Maddela. Good morning. Heres a live look at montgomery drive. Not a lot of folks out there quite yet. Thats going to change within this next hour though. And as we take a look at your drive times on the schuylkill expressway, seeing a lot of green out there. Between the blue route and vine thats going to take you 12 minutes. And about the same in the other direction. If you are heading out and you are traveling on the bridges, all the bridges are in the clear, no problems to report there. Same thing goes for mass transit. Everything on or close to schedule. Tracy . New information on breaking news out of kenya. A mortuary worker now says at least 15 people are dead in an attack on a college campus. At least 60 others are hurt. Mass gunmen stormed Garissa University in eastern kenya just before dawn. Police say the men are now holed up in a dorm and holding an unknown number of students hostage. The u. S. Embassy in nairobi is calling this a terrorist attack but right now its unclear wh
To go ahead and implement this at any time. So in our next meeting, if you could come back to us for example with all of the stake holders, you know, out reaching and confident that they are okay with it. And give us, you know, give us a more bullet proof and this is, you know. Yeah. And then we will vote on it and then by the end of the year, the director could implement this. City attorneys win, and maybe that is my change. Go ahead. John, from the City Attorneys Office. Initially, this is not a matter that the Building Inspection Commission has any authority to enact. So you can receive all of the reports that you want from the department, but this is a decision of the director. So you can get status updates, and kind of figure out the tenor of things through that. And i also just point out, that there are various local state and federal privacy laws, that someone should the department should sort of work more thoroughly with the City Attorneys Office to see, you know, even though t
In this new system . So in my experience, it is never the case that somebody goes to one of the cop agencies and remains anonymous and there is much more of a hands on relationship and so i would think that it would be desirable if somebody will, you know, want to remain anonymous as commissioner lee was just talking about that you would then refer them to one of the agencies and maybe, follow, the process that way. Because you know that they would get advice and, you know, information about the process and all of that much more and i am wondering if you could just sort of write them in, in terms of the process, so that we know. We could definitely, memorialize that in the policies. We actually do that now. And in a situation where there is occupant of the building and they dont want to give us the name and they can give us access and in charge to be able to do that, we work with them to do that. That is all part of trying to get access in those situations where you know, they have act
See it someone on the outside complaining about a building they will not be able to have access to the building. But they, and you will have to decide how to handle that and the second thing or point that i want to make is how about repeated anonymous complaints that wastes a lot of resources do we say that we have a complaint on this building and every subsequent complainer we will tell them that we have it and we are not going to investigate further until the first one is solved. How do we handle that . If you get 30 complaints on this one building and they are all anonymous are you going to investigate all 29 . I mean that is something to think about. Sorry commissioner melgar . I just have a question, what is the role of the cop, folks in this new system . So in my experience, it is never the case that somebody goes to one of the cop agencies and remains anonymous and there is much more of a hands on relationship and so i would think that it would be desirable if somebody will, you
Approach this issue, if you could weigh in, and maybe, maybe if you have the legality of it and so on, i want to be sure that this is something that i can put in place and stand behind it. Thank you, commissioner, rose mary, chief housing inspector. And i have had, and i have not, and i have reached out to mari and i have been able to talk to him about this but i am confident that something, that this is doable. Because it allows us to, on a good safe, basis to make attempts to ask the Property Owner to let us in and if they are not going to and we cannot say that there is a history of the building or a permit history or through an Exterior Inspection of the building, and then at that particular point in time we really dont have a good faith basis to promote or if there are some other pattern in that community, we dont have a good faith basis to proceed to ask for an inspection warrant because we dont have probable cause and now the standard in the building code, by the state, to the B