commissioner pearlman. we do expect commissioner johnck to be absent public utilities commissioner on your calendar public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda with respect to agenda items your opportunity will be reached in the meeting and each member of the public my address the public up to 4 minutes >> public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. commissions that places you under directors announcements >> good morning explicit john ram i want to let you know about a seminary i went to on friday assembly bill 1995 introduced by soon to be the speaker of the assembly tony at&t kidnaps to create a tax credit for store prospers. california interesting enough 33 other states have one and 4 that have a credit no western states have it other states find this an important tool that helps to create investment in restoration of properties and this will create a 25 percent tax credit that applies to commercial and actually non-p

commissioner pearlman >> if i can figure out how this works you wanted an excellent job this is a useful document. i took a passive design course in 1981 in texas. and so it is certainly not a new expect but what's valuable i work with a lot of developers and if something like that were available as a bum on the first page of the website i've done a number of those concept it would be incredibly valuable i work with the developers and the word historic is a bad word it's going to cost me more and be a problem and incorporate what i want with something that already exists so the breaking down of that mentality is what has to happen. i'm encouraging my clients to stop and breath before they freak out and having this available immediately hey read this first the issues of the money savings and the energy savings and the you know productions of go energy through eco is a long term thing that developers only think about short term because their renovating a building and selling that but running a building is all part of that in terms of selling a building even if they're not selling a buildin

. >> commissioner pearlman. >> could you explain that again so basically you're saying if the staff says this doesn't meet the secretary of interior standards what happens then how does the department sign off on something that doesn't moot the standards. >> the preservation staff responsibility one pack of their work is to determine whether a project is or isn't with the secretary of standards but a project that's not in sync with the threshold the impact under sequa does it teller impair the rows so it doesn't convey it's significance so the easily example a contributor to a historic district obviously demolition is not consistent with the standards but that demolition is not necessarily a significant impact on the whole it doesn't necessarily impair the district so such a degree that the district can convey it's significance and eligible for listing. so it's a different threshold essentially and we have many times projects

commissioner pearlman >> i want to second that i hear from building owners it was hard for me as a professional that was a potential district seem like that we have a fairly well developed property information system that as soon as a district st. is identified everyone or every building in the district there is a note saying? a potential district that's an easy way for the professionals to help the developers saying before you start going let's review your building but certainly in that 4 to 10 year period it seems like there's a way to, you know, make this public access to the information much more much easier to find. i mean to me it's a joke when the developer says is this a potential potential potential how many potentials does it take so how we implement that for the department how do we talk about making some of those things a happy so it's useful >> one of the things we talked about a lot of times 9 project sponsors are surveying their areas and their property and the survey boundary change and if there's a way to stitch the information together that's not replicated that would be, you

of global initiatives and also chair of the department of medical ethics and health policy at the pearlman school of medicine at the university of pennsylvania. >> host: okay. so, you're busy. but just fantasizing, would you ever -- would you go back if you were called to help tie up some loose ends? >> guest: you know, sally, my experience with government was filled with bows and arrows and some slanderous attacks on me as dr. death and wanting to create death peoples al of which were shown to be completely, totally false. i love actually being in government. i loved -- despite all the hardships, trying to improve the system for the american public. i know a lot of people who intersect with the healthcare system and how frustrating it is when you're a doctor, seeing some of the inunanimous it ins of the system, and you're frustrated, and given my skill set, one thing i could do was to think of policies i think would have a likelihood of pushing the healthcare system some doctors in the right direction. if people think my excel set could help, would be happy to go in, knowing all the downf