Good morning. My name is Jeff Fuller. I'm the Special Magistrate assigned to the February 9, 2026 Pinellas County Code Enforcement Special Magistrate Agenda. Welcome to Pinellas County Code Special Magistrate Hearings. The Special Magistrate is charged with conducting hearings to determine whether an alleged violation of the county code has occurred. In order to meet that obligation, all parties or their representatives will be allowed an opportunity to be heard on matters relevant to the alleged violations. All witnesses offering testimony or presenting evidence will be required to swear or affirm that the testimony they provide is the truth. The order of presentation will begin with the county presenting their evidence of the alleged violations, and then the respondent shall present his or her case. Both parties shall have an opportunity to cross-examine all witnesses. The Special Magistrate may question any witness. The clerk will announce the names of the cases from the agenda. When you hear your case called, please respond by coming to the podium with your representative and or any witnesses to be sworn in. We don't always call the cases in the numerical order that you see on the agenda, so listen up when Nicole is calling the cases for your case. When addressing the Special Magistrate, please speak clearly into the microphone. Any person who decides to appeal the decision of the code enforcement Special Magistrate with respect to any matter considered at this hearing will need a record of the proceedings and for such purposes may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is based. The record is not provided by Pinellas County. Nicole, would you please call item number two? Item number two, Department Code Enforcement. Matter, Minimum Housing Code Violation. Zoning Code Violation. Case number, CCM-25-00099. Officer, B. Hughes, owner, Wynn Chi. Notice address, Wynn Chi, 16108 49th Street North, Clearwater, Florida, 33762-3215. And B. Hughes, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Clearwater, Florida, 33756. V. Hughes at Pinellas.gov. Violation address, 13155 40th Street North, Clearwater, Florida, 33762. Who is appearing for the county? Officer Hughes. And who is appearing for Kai Wynn? John McGregor. Could you introduce your client and perhaps the witness? This is Kai. He's the owner. That's his son, Charlie. All right. It is my understanding that there is a joint stipulation for code violations entered in this matter? Yes, sir. I have reviewed it. I approve it. I find that there is a violation of Code Section 22-231, order that the property be brought into compliance by May 9th, 2026 at 5 p.m. Failing to do so will result in a fine of the amount of $200 per day. I'm going to find that there is a violation of Code Section 138-90, order that the property be brought into compliance by May 9th, 2026. Failing to do so will have a fine in the amount of $200 per day. I also find costs in the amount of $227.65, which are due on or before May 9th, 2026 at 5 p.m. I've signed an order, so reflecting that. Stay with the copy of the order or we'll be sending it to you through a certifying thing. And on the money order for the court costs, is that to be paid at the clerk downstairs? No, sir. I'll show them where it is. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Stay for a copy. We're going to mail it either way, but I can give you a copy if you'd like. Email it. Email it. Did I? Yeah, jhmlegal at icloud.com. That's right. Perfect. I'll email it. You're welcome. Have a good day. You too. Nicole, would you please call item number four? Item number four, department code enforcement. Matter. Minimum housing code violation. Trash and debris code violation. Zoning code violation. Case number CCM-25-00107. Officer B. Hughes. Owner Shaw Ashwin Kumar C. Shaw Parish A. Notice address Shaw Ashwin Kumar C. Shaw Parish A. 1984 Promenade Way. Clearwater, Florida 33760-1734. And B. Hughes, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Clearwater, Florida 33756. B. Hughes at pinellas.gov. Violation address 6358 Roosevelt Boulevard, Clearwater, Florida 33760. Who is appearing for the county in this matter? Officer Hughes. And who is appearing for the respondent? Ashwin Kumar S. Shaw. All right. My understanding is there is a joint stipulation for code violations. I have reviewed the joint stipulation and I approve it. I will find that there is a violation of Code Section 22-299. Order compliance be brought, the property be brought into compliance by May 9, 2026 at 5 p.m. Failing to do so will result in imposition of a daily fining amount of $100. I'm going to find there is a violation of Code Section 58-304. Order that the property be brought into compliance by May 9, 2026. Failing to do so will assess a fine in the amount of $100 per day. I will find that there is a violation of Code Section 138-3703. Order that the property be brought into compliance by May 9, 2026 at 5 p.m. Failing to do so, I will impose a fine in the amount of $100 per day. I also impose court costs in the amount of $229 payable by May 9, 2026. I am signing an order reflecting that. Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, sir. Or you can wait for a copy. It's up to you. I'm going to mail it anyway. You want a copy as well? I'll mail it. Okay? Have a great day. Nice meeting you. Bye-bye. Nicole, would you read item number 8? Item number 8, Department Code Enforcement. Matter, Commercial Minimum Housing Code Violation. Case number CCM-26-00004, Officer D. DeVall, Owner, Hodusa Court. Notice address, Hodusa Court, 2465 McMillan Booth Road, Clearwater, Florida, 33759-1368, and Phillips, David R. Esquire, Registered Agent for, Hodusa Corporation, 19321, U.S. Highway 19 North, Suite 301, Clearwater, Florida, 33764, and Farron Tatos, Nicole A., CEO, Chairman, President of Hodusa Corporation, 2465 McMillan Booth Road, Clearwater, Florida, 33759-1368, and Farron Tatos, Barbara, Director of Hodusa Corporation, 2465 McMillan Booth Road, Clearwater, Florida, 33759-1368, and Breen Charlene, Vice President of Hodusa Corporation, 2465 McMillan Booth Road, Clearwater, Florida, 33759-1368, and D. DeVall, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Clearwater, Florida, 33756, D. DeVall at Pinellas.gov. Violation address, 28882, U.S. Highway 19 North, Clearwater, Florida, 33761. Who's appearing for the county on this matter? Officer DeVall. And who's appearing for the respondent? Yes, good morning, Your Honor, Torrey Taylor. I'm the attorney of both state and labby. We represent the owner of the property of Hedusa. I also have with me the corporate representative, Eric Carmel. All right. It's my understanding that a joint stipulation for code violations has been entered between the parties. I have reviewed the same and will approve the same. I will find that there is a violation of Code Section 22-231, order that the property be brought into compliance by March 26, 2026. The only to do so will result in a daily fine in the amount of $250 per day. I will also assess costs in the amount of $335.70, due honor before March 26, 2026. I am signing an order reflecting approval of the joint stipulation. Thank you. Thank you. Nicole, will you read item number nine, please? Item number nine, Department Code Enforcement. Matter, Commercial Minimum Housing Code Violation. Case number, CCM-26-00006, Officer D. DeVall, Owner, Wrath Properties, Tampa, LLC. Notice address, Wrath Properties, Tampa, LLC. 15 Garden Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45208-1056. And Cogency Global, Inc., Registered Agent for Wrath Properties, Tampa, LLC. 115 North Calhoun Street, Suite 4, Tallahassee, Florida, 32301. And Wrath Terry, Authorized Member of Wrath Properties, Tampa, LLC. 15 Garden Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45208-1056. And Brown, Amy, Authorized Person of Wrath Properties, Tampa, LLC. 255 East 5th Street, Suite 2400, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202. And D. DeVall, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement. 631 Chestnut Street, Clearwater, Florida, 33756. D. DeVall, at Pinellas.gov. Violation address, 28910, U.S. Highway 19 North, Clearwater, Florida, 33761. Who is appearing for the county in this matter? Officer DeVall. And who is appearing for the respondent? Jeff Vopel. It's my understanding that the parties have entered into a joint stipulation for code violations. I have reviewed the stipulation and approve it. I'm going to find that there is a violation of code section 22-231. Order that the property be brought into compliance by March 11th, 2026 at 5 p.m. Failing to do so, we'll assess a finding amount of $250. Also assess court costs amount of $293.20. I do honor before March 11th, 2026. I'm signing an order that reflects the approval of the joint stipulation. Thank you, Magistrate. All right. We will go in recess for 10 minutes. That will be the time to prepare these orders on the approved joint stipulations. Communications, please stop recording. Nicole, would you please read item number 5 for me? Item number 5, Department Code Enforcement Matter Commercial Minimum Housing Code Violation. Case number CCM-26-00001, Officer D. DeVall, owner, Tunisia Upal-Neilam, TRE, trustee. Notice address, Tunisia Upal-Neilam, trustee, P.O. Box 1002, Largo, Florida, 33779-1002. And D. DeVall, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Clearwater, Florida, 33756. D. DeVall at Pinellas.gov. Violation address, 1521 South Missouri Avenue, Clearwater, Florida, 33756. And who is here for the county? Officer DeVall. And who's here for the respondent? I'm Neilam Tanejo-Paul. Would the two of you please raise your right hands? Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do. Thank you. County may proceed. Good morning, Magistrate. Before we do proceed, I may have another witness that I'll call up, Officer Clack, who is the area officer who had dealt first with the property. There may be some questions regarding the citations that were written and how the status of what things are at at local ordinance court. I do have things showing that things were closed, dated from December, so that is why we proceeded with Magistrate. So I don't know if you want to deal with that explanation first or go ahead and let me present. We will take it in normal order. You present first. Ma'am, you may have a seat. We'll call you back up if you have any questions for the officer or to present your own case. Your Honor, I have filed a motion to strike and dismiss also, and I would like to present. I haven't seen that. It was just an email. It wasn't. And I said to come over, to come at the hearing. All right. Let me see it. I haven't seen it. You didn't provide us documentation, correct? Ma'am, you provided us documentation? Yeah. Because it was just an email that I got. I emailed you on both the cases. I didn't get those, Magistrate. I just got an email. So none of those documents I received. Okay. The ones that you didn't receive were the exhibits that I'm going to show you that I pointed out. Have you seen these? No, Magistrate. I don't know if she's referring to our case or to local ordinance court. Take a look at this, and then I will take a look at it. Well, I have the judgment and sentence, but these are all from Love Court. These are not regarding the documentation that we've sent out. It's all referring to case numbers. Will you show, I'm presuming you haven't seen these exhibits either. So take a look at those. Do you see any? Look at those first, and then I'll decide. This is all a transcript from what transpired at Love Court, so. This is Pinellas County Courthouse. Ma'am, can you speak into the microphone, please? Thank you. This is from Pinellas County Courthouse, Judge Silvestri. Okay. Let me take a look at it. I have had communication with County Attorney David Barrera this morning, and just to confirm that we were okay to proceed with what we were doing here for Magistrate. Where was the e-mail that was sent? I've got the two exhibits. Then there was an e-mail that. Oh, yes. What's the relationship between this item 5 and item 6 and item number 1? Item 1, there shouldn't be any relationship with that. That's the only file that I have, Judge Zerowist. So item 5 and item 6, they're together. They're together, but I don't see in their file any reference to the county court case. So that wouldn't, we, I give you what I've been given. Okay. Item 1 is, it has no relation, I don't think. It's a different office or two. Okay. So item 1 doesn't have anything to do with. Okay, because that's the only case I've found reference to any love court. Yes, so these two are, this one's different, and then the other two, like I said, we issue, or we give you what has been given to us. Okay. Do you need me to look up? I have the case numbers from love court if you need them. I don't have the love court. It's Judge Zerowist. Judge Zerowist. Same thing. No. It's in his cases if you need them. The case numbers. Okay. Do you have paperwork or no? I have the judgment and sentence for each individual one. We have 1521 South Missouri and 1527 South Missouri. Do you have anything to indicate? Judge, they were consolidated and they're running together because the properties are next to each other. Okay. So they did run together in the county court, and the judgment was just, they were consolidated and that they would run together, but it's the same order that is filed on both the cases, but it was consolidated to the fact that the fine was reduced to one payment as a matter of settlement, and that's what I have submitted the transcript showing that it was supposed to be not guilty and agreed to the reduced payment, and it was not guilty, no contest. And that's on the transcript, and it's on the order, but she's claiming you're guilty because I settled to the reduced payment, which I clarified in the court if that was guilty, and the judge said no, and that's why I submitted the transcript that the judge specifically ruled as not guilty, and that was the reason that this complaint cannot be used on other complaints. But on this complaint, she clearly mentions that it's the April 2025 violation, and it's been so long you haven't done anything. Meanwhile, we've been going through several hearings with Judge Zurovis and the issue of storm damage and the deadline of June 1, 2026, which I initially didn't have the paperwork, but on the day of the hearing I did, and at which time the county offered to settle it. Okay, we're going to proceed with the hearing in this case. I have reviewed all the things that have been filed. That case, from the records I see, is closed. If there's something about this case that is identical to that case, then I'll consider it during this hearing. Sometimes there are cases where the county court and the special magistrate both have jurisdiction over different parts of the case. The most lay term I can show you or explain it is you're speeding and run through a red light and get citations for running the red light and speeding, but you also happen to be drunk, so you get a criminal charge against you and therefore a traffic hearing officer will hear part of the case. The county court will hear the other part of the case. One big difference is all I can do is order compliance and issue orders of how long you have to bring it into compliance, which part of what you filed is an extension of time because of storm damage. So if I find out that this is storm-related or something, I will take that into consideration, the extension that the county has given. But I don't see anything here that bars the special magistrate from hearing this because until I hear it, I can't really apply it. So we're going to go ahead with the hearing. All of this needs to be in the file. Some of this, she may want copies back, so make sure she gets her copies back. For both files? Yes. That can be filed in both, but they're separate files. Correct. Okay, and we're hearing them separately. We are hearing them separately. I'm going to have a seat. This one's fine. The county may proceed. Okay. Magistrate, the property where the alleged violation exists is 1521 South Missouri Avenue in Clearwater, which is located in unincorporated Pinellas County. The owner, Neelam Tanji Upal, trustee, is how it's listed in property appraiser, is present for today's hearing. This violation has been an occurrence since honor before, March 20th of 2025. I'd like to enter into evidence for my composite exhibit A. I'd like to enter in the notice of hearing, affidavit of violation, composite exhibit A, which exists, exhibit A includes the notices of violation, ownership confirmation through Pinellas County tax collector, property appraiser, and the deed, and then I have inspection photos, which I will show. So in exhibit A, first three pages are the notice of hearing sent to the property owner at the address of record. The next three pages are the affidavit of violation and request for hearing. We will be addressing Code Section 22-231, which is commercial minimum housing. The exterior of the structure is in deteriorated condition with rotten and or bare wood around the soffit and fascia, holes in the fascia and roof, peeling chipped paint, and diminished paint throughout the structure. Premises not being kept free of hazardous, noxious items, such as discarded pieces of wood, sandbags, brush, weeds, broken glass, trash, refuse, and tree debris. Here's a notice of violation, again, that was sent out March 20th of 2025 with a compliance due date of April 27th, 2025. Tax collector confirming ownership and also property appraiser confirming ownership of this property. Warranty deed, which is change of property ownership, took place in 2011. Some photos in front of the property. This picture up here in the top right, although hard to see, that is bare wood under there. We've got some diminished area on the wall. I'm not quite sure if there was an air conditioner unit or something that was once there. We have some peeling, some sort of product on the windows that is all peeling up. And then we have fascia and soffit in the front that is all, it's rotten even though there's been just a little bit of paint put on the top of it. We have a hole in this front area of the fascia. Underneath all of these vines, we've got, again, more rotten wood, peeling paint, diminished paint on the door. And then just another area of, although hard to see, underneath the vines, more area of the fascia and soffit that are in bad condition. We have some trash debris, pieces of wood, miscellaneous items laying around the back of the property. This here is just some discarded small pile of wood. We've got some rotten steps that were removed and just left to sit. And then just some junk items along the back, some discarded sandbags, all kind of embedded within some overgrowth of grass and weeds. So, Magistrate, the property was re-inspected on January 29th, and the violations continue. Photos were taken on that date. I'd like to enter them in as composite exhibit B. And the property owner does have a copy of these. All right. Exhibit A will be admitted into evidence. Proceed and look at exhibit B. So just a review of the conditions for minimum housing. Nothing has changed. We still have some issues with the fascia and soffit along the front of the house. So we have a very large hole here up in the fascia on the corner of the home or of the building, I guess I should say. This is a commercial property. Nothing has been done to fix this issue with the exterior wall. Still showing the diminished paint on the door. And we still have the exact same junk items and trash laying around on the back of the property. So, Magistrate, the county requests you find the property in violation and issue an order to have the property brought into compliance. Okay. Exhibit B will be admitted into evidence. Ma'am, this is your opportunity to ask questions of the officer if you have any. If you don't have any, then you'll have an opportunity to present your case. Yes, please. Claim that the violation was issued in April. No, it was in March. Notice the violation is targeted in March of last year. Do you have the pictures of the violation taken in March of last year? I can bring them up on my computer. Caroline, can I have the documents that she filed to look at? Oh, okay. Separate them. Oh, sorry. Wow. These are the photos that were taken back on March 20th by Officer Clack, who's the area. We're bridging two years here, so make sure you use the year when you're describing things. Okay. My apologies. March 20th of 2025. Officer Clack was out at the property, and these are some photos to show his initial inspection. Okay. Can the judge see them? He was seeing them when I put them up here. Yeah, I can see them. So, just the next question is, do these pictures look in the same condition as the property now? I can see that there's been some cleanup, but there are still conditions that exist that make it be in violation. Is it the exact same stuff, or it's different? The sandbags are still there. There's less of them, but they're still there. So, I'm not denying the fact that there's been some change, but the property and the structure still need some repair. And there are still some items around the back that do need to be cleaned up. Judge, will I be able to clarify that in my