Members

The 13 members of the Task Force are as follows:

1. Jose Batista, Esq., Assistant City Solicitor, Chair
2. Jean Barros, Director of Code Enforcement, Vice-Chair
3. Matthew Jerzyk, Esq., City Solicitor
4. Col. Roberson, Chief of the Police Department, or his designee
5. Chief Scott Mello, of the Fire Department or his designee
6. Lisette Gomes, Esq., Assistant City Solicitor, Housing Prosecutor
7. Thom Deller, Director of Planning, or his designee
8. Dianny Pena, Pawtucket Central Falls Development Corporation
9. Hon. Glendaliz Colon, Central Falls City Council
10. Jahaira Rodriguez, City Clerk, or her designee
11. Steven G. Dambruch, Office of the Attorney General, or his designee
12. Viana DeCastro, Central Falls Housing Authority, or her designee

When a department or a citizen identifies a property as a nuisance property, a referral is made to the City Solicitor with all of the relevant information on the nuisance property. The City Solicitor will keep a master list of all pending nuisance properties and will distribute the list at every Task Force meeting.  Any department can add a property to the list and other departments will provide the Task Force with information necessary to develop an abatement strategy for the property. Each department ranks every property on the master list with a score ranging from 0-5.  A zero represents that a department has no interaction with a property and a 5 represents that the property is an immediate and crucial concern to that department and likely cannot be abated pursuant to standard procedures. These rankings will be used to determine which properties are brought to the attention of the Task Force.