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In or sitting remotely the Public Comment call in number is. Public comment callin number 4156550001 access code 2661 086 0068. Press 3. A raise your hand for a specific agenda item mr. Keilly press star three the web e number is 4117. Okay. Next land unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Okay. Thank you. Um, next. 2. President s opening remarks. However, well skip this this item for now. Comment. The bic will take Public Comment on matters within the commissions jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. no audio . Thank you. Im ready and i have a power point. Oh, okay. You can um, move go ahead to begin. Good morning. My name is jerry im going to speak about operational changes to increase the dbi revenue and improve the operational control permits fees on a dollar base not a Building Permit require the same number of inspections and it is 5 hundred and 61 dollars why not charge separating for inspections to achieve a better matching of dbi revenue with dbi cost and number two, preschedule all dbi field inspections and charge a reinspection fee and number 3, the fully permit services is 439 an hour or 7. 32 a meeting dbi cant provide service that costs 7. 32 and expiring Building Permits need to be renewed on a one dollar admin permit and two costs dbi more than a dollar to review the plans those 1 permits should be eliminated and number 4, dbi Services Like addressing scheme address changes and legalizing did unrestricted process should be not costing 1. 05 how many admin permits did dbi issue in 202324, two excuse ill be requesting a down load for the may 24th meeting and 6 dbi processes 3000 notice of violation annually. And the fully burdened hourly rate for dbi inspections is 4 hundred and 61 dollars an hour how many hours are in the notice of violation. And 80 percent of penalties when i looked at this below 1,500 or 3. 255 hours of an inspections time did cost of penalties is bell ringing highly subsidized and needs to change. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um, any additional Public Comment on in the chambers . Seeing none, none remotely oh, there is come on up sorry apologizes. Hi commissioner back here again, i want to say im someone from the press called me which is the p t s like i work in a number of jurisdictions around the bay area and they have the best system phenomenal can you find that you can finding that with the what station of a fact and find out when comments and phone numbers and want to make a comment so people can hear dbi is good when it comes to tracking. Thank you. Any further Public Comment seeing none, item 4. 4. Directors update [director oriordan] good morning commissioners. Im director oriordan director of the Bicycle Coalition and yesterday dbi owe the Capital Planning released a report detailing our years long effort to better understand the developer plan to make sure the site of safety. In response the mayor oriented an diagnostic for the office of resilience for a program that he and the legislation for Business Owners to assess the condition of their buildings the report was sent to you yesterday and keep i informed as the program develops. Aye now, some of you recall last year a number of unanimous complaints and notice of violations were issued for unpermitted place in the city and in response dbi and the Small Business owner had Small Business commission at this time the mayor and the board of supervisors passed legislation creating a temporary Amnesty Program waving fees and penalties fees applicants need to pay local surcharges today about 45 accordance are legalized and in addition to the outreach to Property Owners last week dbi and planning and fire and the partnered what lilly of chinatown on a handson workshop to help business and Property Owners complete completing the streamlined permit application the workshop helped with the application for 7 awning and hosting work shop at the end of the month heres a photo from the workshop i want to thank over the Counter Services margin jimmy chung for had his leadership in streamlining this process and at the workshop. Sfgovtv can we show the photo . Enlarge it. Looks like we can see that. You can go ahead it is showing. Maybe should be magnified a little bit. laughter. um, so i also want to share that dbi manager Mary Wilkinson started on monday and mary please stand up and mary will working closely with um, Deputy Director service own both operations and strategic initiates to help us improve the processes Customer Service and issuance time. Mary is an earthquake most recently ran the city of milwaukee her and her husband relocated for this position we or fortunate to have heron board please join me in welcoming mary in the Bicycle Coalition clapping. that that concludes any directors report. Thank you. Director next have. 4b. Update on major projects. Appears to be a delay two webx and the screen here it comes. The following slides are intended to highlight the volume and variation of projects with the evaluation of 5 million or anymore filed a completed in the past month the month of march. We will profile a few projects in terms of theyre one permit was estimated evaluation of 5 million or more was filed with dbi that probable cause project for a tenant improvement at the case this center and valued at 11. 4 million. Next slide, please. So last month we issued one high valued primary for the renovation the chinatown at 1419 madison street at 42. 5 million and. Next slide, please. And lastly, dbi filed three high valued permit one for the completion of 28 unit building and in 2525 van ness avenue at 19 million and a retail to Office Conversion um, at 48 stocking to that street 58. 4 million. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have. 4d. Update on proposed or recently enacted state or local legislation. Good morning christy assistant director. There we go. Okay. Next slide, please. Good morning um, first um, ordinance is um, the ordinance you considered last month that was amend the planning code and clarify the minstrel for adu youre recommendation was triumphed to the board of supervisors and a dollars no further action on that the first one is the extension of deadlines through june through the 30th passed the board of supervisors on the second reading the second one youll be considering next month that extends the deadline to the end of the year and december thats it, 2024 next slide, please. Today, we have been asked to present a hearing on the mayors budget to protect the streets homelessness and crises erroneous and preserve singleroom occupancy and Affordable Housing presenting on the budget and the cbo arrogant program that is today at 1 30 next slide, please. And the future of union square bringing businesses back to union square next month on may 13th. Next slide, please. I included a few bills those are the priority bills from the California Building association and, you know, put on the radar as far as things could affect the Building Code the first one which would allow for private permitting review has passed and the other one is focused on regularly gates maintaining those properly. Next slide, please. And then i would highlight the second one on here ab 2910 will go authorize the city and county of San Francisco to have the industrial building to commercial and this is one we are watching closely. That concludes my presentation. Any questions . Thank you. Next, we have oh, someone has a question. You, you are doing a presentation on the community grants. Yes. Today. multiple voices. and the Appropriations Committee at 1 30 asked to present on the cbo grant and share a little bit about that. Yeah. Were going to be talking about um, similar to the conversations here at the commission were going to be presenting our budget scenario and that is the grants will be paid for out you have general fund and pretty straightforward. Okay. Um, if i can share the presentation with us later on. Sure will do. Okay. Did that does that answer your question . Thank you. Next is. 4e. Update on Inspection Services. Good morning, commissioners im Matthew Green the director of the support services sorry and pleased to provide the activities and performers of inspection division. Okay. First slide. And in march 2024 the plaguing departments had 1,000 sorry 10 thousand plus inspections and 97 were conducted by the customers studying our target of 97 percent in the same month the Housing Inspection Services nine hundred and 79 inspectors with one hundred and 6 were multifamily. The Plumbing Division had mr. Many complaints and responded to them and all around the world our Code Enforcement had complaint and lastly our his or her Services Received 4 hundred and 65 nonhazard encampments and responded to 82 percent for the heating complaints responded to 88 percent of them within one business day and abated 4 hundred and 29 cases within the notice of violation and that concludes my presentation. Im available for any questions that you may have. Thank you. Okay. Next have. Good morning alex Deputy Director of administration this month i have a regular Financial Update next month well provide an update on what may have changed in the mayors phase of budget and the fee increased legislation will be before you, however, this month if you can bring up the presentation it is just a regular finance update. 75 percent of the year has lapsed so far and twice a year at 6 and 9 months all departments project where they will end at the end of fiscal year and report to the Mayors Office and Controllers Office those are just completed the 9 month statistics we have new projects for the end of the year. We project recovering 63 point one of our 55 plus the 4. 