Im not prepared to talk about all of dphs massage cases. I am prepared to talk about this one. I can have ed walsh talk about that one. He is the inspector. Okay. Would you like him to . If he is able to answer that question. Are you . Yes. Good evening commissioners. Im ed walsh, im the Senior Environmental Health inspector of the Massage Program for about 8. 5 years. I have 28 Years Experience as being a City Employee with the city and county of San Francisco, as a health inspector. Regarding penalties for violations, we have a number of violations that we look for, and we fine people or suspend permits. Most common violations are practitioners without proper attire, practitioners that dont have licenses and for violations of employeing unlicensed practitioners. Those violations usually incur a fine of maybe 1,000 at the first offense and goes all the way up to 5,000 for the third repeat offense. In the twoyear period, we keep track of those violations and when we find them, we bring
Of suspension or track record . Im not prepared to talk about all of dphs massage cases. I am prepared to talk about this one. I can have ed walsh talk about that one. He is the inspector. Okay. Would you like him to . If he is able to answer that question. Are you . Yes. Good evening commissioners. Im ed walsh, im the Senior Environmental Health inspector of the Massage Program for about 8. 5 years. I have 28 Years Experience as being a City Employee with the city and county of San Francisco, as a health inspector. Regarding penalties for violations, we have a number of violations that we look for, and we fine people or suspend permits. Most common violations are practitioners without proper attire, practitioners that dont have licenses and for violations of employeing unlicensed practitioners. Those violations usually incur a fine of maybe 1,000 at the first offense and goes all the way up to 5,000 for the third repeat offense. In the twoyear period, we keep track of those violations
For the department and we have been working with them alongside starting before this development and contract. We have actually right now, the interface and as soon as the testing is complete. It has been set up for training on the cashiers as soon as it is complete we will do the training and improve the position. For now, the tentative days is the middle of february for the tax collect and her we are planing to go right after within a couple of weeks after the tax collecters. The next project was the refresh fof the computers for the staff. Swre been having a three year replacement cycle, where we have deployed computers, every year, we have got about 50 to 100 computers that we deploy. So it is the oldest computer that will would be like four years at the most. So to have been up to date we have purchased the latest of 50 commuters over the counter staff on the fifth floor and they will be getting the new pcs this month and we have plans ongoing every year. We have about 100 in the
Massage permit. The fact it hasnt in this case despite repeated violations, discovered both by the Public Health inspectors and in operations with the police is a gift. It is a gift from the department of Public Health that that permit will still exist after this hearing, if the decision here is upheld. I really dont think there is any ground to reduce the penalty. I think if anything, the penalty is still quite gracious. You have a repeat violator in front of you. She is unpreentent and keeps doing it. The attempts to nit pick with the hearings and was everything that we did absolutely perfect . No, but that is not the standard. She certainly had a fair hearing. She certainly had an opportunity to present her case to dph and if she didnt, she certainly had that unt opportunity and more before you. I dont think there is any grounds to overturn the hearing officers decision and i hope you agree. Thank you are you aware of any other suspensions . How often do these type of establishments
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco this petition authority. I want to welcome commissioner london bree for the First Commission meeting. Welcome and congratulations on being here. Our clerk is erica chang is sfgt are charles and mark. I believe that satisfies our first item roll call. Second item . To approve the minutes of the december 4, 2012 meeting. It is an action item. Any comments . Public comment . Any member of the public would like to comment on item 2 . Will close of the comment. Colleagues can we have a motion to approve the minutes . So moved. Second by supervisor cohen. Next item. Item 3 Citizens Advisory Committee report. An information item. Good morning. Good morning. I have a report. I have a quick report from the december 5 meeting of the cac. At this time we have reviewed and passed action items 5 through 9 from the december 4 plans and programs agenda. The first cac meeting of 2013 will be on wednesday, jan. 23rd. At this meeting we will vote for the cha