STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – — The Routt County Board of Commissioners gave its blessing Tuesday to a plan to hire a part-time temporary building inspector to help the county’s Regional Planning Department get through lean staffing at the same time the 117,000-square-foot Casey’s Pond Senior Living community is poised to come out of the ground near the corner of U.S. Highway 40 and Walton Creek Road.
The Regional Building Department serves the city of Steamboat Springs and the county. It is funded by the permit fees it collects from building projects. With construction activity just a fraction of what it was six years ago, the department has cut staffing to the point that there is only one full-time inspector. Building Official Carl Dunham provides backup.
“I am looking for a qualified combination inspector to be available every weekday to conduct as many inspections as may be requested by our customers,” Dunham wrote in a memo to the commissioners. “They would only need to work as many hours as needed, up to eight hours, to perform the required tasks for that day. There would be a one and one-half- to two-hour minimum ‘show-up time’ each working day.”
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