4 million shortfall that is balanced by projected operating expenditure savings of 5 million and the net resulting 600,000 whether fall through the adopt to our reserves. Next slide, please. Is as previously mentioned the Service Charges are our primary Revenue Source and continue to slightly underperform what we budget. All other Revenue Sources are projected to be on budget other than peer review, however, peer revenue is revenue reimbursement for the expenditure savings money we receive from the project sponsors we pay for the engineering purview and have reimbursed by the projects. So we will we budget a use of 22. 9 million unbalanced this year and if the 600,000 projection net positive projection comes true well only need to actually use 22. 3 million at the end of the year all the projections on both revenue and expenditure side are we believe very convert responsible and noticed an uptick in revenue historically spring and summer and revenue tends to be better by not project by project any increases doubt the end of the year hopefully good news at the end next slide, please. Only is expenditure side very similar at 6 months and overspending our labor budget slightly and have corrected this we believe in the next years budget requested an increase we believe that um, our Current Operations were budget too low our attrition rate was budget too high next year we expect to be on budget. The big thing to note here is the massive savings in professional services and licenses so 5. 4 million. That is the vast majority is peer review have a large pool of engineering firms we have purchase orders and contract them if case we need our services and know not viewed all of those but need the contract in place should need the Peer Services so 4 million of that 5. 4 million is peer revenue savings we know will not be 750,000 is prior year accrued forward carried forward additional funds in the hopes if youre revenue was a bit better and revenue on track then we can spend the few minutes on deferred m i certification like cloud mitigation and the i would be remiss 5 million is the additional m i s it projects by migrating the critical services. Um. Next slide, please. So this continues to be similar to previously months. It is interesting in three we are processing more permits than the prior year of the valuation of those permits is lower. So this is the reason why our revenue is lower but your work load remains exceed and high it is what it is thats it for this months presentation ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Commissioners any questions . Thank you. Quick question. Oh, alex. Page 4 the fiscal year. Speak into mic. The expenditures i just what are special expenditures . So those are tennessee funds. Of the building inspection is the umbrella Financial Fund all the dbis revenues and expenditures live within that various special revenue funds the repair and demolition funds and funds for strong motion a Straight Program those are continuing budget special revenue resources with special uses the majority of that 10 million was is 7 million of p t s Replacement Fund to replace the tracking system those are added i believe in fiscal year 2020 and have been carried forward since were just starting that fund we hired a project manager for the permit center and Planning Department and other departments to lay a foundation for that and other continuing projects were replacing the equipment and then there are other various continuing sources there. That is what the special expenditures are. Thank you. Any no further questions for a through e commissioner questions or comments. Im jerry at t letter and monthly housing notice of violations are about three times the number of nonhousing notice of violations. The numbers are two hundred and 10 a month versus three times the number of notice of violation is the number of housing complaint managed by the nonprofits very large. What is dbis back up plan the approximate 5 million in grants are excluded dbi has passed off the funding to the general fund it is a petitioner of time the Grant Funding is cut. Thank you very much. Any additional Public Comment any remotely . None comment any remotely . None remotely remotely commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices, and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. 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. Um, next regular meeting on may 15th, commissioners have any inquiries to staff or future agenda items any Public Comment on items 5 a and b seeing none, were on to item c. 6. Update regarding the Code Advisory Committee cac . Good morning. Morning. Presentation is coming sorry. A little bit slow today. There we go. I realized i should have had something to look at not off to the side but ill have to keep on looking to the side laughter . Does it show up here. Number 6. Thank you. Thank you. Um, good morning commissioners. Steve harris im the vice chair of the cac cac going to presented about what is going on at cacs last year or so. So the citizens Advisory Committee contains 17 members volunteers. Um, from a wide range of disciplines architecture and engineering and contractors owners and managers. Historic presentation and access specialists as well as members at large we have several subcommittees with the a. D. Administrative and earths sorry electrical and plumbing and fire subcommittee and structural seldom those are all meeting one, 27 days prior to the monthly meetings. In general. Next slide, please. In 2023 had 10 monthly meetings 24 hour so for faa for two to date in sine qua non and march the issue we have addressed include proposed ordinances coming down from the board of supervisors. And code updates, and administrative information sheet updates and updates on ongoing programs. And ill go through those in a little bit more detail. First of all, the proposed ordinances quite a while this year. We had Office Residential and made detailed recommendations to bic including our recommendations the traditional trigger of working on twothirds the number of floors causing a seismic up grade and to facility the use of performances Structural Design through f c41 and potentially talked about oh, abs and as well as training seminars or workshops to help the general public and engineering public to understand how to do the design making the projects more efficient and we need the spent time on the onsite that ordinance came down from the board of supervisors as well as the fee increases. rustling of papers. second page of proposed ordinances. We lubricated the deferred impact fees those fees can pay for the project other than the credentials and looked at the requirement for certification of certain Public Comment<\/a> call in number is. Public comment callin number 4156550001 access code 2661 086 0068. Press 3. A raise your hand for a specific agenda item mr. Keilly press star three the web e number is 4117. Okay. Next land unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco<\/a> peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Okay. Thank you. Um, next. 2. President s opening remarks. However, well skip this this item for now. Comment. The bic will take Public Comment<\/a> on matters within the commissions jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. no audio . Thank you. Im ready and i have a power point. Oh, okay. You can um, move go ahead to begin. Good morning. My name is jerry im going to speak about operational changes to increase the dbi revenue and improve the operational control permits fees on a dollar base not a Building Permit<\/a> require the same number of inspections and it is 5 hundred and 61 dollars why not charge separating for inspections to achieve a better matching of dbi revenue with dbi cost and number two, preschedule all dbi field inspections and charge a reinspection fee and number 3, the fully permit services is 439 an hour or 7. 32 a meeting dbi cant provide service that costs 7. 32 and expiring Building Permit<\/a>s need to be renewed on a one dollar admin permit and two costs dbi more than a dollar to review the plans those 1 permits should be eliminated and number 4, dbi Services Like<\/a> addressing scheme address changes and legalizing did unrestricted process should be not costing 1. 05 how many admin permits did dbi issue in 202324, two excuse ill be requesting a down load for the may 24th meeting and 6 dbi processes 3000 notice of violation annually. And the fully burdened hourly rate for dbi inspections is 4 hundred and 61 dollars an hour how many hours are in the notice of violation. And 80 percent of penalties when i looked at this below 1,500 or 3. 255 hours of an inspections time did cost of penalties is bell ringing highly subsidized and needs to change. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um, any additional Public Comment<\/a> on in the chambers . Seeing none, none remotely oh, there is come on up sorry apologizes. Hi commissioner back here again, i want to say im someone from the press called me which is the p t s like i work in a number of jurisdictions around the bay area and they have the best system phenomenal can you find that you can finding that with the what station of a fact and find out when comments and phone numbers and want to make a comment so people can hear dbi is good when it comes to tracking. Thank you. Any further Public Comment<\/a> seeing none, item 4. 