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CLERK OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS111 NW 1 Street, Commission Conference Room
October 22, 2015 @ 10 a.m.Organizational Meeting
VALUE ADJUSTMENT BOARDINTERGOVERNMENTAL SERVICES DIVISION
BOARD MEMBERS(Present)
Commissioner Juan Zapata, ChairmanCommissioner Jose "Pepe" Diaz
School Board Member Raquel RegaladoMr. Anibal Duarte-Viera
Hani Jardack
VAB ATTORNEY
Manuel A. Blanco, Esq.
COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Jorge Martinez-EsteveAssistant County Attorney
STAFF
Pedro Garcia, Property AppraiserLazaro Solis, Office of Property Appraiser
Robert Alfaro, VAB ManagerMark Martinez, Clerk of the Courts
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ITEMS PAGE
I. Convene the 2015 VAB and implement 18Department of Revenue Rules governing VABOrganizational Meetings.
II. Discussion of Prehearing 25Checklist Pursuant to DOR Rule 12D-9.014.
III. Approval of VAB forms for tax year 272015.
IV. Approve administrative procedures, 27filing fees, and rescheduling guidelines forthe 2015 tax year.
V. Discuss and provide for the 29employment of special magistrates for taxyear 2015.
VI. Discuss the status and progress of 66the VAB Policies and Procedures Manual.
VII. Such other business as may properly --come before the Board.
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COMMISSIONER DIAZ: All right. So
welcome to all. This is the Value
Adjustment Board. Chairman Zapata is not
here, so I'll assume his role for today.
He had a pressing issue.
So, Mr. Attorney, would you like to
start us up.
MR. BLANCO: Yes, sir. Thank you
very much.
The first item of business is to
convene.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: First we have to
call roll.
MR. ALFARO: Good morning, Members of
the Board. This is the 2015
organizational meeting of the Value
Adjustment Board.
Present we have Commissioner Pepe
Diaz; Ms. Regalado from the School Board;
Mr. Anibal Duarte-Viera, citizen member;
Mr. Hani Jardack, citizen member.
We have a quorum.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Thank you.
MR. BLANCO: Which is what I was
about to do.
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Mr. Chair, Members of the Board,
members of the Property Appraiser's
Office, Mr. Clerk, Assistant Clerk, Mr.
County Attorney, we have a quorum.
In attendance, as Robert already
stated, and, again, it's Ms. Raquel
Regalado from the School Board; yourself,
Mr. Commissioner Diaz; we also have Hani
Jardack and Anibal Duarte-Viera as citizen
members.
This is the 2015 annual Value
Adjustment Board organizational meeting,
at which time we want to adopt various
resolutions and take certain actions that
are prescribed by the Department of
Revenue under the Rule of 12D-9 of the
administrative code.
I'm looking at the agenda that's in
your kit right now and I'm going to follow
it for purposes of this meeting.
Today we also have written requests
from five agents that wish to speak.
Mr. Chair, it will be your
prerogative whether you wish for them to
speak in the beginning of the meeting or
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end of the meeting.
And these are Zack Shlossberg,
Stanley Beck, Wendy Beck, Larry Puyanic
and Alejandro Aguirre. I don't see some
of them here, so there might not be as
many.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Who is here?
MR. BLANCO: We have Stanley Beck,
and we have Wendy Beck here. I don't see
Larry Puyanic or Alejandro, and I don't
see Zack either.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Mr. Attorney,
we're opening now at this time for anybody
to speak, so we can get back to work on
this stuff.
MR. BLANCO: It's your prerogative.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: That's the way
we've been doing it in all our meetings.
We've been working it that way.
MR. BLANCO: That's fine.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Let's get people
to speak. If there's an item that needs
to be spoken, now is the time that you
have to speak. I'll give a little more
time, if needed, but the time is usually
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two minutes.
MR. BECK: Good morning. My name is
Stan Beck. I'm a native Miamian, graduate
from Miami Senior High. I've been
representing taxpayers before this Board
for over 35 years.
Some of you may recall that about
18 months ago, the auditor general for the
State of Florida issued its report on the
Dade County VAB.
At that time, Commissioner Lynda
Bell, sitting as chair, complimented Mr.
Alfaro and his staff, because they did
extremely well under that audit. And she
emphasized that she was delighted,
particularly in view of the size of this
County, the number of properties that we
had.
Earlier this year, the school
finished their examination of the property
appraiser's office and the VAB, finding no
significant discrepancies of any kind.
Actually, what they did disclose was
that the schools themselves had been
making a payment annually to the property
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appraiser about $1.4 million. That's
being remedied, but that really didn't
require an audit of the VAB to determine
it.
About six weeks ago, the Office of
Inspector General for the County issued
its report. And that was also a glowing
report for the Value Adjustment Board.
And I think that Mr. Alfaro and his staff
should be congratulated.
This Board can take a sigh of relief,
take a deep breath, good things are
happening. There is no ethical issue at
all. There isn't even any hint of any
kind of impropriety.
This Board has operated efficiently
for decades without any kind of
significant problems of any kind. They
have come through the massive quantity of
hearings. They are starting to get caught
up with the cooperation of Pedro Garcia.
The Office of Inspector General actually
specified that many of the reasons why we
didn't get caught up was for difficulties
under the prior property appraiser, and
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those issues are being remedied. Prior
property appraiser was not staffing
hearings properly. There were issues
about rescheduling. And the inspector
general actually detailed that there were
times, a year ago last summer, where that
property appraiser's office was doing more
rescheduling than taxpayers. That's all
behind us.
The issue about whether agents were
filing petitions for people they didn't
represent, the office of inspector general
said there is no significant issue there.
And even the Miami Herald said it's hard
to imagine that taxpayers would be -- or
that agents would do work for people that
they didn't know.
There were three specific points that
were voiced by the superintendent of
schools. The Office of Inspector General
has addressed all three of them.
The first, of course, authorization
letter is the other rescheduling.
And the third was his concern that
there was favoritism by the special
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magistrates in favor of taxpayers.
The Office of Inspector General in
their report has talked about the studies
that they've done, the documents that
they've examined, the auditing, the
testing, the sampling. All of the work
that they've done, and their conclusion is
there's no bias. That is a direct quote
from their report, no bias one way or the
other.
I think that this is a very favorable
report. There is a lot of "I" dotting and
"T" crossing that goes on. And there's a
lot of recommendations, some of them very
good, some of them not, but most of them
are clerical in nature and some of them
have unintended consequences.
For example, the legislation -- and
if I can take just a couple more seconds.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I was going to
stop you, but go ahead and finish up.
MR. BECK: And you know I talk fast.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: That's why I
didn't stop you.
MR. BECK: Yes, sir.
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There has been some discussion about
proposed legislation. And each of the
things that are proposed really becomes
unnecessary as we get caught up with
cooperation of Mr. Garcia that we now
have, interest rates are no longer a
factor, if the hearings get finished
quickly.
Secondly, the inspector general says
that authorization letters are not really
an issue. And Mr. Alfaro has told this
Board that if he has to handle 60,000
authorization letters, it will slow him
down.
Imagine what happens if authorization
letters get misplaced, or they're not
scanned and all of a sudden we have to
have a thousand hearings, only a thousand,
to determine whether the petition was in
good form and can proceed, a thousand
legal hearings before we can even start
having value hearings on those that had
some kind of question about authorization.
The deadline, putting the deadline in
the statute isn't going to mean anything,
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if you can't staff it. We have
cooperation now. We're heading in the
right direction.
And you should remember that --
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: We need --
MR. BECK: -- the House of
Representatives wanted to change the
composition of the Value Adjustment Board.
And, Commissioner Diaz, I want to bring
you up to date on this.
When this legislation was in
Tallahassee last year, Representative
Gaetz had a counter-amendment to take
every elected official off the Value
Adjustment Board. And that was a real
concern for a lot of people: He was going
to replace this Board with only citizen
members, who would be appointed by the
governor.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: We know.
MR. BECK: That was the response to
the legislation. There's a lot of
unintended consequences.
I think Mr. Alfaro and his staff have
done extremely well. The Board can take a
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deep breath and relax. We're in good
hands. And I appreciate your time.
Thank you.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Thank you.
Do you want to open up or you want to
wait?
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: I wanted to
respond to what he said.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Hold on a second.
Let's get everybody out first.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Okay.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: And then we'll go
back and respond. And we can call you up,
if we need to call you up.
Who else is on to speak?
MR. BLANCO: We have Wendy Beck, but
Mr. Larry Puyanic and Alejandro also came
in as Mr. Beck was speaking.
Wendy, you want to come up.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: He's always an
eloquent speaker, so I gave him a little
more time, but it's two minutes.
MS. BECK: He does speak very well
and eloquently.
I basically want to adopt his
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sentiments. We really did want to applaud
Robert and his staff. They do a tireless
job, and a very professional and in a
courteous manner. And they take a lot of
negative criticism in the public, and they
really deserve accolades, as evidenced by
the latest inspector general's report.
The second thing I just wanted to
briefly touch upon, and I know that
there's going to be a discussion on
adoption of 2015 magistrates, and I know
there's been discussion at previous
hearings about having magistrates from out
of County. And, you know, there's no
concerns whatsoever with the magistrates
from out of County, who are here and who
know the process and who over time have
developed an understanding of Miami-Dade
County and the markets, but we are trying
to really speed this 2015 process up and
finish by, you know, the end of May
ideally for the School Board's issue.
And I just would like the Board to
consider the appointment of out-of-County
magistrates will possibly slow that
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process down. It's just one magistrate
that we indicated by the review of the
application and their qualifications that
they're located out of town. It really
does slow the process down, because
there's a lot of firms included, when
you're coming from out of town and to
Dade.
And that's really all I have to say
today.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Thank you.
Anybody else at this time that would
like to speak on any of the issues? Now
is the time to do so.
MR. PUYANIC: Hi, how are you guys?
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: State your name
and address, for the record.
MR. PUYANIC: I'm Larry Puyanic, 717
Ponce De Leon Boulevard, Coral Gables,
Florida.
And I'm one of the agents who files a
lot of petitions. And I just want to
agree with what Wendy said regarding the
Value Adjustment Board's process. We are
zooming right along. We're making a lot
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of progress. And I think we've got a good
time schedule. And I think we're going to
be able to finish this in good fashion.
You know, sometimes you can't satisfy
everybody here, but I think that the VAB
has done a really good job, the staff.
That's it.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Thank you.
MR. AGUIRRE: Thank you very much. I
won't take up a lot of your time. I don't
have anything to add.
Alejandro Aguirre, 7504 Southwest 78
Terrace.
I don't have anything to add, other
than to say that I'm in agreement with the
previous speakers. And thank you for your
service.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Thank you. I
love it when we get these. So do you
guys.
So with that, anybody else would like
to speak at this time, please do so.
Let the record show nobody else came
forward. Now it's closed to the public
side of things.
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Ms. Regalado, you have the floor.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Thank you
very much, Mr. Chair.
I was just going to mention, we're
going to talk about the OIG report when we
get to the policies and procedures. I
agree with you on the three points, but
there was some criticism in the OIG report
in terms of process, and the lack of
information, how difficult it was to get
information. I think that this Board has
dealt with those issues, and that's why
the policies and procedures are so
important.
So I had a conversation with the OIG
after she made her presentation to the
audit committee at the School Board, and I
hope that at the end of this meeting, our
response to that OIG report is our
policies and procedures, because I think
it covers every single issue raised.
The only one that we have to talk
about that we haven't talked about before
is that the OIG did mention that we don't
have a conflict of interest rule, so we'll
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talk about that when we go to the policies
and procedures, but I agree with you, in
that, for the most part, it was very
positive, but we still have a little PR
that we have to do now. And I think that
the policies and procedures allow us to do
that.
In terms of the legislation in
Tallahassee, it's already in committee.
It's already moving. I agree with you
that it is very challenging, but I think
the way that we turn the corner on that is
having a broader conversation with our
Dade delegation about what we have done
here, and the fact that we've codified a
lot of the things that we've done, how
many times we've met and how much
information there is presently about the
Value Adjustment Board, so thank you.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Thank you.
Mr. Jardack, you have something to
say?
MR. JARDACK: No.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Anibal?
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: No.
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COMMISSIONER DIAZ: All right. So
with that, Mr. Attorney, let's try to go
through this. I think everybody is on the
same page. I think everybody sees a good
day. I think Ms. Regalado stated it very
well.
