Transcripts For SFGTV Special Transbay Joint Powers Authorit

Sell project that is active and ongoing i believe well have a new project plan in midnovember. Of what year. This year. Sorry just been 10 years i was asking. Yeah. So thats the main focus of where we are helping with. And can you help fire get they are stuff on the Property Information map. Oh, yes. Excellent. There is a reoccurring theme for the next 8 years of my life from the board has me. And the g f team can help with that. Thank you mr. Roberts. To the very, very patient people from the public and the department of Human Resources anyone want to make a Public Comment on item 7 please come on up. Good morning. Im the lead organizer for the right services a government we firmly believe that housing is a human right and the advocates to insure that folks have the ability to advocate for the right for dignified and great homes i appreciate the tennis of the review and want to encourage this process in the process at least to a final recommended include the folks that are effected and those finding before leading to the recommendations are shared with the proper departments we know that issues with the hazardous ability with the dense populated building where the heart of unoccupied buildings the longtime residents but those are consistent processes so based on those recommendations i want to list and recommend that the Fire Safety Task force is something you sponsored moving forward we insure those finding find a way to be implemented we do look forward to the collaboration amongst the agency the Fire Department and others have been putting into practice funding some of the new positions and community, however, we disagree on the reason the tracking the residential complaints take along i want to say that the current practices of Fire Department lack clear protocol and the hazards go undecked and fail to be documented consistent i appreciate having the Amazing Technology but if folks are not trained to identify those it is a shame to recommend that and through we firmly believe that proper tainting training to use the Code Enforcement is ill say in our office we see close to 4 hundred cases some of them are a result of some of the departments here and some require more work on our end so to the end of bringing buildings up to code i encourage to look more in details to the recommends and so have further implementations in some of the spaces. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors i work for Central Center collaborative and the program he oversee a clinic in the tenderloin we have Fire Department the Housing Inspection Department we focus on south of market and tenderloin i just want to highlight certain things weve been doing we working closely with the housing inspectors that are working in our jurisdictions of tenderloin and south of market we have in fact, in our own office seen over one thousand tenants that come through our doors to help with the tenant landlord issues i also want to highlight we have been working with the Fire Department to host workshops in all the hotels and have done 24 workshops for tenants and for management in sro hotels id like to thank you for the opportunity to push for more workshops part time well try to workout that with the Fire Department they dont have the funding and we would last week to see that happen thank you. Thank you next speaker, please. Hello my name is anna work for the coming Outreach Program of the tenderloin clinic and want to enhance sorry make sure that you know how for this Code Enforcement Outreach Program for our community especially in youre with a lot of the tenants that are bilingual having this Program Helps create the trust between the city agencies and the tenants so i want to sorry make sure that that the Code Enforcement Outreach Program is being enhanced and all this meeting thank you. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors my name is rosa im the Program Manager for the Code Enforcement Outreach Program another tenderloin housing clinic i work along with anna and though i read the report i said to highlighted some of the Amazing Things i think the Code Enforcement Outreach Program helps to facilitate with the dbi funding our Code Enforcement Outreach Program focused in the tenderloin and we had a bit of outreach in the south of market area has assisted tenants within those areas that are as anthema mentioned bilingual they speak mayan and cantonese and mandrin what were able to do is provide a brazen or link between tenants within those areas to a city did not like the department of building inspection to correct negligent conditions the landlords have per traditional housing is a right in San Francisco and make sure those conditions are up and make sure that tenant which we had seen in the last two years were not selfevicting themselves because of conditions in building that have been so decrept with over run of rodents or landlords not responding to tenant concerns that tenants are thinking about environmental impactism were proud at tenderloin clinic we feel we help several tenants i want to say we helped at least 6 hundred amount number of tenant so elder and families in the tenderloin so i hope you guys that message is conveyed and communicated in a very long way thank you very much. 