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DBI reports higher revenues, outlines $8M permit-center and multi‑million digital permitting costs
Summary
Deputy Director Taris Madison told the Building Inspection Commission that April revenues rose to about $63 million, citing strong plan‑check receipts; DBI outlined roughly $8 million in permit‑center costs and estimated $7.7 million for a two‑year digital permitting effort.
Taris Madison, deputy director of the Department of Building Inspection, told the Building Inspection Commission on May 15 that DBI’s April revenue total put the department briefly above last year’s pace, with year‑to‑date revenues at about $63,000,000 compared with roughly $60,000,000 last year. "For the first time in a very long time, we actually have exceeded our prior year amount," Madison said, noting unusually large plan‑check receipts in April, about $2,800,000 attributable to a few big projects.
Madison said expenditures are also up — roughly $56,000,000 this year versus about $51,000,000 last year — driven largely by higher salary costs and more…
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