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City proposes new Division of Community Enhancement to consolidate code, cleanup and volunteer programs
Summary
The administration proposed a new Division of Community Enhancement that would combine neighborhood improvement, environmental enforcement, ground services, Memphis City Beautiful and public‑services‑core functions into a single division to coordinate blight remediation, dumping cleanups and volunteer programs.
Senior administrators Melanie Neal and Marticus Muhammad presented the proposed Division of Community Enhancement to the Budget Committee on May 13, explaining that the consolidation would bring code enforcement, environmental enforcement, ground‑services mitigation, Memphis City Beautiful programs and the public‑services‑core litter‑cleanup crew under one organizational umbrella.
Neal and Muhammad told council members the new division would increase focus and efficiency by coordinating personnel and field operations so crews clearing vacant lots, removing illegal dumping and enforcing code are deployed to the same neighborhoods at the same time. “All of our services will be deployed in the…
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