I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you I'm going to go ahead and ask for your feedback. I'm going to go ahead and ask for your feedback. The talk will call this hearing to order and read special this introductory statement. Welcome to the April 2025 meeting of the Lachoy County Code Enforcement Special here in purpose of this hearing is to hear purpose of hearing is to hear a ledge code enforcement special magistrate hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to hear. The purpose of this hearing is to hear a ledge code violations filed by various departments of a natural county florida. I co-forcement special magistrate was established by Florida statutes chapter 162 in the natural county ordinances to obtain compliance with various county ordinances regulations. I have no authority to change the ordinances or any of the regulations we will be addressing today. That can only be done by the Laxua County Board of County Commissioners. The code enforcement magistrate can determine if a violation has occurred, set a date for full compliance and levier find for noncompliance. My decisions can only be appealed to the courts and not to the Board of County Commissioners. Procedure will follow today is the Secretary, Jacqueline. We'll call the case. County staff will present its case. The respondent shall have the opportunity to present its defense to the case. I will make a decision at a future date and the respond will be notified by mail of that decision as we have quite a few cases, over 31 cases today. While persons testifying today will do so under us by swearing or affirming that they tell the truth. Any evidence in the form of documents or photographs must be submitted to the clerk for inclusion in the record. Please silence or turn off your phone so they don't interrupt the proceedings. And for anybody who's going to be testifying today, county staff and respondents, please stand and have Jack and swear you in. Please stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in these cases today will be the truth and the whole truth? Okay, thank you, can be seated. Jack, if you want to call for the first case, please. Case number two, five, dash. Hold Scott Krojuski, Code Director of City of Elatra, County of Elatra. I just want to make you wear the first seven cases or solid waste cases that we're going to be hearing. Per code section 753015, the city is entitled to the violator a seven day notice, and at which time we can go on property and remove it and then build them for the services. Solid waste had their inspectors go out. They initially gave them a seven-day notice at which point out about the eighth day they referred it to code. We gave them an additional seven-day notice. The debris or whatever was not removed. We referred it back to solid waste. They had our vendor go and remove the debris, which they would build the county for. We are now asking to certify the violation and the lien to recoup costs, which is the cost for the vendor and our administrative fee. I do have the assistant director here. Should you have any questions on to that, but we'd like to move forward with all seven eddies cases Okay, let's call them individually to see if people hear in response to this sir. Okay. Thank you Case number two five dash zero zero one five six eight a Latua County versus Leuron Owens Someone here representing Leuron Owens Again somebody representing Leuron Owens 1's. Hearing none, okay. Go to the second case, please. Case number 25-001495, Alachua County versus Fernando F. Valentine and Elizabeth R. Valentine. Is somebody here representing the Valentines? Somebody here representing the Valentines? Okay, please call case number three. Case number two five dash zero zero zero seven six six allatua county versus Castillo enterprises LLC. Somebody here representing Castillo enterprises. Somebody representing Castillo enterprises. Okay, next one please. Case number two five dash zero zero zero eight fiveua County versus New Beginnings Properties LLC. Someone here representing New Beginnings Properties LLC. Someone representing New Property, being in New Ennings Properties LLC. Okay next please. Case number 24-014157, Alachua County versus Gainesville Properties LLC. Anybody here representing Gainesville Properties LLC? Okay. Here in C9, please next. Case number 24-014939, Alachua County versus Lawrence Clay. It's Mr. Lawrence Clay here. Somebody representing Lawrence Clay. So you know, can please proceed. Case number two, four, dash zero, one, four, five, five, eight, allotua county versus fairhurst and fairhurst. Somebody representing fairhurst and fairhurst here today. Somebody representing fairhurst and fairhurst. Okay. All right. That's all the cases. And if not, first, all. We'll go ahead and order on those. The next case, please. We're going to skip ahead to case number 21. That's 21-009862 a Latua County versus Gregory Parsons. And that is Code Officer Michael Williams. And is the county attorney here? I was afraid that the assistant county attorney, I am new. I recognize the true news. Mr. Hanson will be handling and he's not here yet. We would ask if we could just wait momentarily for, I believe he'll be here by 930. We don't want to delay Mr. Ireland, but we would ask that he this is trying to put your I Understand well, how about if we let the county proceed with their case You want to go over the microphone and this stay who you are and who you represent this My name is Leonard Ireland. I together with Bobby Bobby Frank, represented Mr. Parsons, who unfortunately now has passed on. I filed a suggestion of death the first of the week and I have a case if I can give it to the magistrate and to counsel. And was this related to the consent order potential? No, no, it's two different parts. Okay, yeah, okay. Do you want to make sure the record is clear on that? Because we had two parts in here. Yes, please. Thank you. Essentially, on what this case says, essentially, that in the overall, I've highlighted over on page. I see that under I and five. Yes. And you can read it as well as I can. I see. And here you're asking at what are you asking for? I'm asking for an appointment until the end. And I did in the notice of the suggestion of death, I did give the name of the law firm that Mr. Parsons Jr. or Tom Parsons who is the heir of the estate has engaged to probate the state. Once that's done, the proper party in this matter is going to be the estate of Gregory Parsons or Tom if the property is given to him. But until that time, according to this case, the matter must be abated. If the county wants to move forward, they can see if they can get the state open, but it's if the process is going. So how's the county's position on this? The county's position is that this is a four year old case. We don't believe the probate action has been open yet, that the leans need to be, if found need to be attached to the property as is and we would like to proceed. I'm going to let the county present their case. Before that I could fit that's exactly what the court said in this case and I didn't know they didn't teach me a law school or four year old case wasn't any good. But it's exactly what happened in this case is that they proceeded and the court said wrong. It's a void of an issue. So whatever you do is gonna be void with all due respect. I understand, I'm just saying Plano's gonna rule on the insipidationary motion. Council, I'm in line to grant, because I don't wanna have us do something that's going to be basically violated at this point. Yes, Your Honor. I think based on the fact that nothing has been filed yet and we're not even, we're not even certain and nothing's been presented that this must go through probate. We would ask for this to be continued for 90 days so that we don't lose track of it. Do you have an emotion of that? An emotion of 90 days. They should be able to open them state in 90 days. Okay, that's fine. On this, just that way, we'll agree that it will give you grants you 90 days to bring it back. Okay, and hopefully at that time maybe you can have some resolution. of an state in 90 days. Okay, that's fine. On this to that way, we'll agree that it will give you grants in 90 days to bring it back. Okay, and hopefully at that time maybe you can have some resolution with them and we have a consent order instead of Mr. Ireland. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. All right, we're going on to number nine now. Case number 24-015185, Elatua County versus Richard G. More trustee. The county wishes to pull this case from the hearing. Okay. So we're pulling number nine. Number eight. Number eight. Okay. Okay. And then number nine. Case number 2, 4, dash zero, one, one, five, six, three, allotted to a county versus special K Holdings LLC. This is a consent order. That was given to me earlier and both parties are in agreement on this and signed so I've executed that so that the consent are returned member says all right. Number 10 please. Number 10, case number 25-001447, a lot of county versus Christopher Lee, Markham and Trustee, and that is going to be with forster Andrew Cuniglio. Is there anyone here representing the Trustee? Again, is someone here representing Christopher Lee, Markham, Trustee? County, please proceed. Good morning, my name is Andrew Keninglew. I'm a forester and landscaping inspector for a lateral county in code and enforcement case 25001447, the county received a complaint complaint on February 11th, 2025 regarding the property located at 3200 Northwest 98th Street, Gainesville and all that's from County Florida and identified by parcel number 06234 dash 0 0 1 dash 0 0 0 The owner of the property is listed Christopher Lee Markham trustee. Code of administration initiated an enforcement proceeding and found there to be a violation of the following sections of the electoral county code of ordinances. 