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SUBCOMMITTEE FOR
BUILDING PERMITS
COMMITTEE ROOM - June 23, 1999
3:00 P. M.
PRESENT: Hons. Kuhlke and 1. Brigham, Subcommittee members; Colclough,
Commissioner; Jim Wall, Attorney; Randy Oliver, Administrator; Pam Costabile,
License & Inspections Department; Lon Morrey, Comptroller; David Collins, Finance
Department and Nancy Morawski, Deputy Clerk of Commission.
ABSENT: Hon. Handy, Chairman.
Also Present: Stacey Eidson of The Metropolitan Spirit and Sylvia Cooper of The
Augusta Chronicle.
Mr. Oliver: I believe that everyone agrees that we will turn this into an enterprise
fund which means it will be totally self-supporting. Everybody recognizes that
construction goes up and down and we will try to build a reserve fund that will protect us
against those peaks and valleys. The costs for running this department will be borne in a
separate set of accounts and if there is money left over at the end of the year, it will go
into this reserve or reduce the building fees subsequently.
Mr. Kuhlke: What is the maximum reserve?
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Mr. Oliver: $250,000 was what was agreed to. The only unresolved issue was
the License & Inspections portion for Code Enforcement. We are going to try to code
that in such a way that we can capture exactly how much relates to housing and how
much relates to vacant property. Pam is going to set up a code in the computer that will
do this and I believe that this needs to be revisited once we have better data. We chose
the 50% figure and feel that better data needs to be developed, but we don't think the
50% figure is an unreasonable number based on some rough estimates we did.
After further discussion of the matter, Mr. Oliver: Is it the consensus, then, that
we go forward with the 20% increase, we'll set it up as an enterprise fund and whatever is
left over drops to the bottom line to be carried forward, we put in 10% of the Code
Enforcement for now with the understanding that that item will remain open based on
better and improved data? We'll see if we can get this on for the July 6th meeting if
everybody is in agreement.
It was the consensus of the group that this was agreeable.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Nancy W. Morawski
Deputy Clerk of Commission
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