| The TurnAround Team, Inc. General Meeting January 2007 |
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| Deb Swank, Chair, called the annual meeting to order at 7:00 PM. Present were twelve people. |
1 - Tom Benaka briefly announced some items of interest:
Public comment forms are available for the MPO Regional Transportation Plan
and there will be a public meeting in February; Free income tax assistance is
available through VITA; and free dental care will be available next month at the
Expocentre.
2 -Code Compliance
Tammy Fisher, Supervisor of Code Compliance Section, spoke about the current
activities of the Code Compliance Section. Sandra Cline and Dennis Boyles,
Inspectors, also attended. Tammy talked about the Property Resource Guide
and Property Resource Map as sources of helpful information and phone
numbers. Sandra has worked as an inspector for 12 years and is cross-trained
as a Nuisance / Housing Inspector. Dennis is in training. Plans are to have all
inspectors cross-trained in 2007. A vehicle violation is pretty simple – if it isn’t
street legal then it is violation. Dennis talked about housing violations. The
code has a very long time line so sometimes it seems like houses are in disrepair
for too long. Last year there were 3000 nuisance violations compared to 100
housing violations, but the housing violations take much longer to clear.
Nuisance stuff outside is pretty simple – if it intended to be outside then it can
be outside; if it is intended to be inside then it must be inside. Code
Compliance results for 2006 will be announced at the press conference. Code
Compliance is going to be promoted positively in 2007. There are some issues
with the time lines for Nuisance Code that are in Kansas statutes. They are
going to be reviewed in 2007. Tammy asked for help from the neighborhoods for
support for code updates / enhancements to make them more enforceable.
The meeting was adjourned at 9 PM.
Public comment forms are available for the MPO Regional Transportation Plan
and there will be a public meeting in February; Free income tax assistance is
available through VITA; and free dental care will be available next month at the
Expocentre.
2 -Code Compliance
Tammy Fisher, Supervisor of Code Compliance Section, spoke about the current
activities of the Code Compliance Section. Sandra Cline and Dennis Boyles,
Inspectors, also attended. Tammy talked about the Property Resource Guide
and Property Resource Map as sources of helpful information and phone
numbers. Sandra has worked as an inspector for 12 years and is cross-trained
as a Nuisance / Housing Inspector. Dennis is in training. Plans are to have all
inspectors cross-trained in 2007. A vehicle violation is pretty simple – if it isn’t
street legal then it is violation. Dennis talked about housing violations. The
code has a very long time line so sometimes it seems like houses are in disrepair
for too long. Last year there were 3000 nuisance violations compared to 100
housing violations, but the housing violations take much longer to clear.
Nuisance stuff outside is pretty simple – if it intended to be outside then it can
be outside; if it is intended to be inside then it must be inside. Code
Compliance results for 2006 will be announced at the press conference. Code
Compliance is going to be promoted positively in 2007. There are some issues
with the time lines for Nuisance Code that are in Kansas statutes. They are
going to be reviewed in 2007. Tammy asked for help from the neighborhoods for
support for code updates / enhancements to make them more enforceable.
The meeting was adjourned at 9 PM.
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