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.
When a city official signs an official order, the printed title under the signature is supposed to say what that person’s job classification is. Here the city mailed the same property the same monthly $380 fee notice three months in a row, on the same form, in the same case, from the same phone line. On the first two — August and September 2024 — the printed title under the inspector’s name reads “Building Inspector III.” M341 M349–M350 On the third — October 2024 — the only thing that changes is that title line, which now reads “Building Inspector 4.” M372–M373 On the city’s own public job and pay lists, “Building Inspector IV” (the “4”) is a separate, higher-paid rank than “Building Inspector III,” with a published yearly range several thousand dollars above it. City Civil Service Classifications Salary Schedule (07/13/2024) The card does not say the inspector personally got a raise or name any take-home figure — it only lines up the city’s own mailed orders against the city’s own pay charts and notes what changed. M006 That the three orders sit side by side, identical except for the rank, only became visible after the owner’s representative forced the full file out through repeated records requests and the orders could be read in sequence — and the same title change is printed in the city’s own produced file the city closed the request on, not just in loose copies. R.26-1965
Bottom line: across three identical monthly fee orders in the same case, the city’s own produced records (which the city closed as complete) show the inspector’s printed rank move from III to 4 between September and October 2024, and the city’s own pay charts rank “4” above “III.”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 Same inspector, same case, same template — only the title line moves between the second and third order.
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 Civil Service Classifications Salary Schedule (07/13/2024) Salary Schedule (Jan 2024) Salary Schedule (09/20/2025) The Local 39 MOU uses “Building Inspector 4” as numeric shorthand for Inspector IV. Local 39 MOU
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. Card 4 Card 13
The next monthly order, identical in every other field, reads “Building Inspector 4.” M372–M373 The same 10/10/2024 monitoring-fee packet repeats “Building Inspector 4” on its continuation page — a second instance of the Inspector 4 title block within the same order. M372–M373 Three consecutive orders show a III / III / 4 pattern, narrowing the title-line change to the window between 09/10/2024 and 10/10/2024. M006
The Civil Service Classifications list carries Building Inspector III (class code 016229) and Building Inspector IV (016230) as distinct classifications at separate grades. City Civil Service Classifications The 09/10/2024 City Council salary schedule (rates effective 07/13/2024, covering all three mailing dates) prints Inspector IV’s range above Inspector III’s. Salary Schedule (07/13/2024) The January 2024 Salary Schedule (Jan 2024) and current 09/20/2025 Salary Schedule (09/20/2025) schedules show the same hierarchy. The Local 39 MOU lists “Building Inspector 4” above 3/2/1. Local 39 MOU The Building Inspector III BI III Class Spec and Building Inspector IV BI IV Class Spec class specifications treat them as distinct roles.
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. City Civil Service Classifications Salary Schedule (07/13/2024) 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 — and closed as complete R.26-1965 — the printed title changed from III to 4. Card 47