ron thomas, assistant director d.b.i. you want to speak to two items. one item is with communication. when we examined all our business process during the build process or s.f. permit. one thing identified was that we currently on our forms, don't have email address requirements. an email address is most expeditious way to communicate and memorialize the time frame upon which it was issued. we decided collectively, the best thing to do is start asking for these up front when an applicant comes in. once d.b.i. collects that information, once they issue a comment, they issue c.c. to the oner. you're sending it to the design professional regardless discipline, but the owner gets to a copy. that can be immediate approval. secondly, speaking to the new permit centre, if it's brick and mortar what we're looking at, our agency has the largest number of staff there. there's a director who has been hired to handle all those issues our understanding is, health department will have a presence. the whole idea is not to have an applicant go knirl else to get their b

. >> ron thomas i'm the director. compared to report between february 2019 and current one is an increase of 6.3% in total construction cost. that breaks a trend that we've in previous reports. >> president mccarthy: thank you. >> item 8d, update on code enforcement. >> good morning again commissioners. building inspector. i'm here to report code enforcement and d.b.i. monthly activity specifically for the month of march. 5,932,000,000,000 inspections were performed in the month of march. what was up 900. it probably represents more activity after the winter months and february is 28 days. it's quite substantial increase over the previous month. it's 900 more inspections that we had in february. we received 393 complaints in the month of march. of those 393, 382 were responded to within 72 hours. 190 were closed without a notice of violation. 41 of those complaints received a notice of violation. in regard to code enforcement section, all 124 cases were sent to director's hearing in the month of march, 40 orders of ab

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went into ron -- went in when was happening at the thomas managing director goldman sachs and is working, , i had a team that created what were called credit derivatives which were effectively bets on whether companies or any sort of loans whether they were attached to mortgages or anything else would default. basically that's what a credit derivative is. it's like i bet you you will be able to either catholic or not be able to fairfield on. or if your company are either able to pay off the debt you borrowed in the public markets or from banks or you're not. that i can bet on that. i offset that with someone else's is willing to take the other side or with insurance companies that ensure this or that, i'm taking on the other side to make this bet. but there they were much more convoluted than that ultimately as he found out in the subprime mortgage crisis and aftermath in the financial crisis. but i created at bear stearns where i i ran a department for seven years, more than 70 string the '90s for bear stearns the creation that could enable these types of credit derivatives to be used f