New Britain herald., 1929-08-09
FAVORS CONTINUING. DEPUTY INSPECTOR
Building Board Makes State ment to Mayor and Council


 nances have not been properly en- forced until the past few months, the building commission at it's meet ing last night voted to recommend the continuance of the position of temporary deputy building inspector until May l. 1880, at which time, it recommends. that the office be made permanent. A statement bearing this information was filed with the city clerk today.
 The recommendation was made following building commission meeting which lasted three and one half hours. The matter of discon- tinuing the office of deputy building inspector was stressed at the last meeting of the common council by Councilman w. S. Warner who said that the work in the department has not been great enough to warrant continuance of the present deputy building inspector Thomas J. Fay.
 In the statement attention is called to the fact that at the January meet ing of the council committee was appointed to investigate the need of additional help in the building de- partment and that it recommended that additional help be engaged. Councilman Warner was member of that committee.
 In the letter the board points out the fact that the work at the present time is slightly different in volume from that at the time of this action. At the conclusion the board recom- mends that a charter similar to that of Hartford be adopted. Under this system the building department is under a special head and is not re- sponsible to the common council eX- cept in case of the annual approp1- ation. The statement follows:
 "To His Honor the Mayor, and Members of the Common Council of the City of New Britain, Conn.
 "Gentlemen:
 "The building commission beg leave to report that Item 5S of the common council meeting of July 20. 1929 regarding the continuance of a deputy building inspector has been given consideration by this board.
 "The personnel of the building commission at the present time is composed of men engaged in the construction business and former building commissions have had prac- tically the same makeup namely: men engaged in the construction business.
 "Perusal of reports made by all former boards at different times stressed the necessity of additional building inspectors at time when building industry was an unusual large building program. That addi- tional inspectors were necessary at that time has no better proof than the fact that the present board has seen the results of this improperly inspected work.
 "The commission has seen fit to carry out the policies Of former boards namely: to obtain the best methods possible to render an effi- cient inspection of all buildings I1ONeNel. u IS llCl Nlli'''' our nDNPT to remedy some features of the method of conducting our depart ment. as those conditions are laid out for your body we have nothing 10 do but accept them.
 At the January meeting of the common council special committee was appointed for the purpose of de- termining the need of additional help reported that in their opinion that if the public was to receive the protection it should in building con- .struction the personnel Of the de- partment should be increased.
 'The members of that committee were unanimous in their opinion that additional help should be provided \ in addition to the personnel of the department at that time. Very slight difference exists at the present time in volume of business being trans acted.
 "The building commission Is charged with issuing building. plumbing, electrical, signs and oil burner permits. Fire escapes and exits In all theaters, public buildings and tenement houses come under our department. That we are car rying out the terms of our building and zoning ordinances and our state regulations of building Is possible only by the system we have in effect