Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Building Commissioner The City of North Olmsted Division of Building is headed by a Building Commissioner who is responsible for its organization and supervision. The Building Commissioner is appointed by and shall be answerable to the Director of Planning and Development. Duties of the Building Commissioner include the following: • Give information and advice to City Council, the Mayor, Directors and Division Heads, residents, builders and other administrative officials on issues that arise in the city pertaining to building, zoning, planning and development. • Review formative or preliminary sketches, development proposals, layouts, estimates or reports, concerning the presentation of commercial or residential development plans as well as any public improvements contemplated by the city. • Make recommendations regarding the building features of development plans, including review for compliance with building and zoning codes and supervise staff in the performance of such review as building official. • Be available and accessible to the Director of Planning and Development and other public officials and maintain regular office hours at City Hall, no less than twelve (12) hours per week. • Supervise the Division of Building with respect to all duties and missions of the Division, including but not limited to building permit and inspection services in compliance with Ohio Building Code and as a Building Department certified by the Ohio Board of Building Standards. 2. Master Plans Examiner The Ohio Building Code (OBC) requires that the City engage the services of a Master Plans Examiner in order to perform a governmental function as defined under ORC 2744.01(C)(1)(p). The plans examiner shall perform the examination duty required of a Master Plans Examiner defined by OBC 107.4 and OBC 107.5. Additional duties of the Master Plans Examiner include the following: • Meet with City representatives and, with reasonable notice, visit construction or other sites or buildings under jurisdictional authority of the city and make whatever inspection reports, written or oral, that may be deemed necessary at the time. • Respond to requests to provide information or testify as requested by city representatives, or when subpoenaed by a court or other legal body of jurisdiction regarding any matter for which the Plans Examiner has provided service or presented an opinion before the city.