Of our late mayor lee who passed and left us last week tragically. And i know i just wanted to just talk a little bit about him. And its not too much we can say more than whats been said in the last week. I think i went down on friday with my family and stood in line with many other people, which was around the block, and at that point it really hit me. What this man really meant to the city. I always knew it, but sometimes it takes a passing to really understand how powerful and a person he was to the city and to the citizens of San Francisco and to the city family who worked for the city and how the leadership ran so deep. My thoughts and comments in what i wanted to say this morning were so varied and it still hasnt resonated what a huge loss we have. But that said, life is what it is. And the good guys always remain good. He was a good man. That is the simplest way of putting it. From the other side, i got to know him from the immigration debate and the whole roots came from that and he was very quiet and when he said something, it was profound and matter of fact and always en pointe. I have shared some photographs here. What we used to call in the Irish Community when we invited the mayor is the seshun is a gathering of irish people of dancing, singing, and music and the poor man would be brought into the house and have to dance with us and did this every time with this other one and the years where he had just become may mayor. And the city was in a lot of trouble. The economy was in a lot of trouble. He was probably one of the best men to take us through that period because he was a very powerful, neutralizing person and leader we needed at the time. So i think history will remember him for that. When we had the dance parties, so many people would come, and what was so great around the guy is a lot of neighbors would make the decision not to be involved in politic, but they call came to the parties to meet the man and see him in a different light. They saw him as a great San Francisco resident. With that, sleep well, my friend, and gone, but not forgotten. Thank you. Commissioner walker. Thank you very much for that. I know you were very close. I, too, want to speak in honor of our mayor ed lee. I often find myself in disagreement with our mayors, especially around tenant issues, but in this case this mayor really made huge steps to advance and strengthen our tenant protections and work across the line on so many issue, affordable housing, transitional housing, things that matter to our department a lot. I know all of our city family grieves. I give prayers and thoughts to eds family, anita and the girls. This is a huge loss for us all, but i also know our city family and we are pulling together and doing the work for all of you out in the city. So thank you for serving, mayor lee, and thank you for filling the shoes, mayor breed. Its a challenging time we all need to come together and do the citys work. Thank you. A commissioner lee. I expect mayor lee very much. I am one of the few persons on the commission that worked directly for months. I substituted for our Communications Director at public works when she was on leave. And i ended up working directly with ed lee for those months. I must tell you that he is as good as everyone say he is. I respected the man and is very supportive of his staff. And i have one story to share that maybe afterwards you will say, yeah, thats just like the mayor. We ended up having i dont recall, but we public works was criticized for something. Some of our workers did something that was perceived wrong and the reporters were jumping all over it. Being the Communications Director, i had to respond to the reporters. So we were meeting and saying, oh, what should we do . Mayor lee or he was the director at that time. He was very supportive and said, frank, frank, frank. It was simply a mistake. And tell him it was a bonehead move. He said, use the word bonehead. I said, okay, i will. And the reporter printed that exact quote and used the word bonehead. After that he read that in the chronic chronicle and he was so giddy and said, i gave him that quote, i gave him that quote. And he is supportive and looked out everyone and was very good boss. And i miss him. And thank you, commissioner lee. I will finish the president s announcements if there is no comments from commissioners. Congratulations to dbi permit technician evelyn cartz. I want to apologize in advance if i mispronounce anybodys name who was praised in a letter stating the Customer Service is the best i have seen in 43 years in the building trade. She went out of the way to ensure the application was processed quickly and efficiently. We thank mrs. Kratz for her outstanding Customer Service. A big thank you to Deputy Director inspector sweet and Inspection Services ed sweeney who received a letter of appreciation after he helped a customer to obtain the permit. The customer wasnt satisfied after the initial talking to staff, but by partially listening to the owner and the commercial tenants frustration, things were resolved and the knowledge cannot be overvalued. And thanks to jack hardy for assisting a customer to obtain architectural drawings for a building from 1914. The later stated that i found jack and other personnel cooperative and helpful. And the important project on schedule to begin construction in january of 2018. And thank you to donald duffy of Inspection Service who is received a special compliments for his outstanding Customer Service and work with customer. Another Record Management division honoree is joann wong who received a letter thanking her for helping obtain building plans for the home and provide