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
Area. We feel it here at this stage. We are stuck in a deep freeze. Alison abc7s tom roussey joins us from siller is spring where crews are work Silver Spring where the crews are working on a water main break. This is just part of the problem out there today, right . Tom it is. There are a lot of affects from the cold. The water main break is one of the worst. This is on New Hampshire avenue. So as you can imagine its wreaking havoc on traffic. I just got an update. Good news. They have made progress. It wont last forever but it will last through the evening rush hour. Thanks to the water main break the traffic was bad even before rush hour started. Bad. Really bad. How bad was the traffic you were in . Bad. Back like 20 minutes. That is right. 20 minutes from the beltway, which you could see less than a quarter mile away. Everything had to merge to one lane. What i dont like about it is the left lane, they think they automatically can get in without any courtesy. New hampshire avenue
Good moning today is wednesday november 16, 2016. Please turn off all electronic devices. The first item is roll call. Mccarthy, here. Clinch, here. Gilman, here. Konstin, here. Lee, here. Walker, here. Warshell, here. We have a quorum and the next item is item 2, president s announcements. Jrkts good morning and welcome to the november 16, 2016 bit meeting. Because of thei want to read a few long detailed information into the record here on behalf of the president announcement. Because of the unusual circumstances presented by the Millennium Tower situation the Department Works with the Mayors Office city administrator and board of supervisor tooz take step tooz improve department policies, processes and procedures to provide additional scrutiny when reviewing high Rise Construction of 2 40 feet or more especially when located in the seismically vulnerable neighborhoods. That is why director hui announced last month Effective Immediately the department will select all fuper peer revie
Here. Lee, here. Walker, here. Warshell, here. We have a quorum and the next item is item 2, president s announcements. Jrkts good morning and welcome to the november 16, 2016 bit meeting. Because of thei want to read a few long detailed information into the record here on behalf of the president announcement. Because of the unusual circumstances presented by the Millennium Tower situation the Department Works with the Mayors Office city administrator and board of supervisor tooz take step tooz improve department policies, processes and procedures to provide additional scrutiny when reviewing high Rise Construction of 2 40 feet or more especially when located in the seismically vulnerable neighborhoods. That is why director hui announced last month Effective Immediately the department will select all fuper peer review participants. Those outside experts dbi calls for reviewing 240 feet or higher and Building Design is performanced based rather than previous practice participated in the
We are also seeing fewer number of permits issued. If you look that first table you see the largest decrease in the number of high value permits want down by about 19 percent. But overall revenues are still fine. We expect to meet our budget or exceed the revenue budget but just compare to last year you see things going down and anticipated that. On the expenditure side we can continue to increase compared to year over year. You will see we are about 8 percent this year and that is primarily because salaries have gone up more this year than last year and that is reflected in the last meeting of gearing up and hiring. So, overall if you look at the first page again, you see the projected revenue is at budget and the reezten is there is because it is too early to make real adjustments and so just projecting that budget but as we get to the 6 month mark well look at if we see trends and information and try to make actual projections. Ill happy to answer question. Seeing none. Thank you. T