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Staff Report Community Development Update Page 3 project. A representative of Select Companies told City staff on October 12 that they were very hopeful that they would soon be finalizing their financing and that they hoped to start the project before winter. Staffing : The Community Development Department continues to experience staff changes in 2009 . The biggest change has been in the retirement of Don Burda as the part time building inspector in July and the addition of Jeff Baker as an unpaid inspection intern . For my position , I could not be happier with the support and help I have received from all City staff since joining Mounds View in June 2008 . While I have much to learn about the City and the Mounds View way of doing business , I am feeling more comfortable with the city, the staff, the City Council and the others that I have contact with in my city dealings . I have found the department staff to be knowledgeable , smart , helpful in all aspects of their jobs , and great in assisting me with my job and responsibilities . Building Activity : The Building Inspection Division continues to be busy in 2009 . For the year so far, the City has issued 307 building permits with a total value of $ 5 . 87 million . These permits include those for the car was at the Station and for tenant improvements at the City Center offices and at Bethlehem Baptist Church . The Medtronic facility is now complete and the City issued their final certificate of occupancy on September 24 , 2009 . Building Permits Community Development Technician Barb Benesch has been busy accepting and processing permits . The third quarter is typically the busiest time of the year for permits . The third quarter of 2009 brought in 257 department-related permits . In addition to processing current permits , Barb has been diligently working on closing out all unresolved 2008 permits . Barb sent out about 130 letters to contractors and homeowners to try get inspections scheduled and completed for projects that they were doing and possibly had finished . After these letters and many telephone calls , Barb has made great strides in getting the permits closed out with only about 40 permits still open ( unresolved ) for those from 2008 . She will soon begin sending letters to close out permits that the City issued in the beginning of 2009 . Inspections Barb also assists in keeping both Kathi and Jeff's schedules by helping to schedule their inspections . For the third quarter of 2009 , the inspectors did nearly 600 inspections . Heidi Heller also assists in scheduling these inspections and performs all zoning inspections for the City.