building inspection commission i d like to remind everyone to please silence all electronic devices. the first item is roll call arrest commissioner mccarthy commissioner vice president mar commissioner president clinch commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner vice president melgar commissioner walker we have quorum and the next item is item 2 discussion and possible action on a proposed budget of the department of building inspection for a fiscal year 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. good morning commissioners deputy city attorney for the department of building inspection in your packet you have two items and both of the items from january 21st meeting it is did budget that excludes the memo from the director duffy giving a highlight of the budget and also prepared kind of a high-level power point summary i ll go over to be in the on the same page i d like to go over some highlights of the budget and then especially i m happy to answer any questions you may have. and an u
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comes up for approval i ll not be voting for it. we have to act on that we ll have to continue it but any more comments or points of view we put out there before entertaining a motion. all right. just to clarify this request is for the additional time between 3 and 5 it doesn t in my way impillage upon their ability to continue until 3; correct. correct. i think there s a lot of permits in the city and a lot of paper to get across and some would say there s too much and we can t blame a brrn amendment from the burden from the city i m not trying to excuse i would like to have seen for straight answers to our questions we didn t get tonight so you know, i want you guys to succeed we all want you to succeed on top of that i remember the first time we were dealing with our permit there were incidents you were not addressing like speaking out it s not good to see us to continue because ultimately we re the ones that enable you to run our business so the buck does stop i
schedule we ll rise that on the expenditure does the good news is that we are not proposing inform make kits based on what we budgeted on 2015-2016 last year we re geological going to keep it at $72 million from the mayor s office last year so because we re like $72 million we won t have to worry about cutting at this point in time for 2015-2016 we can keep the budget as is and basically use fund balance to balance the budget so for expenditures the basic reduction in the budget is a major reductions in professional services because of a lot of projects and basically a reminder projects go projects are the budget will be taking money from the annual budget and we ll put the money aside not to revise is it is ongoing because it is for the multi year in 2015-2016 owner the past two years so much money in project funding we have money set aside and so we ll not need as much money in 2016-2017 so for authorized positions once again we re not proposing to make reductions last year