4. Directors update [director oriordan] good morning commissioners. Im director oriordan director of the Bicycle Coalition<\/a> and yesterday dbi owe the Capital Planning<\/a> released a report detailing our years long effort to better understand the developer plan to make sure the site of safety. In response the mayor oriented an diagnostic for the office of resilience for a program that he and the legislation for Business Owners<\/a> to assess the condition of their buildings the report was sent to you yesterday and keep i informed as the program develops. Aye now, some of you recall last year a number of unanimous complaints and notice of violations were issued for unpermitted place in the city and in response dbi and the Small Business<\/a> owner had Small Business<\/a> commission at this time the mayor and the board of supervisors passed legislation creating a temporary Amnesty Program<\/a> waving fees and penalties fees applicants need to pay local surcharges today about 45 accordance are legalized and in addition to the outreach to Property Owners<\/a> last week dbi and planning and fire and the partnered what lilly of chinatown on a handson workshop to help business and Property Owners<\/a> complete completing the streamlined permit application the workshop helped with the application for 7 awning and hosting work shop at the end of the month heres a photo from the workshop i want to thank over the Counter Services<\/a> margin jimmy chung for had his leadership in streamlining this process and at the workshop. Sfgovtv can we show the photo . Enlarge it. Looks like we can see that. You can go ahead it is showing. Maybe should be magnified a little bit. laughter. um, so i also want to share that dbi manager Mary Wilkinson<\/a> started on monday and mary please stand up and mary will working closely with um, Deputy Director<\/a> service own both operations and strategic initiates to help us improve the processes Customer Service<\/a> and issuance time. Mary is an earthquake most recently ran the city of milwaukee her and her husband relocated for this position we or fortunate to have heron board please join me in welcoming mary in the Bicycle Coalition<\/a> clapping. that that concludes any directors report. Thank you. Director next have. 4b. Update on major projects. Appears to be a delay two webx and the screen here it comes. The following slides are intended to highlight the volume and variation of projects with the evaluation of 5 million or anymore filed a completed in the past month the month of march. We will profile a few projects in terms of theyre one permit was estimated evaluation of 5 million or more was filed with dbi that probable cause project for a tenant improvement at the case this center and valued at 11. 4 million. Next slide, please. So last month we issued one high valued primary for the renovation the chinatown at 1419 madison street at 42. 5 million and. Next slide, please. And lastly, dbi filed three high valued permit one for the completion of 28 unit building and in 2525 van ness avenue at 19 million and a retail to Office Conversion<\/a> um, at 48 stocking to that street 58. 4 million. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have. 4d. Update on proposed or recently enacted state or local legislation. Good morning christy assistant director. There we go. Okay. Next slide, please. Good morning um, first um, ordinance is um, the ordinance you considered last month that was amend the planning code and clarify the minstrel for adu youre recommendation was triumphed to the board of supervisors and a dollars no further action on that the first one is the extension of deadlines through june through the 30th passed the board of supervisors on the second reading the second one youll be considering next month that extends the deadline to the end of the year and december thats it, 2024 next slide, please. Today, we have been asked to present a hearing on the mayors budget to protect the streets homelessness and crises erroneous and preserve singleroom occupancy and Affordable Housing<\/a> presenting on the budget and the cbo arrogant program that is today at 1 30 next slide, please. And the future of union square bringing businesses back to union square next month on may 13th. Next slide, please. I included a few bills those are the priority bills from the California Building<\/a> association and, you know, put on the radar as far as things could affect the Building Code<\/a> the first one which would allow for private permitting review has passed and the other one is focused on regularly gates maintaining those properly. Next slide, please. And then i would highlight the second one on here ab 2910 will go authorize the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> to have the industrial building to commercial and this is one we are watching closely. That concludes my presentation. Any questions . Thank you. Next, we have oh, someone has a question. You, you are doing a presentation on the community grants. Yes. Today. multiple voices. and the Appropriations Committee<\/a> at 1 30 asked to present on the cbo grant and share a little bit about that. Yeah. Were going to be talking about um, similar to the conversations here at the commission were going to be presenting our budget scenario and that is the grants will be paid for out you have general fund and pretty straightforward. Okay. Um, if i can share the presentation with us later on. Sure will do. Okay. Did that does that answer your question . Thank you. Next is. 4e. Update on Inspection Services<\/a>. Good morning, commissioners im Matthew Green<\/a> the director of the support services sorry and pleased to provide the activities and performers of inspection division. Okay. First slide. And in march 2024 the plaguing departments had 1,000 sorry 10 thousand plus inspections and 97 were conducted by the customers studying our target of 97 percent in the same month the Housing Inspection Services<\/a> nine hundred and 79 inspectors with one hundred and 6 were multifamily. The Plumbing Division<\/a> had mr. Many complaints and responded to them and all around the world our Code Enforcement<\/a> had complaint and lastly our his or her Services Received<\/a> 4 hundred and 65 nonhazard encampments and responded to 82 percent for the heating complaints responded to 88 percent of them within one business day and abated 4 hundred and 29 cases within the notice of violation and that concludes my presentation. Im available for any questions that you may have. Thank you. Okay. Next have. Good morning alex Deputy Director<\/a> of administration this month i have a regular Financial Update<\/a> next month well provide an update on what may have changed in the mayors phase of budget and the fee increased legislation will be before you, however, this month if you can bring up the presentation it is just a regular finance update. 75 percent of the year has lapsed so far and twice a year at 6 and 9 months all departments project where they will end at the end of fiscal year and report to the Mayors Office<\/a> and Controllers Office<\/a> those are just completed the 9 month statistics we have new projects for the end of the year. We project recovering 63 point one of our 55 plus the 4. 4 million shortfall that is balanced by projected operating expenditure savings of 5 million and the net resulting 600,000 whether fall through the adopt to our reserves. Next slide, please. Is as previously mentioned the Service Charges<\/a> are our primary Revenue Source<\/a> and continue to slightly underperform what we budget. All other Revenue Source<\/a>s are projected to be on budget other than peer review, however, peer revenue is revenue reimbursement for the expenditure savings money we receive from the project sponsors we pay for the engineering purview and have reimbursed by the projects. So we will we budget a use of 22. 9 million unbalanced this year and if the 600,000 projection net positive projection comes true well only need to actually use 22. 3 million at the end of the year all the projections on both revenue and expenditure side are we believe very convert responsible and noticed an uptick in revenue historically spring and summer and revenue tends to be better by not project by project any increases doubt the end of the year hopefully good news at the end next slide, please. Only is expenditure side very similar at 6 months and overspending our labor budget slightly and have corrected this we believe in the next years budget requested an increase we believe that um, our Current Operations<\/a> were budget too low our attrition rate was budget too high next year we expect to be on budget. The big thing to note here is the massive savings in professional services and licenses so 5. 4 million. That is the vast majority is peer review have a large pool of engineering firms we have purchase orders and contract them if case we need our services and know not viewed all of those but need the contract in place should need the Peer Services<\/a> so 4 million of that 5. 