We usually do go through uh looking at ordinances for final passage first to see if we have any questions.

Um so if anybody has any questions, things that they want to bring up, need clarification on.

We do have uh Miss Deb Smith down here to also answer any questions on any of these block grants as well.

I guess just for my own for clarification, um, and I don't know if you know this, Mayor.

If maybe we we go to Miss Smith is is this the money that we were promised or we're gonna be awarded, or is this the presumptive amount?

I should have asked this prior, I apologize.

I believe we know the amount now that we're being awarded, is that right, Deborah?

Yes, I have to look to her because she knows everything.

So yes.

Okay, so these are actual numbers.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right, then if there are no questions on any of the ordinances for first or for final reading, we can go on to the ordinances for first reading.

Um there is there are some things I do want us to go in into here, but I'll first open it up to council to see if there are any questions that you all have right now for first reading.

Can we discuss what was being amended for the landlord and rental?

Absolutely.

And so we've pre the solicitors brought down um I think it's like a side-by-side or red line so you can see what the current ordinance and then what the the amendments will be.

Thank you.

Well, the solicitor is is handing those red lines out so you can see the actual changes.

I'll just summarize and then if you have additional questions.

Um and counselor Flores, thank you for asking this because I think there's a lot of confusion here.

Um so the first one you'll see is article uh 330, landlord and rental.

So that uh ordinance basically, if you look at your red line copy, what we've done there is we have added definitions.

So these definitions were all in other ordinances.

We've just put them all in one place so that when you read the ordinance, you know what you're talking about.

These are not new definitions, these are all definitions that have been taken from other ordinances and put them all in one place.

Please.

And then I can specify that most of these new new definitions, I'm saying quote unquote, are actually come from Article 354, which is the tenant bill of rights article.

So these definitions come specifically from another rental section of the city views ordinances.

Okay.

So they will this and this were added in 2024.

And the tenant bill of rights was actually just pulled down from the state regulations, correct?

Right.

Yeah, that overall ordinance was a summarized version of federal, state, and local um things that renters should know.

But it wasn't like definitive, it was uh, like I said, it was like kind of a summarized version.

So the definitions are one.

We've added the definitions, um, again, taking them from other ordinances and inserting them here.

And then in the second section, you'll see we are making a change, we're proposing a change to the period of time that um a rental has to be inspected.

So we are uh sh if you if you have uh positive inspections, we would allow it to be one every two years, it was every four years.

We're reducing it to two.

You know, this is something we've talked about with all of you.

Um if you go to exemptions, the only change we're adding here is that um our building code official will be given the copy of inspection results for housing authority properties.

The only properties that would be exempt from inspection would be housing authority owned, public housing, not section eight.

Section eight will be subject, but housing authority owned uh will be exempt, but we would have to be given copies of inspections, so we have them on file, and then fees.

So in section 330, you'll see there we are changing the fees.

We've discussed this with all of you, changing those from 40 to 55, and then increasing the uh late fee.

So I want to be really clear.

This ordinance does not address the change with BIU.

You didn't there's nothing in there about that.

We still have discussions.

We're gonna be having what it changes is the fee and the uh frequency of the inspection, which we would either do in-house or if we continued with BIU.

So just want to be very, very clear about that.

And then the second ordinance um is around the codified ordinances for enforcement of noncompliance.

The only change we're making here is that we can make notification for stop work order and other orders that we can do that by regular mail.

So, solicitor, I don't know if you want to add the reasoning behind that.

Yeah, regular mail.

So this was added to each of those three subsections.

This is to help get notice out to people with violations.

Um a lot of times with certified mail, if they don't respond or they don't get they avoid service that way, and or if we can't get personal service, then we can also send it by first class mail, and then if that first class mail is not returned, that lets us know or at least tell the judge at a later date, like hey, we tried all these different methods.

Um and again, these are for people who have active ongoing violations that are not working with the city.