Members of the 105 legislature. Tribal chairman. Distinguished guests. Friends. Fellow nebraskans and of course, our first lady, my lovely wife, suzanne. Good morning. Now, before we get started here today, i understand that we have somebody whos got a birthday. Kitty, its her 75th birthday. Is that right . Give her a round after of applause. I will spare you my rendition of happy birthday. Congratulations ton commencement of the 105th Nebraska Legislature. I want to thank each and every one of you for your willingness to serve our fellow citizens. I also want to highlight that you are beginning a historic year. The 150th of our state hood, which we will celebrate on march 1st. I am honored to be with you here in the peoples house. We all appreciate the unique nature. Nebraska consistently passes a balanced budget on time. Not every state can say that. In our system every bill gets a hearing and every senator a priority bill. Senators can have an impact with legislation regardless of p
Shes looking at extending the initial compliance deadline for the checklist on that just to make sure that theres ample time for this program to get upcoming we think this program is going to run out by the next 8 to 10 years we want to get those initial Foundation Infrastructure pieces into place and on the maneuvered soft story implementation we mentioned that tooerp two were down to have 35 noncompliant buildings out of 5 hundred and 50 so were at 93 or 94 compliance rate those buildings out of compliance are elected to be scheduled for code compliant directors in early march were hopefully between now and march that number of 35 will drop significantly lower we obviously want as few buildings out of compliance as possible and that does highlight the reality that for tier 3 that has 35 buildings and the deadline this coming september 5th this year we still have been 19 hundred buildings that are out of compliance so well be initially a free press Outreach Program in the next months
And note that neil sims is present. I would like to approval of the agenda with changes and Meeting Minutes and under reports no report from the nominating committee. Can i have a motion . So moved. Second. Its approved that we approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and the motion carries. The next item is approval of the january 4 Meeting Minutes. Could i have a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. It has been moved and second that we approve the january 4 commission Meeting Minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes. Aye it is have it and the motion carries. Item 4 approval of the february 1 Meeting Minutes. So moved. Can i have a second . Second. Okay. Its been moved and second that we approve the february 1 Meeting Minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and so the motion is carried. [gavel] five item 5 directors report. Executive director. Good afternoon commissioners. Im going to keep my report very brief to
About the just to remind you that the Oversight Advisory Committee of the dignity fund is going to have its first meeting on the 24th and i know you have representation there so youre probably well aware of it already but i wanted to remind you of that, and were getting that kicked off, and then i just kind of wanted to say give a kudos to some of the staff. There was a major fire in chinatown this past week, about a week and a half ago i guess and we had great response from our staff and our cantonese speaking staff that went down and acted as translators in the shelter and i really think their work was exemplary and judy chan as part of the ad min team so it was nice to see staff kind of step up and take on volunteering you know on their off hours to be down there to help out and make sure that the seniors really had you know, were able to have their needs met because there were translators that carry cared about their neats and thats it. Thank you. I have a question. Commissioner ow
Present. I would like to approval of the agenda with changes and Meeting Minutes and under reports no report from the nominating committee. Can i have a motion . So moved. Second. Its approved that we approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and the motion carries. The next item is approval of the january 4 Meeting Minutes. Could i have a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. It has been moved and second that we approve the january 4 commission Meeting Minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes. Aye it is have it and the motion carries. Item 4 approval of the february 1 Meeting Minutes. So moved. Can i have a second . Second. Okay. Its been moved and second that we approve the february 1 Meeting Minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and so the motion is carried. [gavel] five item 5 directors report. Executive director. Good afternoon commissioners. Im going to keep my report very brief today because we have a lot o