ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager, Community Development Director, and Public Works Director with a Recommendation to Approve a CONTRACT with WINEINGER AND SONS, in the Amount of $31,200.00, and METEC (Mt. Zion's Effort to Equip the Community) and PEORIA OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION (POF), in the Amount of $28,800.00, for the 2014 MOWING OF VACANT LOTS Held by the PEORIA COUNTY TRUSTEE.
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BACKGROUND:
The Peoria County Trustee acquires properties through the tax deed process. The Trustee holds these properties on behalf of all taxing bodies until they are sold at auction. If the properties are not sold at the auction, they remain in the possession of the Peoria County Trustee indefinitely.
However, the Trustee does not maintain the properties. As such, the responsibility to maintain properties within the corporate limits of Peoria falls to the City. Traditionally this maintenance has been administered through the work order process that is used for privately held vacant properties. A complaint or on-site case would be opened; a Code Enforcement Inspector would visit the site to verify that the violation existed and would then issue a work order for a private contractor to abate the violation.
This reactive process is necessary for privately held properties because there is no method to determine whether a violation will occur on a property until it actually occurs. However, we know that properties held by the Trustee will need to be maintained during the warmer months.
The Community Development and Public Works Departments have worked together over the past few months to move the Trustee held lots from a reactive process to a proactive process, similar to the process used for City owned properties.
To that end, the RFP for 2014 lot maintenance services included Trustee held properties and City held properties. The initial thought was that the contract for the maintenance of City held properties would be ma...
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