4 million is peer revenue savings we know will not be 750,000 is prior year accrued forward carried forward additional funds in the hopes if youre revenue was a bit better and revenue on track then we can spend the few minutes on deferred m i certification like cloud mitigation and the i would be remiss 5 million is the additional m i s it projects by migrating the critical services. Um. Next slide, please. So this continues to be similar to previously months. It is interesting in three we are processing more permits than the prior year of the valuation of those permits is lower. So this is the reason why our revenue is lower but your work load remains exceed and high it is what it is thats it for this months presentation ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Commissioners any questions . Thank you. Quick question. Oh, alex. Page 4 the fiscal year. Speak into mic. The expenditures i just what are special expenditures . So those are tennessee funds. Of the building inspection is the umbrella Financial Fund<\/a> all the dbis revenues and expenditures live within that various special revenue funds the repair and demolition funds and funds for strong motion a Straight Program<\/a> those are continuing budget special revenue resources with special uses the majority of that 10 million was is 7 million of p t s Replacement Fund<\/a> to replace the tracking system those are added i believe in fiscal year 2020 and have been carried forward since were just starting that fund we hired a project manager for the permit center and Planning Department<\/a> and other departments to lay a foundation for that and other continuing projects were replacing the equipment and then there are other various continuing sources there. That is what the special expenditures are. Thank you. Any no further questions for a through e commissioner questions or comments. Im jerry at t letter and monthly housing notice of violations are about three times the number of nonhousing notice of violations. The numbers are two hundred and 10 a month versus three times the number of notice of violation is the number of housing complaint managed by the nonprofits very large. What is dbis back up plan the approximate 5 million in grants are excluded dbi has passed off the funding to the general fund it is a petitioner of time the Grant Funding<\/a> is cut. Thank you very much. Any additional Public Comment<\/a> any remotely . None comment any remotely . None remotely remotely commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices, and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. 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. Um, next regular meeting on may 15th, commissioners have any inquiries to staff or future agenda items any Public Comment<\/a> on items 5 a and b seeing none, were on to item c. 6. Update regarding the Code Advisory Committee<\/a> cac . Good morning. Morning. Presentation is coming sorry. A little bit slow today. There we go. I realized i should have had something to look at not off to the side but ill have to keep on looking to the side laughter . Does it show up here. Number 6. Thank you. Thank you. Um, good morning commissioners. Steve harris im the vice chair of the cac cac going to presented about what is going on at cacs last year or so. So the citizens Advisory Committee<\/a> contains 17 members volunteers. Um, from a wide range of disciplines architecture and engineering and contractors owners and managers. Historic presentation and access specialists as well as members at large we have several subcommittees with the a. D. Administrative and earths sorry electrical and plumbing and fire subcommittee and structural seldom those are all meeting one, 27 days prior to the monthly meetings. In general. Next slide, please. In 2023 had 10 monthly meetings 24 hour so for faa for two to date in sine qua non and march the issue we have addressed include proposed ordinances coming down from the board of supervisors. And code updates, and administrative information sheet updates and updates on ongoing programs. And ill go through those in a little bit more detail. First of all, the proposed ordinances quite a while this year. We had Office Residential<\/a> and made detailed recommendations to bic including our recommendations the traditional trigger of working on twothirds the number of floors causing a seismic up grade and to facility the use of performances Structural Design<\/a> through f c41 and potentially talked about oh, abs and as well as training seminars or workshops to help the general public and engineering public to understand how to do the design making the projects more efficient and we need the spent time on the onsite that ordinance came down from the board of supervisors as well as the fee increases. rustling of papers. second page of proposed ordinances. We lubricated the deferred impact fees those fees can pay for the project other than the credentials and looked at the requirement for certification of certain Electrical Communications<\/a> through different trades. That is something which is ongoing and more discussion more more and more of that work is happening to line voltage. And we also looked at the requirement for submittal facade inspections it came as part of the wind failures of the windows in the winter of 2023. Pardon me . Oh. Looking at the same panhandle. Were one behind you. Behind me i may have turned two pages. Maybe the first one. I thought i was on the right page i think we printed double two on the page and lets see an increase fee and i was looking at page 6. Youre on were together few. Okay. So were together and so communications facade inspections and suspension of annual registration fees for vacant storefronts that makes a lot of sense before the pandemic seems no longer appropriate. And last page of the code updates page number 7 removal the 50 foot height of the elevators in the housing code section this is something that um, doubled up to the cac Public Comment<\/a> and we made recommendations for that to occur um, as it happened. We also have discussions about new i ebc chapters were adopt by the state and how they effect the local codes. On page 8, new administrative bulletins and discussions about the departments adaptive reuse sheets . In the final stages units as 21 regarding the building facade inspections and this was based on the results of detailed studies that we cac requested that dbi um, engaged an outside window breakage that was fun we know that was a big surprise that happened in the heavy windstorm to get them on board to do that inspection. To find what happened and each and every case in our assessment of of what needed to happen in the future and worked on clarifications through the dbi staff as well as information sheet 0 three regarding the contractor on site . Posted on the dbi website. Last page number 9 we need the discuss various times updates to the accessible Entrance Program<\/a> and concrete program which youll be hearing more about that in the near future thats our presentation and certainly ready to take questions if you have any. Hi, thank you steve i dont have any questions but wanted to express my gratitude and our gratitude for our work and the groups work, i. E. , personally and think our whole commissioner relies on the code citizens Advisory Committee<\/a> we dont have the time often to take the deep dive into the issues you guys do i joined some of our meetings and appreciate the discussions we look to our recommendations we are then considering some of the issues so i think there is with great value in the group and im the one i suggested that item sorry to drag you up here but to understand the values theyre giving to us i think that is are. Participate steve is a Structural Engineer<\/a> and so am i i value steves opinion and contributions to the go up as well as the rest of group steve is here ill express my appreciation and note that we want to give a more formal koimgz certificate of appropriateness so ill hand you one today thank you for being here if thats okay. Thank you so much. And like i can say we appreciate your attendance to the cac meeting it is value to have a member of the commission. You thank you. clapping. any other commissioners have any comments on that item and any Public Comment<\/a> on the item. I want to express any gratitude and at the youre expertise is very thoughtful and helpful i appreciate the members you take the time to write us sharing your full thinking and up and down and i appreciate that. Thank you and next, we have. 7. Update on dbis Strategic Plan<\/a>. Morning, im patrick the Communications Director<\/a> for the building inspection and here to present. Next slide, please. So we sent you the ambulance in your packet but how we get here in october of last year, we began the Strategic Plan<\/a> a number of San Francisco<\/a> agencies throughout the bay area and begun by conducting interviews some of you and staff uses our services they evaluated this research to our Reform Initiative<\/a>s and did a survey of our customers as well as our staff to get and better understanding and more insight how the work are in areas for improvement and opportunities we know we that information was taken in the consultant turned it into a swath assessment was used in january which the executive team myself and the consultant began to conduct this plan it is now ready to be implemented we want to share before we take action on that. Next slide, please. So to table set to make sure we are recognizing the same terms but mission defines what we exist for as a vision who we want to be as is goals how we achieve that vision the strategies and how were going to achieve those goals and tactics the measures. Next slide, please. So this is the departments new mission that is the department of building inspection by making sure that code compliant and reliance by the supporting San Francisco<\/a>. Our vision our goal to be dedicated and knowledgeable staff will provide Customer Service<\/a> using the consisted standards to provide trust and safeguard the public. Next slide, please. One of the things we want to do establish the values so something not done in the that have the past we took an opportunity under director oriordan and establish accrual in the department that allows for the greatest Customer Service<\/a> im not run through the exempts but the core one is to have customers serving the public and the services they come to us for professionally were that providing as professional as possible and making sure we are acting in Customer Service<\/a> and providing serve