Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissioners, were pleased to tour the new dbi work thats recently to see firsthand dramatic improvement for staff and customers. Im certain and my fellow commissioners will add their own comments about the new existing space in a few minutes. While we certainly still work through many issues, the department is continuing to do an outstanding job of keeping both customers and staff safe by observing the publichealth protocols that have been put in place and fine tuning of the regular basis over the past month. We have remained vigilant about covid and as everyone must give its as everyone must, given its known risk to the publichealth and safety. And even though this publichealth protocol means our new space at 49 south ven he is, they will schedule job inspections and take Code Enforcement steps as warranted. Starting this week, the department announced that it will temporarily limit the types of permits submitted online as a proactive measure to address our backlog and improve efficiency and workload that we will hear about in greater detail later from our interim director. The Department Offers inperson services and these inperson services are resulting in faster reviews and more permits being issued. In short we are fulfilling the mission and i want to say thank you for their terrific jobs theyre doing and have been doing under enormous stresses caused by this virus. This continues to require adjustments on the lifethreatening conditions and we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. The city, as you know, is keeping a very close eye on the deadly virus. We would continue to keep you posted as changes occurred and as the department has actions, steps, designed to keep everyone safe and ensure the building Safety Standards are maintained and enhanced. Thank you for attending this Commission Meeting this morning and please, continuing operating in our public process. Madam secretary, that concludes my comments. Thank you president mccarthy. Is there any Public Comment on the president s announcement . Theres no Public Comment. Theres one. I have to ask her if thats for the president s announcements. You need to give me you can unmute her. Clerk ok. Caller i think the Building Inspection Committee and the president for taking such great care with covid. Theres smoke from the wildfires and i hope that the Building Inspection Committee will take the reason, the extreme heat and the terrible conditions we are experiencing right now that are also life threat eping to heart in all their building inspection decisions. It was helena. Yes. Ok. Thank you for your comment. See no further Public Comment. My next item is item 3, general Public Comment. The vic will take Public Comment on matters and. I have one comment and i will sign up for the two minutes. Just one moment. This Public Comment is requested to be anonymous and if dbi has jurisdiction to enforce the health code order for large construction and safety protocol, appendix b2, this is regarding bay side village and we understand that thus far all parties have been respectful of the code and usually a warning resolved any issues. However, we have been reaching out for over a month to d bye. Please do something to enforce the health code over at bay side village in San Francisco and we are over 800 units that have been exposed to renovations without the health order being followed. No on site compliance officer, no healthy plan submit and other issues. We had of unmasked workers and why wont dbi suspend permits until the health order is complied with. 500 bill street bay side village place. If the construction noise limits during shelter in place and legislation passes, how will you plan to enforce this weve had so many issues with this since march the residents will reach out and why are they issued on a saturday 8 16 20 when they are monday to flew and why are they being used and permit complaint that has the record hearing notices issued 160 brandon street. That is the end of that Public Comment. Thank you madam secretary. Next item, please. The next item is 4, commissioners questions that matter. They make inquiries to staff during various documents and procedures which are of interest to the commission. Vicechair moss please. No, i dont have anything to speak about. Thank you. Commissioner, alexandertut please. No questions at this time, please. Thank you. Commissioner. Nothing, thank you. Good morning president. Actually, quick question is where to park and to provide an update and the interim director has been doing a great job and i appreciate it. I do recall we would look at this in three months and were living through a pandemic and things are very different and i just wanted provide an update as to what that is looking like for the director. Thank you. Commissioner tam, please. Yes, hello. Just the echo with what commissioner jacobo said. The interim director is doing an amazing job. Thank you to the d bye staff foray com dating with the tour of the new facility. At the top of my list, my main concern and well address this coming down within the the hearing here. We are the economic engine here to recovery and so i want to see what hance we have in place to get the ball rolling here. Thank you, commissioner. Madam secretary future meeting and agenda at this time the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting and or determine those items that can be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings