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AR O U N D T O WN
INSPECTION OFFICE CHANGES Tracking the progress of your build-
ing permit just got a lot easier. Chief Inspector Rodney Sarver and Nick
Schalles, Mt. Lebanon’s IT manager, have worked together to streamline
the building permit process by giving residents a way to track the permit’s
progress online.

Now, when you file a permit application, you receive a code that allows you
to link your permit with MyLebo, Mt. Lebanon’s resident information portal.

Once linked, you will receive an email every time a note is added to your
permit application.

In the past, you would have to rely on getting notifications either from the
inspection office or from your contractor, who may or may not remember
to give you a call.

And previously, if you had any questions about the status of your application,
you would have to call or stop in the inspection office, and administrative as-
sistant Nancy Wenger would have to search through all of the plans to see
what changes or notes were added.

“Now the homeowner has a little more control in the process,” Sarver says.

Some other changes may be in the works for the inspection office. The of-
fice is charged with three main responsibilities: compliance with the zoning
code, with the building code and with municipal ordinances.

For more than 30 years, the office has been structured the same way: A
building inspector handled building code compliance; a code enforcement
officer was responsible for enforcing ordinance compliance and a chief in-
spector, knowledgeable in all areas, was responsible mainly for zoning com-
pliance but also provided supervision in the other areas.

Sarver wants to eliminate the “silos” and make the office more elastic and
responsive to shifting and changing needs.

Sarver, who had been Mt. Lebanon’s building inspector, was promoted to
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ELIZABETH HRUBY MCCABE
Ashley De Silva has updated her iconic Welcome to Mt.

Lebanon mural, replacing the postcard motif with an explo-
sion of color and flowers. De Silva and her assistant, Shane
Pilster, worked on the mural, as weather permitted, through
the summer and early fall. It’s at the northern entrance to
town, by Mecka, CrossFit and Pamela’s Diner. You’ll love it.

BUDGET TALKS The manager’s recom-
mended budget for 2020 will be available
for public review on November 1. You can
read paper copies at the Mt. Lebanon Public
Library and at the customer service center
in the Mt. Lebanon Municipal Building dur-
ing business hours, 8:30 to 5, and read the
budget online at www.mtlebanon.org. The
Mt. Lebanon Commission will hold a budget
workshop from 5 to 8 p . m ., Tuesday, Novem-
ber 12, prior to its regularly scheduled meet-
ing, and will conduct a public hearing at the
commission meeting later that night.

Commissioners will present two more bud-
get workshops, beginning at 6 p . m ., Monday,
November 25 and Thursday, December 5.

The final public hearing will be at the Tues-
day, December 10, commission meeting,
at which time the commission will vote on
adopting the 2020 budget.

Department heads work with the finance
department to shape their lists of needs and
wants for the upcoming year. Once all the
items are compiled into a list of service lev-
els, the municipal manager ranks each one in
order of importance, and funds as many as
can be afforded with the municipality’s avail-
able revenue. If you cannot attend any of the
meetings but have a comment, you can email
the commission at commission@mtlebanon.

org. You can also view the meetings on the
municipal website, www.mtlebanon.org.