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Codes Enforcement Officer Criss Caywood is seen here answering questions during a special presentation for over 150 students at Mayfield Elementry School in Cleveland, TN December 10, 2007. All the students that attended the special event were given Codes Krew coloring books and badges. They students were also given a special tour of the Codes Krew website which teaches young children about the importance of the City codes and how to help protect our enviroment. Please contact us if you would like our Officers to come make a presentation in your school.
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The City of Cleveland Codes Enforcement department has launched
a new educational campaign targeted at our cities youth
The New Adventures of the CodesKrew. The
CodesKrew is based on three characters developed by City
of Cleveland, Codes Enforcement Officer Joel Prince: Officer
Regs, Codi and Zoey together form a team that finds code
violations in our neighborhoods and teaches our children
how to be a responsible neighbor and keep our environment
safe. Junior code enforcement officer certificates,
coloring books and stickers are all part of a new approach
for the codes department to get the word out about city
codes to our youth. 
“We have seen a tremendous
amount of community support for this program already, and
were excited to start using these new resources for the
kids at their schools and civic events,” stated Prince.
This program is unique nationwide and has received praise
and support from the Mayors office who proclaimed March
codes awareness month for the City of Cleveland.
“Our sincere desire with this program is to see our
children grow up and break the cycle of unawareness about
codes enforcement that is so prevalent today in our adults,”
Prince said. For more information about this program
please visit the link to www.CodesKrew.com
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 Cleveland Daily Banner
Sign of the Times
7/14/2008
Brett Dunn of Cleveland’s public works department removes signs on Georgetown and 20th Street Monday. The city announced last week that its code enforcement officers would begin removing unlawfully posted signs from area roadways. Signs taken down were trashed. Banner photo, DONNA KAYLOR
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Cleveland Daily Banner
City mows vacant lot, doesn't plan to make it routine
By David Davis
Managing Editor
6/18/2008
Carl Whaley looked across the street from the front porch of his home on Central Avenue and said, "I've never seen that view before." For the first time in his long life, the Word War II Navy veteran could see Gaut Street. The vacant lot was freshly mowed Thursday and Friday by the city of Cleveland. The weeds and grass were not manicured, but it was better than a Bush Hog.
"There has always been a house there," he said. And that was the case until 2007 when the city demolished the property as a health hazard. Since then, grass and weeds continued to grow to heights will above the legal height.
Whaley complained to the city in May about rodents and nocturnal animals hiding in the high weeds and grass. He said then the city had only replaced one problem with another.
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Cleveland Daily Banner
House Razed, Lot continues to be a Hazard
By David Davis
Managing Editor
5/30/2008
The city demolished a house in the fall saying it was a hazard to health and safety. Now the old home site is overgrown with weeds and is a health hazard. At one time, the old two-story house had a wide view of a bustling retail district from the head of Central Avenue where it intersected Gaut Street.
The house's structural integrity deteriorated to the point that the city's Codes Enforcement posted it for demolition in 2007.
"The city tore the house down because it was a health hazard, but they just created another one because the lot is overgrown with weeds, all kinds of critters live there," Carl Whaley said Thursday afternoon from his home across the street.
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Chattanooga Times Free Press
Coalition of helpers being organized to meet neighborhood needs
By Randall Higgins
Cleveland Bureau
4/9/2008
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — A group of local volunteers is forming a link between people who need help repairing their homes and organizations that can provide resources.
“We know there are a lot of needs out there,” said Joanne Maskew, director of Keep America Beautiful in Cleveland/Bradley County.
City and county building inspectors, codes enforcers and planners, along with representatives from Mt. Olive Church of God, Westwood Baptist Church and Lee University, attended the second organizational meeting Tuesday.
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Cleveland
Daily Banner
City to begin aggressive enforcement of sign code
By WILLIAM WRIGHT Banner Staff Writer
Published January 19, 2008 8:25 PM EDT
City code enforcement personnel will begin a period of aggressive enforcement on Jan. 22 to clean up the clutter of unlawful signs in Cleveland. These would include small yard signs and banners that are generally used as a low cost and temporary means of communication.
Greg Thomas, community development director of the city of Cleveland, said the city is launching a special public education and enforcement campaign whereby “signs may be removed from the public right-of-way by city personnel and destroyed without further notice.”
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Cleveland
Daily Banner
Sign ordinance: City hopes awareness will reduce clutter
By David Davis Managing Editor
Published October 25, 2007 12:45 Pm
City codes enforcement officers hope educating the public will help curb the proliferation of illegal signs along city streets before they begin enforcing the new sign ordinance passed by the City Council.
Greg Thomas, director of Community Development, said the two officers are responding to individual complaints but have not set a date to conduct a sweep of the city to collect signs. Read
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ClevelandNewsNow.net
A Day in the Life: Inside Codes Enforcement
Story and Photos by Ruth Gamble, Associate Editor
August 8, 2007
Editor's
Note: Over the past several months, numerous complaints
have come into City Council members with regard to codes
enforcement. Residents have addressed the council about
everything from junk cars to overflowing trash bins. At
a recent city council meeting, there was discussion as to
whether Codes Enforcement Officers should be armed.
Recently,
ClevelandNewsNow.net was granted unprecedented access to
Community Development. So, sit back, relax, and ride along
with our own Ruth Gamble as she spends a day in the life
of Codes Enforcement officers. Read
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Chattanooga
Times Free Press
Garbage
violations could bring sticker shock
Monday,
July 30, 2007
By Randall Higgins
Cleveland Bureau
CLEVELAND,
Tenn. -- Some wayward garbage bags may be sporting an additional
red sticker in a few days.The Cleveland City Council recently
approved "Notice of Correction" stickers, similar
to the ones left by Tennessee state troopers on vehicles
abandoned on the roadsides, for city codes enforcement officers
or public works employees to place when they spot garbage
can violations.
