I expect the usual, thorough minutes from Zoe Anne, so I will just report my own impressions. I told Purnell that Squalor is not the right tool for 1603, Lukanuski is moving on the civil side, and Purnell please should focus his energy on Chamberlayne. The problem there is the persistent drug market at 3916. In the past, Squalor has not been aggressive. They set no deadlines on settlement negotiations, which thus tended to go on forever.
Hicks now promises to get aggressive.
The major impression I brought home is that the pusillanimity of the code enforcement people is a general phenomenon. I heard story after story of zoning, code, and environmental cases that had been ignored, handed off, dropped. Health refuses cooperate, period. The trouble with more aggressive Squalor activity is that it will validate the bureaucrats' inclination to hand off their tough problems to Squalor, whether or not Squalor is the right tool for the problem. Squalor alone often will not be the right tool.