In a message dated 8/2/2003 1:35:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> With a total city-wide population of under 400,000, I question your observation that > there's well over 100,000 rental units in the city of Minneapolis. < Dennis busts me here, and he's right. I was thinking of the total number of housing units--168,363. The correct number for rental units is 78,860. Quite a bit less than 100,000, but still a large number for 25 licensing inspectors. Dennis writes: >However, if your numbers are accurate, and each rental unit paid a platry $25/year licensing fee that means you generate $2,500,000 annually with which to operate the rental inspection prgram.< The fees are $33 for the first unit in a building and $20 for each additional unit. I can't break out the number of single family homes from the census summary, but assuming Dennis' $25 figure as an average yields $1,971,500. This is *not* a hard budget number, only a guesstimate. Dennis again: > That being said, stating that there's only about 25 licensing inspectors to handle > that workload somehow doesn't make me feel any better, or less justified in feeling > that we're both not looking after the best interests of our communities housing > stock, or the renters on the lower-end of the rental market.< M.G: I agree with you here. And I'm sure the housing inspections department would like more inspectors to get the work done faster. Dennis concludes: >As a matter of fact, I'd kind of liken it to telling everyone during their monday >morning commute after a winter snowstorm that we only have enough plow trucks for >half the roads. It doesn't make sense either.< M.G.: Well, we kind of do tell folks that when we say we can't get all the roads cleared within 24 hours and have to do it over four days. --M. G. Stinnett Jordan TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
