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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2002-06-19 CEAC MINUTES• • • CODE ENFORCEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES JUNE 19, 2002 1. Call to Order. The regular meeting of the Englewood Code Enforcement Advisory Committee was called to order at 6:4 0 p.m. by Vice Chairperson Blair in the City Council Conference Room. Roll Call. Present: Ex-Officio: Excused : Absent: 2. Approval of Minutes. Blair , Belt, Crowell , McCahill Lynn, Moore , Yurchick , Officer Steve Siegal DesMarteau, Flaherty, Grazulis Roberts, Olsen Vice Chairperson Blair made a motion that the minutes of the May 15 , 2002 Code Enforcement Advisory Committee meeting be approved as amended. Ay es : Nays: The motion carried. 3. Public Open forum. Blair, Belt, Crowell , McCahill None Mr. Jim Goodrich was present to discuss his application for a Code Enforcement Advisory Committee position. He was told that at the present time there are no board openings. Jim added that the committee has a lot of administrative issues that need to be worked on. 4. Old Business. a. Review CEAC By-Laws. The reviewing of the CEAC By-Laws was put on hold until Chairperson DesMarteau returns to the cotnmittee with clarification from City Attorne y Dan Brotzman. Member McCahill offered to review the By-L aws and present a proposal at Jul y's meeting. b. Hobby Vehicle Ordinance. Discussion referenced the Hobby Vehicle Lic ens ing Ordinance being passed by Ci ty Council with a 5-2 vote . Member PAGE 1 • • • Crowell inquired of the definition of hobby vehicles , with Lynn providing a response from the Englewood Municipal Code. Council Member Yurchick, through a council request, has asked the committee to look at the number of vehicles allowed per property. It was asked of the Recording Secretary Osborne to do a survey of the surrounding cities on the allowance of the number of hobby/derelict vehicles per property. Member Blair offered her assistance in conducting this survey. c. Penalty enforcement on Rabies Vaccinations. Members concurred to set this aside for old business in July until Council Member Grazulis returned . 5. New business. a. Abandoned Shopping Cart Proposal. Officer Steve Siegal passed out copies of his Abandoned Shopping Cart Proposal to everyone. He elaborated on the purpose and the definition of the proposal , adding that store owners should be responsible for their own shopping carts. Officer Siegal went on to say there is no specific written policy in place at the present time that enforces how to pick up the carts. He briefed the group on an incentive program in place at Cub Foods, whereby shoppers are rewarded for returning shopping carts. Lotto drawings and T.V. raffles were suggested as incentives for returning shopping carts. Further discussion ensued. Lynn commented that Code Enforcement vehicles are not equipped or prepared to haul shopping carts , and suggested looking at Public Works as a means of enforcing the abandoned cart proposal. He went on to say the store owners should be penalized if they don 't comply , as this involves a lot of work to enforce . Lynn also stated he felt that some kind of incentive plan could be very successful. Of the four-committee members present, all were in a unanimous decision that this issue takes a low priority on their list. Committee members asked of Council Member Yurchick to approach city council on their intentions on how to pursue the cart issue. b. May 2002 Code Enforcement Monthly Activity Report. Lynn explained the Code Enforcement Statistics for May have appreciably risen due to weed issues (335 violations). Animal issues remained fairly constant from the previous month. Parking tickets were reduced to 603 from 721 in April due to school recess . Much of May was in dealing with follow ups on prior violations . Other incidents that Code Enforcement assisted on were the delivery and storage of nine oversized modular building parts from Sweden, and assisting Englewood Police on an overturned liquid nitrogen truck . PAGE2 • • • 6. Topics for July 17, 2002 meeting . a. Review CEAC By-Laws/Sunshine Law b. Hobby vehicle licensing discussion c. Follow-up of penalty enforcement on Rabies Vaccinations d. Abandoned Shopping Cart Proposal e. Survey of vehicles on properties f. June 2002 Monthly Activity Report 7. Adjournment. Member Belt made a motion to adjourn and Member Crowell seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously and the meeting adjourned at 8:05 p.m. Ayes: Blair, Belt, Crowell, McCahill Nays: None Susan L. Osborne, Recording Secretary PAGE3