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I LIKE TO CALL TO ORDER CODE ENFORCEMENT SPECIAL MAGISTRATE HEARING OF JULY 21, 2021.
APPROXIMATELY ONE OR TWO P.M., MY NAME IS JAMES BEEDLE, ON THE PERSON THAT WAS APPOINTED BY THE CITY OF PALM BAY TO CONSIDER APPLICATIONS FOR REDUCTION IN CODE ENFORCEMENT FINDS.
THE GENERAL PROCEDURE IS YOU'LL BE SWORN IN BY THE CLERK AND IT'LL BE YOUR BURDEN, SO TO SPEAK, TO COME UP AND ESTABLISH WHAT THE BASIS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE FINE IS.
CITY WILL THEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO WHATEVER THE COMMENTS ARE THAT YOU MAKE AND PUT ON WHATEVER CASE THEY WANT TO PUT ON.
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO WHATEVER THE CITY SAID.
AND BASED ON WHAT WHAT THAT WHAT THAT EVIDENCE COMES IN.
AND I'LL MAKE A DECISION ON THE REDUCTION BY.
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TURN IT OVER THE CLARK. PLEASE STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND FOR THOSE WHO ARE SPEAKING. YOU SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP YOU GOD? AND YOU MAY BE SEATED.[PETITION FOR RELIEF: ]
THE SUN FOR RELIEF.IS THE ADDRESS THAT ONE SEVEN ONE CORELLAS STREET NE.
FP CONSULTANT, LLC TO SNUFFER PETITIONER, THE FIRST CASE IS.
ONE NINE TWO ZERO ONE, DASH ONE EIGHT AND CODE OFFICER IS EMANUEL'S PHOTO.
YOU STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS DREW SCHAFFNER AND THE ADDRESS IS ONE SEVEN ONE CARRILLO'S STREET.
WE INHERITED THIS HOUSE FROM THE TAX DAY OR WE DIDN'T, AND WE BOUGHT IT FROM THE TAX SALE AND WE HAVE A NICE PROJECT AHEAD OF US THAT INCLUDED CLEANING UP ALL THIS GUY'S MESS, WHICH WAS A JUNK YARD.
SO, YOU KNOW, I'VE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY AND TIME CLEANING IT UP, GETTING ALL THE STUFF OUT OF THERE, GETTING THE GUY OUT OF THERE, WHICH IS GETTING RID OF THIS GUY PERSONALLY, IS A GOOD USE TO THE CITY TO GET RID OF HIM.
HE WAS BRINGING THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD DOWN AND GOT RID OF ALL HIS STUFF, WHICH TOOK 10 DUMPSTERS WORTH OF STUFF AWAY.
CLEANED UP THE OVERGROWTH IN THE YARD.
PUT THE FENCE BACK UP, AND I BELIEVE MR. SOTO WENT AND DID AN INSPECTION AND TOLD ME WHAT ELSE NEEDED TO BE DONE AND WE DID IT.
SO I'M HAPPY THAT I'M BEING CONSIDERED FOR A REDUCTION.
THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET THE HOUSE FULLY RENOVATED SO THAT IT'S NOT THE UGLIEST HOUSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE.
AND THE NEIGHBORS WILL BE HAPPY.
THANK YOU. CODE OFFICER EMANUELSON OVER THE CITY OF HAMA, THE CITY HAS NO OBJECTION TO REDUCTION OF THE LEAN'S WITH AN UNDERSTANDING THAT THE CITY'S ADMINISTRATIVE FEES ARE COLLECTED.
WHAT HIS TESTIMONY WAS NOT SOUNDS FAIR TO ME.
I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS, BUT IF YOU AGREE TO THE 750 PER CASE AND I OR MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE YOU UP ON THOSE FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS, I JUST YOU JUST SAID THAT YOU PAID MONEY TO HAVE THE PROPERTY CLEANED UP.
I JUST CURIOUS HOW MUCH MONEY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT FIVE TO EIGHT GRAND BECAUSE I HAD SEVERAL DIFFERENT CREWS GO OUT THERE TO. CLEAN IT UP AND SCRAP METAL GUYS GO OUT THERE WHO GOT THE STUFF FOR FREE? I HAD AN ACTUAL CLEAN OUT CREW THAT TOOK THE DUMPSTERS OF WHAT I COULDN'T GET REMOVED FOR FREE. AND THEN I HAD A GUY THAT COLLECTED THE REST OF THE STUFF AND THEN A GUY.
WHEN YOU SAID YOU HAD I HAD TO GET THE GUY OUT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? YEAH, SO I INITIALLY TRIED TO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE GUY FOR HIM TO JUST LEAVE.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S. AND EVENTUALLY IT LED TO US HAVING TO EVICT HIM FROM AN EVICTION AGAINST THEM. YEAH, YEAH.
