Starkey final report Scotland, Helen Ellis, Little Road

1:49:08your final. Got some pictures to go through real fast. Um just you know I'm very big about cycling and trails, so um I wanted to show you The trails that my my husband and I rented bikes in Scotland and we biked, cycled, whatever, from Edinburgh to Glasgow five and a half hours. Me and hundreds of other people, because that that trail was full of people. It was gorgeous.

1:49:31How wide is that trail?

1:49:33We're actually going along a canal that they dug in the 1700s. You can see the canal boat on the left. Um i it used to be for commerce but now um they've re dug these canals and there are a lot of tourism boats and private boats that go up and down these canals all around Europe actually. There's a couple more pictures in in this right. This is where I got my cough though 'cause it rained on me on the last hour. Um this is uh us going over a um what do you call this?

1:50:03Uh What do you call it where the water's up high?

1:50:08No well there's a lock on here, but no, it's an aqueduct. It's an aqueduct. I think it's the second longest aqueduct in Europe. Um but you couldn't you had to walk it, it was too bumpy to ride. But sadly when I filmed it, I turned out I was filming my hand and my jacket and not the scenery on other side, so you can't really see how high and how cool that was. Um next picture. Uh that's more the trails With the beautiful flowers all over. There's restaurants all along the way we stopped and pubs. We stopped and had lunch. I didn't put that picture here.

1:50:38Next picture. That's the aqueduct that we went across. And then this is uh we did the same thing in the Azores. Um we rented bikes and uh and a guide and we um did this bike ride around uh a um caldera. 'Cause the Azers are very volcanic. More pictures. That's just heads up to the that's where we bike to, up to that rim. That was not fun. I almost quit. That's kind of the view when we were up top. And the last picture Oh

1:51:09that's the view from up top, so it was beautiful. But th they are building their cycl tourism as fast as they can in in in the Azores. The next picture is, this is the reason why I was in the Azores. This is Miss Barbara Wilhite, who is now Mrs. Peter D'Souza. Um that's Barbara coming down um out of City Hall there in her in her wedding dress. So um we'll congratulate her the next time we see her. But she's still she's still there um enjoying her. Our

1:51:40new wedded bliss. So um Okay, uh the next pictures are this is a piece of land that's on US nineteen. It is the old Helen Ellis um Walk-in site. Uh it has um kind of been abandoned by the property owner. He didn't pay taxes on it for three years. And uh someone has now bought up the tax receipts. But here's my problem. We cannot serve this guy. It's an LLC.

1:52:11In Texas. To get in there and clean it up. And if you could see what it looked like, I have some older pictures. We are getting so many complaints in my office. Um I ask some older pictures from over a month ago if you could cycle. Did you yeah. Um But it's so much worse now. They're building like houses on there. There it's just like this whole village of garbage, debris, and and people living there and it just blows my mind. This is right on

1:52:41nineteen when you as you come into the county, that we can't do anything. And so um South

1:52:47Detectine or North Dante

1:52:48Because w we don't have a trespass agreement with the the landowner who's gone AWOL Um

1:52:58We're we're gonna be able to I guess we're gonna Try and cite the people that are living on there. Um now the county has cleaned this this site up once and we've leaned the property. But I don't know legislatively Um, is it Jeff, is it too big a is it a constitutional issue that we can't do something when someone is trashing property like this and living no s no water, no sewer, no electricity

1:53:29Cannot the health department shut it down? I mean Why do we have no tools to clean this up? It's been months that I've been dealing with this.

1:53:38I'll have to get with with uh Sam and Jessica at Would seem to me that there's a there's a health code issue that that could be pursued. Um

1:53:50my my latest comment from Jessica is we cannot enter private property to clean the junk and debris without either a court order allowing us to do so or permission from the property owner.

1:54:01Okay. And we can't find the property owner? Yeah.

1:54:04No. Property owner has abandoned the property, hasn't paid the taxes, not responding to anything, move it. Fly someone out to Texas and maybe try and find him at his office, but It just seems that counties need more tools than the toolbox to deal with problems like this.

1:54:23Okay.

1:54:26We should be able to get a ho. Unless they're they're clearly the person is clearly not Anywhere where they can be found. Um it but in There are ways to find people. So Okay. I will get with my team and see.

1:54:45All right. And and and like I said, this this is not this these are not representative of how bad it is right now on on Hunting.

1:54:55Thank you. Uh did I have an another picture? Oh no but I had a note um I to staff. I drove down Little Road yesterday when I was driving to look at Thousand Oaks and and all of that. And I also drove out to Oak Ridge and looked at the the outfall there. Um Little Road is at fifty four north of it. It is just one big pothole after another. I don't know what happened. But like that section By the Walmart? It's it's World

1:55:25War Three. in that area. So is that our road or is that D O T's road? It's I feel like it's our road. Yeah, so it we're gonna need some some kind of big repairs out there. It's really just falling apart right out there at that intersection. Thank you.

1:55:43Thank you. Mm-hmm. Um Mr. Breitmach, do you have anything in your duties today?