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Evansville City board approves contractor licenses and continuing-education courses
Summary
The Evansville City Board of Construction and Roofing Examiners approved multiple contractor license applications, granted a handful of approvals pending missing notaries or recommendation wording, and signed off on several continuing-education training courses during its meeting.
The Evansville City Board of Construction and Roofing Examiners approved a slate of contractor license applications and a series of continuing-education courses at its meeting. The board voted to approve multiple individual applicants for residential, commercial and specialty contractor licenses and to accept several professional training courses for credit.
The approvals covered individual license applicants (roofing, residential building, commercial building, tile/marble, excavating, underground utility and building record contractors) and a range of continuing-education offerings, including OSHA workplace safety training, QuickBooks for contractors, contract law/contract management online courses and in-person construction law and rigging-safety workshops. Several approvals were noted as conditional: one applicant’s file was approved “pending notary” on a form, and one application remained conditional while a missing recommendation letter was obtained.
Most applicant approvals were moved, seconded and accepted by voice vote. The board recorded routine “all in favor” approvals for applicants including James Andrew Blackston (unlimited roofing contractor); Gavin Chase Curtis (residential remodeling contractor); Kyler Joseph Deere (commercial building); Cameron Hirsch (tile and marble contractor and residential remodeling); Adam T. Paulson (excavating, underground utility, building record contractor); Kylan Isaiah Rankin (residential building); and others. Joseph A. Stout’s file was approved pending a missing notary on one document. Clayton Samuel Cosby’s residential-building application generated discussion about a missing third recommendation and was ultimately approved after motion, with at least one board member recording opposition to the recommendation as presented.
Continuing-education items accepted included: OSHA workplace safety training (3 hours), How to Build a Better Project (3 hours, in person), QuickBooks for contractors and trade owners (3 hours), Contract Management (online, 3 credits), contractors insurance courses (in person), Construction Law: delays/disruptions/accelerations, multiple residential-code chapter breakdown training sessions, rigging safety, and an online Challenges in Construction course. The board noted some duplicative course listings for different dates and locations and approved each course as presented.
Procedural notes recorded in the meeting: several recommendation letters accompanying applications lacked consistent wording (some did not explicitly state “I recommend”), and several forms lacked a clearly legible notary stamp on the face of the document. Staff advised the board that some of these defects were common and that applicants sometimes submit duplicate or templated letters. In one case staff recorded that a notary appeared on the back of a submitted form and treated the file as approvable pending verification.
The board adjourned after completing the approvals and discussing administrative items.
