ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
MEETING DATE: August 27, 2025 AGENDA CATEGORY: Consent - Resolutions TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Phil Burns, Development Services Director
DATE: August 15, 2025
SUBJECT: Property Abatement Resolution for August 2025 and May 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.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of resolution.
BACKGROUND:
Assessment hearing was held on August 11, 2025, and on May 12, 2025, by the City Manager designee and all proposed charges were confirmed. The subject properties listed in Exhibit A on August 11, 2025, and Exhibit B on May 12, 2025 (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 c omply with the notices to abate such public nuisance. After 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 for the month of August 11, 2025, and listed in Exhibit B for the month of May 12, 2025.
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 8.8 0 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code, the public nuisances listed in Exhibit A for August 11, 2025, and Exhibit B for May 12, 2025, were abated under the direction of the Code 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 before 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 approval 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 onto the general fund.
COUNCIL GOAL:
Community Character & Quality of Life
Neighborhood Vitality
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Resolution
2. Exhibit A
3. Exhibit B
4. Declaration