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To: Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners <br />From: Kelly Sifford, AICP <br />Re: Re- inspection fees adjustment <br />Date: September 13, 2013 <br />Due to a rise in failure rates, staff is proposing a revised "call back" or re- inspection fee. Currently, <br />Cabarrus County's fee is $50 no matter how many times a job fails inspection. Fees are typically <br />imposed under conditions such as the job not being ready for inspection, calling in when the items cited <br />for failure have not been fixed or the inspector cannot gain access to the site. There were 465 re- <br />inspection fees applied in FY 12 -13. In less than one quarter in FY 13 -14, two hundred and twenty five <br />re- inspection fees have been applied. These failures create the need for additional inspections which are <br />additional costs to the county. Construction Standards staff is finding that it is more cost effective for <br />many builders to use county inspectors for quality control rather than providing it privately. In an effort <br />to reduce failure rates and multiple trips to the same site for re- inspection, staff is recommending a <br />system of increasingly punitive fees for re- inspections. <br />Staff is recommending $100 for the first re- inspection and a $125 fee for subsequent unnecessary trips <br />(per inspections category). Staff researched other surrounding and comparable jurisdictions to <br />determine the range of re- inspection fees. The fees ranged from $52.50 to $121 per re- inspection. The <br />jurisdictions researched included Iredell, Rowan, Caldwell, Union, Lincoln, Gaston, Catawba, Wake, <br />Mecklenburg and Orange counties. <br />Attachment number 1 <br />G -3 Page 153 <br />