435 Hamilton Street
Allentown, Pa. 18101
Allentown
Minutes - Final
Public Safety Committee
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
5:30 PM
Council Chambers
Roll Call: Chair Hendricks, Affa, Zucal
Bill 2
Repealing and replacing Chapter 406, Administrative Code, Nuisance
Abatement with procedures drawn from the Third-Class City Code.
Administration
Sponsors:
Mr. Michael Hanlon stated that Bill 2 deals with the Nuisance Abatement.
Mr. Daryl Hendricks stated that Council will just be taking comments.
Council will not act on it tonight. They are still trying to clarify some of the
issues. They were on a conference call for almost an hour. He asked if
there were any comments from his colleagues.
Ms. Candida Affa stated that she believes that they spoke on the phone
about this. Her feelings are that she likes everything about it. She does not
think Council should be involved on any judgment. They should implement
the Nuisance Abatement Board again.
Mr. Daryl Hendricks asked if there were any other comments from
committee members or other Council members.
Attorney Matthew Kloiber responded on what Ms. Affa said. He stated that
the discussion they had with Ms. Affa and Mr. Hendricks. It was kind of
going through the provisions and how they operate and there were
concerns as Ms. Affa mentioned about the provision that is in here about
having the Nuisance Appeal Board consist of Council or the committee of
three members of Council and wanting to revise the language and
essentially using the Nuisance Abatement Board structure that they have an
place in there. In coming forward with this and they just went back to the
Third-Class City Code language to spark the discussion. The response
that they got from it was, they don't know if City Council wants to be
involved in that. They did not want to remove City Council from that