that safeguard the public and clear directions to the customers to be compliant and integrity we believe that we should adhere to the ethical obligations but create a Good Environment<\/a> people want to come and stay to dbi and we want to make sure we commute the diversity and equity throughout everything we hire and retain and finally transparent and hold ourselves accountable and give you the information to hold us accountable for the work we do. Next slide, please. So made a lot of changes and spoken in the past about the works to improve dbi under director oriordan and those are the recent accomplishments with the management our executive team is new under patrick and we made a number of Management Changes<\/a> for people giving people opportunities to manage other folks and hired peep like mary church to make sure we have the right people in the right places and dbi is moving forward to implement the changes that needed to be made and made ethical reformed that are nearly complete and add new ones as necessary and Building Inspections<\/a> with the Quality Control<\/a> and the permitting improvements we made and actually hear in our presentation. Next slide, please. And ill walk you through through the goals and if the strategies and then after that do a run through to the tactics i dont want to go into all of them but want to give a flavor of the 99 building safety to oversee the code compliant to expand San Francisco<\/a> environment we aim to improve the Building Permit<\/a>ting and collaborate with others to have the means to improve the building standards and transparent processes and performance benchmarks and good Customer Service<\/a> and a host of improvement youre heard about and will hear about later on today we want to again to make sure we have the best internal process for bochlt and to increase the public trust to expand the Reform Initiative<\/a> but to complete the audit given pub assurance the work has been done in dbi is code compliant and with a workforce we want to attract and retain and develop the best workforce by building a culture of trust and continuity through planning and coaching and communications and our 6 goal to produce the revenue for operations to identify where we need to make Technology Investments<\/a> and what the Staffing Levels<\/a> are and how to fund to make sure we have enough money. Next slide, please. So the first goal to insure the building safety and resilience we want to standardize to make sure we have programs and policies for all the key operations and staff are trained and knowledgeable how to operate with a standardized method and track accountability to make sure that people are following the procedures and actually able to use them in a way that provides the greatest service to the public and expand our Disaster Preparedness<\/a> dbi has a great region when the next earthquake comes but the programs for the ab e for the concrete programs are run in the effective way potential and the outreach to the public is sufficient that Business Owners<\/a> and Property Owners<\/a> know their responsibility in order to maintain a Safe Building<\/a> in case of a disaster. Then we get down to the divisional level we want to improve the Building Permit<\/a> application. And enhance and improve the process an ongoing effort we want to work in the permit center to define their roles and responsibility to make sure they can up our game and stash inner Departmental Task<\/a> force and really one of the things theyll do is look at the addresses to make sure the aids are effective and serves the public and also want to implement this state mandates on us and also develop Computer Software<\/a> including to improve routing and then also looking at wanted administrative goal for other materials we provide to the public they know exactly how to get the services they need. Next slide, please. And when we look at our enhancements processes and goals about evacuating to make sure we are efficient to make sure the directors hearing are happening on a quick enough to make sure our internal field inspections measuring their pro process and train make sure the line staff and clerical support have good training in Customer Service<\/a> how to use is processes and also how to help people about work for your supervisor help the staff develop over time this is part of our goal of retaining good quality employees next slide, please. When it comes to increasing public trust we can make sure that all employees are responsible for modeling good ethic california behavior and complete the Reform Initiative<\/a> and conduct a Risk Assessment<\/a> so people what know had is what the standard is for their behavior and Institute Lists<\/a> qualities throughout dbi. Next slide, please. This thing stacey best practices and planning for the future. So this is includes best practices for recruiting and hiring we get the largest pool of qualified candidates and the only boarding and carry advancements path it to make sure the managers know what opportunities are available so they continue on theyre professional journey and make sure we have a plan in place we never have a gap in our services due to somebody retiring or moving out of the department. Next slide, please. The last goal london breed like to Fund Operations<\/a> and identify what is needed in order for dbi 080 provide the best possible service and have a lot of Staffing Levels<\/a> and investments we want to conduct a determination and what the proper Technology Investments<\/a> and come up with ambulance to fund develop the Revenue Streams<\/a> for additional funding those staffing and Technology Investments<\/a> and come up with a no way structure to make sure we can do fee adjustments not in every two years. Want to develop and institutionalize the policies to insure when points next economic downturn occurred were prepared. Next slide, please. So when it comes to implement were to use microsoft to develop and make sure were attracting and have implementation groups to implement those each goal is sponsored by an executive to make sure that work is delivered on the priority and develop goals measurable objectives to the keeping us on track and 389s for our leadership and reporting you can track as the plan is developed and implemented and last deputy a communication plan to bring the public on t us what does that mean were going to present this on may 1st, youll get an invitation and host the kind of kickoff developing the timelines those work team provide a biweekly report to the team to make sure they remain on track and booblgz will be addressed thats kind of the overview any questions . Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. No questions oh, let me call for Public Comment<\/a>, any Public Comment<\/a> on this item . Then well do commissioners, comments or questions. Sorry about that patrick. Good morning. My name is jerry. This Strategic Plan<\/a> is aspirational when will addicting have a detailed task list with the delivery date is locking down the dbi p t s database will progress on the Strategic Plan<\/a> be reported monthly in the meeting. And lastly, is there contingency plan to address a potential reduction in grants funding to nonprofits who currently manage thousands of housing complaints . Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment<\/a> remotely. Any additional Public Comment<\/a> inperson there is none remotely. Okay. Commissioners any questions or comments . Um, all right. So presentation began with reference to the sexual assaults analysis and can you speak into the microphone. Ive been doing that all morning laughter and in developing the plan how did i incorporate the swat analysis and what were the, you know, just samples of the strengths incorporated into that the opportunities i guess that was just a um, a thought i had or question listening to the plan and unintelligible . Yeah. The swat analysis is detailed in some areas got down to sdhaeks identified by multiple stakeholders as a hot spot you should address and in others general like continue the reformed issues and im happy to provide you with a copy of swat analysis if you like. In short it was all incorporated in here the goal to do a 5year plan we updated at ts after 5 years my the goal to make progress over the next two years and there are some things like a developing to replace p t s to the or so the plan acknowledgements some of the things in swat are bigger pictures in long term and had to take them in smaller chunks. Yeah. If you can provide us with the swat will be helpful. Um, i have a few questions. My first kwes question meeting bimonthly for the multiple voices . Expectation for that. What happened the workshop will happen and the first in the beginning of may for all workers and develop plans and timelines the executives have provided a list of prioritizes the strategy plans have great by a tool for prioritizing the work and picturing that work ethically so the executives all audited the Top Priorities<\/a> the workshops take those and develop at a timeline blemgs for each of those so we really the value to get work done by the people closest to the work not a top down that may or may not be right the purpose of workshops to get people from different divisions trying to solve ass or those and happy to come back and give you an timeline. That will be great in the fall and. Okay. Um, im curious about the comment about creating new structures new funding streams can you talk about is that adding categories i believe so can you talk about what youre thats what exactly what you meant and yeah. Yeah. It is for that is a twopart goal. Tactic; right . Okay. The biggest experiences is staff and technology