compliments to director huey and robert chung for the briefing they provided last week who visited san francisco for advice on how the city might want to proceed with its own safety retro fit program. they also said their visit was hugely valuable on all fronts, general, technical, financial and publicly wide. so well done there. warm thanks to dbi chief building inspector for his excellent customer service, for mr. john barber of mission housing. thank him very much for his assistance. mr. barber also mentioned he hasn't been to dbi since the 90s, that's a long time, and he knows significant and productive changes have been be met in dbi's business and how that is good for our business. congratulations to director huey who was interviewed by the cantonese radio talk show program about steps interested owners who want to take to legalize current legal units. this was a live call in radio show and director huey got plenty of questions about situations and provided helpful advice so thank you for taking that on the road. he had also been invited to do a channel 26 chinese tv interview wi

quickly approaching and so i wanted to thank director huey for that and we also wanted to thank robert chung who hosted a dbi table on the housing expo this year, which was held on january, i am sorry, june 14th, from 11 to 3 at saint mary's cathedral, almost 1,000 people attended and many asking questions about again, the legalization of those un-law units and recommend the retrofit program and so those are important things that our staff has done. and we also, received a special thanks to dbi senior housing inspector allen davidson for his recent cooperation in having a reporter from the central city extra ride along with him, which is a tender loin newspaper ride along with him on some of his inspections of sro hotels. the important news article that has not come out yet. and we also are going to discuss more active financial manager of gale revels, and details on the budget before the board of supervisors which takes place tomorrow, regarding that dbi budget and so that is going to happen tomorrow. and one final reminder, dbi is going to host another free public workshop on monday, augus