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Council members question low bids for grass-cutting, discuss liens and funding limits
Summary
At a work session, council members reviewed bids for grass cutting and lot cleanup on 47 properties, raising concerns about low per-lot bids, recurrence of abated properties, state-owned parcels and how abatement costs become liens against property titles.
Council members reviewed bids to abate nuisance vegetation and debris on 47 lots put out for bid, raising concerns about unusually low per-lot prices and the city’s ability to maintain repeatedly abated properties.
Councilmember A said he had inspected “a dozen of them” and questioned the low bids, asking, “I don’t see how someone’s cleaning them up for $250 or $200.” Mister Brown, a city staff member involved in code enforcement, said…
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