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Many points here on the things that actually that are better for us as a city and better for those individuals and take that as the most important point, and if we do it and take that approach and i just want to. Okay, the colleagues, questions . Thoughts . Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Much appreciated. Okay, up next. Margo, thank you for being here, and for all of your hard work on this topic was well and for your preparation. Good morning, supervisors. I was taking very fast notes as you were asking, them the questions, i hope that i will be able to answer some of the details that you are act...

Within departments and we have to or in many instances individuals need to hire permit expediters to get projects through faster compared to other projects which arent moving quite as fast. But on the other hand we all know that there have been numerous allegations and investigations of whether there have been individuals who have inappropriately influenced the process and no one understands who is actually influencing the process. And from my perspective, the purpose of this legislation really actually is to legitimatize transparent permit expediting. Let me be clear on several points. First ...

Permit. Thats why people come to dpi. They get lost in there trying to get from one place to another. So, it really what conceptual consultants is to be able to navigate, to get a permit quicker because they know who to go to see, what to say with their with the drawings, sometimes the drawings arent correct. You have to go back and [speaker not understood], so forth. Bottom line, though, bottom line, permit consult atctiontion ~ consultants are not lobbyists. They do not deal with elected officials nor appointed officials. So, i urge you to really reconsider the way the legislation is written...

Healthcare costs because you are housed. And there is a decline in the criminal Justice System cost, so instead of housing individuals, in jails, and they are able to be on their own with the Supportive Services in the building and feel a part of the community. And it improves, the clients health, and i am sure and it increases the treatment and decreased Substance Abuse use, because there are programs, quite often, on site, with the individual, housing the referrals for the individuals and last, it improves the employment, and the ssi disability, benefits, out comes. And because, now you are ...

Should not happen. All were saying is that we need some transparency about who is involved. And then we made major amendments in the last couple of months to address the concerns about overly onerous reporting requirements. So, rather than having a monthly requirement we now have a quarterly requirement and it used to be in the original version of the legislation that we required every contact with the city staffer involving the permit expediter to be disclosed and now all were saying is you dont have to indicate every time you interact with the city staff, we just want to know what city staff...