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October 14, 2002 <br />Page 18 of 35 <br />than the owner, the owner's lessee, or other invitee's of the owner or lessee to leave <br />or quit." This ordinance is not intended to be applied to inhabited or buildings in <br />which there is a resident. These are for vacant structures only. That is the purpose <br />of this ordinance. Vacant structures only. <br />Now, where that comes in to play is occasionally we will have a vacant structure that <br />will have someone who is not associated with the property, either a tenant or a lawful <br />tenant or the owner in there. This will not preclude, that status will not preclude us <br />from taking enforcement action on that building. When a building with a tenant that <br />is owned by an owner is not covered by this ordinance. This ordinance is primarily <br />intended to address vacant, falling down, dilapidated buildings and structures. <br />The next page, page 5, section 7-49, implements some of the things we talked about <br />and have done. It provides for your membership on the commission. I could not <br />recall whether we designated terms when we established this. If we did not at a <br />subsequent meeting you will need to call, to draw as to whether you have one or two <br />year terms, but I think when we made the designated the appointees we designated <br />one or two year terms. The purpose being that in the initial instance to set up a <br />staggered, what is called a staggered, because these are two year terms and you want <br />continuity on every board so that every year you only lose three or four members <br />depending on how they were appointed. <br />Mr. Malone: We did establish the terms. <br />Mr. Schenk: If you don't know already, we will tell you today whether we have you hooked for <br />one year or for two years. That establishes the stagger. It also stipulates that before <br />any decision can be made you will have to conduct a public hearing. It provides for <br />alternates and their disposition. <br />Under subparagraph (c), begin to look at your proceedings for the commission on <br />due notice you must conduct public hearing on the matters brought before you. You <br />must by subparagraph (c) (2), under 7-49, provides that by majority approval of the <br />entire commission, that language is important because that includes the alternates. <br />The alternates can participate in that process so this is a 7-4 commission, so you will <br />need to have at least six members in attendance to do this function which is to adopt <br />the rules and procedures and then that must be the majority approval of the entire <br />commission so that may not be enough unless you have unanimity. So it is very <br />important for the meeting in which you adopt the rules and establish procedures on <br />the Buildings and Standards Commission that as many people as possible be in <br />attendance for that meeting. These are important, these rules and we will try to <br />provide you some examples if we can locate those, but these are matters of rules of <br />decorum, for conducting your meetings. You all and the other commission may <br />want to listen because I will probably just gloss over some of these things because <br />there are similar provisions in your other ordinance but you will have to have, you <br />