Work hand in hand with one Treasure Island to provide jobs for residents on ti. We look forward to expanding that rube biconprogram has a long history of providing opportunities for folks with barriers to employment and overcoming other challenges. Thanks so much. Thank you so much for coming and giving us those statements. We look forward to working with you. Are there other Public Comments . Thank you all for your wonderful presentations today and this is very exciting topics. We are going to be creating more parks than the golden gate park. We need to reiterate that for not just San Francisco but for the entire region, the points if destination no one has ever imagine order or seen before. We are all working together to make that happen. Thank you. Item six. Discussion of future agenda items by directors. To follow up on our previous discussion of the steward governance model. I want to be sure in the annual budget this year sufficient funds to either look at the feasibility for stewardship, governance model and to so that we can two years we are going to have the citywide park on board, the building plaza one on board, and it seems like we are almost have to rush to catch up with our responsibilities. If we could keep on top of this and come back to us because i imagine there probably needs to be consultants that we have either directly to the authority or to our design people, but it seems that we need to look at this very seriously and in depth. Yeah, i will take another look to make sure that in our Contract Services we have the capacity to take on most tasks. Thank you. Okay. That ends this meeting here. I am looking at the audience. Thank you for being here. We get all of the great things happening with the parks and trees planting on Treasure Island. Thank you, mr. Beck. The meeting is adjourned. Were ready to begin. Today is wednesday february 19, 2020. This is regular meeting of the building inspection committee. Please turn off our electronic devices. First item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. Next item is item 2, president s announcement. President mccarthy good morning everybody. Welcome everybody to the b. I. C. Meeting of february 2019. Congratulations to director who participated in other Safety Outreach Program graduation january 20th. Another 48 residents grafted from a fiveday training course. This brings our total number of seismic safety ambassador to 4000 since the Program Began in 2015. Were better prepared to recover quickly. Special thanks to all the d. B. I. Employees who volunteered for the chinatown fair. They talked with Community Members about our housing information service, Emergency Preparedness and distributed 300 first aid kits and 15 of our emergency backpacks. Several Chinese New Year events in chinatown throughout the city, chief among them was the annual Chinese New Year parade. Many thanks for representing the department. Finally, d. B. I. Employees committee reviewed and selected this year, senior building inspector, joe duffy as employee for 2019. Inspector duffy has been recognized for his outstanding dedication to people of San Francisco. Mr. Duffy is not here as of yet. Is he coming . He could not make it today. Were going to probably give it to him this month. We recognize him next month. Mr. Duffy thank you and congratulations. Its a great selection. Board of appeals mr. Duffy represents the d. B. I. Commission and the staff and whole d. B. I. As a whole and the research he does and hes really understanding of complex pross s here. We will be here next month. Mr. Commissioner lee did you want to add anything . That concludes my president s announcement. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on the president s announcement . Seeing none, item 3, general Public Comment. The b. I. C. Will take Public Comment ton matters within the commissions jurisdiction that are not part of the agenda. Seeing none, no Public Comment. Our next item is item 4, election of the b. I. C. President and vice president. We have the nomination last month and we supposed to be doing the vote today. President mccarthy if theres any questions, i open this to the commissioners, if not i call the question. I respect the time and the knowledge of the two nominees. I did want to reflect on commissioner walkers comment at our january meeting about the importance of having a balance between the mayoral appointees and board of supervisors president appointees. Especially in an era where people are concerned about balance and transparency in government. I think making sure that there is a balance within the leadership position in our commission its important. I hope that gets reflected in the many different leadership positions that we have available as a commission. I wanted to have that updated. President mccarthy thank you. Commissioner lee i like to echo that. Were here in the spirit of unity for this commission and having a very productive and fruitful year. I think it would be a miss the opportunity to not mention those comments that commissioner walker had stated at our first meeting. In addition to just kind of highlighting the importance of that balance in addition to the importance of balance of the agenda equity that we tray to achieve as a city to ensure that we have leadership that is proportionate. As new commissioners will be learning what we do indepth as a commission. I think its important for this coming year when we look at those officer positions. As long as thats in our thought process, i think its worth stating. President mccarthy thank you. Can we call the question please. There was a motion the january meeting to elect president Angus Mccarthy as president and sam moss as vice president. That was a motion needed to second. Those were the nominees and motion to elect or appoint. Ill make a motion to those two positions. Ill second. There is a motion and a second. I will have to do a roll call vote on this motion. Actually, is there any Public Comment on the motion first . Seeing none, i