>> the lot of the lead training program is still done by dbh, the environmental, as far as i know. >> it is under the housing code. it is on complaint. most of the lead abatement program is handled through public health. we have one person on the sixth floor that does go on health- related issues concerning lead paint. commissioner melgar: my question was about training and maintaining the certification so that folks who do enforce the building code side of the lead in construction activities. i did not see it in the training budget for the staff at dbi. i just did not know that was under a different training. so that one person gets trained or keeps up their certification through a different line item? >> there is more than one person that has the certificate in the department. once they achieve the certificate, there are class es that can attend. to my knowledge, we do not have any planned in the budget. however, it is up to the individual chiefs on wide education that they want for their individual sections. so what would be up to the chief to provide that an additional education.

and richard was big important editor of the brown daily herald, otherwise known as the dbh, who chewed out enormously on something i wrote. so i didn't actually become a journalist. [laughter] >> so sorry. >> at the end of the, well, and then i was working for usaid in the economic growth office in kabul when he became a strap -- became srap and implemented some new procedures. but i am sorry he wasn't able to complete that terribly important and probably hopeless task. one of the things i've been reflecting on though is that it was well known at brown that he was going into the foreign service. i think he was one of the very few who actually got to go into the foreign service right from college. and in those days, which i know because i pursued a career in public service also, but those were the unusual days. i did know it at the time, when a public service government career was considered honorable, even prestigious. and he was a real embodiment of that. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> well, if there are no further questions, strobe -- yes? [inaudible] >> can you speak about th