Litigation Committee

Building Inspection Commission (BIC)

Committee Meeting of December 17, 1998

Adopted on February 22, 1999

1660 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

MINUTES

The meeting of the Litigation Committee of the Building Inspection Commission was called to order at 1:05 p.m. by Chair Vasquez.

1.	ROLL CALL - Roll call was taken and a quorum was certified.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT:

Armando Vasquez, Chair

Roy Guinnane, Commissioner

COMMISSION STAFF:

Maria Banico, Commission Secretary

D.B.I. REPRESENTATIVES:

William Wong, Deputy Director of Administration

Peter Burns, Manager of Code Enforcement

Robert Noelke, Senior Housing Inspector

Rafael Torres-Gil, Senior Building Inspector

Jim Whipple, Building Inspector

CITY ATTORNEY'S REPRESENTATIVE:

Kimon Manolius, Deputy City Attorney

2.	Public Comment.

There were no members of the public present at the meeting, the Committee did not receive any public testimony.

3.	Report and discussion on the general litigation and settlement processes and status of DBI cases.

No discussion.

4.	Report and discussion on the settlement in the case of CCSF v. Vasilios G. Glimidakis on property located at 55 Mason Street (Ambassador Hotel), Superior Court No. 993.534.

Deputy City Attorney Manolius reported that the property has just closed escrow and has been sold.

5.	Report and discussion on the settlement in the case of CCSF v. Brugnara on property located at 814 Mission Street, Superior Court No. 990-715.

No discussion.

6.	CLOSED SESSION: Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9 (a).

a.	Public Comment on all matter pertaining to the Closed Session.

There was no public comment received.

b.	Possible action to convene a Closed Session.

Commissioner Guinnane moved, seconded by Chair Vasquez, to go into Closed Session to protect the City's posture in the named cases.

The motioned passed unanimously.

The Committee went into Closed Session, from 1:07 to 2:30 p.m.

c.	CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL

(1) Existing Litigation:	333 O'Farrell (One Hilton Square)

Update on the status of litigation and possible action to formulate strategies or accept settlement offer in the case of CCSF v. Hilton

(2) Existing Litigation:	47-51 Sixth Street (Hillsdale Hotel)

Update on the status of litigation and possible action to formulate strategies or accept settlement offer in the case of CCSF v. Hitendra A. Sinh. (Superior Court No. 992-949)

(3) Existing Litigation:	2220 - 2224 Sacramento Street

Update on the status of litigation and possible action to formulate strategies or accept settlement offer in the case of CCSF v. Pritikin. (Superior Court No. 993-919)

(4) Existing Litigation:	1231 Market Street (Ramada Hotel)

Update on the status of litigation and possible action to formulate

strategies or accept settlement offer in the case of CCSF v. Eastopen, Inc. (Superior Court No. 993-010)

(5) Existing Litigation:	482 Waller Street

Update on the status of litigation and possible action to formulate

strategies or accept settlement offer in the case of CCSF v. Sherman. (Superior Court No. 992-884)

(6) Existing Litigation:	770 Golden Gate Avenue

Update on the status of litigation and possible action to formulate strategies or accept settlement offer in the case of CCSF v. San Francisco Employees' Credit Union.

(7) Existing Litigation:	124 Turk Street (Camelot Hotel)

Update on the status of litigation and possible action to formulate strategies or accept settlement offer in the case of CCSF v. Balubhai I. Patel. (Superior Court No. 927-874)

(8) Existing Litigation:	359-61 Lombard Street

Update on the status of litigation and possible action to formulate

strategies or accept settlement offer in the case of CCSF v. George. (Superior Court No. 998-027)

Commissioner Guinnane moved, seconded by Chair Vasquez, not to disclose the details of the discussions held at Closed Session.

The motioned passed unanimously.

7.	Discussion and possible action with respect to those items that could be placed on the agenda of future Committee meetings.

Chair Vasquez said that Deputy City Attorney Manolius will forward a list of the cases to the Commission Office prior to the next meeting.

The next meeting was set for February 22, 1999 at 1:00 p.m.

8.	Commissioner Inquiries and Review of Communication Items: At this time, the Committee may make inquiries to staff regarding the status of various documents, policies, practices and procedures which are of interest to the Committee and may discuss communication items received since the last Committee meeting.

There were no communication items received for this meeting. Also, there was no discussion under this agenda item.

9.	Approval of the Minutes of the Committee Meeting of October 1, 1998.

Commissioner Guinnane moved, seconded by Chair Vasquez to approve the Minutes of October 1, 1998 as prepared.

The motioned passed unanimously.

10.	Public Comment: The BIC Committee will take public comment on matters within the Committee's jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda.

There was no public comment received.

11.	Adjournment.

There being no other business, and on a motion made by Commissioner Guinnane, seconded by Chair Vasquez, the meeting adjourned at 2:35 p.m.

The motion passed by unanimous vote.

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MARIA G. T. BANICO

Commission SecretaryÇã