Staff attending the community event. The director and d. B. I. Staff provided detailed information on programs including seismic retrofits, a. D. U. S accessible business entrance as well as responding to questions about building safety. Also thanks to the director for hosting the departments annual allstaff meeting october 31st, where commissioner walker and i attended. We provided a view of the d. B. I. Programs and the accomplishments of the hardworking staff. It includes the update on the new permit center now under construction at 49 south vanness which we will have more update on that and impressive numbers of inspections the past year. The commission joins director in thanking and applauding the d. B. I. Staff recognized for many years of professional service to customers and to the city and county. Throw employees have over 30 Years Service including director hughie and Deputy Director sweeney. Another four are celebrating 25 years and seven are celebrating 15 years of city and d. B. I. Service. The department and city benefit tremendously from the highly skilled and experienced employees. The commission joins the director in thanking you for the outstanding performances. The d. B. I. Employee Recognition Committee received nine nominations for employee of the quarter, three that includes july, august and sept. We selected Senior Inspector paul ortiz for his outstanding performance. Thank you to one of the citys newest building also. If i may, commissioner lee, who is going to do the certificate . No, we dont have it . Yes, i have it. If we could do the presentation and take photographs, that would be great. Thank you. Police say a few words. I am the senior electrical inspector for San Francisco. It was a real pleasure to serve the city. I have been with the city for about 24 years and i have gotten great training and leadership and it was a real benefit to learn from all of the experience that was here when i first started here. My road has sent me to see a lot of things that occur in the city, and i have been blessed to be able to now have the souper supervisor staff. I want to commend our leadership because they see what we need practically, logically in the field, and that is pretty much how we are able to assist the public with leadership that understands the complexities of every day enforcement. I would like to say that i have to take my hat off to our hiring people because they have hired some really capable and qualified electrical workers to become electrical inspectors. I see a very Bright Future for the division, not just because of qualified staff but because of the leadership. Thank you very much for the recognition. What we do comes from the heart. That is why we do well. Thank you very much. [applause] madam secretary, that concludes my announcements. Any Public Comment on the announcements . Item 3. General Public Comment. We will take Public Comment on the matters not part of this agenda. The time is seven minutes. I would like to talk to seven but i think you only get three. I am working on it. The average is four. I wont exceed it. I am jerry donal. I am about the revocation of the Building Permits at 3426 22nd street. I learned that d. B. I. Revoked the Building Permits for 40 projects over the last few years, and half of the projects had them revoked by the board of appeals or Planning Department. This means the 22nd Street Project is one of about 20 projects where d. B. I. Revoked all of the Building Permits. Issuance of the permit letter caused me to improperly conclude the owner of 3426 did something wrong. The violations were minor. The top portion of the spreadsheet summaries the 13 violations, more than half are questions whether something was disclosed in the architectural plans. My analysis caused me to send a memo requesting all of the permits for 25 17th avenue across the street from our house be revoked. Yoyou have a copy of the memo. The bottom portion show serious violations that occurred at that address. 2,517th avenue is illegally occupying two lots for two years and 10 months. This is justification for revocation of permits. Other violations include removing a three story bay without permit, jacking up four story house without shoring permit and submitting false architectural plans. Violations at 2517th heavy exceeded the permit revocation standards applied to 3426 22nd street. I will keep you appraised of the response to my permit revocation request. I used the tracking system to prepare the memo and observed only two complaints in the pts system for 17th avenue, but there are 11 in the Planning Department excel system. There is a lot of nonsense going on at d. B. I. , and it isbics responsibility to put an end to it. You have two very different projects before you. Please review each project in detail and evaluate if d. B. I. s actions were correct. A public discussion of d. B. I. s handling of the two projects would be a good first step in addressing d. B. I. s credibility problem. Thank you very much for the time. Any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, item 4, commissioners question. 