7 4.29 prohibited. The respondent was provided with a reasonable time to correct the violations. A notice of violation was sent to respondent that included correct evictions. Ongoing inspections concluded it conducted to date have determined the respond remains in violation of the said elitere county code sections. My last inspection of the property was on March 20th 2025. I have good service of notices and statement of violations to respond to sent by certified mail or posting Copies have been provided to the mastery and I request they'd be entered into evidence Okay, thank you a question for you. Um, did this come about from the hurricane? So it was a recent storm that caused this do you think I? Really good say that's how it happened. Okay, and if you had any communication with the owner No, I have not. Okay, so all right. Good, all right. All right. Again, if someone here representing the owner. So you know, okay, thank you. Oh, I need to know what penalties. Oh. And sorry. The county recommendation respond to be found violation of the sections of the code order responded to come into compliance within 15 days by compliance with the correct evations listed in the notice of violation. And if not, comply with the pay you find in the amount of $100 for each date, the violation continued past the date set for compliance. The county has incurred $280 in bringing this action to here. Okay, is there someone here wanting to speak to this matter? Yes. You need to go over to the podium over here. If you want to write Ray Main there a little bit just a little help with it. When you make your name and residence address for the record? Yes, my name is Tim Weissert. I live at 30204 Northwest 105th Terrace in the Meadowbrook subdivision where this tree presents a hazard on 105th Boulevard. I believe that the tree fell as a consequence of Hurricane Helene and the winds and perhaps the precipitation as a result of that. I would just like to comment that if past is prologue, I guess, then I don't expect Mr. Markham or his representatives to do anything. Should, Levy, a fine. That's based upon the fact that they have been judged in 2023 and 2024 for nuisance over growth as well as public nuisance. They've accumulated fines probably approximately $200,000. You provided a judgment. They did a portion of the work which was just the bush hogging and not the remainder and then advised code administration that they plan to do nothing more. So I would say based upon that, I don't expect them to do anything should of fine be levied. And I would ask that you look at the picture and recognize that to the right on the picture is 105th Boulevard, which 277 of our residents use every day, 277 door fronts. We have a significant amount of walkers that walk on the street to the right of that area. There you can see the road. And the tree is precariously balanced on an adjacent tree. So I would just like to say on behalf of the residents, we find this a very, very unsafe condition. One of those conditions where you say, well, probably nothing will really happen, but then every once in a while, you have a whoops and you say, well, I'll be darn. I never expected that to happen. And here we lost a car or a child or a person. So on behalf of our community, I'd like to tell you how seriously we take this violation and how seriously we are opposed to the manner in which Mr. Markham has conducted himself over the past actually four years. So thank you for letting me speak. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Which your take on it? Is it going to get into the road when it comes it comes down just from looking at it? I would say in my professional opinion that entangled trees are Particularly hazardous and unpredictable and I would recommend that it be Okay, that's what I thought okay. Thank you appreciate that again somebody here representing mr Mr. Markham. Oh, all right Go ahead. Please number 11 check case number 24-003710 a Lachua County versus Virginia Hughes Code officer Alante what is somebody here representing Virginia Hughes? Somebody here, right? So we're gonna ask you to speak after the county you can stay right there for now Yeah, let's Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.710. The county received a complaint on April 22, 2024 regarding the property located at address 2-3-010 southeast 65th Lane, Hot Thorn, and a large for county Florida and identified by parcel number 19511-0000-0000. The owner of the property is Virginia Hughes. Code Administration initiated an enforcement proceeding and found there to be a violation of the following sections of a Lachua County Code of Orances, 74.208, Accumulation of Junk. The respondent was provided with a reasonable time to correct the violations. A notice of violations was sent to respondent that included corrective actions. Ongorn inspections conducted today to have determined that respondent remains in violation of the said Alachua county code sections. My last inspection of the property was April 1st, 2025. I have good service of notices and statement of violation to respond in sent by certified merit receipt. Copies have been provided to the magistrate and I request they are entered into evidence. I have had contact with the respondent regarding the violations. The photographs being presented were taken by myself and accurately reflect the violations and acts they be admitted into evidence. The county recommendation is that responding to be found in violation of the set sections of the code or the respondent to come into compliance within 30 days by complying with the corrective actions listed in the notice of violation. And if not not compliance then pay a fine in the amount of $100 for each day. The violations continue past the date set for compliance. The county has incurred $560 in cost and bringing this action to hearing. Thank you. It's your opportunity to speak. If you want to come to the podium over there. And I'll, Jackie, we'll ask you to identify yourself and your relationship to the property. Would you please state your name and residents address for the record? Virginia Hughes Courtney. And I live at 5814 to west 13th Street, Gainesville, Florida, 3268. Okay. And this is my husband, Cecil Courtney. Okay, and he also lives at the same address. Okay thank you. So what can you tell me the county wants you to clean up the site and they've given you some time but you haven't been able to do it what can you tell me? Yeah well I spoke with the tenants. Oh so this is a tenant and this is my niece. Okay let her go ahead and... Let her get next to the microphone there, so yeah. My name's Diane Gould. I live at 2-3-0-1-0, South East 65th Lane. I've been trying to help Bill, which is my ex-husband, to clean I've had some health issues come up. And we're both handicapped, but we are trying. OK, let me ask you how long do you think it would take you to get it cleaned up? And I'm asking you from your perspective, not from the county, but how much time do you think comfortably it would take you to get it cleaned up? I would say at least one more month. So if I gave you 60 days, two months, would that be adequate? Because what I don't want to have you do is not be able to make that and then come back here, okay? I understand. So 60 days, is that enough? That would be fine. Is the county comfortable with with 60 days on that? Yes, sir. I am more than comfortable with that because I have many communication with Ms. Guild and I was aware of her health concerns. That's why the case was open for the year to give her time. But yeah, I'm okay. I understand you had to bring an adventure here. So yeah, so in fact, what I'm going to do just because of your health issues, are you comfortable with 90 days? I'm comfortable with that. So we'll give you three months. Okay now what I don't want you to do is if something comes up your health gets worse or you can't something stay in touch with her and let her know so we can't have to come back again. Okay I appreciate all of you being here I know it was a burden on you to come. I appreciate your help. Okay. Okay. Well you take care of yourself and I hope your health gets much better. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. Then clear and then we'll get call number K smr 12 Thank you for coming Go ahead and call case number 12 please case number two four dash zero one four nine four seven Elatua County versus Holly Heights gains will one LLC. Holly Heights gains will two LLC and Holly Heights gains will three LLC. Code officer, a latte web. Is someone here representing Holly Heights gains will. One two and three. Someone here representing Holly Heights gains will one two and three. in none, please proceed. Good morning. My name is Alante Will, co-op officer for Alachro County and co-enforcement case 24-01497. The county received a complaint on December 18, 2024 regarding the property located at address 6814 South with six place, Gainesville, and Alach florida and identified by a parcel number 06655-051-006. The only other the owner of the property is Holly Heights Gainesville 1 LLC and Holly Heights Gainesville 2 LLC and Holly Heights Gainesville 3 LLC. three LLC. Code administration initiated an enforcement proceeding and found there to be a violation of the following sections of the Lautre County Court of Ornices 74.20A accumulation of junk 74.29 prohibited hazardous lands, dangerous structures. 74.30 standards for repair, vacation, demo boarding. The respondent was provided with a reasonable time to correct the violations. A notice of violation was sent to respondent that included corrective actions. On-going inspections conducted today have determined that the Respondent remains in violation of the said allotual county code sections. My last inspection of the property was on April 1st, 2025. I have good service of notices and statements of violations to respondent sent by certified mere receipt. Copies have been provided to the magistrate and I request they be entered into evidence. There has been no contact with the respondent regarding the violations. The photographs being presented were taken by myself and accurately reflect the violations and I ask they be admitted into evidence. The county's recommendation is that the respondent be found in violations of the set sections of the code or to respond it to comments to compliance within 30 days of compliance with correct of listed on the notice of violation. And if not compliant, then pay a fine in amount of $150 for each day the violations continue past the date set for compliance. The county has incurred $350 and bring this action to hearing. Okay, so just for my record collection again, no contact. No, sir. Okay, thank you. Again, someone here representing Holly Heights, Gainesville 1, 2, and 3. No, please go case 13, please. Case number 2, 4, dash 0, 15, 0, 8, 7, Elatua County versus Holly Heights, Gainesville 1 LLC, Holly Heights, Gainesville 2 LLC, and Holly Heights, Gainesville 3 LLC, Code Officer, Lante Web. I'm assuming it's the same ones and set just different slightly units. Oh yes. Holly Heights, okay again, is someone here representing Holly Heights? Okay, please proceed. My name is Alante Web, Code Officerachua County and Co-Demforcement case 24-015-087. The county received a complaint on December 23, 2024 regarding the property located at address 819 South West 63rd Territories Gainesville in a Lachua County, Florida and identified by parcel number 06675-011-002. The only other property is Holly Heights, Gainesville 1, Holly Heights, Gainesville 2, and Holly Heights, Gainesville 3. Code Administration initiated an enforcement proceeding and found there to be a violation of the following sections of theastair County Code of Ornices 75.301D collection service for residential or institutional property. The respondent was provided with a reasonable time to correct the violations. A notice of violation was sent to respond that included corrective actions. I'm going inspections conducted today have determined that respondent remains in violation of the said allot your county code sections. My last inspection of the property was on April 1st, 2025. I have good service of notices and statements of violations to respond sent by posting. Copies have been provided to the magistrate and I request they be entered into evidence. There has been no contact with the respondent regarding the violations. The photographs being presented were taken by myself and accurately reflect the violations and they be admitted into evidence. The county's recommendations that respond to be found in violations of the set sections of the code order responded coming to compliance within 30 days by compliance with the corrective actions