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PROPERTIES AND CLIENTS NOW.WHAT I DO WAS I IN THE ORDER REQUIRES THAT PAYMENT BE MADE WITHIN IT'S NORMALLY 30 DAYS.
DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM PAYING THE TWENTY TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS IN 30 DAYS? WAS I DO RIGHT NOW. RIGHT ON OUR ORDER TO THAT EFFECT.
THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE I NEED TO DO HERE? NO, SIR. THANK YOU.
THAT'S SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS ON EACH CASE.
FOUR, FIVE EIGHT, WHALAN ROAD, SOUTHWEST, AEB NUMBER ONE NINE FIVE THREE FIVE, DASH ONE EIGHT, LISA WEGELIN, CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICER PETITIONER CYNTHIA LEGG.
OR FIVE, EIGHT WELAND ROAD SOUTHWEST.
COULD YOU PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD? MY NAME IS CYNTHIA, LEG OF A FOUR OR FIVE EIGHT WAYLAND ROAD SOUTHWEST, BOUND BY.
AND YOU CAN PROCEED WITH YOUR CASE FOR THE JUSTIFICATION OF REDUCTION.
I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICE, I THINK IT WAS IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH. IT WAS IN FEBRUARY, YES.
STATING THAT IT WAS THE THIRD LETTER I HAD RECEIVED AND THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE A LANE PUT ON MY HOUSE BECAUSE I HAD NOT RESPONDED.
BUT IT WAS THE FIRST LETTER I HAD RECEIVED.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER TWO, BUT.
I HAD A SQUATTER LIVING IN THE HOUSE AT THE TIME.
MAYBE SHE TOOK IT AND MAYBE IT WAS TO THE WRONG ADDRESS.
I DON'T KNOW, BUT I CALLED AS SOON AS I GOT THE LETTER.
AND I WAS TOLD THAT THERE WAS A FINE DATING BACK.
A YEAR OR TWO OR A 100 DOLLARS THAT WAS NEVER PAID, BUT I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS A PHONE, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN I GOT AN ENFORCEMENT LETTER SAYING THERE WAS A DEAD TREE AND MY PROPERTY. I DROVE OUT HERE AND IT WAS DEAD, SO I PAID FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS TO HAVE A COMPANY TAKE IT DOWN AND THEY SAID THE GRASS WAS LONG.
SO I HIRED A LAWN COMPANY TO COME IN AND START MOWING AT EVERY WEEK TO MAKE SURE IT WOULD GET STAY NEAT.
BUT I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS A FIRE.
AND AFTER I FINISHED DOING THAT, I CALLED THE OFFICE AND SAID, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I NEED TO DO? BUT I LEFT THE VOICEMAIL BECAUSE NORMALLY WHEN I CALL, I GET A VOICEMAIL.
AND I DIDN'T GET A CALL BACK, SO I ASSUMED EVERYTHING WAS OK.
ACCORDING TO THE FILE THAT I WAS PROVIDED WITH, IT SHOWS WITH THE PRIOR CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTION WAS INDICATES THAT THE REASON FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE FINE WAS THERE WAS AN INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE OR KEPT OR STORED ON THE PROPERTY.
SO IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE THINGS THAT YOU HEAR OF, SO TO SPEAK.
LIKE. AND I'M JUST HEARING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL HAPPENED, BUT I'M JUST. WELL, THERE WAS A FLOODING, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S WHAT THE FARMERS MARKET, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS YOU REMEDIED HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WHY THIS FOLLANSBEE WAS.
I KNOW THAT THERE WAS AN INOPERABLE VEHICLE THERE AND IT WAS MY SON'S, HE WAS WORKING ON THE CAR AND IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET HIM TO REMOVE THE CAR, SO.
AND IT WAS REMOVED. ONE THAT WAS.
HERE'S. NOW, LAST YEAR, I GUESS, ANOTHER SQUATTER I HAD TAUGHT ME A YEAR AND A HALF TO GET HER OUT. AND.
I RECENTLY GOT ANOTHER CODE VIOLATION BECAUSE OF ALL THE SHE WAS A HOARDER.
THERE WAS NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT.
THERE IS STUFF STACKED UP AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE, INSIDE THE HOUSE.
AND THE LAWYER SAID, I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING WITH HER STUFF.
OF SHIRLEY SOGLIN, CITY OF PALM BAY CITY HAS NO OBJECTION IN A REDUCTION OF THE LEAN WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL THE CITIES OUT OF US AND THE DISTRICT OFFICE ARE COLLECTING.
