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Englewood moves code enforcement from police to Community Development, committee approves renaming to "code compliance"
Summary
The Code Enforcement Advisory Committee voted Oct. 15 to endorse the city manager’s reorganization moving code enforcement from the Police Department to the Community Development Department and approved renaming the unit “code compliance.”
The Code Enforcement Advisory Committee voted Oct. 15 to endorse the city manager’s recent reorganization that moved Englewood’s code enforcement staff out of the Police Department and into the Community Development Department, and the committee approved a motion to change the public-facing name from “code enforcement” to “code compliance.”
City Manager Sean Lewis told the committee the change was made to better align code officers’ work with building inspections, planning and permitting. “We believe that the mission and functions of code enforcement more closely align with the community development department than with police,” Lewis said, noting code work is primarily civil and administrative rather than criminal.
Lewis said the reorganization keeps officers’ uniforms, radios and body-worn cameras and that the move eliminated a…
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