The vast majority of these vacants, as the chief said, do not belong to the city. So we have to find the owner, go after the owner. And When we're boarding up vacant houses that don't belong to the city, we're doing this at the owner's expense. We're going to, we send them a bill to do that. One thing we did add in this year's budget is we added a lieutenant, we, we added a lieutenant in the fire department that will also help us to address these vacants. (20:37–20:42)
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Asserts that the city charges owners for boarding up their vacant houses.
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