Pace of the changes that need to happen is slow sometimes. But, i feel like as a commissioner, i embrace, almost entirety, the commission, the grand jury, recommendations and positions, because it basically says that we are on the right track and we need the time from the specific department in order for me to sign on and i do think that we do have an opportunity with a couple of meetings that we are intended to have specifically, around interviews, that we could actually have some time to incorporate any recommendations that come from the commissioners to the department to add, or amend. And either on september fifth or september 10th. Prior to the deadline, i want to thank the department for the work that they are doing in the grand jury for pushing this along, and i know that there are grand jury members here who might want to Say Something to us. Could we have the comments by the fifth. We could look at the schedule that we could look at the schedule and i see no reason why we coul
The bic and the department are not identical. I want to thank you from hearing from directly from the former grand jury and the Committee Members that drafted a report that we think is appropriately titled building a Better Future at the department of building inspection. Let me say that a committee was very committed to an approach that made a positive contribution to a department in the city and we were very impressed with that business process, reengineering report which has been referenced or provided and still does, an excellent road map for the department and we were also impressed by the many, dedicated individuals that we met during our interviews. We had only one year to do our work and our charge under the code is to be the eyes and the ears of the citizenry, to be a watch dog, to examine the county departments to see if they are operating efficiently and effectively. We interviewed over 50 people and a number of them multiple times and we reviewed documents many, many times
The attorneys can get better treatment than those who cant. The Excellent Technology will only provide its benefits which are many, if the people are fully trained and the system is fully embraced by management. All management. And what where we sympathize, the department has been so busy keeping its head above water, that a pension and it has necessarily fallen by the way side with the volume of work that the department is handlinging, this is and continues to have long term consequences with the surpluses that the department is running you have the opportunity to address these issues that the department could not before. There is the notice of violations that we studied and we intentionally studied a group from several years ago so that there would be an opportunity to have been resolved. However, even after three or four years and eleven percent were still opened. And you have heard, through here today and an uncollected fees were in the millions of dollars and those two this mornin
Finding to recommendation and finding to each of these as whether the bic responds or whether the department responds. The bic and the department are not identical. I want to thank you from hearing from directly from the former grand jury and the Committee Members that drafted a report that we think is appropriately titled building a Better Future at the department of building inspection. Let me say that a committee was very committed to an approach that made a positive contribution to a department in the city and we were very impressed with that business process, reengineering report which has been referenced or provided and still does, an excellent road map for the department and we were also impressed by the many, dedicated individuals that we met during our interviews. We had only one year to do our work and our charge under the code is to be the eyes and the ears of the citizenry, to be a watch dog, to examine the county departments to see if they are operating efficiently and eff
System is fully embraced by management. All management. And what where we sympathize, the department has been so busy keeping its head above water, that a pension and it has necessarily fallen by the way side with the volume of work that the department is handlinging, this is and continues to have long term consequences with the surpluses that the department is running you have the opportunity to address these issues that the department could not before. There is the notice of violations that we studied and we intentionally studied a group from several years ago so that there would be an opportunity to have been resolved. However, even after three or four years and eleven percent were still opened. And you have heard, through here today and an uncollected fees were in the millions of dollars and those two this morning, were presumably part of the sampling that we studied and they are still bugging you, and we noted millions of dollars in uncollected fees, it would be interesting to see