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Public commenter accuses DBI staff and mayor of racism, calls for inquiry; commissioners note limits of public-comment process
Summary
At the Aug. 15 Building Inspection Commission meeting a longtime DBI inspector publicly accused named staff of fraud and alleged racial hiring practices at DBI, and named Mayor Edwin M. Lee. Commissioners and the city attorney described limits on official responses to allegations made during public comment and asked staff to clarify formal complaint routes.
Spencer Gosh, a building inspector with more than two decades in city service, used the meeting’s public-comment period to make two serious charges: he asked the Commission to open an inquiry into whether “Pam Levin and Vivian Day have been involved in defrauding the department” in connection with the Qbatic project, and he alleged a pattern of racial favoritism in hiring and promotions inside the Department of Building Inspection that he called “racist,” adding the accusation that Mayor Edwin M. Lee had advised commissioners to follow the same course.
Gosh said he had shared written materials with the Commission previously and…
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