The Mayor's Code Enforcement Committee convened on September 10, 2026, at 9:02 AM and adjourned at 9:40 AM. The meeting included approval of prior minutes, public comment from a resident about a neighboring abandoned property, discussion of multiple enforcement cases, approval of a revised open burning ordinance, and updates on litigation and policy matters.
All right, we are now recording. Good morning, everybody. Um I'm calling this morning's meeting to order the mayor's code enforcement committee to order at 9 02 a.m. on September 10th, 2026. Um the first item on the agenda is the approval of our minutes from our last meeting on August 13th, 2026. Do I have a motion to approve those minutes? All right, Scott, thank you. Do I have a second? James, thank you. Any discussion on the motion? Any changes any need to be made to the minutes or updated or anything like that? All right, seeing none, all in favor, please unmute yourself and so signify by saying I. Any opposed? Any abstentions? All right, seeing none, the motion passes unanimously at 903 a.m. All right. Next up we have um our public session. Uh we do have a member of the public here today. We have Madison and Madison. How do you say your last name? Uh cluznick. Thank you. I didn't want to slaughter it. All right. So this is the time where members of the public are able to address the code enforcement committee. I will note that um we have a practice of limiting uh comments to five minutes. So if if you would like to address the commission, I know you have I got your emails and everything like that. I did send it to the commission or the committee before the meeting, and we'll we will be adding it to the to the agenda after our public session. Um but if you just want to like fill us all in on everything, uh just know you have five minutes and we'll we'll let you have that now. All right, sure. Yeah, I am currently representing my husband who could not be present today. Um, however, um we're kind of in a pickle. Um we have an abandoned lot next to us, um, basically in short, um the person that was previously building the property um went and had like a bankruptcy foreclosure. Um anytime that we have like kind of reached out for law enforcement help, you know, there's there's only so many limitations that you know that they're basically limited in what they can do because there's so many um there's many parties involved um or basically pointing fingers bank wise and what can be done, what can't be done. Um we filed um two different um incidence reports with the police um due to having um multiple trailers now on the property um with multiple um individuals now inhabiting those trailers. Um and it's become more of like a health and sanitation issue because those trailings aren't like bound by foundation, they're not leaving the property. There's one that's been there for you know over two months. There's now one that's been there for um about a month now, too. Um so it's a matter of where is that waste going, you know, and now just kind of more or less things like that. I know my husband kind of went into the nitty-gritty and um some of the emails that he had sent. Um, but it's just become, you know, it's more than just like an unsightly property. You know, there's just inhabitants there of, you know, they're not leaving, they're not going anywhere, you know, things of that nature. Um, so we're really more or less concerned with like the noise ordinances, the sanitary aspect of things. You know, they are running generators, you know, during the day, fine, it is what it is, but it's you know, one o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the morning. Um, and just you know, we're kind of stuck and at a loss at what we can do. Um, we just more or less want the safety of that property, you know, looked at and the cleanliness of the property looked at, um, just because it is not only affecting us, but it is affecting surrounding neighbors. So we've just kind of been trying to put our heads together to see, you know, what we can and cannot do with the limitations that we do have and what we can see from you know our own property without actually trespassing or breaking any any laws on our behalf. But it's kind of again, we're at a standstill because nobody directly is claiming to own the property just because it is in it's not been a finalized foreclosure or bankruptcy. Um, you know, there's been no final judgment essentially. So there's a lot of finger pointing.