the dpw rendered the harsh estest vote. they revoked their license. he came out to find out the revocation was the entire food service. there was no evidence, no evidence presented, he wasn't even aware of that as to the whole license. only one location was mentioned. we don't believe that the harshest penalty is what should have been given to them. they are young men trying to start out in business. they have spent a lot of money, invested a lot of time and bring a lot of passion to what they do. and we are hoping that the board in its discretion will reduce the penalty to a suspension for both locations. they have not operated until they filed this notice of appeal. they obeyed the regulations as they saw fit. mr. stevens will admit that when he was informed in june that they had to begin to close down at 1:00 a.m., this is what they did. they began to pick up and pack out which takes about a half hour to an hour. during that period of time there were hot dogs left in their tins which were cooking and in order not to waste food, they did continue to

i was notified by the dpw that they called the person, mr. stevens that they violated the permit and he received a certified mail notice that he was in violation. after june 24th for whatever reason he was not for the most part was not showing up. so there was none after that. he was operating a sound system, a power generator. the gentleman before me said there were other carts in the area, but there haven't been any that i have seen. there are more on mission street. since he has been gone i saw one which i called the police and they came immediately and moved that person on. needless to say this attracts people lie magnets under my windows this is a mixed use area. thank you. >> can i clarify one thing. you indicated that they weren't there after june 24th? >> no, i'm sorry. that was a misstatement. i was

i was notified by the dpw that they called the person, mr. stevens that they violated the permit and he received a certified mail notice that he was in violation. after june 24th for whatever reason he was not for the most part was not showing up. so there was none after that. he was operating a sound system, a power generator. the gentleman before me said there were other carts in the area, but there haven't been any that i have seen. there are more on mission street. since he has been gone i saw one which i called the police and they came immediately and moved that person on. needless to say this attracts people lie magnets under my windows this is a mixed use area. thank you. >> can i clarify one thing. you indicated that they weren't there after june 24th? >> no, i'm sorry. that was a misstatement. i was not videotaping. they were there once, button july 5, all the other days, they did not show up. whether they would have stayed passed that time is -- [inaudible] >> okay. [inaudible] okay. we can start rebuttable now. i assume we have no

i was notified by the dpw that they called the person, mr. stevens that they violated the permit and he received a certified mail notice that he was in violation. after june 24th for whatever reason he was not for the most part was not showing up. so there was none after that. he was operating a sound system, a power generator. the gentleman before me said there were other carts in the area, but there haven't been any that i have seen. there are more on mission street. since he has been gone i saw one which i called the police and they came immediately and moved that person on. needless to say this attracts people lie magnets under my windows this is a mixed use area. thank you. >> can i clarify one thing. you indicated that they n'

so, to dpw. >> thank you. my name is robert kwan. i'm with the department of public works, and this report is for properties inspected [speaker not understood] and repairs made on invoice by the city under the accelerated sidewalk abatement program from april, 2012 through april 2013. ~ during that period, the department inspected and/or caused to repair sidewalks and curbs fronting public and private properties throughout the city in response to delinquent notifications issued in response to service requests seedthv by the drape received by the city attorney's office, mayor's office of disability, [speaker not understood], issuing 73 notices of violation and abatement orders ~ and 111 asap x 11 04s at a cost of $8 68,014.97. for light notice of violation and abatement orders, $693,88 6 .80 for asapx 11 04s for a total of $76 2,701.77. 82 invoices were sent out to property owners of which 43 invoices were paid along with the city to recover $9,0 82.[speaker not understood]. the balance [speaker not understood] sidewalk repairs or ins

dpw as a rule does not do the abatement. so, whether they are or aren't using the correct materials to remove it off of brick, it's based on who they hire or who they get to do the work. we are aware for the time when we did do t we have several different products based on the type of surface. and staff was trained at that time, but that's when we were doing abatement on private property. >> i can just help a little bit. again, from the historic building perspective, of course, private property can be historic, too. but there's a difference between, of course, when it's a public owned building or private owned building. perhaps some of it is an awareness or an education about resource he he that are available. there's a whole gamut of people available to remove graffiti, people who have never done it before, maybe they're painters but they just have access to materials and they are used to taking paint off. i guess farther down the spectrum of people that have never done it before and just want to be good citizens to remove

so, first dpw. >> thank you. my name is robert kwan and i'm with the department of public works. this report is for properties inspected and notified and repairs made and invoiced by the city under the sidewalk inspection and repair program from april 2012 through april 2013. during this period, the department inspected and repaired sidewalks and curbs along city blocks in portions of the north beach, excelsior, noe valley, cal hollow, twin peaks and clone a height, inner and outer sunset, potrero hill, ~ western addition, lower pacific heights and the marina district, issuing 3,0 94 notices to repair, and 2300 [speaker not understood] notification to various city agencies and utility companies. repairs were done at a cost of $1,319,000 for notices to repairs, $1,536,000 for [speaker not understood] for a total of $2,85 5,1 77.02. ~ 1369 invoices were sent out to property owners, of which 1231 property owners paid, allowing the city to recover $1,156,524.65. the balance of the property owners elected to have the cost of the sidewalk repairs placed on their property tax or otherwi

