HRE condemn property no trespassing signs
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Mar 9, 2021
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Me? All right. Okay. Um I've got a long list here. Um first, uh just a comment about the HRE. I know um Um I think this board is uh and I'm not sure if you know what that is, but that's the um It's kind of a team that we have that combines the County Attorney's Office and the um Development Services Office together, building department to go after Um high returns on um Um buildings and residences that
need to be um uh knockdown that are are unsightly, dangerous, become havens for criminal activity. And it's been working really, really well. I just recently um was given a sheet of uh a lot of the statistics of what they've accomplished and I'm hoping we keep that good program going and it doesn't get dismantled or changed. But I do have one suggestion for the HRE team. And for us. And and uh this came up uh when we knocked down the hell
old Helen Ellis walk-in building on US 19. Um it took us five years to get the owner of the building who was a doctor in Texas to Um To uh sign on on or to take it down because he took it down, the county did not. But um What happened after that was a couple months ago or a month ago It turned into a homeless camp right on nineteen. Not in the woods, not hidden from view.
But right next to a bunch of existing buildings, right there in plain view of the whole world. It turned into a homeless camp. It was um freaking all the businesses out around it. Um, we were concerned it was gonna take a long time to get that doctor to respond again. But um fortunately actually the Sheriff's Office was able to contact him quickly and They were able to um Make everyone leave. I have not gone back yet to see if we've cleaned up all the trash that piled up
on that lot. But But something that came out of this whole episode is that whenever I think whenever we condemn and um take down a property Part of that process also needs to be a note press trespassing sign. or signs and a registration with the Sheriff's Office, so We don't have to make it a two step Process. It's all done at the same time. Um because that could have been a disaster for us if we had to