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

November 27, 2007 Meeting

Discussion of the city’s role in property safety & compliance, litter & animal care &

control in Jacksonville neighborhoods

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


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

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.

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


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


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


FY 06-07 Statistics: Total board-ups: 147


70.07% of board-ups occurred in Urban Core & Northwest CPAC zones


FY 06-07 Statistics: Total abandoned/junk vehicles towed: 607


35.59% of abandoned/junk vehicles towed occurred in Urban Core & Northwest CPAC zones.


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


Statistics Cases adjudicated by Municipal Code

Enforcement Special Magistrate/Code Board Process

FY 03-04: approximately 140 FY 06-07: approximately 4,000


FY 06-07 Statistics: Inspection staff participated in a total of

137 Drug Abatement Response Team (D.A.R.T.) inspections

Solid Waste Division

Jurisdiction city-wide under ordinance code: Chapter 380.210 (Jax Litter Law) Chapter 741 (Zero Tolerance on Litter)


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


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


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


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

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

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

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

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

Animal Care & Control Division CARE issue response in FY 06-07:

NW: 7,376 City-wide: 30,133

Types of issues: At-large (1st Action Threshold: 2 hrs.)

NW: 2,556 City-wide: 8,673

Nuisance (1st Action Threshold: 2 hrs.) NW: 761 City-wide: 3,266

JSO Assist* (1st Action Threshold: 1 hr.) NW: 271 City-wide: 685

Cruelty (1st Action Threshold: 4 hrs.) NW: 733 City-wide: 2,546

* Bite/Criminal Investigation

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

Documents

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