Six employees of the city’s Inspections and Code Department, including its director and assistant director, have not passed certifications originally required in their job descriptions, according to documents obtained by the Ledger-Enquirer.
When the previous one-year deadlines for the employees began passing without them being certified, City Manager Isaiah Hugley recently made what he called an “administrative decision” to extend the one-year deadline for the workers to obtain International Code Council certification to two years.
Hugley said he originally changed only Director Greg Coates’ job description, but then changed all positions that require certification, so all department employees would be working under the same requirements.
If the terms of their job descriptions had not been changed, all six would be currently unqualified for their positions under the conditions in place when they were hired.
Hugley said the fact that so many employees were having trouble passing the certification tests in a year indicated to him that the employees needed more time.
“That indicated to me that there was a problem completing the ICC certification within one year, and the right thing to do would be to make a permanent change and give them two years to complete certification,” Hugley said. “What we are doing is legal and meets all requirements of the state as it relates to inspections of property during development and construction.”
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