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Phil Kane wrote:


Yeah but... The building official is SUPPOSED to be an engineering
type!
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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

I'll give you an example of how it works in the REAL World.....

We, (Local Residents) wanted to have the Borough (County) build a
small bridge across a 30 ft wide creek, so that we could connect
two seperate Road Systems, locally. There was a bridge in this
location, built by the Army Corps of Engineers in WWII, that had
decayed, and collapsed 30 years ago, but the abuttments were still
in good shape. The Required Permits to install the new Bridge
were all in place, EXCEPT for the Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game's
Habitat Division, which needed to pass on the permit, because
the creek was a Salmon Spawning System. Now you have to undestand
that this is a nothing project, ($60KUS) on a nothing creek,
(There are literally thousands of similar Creeks in our neighborhood -
Neighborhood = 100 Square Miles) in the middle of NoWhere, Alaska.
Habitat Division was staffed by "Greenie" Fish Biologists with absolutly
NO Knowledge of Civil Engineer, and little pracatical experience outside
the Degreed University Program they came from. It took us Three (3)
Years of "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" to get the last signoff, and it
finally took the President of the Alaska Senate, to hold up the Budget
for ADF&G in Committee, untill they were within 24 Hours of having to
send everyone home, because they couldn't Pay them. The first Official
Act of the, then New Governer, Frank Merkowski, 15 minutes after he was
sworn in, was to eliminate the ADF&G Habitat Division, fire ALL the
Biologists, and transfer the Permitting to the Depatment of Natural
Resources. Two weeks later there was an Ad in the Help Wanted of all the
Alaskan Papers looking for Civil Engineers with PE Stamps, and Fish
Habitat Experience, to work for Alaska's DNR. They hired three, in
short order, and the backlog of 8 years of Permit Applications (500+)
were dealt with in then next 9 months. During the previous 8 Years only
12 permits were issued.

Bruce in alaska
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