Lovato's printed title changed from Building Inspector III to Building Inspector 4 between the September and October 2024 fee orders, and the City's own salary schedules rank Building Inspector IV above III.
City documents for the same property and case show an inspector’s title changed to a higher rank between two consecutive monthly fee orders. In August and September 2024, the City issued monitoring-fee orders for 4880 T Street identifying Paul Lovato as a Building Inspector III. On the October 10, 2024 order for the same property and the same $380 fee, his printed title changed to Building Inspector 4. Public salary schedules and civil service lists for the City of Sacramento treat Inspector 4 as a separate, higher classification than Inspector III. This card identifies the shift in the City's own records and asks for documentation to clarify whether the new title reflected an actual classification change or a clerical error.
Three consecutive monthly monitoring-fee orders in the City's May production narrow the title change to the interval between the September 10 and October 10 orders. The August 6, 2024 order is signed Paul Lovato / Building Inspector III M341. The September 10, 2024 order is still Building Inspector III M349–M350. The October 10, 2024 order for the same property, same case, same $380 fee, same phone number, and same form reads Building Inspector 4 M372–M373.
The City's Civil Service Classifications list treats Building Inspector III and Building Inspector IV as separate classifications, and the City's salary schedules place IV above III CITY.CivilServiceClassifications CITY.SalarySchedule.2024–09–10 CITY.SalarySchedule.2024–01 CITY.SalarySchedule.2025–09–20. The Local 39 MOU uses Building Inspector 4 as numeric shorthand for Inspector IV CITY.Local39MOU.
This card does not claim a personal pay figure, a raise on a date certain, or a take-home number. It lines up the City's own mailed orders against the City's own classification documents and asks what explains the title-line change.
In plain language: the same inspector signed the same kind of monthly fee order three times. The first two called him Inspector III. The third called him Inspector 4. The City's own public classification documents treat 4/IV as the higher classification.
The April 2023 Notice and Order signature block identifies Lovato as Building Inspector III in the same signature block M124 C04.
The August 6 monitoring-fee order for 4880 T Street is signed Building Inspector III, with the same $380 fee and phone number M341 M006.
The September 10 order repeats Building Inspector III for the same case and fee M349–M350 M006.
The October 10 order changes the printed title to Building Inspector 4 while the surrounding fields remain the same M372–M373 M006.
The civil-service list separates III and IV, the salary schedules place IV above III, and the MOU uses Building Inspector 4 as shorthand for IV CITY.CivilServiceClassifications CITY.SalarySchedule.2024–09–10 CITY.Local39MOU JOB.BI.III.SacCity.33695 JOB.BI.IV.SacCity.33696.
The strongest City answer is that a title line on a fee order is not a personnel record, and that overlapping salary ranges prevent any inference about individual pay. That answer responds to a claim this card does not make. The card does not assign Lovato a pay number or assert a raise date. It says the City's produced orders show a printed title change from III to 4 between September and October 2024 M349–M350 M372–M373, and the City's own classification documents treat IV/4 as a separate, higher-ranked classification. If the October title was a system error or shorthand with no classification meaning, the City can produce the record explaining that. On the record the City produced, the printed title changed from III to 4.
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