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
Closely with facility planners, architects, contractors and im 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 its 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 anniversary of the am
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
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