There's a couple of things on the
report that we need to have a little
closer look at and deal with it, but that
will deal with process, but everything
else, good job. So it's not just --
MR. BLANCO: I would like to --
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: -- my former
colleague, but now it's myself. Good job
to all the good work they've done.
MR. BLANCO: Thank you very much on
behalf of the staff as well.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: You want to get
us going?
MR. BLANCO: And, Ms. Regalado, we
really do need to go ahead and meet with
this whenever you have a chance. I know
you're busy, but we'll get together with
that.
All right. Under I, there are nine
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items that's listed, which DOR required us
to do one by one, with three of them
required resolutions. These will be items
1, 3 and 8 that will require a resolution.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Okay.
MR. BLANCO: The first order of
business is the affirmation or
ratification of myself, Manuel Blanco,
attorney for the Value Adjustment Board,
for the tax year 2015 through '16.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So moved.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Second.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Motion and
second.
All in favor, say aye.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: None opposed.
Next.
MR. BLANCO: Number 2. As I earlier
stated to the Members of the Board, which
are currently present, and our expected
contact information are also provided in
your kits, additional copies may be
obtained by Mr. Alfaro.
Number 3. Mr. Robert Alfaro is also
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present as the designee of the Clerk, and
for the Honorable Harvey Ruvin, Value
Adjustment Board. His contact information
is also in your kits.
We'll need a resolution at this point
reappointing Mr. Alfaro's as designee to
the clerk.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So moved.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Motion.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Second.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I have a second
from Mr. Anibal.
Anybody against? All in favor?
MR. BLANCO: Thank you.
Number 4 --
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I saw him do
that. He went like this (indicating).
And that's a second, but anyway's...
MR. BLANCO: Number 4. Chapter
12D-9, and 12D-10 of the Florida
Administrative Code containing the uniform
rules of procedures for hearings before
the Value Adjustment Boards and Special
Magistrates, and the associated forms
adopted by the DOR are available in Mr.
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Alfaro's office, if so desired, and also
on the web now.
Number 5. The Florida Government in
the Sunshine manual must be made available
to the public, Special Magistrates, Value
Adjustment Board Members and may be
obtained from Mr. Alfaro's office as well
or on the web.
Number 6. The DOR Rule 12D-51 as
well as Florida Statutes 192 through 195
are also available in Mr. Alfaro's office
and on the web, if so desired.
Number 7. The next item is to
discuss the general information on
Florida's property taxes system, the
respective roles within this system,
taxpayer opportunities to participate in
the system and property tax rights.
Generally, the Florida tax system is
an ad valorem tax system, meaning its
taxes are levied based on the value of the
property, both real and personal.
Initially, the property appraiser in
this case, Mr. Pedro Garcia, and its
Departments make the original assessment,
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meaning he values the property based on
fair market value on January 1st of tax
year.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Anything to add,
Pedro, or we're good to go?
MR. GARCIA: No, good to go.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Continue, please.
MR. BLANCO: It then becomes a matter
of public record, the TRIM notice
procedure, notice procedure, which goes
out at the end of August of each year. I
believe the deadline for filing for this
tax year was on September 18th.
If the taxpayer disagrees with the
TRIM notice and disagrees with the
assessment or lack of an exemption he or
she feels he or she deserves, then they
can petition the VAB for us to look at
their case as they look at the hearing
process.
Our special magistrates, whom you
have appointed in order to hear these
cases, may recommend a reduction or grant
an exemption, which is based -- which
wasn't granted if he or she was impressed
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and satisfied with the evidence presented.
If either party is not happy with the
decision, the taxpayer may appeal to the
circuit court or the property appraiser
may appeal.
Number 8 is a document ratified by
resolution, any filing fee for the
petition filed for the tax year 2015, not
to exceed $15 per parcel. That's what's
required.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Motion.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I have a motion.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Second.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Second.
Mr. Hani?
BOARD MEMBERS COLLECTIVELY: Aye.
Let the record show none opposed.
MR. BLANCO: And Number 9, Mr. Alfaro
has advised me that tangible personal
properties for the 2015 tax year should be
starting at the end of this year.
The real property hearings will not
begin until some time in early January of
2016. And all efforts are being made by
us, by the Value Adjustment Board, to
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basically finish by the deadline, which is
in June, '16. We'll be totally caught up
by then.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Do we have a
start date that is etched in stone that we
have to start by?
MR. SOLIS: Not necessarily, but we
were under the impression that we were
going to be starting the real estate value
hearings in December.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: That's the
impression I had, so I wanted to make
sure, because now we're talking about
January.
MR. BLANCO: I was under the
impression it was going to be early
January for real estate.
MR. SOLIS: I believe the target date
was first hearing scheduled for
December 1st or 2nd.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: That's a month.
MR. BLANCO: Even better.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: So we're good
then. So stating for the record that
we're looking again not to January, but
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the first of December.
MR. BLANCO: December.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Okay.
MR. BLANCO: Wonderful.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Continue, please.
MR. BLANCO: The following item, II,
must be fully ratified by the auditor
general's report, so bear with me.
Number 1, the Board is composed as
provided by law.
Number 2, the Board legal counsel is
appointed as provided by law.
Number 3, the Board legal counsel
meets the requirements of Florida Statute
Section 194.015.
Number 4, the Board members represent
government entities or taxpayers in any
administrative or judicial review of the
property taxes and no citizen member of
the Board are members or employees of the
taxing authority during the membership
while on the Board.
Number 5, the organizational meeting
was noticed in accordance with Florida
section -- Florida Statute Section
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286.011, and provided as per paragraph 1,
3, 4 and 5 above.
Number 6, what I described as DOR
rules of procedures of laws for Value
Adjustment Board are being provided
paragraph 1, 3, 4 and 5 above.
Number 7, DOR rules, procedures and
laws are available on the clerk's website.
Number 8, the qualifications,
trainings, certification of the special
magistrates are verified.
Number 9, the selection of special
magistrates was based solely on proper
experience and qualifications. Neither
the property appraiser nor the petitioners
influenced the selection of the special
magistrates.
Number 10, all procedures and forms
of the Value Adjustment Board are in
compliance with Florida Statute Chapter
194; and the Board is otherwise in
compliance with Chapter 194.
Number 11, notice has been given to
the Chief Executive Officer of each
municipality with Miami-Dade County as
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provided in Florida Statute Section
193.116.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: So II is
complete.
We go to III.
MR. BLANCO: Okay. III is the
authorization approval of the Value
Adjustment Board Forms for the 2015 tax
year. So we would need a motion.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Motion to approve
the tax forms?
MR. BLANCO: Yes.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Do I have a
motion?
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: So moved.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: A motion from
Anibal. Second by Mr. Jardack.
All in favor, say aye.
BOARD MEMBERS COLLECTIVELY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: None opposed.
Next item.
MR. BLANCO: The following item, IV,
Approval of administrative procedures,
filing fees and rescheduling guidelines
for the 2015 tax year. These are items
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required by Value Adjustment Board to
operate. The details are lengthy, and are
available to you on your agendas provided.
But these are, in a nutshell, A,
would be the implementation of the VAB
administrative procedures; B,
authorization for the retention and/or
refund of filing fees paid on erroneous or
duplicate petitions. We recommend that we
retain, by the way, any erroneous fees for
processing, because we still have to
process them.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Okay.
MR. BLANCO: C, rescheduling
guidelines, these are for reasons, other
than the automatic review schedule.
D, appeals of decisions rendered by
special magistrates. And since 1977, the
Board has declined to hear de novo appeals
from the decisions of the special
magistrates, either from the taxpayer of
the property appraiser directing all such
appeals to be heard by the Circuit Court,
which has original jurisdiction of the
matters to the property taxation,
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including appeals of the Board. Without
that, the Board would never finish.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Okay.
MR. BLANCO: Mr. Chair, at this
point, we need a resolution just adopting
all these items under IV.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So moved.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I have a motion.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Second.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I have a second.
Anybody opposed? Let the record show
none.
There's no part of this that had to
be read due to the IG report. Am I
correct?
MR. BLANCO: Very lengthy.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I just wanted to
make sure of that for the record.
Okay. Thank you.
MR. BLANCO: The only thing that
needed to be read for the record.
Under V is the employment of special
magistrates. The Board has previously
adopted the flat rate of $700 per
eight-hour hearings on the board,
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including the time devoted, the Board
previously adopted the special
magistrates' compensation schedule on a
continuous basis, for example, to be
applied for future years, until such time
that the Board may, in its absolute
discretion, determine otherwise. In other
words, if you all want to increase or
decrease, it's always up to the Board.
The Board has also retained the power
to schedule and/or discharge any special
magistrate in its absolute discretion
without cause.
The clerk is requesting that the
Board appoint and hire special magistrates
to serve the 2015 tax year on the
foregoing terms and conditions, including
the payment of compensation services.
The clerk also requested that the
Board consider and determine the
procedures to be followed in appointing
special magistrates for 2015 tax year,
including the number to be appointed and
conduct interviews in the process.
You have each been provided with a
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list of magistrate applicants, which all
have been reviewed by me, and they're all
-- all their licenses are current and
verified.
As per my prior memo to the Board, I
suggested that we hire all 30. The
applicants, we did have some attrition
this year, some retired, some just didn't
reapply, but we had five new ones apply,
of which one of them is a Broward person,
but they do qualify. We do need all 30.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Okay. But here's
the issue that I have, and I've got to
respect the wishes of the Chair that's not
here, and this Board. We gave specifics
in the last several meetings of what we
wanted to see. One of the specifics was
we wanted to make sure that they were from
this County, right, if I recall correctly.
These are things that we want to make
sure that we continue to, if we state it,
if we talk about it, if we have these
meetings, we want to make sure that is
respected. Unless there's a very big
situation, where any of it has to be
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changed, I would like to keep it within
the guidelines that this Board is
requesting.
And one of them has been very clear
that we wanted people from this County
only participating.
MR. BLANCO: Well, that it's
preferable. And what we determined was
that as long as they have the knowledge of
the County -- because you can't exclude.
If you're licensed, you're licensed
throughout the state.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: We got you, but
we did give a preference. I just want to
make sure.
MR. BLANCO: Correct, there is a
preference.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Preferences are
legal and allowed in this procedure.
MR. BLANCO: Which is correct.
Unfortunately, we do need the 30. We're
actually going to have one less than we
had last year being that we're trying to
expedite this year --
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: You have new
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applications, don't you?
MR. BLANCO: Excuse me?
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: You have five new
applications, don't you?
MR. BLANCO: That makes 30.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: With the five
applications.
MR. BLANCO: And one of them is
actually a personal property. So that
leaves us to 27 real property appraisers.
The good news, they're all state certified
general appraisers, so we no longer will
have residential appraisers that are
limited to just residential.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: So, for the
record, the person that is outside, it is
with knowledge and already state licensed
and everything else?
MR. BLANCO: State licensed.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Is why the
selection is being made; is that correct?
MR. BLANCO: That is correct. And
then each one of them will be briefed by
us. We will determine if -- like in the
past, there's been certain magistrates
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that we just stopped using. They weren't
suspended or anything. They weren't
productive.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Well, you read
the catchall, we can suspend for any
reason whatsoever at any given time?
MR. BLANCO: Correct.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: We're good to go
with that.
Does any Board member have an issue
with the board member (sic) that is not
from the County due to what's stated here
moving forward?
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: No.
If I could, Mr. Chair, the Chair is
correct that we mentioned certain criteria
that we wanted. So one of the ones that
came up obviously is residency. And if
you give us your word that you tried and
you vetted it, right, and it is what it
is, right? This is what you came up with.
But I also want to ensure that we
also talked to the candidates about
computer literacy, about availability. At
this point, I'm more concerned with their
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availability given what we're trying to
accomplish, because when we had this
conversation several months ago, we were
talking about magistrates only showing up
five hours or were only available.
So if you can tell us a little bit
about the computer literacy and about the
availability of these candidates, I think
that will help reaffirm, right, that we
laid out these different parameters. We'd
like to ensure that they were met within
reason. Thank you.
MR. BLANCO: We can continue
providing -- I think we've already
provided you with a list of their
performances, et cetera, and we're
continuing to evaluate them. We won't use
them, in other words, if they don't know
what they're doing.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: At that point,
when we come back, we will assemble a
meeting at that point or you will address
that internally?
