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luke's penny savings bank of richmond, virginia, whose founder was madam cj walker, the first woman president in the united states. [applause] alden mcdonald: from 1888 to 1934, african-americans owned more than 130 financial institutions. during that same period of time, the number of black-owned businesses rose from 4000 to 50,000 businesses. african-american banks in our communities, in our country, do make a difference. we help to grow the economy, and we help to build jobs. this has been history, and we continue to do it today. i and other new orleans citizens founded the liberty bank in 1972, followed what i like to call the second civil war, the civil rights movement of the 1960's. historic men and women like my friend and fellow new orleanian, ambassador andrew young fought and won battles for basic rights in nonviolent protests that ended the denial and access of african-americans to public places and insured our right to vote. the battle of economic equity in overcoming blatant disparity for which dr. martin luther king was murdered continues today. today, there are only a handful o

commissioner konstin commissioner lee commissioner walker commissioner clinch is expected and commissioner melgar are excused we have quorum item 2. >> madam clerk before we go into that as it stands right now if we hold 2, 40 commissioners the hearing on the budget we'll not be able to vote we're kind of going with the condition we will hear the presentation by staff on the budget and with that, hope commissioner clinch will arrive and we'll have the 40 vote to pass it through dueling not it might not be the case but we'll continue it to the next meeting in late february. >> okay. thank you. >> item 2 the discussion and possible action on a proposed budget of the department of building inspection for fiscal years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. >> good morning commission deputy director for the department of building inspection this is the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 promoted budget at the late meeting i'd like to take a couple of minutes for the highlights before we get into the continued deduction this is a prior budget based on the departments goal we talked about the presented mr. huey the strategy plan we are funding items like salaries and out

commissioner konstin commissioner lee commissioner walker commissioner clinch is expected and commissioner melgar are excused we have quorum item 2. >> madamfore we go into that as it stands right now if we hold 2, 40 commissioners the hearing on the budget we'll not be able to vote we're kind of going with the condition we will hear the presentation by staff on the budget and with that, hope commissioner clinch will arrive and we'll have the 40 vote to pass it through dueling not it might not be the case but we'll continue it to the next meeting in late february. >> okay. thank you. >> item 2 the discussion and possible action on a proposed budget of the department of building inspection for fiscal years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. >> good morning commission deputy director for the department of building inspection this is the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 promoted budget at the late meeting i'd like to take a couple of minutes for the highlights before we get into the continued deduction this is a prior budget based on the departments goal we talked about the

walker from north carolina. >> thank you, madam chairman. insider threat seems to be a significant danger to the food and agricultural sector. if there was an attack would they be able to establish a chain of command? is there any protocol? dr. beckham or dr. meckes? >> i will let dr. meckes because they follow the state level. >> we follow the same program for any incident whether it is a hurricane or tornado. we spent the last seven months preparing for the introduction of high path ai in north carolina which thankfully has not come to pass. we developed the structure to address every issue associated with an outbreak of high path avian flu. everything from burial and disposal and the movement of lab samples to the laboratory for testing, routing of vehicles so we can keep the business going in the face of outbreak. fema's infrastructure is the hierarchy we operate under. and every agriculture department across the country is familiar with incident command structure. >> being privileged to the north carolina situation being your home base

walker from north carolina? thank you, madam chair man. insider threat seems to be a significant danger to the food and agricultural sector. if there was an attack, would we be able to establish a chain of command? is there any protocol? dr. beckham, would you touch on that? >> i will let dr. mecas. they handle it at the state level typically. >> okay. >> we respond to any incident whether it's a hurricane, a tornado. we have just spent the last seven months preparing for high path ai in north carolina which thankfully has not come to pass. but we developed our entire incident command structure to address every issue associated with an outbreak of influenza. it is disposal to the movement of lab samples to the laboratory for testing, routing of vehicles to make certain that we can effectively continue to move product and maintain some continuity of business even in the face of a disease outbreak. fema's incident command structure is the higher army by which we will operate. practically speaking every department of ag across the country is