testimony? Yes, you will. So, you did not write any new violations on January 29th when you went there, right? No. No, we're dealing with the same, the one violation of commercial minimum housing. Same one. It just incorporates everything. Okay. And did you know that the storm damage deadline is June 1st, 2026? I'm well aware of that, and that's for substantially damaged properties that were deemed substantially damaged during the storm that were in a flood zone. Did you see in the pictures how substantial the damage was? These are the pictures that we have through the investigation of the zone officer. Well, if you look at the 1521 picture, the building is collapsing, and that's not substantial damage. If you look at the 1527 building, the roof is blown away, the flat roof in the front and the flat roof in the back. That's not substantial. So, Your Honor, I think I will just testify to that. All right. She probably doesn't know. Anything else from the county? No, just my closing, my summation. Okay. We'll go ahead and do that after we hear from the respondent. Ma'am, you may go ahead with your testimony. Thank you, Your Honor. I would like to put into evidence all the paperwork, including the exhibits and the motions. Those are the items that you gave me earlier? Yes. Yes, they will all be admitted into evidence as respondent's composite number one. So, some of the pictures would be on the phone. Can I use the phone or no? Yeah. Just put it like that? Yeah, put it down much like she did her computer. I would like to show the picture of the building after the storm of the 1521. So, flip it around. Flip. Oh. Yeah. There you go. All right. I'm going to put some pictures of the room with the storm down. Flip it up. Same thing. You flip it up. So, this is the second. Yes. Just when you're, just try to not put the finger on it and then don't go like this because if you do that, we just see your hair. So, just, yeah, like we can see it. So, it's good. So, what are we looking at? We're looking at the shingles removed, the tree falling on the... It's going dark, ma'am. ...branches. There you go. There you go. This one just shows how the branches fell into it and made holes. This one shows shingles blew away. There's another spot where the roof had a hole. The front roof was all the shingles blew away and the roof started caving in. But there's a lot of... I filed for a FEMA grant was denied and all grants have been denied. Now, it's with the Pinellas County Recover and my application is being processed. But I have been trying to... I'm on Social Security. Here's another area with the blown-away shingles. I've been trying to get it repaired. That was first repair. And all these are leaking into the fascia and the fascia has gotten worse. If you look at the old pictures, it was still better. But with the roof leak, it got worse. It's been costing a lot of money and I have been trying to keep getting the holes fixed. But evidently, it moves whatever the damage is if it's not totally fixed. So it has been a long haul trying to get the roof fixed. And where they tarped it so that it doesn't... It prevents the further damage to the wood. It's still in the process of getting fixed. There's sub... I have to do it in parts based on the finances I can come up. So it is getting repaired. So there's multiple pictures to show the roof getting fixed and the process being done. Just showing the repair. And this shows that the wood has been... Is being replaced all over the property. And even the front that she showed and the hole that she showed was repaired. I can show that picture. That is the front of the 1527 that she showed. We're not working on that one yet. We're dealing with 1521. That is 1521 and that's been repaired. And this is the grounds showing that there was no garbage that she's talking about. Which, if you look in the march, is different. What she showed in the back, you have to wait for the garbage truck to come in. So the back of the house is where we store the garbage. And as per my Constitution Rights Amendment 4, they are actually in violation to enter the property, go to the back of the property, and say you got garbage in the back of your property. And the front, there was no garbage. The other thing is that not only that it's a Fourth Amendment violation, also that there has... To place the garbage in the back of your house is an allowed thing by the county's own court. And the county's own court clearly says a violation is what is visible from the street view. So what the pictures she's showing is not visible from the street view. They are going in the back to the corners and under the trees that are in the back of the house to look at certain, the fascias, which are being worked on. But the workers, they take their time and based on the finances, it is taking longer. But as per the allowance by the Pinellas County Judge for the county allowing for the June 1st, 2026 deadline, I'm working around that deadline. So for them to come after the case from March, which took up until December with multiple hearings, the situation is very well, the city is very well aware of it. And the garbage that they're showing, it's different than what it was. I paid hundreds of dollars getting the cleanup done on the hurricane damage. And now with the construction, yes, every time they do something, there is more garbage, and we store it in the back. It's not visible from the street. It's not visible from anywhere. They're all residential properties. The two is mine. And they get into your house without a warrant, go to your back, and take your pictures on the back of your house. And then they say court violation, which, according to the city's court, it has to be from the street view. It's somebody's private living is their private life and totally an amendment, a fourth amendment of the Constitution violation. So basically, I'm not saying that the place doesn't need to be fixed. Of course it needs to be fixed. I live there. I need my place, the roof not leaking, the fascia not getting rodents in. And the person is scheduled, one person, because the trees are so big, they can't fix the fascia until they remove the trees, because they try to, and every time the storm comes, it hits it and it breaks somewhere else. So actually, the person for the tree was scheduled last week, but he canceled, and so now he's scheduled tomorrow. So first the trees have to come down before they would do the fascia, and before they would do the fascia, the roofs had to be fixed because the water comes down and spoils the fascia again. So the process has been going on, but the way the properties got damaged was so bad that it is taking a long time. And for the county to give grants and for the county to give grants and the FEMA not putting out the money, it's financially, it's been a hardship. And it's taking much longer because when the roofs came down, the ceilings, the drywall, everything had to be replaced because of mold. The carpets were all wet, a lot of furniture and other personal belongings, so it has been costing a lot of money. So I'm not saying that it's not supposed to be fixed, and I am fixing it, but it's the fact that the code enforcement is calling any new garbage that you produce, oh, you got garbage in the back, hey, you have to live, everybody gets garbage, you have to have a place for garbage just because you put it in the back of your house, which is allowed by the city and the county, you can't keep doing a court violation for having garbage in a private area. So what I'm trying to say at this time, being that the Pinellas County Courthouse had already given the extension for the violations of the March court violation until June 1, 2026, that this complaint be stricken and the original order be, original determination by the Pinellas County Courthouse judge remain, and at which time the Pinellas County Attorney agreed to the time limit and the violations, and it's actually a violation of that settlement to put another complaint of a court violation compliance when we've already been through that and made an agreement and made a settlement and had the judge enter an order to that agreement that this complaint be stricken at this time and the original order with the NOLO contendere not guilty with the reduced fine based on the storm damage repair time limit as allowed by the county of June 1, 2026 be kept. All right, thank you. Do you have any questions? Yes, Magistrate, I have a couple of questions referencing a couple of statements that she's made. First of all, have you, it looks like extensive damage pictures you showed, have you applied for any permits with the county to do repair at your property? I gave them to the roofers and whatever they did, I have no clue. Okay, we are not seeing any permits on record, okay, to show that you've applied for any roofing permits to have repair, that type of extensive repair done at your property. We are not showing anything on record, we just researched, okay. Well, I just, like I said, I just hired the people, so whatever I needed to do. Okay, so there would be permits that would be required to do that kind of roofing repair, all right. My second question to you is, do you, since you're an unincorporated Pinellas, do you have a trash service pickup? I, right now, I just order the service to come up, so I usually call the junk removal people. Okay, so you don't, okay, because it is required that you do have trash service for your property. Well, because I can't live, right now I'm staying with a friend. Okay. Because, like I said, it's still getting repaired a lot. Okay. So I can't really live there. Okay, so 1521, is that a vacant property? Well, that also is occupied, you know, with my stuff, but. No, do you reside at 1521, or is it vacant? It's not vacant. I mean, I use it for my personal. Do you live there? It's my storage. It's your, it's for storage. Yeah. Okay, so you don't, do not reside there. Okay, is there a vacant lot next to 1521 South Missouri? That's not mine. Okay. You're, there is a very large open lot next to 1521, where you have a complete visual of being able to see into the back of your property. No, you cannot. Yes, you can. No, you cannot, unless you trespass on that private property. It's a private property. It's, um. It's not a public property. So this is, let's see here, this is a commercial property that's located right next to 1521. There's no, no expectation of privacy in any way. There's no fencing of any sort, and everything is visible into the back of your properties from that big open lot. But how, how, but how can you get to this open lot? That's a private commercial lot, has no business on it, no