The Building Standards Appeals Board of the City of Fresno convened at 1:00 PM on April 9, 2026, according to the prompt, though the minutes indicate the meeting occurred on Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM. The board considered three new matters: a late appeal filing, an appeal of a first administrative citation, and a workshop on burden of proof. All five board members were present: Chair Imelda Golik, Vice Chair Scott Vincent, Board Member Daniel Field, Board Member Scott Mears, and Board Member Rick Ransom. The agenda was approved unanimously at 1:01 PM.
Yes, just a reminder to everyone to please speak as close to the mic as you can, otherwise they can't hear you in the audience. Thank you. I now call this meeting a building standards appeal board to order. City staff, please call the role. Board member ransom. Here. Board member Mears. Here. Board member Field. Here. Vice Chair Vincent. Here. Chair Golek. Here. Okay, the procedure. For each matter considered by the board, there will be a staff presentation followed by a presentation from the project applicant. Then discussion by the board. Both staff and the applicants will have the right for a rebuttal presentation prior to closing the public hearing. Public comments on all matters on the agenda shall be taken during agenda item six. All public testimony will be limited to three minutes per person. All public testimony must be presented to the board at the podium. The three lights on the podium next to the microphone will indicate the amount of time remaining for the speaker. In making this determinations. please I think Madam Chair I'd move to approve the agenda procedurally first let's confirm there are no changes to the agenda this is Ashley Atkinson Assistant Director for Planning and Development sitting in for Eric Frampton as building official since he is out today uh there are no uh changes proposed to the agenda by staff okay and board members are there any changes on your part of the agenda is there a motion to approve as amended I have a motion to approve second all in favor aye aye aye okay so let's see here so let's move on um the the agenda is approved we will now move on to the consent calendar on the consent calendars we have for a uh approval of the February third building standards um meeting minutes and approval of February 17 building standard regular meeting is there a motion to approve the consent calendar move to approve the both minutes as uh presented second second all in favor aye aye opposed the consent calendar is approved then we will move on to the reports by the board members um board members do you wish to make any reports no nothing none okay we will move on to public comment are there uh we are now going to take public comments on all matters with any member of the public would you like to speak on items on continued or new matters if so each speaker has three minutes please identify the item that you will comment and begin your comments no okay none so we'll move on to continued matters there are no items in continued matters so we will now move on to new matters okay let's go on to new matters so uh i will let um the hearing will be held as follows so we have staff presenting um this is uh the hearings to determine whether good cause exists to accept the late appeal filing for one three four seven East Shields Avenue anybody wants to do a presentation good afternoon um so my name is Marie Chalet Porter um and I live here in Fresno um and I work in San Francisco uh as a registered nurse um I am appealing um for a good cause um on the fact that um initially the letter uh was sent to an incorrect address and had to be rerouted to me um which took an additional amount of time to get to my home um aside from that when I did receive the letter it was after um I was in San Francisco um working and also I traveled for business in January in the beginning of January so I was not in town until uh January 2 8th of this year 2026 um which is when I received um and submitted the appeal but unfortunately it was after the 15 days um that was allotted for me to be able to submit the appeal um for that reason I am asking for um good cause to be able to submit my appeal and get my case heard okay so you're asking for an extended time yes okay uh board members do you have any questions not of the appellant at this appellant at this time I do have some questions about this for staff thank you okay so no questions yeah okay thank you okay so can can we get a clarification from staff um the way that the actions are listed on the agenda for us to do um I was taking this as just making a judgment on the appeal or the the late filing of the appeal notice or request and not into the violations that are included because for example item two three um says dismiss the first administrative citation so that that kind of confused me and I'd like clarification Um I was taking this as just making a judgment on the appeal or the late filing of the appeal notice or request and not into the violations that are included, because for example, item two three um says dismiss the first administrative citation. So that kind of confused me, and I'd like clarification on that. I think I can speak briefly on that. Christina Roberson, assistant city attorney. Good afternoon. Um I think that that is for the second hearing. There is a hearing today regarding the property on Fillmore, which is an actual hearing for um uh the appeal. Um, this this first hearing is just to determine whether good cause exists to accept the late appeal. Okay, you're you're correct. I mistook that. No problem, no problem. Um, thank you. Thank you. Okay, shall I uh I will close it now and then we'll have the board members um we'll have a discussion. This is closed right now for discussion amongst uh the board members. I think the extensions should be granted, just because she's given proof of that she wasn't here when the citation came and it was sent to the wrong address. So I don't have a problem giving the extension. I agree, you know, the compounding things. The the anybody has any other ideas. No, she has some excellent points. Traveling nurse number one and uh being delivered to the wrong address initially. I I agree. I tend to agree. So let's uh begin a motion to deny or accept the late appeal. So who would like to make a motion to accept the appeal? Uh motion to accept second.