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AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET SUBJECT: Approval of an Ordinance, Interlocal Agreement and draft resolutions implementing certain clean-up initiatives, including programs to provide lots foreclosed for tax delinquency for use in constructing new single family homes. BACKGROUND: The City of Paris has since its inception been an active participant and strong supporter of the Keep Paris Beautiful Program. Indeed, former Mayor Charles Neeley was one of the co-founders of this effort. Besides providing financial support, and active participation by City staff members, the City has adopted several ordinances as part of a comprehensive program of addressing various clutter, litter, and substandard structural problems throughout the City. By way of review, the City has progressively adopted the following ordinances: 1.Ordinance No. 2000-020, adopted April 10, 2000, which implemented a comprehensive new program to control weeds, junk and litter throughout the City; 2.Ordinance No. 2000-058, adopted November 13, 2000, which implemented new ordinance provisions regulating and controlling junk vehicles; 3.Ordinance No. 2000-067, adopted December 11, 2000, which established a new program for regulating commercial and industrial solid waste collection and collectors, including provisions to control waste on the streets of the City; 4.Ordinance No. 2002-027, adopted May 13, 2002, which implemented a new program authorizing issuance of administrative search warrants in support of the City's various litter control programs; 5.Ordinance No. 2002-032, adopted June 10, 2002, which adopted a new comprehensive program for regulation of substandard and dangerous buildings and structures; 6.Ordinance No. 2002-033, adopted June 17, 2002, which adopted a new program of historic preservation; and, 7.Ordinance No. 2003-019, adopted May 8, 2003, which amended the City's Zoning Ordinance to implement the requirements of the new Historic Preservation Ordinance. In addition, the City has adopted numerous amendments to these ordinances to clarify and improve their implementation. One of the problems identified through the process of considering ordinance initiatives was the fact the City under its prior programs was mowing and cleaning up numerous lots throughout the City, but was doing so at a cost which actually made the City competitively superior to property owners doing the mowing themselves. Because this kind of mowing and cleanup activity is really not a core City activity, the new weed, junk, and litter ordinance changed the situation by making the City, through the implementation of a $220 plus administrative fee in addition to the actual cost of