May 2023 Monthly Report

MAY 2023 MONTHLY REPORT BUILDING, ORDINANCE AND FACILITIES In This Issue Page 1 - Building Safety Month Page 2 - Building Safety Month Contd. Page 3 - Department Activity Page 4 - Director Snippets Page 5 - Building Department Activity Page 6 - Welcome to the City Page 7- Ordinance Activity Page 8 - Facilities Activity

MAY IS BUILDING SAFETY MONTH! During the month of May, the Building Department hosts a handful of events to exemplify Building Safety! Here's a snapshot of all our events for the month of May: May 3rd - Building Safety Starts at Home Premier Academy May 6th - Building Safety Starts at Home Home Depot Kid's Craft Day May 18th - Prepare Your Community Older Persons Commission (OPC) Safety Awareness Event May 20th - Prepare Your Community Lowe's Kid's Craft Day May 23rd/24th - Advocate For Your Community Hosting High School Architect Class May 31st - Solving Challenges Together Opportunity to have coffee with the inspectors to discuss issues and concerns Page 1

Building Safety Month Events home depot o p c coffee with inspectors lowe's STONEY creek HIGH SCHOOL Page 2

DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY The department celebrated Cinco de Raised to Date: Mayo with a taco/nacho bar! $972.61 Our seasonal worker, Diane, officially retired at the end of this month. She helped complete some big organizational projects for our department! Jodi Welch - 2 years May 17th - Jeff Schultz Mike Viazanko - 2 years May 19th - Gary Nauts May 24th - Norwood Bates Jeff Schultz - 4 years Jeff Fraser - 4 years Happy Birthday, Gary! There's nothing like Tim Hollis - 21 years a ride around city hall with your friends. Mark Artinian Page 3 was re-elected as a Board Member of SEMBOIA and Jay was elected as Vice President!

DIRECTOR SNIPPETS During the month of The Director and Deputy Director attended a May, the Building meeting at Dillman Upton lumber yard to see a Inspectors began to presentation for a new product coming to the conduct free deck industry that will save time on deck inspections as part of construction. If they are successful in gaining Building Safety Month. approval, we will begin to see it on jobsites. Building Inspector Jake Berger performing a free deck inspection. Jay worked with the City This month, the Building Development Director from Department began the City of Sturgis to inspecting food trucks for discuss the department's their annual registration. Thanks to Ordinance for Statement of Special bringing this new program Inspection process for them to implement. Nice together! job, Jay! All the Building Inspectors and Ordinance Manager attended a refresher course on Damage Assessment Training at Oakland County Building Officials. This event was presented by the Oakland County Damage Assessment team. Page 4

BUILDING DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY 234 1,262 residential permits TOTAL TRADE TOTAL Projects Qty PERMITS INSPECTIONS APPLIED COMPLETED Wood Deck 22 New House Permits Re-Shingle 54 Issued: 4 New House 1 Average Construction Value: $494,394 Interior 12 Alteration 8 Total Construction Value: $1,977,576 Exterior Alteration Commercial Building Permits QTY TYPE Basement Finish 2 1 ADDITION Addition 3 2 EXTERIOR Accessory 2 ALTERATION Structure 2 1 NEW Pool STRUCTURE In-Ground 11 INTERIOR Egress Window 2 ALTERATION 1 ROOF RE- total: 108 SHINGLE Page 5

WELCOME TO THE CITY SNAPSHOT OF NEW BUSINESSES IN THE CITY: C of O's Is Issuedrary C of O's sued Page 6 Full Tempo

ORDINANCE ACTIVITY Spring is here! Jodi represented the CEOSF as they became international and branched into Ordinance had 338 overgrown grass/weed Canada! Here she is attending the enforcements this month! Ontario Association of Property Standards Officers Conference. 1,099 TOTAL INSPECTIONS COMPLETED Closure Rate 258 ILLEGAL SIGNS PROACTIVE inspections REMOVED Page 7

FACILITIES ACTIVITY borden Park The park building Power washing at OSCO re-roofs are Fence repair at Spencer Park underway! Water Meter Repair at Facilities also Cemetery Installation of new copper worked on installing piping for water into the an awning for a concession area at Bloomer Stone Shelter concession stand. Site visits with Engineers/ Architects Spencer Park New office chairs for OCSO Calf Barn painting Awning install at Spencer Park (see photo) Continue to work on the city park Fire 1 restroom and locker room building roofs remodels are in discussion Fence storage enclosure on the 2nd floor Awaiting results with TEC from soil at DPS for Clerks Department storage samples at restroom building at Cement Slabs for Clerks new ballot boxes Innovation Hills Parking lot sweeping/ crack sealing Fire 1 roof/HVAC/generator replacement DPS replacements for sensor/ ERV 1 and 2/ MUA units 1-3/ HVAC units 1-4 DPS Energy Management upgrades Meetings with Parks/DPS/Niagara Murano for repairs Working on electrical improvements for Innovation Hills - will be reflected in 2024 budget Following up with HRC regarding historical evaluation of Schoolhouse Page 8