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Regular Council Meeting September 23, 2013 Page 7 A Motion to approve this item was made by Council Member Drake and seconded by Council Member Grossnickle. Motion carried, 7 ayes — 0 nays. 22. Receive update from PEDC Board Member Bruce Carr on PEDC policies, procedures, expenses and accounting, at the request of Mayor Hashmi. PEDC Board Member Bruce Carr told the Council that Chair Rebecca Clifford had tasked him and Vicki Ballard with developing policies and procedures and that those recommendations would be submitted to the PEDC Board on October 1St. Mr. Carr said once approved by the Board, the policies and procedures would be brought to the City Council. He said the biggest challenge had been the balance of flexibility and control of expenditures. 24. Receive presentation and report from Robert Talley on progress of demolition of substandard structures and update on tax foreclosed properties. Robert Talley reported that between June 2012 and the current date, that the City had demolished a total of 124 structures. He also said 29 remaining work orders had been sent to contractor and 21 were awaiting service removals. He depicted a chart reflecting the only city that had taken down more dilapidated structures than the City of Paris was the City of Dallas. Mayor Hashmi said when you drive around the City there were still houses that appeared might need to be demolished and inquired about the total number of properties that might need to be demolished. Mr. Talley said he could not give him an exact number, because some of the structures were inhabited. Mr. Talley said he and the fire marshal were currently working on a process to try to vacate those structures, because some were are dangerous. Mayor Hashmi said he was not referring to houses where people were living, but was referring to the houses where no one lived. He asked if staff was driving down the streets to review properties and making a list of those properties. Mayor Hashmi asked for a detailed report. Mr. Talley said code enforcement and the fire marshal do drive around the City making notes. Mr. Talley said some of the properties were in the process of being repaired by owners. Mayor Hashmi wanted to know if he had a list of every City property that was dilapidated and Mr. Talley said he did, but that list changed every month. Mayor Hashmi suggested to Council Members they also make a list of dilapidated structures when driving around the City and give the list to Mr. Talley. Mr. Talley said each structure cost about $2,900 to demolish and $298,012 was remaining for demolition of structures. Mr. Talley said currently there were 34 properties in Trustee status, that there were 600 properties targeted for foreclosure and 32 properties targeted for the next sale. He also reported that they were in the process of trying to use a tax warrant instead of a tax suit to foreclose on property. He said this process should reduce the time involved with foreclosure from 14 -16 month to 3 -5 months. Mr. Talley reported it was possible they would be able to conduct an auction of previously foreclosed properties in December 2013, and a subsequent tax sale date for February or March on new tax foreclosed properties. 25. Discuss and provide direction to city staff on an application for disannexation filed by Clint Spencer.