thoughtful and prompt service and went the extra distance in helping me near closing time. Kudos to director hugh and members of the dbi staff who hosted the state department delegation of 20 from china on december 7. The China CommunicationsConstruction Group which were members of beijing and shanghai were particularly interested in the classifications and types of buildings in San Francisco as well as dub dibs role in facilitating Major Construction projects and congratulations to dbis mis staffer mark langon who recently produced a report on the turn around time lines to review issue permits covering the construction of single father and mother lu homes, mixed used developments Single Family homes, and kitchen remodels, part of a new survey being conducted by the Building Department of portland, oregon. In addition to data from the dbi survey will include data from boston, charlotte, austin, denver, seattle, and washington, d. C. Dbi requested a copy of survey when it is completed. I am pleased to have from our dbi employee of quarter three and four. And they are mr. Cary mcillroy for quarter three. And election plan review and engineer for quarter four. Nominated by the Senior Engineer and the outstanding work on the warrior stating project and with the Initiative Liability and complete deduction for the projects demanding timeline. And nominated by james zahn and dbi supervisor mechanical Planning Engineer who noted they had been twice as productive as other engineers in turning around electrical plan reviews required on Major Construction projects in quarter four and is exceeding the departments strategic goal target. And the commission extends the enthusiastic congratulations on the outstanding performance in quarter three and four. With that, we have one more. Finally, the Employee Recognition committee has select ed Kevin Edwards as dbis employee of the year for 2017. Well done, kevin. Kevin was the winner of the employee of the quart er and meeting staff and customer staff request for data and reporting. In short, kevin is the goto guy with dbi mis group which sun suddenly requires an accurate statistic on dbi programs and permits. When the committee considered the quarterly winners this year, they selected kevins performance as the most outstanding. Congratulations and thank you for an outstanding support from 2017. That, madam secretary, concludes my president s announcements. U. N. Ing that thank you. Would all the members come forward and the members that nominated them. Would all the me forward and the members that nominated them. You have the certificates and everyone can come forward. Thank you to james zahn for having me at dbi and thank you to my teammates who made it a wonderful experience for working at dbi and continues to do so. I would like to thank the Electrical Inspection Division for welcoming me since my arrival in 2015. And that i can to the bic and thank you to the bic. Nk you to. I am usually not a public speaker, but i would like to also thank my team members who have helped me work on the warriors project. Steven and joseph, and also my former supervisor mark walz who initially entrusted me with that project and its quite an honor to be recognized for as employee of the quarter. Thank you very much. [applause] obviously, part of congratulations and congratulations to all the no, maam niece and well done. The congratulations to all the nominees and the department appreciates thenominees and the appreciates the work you do. The department of rec director has given us how many tickets . Six ice skating rinks for two different ice rink tickets. So we want pictures. On top of that, so thank you to park and rec for giving us that. Well done, again, and congratulations. [applause] thank you. Congratulations, again, to all the employee quarter winners. Is there any Public Comment on the president s announcements . Si seeing none, item 3, general Public Comment. The bic will take Public Comment on matters within the commissions jurisdiction that are not part of the agenda. Good morning. I was told that dbis policies to treat every permit applicant equally and enforce the code equally and fairly. It turned out to be untrue because dbi has repeatedly paid favor to owner of 265052 high street. And not enforce the code on his project. Dbi approved his most recent permit ending 0940, but did not require him the permit applicant to describe the scope of all work to be performed and allow him not to disclose that. We will construct a large dormer and remove soil from rear yard which is adjacent to our property, etc. Dbi placed mhe in that application and told me that this is due to the applicants response of no, stating that there is no disturbance of at least 50 cubic yard of soil. He is neither architect nor engineer and without calculation, he does not know how many cubic yard he is removing from an excavated area. Dbi did not require him to produce any supporting documents. Dbi has full knowledge that greenwood has submitted an inaccurate application repeatedly in the past when he did not have a garage, he claims that he has one and used big machine to remove soil without calculation that caused our building to shift. He also state he would not remove soil, but it turned out he removed 296 cubic yards of soil which is not including the amount he is now removing. Dbi know this subject is fourstory building and the basement as a story, but dbi allowed him to continue to claim it is a basement as a threestory building. And complying with the earthquake retrofit to help him to save thousands in that area and dbi issued the architectural plan and which requires him to have written responses and clearly, concisely