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
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 warranted. The director and the staff have been communicating regularly with customers and stakeholders on the departments progress and issuing more permits and addressing customers needs. Well hear more on this in the commission mee
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 warranted. The director and the staff have been communicating regularly with customers and stakeholders on the departments progress and issuing more permits and addressing customers needs. Well hear more on this in the commission meeting. I want to take a minute to congratulate the city newly elected and reelected supervisors based upon the november 3rd election results, including one of our own, we look forward to working closely with her in district 7. Superv
The departments working equity group and drafting a plan that addresses racial and equity issues within the department, as well as we will be proposing ways to address these issues. As a key first step, the department recently distributed a confidential and anonymous Racial Equity survey to all d. B. I. Employees, and i urge all employees to review and participate in this. [inaudible] an Important Survey by the close of october 30. I stress october 30 would be the perfect day to get that in there. The survey is anonymous, so be candid and constructive in your suggestions to make d. B. I. A place to work for all. Finally, i want to say that d. B. I. Is fulfilling its duties on behalf of all professionals, so thank you to all the staff during this pandemic. The Public Health requires multiple challenges under alleging conditions, and we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. Madam secretary and everyone, thank you for attending our Virtual Meeting today and contin
The departments working equity group and drafting a plan that addresses racial and equity issues within the department, as well as we will be proposing ways to address these issues. As a key first step, the department recently distributed a confidential and anonymous Racial Equity survey to all d. B. I. Employees, and i urge all employees to review and participate in this. [inaudible] an Important Survey by the close of october 30. I stress october 30 would be the perfect day to get that in there. The survey is anonymous, so be candid and constructive in your suggestions to make d. B. I. A place to work for all. Finally, i want to say that d. B. I. Is fulfilling its duties on behalf of all professionals, so thank you to all the staff during this pandemic. The Public Health requires multiple challenges under alleging conditions, and we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. Madam secretary and everyone, thank you for attending our Virtual Meeting today and contin