MR. BLANCO: We can address it
internally.
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COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Or combination of
both.
MR. BLANCO: We can address it
through a meeting as well.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Mr. Appraiser,
Mr. Garcia.
MR. GARCIA: Mr. Blanco, the people
from Broward and Palm Beach County, what
kind of experience do they have in
Miami-Dade County?
MR. BLANCO: The application doesn't
really state whether they are experienced
in Miami-Dade or not, so I'm with you. I
would prefer to have people from
Miami-Dade, however, we do need the
additional magistrates.
MR. GARCIA: I know, but it's not
only preference, we need people that have
the knowledge.
MR. BLANCO: That have the knowledge.
MR. GARCIA: To be fair when they
make a decision.
MR. BLANCO: And when I brief --
MR. GARCIA: And that's a big concern
I have when people come from Palm Beach or
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Broward. Maybe Broward is a little bit
closer, and they do a lot of appraisals in
Miami-Dade County, but that's a concern
that we have, too.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Okay.
MR. GARCIA: And I'd rather have
short with people with knowledge in
Miami-Dade County and not bringing anybody
from outside.
MR. BLANCO: That's --
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Maybe I misheard,
but I think we all just jumped right now.
Does a person have knowledge in Miami-Dade
County? Have they dealt with Miami-Dade
County? I don't want to know the name. I
just want to know. It's a digit right
now, one out of 30.
MR. BLANCO: One. That person will
be asked at the hearing -- at our briefs.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Then we have an
issue with that. At least I do. I think
the property appraiser does. And I'm
looking down, I think we have an issue
with that, because we were very specific
in the process going on that we did not
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want to be put in this position due to
what the past problems that we've dealt
with. And we had people from the audience
that reflected to that situation.
So with that, I will probably, if --
unless you guys want to act differently, I
will take the 29. Do we have to have 34?
I don't think so. We could aspire to have
the 30 by the time through the process.
Am I correct?
MR. BLANCO: That's fine, sir.
MR. GARCIA: Excuse me.
MR. BLANCO: And 29, if that's what
you prefer.
MR. GARCIA: Excuse me. When you're
talking about the 29, we're talking about
the people mentioned here from Broward and
Palm Beach. And you have no idea if they
have the experience in Miami-Dade County.
MR. BLANCO: Mr. Garcia, we only have
one new applicant that's out of the
County. The ones that were -- that are
from Broward or Palm Beach that were hired
in the past, those that reapplied already
have the experience. So there's not going
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to be an issue with that.
The only issue will be with the
training of the new person, whether they
know Dade County or not.
MR. GARCIA: Mr. Blanco, it's not a
training. If they have any experience in
Miami-Dade County, that's my main concern.
MR. BLANCO: I understand that. The
Board has already determined they're not
going to hire the ones from Broward
County, so that's the only -- in other
words, they're hiring four out of five; is
that correct?
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: What impact would
excluding a person from Broward have on
scheduling?
MR. BLANCO: None really. All it
means that the magistrates are just going
to be hired more often. They probably
will be happy.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Like I said, make
a little more money. Put in a little more
time. We have to go on the wishes, again,
acting as the chair, the chair was very
specific, along with this Board and
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property appraiser stands ground on this
issue, too. So as far as we're concerned,
we'll approve all -- due to the knowledge,
I don't want to be caught in any legal
situation, we don't want to be caught in
that situation, due to the knowledge of
the existing work that needs to be done,
due to that, we're requiring all the
people that have all experience that live
within the residence requirement. Is that
properly stated?
MR. GARCIA: We don't have any
information on the application of any
experience that they have in Dade County.
MR. BLANCO: There's experience on
there, but it doesn't specifically say
Dade County, but, of course, there's
experience.
MR. GARCIA: But I'm talking in our
application, we don't have any experience
that the people have to have knowledge of
Miami-Dade County?
MR. BLANCO: That's stated on the
application. That's part of the
application. So when they sign, they're
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stating -- they're acknowledging that they
know the market, et cetera.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Ms. Regalado.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Just really
quick, Mr. Blanco.
We said, and we had this
conversation, we talked about this at
length, right, and we couldn't exclude
based on that, but that we had a
preference. And we went through the
application process.
So we don't have to go through this
again, can we put something on the
application so that they put specifically
when they list their experience where that
experience is? Is there a way to add that
going forward, Number 1?
And, Number 2, one of the things that
this Board talked about was having extra
magistrates in case that we need them. So
are we going to do that? How many are we
going to have? Are we going to close the
application period? Did you not get
enough people applying? Do you want to
look at a bigger window? Do you want us
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to send out more information so that we
can apply some more?
Because I think at the root of this
problem may be that we didn't have enough
qualified people apply, so maybe the
answer is, okay, we're going to take this
29, we're a little concerned about the
one, but if you need more time for
recruiting, by all means, let's recruit
some more. And let's make sure that we
have a few extras should you come back to
us in a few months and say, hey, look,
these two or three aren't working out, we
don't have to start all over again and we
don't have to hold the process.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: And I think,
according to what Ms. Regalado said and
what I started to ask earlier on, I think
this needs to be an open ongoing situation
that you have within your structure, the
people that might, as they come on board,
or people that become certified, or people
that have their experience or maybe drop
them at different level and start working
at this level.
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It only behooves us to have a great
team of people working, but we have
certain guidelines, as she has stated,
that we put together due to problems in
the past and we're trying to work through
them.
With that --
MR. SOLIS: If I may, through the
Chair.
Based on some very rough
calculations, and the number of board
rooms that we have, we're estimating that,
with the current magistrates that are
being proposed, at minimum, you would have
a magistrate working every other day.
So it's not -- and Mr. Alfaro can
probably address this a lot better than I
can, but it doesn't appear that you have a
shortage. Even if we doubled the number
of hearings, which is not physically
possible currently with the current rooms,
you would still be able to do it, because
as it is right now, the magistrate would
work one day yes, one day no.
So even if we ramped it up, we found
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ourselves in a situation we wanted to
speed up the process more or have more
hearings, you do have the capacity with
the current magistrates that are currently
being proposed, but I will certainly defer
to Mr. Alfaro.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: That gives me
comfort, great comfort, if that's correct.
Mr. Alfaro.
MR. ALFARO: That's correct, you
know, in some kind of way, but the problem
is that the reality is that out of the 30
magistrates that we have, there's five
that are new applicants that never served
Dade County. One of them resides or their
office is in Broward. We have the
application in front of us, and she has
put on her application that she has
experience in Dade County.
MR. BLANCO: In Dade County.
MR. ALFARO: In regards to what you
said to have an ongoing process, I think
it's a very good idea in case -- I mean,
we only got 30. We published our
notifications. We reached out to
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different organizations, appraiser
associations and legal organizations and
that's all we got. We got 13 attorneys
and we have 30 appraisers.
What you suggested, Commissioner
Diaz, is very good in terms of anyone
comes in.
At this point we could, you know,
entertain his or her application and
perhaps select them, but you have to
decide whether we're going to have to have
them come in for an interview, at a formal
meeting, or whatever process you decide to
take.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Why don't you as
staff let us know what would probably be
the best situation. All we're saying is
make sure we have the people, because we
also talked about having a number of
people in backups as just was stated by
Ms. Regalado. That is key.
Do we need them? There's a
possibility we don't, but moving forward,
again, we did give certain criteria. And
I know that legally I do not want to step
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over our boundary, but at the same time
the Board has unanimously stated what they
want to see so we would not involve
ourselves with prior issues that we went
through again.
And we do have an upgrowth in ad
valorem now due to financial situation.
That doesn't mean two years from now. It
could turn negative a year from now. So,
again, let's be cautious moving forward.
Now, this one particular -- does the
Board feel comfortable with just -- and I
want to make this legal, and you need to
help me here, Mr. Blanco. I do not want
to overstep anything that's any guideline
that could come back to bite this Board.
So we have a preference, and that
preference is that we want that it could
possibly be residents, that they be
residents, but at the same time have
experience with -- and usually when you're
a resident in that community, you have
that experience, so that's why we required
the preference. So we prefer having that,
moving forward.
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So how do we do this, shape this, I
guess, motion, so it won't be later
challenged?
MR. BLANCO: Let me just clarify,
because the question was asked by Mr.
Garcia as well as yourselves, the form
does have the appraisal activity area and
geographical area on there under the
experience portion of it.
And, for instance, this person that
works off of Commercial Boulevard in Fort
Lauderdale lists under experience
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach
throughout every type of property, whether
it be single-family, planned unit
developments, dwellings up to 20 units,
apartments 21 beyond, commercial,
industrial, land, et cetera, she's
qualified for all of them and she's had
experience in all three counties, so she's
listed.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: The only issue on
the application is the fact that it asks
for a geographical area and she puts all
three counties -- four counties. So,
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physically, we don't know which county is
being referenced.
Miami-Dade County is extremely
complex. To list all three doesn't give
any indication of the area of where the
experience lies.
MR. JARDACK: Prior to the last
meeting that we had on the calculation of
the man hours that the magistrate puts, if
you hold those five, would that affect the
productivity and the final number of
hearings for the time being, so there's
more applicants may be suitable, more
suitable, than the one you have just to be
in Dade County or have more experience in
Dade County?
MR. BLANCO: Preferably. It should
be that will always be the preference, but
if you're a state certified general real
estate appraiser, and you're stating on a
form, and you're signing that form and
you're stating that you do have experience
in Miami-Dade County -- me, personally, I
lived up there since 1992, in Broward, and
all my experience always basically been in
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Dade County since my office is in Dade
County, Coral Gables, et cetera. So we
don't know basically --
MR. JARDACK: Excuse me. Let's
assume you're missing those five for
30 days or so, would that affect your
hearings as far as the final hearings?
MR. BLANCO: I'm sorry?
MR. JARDACK: Would that affect the
final number of hearings?
MR. ALFARO: Well, we need additional
magistrates, because we lost four or five
in the previous year, so we need
additional applicants. So the more, the
best we can expedite the scheduling of
these hearings.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Ms. Regalado.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Okay. So,
look, this is a work in progress, right?
You know, we've been changing the
parameters of this.
I have some due process concerns in
terms of throwing out the five. I mean,
they've gone through the process.
My question was, well, you know, how
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can we say that this person doesn't have
experience in Miami-Dade County, if we
said that was going to be in the form.
Mr. Blanco, you responded it was in
the form. She did say that she did have
experience in Miami-Dade County.
MR. BLANCO: That's correct.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So I think
there we're done.
Now, going forward, to respond to our
present concern, maybe what we should do
is change the form so that you have to put
a percentage of your work.
So to Anibal's point, if you're going
to list 10 counties, you have to tell us
what percentage of your work is done in
that County. And that means that next
time we do this, we will have clear
information as to the volume, right?
So there should be -- and then I
would even ask how many cases and what
type of cases, because someone could say I
have 100%, you know, in Miami-Dade County,
but I worked on two files this year, as
opposed to someone who did 500 and only
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30% of that was in Miami-Dade County.
That person, in theory, has, you know,
more experience pragmatically. So I think
we have to, you know, weigh this. We've
made a lot of changes. You know, change
is not easy. You know, the first step is
getting people to put that information
there.
I think that we should accept the
five. I think that we should leave open
the window for more applicants. I would
suggest two or three months and then have
a new form and add to that form the
percentage.
So, going forward, we want to know
the percentage. And then -- I mean, I
feel bad throwing out the five that have
already gone through the interview
process. We have to train them. They
have to start working. That's a reality.
But I think as a Board, we can set a
goal, so that the next time around that we
do this, A, we have more applicants. We
don't just give a job to everybody that
applies. That's a little concerning.
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And, B, we have more information as
to the volume of their work and where that
volume is located.
And if that's okay with the Board, I
mean, I guess I don't think we need -- I
do think we need a motion in terms of
maintaining open the window, because we
had talked about that there was going to
be a window application, period.
So, I think, if we're going to extend
the window, we do need a motion. And we
also need a motion, if we're going to add
to the application a percentage in terms
of geographic workload. I'm happy to
bring that, if you want a second.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Hold on.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Just a point of
clarification.
Out of the five four folks from
Broward are actually special masters,
correct?
