Today we have plenty of sunshine but again those brisk and custom easterly winds bringing choppy seas to the coast of willington and also those easterly winds are keeping the east coast a little cooler and fresher. Coming in land, a warmer day, temperatures more widely pushing into the low 20s. Overnight tonight, it stays quite breezy, clear and starry skies initially but there could be a few patches of cloud forming over the pennines later in the night. Temperatures for seven celsius for many of us, but cold enough like last night for frost in some of the steeper scottish valleys. Looking at the weather charts tomorrow, High Pressure still firmly in charge of oui pressure still firmly in charge of our weather, but the isobars are beginning to open out a little bit and that means although the wind is still blowing from an easterly direction it will not blow strongly. Any Early Morning cloud clearing up quickly and for most of us again it is sunshine across the board throughout the day.
Friday, we have hired, we have hired nine individuals the majority of which eight of those nine are clerks and their sprinkled through the department. They are in training right now. So, as you know with training mode, any of us remember starting a new job it takes a little while to get the hang of it. We promoted two people from being temporary to being permanent in the clerk positions and we have hired two prop f people who have come back. One for housing inspection and one for the permit bureau. So, we are slowly staffing up. We are still working as rosemary mentioned. We have issued the job announcements for the housing inspecters. We are having those out for eight, i am sorry, ten Business Days so people have ample opportunity to be able to apply. We have right now today, we are having some interviews for selecting a list for electrical inspecters and march we are going to have interviews for the building inspecters and so we are moving on, we just have a lot of interviews a lot o
I strongly support and urge action on this to support the mandatory retrofit. The category of great risk at hand is the earthquake, but more importantly is the risk of not taking action. Timely action, because what we have here is a land mine. What we will have when that land mine goes off is going to be great damage. The damage to both social, cultural and economic, the categories of our neighborhoods are the most vulnerable within this spector of disaster and it is not just what basically will effect the neighborhoods, but also the economic recovery. Because, the ability for people to go back to work is basically the ability to live where they live and if not, in their neighborhoods, and if not, the neighborhood support services, the cafes the restaurants. Those that they basically within the walking distance of their neighborhoods would continue to support. I urge action on this, the action is never too late if it occurs yesterday, but the em pending earthquake is coming at this mom
Number of inspectors that are coming on to do the work and that is in demand right now. So with that. I will take any questions if you have any. No. Thank you, mr. Strong. Item 8 c. Update on permit tracking system. Good morning commissioners im canty project director of building inspection and i am here to report the permit on the tracking system. Several efforts are in progress. Several efforts are in progress on the project. The system is being developed and the data enter facing and it is happening and scripting and changes and also the test Case Scenarios are being developed. And the Advisory Group meeting occurred on january 30th, and very positive. A second meeting to be schedule in march. There is also a larger stake holder meeting that is being planned and this is opened to the citizens who wish to see the presentation and also, participate in the services that we have planned for the second week of march. The software for the mobile devices is being reviewed and it is the kic
A lot of interviews a lot of Selection Process going on at the same time which makes it a little difficult for staff and we are trying to get as much help as we can from Human Resources. They also as i said before, continue to help us on the exam process for the rest of the positions that we are trying to hire which are some it positions and some senior electrical inspecters and our permit technicians. As we expected the nonpersonal services are under nonexpending because we get a lot of the bills at the end of the year. And then, in terms of the other expenditures, you know we continue with our services of other department and we have gotten the billings for the larger work orders so this is the. The City Attorney services have come in less than i expected so i am going to discuss with them on this because we have referred many cases to them and i am not sure whether those are being picked up. And then, our program expenses, you know, are so small that it would not make any sense to s