Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171220

Whom gathered in the wee hours of this morning at zuckerberg General Hospital. With that, our clerk is Alberto Quintanilla and mr. Clerk, if you could please call the roll, were going to have a very brief meeting and then we are going to adjourn to go have a press conference with our acting mayor london breed on the mayors balcony. Clerk item one, commissioner breed, breed absent. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, present. Commissioner fewer, fewer absent. Commissioner kim, kim present. Commissioner peskin. Present. Commissioner ronen, present. Commissioner safai present, commissioner sheehy, absent. Commissioner tang, present commissioner yee. Commissioner sheehy should be named present. Commissioner fewer, i spoke to a few hours ago, well take that without objection. Im going to forego the chair support, madam secretary director, are there any items you want to share . Any comment on the chairs report or executive directors report. Public comment is closed on items 2 and 3. Could you read the Consent Agenda. Clerk four to nine consent, items being considered for approval. Staff is not planning to present on the items. Is there any Public Comment on item four, the minutes of the december 5th meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Would any member or members like an item severed, if not, a roll call on the Consent Agenda please. Motion to move the Consent Agenda made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner farrell and on that item, a roll call please. Clerk commissioner farrell. Aye. Commissioner cohen, aye. Commissioner ronen, aye. Commissioner safai, aye. Commissioner sheehy, aye. Commissioner tang, aye. Commissioner yee, aye. Could you please read the next item . Which seemed very important a week ago. Programming of 6. 189 and 4. 1 for the prop k. Good morning commissioners, policy and programming director. Last week, at the december 5th Board Meeting the motion to approve the item did not pass after considerable discussion at the board. The commission generally agrees with the programming of the funds to the street resurfacing but the commissioners couldnt agree on the second part of the recommendation to transfer on the 4 million in prop k funds programmed to street resurfacing to manage lanes environmental phase. The board requested to see more evidence that the managed lanes would improve congestion without negatively impacting freeway corridors or local streets and a more holistic approach to congestion and other areas of concern. In light of the robust discussion, we have advised staff recommendation to only approve the proposed programming of the state funds to street resurfacing projects and this is a request to approve on first read to meet the states timeline of december 15th of when we need to submit the applications to the California Transportation Commission and we would defer action on the Fund Exchange to provide more time for staff to complete planning studies and address commissioners concerns. Theres a list of street resurfacing projects funded by the state funds and a map that you cant see particularly well yes, you can see it. If we were to approve this as revised given the december 15th date, this would be the final approval, not the first read, is that correct . Thats correct. It would be approval on first read. Is there a motion . Made by commissioner farrell, seconded by commissioner tang. Colleagues are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And on the item as revised, same house, same call, the item is finally approved. Next item, please. Clerk item 11, programming 2. 813. 264 to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency non infrastructure project, this is an action item. I want to start by briefly thanking colleague commissioner tang and her staff and my staff who listened to i think very sophisticated discussion we had here a number of months ago. I want to thank tilley chang and the ta staff and miss lafour but particularly commissioner tang, she did a lot of the heavy lifting. With that, commissioner tang . Thank you. I echo my thanks to the ta staff and as well amber crab as well. I just encourage our colleagues to look through the packet. There is a revised Organization Chart where you can see the new structure for the program. So we have decided to move everything to fall under the sfcta because i think it will work more well with the schools and needs brought to our attention and so i think all schools will benefit from this change. We have found a way to address this without reducing any of the funding to the nonprofit partner agencies. I think overall the out come was great and i look forward to continuing the discussion another day. Thank you commissioner tang. I neglected to thank the mta and department of Public Health and San Francisco Unified School District for really coming to quite a number of meetings and being willing albeit with a little reluctance at first, to restructure this. And thank you commissioner tang. Is there a motion to approve item 11 made by commissioner tang. Seconded by commissioner yee. Any Public Comment on that item . Thank you. Thank you to all of the nonprofit participants for your understanding, i know you all got a little nervous at the beginning, but i think youll see a program that not only allows you and your staff to continue the good work theyre doing but will make it a much more efficient program. With that, seeing no Public Comment. Public comment is closed and on the motion, same house, same call, item 11 is approved. Mr. Logan, would you upset if we continued item 12 . All right. Is there any Public Comment on would you read item 12 alberto. Clerk update on the Transportation Network Company Landscape and regulation in california and across the country. Is there Public Comment on item 12 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to move to the first meeting in january. Well take it without objection. Is there introduction of new items . Seeing none, any public item on said item. No. Is there any general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and well adjourn the meeting in the memory of edwin lee, the 43rd mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, were adjourned. 