Interesting article especially since the City of Peru just hired a Code Officer that will be part time and seasonal.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Streator firefighters to assume code enforcement duties - MyWebTimes.com
Streator firefighters to assume code enforcement duties - MyWebTimes.com
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A code officer???? What a farse. All it takes is for someone like the Mayor to go through ALL OF THE CITY NEIGHBORHOODS AND IDENTIFY STRUCTURES / YARDS THAT NEED ATTENTION.
What that means is ONCE maybe semi annually at best.
This calls for another added person to the payroll even if part time. (Great use of our tax dollars even if at a minimum . Right folks !
Do you see what I mean about the lack of management by this Mayor. Should we send him to school like his secretary?
Like I said , what a farse.(the code officer is probably some friend or buddy of the mayor. I guess.. Does anyone know ? )
9:00 pm August 18 and the nightly round of fireworks have just been set off in Peru. Since they are illegal it will be in the police reports tomorrow. Maybe Peru should hire a Fireworks Officer to stop this nightly annoyance.
This is more than driving around and checking yards and structures. He will also be checking for violations that landlords are not repairing and there are quite a few of those. The code officer is a former police officer for the city of Peru. Well qualified to deal with our problems.
Interesting that Sreator has a city manager. Wonder how that is working in a city similar to Peru. Where is Peru's challenged safe swing set located? Could the playground equipment at Veterans Park be moved to a part of Peru which has no equipment and it would be maintained and used? Peru could not have picked a better man as code officer than Bob. He'll show them how to get a job done. Funny that in Peru the lower the pay the higher the qualifications of the man on the job.
Anon 9:03 Your management skills are outstanding for example having the Mayor to go through all of the city neighborhoods and identify structures/yards that need attention. Streator also has put more ump into its code officer program. Peru got the right man for this job.
With our new officers experience, I believe should be paid more than $10 an hour. Some of the summer help are being paid more than that.
To determine the pay per employee the entire payroll budget should be analyzed. Each job should be charted and broke down to cost per hour and salary per year. Cost of fringe benefits should also be included. Comparisons between area cities and similar size towns should be made. Salary caps must be established. As in industry city employees must realize that they are not going to get a raise every year and in a economic environment such as we have been experiencing they may have to live with a substantial decrease in pay. If this is considered to be unfair to those involved the city may have to outsource or privatize. Rather than starting the code enforcement officer too low in pay I strongly believe that the building inspector is paid way too much at the upper $20's per hour and his clerk who recently rec'd a pay raise is paid more than twice the amount per hour of the code enforcer. Much of the money that Peru claims it cannot find and is coming into town as retail sales tax is going out in a highly exorbitant payroll. For some reason Peru has been and continues to be the highest paid city under 10,000 population in the state and our retail sales tax barely meets our payroll. It is way past time to review all salaries and hourly wages which the taxpayers support by a independent professional firm. The Superintendent of Public Works in the 2012 city budget is to be paid $87,000 per year less than two years ago he started at $76,000 per year. This is a increase of $11,000 in a job which should not be paid this amount unless the requirements and responsibilities are upgraded.
oops wait how can the salaries be checked and adjusted dont our employees have union backing? thanks mayor
The Mayors role in city government is administrative and he must enforce salary adjustments for salaried employees and he must utilize means of lowering hourly payroll whether it is outsourcing, privatization, deduction of forces, or decrease in the number of hours worked and the number of days worked per week per employee or all of the above. May I ask what are the job qualifications in the city that the wages are so high? The union represents the employees and the administration is to represent the city. The city should act first before the union can react. It is time to realize that the city is deep in debt and falling apart maybe the union would like to enter into a co-operative program with the city to keep employee wages at their present level.
How is the "Code Enforment" Officer's pension treated? Did he retire from Peru? Is the pension off-set? Will he be eligable for IMRF and Police Pension? Is Peru contributing to IMRF for him? Does he get insurance?
Brian these are all good questions, but would you backup with me and reveal your thoughts on the building inspector position and code enforcement officer plus clerical. Would you combine all positions into one, would the city clerk office be assigned the clerical aspect of the dept? Would you have the PPD involved in the code enforcement area? Is the code enforcement officer pay of $10.00/hour plus benefits if he receives any going to be deducted from the $28.00 per hour the building inspector presently receives? Looking forward to hearing your evaluation of this dept? By the way who does the code enforcement officer directly report to? I hope it is not the building inspector as I do not think we would have a code enforcement officer if we had a knowledgeable and aggressive building inspector.
Maybe the code enforcement officers main responsibility is to report what the building inspector is doing or not doing. If so about time GOOD BYE FRANKIE!
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