Virtually. Commissioner williams. [off mic]. Is your mic on . Here. Just one moment. Okay. Next on the agenda is the item 2 discussion if possible action to elect an interim president of the Building Inspection Commission. So we will take nominations. Im not sure if you know how to how would you like to handle that . Supposed to do nominations first . Yeah. Do you have the rules in front of you . Sorry deputy City Attorney rob kapla. I reviewed them recently but this is a situation with a band new that we dont have a normal situation. Its want the first feeting in february so the bylaws allow to select an interim president to preside over this meeting and the next until we have an officer election for president and Vice President on the agenda. Go ahead. So its my understanding that we should still follow the process of the regular election which is first allow for Public Comment. Second is to request nominations. I have a question how we do that. Is it fet bell cal or by raising hands and after that the presiding officer and the Commission Votes and in the order received and the first candidate that receives the majority of votes is elected to the office and Public Comment, nomination, voting in order until someone receives a majority but theres two things i would like your guidance on City Attorney which is who should be the presiding officer and second is are we doing nominations by alphabet cal order by the commission or raising our hands. Deputy City Attorney rob kapla i believe the Commission Secretary should preside until we have an interim president and that would be to first if you have the option with your kiosk to raise your hand if you would like to nominate someone and we will take nominations until there are no other nomination then we will vote on the nominations in the order in which they were received so would the Commission Secretary to see if theres any nominations from commissioners so i think raise your hands if you can. Okay. If you have a nomination. Just bear with me because its my first time using this screen so if you raise your hand, and i see angie and im not sure did you request to speak about . I did and like commissioner shad i guess did as well. Im not sure how that works. Public comment first. Okay. Is there any Public Comment in house or virtually on item 2 . Is there any other Public Comment . Okay. Let me go back. Sorry. Commissioner commissioner alexander coop. I would like to nominate myself commissioner chavez, commissioner williams in that order. Can you repeat that nominate . Myself commissioner chavez, commissioner williams in that order. Commissioner newman. I would like to table this for this meeting and have a presiding officer for this meeting. I think that should be commissioner tut and shes the longest sitting commissioner on the commission. Deputy City Attorney rob kapla. That would be what the interim president would be the presiding officer essentially until we can calendar a permanent officer election. Okay. That was all . Commissioner shaddix. I would like to second commissioner tut for interim president and commissioner sommer. Can you guys hear me . Yes. I was always going to nominate commissioner tut. Okay. Roll call vote. Okay. So i will do a roll call vote on the nomination of commissioner alexander tut beginning with commissioner commissioner alexander tut. Yes. Yes. And commissioner chavez. Yes. Commissioner neuman. Yes. Commissioner shaddix. Yes. Commissioner sommer. Yes. Commissioner williams. Yes. The motion carries unanimously. So do we we dont have to okay. So the nomination the motion is for commissioner alexander tut as the interim president of the Building Inspection Commission. [applause] so were moving on to agenda item three general Public Comment. We will take Public Comment within the commissions jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. Is there any in house Public Comment . Is there any virtual . Im seeing none. Moving on to item four, directors report 4a directors update. [off mic]. Can you check your mic director . Sorry. Pardon me. I would lig to congratulate interim president tut on her election and i appreciate your willingness to serve and look forward to partnering with you and welcome to our newest commissioners chavez and commissioner williams. I enjoyed the opportunity to get to know you yesterday when you toured dbi and the permit center. I appreciated your thoughtful questions and interest on in your work and what were trying to accomplish. I look forward to working with you in the months and years ahead. First i would like to take a moment to congratulate our fabulous Commission Secretary, sonya harris, and monique mustapha for being recognized for their efforts to promote well being at dbi. They holded a kickoff event for a recent fitness challenged that was featureed in the citywide spot light and that heights programs that support employees well being. Good job sonya and monique and thanks for promoting well being at the work place. Now on to permitting. We have a busy agenda today but i want to highlight one item in particular agenda item 7 a presentation about our permitting times and the progress were making in reducing our review times. When i started in this role three years ago we immediately set about changing the way we conducted our business. Our first effort was to prioritize our reform initiatives to improve transparency and to ensure that we were holding ourselves to the highest ethical standards in every situation. These reform initiatives were subsequently formalized by the city controller and we have made tremendous strides implementing those refuels over seen by our compliance manager, chris, who is here with us today. His position was created last year to ensure that our department maintains the highest