will do the roll call vote. [roll call] that motion carries unanimously. Congratulations to both of you. President mccarthy thank you for your confidence in your votes. Next item. Next item is 5 item, commissioners questions and matters 5a, inquiry 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 jacobo so, as weve all been keeping up with the unfortunate news of what our city is going through currently with some of the fbi indictments, i think it is worth asking to agendize some kind of report for our viewers and city and county of San Francisco to understand what d. B. I. Knows off these indictments. I think that its important to try to be as transparent as we can. Were making a good effort to do that. I also like to see in that what were trying to try to mitigate some of these potential accusations or bring clarity to. These are thoughts that i had and incidente i wanted to put oe commission. I like to see it agendize for future meeting. President mccarthy i obviously would like to hitchhike off that statement by the commissioner. I also probably like to add maybe the director could give us or staff can give us training, what our policy and procedures are and even how that compares to other cities and how they handle this. I learned that to get best practices is usually from other city. Maybe some suggestions on outreach to the city to see what they do as part of that. Obviously, i echo the concerns that we read about in the newspapers. As i tell my fellow commissioners, weve been doing this long enough to know that usually its always best to let things kind of take its course. Let everybody do their jobs and when all the necessary information is in and its factually, we can bring it front and we can have a comprehensive hearing on what the next steps are. Im very cognizant and weary of rank and file being tarnished and reputations being tarnished by people with no any names in articles who have opinions. Im always very defensive of that. I want to just stress to the staff that as a commission, i know i havent had a chance to talk to individually, we are here to support the staff in this difficult time. When things appear in the article that are not backed up or cant be proved, we understand that this is more hearsay and keep on doing their job and keep your head up high. My humble opinion, youre one of the finest departments in the city. You do lot of hard work and hard decisions that have to be made. Its not an easy job to do. You more than likely to have bad news to give to people than good news. Lot of people get offended by that. I wanted to stress that fact. We want to stress to the commission, its important that everything is done correctly and by the law. Im very cognizant not to say too much at this point. Any other commissioners want do weigh in, more than welcome. We will close the comment on it. Commissoner moss i agree, well said. I want to bring back special budget meeting, if this isnt the right place to do it. We started having discussion about additional staffing and the d. B. I. Staff just, theres a monumental amount of work. Im wondering what is that the form as far as like a review of the staffing . Where it is, where it needs to be. We are currently enjoying quite a building boom. I know that we scaled back when the world fell apart in 2008. I want to make sure our staff isnt i want to make sure they have the resources they need. Im wondering if, perhaps, an audit is the right word. If staffing is adequate and what it needs to be. I dont know we would do anything now but certainly i want to Start Talking about it now instead of right when the budget is discussed. President mccarthy i second that. You brought up the point about that. I noticed that chief building inspector in the housing, theres three or four positions open right now that needs to be filled. I have a question why those positions are not being filled. We had a very there was a lot of clerks needed. Housing inspectors are equally needed. Is it because there is nobody from Human Resources that have applied for it, is there a list not up to date . I want to know why they are not filled. I wanted to echo some of the statements that were already made and also to encourage staff full participation with any investigation regarding ongoing investigation. I know weve said we will discuss this, i have lot of questions about the database and issues with the database and are we going to find a new database, keep working with the old database. I know this isnt mentioned before, this is an ongoing and this commission has addressed. I want to echo my interest in having that conversation sooner rather than later. Finally, im hoping that we can get updates on what is happening with airline c. O. B. S regarding the cola. The last meeting there was a little bit of wait and see. Im hoping that can be part of the report that we get kind of play by play so we know if there will be a cola, just kind of keep that on our minds. Next item is 5b, future meetings and agendas. At this time, the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of special meetings and determine those items that can be placed on the agenda and other future meetings of the building inspection committee. Did not write down the date. I believe its the third wednesday in march. Is there any Public Comment on items 5a or 5b . Seeing none, well move on to item 6. Discussion and possible action regarding proposed ordinance repealing ordinance numbers 3817 and 19. By amending the administrative code update the Hotel Conversion ordinance refining definition, conversion and low income house hold, revising procedures for permits to convert to residential units in addition to other requirements. Good morning commissioners. Im joined by our housing inspection services. Going off court order of prevent ordinances that amended the hotel ordinance. The court agreed with the plaintiff and voided the entire ordinance. What this ordinance does, it reinstate portions of those ordinances b3817 and 10219 that were not actually