> good afternoon commissioners. deputy director dan murray inspection services. i'm here to report on code enforcement and dbi monthly update. for building inspection division rkts building inspection performed for 5397. complaints received, 354. complaintss response within 24-72 hours, 286. complaint for first owners for violation, 64. complaints received and abated, 164. abated complaints with notice of violation were 44. second notice of violation refer to code enforcement were 10. for the housing inspection services housing inspection performed were 957. complaints received, 362. complaints response within 24-72 hours, 338. complaints with notice vileshz issued 108. abated complaints, 391. number of cases sent to director were 17. routine inspection is 175. for the code enforcement services, number of case sent to director were 58. number of order abatements issued, 16. number of cases under advicement were 10. number of cases abated were 48. for the code enforcement inspection performed were 514. that's the code enforcement update and there are graphs in the back that shows all divisions response for the last 12 months. last month commissioner mar asked me to do a update on the older violations. we did a stat report from january 2009-2013 which there were thousands of open cases that we reinvestigated. out of all those cases we reinvestigated, we came down to 399. this is for a 5 year period. what we did and that was a stat report reported to you in a powerpoint presentationism we took the 399 open cases and actually broke those down to show where they are. so, the isis a synapsis of open complaints between january 2009 and december 2013. the total number of open cases were 399. cases closed, that means permits are finalized are 135. active permits declared notice of violations are 146. reinstated permits are 10. filed permits to address complaints are 36. suspended permits are 10. second notice of violations cases in code enforcement are 29. the first notice of violation address complaints are 4. cases continued are 29. these are the cases for the 5 year period. from the 2013 to present we are tracking the cases every month and try to have a 100 percent response on the cases. we vaspreadwhere we look at the complaint and those that are not reinvestigated we make sure they are done before the end of the month and get a report to you. >> commissioner mar >> i want to say thank you for the update. i know code enforce; you have done an amazing job clearing the back log jz want to make sure especially for the long lingering cases which i know you are working on it are getting lessened but want to make sure there are enough resources to focus on those so thank you for the report and if there is anything we can do to make sure that those lingering cases are getting the proper attention, please bring it to us. >> thank you >> thank you deputy director. >> public comment on item 6 a-d. seeing none item 7 discussion on [inaudible] permit and tracking system. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is henry bartly with dparmt of technology, the project manager for dbi imp lmation for [inaudible] going over the 1 page update you should have in hand. in termoffs configuration, these are the punch list items which are 23 in total. there are 4 completed, 3 in uat, 16 in development, so these are on track per the work plan and those are going to be continuing to be developed and turned over for testing throughout this month and next month. we do have 2 that are going to continue past august which was according to plan and that is why we have 2 rounds of end to end simulation. the punch list items are moving along as expected. on the reporting front, we have got a large effort to get the reports from [inaudible] to get the qa prior to the first run of simulation whiching up on august 10. that is going to be a lot of activity among the dbi and project team over the next few weeks to get those qaed and closed out. the dbimis treme has a report that they are developing and in those there are 8 that are accepted and 42 in progress and the 2 remainder are waiting for development resources to become available. those are also moving along. in terms of testing and fixes, this section covers the perch list items and we look at the 92 total that is punch list items, that is the data migration items which there are 34 of those and then there are also 35 uat items and these are items fart part of previous uat items. all that together gets to the 92 total critical and high items that need to be addressed before go live. apart from the 2 punch list items which is grand faulthered fees and the batch boiler process, the rest of the-the other 90 are scheduled and we are pushing to have those done before the first end to end simulation august 10. that is what is consuming all of the attention and efforts from now until the beginning of august. between august and sept, we have another piece of work whiching coming to the project that is expected and this is the analysis and testing that needs to be done to test out murning the planning dta set with dbi. we were well aware and had support from excell when planning launched october 20 of last year we knew when dbi went live we have to merge the data set. this is something they assureed us they have done observe. before. they have to get that right. we wanted to make sure when we did the second and last round we do that against the merge dataset. we have moved in the second bullet underneath end to end it referenced sept, we moved that to october 1 so we could use the merged dataset as part of the testing rounds so that was a good reason to move that date to early october. once we have gone through end to end both the first round which covers the bulk of the functionality we'll have the catch up the first of october to cover the 2 perch list items and anything out of the first round that needs to be adjusted. at that point if things are in good shape, we'll have the meeting with tom hewy and team scheduled for october 8 and thereat is when they confirm a go live date.

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