15th commission hearing, and i just want to point out to my fellow commissioners, our Commission Calendar is pretty light this morning due to the fact that i thought that we would have a very quick meeting, and because we were going to have the joint hearing meeting there which was supposed to be with planning tomorrow, which has now been continued due to legislative process not fully expedited yet, so they are in the process of rescheduling that im not sure how it will play out, because i know it is coming into the summer and a lot of people will be away, but i dont have an understanding as to when the joint hearing will be rescheduled but as soon as we know im sure our secretary will reach out to everybody immediately. Im constantly doing a phone call to planning every week to see where things are also along with supervisor peskins office. I know bill is working hard to communicate with them and see how we are doing there. With that said, welcome, everybody, and obviously good morning to tom who has been very active in the media to help inform the public about the behavioural program. The new vacant storefront that is in place and the mandatory Seismic Retrofit Program which is ongoing every month for us. He participated on april 22nd with supervisor fewer and brown, in the media event at 6 avenue and balboa in the richmond, announcing the tougher requirements and the newly updated safety storefront ordinance for owner registration he also has been reaching out directly to chinese speaking audiences about these programs, with radio interviews, as well as radio ten 14 50 a. M. These interviews are excellent ways to keep the public informed and updated in many important building safety programs. Another reminder that d. B. A. Will host another quick safety fair which is always a big event , at the bill graham Civic Authority on june 11th, from 10 00 a. M. Until 4 00 a. M. Registrations for the free workshops are at the website. Im looking forward to seeing everybody there and hopefully it will be successful like the director. Thank you to dan lowry who received a letter of appreciation for assisting the customer with the permit process which led them to getting the job card in a timely manner. The customer went on to say that they were grateful and we intend not to disappoint them. Well done down there. Finally a little bit of recognition of praise. I also want to alert you all to the may 21st to link Wind Properties hearing at the board of supervisors. The board board will vote on these finalists. Staff began with about 700 properties, believe it or not without extending costs. As of today, the outstanding work that they let down to 300 owners have already been into pay and achieve their compliance well done there. That is tough. I would also like to commend our Communications Team for the distribution of the commercial property newsletter to over 9,000 building owners. It reminds owners of their responsibility for the Accessible Business Entrance Program as well as a new vacant storefront legislation requirement, and it encourages recipients to come to the june 11th earthquake safety fair and its free workshops. I encourage everyone to visit d. B. I. And read the newsletter for the departmentwide update. D. B. I. Will be welcoming this years project interns in june. There we 17 high school and College Students that will be joining d. B. I. From june 17th until august 9th. We look forward to having them join us and learn about the work to be done with d. B. I. Im looking for to hearing how they are doing and maybe you can get them to come and tell us their experience. Finally, d. B. I. , the Deputy Director of managers and supervisors, remember we are seeking nominations for our employee of quarter two, covering april, may, in june of 2019. Please send your nominations to carl and jim, and carls we might announce our winter at the july 6th meeting. Madam secretary, that concludes my announcements. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on item two . Seeing then, item three, general Public Comment. The b. I. C. Will take Public Comment on matters within the commissions jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. Hello, my name is kevin chang i would like the commissioners to touch on the topic of the issues that are brought up in the president s announcements. I would like to talk about assessment liens as it relates to state street. Based on the april 16th hearing for about 3,200 in fines and charges and another 500 pending reporting fees. There were some problems, unfortunately with this assessment process. Currently there is no noticing that can be determined on the compliant data sheet. In the past, people were noted and documented on the datasheet, however, the Property Owner did not receive any notice whatsoever of this hearing on april 16th or about the pending billing. There was no initial billing Statement Issued nor a notice sent out. There was no substantial response to outreach by Property Owner. To date, there are problems with the equal enforcement with the liens, and also vacant buildings and Registration Requirements as documented by complaint data sheets. 655 alvarado street is suspended and with no current permits like to enforce state street. This commission should be vocal because they appeared before you one year ago. 655 alvarado has no assessment liens and no vacant building registration. Fortynine hopkins street has three assessment liens and no vacant voter registration. 