parking space. You cannot get onto the property unless you specifically drive to the grass, or you walk on, or you trespass on this property to go check this property, and there's no way you can check behind the building of this property of the pictures that you just showed. This is a commercial property, this is your property right here. No, this is residential property, this is not a commercial property, this is part of this residential property, this is the backyard. You cannot go and peek in people's backyard. Okay. And the property, the vacant lot you're saying, it's, it's not, there's no business there, there's no alley, there's no driveway, there's no parking lot. It's a privately owned commercial land next to it. You cannot see anything behind the house from the street because of that vacant land. Okay. All right. I could see everything in the back of your property. You can't. So. You can't, you can't. It's blocked by the building. So, magistrate, the county has no more questions for the defendant here. Anything else before we go to closing arguments? I just want to clarify in my statement that the lot next to 1521 is a long vertical lot which you cannot see the back of the buildings and especially the south side of the second building for which she has put pictures on because the building blocks the view even if you were on that private commercial lot. But it is, it is, it is not somewhere, there's no driveway, no street, nothing that they can, anybody can drive or see the back of the properties from that lot. There's no neighbors, there's just buildings and blocking the back of both the properties, especially the 1520, the south side of the 1527. So it clearly is the violation of a government officer to go onto the property and go underneath the trees on the property to take those pictures because from the other lot you can't even see the trees, forget about the damage underneath the trees. So she has to go underneath the trees, so she has to go onto the property to take those pictures, which is clearly without a warrant and without any permission as a violation of all privacy laws that there are. That's the only comment. And what I'm, the reason why I'm bringing this up, that this is not the first time I'm running for a public office and I'm having a lot of such interference by the government officers and even the initial one, that's the reason I was contesting. And so I do want some kind of a relief that this should not be allowed. All right, we'll proceed to closing arguments where the parties tell me what they think the evidence showed and tell me what they want me to do. Okay, Magistrate, with the evidence that has been presented and spoken about, the county is asking for the allowance of 30 days to comply and have still found a violation, and assign a fine in the amount of $250 per day per violation for the, it would be one code section 22-231 for commercial minimum housing. Thank you. Judge, that would clearly be. This is your opportunity to make a closing statement. Judge, what the court enforcement officer is suggesting is clearly in violation of the existing order, which is in contradiction to the statutes, the constitutional violation of punishing somebody twice by entering another order on the same violation, which has already been entertained by Judge Zurovesti. And to alter that order, they never filed any appeal. They didn't file any reconsideration. They just wrote a new complaint and filed it in front of a different judge. And that is clearly violation of the Florida Constitution, Article 1, that a person can be tried on the same complaint twice. It's a violation of the arrest judicata that if an issue has been of preclusion, if the same facts have been considered, in one competent court, you cannot re-judge it again. It would be a violation of collateral estoppel, the doctrine of collateral estoppel, where you cannot do a duplicate judgment while another judge is heard the same thing. So, and there are several case laws barring you from doing what the court enforcement officer is asking. So, I would just ask your honor to defer it to the original order of the fine that's already been paid with the Pinellas County's already extended repair time limit to June 1st of 2026. And if the court enforcement has any issues after that, that would be a separate story. And on the other hand, there is a financial hardship, and the application with Pinellas County Recovers Program is still pending. So, I should have the opportunity to be able to obtain the funding and be able to complete the job repairs properly. Is there no insurance that covers this? Yes, there's no insurance. I'm going to find that there is a violation of Code Section 22-231. I'm going to require that the property be brought into compliance by June 1 of 2026. In addition, I will assess costs, the amount of $218. The information I have is that fine has not been paid to the clerk. No, Judge, it's been paid. Well, I'm going to give you credit for whatever payment you made in that case. So, the documents I have right now say there's still $218 owed. I have the receipt. Well, you don't have to show me now. They have an issue later, but you'll get credit for whatever payment that is. I have a question on that credit because the court costs are $218.20, and those are separate from, we're separate from the clerk. So, the clerk of courts has that. That's her fine amount. Hours is $218.20 for the special magistrate. It just coincidentally enough happens to be $218.00. Because the citation. I'm going to stand by my order that she gets credit for payments made to the clerk of court. And you may want to send your receipt to the liaison there so that they know that. All right. Let's proceed with item number six. Magistrate, I'm so sorry. I have June 1, 2026 as the date. Yes. What was the fine amount for daily fines for that one? I wrote down, and I don't remember if I said it or not, $100 a day. Okay. Thank you. Proceed on to item number six. Item number six, department code enforcement. Matter, commercial minimum housing code violation. Case number CCM-26-00002, Officer D. DeVall, Owner, Sheena Investment Living Trust, Tunisia Upal-Neilam, Trustee. Notice address, Sheena Investment Living Trust, Tunisia Upal-Neilam, Trustee, P.O. Box 1002, Largo, Florida, 33779-1002. And D. DeVall, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Clearwater, Florida, 33756. D. DeVall at Pinellas.gov. Violation address, 1527 South Missouri Avenue, Clearwater, Florida, 33756. All right. Who's appearing for the county? Officer DeVall. And who's appearing for the respondent? Neelam Tanejo-Pov. A lot of the, what I will call, collateral issues appear to me to be identical. So I am going to admit into evidence the documents that the defendant or the respondent produced in that case, in this case as well. I also will let both parties adopt their arguments on the collateral issues, such as Fourth Amendment, race judicata, Errol Stapel, all those types of things. So the only thing we need to do now is do what I would call a regular hearing on item number six. So, Officer DeVall, you may proceed. Okay. So, Magistrate, the property where the alleged violation exists is located at 1527 South Missouri Avenue in Clearwater, Florida, which is in unincorporated Pinellas County. The owner listed on this property is Sheena Investment Living Trust, and we do have the trustee representing the property here today. This violation has been in occurrence since on or before March 20th of 2025. I'd like to enter into evidence the notice of hearing, affidavit of violation, and composite exhibit A. Composite exhibit A includes notices of violation, ownership confirmation through Pinellas County tax collector, property appraiser, and the deed, and inspection photos are also included, which I will be showing. So, just again, first three pages are the notice of hearing sent to the property owner at the address of record with today's hearing. Next three pages are the affidavit of violation and request for hearing. We will again be addressing Code Section 22-231 for commercial minimum housing, and it is about identical exterior of the structure in deteriorated condition with rotten inner bare wood around the soffit and fascia, holes in the fascia, and roof, peeling chipped paint, diminished paint throughout the structure. Premises not being kept free of hazardous items and noxious items such as discarded pieces of wood. The sandbags, I believe, are not present on this property. That is a Scrivener's error there. We have brushed weeds, broken glass, trash, rough foods, a little bit of tree debris. Notice the violation that was sent out on March 20th of 2025 with a compliance due date of April 27th, 2025. Ownership confirmation shown here through tax collector and Pinellas County property appraiser. Warranty deed showing ownership of the property back from 2011. And we do have the pictures from the front and the back. Magistrate, this is a commercial property that has a parking lot in the back. So, yes, I did access this property as a commercial property and going around to the back, which was a parking lot area. So, this is the front of the building. We have extensive areas that show that the roof is surely very diminished in a diminished state because the patient and soffit are badly rotten and basically falling apart. And then we just have some areas around the back that have some trash and debris. Other items here in the back, more trash and debris, miscellaneous items. This actually is a picture around the front that has where there used to be a business sign here. And we've got more trash items that have been thrown around those cinder blocks. So, Magistrate, I re-inspected the property on January 29th of 2026. And should the violations continue, photos were taken on this date. I'd like to enter them in as composite exhibit B. And these have also been given to the property owner to review. Okay, exhibit A is going to be admitted into evidence. You may proceed with testimony concerning exhibit B. So, again, just pictures showing the structure is in the same condition that it was. We still have extensive rotten wood around the patient and soffit areas all around the structure. There's still trash items around the back and still some trash that still exists around the front signage area, which is out on Missouri Avenue. So, Magistrate, the counter request should find the property in violation and issue an order to have the property brought into compliance. All right. Do you have any questions of the officer on this case? Yes, Your Honor. You just stated that this is a commercial property. What kind of business was running over