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Council approves first reading of ordinance to let city manager designate interdepartmental enforcement teams
Summary
Council gave first reading to an ordinance amending city code to allow enforcement authority to be delegated to the city manager so interdepartmental teams can respond to code complaints more flexibly.
The City Council on March 11 voted to introduce and pass on first reading an ordinance amending a city code section to permit delegation of certain enforcement authorities to the city manager, a change staff says will allow interdepartmental teams to respond to complaints more efficiently.
The change matters because staff said current code provisions can produce operational "silos" where different departments hold narrowly defined enforcement authority, forcing multiple inspectors to respond to the same complaint rather than letting a single qualified…
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