amy chan and director john updike from the department of real estate can better address the impotence for this legislation and the scope relative to its impact going forward. thank you. >> thank you, ms. amy chan thank you from the mayor's office, please come forward. >> good afternoon, chair and committee members. amy chan from the mayor's office of housing and community development and i'm also joined here by director updike. first we want to thank supervisor passkin and lee heppner for their sponsorship of the legislation and their work on the legislation. so currently as lee has mentioned, chapter 23 of the administrative code requires a appraisals to be updated within nine months of seeking board of approval for purchase. the city has followed chapter 3, 23 requirement force the real estate but we are requesting this waiver of this requirement for inter departmental or jurisdictional transfers between departments for two reasons and first, our office acquires sites at no cost and when these are transfers from nine enterprise departments like d. d.w. for example, doing anna praiseal for the site's value would not really add value to the process and then second, they have to acqui