Jacksonville may hire private company for building inspections

About 85 Jacksonville building inspectors could be the next group of city employees replaced by private contractors.

A city committee will decide Thursday whether to send out proposals to see if any businesses could provide the same service at a lower cost to taxpayers.

The proposal is part of a sweeping look at city services that Chief Administrative Officer Kerri Stewart has said could result in hundreds of city jobs being outsourced.

The building inspection division has about 100 employees and a budget of just more than $10 million, Skipper said.

The Information Technology contract, Dix says, will be $200,000 a year more expensive. City officials say they’ll save $300,000 the first year.