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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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Unidentified speaker 33:49
But, um, like, the mayor has specific things he wants to see that I'm part of the administration and, um, I think are good ideas. And I think legal's working on that legislation, so we'll see how they all turn out. They've been in contact with me too. Um, the concern that I have about vacant housing is, um, first of all, keeping the physical registry Right, so we're anticipating 200-300 properties on there, keeping it up to date, making sure you have an owner, making sure you have a person. That's a big administrative task for a secretary that's already kind of stretched. She's taking all these phone calls, all these appointments, she's scheduling all our regular inspections, she's doing all our FOIL requests, she's doing all our building permits, and then she's got to keep track of these 300 properties with the codes officers. So that's a tough one. The other one is identifying them as vacant. Requires a lot of homework. So you got to make sure that either the utilities are off— there's like 5 things that qualify. You get a neighbor deposition, the utilities are off, codes officer observation from in the neighborhood, the windows are boarded. So you got to confirm that it's vacant. Then you have to do the follow-up of getting a reuse plan in place with the owner. And so somebody's got to approve that plan, has got to review that plan, has got to monitor that plan. This, if you guys pass this, I think it'll really help with the problem. I, I've grown on this law when it was first proposed, but then after I spoke to people, um, well, there was a lot of things wrong with the law. It should never be original.