Code Compliance Services Contract with the City of Pompano Beach Provides Another Example of CGA's Growing Role as a Leading Government Services Provider

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The recent award of a five-year contract to provide full turnkey Code Compliance Services for the City of Pompano Beach is yet another public sector endorsement of Calvin, Giordano & Associates' (CGA) Government Services Division, which is providing cities and counties throughout the Southeastern United States with viable outsource service options to solve both fiscal and capital investment challenges.

In the case of Pompano Beach, a city in Broward County, Florida, with a population of just over 100,000, CGA is replacing the Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO), which had been providing Code Enforcement for the municipality over the last decade.  The operating savings realized by Pompano Beach through the switch to CGA will amount to almost $400,000 annually. The City anticipates beginning Code Enforcement Services with CGA at the end of January, 2011.

"CGA's approach increases service levels and volumes with efficiencies that allow for a total of eight field inspectors, including one field supervisor, along with two administrative support staff," said CGA president Dennis Giordano.  

CGA, which has provided services to the public sector for decades as a core business, has recently gained considerable recognition for delivering a wide scope of services for three dozen municipalities and public agencies, including Weston, West Park, Pembroke Pines, West Palm Beach, Miramar, Wellington, Hollywood, Surfside, Sunny Isles and Loxahatchee Groves in South Florida as well as the new city of Dunwoody, Georgia.

In July 2009, for example, CGA signed a five-year contract with Broward County's second largest city, Pembroke Pines, to administer the City's Building Code Services department with a staff of 16 replacing an original department with 36 employees.  The first year's savings is anticipated to surpass $1 million.

In January 2009, Georgia's newest municipality, Dunwoody, located north of Atlanta in DeKalb County, signed CGA to a three-year, multi-purpose management contract for finance and administrative services.  In the first six months, CGA oversaw the installation of telephone and IT systems, opened the new City Hall, staffed the police department, including the purchase of 48 police vehicles, and implemented the court system.

In September of 2010, Miami Springs in Miami-Dade County approved a contract with CGA to be the city's master-consulting firm for commercial revitalization services.

As an off -shoot of its government contract services, CGA in 2004 launched INKforce™, a national developer of web-based software systems. Using a Panasonic Toughbook, wireless connection and web browser, INKforce™ allows inspectors to schedule, track and monitor the life cycle of all permitting and inspections directly from the field.

One INKforce™ user, Miami-Dade County, estimated the system increased productivity and efficiency by 30 percent, generating an estimated savings of $500,000. The National Association of Counties (NACO) honored Miami-Dade's exceptional improvement in it operations with a 2009 achievement award.

INKforce™ continues to add municipal users—Madeira Beach in Pinellas County and Pembroke Pines in Broward County being most recent customers adding Code Enforcement, one of several module options including Building Permitting, Planning and Zoning and Fire Inspection Tracking.

About Calvin, Giordano & Associates

CGA is an innovative consulting firm that offers a comprehensive approach to engineering, land planning, contract government administrative services, government regulatory compliance, emergency management and data technologies and development.  CGA, which is based in Fort Lauderdale, employs approximately 200 people. For more information about CGA and its services, call 954-921-7781 or go to CGA's website at www.calvin-giordano.com.

SOURCE Calvin, Giordano & Associates