So we will get right to the program. Its my pleasure to introduce the director of the department of building inspection tom hui who will welcome you all. Good afternoon everyone. First of all i would like to say thank you for the quick introduction brief. Also i would like to say that few of the Building Official here and also we would like to welcome the california accessible commission to come over here and also its proud to convene to welcome them because the disability is one of the top things in my department for the public to comply and i would like to extend my appreciation to the chair and also steve and he spent extensive time and also hes the chair to do the check lease to make it public to make sure people comply and understand the check list itself. Also our access appeal panel to go out to the public to make sure they all comply to this requirement, and also i want to quickly appreciate former supervisor tom ammiano and former congressmen for the state. He spent lots of ti
Information get passed so if someone comes into contact with a cognitive disability and they are being uncooperative giving their drivers license, that maybe i should get their id. Does that information come across . That is one of the sides we need to work on because there is a lot of theoretical information in the training and there is some scenarios, but its not integrated into every course. So there is many courses where we have scenarios and other courses where we dont. So, i think thats really one of our big next challenges is to make sure that that exact thing being replicated in all of these other areas that we are able to talk that through and if the officers get a chance to practice that and that there is a collective feedback given. Part of that is not having paid staff for this. One big shift that did happen is we got administrative staff from the Police Department and that has helped hugely because its a lot to coordinate and put all of this stuff together. So we have the
And ida claire with the division of state architect. She couldnt be here today. We had sue mo with the division of state architect who couldnt be here. We have stoyan [inaudible] of housing and community development. [applause] and we had participant from American Institute of architects, California Council kirk [inaudible] and gary [inaudible] [applause] we have one of our other commissioners michael pairvana. Looks like he is in sacramento at this point and we got more envelopes. Who am i leaving out . Myself. [laughter] [applause] [inaudible] with that i hope i didnt omit anybody. Thank you very much for all the hard work and the group [inaudible] and product and look forward to evolving this thing and making sure it is working for everybody. Thank you. [applause] just to conclude our section we look forward to all of you continuing the work on making california one of the most the most accessible state in the union because believe me i travel a lot and we are better than most, but