Monterey Aldermen approved a resolution Monday night to establish a new building permit fee schedule.
The town’s new codes and building inspector has begun work. Mayor Alex Garcia said the fee schedule comes from the 2024 International Code Council book. Garcia said the town is taking steps to simplify how building permit fees are calculated.
“We will have a calculator on our website so that Ella (CMFO Ella Dishman) or nobody else has to figure out how to do this,” Garcia said. “So there is a calculator that I borrowed from Cookeville city and made it our own, and it will be up on the website by tomorrow.”
Under the fee schedule, costs increase as the size of the project increases. The board also adopted new square foot construction costs for building permits based on the 2024 International Codes Council.
“So basically, this is what all the other cities and municipalities work off of,” Garcia said.
Garcia said calculating the construction cost will also be super simple.
“If somebody comes into the office and says, ‘I’m building a 2,000 square foot house,’ Ella would go to this chart, it would say 170.8 times 2,000. That would give her a cost. She would go to the calculator and put in the cost, and that would spit out a building permit cost.”
The board passed both resolutions unanimously. Garcia said the new codes and building inspector is working part-time.
In other business, the board approved the additional lease for Live-Well Medical.
Garcia commended the town’s street department for keeping the roads in good condition throughout the winter storm.