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The Board of Works met on October 20, 2026, with Melanie Henderson, John Pickett, Brenda Sullivan, and Eric Cry present; the mayor was absent. The board approved minutes, code enforcement actions, engineering contracts and change orders, right-of-way requests, weed-abatement letters, and claims, and received community event announcements.
I'd like to call the October 20th Board of Works meeting to order. We'll start with roll call. Melanie Henderson. John Pickett. Brenda Sullivan. Present. And Eric Cry and I'm present. And the mayor is absent today. All right. Next up, approval on the October 13th. Meeting minutes. I'll move to approve the October 13th meeting minutes. And I will second. All right. We have a motion and second to approve the meeting minutes. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. All right. That was quick. And now we're to you, Robin. 502 Pence. Or you and just you. Well, thank you. Good morning. Okay, so we are coming today to request actually like a reaffirmation of a condemn vacate that we did at 502 Pence Street. We are requesting vacate condemn and legal action. Um, just in case we should need to move forward with that. Um the property was uninhabitable. Who owns it? So this is um the housing authority. That's okay, that's what I read. Okay. And and Al's here to I mean, If you'd like to speak and address um the situation and kind of how you uh absolutely um so this is a housing part of an apartment in one of our developments for the housing authority. Um Monday of last week, our maintenance team went in for the quarterly um safety check. We do filter changes and and test uh detectors opened the door to the unit and and found the condition to be just deplorable. Um also noticed what appeared to be a small child, which we have no record of on the lease, and a young man who has a good developmental disability seem to be the only individuals in the unit. So for our protocols, we we stepped out, contacted CPD uh to assist us with the safety check on that unit to make sure uh there was someone uh ability to be there for it. Um that's what began this process. Our hands are somewhat tied when we stumbled into a unit like this. We know they're not the conditions are not as they should be and need to be uh evacuated if we need to have the individuals out of units. We don't have the ability to do that without working with someone like this. Um we've been able to have unit clear.