good morning everybody and welcome to the special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee. this is monday, february 8th, 2016. my name is mark farrell and i ll be chairing this committee and i m joined by supervisor norman yee and supervisor katy tang will not be able to make today s meeting and will be excused and thanking linda wong, as well as charles kremenak and sfgtv for covering this meeting. okay, thank you, madam clerk. the purpose of this special meeting is simply to hear the amended items for the general public safety health bond and to forward it out as committee reports to hear them have them forwarded for tomorrow s board of supervisors full board and if you could call items one and 1. item 1, ordinance calling and providing for a accept election to be held in the city and county of san francisco on tuesday, june 7, 2016 for the purpose of submitting to the san francisco voters a proposition to incur the foll
if so it a good public policy change why not exist for fever and but want to include those properties undergoing a complicated case for more than two years the probate from 6 to 12 months. understood. okay all right. seeing no other questions go ahead and take public comment everyone has two minutes a 30-second soft chimney thirty seconds left seeing no public comment on item one public comment is closed. mr. law. i have staff from dbi an update about this program. go fantastic let s take the staff. good afternoon, supervisors bill strong with the building inspection i m here with inspection michael who manages our day to day work with this vacant building program we did pass some slide i ll be happy to to run through those those briefly if you have questions please ask me. welcome the floor is yours. so michael why not walk through these. i can t see them. okay. my name is michael work with the department of building inspection closing statement divisio
commissioners you have copies of the minutes minutes from the january 12 meeting. the 1st time that i can remember was 20 years ago, when the puc began the program and she was always there to remind us of that. and she was always able to do that and not in a forceful but in an effective way. that was essentially positive and her spirit came through on that. she will definitely be someone that is remembered i will also ask that we adjourned the meeting today in her remembrance. we will take this moment for public comment. good afternoon commissioners, my name is ted knollenberg and i am representing district number 5. last year i brought before the board of supervisors legislation to require the city of san francisco to have individual water meters so that it would be easier and more efficient for people to be able to understand their water use. primarily the fact that if they are responsible for the bill they will pay more attention to the fact of how much water they use.
i have 2 job titles. i m manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it s a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn t have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it s doors in january 1916. it s a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it s built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. jimmie was an in
so michael why not walk through these. i can t see them. okay. my name is michael work with the department of building inspection closing statement division i manage this particular project so i don t know if everybody has been through this or not there you go sorry about that okay basically the vacate abandoned building ordinance we re aware of you re required to register wle whether you re a vacant or partially vacant building an annual registration fee within a time and maintenance and security requirements and information from the owner to be posted on the building we have some brief definitions of which are in the building code if anyone want to take into account that hopefully, some questions i can answer along the way here a brief map of a basically outlining where most of residential and some commercial properties throughout the city maybe you can see fairly well spread out the southern part of city southern arena large concentrations of the buildings this is