Commissioner Starkey on Rule 7 and evicted people
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Thank you, Commissioner Oakley. Um we'll move on to Commissioner Starkey.
Good morning everybody. Um in your email box you should have received um a copy of a letter. Or an email from Jeff Stockliner to me that we have now forwarded to all of you. It has to do with Rule 7. uh of our policies. Um and how we run our meetings and um It When I've been chair, uh and and in many board member boards that I've been
on Um You know Uh it it it can be it can be good to at the end of the meeting ask if there's any new business to come before the board. And the reason I think this is a good idea is because sometimes things happen in the afternoon during public comment and issues that are brought to us. that we wa may want to bring up and then ask the um staff to work on and bring back to us. This has happened many times in my
Years
uh on the board of county commissioners and and six on the school board. So I want to suggest that we um That we adjust our uh procedures here and ask that at the end of our day. Is there any new business to come before the board? We'd be sure that we have that opportunity to talk amongst each other of uh issues or ideas that we may want to have staff or or the public or
whatever, know about or bring back. And that that that requires a a rule change to our public hearing. S um rules. Um Jeff Steinsider, can you add to that please?
So your uh it wouldn't be to the public hearing agenda. It would be that your rules under Rule Seven have a list of the things that you uh do prior to adjournment. Um you could add a commissioner discussion at um item eleven and then renumber um if that's the board's desire.
Mr. Chairman Mariano. Please go ahead, Commissioner Mariano.
I I think it's a good idea. I mean sometimes we do get those things that come up in conversation. Like I I like I I'm glad you touched on the movie theater idea. It might be a Thanks. Um To have c for consideration.
Mr. Chairman Mariano. Um Commissioner Oakley, please go ahead.
Yes, sir. I I understand what you're talking about, but I think that's what our old business is for. And I I believe if you'll address it uh with staff, with uh county administrator after the meeting, something comes up like that and discuss it and go through staff. Then that'd be something good to bring up at this time when we have uh time for old business and we could have that discussion while we're doing old business when you bring it up and we've actually had discussions that cover this kind of thing in the past.
So I understand that some things come to your mind at at the end of a meeting from some public hearing or something, but I believe those discussions should happen during that public meeting and anything that comes up you need to talk to staff about you should go over that first with staff and get your answers and then uh the following meeting in during old business, then bring that up and we discuss it. I think that's the best way to handle it. So my
opinion. Thank
you,
Commissioner Oakley. Commissioner Weightman.
Yeah, I agree with Commissioner Oakley. I mean we've we've had situations to where we may have a conversation, could be during old business or in the morning, to where we need direction from the board. I've only, you know, I've been here six years and I've seen it maybe a handful of times. You know, with that situation I understand, but as far as us bringing up things during old business. I mean I think that's why we have old business. And and quite frankly, Chairman Mariano I think you do a great job keeping us on point. Uh you're a great leader. Uh I I again I I think you do a great job, so thank
you.
Thank you, Commissioner Weightman. Commissioner Starkey, back to you.
Uh well I I guess I can politely disagree that I think sometimes things come up in the afternoon that warrant a discussion. Um Uh I'm uh if I'm in the minority, then I'm in the minority. Um but moving on. Um I would say uh I talked to Nikki this morning. I read an article um about the I don't know if it was City of Tampa or Hillsboro wanting to um get having a list of eviction
notices ready to go. And of course the governor stay put that off for a month. um or for length of time. I don't remember the length of time. But I talked to Nikki this morning to see if we have such a list and Um, Nikki, could you explain the procedure of how it works over the clerk of court? Um, how you how a list can be generated and Um, and then I wanna take that list and see if we can give it to Kathy and And um um, our community
services department and see if we can stave off with some of our uh cares money, some of these people from being ev evicted. I don't know where they would go. Um they'd be out in the woods 'cause there's no place to rent right now, no jobs. And uh I've seen parents at my grocery store with buckets asking for money lately. So Nikki, to you.
So um our system that we work in, our office uses case information, um case numbers. So to obtain information as it relates to the individuals that are in the cases, we will look to create a report. It the report we're looking to hopefully create it um electronically through the system if there are certain fields that captures that information. If not, we will go ahead and uh create a manual report to provide Now, some of these cases have a judgment already entered, and it's just uh pending a writ
of possession to be issued by my office, while other cases have not gone to judgment as of yet. So there's two different circumstances that I think the county attorney would need to be involved in to figure out how to handle those types of cases. And I wanted to point out That there is an executive order from the governor, and the executive order tolls the statutes about the cause of action for an eviction case, which means
that it tolls the statute and postpones the filing of the case. So if a new case is filed and the governor's executive order is in place, it is as it is now. Through July 1st, we will not issue summonses for the case to be able to move forward and for people to obtain personal service. Now, for cases where the judgment has been entered, our office is not issuing the writ, and that is based off of a Supreme Court administrative order. And
in the Supreme Court administrative order, the Supreme Court determines how the cases are to be moved. forward not our legislature so the supreme court administrative or the supreme court administrative order provides that the clerk is not um is to not issue writs that the issuing of writs is suspended for the time being with no end date So even if the cases are allowed to be filed through the governor's executive order, our office would not issue writs of possession, which would allow the landlord to take possession
of the property without another local court over order to override the Supreme Court order.
So um commissioners, I you know, I'm sure there's there's some investigation that needs to happen on on each individual case, which is kind of what goes on over there with Kathy and Marcy, but um But uh uh I we uh working on this and um hopefully uh keeping some families in their in their homes during this challenging time. And um any thoughts or comments?
Kind of.
Okay, I think that's uh All I have, I understand the questions that I asked about the um the where we are with our cares money and our um Senior services. meals. We're all going to get those updates in our private meetings on the budget. So I look forward to seeing that information. Yeah, and um Just wanna thank staff again and and everybody, um Commissioner Moore, Commissioner Weightman Mariano, all
out helping um Helping our citizens with food drives and I just think it's great how our community has really um behaved during this challenging time. So Um, thank you all for being such good public citizens and I I'm just really proud of our county, our residents and our and our elected folks.
That's three.