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November 27, 2007 Meeting

November 27, 2007 Meeting. Discussion of the city’s role in property safety & compliance, litter & animal care & control in Jacksonville neighborhoods. Municipal Code Compliance Division. Enforce Ordinance Code Ch. 518 & 656 Property safety & maintenance & zoning code violations

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November 27, 2007 Meeting

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  1. November 27, 2007 Meeting Discussion of the city’s role in property safety & compliance, litter & animal care & control in Jacksonville neighborhoods

  2. Municipal Code Compliance Division • Enforce Ordinance Code Ch. 518 & 656 • Property safety & maintenance & zoning code violations • Nuisance properties, abandoned/junk vehicles, unsafe structures & residential/commercial minimum building standards • MCCD strongly encourages owner violation compliance

  3. Municipal Code Compliance Division • If owner(s) fail to correct violations: • Case forwarded to Municipal Code Enforcement Special Magistrate for adjudication & levying of property fines/liens or orders to abate • Case is routed to MCCD Contract Administration for nuisance abatement, board-up or demolition

  4. Municipal Code Compliance Division • Special Projects: • Neighborhood Enforcement Action Team (N.E.A.T.) • Systematic inspections in Seeds of Change neighborhoods since May 2006 • Street-by-Street Neighborhood Inspections • In Nov. 2006 organized & executed street-by-street inspections of six zones. • Urban Core/NW Jax neighborhoods include, but not limited to: • Brooklyn, Talleyrand, Long Branch, Phoenix, Fairfield, Springfield, Eastside, Mid-West Jax (3), Riverview, Sherwood Forest, Garden City, East Point, NewTown, College Park & Ken Knight Drive areas.

  5. Municipal Code Compliance Division • FY 06-07 Statistics • Total issues received for inspection: • Zone 1, Urban Core: 6,332* • Zone 2, Greater Arlington/Beaches: 5,748 • Zone 3, Southeast: 4,652 • Zone 4, Southwest:5,093 • Zone 5, Northwest: 8,823* • Zone 6, Northside: 1,985 • Total: 32,643 • Zones 1 & 5 equate to 46.3% of all FY 06-07 cases

  6. Municipal Code Compliance Division • FY 06-07 Statistics: • Source of received issues: • MCCD code enforcement & senior officers proactively initiated 9,828 (or 30.11%) of 32,643 total submitted issues • C.A.R.E. requests

  7. Municipal Code Compliance Division • FY 06-07 Statistics: • Total demolitions: 99 • Urban Core: 43 (43.43% of total) • Northwest: 26 (26.26% of total) • 69.69% of demolitions occurred in Urban Core & Northwest CPAC zones

  8. Municipal Code Compliance Division • FY 06-07 Statistics: • Total board-ups: 147 • Urban Core: 46 (31.29% of total) • Northwest: 57 (38.78% of total) • 70.07% of board-ups occurred in Urban Core & Northwest CPAC zones

  9. Municipal Code Compliance Division • FY 06-07 Statistics: • Total abandoned/junk vehicles towed: 607 • Urban Core: 80 (13.18% of total) • Northwest: 136 (22.41% of total) • 35.59% of abandoned/junk vehicles towed occurred in Urban Core & Northwest CPAC zones.

  10. Municipal Code Compliance Division • FY 06-07 Statistics: • Total nuisance abatements: 1,423 • Urban Core: 384 (27% of total) • Northwest: 402 (28.25% of total) • 55.25% of nuisance abatement projects occurred in Urban Core & Northwest CPAC zones

  11. Municipal Code Compliance Division • Statistics • Cases adjudicated by Municipal Code Enforcement Special Magistrate/Code Board Process • FY 03-04: approximately 140 • FY 06-07: approximately 4,000

  12. Municipal Code Compliance Division • FY 06-07 Statistics: • Inspection staff participated in a total of 137 Drug Abatement Response Team (D.A.R.T.) inspections

  13. Solid Waste Division • Jurisdiction city-wide under ordinance code: • Chapter 380.210 (Jax Litter Law) • Chapter 741 (Zero Tolerance on Litter)

  14. Solid Waste Division • SWD Litter Patrol: • Provides for collection of litter & illegal dumping • Supports Clean It Up, Green It Up efforts • Supports outside agency activities such as Montgomery Correctional Facility & State of Florida • Operates with 12 personnel, four partial crews and one boom truck operator

  15. Solid Waste Division • CARE system (630-CITY) is most important tool for identifying and tracking illegal dumping & litter collection issues • Communication with other agencies, individuals & City Council members also help target problem areas

  16. Solid Waste Division • SWD special projects: • Seeds of Change initiative • (Northwest Jax & Historic Arlington) • Annual St. John’s River Cleanup • Neighborhood Cleanups (43) • Adopt-A-Road Cleanups (17) • East Jax Cleanups (before all 14 football games) • Springfield tours

  17. Solid Waste Division • FY 06-07 Statistics: • Landfill (garbage & misc. debris) • Litter: 654.66 tons • Illegal dumping: 3,182.36 tons • Yard waste • Illegal dumping: 409.16 tons • Illegally dumped tires • 5,835

  18. Animal Care & Control Division • AC&C Primary Functions: Animal Care • Clean & maintain shelter/kennel facilities • Provide medical care to animals • Feed animals • Prepare/process animals for adoption/ foster care/rescue

  19. Animal Care & Control Division • AC&C Primary Functions: Animal Control • Enforce Ordinance Code Ch. 462 • Stray/running at-large animals, cruelty, dangerous animals, nuisance, etc. • Conduct sweeps to capture & impound animals &/or cite irresponsible owners • Contribute to blight/litter when get in garbage • Pose community safety/health hazard • Perform humane euthanasia to diseased, sick, injured, non-adoptable animals

  20. Animal Care & Control Division • AC&C Primary Functions: Animal Control cont. • Oct. 2007 changes raise priority of at-large issues • Allows for improved response time & higher probability of sighting & catching • Officers earned Florida Animal Control Association certification in Chemical Capture • Enhances ability to capture at-large animal • Those not captured initially are scheduled for a sweep or trap

  21. Animal Care & Control Division • “First action threshold” • Goal for AC&C officer initial response time • 15 minutes is ideal to improve probability of successful capture • Current staffing allows AC&CD to meet goals but not very successful in capture on first visit. • Ramifications: • Multiple visits OR weekend sweep involving mini-taskforce (six officers) on overtime • Adds to backlog of open/active issues • Animals remaining at-large may go thru garbage, spread litter, harass/attack & breed

  22. Animal Care & Control Division • CARE issue response in FY 06-07: • NW: 7,376 • City-wide: 30,133 • Types of issues: • At-large (1st Action Threshold: 2 hrs.) • NW: 2,556 • City-wide: 8,673 • Nuisance (1st Action Threshold: 2 hrs.) • NW: 761 • City-wide: 3,266 • JSO Assist* (1st Action Threshold: 1 hr.) • NW: 271 • City-wide: 685 • Cruelty (1st Action Threshold: 4 hrs.) • NW: 733 • City-wide: 2,546 * Bite/Criminal Investigation

  23. Contact Information • Municipal Code Compliance Division • Kim Scott, 391-3580 • Solid Waste Division • Chris Pearson, 387-8922 • Animal Care & Control Division • Fred Forbes, 387-8895

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