Memorandum

City of Lawrence

Planning & Development Services

TO:	David L. Corliss, City Manager
FROM:	Brian Jimenez, Code Enforcement Manager
CC:	Scott McCullough, Director Planning & Development Services
Date:	November 10, 2010
RE:	214 N. 6^th St.– Abatement of exterior yard code violations update

On November 3, 2010, the Code Enforcement Division executed an administrative search warrant to enter the subject property to clean up the exterior yard code violations. Prior to this enforcement action, staff had worked several code cases over the last several years involving this property. The most recent case resulted in the City Commission adopting Resolution No. 6886, which authorized staff to abate the violations located on the property.

Staff contracted with the city’s mowing contractor to perform the abatement which began at 9:00 a.m. on November 3^rd. Four Code Enforcement staff participated in the clean up in order to reduce costs and to accelerate the time required to abate the nuisance conditions. Staff and the contractor concluded the abatement at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 4^th. Below is a summary of the tonnage removed, work hours completed and the costs associated with the abatement. Photos of the before and after conditions are attached.

This property had significant amounts of materials to abate. The property is 0.39 acres and the numbers below demonstrate the severity of the conditions on the property.

Summary of Abatement by the Numbers

A total of 21.54 tons (43,080 lbs.) of items were removed from the property which included:

Ø The filling of 6 large city roll off dumpsters that resulted in 16.54 tons being collected.

Ø The filling of 4 roll off dumpsters provided by Lonnie’s Recycling which resulted in 5 tons of scrap metal being recycled rather than being taken to the land fill.

Ø Staff received $449.10 dollars from Lonnie’s which will be subtracted from the total costs of the abatement.

Costs accrued for City roll off dumpsters are the following:

Ø 16.54 tons at $19.15 per ton = $316.74

Ø Total of 6 “pulls” on roll offs to land fill at $182.40 = $1094.40

Ø Total amount of service provided = $1,411.14

Total manpower hours required to perform the clean up = 99

Ø Of these hours, staff worked 46 hours which saved the City $1,840 dollars in labor costs.

Ø Labor costs accrued by contractor = $2,120.00 (53 hours)

Ø Total costs accrued by the City

= $1,411.14 + $2120.00 - $449.10 = $3082.04

v Staff will assess work hours performed by staff against the property owner as outlined in Section 9-613 of the Environmental Code in the manner provided in K.S.A. 12-16a17.