lets get a handle what is needed to provide the services; right . If it takes one hundred hours to provide the right level we have 90 hours of staff we have to solve for that downtime; right . That that money didnt come out of air once we identify where will we find the additional money and that is addressing that specific need same way with the Technology Planning<\/a> for the p t s lets figure out what that is and delta and develop the Revenue Streams<\/a> to tackle that. Thats great to know we have the level of responsibilities i was unaware with the fee studies had had level of flexibility to identify and evaluate the cost and adjust the fee schedule mid year so to speak. I wouldnt assume that is a that short term; right . Something we have to look out and do a long term plan. Midterm i should say that is appropriate and interesting. Um, one of the things i saw the beginning didnt see in the remainder of the report 0 how were flexing our dbi goals and values in the rest of the work particularly it comes to the i thought the dbi i love were adding that was very reflected internally but how externally and have not seen specifics why think or i guess this is a question like to see how dbi staff reflects how youre language of capacity our um, breakdown reflects all of San Francisco<\/a> by there are language needs and there are still a lot of illegal construction going on and has barriers um, and im curious about what our Community Focus<\/a> for illumination access for competency is which were talking about in the realm of the construction ream and in the land region how were incorporating our dbi values in our focus . Yeah. I can speak for the materials but come back on the housing that feels like a separate area and wouldnt want to get ahead of ftes that is an priority way but when it comes to the outreach number one, our websites are translated in english and others languages we send out a letter to a Property Owner<\/a> and that goes out in 4 languages we also, if you call or show up necessary center needed language support for dozens of different languages um, you call there is a service we have and then if you how much show up we have people on the site they can come down and help the people when a language barrier we try hard to make sure regardless of the barrier of the language we provide be appropriate level of service theres outreach; right . And how to make the department as welcoming to all people an ongoing challenge were going to work on with the partners and everything. I ask for consideration it takes an Incredible Knowledge<\/a> about a system to come into the door and ask for transaction if you are at that point knowing confidence provided for um, is a level of confidence that not finding how the city works but not necessary universal experience or universal knowledge so one were looking at like also you come back with the full considerations and hear how are we implementing the goals from culturally competent and Language Access<\/a> um, in how that goats incorporated in all the goals. Thats great feedback. Thank you. Thank you. And that is really big work and so, thank you. At the and any other comments . coughing . The next item. 8. Update on changes to inhouse permit processing. Okay. Good morning commissioner alexandertut im the detective direction the permitting Services Division<\/a> at dbi so my presentation today is um, going to bring you up to speed what the division does and doing to improve the general performance on plan review and permitting first slide it is parts of three divisions within dbi. Um, you have heard in the Inspection Services<\/a> and the administration Services Division<\/a> and also that deals with all the h. R. Budget issues and so forth permit Services Deals<\/a> with permitting. And the in take of domineer interfaces with the planned revenue and Technical Service<\/a> on the screen is approximately, one hundred personnel within the Division Deal<\/a> with building electrical and plumbing and the whole Customer Service<\/a> interfaced whether that is over the phone via email or inperson next slide, please. We dont do it alone as you can imagine when the Building Permit<\/a> application comes in we rely on the Planning Department<\/a> and public works and the Fire Department<\/a> and Public Health<\/a> and the Public Utility Commission<\/a> as an auxiliary as we view the downtown support special use district that come through for code compliance and looked at it facilitating our Customer Service<\/a> along with internal staff as dbi and partner with the permit center to interfacing interface with other department of planning as well next slide, please. We have um, three pathways for permitting. The most assessable 24 7 is online permitting the simplest form that is offered to licensed b2 and speciality contractors like i said 24 7 on the website and do a fair amount of work through there for fair amount of permitting to increase those numbers objective over time. Those permits represent kitchen and bath remodels and change outs. Your offer the counter operations account for 92 percent is volume permitting through dbi those are the smaller scopes of work or simplicity scopes both structural and nonstructural within an hour worth of work when an applicant comes in and decided whether theyre eligible for over the counter we have projects projects that it takes time. Are offered in house. Either through a full permit or a site plan plus the process. Next slide, please. clearing throat . As far as volume goes we handle approximately 12 hundred projects per year. Um, that taken in house. Um, about seven hundred and or so. That is a site permit that is issued for the core Building Permit<\/a> just the the architectural portion of that mainly handles the the and deferred to brought in a packages after that. All of that rounds up out to one hundred and fifty or projects last year, we did 1. 5 billion evaluation and the average one million dollars. Thats the cost the estimated cost of the structure; right . clearing throat so looking at the process in totality to break down into sorry. Next slide, please. We can breakdown into about 5 components. The presubmission is one that is often not considered but it is really valuable the time that the applicant the project sponsor checks the website and fills out the Application Form<\/a> the more information we can front load phase the better application we get if lois us to do a full review the first time. We didnt have the in take can be done inperson and has been. Dbi history as you can see in house projects in 2024 gone to 100 percent electrical or digital all the applicants have the ability to submit it through our online portal and once the project is taken in and reviewed for completeness um, the applicants pays the fees and gets routed to the various divisions or departments to review. Then it goes to each planned review agency the plan review writes comments and through a series of comments and rechecks evolving we issue a permit and final fees are paid. Im going to go through a brief timeline of the improvements here. This for me and um, began in october of 2021 when i was hired to manage this division. The elevation started immediately on the city to look at not only existing processes but the direction in which it goes to enhance operations of streamline when necessary and make efficiency where we could. By july of 2022, i was we were able to initiate our first measures which we institute preplan check this commission has heard about that successful program. This is the news look at intact and rectify the submittal for completeness and dbi was Southern California<\/a> responsible to make sure the quality of plans was up to standards where we can make a full review and all the adoption was provided and right there and then they were other things associated with the project for example, it was in steve sloipz area the protection was necessary for that project. So we implemented that process in july and at the time of institution that was we riled we were rejecting three three percent because they were incomplete that project or that statistic at the beginning of 24 got down to 14 percent rejection rate that meant we were Getting Better<\/a> Quality Projects<\/a> in a better quality plans clearing throat at that time began the dynamic staffing if you can imagine what happens before so it was one or two projects were determined to so equal so the staff would just assigned 5 projects a week regardless of their size. And dynamic staffing meant that preplanned we took in projects we assign the estimate the number of hours for that project so we could um, now assign lets say thirty of 40 hours to a plan checker at one time opposed to 5 projects for you and 5 projects to you so forth and so on that allowed us to assign the most available staff to the point of assignment we were able to make sure that no project was left behind in a walk that we gave it to the most qualified and available plan checker someone was assigned 5 projects and decided to take off for illness for three of those 5 days those projects were waiting. That is successful and now some of the statistics later. Next slide, please. Okay. Sorry go back to the previous slide. Okay. In order to gage the success of our new procedure we also instituted what we call the work in Progress Report<\/a> we report to you and heard about that at previous meetings. I want to acknowledge of the work of staff at our m i s and our data analyst sitting in the backpack of room here. Those teams were able to shift through the data to give us databases over the last year to see where our areas were we needed to improve. As well as recognize the overall