Update on "Reporting Code Violation Poll" and a campaign message

The poll numbers have been running neck and neck for weeks. The results of the “unscientific” poll show that citizens want code violations reported either by the CEO or by ordinary citizens just as long as an avenue for reporting is available to them.

Let me do a little campaigning here: If I’m elected Town Supervisor I would seek approval from the Town Board and the CEO to divide Lindley into four-quadrants to better manage “junk violations” and to insure the process was fair to all Lindley citizens.

After the town was divided into “four sections”, I would send a letter to everyone living in “Section One” listing the criteria of what constitutes a “junk law violation” according to Town Law. The letter would also inform each citizen in the Section that if they are in violation of the Law they have a “set amount of time” to clean up their properties. The letter would also inform them that after the “set amount of time had past”, the CEO would be around and check the properties and issue tickets if necessary. The CEO would “work one section at a time” through the course of the year.

This policy gives the citizens in each Section a “heads up” about the impending visit from the CEO and the personal letter defines exactly what a junk property is according to Town Law, their responsibility to clean it up and accountability through the legal process if they don’t clean it up in a timely manner. It would also make the CEO’s job more manageable and effective.

This is the “gist” of my policy. One important note: Before I implemented this policy I would create a “committee” to define what a Junk Property is in the Town of Lindley, taking into consideration many of the comments made on this blog and following the guidelines of the Junk Law.

I’d like to hear from the readers the pros and cons of this policy.