Thank you. So we have a quorum. And our next item is item 2. President s announcement. Good morning, everybody, welcome to the june 17th, 2020. I have some president s announcement and in add please forgive me for any miss spelling or miss pronouncing of words in advance. As i said, good morning and welcome to our remote Building Inspection Commission meeting for june 2020. I am president of the Building Inspection Commission and im joined today by all of our commissioner members along with interim director reardon and senior d. B. I. Staff. Welcome to all of you. As we continue to cope with this extraordinary circumstances caused by the covid19 pandemic, we are now in our First Quarter of on going building safety work and different ways from back in february of this year that we have to do this report. Were certainly still working on issues. I can Sate Department is doing an outstanding job of keeping customers and staff hearing to the publichealth protocols that have been put in place and fine tuned on a regular basis over the past three months. And even though protocols is section 60 remains closed to the public, the department is continuing to have new permit applications conducting on schedule jobs and inspections and to ensure code and construction according to the and taking code enforcements that in short, inaudible . I want to say thank you to all our hardworking, dedicated professionals for their terrific jobs theyre doing and have been doing and under the enormous stressed by caused by. If everybody can be put on mute. Were getting audio doubling. If you have it up on a different computer, maybe turn the volume down on it or the television if you are watching it. So it doesnt feedback into the line. Do you have another two computers on . I dont, no. Ok. I dont. So let me continue. In short, we are still fulfilling the commission and thank you to our dedicated professionals for the terrific jobs that they are doing and have been doing under enormous stressed caused by this virus. This is requiring reduced timeframe and under extremely difficult conditions and beer alweredeeply impressed with ou. At dbi customers know in addition to continuing to do everyday what is required to ensure the building safety for the citys more than 225,000 structures, we are also converting what has long been a physical paper of submission process for permits to Electronic Submission process. We began it before the pandemic which the pandemic has accelerated. There is understandably on going issues. The commission is looking forward to an update on how this conversation is coming along and a bit later in todays agenda. And i only ask that all our customers take a deep breath and try to be patient a bit longer as we implement these longterm changes. This is a monumental undertaking in the best of times, but even more so during a global pandemic. D bye and permit center staff are working really hard to make this work and we have taken a giant leap forward to a more streamline system that will ultimately provide more options for people to get their permits as they need it. Id like to recognize our director reardon for his efforts to keep stakeholders informed about the changes dbi processes ex serves. I know he has been taking part in a biweekly qa and sessions at these meetings. So thank you, very much, director, our interim director for that. The city, as you know, is beginning to reopen and of its segments of our former daily life while keeping say close eye on our resurgence of this deadly virus. We will keep you posted as changes occur and the department take steps that are designed to keep everyone safe and ensure that the building Safety Standards are maintained and enhanced. Thank you for attending our meeting today and please continue to participate in our public process. And im sad to announce that the department has lost a great employee. Jamie oleary, who recently passed away. Jamie started his career with the city in 2010 joined the dbi team as a building dispenser five years ago. He was a graduate of high school and loved carpentry and all things building related. He was a surfer and adored his family and friends and caring supporter of the homeless and his community. Those who worked with jamie knew him as a very caring person and a great coworker and he will always be willing to help. On behalf of the Building Inspection Commission, our deepest condolences to his family. He will be missed. Madam secretary, that concludes my presentation. Clerk thank you for the president s announcement. We will have Public Comment on the president s announcements i just needed to read something on the agenda. I apologize. This is our first remote hearing via video and teleconferencing. You can watch this meeting on sf cable channel 78 and at sfgovtv. Org and the Public Comment call in number is 14084189388 and the access code is 146062 or 280. