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Focus group plans funding request to tear down abandoned county buildings; iWORKS to improve cross-department tracking
Summary
An abandoned-properties focus group told the committee it will seek board funding to demolish large derelict structures and is onboarding the health department to the iWORKS compliance and permitting system to improve interdepartmental tracking.
Jeremy, representing the abandoned-nuisance-properties focus group, told the committee the group reviewed larger properties—including Lee Center School and Aldine Infirmary—and intends to bring a funding proposal to the board to remove structures and prepare sites for redevelopment.
Jeremy said the group also discussed compliance workflows across building and zoning and the health department. Building and zoning has completed its iWORKS module, and Jeremy said staff will work with the health department to bring its compliance functions onto the same platform. Committee members discussed opportunities to expand iWORKS modules to other departments to improve permitting visibility and interdepartmental coordination.
Jeremy said these changes are intended to make enforcement and permitting more efficient and to move long‑standing nuisance properties toward redevelopment. No formal funding request was presented at this meeting; Jeremy said a proposal will be prepared for future board consideration.
