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Planning, public works and development directors warn vacancies, long permit timelines and M2 obligations would worsen without revenue or staffing
Summary
Community & Economic Development and Public Works directors told the ad hoc committee that staffing shortages and existing maintenance-of-effort (M2) obligations limit options for further cuts and that one-time revenue ideas (claiming unclaimed engineering balances, reissued bonds, internal-service fund draws) could yield limited short-term relief.
Senayna Thomas, director of Community & Economic Development, and Public Works Director Steven Baez described how chronic vacancies and reliance on consultants have stretched departmental capacity and impaired permit and code-enforcement turnaround times.
Thomas said plan checks and permit issuance are high (roughly 8,700 per year for the city) and that the department frequently relies on professional-services contracts to augment staff, which can cost two to three times the…
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