Round Rock City Council voted Sept. 8 to create a new city department: Community and Neighborhood Services.

Headed by Joe Brehm, formerly the city's director of community development, Community and Neighborhood Services will house code enforcement, neighborhood services, the city's Community Development Block Grant program and other relevant special programs as they become necessary.

Brehm, as department head, "will promulgate policies, procedures, rules, directives and orders for the administration of the department, including but not limited to discipline within the department," according to city documents

Following approval from council, the department's status will become official Oct. 1, City Manager Laurie Hadley said.