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Property Maintenance
Task Force
Mission Statement
What is a Property
Maintenance Task Force and why have one in your community?
A ground-breaking article
published in 1982 by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling entitled "Broken
Windows" in which the
authors posited that to deal successfully with quality of life problems, those
problems should be addressed when they are small:
If a window in a building is broken and is left
unrepaired; all the rest of the windows will soon be
broken. This is as true in
nice neighborhoods as in run-down ones. Window-breaking does not
necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are
inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken
window is a signal that no one cares, and so
breaking more windows costs nothing.
The Property Maintenance Task Force was created in
April 2008. The Task Force works with the Mayor and Common Council to identify
problem properties and works on implementing corrective measures to eliminate
them. The committee members are appointed by the Mayor.
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The Property
Maintenance Task Force meets on the third Wednesday of the month at
6PM in the Council Chambers. |
Landlord Education Seminar
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