4a increase the staff. Commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding the policies and practices and procedures of interest to the commission. Commissioner walker. To the point of the Public Comment just presented, i do think consistency in the Department Around these things. This is an issue that has come up, and i dont want to over step things necessarily, but i do think that we need some consistency when we revoke permits and what the criteria is. Often times we have seen projects come through where we would like to do that or have it done in the interim, and so i dont know how we can agendize it, but i believe we should. Are there any other speakers . Our next item 4b future meetings and agendas. The commission may discuss and take actions to set the date of a special meeting and determine the items for the next agenda and other future meetings. Next scheduled meeting is december 18th. That concludes 4a and b. Any Public Comment for item 4a and b . Seeing none, item 5. Proposed ordinance amending the housing code to revise the requirements for heating in Residential Rental units, in addition to other requirements. Bill strong, legislative and public affairs. The chief Housing Inspector will describe what is in this proposed ordinance because the representative from the Supervisors Office is unable to attend. I did receive a note from her indicating she had a conflict and couldnt come so jamie will explain what is being proposed here for the heating ordinance. Good morning, commissioners. We are passing around a copy of title 25, california state law, california code of regulations, and the changes to the heat ordinance in San Francisco will get us in compliance with state law. As you can see, state law says that heat has to be available 24 hours per day. Supervisor contacted the City Attorney, City Attorney contacted me and did research, judy, very senior member, and that is what you see before you. If you have any questions, i am here. Thank you. I know it has been awhile since we had a complaint. Onetime we had a situation where the heater was constantly broken down for weeks. I think that the challenge for the commission at that time was the good faith effort that had been done by the ownership to repair. Does it deal with down time in the timeframes when heat if it does go down at 4 00 in the morning, when does the department expect it to be back up . Some of these older heaters are kind of old and unless you replace the whole system you are stuck with that part that has been made in pennsylvania in the junkyard somewhere. We heard it all. I will never forget that one. I dont know, what is the policy procedure . Do you have an answer . I totally understand if you dont. As with all violations we take into account the different factors and how much time we give. We have the ability to give more time. As a general rule, heat the 48 t is 48 hours. This would be 24 hours per day. The benefits. There are two. One is that the people that live in the buildings can get heat all day and night whenever it goes below 70. That is good. We probably should have done this sooner. Also, it is easier to enforce with the Housing Inspector. The hours we used to have 13 hours pier day meant he could only go during those hours to find the violation. This will be easier to enforce, better for the residents of the city. That is what the state law is. We want to be in compliance with state law. Thank you. Any further commissioner comments . Any Public Comment on this item . There is no Public Comment. We need to do rolling cal ro. roll call . We have a motion and second. roll call . The motion carries unanimously. Next is item 6. Update on 49 south vanness move and the permit center project. My name is Melissa White house. I am in the city administrators office. I want to thank the commissioners for having me here today. Thank you sonia harris and director hughie for the help and support for this large project. We have samuel in the audience. He has a very daunting job of over seeing the entire 49 south vanness project and delivery of the furniture. I am in charge of the second floor. My plan today is to talk about 15 minutes to give you an update on our work and i will be happy to take questions. There is a lot of work going on right now that is exciting and interesting. The department of building inspection is supportive and involved. I am excited for you to hear about it. I will start with the update and show you the floor plan and talk about how to prepare. The answer is with pilots at existing spaces. I want to talk about electronic plan review and acces access foe permitting departments. This project is coming. I started a year ago in the city administrators office. The first four months i had been in the Mayors Office and didnt have much experience in the permitting world. It was important to learn this world and all of the permitting Department Staff were generous with their time. I spent four time understanding their world and doing a Strategic Planning process with Department Heads and signed off on the vision statement by the mayor. I keep this in mind all of the time. I think quite a about about what does it mean to be an efficient be permit center . This is amazing. 15 years ago we created 311 or in the 1990s when we upgraded the building. We are moving 2000 employees, bought a 300 plus Million Dollar building, it is a big deal. It is all happening in eight months. It is coming up fast. This is going to be an amazing resource both for the city Department Staff and the public. So it is 16 stories. The second floor is going to be one stop shop for construction, special events and business permitting. Going live sometime this summer. You probably have seen us and if you havent, you should go by. It looks like it is up. Some trees are going in. The residential building to the right is up. There is going to be a coffee shop and restaurant and gym next door, which is very exciting. Thithis is a rendering of the second floor with balconies. This building will be lightfilled and beautiful. There will be 300 bike parking spaces. This will be amazing both for staff and employees to be in the beautiful new building. Also, a huge part of this project and why i think the supervisors ended up passing it with the mayor lees support is the colocation of the department. Right now if you want to get a permit you might