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REQUEST FOR HRA ACTION Date: 4/19/2011 Item No: 9.a. Staff Approval: Agenda Section: PT Discussion Item Item Description: 2011 Neighborhood Enhancement Program update Background Since 2008, the Roseville HRA has provided funding for proactive nuisance code enforcement. This program, the Neighborhood Enhancement Program (NEP) has proven to be successful and has just completed its three year cycle for reviewing all of the single-family properties for code compliance. As part of the program, City staff contacts property owners two weeks ahead of the visit to educate the property owners of the community’s nuisance ordinance as well to allow correction of any violations prior to staff’s visit. When originally started, it was anticipated that it would take four years to visit all of the properties. As mentioned previously, staff was able to condense the program into a three year cycle. For the upcoming cycle, staff believes that it can conduct the complete review of properties in two years. This is mainly due to efficiencies in the process and the talents of the staff working on the NEP. In addition, with each year of the NEP, staff is finding fewer violations on an annual basis. Public nuisance violation rates have steadily gone down in each of the three years of the first cycle (2008-7.6%, 2009-6.2%, 2010-3.7%). Staff feels that education efforts initiated (mainly the informational brochure- See Attachment A), and the cooperation and support of residents have combined to result in fewer public nuisances and improved neighborhood visuals. Regular land use program public nuisance cases in 2010 (614) dropped 16% compared to 2008 (736) and 2009 (730). This could be attributed to the success of the NEP program (time will tell). Below are details of the 2011 Neighborhood Enhancement Program: This year the program will be revisiting properties first viewed in 2008. We will now be able to compare violation rates from 2008 with 2011 to see if the program is having the desired long term effect of reducing public nuisances in neighborhoods (with Brian C. back again the rate comparison should be fairly accurate). Staff will be visiting 4,400 properties divided into 8 neighborhood inspection areas. (See Attachment B). Each neighborhood area contains between 520-590 properties. Selected neighborhoods comprised of areas visited in 2008 and 2009. Neighborhoods will be visited in three week intervals beginning May 2, 1011. The May City newsletter will have an article announcing the beginning of the program, and the July City newsletter will run an article about the program's progress. 2011 Neighborhood Enhancement Program Budget Request and Update (04-19-11) - Page 1 of 2