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Council reviews requests for engineering inspector, building-inspector and two wastewater collection positions
Summary
City staff presented requests to add an engineering technician inspector ($83,000) and a building inspection/code-enforcement position (about $105,000) plus two wastewater collection system workers (~$72,000 each); staff said some of the engineering position costs may be reimbursable by Caltrans grants.
Victor, a city staff member, outlined personnel requests in community development and engineering: an engineering technician inspector (salary and benefits about $83,000) and a building-inspection/code-enforcement position combined at about $105,000.
Victor said the engineering inspector would support capital projects funded by federal and state grants (STBG, CMAQ) and satisfy Caltrans requests for on-site daily logs and documentation. Victor and council members discussed grant reimbursement: "Those expenses are reimbursable," Victor said, adding staff can submit timesheets and capture salary costs to recover grant-eligible labor when limits and matching rules allow.
On wastewater, staff requested two collection-system worker positions, each with salary-and-benefit impacts around $72,000, for a combined personnel impact of about $144,000. Victor said the request stems partly from a state requirement to maintain sufficient collections staffing and that he would correct the budget worksheets to reflect the positions' allocation.
Council members asked whether the positions were included in the department budgets; Victor said he would add and reconcile the numbers and present the corrected worksheets before adoption. No formal hiring decisions were made at the work study.
