I call to order the committee meeting of the housing community development and public health committee for Thursday.

May twenty eighth, thank you.

Twenty twenty-six.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Jones here.

Gaddis.

Kramer here.

Martinez.

McPherson.

Melden.

Williams here.

For present.

Okay.

So we are here to get an update on our lead safe ordinance, and I believe that we're talking about rental registry as well.

Get an update of what that's going, how that's going and vacant properties.

So we have Jim Monar and Monica Smith.

Also keep in mind we have a five o'clock, so we won't take that much time, but just keep that deadline in mind.

All right, and then I'll hand it over to you all.

Good afternoon, Council.

Thank you so much for having me this afternoon.

I am Monica Smith, the lead safe coordinator, and I'm going to provide you with a lead safe ordinance update.

So first I want to start with a program overview.

Uh the lead ordinance states that if you are a property owner of a residential rental unit, one to four units built prior to nineteen seventy-eight, you are required to obtain a lead safe certificate.

So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to provide you with an overview of phase one.

Phase one, it consists of 17 census tracks.

There are an estimated 4,800 rental properties in phase one.

The deadline date, which recently passed, was December 31st of 2025 for phase one.

There are currently 954 active certificates in phase one.

We sent out reminder letters approximately six months prior to that deadline date.

We sent out a total of 400, 4,000, excuse me, 4,465 reminder letters.

And then three months after that deadline date, we sent out 3,736 notice of violation letters for those owners who had not yet complied.

Next, phase two overview.

In phase two, there are 12 census tracts.

That deadline date is approaching.

It is June 30 of 2026.

There are an estimated 2,800 rental units in phase two.

We currently have 93 active certificate certificates in that phase.

We sent out 2,634 reminder letters to property owners for phase two.

Next up, we have phase three.

We're currently in phase three.

There are 12 census tracks in phase three.

The deadline date is December 31st of 2026.

There are 133 active certificates in phase three, an estimated 3,058 rental units.

We sent out 2,958 reminder letters.

Those letters should actually be reaching their destination over the next couple days.

And here I'm going to give you an overview of all of the phases.

So in total, there are 120 census tracks.

That is there's eight compliance deadlines, with the last compliance deadline being June 30 of 2029.

The compliance deadlines are in six months increments, so it's always going to be June 30 or December 31st.

We sent out a total of 10,057 reminder letters, a total of 3,736 notice of violation letters, and currently we have 4,124 active lead safe certificates.

As far as the number, if I were to refer back to phase one, I think I mentioned that there were 957 active certificates, while there are approximately 4,800 rental properties in that area.

So the two things I want you to keep in mind is that over the past couple months, approximately 1,500 lead-safe certificates expired, meaning that those property owners had complied five years ago, but their expiration date had approached, and so now they need to reapply.

That's the first thing to consider.

Second thing I want you to consider is that we were in the courts over the course of two and a half, three years.

And so I think what that did is it created some confusion amongst property owners as to whether or not the lead ordinance is still in existence, whether or not they need to comply, when are those deadline dates, and how do they go about doing that?

And so that's one of the things that we have been working diligently on is making sure that we are communicating with property owners, with tenants, with the inspectors regularly so that they have a better understanding of the program, of what the requirements are and of their compliance date.

That way they know that okay, this this is what I need to do by such and such date.

Next, I'm gonna talk to you a little about the importance of quality control and inspector oversight.

So, being that I mentioned the back and forth with the court and and how for some people it caused some confusion.

One of the things we want to do is make sure that we are maintaining integrity as well as credibility with this program.