special thanks to tom hewy for providing the mayor with an update on the actions to extend the permits and to give the customers more time to complete projects that have been stalled by the economic recession. the acting director updated the mayor at the end of january at his request on these matters and including the board of supervisors and the approval of the dbi new permit extension on february fifth that madam secretary, and also, actually there is one other thing, so actually i might as well update you, we are doing well with the search firm and i will have update you and we hope that it will be going along with the director and along with ted and that it is going well and going in the right direction and so we have put together the kind of qualities of kind of a director that we are looking for and we are going to enfold them into the search firm for them to go out and look. so, if there are any questions or anything that anybody has on that, and they can contact me on that as well. that is all my announcements. on to the next item. >> is there any public on the announcements? >

. >> the acting director tom hewy foresaw this and if you remember the first wave of new employees that we got were engineers. and we picked up a believe, five engineers. and we are probably going to request two more. and the building inspecters, which we have not hired, and since, four or five years. the list are there and it is just down to the final interview process. so we hope to have them on the next two-months. we have got electricals inspecters and plumbing inspectors and they are doing more and more as we go on of the planning check process. so that will continue. so to your answer, president mccarthy is i believe that we have enough people in house right now or we are ready to hire them. so we should be ready. and you may remember that some of these projects are i will not say simple. but they will be out in the next six weeks and as we get more, it should not... it should maintain a certain level. >> and how is the actual plan check which you talked with and i know that you are involved in that. what is the time frame and are the other departments working well? and with regar