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Council reviews broad administrative code amendments; staff plans additional drafts and reporting changes
Summary
City staff presented sweeping cleanup amendments to the administrative code covering funds and fee changes, remote-meeting rules for boards, appeals routing to BZAP, and a proposal to increase penalties for building without permits; council asked for added reporting timelines and legal clarifications and scheduled further readings.
City staff summarized proposed changes to the administrative code intended to remove obsolete funds and streamline language across several chapters. Highlights included moving the engineering-division language to a different section, clarifying boards-and-commissions remote-meeting authority (with BZAP and the library board excepted), tightening timelines and filing-fee requirements for appeals, and increasing penalties for work started without permits (proposed quadruple fees versus the prior double-fee penalty).
Council members asked staff to preserve safeguards — for example, a council member requested a 10‑day notice requirement when the city retains outside counsel — and raised due-process questions about immobilizing devices or towing property without citation in other agenda items. City staff agreed to research statutory references cited by council (for example, civil-service exam protections) and to return with amendments for placement on the June 15 agenda. The council scheduled a second reading and public hearing for the administrative-code items on June 15, 2026.
Why it matters: The code changes affect administrative operations, fees and the rules that govern boards, commissions and development-related appeals; some edits have potential procedural and due-process implications that council asked staff to address before final action.
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