MR. BLANCO: Of the five, only one of
them is from Broward County, from five new
ones.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: On the actual
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application list, you have several
existing special magistrates.
MR. BLANCO: That are existing,
correct. They are existing special
magistrates that are from Broward, one
from Palm Beach, correct.
MR. ALFARO: That's correct.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: So one from
Broward?
MR. BLANCO: One new one from
Broward. The others have been hired in
the past.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Including the
West Palm Beach one?
MR. BLANCO: Yes, the other, you
know --
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: West Palm Beach
has been working all along?
MR. BLANCO: Yes.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Personal property.
MS. BECK: Can I make one suggestion?
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Hold on. I
haven't opened to the public. Please. We
had a public hearing prior. We do not
accept people coming up and talking on
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issues. So if I open it up, or it's
recognized by one of my colleagues, this
is for everybody sitting there. It's not
just public coming up, please. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Mr. Garcia, I
understand your viewpoint. I think the
colleagues -- my colleagues are all in
line.
Ms. Regalado has brought up, you
know, some wisdom to what we're doing,
even though we're very strong in what we
stated that we wanted to see, but I
understand that we're trying to get to, I
guess, the sweet number is 30. And -- if
there is such a thing, but that's where
we're at, because if we can ho with 25
within the system, but I guess the
application -- and this is why I asked
about the legality, because we do not want
to be later on a decision in court that
just puts us back entirely.
We have major issues in the School
Board. We have major issues ongoing. Our
property appraiser has got a lot of things
that, you know, he stated in the past here
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also. We want to make sure that his
decision is the right decision moving
forward.
Now, open process, I think that "yes"
for wisdom, we need to have a process that
is open. I do not want to put a date of
three months. I do not want to put --
why? Because it gives you the --
MR. BLANCO: Latitude.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: -- latitude that
you need. I just saw a couple of
applications that says nationwide
experience. I don't know how that works.
MR. BLANCO: Right.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: But that's part
of the people we're approving. So, you
know, I just put it out there.
What is the will of this Board, to
continue on with what Ms. Regalado has
just said, to approve them all and then
allow them -- again, I like that we have a
catchall, that at anytime we can say
goodbye and say thank you for your
services.
MR. BLANCO: That's correct.
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COMMISSIONER DIAZ: And that's it.
So I feel comfortable with the catchall,
and we adjust accordingly, but I would
like on the motion that she's moving
forward as to approve that we do have a
percentile put in place, so we know, and
nobody can just say nationwide, I'm a guru
of all. I don't think that's what we're
looking for.
So with that, Mr. Anibal.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: I'm okay with the
suggestion. However, I would caveat that
with allowing staff to interview the
person. And if they don't have the
experience in Miami-Dade County, you know,
summarily dismiss them.
MR. BLANCO: Fine.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Right.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Is that a legal
process? Do we have to do that prior?
MR. BLANCO: We brief all new
magistrates. They have to sit in with the
experienced magistrates, observe for a few
hours, then I take them through a whole
elaborate briefing as well in our
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conference room. And basically the way we
monitor these is by complaint letters.
Like, for instance, last year we had
one particular magistrate that had a
massive amount of complaint letters, and
we just stopped using them. So if you
only get -- you're always going to get 1
or 2 complaints. Not all the magistrates
get them, but if you get 1 or 2, that's
not a problem. Someone disagrees with
you, 'cause then taxpayer that doesn't
know the system, and didn't feel like they
got the reduction that they merited, or
when you got a bundle of complaints, then
there's something wrong.
And then I always review the DVD.
Whenever there's a complaint, I go through
the whole DVD. I have to watch the whole
thing, try to catch what's going on, see
if the person actually knew or not, see if
the person was messing around in there,
whether they were serious.
So there is a process in which we do
evaluate them. And as you stated so
eloquently, we do have a catchall.
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COMMISSIONER DIAZ: So will you
accept the caveat that --
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Yeah. No, I
agree. I mean, the information on the
application is just informational. It's
not binding. I mean, the process is
determined by interview.
I just think that since we are not
privy to the interview, it would help us
to see that information on the
application, because I have the same
reduction that Anibal had: I was looking
at them, what does that mean, right?
So I think in terms of information,
it doesn't add anything, you know, to the
decision-making process.
The one thing that I do want to note
is, you know, one of the things we talked
about a few months ago, we don't want to
be taking applications all year, because
this takes a certain amount of time and
resources. That's why we talked about a
window.
My point is, you know, we're
expanding that. Do we want to open that
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window for two more months to see if we're
able to recruit more people, but at some
point we want to get to the business, you
know, of listening to (inaudible), not
interviewing who's going to be a
magistrate? That's something we have to
weigh.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: The reason why I
said open before was the comment Mr.
Alfaro said, but I want to make sure, if
it doesn't need to be opened and we extend
it for three months, how are we going to
get the information to people to know to
apply?
MR. ALFARO: If I may, Commissioner
Diaz, Ms. Regalado suggested at previous
meetings that we have this window open for
three months, I believe, if I'm not
mistaken. And that would be, I believe,
starting April through June, if I'm not
mistaken, but the three months, I think is
fair. We should have additional
applications filed in. And, you know, we
have to have a cutoff, otherwise, you
know, like I said, we'll have to come back
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and do a formal meeting for you, Members
of the Board, approve these applicants,
because we do it by tax year.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Why don't we do
this -- and I think that's fine. We have
it for three months as stated, but you
will receive applications through the year
and leave them there.
When it comes time to look at them
again, then that's just applications that
you have. And you don't have to act upon
it.
MR. BLANCO: As a backup.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: As a backup. And
that gives you a constant supply, if
possible.
MR. ALFARO: That's right. And we
will revise the application, and we'll
send it to you before we send it out for
your approval.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I'm talking about
the first three -- the three months,
that's fine, you do all that. Anything
that comes after just put it in the file
and state to the person, with maybe a nice
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little letter, saying this will be
reviewed when it comes time for all to be
reviewed.
MR. ALFARO: Which is fine, but I'm
talking about including the percentage.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Oh, no.
MR. ALFARO: Dade County. And we'll
send it to you for approval.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I'm sorry, I
didn't quite get that.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Thank you,
Mr. Chair.
I would just add to change on the
website to codify what we're saying,
right, that we're going to be receiving
applications year-round, but the hiring
period is those three months. And then
just have a form letter saying we've
received your application. Be aware that
the hiring period is within this time.
Please provide us with up-to-date contact
information, so that we can contact you
once the hiring window opens. And then I
think we're good.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Make it a motion.
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Is that a motion?
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Yes.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Do I have a
second?
MR. JARDACK: Second.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Anybody opposed?
None. Show that passed.
MR. ALFARO: I just want to make
sure, hire all the 30 applicants?
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: That explained
they have experience in the particular
application.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So we're
hiring all 30. Just make sure we're all
on the same page. We're hiring all 30.
We're asking for the percentage to be in
the application regarding the location of
the experience, right, starting on the new
applications and then we're taking
applications all year, but we maintain the
hiring window as established earlier.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Perfectly
clarified with that, we have a motion and
a second and it's perfectly accepted by
all. Let the record show none opposed.
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I think we have two items left.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Yes.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Harvey just comes
and disrupts the whole meeting. Let me
tell you, that's why I love that guy.
Go ahead.
MR. BLANCO: The second portion of
this is just the personal property
magistrates. Last hearing we had 10. One
of them -- I mean, attorney magistrates,
I'm sorry. I stand corrected. I'm sorry.
Yeah, out of the personal property,
out of the 30, three of them are personal
property. So now we're dealing with the
attorney magistrates. Last year we had
10. There's nine of them that are
incumbent. We don't really need that many
attorney magistrates.
Hani suggested that we go ahead and
hire the nine that have already experience
out of the 13.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: You heard from
staff.
Do I have a motion?
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So moved.
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MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Moved.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Second.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I have a motion
and a second. Show the record none
opposed.
Next item.
MR. BLANCO: Mr. Chair, just for your
information, for the Board's information,
we had about 67,000 cases filed this year,
which is more than last year.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: How many, I'm
sorry?
MR. BLANCO: Sixty-seven. Last year
I believe we had 63. But in order to
expedite the hearings, we needed all these
magistrates, so, you know, we can finish
by June 2016. It looks like we're very
much on pace. I can't even believe we
actually kept our pace for this year. And
it looks like we're going to be done.
Thank you, Pedro and staff. They
have been working tirelessly to finish
this up.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: One of the things
I'm going to add to this is kind of, like,
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pretty gray. Is that we want to use this
year as an evaluation year. And this is
something I was thinking about at prior
meetings. And I think it was brought up
in some different ways I think by all of
us.
The magistrates, even though you get
complaint letters and stuff, I think that
we had discussion that we would do some
kind of evaluation.
MR. BLANCO: Evaluations, correct.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: And that
evaluation, make it more formalized, so we
have the understanding.
See, because it's kind of neat, when
you're seeing applicants, but you're not
seeing really the production of that, the
performance of that applicant. I think
moving forward, if you could develop --
and I think the County did that, and some
other cities have done that with their
directors and employees and it's an
evaluation system. It's done every year.
So there's no difference than we should
get these particular people, because at
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the end of the day, it's to serve the
people and they're going to have direct
access to the people. And the public has
limited response sometimes, because they
just don't know how.
MR. BLANCO: Yes.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: So with all due
respect, that was one thing I know we
talked about.
MR. BLANCO: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I want to make
sure we put it in the system. We put one
of the other things that we discussed, so
continue please.
MR. BLANCO: VI is the discussion on
the status and progress of the Miami-Dade
County Value Adjustment policies and
procedures manual.
Thank you, Ms. Regalado, for all your
help and input regarding this matter.
I am reporting that I have a slightly
revised addition of the original, which is
pending further clarification on my part.
It's almost tweaked out. And I should
have it within the next month or so
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totally completed for your approval. It's
going to be prior to the '16 -- for the
'15 tax year. I'm sorry.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Okay.
MR. BLANCO: VII.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Mr. Blanco.
MR. BLANCO: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Ms. Regalado.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Thank you.
Really quick. And I want to thank
you, Mr. Blanco. I know that we've been
going back and forth on the policies and
procedures.
Like I mentioned when one of the
speakers was up, we have a response to the
OIG report. I know we have 90 days. I
would love to respond with policies and
procedures.
Number 1, is that going to be
possible? Do you think we can, you
know -- when is the next time that we
meet? Because we have to approve it. I
know we looked at the drafts and the
changes for the record that you're making
are changes based on the comments that
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were made at our last meeting.
MR. BLANCO: Correct.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: When is our
last meeting to even approve that?
MR. BLANCO: Our next meeting is
whenever the Board decides to have a
meeting.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: When is the
response to the OIG report due? I know it
was 90 days from when you got it.
MR. BLANCO: December 10th.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So I just
want to give the Board a heads up, because
pretty much all the issues have already
been resolved. We just have to approve
this document and send it to them. I
don't want to waste any time drafting a
response, going through all of this and
all we can do is hand them policies and
procedures and say we're done.
I think it will also be good to get
the policies and procedures to our Dade
delegation before session starts in
January. It will allow those of us, who
are going to lobby on behalf of the Value
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Adjustment Board, it will make it a lot
easier if they had a physical document
that really encompasses the work that
we've been doing here for the last few
months. So that's Number 1. So I hope
that we can meet before December 1st and
approve that.
The only thing that is pending that
isn't in the policies and procedure that
the OIG mentioned that I wanted to speak
to the Board before I sent it to Mr.
Blanco -- I drafted it, but I didn't send
it to you, because I really wanted to hear
what our fellow Board members wanted to
say -- was the conflict of interest
provision, specifically the OIG said that
the Value Adjustment Board did not have a
provision regarding a conflict of interest
and the time period between when someone
goes before the Value Adjustment Board and
then becomes a magistrate.
Obviously, this has to be a two --
actually, it has to be a three-tier
system, right?
We have the members of the Value
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Adjustment Board, who obviously cannot
practice before the Value Adjustment Board
for a certain period of time. The
standard that I found, which is the County
and School Board and everything else, it's
two years, so we'll start there. I think
we'd all agree that if you served on the
Value Adjustment Board, you should
probably wait two years before you went
before the Value Adjustment Board as a
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representing someone, not as an individual
Petitioner.
MR. BLANCO: As an agent.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Right, as an
agent. Does everybody agree with that?
We're good?