event, but i would like to first of all just thanks san francisco police department, fire department, dpw and everybody who has got us to this point. as we all know, public safety is a number one priority in this city. and it is the number one priority for our mayor and so, today, is a very, very great day as we take this step in topping this public safety building. before i introduce our mayor, as many of you know, when mayor lee ran for office there were three very important things that the mayor said that he was going to do. and one of them was he was going to create jobs. and we all know, all of these projects, we have ordinances, that make sure that we have people on these jobs. and he also is an environmental stewart ship that we would do everything that we can to project our environment and build the green and lead buildings. >> this building will represent that and as i said earlier public safety was his number one priority and without going further, let me introduce the man who has worked very hard to get us to this point, our mayor, ed lee. >> thank you. good morning, everybody,

i was there at dpw for years, we were struggling about how we were going to replace 850 bryant street and obviously with the financial rec mifms that we we can only do it in phases, only when we do this part, could we work on the courts and the jails and all of the rest of the agencies that are housed, the da and others that are housed in that very old building. today it is about the new public safety building, 700 construction jobs, thank you. union. maus plause [ applause ] for all of the contract unions. panco, and all of the designers that work on this and i notice that the police unit and the fire unit are here as well to celebrate this because they know that the workforce will be housed in more safe buildings and we mean to do that for every police and fire station. we will have to do more eastern bonds in the future, but this particular bond has at its main gem, 239 million dollars dedicated to the public safety building and we are also using that bond to work on the water system and some of the fire stations that are in worst shape and we want to continue doing that. and it is

we got a call from somebody asking, is dpw doing this? we said yes. i have $50,000, i will support it. we are a private group. this is not tax deductible. we do not care. and they rebuilt some houses. the problem with most people is they could not even teardown their homes. but this is the burning man twist. i love telling this story. being who they were, the culture, at the end of each day, the landscape was strewn with debris. you have to seeing the pictures. they gather up the debris, at night, they turn it into a bonfire. that is part of our culture. then locals started to come around and one woman said, i have never seen anything like this. i have never seen anything like this, but i like it. pretty soon, they were making art. fema is not going to do that for you. and that was just a spontaneous effort. now it has expanded around the world. this came out of burning man, this wild, crazy party. >> let us start over here with a question. >> i would like to ask a question about dpw. the people that build infrastructure. i want to know why they do no

the dpw rendered the harsh estest vote. they revoked their license. he came out to find out the revocation was the entire food service. there was no evidence, no evidence presented, he wasn't even aware of that as to the whole license. only one location was mentioned. we don't believe that the harshest penalty is what should have been given to them. they are young men trying to start out in business. they have spent a lot of money, invested a lot of time and bring a lot of passion to what they do. and we are hoping that the board in its discretion will reduce the penaltyo

one of my colleagues might go down to bayview to meet with merchants and find out that dpw was there the week before meeting with the merchants. so when we don't work together as effectively as we can, we sometimes duplicate each other's work or missing opportunities to leverage investment. so invest in neighborhoods is at its core, it's a framework for more effective deployment of city resources by organizing city departments so that we work together more effectively to respond to the specific needs and opportunities in each commercial district. that is "invest in neighborhoods." and i will tell you how we do that. there is basically three elements to invest in neighborhoods that i want to tell you about. baseline services, commercial district assessments and customized services. so "baseline" services are city programs that are available to all of the neighborhoods in invest in neighborhoods, where we're piloting the initiative. and i have a few up on the screen there that i'm going to quickly run through, but we have identified about 40 city services that we call "baseline service

>> yes, the roadways will be maintained by dpw. the park will be maintained by the office of community investment infrastructure using community facility district financing. >> okay. so, it's not really a park, right -- >> it's a median -- >> a median. >> it's an open space park, but it's not something you go romping on and playing with. also a great benefit of the green area, and i'm going to show that to you right now, is that these green areas are also used for stormwater management containing bioswaleses. i think people can romp around on it a little bit, but not -- >> actually, this is actually just a general question and i should know the answer to this but i don't. in general when we have open space for parks that are under the former redevelopment area plan, do they typically get conveyed to rec and park, or dpw or does it stay within the successor agency? >> it tase within the successor agency for decades and decades. i think that's a decision that's been moved off into the future. i'm thinking maybe as long as 40 years fr

