Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissio
Be a chance they could be in the restaurants. Dark. Final call comes from cal iso, invited lawmakers and media to see demonstration of safe practices. I hope we get regrouped, that the agency that watches the governor or Health Officials can see we can do this safely, that power grid. Threat of lightning continues. Many people were woken up by the we are equipped with the guidelines they gave us to do extremely rare conditions. This safely. And open our salons, stimulate this Lightning Strike in hayward from early this morning. The kmreconomy, get us off the thats unbelievable. Likely caused dozens of fires unemployment list. Bay area salons are currently allowed to operate but only across the bay area. Two of the biggest, milpitas and outdoors which many stylists say doesnt allow them to offer all services. Stay with us for complete brentwood. Meteorologist rob to explain the ton thats going on right now. Coverage on the pandemic and how it affects you, were putting to the the highlig
Also wanted to read for the public, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, the employees and the public, the building inspection hearing room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting it remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the stayathome order, and all proceeding and proceeding local and state and federal orders, declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference or by telephone, if the video fails. And participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 78 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 408 4189388, 146 632 7982. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and tur
The new system and we have a staff update on this this morning. So looking forward to that. In short, d. B. I. Is still fulfilling its motion on behalf of the his. I want to thank you to our hardworking and dedicated professionals for their absolute terrific jobs they are doing and have been doing. Under the enormous stresses caused by this virus. This continues to require multiple adjustments in very reduced timeframes and under challenging conditions. And we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. On top of Everything Else, the entire department is moving its offices to 49 south van ness. The move will start on july 23rd and take place over two weekends. It will mean that the Curbside Services are unavailable for a few days and again staff will provide more details on this later in the morning. The city, as you know, is keeping a very close eye on the resurgence of the deadly virus. Well keep you updated as changes occur and we have steps that are designed to k
Something yeah its same for going golfing cathedral in the us. Im a banker it is welcome to the Program European Council President schama shell has presented a new proposal for a contentious a year Recovery Fund a year later is holding a 2nd day of talks to try to bridge their differences over the fund aimed at helping economies recover from the impact of coronavirus german chancellor Angela Merkel has been chairing the talks since yesterday as germany currently holds the 80 years rotating presidency be you is divided on how to assist those hardest hit by the pandemic a major Sticking Point continues to be a want to grey Member States should share the debt. And before we talk to our correspondent in brussels lets take a look at whats at stake. Mosques on gloves off european leaders a back in brussels for the 1st time since the beginning of the corona crisis with approx finances at the top of the agenda cancel president ial in the shadow expects negotiations to be exceptionally tough a