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Council Minutes of 5/20/2008 Kearney, Mahoney, Orlowski and President Kennedy; Law Director Dubelko and Safety Director Thomas and guests. Agenda items: • Ordinance 2008-44, which he decided to pull back into committee to discuss the warning tag issue. This has been a highly misunderstood part of the change in our code. The administration is on record as being against setting policy in the ordinance and the committee and other members of Council understand. But, although they heard from a small percentage of residents regarding this issue, it was stated by Mr. Gateau and agreed by ail that they received more cads on this issue than any other issues going back two to three years. With that being said, he wanted to make clear to the residents that the ticketable offenses are for high grass and weeds, trash and garbage in the front yard, vehicles on the driveway, address display and commercial landscaping. A warning tag will be left at the door and residents will have 48 hours to comply. Also emphasized is that, if a resident is under any form of hardship ar the lawn mower is being fixed, please call the inspector who will be listed on the warning tag and talk to him. Our Building Dept. will listen and help in any way it can. It is not the intention to be handing out tickets and collecting fines. This change in this ordinance is a tool to help some people move along who would ordinarily just ignore the violations. After lengthy discussion and debate during committee, Mr. Gateau m€se a motion to recommend twice-amended 2008-44, with the request of suspension with the amendment to be the requirement of first violation warning tags for the ticketable offenses and for the Law Dept to draft language allowing for immediate issuance upon exigent circumstances This was seconded by Mrs. Jones and the committee vote was 3-0 to recommend approval. Council received the changes from the Law Director on Friday, May 16. The c es are as follows: Warning tags, .....(through the beginning of Penalty under 1351.99). Then instead of "emergency," it will read: If an "egregious" condition exists as described above, or if the owner or operator of a property fails to correct a citation within 48 hours following placement of a warning tag upon the property... Also in, 1368.03(e), upon observation of A first violation that is not deemed to be egregious because of similar prior violations at the property within the past 12 months or because of the presence of multiple violations at the property, a warning tag will be issued. Councilman Barker made a motion to approve Ordinance 2008-44 with the changes to Sections 1351.99(a) on page 2 of the legislation and 1368.03(e) on pages 18-19 in the twice amended version of Ordinance 2008-44 which has been distributed by the Clerk to all members of Council. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gateau who made a friendly amendment that the motion should be to amend. Councilman Barker agreed. The motion to amend was passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2008-44 was twice amended. Councilman Orlowski, chairperson of the Environmental Control Committee: 1) The Environmental Control Committee met on May 14, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. In attendance were members Barker and Orlowski; Councilman Kearney; Service Director. The Finance Director was unable to attend due to a prior commitment. The Service Director stated 7 ,nnarw w.~+,.~m-,Mwawt~Wr;rfflw~r: