Linda Mitchell
33:22 - 34:22
"part of the delay and inefficient process with that is we have to have a police officer enters that citation and then have to serve it in person, which is very challenging. So to be more effective in our code enforcement, we're seeking civil administrative code enforcement. And so that as staff, we have the ability to issue fines and accumulate it and maybe see faster results than we're seeing, because typically things drag out for almost a year and longer depending on certain ones, particularly the ones that require abatement of property, like the one we remember off Arlington It was a building that's been vacated. It was boarded up for a while, and it finally sold after 2 years with code enforcement, and it took a lot of work even on staff's end to work with their realtor and their representative just to get that property on the market and sold to someone."
“part of the delay and inefficient process with that is we have to have a police officer enters that citation and then have to serve it in person, which is very challenging. So to be more effective in our code enforcement, we're seeking civil administrative code enforcement. And so that as staff, we have the ability to issue fines and accumulate it and maybe see faster results than we're seeing, because typically things drag out for almost a year and longer depending on certain ones, particularly the ones that require abatement of property, like the one we remember off Arlington It was a building that's been vacated. It was boarded up for a while, and it finally sold after 2 years with code enforcement, and it took a lot of work even on staff's end to work with their realtor and their representative just to get that property on the market and sold to someone.”
- Speaker
- Linda Mitchell
- Timestamp
- 33:22 – 34:22
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Soldotna
- Captured at
- September 2, 2026
From the transcript
But part of the delay and inefficient process with that is we have to have a police officer enters that citation and then have to serve it in person, which is very challenging. So to be more effective in our code enforcement, we're seeking civil administrative code enforcement. And so that as staff, we have the ability to issue fines and accumulate it and maybe see faster results than we're seeing, because typically things drag out for almost a year and longer depending on certain ones, particularly the ones that require abatement of property, like the one we remember off Arlington It was a building that's been vacated. It was boarded up for a while, and it finally sold after 2 years with code enforcement, and it took a lot of work even on staff's end to work with their realtor and their representative just to get that property on the market and sold to someone. So that will be coming down the pipeline.
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