Nov 06, 2019 Special Magistrate Hearing

[1. CALL TO ORDER]

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COME TO ORDER NOVEMBER 6, WILL COME TO ORDER NOVEMBER 6, 2019. MY NAME IS CLAUDE IT PELLETIER ON THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE. IF WE COULD STAND FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, PLEASE.

>>> I PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

>>> WE HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: WE WILL

[A. ADMINISTRATION OF OATH TO DEPARTMENTAL WITNESSES]

SWEARING THE DEPARTMENTAL WITNESSES AT THIS TIME. >>> PLEASE RAISE RIGHT-HANDED STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. KENNY NELSON, RICARDO PALLOTTA, JOHN, PAULINA VOLUNTEER

(INDISCERNIBLE). >>> MARGUERITE, CODE ENFORCEMENT.

>>> DO SWEAR AND AFFIRM THE TESTIMONY GIVE A BE THE TRUTH THANK YOU.

[A. 19-2009 PK 211 Orange Avenue Fernandez, Bernanrd S John Futch]

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. OUR FIRST CASES 19- 2009, ONE -- 211 ORANGE AVENUE,

FERNANDEZ. >>> SPECIAL MAGISTRATE, MAY I INQUIRE OF THE WITNESS? GOOD MORNING, SIR. I KNOW YOU BEEN SWORN IN BY CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE

RECORD. >>> JOHN FUTCH. >>> GORDY WORK.

>>> CODE ENFORCEMENT FORT PIERCE. >>> DID YOU WRITE THE CITATION

IN RELATION TO CASE NO.: 19-2009? >>> YES, I DID.

>>> WE DID YOU WRITE THAT CITATION. >>> JULY 29.

>>> DID YOU WRITE IT WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF FORT PIERCE SPEECH YOU I DID IT WAS A TWO HOUR PARKING VIOLATION DID YOU OBSERVE THE VEHICLE PARKED IN THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN MOVED

CORRECT. >>> ARE THERE TIMESTAMPS ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS.

>>> THERE ARE. >>> OF THE ACCURATE. >>> YES.

>>> DO THEY DEPICT WHAT SHE SAW THE DAY SPEECH TO PARDON? >>> DO THEY DEPICT WHAT YOU SAW

THAT DAY? >>> YES ALL HE. >>> WE WOULD MOVE TO ENTER IT AS COMPOSITE ONE WITH EXHIBITS CONTAINED THEREIN. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU

WOULD LIKE TO ADD. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: NO FURTHER QUESTIONS.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW TO THE RECORD THAT THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A RESPONDED HERE. THANK YOU. (LAUGHING).

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: NOTHING ELSE TO BE ADDED? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: NO, MA'AM.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE CITY -- I FIND THAT THE DILATION DOES EXIST IN THE VIOLATOR WILL BE ASSESSED A TOTAL DUE IS INDICATED AND FAILURE TO PAY SUCH FINE WILL RESULT IN THE

CITATION BEING FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY COURT SYSTEM. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE NEXT

[B. 19-2133 PK 100 Marina Way Wilson, Brendan G John Futch]

CASES 19-2133, 100 MARINE AWAY. WILSON. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OFFICER FUTCH, DID YOU WRITE THE CITATION IN CONNECTION WITH CASE NO.: 19-2133?

SPEAK TO YES, DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS THAT WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF FORT

PIERCE SPEECH TO. >>JOHN FUTCH: AUGUST 8. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHAT WAS THE

NATURE OF THE VIOLATION YOU OBSERVED? >>JOHN FUTCH: IT WAS A PARKING

VIOLATION. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DID YOU DISCOVER THAT THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN MOVED? I SHOULD SAY MORE THAN TWO HOURS LATER?

>>JOHN FUTCH: YES BEFORE DID YOU TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: YES.

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DO THE PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICT WHAT YOU SAW THAT DAY? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES BEFORE SO

THIS TIME, THE CITY WOULD MOVE -- IS MORE THAN ONE? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE WOULD MOVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS IN AS COMPOSITE ONE.

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? >>JOHN FUTCH: NO, MA'AM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, MA'AM. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THANK

YOU. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: ALSO NOTE THAT NO ONE IS PRESENT.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. I FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS IN THE VIOLATOR WILL BE ASSESSED THE TOTAL DUE AS INDICATED ABOVE, $78. FAILURE TO PAY SUCH FINE WILL RESULT IN THE CITATION BEING FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY COURT SYSTEM.

[C. 19-2134 PK 116 N 2nd Street Muise, Beryl Iris John Futch]

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: NEXT WE HAVE CASE 19-2164 -- 19- 2134. 160 NORTH SECOND STREET.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OFFICER FUTCH, DID YOU WRITE THE CITATION.

>>JOHN FUTCH: YES, DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHAT DID YOU READ THE CITATION.

>>JOHN FUTCH: AUGUST 4, 2019. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WAS IT WITHIN THE CITY OF FORT PIERCE?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: YES. DID YOU OBSERVE THAT THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN MOVED?

>>JOHN FUTCH: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS TIMESTAMPS?

>>JOHN FUTCH: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS ACCURATE?

>>JOHN FUTCH: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: AT THIS TIME THE CITY WOULD MOVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND AS COMPOSITE OF ONE. I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS AND

I WILL NOTE THAT THERE IS NOT A RESPONDENT PRESENT. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS. THE VIOLATOR SHALL BE ASSESSED THE TOTAL DUE, WHICH IS $78, AS INDICATED ABOVE. THE FAILURE TO PAY SUCH FINE WILL RESULT IN THE CITATION

BEING FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY COURT SYSTEM. >>>.

[D. 19-2164 PK Atlantic Avenue Jones, Eukeba Adrienne John Futch]

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OFFICER DID YOU WRITE THE CITATION? >>JOHN FUTCH: 2164?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: YES, SIR. >>JOHN FUTCH: DID YOU WRITE THAT WITHIN FORT PIERCE CITY

LIMITS? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: >>JOHN FUTCH: YES, I DID.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF THE VIOLATION. >>JOHN FUTCH: TWO HOUR PARKING

VIOLATION. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DID YOU READ -- OBSERVED THAT THE VEHICLE

HAD NOT BEEN MOVED. >>JOHN FUTCH: YES, DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DID YOU TAKE

PHOTOGRAPHS? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES, I DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: CAN YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE EXHIBIT? DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT? OKAY. AND DOES NOT MATCH UP WITH CASE NO.: 19 Ã2164? OKAY. DOES IT DEPICT WHICH IS ON THAT DAY?

>>JOHN FUTCH: ABSOLUTELY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: FORGIVE ME IF I ASKED YOU THIS, BUT ARE THE

TIMESTAMPS ACCURATE? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: AT THIS TIME

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>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. I FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS THAT THE VIOLATOR SHALL BE ASSESSED THE TOTAL DUE OF $78 AS INDICATED ABOVE. FAILURE TO PAY SUCH FINE WILL RESULT IN A CITATION BEING FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY COURT SYSTEM.

[E. 19-2353 PK Orange Ave/Indian River Dr Lot Ean Trust John Futch]

>>> WE HAVE 19-2153. ORANGE AVENUE INDIAN RIVER DRIVE LOT.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OFFICER, DID YOU WRITE THE CITATION AS A RELATED TO 19-2153?

>>JOHN FUTCH: I DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHAT DATE. >>JOHN FUTCH: AUGUST 12, 2019.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF THE VIOLATION? >>JOHN FUTCH: TO OUR VIOLATION.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: DID YOU OBSERVE THAT THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN MOVED IN MORE THAN TWO

HOURS? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES, I DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DID YOU TAKE

PHOTOGRAPHS. >>JOHN FUTCH: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: TODAY DEPICT

WHICH IS ON THAT DAY? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES BEFORE DO THEY HAVE TIMESTAMPS?

>>JOHN FUTCH: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO ADD?

>>JOHN FUTCH: NOW. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS TIME WE WOULD MOVE THE EXHIBITS AS EXHIBIT 1. AND THE CITY HAS NO -- IS YOUR HONOR EXACTING THEM AS AN EXHIBIT?

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YES, I A . >>FEMALE SPEAKER: I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS I WILL NOTE THAT THERE IS NO RESPONDENT PRESENT THIS

MORNING. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS AND THAT THE VIOLATOR SHALL BE ASSESSED A TOTAL OF $70, WHICH REFLECTS THE FIND AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND LATE FEES. AND FAILURE TO PAY SUCH FINE WILL RESULT IN THE CITATION

BEING FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY COURT SYSTEM. >>> NEXT WE HAVE NEXT WE HAVE

[G. 19-2011 PK Orange Ave/Indian River Dr Lot Olson, Nicholas & Lydia John Futch]

TR11 WRITE THE CITATION? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES, DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WERE YOU IN

FORT PIERCE CITY LIMITS? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES BEFORE WHAT DATE DID YOU ISSUE THE

CITATION? >>JOHN FUTCH: JULY 20 -- 29 2019.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHAT WAS THE UP -- DID YOU OBSERVE THAT THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN MOVED?

>>JOHN FUTCH: YES, I DID TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT DAY? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES, I DID.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS THERE A TIMESTAMP ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS THAT CORRECT AND ACCURATE? >>JOHN FUTCH: YES.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE WOULD MOVE THE EXHIBITS AND AS COMPOSITE ONE.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE PHOTOS ARE ACCEPTED. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THANK YOU, MA'AM. I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS AND I WILL KNOW FOR THE RECORD THAT

THERE IS NOT A RESPONDENT PRESENT. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS IN THE VIOLATOR SHALL BE ASSESSED A TOTAL OF $70 REFLECTING DEFINING FEES AND FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE FINE WILL RESULT IN THE CITATION BEING FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY COURT SYSTEM THE NEXT CASES 19-2135, NELSON.

[H. 19-2135AC Fort Pierce City Marina Nelson, Florence M Ricardo Pellot]

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: MAY I INQUIRE? GOOD MORNING, SIR.

I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN SWORN IN BY CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME AGAIN FOR THE RECORD?

RICARDO PLOT ANIMAL CONTROL. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DID YOU WRITE THE CITATION IN CASE NO.:

19-2135? >>RICARDO PELLOT: YES, I DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: CAN YOU TELL

THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE ABOUT YOUR INVESTIGATION? >>RICARDO PELLOT: WE RECEIVED A CALL THAT A DOG HAD FALLEN OFF A BOAT. AT 3:00 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING IT WAS 10:30 A.M. THE GENTLEMAN WAS TRYING TO HELP IT OUT OF THE WATER AND THE DOG BIT HIM.

SO, THEY CALLED US. WE CONFISCATED THE DOG AND I WENT TO THE BOAT WHERE THE OWNER WAS AND I ISSUED TWO CITATIONS. ONE FOR THE DOG RUNNING AT LARGE AND ONE FOR NO CITY REGISTRATION -- OR NO RABIES VACCINATION.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WERE YOU ABLE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE DOGS OWNER?

>>RICARDO PELLOT: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHAT HAPPENED?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I WROTE HER THE SUIT -- THE CITATION AS THE OWNER FOR THE RABIES PAPERWORK?

>>RICARDO PELLOT: I DID. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE?

>>RICARDO PELLOT: THE DOG WAS NOT CURRENT ON RABIES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS OR

ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD. >>RICARDO PELLOT: YES THE DOG WAS QUARANTINED FOR 10 DAYS

WHERE HER HUSBAND OR BOYFRIEND PICKED UP THE DOG. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THERE WAS

NO RABIES FOUND? >>RICARDO PELLOT: NO RABIES SHOT -- NO RABIES ON THE DOG.

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(LAUGHING). >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: ALL RIGHT.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. BUT I WILL NOTE FOR THE RECORD

THAT THE RESPONDENT IS NOT PRESENT THIS MORNING. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

BASED ON THE TESTIMONY, I FIND THAT THE VIOLATIONS, BOTH VIOLATIONS EXIST AND THAT THE BILAYER WILL BE ASSESSED A TOTAL OF -- I THINK IT'S A TOTAL DUE OF $180.

AND FAILURE TO PAY SUCH FINE WILL RESULT IN THE CITATION BEING FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY

COURT SYSTEM. THANK YOU. >>> WERE GOING TO GO TO 1919

[L. 19-1961AC 1205 N 22nd Street Brooks, Veronica Kenneth Nelson]

6112 05 NORTH 22ND STREET BROOKS. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: SPECIAL MAGISTRATE IT APPEARS WE HAVE A RESPONDENT PRESENT PAIR WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE

INDIVIDUALS WRONG? >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YES, PLEASE.

IF YOU COULD BE SWORN IN BY THE CLERK. >>CLERK: TO SWEAR FROM THE

TESTIMONY ARE GIVING IS THE TRUTH THANK YOU. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: CAN I CLARIFY WE HAVE THE CITATION WRITTEN TOWARDS A VERONICA BROOKS. CAN YOU TELL US YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THAT PERSON SO ARE YOU VERONICA BROOKS BEFORE YOU GOT MARRIED? OKAY. WE HAVE TO CLARIFY, THANK YOU. AND CONGRATULATIONS.

>>VERONICA BROOKS: THANK YOU. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS TIME, MAY I PROCEED WITH QUESTION? GOOD MORNING, SIR. CAN YOU GO AHEAD AND STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.

