Madam secretary, i will keep my comments brief. Congratulations to director huey who participated in the City Administrators Office on school reisraelience in september. Insuring seismic safety to our schools and remains a top priority for the city. The big one ed donnelly who manages the Response Unit and Senior Engineer and the plan review supervisor participated in the recent Conference Call with portland, oregon, building officials to Exchange Best Practices on the respective citys Emergency Response and preparations. He is eager to accept taken by San Francisco such as the seismic retrofits of the apartments, safety assessments to provide damage assessments and reoccupancy timelines and effective Emergency Response plan with key personnel prepared to act. With earthquakes near bakers field they need to get ready for the next one. That is top priority for all cities and residents. Keep focused on that. Big thank you to joe duffy and kevin who received letter from appreciation from
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We have tom huey, dan and i think that is it. We have three year terms for all of our renewing members. If i had you in the wrong category, i do apologize. We appreciate your service. I will call the question then. We will do a roll call vote to approval all members of the code advisory committee. roll call . The motion carries unanimously. Would you all please come forward. Foe the oath of office i, state your name, do solemnly swear, that i will support and defend the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of california, against all enemies foreign and domest domestic. That i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the United States. And the constitution of the state of california. That i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion. And that i will well and fate fe fully discharge did duties upon which i am about to enter, and during such times as a hold the office of a member of the code advisory
Committee member supervisor shaman walton, and to my right is supervisor mar. Our clerk today is victor young, and id also like to thank corwin and colea for staffing at sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 16 board of supervisors calendar unless otherwise suggested. Chair ronen can i have a motion to take items 1, 2, and 3 together . Supervisor walton so moved. Chair ronen thank you. So moved. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read items 1, 2, and 3 together. Clerk yes. [agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you so much. We have kate connor from the Planning Department and kate hartley from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to make brief presentations, but before they do, colleagues, would you like to make any opening
Building inspection is not following up on violations, i am ready to go on this. You can talk to us. This is really interesting because this has gone on for a year and this is an eviction of longstanding africanamerican tenants. Forty years in this place. Jackie long has mobility problems, her daughter is schizophrenic, her soninlaw has had six surgeries since 2014 due to a workrelated accident and has more coming. These people have no safety mats safety nets and cannot be moved away from their doctors. I went into this because i dont want this on my head. I have been to their weddings, i have been to their funerals. What is going on here, which is really offensive, as i have a report from their engineer from 2018 about what is needed from the respondent about what needs to be done to the building. It is nothing close to what they are doing. They are trying to create luxury housing and climate rehabilitation. They want to put rooms in to make an 11 story flat when it should be an acces