In our budget this year that was approved last year, we have more building inspectors two. And were going to ladder to work with sfoir. Were asking for 4 more bodies that are above and beyond that are permit techs and in the service to help with the customer calls. Were looking for more you assistance with the management position and one with pr. Were looking at part of the add were technically asking for two positions were going to give up two position. Thats to fill 4 more positions. You can see in the graft were leveling off were asking for more positions but on the whole youll see there. So a few other changes to highlight. The Fringe Benefits has increased due to the new positions weve added. Equipment weve also are continuing our vehicle replacement a program so in the current year we have 10 vehicles scheduled for replacement and last year is part of the budget process we got 26 vehicles to handle the new staff on inspections. 10 are purely electron getting smallest cars and hyb
Remedies. Actually, the new eviction doesnt apply to new construction none of our law. This wouldnt apply to federally controlled housing this is optional for the city of San Francisco. It wouldnt apply to section 8 but individually to individual basis is subject to the ordinance. Thank you very much. I think im in favor of that. I might have mentions this is on a if you discussions ago i said the city should be giveup did preferences to people who have been evicted under the ellis act situation. So far as the time period the 23 to 6 years i favor 3 years with the caveat if youre subject to the ellis eviction you have to state our tension to get into the system to obtain housing have to get in the list in the could you. It is stated accurately that we dont know how soon this should be coming up but we 140u7b9 imperative folks 6 years to take vandal of the situation that displays others who have been in line but i think that years would be more than enough time for an individual to make
Highlights have been conveyed to the board of supervisors and an amazing mulch of work done. Congratulations to robert chung and his Excellent Team who are doing the retrofitting for soft story buildings and for the free workshop held in october and november. There will be another free opportunity on january for the mayors director dbi and numerous others will be in fair trade set up where customers may learn the contains arrangements. Dbi is investigating a chinas workshop at the chinatown ward to that also. Please note to the sfgovtv workshop is now available on line through youtube with the link for wwwdot sf dbi on caps website. The dbi respond to several media calls including the radio report obrien who interviewed director huey about sxhoous inlaw legislation. This interview aired on tuesday at the 6 30 and 8 30 a. M. We provided information for an online paper for its specific vacant building and we provided to list to report to aaron smile. Expected in 2014. San francisco paper
That concludes my presentation if you have any questions, well be happy to answer them and im sorry and amy is here from commissioner chius office hi, good afternoon. Im amy im a elective aid for david chow. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Supervisor chiu introduced this with sxhifrz kim and mar and breed to help people who are facing eviction. The ellis act has been interpreted broadly to evict tenant to go out of the rental business. You might have heard of the lee families the adult daughter and folks who have been evicted out of their home where they lived for thirty years because of the ellis act. This represents any household and we have a need to help folks who are getting kicked out of their homelands. We know that the board of supervisors budget Analyst Report that the nuke of ellis evictions are rising. Specifically in the past year weve seen in the report one hundred and 45 percent increase in ellis you filings which is the highest increase compared to any other type of
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