>>KENNETH NELSON: KENNY NELSON, ANIMAL CONTROL. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: AND WHAT YOU

THE ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO THIS CASE? >>KENNETH NELSON: YES, MA'AM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: THAT CASES 19-1961, CORRECT. >>KENNETH NELSON: METMAC.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHEN WERE YOU ASSIGNED TO WORK ON THE CASE? >>KENNETH NELSON: EXCUSE ME?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHEN WERE YOU SIGNED TO WORK ON THE CASE? >>KENNETH NELSON: WE WERE CALLED 9-1-1 SAYING THAT AN ELDERLY LADY, AROUND 90 YEARS OLD WANTED TO TURN IN DOGS.

SHE COULD NOT CARE FOR THEM ANYMORE. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY.

AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTER YOU RECEIVED THE INFORMATION RELATED TO?

>>KENNETH NELSON: MYSELF AND THE OFFICER SHOWED UP AT THE SCENE AND THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE SHOWED UP AFTER WE DID. AND THEY STARTED BRINGING THE DOGS OUT TO US AND THEN AFTER I SEEN THE CONDITION OF THE ANIMALS, THAT'S WHAT WE DECIDED TO GO IN TAKE THE REST OF THEM AND WHY THEY WERE ACTUALLY WROTE UP FOR NEGLECT AND EVERYTHING.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. WHAT WAS THE CONDITION THAT YOU OBSERVED OF THE ANIMALS?

>>KENNETH NELSON: YOU COULD SEE THE BONE STICKING OUT, THE WATER BOWLS HADN'T -- HAD MOLD

IN THE WATER BOWLS. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. WE WILL COME BACK TO THAT IN A SECOND, BUT HOW MANY ANIMALS, TOTAL, DID YOU SEE THAT DAY? FIVE DOGS?

>>KENNETH NELSON: METMAC. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IN DID YOU WRITE CITATIONS IN RELATION TO

ALL FIVE DOGS? >>KENNETH NELSON: METMAC. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WITH THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF CITATION THAT YOU ISSUED AS WE STRONG?

>>KENNETH NELSON: METMAC. THERE WERE FIVE OR NO RABIES, FIVE OR NO CITY REGISTRATION

AND FIVE WERE NEGLECT. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE NO RABIES FIRST. DID YOU DISCUSS WITH THE OWNERS OR THE INDIVIDUALS WHO CLAIMED

TO BE OWNERS OF THE DOG, THE RABIES PAPERWORK? >>KENNETH NELSON: I DID.

SHE DID SAY A COUPLE OF THEM WERE ACTUALLY, I THINK, DONE THROUGH UNITED FOR ANIMALS.

SO AFTER I WROTE HER A CITATION I SAID IF YOU CAN BRING THE PROOF OF THOSE INTO COURT, THEY

WILL BE DROPPED. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DID YOU GET PROOF OF THOSE?

>>KENNETH NELSON: I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING. NO, MA'AM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: AS FAR AS YOU ARE CONCERNED, THAT PAPERWORK DOES NOT EXIST?

>>KENNETH NELSON: EXACTLY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. AND IS ADDRESSED TO EACH OF THE

FIVE DOGS THAT YOU OBSERVED THAT DAY? >>KENNETH NELSON: METMAC.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER:OKAY. WHAT WAS THE SECOND CATEGORY OF VIOLATION THAT YOU NOTED REMIND ME? THE SECOND TYPE OF TICKET THAT YOU ISSUED AS TO EACH AND EVERY

DOG. >>KENNETH NELSON: >>FEMALE SPEAKER: NO

REGISTRATION PROOF OF RABIES. >>> RIGHT." THE -- I MEAN NEGLECT.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE NO REGISTRATION, WHAT HAPPENED THERE? DID YOU TALK WITH THE RESPONDENT ABOUT THAT.

>>> I TOLD HIM THAT IF THEY COULD BRING THE PROOF, WHATEVER THEY HAD.

I DON'T THINK THEY HAD THEM ON ALL FIVE OF THEM. >>> OKAY.

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WAS ANYTHING PROVIDED TO YOU THAT DAY. >>KENNETH NELSON:

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: AS FAR AS YOU

KNOW, THERE IS NO ADEQUATE PAPERWORK. >>> YES, MA'AM.. SO THOSE TICKETS ARE ACTIVE? AND THAT VIOLATION IS STILL ACTIVE?

OKAY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT THE THIRD CATEGORY

OF TICKET, WHICH IS ANIMAL NEGLECT, CORRECT? >>KENNETH NELSON: YES, MA'AM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: CAN YOU TELL US -- DID YOU TELL -- TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT DAY? DID THE PHOTOGRAPHS HELP US UNDERSTAND THE NEGLECT YOU OBSERVED?

>>KENNETH NELSON: I HAVE THEM RIGHT HERE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THEY WILL

BE ON THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DID THEY --

>>KENNETH NELSON: JUNE 20, 20 -- 2009. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: HOLD ON ONE SECOND. THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT YOU TOOK THAT DAY OR THE PHOTOGRAPHS

THAT WERE TAKEN THAT DAY, DID YOU -- >>KENNETH NELSON: THEY WERE

TAKEN AT THE SCENE AT THAT TIME. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DO THEY

FAIRLY AND ACCURATELY DEPICT WHAT YOU SAW THAT DAY? >>KENNETH NELSON: YES, MA'AM.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: >>FEMALE SPEAKER: AT THIS TIME THE CITY WOULD MOVE THEM IN AS

CITIES COMPOSITE ONE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: WE WILL ACCEPT THE PHOTOGRAPHS.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. SO THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT HAVE BEEN MOVED AND ARE ON THE SCREEN. CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH WHICH YOU OBSERVED AND TELL US THE

EVIDENCE OF NEGLECT THAT YOU SEE IN EACH PHOTO? >>KENNETH NELSON: AFTER THEY STARTED BRINGING IN THE FIRST ONE OUT AND WE SEEN HOW SKINNY IT WAS --

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OBAMA SECOND. WILL GO BACK TO THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH IN THE CLOSET AND

WILL GO ONE BY ONE. >>> AFTER THEY STARTED BRINGING THE FIRST ANIMAL OUT AND MYSELF AND THE OFFICER SEEN THE CONDITION IT WAS IN, WE DECIDED TO CALL OUR SUPERVISOR AT THE TIME. SO WE CALLED HER UP TO COME AND LOOK AT SOME OF THE OTHER DOGS THAT THEY WERE BRINGING OUT. SHE BROUGHT A COUPLE COURT IN BOZEMAN PEOPLE OUT OF ONE OF THE AT ST. LUCIE COUNTY CAME OUT THERE TO HELP US MOVE THE ANIMALS AND AS THEY WERE BRINGING ONE AT A TIME NOW, ONE OF THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WAS HELPING US WITH

THE PICTURES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. SO THIS JUNK THAT WE ARE

LOOKING AT,, CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE CONDITION OF THE DOG. >>> ON THIS ONE HERE, YOU COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE BACK BONE STICKING OUT -- I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANOTHER BEHIND IT.

THAT ONE RIGHT THERE, I DO NOT KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE BACK, WHERE IT STICKING UP,

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS IT FAIR TO SAY. >>KENNETH NELSON: DISTANCE ONE RIGHT HERE -- I MEAN YOU CAN COUNT ALL THE RIBS ONLY DOG IT WAS SO SKINNY.

THAT IS THE SAME DOG. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS WAS THE THIRD DOG.

>>KENNETH NELSON: THIS WAS IN THE BACK CONDITION WE SOUGHT BEING DIRTY AND EVERYTHING.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. >>KENNETH NELSON: THIS WHEN YOU CAN SEE LITTLE BIT OF THE RIBS YEARS BEFORE THIS IS THE FOURTH DOG. WE ARE LOOKING AT ONE FOURTH

DOG NOW. >>KENNETH NELSON: YOU CAN SEE THE RIBS A LITTLE BIT.

IT WASN'T TOO BAD. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. >>KENNETH NELSON: AND THAT WAS

THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD ANY WEIGHT ON HIM AT ALL. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS THE

FIFTH DOG, CORRECT? >>KENNETH NELSON: YES BEFORE OKAY.

DID YOU SEE EVIDENCE THAT THERE WAS ADEQUATE WATER FOR THESE DOGS?

ANY OF THE FIVE? >>KENNETH NELSON: THERE WAS WATER ON ALL OF THEM, BUT WE SENT THE PICTURES -- YOU HAVE THE PICTURES. EVERY ONE OF THE WATER BOWLS

WORK -- OR BUCKETS WERE ALL GREEN. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WOULD YOU CONSIDER THAT IN YOUR TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE AS AN ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER HEALTHY OR SAFE

WATER FOR A DOG TO DRINK? >>KENNETH NELSON: DOES NOT HEALTHY AT ALL.

NOW. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WAS THERE ADEQUATE WATER FOR THESE DOGS?

>>KENNETH NELSON: NOT BEING LIKE THAT, NO. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY.

AND AGAIN, THESE ARE WATER CONTAINERS THAT ARE WITHIN THE PLACES WHERE THE DOGS HAD BEEN

STORED, CORRECT? >>KENNETH NELSON: YES, MA'AM. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: ARE DIESEL

THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN THAT DAY? >>KENNETH NELSON: YES, MA'AM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE ONE AT AS FAR AS WHAT YOU OBSERVED REGARDING THE

NEGLECT CITATIONS? >>KENNETH NELSON: NO. ACTUALLY, I MEAN, THEY WERE CLOSE TO BEING CRUELTY THING BUT BECAUSE THE PANS WERE CLEAN, THAT'S THE ONLY REASON

WHY I COULDN'T GO TO THE CRUELTY PART. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY.

BUT IN YOUR TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE, THESE ANIMALS WERE NEGLECTED.

>>KENNETH NELSON: WITHOUT A DOUBT. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHY DO YOU

SAY THAT? >>KENNETH NELSON: JUST THE CONDITIONS THEY WERE LIVING IN WITH THE DIRTY WATER IN THE ONES THAT WERE SO SKINNY LOOK LIKE THEY HAD BEEN FED AND SO

LONG. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THANK YOU. I DO NOT HAVE ANY MORE

QUESTIONS. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I JUST HAVE ONE FOR CLARIFICATION, I

THINK, INITIALLY, YOU SAID YOU GOT A PHONE CALL? >>KENNETH NELSON: 9-1-1

DISPATCH. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: WHO MADE

THE CALL. >>KENNETH NELSON: HE CAME FROM THE ADDRESS ÃMAKE THE CALL CAME IN AS A 90-YEAR-OLD LADY WANTED TO TURN HER DOGS IN BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT CARE FOR

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THEM ANYMORE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE REASON I ASK IS THIS IS NOT A

90-YEAR-OLD LADY. >>KENNETH NELSON: (LAUGHING). >>FEMALE SPEAKER: I DO NOT KNOW

WHAT GOT MIXED UP BUT I'M THE ONE A CALL. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YOU ARE THE ONE THAT CALLED. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: CAN I ASK A COUPLE OF CLARIFYING QUESTIONS? I WANT TO MAKE SURE THE RECORD IS CORRECT. SO WE SUBMITTED PHOTOS THIS MORNING.

WITH HER OTHER PHOTOS THAT WE DECIDED ADJUSTMENT? >>KENNETH NELSON: YES, MA'AM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: TO AVOID A CUMULATIVE -- >>KENNETH NELSON: YES, MA'AM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT. CAN YOU ALSO CLARIFY THE PERSON THAT IS STANDING HERE THIS MORNING, THE FORMER MS. BROOKS, WAS SHE THE PERSON THAT YOU

INTERACTED WITH WHEN YOU RESPONDED? >>KENNETH NELSON: YES, MA'AM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: THAT WAS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF FORT PIERCE, CORRECT?

>>KENNETH NELSON: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: NOTHING FURTHER.

THANK YOU. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YOU HAVE NOTHING FURTHER AT THIS POINT?

WOULD YOU LIKE TO -- >>FEMALE SPEAKER: CAN I SPEAK NOW?

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YES BEFORE I'VE BEEN HERE -- I'VE BEEN TAKEN CARE OF THE DOGS.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE WOULD PICK UP DOGS. I CALLED PRIOR -- IN MY HUSBAND MOVED OUT TWO MONTHS BEFORE THAT. WE LEFT THE HOUSE WITH MY SISTER. AND HER KIDS. SHE HAS A 17-YEAR-OLD SON.

SO WE WOULD GO OVER THERE AND TAKE FOOD AND EVERYTHING AND CHECK ON THE DOGS.

I -- BOTH OF US END UP WORKING. I WORK TWO JOBS. I PICKED UP A SECOND JOB.

AND WE DON'T REALLY HAVE TIME TO GO BACK AND FORTH. IT HAS GOT LIKE 11:00 O'CLOCK WHEN I WOULD GET OFF. SO I TALKED TO MY NEPHEW, EXPLAINED TO HIM I SAID I'M GOING TO HAVE TO CALL ANIMAL CONTROL TO PICK THE DOGS UP. HE SAID NO, I WILL MAKE SURE THE DOG -- I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. MY DOGS WERE HEALTHY.

THEY WERE OVERWEIGHT. AND ANIMAL CONTROL CAN TELL YOU THAT.

WE USED TO TAKE THEM AND GET THEIR SHOTS AND EVERYTHING. BUT THIS JUST HAPPENED WITHIN TWO MONTHS. BECAUSE THE GRASS HAD GROWN UP HIGH AND WE -- I HAD PICKED UP A SECOND JOB. SO I REALLY COULDN'T GET OFF AT 11:00 O'CLOCK AND GO OVER THERE EVERY DAY. IT WAS, YOU KNOW, TOO MUCH FOR ME.

