their offices will all be in thd ago long with other ---buildingg with other city agencies. on the second floor will be a fr where all the permitting -- the permitting sections for each oe departments will sit. we'll have police, we'll have ae different elements of dbi, plan, p.u.c., public works. tax and treasurers office. department of public health ande of small business has a small sn there as well. we're looking at the opening das sometime in 2020. so this is really exciting to bo have all these permitting agencr one roof. so now for any business that hal with the police department, theo go down to third street so now t have is going to be contained is one building. and on the second floor. i'll send you a layout that have following this meeting. also i remind that are the heale security ordinance rates are gop this january. so for businesses with over 100 employees, it's $238 an hour. for businesses between 20 and 9s $1.89 and hour. we have seen an uptick of busins contacting our office due to dry lawsuits for the ada. i am -- the only thing i can sus that because of t

what is the status of ministry of defense buildingg? last year experienced significant lengthy construction delays. could you give us an update on the status of that building? >> well, we made six inspectios to that building, identify deficiencies and they accepted our recommendations, dod did and i think they have implemented in that case all of our recommendations. >> thank you very much and i yield back, mr. chairman. >> chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones for five minutes. >> thank you very much and i appreciate you holding this hearing. i were out to president trump july 18, of this year asking him if he was going to increase the number of troops. the police-- please come to congress first and let us have a debate on the future of afghanistan since we all know we've been there 16 years. in the letter i wrote to hur the president and i know he made 30 comments before he became a candidate and while he was a candidate about the waste in afghanistan. i'm going to use one out for i put in the letter. 2013, you

about buildinggs this more resilient and sustainable and renewable is we can drive that cost down and the second largest cost for those pharmaceutical manufacturers is energy. thosewant to keep businesses there, we want to keep those professionals there who are working on that, we need to build a much better grid that does not run on diesel. there is a place for natural that we also for solar make resilient and for wind. thank you. >> thank you, senator franken. send early -- senator lee? >> we begin today's hearing with a certain amount of knowledge. we know a lot about what is going on with prepa. expert opinion testimony has identified a laundry list of concerns with prepa's management and operation. let me list a few. staff have been hired without regard to experience and expertise, resulting in the failure of multiyear projects. we have seen widespread theft of power and billing failures. we have seen a lot of outdated infrastructure that has resulted in an abnormally unacceptably high late of forced and prolonged outages. we have generation units that are technologically outdate