Public Hearing and Consideration and Approval of Lien:  Recovery of cost of cleanup of the accumulation of weeds, vegetation, junk, dead organic matter, rat harborages on the premises of 1726 N. Kutch per Notice and Order. 

Subsidiary Decisions Points: Council needs to 1. Confirm the report of the reason for the work done and the work that was done, 2. Approve the charge, 3. Approve the authority of staff to place lien on property.  

The City has acquired the cost of cleaning up the property and will have to continue the clean up until property owner takes on the responsibility of keeping the property from becoming a harborage for vermin.

Effective governance, livability through good neighborhoods.

No.

1) Approve staff placing lien on the property for work done.
2) Disapprove the lien and try to recover the cost some other way.
3) Disapprove lien and absorb the cost.

The property at 1726 N. Kutch has been abandoned for more than 15 years which allowed for the overgrowth of aspen trees, grass and the accumulation of leaves that provided a harborage for vermin in the front yard. There was also a wood pile in the rear side yard that was decaying and was providing a harborage for vermin. Numerous complaints were received by the neighbors that they were seeing an increase in vermin around their property. After numerous attempts to contact the property owner by certified mail, each time the certified letter came back unclaimed.

As is required by the Uniform Housing Code, the City Clerk has sent a certified letter to the property owner notifying them of the public hearing. She has also published a notice in the newspaper and the property will be posted.

Involve - The City received numerous complaints from the neighbors of the increase in vermin and the overgrowth of vegetation.

None