President announcement. Good morning and happy new year to everybody and id like to thank any fellow commissioner walker for chairing for me last year, i of the out but all good here Going Forward welcome to the wednesday, january 18, 2017, bic so a few announcements so start off the meeting wish everyone to a happy new year and welcome to the department of building inspection my announcements will be belief the commission wanted to acknowledge the staff over the last month, a big thank you to ed screening who helped to get a Construction Permit approved he said he was glad to know that San Francisco as a dedicated public to the citizens so thank you on that and thanks to joe duffy of Inspection Services that got a letter for taking the time with a complaint and that was actually forwarded to dpw regarding a wood playthings becoming dangerous during an upcoming storm the customer said that is an example of a apply employee going above and beyond and madam secretary thats the biggest se
Good moning today is wednesday november 16, 2016. Please turn off all electronic devices. The first item is roll call. Mccarthy, here. Clinch, here. Gilman, here. Konstin, here. Lee, here. Walker, here. Warshell, here. We have a quorum and the next item is item 2, president s announcements. Jrkts good morning and welcome to the november 16, 2016 bit meeting. Because of thei want to read a few long detailed information into the record here on behalf of the president announcement. Because of the unusual circumstances presented by the Millennium Tower situation the Department Works with the Mayors Office city administrator and board of supervisor tooz take step tooz improve department policies, processes and procedures to provide additional scrutiny when reviewing high Rise Construction of 2 40 feet or more especially when located in the seismically vulnerable neighborhoods. That is why director hui announced last month Effective Immediately the department will select all fuper peer revie
Here. Lee, here. Walker, here. Warshell, here. We have a quorum and the next item is item 2, president s announcements. Jrkts good morning and welcome to the november 16, 2016 bit meeting. Because of thei want to read a few long detailed information into the record here on behalf of the president announcement. Because of the unusual circumstances presented by the Millennium Tower situation the Department Works with the Mayors Office city administrator and board of supervisor tooz take step tooz improve department policies, processes and procedures to provide additional scrutiny when reviewing high Rise Construction of 2 40 feet or more especially when located in the seismically vulnerable neighborhoods. That is why director hui announced last month Effective Immediately the department will select all fuper peer review participants. Those outside experts dbi calls for reviewing 240 feet or higher and Building Design is performanced based rather than previous practice participated in the
We are also seeing fewer number of permits issued. If you look that first table you see the largest decrease in the number of high value permits want down by about 19 percent. But overall revenues are still fine. We expect to meet our budget or exceed the revenue budget but just compare to last year you see things going down and anticipated that. On the expenditure side we can continue to increase compared to year over year. You will see we are about 8 percent this year and that is primarily because salaries have gone up more this year than last year and that is reflected in the last meeting of gearing up and hiring. So, overall if you look at the first page again, you see the projected revenue is at budget and the reezten is there is because it is too early to make real adjustments and so just projecting that budget but as we get to the 6 month mark well look at if we see trends and information and try to make actual projections. Ill happy to answer question. Seeing none. Thank you. T
Mccarthy, yes. Walker, yes. Clinch, yes. Gilman, yes. Konstin, yes. Lee, yes. Warshell, yes. The motion carries unanimously. Item 9, directors report. 9 a, update on dbi finances. Good morning commissioners rchlt taurus Madison Deputy director for department of building inspection and before you is october 2016 financial report. It provides data on expenditures and receive news from jm twnt 16 through october 2016 and ill go over a few highlights. For revenues remain strong. We collected about 21 million in revenue and see that on page 1. Page 2 you see that while revenues remain strong they are lower than they were compared to the same time last year and that is to be expected. Last year in fiscal year 1516 that was the highest collection in the department. Overall, reserve news from last year to this year have gone down about 2. 7 million. If you look at innext table it shows the number of issue permits and talked about this before and you can see that both evaluation has gone down a