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Org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that City Government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say Whistle Blower Program more information and the whistle blower protections please seek www. Good morning and welcome to the Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency meeting of december 12th. Mr. Clerk, can you call the roll . Clerk commissioner breed, breed absent. Commissioner cohen. Present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner fewer absent. Commissioner kim. Present. Commissioner peskin. Present. Commission commissioner ronen absent. Commissioner safai present. Commissioner yee, present we have a co have quorum. We have a motion to excuse commissioner fewer and seconded by commissioner yee. Motion to excuse commissioner breed. Well take this motion first, do we need to take a roll call on the motion . That motion passes without objection. Commissioner peskin has made a motion to excuse commissioner breed. We have a second from commissioner yee and we can do that without objection. Items two and three. Clerk items two and three, information item and executive directors report and information item. I want to recognize my colleagues for your service, i will not read out a full report and moving to director tang for executive directors report. Deferred. Thank you. Youll post the executive directors report online. Can we take Public Comment on items two and three. Public comment is closed. Mr. Clerk items four and five. Clerk four and five compromise the consent calendar, considered routine. Staff is not planning to present but are prepared to present if desired. If a member objects, they can be removed and considered separately. Thank you mr. Clerk. Can we please take a motion on these two items . Okay. Commissioner tang has made a motion to move this forward with recommendation, do we have a second . Commissioner yee. And we can do it without objection. Item six mr. Clerk. Clerk authorize executive director transit district, this is an action item. We have rachel hyatt to present briefly on the item. If you want me to present i can. Just a quick summary. As we plan to implement service on Treasure Island in 2020, the committee made a change to strike a reference to the trans bay fare and will work on that before bringing it to the board for adoption. The transit board did adopt the agreement back in june and clarified some maintenance responsibilities and layover facilities in oakland in the agreement. Thank you miss hyatt. At this time well open for Public Comment on item six. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, same house, same call, we can do it without objection. Mr. Clerk, can you please call items seven and eight. Introduction of new items. Item eight Public Comment. Colleagues any commissions would like to make comments on items or introduce or request items for future considerations. Seeing none, well open up for general Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items before the board . No other items. Meeting is adjourned. Today is wednesday november 15, 2017. This is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. I would like to remind everyone to turnoff electronic devices. The first item on the agenda, roll call. Commissioner clinch is excused. We have a coquorum. President announcements. Welcome to the big meeting of november 15, 2017. Madam secretary, i have a few announcements. Congratulations to building inspection donald duffy, praised for his response of Helpful Customer Service in early november. They failed to obtain a permit for a retaining wall issue and inspector duffy issued one. And Housing Inspector yee, inspector yee provided the proper permit and inspected the proper setting for the timer. Nice job there. Finally, nominate qualified staff for our employee of the quarter appreciation program. We are accepting nominations for quarter three, july, august and september and ask you again to send them to Caroline Jane and William Strong to continue to recognize the work done each quarter. B. I. C. To take comments not part of the agenda. I have some material. Thank you. You can begin. Good morning. My name is jerry dratler. A construction project across my house is root cause of unpermitted construction work. I handed out a detailed explanation. Ill highlight six of the more important root causes. Number one unpermitted demolition work carriers low financial penalties because of the value of the work. The work is labor only and no materials and it is very inexpensive. Number two, unpermitted construction carriers a penalty of two or nine times the permit fee. A smart contractor will pull an inexpensive Building Permit at the start of the construction project which will limit all future violations to a penalty of two times the permit fee because theres an existing permit. Unpermitted construction penalties as they exist are not a deterrent. Number three, the Code Enforcement process does not assess penalties or fines. An absence of reporting building law penalties, there is no effective process for identifying serial violators who should be subject to escalating penalties. Number six, there are no penalties for sequel violations. Actually the current Historical Review process encourages unpermitted demolition and construction. If you apply for a permit and the building is over 45 yearsold, you are required to get a Historical Review evaluation that delays the project six to nine months and you have the cost of the hre. From a risk reward perspective, you save time, you save money and theres no penalty. Why would you do why would you pull a permit if you have a building over 45 years . It is my hope the b. I. C. Will schedule a formal presentation at a future meeting to discuss the root causes of unpermitted work. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, item four commissioner questions and matters. Inquiries to staff. May make inquiries to staff for policies, practices and procedures that are of interest to the commission. Commissioner walker. Following up on the Public Comment just issued, i think its a good assessment of issues we could discuss and maybe we could either schedule it here or at a future joint building and Planning Commission meeting that we threaten to have and maybe this is something we should follow up. This is one of the things we talk about, the squaring up between planning and building and really looking at the penalties and how were using them to discourage this kind of demolition that we dont want. So to encourage a process we do. So, i would like to put it on one of our future agendas or to figure out a schedule for the joint meeting. And add it. Okay. So theres two asks there. The joint meeting one, which we need to revisit again, which we did i want to say two months ago, i can do that. I didnt get feedback. The second part, sonya, we could see if they would like to discuss this and we could figure out how to articulate it more and theres a lot of information here and a lot of suggestions. But i think i do get the spirit of whats being asked here. If we dont get a kind o