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C of Mounds View Staff Item No.�_ Staff Report No. Meeting Date: June 14, 1999 Type of Business: CB WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: ConsentAgenda; CB: Council Business To: Honorable Mayor & City Council From: James Ericson, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Introduction (First Reading) of Ordinance 628, an ordinance amending Chapter 1001 of the Mounds View Building Code pertaining to Contractors Licenses and work requiring a City license. Date of Report: June 9, 1999 Background: The impetus for this revision to the Building Code results from negative feedback received from building contractors concerning the timing of annual contractor license fee. Staff concurred and drafted the proposed ordinance to alleviate a potential hardship for some contractors. According to the Code, the licensing period for contractors runs from July 1 through June 30 of every year. Thus, a contractor doing only one job in the City may end up having to obtain two licenses for one building season to complete the one job. Staff presented this proposed ordinance to the Council on June 7, 1999 for preliminary discussion. The public hearing for this ordinance has been set for the June 28th meeting of the Council. Analysis: The proposed changes are few --the licensing period shall run from January 1 to December 31 annually instead of July 1 through June 30. As stated above, this change will allow contractors doing work in the City to get a contractors license that will cover the entire building season rather than requiring a contractor to get two licenses (the initial license and a renewal) for one building season. Staff would like to handle the transition between the two licensing periods administratively, such that all licenses that need to be renewed on July 1 will expire December 31, 1999 and will cost a prorated fee of $20 instead of the established $40. The other changes considered with this ordinance is to remove references to "Fire Protection" and "Roofing" under Section 1001.03, Subd 2, Work Requiring License. These types of work are now licensed through the state and as such should not be listed with other work requiring a City license. If the contractor has a state license to do general residential or general commercial work, a city license is also not required.