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Mayor's department presses for digitized permits, salary study, vehicle replacement and training funds
Summary
The mayor's office requested recurring and one-time investments — including online permitting and a searchable UDO, a salary study, a replacement vehicle for building inspectors, and professional development — totaling an estimated $240,000 ongoing and $206,000 one-time costs in the 2025 comp budget.
The mayor’s department presented a series of priorities it says will modernize front-line services and improve employee retention. Top requests included digitizing permitting and the city’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to create searchable code, funding continuing education for inspectors and land-use board members, and replacing an aging inspector vehicle whose floor is failing.
The presenter said these investments would improve efficiency across building, code and assessment functions and reduce time to issue permits. She outlined a combined request that the office calculated as an additional $240,000 in recurring annual costs and $206,000 in one-time expenses (including a vehicle, UDO digitization and codebooks). On the need for training and modernization, she said many processes remain manual and “this is critical, honestly, for the city.”
Council members pressed on funding priorities and trade-offs: finance asked departments to identify offsets if they want new investments restored, and members discussed potential grant opportunities (for example an EV vehicle grant) and phased or partial-year funding if revenues materialize later.
