Okay, the demolition is begun, but it wasn't the big productive day I thought it would be. So, I'll just leave the doors open for our citizens to go ahead, as Sunday and Monday tend to be my busy days.
Basic rules: Be sure that the person who owns/owned the house hasn't re-signed. If the person in question is inactive, let there be nothing left of their buildings. The citizens can choose to keep everything except rare items like mossy cobble, pumpkins, gold, diamonds, brick, lazuli, and I'd appreciate smooth slabs and redstone. Please drop off these items in the chest in the middle of the town storage area, or keep it safe for when I'm on. This IS a town function, after all, not just looting.
Remove everything else you find in chests, keep what you want and put the rest in the Giving Tree. If there are protected chests keep them easy to get to, and please remove stairs as you fill in basements. That is all.