Outgoing code enforcement officer shares his insight

I would like to thank Mayor Kadlec and the City of Ritzville taxpayers for the opportunity to fill the Building Inspector and Code Compliance Officer position this last year. I am sorry funding was not made available to continue the position for this next year.

As this has been a subject of some conjecture, I’d like to offer some facts.

• After Sept. 30 the city will once again contract with Adams County to do all building inspections and permit approvals. We will go back to limited access to inspections. (In the past with this arrangement the inspector was in town part of Tuesday and part of...