one of my colleagues might go down to bayview to meet with merchants and find out that dpw was there the week before meeting with the merchants. so when we don't work together as effectively as we can, we sometimes duplicate each other's work or missing opportunities to leverage investment. so invest in neighborhoods is at its core, it's a framework for more effective deployment of city resources by organizing city departments so that we work together more effectively to respond to the specific needs and opportunities in each commercial district. that is "invest in neighborhoods." and i will tell you how we do that. there is basically three elements to invest in neighborhoods that i want to tell you about. baseline services, commercial district assessments and customized services. so "baseline" services are city programs that are available to all of the neighborhoods in invest in neighborhoods, where we're piloting the initiative. and i have a few up on the screen there that i'm going to quickly run through, buwe havefi about 40 cit services that we call "baseline services." any neig

it became apparent to the dpw that the appellants were staying up past 1 a.m. and a call was made to them on june 1, a discussion was held and told it had been amended and the e-mail had been sent and apparently not been seen by james steven. the mission area there is two bars. it's very livelily in the mission. the card is a small card. it's in front of one bar very close to one of the bars. about 1:00 the starts to get crowded. it should be noted there were three unlicensed, unregulated carts which the appellant had made the report to the police which were taking business from them. the appellants had gone through all the requirements set out by the city in order to get a cart with water, contained a certain temperature and had a refrigerator and they were licensed for this area. they had most of their business taken. one of the important things is when after june 1, they started getting more complaints. these complaints we believe were generated by some of the business owners in the area who didn't want a cart in front of their place selling food. it was imp

you have mta, you have dpw and you have planning. and they're all working on this and for a bit of a change in san francisco, they're actually talking to each other and sitting in the same room, and this is' great. but if you remember back in 2011, my letter ~ which i happened to look at over the weekend acquainting me said this is starting in 2013. and here we are. we did get a little repaving on market street, and that's nice. very well done. but it's a patch work. we're supposed to be going from octavia down to the embarcadaro basically. then it was moved to 2015, then 2017. i'm sure in the next couple weeks i'm going to hear 2020 mentioned. it's getting to be a little ridiculous. this has to move along. it has to move along quickly because this was supposed to be the short-term concept. the long-term 25-year concept will go probably to 20 40, does not have a single dollar ~ put aside for it. there is no long-term planning for market street. and, so, your successors in those chairs are going to be as frustrated as you are. >> can

i understand the department of public works and i would like to invite back to the podium dpw staff. good afternoon, president chiu and members of the board. we have submitted the final list to the board. the lines that have been crossed out were dismissed or paid. we resolved issues with eight properties on the list. the department is requesting your approval on the list for the dismiss iv properties. >> thank you, are there any members of the public who did not get to speak at this time. this item is closed item 26 is on the board. i understand there is an amended report? >> supervisor breed? >> thank you. i just had a question about the issue of places where there is consistent graffiti that happens and what is the process. based on what i'm hearing and what i know about this program if it happens, dpw they go and paint over it and they charge the owner if the owner agrees or doesn't agree or doesn't do it in a timely manner. is there anything that owners have in terms of any options if there is -- if they are just a target with regard to graffiti? >> yes, we have the hardship pro

. >> this is a softball for dpw. i want to know where you get the funding that you give out as grant funding, let's say street smarts. is it general fund money, is there a special fee that's tied to something that goes into a fund? >> yeah, it's general fund money. the department makes a decision on programs and we earmark money for various, like the police and the arts commission and we earmark money and send it to them. a lot of times you'll find the board of supervisors members have support for various programs also. we've gotten that after the budget was done in order to fund some of the programs. >> great. do you have another question? >> i have three more. >> you have three more up there, and anybody else going to be wanting to ask a question? okay, we'll get you lined up, then. >> let's see. this is to sharon. your capital city clean up program offers $1500 to private property owners to abate on heritage properties. what are the technical requirements to abate graffiti from heritage properties? >> i actually a

i'm proud for munis and the commission and they are working with dpw. speaking about dpw, muhammad and i worked together and we literally saw people who realized the second the bus arrives they can't eat on the bus. so where do they toss it? if they weren't looking or realized there was a trash can next to them as most bus stops do have them. they were irresponsible. we literally saw people tossing things as they got on boarding the buses. that's not good behavior. obviously we need to do a lot more education. we need to end that practice and we need to keep and attitude, a very spirit of keeping our public assets clean and beautiful as you see them today. this is what these buses ought to look like a few years from now. we know they won't, but we need to keep that attitude in the city, not only with our youth but everybody in the city of all ages we see them discarding waste material onto the streets. we have a crew of people picking these up and reminding folks. we wanted to change things. that is part of using the giant sweep in the world ferries tha