SO WHEN I BROUGHT MY -- WHEN I CALLED ANIMAL CONTROL TO PICK THEM UP, THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE TOO BUSY, THEY DID NOT HAVE ANYONE TO COME AND PICK THEM UP.

SO -- WHEN WAS THAT? >>> THAT WAS TWO MONTHS BEFORE. >>> WE CALLED SPAY I CALLED

THEM THEY SAID THEY DON'T HAVE ANYONE TO PICK UP MY DOGS. >>MALE SPEAKER: AM GOING TO SAY THIS RIGHT HERE, WE NEVER NEGLECTED ANY ONE OF THOSE DOGS.

EACH ONE OF THOSE DOGS WAS THE SIZE OF THE HEALTHY DOG WE SHOWED BY ME WORKING 14, 15

HOURS A DAY, BOTH OF US TRYING TO. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WORK TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. WE PAID -- I PAID HER SISTER LIGHT BILL EVERY MONTH PLUS I PAID HIM PLUS I BOUGHT DOG FOOD OVER THERE ONCE A WEEK 50 FINE POUND DOGS EVERY WEEK -- 55 POUND OF DOG FOOD. WERE TAKING NEGLECT BUT ALL THIS -- MAKE IT SEEM LIKE WE

JUST HATED DOGS ARE WE JUST -- YOU KNOW, >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE COULD HAV

. >>MALE SPEAKER: I COULD HAVE BLOWN THEIR BRAINS OUT.

THAT WAS THE CALL WAS FOR HELP. THE CALL WASN'T TO BE APPEARING TO BE IN OCONTO LIKE WE SOME SALAAM DOG -- YOU KNOW, IT AIN'T FAIR. IT'S NOT FAIR BECAUSE WE CALLED FOR HELP. THE CALL THAT INCOME FROM THEM WRITING BY AND SEEING NO DOGS YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? I'M MISSING WORK AND IT AIN'T FAIR.

" I SAY THIS, MA'AM? I'M SEEING -- I'M SITTING HERE BEING PROSECUTED FOR LOVING A DOG AND NOT HAVING THE TIME TO GO OVER THERE AND CHECK ON IT. BUT THE SAME PEOPLE THAT TAKE MY DOG IS UP UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR THE SAME NEGLECT AND EVERYTHING.

THE HUMANE SOCIETY. I JUST RESTED MY CASE, MA'AM. >>MALE SPEAKER: THE SAME PEOPLE

THAT THEY -- >>FEMALE SPEAKER: SPECIAL MAGISTRATE GOING TO OBJECT.

>>MALE SPEAKER: HUMANE SOCIETY -- (MULTIPLE SPEAKERS). >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: SIR,

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>>KENNETH NELSON: WE ARE NOT THE HUMANE SOCIETY. >>MALE SPEAKER: THE SAME PEOPLE

THAT TOOK MY DOGS. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I HEARD YOU.

>>MALE SPEAKER: YOU TOOK MY DOG TO THE PEOPLE AIN'T NONE OF THEM APPEAR WITH THIS CHARGE.

NONE OF THEM WITH DISCHARGE. NONE OF THEM GOT THIS CHARGE. AND I'M BEING CHARGED FOR

HELPING. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: I'M GOING TO OBJECT THAT THIS IS A RELEVANT

TESTIMONY. >>MALE SPEAKER: I'M SORRY. >>MALE SPEAKER: DENIES.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE DID NOT WANT TO GIVE THEM UP. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: IT WAS MENTIONED THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE THE PAPERWORK FOR THE REGISTRATION.

>>MALE SPEAKER: 'SREMOVING, ALL THE PAPERWORK THAT MUST. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: HIM

ASKING HER. >>MALE SPEAKER: I GOT A CITATION BACK IN.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: SHE SAID SHE HAD. >>MALE SPEAKER: I GOT A CITATION BACK IN 2018 FOR PUPPY SO HAD TO TAKE THEM I HAD TO TAKE THEM TO TRI-COUNTY AND GET

THEM ALL RABIES SHOTS. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: GEMINI PAPERWORK?

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: DO YOU HAVE ANY PAPERWORK. >>VERONICA BROOKS: WE MISPLACED

IT. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: MA'AM, I JUST -- JUST SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A CLEAR RECORD, I'M GOING TO ASK THAT WE COULD JUST PAUSE THIS HEARING UNTIL SUCH TIME AS

THERE IS ORDER. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. SO DONE.

THE HEARING IS BEING PAUSED AT THIS TIME. >>MALE SPEAKER: I'M SORRY.

OH DEAR. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: ARE THEY INVOLVED IN THE HEARING IN ANY

WAY? >>MALE SPEAKER: I'M SORRY. OH, DEAR.

IF WE COULD REMIND THE AUDIENCE THAT THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THEM TO SPEAK THIS IS THE TIME

FOR THE RESPONDENT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS? >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

WE ARE GOING TO ASK EVERYONE -- WOULD YOU PLEASE -- >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I AM TRYING TO ASK THE WITNESS A QUESTION. AND AS THE ONLY VOICE I SHOULD BE HEARING. SO MA'AM, I'M TRYING TO GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY -- I'M TRYING TO REDUCE WHAT YOU HAVE HERE AND I -- IF YOU HAVE ANY DOCUMENTATION OF

REGISTRATIONS OR VACCINATIONS. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IT'S BEEN MISPLACED.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. SO WE DON'T. >>MALE SPEAKER: THAT BROWN DOG, THE HEALTHY DOG, THAT IS THE PARENT TO ALL THE DOGS BUT ONE OF THEM.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: AS LONG AS THERE IS COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE, WE CANNOT CONTINUE.

>>> MY GOAL IS TO HAVE THIS CREATE A CLEAR RECORD AND FOR EVERYBODY TO BE HARD WE WANT THIS TO BE A FAIR PROCEEDING. SO I'M JUST ASKING, YOUR HONOR, TO BASICALLY INSTRUCT THE WITNESSES THAT IT WILL HELP THEM IF THEY SPEAK ONE OTHER TIME AND THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF GETTING A FAIR HEARING IF THEY SPEAK ONE AT A TIME.

THE RESPONDENT IS ENTITLED TO PRESENT A WITNESS IN HER DEFENSE, BUT IT'S NOT PROPER COURTROOM PROCEDURE TO HAVE TWO WITNESSES TALKING AT ONE TIME. SO THE ACTUAL RESPONDENT WHO IS CITED, IS -- I KNOW YOUR LAST NAME WAS MS. BURKES. WHAT IS YOUR LAST DAY NOW?

>>VERONICA BROOKS: JOHNSON. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: SHE IS THE RESPONDENT.

SO SHE SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO SPEAK ON HER BEHALF. IF SHE WANTS TO CALL ANY WITNESSES, SHE HAS A RIGHT TO DO THAT, BUT WE WOULD JUST AS THAT WE WOULD PROCEED IN A --

IN AN ORDERLY FASHION. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: AND AGAIN, I WAS MERELY ASKING YOU, MRS. JOHNSON, IF YOU HAD ANY DOCUMENTATION IN YOUR ANSWER IS IT'S BEEN MISPLACED?

>>VERONICA BROOKS: YES. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: DOES THE CITY HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW HOW THE -- I DO. HOW THE ANIMALS GOT TO THE STAGE?

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>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I HAVE A QUESTION FOR CLARIFICATION? ON THE PAPERWORK THAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO, I HEARD OFFICER NELSON SAY THAT SHE WENT THROUGH UNITED FOR ANIMALS.

WAS THAT A. >>MALE SPEAKER: AT THE -- >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IF WE COULD

HAVE ONE PERSON SPEAK AT A TIME. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YOU WENT

THROUGH THE HAPPY HOUNDS? >>MALE SPEAKER: MY WIFE -- >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YOU CAN HAVE YOUR (MULTIPLE SPEAKERS) SIR, IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK AFTER SHE HAS,

>>MALE SPEAKER: YOU'RE TRYING TO SPLIT ME IN HER UP? >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: NO.

BUT YOU DON'T -- SHE IS BEING ASKED THE QUESTION. IF SHE WANTS YOU AS A WITNESS, SHE CAN HAVE YOU SPEAK AS WELL, BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME. SO PLEASE, LET HER ANSWER.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: YOU HAVE THE DOGS DONE THROUGH THE PROGRAM HAPPY HOUNDS FOR THE ASSISTANCE

OF UNITED FOR ANIMALS. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: YES, MA'AM. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DO YOU KNOW

WHAT YEAR THAT WAS IN? >>MALE SPEAKER: AROUND 2000 -- >>VERONICA JOHNSON: 2017-18.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THIS IS JUST FOR YOUR AWARE -- THE RABIES AND REGISTRATION THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THE PROGRAM IS ONLY GOOD FOR A ONE YEAR. IT EXPIRES AFTER 12 MONTHS.

SO THAT'S WHY ANY PAPERWORK THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE HAD WAS EXPIRED.

AND NOTHING WAS CURRENT. AND THAT'S JUST FOR CLARIFICATION FOR ALL.

-- PARTIES INVOLVES BE APPRECIATED. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: I WAS HOPING THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DOCUMENT BUT EVEN IF YOU DID, IT WOULD BE EXPIRE AT THIS

TIME. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OF COURSE, IF YOUR HONOR WOULD LIKE TO

INQUIRE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I WOULD LIKE TO INQUIRE IF THERE'S ANY

RECORD OF A CALL MADE. >>KENNETH NELSON: I HAVE TO GO BACK TO 9-1-1 AND GET IT TO DISPATCH. EVERYTHING SHOULD BE SAVED, CORRECT?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: YES, SIR. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: I HAVE IT ON MY PHONE WHERE I CALLED TWO

MONTHS PRIOR TO THAT AND I SAVED IT. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YOU HAVE

THAT? >>VERONICA JOHNSON: I DID NOT TURN INTO ANYBODY BUT IT'S STILL IN MY PHONE WHEN I CALLED. AND THE SECOND TIME, I LEFT A

VOICEMAIL. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: AND THEN TWO MONTHS WENT BY BEFORE YOU

CALLED AGAIN; IS THAT -- >>VERONICA JOHNSON: YES. BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, I DID NOT

WANT TO LAY THAT RESPONSIBILITY ON MY NEPHEW. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: DOES THE

CITY HAVE ANY -- >>FEMALE SPEAKER: I HAVE NO QUESTIONS OF THIS WITNESS.

FOR MS. JOHNSON. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: MR. JOHNSON, DO YOU WANT HIM TO

TESTIFY? >>MALE SPEAKER: THOSE DRUGS WASN'T THAT -- THAT'S FROM --

THAT AIN'T FROM NOT EATING. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: THEY DID NOT TAKE A PICTURE OF THE 50

POUND BAG OF DOG FOOD. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: MONITOR TIME.

>>MR. JOHNSON: EVERY WEEK I BOUGHT FAITHFULLY 50 POUND -- 55 POUND BAG OF DOG FOOD.

THEM DOGS WAS PROBABLY SEC ENTER WORKING WITH HAPPY HOUNDS, YOU KNOW, I AND HAD THE TIME TO GET OVER THERE AND SEE MY DOGS. BUT YOU KNOW, HAPPY HOUNDS TRAIN IS HOW TO LOOK AT A DOG AND SAY -- YOU CAN SEE DUMPING SO I WOULD NEVER HAVE SET THERE AND LET THEM DOGS JUST -- IN AUTUMN SAME? WE WAS ASKING FOR HELP.

NOT TO GO AND TAKE THEM LIKE OTHER PEOPLE AND TAKE THEM DOWN AND TURN THEM LOOSE AND KILL HIM BLOGGER HAS HELPED. WE WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO GET THE DOGS, YOU KNOW.

>>VERONICA JOHNSON: THAT'S MORE THE REASON WHY WE DID NOT WANT TO CALL THE ANIMAL CONTROL BECAUSE WE FELT LIKE THEY WERE GOING TO PUT THEM DOWN SO WE PRETTY MUCH TOOK CARE OF THEM

SO TO BE LABELED AS, YOU KNOW, NEGLECT, YOU KNOW. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: WELL.

>>VERONICA JOHNSON: I UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION, BUT WE NEVER NEGLECTED OUR DOGS

JUST TO SAY WELL. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE PHOTOS THAT ARE EMBEDDED INTO EVIDENCE SHOW SPIRIT WE MADE A MISTAKE OF LEAVING THEM WITH A 17-YEAR-OLD AND -- YEAH.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: IS STILL YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: YEAH.

I UNDERSTAND THAT. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: HAVE TO FIND THAT THE VIOLATIONS EXIST BECAUSE THE PICTURES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. THOSE ANIMALS ARE IN TERRIBLE SHAPE. SO WOULD FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS AND THAT THE FINE BE ASSESSED AS INDICATED ABOVE AND FAILURE TO PAY THE FINE WILL RESULT IN THE CITATION BE FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY COURT SYSTEM SPIT IVORY. WHEN I SEE MY BOW CRY CRY LIKE

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>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I APPRECIATE THAT. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: MEMO.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THIS IS A BAD SITUATION. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: SPECIAL MAGISTRATE, CAN WE JUST ASK IF MS. JOHNSON NEEDS TIME TO PAY OR HOW MUCH TIME YOU WERE GOING

TO ORDER HER TO PAY THE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: YES. ABSOLUTELY.