ethical standards. Next i laid out Clear Service improvement goals including a greater emphasis on serving our customers and using data to measure the work that we. Do we established new metrics instituted new rigor in our Data Analysis and began identifying the key areas where we could improve our operations. Megan who is also here with us today our principal data analyst leads that effort and has done an incredible job of creating dashboards and other data tools to help us make data driven improvements. Then we hired a new Deputy Director neval perera who is actually here with us virtually today. He leads our permit service team and he laid out a plan to improve our processes and has had begun to implement that plan. While some of our improvements bore fruit immediately progress on several of our most critical efforts was less clear for a number of reasons. Those reasons include the backlog caused by covid, the seasonal nature of our work, and i would say the most of all is because of lagging indicators in permit issuance data. In other words, it takes a while really to know how well were doing. That said im proud to say our plan is working and were making gains on multiple fronts. I am looking forward to sharing what we accomplished show far and want to acknowledge that we are not yet meeting some of our goals. Were still at the beginning of the journey and have a long way to travel but theres no question were on the right track and i want to take this moment to thank our staff for all their work and willingness to embrace change over the past few years. As you later will see this morning were off to a great start. That conclude my directors report. Thank you. Two things i forgot to have the land acknowledgment read and also for listening Public Comment call in number is 4156550001 access code 26620912279 to raise your hand for Public Comment on a specific agenda item press star three when prompted by the meeting moderator. Thank you. The land acknowledgment please. Thank you. The building inspection build untiles that were on the unceded ancestral homeland who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards and and in accordance with their traditions the supervisor ronen have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of this place as well as for the all peoples that that reside in their traditional territory. As guests we recognize that we are benefited from the living working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the supervisor ronen community by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. We will move on to 4b update on Major Projects. Is there a presenter for 4b . Yes. Can we get the slides. Oh sorry. Yeah, theyre coming. Can i make a request as were going through these reports because a sentence or two why we report on this would be helpful, like what the lens we should look at this through . Sure. Thank you and to your point interim president tut and for the new commissioners the purpose of this report is to show how were doing in relation to Major Projects and with regard to filing of permits, the permits that are filed and files are permitted lets say and the notable permits that are issued and what has been completed signed off, and granted occupancy in the previous month, so these projects are projects that are greater than 5 million in valuation, and we look at this every month in relation to what you know we issue the file issued and sign off the previous month, so if we can have the next slide monique please. Okay. So in june of 20231 permit was an estimated construction valuation of 5 million or more was filed with dbi. This was 168 units Affordable Housing building at 1515 south van ness. The valuation on that the valuation of work i should say is 59. 6 million and can we get the next slide monique please. Okay. So last month we issued three high value permits with a total valuation of 69. 8 million. One permit was for a 90 units Affordable Housing building at 2550 irving street. Its valuation was 50 million. Another was a renovation of a vacant building into a Behavioral Health clinic at 822 geary street, and the valuation on that was 11. 9 million and if we can have the next slide please. And lastly dbi finalled a high value permit one for 200 van ness avenue. Thats a new Student Housing and performance base. The valuation of the work on that project was 60 million. Another was for a 56 unit mix use building at 2898 sloat street and the valuation of that project was 30 million. And thats my update on Major Projects. I am available for any questions that you may have. Any commissioner or questions and comments . We can move on to the next item. For the next one im curious to see how this chairs to prepandemic and this is what i guess or august or september as 2019 versus now, just kind of cur cower to compare. Certainly and if we have the same month of 2019 to compare the numbers. Absolutely, yeah. Any other questions, comments . Yes. I think i have been requested to speak. Can you explain the valuation process and how these Certain Properties receive these certain figures . For example the geary Street Property why thats the one i am looking at and why its 11. 