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THE. I'LL TAKE IT OUT ON MY SONS HAD HER.PAYING THE 15 DOLLARS AND 30 DAYS NOW, AND I'LL DO IT TODAY.
WHERE DO I GO? OUTSIDE THE MEETING.
THE OTHER BUILD A FRONT BUILT.
OH, THAT WAS REDUCED TO ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR 30 DAYS.
YOU'D BE NUMBER ONE NINE TWO SEVEN FIVE, DASH ONE, A PETITIONER, BEVERLY WHATAYA.
10-15, WYOMING, DRIVE SOUTHEAST.
SO IT'S NOT HERE YET, SO I'M GOING TO.
LOOK, CLENDENNING CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICER.
THAT SINCE CHANGED, IT USED TO BE A LADY, ANGELICA, I BELIEVE.
EL CLENDENNING, YOU HAVE TO BE SWORN IN.
YOU SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP YOU GOD? THANKS. AND YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS AND YOU CAN PROCEED WITH YOUR TESTIMONY.
BEVERLY SCUTARI, THE ADDRESS IS ONE ZERO FIVE ZERO WYOMING DRIVE SOUTHEAST.
I HAVE SINCE SOLD THE PROPERTY, THOUGH.
EIGHT FIVE FOUR TYROL AVENUE, NW PALM BAY.
BACK IN 2017, WE HAD A HOUSE FIRE.
IT WAS ONLY ON THE PORCH WHEN WE CONTACTED OUR INSURANCE COMPANY, THEY HAD SAID THAT IT WOULD ONLY COST 800 DOLLARS TO FIX IT.
AND I WAS SOON FOUND OUT THAT IT WASN'T.
SO I HAD TO FIGHT WITH MY INSURANCE COMPANY TO GET THE MONEY TO PAY TO FIX THIS.
IN THE MEANWHILE, THERE WAS ALSO SAYING THAT THERE WAS MOLD ON MY FENCE.
SO I TOOK CARE OF ALL THAT AND THERE WAS A CAR IN THE DRIVEWAY WITH NO LICENSE PLATE ON IT. AND I TOOK CARE OF THAT AS WELL.
IN DOING ALL THIS, I WAS ALSO TAKING CARE OF MY TERMINALLY ILL HUSBAND, WHO HAS SINCE PASSED AWAY, AND I HAD COME HERE FOR TWO EXTENSIONS TO GET IT SO I COULD FIX THE
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PROPERTY AND HAVE IT DONE ONCE IT WAS FINISHED AND COMPLETE.I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THERE WAS STILL MONEY OWED THAT I THOUGHT THAT ONCE I WAS IN COMPLIANCE THAT I WAS OK BECAUSE I WAS GETTING THE OK FOR THE EXTENSION AND I HAD NO IDEA. I FOUND OUT WHEN I WENT TO GO SELL MY HOUSE THAT THERE WAS A LIEN ON MY PROPERTY AND I HONESTLY HAD NO IDEA.
SO I'M HERE TO HOPEFULLY TRY AND CLEAR THAT UP BECAUSE I WAS COUNTING ON THAT MONEY TO BUY MY NEXT RESIDENCE.
SO I COULD START DOING, YOU KNOW, LIFE BY MYSELF.
YOU RECALL WHEN YOU, AS YOU SAID, TOOK CARE OF THE MOLD ON THE FENCE, I TOOK CARE OF THAT RIGHT AWAY. AND THE CAR ALSO, IT JUST TOOK A LITTLE BIT LONGER FOR THE FIRE DAMAGE BECAUSE I HAD TO FIGHT WITH MY INSURANCE COMPANY AND ENDED UP COSTING OVER EIGHT GRAND TO FIX IT. WHEN THAT WAS.
IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF LATER.
BUT I DID COME HERE FOR EXTENSIONS WHICH WERE GRANTED.
IT WAS TAKEN CARE OF, WHAT, AT THE END OF TWENTY NINETEEN, YES, I KNOW IT WAS AFTER MY HUSBAND PASSED AWAY.
HE PASSED AWAY IN THE BEGINNING OF 2019.
IF ANY RESPONSE TO THE CITY'S TESTIMONY, I KNOW YOU HAVE AN ISSUE PAYING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS NOW, I COULD DO THAT TODAY IF YOU TELL ME WHERE TO GO.
I'LL ENTER AN ORDER PRODUCING THE FIND YOU A THOUSAND DOLLARS TO BE PAID WITHIN 30 DAYS, ENTER IN ORDER TO THAT EFFECT AND I NEED TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS THROUGH THE CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICE. OK.
