City Manager Jon Jennings with Julie Sullivan.  She Ran the Task Force That Recommended a Home Safety Office at City Hall Following the Noyes Street Fire on November 1, 2014, Over Halloween Weekend.

Whether or not to fine landlords for failure to register their apartment units with city hall is an issue that has existed from the very inception of the Housing Safety Office in 2015 – an office that was created by the city council in June of that year.