>>VERONICA JOHNSON: YES, I DO NEED TIME. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: IF YOU

CAN. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: DO YOU HAVE A PAYMENT PLAN OR SOMETHING

LIKE THAT? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THE CITY, AS APRIL DOES NOT ESTABLISH PAYMENT PLANS. WE REQUESTED THAT THEY RESPONDED ESTABLISH HER OWN PAYMENT PLAN SO SHE KNOWS THAT SHE NEEDS 30 DAYS 60 DAYS 90 DAYS SIX MONTHS, TO PAY, IF SHE COULD RELAY THE INFORMATION TO YOU AND YOU CAN TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.

BECAUSE WE WILL ACCEPT PARTIAL PAYMENTS, BUT WE DO NOT ESTABLISH A PAYMENT PLAN.

THAT'S UP TO THE RESPONDED. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: OKAY. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY IF

YOU. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: WAS THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: $3000. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: THE MAXIMUM YOU CAN PAY LIKE A YEAR?

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I DON'T THINK ANYTHING'S BEEN SAID. IF YOU PROPOSE SOMETHING, THE

CITY CAN ACCEPT IT OR DECLINE IT IF YOU WANT TO BE REALISTIC. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: JUST DOING QUICK MATH, $3000 PENALTY IN A 12 MONTH WOULD BE $250 A MONTH. SO, THE CITY WOULD BE WILLING TO ACCEPT 12 MONTHS TO PAY. YOU CAN PAY IT OFF EARLY. BUT WE WERE -- BECAUSE IT IS A SIGNIFICANT PENALTY WE WOULD UNDERSTAND ADDITIONAL TIME. I CANNOT SAY THAT HOW MUCH HE

PAYS A MONTH BUT THE CITY WOULD ACCEPT A 12 MONTH OFFER. >>VERONICA JOHNSON: I

APPRECIATE IT. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THANK YOU.

THAT WILL ALSO BE IN THE ORDER THAT THERE IS A 12 MONTH. >>VERONICA JOHNSON:

>>MALE SPEAKER: OKAY. THANK YOU. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THANK YOU

FOR COMING IN. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: FAILURE TO PAY?

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: FAILURE TO PAY, I THINK IT WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COUNTY COURT I

SAID THAT ALREADY. (LAUGHING). >>MALE SPEAKER: ONLY TO INVESTIGATE YOU. YOU'LL SIT RIGHT HERE FOR MY TAXPAYER MONEY SIT UP ON YOUR.

[BLEEP] AND NOT DOING THEIR JO . HEAR ME.

YOU'LL BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF THE WAY Y'ALL. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

>>MALE SPEAKER: LOOK AT THEM. THEY ARE FREAKS OF NATURE. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: MOVING ON.

[A. 19-1626 CE 705 N 23rd Street Ray, Tmesha Heather Debevec]

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. THE NEXT CASE IS 19-1626 RAY. >>> PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. DO YOU SWEAR AND AFFIRM THE TESTIMONY YOU ARE ABOUT TO GIVE

A BE THE TRUTH LET ME GO AHEAD. >>> RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THE

TESTIMONY ABOUT TO GIVE A BE THE TRUTH? >>> #MAGA.

>>> THANK YOU. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS CASE NO.: 19-2576, COMMISSIONER RAY. THE CASE WAS A RISK ÃINITIATED FOUR SECTIONS 2267 SUBSECTION B SUBSECTION 5 FOR THE MAINTENANCE PERMIT REQUIREMENT. IT WAS REQUESTED THAT SHE RETURN -- OBTAINED A PERMIT OR REMOVE THE FENCE THE CITY IS REQUESTING THAT IF THE VIOLATION EXISTS I GET 30 DAYS TO OBTAIN A PERMIT OR FINE OF $50 PER DAY.

I DID SPEAK WITH MS. RAY PRIOR TO THE HEARING. SHE WAS UNABLE TO OBTAIN THE PERMIT. SHE SAID SHE HAD BEEN DENIED AND THAT SHE HAS REMOVED THE

FENCE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: SHE HAS REMOVED THE FENCE?

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>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO OUT THERE AND CHECK TO VERIFY AS OF

YET. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: I DON'T -- I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THIS MORNING AT THIS TIME. WHAT I WOULD POSSIBLY DO IS RECOMMEND THAT WE CONTINUE THE

CASE AND JUST HAVE STAFF GO OUT AND CHECK. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

IS THAT OKAY WITH YOU, MA'AM. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: MOORE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE CASE

WILL BE CONTINUED FOR. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OUR NEXT HEARING IS NEXT WEDNESDAY THE 13TH. WE CAN CONTINUE IT ONE WEEK TO ALLOW STAFF TO DO THE

INSPECTION AND CONFIRM. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IF THE FENCE

IS DOWN, YOU DO NOT NEED TO COME BACK. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THANK YOU

FOR COMING IN HERE. >>CLERK: THIS THE NEXT CASE IS 19-276.

[B. 19-2576 CE R&D 315 S 17th Street Lazare, Ermith Heather Debevec]

WE ARE REQUESTING -- (INDISCERNIBLE) -- >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THEY HAVE

REMOVED IT? SPEE10 THERE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

SO THE -- ARE YOU STILL ASKING FOR IT TO BE -- THERE'S NOTHING TO BE DONE? SPEE10 ESSENTIALLY, WE ARE ASKING THAT YOUR HONOR FIND THAT A VIOLATION EXISTED BUT IT

HAS BEEN CURED. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

I SAW FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTED, BUT THAT IT HAS BEEN CURED AT THIS TIME.

AT THE TIME OF THE HEARING AND THAT AT THIS POINT, THERE ARE NO COSTS SPEE10 PER STATE STATUTE. IF YOU COULD READ THAT PART OF THE ORDER PER STATE STATUTE.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: PER STATE STATUTE, 162.06 SUBSECTION 3 A REPEAT OF A VIOLATION WILL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL COSTS AND PENALTIES BEING ASSESSED. SPEE10 THANK YOU SPECIAL

MAGISTRATE. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: 19-2038. >>HEATHER DEBEVEC: THIS IS CASE

[C. 19-2038 CE 1510 Boston Avenue Pierre, Ghislaine Heather Debevec]

IT WAS REQUESTED THAT THEY REMOVE OR PLACE INTO A GARAGE OR SHED OR TO BRING IN THE BOARDS IN THE BACK THE ENGINE WALK ON THE WEST SIDE AND THE TARP ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE DRIVEWAY. BRING IN OR REMOVE THE STOOL, OFFICE CHAIR AND INDOOR FURNITURE FROM THE OAK TREE OUT FRONT. STORED TRASH AND RECYCLING IN THE BINS. THE CITY IS REQUESTING THAT IF THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE FINDS THE VIOLATION EXISTS. THE INDOOR FURNITURE IS COMPLIED SO I'M REQUESTING A DETERMINATION FOR THAT ONE SECTION, THE REST IS STILL THERE AND I DO HAVE PHOTOS THAT ARE LETTERED. WE WOULD MOVE THE PHOTOS AND IS A COMPOSITE ONE AND ALL KNOW THAT THERE IS NO TRY TO PRESENT THIS MORNING. -- I WILL NOTE THAT THERE IS NO

RESPONDENT PRESENT AT THIS MORNING. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE PHOTOS ARE ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE. WOULD THE CITY BE ABLE TO DO THIS WITHIN THE 10 DAYS? YOU SAID THAT THERE WAS SOME -- SOME HAVE BEEN TAKEN CARE OF

AND SOME HAD NOT. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: MIL. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THAT

WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD DO -- THEY HAVE 10 DAYS? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: I CAN GO BACK

AND CHECK. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: ALL RIGHT.

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>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I FIND THAT THE -- BASED ON THE PHOTOS SUBMITTED AND THE TESTIMONY OF THE CITY THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS AND THAT THE VIOLATOR IS GIVEN 10 DAYS TO COMPLY OR A

FINE OF $50 PER DAY WILL BE ASSESSED. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: JUST TO CLARIFY, AS TO OUTSIDE STORAGE AND CONTAINERS, THE FIRST AND THIRD OF THE VIOLATIONS LISTED, WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU FIND THAT A VIOLATION EXISTS IN ORDER EXACTLY AS YOU STATED.

AS TO THE OUTSIDE STORAGE OF INDOOR FURNITURE, WE WOULD ASK FOR A SEPARATE ORDER AND WE WILL SUBMIT A PROPOSED SEPARATE ORDER FOR REVIEW AND DETERMINATION WHEREIN WE WOULD

FIND -- ASK YOU THAT THE FINE DID EXIST BUT HAS BEEN CURED. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

THE -- THE ONE THAT DID EXIST, THAT HAS BEEN CURED, IS JUST THE ONE, CORRECT.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: MIMIC. THE INDOOR FURNITURE WAS COMPLIES.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: AND IN THAT CASE, THAT ONE HAS SINCE COME IN COMPLIANCE?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: MIL. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: AND THE OTHER TWO WERE NOT?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: CORRECT. AND FOR THOSE, THERE WILL BE A SEPARATE ORDER STATING THAT

THEY HAVE 10 DAYS TO COMPLY OR IT WILL BE $50 A DAY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THANK YOU.

[D. 19-2026 CE 114 S 16th Street Pierre, Majorie Heather Debevec]

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THANK YOU. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THANK YOU,

MA'AM. >>> WE HAVE 19-2026, 114 SOUTH 16TH STREET, P AIR.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS CASE NO.: TRENT -- 19-22026. THE CASE WAS INITIATED ON AUGUST 7 IT WAS FOUR SECTIONS 5 Ã1.104.5 UNSAFE BUILDING, COVERED WINDOWS.

IT WAS REQUESTED THEY REMOVE AND/OR OPEN THE SHUTTERS ON THE HOME.

WE ARE REQUESTING THAT THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE FINDS IF THE VIOLATION EXISTS THEY BE GIVEN A FINE. I DID RECEIVE A PHONE CALL FROM MS. PIERRE YESTERDAY LATE IN THE DAY. I WENT BY 7:30 A.M. THIS MORNING AND MANY OF THE SHUTTERS ARE OPENED. THERE IS STILL A PIECE OF PLYWOOD ON ONE OF THE WINDOWS WITH AN AC UNIT, BUT IS COVERING THE ENTIRE WINDOW STILL.

AND I DO HAVE PHOTOS THAT ARE LETTERED. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: AT THIS TIME -- AT THIS TIME I MOVE THE PHOTOS IN AS CITY ONE.

I WILL NOTICE THAT THE RESPONDENT IS NOT PRESENT AND I WILL RECOMMEND THAT WE RESET THIS MATTER TO SEE IF THE HOUSE CAN COME INTO FULL COMPLIANCE, IF THAT IS OKAY WITH STAFF.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE PHOTOS WILL BE ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE.

IN THE CASE WILL BE POSTPONED UNTIL THE NEXT HEARING. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THE OPTIONS ARE EITHER ON NOVEMBER 13 AND THEN THE HEARING AFTER THAT IS NOT UNTIL DECEMBER 4. THOSE ARE

THE TWO OPTIONS TO RESET IT FO . >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE NEXT ONE? OKAY. -- IT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL

THE NEXT HEARING. >>> CASE 19-1853. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: PROCEED WHEN

[E. 19-1853 CE 2703 Hills Court Bush, Lyudmila Heather Debevec]

YOU'RE READY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS CASE NO.: 19-1853 OWNED BY MS. BUSH. THE CASE WAS INITIATED JULY 24 OF THIS YEAR.

IT WAS FOR ROOFS AND DRAINAGE. IT'S REQUESTED THAT SHE OBTAIN A PERMIT FROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND REPAIR THE ROOF. THE CITY IS REQUESTING THAT THE SPECIAL REGISTRATION FINDS THE VIOLATION EXISTS THE VIOLATOR BE GIVEN 30 DAYS TO OBTAIN A PERMIT.

I DID HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH MS. BUSH. SHE COULD NOT BE HERE TODAY AS SHE IS IN CALIFORNIA. SHE IS WORKING ON TRYING TO GET A CONTRACTOR.

SHE IS HOPING TO HAVE A CONTRACTOR SIGNED WITH SOMEBODY BY THE END OF THIS WEEK, BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. THAT'S WHAT SHE IS SAYING. BUT THE CONTRACTOR TOLD HER THAT A PERMIT WAS NOT REQUIRED BECAUSE IT'S A SMALL AREA. SO IF IT'S A SMALL AREA, NOT

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WOULD EMAIL ME A COPY OF THE CONTRACT WHEN IT'S AVAILABLE. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: AT THIS TIME

WE WOULD MOVE THE PHOTOS AND AS COMPOSITE ONE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE PHOTOS ARE ADMITTED AS COMPOSITE 1. OKAY. HIS ATTACHMENT IS HIS -- DOES

SHE STILL NEED A PERMIT? IF IT'S REPAIR -- I DON'T KNOW. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: ULTIMATELY

THAT WILL BE THE DECISION OF THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

SO SHE WILL SUBMIT -- ASSUMING SHE GETS THE CONTRACT, SHE WILL SUBMIT IT.

OKAY. SO I WILL FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS AND THAT SHE HAS 30 DAYS TO OBTAIN DEPARTMENT OR COMPLIANCE WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND IF NOT, THE FINE OF $100 A DAY WOULD BE ASSESSED BEYOND THAT POINT.

THANK YOU. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: CASE 18-2161 -- 2160.

[G. 18-2160 CE 2009 S US Highway 1 Morris /Satnick FP Assoc LLC Heather Debevec]

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. I BELIEVE WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE HERE TODAY.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE DO. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS CASE NO.: 18-2160.

