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
With all the fires in place, you have so much smoke. Again, the wind does push it around, when you get a west southwest winds, like right now, it is going mainly east, so like contra costa county, Santa Clara County, those will get a bit more in the areas of haze. Oakland, san jose, at 60 degrees, the wind of change is howling for some. The fog bank will retreat, but it may be a bit better for you with that westsouthwest wind. It looks like its going to start losing out over the next couple days, but today, temperatures below average across the board. Lets go over to sal now and see if there is anything new popping up on screens. Good morning, sal. Nds good morning to you by the way, steve. On the carquinez bridge and Altamont Pass, the winds are an issue, but not the bay bridge, as you come into San Francisco. We have also been looking at some of in oakland is off to a 4 32, lets go back to the headlines point all right, sal, thank you. Accused of threatening the Santa Clara County he
You have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in service. If we could just take a moment of silence. [moment of silence observed] chair borde
The wind of change was up early and it has been kicking up its heels here for many, even gus 37 at the altamont pass. Cordelia reports sometimes and it doesnt last. I thought it was 37 miles per hour. Some of the bridges, you will feel that breeze come up in asia bridge, maybe. Morning fog, hazy, below average High Temperatures today, but they are ready to get above. Well have more that in about 10 minutes. Over to sell now. The bay bridge toll plaza is that better or worse . We have better news there, steve. Better news at the bay bridge. That crash that we had on the st. We do have a bigger backup than normal, but at least things are moving now. The crash is gone. It was a motorcyclist and a car that got into it at about the 6 00 hour. It was clear just about 10 minutes ago. It is better now. Because of todays volume, if this were the pandemic, we would be done before the pandemic, we would be done for the morning, but this is just lighter than usual conditions, even at the bay bridg
Be a little bit below normal temperature wise, and air quality is going to be so so, but as the weekend gets closer, we are going to warm up. We are going to talk about the weather coming up when they were less they had to head home but their beloved doubts and adopted on the travelers could not had back with them due to restrictions. The doctor both in South Carolina where the pup ended up staying with friends for five months. Just recently, organizers were able to fly him home to sydney where she was reading 90 with her family after 100 36 days. I am a pack out. And i know mike, you are. And gus, im sure you have had pits. They become members of the family. Imagine having to leave one of the members of the family for five months. It could be tough if you are a pet person. Yes, i could not imagine being away for that long from sadie. Know, luckily the dog, pipsqueak. That is an interesting name for adult. But that is cute. Maybe the headline is the four year sailing adventure. That wo