Mendocino County Grand Jury
• 2015-2016
• Agency Response
Response Form Grand Jury Report Title: City of Point Arena Code Enforcement?*
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Findings and Recommendations 3 findings
F1
- I disagree wholly or partially with the Findings numbered below, and have attached, as required, a statement specifying any portion of the Finding that are disputed with an explanation of the reasons: Code Enforcement for construction and Health & Safety Code violations are handled the same as the County of Mendocino. When a building or planning code violation complaint is received or the City staff becomes aware of an issue, a contact with the owner is made by the City staff or a communciation is made to the approriate County office such as the County building inspector (under contract with the City) Environmental Health. When the City receives a communication from one of thoise agencies it cooperates fully.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
- The following Recommendation(s) have not yet been implemented, but will be implemented in the future, City Staff has meet with the County's coastal building inspectors as well as the Director of Planning and Building to establish a stronger line of communciation in regard building and planning code eforcement. The County currently has a case backlog of its own as it works towards soultions will cooperate with Point Arena in working to solve both agency's code enforecment issues.
F2
- I disagree wholly or partially with the Findings numbered below, and have attached, as required, a statement specifying any portion of the Finding that are disputed with an explanation of the reasons: The County of Mendocino may or may not be able to provide effective code enforcement for the City of Point Arena. Some discussions have occurred with the Planning Department of the County. Currently the Code Enforcement Department has a sizable backlog of cases that they are working to clear. At the point they get caught up and or put a revised process in place they may be able to serve Point Arena for Code Enforcement.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
- The recommendation will not be implemented because it is not warranted or is not reasonable, Can not be implmented because it isn't happening.
F3
- I disagree wholly or partially with the Findings numbered below, and have attached, as required, a statement specifying any portion of the Finding that are disputed with an explanation of the reasons: Certain City Councilmembers ae not currently in direct violation of the City Muni code as suggested in the Grand Jury Report. I have served as City Manager since October 1, 2016. During that time I have never experienced any sort of "protocol violations" in regard to any Councilmembers providing direction to City staff. I certainly have not felt pressured to do anything preferential or illegal. Responses to Recommendations
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
- The recommendation will not be implemented because it is not warranted or is not reasonable, Will not be implemented due to no current councilmembers violating City Code.
* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.