Anyone seen Pat Harrison lately?

Gee, where have I heard this one before?

(Hint: Right here ... for roughly the past three years).

JEFFERSONVILLE: Officials hear plan for rental properties, by David Mann (News and Tribune).

You know those movies with the intense action scenes at the very beginning, then all the boring stuff at the end.

“That’s what you’ve got to do with this program,” said Mel Plummer, chief inspector with the Los Angeles Housing Department.

Plummer was speaking to officials from Jeffersonville and other Indiana municipalities about how to package and present a program that his city uses to clean up blighted rental properties.

Lead with the fact that it can be beneficial to owners, tenants and the city, he said. Add in that it comes at no cost to taxpayers.

Under the program — which Jeffersonville officials got an overview of Thursday — a per-unit fee assessed to landlords would pay for code-enforcement officers. Those officers would, in turn, perform inspections on rental properties and making sure dwellings are kept up to code. The idea is merely being proposed now, but some city officials say it’s worth a look.