05-09-16 Health and Public Safety

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from the different departments. That helps us wrap our minds around the problem. Being able to quantify the problem is significant, especially looking at what we are doing with our staff's time. It will also help us measure the performance as time goes on. I don't believe that the ordinance has an assessment and revisitation at a time that is definite, and I would like to see that added. The performance measures mentioned in the ordinance are good, but I think there might be better ones. There also isn't anything listed as a definite time such as six (6) months or one (1) year into this where we do a review of the program. It should be independent or collaborative, so it isn't just Code Enforcement assessing itself. All of this will help us in the future. We've taken best practices from other cities, but they only enacted their bills in the last few years. Are there plusses and minuses in these implementation processes that have informed our legislation? Are there things that are working or not working from them that we should do or should not do? Business -wise, does the registration period make sense? Do we want to tie it to the end of the calendar year completely, and look at it as a quarterly objective with a start date of September 1St? With regard to the fines, my understanding is that we have very responsible property owners. I wonder if we can give an early notification for people who haven't registered thirty (3 0) days out, and then have a very nominal fee, such as ten (10) dollars per day that they haven't registered capped at three- hundred (300) or four - hundred (400), to be more responsive toward the concerns that people might make slight errors. Committeemember Broden is also eager to hear from the business owners regarding their feelings toward this bill and the ways they've addressed their concerns. Committeemember Davis stated that he had already shared with them that he would like to see issues of this nature be brought up in more of a commission concept like at the state and the federal level. Some can go for months, and some may just need one meeting. It can be flexible. Committeemember Davis echoed Committee Member Broden's desire to see more of what other cities have done in regards to their landlord registration programs. I'd like to know these things ahead of time rather than waiting to evaluate at a later time. That's where a commission would help. I would like to address the issue of the Council creating a concept of fraud, because we cannot do that as a Council. Since we are a legal body, I would like those things to be clarified so that any person can say that this is why we used that term. One person opened up by stating that this would not solve the problem, but if you open up by stating that this is not going to solve the problem, then why are we here? Why are we going to create this if it isn't going to solve the problem? I would like to hear more about the discriminatory nature of things we heard about these fines in other places. We need to look at how people are using fines all over the country right now, especially in regard to Ferguson, Missouri. Another issue I'd like to discuss further is the issue of Public Domain. Dr. Ferlic, you found everyone you were looking for and called them all, so you were able to solve these problems using our current system. If you weren't able to solve those problems using our current system, I would see the need for this new program.