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, dbi staff and members of the public, the Building Inspection Commissions meeting room 416 is closed at city hall. Members of the public are to participate remotely. If you want to ensure your comments on any item or agenda received by the Building Inspection Commission and as a reference for next month, please send an email to sonia. Harris by 5 00 p. M. On the tuesday before the meeting. Or call 5586164. Again, this meeting is being held teleconference pursuant to the governors executive order in 2920 and the mayor proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency. Now is there any Public Comment on the president s announcemen announcements . Madam, it appears that we have a person with Public Comment. May i have the host duties. Clerk yes. Caller. Caller, are you there . Your two minutes starts now. Clerk caller, unmute yourself if you are muted. I unmuted them. Clerk oh, ok. Theyve had their hand raised for a while. Maybe they stepped away. Caller, if you are there your time to give Public Comment is now. If you wish to speak to a different item, you may stay in the queue. Well give you about 10 seconds and then ill mute you and hopefully youll come back when you are ready to speak. It appears the caller is not by their phone. Im going to go ahead and mute him again. Thank you. So there was no Public Comment on the president s announcements. Our next item is general Public Comment. The bic will take Public Comment on matters within the Commission Jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. Any comments . I would like to remind any callers listening, if you would like to speak to any item, please raise your hand so that item only and to raise your hand, you will press star 3. If you wish to speak to this item, press star 3. Let me see if this caller is this is the same caller from before and they didnt lower their hand but im going to unmute them for them. Caller, are you there . Caller. Ok it appears theres no Public Comment. Ill clear the queue. Clerk thank you. The next item is item 4, commissioners questions and matters. Inquiries to staff. At this time commissioners may make inkawartha re inquiry withd procedures which are of interest to the commission. Commissioners, if i may just proceedally, and we can probably carry this through to the rest of the commission, what im suggesting, unless someone else feels differently, we would hear any Public Comment, obviously the item that is at hand and then at the end of this, i would go around to individually and ask you if you had any comments. I would ask you to make those comments in that one stop so we can get it finished up and having not gone back and fourth. If theres no objection to that, i will enter that. So any comments Vice President moss . Nope. Commissioner alexandertut . Yes. I am were going to talk about the permit process later in the agenda, correct . Correct. Its on item 3, i believe. Perfect. So, i think the i would like to make sure there is a report from the staff. Id like to hear an update on the s. R. O. Program regarding the covid19 action and want to have that as a standing item. I would like to have that as a standing report throughout the pandemic. So if the staff could be so kind as to have the s. R. O. Covid19 response as a standing report, as long as we are in this global pandemic, i would say very much appreciate that and i want to thank them for their leadership on that. Are you able to hear me ok . Yes, we are. Wonderful. Thank you. I also would like to start a discussion within the department or really find out what discussion has been started and Department AroundRacial Justice and equity. In that includes equity within our neighborhoods, equity and training within the staff, and im curious to learn i had brought this up when i was first sworn in. Especially around Language Access but i think given the time that were in, the importance of the issue that i would just really like to hear from the staff how theyve been implementing some of the recommendations that have been coming down to be staff raining around bias and hear from the staff not today in a later date about what is the Racial Equity lens of d. B. I. You commissioner alexandertut. Commissioner clinch, please. Nothing from me, thank you. Commissioner jackobo, please. Good morning, commissioners. Chair mccarthy. Actually, something similar to what commissioner alexandertut just said, the Planning Commission last week had a very thoughtful and wonderful resolution put fourth by two of their commissioners that are in planning on racial and social equity and i think that we would be missing a huge vote here if we did not take a look at what is happening in this country in terms of the conversation around race and Structural Racism that exists within the departments, within structures. And i love our folks at bid and i love ourselves but i dont think were immune to that. For us to truly live up to that, we have to begin to look at internally as to what were doing. Some of the Key Takeaways that i would like to point out and see in what direction we can travel are things like the Department Internal practices, making sure that theyre thoughtfully examined and amended to advance racial and social equity across our functions. Theres been a big push within planning as well that the department change hiring and promotion practices to correct the under representation of black people, Indigenous People and people of color across all Staffing Levels and those are just two things that i would kind of like to mention and start to frame the conversation around and to get a better understanding of what our demographics are in terms of people that are currently working at d. B. I. As well as Leadership Structure and so, i would like to kickoff that discussion and the final piece that id like to say is part of this resolution was also the commission saying, as a Planning Commission, as a entity, that they