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I think that if
you want to mimic a policy, the County has
policy of lobbying, that two-year policy
that has been accepted and put in practice
to everybody, I think that we all have to
adhere to some kind of level. And none
whatsoever is not a good in today's world.
So I tend to agree with the OIG and what
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Ms. Regalado is saying.
I do want to make sure that it's
fair, because we do want to have
experienced people, too. So at the same
time it's, you know --
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Right.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Maybe with an
interest of time, you're saying, it should
be more than surpass for people to have a
period of adjustment and that way -- or
cooling off or whatever way you want to
call it, so I agree.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: I think --
we're the easy one. The easy one is us.
It's very easy to say two years, you can't
be an agent, but if you have a personal
property issue, obviously you can go
before the Value Adjustment Board, right?
We're not going to limit our due process.
Now, the part that gets a little
dicey is about the magistrates, so that's
what I wanted to ask you guys about,
because, you know, we just had a
conversation how we got 30 applicants, and
we hired 30 people.
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So I'm concerned in how we draft a
conflict of interest provision, because I
don't want people not applying to be a
magistrate, because then they're going to
be locked out of being an agent.
So my question to Mr. Alfaro is --
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Can't be both.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: -- what do
you think? Do you think it should be the
two years? That's the question.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: And the question
is a very simple question. First and
foremost, there's a reason for the two
years that we all have that are in public
service, or in any level of serving the
public. I tend to agree.
Now, what's goose for the goose is
good for the gander. And with all due
respect, there's people out there. We
just have to make sure we get to them, but
I'm in agreement with the OIG that we do
have to have some kind of limitation.
We're not all things to all people.
We're not going to leave them out. It's
not about that. I tend to agree with you
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in two years. Unless there's something
else, we have an agreement.
Pedro, we're good on that side?
MR. GARCIA: (Nods his head in the
affirmative.)
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: But the one thing
I want to add to this is, on the prior, we
do need to have a report card of prior
performance. I really want to make sure
that we move on that.
MR. BLANCO: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Because that also
gives us another indication.
Now, as far as people not wanting to
do, because of this or that, I think it's
a very nice decision to be a magistrate,
because you do make pretty decent funding
in my eyes. So I think a lot of people
want to be part of this, even though --
but, you know, there's going to have to be
some kind of limitation.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: I agree.
My only question to staff is -- one
of the reasons that I consider the
policies and procedures manual so
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important is because we're codifying what
we're already doing.
So my question is, in terms of
conflict, had the issue come up, do you
talk to the magistrate about what happens
when you're no longer a magistrate? Has
that issue ever surfaced that someone is a
magistrate one year and then is an agent
another year?
Obviously you can't be a magistrate
and an agent. I mean, that's in the DOR
rule. We don't have to tackle that,
because that's already in the rule.
You're either one thing or the other:
You're either a magistrate or you're an
agent.
But I want to know pragmatically, has
the issue arisen of someone who was a
magistrate, who then immediately became an
agent?
MR. BLANCO: Answer to you is, yes.
In the past, there's been a few, I can
think of a couple right now, that have --
that were magistrates and then became
agents based on their experience. There's
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never been an issue with that before until
recently, so, yes, it has happened.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: But do you
see the benefit of the cooling period of
the two years? That's the OIG -- and it's
standard. It is standard. Do you think
we'll lose applicants or they'll be an
issue because of that?
MR. BLANCO: I can't answer whether
or not -- we don't even get that many
applicants. I was shocked that we only
got 30 to begin with. Out of the 30 of
them, three of them are personal property,
so...
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So then the
last question, as I drafted, is do you
want to provide an exception process to
that two-year rule? That is also a
possibility. There are different models.
The first model is the hardline two
years: You wait out your two years and it
is what it is, but there are some
entities, who provide an appellate
exemption process to that two-year rule
and they allow you to come before the
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Board case by case and plead your case.
I think given that we've never done
this -- and, again, I leave it up to the
Board -- I would say for those who serve
on this Board, hardline, two years.
For magistrates that may then become
agents, I would feel better providing them
with at least the opportunity to come
before us and plead their case.
MR. BLANCO: It may be a hardship on
their behalf, if they're Dade County
people.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: I don't know.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Look, if you're
going to do this, you do it. That's it.
MR. BLANCO: Hardline.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Hardline.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Okay.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: With all due
respect, there could always be a reason.
And if we're going to start, then who's
going to judge it. What's going to be
judged? What's the standard? You know,
it becomes a very slippery slope.
Either you do it hardline or we don't
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do it one of the two. I understand what
you're trying to do, you were trying to
get a comfort zone, but I don't see it,
because this is the same thing we had when
we were put in our own, as they say,
golden handcuffs on.
So with that said, I will entertain
the two years moving forward.
MR. BLANCO: What about the other way
around, though, from agent to magistrate?
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: It's the same
thing, there's a conflict either way.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Wait a
second.
MR. BLANCO: An agent that applies to
become a magistrate.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: That's not an
issue. That's a nonissue.
MR. BLANCO: It shouldn't be an
issue.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: That's not a
money situation?
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: There's not
an access point. The whole purpose of
these rules is, you have a certain amount
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of access point, because you're part of
the entity and are you trafficking with
that access, you know.
So, for example, if I become a
magistrate, I have your cellphone. Now
that I'm an agent, you know, am I going to
use my ability to contact you at a
moment's notice to the benefit of my
client. So that's sort of where the
two-year rule comes from, right, that you
sort of cool off on the direct access to
staff. So it doesn't apply from agent to
magistrate.
Okay. So if we have a consensus on
the hardline, I know that we have to go,
but since there are agents here, I would
like to give them an opportunity, if
anyone wants to speak on this, because I
know that we haven't talked about this
before. We are responding to something
that was in the OIG report. It has come
up. It's come up in Tallahassee also.
I think that, you know, we're
following the general rule. I mean,
everybody picks two years, but I want to
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give everyone that's here the ability to
speak on it.
When we finally approve the policies
and procedures, you'll have another
opportunity to speak on it also, but I
just --
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: That's actually
the best time. Why don't you draft it up
and bring it forward, as you said you were
going to do.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Right.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Then there's
actually something they can speak on.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: I'm going to
draft what we just said.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Right. And then
once it's here, then we'll have reasonable
opportunity before we take a vote, then
open it up in the beginning when we do
this.
Another thing that I want you to do,
I want to reach out to the County staff.
And I want these meetings put on
television for the people to see these
meetings. I don't know why they're not,
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because every single County meeting that
they sit here is on television, so it's
just part of the public information,
unless there's some guideline why they're
not. I don't know.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: I think they
didn't get around to it.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: But we always
want to be transparent, and we want to
make sure people understand what's going
on, because there's a lot of things that
are said here normal folks out there --
and they do watch that channel. Believe
me, they do.
So going forward, I wanted to add
that, too, but as to her response, I think
once we have something, right now it's not
an item, we're not voting before us, let's
go ahead. I guarantee you each of the
persons that's here, or listening or will
be part of this, they'll be sending you
some kind of a memo or something stating
to you what they -- and to us, too,
because we're going to be making a
decision.
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Now, that doesn't mean, when it comes
time to see what's in writing before us,
you tell us what you feel and so on.
But, again, we're just following the
rules that the OIG put out there. And at
the same time look to improve this Board
and the general aspect of the whole
procedure, so that's it.
Mr. Alfaro.
MR. ALFARO: Commissioner Diaz and
Ms. Regalado, just for the record, the
deadline for the OIG report is
December 14th.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Okay. We
have a little time.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: We do.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: The last
thing, I'm going to impose a deadline on
Blanco and I, just because we're both
attorneys, and we're all about more time.
Since we have to respond by the 14th,
do we want to meet in November or in
December? Because the commitment that
Blanco and I will make, is that we'll send
the policies and procedures --
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MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Me, too.
BOARD MEMBER MS. REGALADO: Yes,
that's true, I keep leaving you out.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: We're the
non-attorneys.
BOARD MEMBER MS REGALADO: There's
three attorneys.
We want to give you at least two
weeks to look at it, you know, so everyone
has plenty of time, although we've talked
about it at length, but I think two weeks
is a reasonable time to look at the
document. And that way if there's any
changes, you can reach out to Blanco and
then we can try to see what we can do
before officially comes before for
hopefully a final reading.
So do you want to meet November or
December?
MR. BLANCO: Just keep in mind that
in November, we have the Thanksgiving
holiday as well, so you might want to do
it early December.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Within the first
week probably.
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MR. BLANCO: Within the first week of
December I think would be a good time.
And just, for the record, as well
your preliminary policies and procedures
was approved last June.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: Yes, I know,
the final hearing.
MR. BLANCO: It's already passed a
motion, so this is just the finalized
version of yours, which shall be amended
with the new provision that you were
talking about.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Mr. Jardack.
MR. JARDACK: Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
Going back to the magistrates, the
Board and appraisal office, is it possible
you hire those temporarily, so you'll not
be behind hearing the cases that you have,
so you can meet the deadline that you
have, possibly hire them three months
temporary time?
MR. BLANCO: Probationary period.
MR. JARDACK: I don't know. I'm
asking if it is possible.
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MR. BLANCO: Evaluation period.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I understand what
he's trying to do, because we do have a
discomfort on the five that we discussed
due to what this Board has analyzed in the
past.
BOARD MEMBER JARDACK: Right, right.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: And we weighed
very heavily on what Mr. Garcia and what
the public has stated from prior hearings.
MR. BLANCO: Out of the five, four
are Dade.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Correct. He's
just trying to say why don't on those
particular. And if we do find out that
they don't have the experience, then we
have that catchall.
MR. BLANCO: You have the catchall.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: If what you're
trying to say is to add --
MR. JARDACK: Temporary process.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: -- on a temporary
basis until you do more due diligence.
MR. BLANCO: It's like you just
stated, you have a catchall. If they're
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not performing up to standards, we just
don't hire them.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Are you okay with
that?
BOARD MEMBER JARDACK: Yes.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Let's continue.
As you stated, you do have catchall. Use
it as needed. I take away of what people
in the audience that come here and take
away from their time also. It might be
part of the world, but it doesn't matter,
you know, inside baseball, as we call it,
but at the same time, it's important to us
to hear from them, because the idea is to
improve.
Do we have anything else so we can
get out of here?
MR. BLANCO: By the way, it was used
already last year for one magistrate and
it is being used when needed, and all the
magistrates have been warned, they've all
been briefed that they will getting
evaluated, so...
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Point taken.
Anything from either side of the
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house before we go?
Okay, motion to adjourn.
BOARD MEMBER REGALADO: So moved.
MR. DUARTE-VIERA: Second.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: We are adjourned.
MR. BLANCO: Thank you very much for
everything.
COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Thank you.
(Thereupon, at 11:25 a.m., the
hearing was concluded).
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CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER
I, Lorena Ramos, Registered Professional
Reporter, do hereby certify that I was
authorized to and did report the foregoing
proceedings, and that the transcript, pages 1
through 86, is a true and correct record of my
stenographic notes.
DATED this 11/05/2015 at Miami-Dade
County, Florida.
