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Item No: 9 Meeting Date: 6/1/2009 Type of Business: Council Work Session Administrator Review: _____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Ken Roberts Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: City Code Enforcement Program Date: May 28, 2009 Introduction: Staff wanted to provide the City Council with an update on code enforcement activities and discuss code enforcement issues in Mounds View. Discussion: There are several matters and topics about code enforcement that staff wants to review and discuss with the City Council. These include: 1. Priority and Importance. 2. City staffing. 3. Fines and abatements Priority and Importance The survey of City residents last fall confirmed the importance of code enforcement to those who responded to the survey questions. In addition, the City Council added code enforcement as an additional goal for City action and emphasis during the retreat in February. The Council also has recently heard from a few residents about the importance to them of code enforcement and property improvement. Based on all this information and resident feedback, it is clear that code enforcement is a top priority for the City Council. If this is true, then the Council and staff will need form a plan to address this matter. City Staffing As the Council is aware, Jeremiah Anderson is the city’s full time code enforcement and housing inspector. In this role, he is the lead person coordinating and doing code enforcement in Mounds View. He told me that he dedicates about 60 percent of his time in the spring and summer to code enforcement activities. The rest of the year, he said that about 40 percent of his time is for code enforcement. His other primary duties involve housing inspections, including the inspections for all the rental housing in the City.