Valparaiso code enforcement staff reported progress on some properties with outstanding code violations but said five properties had made no progress; the Board of Works voted to continue all ten cases to the Sept. 26 meeting and staff said it will begin daily fines for noncompliant owners.

Vicky, code enforcement staff, told the board "half of them have been making progress since the last meeting, but 5 of them have made no progress. And so, I will start finding them daily today." She recommended continuing the list of ten properties until the Sept. 26 meeting to allow owners an opportunity to comply. The board moved and unanimously approved the continuance to 09/26.

Vicky said nine of the properties are residential and one is nonresidential; she added that the next enforcement step for the nonresponsive owners is to impose fines to seek compliance. The board's action simply continued the compliance hearings; it did not order demolition nor other immediate structural remedies during this meeting.

Next steps: code enforcement will begin daily fines for those owners who have not progressed and will return the continued cases to the Board of Works on Sept. 26 for further action if noncompliance persists.