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Public-health staff request $430,000 for code-enforcement abatement fund and hearing costs
Summary
Mason County public-health staff told commissioners the department needs a combined $430,000 — roughly $180,000 annually for hearing-examiner costs and a $250,000 start to an abatement fund — to move long-running code-enforcement cases to resolution and pay costly abatements when owners do not comply.
Mason County public-health staff told commissioners on June 2 they need $430,000 to address a backlog of code-enforcement cases that are not resolved by standard infractions. The request combines an annual estimate of hearing-examiner costs and an initial abatement fund for direct cleanups.
Staff explained that individual hearings with the county’s contract hearing examiner average roughly $3,000 per case and that certain enforcement paths…
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