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Springsted MEMORANDUM TO: Jim Ericson, City Administrator FROM: Sharon Klumpp DATE: December 7, 2012 Springsted Incorporated 380 Jackson Street, Suite 300 Saint Paul, MN 55101-2887 Tel: 651-223-3000 Fax: 651-2233002 www.springsted.com SUBJECT: Audit of Housing/Code Enforcement Inspector & Fire Marshal/Firefighter Springsted was asked to conduct an audit of the Housing/Code Enforcement Inspector & Fire Marshal/Fire Inspector position. As part of this audit, we reviewed the position description developed by the City and a Position Analysis Questionnaire completed by Jeremiah Anderson and conducted a telephone interview with Mr. Anderson. The primary change in the job description is to incorporate fire inspections on residential, commercial and industrial properties. In addition the position performs plan reviews on new construction and handles various fire prevention services and provides work direction to a Public Service Officer. The duties of housing/code inspector intertwine with those of fire inspector, allowing Mr. Anderson to conduct inspections as needed to ensure compliance with the City's housing and fire codes as well as other nuisance codes. For that reason it is difficult to determine how much time is devoted to enforcement of the City's various codes. Hay job evaluation points for this position were established at 249 in 2008; the position was set at the environmental inspector benchmark for a small city, or at 249 points. With the addition of fire inspection duties, the position is now involved in plan reviews and must demonstrate a broader knowledge of codes. Hay job evaluation benchmarks for fire inspector and fire marshal do not exist. Therefore, we looked for other positions with similar duties and found the building inspector position which has a benchmark of 262 points. Although the position has some firefighting responsibilities, we see those duties as more or less incidental to the position and therefore have not considered the Hay model benchmark of 230 for a firefighter position. We also reviewed salary data for housing/code enforcement inspectors and for fire marshals utilizing the 2012 LMC database. The results appear on the next page. Please note that the community data for fire marshals comes from larger cities as many cities with a population similar to Mounds View do not have a fire marshal. Public Sector Advisors