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Committee outlines stepped approach to nuisance-property cleanup, schedules closed session on litigation strategy
Summary
After a lengthy discussion about recurring nuisance properties and cleanup costs, the Finance Committee directed staff to pursue circuit-court remedies where necessary, requested a closed session to discuss litigation strategy, and noted cleanups can cost about $10,000 each and potentially strain the budget if repeated across multiple properties.
The Finance Committee spent the largest portion of its July 22 meeting discussing the city's nuisance-property abatement process, cleanup costs and enforcement options and directed staff to bring individual cases for closed-session discussion and potential circuit-court action.
A staff speaker who presented the item described the typical process: the city sends a notice to property owners telling them to correct violations (for example, remove junk or cut grass), and about “90% of the people that letter takes care of” the problem. For the more frequent noncompliant owners, staff said the city pursued a circuit-court nuisance warrant that…
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