2011-06-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. O’HARA: Right. Well this would have an enforcement division that they could turn that issue over to. That’s what I see as creating MR. TAKABA: Because how we saw it working was you have an enforcement division with all the inspectors cross trained. So when it has to be an inspection for a building, a building inspector can inspect several other items as well. So you won’t be sending three different inspectors out. MS. O’HARA: That’s a possibility. MR. TAKABA: I thought that’s what he said. MS. NICHOLSON: And you’re right. I do remember that it did have something to do with inspections as well as enforcement. And we’ve managed to drop that out. It’s whether we feel we want to incorporate that inspection and enforcement responsibilities in this and then look at our justification again or do we want to drop it totally or do we want to add it back in as one of our items on our larger list. Those are our options, I think, is ignore it, fold it into this or don’t try to fold it into this but add it into our longer laundry list of items. So, I guess the first question is, does it really fit in with enforcement, inspection and enforcement? Do they go together? MR. MATSUDA: Is enforcement both? MR. TAKABA: Well, I’m just trying to recall what he was saying. MS. O’HARA: I’m thinking in terms of, well my knowledge of different inspections that are called for, for instance in Planning, all the different sections in Planning. Planning doesn’t do plumbing and electrical, but they’ve got long range. MS. NICHOLSON: But I think he was talking about it. MS. O’HARA: Right, but for instance if you have an applicant coming in for a B&B, Planning Department has to go out and do an inspection. Now, do you want that to be under the MR. TAKABA: I think he was talking about moving all the inspectors into one division one unit. MS. O’HARA: But what I’m saying is they don’t have inspectors in the Planning Department. They have planners who work on these cases and they’ll go out in the field and do that inspection for a rezoning, they’ll go for all kinds of different request that come in. There has to be a site visit, make sure that there is line of sight study on the driveway, all this other stuff that gets done.And that’s just kind of standard inspections. And they don’t have inspectors that go out and do that and report back to the section. The section planners actually go out and do the inspections. I don’t know quite how it all works at the Building Department. I think that inspection is just a very big, big thing. MR. TAKABA: He was talking about Tax Office. 11