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Hi tom from Human Rights Committee i kind of want to echo what a lot of the people saying Human Rights Committee in recent a case in supervisor president london breed district an elderly woman who had been relocated spoepdz to roommate her parapet shed burn relocated temporarily but the temporary was seven months it was really the effort of not only supervisor breed office but the human right working in conjunction with dbi and that kind of work came because of close relationship with dbi and this program and because of that the bottom line was we were able to get her back into her parapet in one week because of this relationship i want to urge you, i dont know what the board can do weve been meeting with the Fire Department and trying to set up a Similar Program within the Fire Department the reality were in the ground the tenant organizers people come into our office and see 5 thousand implies a year we hear about the foreclose safety problems we need this working relationship that the Fire Department i can call up someone directly and say hey i have this address heres whats happening can but send an inspector to make sure that happens thats the kind of rep with dbi we really, really need to relationship with fire to help to prevent some of those fires. Thank you anyone wish to comment here to testify on this item no. 7 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I know that supervisor breed has a few words to say but ill start with a highlevel of thank you to the 2016 civil grand jury for all of your reports and professionalism and for thank you for all your hard work to move this and other subject matters forward we greatly appreciate our work for nothing. But you signed up for the job thank you. For all of that. 13 per day. You cant get here for 13 a day and wards wrashdz to this report no action this body, or needs to take with that said, id like to do this is within the purview of the San Francisco Government Audit Oversight Committee to bring this matter back we do it the continuity the civil grand jury with continuity reports well continue to revisit this issue i appreciate the fact that both departments are taken to seriously and appreciate the work the respect commission and mr. Hui get that done. Supervisor president london breed and thank you to again to the civil grand jury you know the people who usually go through the process to be part of the civil grand jury and spend countless hours with the research and work it is a thank also job you care about the city and care about green house back i want to letting you know, we appreciate the time and work in preps those amazing reports it is great to shine a light on things well talk about they board of supervisors maybe during biscuit season. Oufrments i know get 80 getting to a point we make the covets changes to make sure that government is working more efficiently for the people it intends to serve those reports go a long way in the right direction so thank you. I want to ask specific questions because from my perspective i want to fix it and i want to fix it because it shouldnt be that you, you this someone has to reach out to the board of supervisors or to their supervisor to deal with that situation that tommy mentioned it was horrible to have that person not having an advocate to help to fascist the process she would be homeless this is a frustration that so 34 people that dont know who to crack are experiencing all over our city i want 24 process to work better and heard from one of the speakers specifically the responses the Fire Department was they dont have the funding and i guess i understand to understand if this is true or not true what is the issue with the departments budget in terms of being a little bit more responsive with those situations those fire Code Violations and whats happening base especially because preservation is important so we dont get to a point where things happen in the first time we all want to avoid getting to that point clearly in the first place i want to understand the Fire Departments role and not having sufficient funding to be more responsive is true and if thats the case you know where do we go from hey here and highway to fix it. Mr. Fire marshall de cossio. Yes. Thank you. With regards to staffing and funding first of all, id like to thank the Building Department for theyre supporting us with two new positions community each. Thats my next question with the competence and funding at dbi is it possible to fined the positions necessary and thank you very much for dbi for that support. With two positions a new fire investor and inspector to go to neighborhood and address all Fire Safety Concerns as far as contact theyll be the point for the community to reach out and other positions four new inspector positions and create a fire complaint section what weve done in the past they used to be sent out to the different districts multiple district throughout the city their duties for full inspectors a hoist of things if that fire complaints but we created a new section and consolidate all the complaint to be more efficient and addressing the these complaints. Which did this start is. Last week the additional positions and again, this process has been in the works for quite a few of the i permanent was a part of Fire Task Force the Interagency Task force i sought concerns of the public and at this point we start to plan that with allocating the resources to the sections and started out with a reassigning the champion and concluded that reallocation so, now a champion, lieutenant and 6 inspectors that address all fire complaints. Okay. The other question i wanted to ask something he most recently experienced with an individual in my district who is a hoarder and had a fire and as a result i think what bogged me the most about the situation there was a fire the Fire Department came and put out the fire and there was really no connection or no followup to services for this particular individual in