commissioner konstin commissioner lee commissioner walker commissioner clinch is expected and commissioner melgar are excused we have quorum item 2. >> madamlerk before we go into that as it stands right now if we hold 2, 40 commissioners the hearing on the budget we'll not be able to vote we're kind of going with the condition we will hear the presentation by staff on the budget and with that, hope commissioner clinch will arrive and we'll have the 40 vote to pass it through dueling not it might not be the case but we'll continue it to the next meeting in late february. >> okay. thank you. >> item 2 the discussion and possible action on a proposed budget of the department of building inspection for fiscal years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. >> good morning commission deputy director for the department of building inspection this is the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 promoted budget at the late meeting i'd like to take a couple of minutes for the highlights before we get into the continued deduction this is a prior budget based on the departments goal we talked about the presented mr. huey the strategy plan we are funding items like salaries and out l

commissioner lee commissioner melgar commissioner walker that motion carries unanimously congratulations to both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> madam secretary in the interest of time item 5 please. discussion and possible action to appoint commissioners on the litigation subcommittee. >> at this stage my position the committee is doing an outstanding job who is on there now. >> currently yourself and commissioner walker and there is one vacant so we'll need a new additional person. >> commissioner walker would you - >> i am honored to serve on the committee and work with the department and the director and to look at the issues that vex our process and are hard to resolve so it is really a good process we have in motion i'll be honored to continue serving the past we have also included the representative from the landlord their usual the issues we deal are include both the tenants and the building ordinances or owners so i would like to suggest that commissioner konstin sit on that commission if there's a willingness. >> if there - so in the interest of time is there obviously no objection i'd like to sit on that committee if no o

commissioner lee commissioner melgar commissioner walker that motion carries unanimously congratulations to both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> madam secretary in the interest of time item 5 please. discussion and possible action to appoint commissioners on the litigation subcommittee. >> at this stage my position the committee is doing an outstanding job who is on there now. >> currently yourself and commissioner walker and there is one vacant so we'll need a new additional person. >> commissioner walker would you - >> i am honored to serve on the committee and work with the department and the director and to look at the issues that vex our process and are hard to resolve so it is really a good process we have in motion i'll be honored to continue serving the past we have also included the representative from the landlord their usual the issues we deal are include both the tenants and the building ordinances or owners so i would like to suggest that commissioner konstin sit on that commission if there's a willingness. >> if there - so in the interest of time is there obviously no objection i'd like to sit on that committee if no o

was suggested by commissioner nakajo commissioner walker can we pet put it on the agendas for the first meeting in march and make sense thank you madamecretary please make note of that. >> all right. >> update - and what about an update on the 9-1-1 collaboration. >> okay. could you be more specific. >> you put the persist and coming up with a more coordinated approach to respond to 9-1-1 calls so i want to get an update from the task force that is meeting on a regular basis the commission needs to be briefed on that. >> so most definitely incorporated the first meeting in march taiwan the deputy chief operations and in conjunction perhaps in addition to the separate item to talk about the post work and status of ems working group. >> thank you all are they any suggestions from the public this is public comment regarding upcoming agendas? >> i see one person coming down. >> captain michael i i would like to recommend that with the first of all, i'd like to say we strongly encourage and support the idea of a deputy in charge of the ems we strongly support more h-43 in ems one they know i'd like to offer though is that a discussion nee

was suggested by commissioner nakajo commissioner walker can we pet put it on the agendas for the first meeting in march and make sense thank you madamlease make note of that. >> all right. >> update - and what about an update on the 9-1-1 collaboration. >> okay. could you be more specific. >> you put the persist and coming up with a more coordinated approach to respond to 9-1-1 calls so i want to get an update from the task force that is meeting on a regular basis the commission needs to be briefed on that. >> so most definitely incorporated the first meeting in march taiwan the deputy chief operations and in conjunction perhaps in addition to the separate item to talk about the post work and status of ems working group. >> thank you all are they any suggestions from the public this is public comment regarding upcoming agendas? >> i see one person coming down. >> captain michael i i would like to recommend that with the first of all, i'd like to say we strongly encourage and support the idea of a deputy in charge of the ems we strongly support more h-43 in ems one they know i'd like to offer though is that a discussion needs to be h