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Muskego finance committee weighs costs, court route for long-running nuisance properties
Summary
Committee members discussed using circuit court orders, contracting cleanups and possible closed-session briefings after repeated failures by some property owners to comply; city staff warned cleanups can cost thousands and recovery through tax liens may take years.
Muskego City Finance Committee members on July 22 discussed stepped-up use of circuit court orders and contracted cleanups to address several long-running nuisance properties that staff say have not responded to letters or fines.
Committee members and city legal staff described a pathway that uses a circuit court order to allow contracted crews to enter private property, remove debris and tow vehicles, then bill the property owner and, if unpaid, place the costs on the property tax roll. Staff said the process can take years to produce payment and can leave neighbors enduring blighted conditions while enforcement proceeds.
City attorney/prosecutor Jeff (last name not specified in the transcript) told the committee that the city has used the circuit court process after exhausting municipal remedies and that the cleanup contract for an example case cost about $10,000. He said invoices are billed to the property…
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