Meeting to the budget and finances committee. Our clerk is mr. John carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this event. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please be sure you silence any cell phones or electronic devices. Any documents you need to present should be given to me, your clerk. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Clerk, will you please read items 1 and 2 together. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, mr. Clerk. I would just like to start this meeting by saying thank you all for coming today to come and give us public testimony about where you think your public dollars should be spent, and your priorities to where the public dollars has been spent. For the last two weeks, weve been hearing from city departments on their plans to spend public dollars, and now it is your turn to tell us where you think we should appropriate these moneys. I want to thank you for your time. I know that many of you will have to wait a whi
We have a partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District to train or staff to become teachers while mentoring the opportunity for all kids. There is a path for them. They see themselves in the older kids who are becoming teachers of color, bilingual teachers in the school district. That wouldnt have happened if it werent for opportunities for all. Thank you, mayor breed, for the opportunities and great difference that this project is making on the lives of our community. Thank you so much. [applause. ] thank you for sharing your story and god bless you in jamestown. We have a lot of young people excited to start internships and some have begun, is that right . Or maybe not. You are excited, yes, that is the point i am trying to make. One of these young people is nicholas lay from california state sacramento who worked every summer with our very only San Francisco public works. Come up to say a few words, young man. [applause. ] thank you. I am nicholas lay. Born and raised
System to be able to do that. Currently the department of building inspection will allow somebody to go on the city website now and be able to see whether or not we have an open Code Enforcement Case Department wide on a particular address and what the permit activity is. Its my understanding that it doesnt have it yet. Supervisor scott weiner seems to me that its more of a centralization for the information for the department and the public and the ability of the department to know that other departments that should be involved are involved. Its incredibly important. I think its a big missing piece where you have people from the department doing their very best but you dont have that centralized overarching code about this property or this landlord tenant situation to make sure its addressed. I think its something that we should all be working toward. Supervisor kim . Supervisor jane kim thank you, i had a very specific question but im going to start with a more general question now.
Because the premises were abandoned by the previous tenant. This is the same property in the bathroom. Supervisor jane kim we dont know what happened to this tenant because they abandoned the unit. The tenant left. We had no information otherwise we would try to get the tenant to working with Sf Mental Health association. He just abandoned the property. Supervisor jane kim i know mha has a limited cohort for cluttering and hoarding. But its not a group that we can unlimitly send to. There is more residented that you encounter with dbi that mh can take. What happens to this group . Second, i wanted to follow up last year through the budget process the board asked for dbi to include a line item for Mental Health component for housing inspectors understanding that housing inspectors deal with many tenants and also Property Owners that deal with severe or just Mental Health issues and they alone are not going to be able to address the housing issues if there are no Mental Health services i
Administrative process and again, these codes were developed to operate from a Code Enforcement standpoint independently. So the first thing that one would look at if this is desirable from a policy standpoint would be are all of these codes do they have the same types of provisions with respect to the issuance of Civil Penalties, what is the criteria, what is the administrative process, are they similar, can they work in unison. All of these types of thing will be the first things to ask the City Attorney. We work very closely with the Land Use Division and the Code Enforcement and the groups we work very closely with them in the Housing Division. But i have a legal background and i understand these things in a way that perhaps others might not. So we work with them very carefully, but that will be two things that you will have to look at. Let me give you an example. Section 204 of the housing code talks about Civil Penalties should be considered in such a way that the length and the