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Good afternoon. Im laurence kornfield chief building inspector with the city of San Franciscos department of building inspection. And this is one of our monthly Brown Bag Lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. This is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. I ask people to come and share points of view with me. And so for todays discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have a couple people joining us. Pat buscovich, Structural Engineer who is one of the people who has seen...

Notice of violation and the Building Code does not give any specific time to, like, for instance, you put in the inlaw, or you put in the three windows and you must have a permit in 30 days it does not do that and we give them reasonable time and the reason that we do that it is so vast that it could be someone built a building without a permit and not going to get one for two years or if you do a demolition, you could be in planning for the next three or four years. If you do work to Historical Building and you alter it, you might never get a permit and as a matter of fact if you get complain...

Of all of them. Thank you. There are no more commissioners comment . Is there any Public Comment on item eight . See none, item 9, discussion of how fees and penalty are assessed for the dbi Enforcement Actions under the building, electrical plumbing and mechanical and housing codes. And the Deputy Director of the Apartment Services and i have been asked to give you an overview of how and what we assess. As far as penalties. With bid, Plumbing Electrical and building inspection and there are three kinds of assessments that can happen and there is the ones that you are familiar with and the nin...

Bases we have recommended that you proof approve this. Supervisor mark farrell colleagues, any questions . Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I would like to thank staff. We went through these items. From my perspective, putting a new fleet when we have an old fleet when we have an old deteriorating system. I will push that envelope when we can get rid of the buses and the obscene wires in our city and take care of that and do it in a Climate Friendly manner. I appreciate you doing that and hope that king county will give us a discount when we beat ...

Highlights have been conveyed to the board of supervisors and an amazing mulch of work done. Congratulations to robert chung and his Excellent Team who are doing the retrofitting for soft story buildings and for the free workshop held in october and november. There will be another free opportunity on january for the mayors director dbi and numerous others will be in fair trade set up where customers may learn the contains arrangements. Dbi is investigating a chinas workshop at the chinatown ward to that also. Please note to the sfgovtv workshop is now available on line through youtube with the...