and comprehensively toed a just the comments and enforced the project anyway. With the written responses and costs and he and his team have claimed they have a connection with dbi officials and that turn out to be the case again. If you allowed when you allow dbi to proof of permit, and you are subject. And i ask the dbi issue the same extent of practices to each and every other permit applicant that do not have a connection with dbi. The code is the law. The code should not be used to play favoritism to Certain Property owner. Thank you very much. Can you submit it to us . Can we get copies . Copies, but we cant comment. That is fine. I dont have a copy you can leave it at the department and i will get it to the commission. Thank you. Thank you. I have a document, too. Do you want that . Everything. Give it to the secretary and she will get it to them. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, i item four madam secretary, before we go on to four, point of order. Item five, if there is no objection, which we would like to continue this to the january calendar again. And if there is no objection and commissioners, are all commissioners in favor of that . Okay. That is fine. Okay. Then item four. Four. 4a is inquiries to staff. At this time commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices, and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. Commissioner walker, please . A yes, i would like to put on the agenda for a future meet in just an update about the Housing Inspector hiring and possible discussion about what we look for and what the requirements are, that type of thing. Its been brought to our attention this might be some changes. I think that we have enough issues around tenants and these type of projects that we heard earlier that it helps to know where were at. Just as an agenda item for an update. Just a point of clarification. Kind of our policy and procedures on hiring and what the qualifications have have been changed and updated, is there new policies, that kind of thing. Exactly. Who would give a presentation . Would that be Human Resources . Director of housing or somebody. Perfect. An any other commissioners have items . Inquiries . Item 4b, future meeting and agendas. At this time, the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting and or determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the building inspection commission. The january meeting will be on january 17, 2017. Is that okay with everybody . Okay. Thank you. That is all for items 4a and b. Is there any Public Comment on items 4a and b . Seeing none, we go to item six. Discussion regard iing accessib business entrance program. Good morning, commissioners. Bill strong. I am speaking on behalf of Deputy Director sweeney who unfortunately is not able to be here today, but essentially Deputy Director has been chairing an Interdepartmental Group at the directors direction that includes dbi as well as planning and its historic review, the public works department. The Mayors Office of disability and the Mayors Office of Small Business. And this all is part of what is called the Accessible Business Entrance Program that i think we have mentioned here, but we before a few months ago we brought up the fact that supervisor tang had passed an ordinance actually in 2016 that essentially calls for making commercial spaces more available for accessibility purposes and also if unable to modify the building for accessibility, then possibly finding ways to provide those goods and services so that, again, we would be meeting both the spirit and letter of the local, state, and federal jurisdictions. So we have had a number of meetings internally about that. We have developed the flyer that i believe i have passed out to you before. And this is essentially a mailer that went to 12,400 thats okay. May not be over at any rate, i can make copies of this available to all of you again. It went out to about 12,400 Property Owners and it essentially covers what our mis folks were able to identify as 27,000 Property Owners and may present as part of this program. And director sweeney is estimating up to 1 3 are already exempt because they have made modifications for the business entrances. However, that still leaves a program thats significantly larger than our existing mandatory soft Story Program which as you may wall with 5,000 Property Owners. This is a program set up in four different phases and with different timelines and supervisor tang in consultation with us and the other departments recognized that we needed a little more time to fully present this program and make people aware of it to start the process. So we have now until may 23 of 2018 before the first compliance documents are due. And between may 23, 2018, and november 23, 2019. And also in the process of setting up the series of workshop briefings and hoped to have one about a week ago and given the crazy nature of the holidays to say nothing about the shock we have had from the past week with the mayors passing. We didnt get responses for that, so we are now putting this initial presentation workshop about the program until january 24. And that will be held at dbi in our 2001 conference room. We hope to attract 30 or 35 Property Owners with whom we can walk through and give and understanding and the detailed information and already on the website and the initial mailer that i just showed you. With the detailed guidelines and Property Owners and the dedicated staff at window eight on the ground floor of 1616 mission is already prepared to deal with questions. And waiting from public works for a compliance and checklist and we hope to have that by this jan