You have a fossil fuel appliance in a sleeping area or if you dont have Smoke Detectors, its on you, if you dont want that is one of the things were doing, realizing we have open cases and cases that will be open as people come through this process, but those are the two keys. Is that unit occupied and secondly, is there some kind of imminent hazard. Those are the two things were looking at. Commissioner walker. It opens up the discussion of what is a reasonable amount of time to let things linger, and i wont go to purgatory, but we have had situations where its two years later, three years later, weve seen those, you know, come before us and i mean, a violation is a violation, whether the resolution is one or the other [inaudible]. There were egress issues and the work was all done without permit and we couldnt tell necessarily if there was a problem or not. In this particular instance, a lot of these open cases have orders of abatement. Theyve been taken through the process short of
Change that word, thats absolutely fine, but there are [inaudible] being dealt with in purgatory and im suppose [inaudible] the have one response from us and the mortal have another and im trying to hear which are immortal and how they get that Additional Support that we were referring to. Youre right, all illegal unit cases are not created equal. One of the biggest things for us is is that unit occupied and does it have a imminent hazard. What were looking at right now, if somebody files under that legislation to try to legalize a unit, that action is hild in advance, unless there is a substantial problem. Therefore, one of the things were looking at and i started doing on letters to Property Owners where were asking them for permission to look at an illegal unit is to say you dont let us in you need to understand that its your sole responsible to deal with Hazardous Conditions so that if you have a fossil fuel appliance in a sleeping area or if you dont have Smoke Detectors, its on y
Regarding rh 1d to remove this from legislation. I dont spupt at support that because i dont believe there is a reason for this legislation. If we were able to get an actual physical reason, policy reason about the type of Residential Housing that makes it difficult for them to legalize it would make sense. This is purely coming from a motion that the neighborhood would like to see and i think its completely reasonable for supervisor yee to make that request on behalf of the residents that he represents. I think thats where that comes from. On the second motion that supervisor yee has moved forward i do plan on supporting a Pilot Program. I actually appreciate the work that has gone into a path way to legalize in law units. Its something that has vexed the city for decades and its clearly a source of income for many Single Family home owners and d, a source of affordable units here in San Francisco. However, i have a lot of concerns about the legislation that is being introduced in hav
And surcharging Medicare Coverage for smokers and the obese. You can watch this and other q a interviews all this week at 7 p. M. Eastern here on cing span 3. Cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your its provider by your television provider. Host and this week on the communicators, gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters, our guest reporter is paul kirby of telecommunications report. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How have the issues changed in those four years . Guest well, it seems like the issues just keep on coming, and they tend to be very major issues affecting both radio and television. But clearly on the radio side, the whole issue of performance rights, performance tax, whatever you want to tribe it as, is an ongoing challenge. Hopefully, the day will arrive when both the digital and the terrestrial platform can come up with a model that actually gr
[captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [applause] all right now. This is my go ahead and have a seat, guys. This is the 115th, by our count, Community Dinner that i have held since i first start running for the senate back now, what, seven years ago. We do them steadily. We have kind of got routine down. Everybody gets something to eat. I speak very briefly and then it is just a discussion. If you a question, if you have a comment, this is rhode island, we even accept rude remarks. The whole package. Please put your hand up and give us a chance to get the microphone to you. Who is running the microphones ere . The hand mics. All right. These gentlemen will get the hand mics around. One other thing that ill say is i know everybody doesnt love public speaking. And whether it is because you dont love public speaking or whether it is because what you want to talk about is more personal than that, or whether we simply