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page -2- Coming is planning to begin their preliminary buildings next month with the manufacturing facility to follow shortly after. We are presently operating on a very tight schedule. With the Coming project and the many others, both commercial and residential, planned for next year; it is my opinion that we will need to look very carefully at the possibility of hiring additional personnel. In order to meet the demands we will need to add an additional building inspector as soon as possible and possibly another mechanical inspector and an electrical inspector sometime during the next budget year. All three of these trades are presently performing a high number of inspections and with the expected increase in activity, both commercial and residential, it will be very difficult if not impossible to keep up. I have attached several charts which contain vital statistics concerning our department over the last four years. In reviewing the data you will see that the activities of our office have steadily increased over the past several years. Not only has the number of permits increased but the value of these permits has increased as well. As a direct result of these increases, our revenues have also increased each year. In response to the additional inspections required, we have had to increase the numbers of inspectors in the field. Although the number of inspectors has increased, the number of inspections per inspector on a yearly basis has not decreased. Our inspectors are still performing over 2300 on site inspections per year. With several large commercial/industrial projects on line for the year and the continued residential and smaller commercial activity already taking place we will need another building inspector as soon as possible, My intentions are to hire a new inspector to assist with the residential inspections and to move one our of existing inspectors to a position of plan review and commercial inspections only. This will enable us to spend more time with the plan review process. At present, two of our inspectors are having to work several hours of overtime each week to keep up. Our office has received 105 sets of building plans just in the last three months and with the projects planned for this year it will only get worse. The Corning project alone is projected to have approximately 3000 drawings for our office to review. In addition to the building inspector's position we will be proposing in the '97-'98 budget to add another mechanical and electrical inspector. These may not be needed immediately. We will be able to forecast an approximate time for that need when we get into the "building season" and see when the proposed projects for this year actually begin construction~ With your approval, I would like to request the Board of Commissioners' approval of the a~'~ditional bu'ilding inspector position at their February meeting.