_____________________________
LORENA RAMOS, RPR
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accordance [1] -
25:24
according [1] - 42:17
accordingly [1] - 56:3
acknowledging [1] -
41:1
act [2] - 38:6, 60:11
acting [1] - 39:24
actions [1] - 4:14
activity [1] - 47:7
actual [1] - 52:25
ad [2] - 21:20, 46:6
add [12] - 15:11,
15:14, 22:4, 41:16,
51:13, 52:12, 58:15,
61:13, 64:25, 73:7,
80:15, 84:20
addition [1] - 66:22
additional [5] - 19:23,
36:16, 49:11, 49:14,
59:22
address [5] - 14:17,
35:22, 35:24, 36:3,
43:17
addressed [1] - 8:21
adhere [1] - 70:23
adjourn [1] - 86:2
adjourned [1] - 86:5
adjust [1] - 56:3
Adjustment [26] - 3:3,
3:17, 4:12, 7:8, 11:8,
11:15, 14:24, 17:19,
19:9, 20:3, 20:23,
21:6, 23:25, 26:5,
26:19, 27:8, 28:1,
66:17, 69:1, 69:17,
69:20, 70:1, 70:2,
70:8, 70:10, 71:18
adjustment [1] - 71:10
ADJUSTMENT [1] -
1:4
administrative [5] -
2:9, 4:17, 25:18,
27:23, 28:6
Administrative [1] -
20:21
adopt [2] - 4:13, 12:25
adopted [3] - 20:25,
29:24, 30:2
adopting [1] - 29:5
adoption [1] - 13:11
advised [1] - 23:19
affect [3] - 48:10,
49:6, 49:9
affirmation [1] - 19:7
agenda [1] - 4:18
agendas [1] - 28:3
agent [12] - 70:14,
70:16, 71:16, 72:5,
74:8, 74:11, 74:16,
74:20, 77:10, 77:15,
78:6, 78:12
agents [7] - 4:22,
8:10, 8:16, 14:21,
74:25, 76:7, 78:16
ago [5] - 6:8, 7:5, 8:6,
35:3, 58:19
agree [12] - 14:23,
16:7, 17:2, 17:10,
58:4, 70:7, 70:16,
70:25, 71:12, 72:16,
72:25, 73:22
agreement [3] - 15:15,
72:21, 73:2
Aguirre [2] - 5:4,
15:12
AGUIRRE [1] - 15:9
ahead [5] - 9:21,
18:21, 63:6, 63:19,
80:19
Alejandro [4] - 5:4,
5:10, 12:17, 15:12
Alfaro [14] - 1:24,
6:13, 7:9, 10:11,
11:24, 19:24, 19:25,
23:18, 43:16, 44:6,
44:9, 59:10, 72:6,
81:9
ALFARO [11] - 3:14,
44:10, 44:21, 49:11,
53:7, 59:15, 60:17,
61:4, 61:7, 62:8,
81:10
Alfaro's [4] - 20:6,
21:1, 21:7, 21:11
allow [4] - 17:6, 55:21,
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COURT REPORTERS, INC. (305) 373-5600
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68:24, 75:25
allowed [1] - 32:19
allowing [1] - 56:13
almost [1] - 66:24
amended [1] - 83:10
amendment [1] -
11:13
amount [3] - 57:5,
58:21, 77:25
analyzed [1] - 84:5
Anibal [8] - 1:12, 3:20,
4:9, 17:24, 20:12,
27:17, 56:10, 58:12
Anibal's [1] - 50:14
annual [1] - 4:11
annually [1] - 6:25
answer [3] - 42:6,
74:21, 75:9
anytime [1] - 55:22
anyway's.. [1] - 20:18
apartments [1] - 47:17
appeal [2] - 23:3, 23:5
appeals [4] - 28:17,
28:19, 28:23, 29:1
appear [1] - 43:18
appellate [1] - 75:23
applaud [1] - 13:1
applicant [2] - 38:21,
65:18
applicants [13] - 31:1,
31:7, 44:14, 48:13,
49:14, 51:11, 51:23,
60:2, 62:9, 65:16,
71:24, 75:7, 75:11
application [23] -
14:3, 36:11, 40:13,
40:20, 40:24, 40:25,
41:11, 41:14, 41:23,
44:17, 44:18, 45:9,
47:23, 52:9, 52:13,
53:1, 54:18, 58:5,
58:11, 60:18, 61:19,
62:12, 62:17
applications [11] -
33:1, 33:4, 33:7,
55:12, 58:20, 59:23,
60:7, 60:10, 61:16,
62:19, 62:20
applied [1] - 30:5
applies [2] - 51:25,
77:15
apply [5] - 31:9, 42:2,
42:5, 59:14, 78:12
applying [2] - 41:24,
72:3
appoint [1] - 30:15
appointed [4] - 11:18,
22:22, 25:12, 30:23
appointing [1] - 30:21
appointment [1] -
13:24
appraisal [2] - 47:7,
83:17
appraisals [1] - 37:2
Appraiser [2] - 1:23,
1:24
appraiser [13] - 7:1,
7:25, 8:2, 21:23,
23:4, 26:15, 28:22,
36:5, 37:22, 40:1,
45:1, 48:20, 54:24
Appraiser's [1] - 4:2
appraiser's [2] - 6:21,
8:7
appraisers [4] - 33:10,
33:12, 33:13, 45:4
appreciate [1] - 12:2
approval [4] - 27:7,
60:20, 61:8, 67:1
Approval [2] - 2:7,
27:23
approve [10] - 27:10,
40:3, 55:20, 56:5,
60:2, 67:22, 68:4,
68:15, 69:7, 79:3
Approve [1] - 2:9
approved [1] - 83:5
approving [1] - 55:16
April [1] - 59:20
area [4] - 47:7, 47:8,
47:24, 48:5
arisen [1] - 74:18
aspect [1] - 81:7
aspire [1] - 38:8
assemble [1] - 35:21
assessment [2] -
21:25, 22:16
Assistant [2] - 1:20,
4:3
associated [1] - 20:24
associations [1] -
45:2
assume [2] - 3:4, 49:5
attendance [1] - 4:5
ATTORNEY [1] - 1:16
attorney [6] - 3:6,
18:2, 19:9, 63:10,
63:15, 63:18
Attorney [3] - 1:20,
4:4, 5:12
ATTORNEY'S [1] -
1:19
attorneys [4] - 45:3,
81:20, 82:5, 82:7
attrition [1] - 31:7
audience [2] - 38:3,
85:9
audit [3] - 6:14, 7:3,
16:17
auditing [1] - 9:5
auditor [2] - 6:8, 25:7
August [1] - 22:11
authority [1] - 25:21
authorization [7] -
8:22, 10:10, 10:13,
10:15, 10:23, 27:7,
28:7
authorized [1] - 87:6
automatic [1] - 28:16
availability [3] - 34:24,
35:1, 35:8
available [6] - 20:25,
21:4, 21:11, 26:8,
28:3, 35:5
aware [1] - 61:19
aye [4] - 19:15, 19:16,
27:18, 27:19
Aye [1] - 23:16
B
backup [2] - 60:13,
60:14
backups [1] - 45:20
bad [1] - 51:17
baseball [1] - 85:12
based [8] - 21:21,
22:1, 22:24, 26:13,
41:9, 43:10, 67:25,
74:25
basis [2] - 30:4, 84:23
Beach [8] - 36:8,
36:25, 38:18, 38:23,
47:13, 53:6, 53:14,
53:17
bear [1] - 25:8
became [2] - 74:19,
74:24
BECK [7] - 6:2, 9:22,
9:25, 11:6, 11:21,
12:23, 53:21
Beck [7] - 5:3, 5:8,
5:9, 6:3, 12:16,
12:18
become [4] - 42:22,
76:6, 77:16, 78:4
becomes [4] - 10:3,
22:8, 69:21, 76:24
begin [2] - 23:23,
75:12
beginning [2] - 4:25,
79:19
behalf [3] - 18:17,
68:25, 76:11
behind [2] - 8:9, 83:19
behooves [1] - 43:1
Bell [1] - 6:12
benefit [2] - 75:4, 78:8
best [3] - 45:17, 49:15,
79:8
better [3] - 24:22,
43:17, 76:7
between [1] - 69:19
beyond [1] - 47:17
bias [2] - 9:8, 9:9
big [2] - 31:24, 36:24
bigger [1] - 41:25
binding [1] - 58:6
bit [2] - 35:6, 37:1
bite [1] - 46:16
Blanco [13] - 1:17,
19:8, 36:7, 39:5,
41:5, 46:14, 50:4,
67:6, 67:11, 69:12,
81:19, 81:24, 82:14
BLANCO [98] - 3:8,
3:24, 5:8, 5:16, 5:20,
12:16, 18:12, 18:16,
18:20, 19:6, 19:19,
20:14, 20:19, 22:8,
23:18, 24:15, 24:22,
25:2, 25:4, 25:6,
27:6, 27:12, 27:22,
28:14, 29:4, 29:16,
29:20, 32:7, 32:16,
32:20, 33:2, 33:5,
33:8, 33:19, 33:22,
34:7, 35:13, 35:24,
36:3, 36:11, 36:20,
36:23, 37:10, 37:18,
38:11, 38:13, 38:20,
39:8, 39:17, 40:15,
40:23, 44:20, 47:4,
48:17, 49:8, 50:7,
52:22, 53:3, 53:10,
53:15, 53:19, 55:9,
55:14, 55:25, 56:17,
56:21, 60:13, 63:7,
64:7, 64:13, 65:11,
66:6, 66:10, 66:15,
67:5, 67:7, 68:2,
68:5, 68:11, 70:14,
73:11, 74:21, 75:9,
76:10, 76:16, 77:9,
77:15, 77:19, 82:20,
83:1, 83:8, 83:23,
84:1, 84:11, 84:18,
84:24, 85:18, 86:6
board [4] - 29:25,
34:11, 42:21, 43:11
BOARD [53] - 1:1, 1:4,
1:9, 12:7, 12:11,
16:2, 19:11, 19:16,
20:8, 23:11, 23:16,
27:19, 29:7, 34:14,
41:4, 49:18, 50:8,
56:18, 58:3, 61:11,
62:2, 62:13, 63:2,
63:25, 64:2, 67:4,
67:9, 68:3, 68:8,
68:12, 70:15, 71:6,
71:13, 72:8, 73:22,
75:3, 75:15, 76:13,
76:18, 77:13, 77:17,
77:23, 79:11, 79:14,
80:6, 81:14, 81:17,
82:2, 82:6, 83:6,
84:7, 85:5, 86:3
Board [82] - 1:11,
2:16, 3:3, 3:15, 3:17,
3:19, 4:1, 4:7, 4:12,
6:5, 7:8, 7:11, 7:16,
10:12, 11:8, 11:15,
11:17, 11:25, 13:23,
16:11, 16:17, 17:19,
19:9, 19:20, 20:3,
21:6, 23:25, 25:9,
25:11, 25:13, 25:16,
25:20, 25:22, 26:5,
26:19, 26:21, 27:8,
28:1, 28:19, 29:1,
29:2, 29:23, 30:1,
30:6, 30:9, 30:10,
30:15, 30:20, 31:5,
31:15, 32:2, 34:10,
39:9, 39:25, 41:19,
46:2, 46:12, 46:16,
51:21, 52:4, 54:23,
55:18, 60:2, 68:6,
68:13, 69:1, 69:11,
69:14, 69:17, 69:20,
70:1, 70:2, 70:5,
70:8, 70:10, 71:18,
76:1, 76:4, 76:5,
81:6, 83:17, 84:5
Board's [3] - 13:22,
14:24, 64:8
Boards [1] - 20:23
Boulevard [2] - 14:19,
47:11
boundary [1] - 46:1
breath [2] - 7:12, 12:1
brief [2] - 36:23, 56:21
briefed [2] - 33:23,
85:22
briefing [1] - 56:25
briefly [1] - 13:9
briefs [1] - 37:19
bring [3] - 11:9, 52:15,
79:9
bringing [1] - 37:8
broader [1] - 17:13
brought [2] - 54:9,
65:4
Broward [16] - 31:10,
36:8, 37:1, 38:17,
38:23, 39:10, 39:15,
44:16, 47:13, 48:24,
52:20, 52:23, 53:5,
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COURT REPORTERS, INC. (305) 373-5600
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bundle [1] - 57:14
business [4] - 2:16,
3:10, 19:7, 59:3
busy [1] - 18:23
C
calculation [1] - 48:8
calculations [1] -
43:11
candidates [2] -
34:23, 35:8
cannot [1] - 70:1
capacity [1] - 44:3
card [1] - 73:8
case [8] - 21:24,
22:19, 41:20, 44:23,
76:1, 76:9
cases [5] - 22:23,
50:21, 50:22, 64:9,
83:19
