Alba City Council scheduled a pair of workshops to address personnel, budget and permitting matters.

The workshop to review proposed changes to the city personnel policy will be held Monday, July 8 at 5:30.

The policy revisions were spurred by suggested changes in the way vacation/time off is calculated.

The budget workshop will be held Monday, July 22 and could include at least two matters discussed at length at Monday’s council meeting – how to afford more street improvements and how to enforce building and health and safety codes.

The discussion that kicked off the building code matters concerned a new manufactured home that has been moved onto a property that already has a permanent residence.

Although the move is apparently in violation of the zoning ordinance, city staff acknowledged it does not have any enforcement powers without the services of a code enforcement officer or building inspector.

The workshop will consider the cost of hiring such an official on a part-time or contract basis and devising a set of permit fees, something else the city does not have.

The city planning and zoning map has no area designated for manufactured housing, so locating one anywhere in the city would require council approval on a case-by-case basis.

The council heard a report from attorney Richard Brand with law firm Linebarger, Goggan, Blair and Sampson about the collection efforts on the city’s delinquent property taxes.

Brand is also working with the city to identify properties deemed “unsightly” to see which ones might be remedied through tax warrants for unpaid taxes and for “attractive nuisances” which violate health and safety codes.