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Cleveland
Daily Banner
Cleveland Codes Enforcement has new Web site
By
William Wright Banner Staff Writer
Published
June 07, 2007 10:53 AM EDT
Reporting
code violations and following the results have never been
easier thanks to the new Cleveland Codes Enforcement Web
site. The user-friendly Web site not only answers common
questions related to city codes, but also is designed to
answer specific questions from local residents. “It’s
very informational,” said Joel Prince, city code enforcement
officer. “If they visit us to see why can’t
I put my car on blocks, when can I have my yard sale or
what’s the code on grass height, they can click on
and get the facts.”
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Cleveland
Daily Banner
Repeat offenders make cleaning up
garbage hard
By William Wright Banner Staff Writer
Published
June 06, 2007 10:52 AM EDT
The
stench of open garbage causing rat infestation, health hazards
to playing children outside, decreasing property value and
causing an eye sore to the community was a concern at the
last City Council meeting. Cleveland resident Judy Watts
addressed the Cleveland City Council regarding repeat offenders
who clean up their littered garbage when cited only to violate
the law again within days.
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ClevelandNewsNow.net
Lucky Kids
Get Good News and So Does
The City of Cleveland
by
Ruth Gamble, City Editor Two
lucky youngsters received brand new bicycles courtesy of
K-Mart on Friday morning. K-Mart Manager, Tim Reneau, said
he was "glad to participate" in the event which
celebrated the kickoff of the new Codes Krew website. The
website, www.codeskrew.com (See related story.) was created
to educate first through fifth graders on the importance
of keeping their community clean and safe from hazards such
as abandoned vehicles. According to Codes Enforcement Officer,
Joel Prince, it is hoped that by educating the kids they
will carry what they learn on into adulthood and use it
when they become home owners..
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ClevelandNewsNow.net
Meet The Codes Krew!
Story
and Photo by Ruth Gamble, City Editor
CNNnet
is proud to give our readers a sneak peek at a new and exciting
program! According to City of Cleveland Codes Enforcement
Officer Joel Prince, the program may be the first of its
kind in the nation and as it turns out, there's even a connection
to CNNnet. According to Prince, many adults don't know what
Code Enforcement is all about even though everyone is affected
by it. Code Enforcement Officers, if you didn't know, are
responsible for enforcing city codes designed to "preserve
the environment and beauty" of your neighborhood..
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Cleveland
Daily Banner
Codes Krew Helps Decode Regulations For Ordinary Citizens
By David Davis Managing Editor
Published March 02, 2007 10:52 AM EDT
Officer Regs is neither a super hero nor
a caped crusader but he and his two sidekicks, Codi and
Zoey, are in the forefront in the effort to help clean up
the town. The fictitious city codes awareness team is the
brainchild of a real city codes enforcement officer, Joel
Prince. Curtis Tucker of Shaggy Duck Studios in Enid, Okla.,
developed Officer Regs, Codi and Zoey into visual characters.
“They were line drawings just like you see in the
coloring book and I colored them,” Prince said.
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Bradley
News
On A "Krew"sade
To Save The Environment
by B. Jay Johnson/Bradley News
You might say the city of Cleveland is on
a "krew"sade to save the environment. The city
recently launched a new project called The Codes Krew. It's
made up of two code enforcement officers whose job it is
to make our city the cleanest and safest place possible.
Joel Prince and Criss Caywood monitor our neighborhoods
to make sure everyone is complying with the law in regards
to building codes for both homes and businesses. They are
also trying to make sure everyone is disposing of garbage
appropriately.
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Cleveland
Daily Banner
Three
derelict houses are demolished
By David
Davis Managing Editor
Published May 08, 2007 10:20 AM EDT
The city demolished three derelict houses
in East Cleveland in the month of April. The last house
to come down overlooked Central Avenue from 330 Gaut St.
The other two structures were at 675 First St. N.E. and
312 Meadowbrook Drive. A fourth house at 360 Short St. N.
E. is in the appeals process. Codes Enforcement Officer
Joel Prince said the four houses were in the Community Development
Block Grant area in East Cleveland. The mission of the CDBG
is to improve the living conditions in neighborhoods through
infrastructure construction projects. Improving conditions
includes demolishing old derelict structures through codes
enforcement.Read
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Daily Banner
Derelict
house demolished
By David
Davis Managing Editor
Published April 04, 2007 10:35 AM EDT
Demolition
of a house on the corner of First and Gaut streets has been
a two-year process for the Cleveland City Codes Enforcement
Office. It has been a seven-year wait for the people in
the neighborhood. Rebecca Woods, 47, said Tuesday she is
the third generation of her family to occupy two houses
across from the house at 675 First St. N.E. She used to
play tag, hop-scotch and other kid games with the five Bryant
children. “They were some of my best friends,”
she said. “We all played out in the street. The people
who lived there after that were pretty nice people.”
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Bradley News
Enforcing Codes, Building Relationships
By Ruth Gamble
April 26, 2006
Joel
Prince wasn't sure what Code Enforcement even was when he
spotted the ad seven months ago. A phone call to good friend,
Lt. Steve Tyson of the Cleveland Police Department, got
him the answer he was looking for. The Code Enforcement
Department of the City of Cleveland is responsible for enforcing
municipal code, both residential and commercial. That means
they make sure that property owners in Cleveland maintain
their property properly whether it is a private residence
or a business. It can not be an eye sore or a safety or
health hazard.
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If you are interested in having Cleveland Codes Enforcement at your school, please contact us.
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