improvements in june of 2023 the permit center they took with reports work in Progress Report<\/a> made that available to others departments and implementing the same measures and look at the simple statistics that dbi initiated. Around the middle of last year, we partnered with the permit center to enhance the permitting tracking system youre heard about that today and be able to categorize or show every time that the application came both our department how much in that department versus the amount of time spent without customers. Some of you know that we have been talked about you are process is talked about in the media about how long it takes to get a permit issued no way to identify in the old system how much with the applicant and in house of. That was those new enhancements for the permit tracking system showed how much time we were spending on that versus the applicant that was implemented in july of 2023. And it whether those this information was available on website. Next slide, please. If you go to that. Actual the one after that sorry that is of the applicant was able to see at any time on the customer facing website. Shows the exact states on the right hand column only is left side how many times to speak to that quickly one of the processes improvements we made is that when a recheck comes in as as opposed to going to the back of queue we wanted to constitute the 10 day recheck process those projects continue and in front of the plan checkers. Next slide, please. At the beginning of november we started working on the big task the overall general overhaul of the process and looking at the permit tracking system what needs to be done to replace it and get us ready to go down that road were working with the permit center to look at that collectively and make recommendations as we move forward. Around january 24th was significant changes made especially to the intact. This was triggered preliminarily by stat legislation but also by some of 24 discourse between us and is bourbons. We looked at the intact and realized that as much as we could front load the information for the applicant we would get a more and more complete review or complete package to be able to review one time and get that review done one time. So dbi the preplan check process was pushed out to every one of our 6 Partner Agency<\/a> so theyll review it with a complete check to make sure the dbi needs in that package by the other agencies to do a complete review was in that package. So by state law we were allocated 15 days to do that revenue and significantly under that ever since in january. Next slide, please. This is a unreadable laughter slide that shows the information that we have on our webbed by really is remarkable the amount of information put on the website not only by the dbi but our Partner Agencies<\/a> to just give as much information for the applicant up front. That is overwhelming for people new to the city, however, we feel we left no stone unturned with a remark jock providing that information for people. Next slide, please. The website has specific reference to forms with hyper links talking about a document you can click on that and get the document right now and also provided a stepbystep process for people unfamiliar with the um, fee intact process here in San Francisco<\/a> next slide, please. Like i said earlier own all of this information was um, put into a web portal to lie applicants to be able to submit 24 7. From the comfort of their own environment be able to go through the portal and ask simple questions and upload their documents through the same website and the next Business Days<\/a> projects become available for the internal staff we do our own completeness checks, you know, as soon as we have access to the documents next slide, please. Go back one. Go back one. Sorry i seemed to have missed this slide here. Im looking at slide um, 17. There we go right there. All right. So what are some of the reasons we may screen out a project at the beginning this slide talks about you may have multiple Design Professionals<\/a> maybe the owner that um, potentially my submit duplicates with an incomplete application we started to realize that applicants were submitting their plans without an application and didnt know what to do that with could be a wrong address that is a list of things that could potentially stop a project as soon as that was submitted. One other thing were doing differently the Planning Department<\/a> um, also implemented this planning approval letter whereby projects need prevail before a Building Permit<\/a> application that accounts for large amount of time and sometimes the by this time my negate the ability for that project to move forward that is against dbi as is permitting process you get a Building Permit<\/a> for that entitlement now we take that entitlement ahead of the Building Permit<\/a> process a large project comes in with no approval we would screen it out at an early stage and let them know they need an entitlement before they come in next slide, please. Like i said earlier, we are doing 100 percent can i goal review so pdfs are uploaded and current with all city departments. Our paper plan was subsequential and grad to be done with that that is a lot better for us internally and for the applicant a more speedy review and offering encouraging projects some of the larger projects in our volts it takes time to proceed afford with the rest of the process we can go from paper to digital concurrent revenue this can significantly reduce the processing time the amount of time the department has plans. Next slide, please. Im not good evening to go over this in detail but essential a work flow off of our in house process shows how the plans and decisions are made whether a new project or a rereview of an existing from that point go through the review once this is complete a good luck the formulation from the prevents and fees are paid and the project becomes a real filed project and we start monitoring our time from then open through the planned review. By law die for Housing Project<\/a>s have thirty days thirty calendars days to review the Housing Project<\/a> anything that creates a wore or more handouts or less than 25 once that is we have thirty dlaerndz days and 20th century units it is or more sorry 26 units or more 60 calendars days and to keep those deadlines. Next slide, please. So some of the results we weve seen since january 1st to today, and ill go over some statistics how general improvements have been working out. This slide shows that we have a high Completion Rate<\/a> when it comes to the first submission we work to front load the information and where bit people that may have been used to submitting a certain what have now been you know, advised otherwise. And so for the majority of cases today, i think if you can imagine now earlier on i said we went through a three three screening rate or rejection to 14 that jumped up as other departments looked those for the first time. But we are, you know, we start out kind of high around 35 percent so rejected at the beginning and getting closer to where we need to be. Nearly 100 percent of those checks between the 15 days that is state allows and like i said were happy to say on the average meeting 8 days and fewer for the screening we are getting those projectors start a lot quicker and dbi continues to meet our goal for comforting providing our first comments within 10 days of assignment. Next slide, please. So this is slide shows the um, hi. Im hopeful we can see similar progress and i have one question dots Building Permit<\/a> applicants get to chose their planned checker failure to assign planned checkers horrifying has ruled in abuses. Thank you. Any address Public Comment<\/a> . Any remotely . Okay. Seeing none, commissioners have any questions or comments for discussion. Just a Public Comment<\/a>. Certainly. Oh, yeah optimistic, of course, we dont allow the public to choose the plan checker. Thank you. Um, i dont have any questions i im excited about the improvements a lot of work one thing i appreciate about how this is unfolded is collaboration one all levels of the folks and thank you for the leadership you have shown thats it. Thank you. And express thanks for this presentation i know weve had discussions and have a charts and this is helpful to be able to really process that a little bit better i appreciate that. Im sure that is not taking a tiny amount of time i appreciate the thought that went into this in do you mean this to understand that clearly. Thank you i would to acknowledge our staff as being accommodating i cant imagine garnt statistics instead of getting the job down theyve done remarkably. I want to add those points of emphasis fulfilling it is, you know, now ive been on the commission for a while i can see some development and hazard in progress so want to yeah. Thank you for the presentation and the from this and im happy to all right. Thank you, commissioner thank you. Our next item. 9. Review and approval of the minutes of the special meeting of february 14, 2024. Motion to approve the minutes from february 14th i do i have a second . Second. Okay. Any Public Comment<\/a> on the item . Um, none remotely. All commissioners in favor of the february minutes, aye. Opposed . And thank you. The minutes are approvals and item 10. 10. Review and approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of march 20, 2024. I would like to ask for a motion to continue this item to the next meeting the minutes are not ready for today. Motion and. Okay. Second. You do i have a second . And second yeah. Any Public Comment<\/a> on that motion. Seeing none, all commissioners in in favor to continue this to the next meetings. Aye. Opposed . Thank you, item 11. 