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With electricians and tim paulson with the Labor Council and mike casey president in the back of the room over there. This is a project of the kind that makes Building Trades workers salivate. It is a startingly beautiful design from what we have seen so far. I am going to embarrass myself and speak in norwegian and its the kind of project where we can look forward to bringing our skills to work on a project that will fully demand those skills, so that is quite apart from the hours it will bring to us, it quite a part from the food we will put on the table and the house payments and so on. Tha...

Of the reason for the backlog is simply the vast increase in the numbers of applications. So, and theres usually a backlog in hiring people to catch up, you know. It takes six months to hire people. Having said that, i think your point is well taken that the letter can simply suggest that, that we need to reevaluate it midstream or [multiple voices] the increase will be 2 next year and 1 thereafter. If we see a 10 increase, there should be some mid course correction. Right. How do we what wed have to do is what we did this fiscal year im getting the years mixed up we had to go to the board mid...

Through mr. Frye, maybe, with the pack log. Is that any point in time . If i could, commissioner, youre suggesting that it simply suggest that the letter say that we evaluate it kind of periodically through the year to make sure so next year were at 600. With the goal of reducing the backlog, of course. Thats all our goal. Exactly. [speaker not understood] make sense. Is it that each fte will account for tentative backlog or something, is there a way to attach that . Were adding 6 or whatever the number is were adding. Its a little challenging to do that because some projects are very big and ...

Division chiefs and the divisions Management Team on allocating resources accordingly to what the projected work load will be. But i believe mr. Frye and staff monitor it much more frequently so that if staff arent working on legislation coordination activities, they can be utilized in some other capacity. Like landmarks . Yes. Tim frye, department staff. Just to followup on that, the team leaders meet on a quarterly basis and go over the backlog and also whether or not we need to reallocate resources to, one, help deal with the backlog or there is not a backlog, can we have some folks work on...

To do general searches or get information. So, again, really broad access to the public for almost everything they would need to be doing, but obviously for filing certain things or any kind of transaction, we want to log in need an account that we can then track and do need to log in. One example of a feature were excited about is the ability to search the tracking system for a wide range of information. Again, this search would cover both planning applications and permits all in one. And one sample of this, which is not something you can do today as a member of the public, we get a lot of th...