The following is an update on some activities of the city that may be of interest:
Building Department -
a) Stonebridge Gardens Condominium Directors are working with their adjustment team, the Construction Company, and the city to resolve all insurance matters and code issues. Work will resume when the Board and Construction Company are satisfied that all issues are resolved. The air quality test results were received from June 15, 2007. Videotaping of the contents of all units is complete by the Project Manager. Several storage containers were delivered to the job site for the on site storage of unit owners' contents. Subcontractors are being contacted to resubmit proposals in order to re-mobilize the site and resume work.
b) The Villas is being brought back to the Unsafe Structures Board for stoppage of work, because they are not repairing all damaged buildings and upgrading them to the Florida Building Code.
Code Enforcement -
a) Each Code Officer has been instructed to conduct a street by street inspection of their zone, and write all noted violations and present said violations to the department manager on a spread sheet. A total of 77 Notices of Violations were written for the week, 9 parking tickets, and 4 water restriction citations were issued.
b) Follow up is to address the many code violations in the Wingate Plaza on 31st Avenue, the Inverrary Hotel and the Checkers on Oakland Park Blvd.
Community Development Agency (CRA) -
A business seminar was held at the Lauderhill Mall, with good attendance.
DEES -
a) Canal crews cleaned and sprayed canals city-wide.
b) A review was being conducted with regards to cutting and cleaning of parks throughout the city.
Fire Department -
There were 6 calls for fire, 155 for EMS, 2 for hazardous conditions, 10 service calls, 37 for good intent, 22 false calls, for a total of 232 calls.
Commendations from the Public -
Lauderhill received a Letter of Appreciation, addressed to the Police Chief, from the city Psychologist, for permitting him to ride-along for about 5 hours with patrol officers. The purpose was to update the Psychologist's awareness of the Lauderhill community, neighborhoods, and newly annexed areas, and to learn about the pace of mix of call to which the officers respond. This in turn will help him to more effectively evaluate the psychological suitability of candidates for employment as police officers with the Lauderhill PD.
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Stonebridge Gardens is bust. Many of the units are foreclosed upon properties. Section Four is being sued by their electrial contractor for nonpayment. The insurance provider at the time of Hurricane Wilma paid a small fraction of the 20 million the buildings were insured for and refused to pay more. In early July, 2007, Arch Specialties Insurance walked out of formal mediation with the Judge, necesitating a lawsuit to pursue matters. This could take years to come up in Court. If the remainer of the 20 million were paid, each unit owner would have to pony up ten to twenty thousand for every unit to resume reconstruction and an additional twenty thousand per unit for internal unit completion. Were this to happen...and it won't...believe me...how much would these units in a decrepit and derelict condo community, beset by factional politics and contention, be worth in today's failing real estate market? Practically nothing. And what is the chance each owner of a unit there will come up with, say, 40 thousand more to get work finished? About the same chance as a snowball in hell.
It's done. Over. Stonebridge is finished. No work has been done there since April. The EPA cordoned off Section One as enviromentally dangerous as Rolyn Construction failed to see to the removal of all asbestos from units....it's a mess and it's waiting for the order requiring demolition. But I suspect you know that already.
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