"Systemically, the organization of things are such that institutionally they can't change to the degree that we'd like to see them change," Newsom said. "So we have to break the institutions ... in order to make the kinds of changes all of us in the city expect," quoth Mayor Newsom at a Dec. 19, 2007, Building Inspection Commission meeting, during which Department of Building Inspection director Isam Hasenin unveiled a controversial proposal to consolidate ten of the city's departments into one. [SFBG]
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