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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />May 15, 2006 3 <br /> <br />Chief Financial Officer Siddiqui said that the first year of the proposed change will be <br />challenging for the City Council and City staff. <br /> <br />Councilmember Holden asked how City staff would monitor utility costs. <br /> <br />Mr. Siddiqui said that the City could continue to monitor expenses by using the activity codes <br />and the specific fund it is being charged to, Charges are broken down into three funds, i,e. water, <br />sewer, and surface water. <br /> <br />Mr. Siddiqui is also researching the possibility of combining different departments into one <br />account fund. For example, police and fire could possibly be combined to create a public safety <br />fund, <br /> <br />Councilmember Grant agreed with the proposed changes. He requested that important financial <br />detail will get lost in this change. <br /> <br />Couneilmember Pellegrin asked why City staff brought this information forward to thc City <br />Council. In his opinion, this type of item should be handled by City staff and monitored by the <br />City Administrator. <br /> <br />City Administrator Wolfe stated that this information is for members of the City Council to gain <br />a greater understanding of the proposed changes and not to surprise members ofthe Cily Council <br />when City staff begins to prepare the budget for next year, <br /> <br />Members of the City Council were agreeable to the proposed accounting code changes and <br />recommended that these changes be brought forth to the City Council in the proposed 2007 <br />budget. <br /> <br />Code Enforcement Issues <br />Community Development Director Karen Barton provided the City Council with an overview of <br />the City's Clment codc enforcement policies and philosophy. At this time, the City's code <br />enforcement program is complaint driven, The primary complaints staff rcsponds to are junk <br />vehicles, outdoor storage, junk, debris, weeds, tall grass, snow removal, and barking dogs. <br /> <br />Typically the process for code enforcement issues involves receiving a complaint, investigating <br />the complaint, writing a compliance order, and continuing to follow-up until the issue is <br />resolved. Typically this process can take from two weeks to several months to complete. <br /> <br />There are a number of ways in which a code enforcement program can be operated, The <br />following are a fcw options for the City Council to consider: <br />. Complaint Based; <br />. Proactive Program; <br />. Hybrid of the Complaint Based and Proactive Programs, <br />