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Council directs staff to combine weed‑abatement and encampment teams, approves pay alignment and asks staff to review enforcement timing
Summary
The council agreed to combine the city’s weed‑abatement crew with its encampment cleanup crew, authorized staff to pursue a pay reclassification for weed abatement personnel to align with encampment workers and directed a review of the ordinance and notice timing; council also asked staff to return with implementation and budget implications.
The Porterville City Council on Feb. 4 directed staff to combine the city’s weed‑abatement crew and the homeless encampment abatement crew into a single operating unit, and to proceed with aligning pay classifications for those positions.
Why it matters: City staff said this season is likely to be a challenging fire‑hazard year — rainfall is 52% of average for the period — and bringing the two teams together would create surge capacity to tackle both fire‑prone vegetation and encampment cleanups on city property. Staff estimates a full‑year cost to reclassify weed‑abatement positions to the encampment salary range at about $29,344 annually (proportionate mid‑year cost $12,227 if…
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