listed in the notes of violation. And if not comply then pay a fine in amount of $50 for each day the violations continue past the date set for compliance. The county has incurred $350 bring in this action to hearing. Again, someone here representing Holly Heights, Gainesville. All right. Let's proceed to case number 13 or 14. Case number 2, 4-015074. Allatua County versus Holly Heights, Gainesville 1 LLC. versus Holly Heights Gamesville 1 LLC, Holly Heights Gamesville 2 LLC, and Holly Heights Gamesville 3 LLC, Code Officer Natasha Washington. So you're double teaming them huh? I am Natasha Washington, a Code Officer of Alachuaua County and I have been sworn. My credentials are on file with Alachua County Code Enforcement Special Magistrate Legal Secretary. In case 24-01-5074, they're responding Holly Heights Gainesville 1 LLC and Holly Heights Gainesville 2 LLC and Holly Heights Gainesville 1 LLC and the Holly Heights Gainesville 2 LLC and the Holly Heights Gainesville 3 LLC. The photo being presented in evidence accurately represents the violation as seen and were taken by myself as the officer and on the days indicated on each photograph. On December 23rd 2024, the Office of Code Enforcement received a complaint. O'Gorwich can's being left at the roadside after the pickup date at the address 818 Southwest 63rd Terrace Gainesville, Florida. Their property was inspected by myself, and I found it to be in as far as Alachua County jurisdiction as specified in section 74.13 of Alachua County code, and in a violation of Alachua County ordinance section 75.301D, collection service, or residential, or institutional property. The Notice of Violation was mailed certified mail to the owner of record in the tax collector office and to any other additional responsible party as the code allows. Legal service of the Notice of Violation was achieved. And in the Notice of Violation, the respondent was given reasonable time to correct the violation. As a result of my last inspection on April the 1st of 2025, a founding of Guilty for the Holly Heights Gangsville 1 LLC and at Holly Holly Heights Gangsville 2 LLC and Holly Heights Gangsville 3 LLC. With 75.301D collection of service for residential or institutional property. Counties asking they be given 30 days to comply or a fine of $50 per day until compliance is achieved. Father that the county recovers the prosecution costs are $280. I have had contact by email as force with Sherry Morgan and I still have not gotten any compliance with this issue. When was the email roughly? The last contact by email was on April 1st. April 1st? Okay. So there were. Yes, sir. All right. All right. So we've won the case number 15. Case number 2, 4-015110. Oops. I'm sorry. That's case number 2, 4, dash 0, 15, 0, 6, 0, Elatua County versus Holly Heights 1 LLC, Holly Heights 2 LLC, and Holly Heights 3 LLC, Officer Natasha Washington. One more time. I am Natasha Washington, a code officer of Elatua County, and I have been sworn the photos Thank you photos being presented into evidence accurately Represents the violation as seen and were taken by myself as the officer on the dates indicated on each photograph On December the 20th the the Office of Codes received the complaint at the address 808 Southwest 63rd Terrace Gainesville, Florida. The property was inspected, and it was found to be in violation of the Alachua County Code 75.301D Collection Service, a residential or institutional property. The Notice of Violation was mailed, certified, mailed to the owner as record, as recorded in the Tax Collector's Office, and to any other additional responsible party as the code allows. Legal service of the Notice of Violation was achieved. In the Notice of Violation, the respondent was given reasonable time to correct the violation. As a result of my last inspection on April 1, 2025, the county has a finding of guilty but in compliance for the Hallehites Gainesville 1 LLC and the Hallehites Gainesville 2 LLC and the Hallehites Gainesville 3 LLC for the section of 75.301D, collection of service, or residential or institutional property. So the county is further that the county received the prosecution costs of $280. So this property I found the most forced to be guilty, but they were in compliance with my visit from April to first. Okay, great. Thank you. Again, someone here representing Holly Heights. Nope. All right. Thank you. Case number 16, please. Case number 24-015110, Alachua County versus Angel Soto, and a NETTP Soto, Code Officer Alante Web. Someone here representing the Soto's? Okay. Okay. Okay. County would like to pull that case, please. Okay. All right. So that case has been pulled by the county. All right. Hopefully for good reasons. Yes. Great reason. The right reasons. Great. That's great. All right. Case number 17, please. Case number 2, 4-015108, Elitio Accountee, versus Towers Investment Properties LLC, Code Officer Alante Web. So, I'm going to hear representing Towers Investment Properties LLC, and Towers Investment Properties LLC. Please receive, County. Good morning, my name is Alante Web, Code Officerd officer for Alachua County and co-d enforcement case 24-015018. The county received a complaint on December 23rd, 2024 regarding the property located at address 1-2-2-4 Southway 61st Terrace Gainesville in Alachua County, Florida and identified by parcel number 06675-007-006. The owner of the property is Towers Investment Properties LLC. Code Administration initiated an enforcement proceeding and found there to be a violation of the following sections of Alachua County Code of Ornances 75.301D Collection Service for residential or institutional property the respondent was provided with a reasonable time to correct the violations And notice a violation was sent to respond to that included corrective actions. On-going inspections conducted today have determined that responded remains in violation of the set of Alachua County Code sections. My last inspection of the property was on April 1st, 2025. I have good service of notices and statement of violations to respond to it said by certified mail receipt. Copies have been provided to the magistrate and I request they be entered into evidence. I have had contact with the respondent property management regarding the violations. The photographs being presented were taken by myself and accurately reflect the violations and acts they be admitted into evidence. The county recommendation is that the respondent. The county's budget for the next month. The county's budget for the next month. The county's budget for the next month. The county's budget for the next month. The county's budget for the next month. The county's budget for the next month. The county's budget for the next month. The in court $280 and bringing this action to hearing. Let me ask you a question. Why 30 days to move some garbage cans? So great question. So when I spoke to the owner, Joe Anthony, he is stating that he's having some communication issues with the tenants regarding the curbs at the cart. So I gave him another 30 days just to see if he can mend the miscommunication with his tenants. Okay all right that's fine thank you again so many here representing the towers. Nope let's go on to case number 18 please. Case number 324-015082, Alachua County versus Laura Hourbok, John Hourbok, and Margaret Hourbok. And I believe this is a Zoom case, and so are they on line? I am. Can you hear me? Yes. Since we can't see you, were you here for the swearing in? No. OK, so let me get Jackie, our secretary, to swear you in on your testimony. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give in this case today will be the truth and the whole truth? I swear. OK, thank you. Could you identify who you are in your relationship to the property, please? Sure, I'm one of the owners. I'm Laura Aura back. Okay, thank you. And do you reside at the property? No, I live in New York. Okay. But I travel. Okay. All right, I wasn't getting my messages, but. Okay, we're gonna let the county proceed with this case, and I'll let you respond to their case. Go ahead county. Good morning my name is Alante Will code officer for a logical county and code enforcement case 2 4-015082 the county received a complaint on December 23rd, 2024 regarding the property located at address 809 Southwest 63rd Terrace in a Lotria County, Florida, and identified by parcel number 06675-011-001. The owner of the property is Laura Arabach, John Arabach, and Margaret Arabach. Code administration initiated Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa it was provided with a reasonable time to correct the violations and no violation was sent to respond to that included corrective actions. Ongorn inspections conducted today have determined that the responding remains in violation of the set of Alaltara County co sections. My last inspection of the property was on April 1st, 2025. I have good service of notices and statements of violation to respond to respondents sent by posting. Copies have been provided to the magistrate and I request they be entered into evidence. I have had contact with the respondent regarding the violations. The photographs being presented were taken by myself and Acro-reflect the violations and acts they be admitted into evidence. The county's recommendation is that respond to be found in violations of the set sections of the code order respond to come into compliance within 30 days by complying with the correct of actions listed in a notice of violation and if not comply then pay a fine in amount of $50 for each day the violations continue past date set for compliance. The county has incurred $350 in calls to bring in this action to her. Okay, sure opportunity. Sorry about to explain the situation on your side. Thank you, Your Honor. So the all those notices have gone to my home in New York and I've been actually traveling on business since then and so my mail was being held and I didn't get them but I got something from one of my tenants that was posted when I actually happened to travel through Gainesville to check my properties. So I'm very sorry that the garbage isn't being taken care of appropriately. I also lost my property manager and had to train a new one. But I think maybe now after seeing the pictures because I haven't seen the notices, there's some confusion about what at the curb might mean because the picture looked like the cans are on the grass. And then there's another building next to it where the cans are on the street. Mine is the one where they're on the grass. Is that not considered bringing the cans back? No, it would not. And all that takes, the officer responded that. No, ma'am. So, in the violation, there's a certain footage that the cards have to be away from the curb and they have to be away from the curb after pickup days. So I believe your pickup day may be on Monday so after the trashes picked up the tenants are supposed to pull the carts away from the curb because the complaints are that if there's a bad wind during the day, some of those carts which I have witnessed ends up in the middle of the road and cars have to go around them. So that's the main issue of having the carts away from the curb is that we don't want to impede the traffic of the roadway. Okay, I understand. And what is that distance because I don't