To: Board of Supervisors
From: Planning and Building Department
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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Allocate One Code Enforcement Investigator Position and Deallocate One Code Compliance Officer Position in Budget Unit 1100269
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Approve the request to allocate one (1) Code Enforcement Investigator and deallocate one (1) Code Compliance Officer in budget unit 1100269.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
General Fund (100)
DISCUSSION:
The 2021-22 fiscal year budget allocated two additional Code Compliance Officer positions in the Code Enforcement unit of the Planning and Building Department (budget unit 1100269). Code Enforcement is confronted with many difficult sites that require abatement warrants. Obtaining warrants are in the job description of the Code Enforcement Inspector but are not part of the job of the Code Compliance Officer. In order to provide the resources necessary to address these more complicated cases, an added Investigator and Officer would be a better allocation of resources.
The volume of traditional code enforcement cases is well documented. There are approximately 700 open traditional code enforcement cases with nearly 450 cases yet to be assigned to staff. A full-time case load consists of about 40 cases. Currently the most seasoned staff members have close to 75 cases assigned to them and the newest staff members have a caseload of approximately 40 cases.
Code Compliance Officers and Code Enforcement Investigators are not tiered positions as their titles may imply. The Code Compliance Officer I/II position is a legacy Planning and Building Classification designed to assess compliance with existing land use codes. The Code Enforcement Investigators are Management-Confidential employees whose classifications are based on the commonly understood roles requiring advanced investigative skills, the employment of conflict resolution techniques and c...
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