1. November 27, 2007 Meeting Discussion of the city’s role in property safety & compliance, litter & animal care & control in Jacksonville neighborhoods

2. 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

3. 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, board- up or demolition

4. Municipal Code Compliance Division  Special Projects: 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Solid Waste Division  Jurisdiction city-wide under ordinance code: Chapter 380.210 (Jax Litter Law) Chapter 741 (Zero Tolerance on Litter)

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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 mini- taskforce (six officers) on overtime Adds to backlog of open/active issues Animals remaining at-large may go thru garbage, spread litter, harass/attack & breed

22. Animal Care & Control Division  CARE issue response in FY 06-07: NW: 7,376 City-wide: 30,133  Types of issues: At-large (1 st Action Threshold: 2 hrs.)  NW: 2,556  City-wide: 8,673 Nuisance (1 st Action Threshold: 2 hrs.)  NW: 761  City-wide: 3,266 JSO Assist* (1 st Action Threshold: 1 hr.)  NW: 271  City-wide: 685 Cruelty (1 st Action Threshold: 4 hrs.)  NW: 733  City-wide: 2,546 * Bite/Criminal Investigation

23. 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