So we will get right to the program. Its my pleasure to introduce the director of the department of building inspection tom hui who will welcome you all. Good afternoon everyone. First of all i would like to say thank you for the quick introduction brief. Also i would like to say that few of the Building Official here and also we would like to welcome the california accessible commission to come over here and also its proud to convene to welcome them because the disability is one of the top things in my department for the public to comply and i would like to extend my appreciation to the chair and also steve and he spent extensive time and also hes the chair to do the check lease to make it public to make sure people comply and understand the check list itself. Also our access appeal panel to go out to the public to make sure they all comply to this requirement, and also i want to quickly appreciate former supervisor tom ammiano and former congressmen for the state. He spent lots of ti
Its a classic story it had accessibility problems and the only way to deal with them was really to go in structurally change some things, so this list as simple as it is would have helped dra dramatically and it was before i was Building Official and i heard the nightmares and this will assist the developers and the clients it will also assist those behind the counter, the regulators and i talked to my inspectors and they are graciously thankful, and they do use the list now. The one thing that they one of my inspectors one of his favorite comments is make it look like the picture and his comment was more pictures. The fact that its a word document and i will take that back to him makes it we do perform numerous over the counter permits to check for accessibility. We review the plans the same but most of it is accessibility comes with commercial. However, when they come for say theyre putting in a ramp for barrier removal because i have a process in the city of orvil to come in and pul
Updated information we do an eblast to folks. We encourage folks that come in, architects and builders and to go to the institute and we have a lot of classes and i sometimes feel and this is anecdotal and were in the bubble and the builders dont know what do you have behind the counter . No. This is public information. We will share it with you. We will tell you about the same training opportunities that we go to. We would love to see you there. It makes the process better. [inaudible] correct. I formally the executive director of the chamber of commerce in my city has my cell phone and direct line to my office. Gary was talking about politics. Thats just the reality. She also understands what we do and listens which is a gift for me so back to my earlier comment about small business. We hold workshops, outreach for Small Businesses. Im always available to go out and review an existing building regarding barriers and accessibility. And then informally its been really important to me a
Closely with facility planners, architects, contractors and im sorry, architects and contractors that are responsible for completing barrier removal projects on existing sites. Prior to joining Sutter Health she was the executive director of the california berkeley based center for independent living Whose Mission was to promote inclusion of all people with disabilities so at this point it gives me pleasure to turn the meeting over to yomi to run the balance. Thank you. Can everybody hear me okay . Great. So its a great honor to be here. I am not a building inspector or an architect but i work with them and i appreciate all of the hard work and the focus and the attention to detail that goes into what it is that you do, and as a person with a disability i also know what it feels like when we miss the mark, and we miss opportunities to catch things, so i think that this is an exciting moment. It is a historic moment and i think it falls in line nicely with the 25th anniversary of the am
Example was the electricians put in the electrical outlets at 15 inches to the bottom of the boxes. It says in the code at the rough floor stage, and when they looked at the check list to look at the plans what was going to be at the finished product included an inch and a half light concrete over the floor because it was multistory so for fire resistance rating and then bring the finished floor up and the electrical outlets would have been non compliant at that stage. Catching it at the rough electrical stage is a big catch. Actually the electrician that installed them was upset but his boss that owned the business was very happy because if it would have had to be done at final he indicated it would have put him out of business but also im in a small jurisdiction and in a small jurisdiction we all know about politics and so sometimes when politics come in play it affects when youre going to look at 100,000 fix and they know someone a little over your head, and theres other things that