REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
October 13, 2022
FROM: RINA GONZALES, Interim City Attorney
City Attorney's Office
BY: ERICA CAMARENA, Chief Assistant City Attorney
City Attorney's Office, Code Enforcement
SUBJECT
Title
Progress of Code Enforcement, including ASET Quarterly report.
Body
RECOMMENDATION
Per Council Resolution, the City Attorney's Office is to provide an ASET quarterly report, which includes a Code Enforcement update.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Code Enforcement includes five divisions: Rental Housing, Community Compliance, Special Teams, Administrative Support, and Legal. Rental Housing includes the Anti-Slum Enforcement Team (ASET), Reactive Rental Housing, the Rental Housing Improvement Act (RHIA) Inspection Unit, Motel Inspections, and the Mobilehome Parks Team. Community Compliance teams are dedicated to each Council District. Special Teams oversees the School Area Team (SAT), and other teams dedicated to abatements, illegal dumping citations, tires, demolitions, and vacant lots. The Administrative Support Team includes the public facing counter, FresGO, Public Records Act (PRA) response, and accounting. Code Enforcement partners with the Legal Team on compliance agreements, inspection warrants, and court actions, such as petitions for receivership and injunctions. The Legal Team includes investigators who perform a variety of legal and personnel investigations, and who also conduct inspections of businesses issued an Alcohol Beverage Conditional Use Permit (ABCUP).
BACKGROUND
Rental Housing
ASET/Reactive
ASET's goal is to increase the stock of affordable and habitable rental housing by pursuing and improving slum properties with substantial health and safety violations through enforcement, education, fines, receiverships, and compliance agreements.
ASET currently has twelve open cases with properties containing 137 rental units. The attached ASET Weekly Status Report is updated and posted on the City's website every Friday...
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