The guest chaplain mr. President , members of the senate, may the lord be with you. Let us bow our heads in reference to his presence. God, our help in ages past, be our comfort still. Thank you for this great, great nation, and its foundation of one nation, under god, indivisible. Thank you, lord, that we can emphasize indivisible. Thank you for the liberty, the justice, and the freedoms we enjoy. We pray for all who walk these hallowed halls where lifechanging, worldchanging decisions are made. Bless this austere gathering of men and women chosen by you and the American People to serve us all. Give them wisdom to acknowledge you first in all they do. Give them grace, as has been extended to them. Guide them, o holy spirit. Guide them, o holy spirit. Fill them and this chamber with your presence, and fill these halls with your glory. When they leave today, may they say, we have not just been in the presence of men; we have been in the presence of god. Now, in the name of the one i tru
Tom, the acting director. Since bill is not in, and i want to present the dbi and legislation, and you know, tracking and first of all our first item regarding the soft story building, and they are here from robert, on the item four. And of, and of the agenda. And also, i want to highlight that we have, we have to hand out the brochure for three different language, accomplish, spanish and chinese. And then, more welcome any commissioner want to get a copy. The second, item is regarding the ordinance, 130765. That was a discussion with the puc, regarding, you know, assuring the, you know, the water, you know, to insure, the property that we have changed the language. Thank you for our chief plumbing inspector, and also Pinnacle Service to add the language in there. And our items regarding the you know the second, is right now is working with supervisor chius office. And lots of discussion. They have a task force to discuss any, you know, anything that we can help in that, you know, draf
As the only one and do they maybe, how is their novs and i know that you talked 160 some in san jose. And which, you know, lets just talk a little bit because i think that we are getting a bad wrap there and we are trying to work through them and i want to highlight the fact that the other cities dont deal with them. The city of los angeles commissioner i have had the numerous calls in the last two years. And as jamie indicated that they had taken away the ability to gain the funding to our costs recovery and were now looking back at revisiting that issue to be able to support that program and it was something that they werent doing and the other thing that they were looking at was completely reorganizing the model that they had created kind of from housing what they did is they took, the housing division, pulled it out and created a department that had the components of the Mayors Office of housing, and brought all of the Code Enforcement under one umbrella and they were having a prob
And people are living in terrible conditions. And basically told we are not going to help you. And but, if the house across the street has a broken window they will go after that house across the street with the broken window. And so, it is, it was very eye opening doing this study. But we also found the city of jacksonville does take it very seriously and i was surprised to hear that and they form a lot of the actions that we perform. And some of their numbers are similar to ours. One smaller city that we is not on here is the city of cincinnati and they have a great practice for their anonymous complaint system regarding secondary units. And i can show you anybody that later if they are interested. Commissioner mar . Let me start putting this together, guys. So i am not surprised by the texas cities, in fact there is, you know, commonalities i think in all of the Southern States in terms of lack of housing code and enforcement. Not surprising. But, i am wondering, if you know, just h
Renters stock, they do have housing code and they do have housing inspection service. And the same thing, they have, and they do active tenant complaints and notice of violation of the response, but then, again, that is where the buck stops, i guess. Thank you and just going to seem like. What . So, is, what your interpretation of the cities that dont have any of the follow through and dont have any enforcement . Where does it go . I mean, how does this end up . I am just kind of scratching my head. Yeah, like chicago, right . Yeah. A huge, city with huge rentals. Yeah. And what happens to. How does this get addressed . I mean. In chicago, people are basically left to fend for themselves. And but, they have to utilize legal aid, or other Legal Systems like repair and detect and trying to withhold the amount of filing their own private lawsuit if they can get an attorney to do it. So it is basically, the cries for help get ignored in a lot of places. The higher power has kind of taken l