Columbus Matters

Sometimes what is not listed is more important. What towns are missing from the NIBRS crime reporting listing (Hint: not Caledonia, Starkville, or West Point)?

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The City pays for at least two software systems to streamline communications and promote transparency, costing over $8,000 a month. At the last work session they discussed getting another one to help with "dilapidated properties and blight."

”The perception that there is a long waiting list of doomed houses the city cannot tear down isn’t quite true," the Code Enforcement Director said in Dispatch interview in March 2022. The oldest order for a demolition was about seven months... part of the delay is following proper protocols."

In the same article it was reported that the house at 215 11th St. N is one of 15 houses awaiting demolition and that the City would be caught up in a few weeks (April 2022). But it still sits today unsecured and rotting. The report left out is that City officials were notified in June 2020. There are many other properties waiting to be demolished. Whose checking up on the demo work that was completed in "two weeks?" (which is now over two years ago. )

Simple Solution. Use only one software system (SeeClickFix) since City Employees have already been trained (the city has had it since 2019) and the money is already invested. Eliminate the "User.gov" Software and others. Do not invest in yet another software system that accomplishes the same goal as SeeClickFix.