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field inspection of all building, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical and all other construction and public works related activities within the City. During my administrative tenure, over $ 520 million dollars in construction activity was regulated, including the issuance of 38,000 permits and the performance of approximately 165,000 field inspections. The Neighborhood Services Division consisted of offense, nuisance, zoning, housing, sign and alcoholic beverage enforcement and associated licensing and permitting. The division also performed substandard structure abatement, weed control, junk and debris removal and junked vehicle abatement programs. During my administrative tenure, this division processed 20,200 occupational licenses and permits and performed over 68,300 field inspections. I was responsible for all Department activities through a staff of 28 full-time employees and 15 private contractors associated with weed control, junk and debris removal and junked vehicle programs. I also served as an Ex-Officio member and Administrator of the Amarillo Zoning Board of Adjustment, Building Board of Appeals, Fire Code Board of Appeals, Board of Electrical Examiners, Plumbing Advisory and Appeals Board, Heating and Air Conditioning Advisory and Appeals Board and the Mayor's Advisory Commission for the Disabled. Pecember 1977 to October 1983 CITY PLANNER II, Planning Department, City of Amarillo, Texas; I was the Deputy Department Head and daily operations administrator of the Planning Department, which was responsible for all zoning; subdivision development review and platting; annexations; urban planning and design; land and specialized neighborhood planning; property dedications and vacations; City property sales and purchases; License and Hold Harmless Agreements; Federal Flood Hazard Regulation; Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Regulation; and Comprehensive Planning for the Amarillo corporate and M.S.A. area. The Department also functioned as the primary research and analysis staff for the Amarillo Mayor and City Commission, City Manager and other City Departments. Research and analysis which I directed and also performed included capital improvements programming; departmental operations analysis; statistical research analysis; and miscellaneous projects including campus planning for local college and schools; fire station and library location studies; economic and industrial development forecasting; enterprise fund rate studies; Federal Revenue Sharing and Block Grant fund budgeting and programming and municipal computer systems and services. In this position, I was responsible for all daily operations for this Department having 12 full- time employees. I also served as an Ex-Officlo member and the Administrator of the Amarillo Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Appraisal Review. January 1977 to November 1977 ADMINISTRATIVE INTERN, Fayette County (LaGrange) Texas, Pilot County Administration, Planning and Resource Program Graduate School Internship in which I served as the Director of a pilot program sponsored and funded by the Texas Department of Community Affairs, the Capital Area Planning Council of Governments (CAPCOG) and Texas A & M University to determine and evaluate effective future policies and procedures for the possible creation of administrative management, planning and resource development programs for Texas counties. This specialized program effort was 17