When residents cannot remain compliant with city codes and are provided ample opportunity to rectify nuisance complaints due to excessive trash and debris, the city cleans up the property and assesses the cost to homeowner’s property tax.

At Monday morning’s Common Council meeting at City Hall, an interlocal agreement was approved with the Shelby County Recycling District to provide a trash dumpster at a designated nuisance property so the homeowner can clean up within a specified time frame without city resources being utilized.

The city would pay the Recycling District, the compliance board for Shelby County, and then assess the expense to the homeowner’s property tax, thereby saving city manpower.

City of Shelbyville street commissioner Doug Hunt was asked how many times the city has cleaned up a Sunset Drive repeat offender. He stated it has been at least four times in recent years.