Mendocino County Grand Jury • 2010-2011 • Agency Response

Response Form Re: Report Titled: ARE WE Talking Yet?*

Published: February 08, 2011 4 pages
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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F14, F15, F16, F21, F22, F23, F24

Findings and Recommendations 6 findings

F13
The Mendocino County Chief Executive Officer has no specific information regarding these findings and therefore incorporates by reference herein, the response prepared by the Assessor and the Sheriff. Findings #14, 15: The Mendocino County Chief Executive Officer has no specific information regarding this finding and therefore incorporates by reference herein, the response prepared by the Assessor and County Counsel.
No recommendations for this finding
F17
As presented, this finding seems to imply that Planning and Building Services currently reviews the tax rolls on a regular basis to identify unpermitted structures. For reasons outlined in the response of Planning and Building Services, this review does not currently occur.
No recommendations for this finding
F18
The Mendocino County Chief Executive Officer incorporates by reference herein, the response prepared by the Department of Planning and Building Services.
No recommendations for this finding
F19
The Mendocino County Chief Executive Officer has no specific information regarding this finding and therefore incorporates by reference herein, the response to this finding prepared by the Assessor and the Sheriff.
No recommendations for this finding
F20
The Mendocino County Chief Executive Officer has no specific information regarding this finding and therefore incorporates by reference herein, the response prepared by the Sheriff.
No recommendations for this finding
F25
While it is certainly possible that fees generated through increased code enforcement could allow the creation of an enterprise fund division, the Mendocino County Chief Executive Officer feels a comprehensive review of the code enforcement process would be necessary to reach any defensible conclusions. It should be recognized that any increased code enforcement activity could dramatically impact the workload and staff in County Counsel's office. A final note is that the primary purpose of code enforcement is not to impose and collect fees, but to achieve compliance. Many cases are resolved without imposing fees because of voluntary compliance, much of which results from education of codes and regulations of the violator by code enforcement division personnel.
No recommendations for this finding

* 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.