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Hermiston creates separate building-inspections fund; city seeks a commercial electrical inspector to replace costly contracted inspections
Summary
The budget creates a new building-inspections fund to keep permit fees and costs aligned with state law; staff said accumulated fees of about $2.7 million will seed the $4.3 million operational budget and the city hopes to hire a commercial electrical inspector to replace expensive monthly contract payments to the state.
City Manager Byron Smith told the committee the proposed 2025-26 budget establishes a separate building-inspections fund to make permit and inspection revenues and expenses more transparent and to align with state law that restricts permit-fee usage to building-department activities.
Smith said the new fund will have an operational budget of about $4.3 million and carries roughly…
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