get I haven't gotten those I'm still on the road And I haven't seen the paperwork that says what the distance should be yes, ma'am. So the distance is 15 feet away from the curb And typically that would be actually more than that because it goes up on the property somewhere where the tenant can actually easily Access it. Yes, sir. All right. Do you have any problems with the 30 days? Oh, not at all, sir. Your Honor, I've already asked the tenants to pull them all the way back to the side of the building. And I think maybe today they were at the side of the building because I've been speaking with William. And I think he was there this morning looking at another building on the street that was out of compliance. So my only issue is the cans not being far enough back not having garbage all over the place like overflowing cans that wasn't an issue. Um, we're done, on a case. So this violation is pertaining to the trash cards remaining at the curbside. Yes, ma'am, there is no violation for junk or trash or debris. Oh, okay, great. That's good news, at least. All right, I will train my tenants as best I can and make sure it doesn't happen again. Yeah, I should say if you have a property manager that you know, um, he will know that it has to be at least 15 feet away. I'll send out messages to them this morning. So as we finish here, okay, great. I'm very sorry. I like to be a good community member. I appreciate that and I appreciate you being present. as you may have heard, there's a lot of folks who don't bother show up to this. So thank you for being here. And yeah, so I will give the 30 days sounds like you've already now as soon as you're in compliance, please have the contact the officer. Uh, yes, she can. I have our email. Okay, so yes, so let as soon as you know or can send a picture showing cans that are properly. Yes, so she can. Okay, that will let that way the clock stops immediately as soon as that she can issue an inconvenience. Yes, sir. At the David at that point. Okay. Okay, that's great. And a long day if you ever don't hear from me, just always call or email. If you don't hear from paper response, like I said before, the our email exchange. Oh yes ma'am yeah I'll definitely reach out. Okay thank you. Thank you. All right. Case number 19. Case number 24-014573 a Lachua County versus Shirley M. Smith Code Officer Kelly Porrier. Shirley M. Smith or some of them? Good you want to have a seat over County versus Shirley M. Smith, Code Officer Kelly Porrier. Shirley M. Smith or something good you want to have a seat over there by the podium and then we'll let you County present its case. Thank you for being here. Good morning. Good morning. The motion is adjourned. Code enforcement case 24-014-573. County received a complaint on December 6th, 2024 regarding a structure being built on the property that is attached to an accessory building. Properties located at 1 6 109 Northeast County Road 1 4 7 5 Gainesville and Elatrio County. Denified by parcel number. 17093002000. Own of the property is surely Smith. Code Administration initiated enforcement proceedings and found there to be a violation of the following section of allotra county code 402.140B improvement to property prior to issuance of the building permit. Please note pre-application screening was denied on January 14, 2025. It has been determined by the zoning department, this parcel, is not a lot of record and is not eligible for further building permits. There is no permit history on the record and the structure will be need to be removed from the property. A demolition permit will be needed. The respondent was provided a reasonable time to correct the violations. Notice the violation was sent to the respondent that included corrective actions. ongoing inspections conducted to date have determined that the respondent remains a violation that set a lateral conicode section. My last inspection of the property was on April 2nd. I have good service of notices and statements of violation to the respondent. Sent by certified male receded postings. Copies have provided to the magistrate and are requested to be entered in devidence. I have had contact with the respondent regarding the violations. Last conversation was on January 14th. Photographs being presented were taken by myself and actively reflect the violations and ask they be admitted to evidence. County recommendation is a respond to be found in violation of the said section of the code. Ordered respond to come into compliance within 30 days by complying with the corrective actions listed the notice violation and if not compliance and pay a fine the amount of $100 for each day the violation continues past the date set for compliance county has incurred $420 in cost and bringing the action hearing Okay, thank you sure opportunity to come to speak if you want to come up to the podium. And were you here for the swearing in? Yes, sir. Okay, thank you. And let go. Jackie. My name is Shirley Smith. My address is 16019 Northeast. Kind of old 1475 games75, Gainesville 326-09. New York, the owner of the property? Yes, sir. OK, so what can you tell us? OK. Our picture update is not correct. We start taking it down. Some of it. The building was built there when we bought the property. I bought this property back in 2007 from Joe Parker. And so the dwellings on the property was already there. But we did not know that we could not build out in the county every day. We didn't know there was a code that we had to go through to get this done. If I have notes that I would never attempt do anything, because I'm not about breaking the law. I understand. So we start taking this apart, have not heard from anyone recently on this matter. OK, how long do you think it would take you to take apart what you've got? We can do it. I don't want you to, from your perspective, because earlier you heard that, you know, you give you sufficient time to come, because we don't want to have to have you come back. So maybe, um, two months, maybe three, get it down. Can you have a problem with 90 days? We put a lot of money in that build. Yeah, that's not an insubstantial structure at all. No, we have no problem. I just wanted to state a couple things for the records, your honor. Back on January of 2025, the 14th, they did submit a pre-application screening. That was denied. I understand, yeah, you testified to that. And so that email was sent to the respondent as well. So regarding the environmental protection protection there was an issue with the surface water in wetlands which exists on the property and also the zoning which I stated in my statement. Now it looks from the photos that they had an existing structure on the property which the responded stated and they built around that. So in order to take that down when she stated she has begun to do, you actually need a demo permit. So they shouldn't have taken it down or started to until they receive that permit. So they would need to go apply for the demo permit. Okay. So, how long does it take once the application just trying to get for a timeframe here in terms of of? Well, I don't know the exact time frame, but what's a reasonable I mean? Probably about 90 because it's just a demo permit. It's not through and it's new construction. This is not old construction. So yeah, what about the existing structure? As far as I know the existing structure should can stay. I mean, I mean, I just want to make it clear. I don't want them to think right. I mean, I wasn't told it couldn't stay. OK. All right. So what you're saying is that science is a little strange, but you need a permit to take it down. OK. I didn't know that either. Yeah. Is that a new law? That way I've been around for a long time. You're going to demo a structure of some kind. It typically is of concern for holder structures because of the spestus and toxic materials that may be in proper demolition, things like that, and for safety purposes. But because it's new construction and you're into it, it shouldn't take any time at all to get that. It's just a matter of filling it out and applying it. And you can make them aware of this case so that it's in response to this case that you're seeking. But yeah, it's a very simple procedure to get. So I have to buy a permit to take it down. Right. The new material that I just did. I realized it's not really strange. Okay, because it really doesn't, the demo permit process doesn't contemplate that somebody has brand new building and then they have to take it down. It's really for older structures that are a problem or have like asbestos or lead base painter things like that on them. So Ms. Kelligan, you provide any information for me who I need to go to to get this done. Yeah, you just need to go to the building department. Okay, which... Where you did your pre-app kind of thing? Yes, same place that you've been there. So yeah, you have and I would suggest that the zoning doesn't allow it, but the county. Come on. Yes, same over the years. Same place, so you've already been there. So yeah, you have and I would suggest that the zoning doesn't allow it, but the county commission can provide for variances if the parts and complies and reads certain criteria. So one of the things you might want to consider is talking to a lawyer to see about whether you could get a variance to allow this to happen at the property. And you could also discuss that with zoning. They can help you on that as well. Yeah, just when you go down, talk to zoning about that because they can tell you, you know, how big is the property? Five eight five eight. So it's a substantial piece of property. OK. All right. Yeah, I would talk to zoning because there may be a resolution or I can't give it to you here, But it may be something that you could get around this to some degree. It's especially since you obviously put a lot of time and effort into doing this. All right. Thank you. Thank you for coming. I'm just trying to get 90 days. This is probably good. I'll me go. Number 20. Case number 24-013649. Elatua County versus Victory Flips LLC. Code Officer Gerald Satt. Good morning. Somebody here representing Victory Flips. Somebody here representing Victory Flips. Go ahead. Please proceed. My name is Gerald Sap, co-op officer in Electro County. In code of minute and code of enforcement case, 24, 00, 844. The county received a case on 1113, 2024, initiated by building Inspector Jesse Brune, regarding the property located at address 4021 Southwest 78 Street, Gainesville, in Allegro County, Florida, and identified by personal number 06 849-002-01. The owner of the property is VictoryFlips LLC. Code Administration arrived at the property but was unable to gain access. The building department found there to be a violation of the following sections of Electro County Code of Ordinances. 