as the Building Inspection Commission. Our next regular meeting wor wod be scheduled for september 16th at 10 00 a. M. Vice president moss. Nothing at this time. So is there any published comment on item 4a and 4b . There are no callers in the queue. Thank you. We want to see if any commissioners have comments . Commissioner alexandertut. Are we on future meetings and agendas. Thank you. As i was reviewing the march notes, minutes, i was reminded we had actually tabled the discussion on ethical policies, procedures and training requirements for the dbi and vip and so i would like to see us reschedule that by the end of the year. So in september and it seems like it needs some prep work but i would like to see us reschedule that before the end of the year. I do have a question, is it just a question, are we going to convene the Litigation Committee or the abatement and Appeals Committee . Has those been canceled because we dont have items to come before or are they being canceled because of covid19. Thats just a question . We are planning to resume the immediatings and ill discuss it with you off line. Thank you. Commissioner clinch and commissioner jacobo. Nothing for me. Commissioner tam again. Im good, thank you. Do we have to did Public Comment. Were good there. We actually have one caller. President mccarthy go ahead, caller, please. Sonia. You have to unmute them. Sonia, can you unmute. Thank you, very much. So, i was trying to make a comment in the general Public Comment issue and i think it might be covered in 4a. Specifically regarding the permitting backlog of what has been happening on the park. My understanding is representing ivp local 6 and the Electrical Contractors association through the San Francisco electrical construct industry and weve been getting a lot of reports that the backlog is really happening right at beginning of the inaudible and its havoc for our customers and contractors and for our members. If we take a look at where some of these problem are happening, it appears that the bulk of the problem on the intake park is because theres too much coming in and we dont have enough people to send it off. Were in a triage situation and its really imperative for the Building Inspection Department to treat it as much. Weve got probably 60 of our commercial permits and tenant improvement permits are in the downtown area and theyre being held up by deck expansion and when to replace. Its really i am par importanta look at the type of work thats being done and where its being done so we can make sure at least what remains of our downtown economic district doesnt collapse because were unable to serve those folks. I look forward to adhering how staff is going to address this. Thank you. No more callers in the queue. President mccarthy next item, madam secretary, please. Adam i do not see it. Thats the end of item 4a and 4b. I was reminded i need to read into the record that information on at again da regarding the remote hearing and Public Comment. For the public number call in is 408 4189388 access towed 146 to raise your hand for Public Comment on a specific agenda item, please star 3 when prompted by the meeting moderator and due to the covid19 health emergency, dbi staff and members of the public the building is meeting room 416 is closed. And so that was just a reminder. Thank you. The next item is item 5. Discussion regarding commissioners tour of new dbi offices. Thank you, madam secretary. Did you want to make comments on that, please . No, i havent been able to tour yet im rescheduling it. I have heard great things and i would love to hear from other commissioners about it. Thank you. Commissioner alexandertut, please. Thank you. I appreciate all the work has gone into both allowing us to get a very full tour and walk through all the process and not just look at this and that but really walk us how the processes are working and i really want to thank the staff for all the preparation that went in and thinking that went into how to bring us through and really understand the process so, thank you to everyone. There was also the move, smoother than anybody and there was a lot of anxiety before regarding the move and so i just want to thank all of the leadership who and and and and the social distancing and and thinking have gone into how we keep operations going while and and we have to maintain and social distancing at all times. Is keeping the culture of not having a culture of compliance when it comes to the majority of people getting the virus are people who are going to work and its very easy to be compliant and its very easy to take the masks off and for the general members are people who are coming in and to have masks that are not being worn correctly and just one to support the staff and support the leadership in enforcing the strict rules around shelter in place and covid19 and all the the healthcare plans because this is the way were going to continue to keep people safe. And just theres a lot to balance and thank you to everyone and you have my support in continuing to have the strictest adherence to the health rules, thank you. Commissioner clinch. I have nothing to say other than like commissioner moss, i had to cancel last minute tour and i will try and reschedule because im interested to see what the facility looks like and how it operates. Thats it, thanks. Good morning. What a wonderful tour that was if you havent been there and you will feel like you are walking into terminal 2 of sfo and