OWNED BY MORRIS AND ASSOCIATES LLC. THE CASE WAS INITIATED AUGUST 17 OF LAST YEAR, 2018. IT WAS FOR 304.2 PROTECTIVE TREATMENT, EXTERIOR WALLS, ROOFS AND DRAINAGE. IT WAS REQUESTED THAT THEY PAID THE BUILDING, REPAIR OR REPLACE THE DAMAGED STUCCO AND DRYWALL, OBTAIN A PERMIT TO REPAIR OR REPLACE THE GUTTERS AND REPLACE THE MISSING COVER, PATIENT OF THE BUSINESS FACING THE MAIN PARKING AREA.

THE CITY IS REQUESTING THAT IF THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE FINDS A VIOLATION EXISTS THE VIOLATOR BE GIVEN 30 DAYS TO OBTAIN A PERMIT AND COMPLY WITH CONDITIONS OR A FINE OF $100 A DAY BE ASSESSED. I DO HAVE PHOTOS TO PRESENT WHICH ARE NUMBERED.

AT THIS TIME WE WOULD MOVE THAT THE PHOTOS AS COMPOSITE 1 FOR THE CITY -- ACTUALLY COMPOSITE

A SINCE THE PHOTOS ARE NUMBERED, NOT LETTERED. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THE GENTLEMAN STANDING NEXT TO ME AS MR. FELDMAN HE IS THE GENTLEMAN WHO I'VE HAD CONTACT WITH THROUGH THE PROCESS, TRYING TO GET THINGS STRAIGHTENED OUT. THERE IS A PERMIT TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR THE ROOF AND REPAIR OF THE PATIENT OF THE BUILDING.

MR. FELDMAN ALSO HAD MADE STATEMENTS AT ONCE THE ROOF AND REPAIRS WERE MADE, THAT THE

BUILDING WOULD BE PAINTED. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. FIRST, I WILL ADMIT THE PHOTOS BY THE CITY AS ADMITTED BY THE CITY. AND DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE

AT THIS TIME? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: NO. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: WOULD YOU

PLEASE BE SWORN IN? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.

>>MALE SPEAKER: PETER FELDMAN. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: DO SWEAR THAT THE TESTIMONY WILL GIVE WILL BE

THE TRUTH? >>MALE SPEAKER: I DO. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THANK YOU.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: GO AHEAD. >>MALE SPEAKER: OKAY. I KNOW IT WILL SOUND STRANGE, BUT IT -- WE HAVE JUST -- AS OF LAST WEEK, SETTLED THE INSURANCE CLAIM FROM IRMA TWO

YEARS HENCE. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THAT'S GREAT (LAUGHING).

>>MALE SPEAKER: AND THE REVISED PERMIT IS NOW BEING PROCESSED FOR THE ROOF OVER THE KMART BUILDING. OKAY, WHICH HAS TO BE TOTALLY REPLACED FROM DECKING OUT.

ONCE THAT IS DONE, RIGHT, WHICH WILL TAKE PROBABLY THREE OR FOUR MONTHS, TO COMPLETE, RIGHT, WE WILL THEN CONTINUE WITH THE PROCESS OF FIXING UP THE BUILDING.

IN THE INTERIM, RIGHT NOW, WE ARE WAITING UNTIL THAT ROOF IS DONE, RIGHT, BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE ON THE PAINTING. BUT IN THE INTERIM, WE HAVE ALSO SUBMITTED FOR A BUILDING PERMIT TO REPLACE THE STANDING ALUMINUM IN FRONT OF THE OLD WINN-DIXIE THAT IS MISSING.

IT WAS $13,250 EXPENDITURE AND THAT PERMIT IS PENDING HOPEFULLY ONCE THAT IS DONE THAT WILL BE DONE IMMEDIATELY. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, THE ROOF CONTRACTORS IS OVER MILLION DOLLARS ITSELF JUST REPAIR THE ROOF. I JUST RECEIVED AS OF NOVEMBER 5 A QUOTE FOR REPAINTING THE BUILDING JUST YESTERDAY SO THAT IS GOING TO BE PUT OUT FOR

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SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE BEING DONE AND ONCE WAWA IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL WORK THAT WE WILL BE DOING TO THE -- TO THE SIDE AS WELL.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: DO YOU HAVE ANY PAPERWORK OR ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SUBMIT?

>>MALE SPEAKER: I'M SORRY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: YOU HAVE PAPERWORK THAT YOU WANT TO

SUBMIT TO THE MAGISTRATE. >>MALE SPEAKER: I THINK I'VE -- I HAVE A COPY OF THE PURCHASE ORDER FOR THE ROOF OR WINN-DIXIE. I DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE A COPY OF THE 20 PAGE -- 25 PAGE PAINTING PROPOSAL YET, BUT I WILL BE GLAD TO SCAN IT AND SEND IT UP,TOO SUBMIT IT OR YOU CAN LOOK AT IT NOW. BUT THIS -- I DO NOT HAVE AN

EXTRA COPY WITH ME. I AM SORRY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: MAY ASK A

QUESTION? >>MALE SPEAKER: THAT'S UP TO YOU.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: COULD YOU PUT -- >>FEMALE SPEAKER: I'M SORRY.

MR. FELDMAN, SO, FORWARD THIS EMAIL CORRECTLY -- I WANT TO CONFIRM WHAT I'M READING.

THE PERMIT APPLICATION IS BEING SUBMITTED FOR THE WINN-DIXIE PORTION.

>>MALE SPEAKER: YES. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IT'S NOT BEEN APPROVED YET.

>>MALE SPEAKER: IT'S NOT BEEN APPROVED YET. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY.

>>MALE SPEAKER: IT WAS SUBMITTED THIS LAST WEEK. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IT WAS DATED

TWO DAYS AGO. >>MALE SPEAKER: RIGHT. AND THIS WAS YESTERDAY.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE CAN BE COPIES OF ANY OF THIS FOR THE RECORD.

>>MALE SPEAKER: THAT'S FINE. COPY WHATEVER YOU WOULD LIKE. ALL RIGHT.

SO THAT WAS JUST THE FIRST PROPOSAL. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: AND THE ROOF

PERMIT HAS BEEN ISSUED? >>MALE SPEAKER: THE ROOF PERMIT IS BEING REVISED.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS BEING REVISED. >>MALE SPEAKER: OKAY.

INITIALLY, IT WAS SUBMITTED AND APPROVED AND THERE WAS A CHANGE TO IT SO THEY WERE GOING TO REVISE IT AND HOPEFULLY WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO, THAT PERMIT WILL BE ISSUED AND THEY WILL BE COMMENCING IMMEDIATELY TO START ON THE ROOF FOR THE KMART BUILDING.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: SO WHAT STAFF IS RECOMMENDING AS 30 DAYS TO OBTAIN THE PERMIT.

YOU BELIEVE IT CAN BE OBTAINED WITHIN 30 DAYS. >>MALE SPEAKER: I WOULD HOPE SO SINCE THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT HAS REVIEWED THIS BEFORE AND THEY'VE WORKED WITH IT.

BUT IT'S UP TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AT THIS POINT. 30 DAYS WITH THE HOLIDAY,

THAT'S UP TO THEM. I'M HOPING SPEAK. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE TALK ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT PARCELS. THE ROOF PERMIT IS FOUR 2111 AND I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE PAINTING. I WAS GOING TO ASK IF THAT WAS FOR THE 2111 SECTION OR THE

2009 SECTION? >>MALE SPEAKER: WELL, THE ADDRESS ON IT IS 211, 21111,

BUT ENCOMPASSES THE ENTIRE SIT . >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE HAD TWO DIFFERENT CASES AND IT'S ALL ONE PLAZA RUNNING THE GAMUT OF TWO PARCELS.

SO SOME OF THE PERMITS THAT WE ARE DISCUSSING ARE FOR A DIFFERENT SECTION.

>>MALE SPEAKER: ADJUST QUICKLY, BECAUSE I JUST STARTED TO READ IT, THE ROOF -- THE PAINTING CONTRACT DOES HAVE A LIST OF REPAIRERS TO THE FAC'ADE. OKAY.

UNDERNEATH. OF -- ON A -- I JUST LOOKED AT IT PROBABLY $15,000 OF LISTED ITEM BY ITEM IN THE QUICK LOCATION. WHICH WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH AS WELL. SO ALL THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PAINTING CONTRACT.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: DID YOU HAVE -- ARE YOU ASKING -- YOU THINK 30 DAYS?

ARE YOU ASKING FOR MORE TIME. >>MALE SPEAKER: I'M ONLY ASKING FOR TIME FOR THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO ISSUE DEPARTMENT. SO WHETHER IT IS A 30 OR 45 DAYS, WHATEVER IT IS, THE PROCESS IS THERE. WE HAVE NO MORE CONTROL UNLESS I COME BACK AND ASK US QUESTIONS. SO WHATEVER THE TIMEFRAME IS, AS SOON AS WE GET IT, THE ROOF WILL START IN THE PAINTING WILL NOT START UNTIL THE ROOF IS DONE BUT THE MANSARD ROOF OR WINN-DIXIE AND THE KMART ROOF WILL BE DONE IMMEDIATELY ONCE THE PERMIT IS RELEASED.

SO, YOU HAVE TO TELL ME. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: STAFF HAS NO OBJECTION TO INCREASING THE TIME LIMIT TO 45 DAYS BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THERE'S GOING TO BE HOLIDAYS AT DROP IN THE MIDDLE OF IT AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT MIGHT -- MIGHT WANT TO VALID.

STAFF IS AGREEABLE TO 45 DAYS. >>MALE SPEAKER: IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE DELAYING,

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RIGHT. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: I UNDERSTAND.

>>MALE SPEAKER: IS JUST WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER GETTING IT THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. I'LL FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS, BUT THAT YOU HAVE 45 DAYS TO OBTAIN A PERMIT AND COMPLY WITH ALL THE PERMIT CONDITIONS.

OTHERWISE, FIND $100 A DAY WILL BEGIN AFTER THAT. >>MALE SPEAKER: OKAY.

I'LL PUSH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT (LAUGHING). >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: IF JIMMY COULD GRAB THOSE PAPER SHE WILL MAKE COPIES?

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: SHE HAS THEM. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE WILL MAKE

COPIES FOR THE RECORD. AND THEN WE WILL RETURN THEM. >>MALE SPEAKER: IN MY DONE?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: YOU CAN HAVE A SEAT UNTIL SHE COMES BACK WITH YOUR PAPERS.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: THE NEXT CASE IS 19-0072. 1018 NORTH 13TH STREET.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: IS THERE SOMEONE HERE FOR THIS? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: NOT THAT I'M

[H. 19-0072 CE 1018 N 13th Street Terry, Patricia Ruthe, Willie Heather Debevec]

AWARE. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS CASE NO.: 19-72.

IT'S 41018 NORTH 13TH STREET. THE CASE WAS INITIATED ON JANUARY 16 OF THIS YEAR.

IT WAS FOR ACCESSORY STRUCTURES SECTION 1646, 1647, 1648 SUBSECTIONS ONE AND FIVE, OUTSIDE STORAGE. IT'S REQUESTED THAT THEY OBTAIN A PERMIT FROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND REPAIR THE FENCE. REMOVE THE CANS, BINS, FROM BEHIND THE RV BUCKETS AND TOOLS FROM UNDER THE TREE IN THE BACKYARD.

THE CITY IS REQUESTING THAT THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE FINDS A VIOLATION EXISTS THAT THE VIOLATOR BE GIVEN 30 DAYS TO OBTAIN A PERMIT TO APPLY WITH CONDITIONS OR A FINE OF $50 PER

DAY BE OBSESSED. AND I DO HAVE PHOTOS. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THE CITY

WOULD MOVE THE PHOTOS AS CITIES A. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THEIR NUMBERED INDIVIDUALLY. SO A INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED PHOTOGRAPHS.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: OKAY. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE PHOTOS WILL BE ADMITTED.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: THANK YOU, MA'AM. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THESE

CONDITIONS STILL EXIST? OKAY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: AS YOU GO FOR THE BACK SEAT THE DATES PROGRESS AND HOW IT'S CHANGED A BIT.

[I. 19-0404 CE 311 N 18th Street Williams - Parker, Kimberly Heather Debevec]

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE HAVE 19-44 >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WE HAVE 19-443 11/18 STREET WILLIAMS

PARKER. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS CASE NO.: 19- 0404.

THE PROPERTY IS OWNED BY KIMBERLY WILLIAMS PARKER. THE CASE WAS INITIATED FEBRUARY IS OWNED BY KIMBERLY WILLIAMS PARKER. THE CASE WAS INITIATED FEBRUARY 13 IT WAS FOR ROOF SAND DRAINAGE. IT'S REQUESTED THAT SHE OBTAIN

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THE CITY IS REQUESTING THAT IF THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE FINDS A VIOLATION EXISTS THAT THEY OBTAIN A PERMANENT AND COMPLY WITH CONDITIONS OR A FINE OF -- IF I WILL BE ASSESSED.

MS. WILLIAMS AND I HAD SPOKEN A FEW TIMES IN THE PAST WHERE I HAD TRIED TO PUT HER IN TOUCH WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, ANOTHER PROGRAM WITH WORLD CHANGERS WHICH NEITHER WAS ABLE TO ASSIST HER. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT SHE IS ALSO REACHED OUT TO SOME OTHER PLACES AS I SPOKE WITH HER THIS MORNING WHICH HE HAD PAPERWORK FOR -- SOME OF WHICH WAS DENIED IN SOME SHE CAN TELL YOU WHERE SHE'S AT IN THE PROCESS SPEE41 -- AND I JUST INQUIRE OF STAFF, YOU WANT TO DISCUSS THE INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS? DO YOU WANT TO GO THROUGH THEM OR DO YOU WANT TO -- THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE TO REVIEW THEM?

