>> this is gary lehman. i'm a certified access specialist, and i am also the chief building official for the city of orvil so what i do in assisting the small businesses in our community is i reach out to them through the chamber of commerces. with the chamber of commerces what i provide to them -- once again as i indicated proactive is the ability that i will for free of charge because i am community service go to their site in their business and walk the business. have them have a list and i will indicate to them what kind of barriers they may have within their business and they put that list together. this is then what generates the barrier removal of the barriers in a kind way. what it has done is open the businesses to come in freely and feel comfortable coming into the building department and be comfortable with myself coming into their business because i'm not going in there saying "you have to do this" and knocking at the doors to shut them down. i'm going in and saying ", well here's the things that

>> this is gary lehman and i can kind of answer this. well, pre-ada i was in construction, started my construction career back in 1976 but accessibility was still required because we had the 1961 standards and it was required to be accessible. now, the understanding of what a curb ramp was supposed to be like because the standards was quite vague we did pour numerous curb ramps and tear them out and redo them and tear them out and redo them and trying to figure out what it was supposed to be where today it's pretty much there as to what is specifically supposed to be for a curb ramp. the same thing was for the restrooms and it indicated that you had to have turning clearance and you had to have -- okay, it never gave a dimension where today's codes now it gives strict dimension, so that's come a long ways. also in the 80's i was inspecting under the ansi standards and under some of the california accessibility standards codes and the ansi standards was quite again quite vague. it's what we went by in nevada in the casinos and i was inspe

gary lehman has developed surveys and inspections in california and nevada since 1987 and in constructionor over 35 years, building inspection, plan review since 1987 and a california licensed contractor since 1995. he holds a bachelor's degree in construction management and masters in public administration. he is a certified accessibility specialists who has performed more than 500 accessibility evaluations for public accommodations and public facilities so welcome gary. jeff bytheway and has experience as a licensed contractor and serving the city of los angeles since 2006. he is a senior building inspector with the city of los angeles. has served as the training officer for the los angeles building residential and energy and zoning codes and a certified access specialists. welcome jeff. randy goodwin. randy has 30 years of experience in building architecture and open space development. he earned his degrees in architecture from montana state university and randy works for the city of west sacramento as the architectural projects manager and city architect and building official. it's a

. >> this is gary lehman. in orvil sometimes we have some historic and older buildings and they go in and do alterations and repairs, and so this is when e equivalent presentation is provided and northern california independent living service that i have a very close relation with as well as with my cass reviews that i have them assist me in review my review the process or what's being brought forward and provide their input what would be better used or better approach to them if they felt, so yes, i do use it and they have changed their name just recently but the northern california independent living services which is an advocacy group of different disabilities, not just one, and so i take advice from them and i also have them review and approve along with my approval, so this is one approach that i use to overcome politics shall i say sometimes. >> it's a great question. randy good one. one of the many hats i wear i have been trying to guide a group in the city with our transition plan updating our transiti

gary today. >> former lehman cnbcer talking about how we actually break news while the other guys you know whatthey do there across -- that was funny my tweet i heard they weren't happy about this at cnbc. last time i did with tv ugly guy named joe sitting entwine us. at fox business the power to process purr and gary got a bunch of -- >> he replied. >> is that necessary children? >> it is true. i love joe he's a good guy. friend of mine. but it is true. they obsess about the stupid thing we have been all in front of this story last month, and while they obsess with people's hair. it has been a fun day today. >> so glad that you're here and always breaking news on my show thank you so much. charlie gasparino 24 minutes before the closing bell rings just watch. surprise you smack dab in the middle of corn country. so i'm wearing in yellow in honor of him to talk us inside the battle of renewable energies and the star of the cme, executive chairman terry duffy trading futures for years and years. how will the world's large etion future trading operation prepare the fed and prepare for the fed to