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Presently, each code inspector is assigned to a councilmanic district. This method of assignment may be an efficient method of satisfactorily providing the service and is an outstanding way to maintain public accountability for elected officials. This method of assignment may need to be modified with future City growth. The City's annexation program may focus on one or two priority areas. When annexed, this territory will be added to a councilmanic district. Thus, increased service demand for one or two code inspectors may occur and, furthermore, a possible reduction in service which focuses only upon the priority code violation may also be necessary. Should annexations take place at various locations around the entire corporate limits, then all inspectors could be faced with additional service demands and a possibility of reduced service for second priority services. Various distribution or assignment methods can be considered when developing the plan for providing neighborhood code enforcement services for future City growth through annexation. One method would be to designate one or more as -needed code inspectors to respond to certain councilmanic districts when increased demands occur. These as -needed inspectors would allow the department to maintain the benefits of representing each councilmanic district as afforded by the present service method. Another method would be to establish new staff positions for certain lower priority types of violations or complaints. These inspectors could serve city-wide and thus allow the councilmanic district code inspectors to focus upon the priority neighborhood services. Another method would be to abandon the assignments by councilmanic district and establish all new districts. This method would allow for periodic boundary adjustments to satisfy new demands caused by annexation and, based upon the plan's guideline criteria, would be able to identify when new districts are needed along with additional staff. Any of these or other possible service methods should review past violations and complaints in specific areas of the City and consider land use, density and social/economic factors. The Bureau of Weights and Measures should be impacted very little by annexation. Additional staff may be needed in the long term and will need to be identified when the need arises. The Code Enforcement Clean-up Crew may also need to be expanded. This service appears to be directly linked to the effort of the code inspectors and can fluctuate, based upon the number of property owners that do not comply with clean-up citations. Multi -departmental services such as with the Park Department or Department of Public Works could be developed to offset the need for partial staff expansion or service demand fluctuations. 27