>>> SHE CAN REVIEW THEM. THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT ON IT. IT'S NOT LIKE SOME OF THE

OTHERS, SORRY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: OKAY. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THE

PHOTOS ARE ACCEPTED AND SUBMITTED INTO EVIDENCE. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: SO THE CORRECTIVE ACTION IS SHE NEEDS A PERMIT? TO REPAIR THE TRIM AROUND THE HOME? DO YOU WANT TO TESTIFY, MA'AM, AS TO WHAT.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WANT TO LET JONAH. >>CLERK: LET'S WORRY WHEN.

STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: KIMBERLY WILLIAMS PARKER.

>>CLERK: DO SWEAR OR AFFIRM THE TESTIMONY YOU GIVE WILL BE THE TRUTH?

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: YES. >>CLERK: THANK YOU. >>CLERK:

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I HAVE REACHED OUT TO IT'S CALLED REBUILD FLORIDA.

THEY ARE -- I'VE HEARD MY FIRST INSPECTION FOR THEM TO REPAIR THE HOME.

THEY DID GIVE ME A LETTER TO PRESENT TO YOU ALL SHOWING THAT I DID REACH OUT TO THEM DUE TO THAT I WAS -- I'VE BEEN OUT OF WORK FOR THREE MONTHS ON MEDICAL LEAVE.

I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FINANCIALLY AFFORD TO DO ANYTHING AT THIS TIME BEING THAT I AM A SINGLE MOTHER OF FIVE KIDS. I'VE BEEN GOING ON -- BACK AND FORTH WITH MS. HEATHER TRYING TO GET THINGS SITUATED. I REACHED OUT TO THE CITY.

THEY TOLD ME I THEY DIDN'T HAVE FUNDING. THEY HAVE NOT YET GOTTEN BACK WITH ME. BUT LIKE I SAY, I DID RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM -- I DID THE APPLICATION PROCESS. I HAD MY FIRST INSPECTION WAS REBUILD FLORIDA AND THEY DO HAVE -- THEY GAVE ME THIS STATING WHERE WE ARE ACT -- AT IN THE PROCESS OF THAT.

AS FAR AS TRYING TO PULL A PERMIT ANYTHING FINANCIALLY, I AM UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING FINANCIALLY RIGHT NOW. BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO GET OUT OF DEBT WITH MY BILLS AS WE SPEAK DUE TO I WAS OUT OF WORK AND I DO HAVE PROOF OF THAT AS WELL.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: DID THE -- DID THEY GIVE YOU ANY KIND OF TIMEFRAME ON --

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: THE LETTER STATES HE COULD TAKE UP TO 30 DAYS.

THEY DID TO THE FIRST INSPECTION. THERE'S TWO MORE INSPECTIONS THAT HA TO BE DONE. MY NEXT INSPECTION IS THE LEAD-BASED PAINT INSPECTION THAT THEY HAVE TO DO. AGAIN, SHE SAID HE COULD TAKE AT LEAST 30 DAYS OR LONGER.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: IS THAT OUR COPY TO KEEP? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: YOU CAN KEEP

IT BECAUSE I HAVE IT IN MY EMAIL. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: WITH THE

CITY ENTERTAIN AN EXTENSION OF TIME THERE 90 DAYS? >>FEMALE SPEAKER: 90 DAYS WOULD

BE A GOOD START IF WE NEED TO WE CAN BRING IT BACK. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: IS SAYING THE PROCESSES COULD TAKE 30 DAYS OR MORE WILL NEED AT LEAST 90.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I'LL SEE IF SHE HAS AN UPDATE AND I CAN UPDATE HEATHER.

>>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: THAT WOULD BE GREAT. >>HEATHER DEBEVEC: DATE CERTAIN FEBRUARY 5 WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY THREE MONTHS SO THIS WILL BE POSTPONED UNTIL

FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY 5 OKAY. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: IF I HAVE TO COME BACK HERE I WOULD BE

NOTICE FOR MY JOB. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THINGS ARE MOVING OR IN PLACE WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE IT. FEBRUARY 5 WOULD BE -- YOU GET A LETTER IN THE MAIL THIS WEEK SAYING IT'S RESET FOR FEBRUARY 5 AND IF WE HAVE TO GO INTO CLIENTS BEFORE THEN GET STARTED, WE DON'T NEED TO COME BACK ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

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THAT'S FOR THE RECORD. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: 1915 28. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS CASE

[J. 19-1528 CE 418 N 25th Street Monds McCullough, Inez Heather Debevec]

NO.: 19-15 >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS IS CASE NO.: 19-1520.

IT'S OWNED BY DESIGN AS. THE CASE WAS INITIATED JUNE 19 OF THIS YEAR IT WAS FOR SECTION 1646, 1647, 1648 OUTSIDE STORAGE. PROTECTIVE TREATMENT SIDEWALKS AND DRIVEWAYS IT WAS REQUESTED TO BRING IN OR REMOVE TARPS AND WOOD PIECES PAINTED THE GABLE AT THE BACK OF THE BUILDING THE NORTHWEST CORNER IS BARE WOOD. OBTAIN A PERMIT AND REPAIR THE DRIVEWAY PARKING AREA. THE CITY REQUESTED IF THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE FINDS THAT A VIOLATION EXISTS THAT THEY CAN COMPLY WITH THE PERMIT CONDITIONS OR A FINE BE ASSESSED. I DO HAVE PHOTOS WHICH ARE NUMBERED.

WHEN I WENT BY THE PROPERTY LAST, SOME OF THE WORK HAD BEEN DONE WHEREAS SOME OF THE TRIM HAD BEEN PAINTED TOWARD THE NORTHWEST CORNER. THE BUFFER IS IN THE BACK WITH

OTHER ITEMS. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: WILL BRING THE PHOTOS UP AND YOU CAN

DISCUSS THEM. >>HEATHER DEBEVEC: OKAY IF WE GO TOWARD THE.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: ONE SECOND. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: BEFORE WE MOVE THE PHOTOS AND I'D LIKE TO

GIVE THE RESPONDENT AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THEM. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: MANIC.

SOME OF THEM ARE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CASE AND SOME ARE CURRENT.

SO THAT THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE CAN SEE ANY CHANGES THAT HAPPENED.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: WHEN WE REVIEW THE PHOTOS MAKE SURE THAT YOU SAID -- AS WE GO

THROUGH THEM. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: SHE WILL EXPLAIN IN A MOMENT.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN SEE WHAT IS GOING UP TO THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE. YOU WILL GET A CHANCE TO TALK TO THEM -- TO TALK ABOUT THEM AS WELL.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: AT THIS TIME HE WOULD MOVE THEM AS CITIES THEY WOULD SEPARATELY CONTAIN

PHOTOGRAPHS THEREIN. >>FEMALE SPEAKER: THIS WILL BE SUBMITTED INTO EVIDENCE BEFORE IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY THE PHOTOS BEFORE OKAY. THIS IS FROM A 30 OF THIS YEAR.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT IS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE BUILDING WHERE THERE IS SOME BARE WOOD UP BY THE TRIM YES. RIGHT IN THERE. THIS IS ALSO MAY 31 FROM THIS YEAR. SHOWING THE BUFFER THAT I WAS TRYING TO DESCRIBE ALONG WITH SOME WOOD IN THE BARE WOOD FOR THE GABLE IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING.

AGAIN, OUTSIDE STORAGE IS THE BACK OF THE BUILDING IN THE GABLE.

SHOWING THE BARE WOOD OF THE GABLE AND THEN FROM MAY 31 YOU CAN SEE WHERE THERE IS SOME TRIM THAT STILL NEEDED TO BE PAINTED. THE TABLE IN THE BINS HAD BEEN MOVED AT THAT POINT. THIS IS MAY 31 AS WELL IT HAD TO DO WITH THE DRIVEWAY.

THIS IS -- THAT'S OKAY. THAT WAS JUST SHOWING WHERE IT NEEDED TO BE PRESSURE WORST -- PRESSURE WASH. BUT I BELIEVE THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN CARE OF. THIS -- I DO NOT REMEMBER BECAUSE THIS IS ON THE TABLET I WANT TO SAY IT WAS IN JULY.

IT SHOWING THAT NORTHWEST CORNER THAT STILL NEEDED TO BE PAINTED.

THIS IS OCTOBER 4 AND IT SHOWING THE DRIVEWAY WHERE IT IS CRACKED AND NEEDED TO BE REPAIRED. OCTOBER 4 AGAIN SHOWING THE NORTHWEST CORNER IS NEEDING TO BE PAINTED. FROM OCTOBER 4 IT WAS A PIECE OF WOOD THAT WAS STILL A BARE WINDOW. OCTOBER FOR THE INDUSTRIAL BUFFER AND THE OUTSIDE STORAGE

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OCTOBER 4 SHOWING THE BARE WOOD FROM THE GABLE IN THE BACK THAT NEED TO BE PAINTED OCTOBER 4 SHOWING THE OUTSIDE STORAGE WOULD BE -- WITH THE BUFFER IN THE TOP -- IN THE BUILDING.

NOVEMBER 1 SHOWING THAT THE DRIVEWAY IS STILL CRACKED AND BROKEN.

NOVEMBER 1, THE TRIM HAS BEEN PAINTED AT THAT NORTHWEST CORNER, NOVEMBER 1 SHOWING THE WOOD THAT WAS -- OVER THE WINDOW AND SHOWING THE BUFFER AT THE BACK OF THE BUILDING.

NOVEMBER 1 A CLEAR PICTURE OF THE BUFFER AND SOME OF THE OUTSIDE STORAGE STILL AT THE BACK OF THE BUILDING NOVEMBER 1 SHOWING SOME OF THE OUTSIDE STORAGE AT THE BACK OF THE BUILDING IN THE BARE WOOD FOR THE GABLE INTERIM. AND I DID SPEAK WITH -- I THINK IT WAS THE PHONE CALL I HAD FROM HER. WHERE SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO GET THE DRIVEWAY FIXED AND SHE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE TO PARK THE VEHICLE TEMPORARILY IN THE GRASS IF SHE WOULD BE CITED AGAIN FOR THAT WHILE THEY REPAIRED THIS

AMOUNT. >>SPECIAL MAGISTRATE: WOULD YOU LIKE TO TESTIFY.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: YES. >>CLERK: RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND IN STAGE NAME FOR THE RECORD.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: MISS MCCULLOUGH. >>CLERK: DO SWEAR THE TESTIMONY YOU ARE ABOUT TO GIVE A BE THE TRUTH? THIS I DO.

>>> I'M GOING TO START WITH THE BUILDING. I HAVE PICTURES WHERE SHE SAID NOVEMBER WHATEVER DATE THAT WAS. SHE CAME BY.

>>FEMALE SPEAKER: NOVEMBER 1. I HAVE PICTURES WHERE IT HAS BEEN REPAIRED.

AND I WANT TO STATE THAT IN THE PROCESS, WHEN -- I HAD JUST PURCHASED THIS BUILDING.

AND THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. SO, AT THE TIME, I HAD JUST RECEIVED ALL THESE VIOLATIONS. I WASN'T QUITE THE OWNER BECAUSE I STILL SO WHEN I PAID FOR IT, THEN I WAS ENTANGLED WITH ALL OF THIS. SO, I DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY.

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THE PROTECTIVE TREATMENT, THE PAINTING, THAT IS DONE? >> I SHOWED YOU THAT.

>> NOT WHEN I LOOKED ON NOVEMBER 1. IF SOMETHING IS CHANGED SINCE THEN I'M NOT

AWARE OF IT. >> WHAT IS THE DATE. >> WE REPLACE THE WOOD AND WE PUT PRIMER ON IT AND THEN PAINTED. THIS OTHER ONE HERE IS LOOKING IN THE BACK. WE JUST PUT THAT OUT. RIGHT HERE, THAT HAS BEEN DONE.

>> FEMALE SPEAKER. I KNOW THE RULES OF EVIDENCE ARE RELAXED IN THIS PROCEEDING BUT I WILL NOTE IT IS A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO HAVE DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT IS ON THE PHONE.

>> I CAN GRAB IT RIGHT NOW. >> IF WE COULD PAUSE FOR A SECOND.

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>> FEMALE SPEAKER:. I HAVE MAYBE A SPACE IN BETWEEN. I HAVE THE BEFORE AND THEN

AFTER. >> OKAY. >> WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO HIT THE OVERHEAD BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON I'M HAVING A PROBLEM. GIVE ME A SECOND FOR THIS TO LOAD UP.

IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN TO THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE FURTHER WHAT SHE IS SAYING HERE.

THAT IS WHERE SHE NEEDED TO -- SHE SAID THAT'S RIGHT SHE WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT IT.

>> NEEDS TO BE REPAINTED. >> REALLY WANTS YOU FOUND OUT THE TERMITES HAD GOTTEN TO IT.

SO WE REPLACE THE WOOD WITH PRESSURE-TREATED WOOD. GO TO YOUR LEFT.

>> CAN WE CLARIFY WHAT DATE THESE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN? >> NOT EXACTLY ON THEIR BUT THIS IS AGAIN UNPAINTED WOOD. THIS IS THE PART YOU ARE WORKING ON?

>> YES, REPLACING. AND THUS THE OTHER SIDE WHERE THE LIGHT IS AND THAT IS ON THE

NORTH SIDE AND THAT WAS REPLACED. >> YOU REPLACE THE WOOD.

>> AND ALSO HAS BEEN PRIMED. WE HAVE TO PRIME THE WOOD BECAUSE IF THE WEATHER HITS IT.

