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16-- p Regular Council Meeting August 13, 2012 Page 10 organization, but that had since changed with new leadership. Mayor Hashmi said the money should not be used toward administrative costs. A Motion to amend the existing Services Agreement was made by Council Member Frierson and seconded by Council Member Drake. Motion carried, 7 ayes — 0 nays. 19. Discuss and update on proposed sale of tax foreclosed lots in the City of Paris. Mayor Hashmi said when he first got on Council, there were about 99 properties that the City owned. He said all of the taxing authorities were in agreement to proceed with this sale. Mayor Hashmi said according to the rules, when property was sold at auction it had to go to the highest bidder. He said the auction would be advertised on the internet and in the newspaper for an auction date in December. Mayor Hashmi said when property was purchased at the auction, it would be free and clear of all liens from all of the taxing authorities. 21. Discuss and update on dilapidated structures. Code Enforcement Supervisor Robert Talley reported that Building and Standards had reviewed seventy properties this year, of those properties forty -five were ready for demolition, ten structures would be reviewed in August, ten structures had been demolished, fifteen structures had been given to the contractor and would be used on the landfill contract which the City would only pay tipping fees at the landfill. Mayor Hashmi said the report reflected some of the properties were turned over for demolition but that had not taken place. Mr. Talley said on May 21, 2012 ten work orders were given to Sanitation Solutions and they were completed last Friday. Mayor Hashmi asked if all of the orders for demolition had been completed and Mr. Talley said they had not. Mayor Hashmi also asked about the property on Fitzhugh, because an order had been issued but the property had not been demolished as of yesterday. Mr. Talley said the properties on Fitzhugh were ordered demolished, but the work crews had not been given those orders. Mayor Hashmi referred to an order of demolition for property on Fitzhugh, in which the order was given to the work crew and forty -five days had passed since the order was given. Mr. Talley said even though the time had passed that until they gave the work orders to the demolition contractor they were not going to be torn down. Mayor Hashmi asked if there was money budgeted for the properties to be demolished that were on the list. Mr. Talley said there was $110,000 budgeted and had approximately $4,800 left. Council Member Frierson said he understood that the building that fell on Bonham was about $50,000. Mr. Talley said it was difficult to budget, because you never knew how many you were going to get on a yearly basis. He also said normally when they had a large building to demolish it was budgeted by Council, such as One Oak. Council Member Frierson wanted to know if reserves could have been used for that fallen building. Mr. Anderson said if the Council authorized that action it could be done. Mayor Hashmi asked Don Wilson for his input. Mr. Wilson said they ran out of money at nine or ten houses and they had an emergency tear down that took $50,000 out of that budget. He said a tear down costs around an average of $4,000. He said it was frustrating. Mr. Wilson said a lot of the houses being torn down now had stickers on them to be torn down last year when pulled. He said they went back and re -did the entire list that were approved for last year. He said last year they had $48,000 left in the budget that went into reserves and he didn't see a