Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissio
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Minimum established by state law provides. And im really worried that if San Francisco does not catch up on all of the Housing Demand created by all the jobs that have been created in your city, its going to deeply impact my neighbors and push folks out here. You cant find a twobedroom apartment for less than 3,000 a month. Every year that goes by the area Median Income for San Mateo County goes up and up as more of our residents are displaced. It is directly a result of not building enough marketrate housing in San Francisco where the jobs are. 75,000 san mateo residents commute to your city every day in normal times. Im sure that similarly large numbers commute from the east bay as well. It is crucial that you make space to allow these folks to be able to live in your city. I take you all at your word that you care about lowincome people. I think that this is the wrong approach. If you look at the resolution it talks about 49,000 residents who are rent burdened. They are by definitio
Given the extraordinary pressures on our Fire Department at the moment i couldnt justify pressuring the fire marshal to respond [indiscernible]. Okay. I will continue. Over the past few weeks, so im making a motion to continue the appeal once again to september 15. Both sponsor and the appellants are aware of the continuance. Okay, thank you. So is there a second for this continuance . Second, supervisor preston. Okay, seconded by supervisor preston. Madam clark, before we take that motion, lets take Public Comments on the continuance itself. Okay. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the anticipated continuance . Operations, do we have a caller on the line . Operator [indiscernible]. Great, welcome, caller. Weefr taking Public Comment on the continuance of items four through seven. This is appeal of revised final mitigation declaration proposed for the fulsome street project. Are you with us, caller . If you are interested in speaking, please just express star 3 an
Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart and join with me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, who record each of our meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during this covid19 emergency, members of the board of supervisors will participate to the same extent as if they were present in their legislative chamber. The board recognizes the pandemic has made the need for communication more acute and that those communities, with and without the internet, have the opportunity to participate, written and unwritten, in this meeting. We will accept your testimony via mail or Public Comment. Youre welcome to send us an email at bos sfgov. Org. If using your computer, you can livestream the meeting by going to www. Sfg