Transcript 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
 Nuisance properties, abandoned/junk vehicles, unsafe
structures & residential/commercial minimum building
standards
 MCCD strongly encourages owner
violation compliance
Municipal Code Compliance Division
 If owner(s) fail to correct violations:
1) Case forwarded to Municipal Code Enforcement
Special Magistrate for adjudication & levying of
property fines/liens or orders to abate
2) Case is routed to MCCD Contract
Administration for nuisance abatement, boardup or demolition
Municipal Code Compliance Division
 Special Projects:
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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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Solid Waste Division
 Jurisdiction city-wide under ordinance
code:
 Chapter 380.210 (Jax Litter Law)
 Chapter 741 (Zero Tolerance on Litter)
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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 minitaskforce (six officers) on overtime
 Adds to backlog of open/active issues
 Animals remaining at-large may go thru garbage,
spread litter, harass/attack & breed
Animal Care & Control Division
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CARE issue response in FY 06-07:
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NW: 7,376
City-wide: 30,133
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At-large (1st Action Threshold: 2 hrs.)
Types of issues:
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NW: 2,556
City-wide: 8,673
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NW: 761
City-wide: 3,266
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NW: 271
City-wide: 685
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NW: 733
City-wide: 2,546
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Bite/Criminal Investigation
Nuisance (1st Action Threshold: 2 hrs.)
JSO Assist* (1st Action Threshold: 1 hr.)
Cruelty (1st Action Threshold: 4 hrs.)
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