catch [1] - 57:19
catchall [8] - 34:5,
55:22, 56:2, 57:25,
84:17, 84:18, 84:25,
85:7
caught [6] - 7:20,
7:24, 10:4, 24:2,
40:4, 40:5
cautious [1] - 46:10
caveat [2] - 56:12,
58:2
cellphone [1] - 78:5
certain [8] - 4:14,
33:25, 34:16, 43:3,
45:24, 58:21, 70:3,
77:25
certainly [1] - 44:5
CERTIFICATE [1] -
87:1
certification [1] -
26:10
certified [3] - 33:11,
42:22, 48:19
certify [1] - 87:5
cetera [4] - 35:16,
41:2, 47:18, 49:2
Chair [10] - 4:1, 4:23,
16:3, 29:4, 31:14,
34:15, 43:9, 61:12,
64:7
chair [3] - 6:12, 39:24
Chairman [3] - 1:10,
3:3, 83:15
challenged [1] - 47:3
challenging [1] -
17:11
chance [1] - 18:22
change [4] - 11:7,
50:12, 51:5, 61:13
changed [1] - 32:1
changes [4] - 51:5,
67:24, 67:25, 82:14
changing [1] - 49:20
channel [1] - 80:13
Chapter [3] - 20:19,
26:20, 26:22
Checklist [1] - 2:5
Chief [1] - 26:24
circuit [1] - 23:4
Circuit [1] - 28:23
cities [1] - 65:21
citizen [5] - 3:20, 3:21,
4:9, 11:17, 25:19
clarification [2] -
52:18, 66:23
clarified [1] - 62:23
clarify [1] - 47:4
clear [2] - 32:4, 50:18
clerical [1] - 9:16
CLERK [1] - 1:1
Clerk [4] - 1:25, 4:3,
20:1
clerk [3] - 20:7, 30:14,
30:19
clerk's [1] - 26:8
client [1] - 78:9
close [1] - 41:22
closed [1] - 15:24
closer [2] - 18:9, 37:2
Code [1] - 20:21
code [1] - 4:17
codified [1] - 17:15
codify [1] - 61:14
codifying [1] - 74:1
colleague [1] - 18:14
colleagues [3] - 54:2,
54:7
COLLECTIVELY [2] -
23:16, 27:19
combination [1] - 36:1
comfort [3] - 44:8,
77:3
comfortable [2] -
46:12, 56:2
coming [3] - 14:7,
53:25, 54:4
comment [1] - 59:9
comments [1] - 67:25
Commercial [1] -
47:11
commercial [1] -
47:17
Commission [1] - 1:1
COMMISSIONER [132]
- 3:1, 3:12, 3:23,
5:7, 5:12, 5:17, 5:21,
9:20, 9:23, 11:5,
11:20, 12:4, 12:9,
12:12, 12:20, 14:11,
14:16, 15:8, 15:18,
17:20, 17:24, 18:1,
18:13, 18:18, 19:5,
19:13, 19:17, 20:9,
20:11, 20:16, 22:4,
22:7, 23:12, 23:14,
24:4, 24:11, 24:21,
24:23, 25:3, 25:5,
27:3, 27:10, 27:13,
27:16, 27:20, 28:13,
29:3, 29:8, 29:10,
29:17, 31:12, 32:13,
32:18, 32:25, 33:3,
33:6, 33:15, 33:20,
34:4, 34:8, 35:20,
36:1, 36:5, 37:5,
37:11, 37:20, 39:21,
41:3, 42:16, 44:7,
45:15, 49:17, 52:16,
53:13, 53:17, 53:22,
54:5, 55:10, 55:15,
56:1, 56:19, 58:1,
59:8, 60:4, 60:14,
60:21, 61:6, 61:9,
61:25, 62:3, 62:6,
62:10, 62:22, 63:3,
63:22, 64:3, 64:11,
64:24, 65:12, 66:7,
66:11, 67:6, 67:8,
70:18, 71:7, 72:7,
72:11, 73:6, 73:12,
76:14, 76:17, 76:19,
77:11, 77:21, 79:7,
79:12, 79:16, 80:8,
81:16, 82:4, 82:24,
83:13, 84:2, 84:8,
84:13, 84:19, 84:22,
85:3, 85:6, 85:24,
86:5, 86:8
Commissioner [9] -
1:10, 1:11, 3:18, 4:8,
6:11, 11:9, 45:5,
59:15, 81:10
COMMISSIONERS [1]
- 1:1
commitment [1] -
81:23
committee [2] - 16:17,
17:9
community [1] - 46:22
compensation [2] -
30:3, 30:18
complaint [4] - 57:2,
57:5, 57:17, 65:8
complaints [2] - 57:8,
57:14
complete [1] - 27:4
completed [1] - 67:1
complex [1] - 48:4
compliance [2] -
26:20, 26:22
complimented [1] -
6:12
composed [1] - 25:9
composition [1] - 11:8
computer [2] - 34:24,
35:7
concern [6] - 8:24,
11:16, 36:24, 37:3,
39:7, 50:11
concerned [4] - 34:25,
40:2, 42:7, 72:1
concerning [1] - 51:25
concerns [2] - 13:15,
49:22
concluded) [1] - 86:10
conclusion [1] - 9:7
conditions [1] - 30:17
conduct [1] - 30:24
Conference [1] - 1:1
conference [1] - 57:1
conflict [6] - 16:25,
69:15, 69:18, 72:2,
74:4, 77:12
congratulated [1] -
7:10
consensus [1] - 78:14
consequences [2] -
9:17, 11:23
consider [3] - 13:24,
30:20, 73:24
constant [1] - 60:15
contact [5] - 19:22,
20:3, 61:21, 61:22,
78:7
containing [1] - 20:21
continue [7] - 22:7,
25:5, 31:21, 35:13,
55:19, 66:14, 85:6
continuing [1] - 35:17
continuous [1] - 30:4
convene [1] - 3:11
Convene [1] - 2:2
conversation [5] -
16:15, 17:13, 35:3,
41:7, 71:24
cool [1] - 78:11
cooling [2] - 71:11,
75:4
cooperation [3] -
7:21, 10:5, 11:2
copies [1] - 19:23
Coral [2] - 14:19, 49:2
corner [1] - 17:12
correct [21] - 29:15,
32:16, 32:20, 33:21,
33:22, 34:7, 34:16,
38:10, 39:13, 44:8,
44:10, 50:7, 52:21,
53:4, 53:6, 53:7,
55:25, 65:11, 68:2,
84:13, 87:8
corrected [1] - 63:11
correctly [1] - 31:19
counsel [2] - 25:11,
25:13
counter [1] - 11:13
counter-amendment
[1] - 11:13
counties [4] - 47:20,
47:25, 50:15
COUNTY [2] - 1:1,
1:19
county [1] - 48:1
County [53] - 1:20,
4:4, 6:10, 6:17, 7:6,
13:14, 13:16, 13:19,
13:24, 26:25, 31:19,
32:5, 32:10, 34:12,
36:8, 36:10, 37:3,
37:8, 37:14, 37:15,
38:19, 38:22, 39:4,
39:7, 39:11, 40:14,
40:17, 40:22, 44:15,
44:19, 44:20, 48:3,
48:15, 48:16, 48:23,
49:1, 49:2, 50:2,
50:6, 50:17, 50:23,
51:1, 52:23, 56:15,
61:7, 65:20, 66:17,
70:4, 70:19, 76:11,
79:22, 80:1, 87:12
couple [4] - 9:19,
18:7, 55:11, 74:23
course [2] - 8:22,
40:17
Court [1] - 28:23
court [2] - 23:4, 54:20
COURT [1] - 87:19
courteous [1] - 13:4
Courts [1] - 1:25
covers [1] - 16:21
criteria [2] - 34:16,
45:24
criticism [2] - 13:5,
16:8
crossing [1] - 9:13
current [4] - 31:3,
43:13, 43:21, 44:4
cutoff [1] - 59:24
D
Dade [39] - 6:10,
13:18, 14:8, 17:14,
26:25, 36:10, 36:13,
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COURT REPORTERS, INC. (305) 373-5600
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36:15, 37:3, 37:8,
37:13, 37:14, 38:19,
39:4, 39:7, 40:14,
40:17, 40:22, 44:15,
44:19, 44:20, 47:13,
48:3, 48:15, 48:16,
48:23, 49:1, 50:2,
50:6, 50:23, 51:1,
56:15, 61:7, 66:16,
68:22, 76:11, 84:12,
87:11
date [5] - 11:10, 24:5,
24:18, 55:6, 61:21
DATED [1] - 87:11
days [3] - 49:6, 67:16,
68:10
De [1] - 14:19
de [1] - 28:19
deadline [7] - 10:24,
22:12, 24:1, 81:12,
81:18, 83:20
deal [2] - 18:9, 18:10
dealing [1] - 63:14
dealt [3] - 16:12,
37:14, 38:2
decades [1] - 7:17
December [11] -
24:10, 24:20, 25:1,
25:2, 68:11, 69:6,
81:13, 81:23, 82:19,
82:23, 83:2
decent [1] - 73:17
decide [2] - 45:11,
45:13
decides [1] - 68:6
decision [8] - 23:3,
36:22, 54:20, 55:2,
58:16, 73:16, 80:25
decision-making [1] -
58:16
decisions [2] - 28:17,
28:20
declined [1] - 28:19
decrease [1] - 30:9
deep [2] - 7:12, 12:1
defer [1] - 44:5
delegation [2] - 17:14,
68:23
delighted [1] - 6:15
Department [2] - 2:3,
4:15
Departments [1] -
21:25
described [1] - 26:3
deserve [1] - 13:6
deserves [1] - 22:17
designee [2] - 20:1,
20:6
desired [2] - 21:1,
21:12
detailed [1] - 8:5
details [1] - 28:2
determine [5] - 7:3,
10:19, 30:7, 30:20,
33:24
determined [3] - 32:8,
39:9, 58:7
develop [1] - 65:19
developed [1] - 13:18
developments [1] -
47:16
devoted [1] - 30:1
Diaz [7] - 1:11, 3:19,
4:8, 11:9, 45:6,
59:16, 81:10
DIAZ [132] - 3:1, 3:12,
3:23, 5:7, 5:12, 5:17,
5:21, 9:20, 9:23,
11:5, 11:20, 12:4,
12:9, 12:12, 12:20,
14:11, 14:16, 15:8,
15:18, 17:20, 17:24,
18:1, 18:13, 18:18,
19:5, 19:13, 19:17,
20:9, 20:11, 20:16,
22:4, 22:7, 23:12,
23:14, 24:4, 24:11,
24:21, 24:23, 25:3,
25:5, 27:3, 27:10,
27:13, 27:16, 27:20,
28:13, 29:3, 29:8,
29:10, 29:17, 31:12,
32:13, 32:18, 32:25,
33:3, 33:6, 33:15,
33:20, 34:4, 34:8,
35:20, 36:1, 36:5,
37:5, 37:11, 37:20,
39:21, 41:3, 42:16,
44:7, 45:15, 49:17,
52:16, 53:13, 53:17,
53:22, 54:5, 55:10,
55:15, 56:1, 56:19,
58:1, 59:8, 60:4,
60:14, 60:21, 61:6,
61:9, 61:25, 62:3,
62:6, 62:10, 62:22,
63:3, 63:22, 64:3,
64:11, 64:24, 65:12,
66:7, 66:11, 67:6,
67:8, 70:18, 71:7,
72:7, 72:11, 73:6,
73:12, 76:14, 76:17,
76:19, 77:11, 77:21,
79:7, 79:12, 79:16,
80:8, 81:16, 82:4,
82:24, 83:13, 84:2,
84:8, 84:13, 84:19,
84:22, 85:3, 85:6,
85:24, 86:5, 86:8
dicey [1] - 71:21
difference [1] - 65:24
different [5] - 35:10,
42:24, 45:1, 65:5,
75:19
differently [1] - 38:6
difficult [1] - 16:10
difficulties [1] - 7:24
digit [1] - 37:16
diligence [1] - 84:23
direct [3] - 9:8, 66:2,
78:11
directing [1] - 28:22
direction [1] - 11:3
directors [1] - 65:22
disagrees [3] - 22:14,
22:15, 57:10
discharge [1] - 30:11
disclose [1] - 6:23
discomfort [1] - 84:4
discrepancies [1] -
6:22
discretion [2] - 30:7,
30:12
discuss [1] - 21:14
Discuss [2] - 2:11,
2:14
discussed [2] - 66:13,
84:4
discussion [5] - 10:1,
13:10, 13:12, 65:9,
66:15
Discussion [1] - 2:5
dismiss [1] - 56:16
disrupts [1] - 63:4
DIVISION [1] - 1:5
document [4] - 23:6,
