Connie Barron
Connie Barron
building coming expect home people permits service until vacant
If there was a home on every vacant lot, we wouldn't be able to service them all until at least 2009. We didn't expect 7,300 building permits and people coming in droves.
action determine internal warrants whether
They're doing an internal investigation to determine whether this warrants any disciplinary action.
building cannot issue
Because of that we cannot issue a building permit.
easy seemed
It seemed like an easy way to keep an unofficial count.
basically saying
It's basically saying I'll vouch for the guy.
conduct
We need inspectors and we need them to go out and conduct inspections.
built business city commercial figure instead losing property taxes
We don't figure out how much we are losing in property taxes if a commercial property was being built instead of a tax-exempt church. It is part of a city doing business that some property will be tax-exempt.