there? I'm going by what's in property appraiser. It is listed as a commercial property. So, you can't, but you are already, you've already stated in your complaint, residents on a commercial property, right? No, I've never stated that. Minimum housing? Okay. It falls under a classification of minimum housing code section that is under commercial minimum housing. Okay. So, 22-231, that's just how the ordinance is written. Yeah. So, it does say housing, right? It's a commercial property. Don't be mistaken because that has the word housing in it. So, isn't there a gate to the property to enter the back? There is a gate. Yes. So, you opened the gate and you went inside the property to- I went around the back to what appeared to be a parking lot. You're absolutely right. Okay. Thank you. And the pictures that you took now, are you claiming that the tree debris was sitting there from March of 2025? I'm not looking at the March pictures. I'm going out to see what the present condition of the property is. And if there is still trash and debris at the property, the violation still exists. How do you think the trash came to the property? I would have no idea. Yeah. It is a non-homesteaded property. It is a homesteaded property. There is no homestead on this property as of yet? There is a homestead. Homestead is not on this property. Crazer, fly for me. Okay. So, you agree there's an application for homestead on this property for 2025? Just so the record can be clear, if one, like not both of you guys speak at the same time, please. Yes, I see the commercial here. So, this is a C2 property right here. So, this is a commercial property listed right here. That's the land. Yeah. Yes. That is a, so it's listed as commercial. But, but you agree that that's a residence. The building has been here. I can't, I can't tell you what, there's a sign outside that was advertising a business. So, I can't, I, I don't know what's been going on in that property. Did you call and find out? So, you just decided to enter the property. I did an inspection of the property, yes. I knocked on the front door and no one answered. So, you just decided to open the gate and go to the back. I did go around the back. No more questions. You may proceed with your case. Your Honor, I would rely on all the prior arguments that this case has already been heard and an adjudication has already been made. And on top of it, that the findings and the complaint is made in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. And the complaint should be rejected. The officer admits that she's aware of the fact that there is an application for Homestead. It is a resident and, it's my primary residence. And it has been a residence for the last 20 years where a psychic lived. Yes, she had a home-based one small room where she did the psychic readings. But they lived there. There's a gate to enter the property. However, the residence is built on a commercial lot. However, the use is residential and it comes under the minimum housing code. So, the officer clearly violated the Constitution amendment to make this complaint. Secondly, the tree limbs that were there were planted. The day I have pictures from the 28th, there was nothing on the grounds. But on the 29th, they came, they put branches on the grounds and took pictures. And I'm going to present that. This is the picture on January, 2028. What year of January? January 28, 2026. Okay. Thank you. This is the old picture of last year when there was a lot of junk and I had contacted Pinellas County and they were not picking it up. So, all that, I had to get it picked up. So, for her to say that those things are still sitting there, they're not. This is the ground, how limbs of trees have been placed, they're straight and in line, very obvious. And if you see, there's no palm tree on the property, across the street or anywhere from where they could have flown. They were manually put there to make this complaint. This is the front showing that the fascia was repaired and this is the top showing a lot of wood was replaced. So, basically, Your Honor, there has been a lot of work done, but there's also a lot of unethical things being done to me. So, therefore, I'm not saying that the garbage, what she's talking, is on a private part of the restricted private part of the property, which is allowed by the county. The violations were fabricated, the work is being done, and I would request that this complaint be stricken. And, however, I will comply with the previous order and continue the repairs. However, I do not feel, based on this unconstitutional, fabricated complaint, that a new enforcement of what daily fines be even considered and that this complaint be stricken. Do you have any questions, officer? Again, I have similar questions. You said that there's work being done at the property. Have there been any permits pulled? Well, like I said, my contract has been with the roofer. They don't tell me. I did sign a contract. I didn't submit to that. You have a contract with a roofer? Okay. Are you aware that permits are required to do that type of roofing repair? I'm pretty sure whatever they needed, they got. Okay. We've just examined and done research within our database, and we see no permits pulled for any repair at this property. Well, I can give you their names, because what they told me, everything, they charged me a lot of money, so I'm pretty sure they did what is required. Are they going to go back and finish the work? I think so. They're supposed to. Okay. And do you have trash service at this property? Like I said, I'm not living there yet. Okay, so you're not residing at the property? Well, I'm residing there, but you know that all my stuff is there, but I am not sleeping there. I go stay at my friend's place, but I come back and forth. I get my mail there. I do everything there. My medication's at home. Everything is at home. Magistrate, the county has no more questions. All right. Anything further before we go to closing arguments? No, you're not. All right. The county may proceed with a closing argument. Magistrate, the county is asking for the allowance of 30 days to comply the property, and if still found in violation, assign a fine in the amount of $250 per day per violation, which is for Code Section 22231, Commercial Minimum Housing. This is your opportunity to do a closing statement. Judge, I would make the same arguments as the previous one to begin with. The complaint has been considered by the Pinellas County Courthouse, Judge, and a determination has been made of not guilty, no contest, with a consolidated fine with the other case. This is clearly in violation of that settlement agreement made by the court enforcement by fabricating the garbage on the property, making a non-violation, violating constitutional rights to create a complaint knowing that the property is being worked on. Also, in this complaint, the court officer admits to violating, to entering the property, opening the gate, going to the backyard, and taking pictures without taking permission from the person living there. There is no business there. The parking space and the parking lot is for private use and personal use. There is no public allowed on the property, so the officer admits to entering the property without permission. Based on the constitutional violation, this complaint is stricken, and meanwhile, I will continue to abide by the original Pinellas County Judge's determination. All right. I'm going to find a violation of Code Section 22-231, going to order that the property be brought into compliance by June 1 of 2026. Failing to do so, I will assess a fine in the amount of $100 per day. I will also assess costs in the amount of $218, which will be combined with, well, it's probably easier for order's sake. I'm not going to assess an additional court cost on this one. So the court costs are on the other case, and there will be credit for payment made to the clerk of court, who is currently indicating that they haven't been paid, but I'll let her get the receipt and stuff to you all. Is there a time frame that we need to have that receipt by? I have it right now. Can you show it to me, please? And I'm going to need a copy of it for our file. Well, we'll make the time frame June 1, 2026. Okay. Like we've made for everything. Perfect. That'll be easy. You can put it on the seal if you have it. And then I'm going to need a copy. I'll give you my email address. If you can send it to my email address so I can have a copy of it. Which one is yours? She's getting a card for you. Thank you, Your Honor. This is my email. Put it right there. Okay? Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Okay. Unless you're insistent, I would just soon go through and get these last three done. Oh, we were going to break for lunch. You want to break for lunch? Yeah. Okay. Four, four, wait. Yeah. I have three left. What am I missing? We have four. We have... I have one. I have seven, ten, and three left. And one. And one. That's because I got it out of order because of that. All right. Is an hour enough or do you need an hour and a half? An hour is fine, yeah. Then we'll be in recess until 1.30. 1.30, yeah. Thank you. Communications, please stop recording. Nicole, would you please read item number seven? Item number seven, Department Code Enforcement Matter, Zoning Code Violation. Case number CCM-26-00003, Officer D. Duvall, Owner, Country Grove of Pinellas Retention Ponds, LLC. Notice address, Country Grove of Pinellas Retention Ponds, LLC. Sewells Baker, WEG-21, Obersome, BW-74182, Germany. And Country Grove of Pinellas Retention Ponds, LLC. One, five, eight, zero, North Jasmine Avenue, Tarpon Springs, Florida, 34689. And Country Grove of Pinellas Retention Ponds, LLC. Register Agents, Inc. Seven, nine, zero, one, 4th Street North, Suite 300. St. Petersburg, Florida, 33702. And D. Duvall, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Colorado, Florida, 33756. D. Duvall at Pinellas.gov. Violation address, 0, U.S. Highway 19 North, Palm Harbor, Florida, 34684. Parcel ID number, 31-27-16-0000-120-0100. Who is here for that case? Who is here representing the county? Officer Duvall. This hearing was scheduled for 9 o'clock this morning. It is now 1.49 this afternoon. I have not seen anyone who we haven't already had a hearing for come in. Have you heard anything about this case, Caroline? No, Magistrate. No voicemails, emails, anything of that nature? No, Magistrate. All right. