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October 14, 2002 Page 5 of 35 Mr. Brown: Anybody else? Show of hands. Brad Archer is chosen unanimously. Mr. Malone: Mr. Chairman the next item on the agenda that relates to the Building and Standards Commission would be discussion, consideration of and action on establishing regular meeting dates for the Building and Standards Commission. I believe that this Commission is designed to meet at least monthly. Is that correct? Mr. Haynes: Right. Mr. Malone: Meets monthly. We will be talking a little more about the ordinances that established this commission and the types of things this commission will be doing. One of the things that will be coming before the commission would be Code Inspectors will be presenting you information about dilapidated buildings that we wish to remove. And we are not budgeting overtime so we would suggest that hopefully, this is going to be quite a legal type of experience. When we take action against property like that it is a very serious matter. And so we will be bringing photographs and other information. We will be sending out notices and having public hearings and things of that nature. So our suggestion would be to have the meeting sometime in the afternoon if at all possible. Now that is not to say that we can't have meetings at night, but it is going to cause the City some problem with our overtime to do that because we have not budgeted any additional money for overtime or for mailings or any of that type of thing. We have a very tight budget this year. But we recognize that all of you are serving voluntarily and that it is certainly a monthly meeting or from time to time additional meetings would be an additional imposition on you and it might be due to your jobs and careers that it might be appropriate to meet in the evenings. Chad Brown: How much time do you anticipate for a meeting to take? Mr. Malone: I guess that would depend on how much information is on the agenda. How many houses that we would be dealing with or other matters and of course having public heaxings. As Chairman you would conduct the meeting and put the limitations on the folks as far as how long they can speak. I would anticipate that the information that the staff presents would be in the form of pictures and narratives and they would be there to answer questions. You would have that ahead of time and you would be able to go and look at properties ahead of time. So I think the important thing when you have hearings have some public input but that can be anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes or whatever you think is appropriate in a particular instance depending on the scope of the property. Mr. Schenk: I say that you had better plan on two hours per meeting, at least. Chad Brown: Okay.