The meeting focused on a code enforcement update from Officer Dan Baxter, discussion of the matching grant communication plan, and future goals for the commission. Key topics included voluntary cleanup programs, vehicle abatement, and outreach strategies for the beautification matching grant.
And let the roll call reflect. And uh we got hands uh um and push our weaver and uh to a meeting. Are you there, Mike? Yeah, she's on here, but yeah. Um guys, microphones might not be on. We just did roll call and we include you as uh online. Are you there? I can hear Jeff. I hear the dog. Are you needed? Can you guys speak up? Because I really can't hear any of you. Yeah, we just turned our mics on. We didn't have one. Can you hear us now? Can I hear us now? I can hear you. Okay, everybody make sure your red light is on. So we're gonna hear us. Okay. Hopefully she'll not as a bit. Do you have anything to add to the minutes of October 27th? Hearing none. Um, all in favor of approval. All right, wait. All right. Uh seeing the public number four. And go right to reports, and we're thrilled to have Officer Baxter here to report on enforcement updates and expecting recent time. Well, afternoon now, yes. Uh appreciate the opportunity to come up here and uh give you guys kind of a little update. I wanted to start out with kind of a little bit of an overview, so you guys are a little more familiar with what I actually do for the city as a code enforcement officer. Uh the city council and administration have directed me to enforce 8.2 of the municipal code, which is a nuisance of eight months. Uh rundown property vehicles, I'd say structure, uh I am authorized by voting to enforce all of the municipal codes, but at this point in time, the city council said it's just this. That's what we want you to do. So that that's kind of just a real quick nutshell. Can you turn your microphone on too, please, Dan? There we go, sorry. So just kind of in a roll nutshell, that's that's what I do. Um I've got I can put together a really poor uh presentation here for you, just a real basic. If you can just go to the next slide, please. Uh we were fortunate last year to receive uh a 15-yard construction dumpster that I have at my sole use for getting another one next year. That's why they're bright orange, so there's no mistaking that it's anybody else's. Um we make this available to people if they're willing to sign what we call a voluntary compliance agreement. They agree with us, they have a problem. And they agree that they will get it cleaned up in a certain amount of time, and if they do that, we will park this dumbster your property and give you unlimited access to that. There's many dumps and as they get the property cleaned up. Um I forgot to write the numbers down, but this year to the last uh end of last month. We had hauled off or this bailer facility had hauled off, I think 1,300 cubic yards of debris from people who have entered into their just this year. Um so that was it's a very good program, it's helping get a lot of these properties that are years and years of debris and whatnot. Um granted a couple of those were COVID deaths that were porters and their families were coming in and spending the entire summer.