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The city of Albuquerque plans to close the door of its elevator maintenance inspection program.
Mayor Tim Keller has passed a bill to the city council that will amend the US $ 167,500 program that sends a city worker into commercial buildings to control the rope and counterbalance of elevators, cabin controls, lighting, and other compliance mandated by the American Society Checking maintenance requirements officially abolishes the mechanical engineers.
“Albuquerque is the only city in NM where these elevator inspections have been conducted,” said Rick De Reyes, spokesman for the city planning agency.
If the law is passed, De Reyes said property owners would have to use outside inspectors to conduct regular inspections.
The city will “rely on building owner compliance to maintain the elevators,” Albuquerque Chief Building Official Land Clark said in email responses to questions from the Journal. That was the standard elsewhere in New Mexico, he said, though the city would investigate any complaints.
The planning department currently has an inspector whose only job is to inspect the 1,586 elevators across the city annually.
De Reyes said the employee was still doing the job but the city cut funding for the inspections during the last budget cycle. The legislation submitted to the city council would formally establish the program, he said.
Should that happen, the employee would be reassigned to a different planning department, Clark said.
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