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Englewood staff report spike in grass-and-weed complaints; two seasonal officers to begin inspections
Summary
City staff told the committee that May code-enforcement statistics showed a large increase in grass-and-weed complaints compared with April and that two seasonal officers are scheduled to begin patrols to address the spike.
At a meeting of Englewood City’s code enforcement committee, staff presented May enforcement statistics showing a sharp rise in grass-and-weed complaints and explained how seasonal hires will be deployed to respond.
The committee was shown the monthly statistics for May. AJ, a code enforcement staff member, told the committee the department had moved from 8 grass-and-weed complaints in April to 102 in May: “So majority of those are just strictly the grass and weeds.”
Why it matters: the surge in citizen-initiated reports has prompted the department to put two seasonal officers into the field to perform targeted, grid-pattern inspections and follow-up. AJ said…
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