Two Cities, One Building Inspector: Alachua and High Springs Sharing after Abrupt Resignation

 HIGH SPRINGS – Two cities will be sharing one building inspector for the foreseeable future. In light of the recent resignation of the City of High Springs’s Building Official/Public Works Director Bill Whitlock, High Springs commissioners held an emergency meeting Tuesday morning, Feb. 11, in Commission Chambers.

The main focus of the meeting was to provide Commissioners with the opportunity to consider an interlocal agreement with the City of Alachua to provide High Springs with building official services.

The agreement calls for Alachua’s building official, “to provide regulatory building inspection services for permitted construction activities related to building construction, erection, repair, addition, remodeling, demolition, or alteration projects that are subject to the Florida Building Code related to building, plumbing, electrical and mechanical work, and provide all permit holders a record of the inspection results required by statute.”

Fees, method of payment and a term agreement period to end on Dec. 31, 2020 are also part of the agreement, along with an opt-out method should either party wish to terminate the agreement without cause prior to that date.

The quorum of commissioners in attendance unanimously approved the interlocal agreement, which went into effect immediately.

City officials indicate that Alachua’s building official will be in High Springs in the afternoons to meet with builders and conduct inspections.

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