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Council discusses tougher enforcement, higher fines and streamlined notices for property maintenance violations
Summary
Struthers councilmembers debated raising the fee for city grass-cutting service to $250, reducing or removing mailed notice requirements, and strengthening administrative fines and enforcement against negligent landlords and bank-owned properties; staff were asked to prepare a resolution and reports on citations and collections.
Councilmember Megan led an extended discussion on property maintenance enforcement, urging the city to increase fines, streamline notice procedures and pursue delinquent accounts that create blight.
Megan said letters previously sent had not produced follow-through and proposed raising the city’s grass-cutting fee to $250 and eliminating the repeated 7‑day mailed-letter requirement for subsequent…
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