402.140B, improvement of property prior to issuance of building permit. The respondent was provided with a reasonable time to correct the violations, a notice of violations was sent to respond that included corrective actions. Ongoing inspections conducted today have determined that the respondent remains in violation of the sad Electro County Code sections. My last inspection of the property was on today 4-3-20-25. I I have good service of notice and statement of violations to respond that sent by certified mail receipt or posting. Copies have been provided to the magistrate and I request they be entered into evidence. I have had no contact with respond it regarding the violations. The photographs being presented were taken by building Inspector Jesse Brune. I ask that they be admitted into evidence. Today the assistant building official, Chris Hall, would better explain the photos and the particulars of the case. The county recommendation, the county recommendation, the county recommendation is to be found in violation of the said, the respondent be found in violation of said sections of the code, order, respondent comment to compliance within 30 days by compliance with the corrective actions listed in the notice of violation. And if not complied, then pay fine in the amount of $100 for each day the violation continued past a date set for compliance. The county has incurred 360 cost and bring the actions to hearing. Is that 350 or 360? 360, I'm sorry, 360. All right. Is someone here representing Victory Flips? Someone who tell me what the improvements that we're're talking about. Yes. 81. 81 is fine. Since they're not here. Could you put the first picture back up? The show the whole house. Yeah, I just want to get around the records. I was noticing the picture she showed of like a grill and stuff on the backboard. That's actually a different house. Okay. That's the actual property there. Okay. And what was the improvement done without a permit? They did basically an interior flip. They replaced windows. We actually caught this with the roof where they hired applied for We got there, we got there to do that inspection noticed. Hey you guys are doing a lot of other work, replace cabinets, a lot of stuff that would require work. So it would be obvious from the outside unless you other than the windows, you would be able to tell if now it's outside other than that it's painting minor stuff not permitted but they did do redoing bathrooms which is underground plumbing, a lot of electrical work. So significant amount of work. So yeah, that's significant work. Okay, and obviously they pulled the permit for the roof or the roofer did. Yes. So that's what triggered it. Okay. That's what I needed just something on the records, because they didn't know what the improvements were. Okay, thank you. No problem. All right, let's go on to case. Case number 21, Jackie. Okay. So we presented. Oh, that's why we skipped that. We already did that case 22. Case number 25-000886, a Latua County versus West Shore Legacy LLC, Code Officer Michael Williams. Somebody here representing West Shore Legacy LLC. Somebody here representing West Shore Legacy LLC LLC. Somebody here representing West Shore, legacy LLC. Nope, all right, please proceed. Good morning, Code Officer Michael Williams, for a lot of Chow County code, with regard to, with regard to this particular case, the county received this case, received a complaint rather from the tenant at that particular time. This is a rental unit back on January 28, 2025. The property is located at 1505 Clark Boulevard, unit number 5308 in Gainesville, Elatua County, Florida. The property is identified by parcel number 063-150100. The owner of the property is West Shore Legacy LLC. Code Administration initiated an enforcement proceeding and found there to be a violation of the following sections of the International Maintenance Property Code, PMC 304.7, Rousse and drainage, PMC 305.3, interior surfaces. The respondent was provided a reasonable time to correct the violations. A notice of violation was sent to the respondent that included corrective actions. Ongoing inspections conducted to date have determined that the respondent remains in violation of said international maintenance property code sections. My last inspection of the property was February 26, 2025, which I met with the property manager, Mrs. Kumika Machet. She, at that particular time, she would not give me access to the unit She indicated that access was not available to the unit in order to conduct a reinspection to determine If the work had been completed or if it remained in the same conditions So as far as we know The unit is still in violation Because we were not afforded the ability to get access to the unit to make a determination. I have good services of notice and statement of violations to respond that sent by certified mail receipt or posting copies have been provided to the magistrate and our request that they be entered into evidence. I have had contact with Mrs. Comika match it, who's the property manager. The photographs being presented were taken by myself and accurately reflect the violations. And I ask that they be admitted into evidence. The county recommendation is that the respondent to be found in violation and of said code sections and order the respondent to come into compliance within 14 days by complying with the corrective actions listed in the notice of violation. If respondent does not not comply county's requesting a fine of $100 per day being imposed. The county has incurred exactly $210 of fees with regard to the prosecution cost. Okay. Have you had any communication with the property manager since that February meeting? No, I have not. She and I had spoken on, well, she gave me her card and so I would touch base with her every couple of weeks or so. And she seemed to indicate that to her mind corporate was unwilling to provide her with what she needed in order to bring not only that unit but multiple other units into compliance. This particular property has, there's probably, I guess there's probably eight or nine structures there with multiple, multiple individual units. And so I understand that some years prior, they were in violation and I understand that there's a lien attached to other units there. Other structures I should say. Okay, so I just want to give you any follow up with her and here's that she's not able to respond to you. Okay. Right. She even indicated that it was her belief that they were going to send her to the meeting. So it really would have been helpful as she'd been here because this is an ongoing issue with this particular complex. In fact, I have other units that have been cited. So it looks like at some point here in the near future, those will be coming before you as well. Okay. All right. Thank you. Again, somebody here representing wish or legacy LLC. No, okay. Let's go on to case number 23, please. Case number 25-00728, Alachua County, versus Moran and Moran, Code Officer Kelly Porrier. Is somebody representing Moran and Moran here? Somebody representing Moran and Moran, please proceed. Okay. the The bill is billed. Code enforcement case 25-00-0728. County received a complaint on January 23rd regarding addition to a home without permits, abandoned cars, more sheds, and junk. Properties located at 2685, Northeast 71st Terr Terrace Gainesville in the Latchell County, identified by parcel number 177560007000. Owned of the property as Esther Morin and Osmark Morin. Code Administration initiated enforcement proceedings found there to be a violation of the following sections of a lateral conic code 402.140B improvements of property prior to issuance of a building permit which is the accessory structures, and 7.20A, cumulation and junk. The respondent was provided a reasonable time to correct the violations. Notice the violation was sent to the respondent that included corrective actions. Ongoing inspections conducted to date, I've determined the respondent remains in violation of the set of the Lachua County Code Section. My last inspection of the property was on April 2nd. I have good service of notices and statements of violation to the respondent sent by certified male receipt or postings. Copies have been provided to the magistrate and I request to be entered into evidence. I have had no contact with the responder regarding the violations. Photographs being presented were taken by myself and after we reflect the violations and ask that they be admitted into evidence. County recommendation is responded to be found in violation of the said sections of the code, order a respond to come into compliance within 10 days by complying with corrective actions listed in the notice violation. If not, complies then pay a fine. And the amount of $150 for each day the violation continues past the dates set for compliance. Please note, due to the same violations occurring at this location, from 2010 to the present, the county recommendation is 10 days be given to the respondent to come into compliance without an additional time granted, plus an increase in a daily fight amount. County has incurred $490 in cost and bringing the action hearing. Okay, again, somebody here representing the owners. Oh, thank you. Case number 24. Case number 25-002265, Alachua County versus Eve, our Daneman Life Estate, Code Officer, Michael Williams. Somebody representing Daneman Life Estate. Somebody here representing the Daneman Life Estate. I guess, okay. Thank you. We'll look, the county proceed, and then we'll let you talk. Okay. Michael Williams--off sir a lot of a county Code excuse me code enforcement case 25-002265 the county received a complaint 2020-5 regarding the property located at 4511 northwest 43rd place in Gainesville here in a lotchua county the parcel number identified is 06 06 4 0 0 4 0 1 0 the owner of the property is Eve Daneman. Code administration initiated an enforcement proceeding and found there to be a violation of the following sections of a lot of county code of ordinances. 74.28 accumulation of junk and 74.36 nuisance overgrowth. The respondent was provided a reasonable time to correct the violations. A notice of violation was sent to the respondent that included corrective actions. My last inspection of the property was 4225, which the property was found in compliance. I have good service of notice and statements of violation to respondent sent by certified mail, receipt or posting copies have been provided to the magistrate and I request that they be interned into evidence. I have had contact with the respondent regarding the violations. Mrs. Damon, the photographs being presented were taken by myself and accurately reflect the violations and I ask that they be admitted into evidence. The county. the ground. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. The ground was not the same. a violation as the property was given a compliance date of 32425. However, compliance wasn't achieved until 4225. The county has incurred $210 in cost and bringing this action to hearing. Okay. Mr. Chairman, your opportunity to speak and you are in compliance, which is great. Right over to the podium there and Lut Jackie Of course Eave Daneeman, 45-11, Northwest 43rd Place, Gainesville, Florida. Well, you heard the officer says you're in compliance, and thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. I had a little setback this morning. I did everything I could do and I thought that I had met the required date because I really made an effort to push for that. So they had said in your recording the officer's testimony at compliance date of March 24th of this year and he said I, I guess it was upon his inspection of yesterday? 