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do. County may proceed. Magistrate, the property where the alleged violation exists is located on a lot, U.S. Highway 19. We have no numeric identifier for the lot, so we go by the parcel ID number, which is parcel ID number 31-27-16-0000-120-0100. This is located in unincorporated Pinellas County. The owner, Country Grove Retention Pond, LLC, is not represented for today's hearing. The violation has been in occurrence since on or before September 19th of 2025. I'd like to enter into evidence the notice of hearing, affidavit of violation, and composite exhibit A. Composite exhibit A includes the notice of violation, ownership confirmation through Pinellas County tax collector, property appraiser, and the deed. Inspection photos are also included. I also have incorporated within this exhibit A additional documentation from Public Works showing that they have tried to communicate with this property owner. The property is a retention pond area and is not being maintained, and they have reached out, and this has been over the years now, trying to get them to keep the property cut back and retain the proper drainage areas and so on. So I've included in there the attempts by the county from the other division to try to work with this property owner. Hearing no objection, exhibit A will be admitted into evidence. Would you like me to review each page? I would. Okay. So the first three pages are the notice of hearing sent to the property owner at the address of record. Property owner is listed in Germany. We did send an overseas mail out to that property owner, and then also Caroline has done her due diligence with mailing to all other parties that could possibly be involved or related to this property. Affidavit of violation and request for hearing is then the next three pages. Page 2 of the affidavit, we are addressing Code Section 138-179, the failure to maintain compliance with the approved final site plan number 2082. Violations to include, but not limited to, severe overgrowth of vegetation through the entire parcel, excessive amounts of trash, rubbish, and debris throughout the entire parcel. Swales are not being maintained, resulting in flooding of the surrounding areas. We have here the notice of violation that was sent back on September 19th of 2025, ownership confirmation through Pinellas County Tax Collector and Pinellas County Property Appraiser. Just a quick overview of the property here. This is Country Grove Boulevard, a nice subdivision up in Palm Harbor, housing development that's right behind this area, and it's a very large retention area that has been severely neglected. We have the warranty deed showing when ownership took place. Schedule A is giving that full document of the specifics of the size of the property and so on and where it's exactly located. Sunbiz showing Country Grove and Pinellas Retention Pond LLC. They have not recently filed any annual reports. It is dissolved, but we did still address the people that were listed within it. This is rather small, my apologies, but this came from Public Works back in August of 2022, and it is acknowledging the fact that the property is not remaining compliant within the improved site plan, and it does need to be maintained. And the county even went as far as giving them recommendations, and I guess those are coming up in the next couple of pages, but this is just some photos that they took back in 2022. This is a shot that's taken from, I believe this is from the neighboring property as I look at the angle of it, and then just some other pictures showing there's a shopping cart down there and just that it's not being maintained. And again, this was now, we're going on four years, well over three years ago, and then they are pointing out exactly the same thing from property appraiser, where it's located. This is, this was also sent to the property owner from Public Works, just giving them some choices of local businesses that would help them with pond excavation and maintenance companies for ponds, trees, tree trimming, cleaning, and inspection services for the pipes, I mean, they really tried to help them out as best they could with people and resources to bring this property into compliance. So this is from my composite exhibit, my photo, or not my photo, but the aerial shot that I took showing, this is from 2023, showing how overgrown it is. There's some close-up pictures with some of the dumping that's been going on. You can see it's just, it's a jungle out there. It's extremely overgrown. I'm standing over here on Grove, Grovewood Boulevard. This is US-19 up here. It's a picture of taking it and looking outward. It's a shopping cart here. Just a lot of vegetation. These are some of the swales and drainage areas that have been all overgrown and just overtaken by the grass and weeds. This is a picture from an aerial shot of 07 from 2007. As you can see, it was all cut back, and everything, you can see the visible drainage area there and here, everything was as it should be. And this is a, and this particular shot actually was sent to me by Public Works as well when they sent the other documentation. And this they sent me as well, a street view from 07, and this is what it looked like from the street, and that's the way it should be maintained. So, Magistrate, the property was re-inspected on January 29th of 2026, and the violation continues. I took photos on that date, and I would like to submit them as composite Exhibit B. Hearing no objection, Exhibit B will be admitted into evidence. You can see the condition has not changed at all. The drainage area is still very overgrown. We have a lot of overgrowth trash throughout. This is another drain area, swale area that's not being maintained. More trash down here in the bottom, and then again, it just continues. It's such a big property. I just wanted to give you a good visual of how big it was and the magnitude of the overgrowth. And it is definitely becoming an issue or has become an issue because those drainage areas are not properly functioning. The neighboring business, there's a roofing company that abuts the south side of the property, and it flooded quite a bit up onto U.S. 19 during the hurricane seasons of last year, or of 2024. So it's definitely something we need to have taken care of. So, Magistrate, the county request, you find the property in violation and issue an order to have the property brought into compliance. Has anyone appeared since we started this hearing for case number CCM-26-00003, Country Grove of Pinellas Retention Ponds, LLC? I have not seen anyone enter the hearing since we started. Any e-mails, voicemails, Caroline? No, Magistrate. All right. Anything further from the county? The county is asking for the allowance of 30 days to comply and is still found in violation. Assign a fine in the amount of $250 a day per violation, which is going to be for the one code section of 138-179. Any costs? I do not have the costs given to me as of yet. Item 7, the cost is $292.50. I'm going to find a violation of code section 138-179, order that the property be brought into compliance within 30 days. Nicole, when is 30 days? March 11, 2026. Which is March 11, 2026. Failing to do so at 5 p.m., failing to do so, we'll assess a fine in the amount of $250 per day, and I will assess costs, the amount of $292.50. Thank you, Master Craig. Do you want a break to do the order, or do you want to keep going? We can keep going. Nicole, could you read item number 10? Item number 10, Department Code Enforcement Matter, Minimum Housing Code Violation, Zoning Code Violation, Trash and Debris Code Violation. Case number, CCM-25-00106, Officer B. Hughes, Owner, Carnese Pamela A. Notice address, Carnese Pamela A., 1634 South Jefferson Avenue, Clearwater, Florida 33756-1248, and B. Hughes, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Clearwater, Florida 33756, bhughes at pinellas.gov. Violation address, 6381 Lincoln Way North, St. Petersburg, Florida 33702. Anyone here for that case? Who's appearing on behalf of the county? Officer Hughes. This hearing was scheduled to begin at 9 o'clock this morning. It is now 2.03 in the afternoon. Has anyone signed in or sent emails or voicemails concerning this case? No, Magistrate. And I'm looking around the gallery, and everybody is either on my side of the dais, or they're the officers, or we've got our trusty bailiff back there. But I don't see anyone that's here for that case. Officer Hughes, would you please raise your right hand? Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do. County may proceed. Thank you. The property where the alleged violation exists is 6381 Lincoln Way North, St. Petersburg, Florida 33702, located in unincorporated Pinellas County. The owner, Pamela Carnese, is not present for today's hearing, and I have had no contact from her. So, the violations have been in occurrence since on or before, February 13th of 2025, and I would like to enter into evidence the notice of hearing, affidavit of violation, and composite exhibit A into evidence. Composite exhibit A includes the notice of violations, Pinellas County tax collector, property appraiser, the deed, previous citations, and the violation photos. Hearing no objection, exhibit A will be admitted into evidence. So, basically, the minimum housing violations, and I'm sorry, so did you want me to go through page by page? Please. Okay, let me start over. Okay, so the first document is the notice of hearing sent to the owner of record. The next document is the affidavit of violation and request for hearing. The code sections cited were the minimum housing violation for 22299, the outdoor storage violation, zoning for 1383220, the fence violation of 138-3703, and the trash injury code section 58-304. The next document is the notice of violation sent on February 13th of 2025 to the owner of record. And just to note, the original complainant was a tenant at this property. It's a rental property. Excuse me. I, I, that, I, that's, I'm not sure of. I apologize. I just, um, got two cases mixed up. Um, I believe it was just a regular, uh, complaint. Um, then the, um, notice of violation also for February 13th of 2025 for the outdoor storage for the fence and, uh, disrepair. And then they did add, uh, the trash and debris violation on October 28th of 2025. Next is the, uh, Pinellas County tax collector showing the address, uh, the property owner and address of record. Uh, Pinellas County property appraiser with the same information, the quitclaim deed. Um, and then there are, uh, the following citations that were written prior to making it to, uh, the special magistrate hearing in July of 2025. So, um, this one's for the zoning, the trash and debris, the minimum housing, and the other zoning for, I believe, the fence. Okay. So, um, when I went to the property on December 17th of 