214 state street has three two months of assessment liens that have been paid for, and they two week to be determined amount for the april billing which has yet to be determined and shared with the Property Owner and has been acquired required to report as a vacant building. There are problems of communication between staff. For instance, on the vacant building registration, staff on emails to the Property Owner requires registration of a vacant building. Staff on the complaint datasheet accepts registration. So far only 214 state street is required to register as a vacant building, and currently only to 214 state street is required to pay outside number of months of assessment liens compared to alvarado and hopkins. How can that happen . Is that fair . I am requesting help from the Building Inspection Commission to stop the delay of this assessment lien for proceeding with the board of supervisors, and also to allow time for the Property Owner to work with staff. The Property Owner has to pay and register, so should all other properties with similar violations is suspended permits. Property owners are committed to working with staff and have been doing so since april 2014 when the project was first started and again in december 2014. It has done so by paying for past lien amounts. The Inspection Commission needs to ensure transparency and fairness in this process. We would appreciate any help this commission can provide. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, my name is jury i have spoken before the Planning Commission on 655 alvarado street and 49 hopkins avenue. I think one thing that would be helpful, if mr. Chang would provide some time horizon. 214 state street is a much earlier violation. Fortynine hopkins was in the last 12 months, 655 alvarado was in the last 12 months, so i really cant speak to the other factors, but the number of months is radically different. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, commissioners. I gave miss harris a copy of the letter and a list for you. Something i have been working on for the last four or five years. I think if you want to read it, it is selfexplanatory. I think that a lot of these projects well the big thing with the use is not many of them received a hearing of the Planning Commission, they just one through, but the big thing is that they were speculative projects. The building was bought for usually under a Million Dollars or around there, and the increase was over 3 million, somewhere in there. They sold in various price ranges. That is the average overall. Often times the entitlements were solved before the buildings were complete, so you have this incredibly accelerated and speculative market for buildings who did not perhaps receive proper review. I dont know that they are all demolitions, but they sure look like demolitions, and just to follow on that, here is one and i will not say what it is specifically. May i have the overhead, please . Thank you. There it is. It is completed and for sale now it is on the market for 5 million. It was originally purchased for under 1 million in 2014. Here it is, a friend clued me onto this. This is during the work. She took that with her phone, so then i went up there a few weeks later and this was in february of 2018, that one there, and i went up there, i didnt get up there until august. There it is. You see that little bit of wall left, and theres a little bit more there, but that is it. So when it was at the commission. Someone did do a d. R. The project sponsor said, ill put a second unit, i will put it in lot unit. That sounds kind of great. They wanted it to be bigger, they said it would be bigger, i dont know if it is. I did not get to go to the open house. There is wonder as you can see, there is one front door and one address, but i didnt go to see the open house, and i dont know how it is configured once you are inside their if there are two doors or what. This is the second unit kitchen and this thing to me is there is no stove, i dont know how someone could live in a second unit without a stove, you are not going to eat veggies all the time, so there is no microwave. There is a refrigerator, there is a sink, there is a dishwasher , and this is down below the garage. That is kind of what the pattern has happened with a lot of these on the list with a second unit. These are all things i just wanted to raise with the list. When you do finally meet with the Planning Commission and you discuss the demo legislation, how you want to approach the demo legislation, and i will talk about it more sometime soon thank you all very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Seeing none. Thank you. Our next item is item four, commissioner questions and matters. For a is inquiries to staff. At this time, commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies and procedures which are of interest to the commission. Seeing none. Okay. Our next item is for b. , future meetings and agendas. The commission may discuss and take action and set the date of a special meeting or determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the Building Inspection Commission. Our next regular meeting is on june 19th. Unless sorry, mr. Walker, please. I realize that this is ongoing to reschedule the joint commission, but it is a priority that we find out as soon as possible and have the meeting as soon as possible so that we can effectively communicate with each other about, especially that issue of demolition and all of those things related that we will have on the agenda. I really just want to support you being aggressive with that. Yeah, and i know commissioner watson, did you want to leave any comments . Yeah, my concern on this is we have, as a department, been responding to the information weve gotten from the supervisors and expressing what our concerns are with the proposals that have been