THANK YOU TO. IT'S ON THE AGENDA.
EBEID, TWO ZERO SIX ONE EIGHT TWO ZERO.
ANDREI STARFORD, PETITIONER, 160, TO NATALIE, NORTHEAST CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICER SABRINA PROCAINE.
I'M ANDRE STARFORD, ADDRESS ONE SIX TWO NOW.
SO ABOUT A YEAR AGO, WE HAD THE QUOTE IN OUR CONTRACT TO COME TO SOME YARD WORK FOR US.
WELL, LANDSCAPING AND WE DO OUR DRIVEWAY FROM A CONCRETE TO PAVERS.
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AND THERE'S PROBABLY ABOUT.FEBRUARY, MARCH, AROUND JUNE, JULY, THEY ACTUALLY STARTED THE PROJECT AND ABOUT THREE DAYS IN, WE GET A I GET A KNOCK ON THE DOOR FROM CODE ENFORCEMENT SAYING THAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED A PERMIT. SO I CONTACTED THE CONTRACTOR, LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY SAID WE WERE GOING TO GET A PERMIT. I FIGURED YOU ALREADY HAD IT.
I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW ANY BETTER.
CAME BACK TO ME AND TOLD ME THAT THEY SAID WE DIDN'T NEED A PERMIT SINCE WE WERE DOING CONCRETE. THEY WERE JUST DOING PAVERS.
THIS WENT ON FOR ABOUT A GOOD.
AT LEAST FIVE OR SIX MONTHS, HONESTLY, THAT BACK AND FORTH ACTUALLY HAD ANOTHER GUY COME IN AND HIS NAME WAS MIREN.
INTO THE HOUSE, NOT INDOOR, TOLD ME THAT WE WERE GOING TO WE NEEDED THE AND PERMANENT A CONTRACTOR AGAIN TOLD THEM HONESTLY, ABOUT FIVE MINUTES AFTER MY FATHER LEFT, HE CAME BACK TO MY DOOR AND AND TOLD ME THAT HE'S TALKED TO HIS SUPERVISOR AND SAID, NO, WE DIDN'T NEED A PERMIT. SO IT WAS JUST KIND OF A HUGE MIX UP.
BUT AROUND PROBABLY JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MY CONTRACTOR, MAYBE IT WAS MARCH, ACTUALLY WENT AND GOT THE PERMIT. SO WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS NO MORE.
AND THEN I GUESS I TALKED TO JEANNIE AND HE TALKED TO JEANNIE, AND I GUESS THEY SAID WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY NEED ONE THAT WAS WAVED STOP.
SO I WAS JUST TRYING TO SEE IF WE CAN'T GET THESE FEES.
WE GOT TAKEN CARE OF BECAUSE WE'RE ACTUALLY JUST TRYING TO WE'RE TRYING TO FIX THE HOUSE UP BECAUSE WE WERE TRYING TO SELL SOMETHING TO GET CLOSER TO OUR JOBS, CLOSER TO.
PARKIN'S CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICE CITY OF PALM BAY CITY HAS NO OBJECTION AND REDUCTION OF THE FINES WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL THIS CITY OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE FEES ARE COLLECTED FOR THIS CASE, THE ADMINISTRATIVE FEES ARE SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS.
SAME QUESTION I ASKED EVERYBODY ELSE, DO YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION, SEVEN OR I DON'T I JUST.
I MEAN, WE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW, LIKE, WORDS IN THE END, SO LET ME KNOW LET ME JUST LET ME JUST CONVEY TO YOU THE.
LET ME ASK YOU ONE OTHER QUESTION.
DID YOU ATTEND THE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD HERE LIKE BEFORE? WELL, THEY THE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD HAD A HEARING ON THIS IN NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR.
NO, SIR. YES, I MEAN, THEY SEND IT TO YOUR ADDRESS.
YEAH, AND HE SAID, IF YOU TELL ME, LIKE, EVERYTHING WAS LIKE, OK, SO I JUST KEPT GOING.
I WAS LIKE, OK, YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE CARE.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ABOUT FORGET ABOUT IT BEING HERE.
IF YOU GET A NOTICE TO ATTEND A MEETING LIKE THIS.
YEAH. YOU NEED TO GO. OK, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW.
I KNOW FIRST LIGHT OF THERE BEING NO OBJECTION THAT I'M GOING TO REDUCE IT TO SEVEN POINT FIFTY DOLLARS. YOU HAVE A ISSUE WITH BEING IN 30 DAYS, SIR, UNDER AN ORDER THAT AFFECTS.
THANK YOU TO. ALL THE CASES ON THE AGENDA.
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I SIGN THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING.26.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.