probably pam. >> pamela levin, every day there's different news on that. kind of to step backwards about 3 or 4 weeks ago, we got notice they were holding recommendations across the city for placement of people who were being laid off. they have grabbed many of our requisitions and we have a person starting in records management on monday that's coming in. the 1406 is the clerks. monday they were, we were told we could go ahead and recruit. tuesday we were told we couldn't, yesterday we were told -- yesterday afternoon we were told we could. as of today we have 200 people on the list that we have canvased so now we have to go through on the next level, which is they say they can meet the requirements, the special conditions are not -- just the general requirements of our job, then we go down and try to figure out how many people we can actually interview and what the level is. so it's being very, the whole thing is being really controlled right now. there are, they don't have building inspectors, they don't have electrical inspectors. one inspector that yo

. >> pamela levin. we have so far two months' worth of experience with this fiscal year. so, this basically we're projecting to end up on budget if we don't have any additional information to be able to tell you that it's the logical thing to say we'll be over budget or under budget. what we're seeing is that the revenues for charges for service have increased substantially compared to last year at this time. so, year to date august 2012 versus year to date, august 2011, the increase has been almost 45%. that is -- we also have looked at the number of issue permits and those have gone up by 9%, but the total valuation has gone up by 48%. so, what we're seeing is that we're seeing larger projects bringing -- coming in, or we're issuing permits for larger projects and that's bringing in additional revenues. in terms of expenses as you know our largest category of expenses is salaries and fringes. as i mentioned, what we're doing right now is projecting that we're going to end up on budget. we have a staffing plan that we presented to the budget committee and that is that th

. >> pamela levin, department of building inspection. pardon my voice, i've been really sick. so because this was already a, there was already an rft, which is a request for qualifications put out to executive search firms, we were saying this already exists, overarching, and we were sending out saying we're not sending you this long song and dance that needs to be in this format. this is what you need to address, you need to give us this information and because you are already prequalified that will reduce the amount of hoops you have to go through a second time. that's why it was informal. a formal is similar to what we had to do for the permit tracking system where we went through a lengthy process of requesting people to bid on a specific topic meeting all these criteria and they had to have all these financial kinds of requirements. the other thing is because this is a preapproved list that once we get back the information, the proposals from the various entities, we can select them in a rather expeditious way we can select them without going through a long song and dance