Okaloosa County BOCC — July 15, 2015 — Growth Management Department FY 16 Budget Overview

Growth Management Department FY 15 Budget Overview  Inspections Division • Statutorily charged with enforcing the Florida Building Codes (Building, Mechanical, Plumbing, Residential), National Electrical Code, and Fire Codes • Provides building permit review and inspection services throughout unincorporated Okaloosa County as well as the City of Mary Esther, Town of Shalimar, Town of Cinco Bayou, and City of Laurel Hill. • The Division provides Fire/Life Safety reviews for all the independent fire districts north of Eglin Air Force Base • Enterprise Fund supported by Permit and Inspection Fees PROGRAM GOAL: Inspections Division’s is responsible to protect the public health and safety by ensuring that all regulated construction activities meet or exceed the requirements of the Building and Fire/Life Safety codes while providing customer-friendly service to the development industry by ensuring that building permit reviews and inspections are carried out in a timely, uniform manner and operate independently of the County General Fund. KEY OBJECTIVES: • Maintain staffing sufficient to meet the following levels of service: Ø Inspections performed the next business day for any inspection requested by midnight of the preceding day. Ø Provide twice-per-week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) walk-through review of single- family residences, renovations, additions, pools, and accessory structures. Ø Provide plans review within time-frames specified by the Florida Statute Ø Maintain ability to respond in times of natural disaster. Ø Maintain an ISO rating of 4 or better • Maintain revenues and reduce costs where possible to enable the Division to function without subsidy. • Replace fax permitting with on-line permitting for permits current issued by fax (with IS) • Develop voice transcription-based inspections results to reduce paperwork and increase efficiency (with IS). • Generate system postcard notice to contractors when permits are 6 months and 1 day old for payment reminder and schedule inspections (with IS). • Online reports that customers can query on their own to lessen public requests for staff. • Compared to Fiscal Year 14, overall year-to-date (Oct 1 2014 through July 3, 2015) building permit activity has increased by roughly 10% (5,634 vs 6,140) and single family permits have increased from 226 to 293 comparing the same time periods • Revenue as of July 3, 2015 is $1,354,697.36 which is $183,519.49 more than revenue as of this time last year • As of July 3, 2015, the Inspections Enterprise Fund is $201,343.62 ahead of actual costs, and has made just over 83% of FY 15 Budget ($1,615,9165) which includes general fund cost allocation • Enterprise Fund has paid general fund cost allocation for FY 12, 13, and 14, is paying FY 15, and has paid back $450,000 of prior years’ subsidies. EXPENDITURES: Expenditures Budget FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY15/FY16 Increase/ Category Actual Actual Approved Proposed +/- Decrease Personnel Services $1,037,678 $1,047,915 $1,083,602 $1,109,766 $26,164 2.40% Operating Expenses $536,140 $480,708 $405,167 $454,162 $48,995 12.1% Capital Outlay $0 $9,876 $26,000 $60,000 $34,000 130.7% Debt Service $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 0% Grants & Aids $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 0% Other Uses $0 $0 $101,147 $252.575 $151,428 149.7% Total $1,573,818 $1,538,499 $1,615,916 $1,876,503 $260,587 16.1% ACCOMPLISHMENTS: § Co-sponsored with BIA