so we will get right to the program. it s 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 it s 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 he s 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
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 it s not integrated into every course. so there is many courses where we have scenarios and other courses where we don t. so, i think that s 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 it s a lot to coordinate and put all of this stuff together.
closely with facility planners, architects, contractors and i m sorry, architects and contractors that are responsible for completing barrier removal projects on existing sites. prior to joining sutter health she was the executive director of the california berkeley based center for independent living whose mission was to promote inclusion of all people with disabilities so at this point it gives me pleasure to turn the meeting over to yomi to run the balance. thank you. can everybody hear me okay? great. so it s a great honor to be here. i am not a building inspector or an architect but i work with them and i appreciate all of the hard work and the focus and the attention to detail that goes into what it is that you do, and as a person with a disability i also know what it feels like when we miss the mark, and we miss opportunities to catch things, so i think that this is an exciting moment. it is a historic moment and i think it falls in line nicely with the 25th annive
and ida claire with the division of state architect. she couldn t be here today. we had sue mo with the division of state architect who couldn t 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 didn t 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
is in the wrong position we can catch that before the finishes are set and the concrete is pored i am sorry i said that backwards and with the toilet on top. that s the painful time so we developed our thought process of this tickler form of check list would have phases that integrates what goes on in the natural construction project and when officials are on site so we concluded there are good opportunities for example for site walkways and surfaces at the rough grading stage or the form work stage before your foundations are pored or before the walkways and ramps are pored. we determined there were opportunities during rough framing. do we have the necessary clearances for the doors and rough plumbing and rough electrical. lastly during the final stages many things happen before the last sign off such as elevators get checked, restrooms get checked and cabinets and counters, dinking fountains and alarms and signages and all have multiple opportunities to integrate any nec