Morano asks about strengthening enforcement infrastructure
Morano questions whether the underlying problem is weak enforcement and asks what will prevent needing another amnesty in five years. Lee describes exploring policy changes including checking for ECB judgments when entities apply for permits and requiring cures before permit issuance.
There was something in your testimony that really caught my attention.
You say these programs are particularly useful where the city doesn't have a strong mechanism for enforcement.
Isn't that really the underlying problem here?
Don't we need to look at a stronger enforcement infrastructure?
That is one of the things that we are exploring, ways that we can introduce legislation that might give us better tools in enforcement.
And we're working with several of our sister agencies in order to identify ways that we could better enforce ECB violations through legislation.
If you had a recommendation, obviously you're not necessarily a policymaker, but if you had a recommendation, what are we going to do differently after this program so we're not back here in five years passing another amnesty for exactly the same reasons?
So we are exploring a couple of different policy changes.
I'll give you one for example.
We're
looking at convergences between those entities that are, let's say, going in for permits for one reason or another, and looking to see if they have an ECB judgment in existence.
And so we're working on a policy with several agencies to say if there is an ECB violation in place, then we should...
We should have those entities cure those before issuing a permit.
So we are looking at different ways that we can creatively enforce on the existing population.
Thanks very much.
Councilmember Wong, followed by Brooks Powers.