joining me today in delivering this presentation is chief building inspector pat o'rear don. we are joined by cory teague as and dan lowry, and joe duffy, senior building inspector. today's presentation will cover the following topics. we have four primary items that we would like to cover. after overview of the current demolition regulations, inspection issues, dialogue about unauthorized demolition processes, including penalties and fees that currently are in place, and our general key take aways of what the major issues are that we're facing. so as all of you are probably aware at this point, the city has a handful of demolition controls, and before we begin into what we see are the challenges, we wanted to go through a little of a technical overview. although normally i try to steer clear of this technical jargon in any kind of public presentation, i think it's critical to really set the stage of understanding what the challenges are. so first, i'm not going to go into a lot of detail. this is the building code definition of demolition. chief inspector reardon will go int