ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
MEETING DATE: February 12, 2025 AGENDA CATEGORY: CONSENT CALENDAR - Resolutions TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Phillip Burns, Development Services Director
DATE: January 30, 2025
SUBJECT: Property Abatement Resolution for January 2025.
Resolution confirming approval by the City Manager designee of the Code Enforcement Manager’s report regarding assessments of certain properties in the City for which structures have been secured against entry or for the abatement of certain weeds, debris and waste matter and the demolishment of dangerous buildings and authorizing collection of the assessments by the Kern County Tax Collector.
Wards
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of resolution.
BACKGROUND:
Assessment hearing was held on January 13, 2025, by the City Manager designee and all proposed charges were confirmed. The subject properties listed in Exhibit A an d Exhibit B (attached) were in violation of Chapter 8.27 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code which prohibits maintaining open and abandoned dilapidated structures which constitute public nuisances and prohibits maintaining hazardous weeds, debris, and waste matter and/or were determined to be in violation of Chapter 15.24 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code which prohibits maintaining dangerous buildings. The property owners were notified and failed to comply with the notices to abate such public nuisance. Afte r a hearing duly noticed and held before the Building Director, the Director issued orders requiring the property owner to abate the public nuisance. The subject properties are listed in Exhibit A and Exhibit B.
The owners of the listed properties failed to commence the required work as ordered by the Building Director to abate a public nuisance. As permitted under Chapter 8.80 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code, the public nuisances listed in Exhibit A and Exhibit B were abated under the direction of the C ode Enforcement Manager. The costs incurred by the City can be assessed against the property as provided for in Chapter 8.80 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code. Property owners had been given notice of their right to appear at the hearing on this matter bef ore the City Manager designee and to object to the correctness of the costs incurred by the City to remove the public nuisance. The City Manager designee has approved the assessments associated with the properties.
The Council will need to confirm the app roval of the City Manager designee of the costs incurred by the City for work performed to remove the public nuisance and order that such costs be made a lien against the property. This will be done by adoption of the attached resolution.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Results of this action places expenditures for abatements and staff cost recovery on the tax role for each Code case on an individual property where the cost has not been paid. Revenue from this action is received in the future from the County of Kern Tax Collector and placed into the general fund.
COUNCIL GOAL:
Community Character & Quality of Life
Innovative and Efficient City Government
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Resolution
2. Exhibit A
3. Exhibit B
4. Declaration