presented, and that is wonderful , and i understand the department and the responses have been very well received by supervisors who have been working on this, however, one of my biggest concerns is, you know , just how proactive we are in coordinating our efforts with the staff at the Planning Department department so that not only are we responding as things come to us, but that we are really trying to coordinate our efforts with planning staff to come up with really Strong Solutions to any of the challenging or improvable pieces in the legislation, and i would just really encourage our staff to be as aggressive as possible in their outreach to the planning staff to get that coordinated effort so that together we are really helping formulate the best solutions to reach the common objectives of getting this legislation as bright as possible from the outset with common, agreedupon, best strategies to achieve the objectives. Again, i would really encourage us to be as proactive as possible with our Sister Department staff towards that end. Thank you. Could i ask you, if you wouldnt mind, and i know you and bill have been working closely with the Supervisors Office and with planning, maybe you can give us insight at what your steak would be and have you received the legislation officially from the Supervisors Office. Just update the commission on where we stand. Sure. Don murray, legislative affairs. Bill is on vacation. Supervisor peskin introduced the revised ordinance on the meeting on may 7th. We are still going through it to see what the effect on the department will be, you know, how many projects this would affect and how would they affect it. Could you forward that to the commission . Certainly. We havent seen copies of it so i think it would be helpful if we were at least aware of it. Im happy to do it. Of what the current state is. So what you are doing now, which weve talked about in the past, his is going through and pulling out the issues that you see that affect our department, and im presuming planning are doing the same. Yes, they are. Is there any other department this affects . Was it planning and d. B. I. . Mostly planning and d. B. I. To our knowledge. If we have the legislation now, what is the next steps . What do you think will be the next steps . Were working with planning on the presentation i would go before the joint commission hearing. My understanding is that late june is what i have heard, i dont know, everything is in flux, but we are working on that right now. Again, we are trying to figure out what the universe of projects are affected. Even small changes in the ordinance can have a big effect in terms of what gets caught and , you know, as you know, under the ordinance, there would be a lot more projects that would be required, conditional use authorization, so just trying to get it get a beat on that. That is a priority right now. Okay. When is our next Commission Meeting . June 19th. We technically could we dont know this for sure, but we could technically the day after that. All i heard was late june. I have not heard a date. I dont know what our schedules are like. Okay. Good luck with that. How big of a piece of paper is it . Is it large . Is it that thick . The legislation is about 70 pages. So it is pretty thick. A lot of it is planning code, but theres a fair amount affecting the Building Code as well. Is it your understanding we would still have the same format that is probably not a fair question to you. That is my understanding. Great. If we could see that that would be helpful. Send us an email. We will get it to you today. I will email it to you this afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. , where were we . We were just on the future future meetings and agendas. If commissioners do not have any agendas right now, you can let me know via email. Is there any Public Comment on these items . Seeing none. Next item is item five, discussion regarding the San Francisco amendment to the 2019 California Building standards code, including the building, existing building, residential, mechanical, electrical and green Building Code. Hello, i michel from michelle from the department of building inspection, Technical Service division. I am primarily the division who will be working, who is working on adopting the 2019 San FranciscoBuilding Code. I just wanted to update the commissioners about d. B. I. s progress right now and the, as well as the subcommittees. Right now the, has approved three out of the six codes. Plumbing, mechanical, and green Building Code will be soon afforded to the commissioners. We are waiting for a little bit more discussion regarding the San FranciscoBuilding Code, existing building, and electrical code, but we are in really Good Standing right now, two months ahead of schedule from previous years, so we are doing really great, so i just wanted to let you guys know to look forward to a full set at the San FranciscoBuilding Code amendments in the next meeting or two. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. If there are no questions or comments, is there any Public Comment on item five . Seeing none, item six. Update on s. F. Permit and project tracking system. Good morning, commissioners. My name is bruce and they may project manager with the department of Building Inspections. Henry bartley was called away for this meeting and it is my pleasure to represent the project to give this report today. At the moment, we are in the process of fixing and retesting the issues from our last round of the user acceptance testing stage, and our staff is very diligently turning around any of the presented fixes to those issues. We are in the cy