MOULTRIE — A Moultrie developer came before the Moultrie City Council this week seeking answers about renovations in northwest Moultrie.

Troy O’Hearn asked the council Tuesday why the city has not been doing some of the demolition work it had said it would do. O’Hearn said he had been working on northwest and southwest Moultrie doing renovations since October.

The city had just quit its renovation work since January, according to O’Hearn, and he would like to know why it stopped. He said he has tried to contact the city about it, but he had not been given any reasons.

“I just want some answers,” O’Hearn told the council. “Those people deserve better living than what they’re living in.”

Moultrie Mayor William McIntosh told O’Hearn the city will get to the root of the problem and will do everything to keep him going. O’Hearn then provided the council with a list of areas and houses that were of concern to him, and city personnel spent Wednesday looking into those areas.

City Manager Mike Scoot said the nuisance abatement team has worked to get the houses demolished, repaired or secured since January. Of the list given to the city, most of the lots have been demolished, cleaned or secured. The city has one court case scheduled for June 5 on one house and has been working with the owners of eight houses to get them renovated or demolished.

In addition to those eight houses, Scott said the city has demolished 25 houses and 13 more have been repaired or secured. There are 10 properties with upcoming court cases with the owners, and two properties are awaiting bids for demolition. The city also is working on 70 open cases related to the property, he said.

Other issues brought before the council included:

• McIntosh read a proclamation declaring May 2008 as Historic Preservation Month.

• Paul Forgey and Steve O’Neal from the Southwest Georgia Regional Development Center presented a summary of its subdivisions regulations. The city’s regulations have been in place since the 1970’s.

• Held a third and final reading and rezoned 17.975 acres on Old Doerun Highway from an M-1 Light Service and Industrial District to an R-1C Single Family Residential District. The request was from the Joint Development Authority of Colquitt, Thomas, Grady and Mitchell Counties to create 65 housing units on the land.

• Approved a letter of support for the 65-unit affordable housing rental development on Old Doerun Highway.

• Held a third and final reading and rezoned 4.88 acres on Doc Darbyshire Road from and Agricultural District to a C-3 Commercial District. The request was from Lynn Lasseter.

• Approved a third and final reading to amend the hours of city parks and recreational area from sunrise to sunset for public use.

• Allowed the James L. Kirk family to place coping around the family’s 20-grave burial plots.

• Approved $1,992 and labor to install eight inches of concrete as part of the curb and sidewalk Improvements.

• Awarded bids for the PR2008 Street Resurfacing Project, the SR2008 Street Repair Project and for the No. 2 Switching Station 2008 modifications.

• Appointed Councilman George Walker as voting delegate to officially represent the city during the 2008 Georgia Municipal Association annual conference, and

• Accepted a sale of 4.45 acres at Spence Field from Moultrie Manufacturing Co.