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FINANCIALLY ABLE TO HANDLE THIS THEMSELVES. <br />MR. ADAMS STATED THAT SOME OF THEM ARE AND SOME AREN'T. <br />CHAIRMAN WODKTE SUGGESTED THAT A LETTER BE WRITTEN THESE <br />PEOPLE BY THE BOARD STATING THAT IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE, <br />THE BOARD WILL AUTHORIZE ACTION TO BE TAKEN THROUGH THE COURTS. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS-FELT RATHER THAN WRITE A LETTER, THE <br />BOARD SHOULD SET UP HEARINGS AND TAKE ACTION, AND BUILDING DIRECTOR <br />ADAMS AGREED, NOTING THAT THE BUILDING CODE HAS A SECTION ON SUB- <br />STANDARD HOUSING WHICH SHOULD BE ENFORCED. <br />DISCUSSION CONTINUED ON WHETHER TO WRITE A LETTER FIRST <br />OR PROCEED TO TAKE ACTION. <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY COMMIS- <br />SIONER Loy, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED THE ATTORNEY TO NOTIFY <br />PROPERTY OWNERS OF UNSAFE STRUCTURES THAT HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED THAT <br />HEARINGS WILL BE HELD IN REGARD TO DEMOLITION AND ALSO TO DETERMINE <br />IF ANY OF THESE QUALIFY UNDER THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD LIKE THE BOARD AT <br />THIS TIME TO REACH A DECISION AS TO THE MID -FLORIDA RATE INCREASE <br />REQUEST, <br />THE CHAIRMAN STATED, THAT AS FAR AS HE IS CONCERNED, AFTER <br />REREADING THE MINUTES AND THE TESTIMONY, THERE DEFINITELY SEEMS TO <br />BE A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE EXPERT WITNESSES AND OTHER WITNESSES AS <br />TO THE CONDITION OF THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. HE NOTED THAT WE <br />HEARD AT ONE HEARING THAT THE PROBLEM WAS IN THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM <br />AND AT THE NEXT HEARING THAT IT WAS NOT. CHAIRMAN WODTKE CONTINUED <br />THAT WE ALSO HEARD TESTIMONY BY AN EXPERT WITNESS ON THE CONDITION <br />OF PIPES FROM THIS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, WHICH PIPES THE WITNESS HAD <br />NOT SEEN REMOVED FROM THE GROUND, THIS WITNESS TESTIFIED THAT THE <br />PIPES WERE IN -BETTER THAN NORMAL.CONDITION, BUT THE CHAIRMAN NOTED <br />THAT WHEN HE EXAMINED THEM HIMSELF, HE FOUND THERE WERE HOLES IN <br />THE PIPES AND YOU COULD EVEN PUSH A PAPER CLIP THROUGH THEM. CHAIR- <br />MAN WODTKE ALSO NOTED THAT EXTENSIVE FLUSHING OF THE SYSTEM WAS <br />CARRIED OUT JUST PRIOR TO THE HEARINGS, BUT THE SYSTEM HAD NOT BEEN <br />FLUSHED THAT EXTENSIVELY ON A ROUTINE BASIS PREVIOUSLY. <br />48 <br />CT i 9197 . I <br />ma 31 w307 <br />