Posted on 12/11/2016 6:03:34 PM PST by artichokegrower
The disastrous Ghost Ship fire has intensified long-simmering tensions between Oakland Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed and the city’s firefighters union, which for years has been lobbying behind the scenes to get her fired.
At the same time, however, African American community leaders are coming to the chief’s defense, complaining that Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration may be setting her up to take the blame for the deadly fire.
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Mountain University is/was in Beckley WV. It ceased operations in 2013.
Are you serious about ‘decent’?
National University is not much different.
Both are diploma machines...
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It was a cursory look. There isn’t much in “higher education” today that qualifies as truly decent, and when you “fold in” all the Marxism it only gets worse. Lastly, this woman is definitely an AA hire who seems to spend her time on non-job related activities building up her “black cred!” Obola is exactly the same. He has never taken responsibility for anything in his life.
All I noticed from the numerous press conferences is that there sure are a lot of women in traditionally men’s positions. Since it is CA, I detect a bit of affirmative action going on here?
Corruption will burn the big cities in California to the ground.
National University had a reputation for being competent, relatively conservative, but pricey when I checked it out ~15 years ago.
I am not understanding this. Doesn’t the (presumed) master tenant take primary responsibility for building safety, especially if he or she uses the building in a manner which it was not designed for? The owner was allegedly lied to by the master tenant and the artists who lived there, at least insofar as the place was being improperly used as living quarters.
Steve,
We own a small office building. In law, it is very clear that the landlord has the ultimate responsibility for what goes on in his premises. We require our tenants to carry their own insurance because our insurance carrier demands it. The FD does come around and inspect the tenants offices individually, and they perform a general inspection the results of which are actionable by us as owners. And we have to have the fire sprinkler system inspected by an independent contractor every five years with their report going to the FD.
You also mentioned “master tenant.” There really isn’t such a thing, since he is the only one with a contract with the owner, he is the only tenant. Most owners will not allow a tenant to sub lease space without landlord’s approval. As a landlord you should understand all uses to which your property is put and any tenant improvements have to be approved. But here, the property wasn’t zoned for overnight occupancy. We would not allow a tenant to take up permanent residence as an example. Furthermore, the city code would not allow it. The property is commercial and that means people go somewhere else to sleep and bathe. This place in Oakland was a warehouse and it wasn’t sprinklered. Plus it had tenant “improvements” that were not approved by anyone, and they were not “permitted” and inspected.
They aren’t even hyphenating it anymore. Teresa Deloach Reed. Is her middle name Deloach, or is that half of her last name?
I work in the medical field and two last names always adds to the fun.
thanks for the response and the info. I am tempted to wonder if there are different qualities of standards for occupancy-zoned buildings and non-occupancy zoned buildings. I also wonder if the sub leases are reviewed by the owner and the owner (not the master tenant) is responsible for day to day enforcement of the sub lease provisions.
It is interesting that your FD carries out periodic inspections. That would seem to imply to me that the FD inspection process alleviates what would otherwise be a major burden to the master tenant of enforcing fire codes.
I use master tenant only because I don’t have proper vocabulary/terminology. I hope you and others will please pardon my ignorance and/or stupidity (lol). I am just trying to learn what I can from all this.
Also I suspect (as I have mentioned elsewhere in other responses) that Oakland does not require sprinklers unless the property is rezoned residential or hotel, and/or the building is significantly remodeled including a permit process. The permit would trigger the sprinkler upgrade.
I’m thinking that an example of an exception to this would be earthquake structural bracing.
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