Welcome to the Building Inspection Commission for december 18, 2019. Happy holidays. I am Vice President filling in for president mccarthy who is away dealing with a family matter. I spoke to him this morning, and as i will get to later, this is the last meeting for many of us, and he has some he asked me to pass along greetings, and i will when i get to that matter. I would like to thank the Department Staff who have been and still are attending the California Building officials Training Classes this week. Every year our Staff Members almost all of them are required to take classes and be up to speed on current code and issues in the building industry, and our staff attends these trainings at least once a year to refresh and enhance Technical Skills to continue to provide excellent customer service. Everyone in the city benefits from these continuing education opportunities. Our opportunities that we on this commission enthusiastically support and encourage. It is important to stay up
Beauty bar and this one have had, but i dont want to go into too far requiring security, upending lives, requiring security in a requiring i. D. In a neighborhood behalf. I dont want us to be oversecuring places with an l. L. P. , which i think is different than if theres been a history at the venue. Well, my thoughts on that, they have to get an l. L. P. Because they have no choice. If they have had a history they have security not just for the place but for their own other patrons. Maybe if you dont want to do metal detection, maybe they can do pat downs to just see. I think were getting tricky because its getting invasive. Its in condition five. I think if we do Something Like this, we have to be very strategic about it, but i defer to my colleagues. Yeah, and i understand its just a bar, but because the past history, i think we should all be a little cautious. In six months, they can come back and say the crowds totally different or whatever, and it maybe that we can just lead the
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Away dealing with a family matter. I spoke to him this morning, and as i will get to later, this is the last meeting for many of us, and he has some he asked me to pass along greetings, and i will when i get to that matter. I would like to thank the Department Staff who have been and still are attending the California Building officials Training Classes this week. Every year our Staff Members almost all of them are required to take classes and be up to speed on current code and issues in the building industry, and our staff attends these trainings at least once a year to refresh and enhance Technical Skills to continue to provide excellent customer service. Everyone in the city benefits from these continuing education opportunities. Our opportunities that we on this commission enthusiastically support and encourage. It is important to stay up to speed because so many changes happen on a daily basis here in this industry. Thank you to david letta of plumbing inspection who assisted a cu
Online in other languages, but we didnt have it in other languages at that time. One of the things that im sure you all read about, which was connected to the flooding, but if the house wasnt flooded, some of the houses experienced sewage coming up through the houses. We had residents asking our office was it safe to clean up. I actually dont know if we this is something well discuss through the hearing, but is that d. B. I. , department of public health, p. U. C. , where is the appropriate contact for residents to find out if its safe for them to clean up. So, yeah, i just wanted to share some comments here. Well get more answers at the hearing, and i do think this is an opportunity because it was 12 hours impacted or if this was a larger disaster. Thank you so much. Thank you. Uhhuh. Just wanted to give kudos to some of our personnel from our Homeland Security unit. Captain chris put together an exercise that basically involved the station being incapacitated. We had an opportunity t