General Committee - Regular Meeting
The General Committee discussed and recommended two measures: an article strengthening the city's ability to address neglected properties by allowing repairs and liens, and a pilot program offering incentives for blight removal, including using demolished buildings for fire and police training.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- General Committee
- Meeting Type
- General Committee
- Location
- Hendersonville, TN
- Meeting Date
- September 8, 2026
Transcript
38 sections
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Always. Okay. Good evening to everyone. I am General. The committee is on September 8th. It is 6 o'clock. We are going to start. Thank you. So I would like us to call an order first.
Or first give your introduction. I always get involved in this.
I would like to call the general committee to the order. And now we will introduce ourselves to everyone present in the room.
Territatus Tatum Nagrik Don Ward Ward 2, Alderman.
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Article 2026.14 is an article which is approved by the Harswile Municipal Court, Article 3, Section 3, Section 302, and Article 13, Section 1, so that the city can be licensed by the Tenancy Code and Article 16, Section 18, Section 3, to acquire established assets and establish administrative services. So, I have mentioned a lot of numbers here. So, for me, it is up to you to give us some clarification. I will give it, but I am going to give it to Lance and Greg in a few moments. A year ago, we had to do this, but the state changed the law. So now we have to do this. So maybe it will be better if Greg is on it. So the purpose of this is that the municipality or the city should have property. If the rules are applied, there will be no financial loss. At the same time, they will also be allowed to collect taxes from those who violate them. A municipality can be accused of defrauding the owner of a property. And the owner fails to fix it within 30 days. So the court can order the municipality to fix the problem. However, the municipality can only do this if it is within its authority. If not, then the municipality can adopt a legal way against the owner to file a lawsuit. then we can start a lien claim on the property under the current system. This will determine a time limit of 30 days for the government. So I don't think we had a fixed date to start a lien with us before. So I see it as a way to increase it in one way or another. This is your department, right? Yes, ma'am. So, my question is, how big is this problem? Anyway, most of the time, the police department is the one that looks at the case of property fraud. So, this is a very big problem. People are being charged every Tuesday for fraud. I don't have the exact number yet, but I can give you information. I just want to take an estimate of it. So that's why the judge was here to talk about this topic. It seems that he is not back to complete this conversation. If you can do it, then they have one more thing to do. But look, maybe they haven't reached there yet.
Overall, this is a very strict behaviour. So, this will improve the situation for the neighbours who live with those who have disabilities. And it also includes business.
This covers everything.
But my experience has been mainly related to deaf issues.
This strengthens our current system. This is not limited to just putting a lien. We can also adopt other ways of payment, about which you want to talk to me. He was talking normally. Chair Elderman Eddie Robertson has joined us this evening. Thank you very much. And our City Judge Russ has also joined us. So, for the discussion, the address on which you wanted to talk in the hallway, although you want to talk about the crime, Yes, 200 and 500. I don't remember the number. So wait, that's about the number of crimes. What we are talking about here is the number of days in which we can take action. Oh, so I like both of them. I can talk about two things at once, but I didn't know about this. And the question of the president was how many times do you have people who violate the code? Every week, the court and the property court are not presented in the court. There are a lot of apartment complexes in this and other businesses. They are not presented in the court. And so, even if something comes, like if the grass is very long or there is dirt in their garden, I give them a chance to clean it. I don't know what this is. What kind of? Usually it is 30 days, unless there is a critical situation, like sometimes people come and they can't get any help.
This will give you the right for court order or whatever. And then we can do the repair work instead of staying on the property.
And this is a new thing from Raj's side. Did I say it wrong? So I thought you said it completely wrong.
I heard about it, I didn't know that it was for tonight, but yes, the city should fill it up. And I am on his side because as I was saying, there are some people who don't get help to clean their courtyard or kitchen. I went to a person, he thought it was bad because I asked him which church he goes to and he felt bad about it. I said, well, I was just seeing if you have anyone to help. And this person has no one. We contacted Beautiful Henderson Villa and they helped. So yes, there are circumstances here. I know this property.
And the police department was very hardworking. But the city had to cut the grass of this property many times. Because we didn't know who owned this property. But now it has passed through a process. I think the bank took it in their possession and sold it at auction. But you know, the city had to go through a lot of process to bring this property in the right condition. So it seems that this action, this administration will give us more support so that we can act quickly on that property, which may also be dangerous.
I like to remove the gray color. Any other questions or comments?
Oh, I have a proposal for a positive recommendation. I understand that.
Those who are on the other side, they say yes. This was passed and will go to the BMA. You will give a lot. If you need it, Rajas, if you need finance.
Yes, they are talking.
Okay.
I will also talk to you.
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Okay. This is the reason why we have targeted two to three. We don't have any specific target that we are following. We imagine the priority with the West Main in the West Lake project. is not taken as a priority. As we are in Hastak Shri Anudhan, then at the end of the year, if the money is available, then we can go out until Bulma does not want to keep it limited only to West Main. The number of stations, all the stations are open for discussion. And West Main is one of the old industrial areas of the city, so that's fine. I believe that despite the new water lines, there is still a problem for many of these industries. West Main par vartamaan mein chaar emaarte khaali hain. Mujhe nahi lagta Kiwet. Aur unki teen emaartein chaalis saal se adhik purani hain. Aur main kalpana nahi kar sakta ki koi indar aakar unmaisi kisi ek ko firse banana chaayega. Ve unne giraakar nahi maala banana pasand karenge.
To ye bhi sahe. In my eyes, there are some sound assets that I want you to talk about. And we can talk about those specialties later. But I want to make sure that I actually understand it. How much is its cost? To build a 2,000-foot house. I'm thinking, what? Is it very less or is it important?
It can be an important part. It depends on where they have to go, you know, which dump they are accepting. It can be an important substance. It can be anything. It depends on what's inside. If it's the job of removing asbestos, then it may be very less.
Okay, so this is $10,000. And if they allow us to use it for training, then it's $3,000. And the third reduction is to forgive. The beginning of the city. How much is the beginning of the city? It's the beginning of the city.
It's the beginning of the city. It's the beginning of the city. But right now we don't have the facilities to do so. We don't have a procession package. So we are sitting there for 40 years. This is not right. And then? Excuse me. Go ahead. Only when there is no other violation that violates the existing building code, where the owners of the property will be required to be included. If we are thinking that what code is violated, then what are we?
and then we can start with them. This is a very long process. This is what we did just now.
This is a protest. As a sign, you know that we wanted to give a protest before adopting the way of the stick, which our zoning code is now slowly adopting. In fact, I think you guys are worried about this. So, yes, this view cone was a little soft so that it could be seen whether there is any interest in doing it properly. Okay. And I think the next step that I remember is that we are looking for those intellectual entrepreneurs who are worthy.
I think we talked a little bit about this in the plan to see who can be part of it.
But again, we didn't want to go too far ahead. I have a proposal for you.
Thank you very much. You're welcome.
Those who are on my side, please say yes. Thank you. You're welcome. We are on the other side of the work list, where there is no one. And I don't see anyone in other tasks.
I have a proposal for you.
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