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Fresno County moves to rebuild code-enforcement unit, asks board to authorize new staff and downtown office
Summary
After a six-month reorganization, county officials asked the Board of Supervisors to formally assign the code-enforcement program to the CAO, add five officers plus administrative leadership and relocate the unit downtown to improve responsiveness and public access.
Fresno County administrators told the Board of Supervisors on March 11 that, after a six-month internal reorganization, the county is ready to expand and formalize a rebuilt code-enforcement program to tackle an 1,866-case backlog dating to 2017.
The CAO’s interim code-enforcement lead, Matt Constantine, and program manager Ellie Harrison said the program has implemented new job descriptions, recruited five trained officers and created processes for case review, cost recovery and online complaints. "We now have a code enforcement officer job series — previously we used planner job descriptions — and we received more than 230 applications for the first…
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