9 million as the valuation . Yeah, i want happy to do that commissioner. The valuation is established based on the cost of the work, so the larger projects obviously will have greater valuation so simply its a calculation based on the amount of work that needs to be performed to complete the project. Great. Thank you. Any other comments, questions . The next item is 4c, update on dbis finances. Good morning commissioners and congratulations to interim president tut and again welcome to commissioners chavez and williams. Im alex [inaudible] Deputy Director of administration for dbi. I will present today the regular monthly finance update, and for the commissioners that are new and refresher for existing commissioners this is a monthly look at the current finances of dbi, what happened in the previous month, what has happened year to date, the fiscal and next month i will provide again a presentation that i had created when i first started last october that shows what to expect in these monthly meetings. Some months will just be a regular update. Some month when is the budget is happening there will be extra presentations on that. The fiscal year for dbi and for the city is july through june so we have just started a new fiscal year however the books arent closed yet, so in september we will provide a look back at fiscal year 23 and how we ended up, so i will provide also more information at the next meeting about the departments current financial status, its fund balance and the history of how we got to where we are today, so going through this i will always add one thing at the end just a brief update about the budget status. The budget is not signed yet. Its expected to be signed by the mayor on august 1 but for all intensive purposes is done and very unlikely to change so i will give a brief update about that. Next slide please. Starting with revenue as i mentioned were now in the next fiscal year, but the books arent closed. Things are still coming in. Revenue is for the most part done but theres still some transactions that are happening so its too early to give a Financial Financial report on the Previous Fiscal Year. One notable item is that in june things seem have picked up and our revenue has increased compared to what we had projected in q3. We have a million more than expected. Thats great news. Its too early to call that a trend but we hope it continues. And where we are right now and where we expect to be at the end of the year is about 54 million total revenue which is about 4. 2 or 7 below what was budgeted. Next slide please. Here are the revenue actuals. I will go over this a bit. We have the funds, so theres operating funds and non operating funds. The non operating funds are special revenues. There are various funds for very specific purposes repair and demolition fund, building standards fund. Those tend to be very small and funded by very specific fees or specific charges that are not part of our larger operating budget. I would be happy to discuss those but theyre very small, the non operating. Then the next column is the account description. Theres very types of revenues, charges for services. These read fees we charge the public. Expenditure recovery. These are services that we provide for other city departments so not that big although we are exploring charging more departments for the work that we do that we dont currently charge for. Interest and investment income. This is really just the interest that we receive on our fund balance so in the previous decade we have had significant balances and that earned significant revenues; however, were rapidly depleting that finished balance so this interest revenue is expected to decline. Licenses, permits franchises. This is the apartment license fees. This is charged to apartments of various unit sizes and it funds our housing inspections. Other revenues. These are miscellaneous very small and transfers in these are transferred theres only one in the Previous Fiscal Year and for a board add back for a very specific purpose i believe an out reach effort. The next two columns will show the Previous Fiscal Year so still in fiscal year 22. The budget and actuals for the entire year, and then the next two columns are the budget and actuals for fiscal year 23. Normally its year to date so now its the entire year although theres still more expected, and the next column shows year to date how much of the budget we have received currently. The last two columns twice a year at six months so january and then in quarter three we will under take a big effort to come up with projections how we think were going to end the year so we can plan if we think theres a big deficit or surplus we know ahead of time and not taken by surprise, and so you can see the differences in what we had projected for the last update in q3. The most significant one is the first line the charge for services. We thought we would only get 44 million but so far we received 45. Eight although again the 45. Eight is not the books arent closed. Some is unearned revenue so that number may go down some. Next slide please. On the expenditure side expenditures are less complete than revenues are. We are still were only 81 spent of our budget, and theres still many, many outstanding invoices. Businesses are often very slow in just suppliers of our Business Services are slow with invoices and receive them many months after the fact so things are still moving and we will report on final expenditures when the books are officially closed. On the salary side there one pay period hasnt posted yet or did not post by the time this was updated so the numbers are not complete. Salaries post two weeks after payday so a little bit into the july the final period of the last fiscal year post, so next slide please. Again these are the same numbers, the same format as revenues, and the actuals are still moving, so well report that next time. Notable things are labor will definitely increase when the last pay period posts. We are still expected non personnel services, materials and supplies. Those actuals will grow as we get and pay more invoices and the City Grant Program weve only spent 3. 1 of the 4. 86 total contract ah mount, so many of those organizations are very late typically. Their invoices arrive months after the year closes so we will be reviewing those and paying those well into this fiscal year for the Pr