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New DPLU director urges investment after finding the department understaffed
Summary
Carol Bain, the new director of Permitting and Land Use, told aldermen the department is operating with 11 of 14 authorized positions filled and more than half of staff eligible to retire, delivering high permit and inspection volumes and forecasting a non–status-quo budget request next year to add capacity.
Carol Bain, newly appointed director of the Department of Permitting and Land Use, told the Board of Aldermen she inherited an understaffed department with heavy workloads that risk delayed reviews and reactive rather than proactive enforcement.
"There are 14 total authorized positions and only 11 of those are filled right now," Bain said. "More than half of the 11 staff that we currently have in place are eligible to retire either now or…
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