Butler City Council is expected to vote on a revised Rental Ordinance and Program within the city later this month.
Councilman Don Shearer informed the rest of council about updated language in the newest version of the ordinance.
The proposal includes some minor changes dealing with what happens if a tenant deliberately causes damage or denies a landlord access to a property. If the tenant fails to acknowledge a property checklist with no issues completed by the landlord that would count as agreement.
Shearer thanked a group of local landlords for working with him through this process.
“This literally was a two-way street. The landlords came forward and this plan changed drastically from what was originally presented. And we reached something we all thought was equitable,” Shearer said. “We can start implementation questions like how does this work and what does this look like.”
If Council does vote to approve a first reading of the ordinance at their meeting later this month, they would then vote again for final approval in April. They would then spend several months creating implementation language to focus on fire code violations in the first year before the ordinance would go into effect January 1, 2025.
