From: Jennifer Cline

Sent: Wed Dec 03 09:14:09 2014

To: Peggy Johnson; Garrett Edmunds

Cc: Dan Huff; Rory Strean; Nicolas Lennartz; Heather Penni

Subject: RE: Licensing

Importance: Normal

 

Peggy,

 

The County should not be issuing building permits unless these companies are licensed and bonded in the State to do the work. In regards to a City business license, I doubt the county takes the time to check for that in their current process. If businesses are not pulling permits and caught working, then yes it will be addressed at that time. If businesses, such as landscaping companies are doing work in the City limits, it is hard to catch these folks since they do not require any permits to do that type of work.

 

Rory can definitely stop and talk to these folks who are working and obviously have a service type business (i.e. advertisement on their vehicles), but I wouldn't want to push the boundary too much if it is not obvious they are operating a "service" business.

 

Regarding the City permits, most of the companies doing the work have already obtained business licenses in order to get building permits with the exception to the homeowner that are pouring their own driveway approach. My best suggestion is have the county verify they a Molalla business license to do any work in the city.

 

Jennifer Cline, P.E.

 

City of Molalla

 

Public Works Director

 

O: 503.759.0218

 

F: 503.829.3676

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Peggy Johnson [mailto:pjohnson@cityofmolalla.com]

Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 8:51 AM

To: Jennifer Cline; Garrett Edmunds

Subject: FW: Licensing

 

Jenn and Garrett,

 

This is a very good point that Dave has brought up. Any thoughts on what we can do to "fix" this?

 

Peggy

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Heather Penni [mailto:hpenni@cityofmolalla.com]

Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 8:46 AM

To: Rory Strean; Peggy Johnson

Subject: RE: Licensing

 

Rory or Peggy

 

Can you please respond to this man. He is a local landscaper and he brings up a good point about a loophole we have in our processes. What is the consequences for business operating without a business license and who is checking out in the field.

 

Maybe a good thing to copy Jen or Garrett on and let's put our heads together and see if we can develop a plan.

 

Thanks

Heather

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Dave Kelly [mailto:dave@eolcllc.com]

Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 4:56 PM

To: Heather Penni

Subject: Licensing

 

Hi Heather,

I have a question for you. How do you guys ( the city ) work on getting all the so called contractors to be legal to work in the city.

 

I only ask as I have bid on numerous jobs this year only to loose them to "companies" that I can't find as actual contractors. Also I see numerous posts on Facebook about various people offering services I know for a fact they have no state license to perform.

 

Does Rory check on these guys while he's out and about?

Seems like it possibly could be a bit of revenue for the city to get these "companies" to be licensed to work in the city limits of Molalla.

 

I do know that when we are in canby we are constantly checked by various city workers.

 

Just curious, sorry to bug you about this but it's very expensive for me to operate and I just want everyone on the same playing field.

 

If I can help you in any way, you know I'm just an email away.

Thanks for all you do, the city is looking great and it's very apparent we have a great group of people working for our community.

 

Dave Kelly

Everything Outdoors

Landscape & Construction LLC

503-849-6090

LCB#8874