North Battleford city council was back to lowering the boom on two rundown properties at their council meeting on Monday night.
Council voted to proceed to demolish a house located at 1241-115th Street in North Battleford and also at 931-107th Street. Both houses are separately owned.
The 115th Street property was placarded under the Public Health Act on Sept. 15, 2010 as unsanitary and unfit for human occupation, and the tenant was ordered to vacate the premises. A demolition order was issued June 1, and on Monday night council accepted the recommendation of city building inspector Jerry Wintonyk that the house and garage be demolished and yard cleaned up, with the cost to be added to property taxes.
The other property on 107th Street was placarded by Public Health on April 4, with a letter outlining the deficiencies sent to the owner. Public Health received no response and a demolition order was issued May 13. Council once again voted unanimously to accept Wintonyk's recommendation to proceed with demolition as well and to add the cost to property taxes.
While council lowered the boom on those two properties, they are giving another chance to a third house located at 1321-107th Street that was also placarded by public health.
The city had put that house up for sale under the condition that the property be brought up to an acceptable standard. Six bids for the house were received ranging from $5,000 to $21,000.
Council accepted the bid from Karen Holliday and Ken Chmelnyk at a bid price of $21,000. In his comments on that sale, coun. Trent Houk said he had been impressed with the work they had done in rehabilitating another property on his own block.
