jack tsang is here along with the contractor chris ricard of peninsula hawley and we are happy to answer any questions you have. >> okay. we can hear from the departments now, whoever is speaking from the department of building and inspection. great. >> good evening commissioners. patrick o reiden from the department of building inspection. on october 9 the permit was filed for the work at 2065 oakdale avenue. the politics necessary is listed here. on october 11 that permit was issued with review of our building plan check division along with review by our planning staff, and it was also noted on the back of the application that dpw at least reviewed the application before the permit was issued. it seems like the work started on or around october 16 or 17. we received a complaint on october 18, and our inspector went out the next day. now, he wasn't quite sure exactly what was going on, whether it was a full demo or partial demo, so he wrote a correction notice advising the contractors to stop work until the required notification be provided for the demolition. a couple of hours later th

hawley debt limit has to be extended. this is not our future spending. this is about spending has already been done. will we pay the bills that we have already racked up? clearly, we have to do that. the consequences of a failure to extend the debt limit would be extraordinary. to do that, you have to get votes of people in the house of representatives. and they are insisting on additional spending restraint. in fact, we need additional spending restraint. if anything is clear from the charts i have put up your is that we have to get some additional restraint on the entitlement side of our budget. so it does lend itself to a compromise, one in which there is additional revenue, not from reading rates, but through tax reform, which happily something the country needs anyway. does anybody believe this tax code that we have makes any sense at all? i don't know of a single democrat or a single republican that would sit here and say this tax code can possibly be supported on any grounds. it is not fair. is not rational. it is not easy to abide by. and it is h

in a curious way, both sides .eed each otherwhy d hawley debt limit has to be extended. this is not our future spending. this is about spending has already been done. will we pay the bills that we have already racked up? clearly, we have to do that. the consequences of a failure to extend the debt limit would be extraordinary. to do that, you have to get votes of people in the house of representatives. and they are insisting on additional spending restraint. in fact, we need additional spending restraint. if anything is clear from the charts i have put up your is that we have to get some additional restraint on the entitlement side of our budget. so it does lend itself to a compromise, one in which there is additional revenue, not from reading rates, but through tax reform, which happily something the country needs anyway. does anybody believe this tax code that we have makes any sense at all? i don't know of a single democrat or a single republican that would sit here and say this tax code can possibly be supported on any grounds. it is not fair. is not rational. it is