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Community Development budget adds transit, code enforcement and dangerous‑building funds; council hears collection process
Summary
Community Development presented budget packages that included $350,000 to sustain transit service, $50,000 for code enforcement abatements, and $400,000 from the marijuana sales tax for dangerous‑building demolitions. Staff described the lien process for abatement costs and said demolition capacity would rise if funding is approved.
Tom Scannell, community development director, outlined the department’s FY2025–26 budget and a set of approved budget packages that address code enforcement, transit and dangerous‑building demolitions.
Scannell said the department will receive an additional $350,000 for transit to sustain current levels of service and an extra $50,000 to fund code enforcement abatements. He noted that code enforcement operations have increasingly been initiated at staff level—53% of cases are started by staff so far this fiscal year, up from roughly 5% years earlier—and that…
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