422-25, yes. Yesterday that you were in compliance. When you came into compliance, did you give the officer a call or inform him that you had come into compliance? I had two letters. I'm not, I'm a nurse, I'm not a lawyer. That's right. But I had my two letters. I read them carefully and they instructed me that it was my responsibility to contact code enforcement, Mr. Williams, and make an appointment for him to see my progress. All right, that's fine, then you did that. And there's no fines, so because you're in compliance, okay? So I was just just worried that it sounded like I'd lolly gagged around and didn't make the correct date for compliance. I think that- Well, well, technically speaking, the notice indicated she was given until 324, 25, took a plie. This year. Right. However, I noted that she had come into full compliance on yesterday. OK. So yeah, so you're fine. OK. I did have to take a voluntary leave of absence for three weeks from a family that very much depends on me to make this happen. I understand. Well, thank you for doing that. I'm sorry you had to take that much time off to get it done. So yeah, so that's all we need from you. Thank you. Am I being fined? No, there is no fin. There are prosecution costs, though. And the question for the county is if she actually was in compliance on the 24th would there be a would you be seeking prosecution costs yes yes okay okay yeah because you hadn't been able to get a response before the notes of violation went out well we had been communicating for sure But as I said, she came into compliance, full compliance on yesterday is what I noted. So right now the county is asking to recover their prosecution costs. The time and effort that took to go ahead and meet, expect to property multiple times and send out documentation and that's $210. May I say something please? I received the letter on a Friday, which was adjacent to when it was mailed, and I'm single, I'm not a Mrs. and I have the tools to try to accomplish this work, having recovered from three medical events, hospitalizations multiple. And the first Sunday it rained for the first time this year with a record setting rainfall. So at that point, I told my family that I work for, that I would need time off to deal with, not only the weather, but a lack of responsible people to help me with this. So I said about to do that by myself. There were four Sundays involved, including last Sunday, today being Thursday. And three out of four, we had torrential all day rain. So there was a little bit of loss of time. When Mr. Williams came to my house, he was very cordial, very business-like and pointed out to me that three bags of mulch and some bags of potting soil were the primary reason he could not pass me at that time. So I said about to reckon that and actually did a little more than he had requested me to do to make darn sure that I could have this resolved today. So I'm asking for mercy on those fees having been unemployed for three weeks. And I actually hired help two times, grown men, that all said they had backgrounds in rural communities, farms, and landscaping. And one group called out because of the rain. And the other group that I called showed up to Abel body-grown men looked at the yard that Mr. Williams had already said looked pretty darn good and said, this is the kind of work that will require a landscaping company. We don't want to be involved. That was two days before his final arrival. He came to my house twice and we communicated by voicemail. So I feel like I didn't really impose upon the system enough to be find. Okay, all right. Thank you. I did all this work single-handedly with a weed eater. I had no moors functional at that time. Do you live on the property or you read it? I've bought this house by myself in 1982. I paid for it by myself as I worked at Shans Hospital and I intend to age out in this home. Thank you. All right. Does County have anything else to just do? Well, well, yes, yes I do. To her credit, you know, she did, you know, express that she had little or no help. There was a substantial amount of work to be done. She did, you know, communicate about some health issues and so forth. But that said, this is not a fine that's being imposed. You know, these are prosecution costs, which, you know, involved the effort and the administrative workup in order to bring the case before the magistrate. So it's not technically a fine, so it's prosecution cost. It's the amount that's involved in bringing the case before the magistrate. I understand your statements, sir. Again, I'm pleading for mercy on those costs. Okay. Shall I be seated? No, you're done. That's fine. Your case is ended. It's time you're welcome to leave. Thank you for coming. All right, now I believe we're in the penalty side of things. Let me read this statement. So we're now into the noncompliance side of things. And this is, noncompliance hearings are strictly to evaluate if an order that has been created by the special magistrate or in the case of code enforcement board if we have an older case. It's been followed or not been followed. I will not rehere the case as a special magistrate has no authority to revisit this best its previous action. The policy for conducting an on compliance hearing is as follows. Determine if the respondent is in compliance or non-compliance. Give the county and the respondent an opportunity to speak on the compliance or non-compliance. Make a decision regarding compliance if found in non-compliance placement of a lien on behalf of the county So if you could call case next case Jackie please Case number 22-011832 a Lachua County versus deeper purpose community church Inc Presented by Jessica hung somebody here representing deeper purchase, okay? But the county perceived first Good morning Jessica Hung environmental planner and environmental protection department on Our last inspection the one year inspection on January 25th 2025 Only 35 inches out of the 130 inches required to be planted remained. When you say, you mean DBH? The mitigation plantings, they're typically the re planting requirements are caliper inches to be replaced. Okay. This is on trees. Yes. So we're gonna clear off for the record, okay. Yes. So you're saying that 35 of 135 were alive at the 1 year inspection? Yes, out of 130. 130. And what was the requirement from compliance? What percentage had to be alive at a year? 80% survival in two years. OK, so you're at 1 year now? Yes. So you're clearly well below the 80% yes, okay, and what number do they need to bring it up to? if it's So if they need 80% you would need at least 95 inches to survive and so 95 out of So 35 lives they would need six or 60 right now and you still have another year to go in the compliance. Okay. All right, your opportunity to speak. Were you here for the swearing in? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Let Jackie and It's a pastor Adam Joy 16779 Northwest US Highway 441 H. Pastor brings four to three, two, six, four, three. And you're at the pastor at the church? Yes. OK. What would you like to tell us? I would like to tell you that we did what we were asked to do. And you clearly did. We did. But there were exigent circumstances that I explained to Miss Hong when she came out that we had two very very bad storms in around August and September of 2024. I explained to her the severe damage that those 13 acres took on. As you can even see, riding by their today, there are many snap trees, broken trees. We spent thousands of dollars paying a company to come out and just get the trees gone that were all over the place. And I mentioned to Miss Hong that if those large trees that are like 7, 8, 9, 100 years old, if they were snapped that the trees that we planted when we were required to plant them, those were much smaller trees that honestly did not stand a chance, yonder. And the wind literally swept them up. I've brought two members of our church here with me today that are also witnesses to that. We had many volunteers that came out to help clean up the property. And I'm just asking for leniency from the magistrate and understanding that we really really, and honestly, did do our best, but it truly was beyond our control with the weather to the trees that were out there. And I've seen on the news that this coming hurricane season is going to be worse than the last one. So you know putting those trees out there, you know, we didn't know what we were doing. We've never had a planning plan. We never planned it trees before. None of that. So we truly really have tried our best to do what we were asked to do. And I'm just asking for leniency on that. And I also had a question about what I see on the paper here. Okay, go to your question. It says on the page right above 26. It says total fines, $5175, and I don't understand that. And you want to explain that? Yes in the findings of fact if it's not in compliance there was it was stated in that document a $75 per day would be imposed until the property was in compliance and so that fine starts from the noncompliance date of January 24th, 2025. So did you follow that? So she's saying on January 24th? Right, that was that's a one year day that's when it started. Yeah, I do follow that. And I remember the first hearing about that I don't understand how it how that is accurate because she came out on January the 23rd and we were in contact she explained when she was out there that she had never handled a non-compliance before and that we would hit back from her or from the county on what we had to do to correct the issue. So for us to have a fine of that amount when you know we were not told to do anything after she came out we just got a hearing to come today. So we you know had she said the day that she would come out there hey you need to do this this and this, we would have had to work a miracle to do it right away, certainly not to be in non-compliance for 69 days while we waited on a hearing to be here today. When nobody communicated us to do anything in between the date that she came out in today's day, that does not make any sense at all. Okay. It was requested during that last inspection to fulfill the remaining plantings, and then if not, this would go to a non-compliance hearing. And although the findings of fact was from the original case and maybe that wasn't stated or Reminded okay again All right and Go ahead if I guess I'm addressing you I want to repeat again that when her and her partner came out All she said was that she would follow up with me. I have nothing writing from her or the county that says what we were supposed to do between the date that she came out on January 23rd and today's date, we only got the notice in the mail certified mail to be here today. And again, we're asking for leniency concerning the fines because we were not told to do anything by anyone. So the question for compliance would require you to bring at least 60 caliber inches back on site. And do you have the ability to do that? In other words, you basically ask replace trees that were either dyed because of the hurricane or because of drought or some things don't make it. We could do that. I will can't tell you because we're a very small community church with very limited funds. It will take us months just like you guys allowed us months to get it done the first time. I'm going to actually was like more like 10 months to do that because those trees are