Weekly Update 8.24.20 - 8.28.20
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Message from the Executive Board:
On Saturday morning, a member’s plumbing license expired. He was the fourth member whose license expired this month. To date, only two of the four have had their license renewed and that was made possible only as a result of our Lobbyist’s daily efforts.
What does the DOB have to say about this? Here are some of the responses we have seen.
“We will review your request in a timely manner, may I please remind you that you are required to submit your license renewal 30 to 60 days PRIOR to your expiration date, we are currently working within a 15 to 20 business days turnaround for review, your application currently sits at 12 business days, we will continue to do the best we can to review all renewal application requests in a timely manner.”
“Please be advised that we are processing applications in the order that they are submitted both of these were submitted less than 30 days ago, they will be processed accordingly.”
“Your current application status is Pending QA Assignment. Once the clerk has been assigned then the clerk will start the process to review it, and then they will contact you regards the next step(s) in the process. As we’re still operating under COVID conditions, application processions across the licensing/buildings department are taking longer than normal as we’re only at a fraction of our staffing capacity. We ask that you bear with us as we work diligently to process all submitted applications as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued patience, take care.”
One of the primary functions of the MPC is to address issues such as this. We spent the last two weeks attempting to communicate with the DOB as to just how important it was for a license not to expire. We asked that priority be given to any license that is about to expire. Despite our best efforts, in the past two weeks the MPC has failed our members and not accomplished one of our core missions. Every member should pay attention to this. This could have happened to anyone of us. We are committed to doubling our efforts and continuing to work for our membership to resolve this issue. We will alert members to any changes in this situation.
Weekly Update 8.24.20 - 8.28.20
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