fact, the reason he got involved several neighbors of this year person had reached out to me and had a fire the door was broken i mean but we got services you know after my office was made aware of the situation, we were able to work with you know the different departments Human Resources and all of these things to get him services we discovered his water was cut off i dont think so where the disconnect was youre talking about a Senior Living without water clearly has issues and needs support and i guess from my perspective he know not as if we talk about someone in their personal home you would be able to prevent or know theirs issues without getting involved i guess i didnt understand why the department after they put out the fire that there were no signs to see there was a need for social services or for support or dbi even or just im trying to understand after the situation occurred you know what is your role to connect individuals that we know are clearly in trouble to the resources they need to get help. I think part of this is training and reinforcing the idea were a department and a process to refer those issues to protective services and dbi the tools are there i think about reinforcing and meg to the field and the issues to have an avenue to reviewer to other auditions think that is mainly training the tools are there. I guess i see a bit of a disconnect and wanting to make sure that we are doing what we can to be supportive and you are doing what you can to make sure that is not just about, of course, a role that 9 department plays responding to all the 911 emergencies and dealing with challenging situations i know so many people appreciate but then there are other layers as a fire marshall what you deal with in general with occupancy and other challenges with the buildings im just concerned that from my perspective not sure of the what the policies are with the department and how those policies actually serve the public as it relates to preservation in terms of the civil grand jury report after something occurs and is there a disconnect and something we can do to support you know moving the in the right direction to. Ill bring this forward to the deputy chief. And to mention the department of building inspection is it polk what youve been provided is sufficient or is there a need for Additional Resources because clearly i know the opportunity exists from the funding is available and dbi can use funding for this particular purpose i think this is really you know a great opportunity to try to make sure we have the appropriate capacity to support the department in this regard. Were rolling out programs teammate with the fire complaints in the Community Outreach at this time no need for Additional Resources but down the road we may this is in any to us we are rolling this out i think from what i sit were good right now with the two new programs. Okay. Thank you. Thank you fire marshall de cossio supervisor yee. Just want to make a general comment i want to thank the grand jury for this year id be able to read several years of report from the grand juror efforts and we have to say this this year is the best in terms of all the ones ive seen it is useful and its been seem to have the ability to move some of the departments more than in the past so i want to congratulate actually, the juries that were working on the reports. Thank you supervisor yee so with that, why not have a motion to file item no. 7 made by supervisor yee without objection thank you, again one and all and lets see return to item 2 thank you for your patience im sorry i forgot your name i know you represent the department of Human Resources. Thank you. Im the Employee Relations director and i am fairly new to my position i can assure you ill have answers to our questions when you ask them. Its all good. Let me i think ive gathered the information requested and let me address each item individually you asked me about the recreation facility assistance on page thirty of the ordinance and this is a new classification it is being created and worked in conjunction with the seiu this is intend to provide permanent staffing for our recreation facility in the past we used primarily temporary staffing and this is a new position to provide ongoing permanent staffing you asked about the physician claefgs. By the way, im not trying to be funny but do we really have a city patio invite. Two city moa patianistoa p city pianist. Now theyre represented in bargaining unit the seiu. Okay moving forward. Supervisor breed wants to know where they play and i can get you their schedule im meeting with them this afternoon. I say next question, i noted on page 20 with the physician classifications if so being eliminated this sclaefgs is being eliminated because we no longer use it we have been using the physician specialist and the senior physician specialist classifications this is being eliminated the next question owe not on page 15 the senior examiner this. Special examiner and im sorry special examiner this classifications used to be unrep and this classification you asked me what it does that support the hiring examines the proctor hiring examines and fluctuate as we are at the east bay and flow of hiring asked by the about the classification an page 11 it is a classification that is used a senior level in the planner series and the most complex position mr. 9 peep in the classification there is 2 in the planning department, two in mta and 3 at the that concludes my report. And one at the airport. Okay. And we looked at the history it been used consistently not earmarked to be eliminated so. 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