Good morning. Today is wednesday, september 19, 2012. This is the meeting, regular meeting of the building inspection commission. I would like to remind everyone to please turnoff all electronic devices. The first item on the agenda is roll call. President mccarthy . Here. Vice president mar . Here. Commissioner clench . Here. Commissioner lee . Here. Commissioner mccray . Present. Commissioner walker . Here. Commissioner melgar is excused. And we have a quorum. And the next item is number 2, president s announcements. Madam secretary, if i may, i just want to do some housekeeping here. Id like to, if its no objections, to move items 2 and 3 down to after 9 00 there because we have a full calendar. Well go straight to item 4, please. If theres no objection, id like to do that. Okay. Commissioners are okay with that . Yeah. Okay. Call item 4. Item 4, item 4, discussion regarding Disability Access including training and certification for additional certified access specialist inspectors.
People are trying to solve. So, just throwing that out there. I dont know if theres an answer to that. I get questions on a daily basis from Small Business people and architects about accessibility questions, and they are referred to me from staff when theyre at plan check or even at Technical Services which is one other person who has the cat certification is. We have two people, one person is in Technical Services answer questions, and then myself who is in the disabled access division, being the secretary of the disabled access. And being the secretary of disabled Access Commission and answering complaints when we get complaints from the public about accessibility, thats one of the duties i have. So, generally the complaints that i receive are from public who actually want access. Theres kind of two different tracks here. Theres the councilwoman platectionv where people want access and then theres the lawsuitdriven complaints, which i dont hear much about, unfortunately until the pe
For new models because the weakness of course is the deal that we have done it will result in some Affordable Housing but there will be limited if any access for our own employees to that project to that housing because any Housing Project Affordable Housing or low Income Housing that includes federal subsidies teachers and most School Employees are not eligible so we need to make a new deal and will be and i think we should pursue politically or think about other ways to build housing that is exclusively or largely for School District employees notably teachers. Thank you. Thank you commissioner. Commissioner fewer. Thank you supervisor kim so thank you mr. Golden for this report. I have a couple of questions. One is at 1475 ellis street to the church. When does that expire . I dont know. Can i find out for you. And its the same for [inaudible] garage and do we know when the lease expires and the Parking Authority [inaudible] [inaudible] i can get you all that information. Okay. Do yo
A future date on the current radio facilities conditions, including recommendations on the future use and City Department user needs, technical requirements, timeline of funding. So, would you agree to come back and present to the board on your findings on this work . Yes. Okay, great. And the same with the would you accept this recommendation by the budget analyst . The department of Emergency Management . Yes, supervisors, department of Emergency Management agrees with those recommendations. Well be very happy to come back and provide an update. Thank you so much. You know, i know that this has come back to the Budget Committee several times at this point. I think its great that were updating our radio system that is out of date and, you know, probably is not as efficient as it could be. Also doesnt currently comply with fcc standards. Im glad were able to do this finally. But i still continue to have a lot of questions. We have three different potential Radio Systems right now. One
Probably is not as efficient as it could be. Also doesnt currently comply with fcc standards. Im glad were able to do this finally. But i still continue to have a lot of questions. We have three different potential Radio Systems right now. One is, of course, proposed regional bay web motorola system which is no longer and is now being reviewed by, you know, by first net which is now a Different National single wireless Public Safety network. A lot of questions about that. Of course we dont have all the answers to that because that discussion is happening at a national level. And then of course the citys existing Radio Systems amongst our fairious departments, police, fire, port, the dpw, rpd and of course the sfmta 700 megahertz, am i correct, radio system . So, i want to make sure were aligning all of these system so we have effective uses of funds and resources it so there is as much alignment as possible so that we have the savings that we need. So, i think those are the questions t