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Council workshop considers outsourcing permitting to Bureau Veritas, keeping code enforcement in-house
Summary
At a city budget workshop, staff and councilors discussed outsourcing permitting to Bureau Veritas while converting an existing position into a full‑time code enforcement role to avoid adding head count or cost to the city budget.
At a budget workshop, city staff and councilors discussed routing building permits through Bureau Veritas and using an existing employee to perform full‑time code enforcement to avoid adding a new city position.
Supporters said outsourcing would streamline the permitting process and place the cost on applicants rather than the city. A staff member said, “I just got off the phone with Moe from Bureau Veritas, and they can, as long as someone takes the application and sends it to ... Bureau Veritas, they will go back and forth with the applicant until they get all the information.”
Officials said the change…
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