not cheap at all. And you know you can have a tree that stands this tall some of the ones we have out there, and then the caliper inches would be like a half an inch. And those trees are a several hundred dollars per tree. And again, my request is that truly, that we don't have any penalty of any kind, because active weather was beyond our control. It was nothing short of having multiple people out there holding trees in the middle of hurricane. There's nothing that we could have done to prevent that from happening. The trees that are still there, we're doing our very best to take care of them. We want them to survive. They make the property look wonderful. I live on the property in the parsing it. So it's not something that we intentionally did. So that's what we're asking. Okay. All right, I'll take your under consideration. Anything else from the county? No. Thank you. Thank you for being here. I said, I'll take your under consideration and my ruling will come out next week or the week after and make a decision based on both of your testimonies. Okay. We'll get an email or something. No, you'll get an actual document. Yeah, you can be sent to you through email, but it will be a document as well. So yeah. Okay, thank you so much, John. May we be excused? Pardon? May we be excused? Yes, you're excususe. Thank you. You don't have to stick around. Thank you for coming. All right, case number 26. Case number 24-009825, Elatua County versus Leonard Galway. Somewhere here representing Leonard Galway. Somebody representing Leonard Galway. Okay. Please proceed, Kenny. Address 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-3, Northeast, 60 second way in Gainesville. And that's case 2-4-0-0-9-8-2-5. They're not in compliance. My last inspection was this morning. So they have a prosecution cost of $350. Total is $5,800 with a recurring daily fine of $50 per day until in compliance. Okay. So that consisted of a semi-truck there was a electrical panel that was located outside. I remember that case. So does the 5800 include the prosecution costs or is that separate of? Yes, it includes it, sir. Okay, that's within that. Okay. And that's the current amount. Okay. All right. since the underside here, let's go ahead to case number 2087. Case number two four dash zero zero three one nine seven. Alachua County versus continue a brokerage of America court. Your honor this case was brought for a penalty hearing in January 2025 and continue until February 10th 2025. Due to an administrative error, the respondent was sent a hearing notice to attend today. We are hearing the cases occur to see. We are asking you to certify the lien. This is a zoom case. I'm on line for the case. Yes, I am here. Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you and could you state who you are? My name is Dimitri Silas. I am the representative for your continued brokerage of America. So you're the corporate representative? Yes, I am. Okay, and are you an attorney? No, sir. I'm the owner of property. Okay, that's fine. I just wanted to make a turn. So let me get Jackie to swear you in. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give in this case today will be the truth and the whole truth. Yes, ma'am. All right. And again, you stated for the right of the chair owner of the property. Yes, sir. OK, we're going to let the county present its case. And then I'll let you speak to it. So case number 2, 4, 0, 0, 3, 1, 9, 7. The address is 15701 northwest 28th Street in Gainesville. They're not in compliance, so they have a prosecution cost of $490. Total $4,315, which includes that prosecution cost and a daily fine of $75 until in compliance. They're in compliance with all items except for three. Okay. Which three are they not in compliance with? They need building permits for the sheds that are located on the property. Mm-hmm. They also need to supply the code administration with a copy of their permit that they took for the septic That was installed on the property Before prior approval for the recreational vehicle We also need proof that their final inspection was done for that septic Okay, all right septic that's up to. All right. So it's your opportunity to speak. OK. Thank you, sir. My apologies for this case continuing to come before your death. I purchased this property in 2021 and when I purchased the property, I got all of the pre permitting from I would guess it would be the building department to I guess get the septic and the water will and the electric. So what happened with this property, what Ms. Forrier is asking now I am completely understanding because I have one back and forth with her with this. Right now, honestly, I believe that the house was built next door and someone saw lighting on my shed and reported me living in the shed, which was never true. I believe this is where all this comes from. But to make a long story short, I had went and gotten the permit for the RV and I looked up for the stature which said that you can definitely live full time in your RV which I do not I am a snow bird I bought the property to be there four to five months out of the year like now I'm in Chicago actually taking for my sick dad I should be in an MRI with him right now. But when I called the Doney Administration and I got all the permitting done for the RV, I went out to Tyler Hassey, registered my business and I did all that. So that was done and I received an email from the young lady saying that I should be fine, that everything should be compliant as it stems from the new Florida Statue, which says that yes, you can live near RV full-time, which again, I only lived there for the five months out of the year. If you go there, the RV is covered right now, because I won't be back until October. So when I went to get this general contractor to permit the shed, then I sent over all the plans to the zoning administration, which clearly state, okay, it can withstand the winds of 150 miles per hour, but I still need someone to come over and permit the shed. So I told her, you know, I'm out of town, it's hard to get a GST over to make this appointment to make this happen. So she says, from her end, as far as permitting, the RV is fine. You know, that's permitted. I do not plan to build on the property for another three years. I'm 59, I am still working, I am not even thinking about like retiring fully to build a house there for another three to four years. So, if I don't know how it works with this case and coming into compliance because my I understand things from talking with these zoning administrations when I am ready to actually build the coming into compliance because my understanding from talking with these zoning administration when I am ready to actually build, then I would need to get permitting for all of this because as far as their concern, the zoning administration I find and I'm then compliance. So what I'm also supporting asking me for is to either higher general contractors to come out and you know say what the plans already say which I willing to do that when I get back support and no problem. Or number two I become in the war on the general war on T.D. which then I would have to do homest It's a big deal and I am not a resident of Florida. I'm a resident of Illinois, so that takes me to a whole nother tax arena. And that is not the reason why I purchase that property. I work hard to purchase a cash, so you know, everything there is paid for. So I'm just not understanding why I am continuously being called the corporate or something that I am in compliance and I am compliant with Florida Statue as far as the RV being there. This is not involving your RV, this involves your septic system which you have to have a permit for. And your RV is connected to a separateic system. Okay, this is about septic. Yeah, that's what officer testified to. She said you needed three things. You need a building permit for the shed. You need, they need a copy of your permit for the septic system and a proof that you had final inspection on the septic system. Because the RV obviously has to have a place to dump its waste if you're living there for four months at a time. So she needs those three things and once you get her those three things from what I understand all at the office to speak, then she can give you an affidavit of compliance. Is that correct? Correct. Okay. So your honor, Ms. Pete, please. I am in Chicago with my dad. Last time I was in court, you know, I told you he had a heart attack last year. So now he just got to nursing home and I'm taking sure him with him, my brother. And I will not be back before it ends October. So... he just got to nursing home, I'm taking care of him with him, my brother. And I will not be back before it until October. So, you know, to get an infection, I have the permit for the septic because I needed the permit for the septic in order to get the permitting for the RV. So that was like, you know, hand in hand that has to happen even before I got the permanent for the RV. But for the inspection, I'll be more than happy to call them out to do an inspection. But again, even with the GCs, it's hard when I'm not there. When I'm not presently there, the only thing I have is a molester to come by and mold the grass to make sure, you know, that's not, I don't complain, that I'm not growing like wild weeds or anything. But, yeah, I can come here to do this, to have thick inspection. But, yeah, I don't know what time. I mean, you know, I know the dates are given 90 days and all of this. But if I have to get someone to take sure of my dad, you know, before October, then I'll do that. But yeah, I would need an extension to get the subject infected. Yeah. But the permit I have. So she wants I can send her copies of the permit. Yeah, to get there through as soon as you can. That'll solve one of the three pieces. But she, now, if you had a company installed this empty system, they should have called for the inspection. OK, I'll have to speak with Mr. Lucas with the human playfulness. Yeah, the human department, Mr. Lucas, the guy who gave me the permit, I paid for all of that. I understand what you're saying. And I can't do any of this until I get back there. So she needs to tell me if this is like urgent, like, you know, this is my day. Well, the fines are running until you do this. So for every day, you don't, it's $75 a day. Okay. So when does this start? Because I've been going to have to hire an attorney for myself on this. Because I know Florida law stated in May of May 14th of 2024 that it was legal. And all of this is coming up. I'm just not, I understand now what it is. To me, I think it's a resume, but you know, it is what it is. I have to get these permits. But yeah, I would like to hire myself in a journey. You're welcome to do that, but this is a, this hearing today is for noncompliance. And right now there are three things you're not in compliance with. And so the penalties will continue to run until you bring it into compliance. So in those, the three things are the general contractor to give permits for the ships that are already there and to get the septic insect that which I have to be there to do that. And I'm here taking sure my sick dead. And then what is the third one? Copy of the permit for the septic system. I have that. Okay. So the permit for