how this proceeded the last time when we were looking for a new direct r for the department. >> john malmed from the city attorney's office. the laws regarding closed session set up pretty limited circumstances when the commission can meet in closed session and what is appropriate to discuss during that time. there is something that's referred to as the personnel exception, which is an opportunity to go into closed session to discuss certain things regarding personnel, primarily given the building inspection commission's authority that regards the hiring and/or termination of the director of dbi and the commission secretary. so, those are authority that you've been granted under the charter. and for the most part, the personnel exception gives you the opportunity to meet in closed session to discuss certain things regarding the hiring or termination as well as the valuations of those two different staff. but as i said initially, the ability to meet in closed session is limited. so, there's many things that you can't discuss regarding the director's position. one of them, for example, are th

. >> john malmed from the city attorney's office. yes, you can set up special meetings of the commission. you could create -- you can do that today because it's not agendized, but you can create a subcommittee of the commission that takes the lead and they would meet separately as a smaller group on a more regular basis rather than trying to assemble the whole commission * . the commission could give authority like they did last time to the president or another commissioner to kind of take the lead and then report back and set up meetings with the full commission as needed. >> commissioner lee. >> i don't -- i just propose that we duplicate like last time, which is give the president the authority to take the lead. and if you need the commission to meet, we hold special meetings and just decide everything out in the open here. >> and as an addition, the goal would be to bring back the responses from the search firms who are interested in doing the jobs. and then setting up, you know, maybe meeting with the department heads like we di

amount of correction that we're in the process of doing and actually we've been working closely with john malmed and have some new legislation that the board will probably introduce next week to deal with all of these corrections, including that one. at the same time, we thought it an opportunity to offer a premium 3r service, which would mean that customers coming in who had an urgency similar to premium plan review could pay a little more and have the report generated in a shorter period of time. that, of course, is tied to staffing realities that we are still working on. so, this is a work in progress. it won't happen overnight, but that's what this item is about for your discussion today. >> is there a comment? >> obviously the 3r, has been kind of -- maybe this is directed at you [speaker not understood]. so, as far as i understand, you're correcting the language from 100 to 160, correct, that's what this is all about in front of us? >> that's one of the items, yes. that's one part of one of the fee tables in this legislation that is being introduced at the board. >> right. okay. so, and i