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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET <br />Submittal Date: <br />Originating Department: <br />Presented By: <br />Agenda Item No.: <br />03/05/2010 <br />Engineering, Planning <br />Shawn Napier, P.E. City Engineer <br />Council Date: <br />and Development <br />/Director of Public Works <br />20. <br />04/ 12/2010 <br />RECOMMENDED MOTION: <br />POLICY ISSUE(S): <br />Implementation of building codes; Public safety <br />BACKGROUND: <br />In January 2009 and after our last building inspector left, the City retained Bureau Veritas (BV) to <br />perform plan review and building inspections for the City for an initial review period of 75 days. The <br />pilot project was later extended to 12 months. As shown in the accompanying Building Fees Collected <br />and Paid chart, from January 2009 through January 2010, the City paid $363,380 to BV, collected <br />$174,471 in fees collected for a net loss of $188,908. The figures are skewed, however, because they <br />include the new Paris High School project. Excluding Paris High project reduces the loss by $50,470. <br />The Permitting Time Table lists all of the commercial and residential new construction projects and the <br />permit timelines. The average time between BV received the plans, BV comments sent, revisions <br />received, and when the owner picked up the permit, was under 25 days. Most of time lags were due to <br />owners not submitting complete applications and delays in getting revisions back to the City. <br />[CONTINUED] <br />BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: <br />EXHIBITS: <br />Building Fees Collected and Paid, Permitting Time Line, Permit Fee Comparison, City of Paris Fee <br />Schedule, Proposed Permit Fees, International Code Council-Building Valuation Data, Proposed <br />Organizational Chart, In-House Building Inspection <br />ACTION: <br />BUDGET INFO: <br />❑ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order <br />Expense <br />$ <br />❑ Department Report Z Resolution <br />Budgeted Amt. <br />$ <br />❑ Presentation ❑ Ordinance <br />y'I'D Actual <br />$ <br />❑ Public Hearing ❑ Other <br />Acct. Name <br />Acct. Number <br />FISCAL NOTES: <br />REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: <br />Z Administrarion Z City Clerk ❑ Community Development ❑ EMS/IT Z Eng. ❑ Finance <br />❑ Fire ❑ Municipal Court ❑ Legal ❑ Library ❑ Police ❑ Public Works ❑ Utilities <br />City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 <br />