As many of you now we have a few abandoned home in the 2nd Ward as well as a few property owners who routinely disregard the need to maintain their lawns. The procedure to legal enforce this is tedious and cumbersome. Each time a property is in violation it is time consuming and takes many steps to get the job accomplished. Unfortunately this has to occur every time we need to get the owner to cut the grass. The town recently passed a new law that allows us to get the same results as soon as a property violates the ordinance and its good for 12 months. In addition, we are also able to enforce that the property owner secures and maintain abandoned properties and if not we can place the cost of such matters on the properties owners’ tax bill. Many thanks to our town attorney and his staff for their many hours of research on this issue.