He has been a member of the faculty of Southern California noted by Time Magazine is one of the greatest minds. Appearedms work has in many different works. Jonathan is a member of the Advisory Board for the state financial board. Joining us to kick off remarks and share more information about the top trends in the 13th edition is jonathan williams, then arthur laffer, and steve moore. You can ask questions by dropping them into the box at the bottom of your screen. Jonathan, why dont you take it away . Good afternoon, everyone. It is such a pleasure to work with my good friends on this project. Going into our 13th edition that will be released tomorrow. This is been top of mind on how do we exit this covert environment in a way that makes us more prosperous. Have goodarch will comments on that. Art will have good comments on that. Lets get to the top 10 and bottom 10. At the rankings based on 15 factors. Regulation, policy, things that dr. Laffer has looked it over the decades. Also,
A firm based out of sacramento california, to do a pee study, that is completed at this point, you should have it within your packetses in front of you. The industry standard, a note on methodology, the industry standards for the fee studies in terms of buildingspections is theyre done as a snapshot usually one year at a time. San francisco, is unique in terms of Construction Activity you see in terms of the revenues growth over the past five years, its difficult to say what a typical year is for us were in a boom bust cycle. Is a 79 million revenue a typical year or a 36 million year . That hard to say. That is the thinking behind the big picture, what the fee study does is take a snapshot that has to be a consideration in terms of they were looking at mostly fy 14 data, which as you know was a high year for Construction Activity their findings . Overall dbi cost of service is less than the overall fees revenue, creating that surplus. Large projects which are 5 million inspection and
Which speaked at 2014, of the revenue surplus, when you compare revenues versus expenditures, this year its projected to be a surplus of 16. 6 million does that include the 7 decrease . It does. What we see is both a revenues and expenditure, to account for the fact that we have a significant surplus situation. This is just the visual the graphic form of the information you just saw. If you think of it in terms of, the top line is dbis revenue over the six year period and the bottom like is expenditures the surplus is the space between the two lines so we do have the surplus that is built up and acomeulated over the past five years. As part of trying to understand and provide solutions for how to deal with this surplus, mgt america hired a firm based out of sacramento california, to do a pee study, that is completed at this point, you should have it within your packetses in front of you. The industry standard, a note on methodology, the industry standards for the fee studies in terms o
First three at this point are done or continuing and ongoing, the fee study is of course why im here today. A little bit of discussion about the fund balance status is important for todays presentation as we know, dbi has been over collecting for a number of years, and under spending relative to revenue and expenditures, causing over the course of the 56 year, the fund balance to rise so what you see here today is a financial snapshot table from 2009, to 2015 numbers. 2015s numbers are currently projected, you see the revenue has risen from 49. 5 million figure in 09 which is the following of the start of the recession, to 228 million, which is an increase. Started taking up after 2009 and has grown since. Total expenditures were equivalent to 2009s revenues and went down as a result of recession, in 2009 and 11, and started to pick back up in 2012, where we are now, an additional 21 million, and 2016, projected at 23 million. In regard to the balance, 2010, and the next five years, is
Dbi, current responsibility in building load. We also talked about the retro fit program, noise, policy for adding dwelling units shg where they can be added with the existing building. Chief inspector ron tom, joined them on a workshop may 11th. That attracted over 40 participants, on the focus on preparing your home and property for the next earthquake, this is the second held of the four that dbi is hosting, during the safety month. The first workshop was held may 6th chief commissioner vas kweztofor fife safety tips and the library. Dbi staff participated in over site committee, and follow up of the City Response to june 2014 civil grand jury, report on rising sea levels the board reject the modifying building and planning code because Extensive Research and study, to cope with rising sea levels are under way, by multiple City Department including planning the port puc and dbi as mentioned last month dbi is participated in the annual project poll High School Internship program. Thi