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Colleagues on the board, many of whom gathered in the wee hours of this morning at zuckerberg general hospital. With that, our clerk is Alberto Quintanilla and mr. Clerk, if you could please call the roll, were going to have a very brief meeting and then we are going to adjourn to go have a press conference with our acting mayor london breed on the mayors balcony. Clerk item one, commissioner breed, breed absent. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, present. Commissioner fewer, few...

Wellbeing score on the productivity measures so what you see is that people who are reporting that they are less productive because of these factors have a lower wellbeing and it differenters so a lot of people are saying that they have too much to do and that is impacting their ability to be productive. And that does have a detrimental effect on their wellbeing bringing it down to an average of 67 points, our over all average is 74 so it brings it down a bit. So there are other factors like dep...

Department we issue thousands of permits a year. And i dont want to minimize this, but i really think what were dealing with here is a small fraction of a group of people who seem to be continuously coming across and doing the bad apple the bad projects here. I see as i breakdown today, i think one thing to start with i kind of direct my comments the the director and as a commission i think this is something Going Forward this year is going to be one of the top issues, is and mr. Duffy touched o...

Do you do with like if the City Attorney wants to get involved, go ahead. I dont think anybody at d. B. I. Will ever object to that. And if you want to change the codon the penalties, go ahead, thats fine as well. Were all for that. Thank you mr. Duffy. In regard to, i would close out the comments here but first of all thank you for the speakers coming out and discussing the conversation that was badly needed and its been an ongoing blackmark for our department we have been trying to deal with f...

Of you that called in. So chris teresa book walter, come on up, jason chan. Hesinka. Lorraine. Chloe wong. Can i just make a suggestion that we ask to hear from students first because its about students . Yes, i thought all of these were students. I have parents on the orange cards. Thank you, commissioner norton. We would like to hear from the students first. Point of order, everybody registered to speak will be granted two minutes if they so choose. No, im telling you that i want to wrap this ...

Come into a Government Environment we do much more than financial audits. We do operational audits that were looking at the operations of the department for economy and efficiency and effectiveness. When i hire an intern some of the things that i am looking for first of all is is this individual agile and flexible because i am our environment is so fastpaced and where are switching from project to project depending on whats going on in the government at any given time. Primarily i didnt with aud...

Department of Building Inspections for fiscal years 20182019 and 20192020. Before item two. I did receive a phone call from nicole kidman, presenting item three and cannot make it due to illness. I respect that we continue that. Nicole wheaten. Nicole elliott. Thank you. Forgive me. I am going to catch a lot of heat for that. Nicole kidman will be at the next meeting. I will catch heat for that. Number three is so a discussion of possible action. We are going to move that to the next Commission ...

And was with commissioner dejesus and i. We met many times with the various members of the of the working group that i mentioned, and there were there were clarifications that needed to be made to the language. We had to make sure, also, that the dgo was consistent with the administrative law, and code that has changed in the last couple of years, and we wanted to make sure there was consistency with other language in the in other dgos that exist. So the chief actually has highlighted several im...

And i do hope we are able to take this as a very sober time to take a look at systematic problems which can be solved and elements that through bringing all the players together that need to be part of a solution can commence now. Thank you. Thank you commissioner warshell. Ill close out comments. Obviously thank you all for coming out and having a meaningful conversation about a topic that kind of haunts our Building Community for many, many years. So i mr. Duffy, you wanted to Say Something . ...

Does. All of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. And because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. Ive been really impressed by the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inns and outs of the department and the commission and the confidence she shows now in running meetings with lots of people in the room, compared...