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2.1.
CC Regular Session
Meeting Date:
05/28/2019

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Title:

Proclamation Declaring May as Building Safety Month

Purpose/Background:

Building Safety Month (BSM), founded by the International Code Council. (ICC), is celebrated by jurisdictions worldwide during the month of May. Mayor LeTourneau will read the proclamation aloud during this presentation portion of the meeting.

Building Safety Month is a public awareness campaign to help individuals, families and businesses understand what it takes to create safe and sustainable structures. The campaign reinforces the need for adoption of modern, model building codes, a strong and efficient system of code enforcement and a well-trained, professional workforce to maintain the system.

The campaign is presented by the ICC and its 63,000 members worldwide along with a diverse partnership of professionals from the building construction, design and safety community. Corporations, government agencies, professional associations, nonprofits and more come together to support Building Safety Month because they understand the need for safe and sustainable structures where we live, work and play.

Locally, this is an opportunity to celebrate the successes of Ramsey's building safety team. Over the past several years, the team has set out a goal, and excelled to a high degree, improvements to support to our community. The team has a passion for good customer service to ensure safety and healthy buildings and communities. The work of the team may not always be popular, but the good nature of the process helps ensure a vibrant future for our community. Some of the key achievements over the past year include, but are not limited to the following.
  1. Electronic Permits/ePermits
  2. Electronic/Automated Inspection Scheduling
  3. Electronic Plan Review (coming this July)
  4. Improved Insurance Ratings (savings to our residents)
  5. Improved resources and webpage (customer-focused, not staff-focused) These improvements were developed in working directly with our customers. In 2016, the team put together a Customer Satisfaction Survey that produced a number of great ideas and process improvements. The improvements had an immediate result in our customer service satisfaction feedback.

Attachments

Form Review

Inbox Reviewed By Date
Brian Hagen Tim Gladhill 05/23/2019 02:40 PM
Kurt Ulrich Kurt Ulrich 05/23/2019 02:59 PM
Form Started By:
Kathy Schmitz
Started On:
05/23/2019 02:34 PM
Final Approval Date:
05/23/2019