11. Discussion and possible action on the annual performance evaluation for the bic secretary. 11a. Discussion and possible action on the annual performance evaluation for the bic secretary. Any Public Comment<\/a> on this item . Any remotely in Public Comment<\/a>. Um, then next is. 11b. Public comment on all matters pertaining to the closed session. A mission to two into closed session . So moved. And do i have a second . Second. Okay. Thank you. Have to do a roll call vote commissioner alexandertut, yes. Vice president chavez, yes. President neumann, yes. Commissioner sommer, yes. Councilmember clark that motion carries. Unanimously were now in closed session it is okay. Good afternoon advertised 12 47 p. M. That is the department of building inspection. We are on agenda item disclose any or all discussions held in closed session administrative code section 67. 10 b . Possession to reconvene and not disclose items in closed session. Do i have a second . Second. Okay. Now. Okay. And just to do a roll call vicinity on that motion. Commissioner alexandertut, yes. Vice president chavez, yes. President neumann, yes. Commissioner sommer, yes. And commissioner williams next is he item 12. 12. Adjournment. Motion to adjourn. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Were not adjourned 90day grace period it is 12 48 p. M. [meeting adjourned] you are watching San Francisco<\/a> rising with chris manor. Todays special guest is Sarah Phillips<\/a>. Hi, im chris manors and you are watching San Francisco<\/a> rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. The guest today is Sarah Phillips<\/a> the executive director of economic workforce development. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Lets talk about the city economic plan and specifically the citys road map to San Francisco<\/a> future. Can you give a brief overview and update on progress . Absolute e. In february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using Small Business<\/a>es, some of them remember longterm structural impacts. The way we work. How often we are in an office and how much office Space Companies<\/a> who had headquartered in San Francisco<\/a> need. Some of those were structural impacts how we stop. There has been a longterm change as Online Shopping<\/a> takes up a greater share how we performs and covid19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. We have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant services and homes for people experiencing homelessness is dramatic. We increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and takeup of the beds dramatically, and there is more work to do. On the safety side there are exciting things that happened. We increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. Police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. August the highsh return in graduates. We see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is quality of life crime San Francisco<\/a> experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides. One thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying to get back to 2020 vision. I think covid showed having a downtown with people sitting at offices isnt the best downtown it can be. I think it is a opportunity to bring 24 hour life use downtown. Music and concerts is a great way to bring people to a specific location. Golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. Can you talk about those and if there is Upcoming Events<\/a> too . I think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. For San Francisco<\/a> and particularly San Francisco<\/a> downtown to move forward and be successful as a Great American<\/a> city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and music is a strongrt that. The planet concert sear ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just Golden Gate Park<\/a> but downtown locations are a great example. There are smaller examples as well. The landing atis a new plaza we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. They participate in that. Something we are working on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 Concert Series<\/a> where we match local venues bringing their work and partnership to useian square, Music Center Plaza<\/a> and embark cadero. We will be able to announce Concert Series<\/a> through the sf you mentioned vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. Can you talk generally what exactly that program is . Yeah. So, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to 6 month jz Small Business<\/a> or storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. It is pilot. We had a incredible amount of interest. We hadim forgetting the number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table to help make our groundfloor lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. If you have a active ground floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. That was great, a lot of cooperation scr over 700 Small Business<\/a> or operators responded to that call. It is pop up. There is no intention this would result in forever Small Business<\/a>es, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i dont have the final data, but there are 17 activators in 9 different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of them are in discussions for longterm leases so the spaces continue. It is the program. We are hopeful to have a second and third traunch and hoping to pilot in other neighborhoods with other partners. It is not an inexpensive program because there is a lot of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and San Francisco<\/a> want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. Thats great. Can you talk a bit about why piloting programs and testing things is so important . Absolutely. You know, i would say not only the important generally but important in San Francisco<\/a> specifically. The benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows us to try something and say, there may be consequence but lets understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go. Mta has absorbed the strategy whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street . Is this working . Is it working for bikes and cars and buses . Maybe not, lets switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to our office particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayors support through the budget process to pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the benefit there is, if it doesnt work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating procedure. Pilots also give people hope. When we have the shortterm whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they like. Lastly, in lith light of the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of San Francisco<\/a>s status as a tech hub . I do, i think they work together. San francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. And there is a backstory to that. Our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the multistory building has been open including allowing residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height of our preevious boom is that, the amount that Tech Companies<\/a> were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so wewithout intentionally zoning a single use downtown, we de facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the opportunity you are pointing out. Now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how much Companies Put<\/a> at the market in the Office Spaces<\/a> we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is lot of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. We have the ability to absorb expansion of the Tech Industry<\/a> we are so strong at. We have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the market, more ai Companies Looking<\/a> for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of the vac ancy. The opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. San francisco has always been great at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. When our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super Fertile Ground<\/a> for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. To talk about San Francisco<\/a>s assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really Great University<\/a> and educational institutions. We are between uc berkeley and stanford. The graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. With that, we are interested in increasing our Human Capital<\/a> growing graduates. Downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. As we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. The costs are high. Mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. We waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. There are code changes that will make the conversions easier. There is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. It is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are longterm changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the makeup of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isnt a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you spending the time here today and your Creative Vision<\/a> and positivity, so thank you so much. Thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. That is it for this episode. For sfgovtv im chris manors, thanks welcome to hamilton recreation and aquatics center. It is the only facility that has an integrated Swimming Pool<\/a> and Recreation Center<\/a> combined. 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