alexander-tut: thank you. this might be too early to ask or to know, but i'm curious if the -- you have any data on the permit operations. is there -- in terms -- i know that we have heard -- more with people, but is there a financial analysis on that? i'm wondering as we look at, you know, moving forward from a fiscal perspective how those saturday permit days -- i don't know what they're calling them -- are, you know, is it helpful? >> president mccarthy: interim director, i think that you could talk to that, right? >> yeah, i'm happy to speak to that and thanks for the question commissioner tut. so one saturday permit day, simply because we realized that people were working here on saturday anyway. and if we were going to be open to customers on saturday, then people would have to work sunday as well to process some of the work that took place over the six days. so we realized that it's probably best if staff don't have to work seven days -- seven consecutive days and they need that sunday to rest up and be

alexander-tut: thank you. this might be too early to ask or to know, but i'm curious if the -- you have any data on the permit operations. is there -- in terms -- i know that we have heard -- more with people, but is there a financial analysis on that? i'm wondering as we look at, you know, moving forward from a fiscal perspective how those saturday permit days -- i don't know what they're calling them -- are, you know, is it helpful? >> president mccarthy: interim director, i think that you could talk to that, right? >> yeah, i'm happy to speak to that and thanks for the question commissioner tut. so one saturday permit day, simply because we realized that people were working here on saturday anyway. and if we were going to be open to customers on saturday, then people would have to work sunday as well to process some of the work that took place over the six days. so we realized that it's probably best if staff don't have to work seven days -- seven conseconsecutive days and they d that sunday to rest up and

so, commissioner alexander-tut, thank you so much for this. and also mr. duffy. thank you so much for putting this together and putting it into context. you know, outside of the commissioner and outside the work that i do, we have been kind of the front line for covid testing. you know, we've done a little bit of over 30,000 tests in communities since the pandemic has started. and now today coming from south of market site that we launched for the community. and so i think it would be remiss for me not to bring up a couple of points here related to that. number one, i just want to second that absolutely if our inspectors are doing 4,000 inspections in the field during the month, not to mention the nearly 300 in-home inspections being done, they are absolutely on the front line to doing this work. i think that we need to be very up front that they need to be included in one of the new phases, phase 1a 1b, whatever that is, what are the conditions are. can be very vocal that they need to have the level of priority for early vaccination. as we all know, right, the m

commissioner alexander-tut please. >> commissioner alexander-tut: yes, i have a question somewhat regarding what -- (indiscernible) so let me know if this is -- anyway, let me know if this is inappropriate, but around a better forum for this, but i was curious also regarding the article -- is somebody who is -- whoever it is, i don't care if they're on this commission, but someone who is not a professional who works in d.b.i. all the time, is there a place where people can go and say do i need a permit instead of having to hire somebody to make that assessment for them? does that exist? >> so, you know, in anticipation and i do get the question. so what i would recommend is that in the next item 3, commissioner alexander-tut, that you give it some thought and we'll calendar something in january that we could address and talk to those questions for you. and if there's anything else that you want to add in there, we can make it a line item to kind of, you know, to address pretty much what was discussed in that act and so on. because i know that we have a lot of questions as commissioners on i