Commissioner jacobo here. Commissioner tam present. We have a quorum. Our item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy good morning, everybody. Welcome to november 2020 b. I. C. Commission, once again apologizy in advance if i mispronounce anybodys names. Im president of the building inspection commission. And im joined by fellow commissioners and director, Patrick Oriordan and staff. Mayor breed of the Public Health director, the city is unfortunately experiencing another increase in covid cases and hospitalizations. Resulting in more than citywide measures as of november 13 that hopefully will reduce the pandemic infections. D. B. I. Leadership and staff for the ongoing hard work under these complicated circumstances. Even though the Public Health protocols, our new space is open on a limited basis to the public and the department continues to issue permits, conduct and schedule onsite job inspections and respond to complaints and task Code Enforcement steps as warra
Clerk on a motion to not disclose the closed session deliberations [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Chair mar great. We are adjourned. Take care. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. The december 3rd meeting. I am joined by Committee Member peskin. Committee member haney will be joining us. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this. Do you have announcements. In order to protect the public and City Employees during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to local state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the call in number on your screen. Your opportunity to spea
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The resume or via cspan who has asked to broadcast the keynote today. We are absolutely thrilled to reach so many colleagues wherever you might be. It took a whole team to get us here, team of colleagues with more than 17 campuses in broad expanse of our metropolitan region. They and others are volunteering their time and energy during those two days to ensure it goes smthly. We would normally ask them to stand and be recognized but that is not possible this year and if as you see them helping in various capacities please take a moment to thank them for their work. I would also like to take a moment to recognize the enormous effort taken by our assistant director jennifer and office of elearning director of instructional design henry for leading this years conference. These amazing women are so talented and creative im overcome with pride and i know them and get to work with them. Its incredible to see the creative [inaudible] we would like to personally thank the support of the univer
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