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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 11, 2017 Page 13 Councilmember Laliberte advised that she had received correspondence from more than one neighbor in this area, and asked for clarification from staff as to whether the owner of record had been given a date for compliance or if it would come back to the City Council to address. However, since it didn't appear that a deadline had been given to the homeowner, Councilmember Laliberte referenced the threshold met with the issue originally on the June 19, 2017 City Council agenda and even with more time allotted for resolution, nothing had yet been done. Councilmember Laliberte questioned how the violations were apparently deemed worthy of being on that agenda then but not now. While recognizing that the violations were minor in nature, Councilmember Laliberte noted that the neighborhood had been dealing with the violations for the last three years, causing them to become impatient when they saw no action. Councilmember Laliberte asked that the City Attorney look into who had recently paid the property taxes and consider them the responsible party to resolve these outstanding code viola- tions. Mayor Roe asked staff to provide background information on the process that got this on the June 19, 2017 agenda in the first place and whether staff was recom- mending no abatement at that point as well or if it was a result of neighborhood feedback. Mr. Englund clarified that the rationale in putting the item on the June agenda was that staff had received no contact or correspondence with the property owner of record at that point, other than the unproven or undocumented statement from Jef- frey Nelson advising that the property had been turned over to HUD. Once a property is posted, Mr. Englund noted that it tended to prompt people to contact him to remedy the situation, and since Mr. Nelson contacted staff on the June 19, 2017, he had removed the item since he didn't think it was worthy of seeking City Council direction at that point since he had just met with Mr. Nelson that very day. Mayor Roe again clarified, with confirmation by Mr. Englund, that staff remained consistent at the June meeting and at this time, to recommend no City Council ac- tion to abate the violations. City Attorney Gaughan clarified that specific to the actual ownership of a proper- ty, the city was under obligation to perform due diligence to determine the proper- ty owner, which staff had done. Mr. Gaughan noted that, no matter the property owner, no matter the owner. As detailed in the staff report, Mr. Gaughan noted that the George Nelson Estate was the property owner of record, with Mr. Jeffrey Nelson the Administrator of that estate; and clarified that any abatement costs cer- tified to the property would remain attached to the property.