Sidewalk Scofflaws

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City Council belatedly cracked down on the scofflaws in July, voting to spend up to $350,000 to contract out repairs. But that's just a start: field operations supervisor Kirk Pennington estimates it's only enough to correct the violations outstanding from the 2006 inspections and maybe some from 2007. Ultimately those funds can be reclaimed from the property owners and recycled to pay for additional work, but that may take awhile: another council vote would be required to attach any unpaid bills to the owners' property taxes.   

[Originally published in September, 2010.]