1. FY 08-09 Second Quarter Report
Code Compliance Department
FY Second Quarter Report
(January 1 through March 31, 2009)
Brandon S. Bennett
Code Compliance Director
April 14, 2009

2. Illegal Dumping Investigation Highlight
1400 East Arlington.
Suspects captured on covert surveillance cameras.
Two suspects throwing 4,120 pounds of debris from a trailer to the right-of-way.
Environmental Management, Police and Code Compliance worked together to apprehend suspects.
Case is with the Police Department waiting to be filed with the District Attorney’s Office.
Our partners in this illegal dumping arrest were:
Environmental Management’s Paul Bell
Steve Jordan
Willie Josey
Benny Simmons
Police Officers Officer J. Salzman
Officer M. T. Hiebert
Code Staff Stan Bastek
Phillip Vanhorn
Gary Tennison
Richard Hinninger
Bill Martinez

3. Second Quarter Highlights.
Vacant and Abandoned Building Ordinance Revisions – Second round of public meetings are scheduled for May 21st and May 28th.
Thank You! door hanger program.
Homeless Court to begin assigning community service.
Large Animal legal-nonconforming survey near completion.
Thank You door hanger with hand-out.

4. Second Quarter Highlights
Clean-up conducted along Old Decatur Road and Loving Avenue. Over one ton of debris and litter was removed.
Several sweeps have been conducted focusing on bandit signs, front yard parking and solid waste carts.
Building Standards Commission Pre-Hearings started.
CDBG Funding for demolitions on track for May 2009.
Motel/Hotel Detail – Resulted in multiple room closures and 33 citations issued for various health, safety and building violations.
Clean up conducted by Officer John-Michael Mosqueda of the Decatur District (NCD North 1,3,9)

5. Second Quarter Highlights
Four evening Mobile Food Vendor sweeps.
Stock Show & Rodeo – 160 food inspections were conducted. 926,200 attended with no food borne illness complaints reported.
Splash Pad Ordinance - Partner with PACS and Law Departments on development and completion of splash pad ordinance.
Omni Hotel – Training of approximately 100 food service workers completed.

6. New North District and New Growth.
Less Priority One Violations
Neighborhood Sweeps

7. Departmental Inspection Trends
Departmentally, Code experienced a 1.4% increase in the number of inspections performed over last year. 249,869 inspections were performed in FY 07/08. This data includes Health, Animal Care and Control and Code Enforcement.

8. Departmental Inspections Per Officer
Due to the complexity of inspections, building standards and health inspections take longer to conduct and therefore the numbers are lower in these two categories when compared to code officer general field operations inspections.
Animal Care and Control Officers average 12 calls per day; Consumer Health inspectors average 3-4 inspections per day.

9. Departmental Citations
On the Code Compliance side, general citations were up 5% in FY 07/08 and parking citations were up 29% in FY 07/08 as compared to FY 06/07.
Animal Care and Control citations went up 30%.

10. Code Compliance Violation Trends
Recovery from weed season is improving. 10

11. Solid Waste Violation Trends11

12. Demolition and Repairs of Substandard Structures
Substandard Structure Divisions combined creating a more global statistical picture. 12

13. Animal Care and Control Activity Trends
Service requests continue to trend upward
The number of calls ACC is able to respond to within a 24 hour period has maintained reasonably consistent but when factored into the increase in overall service requests ACC is able to respond to fewer calls the same day they are received. 
The number of animals impounded has remained between 22,000 and 25,000 for the past three years
As noted earlier, citations are trending upward

14. Questions and Discussion14