4b - Ordinance Enforcement Officer Report Costa Mesa Sanitary District
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Memorandum
To: Operations Committee
From: Isidro Gallardo, Ordinance Enforcement Officer
Date: December 3, 2013
Subject: Ordinance Enforcement Report – November 2013
This report summarizes major points for three ordinance enforcement topics covering
Scavenging, Graffiti, and Trash Container Enforcement.
Scavenging: In the month of November, there were no calls made to the District HQs to
report scavenging activity. Areas and times were scavenging was observed by the OEO:
DATE TIME ADDRESSES Citation
Issued
11/01/13
11/04/13
11/06/13
11/08/13
11/14/13
11/18/13
11/19/13
11/26/13
1145a
0230p
0710a 0835a
0930a
0635a
0810a 1145a 1215p
0115p
1030a
1050 Blk Mission Dr (alley)
2050 Blk Palace Ave
300 Blk Wake Forest Rd 2300 Blk Carlton Pl
3000 Blk Garfield Ave (alley)
3050 Blk College Ave
1200 Blk Baker St (alley) 850 Blk Center St (alley) 600 Blk Hamilton St (alley)
120 Blk E. 20th St
2100 Blk Eden Ave
no
no
no no
no
no
no no no
no
no
Graffiti: No update.
Trash Container Enforcement: In the month of November, there were 3 complaints that
came into the District HQs to report addresses that leave their trash bins (t/b) in public
sight (p/s). I made a visit to the following address:
3037 Babb St – Spoke directly to resident and agreed to place the t/b out of p/s.
157 B 22nd St - Spoke directly to resident and agreed to place the t/b out of p/s.
1833 Peninsula Pl – Found no t/b in p/s.
I will follow up on these addresses and previous complaints to ensure compliance.
A summary of the courtesy notice process for the District OEO is provided in the following
chart and demonstrates the effectiveness of a “1st Notice”:
November 1-30, 2013 1st
Notice
2nd
Notice
Courtesy
Letter
South of Wilson St. 4 0 0
Wilson St. to Adams Ave. 2 0 0
Adams Ave. to Sunflower Ave. 0 0 0
Other: In effort to assist the city of Costa Mesa, I continue to call in abandoned shopping carts to both retrieval companies that service the city; Hernandez & California Shopping
retrieval companies.