Issue acknowledged.
property owner notified

This was cleaned up.

This issue is closed.

Property owner notified? Why not property owner fined? Our CE staff are working on a holiday, and often post on off hours, which means the trash pile of repeat offending property is costing staff time as well as offending the neighbors by trashing our city. I never see "property owner FINED." Why?

Thanks for fixing this issue!

Good Point Lea, we should not only get the word that a fine was given, but the amount of the fine, and maybe others would start to hear and see what happens when they leave trash like this pile up.

Thanks for noticing Crusader 99.

Lea, I saw your comments and wanted to clear the record.
We did not fine this property owner because he did not create this issue. Tenants (and even full time residents) moving in or out of can create more trash and recycling during that event. We notified the property owner to see that they respond appropriately. If they do not, we would issue a ticket and a fine.

We do not post on SeeClickFix every ticket issued or every conversation we have with property owners or tenants. We try to post only the basic facts and get the issue resolved.

If you are interested in the ticket process, there are two tickets scheduled for a trial on September 15th. The tickets were issued for properties on S. Union Street and S. Willard Street this year and the property owner contested the tickets, was found guilty in municipal court and has appealed to have a jury trial. They were the second tickets issued for both properties and as a result had a $200 fine each as a second tier offense in a 12-month period. The court calendar can be found here if you are interested in attending to learn every detail. We simply cannot put every detail into every SCF posting. Here is the link:

http://www.state.vt.us/courts/court_cal/cnd_cal.htm

Regarding your “off hours” comment it seems you may misunderstand the posts by “code enforcement” on SCF during off hours, a weekend or on a holiday. Those specific posts are not “staff”. That is the director and I can log in with the same generic “code enforcement” tag on my phone app while keeping my desktop version open with my personal account. We all have access to a generic Code Enforcement login. My evening, weekend and holiday posts do not earn me extra pay, so my work during those times is not costing you extra money as you suggested.

I was acknowledging, and appreciating, the time given to the job. I know the difference between hourly wage and salary, and was not inferring extra cost to city,. To the contrary I was appreciative of the time you give, and not only the director
posts after hours.

As for your ticket rant, keep it simple. Code violations on the property are the responsibility of the property owner, period. If ordinances need to be written more clearly, there's a standing ordinance committee of council and your key councilors are learning what's needed.

Thanks for the update Bill, there are a lot of things that we are all learning as the days turns into weeks, months, and perhaps years . Again, we all appreciate all the fine work that you and the staff does,,, I would have been under the impression that this was costing extra funds. This is good to know. . I think the main issue here is to stop this abusive dumping of trash whether be it the landlord, or the renters moving in and out. I am sure there would be a list by the landlord of the tennants who moved out and he/she could deduct from the security deposits (perhaps) and there are so many good renters out there that only a few makes them all look bad. as well as so many good landlords that only a few bad ones makes them all get a bad name . Thanks again for everything. (Next Subject)