2025, um, the violations continued. Uh, plyboard was being used on, um, many of the windows. There was algae and dirt-like substance on the exterior walls. As you can see, this is all paint, it's painted, but it's all plyboard being used where the windowpane should be. There's chipped and peeling paint. Again, you can see, um, more boarding, more boarding. And, um, he had, uh, hit with his vehicle the side of the house here. The tent, when I say he, the tenant. Um, this is just showing all the outdoor storage. There was just a large amount, um, ladders, tires, chemicals, just all kind of items in the back and along the side. Uh, you can see that the fence was in disrepair. There were broken, missing pickets. And this part is starting to collapse. Uh, and then you had a large pile of, uh, trashed, um, vegetative debris and a few other similar items. Um, so, Magistrate, the property was re-inspected on January 29th of 2026, and the violations continue. Photos, photos were taken on that date, and I would like to submit them as composite exhibit B. Hearing no objection, exhibit B will be admitted into evidence. Okay, uh, so, when I went back to the property, um, the minimum housing violations still continued. They did try to do some repair where the vehicle had hit the, uh, the, um, soffit and fascia. There was still, uh, chipped and peeling paint where that had occurred. There was still ply boards all in the, um, where the windowpane should be. They did paint some that hadn't been previously painted, but they're still, um, not with regular glazing material. And it's been well over the 90 days. They still have algae-like substance or dirt on the exterior walls. Um, and they still have the ply board on this back window as well. And honestly, I'm just going to request a finding of fact order for the trash and debris. The only part of trash and debris that really remains is, uh, just some of the sandbags. The vegetative debris was removed. Um, the rest of it, um, is just, uh, the outdoor storage violation. It does continue. Um, so as for the outdoor storage, they still have the ladders, coolers, chairs, um, buggies, paint cans, different kinds of supplies. Um, lumber in the corner, fence panels that are leaning up against the fence. And the fence is still, um, in disrepair. This section has broken pickets or missing pickets. Uh, same with this section over here. It's got the missing pickets and pieces just leaning or propped up. So, Magistrate, the county requests that you find the property in violation and issue in order to have the property brought into compliance. All right. I haven't seen anyone come in the hearing room since we've started. Um, Caroline, have you heard anything by voicemail, email? No, Magistrate. All right. Anything else from the county? Um, just to summarize, Magistrate, the county is, um, being that this has been since February of last year, the county is requesting the allowance for 30 days to comply and have still found in violation to sign a daily fine amount of $150 per day per code sections for 22,299, 138-3220, and 138-3703, and to do a finding of fact order for code section 58-304 for the trash and debris. And I would also like to request costs as well. And the costs are $238.45. I'm going to find a violation of code section 22-299, order that the property be brought into compliance within 30 days. Nicole, when's 30 days? March 11, 2026. Which is March 11, 2026 at 5 p.m. If you are to do so, we'll assess a fine in the amount of $150 per day. I'm going to find a violation of code section 138-3220, order that the property be brought into compliance within 30 days, which is March 11, 2026, failing to do so, we'll assess a fine in the amount of $150 per day. I'm going to find that there is a violation of code section 138-3703, order that the property be brought into compliance within 30 days, which is March 11, 2026, failing to do so, will result in imposition of a fine of $150 per day. I'm going to find that there was a violation of code section 58-304. That is a finding of fact. I find no continued violation at this time, so there will be no further order regarding 58-304. I will also assess costs, the amount of $238.45. Thank you, Magistrate. Caroline, would you read item number three? Item number three, department code enforcement. Matter, minimum housing gold violation. Case number CCM-25-00104, Officer B. Hughes, owner, Easy Cashing LLC. Notice address, Easy Cashing LLC, 110 Avis Avenue, Lakewood, New Jersey, 08701-1103, and Easy Cashing LLC, C.O. Bernstein Law Firm, 10800, Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 950, Miami, Florida, 33161-7495, and B. Hughes, Special Magistrate Officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Colorado, Florida, 33756, B. Hughes at Pinellas.gov. Violation address, 1130, Pinellas Bayway, Tierra Verde, Florida, 33715. Anyone here for that case? I've seen no one come in since we started these hearings. This was scheduled for 9 o'clock this morning. It's now 2.16 p.m. Have you heard anything from this case? No, Magistrate. Heard anything from the law firm at all that's been receiving notice? No, Magistrate. Who's appearing for the county? Officer Hughes. Did you raise your right hand? Do you sort of tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do. The county may proceed. Thank you, sir. Okay, so the property where the alleged violation exists is 1130 Pinellas Bayway, Tierra Verde, Florida, 33715, located in unincorporated Pinellas County. The owner, EZ Cashing LLC, is not present for today's hearing. I have had a phone call with the owner, two different phone calls, and I'll explain that as I get to it. So the violations have been in occurrence since on or before August 11th of 2025, and I would like to enter the notice of hearing, affidavit of violation, composite exhibit A, into evidence. Composite exhibit A includes the notice of violations, Pinellas County tax collector, property appraiser, certificate of title, and violation photos. All right, hearing no objection, exhibit A will be admitted into evidence. Thank you, sir. So the first document is the notice of hearing sent to the owner of record. The next document is the affidavit of violation request for hearing, again sent to the owner of record. The violation cited was the commercial minimum housing, 22-231, for the property not being kept free from nuisances to include overgrowth of vegetative debris, piles of soffit, cinder blocks, abandoned signs, and similar items. The sign was in disrepair with peeling paint, and abandoned sign advertising a business no longer in business. And just the appearance and maintenance of these structures are not in good repair and condition to include, but not limited to, damaged stucco, disconnected downspout, damaged parking stops, missing ceiling tiles, and similar other items that I'll show by the pictures. So the notice of hearing was mailed to the owner of record on August 11th, 2025. And the reason I have property appraiser behind it is when the officer sent the notice of violation, the address was to the law firm. When it was referred to me for the special magistrate, the address and property appraiser had changed. But just to try and be as fair as possible, I asked the area officer to re-notice to the new address before we moved forward, which he did. And that was on December 3rd of 2025. Below that notice of violation is the Pinellas County Tax Collector showing the new address of record, Pinellas County property appraiser with the new address, the certificate of title back in 2025. And when I went to the property on December 18th of 2025, these are pictures showing the commercial minimum housing violations, which included the sign and disrepair and the abandoned sign, being that it's no longer any businesses operating at this property. You had the downspout that was disconnected and the damaged stucco below. You had some vegetative overgrowth and debris through the concrete. This is a stairwell that has damaged stucco. Excuse me. Again, you can see the disconnected damaged downspout at the top. You have the parking stops that have basically fallen over. The interior of the center is like a breezeway that is open that used to have businesses on either side, and there's trash and debris within that interior. You can see that there's missing soffit. The interior businesses have basically been gutted and not completed, and you've got soffit on the interior, just trash and debris. The next photos still show more of the damaged soffit, or excuse me, stucco. It's on both sides of the stairwell in the front. You've got palm fronds, missing cable boxes, more soffit that's not present. You've got a boarded window, chip-peeling paint, another sign that's basically been abandoned, and more soffit that's missing. You have a broken glass door in the back. This side is just full of either algae or dirt-type substances. Again, you've got chip-peeling paint on the sign, and you have bags of trash in the back. So, Magistrate, the property was reinspected on January 28th of 2026, and the violations continue. Photos were taken on that date, and I would like to submit them as composite Exhibit B. Hearing no objection, Exhibit B will be admitted into evidence. So, I was contacted by phone by the property owner, who lives in New Jersey. He did verify that he had gotten the notices of violation. I did send a long email with most of the pictures that you're – or actually probably more pictures than what you're seeing now, just so that he knew what needed to be repaired. And, anyway, so we have had contact, and the only person I believe he has contacted here to help him is a realtor who was going to try to clean up the trash and debris, and I believe he's going to try to rehab it and is just asking for additional time. So, when I went back to the property on January 28th, again, there was no change, really, in anything. You still had the chip peeling paint on the sign. You still had the trash and debris, which I've been told by the realtor they've cleaned up, but I haven't had a chance to verify that yet. And, again, this all falls under the commercial minimum housing, so it's just the one code section. You've got the stucco that's still in disrepair, the sign that's still present. Just a little bit of overgrowth. You've got the damaged stucco and the missing rain gutter spout. The soffit's still missing. Again, stucco on both sides is damaged. You still have a little bit of the trash and debris from the palm fronds. All this on the interior was still there. Again, the damage to the stucco. No changes to the interior. Still cables, boxes missing, covers missing, palm fronds still present, the debris in the center breezeway, chip peeling paint in the breezeway, the broken trim in fascia, the missing soffit, the abandoned sign was still there. The glass door had not been repaired. You still had damaged parking stops. And there was still dirt and algae-like substance on the exterior walls. So, Magistrate, the county requests that you find the property in violation and issue an order to have the property brought into compliance. Since we started this hearing, I've seen no one come into the hearing room. Have you heard anything? No, Magistrate. All right. Anything else from the county? No, sir. The county is asking for the allowance of 90 days to comply and if still found in violation, assign a daily fine amount of $250 per day for Code Section 22-231 and also to pay the court costs. What are the costs? Oh, yes. The cost is $249.95. And when is 90 days? 90 days is Sunday, May 10, 2026. I'm sorry, what was that date? May 10, 2026. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm going to find a violation of Code Section 22-231, order that the property be brought into compliance within 90 days. My understanding is that's May 10, 2026, which is a Sunday. So, we'll make it May 11, 2026 at 5 p.m. failing to do so. We'll set a daily fine of $250 per day and assess costs in the amount of $249.95. Thank you, Magistrate. I am familiar with that restaurant. And it used to be a really nice, high-class restaurant. Yeah, it's a shame. My understanding is that when speaking with the owner, it got into litigation over who owned it. And it went back and forth. If you look in property appraiser, it goes from easy cashing to someone else, back to easy cashing to someone else, like, three times. So, I have a feeling that it was because it was in the litigation. And that's why I asked for the 90 days also. It's just because now that he's got it back in his ownership completely, he can start working on it. You know, that all must have happened after the original owners sold it, Suzanne Ferry and her corporation, Goodtimes. Obviously, I don't go there very often. It sounds like it's been going on for years. Yes, sir. It's real close to Billy's Stone Crab. And Billy's is more my speed most of the time than a little fancier restaurant. Well, hopefully, it'll get back on the radar for good restaurants. Nicole, could you read item number one? Item number one, department code enforcement matter, minimum housing code violation, trash and debris code violation, zoning code violation, case number CCM-25-00101, officer B. Hughes, owner, Ramnerian Chatterat, notice address, Ramnerian Chatterat, 1472 Bugle Lane, Colorado Florida, 337-2543, and B. Hughes, special magistrate officer, Pinellas County Code Enforcement, 631 Chestnut Street, Clearwater, Florida, 33756. Violation address, 3094-55th Avenue North, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33714. Who is here for that case? I don't see anyone in the hearing room. Has anyone contacted you, Caroline, by voicemail or email concerning this hearing? No, magistrate. Who's appearing for the county? Officer Hughes. All right, would you please raise your right hand? You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do. The county may proceed. Thank you, sir. The property where the alleged violation exists is 3094-55th Avenue North, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33714, located in unincorporated Pinellas County. The owner is Chandra Ramnerian. It is not present for today's hearing. The violations have been in occurrence since on or before February 13th of 2025, and I would like to enter the notice of hearing, affidavit of violation, and composite exhibit A, which includes the notice of violations, the citations, the Pinellas County tax collector and property appraiser, the deed, and the violation photos. Hearing no objection, exhibit A will be admitted into evidence. Thank you. Okay, so exhibit A includes the notice of hearing sent to the property owner of record and the affidavit of violation, again, sent to the owner of record. The violations cited were the minimum housing, 22299, for the dwelling being in deteriorated condition, to include but not limited to the roof, not free from defects with rotted wood, peeling paint, holes in the fascia, missing damaged soffit, the exterior walls in disrepair with peeling diminished paint, and the windows to the outdoor, opening to the outdoor space without screens. Coast Section 58-304 for the trash and debris was cited for an accumulation of trash and debris on the property to include but not limited to tree branches and limbs, broken cinder blocks, discarded tarps, aluminum cans, ceiling debris, plywood, and other similar items. Additionally, they were cited for the zoning violation of outdoor storage of items not appropriate to store outdoors to include discarded mattresses, furniture, fence panels, ladders, a sink, portable stairs, and similar miscellaneous items. The next document is the notice of violation mailed to the owner of record on February 13th of 2025, and this was the property where the original complaint came from the tenant due to the fact that they were complaining about the holes in the roof, et cetera, with rodents being present. The notice of violation for the trash and debris on the same date, and the notice of violation for the outdoor storage, again, back in February of 2025. We have Pinellas County Tax Collector with the address to the owner of record. Same with the property appraiser, the general warranty deed. They also tried to gain compliance through citations back in July of 2025 for the zoning housing. So when I visited the property initially on December 12th, you can see just there's the shingles are practically down to tar paper. There's rotted wood, missing more rotted wood, missing soffit and fascia, diminished paint, chipped peeling paint, more missing pieces of soffit, falling down pieces of soffit, again, the rotted wood. You can see where the interior ceiling had fallen onto the ground. You can see just discarded tires, just mattresses, stairs, I guess it's boards. Here's a better picture of just discarded interior furniture. There's a sink, some of the same type items. So, Magistrate, after I did that initial inspection, I was called by the current tenant, which was a different person from the initial complaint, complaining that the interior ceiling had, in fact, fallen in. She was not present the first day that I went out there. So I went back the following day on the 19th, and I would like to submit those into evidence, please. Is that going to be Exhibit B? Actually, I labeled it Composite A Interior. But I can change it if you'd like. Yeah, let's make it Exhibit B. Okay. And we'll admit Exhibit B without objection. Officer Hughes? Yes. Do you not have an Exhibit B already? I'm going to have to change it to C. Okay, okay. I just wanted to make sure. I wasn't sure if you've been given these with the original, so I wanted to make sure I pointed out. But it's no problem. I can change it. Okay. Okay, side. Okay, so, again, after I'd done the exterior inspection, seeing the rotted ceiling, I got a call from the tenant. She asked me to come inside, and you could see where the roof, because of the leaking, had caused the ceiling to basically collapse. There were holes throughout the unit into the interior walls, and the reason she was also complaining, obviously, for the leaking roof, but also a complaint that there were roads. I never saw any personally, but, of course, the code says there can't be any holes to the exterior. So the next page just shows more holes on the interior and just the damaged ceiling. So, Magistrate, the property was re-inspected on January 28th, and the violations continued. Photos were taken on that date, and I would like to submit them as composite Exhibit C. Hearing no objection, Exhibit C will be admitted into evidence. Okay. Okay, so, in the time between the two previous inspections I had made to this last inspection, the roof tiles had been replaced, the asphalt shingles. So that was great. So those had been replaced. However, all of the fascia and soffit had not yet been completed. So you can see that the shingles have been replaced. You still have chip peeling paint here, still diminished paint on the side. You still have missing soffit. Where the hot water tanks were located for both units, you had rotted wood and holes to the hot water, or excuse me, the water heater. Again, missing soffit still. Chip peeling paint and the soffit not connected well. More chip peeling paint and the soffit not connected. One of the other units still has the algae and dirt-like substance on the exterior walls. You still had the holes into the interior. They had mudded the ceiling, so that was their repair. You can see a better picture of it here where they had mudded it, but there were still holes out into the walls. You still had trash and debris on the property with discarded broken cinder blocks and just miscellaneous items. You still had the outdoor storage with the tires, the fence panels, the sink, and different building supplies. So, Magistrate, the county requests that you find the property in violation and issue an order to have the property brought into compliance. This hearing was scheduled for 9 o'clock this morning. It is now 2.40. I didn't see anyone come in the hearing room once the hearing started. Have you heard anything from email or voicemail? No, Magistrate. Anything else from the county? Magistrate, the county is asking for the allowance of 30 days to comply and if still found in violation to assign a daily fine amount of $150 per day for code sections 22299, 58-304, 138-3220, and award costs. What are the costs? The costs are $233.05. And when is 30 days? March 11, 2026. Okay, I'm going to find that there is a violation of code section 22-299 order that the property be brought into compliance within 30 days, which is March 11, 2026, at 5 p.m. Failing to do so, we'll assess a fine in the amount of $150 per day. I'm going to find that there is a violation of code section 58-304 order that the property be brought into compliance within 30 days, which is March 11, 2026, at 5 p.m. Failing to do so, we'll assess a fine in the amount of $150 per day. I am going to find a violation of code section 138-3220 order that the property be brought into compliance within 30 days, which is March 11, 2026. Failing to do so, we'll assess a fine in the amount of $150 per day. I will also assess costs in the amount of $233.05. Thank you, sir. It completes the items on the agenda. Are there any other county attorney matters? Seeing none, the hearing will be adjourned. Communications, please stop recording.