the septic. Yep. So I'll get that for her. And then when was the date like when I talked to my attorney, I mean, what is the date that this lady says that I was all out of compliance. I know she's not going to go back to all the way to 2021. I should hope not. And that would be a long court case. Well, you can find the dates and the documents that they sent to you. You have a copy of the noncompliance hearing that has that spelled out in it. Yeah, I have all those things. Now this septic thing is new. So all the copies that I have here on our R4 the shed for the permitting of the shed. So this septic thing is new. That's I'm asking the date for the septic thing because I know I have to be there and I'm in Chicago taking true of my dad. Oh. Go ahead. I just want to state a few things for the record your owner. The date set for compliance is February 10th, 2025. I just wanted to state that the Respondent sent an email to the Building Department on September 9th, 2024, which laid out exactly what they needed in order to come and compliance. At that time, she did submit plans for the Sheds paper copies, but they requested digital and so it outlined that she did need digital plans back on Back on September 16th the zoning department also sent her an email Indicating that she was in compliance for her recreational vehicle. She is an agricultural zone, so of course she can have that, live in it part time, or full time if she needed to because she's an agricultural zone. But she would need permits for those sheds, which she needs additional plans for. Did want to state back in February, 2025, I gave her an email, sent it to her, and explained exactly what I just mentioned, those three things that she needs to come into compliance. Since working with the respondent, she has been given extensions. She was given two extensions, so two months' worth of extensions from code administration she was also given two extensions from you you're on her both were 30 days so that's a 60-day extension so the county recommends no extension be given at this time and the hand file down on the property. That that's very harsh. That's very harsh. Taking care of my sick dad and I'm under so much right now that is very harsh and I mean 1100 miles away. Oh my God that is so very harsh. So I am able to do all of these things legally, living it four times as I choose, part time is covered. The septic is not being used, the septic I have a permit for. And you're saying to me, I'm gonna be fine from February 10th of this year until I come into compliance. And I'm telling you that I am in Chicago taking care of my six deaths. We just got over the nursing home and I will not be there until at least October. I am telling you this. And this is the response that you get back to me. That's correct. That's correct. That's the response. And very cool. You have an opportunity, once you come into compliance, to come back and ask for a reduction of any fines and give calls for that. But at this point, you are in noncompliance for three items. And I'm going to accept no further testimony at this time for me to party That'll conclude this case for today You have an opportunity as I said at the time you come to compliance to apply to have the fines reduced at that time So we'll just move on please the case number 28 These are the reduction cases your honor. Okay, let me read the statement for reduction. I will now, I will now hear requests for reduction of fines and rescission of leans, the decision to grant or deny your request is solely within my discretion. In making my decision, I may consider recommendations from the Lachua County Code Administration. Please state precisely what you are requesting and why you believe that I should grant your request. You may present any information that is relevant to your request. The only purpose of this hearing is to consider a reduction of fine or a resision of lien. This is not an opportunity to discuss the original findings of guilt for the violations. Please refrain from commenting on the original proceeding since I have no authority to revisit the final action. The special magistrates policy is to hear the reduction request a maximum of two times. If you request a hearing then fail to appear that will be counted as a request. If this is your second reduction request you must present new information that I have not previously heard or have a compelling reason for making the request. So if you call the first reduction hearing case please. Case number CE2009110012, Alachua County versus Joanne Dippell Ayers, the new owner's Britain Jones with duration builders Inc. Okay, so the way this works is the opposite of what we've been doing. So it's your opportunity to present your case and explain why there should be a reduction of fun and recitional lean and then I will ask the county to respond if they have it. So please go ahead and state your name for the record. My name's Britt and Jones. We purchased this property. I was going to ask you, were you sworn in earlier? Yes. Okay, I just want to make a clear. We purchased this property December 16th of 2024. Those fines were existing from, I believe, 2010. I stood on the river educate, which you come to. Yeah, well we bought the property we went ahead and paid the original prosecution fees. Right. But we're just asking that you remove the fines and the leans on the property. We spend a lot of money and time cleaning up the property. Can you tell me roughly how much? About sixty five,000 to clean up the property. We now currently have it under contract with a young single mother. And if this finds eliminated, we're going to use that to reduce her purchase price. All right. County have a position on this. Do you want to speak to God? I do have before and after pictures. I saw the pictures. It's a it's remarkable what you did We really appreciate you doing what you did Dr. Juski director of a code. Yeah, we we have no issue with this. He's put it on a major amount of money And you saw the pictures. It's amazing. Okay, so we we definitely have no issue with this all right We don't usually use zero, but in this case, the county and I. No, you can't. Yeah, I think you'll go to zero on this. Okay, and I appreciate you doing that for the young mother. Absolutely, and you all will release the leans. Yeah, it'll pass you out. Take it to zero. Kindly we authorized the release of the link for you. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for doing what you did. One more, I believe, Jackie. Yes. Do I need to read in the case number for he had two cases? Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for doing what you did. All right. One more I believe, Jackie. Yes. Do I need to read in the case number for he had two cases? Yeah. No, I think we understand it was two. Yeah. Okay. Case number two, three, dash zero, one, five, nine, eight, seven, Elatua County versus Timothy Gray Freeman. Mr. Freeman, your opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank So I've lived on this property for several years. And mid 2022, my partner at the time, her father passed away in Georgia. And he was supporting her disabled sister at the time. And the time we both maintained separate residences, my partner and I. But we decided it was in her best interest to purchase a larger property so that we could take care of her disabled sister. And so in order to do that, we had to go to Georgia to renovate the house that he had left there so that we could sell it, get the money for a down payment to buy a property. Here we did buy a property on Northwest 53rd Avenue and moved in there beginning of 2023, which time I moved off of the property on Southwest 65th Court. And I didn't really go back there at all until October of last year where I saw Miss Williams. And she informed me that there were $20,000 in fines because of the code violations. And that was the first time that I understood that fines were being levied against my property. At that time, I took every effort that I could between my non-custodial weekends with my children to rectify the violations. And I eventually did come into compliance. And my partner was just trying to read a finance the property on 53rd so that she alone can carry the mortgage. But she discovered when she tried to do that, that there were fines also or a lien placed against that property so that she was unable to refinance that. And so I'm pleading with the court to please reduce these fines to something that can be paid by a working person. And if at all possible to release the lien on at least the property on 53rd so that she's able to refinance that I feel because I'm no longer helping her pay that mortgage and so it's really eating into her. So from my understanding that because you were ownership of the property that you bought with her with her sister that that lean also followed over to you on as well yes sir just want to make clear for the record so you have lean on two pieces of property the one you have them original property where the violations were and then this other piece of property yes sir that's correct okay county have a position on release of lean for the one piece of property. The kind of position is it did take a little bit of time but its own officer is good with a reduction. OK. I'm going to get my question, but he's got leans on two piece of property. So he's asking for a reduction of a lean on one of the properties because he has two parcels. He has the original parcel and then the new one. And so he's got two. We're early aware of this one. This is the one you're asking for, correct? Yes, sir. This, this, you have another lean code lean with us? Well, I have a, my name is also on the property that I co-own with my ex partner. And, okay. Yeah, we have no problem giving a decent reduction. Okay. I was going'm just gonna do that But I what I was trying to figure out is does the county have a rejection? Because it may take him some time to pay off the reduction where they can get a release on the one of the properties Yeah, I know from what you only have the one lean with us. Yeah, I'm not what I'm what I'm so I'm on Yeah, so we're understanding that was the affecting her I didn't either it was her name on this at one time her name was not on the property on archer road But she was told by the the person at the credit union that because I had a lien on this other property that I co-owned with her He could not Because I'm a quick claim Okay, so all right. Yeah, so you well, there are legal ways you could quick claim your interest in that piece of property and that would resolve that because you were no longer involved with that piece of property she now owns as well. Yes, sir. I did I did sign a quick claim deed, but she said that that wasn't good enough that this had to be resolved as she's I could for something that so that sounds like an internal policy of the credit union because there is no there Only gleam the county has what we're hearing that is on the original property that had the violations So yeah, so there will be a reduction Typically it's in down to like 10% of it. So you know if that that's that would be wonderful I really appreciate that you're on okay. Thank you Scott appreciate that. Okay. We have any other cases All right, so this hearing will be concluded at 1053. you