have to go to 13 different locations to interact with the city. In the Construction Permit world we have a one stop shop at 1660 mission you have to navigate multiple floors. You have got to 1155 market. At the end of this there will be one. 49 south vanness, one floor one building. One exception is the green dot on the water is the port. They already are one stop. We didnt want tenants to have to come off the port. Everyone else is at the orange dot. The green dot is m. T. A. They are right next door. They might walk over to meet with customers as needed. We are colocates in a beautiful building. Does that mean we are automatically efficient and streamlined . Thithis is a massive move. We have to be strategic. I was excited to take this job and excited to do this job. This is a huge move for change. It is an opportunity to look at what we are doing and keep things working well and 65,000 overthecounter permits in 24 to 48 hours, a lot of things are working quite well right now. We want to not disrupt those. Where they are not working as well how can we do them better and different and this move is helping us do that. During my discovery days, what i found is this is not one department. When we havish wh have issues it one department. Everyone is trying hard and has a lot of work. There are so many departments involved. This is a bureaucracy challenge. There is a lot of great stuff. The soacthe space is sub par. The staff doesnt have the space they need to collaborate together. I am surprised how much the staff want to collaborate with other departments. Because of the move and the technology changes, they will be able to do a lot more of that. Last thing and this is the concept, i am going to talk about it at Digital Services. No one department owns the experience end to end, especially if Construction Permit touches Building Permit and into the public. It is on the customer to navigate the different departments and who are they and what do they have to do when it is not something owned by d. B. I. D. B. I. Owning permits is different than the special events and businesses world where there is not an owner and customers go all over. How are we organizing . The permit center floor plan a lot of work went into who was going to be on the floor and where would they be sitting. This is a regular station. We have regular stations all the time and you can see building inspection is like the anchor tenant, such a large part of the floor plan. That is why you are so important. We have on call stations. They dont have the volume of people walking in they need to it is all day long to wait for customers. They need Space Available when a customer needs to see them and we have that Space Available if they want to come down from an upper floor and a lot of these departments are in the upper floor. On the second floor is 40,000 square feet. Three main areas. Come off the elevators and stairs at the blue arrows and start in the blue start here area. A couple things are different be. One we are hiring a team of Customer Service representatives, not engineers, their main function is to how 311 operates to help customers navigate the building and get into our new electronic system. I know there is some heart burn about a failed qms pilot from some number of years ago at this department. I am understanding of that. This vendor is a far Better Vendor for many reasons. They have Awesome Technology and we have been testing it since august with planning and fire at 1660 mission. Most of the feedback is positive from staff and customers. We think this is the right tool for the floor. This is not so complicated we need away finding app. We need clear signage and the permit center team to get people around the floor with up to 500 transactions a day and dozens of departments operating on it. Three big changes. Space, people and technology are coming. How do we prepare . What would be a bad idea is to pick everyone up and move them this summer and have everything new, i am sitting somewhere new with new furniture. That is not what we are proposing. We will take the fifth floor of 1660 mission and make it as similar to 49 south vanness as possible while trying not to disrupt staffs daytoday work. We want to test and learn about changes before we move. We dont want it all to be new and different when they move. It is a great opportunity to communicatcommunicatecommunicatd staff about the changes coming. Here is a high level timeline. There are a couple staff moves needed. The Planning Department, pick team and Historic Preservation need to move from first to fifth floor. They are missing from the fifth floor. We are going to do that sometime in january. Then we will be in february, we will go when ready, moving with the cueing system, permit center working on the floor updates or revisiting the routing slip which relates to electronic review and making signage changes on the floor. We will test this a few months before we move at the fifth floor. That is a summary of the physical space changes. I want to mention the digital changes. After taking this job i realized the physical improvements are great. It is great to have colocation. A lot of issues that you hear about are related to the bigger projects. They take a longer period of time. The answer is not the physical space. They are digital. Electronic plan review is huge and it is exciting to address the challenges. Actually, the work is complimentary. I wanted to point out you probably know most of this. In my world of construction special events and permitting. In the construction world there are three main routing paths. The d. B. I. Overthecounter, 65,000 each year in 24 to 48 hours. Then there is the d. B. I. Submittal 6,000 a year. 20,000 permits tha