stand in solidarity with the civil unrest and the demands of justice of fellow san franciscans and communities across the nation and i think that we should affirm that black lives matter. I wanted to put that out there as a commission to talk to at some point. Commissioner tam. Im going to thank you. That is all my commissioners and i concur with all the comments and look forward to having a good, deeper discussion on that and to your point, a resolution maybe at the next meeting. Maybe we can Work Together on that but i absolutely concur with your comments. Thank you. Next item is 4b. At this time the commission may discussion and take action to set the date of a special meeting and determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the Building Inspection Commission. Our next regular meeting is scheduled for july 15th. That concludes item 4a and b. Is there any Public Comment on items 4a and 4b . Yes, there seems to be a caller with their hand raised. May i please have the host duties. Hello caller, your two minutes starts now. Caller, are you muted. Can you please unmute your phone. Caller is not speaking. Thank you. Public comment is closed for that item. Next item is item 5. Discussion of possible action regarding proposed a administrative and ground mullion reports for Foundation Design of Tall Buildings. Gary, would you like to begin and i will share your slide . Gary, would you like to begin the presentation . Just one moment, please. Gary, you are on mute. Lets start and do your presentation. Thank you. Good. Thats good. Commissioners, thank you for the opportunity that we can make the presentation today for the administrative bulletin ab111 entitled for preparation of Geo Technical and earthquake ground motion reports of Foundation Design and construction of Tall Buildings. Im manager of the surface commission and we also have an expert in key owe technical and earthquake ground motion who is your technical engineer giving up this and we engineer and joining us in the presentation. Our presentation and i will be talking about the background of the ab and first part and we will have a summary of this ab in the second part and well talk about we have the council in coop and in operation of office of city administrator dbi, puc and office of Capital Planning to perform a steady in this the recommendation to put into requirements, policies and the sign of New Buildings and for assessment and retro fit of existing buildings. And post earthquake responses all time prove the earthquake resilience of building in our city. Tall building and this study of the various taller building that 200 and and the final and in january 2019 which contains 16 recommendations and one of them producing city taking action to develop ventilation to adjust plantation and Geo Technical issue of Tall Building, subsequently dbi in may of last year and a Geo Technical and put together a team of experts consisting of Geo Technical engineer and two engineers to work on this d bye. After they complete this task we submit and this special team has another nine engineers and two structure engineer. After they approve it, we submit that to d. B. I. Community and c. A. C. Thats the co Advisory Committee for approval. inaudible on last tuesday, june 9th and c. A. C. Approved it on june 10th. Now, here we are and we are sending this a. B. And seeking b. I. C. Approval. And i guess with that, my first point of inaudible and i will to continue on the second part. Thank you, everyone. I hope you can hear me ok. I am going to read from my notes and ill be more unhappy to answer any questions and during the q a. One of the recommendation of acc119 project was to create a Technical Administration and this would be a companion to ab83 and provide quite the technical aspect upon design and construction of Tall Buildings. While structural aspects of the design of Tall Buildings are very regulated and designed so far and and following any design set of guidelines. Ab111 covers this gap. Ab111 requires that the geotechnical member of design of the team or short edrt and engage early on and review the work done available by the geotechnical engineer records, describing plans to technical field investigation and testing programs. This includes number 5 and inaudible tests if you use and a number of design ground level. Also, the development of design ground motion and foundation in the studies are presented in this planned view and this review. The work plan is a road map. Its similar to places of design documents and its normally prepared by a Structural Engineer and reviewed by edrt members before a Structural Design is progressed. Atc111 provides guidelines for technical content of geotechnical reports and is presented in various sections. When developing this section, you will have condition and sighs micseismic of the bay ared to be considered. In the financial district of San Francisco, we have shallow ground power and soil over soft, compressive inaudible and dense, is below, and it is other inaudible . They say its a slightly compressive underlying for moderate loads but, it is competitive on the heavy loads associate of the Tall Buildings. Also, to add to the challenge, we have two very active faults within 12 kilometres of the financial district. Therefore, when developing these technical sections, we have to go beyond the California BuildingCode Department and taylor. Other technical sections are