THAT'S ANOTHER THING. IT RAIN, RAIN, RAIN A LOT. WE GOT CALLED INTO THE HURRICANE SITUATION AS WELL. IF IT GETS WET BEFORE WE CAN PRIME IT, WE HAVE TO TEAR IT

DOWN AND PUT ANOTHER ONE BACK UP AGAIN. >> ARE THERE MORE PHOTOS?

>> THAT IS THE BACK. WE HAVE REPAIRED THAT. AND THAT PART RIGHT UP THERE

TOO. >> YOU'RE SAYING THIS PART WAS REPAIRED?

>> BROWN HERE, THIS TAN HERE, ALL OF THAT WAS REPAIRED. >> OKAY.

AND I THINK THAT'S IT. >> SO IF WE CAN JUST TRY AND DECIMATE THIS ALSO NEEDS TO BE

PAINTED? >> NO. THAT HAS BEEN PAINTED.

I DIDN'T DROP BY THERE AND GET THE PART WHERE IT WAS PAINTED BUT IT IS.

I WOULD NOT STAND HERE AND LIE TO YOU. YOU CAN COME BY AND VISIT.

GO BY THERE NOW AND YOU WILL SEE IT IS PAINTED. >> AND THEN, MS. MCCULLOUGH, ONE LAST QUESTION, HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WOULD TAKE FOR YOU TO GET A PERMIT FOR THE

DRIVEWAY BECAUSE YOU NEED TO REPAIR WITH THE CRACK WAS? >> I SPOKE WITH SOMEONE AND THERE IS THIS -- WAIT. OKAY. OH MY GOODNESS.

CAN'T FIND IT. LET ME SEE. I THINK THE PICTURES -- LET ME

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I CANNOT REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT BUT I DO HAVE IT HERE. IT IS NOT GOING TO BE SEEN THAT BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT I AM GOING TO DO IS NOT GOING TO PERMIT THIS.

>> HOW LONG DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD NEED TO MAKE THE CORRECTION?

>> I CAN'T RIGHTFULLY SAY. WE HAVE BEEN HAVING A LOT OF RAIN OFF AND ON.

>> SPECIAL MAGISTRATE, STAFF IS GOING TO AMEND OUR RECOMMENDATION SLIGHTLY.

BECAUSE THE FENCE WE'RE LOOKING AT SOMEWHERE AROUND DECEMBER 15.

THE PAINTING MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN DONE. WE NEED TO CONFIRM AND WE NEED TIME FOR THE DRIVEWAY. TO KEEP IT SIMPLIFIED, STAFF IS REQUESTING IF YOU DO FIND VIOLATION EXISTS THAT MS. MCCULLOUGH BE GIVEN 60 DAYS TO COMPLY TO VIOLATIONS.

AND IF NECESSARY OBTAIN PERMITS FOR WHAT IS NEEDED. >> OKAY.

>> THAT IS THE STAFFS RECOMMENDED. THAT WOULD BRING IT TO THE

FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY. >> THAT SOUNDS REASONABLE. >> YES MA'AM.

THEN I FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTED -- EXISTS STILL AND YOU HAVE 60 DAYS, CORRECT, TO OBTAIN A PERMIT AND OTHERWISE COMPLY WITH PERMIT CONDITIONS BEFORE THE $50 FINE WOULD BE

ASSESSED. >> OKAY. >> AND TO COMPLY ALL THE

VIOLATIONS. >> RIGHT. >> IF SHE NEEDS A PERMIT SHE CAN GET ONE AND SHE DOESN'T THEN WE WILL JUST COMPLY THE VIOLATIONS.

>> THE 60 DAYS WILL COVER ALL OF THEM TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE.

>> OKAY. >> IF YOU COULD TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH HEATHER.

HEATHER CAN WORK WITH YOU IF NEED BE. LET HER KNOW ANYTIME YOU MAKE

AN IMPROVEMENT AND SHE WILL COME OUT AND CHECK IT. >> OKAY.

SHE CAN GO BY THERE NOW AND CHECK IT OUT BECAUSE A LOT OF THE WORK HAS BEEN DONE ON THE BUILDING, I JUST HATE THE FACT I GOT CAUGHT UP. I JUST PURCHASED A BUILDING AND THEN JUST LIKE THAT. SHE KNOWS THAT BECAUSE I HAD HER SPEAK WITH THE OWNER OF THE BUILDING WHILE I WAS TRYING TO GET PAPERWORK TRANSFERRED AND EVERYTHING.

>> WE APPRECIATE YOU WORKING WITH US. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> THANK YOU. >> OKAY. WE HAVE CASE 19SS9Ö16 NORTH

[L. 19-0409 CE 316 N 18th Street Johnson, Elsa Heather Debevec]

18TH STREET JOHNSON. >> YOUR HONOR THIS IS CASE NUMBER 1903 >> YOUR HONOR THIS IS CASE NUMBER 19 030-9316 NORTH 18TH STREET OWNED BY MS. ELSA JOHNSON.

THE CASE WAS INITIATED ON APRIL 24 OF THAT YEAR FOR LEAKS AND DRAINAGE.

IT IS REQUESTED THEY OBTAIN A PERMIT FROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND REPAIR ROOF.

THE CITY IS REQUESTING THAT IF THE MAGISTRATE FINDS A VIOLATION EXISTED THEY BE GIVEN 30 DAYS TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE. I DO HAVE PHOTOS WHICH ARE LETTERED AND I HAVE SPOKEN WITH MS. JOHNSON. I KNOW SHE WAS HAVING ISSUES WITH THE INSURANCE COMPANY AND TRYING TO FIND A CONTRACTOR ONCE SHE GOT THE INSURANCE

STRAIGHTENED OUT. >> IF WE CAN SHOW MS. JOHNSON, I'M NOT SURE WHICH.

>> MS. JOHNSON, SHE IS SPEAKING FOR ME. >> IF WE CAN LET MS. JOHNSON HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO VIEW THE PHOTOGRAPHS, MA'AM YOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY BUT YOU CAN'T DIRECTLY REPRESENT HER UNLESS YOU'RE AN ATTORNEY.

>> OKAY. >> YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THEM, MA'AM?

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>> I BELIEVE THOSE WERE LETTERED BECAUSE THERE WASN'T THAT MANY.

>> AS TO COMPOSITE ONE, LET'S SPECIFICALLY LABELED THE EXHIBITS OR PHOTOGRAPHS

CONTAINED THEREIN. >> DO WE NEED TO REVIEW THESE PHOTOS?

>> THEY ARE ALL PRETTY MUCH THE SAME WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE BLUE TARP ON THE ROOF WHEN I COME

BACK TO CHECK. >> A, B, C, D WILL BE ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE.

, ASK A QUESTION? MY MOM DOES NOT -- SHE DOES NOT REMEMBER ALL THE DATES AND STUFF. AND I HELP HER TAKE CARE OF ALL OF THIS.

THAT IS WHY I'M HERE. SO, YOU KNOW, >> WE WILL HELP YOU WITH THAT

IN THE SECOND. >> OKAY. >> THIS IS PHOTOGRAPH EIGHT.

IF YOU GET IT DESCRIBE IT REAL QUICK. >> THIS IS ON FEBRUARY 7. YOU CAN SEE THE TARP ON THE BACK OF THE ROOF. APRIL 17, WHERE YOU CAN STILL SEE IT ON THE ROOF. MAY 16, SAME THING. NOVEMBER 1, SAME WHERE THERE IS

NOT MUCH CHANGE. >> I JUST WANT TO GIVE THEM A HAND.

>> ANYTHING ELSE, HEATHER? >> WE WILL SWEAR THEM BOTH IN. >> PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND

AND STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. >> SUSAN DARBILLE.

DO YOU SWEAR FROM THE TESTIMONY ABOUT TO GIVE ME THE TRUTH. >> YES.

>> MS. JOHNSON, MS. JOHNSON, DO YOU HAVE ANYBODY YOU WANT TO CALL TO HELP YOU TESTIFY TODAY?

>> SHE'S RIGHT HERE. >> OKAY. AND SHE IS?

>> DAUGHTER. >> HER NAME IS? >> SUSAN.

>> OKAY. WE HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN GOING THROUGH WIAN INSURANCE COMPANY.

WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE INSURANCE COMPANY AND FIGHTING WITH THEM TO GET EVERYTHING FIXED. USUALLY WE HAVE DAD TO DO EVERYTHING AND HE IS NO LONGER HERE. JUST FIGHTING WITH THEM. WERE TRYING TO GET A CONTRACTOR. WE ACTUALLY PAID SOMEONE TO GET THE PERMIT AND TO DO EVERYTHING. WHEN WE GOT READY TO SIT DOWN WITH THEM THEY CHANGED THE PRICE ON US. IT HAS BEEN A STRUGGLE TO FIND THE RIGHT PERSON TO COME IN TO DO THE WORK. WHO IS NOT GOING TO CHEAT US. SO WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF

GETTING DIFFERENT ESTIMATES. >> THE CITY DOES NOT HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS.

>> UP UNTIL TODAY, WE HAVE SOMEONE ELSE COMING OUT. IT IS JUST WHEN THE TIME.

WE DIDN'T KNOW -- I GUESS A PERMIT LAST SIX MONTHS? >> YES.

>> WE DID NOT KNOW HOW THE PERMIT GOES. THE TIMEFRAME DEPENDS ON THE CONTRACTORS. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE WAITING ON NOW, JUST SOMEONE TO COME IN TO HELP US SO THAT THEY WON'T CHANGE THE PRICE AND WERE DEPENDENT ON ONE PERSON.

SO NEVER GET DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT WE NEED TO DO. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW FOR GOING TO

GET OUR MONEY BACK. >> IS 30 DAYS, DO YOU NEED MORE THAN 30 DAYS? IS THAT SOMETHING TO OBTAIN THE PERMIT YOU THINK? ASSUMING THE CITY WOULD

ENTERTAIN THAT. >> WE LEAVE THAT IN YOUR DISCRETION.

ET THE ONLY DIFFERENCE, IF IT DOESN'T

WORK OUT IN 30 DAYS THEN. >> YOU WANT TO SAY 60 DAYS? >> 60 DAYS, YES.

>> ALL RIGHT. I WILL FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXIST BUT THAT YOU HAVE 60 DAYS

WITH WHICH TO COMPLY. >> OKAY. >> THAT SHOULD GIVE YOU HOPEFULLY ENOUGH TIME. OTHERWISE THE FINE OF $50 A DAY WOULD BEGIN AFTER THAT.

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IF YOU ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE. >> ALL RIGHT. >> JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, THAT IS 60 DAYS TO OBTAIN THE PERMIT AND COMPLY WITH THE CONDITIONS OF THE PERMIT.

>> ABSOLUTELY. >> WHEN SHE -- ONCE YOU OBTAIN THE PERMIT YOU HAVE 60 DAYS TO

DO THAT. AND THEN YOU HAVE SIX MONTHS. >> CAN WE REPAIR THAT OR DOES

THE CONTRACTOR HAVE TO DO IT? >> THIS IS TENANT OCCUPIED? >> YES.

>> YOU NEED A CONTRACTOR. >> THANK YOU MA'AM. >> ONE MORE QUESTION, IF IT IS

NOT A TENANT LIVING IN THERE, YOU CAN PULL YOUR OWN PERMITS? >> I WOULD REFER YOU TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO GET THE PROPER ANSWERS. THEY CAN EXPLAIN.

I KNOW IF IT IS OCCUPIED BY TENANT EDD IN A CONTRACTOR. WHEN YOU START GETTING DIFFERENT VARIATIONS I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU ASK THEM DIRECTLY.

>> I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT. NOBODY WANT TRICK ME AGAIN.

>> THEY ARE HERE IN THE BUILDING AND WE CAN WALK YOU UPSTAIRS TO ASSESS QUESTIONS

YOU MIGHT ASK THOSE QUESTIONS. >> KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ME WITH WHAT'S GOING ON SO WE CAN KEEP

THE CASE UPDATED. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU.

[M. 19-2489 VR 1550 S Ocean Drive A-1 Sanchez, Andres Sintes, Maria Heather Debevec]

>> WE HAVE A VACATION RENTAL CASE IN 19 2489, 1550 S. OCEAN DRY A1 AND THIS IS MRS.

SANCHEZ. >> YOUR HONOR THIS IS CASE NUMBER 19-2489.

IT IS FOR 1550 S. OCEAN DRIVE UNIT AÄ. IT IS FOR ANDRES SANCHEZ, NORA REYES SANCHEZ. IT WAS INITIATED ON SEPTEMBER 18.

IT IS REQUESTING THEY IMMEDIATELY REMOVE THE AD AND CANCEL ALL BOOKINGS AND APPLY FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT THROUGH PLANNING AND ZONING. THE CITY IS REQUESTING A FINE EQUAL TO ONE MONTH'S RENTAL BE ASSESSED WHICH IS $3047. THE CITY ALSO REQUEST IMMEDIATE CEASE AND DESIST ORDER BE IMPOSED IN FUTURE RENTALS BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY.

THEY ALL NEED TO BE REMOVED AND PROOF OF PENDING CANCELLATIONS NEED TO BE PROVIDED.

