Meet the Staff

Acting Neighborhood Services Director
Jennifer Carlson
Jennifer Carlson is the Acting Neighborhood Services Director for the City of Champaign. As the Acting Neighborhood Services Director, she manages and coordinates all activities and staff of the Neighborhood Services Department, including a variety of community development and housing programs, property maintenance and fire prevention code enforcement, and neighborhood organizing and citizen outreach activities.
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Jennifer Carlson is the Acting Neighborhood Services Director for the City of Champaign. As the Acting Neighborhood Services Director, she manages and coordinates all activities and staff of the Neighborhood Services Department, including a variety of community development and housing programs, property maintenance and fire prevention code enforcement, and neighborhood organizing and citizen outreach activities.

Code Compliance Manager
Tim Spear
Tim Spear’s main area of focus is managing all the activities of the Neighborhood Code Compliance Division. Neighborhood Code Compliance is responsible for property maintenance activities including systematic multifamily common area inspections, University of Illinois Private Certified Housing inspections, tenant inspection requests for rental property, exterior housing property maintenance, vacant
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Tim Spear’s main area of focus is managing all the activities of the Neighborhood Code Compliance Division. Neighborhood Code Compliance is responsible for property maintenance activities including systematic multifamily common area inspections, University of Illinois Private Certified Housing inspections, tenant inspection requests for rental property, exterior housing property maintenance, vacant nuisance residential buildings enforcement, nuisance inspections and abatement activities.

Neighborhood Relations Manager
John Ruffin
John Ruffin’s main areas of focus include: resident education and outreach, coordination of interdepartmental efforts to solve neighborhood problems, organizing neighborhoods, and promoting neighborhood self-help programs to address community priorities.
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John Ruffin’s main areas of focus include: resident education and outreach, coordination of interdepartmental efforts to solve neighborhood problems, organizing neighborhoods, and promoting neighborhood self-help programs to address community priorities.