Is excused. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. Good morning everybody and welcome to the big meeting march 15, a couple of days before st. Patricks day which is going to be a long weekend so happy st. Patricks day to everybody as we start the meeting here and congratulate the director on the fabulous green tie here. Hes the only one that actually wore one want all right. I take that back. Commissioner lee as well. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the march meeting Building Inspection Commission meeting. Congratulations to commissioner chang yu that retired after years with Public Service with dbi and did pw and awarded proclamations and a dinner in honor my his colleagues and well done. He will be missed and what a great city servant for 30 years. On the andrea ruizesquide on the. Dbi seismic and the commissioner commiss went to the graduation and yet another class grateod february 24 when 65 seniors received graduation certificates of emergency and surviv
Item on the agenda is roll call. President mccarthy. Here. Vice president walker. Here. Commissioner gilman. Here. Commissioner lee. Here. Commissioner warshell. Here. Commissioner commissioner clinch and commissioner konstin are excused. We have a quorum and our next item is item 2. Discussion and possible action regarding a proposed ordinance board of supervisors file no. 170202 amending the Green Building code to establish requirements for installation of electric Vehicle Charger infrastructure in New Buildings or buildings under going major alterations in addition to other requirements. Good morning and thank you. Thank you to my fellow commissioners for such a Quick Response in putting this meeting together. I believe some of you commissioners were not here last week on this particular item, commissioner gilman and commissioner warshell so its great that youre here this morning. We have in front of us a great piece of legislation that is on a fast track to hopefully be introduced
jose airport where some of the soldiers will arrive in about half an hour. reporter: we re waiting for some of the 180 national guard troops returning to california after nearly a year in afghanistan. they are returning in stages today, as several flights, some landing at sfo, some flights in san jose. they have been coming home, not entirely a joyous occasion. just last month, one of theirs returned home, specialist shawn walsh. he had been killed in action in afghanistan. he s a member of the same company, military police that are coming home today. now, we expect of course many happier moments this evening when these folks finally do get home and meet their loved once, greet them here at norman make net take international, then take off fairly quickly. that s what happened in oakland. they got down on the ground, didn t have much time for media. they met with families and headed home. we ll try and catch a few minutes with them as they get down and we expect that in abou
supposed to repair community relations after san francisco police shot and killed a man last weekend in the bay view district but the meeting never got off the ground in a meaningful way. lisa amin gulezian is in the newsroom to explain what happened there tonight. lisa? reporter: it really was a heated event. the police chief went to the bay view to answer questions about saturday s shooting. but emotions ran very high. the chief was cut off pretty quickly by a large crowd at the bay view opera house. many were frustrated and angry not just about when 19-year-old kenneth harding was shot and killed by san francisco police but about the ongoing violence in the bay view. harding was shot after he ran away from police during a routine fair inspection at a muni light rail stop. according to miss and an audio recording of the department shot spotter system harding shot at officers first but tonight the crowd bare early got questions or answers in about saturday s shooting. inst
as hundreds of employers all over the country. ice would not comment on pat civic steel case but said in a statement the goal of the audits is to ensure employers are following the law. and in fact, there has been a crack down under the obama administration. more audits in the last nine months than during the entire previous year and more recently than in the final years of the bush administration. which is why we call it a silent raid. this city councilman represents pacific steel union workers like annie, who could be fired. we aren t doing anything illegal, just workers at the plant. we re working as hard as we can. and now, pacific steel says it has no idea why it s targeted by ice. some believe it could be a number of a large population of latino workers here. and city leaders here in berkeley say if hundreds of workers from pacific steel are fired it s going to impact the entire region s economy. abc 7 news. thank you. and a town hall meeting just getting un