Memorandum
Date: February 6, 2024
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Mireya G. Turner, Community Development Director
Shannon Walker-Smith, Deputy Community Development Administrator
Subject: (a) Adopt Resolution Approving an Application for Funding and the Execution of a Grant Agreement and any Amendments thereto from the 2023-2024 funding year of the State CDBG Mitigation (CB+DBG-MIT) Resilient Planning and Public Services (MIT-PPS) Program; and (b) Authorize Community Development Department (CDD) Director to submit the grant application
Executive Summary: The Community Development Department intends to apply for $1,000,000 to HCD's CDBG MIT - Planning and Public Services Grant to support a Code Enforcement Mitigation Team.
The Code Enforcement Division proposes to use grant funds to create a Two Officer Mitigation Team - who will focus on hazardous vegetation and sub-standard housing mitigation, directly related to fire prevention and housing loss due to fire, flood, and earthquake events. This grant would fund the positions for three years.
The Code Enforcement Division currently employs four Code Officers, two assigned to traditional cases (i.e. illegal dumping, nuisance abatement through our Road Map Task Force program), two assigned to illegal cannabis cases (grant-funded) and a Code Enforcement Program Supervisor who handles abandoned vehicles and hazardous vegetation (in Riviera communities only). The division also employees a Code Enforcement Manager who supervises the officers and works the most complex, high-profiles cases and handles litigation. By recruiting, hiring and training two officers dedicated to mitigation effort, Code Enforcement will be able to make an impact on fire prevention and disaster recovery.
The Code Enforcement Mitigation team will assess the community and develop cases from community complaints, focusing their case management on hazardous vegetation education, noticing and abatement; as we...
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