congratulations to the emergency building inspector kevin birmingham, director hewey and other d.b.i. staff who responded immediately to the four-alarm north beat fire on the night of st. patrick's day which made the press. quite an extensive fire there where thankfully ended well with no loss of life. the department is awaiting the owner's engineering report to see what will be required to repair of that building. so looking forward to hearing the update on that. with regard to director and other d.b.i. staff who met with supervisor kathy tang on the implementation time line and deadline for the new accessible business entrance program, per request from the small business community and the slow response rate to the initial d.b.i. notification to more than 12,000 property owners likely to be in this new a.b.e. program. the supervisor is receptive to extending once more the initial compliance checklist deadline to date beyond the may 23, 2018 required in the current ordinance. d.b.i. staff will provide b.i.c. with the extended data once we hear from the supervisor, so thank you to her

. >> what was it like phasing out the hewey, bringing in the black hawk? >> like night and day. speed access capability was phenomenal. we were then beginning to get the first generation of night vision goggles. tactics were ahead of the technology at the time because we had a division commander, man by the name of mull who was a brilliant man, he began to device along with other brigade commanders their own -- didn't have enough to put together an air assault manual, and the army had forgotten about air mobility and so on because they purged it from itself in the transition. here we are, air assault division trying to read back to what happened in vietnam, you can glean some of the lessons learned, so on and so forth, rebuild an air assault concept. so we had the capability now to do that with the black hawk, with the night vision goggles, with the apache, but they're all in infancy, first generation. it was a phenomenal time as brigade operations officer to see it all coming together. >> how long did you remain operations officer? >> for better part, until i left in 1982. late