2008-10-08 Board of Ethics Minutes

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PERREIRA: That's a pretty rough question. Maybe, let me see, this was —it was definitely in 2006, and I want to say May or June of 2006. CHAIR: What was the nature of that meeting —it was through one of your inspections, that- PERREIRA: I believe it was at that first inspection or work that I did with former inspector Alan Yagi, that night we met. He was the manager for a long time there, Ivan was, and so when we went there I met him for the first time. CHAIR: Okay. L UM: I have a question. CHAIR: Yeah? LUM: Just to understand the procedure, when you do fire inspections, I assume it's an on- -every place at some point gets afire inspection? Or, I mean, is it like —how does it work? I have a place, I have a public restaurant or club or something- PERREIRA: -- There's a need— L UM: - -and I've passed the planning board, the Liquor Commission, I've opened now — what happens? PERREIRA: Well, prior to you opening for —once you apply for a liquor inspection, the Fire Department is part of that inspection. L UM: Okay. PERREIRA: And so we'd conduct an initial inspection. And then annually— L UM: -- Annually, okay- PERREIRA: - -we'd conduct inspections, and —you know, unfortunately, with the manpower that we have in our bureau, we don't get to go to everywhere. A lot of times we're responding to complaints from the public. LUM: Okay. And the next question would be that —once you do like an annual inspection, and let's say you find some violations I'm not talking like no step on the stairway and you've got to close them down right now, but I mean, just something, the railing's a little loose, needs some braces, that kind of thing. Do you then give them time or something to do something about this, and then do you reinspect —do they know when you're reinspecting? I just need to understand that. PERREIRA: Yeah, when we conduct an initial inspection, we go through the building and we try to make sure we do a thorough job. And we give them time, depending on the 7