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Topeka committee details 2025 property-maintenance action plan, rollout of new software and vacant-property mapping
Summary
The Public Health and Safety Committee reviewed the 2025 action plan for Topeka’s Changing Our Culture property-maintenance initiative, including a Tyler software migration, vacant-property mapping and expanded outreach efforts such as a Yard of the Month program.
The Public Health and Safety Committee of the Topeka City Council reviewed a 2025 action plan and preliminary performance data for the Changing Our Culture property-maintenance initiative on Wednesday, as staff outlined outreach programs, a software migration, vacant-property tracking and several performance measures intended to guide enforcement and community engagement.
Nicole Stovall, staff lead for the initiative, presented the 2025 action plan and described key components: a unified public web presence for property-maintenance materials; translation of materials into Spanish; a Yard of the Month public-recognition program; community cleanup events; and a major software transition that will move case data from the previous myGov/City Works setup into a single Tyler platform intended to let multiple departments share case information.
Stovall said the Tyler migration aims to reduce…
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