its interesting tun you will i cant imagine what this move and staffing has been like through a pandemic so kudos to the team for adhering to the Safety Standards. It was clear in our tour that folks were definitely spaced out and that they were able to do that and again, were living through a pandemic, which is an interesting thing to live through. What it looks like its a great job and to move all those plans when you get a fans to go we awe all those big plans to kudos to the team for doing that. Go check it out soon. Commissioner tam, please. Like everybody that did take the tour and i was lucky to get personal treatment because of the cancellation from the other commissioners. It was nice to get catered to those and shown behind the scenes at what happens at dbi. Huge, you know, kudos, like, commissioner jacobo said to the senior staff and everybody. It was a swift i couldnt imagine a more swift move. I think, you know, for me, the facility is beautiful but its, the core and what it houses is what really matters to me and the staff, i think is really kind of the foundation here and they keep driving this department. I think if theres anything that we can do as a commission, im sure everybody agrees that were here and were all open ears and you guys have our support. Also echo my fellow commissioners its the awesomeness of the space. President mccarthy as commissioner jacobo said its like walking into terminal one airport. Its inspiring. You know, and city has really put their best foot forward creating a home for the department of planing and for the whole family of different departments. I could certainly see the proudness and the real bounce in the step of the people working there and really looking at a new kind of industry. They were really excited to be in their new spaces and theres so much openness and they have their little catering areas and it looks like a really nice place to come to work. I think its really going to pay dividends for us as soon as we get through these next period of time with this covid and i really am looking for, even the Conference Room spaces and the lower level, i mean theres just so much from the benefits from the industry that can get from this building. The Different Industries that depend on us and the stakeholders. Really proud of us. Really sorry that some of the past commissioners are not there to see it and commissioner walker, because i know shes been proud of that and interim director we must set a special tour for her when we get a chance. If you havent done it already, i know you might have but so some of our past commissioners who were very involved in that i really appreciate if we can do that because its really incredible and so, with that, could i go on and on but im looking forward to the future with this building and i really think its a fantastic job and the who kept them this whole move and incredible. As someone who spent a weekend moving my son into a storm and material and just moving him i cant imagine what it was to move the Department Like that and all the different departments and hats off to sonia who kept us in the loop and who did an amazing job letting us know and i know it wasnt easy for you and you dont like you have a beautiful office there. And im hear you are not talking about it because people are jealous. [laughter] well done to all the team players and to the staff and looking forward to the future, guys, thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . There are no callers in the cue. Thank you. So our next item is item 6. Update on the single room occupancy sro program regarding covid19 action. And our chief good morning. James and Housing Inspector and i have given these updates on sro Residential Hotels and safety during the pandemic of covid19 and the housing Inspection Team has been hard at work all the way since the middle of march enforcing the health order regarding the cleanliness of shared bathrooms, showers and shared Community Kitchens and in the past i have asked people to see themselves taking a shower in the hall down the hall with six other people have taken a shower right before you. And put yourself in the shoes of the People Living in the hotels. There are about 20,000 of them and one of our Housing Inspectors, christina moy, started her deployment at the eoc which is now the ccc, the covid command center, in march, and was responsible for really making sure that the sro hotel owners in chinatown followed the cleaning standard. So, christina was due to have her deployment ended at the end of july and she volunteered to stay on until the end of the year and its just tremendous commitment to her job and our commission of keeping people safe in sros. We had a case with realty who owns several hotels in chinatown and the mission and the d. A. Is following up on that case. We have orders of a basement that we recently issued at one of the hotel in powell street and the director process will resume that and all remotely and its been challenging to you have the new face and schedule these hearings by certified letter and have people call in and members of the public landlords and tenants. We are managing to continue to do these hearings and both in the tenderloin and south market weve had inspector joe barber and Robert Wallers with sro Hotel Inspections and we have some of those hotels to director hearings and clients and the chinatown com ployance has been excellent and for the most part due to our teams work. Now there was some emergency