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City of Mounds View Staff Report May 2, 1997 Page 3 The questions before City Council are: • Do you want further research done by the City Attorney into the feasibility of having an independent inspection program at the time mobile homes are sold? • Do you want staff to develop a proposal for systematic inspection and housing code enforcement in the mobile home parks, independent of when sales occur? • Do you want to institute a city-wide use a truth-in-housing or point-of-sale approach? • If City Council wants to institute a point-of-sale approach, do you want inspections done by City inspectors or by private inspectors? Do you want re-inspections done by City inspectors or by private inspectors? • If City inspectors are used, do you want the fees set so the program is self-supporting? Staff expects that if Mounds View were to institute a point-of-sale program with City inspection, or with City re-inspection, we would have to add inspection staff and secretarial staff to Community Development. If the City were to institute either a point-of sale program with private inspection or reinspection, or a truth-in-housing program with private inspection, we would have to add part-time secretarial staff to Community Development, or"borrow" support staff from another department to do this program. Our existing inspection and secretarial staff in Community Development does not have capacity to absorb this program. A truth-in-housing with repair of immediate hazards, or a point of sale program, would move the • City closer to achieving its goals for preserving, maintaining and upgrading its housing stock, with greater results expected from the point-of-sale approach. Action Requested: Provide direction to staff as to whether City Council wants an ordinance drafted, what issues you want it to address, and what approach you want to use. N:\DATA\USERS\PAMS\SHAREVSPECPRO.PSP022.97\PTOFSALE.CC 1