challenged by the plaintiff. Its just sort of reinstating stuff that was not challenged. Thank you. Maybe it will be helpful if you can summarize in detail what is in here. Besides just asking general questions. Sure. The general things that are happening is that we are updating fines to make them more in line with the current climate, i guess. Enhancing reporting requirements for the hotels for their annual reports. Then giving administrative subpoena power. We cleaned up some the language of the ordinance. There were some subsections that were referenced that didnt exist. We took out some things like that. Can you help me understand the sevenday rental piece . This does not the sevenday is not dealt with in in part. That was dealt with in another ordinance. The city stipulating only enforce seven day minimum for residential guest rooms. Pending litigation which is now finalized, now theres also the amortization period. Right now were enforcing for residential guest sevenday minimum. The original ordinance in 2017 was one of the first updates in many years. Its updated some of the fines and procedures for recordkeeping and some of the other requirements in addition to formally changing providing the definition for the first time. It allowed rentals seven days or more. That ordinance in 2017 changed to requiring a transient less than 32 days, that was change to less than 30 days would have been tourist transient use. We are repealing both of those. Ordinance will change it to 30 days which tacks on the ordinance that changed it up to 32 days. Were going back to the original ordinance which allows seven day rentals or more. I dont think it moved forward yet, an ordinance that will go back to 30day change. But it allows much longer period to reach compliance for it to change hotel practices. This ordinance if you want to separate it out, would happen in 2017. Where is lot of updates and addition of definition. The definition of the primary subject of the litigation. This ordinance repeat 2017 ordinance, readopt everything that will be litigated out. Im a little confused. The document w the document s seven day. 2017 ordinance is what provided a new definition that removed the seven day definition by repealing 2017 ordinance we go back to the way it was written prior to 2017, which is seven days. Commissioner alexandertut t hank you for that. Is the question about the rental documentation and the enforcement of comparable units comparable rent, is that before us today . That is part of the 2017 ordinance that will be readopted. Aletoday is to look into whether you want to adopt 2017 ordinance as it was presented in 2017 but just without the change in tourist transient use. Its all the clean up provisions that we adopted in 2017. There are a few minor clerical edits that were not present in the 2017 ordinance. They are described in the legislative digest. The last paragraph of the amendments to current law. These are solely to update section headings. Make sure we reference certain headings, we leave out subsections. So well add subsection references. Commissioner alexandertut h as any of the Community Organizations stakeholder groups had a chance to look at this . I think it went through the process of the board. President mccarthy this goes from here back to committee right . This is set for First Reading at board of supervisors. Its sent to the rules committee. Thats where the rules made the amendments. President mccarthy okay. Commissioners to your point, its going to go to prime time which is the board of supervisors and then it will be introduced after 30 days. If its voted on it has been vetted. Any further questions . Thank you. Is there Public Comment on this item . Good morning president mccarthy and commissioners, ron patterson. Our firm represents the San Francisco s. R. O. Hotel coalition and hotel owners. May have known as immigrant families in the city. This ordinance comes from litigation. Been going on for a while. Getting the 2017 and 2019 proposed ordinances. These ordinances were enacted. We filed suit and we won in court. The judge ordered those ordinances to be repealed. The ordinance before you today, both repeals those two ordinances but it also make new amendments to the s. R. O. Ordinance. That does not comply with the court order. Its also simply wrong. It forces us to object to the ordinance repealing the things that we were fighting against. Because we have a problem with some of the other new things that are being stuck into the s. R. O. Ordinance. The confusion about what is in this ordinance is well warranted, given the odd procedural mechanism being used here. The ordinance is also unlawful for other reasons. The question about what is in this ordinance is good one. Theres very significant things here not mentioned. This is a legislative digest referring to eliminating seasonal tourist rentals in vacant and residential units which has been longstanding. Theres a 25 seasonal search and rental. Important part of the business model. Under this proposed ordinance, if theres any violation of the h. C. O. , those hotels lose that right to seasonal rentals. They lose the right to apply to conversion. This is a definition of substantial Property Rights without due process. Even if there were an inhouse hearing on the loss of this. Property, such as the directors hearing or other procedure or d. B. I. Reviews its own decision, that does not constitute due process. Including under the city of oakland, fairly recent case. I note the Planning Commission should be reviewing this and i dont believe that has been scheduled because it affects plannings processing of conversion applications. I would humbly suggest the right way to go about this is to separate out the repeal of the 2017 and 2019 ordinances as ordered by the court. Accomplish that and then start over and look at any new changes that the city might want to make to the h. C. O. Until then, its premature. It conflicts with the courts or and its illegal. I will briefly note th