mr. sweeney said last week about emergency repairs. i went eight days without heat, five days without hot water. mr. sweeney indicated that it would be necessary, in order to make the repairs, that a replacement of the hot water and furnace would be necessary. that is not the case. when they finally bought a repair man in the, it took less than two hours to repair the hot water and furnace. i know mr. sweeney talked about the burden that it would place on the personnel staff of dbi in recouping the money, but we are not talking about that $60,000. commissioner murphy: thank you. >> i would just like to ask the question, the priorities, is it with the burden of staff, recouping the money, or does it have to do with the health and welfare of citizens? thank you. >> is there any further public comment? seeing none. item 4. update on process for repairing properties with life safety issues. >> good morning, a commission. -- good morning, commission. i will be addressing life safety and then the chief inspector has a presentation. to repair

mr. sweeney and his senior staff. they tell me the only thing they can do is issue a notice of violation. they have no way to compel the landlord to make repairs. eventually, they go to a director's hearing and eventually they will be penalized. the penalty they have is nothing. in these three cases, they have not been penalized in any way. if they do not have the ability to force the landlord to make the repair, then we have to do something. we need to get legislation to do it. if you can do it, you have to direct them to do this. these are health and safety issues. these are not issues of [inaudible] this is health and safety. i aske you, how many days which you like to go without heat, when during that time the high temperature was 54 degrees? i am asking the commission. what is a reasonable time to repair no heat, or no hot water or electricity? commissioner lee: why don't we do this. this topic seems to -- why don't you have a seat and sit in on the next item and see what is being discussed. how we handle the not

mr. sweeney, i am not the only one that has called to complain. there have been other complaints. the other thing, in the particular case of no heat for eight days, it was not until the seventh day that the landlord attempted to call a repair man. i called after 24 hours with no heat to dbi. how many days, when the welfare of residents are at stake? in the housing code, under the paragraph purpose, it says the purpose of the code is to provide for the maintenance of the minimum requirements for the protection of life, limb, health, property, safety, and welfare of the general public, owner, and occupants of the residential building. seven days without heat and no attempt to repair it. i understand the problem in trying to reimburse the city for the money expended, but i do not think a repairmen coming out and spending two hours is going to be an enormous charge. mr. murphy, last time indicated, it was a small number of landlords that were a problem. i agree with that. i have lived in rental units most of my life. this particular landlord, i have written letters to her and she does

mr. sweeney is all over egypt. it is a matter of sovereignty, to have some money from abroad [unintelligible] not egypt only can accept that. >> i would ask two more questions and then we will turn it over to steve. you mentioned that you and your colleagues are ready to go back to your professional jobs as military men. eager. >> that is correct. >> since 1952 the egyptian military has played a fairly prominent role in egyptian life. you cannot say that it has only played a military role but it has played a military and political role since 1952. and right now you're playing one of your most important roles in your history. if the project works, new parliament, new president, and we are on a new track toward democratic egypt, which many of us here very much hope will happen, what kind of role will the military still play? there are two models that i have in mind. one is turkey in the 1980's, the markets have return, but the military looks over the privileged outlook for stability and oversees the constitutional or

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sweeney telling "the jersey star ledger", "this is all about him being a bully and a punk. i wanted to punch him in his head." you know who he reminds me of, mrrom "it's a wonderful life." the mean old blank who screws everybody. yikes! a spokesman for the governor fired back saying sweeney's words are inappropriate and disrespectful to the governor's office and on that note, let's go to brian kilmeade. i don't know what you're going to talk about in sports but nothing criminal, would you? >> true, i won't. after hearing governor christie's story, i was at the mets-yankees game and i was hoping he'd make eye contact with me. for some reason, he doesn't look into the stands when you're in those luxury boxes. meanwhile, 30 years in prison is what could -- that's all i have. at least it's governor christie and relates somewhat to what was going on. i have to tell you roger clemens, he's on trial and if convicted of perjury and obstruction of congress, he could face 30 years in prison. jury selection begins today at the federal court in washington, d.c. clemens, as you know, is accused of lying to congress about using steroids and human growth ho

mr. sweeney said last week about emergency repairs. i went eight days without heat, five days without hot water. mr. sweeney indicated that it would be necessary, in order to make the repairs, that a replacement of the hot water and furnace would be necessary. that is not the case. when they finally bought a repair man in the, it took less than two hours to repair the hot water and furnace. i know mr. sweeney talked about the burden that it would place on the personnel staff of dbi in recouping the money, but we are not