IT WAS GIVEN YESTERDAY A COPY OF THE ADS STILL UP. >> CAN WE JUST CLARIFY? FIRST OF ALL, SPECIAL MAGISTRATE, WE HAVE A VOLUNTEER FOR THE CITY OF FORT PIERCE WHO RESEARCHES VACATION RENTAL ISSUES. AND I BELIEVE THE CASE

INITIATED WITH HER CORRECT? >> YES MA'AM. >> AT THIS TIME WE WOULD LIKE TO CALL HER SO SHE CAN TESTIFY AS TO HER DIRECT OBSERVATIONS. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT NEITHER RESPONDENT IS PRESENT THIS MORNING.

>> OKAY. >> MA'AM, STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.

>> I'M CHARLENE ADAIR. >> MS. ADAIR, I STATED WHAT YOU DO BUT CAN YOU PUT THAT ON THE RECORD IN YOUR OWN WORDS WHAT YOU DO FOR THE CITY OF FORT PIERCE.

>> I DO RESEARCH FOR THE CITY OF FORT PIERCE CODE DEPARTMENT CONCERNING VACATION RENTALS.

THAT INCLUDES LOOKING AT A NUMBER OF VACATION RENTAL WEBSITES AND OTHER WEBSITES THAT LIST THOSE TYPES OF RENTALS AND KEEPING THE RECORD OF THOSE IN REPORTING THOSE TWO CODE OFFICERS WAKES DID YOU MAKE THE INITIAL REPORT AS THE CASE NUMBER 19-2489?

>> YES I DID. >> WHEN DID YOU REFER THAT TO THE CODE ENFORCEMENT

DEPARTMENT? >> THE FIRST TIME THAT IT WAS REFERRED?

>> MORE RECENTLY. >> MORE RECENTLY. OKAY.

MORE RECENTLY, THIS WAS THE GUN ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2019. >> OKAY.

WHAT DID YOU OBSERVE THAT CAUSED YOU TO MAKE A REPORT TO THE CODE ENFORCEMENT

DEPARTMENT? >> I OBSERVED THAT THE ADS WERE FOR 30 DATE MINIMAL RENTAL AND THERE IS NO BUSINESS TAX RECEIPT ON THE CITY RECORDS AND NO OTHER LICENSING HAS BEEN

OBTAINED. >> AT THIS POINT, BASED ON YOUR RESEARCH DIRECTLY, THERE WAS NO PROPER PAPERWORK FOR THESE PEOPLE TO DO SHORT-TERM RENTALS CORRECT?

>> THAT IS CORRECT CHRIST AND YET THERE WERE ADS FOR SHORT-TERM RENTALS YOU OBSERVED

GREAT. >> YES. >> DID YOU PRINT THOSE OUT?

>> YES I DID. >> DO YOU HAVE THOSE WITH YOU THIS MORNING?

>> YES. OUR CODE OFFICER HAS ALL OF THOSE ON FILE.

>> OKAY. AND THE ADS YOU PRINTED OUT WHERE THEY -- WHAT WE ARE

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AS OF YESTERDAY. >> AS OF YESTERDAY OKAY. >> THEY FILE CONTAINED ALL OF

THEM UNTIL JANUARY 13, 2018 GOING BACK. >> WHAT HAS BEEN HANDED OF OUR

THOSE LITERAL SCREENSHOTS YOU TO A. >> YES, THEY ARE.

>> YOU HAVE NOT ALTERED THEM IN ANY WAY OTHER THAN TAKING YOUR PLAN SHOT PAST MAX SCREENSHOT.

>> THEY ACCURATELY DEPICT WHAT YOU SAW? >> THEY DO.

>> THE CITY WOULD MOVE THOSE IN THE CITY'S COMPOSITE ONE. >> THESE WILL BE ADMITTED AS

COMPOSITE ONE FOR THE CITY. >> IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY WITH REGARD TO THE PHOTOGRAPHS NOW IN EVIDENCE AS TO THESE COMPOSITE ONE? OR DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT

THE ADS AT ALL? >> THERE IS ONE THING. THE ADS SHOW A CALENDAR AND IT SHOWS THE RESERVATION AND YOU WILL NOTE THERE IS A RESERVATION FOR JANUARY 10 THROUGH THROUGH MARCH 10. SO THAT WOULD COME UNDER THE PROOF OF CANCELLATION.

>> I'M CURIOUS, HAVE ANY OF THE OWNERS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE CITY AT ALL?

>> WE DID HEAR FROM ONE OF THE OWNERS AFTER I POSTED THE PROPERTY FOR THIS CARRYING.

THE QUESTION WAS I TO THE PROBLEM. >> I SAID YOU'RE RENTING FOR LESS THAN SIX MONTHS. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BUSINESS TAX RECEIPT AND I EXPLAINED TO THEM HOW TO ATTAIN THAT. AS FAR AS I KNOW THERE HAS BEEN NO CONTACT WITH PLANNING AND ZONING OR THE CLERK'S OFFICE AND THERE HAS BEEN NO OTHER CONTACT WITH THE OWNER.

>> I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. I WILL DEFER TO STAFF.

>> JUST TO REFRESH THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATE'S MEMORY, THE STATE STATUTE DOES ALLOW FOR VIOLATIONS THAT ARE IRREVERSIBLE OR A REVOCABLE IN NATURE TO ASSESS THE PENALTY UP TO $5000 AND SO WE ARE ASKING FOR ONE MONTH'S RENTAL OF THE $3047 UNDER THAT SECTION OF THE STATUTE. THE RENTAL HAS ALREADY BEEN THAT'S NOT THE AD HAS BEEN UP SO THEREFORE IT IS CONSIDERED IRREVERSIBLE AND A REVOCABLE. THE AD AND THE RESERVATIONS ARE ALREADY DONE AND THAT'S THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE ASSESSMENT.

IT IS A ONE-TIME PENALTY. HOWEVER WE ARE ASKING THAT ALL THE ADS BE REMOVED AND PROOF OF

CANCELLATION BE PROVIDED AS WELL. >> IS THERE A TIME LIMIT ON

THIS? >> WE ARE ASKING FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASE AND DESIST

ORDER SO WERE ASKING FOR ZERO DAYS TO BE. >> AND THE FINE IS AS OF TODAY.

>> YES MA'AM. >> I WILL FIND THAT THE VIOLATION EXISTS AND THAT THE FINE EQUAL TO ONE MONTH'S RENT WILL BE ASSESSED AT $3047. AND THAT AN IMMEDIATE CEASE AND DESIST ORDER BE IMPOSED IN FUTURE RENTALS TO BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY.

I WILL -- ALL ADVERTISEMENTS ARE TO BE REMOVED AND PENDING PROOF OF CANCELLATIONS OF

PENDING RESERVATIONS TO BE PROVIDED. >> THANK YOU, SPECIAL

MAGISTRATE. >> WE HAVE AND MASSEY 19Ã483, RAMIREZ.

[A. 19-0483 Massey 1016 Tortugas Avenue Ramirez, Armando Neftali Mendez Isaac Saucedo ]

>> GOOD MORNING. >> GOOD MORNING. >> SIR, I KNOW YOU WERE SWORN

THIS MORNING BUT CAN YOU STATE YOUR RECORD. >> ISAAC SALCIDO CITY OF FORT PIERCE CODE ENFORCEMENT. THIS IS CASE NUMBER 19ÃDO MY 19-483.

THIS CASE WAS INITIATED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2019. >> OFFICER SALCIDO,, STUBBY FOR A SECOND. I BELIEVE MR. RAMIREZ MIGHT BE IN NEED OF A SPANISH

INTERPRETER, IS THAT CORRECT? >> DOMINIC YOU NEED A SPANISH INTERPRETER.

THE WHOLE HEARING THESE BE INTERPRETED FROM THE BEGINNING. >> JANIE, WE PLEASE.

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STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. >> JANIE BENDER HORSE. >> DO YOU SWEAR TO PROPERLY TRANSLATE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE SPANISH IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH.

>> I DO. >> THANK YOU. >> THIS IS CASE NUMBER 19-483.

THE CASE WAS INITIATED BY MYSELF ON FEBRUARY 21 OF 2019. THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY IS ARMANDO RAMIREZ. THE VIOLATIONS ARE SECTION 16SS6, 47, 48 NUMBER ONE AND FIVE FOR OUTSIDE STORAGE. SECTION 16SS6, 47, 48, NUMBER FOUR, PARKING OTHER THAN PAVEMENT. ON MAY 15, 2019 IS SPECIAL MAGISTRATE ROSS FOUND ARMINDA RAMIREZ IN ANOTHER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIOLATIONS AND GIVE THEM 10 DAYS TO CORRECT THE VIOLATIONS OR A FINE OF $150 PER DAY WOULD BE ASSESSED. ON JUNE 6, 2019, AN INSPECTION WAS MADE. THE PROPERTY WAS NOT IN COMPLIANCE AND FINES BEGAN.

ON JUNE 16, 2019 AN INSPECTION WAS MADE, THE PROPERTY IS NONCOMPLIANCE AND FINES WERE STOPPED. ON JULY 18, 2019 WE RECEIVED A REQUEST FOR REDUCTION FROM MR. RAMIREZ. THE TOTAL ACCRUED FINES ARE $1530 INCLUDING A $30 REPORTING FEES. THERE ARE NO RECORDED LIENS AT THIS TIME.

I DID SPEAK TO MR. RAMIREZ BEFORE THE HEARING AND WE BOTH AGREED ON REDUCING THE FINES TO DO HUNDRED $50. JUST FOR THE RECORD, THE GRAVITY OR SERIOUSNESS OF THE VIOLATIONS WERE MINOR. THE ACTIONS THAT WERE TAKEN PLACE OR THAT ALL THE OUTSIDE STORAGE ITEMS WERE CLEARED AND PARKING ON OTHER THAN PAVEMENT WAS STOPPED.

AND NO PREVIOUS VIOLATIONS WERE COMMITTED. AND I DO HAVE PHOTOS HERE IF

YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THEM. >> HE NEEDS TO SEE THE PHOTOS.

>> WE MOVED TO ADMIT THE PHOTOS THE CITY'S COMPOSITE NUMBER ONE.

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>> PHOTOS WILL BE SUBMITTED INTO EVIDENCE AS THE CITY'S COMPOSITE 1.

>> SPECIAL MAGISTRATE, WE ARE IN FRONT OF YOU FOR A MASSEY HEARING SO YOU MAKE THE FINAL

DECISION. >> COULD YOU REPEAT THAT AGAIN? >> SPECIAL MAGISTRATE, YOU WILL

BE MAKING THE FINAL DECISION. >> AND IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT HE AND THE CITY HAVE AGREED TO A $250 AS THE AMOUNT TO BE ASSESSED, ASSESS?

>> HE SAID YES. >> I'M SORRY BUT I DON'T THINK MR. RAMIREZ WAS SWORN.

>> PULL YOUR MIC DOWN, JANIE. >> OKAY. LET'S PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT

HAND AND STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. >> ARMANDO RAMIREZ MENDEZ.

>> DO YOU SWEAR THE TESTIMONY ABOUT TO GIVE WILL BE THE TRUTH?

>> YES. >> THANK YOU. AND THE QUESTION I HAD ASKED, WAS HE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY THAT THE FINE, THE AGREED AMOUNT OF $250?

>> YES HE DID CHRIST DOES THE CITY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE?

>> JUST THE TIME TO PAY. >> HE SAYS HE CAN PAY TODAY. >> SPECIAL MAGISTRATE, AS A

RULE WE DO 30 DAYS WHEN THAT ANSWER IS GIVEN. >> THE FINE OF $250 --

>> OKAY. HE SAYS OKAY. >> THE FINE WILL BE $250 AND HE IS WELCOME TO PAY TODAY BUT HE HAS OVER 30 DAYS TO B PAY IT.

>> HE SAYS OKAY. >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.

>> I'M GOING TO GIVE IT TO THEM RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS THE LAST CASE.

>> WE WOULD ASK IF WE CAN PUT ON THE RECORD HOW THE INDIVIDUALS FAILED TO APPEAR

HOW THEY WERE NOTICED. >> YES OF COURSE. >> I SAW THAT AND I WAS GOING TO ASK OF THE -- OF THE CLERK WOULD STATE HOW THE PARTIES THAT WERE NOT PRESENT TODAY

WERE NOTIFIED. >> FOR CASES REQUIRING A HEARING, PER STATE STATUE 162Ä2, A NOTICE OF HEARING WAS SENT TO THE VIOLATOR CERTIFIED MAIL.

IF THE GREEN CARD IS RETURNED SIGNED IT IS PLACED IN THE FILE.

IF THE GREEN CARD IS RETURNED UNSIGNED OR UNCLAIMED, AN AFFIDAVIT IS SENT TO THE VIOLATOR REGULAR U.S. MAIL. 10 DAYS PRIOR TO THE HEARING, A NOTICE OF HEARING IS POSTED ON THE BULLETIN BOARD IN CITY HALL. A NOTICE OF HEARING IS ALSO POSTED TO THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION WITH AN AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING.

IF THE GREEN CARD IS NOT RETURNED TO THE CODE ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT WITHIN 10 DAYS FOR THE HEARING, THE POSTING IS COMPLETED IN THE SAME MANNER AS IF THE CARD WAS RETURNED UNCLAIMED. FOR CASES NOT MANDATED BY STATE STATUTE, FILING OF THE NOTICE OF HEARING ARE HANDLED IN THE SAME MANNER STATED PRIOR. IF THE GREEN CARD IS RETURNED UNSIGNED UNCLAIMED ARE NOT RETURNED WITHIN 10 DAYS OF THE HEARING, A NOTICE OF HEARING IS

POSTED ON THE BULLETIN BOARD IN CITY HALL. >> THANK YOU.

IS THERE ANY OTHER BUSINESS? OKAY. THE

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