68:16, 69:2, 82:13
documents [1] - 9:4
done [15] - 9:4, 9:7,
11:25, 15:6, 17:14,
17:16, 18:15, 40:7,
50:9, 50:16, 64:20,
65:21, 65:23, 68:20,
76:2
DOR [7] - 2:5, 19:1,
20:25, 21:9, 26:3,
26:7, 74:11
dotting [1] - 9:12
doubled [1] - 43:19
down [4] - 10:14, 14:1,
14:5, 37:23
draft [3] - 72:1, 79:8,
79:15
drafted [2] - 69:12,
75:16
drafting [1] - 68:17
drafts [1] - 67:23
drop [1] - 42:23
DUARTE [16] - 17:25,
19:12, 20:10, 23:13,
27:15, 29:9, 39:14,
47:22, 52:17, 52:25,
53:8, 53:20, 56:11,
64:1, 82:1, 86:4
Duarte [3] - 1:12, 3:20,
4:9
DUARTE-VIERA [16] -
17:25, 19:12, 20:10,
23:13, 27:15, 29:9,
39:14, 47:22, 52:17,
52:25, 53:8, 53:20,
56:11, 64:1, 82:1,
86:4
Duarte-Viera [3] -
1:12, 3:20, 4:9
due [16] - 29:14,
34:12, 38:1, 40:3,
40:6, 40:8, 43:4,
46:7, 49:22, 66:7,
68:9, 71:19, 72:18,
76:19, 84:5, 84:23
duplicate [1] - 28:9
during [1] - 25:21
DVD [2] - 57:16, 57:18
dwellings [1] - 47:16
E
early [3] - 23:23,
24:16, 82:23
easier [1] - 69:2
easy [4] - 51:6, 71:14,
71:15
efficiently [1] - 7:16
efforts [1] - 23:24
eight [1] - 29:25
eight-hour [1] - 29:25
either [8] - 5:11, 23:2,
28:21, 74:14, 74:15,
76:25, 77:12, 85:25
elaborate [1] - 56:25
elected [1] - 11:14
eloquent [1] - 12:21
eloquently [2] - 12:24,
57:25
emphasized [1] - 6:15
employees [2] - 25:20,
65:22
employment [2] -
2:12, 29:22
encompasses [1] -
69:3
end [6] - 5:1, 13:21,
16:18, 22:11, 23:21,
66:1
ensure [2] - 34:22,
35:11
entertain [2] - 45:9,
77:7
entirely [1] - 54:21
entities [2] - 25:17,
75:23
entity [1] - 78:2
erroneous [2] - 28:8,
28:10
Esq [1] - 1:17
established [1] -
62:21
estate [3] - 24:9,
24:17, 48:20
Esteve [1] - 1:20
estimating [1] - 43:12
et [4] - 35:16, 41:2,
47:18, 49:2
etched [1] - 24:5
ethical [1] - 7:13
evaluate [2] - 35:17,
57:24
evaluated [1] - 85:23
evaluation [5] - 65:2,
65:10, 65:13, 65:23,
84:1
evaluations [1] -
65:11
evidence [1] - 23:1
evidenced [1] - 13:6
examination [1] - 6:20
examined [1] - 9:5
example [3] - 9:18,
30:4, 78:4
exceed [1] - 23:9
exception [1] - 75:17
exclude [2] - 32:10,
41:8
excluding [1] - 39:15
excuse [4] - 33:2,
38:12, 38:15, 49:4
Executive [1] - 26:24
exemption [3] - 22:16,
22:24, 75:24
existing [4] - 40:7,
53:2, 53:3, 53:4
expanding [1] - 58:25
expected [1] - 19:21
expedite [3] - 32:24,
49:15, 64:15
experience [33] -
26:14, 36:9, 38:19,
38:25, 39:6, 40:9,
40:14, 40:15, 40:18,
40:20, 41:15, 41:16,
42:23, 44:19, 46:21,
46:23, 47:9, 47:12,
47:20, 48:6, 48:15,
48:22, 48:25, 50:2,
50:6, 51:3, 55:13,
56:15, 62:11, 62:18,
63:20, 74:25, 84:16
experienced [3] -
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36:12, 56:23, 71:4
explained [1] - 62:10
extend [2] - 52:10,
59:11
extra [1] - 41:19
extras [1] - 42:11
extremely [3] - 6:14,
11:25, 48:3
eyes [1] - 73:18
F
fact [2] - 17:15, 47:23
factor [1] - 10:7
fair [4] - 22:2, 36:21,
59:22, 71:3
family [1] - 47:15
far [3] - 40:2, 49:7,
73:14
fashion [1] - 15:3
fast [1] - 9:22
favor [4] - 9:1, 19:15,
20:13, 27:18
favorable [1] - 9:11
favoritism [1] - 8:25
fee [1] - 23:7
fees [4] - 2:9, 27:24,
28:8, 28:10
fellow [1] - 69:14
few [6] - 42:11, 42:12,
56:23, 58:19, 69:4,
74:22
file [1] - 60:24
filed [3] - 23:8, 59:23,
64:9
files [2] - 14:21, 50:24
filing [6] - 2:9, 8:11,
22:12, 23:7, 27:24,
28:8
final [5] - 48:11, 49:7,
49:10, 82:17, 83:7
finalized [1] - 83:9
finally [1] - 79:3
financial [1] - 46:7
fine [6] - 5:20, 38:11,
56:17, 60:5, 60:23,
61:4
finish [7] - 9:21,
13:21, 15:3, 24:1,
29:2, 64:16, 64:22
finished [2] - 6:20,
10:7
firms [1] - 14:6
first [13] - 3:10, 3:12,
8:22, 12:10, 19:6,
24:19, 25:1, 51:6,
60:22, 72:12, 75:20,
82:24, 83:1
five [18] - 4:22, 31:9,
33:3, 33:6, 35:5,
39:12, 44:13, 48:10,
49:5, 49:12, 49:23,
51:10, 51:17, 52:19,
52:22, 52:23, 84:4,
84:11
flat [1] - 29:24
floor [1] - 16:1
Florida [12] - 6:9,
14:20, 20:20, 21:3,
21:10, 21:19, 25:14,
25:24, 25:25, 26:20,
27:1, 87:12
Florida's [1] - 21:15
folks [2] - 52:19, 80:12
follow [1] - 4:19
followed [1] - 30:21
following [4] - 25:6,
27:22, 78:24, 81:4
foregoing [2] - 30:17,
87:6
foremost [1] - 72:13
form [10] - 10:20, 47:6,
48:21, 50:3, 50:5,
50:12, 51:13, 61:18
formal [2] - 45:12,
60:1
formalized [1] - 65:13
former [1] - 18:13
forms [4] - 2:7, 20:24,
26:18, 27:11
Forms [1] - 27:8
Fort [1] - 47:11
forth [1] - 67:12
forward [14] - 15:24,
34:13, 41:17, 45:23,
46:10, 46:25, 50:10,
51:15, 55:3, 56:5,
65:19, 77:8, 79:9,
80:15
four [5] - 39:12, 47:25,
49:12, 52:19, 84:11
front [1] - 44:17
fully [1] - 25:7
funding [1] - 73:17
future [1] - 30:5
G
Gables [2] - 14:19,
49:2
Gaetz [1] - 11:13
gander [1] - 72:18
GARCIA [12] - 22:6,
36:7, 36:17, 36:21,
36:24, 37:6, 38:12,
38:15, 39:5, 40:12,
40:19, 73:4
Garcia [9] - 1:23, 7:21,
10:5, 21:24, 36:6,
38:20, 47:6, 54:5,
84:9
General [4] - 7:6, 7:22,
8:20, 9:2
general [9] - 6:8, 8:5,
8:12, 10:9, 21:14,
33:12, 48:19, 78:24,
81:7
general's [2] - 13:7,
25:8
generally [1] - 21:19
geographic [1] - 52:14
geographical [2] -
47:8, 47:24
given [4] - 26:23, 34:6,
35:1, 76:2
glowing [1] - 7:7
goal [1] - 51:22
golden [1] - 77:6
goodbye [1] - 55:23
goose [2] - 72:17
governing [1] - 2:3
government [1] -
25:17
Government [1] - 21:3
governor [1] - 11:19
graduate [1] - 6:3
grant [1] - 22:23
granted [1] - 22:25
gray [1] - 65:1
great [2] - 43:1, 44:8
ground [1] - 40:1
guarantee [1] - 80:19
guess [4] - 47:2, 52:5,
54:14, 54:17
guideline [2] - 46:15,
80:4
guidelines [5] - 2:9,
27:24, 28:15, 32:2,
43:3
guru [1] - 56:7
guy [1] - 63:5
guys [4] - 14:15,
15:20, 38:6, 71:22
H
hand [1] - 68:19
handcuffs [1] - 77:6
handle [1] - 10:12
hands [1] - 12:2
Hani [5] - 1:12, 3:21,
4:8, 23:15, 63:19
happy [3] - 23:2,
39:20, 52:14
hard [1] - 8:14
hardline [6] - 75:20,
76:5, 76:16, 76:17,
76:25, 78:15
hardship [1] - 76:10
Harvey [2] - 20:2, 63:3
head [1] - 73:4
heading [1] - 11:2
heads [1] - 68:13
hear [4] - 22:22,
28:19, 69:13, 85:14
heard [2] - 28:23,
63:22
hearing [8] - 22:19,
24:19, 37:19, 53:24,
63:9, 83:7, 83:19,
86:10
hearings [20] - 7:20,
8:3, 10:7, 10:18,
10:21, 10:22, 13:13,
20:22, 23:22, 24:10,
29:25, 43:20, 44:3,
48:12, 49:7, 49:10,
49:16, 64:15, 84:10
heavily [1] - 84:9
help [4] - 35:9, 46:14,
58:9, 66:20
Herald [1] - 8:14
hereby [1] - 87:5
hi [1] - 14:15
High [1] - 6:4
hint [1] - 7:14
hire [8] - 30:15, 31:6,
39:10, 62:9, 63:20,
83:18, 83:21, 85:2
hired [4] - 38:23,
39:19, 53:11, 71:25
hiring [7] - 39:12,
61:16, 61:20, 61:23,
62:14, 62:15, 62:21
ho [1] - 54:16
hold [5] - 12:9, 42:15,
48:10, 52:16, 53:22
holiday [1] - 82:22
Honorable [1] - 20:2
hope [2] - 16:18, 69:5
hopefully [1] - 82:17
hour [1] - 29:25
hours [3] - 35:5, 48:9,
56:24
House [1] - 11:6
house [1] - 86:1
I
idea [3] - 38:18, 44:23,
85:14
ideally [1] - 13:22
IG [1] - 29:14
II [3] - 2:5, 25:6, 27:3
III [3] - 2:7, 27:5, 27:6
imagine [2] - 8:15,
10:15
immediately [1] -
74:19
impact [1] - 39:14
implement [1] - 2:2
implementation [1] -
28:5
important [3] - 16:14,
74:1, 85:13
impose [1] - 81:18
impressed [1] - 22:25
impression [3] - 24:8,
24:12, 24:16
impropriety [1] - 7:15
improve [2] - 81:6,
85:15
inaudible [1] - 59:4
included [1] - 14:6
including [6] - 29:1,
30:1, 30:17, 30:23,
53:13, 61:5
increase [1] - 30:8
incumbent [1] - 63:17
indicated [1] - 14:2
indicating) [1] - 20:17
indication [2] - 48:5,
73:13
individual [1] - 70:12
industrial [1] - 47:18
influenced [1] - 26:16
information [19] -
16:10, 16:11, 17:18,
19:22, 20:3, 21:14,
40:13, 42:1, 50:19,
51:7, 52:1, 58:4,
58:10, 58:14, 59:13,
61:22, 64:8, 80:3
informational [1] -
58:5
input [1] - 66:20
inside [1] - 85:12
Inspector [4] - 7:6,
7:22, 8:20, 9:2
inspector [4] - 8:4,
8:12, 10:9, 13:7
instance [2] - 47:10,
57:3
interest [6] - 10:6,
16:25, 69:15, 69:18,
71:8, 72:2
INTERGOVERNMEN
TAL [1] - 1:5
internally [2] - 35:23,
35:25
interview [5] - 45:12,
51:18, 56:13, 58:7,
58:9
interviewing [1] - 59:5
interviews [1] - 30:24
involve [1] - 46:3
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issue [23] - 3:5, 7:13,
8:10, 8:13, 10:11,
13:22, 16:21, 31:13,
34:10, 37:21, 37:23,
39:1, 39:2, 40:2,
47:22, 71:17, 74:4,
74:7, 74:18, 75:1,
75:8, 77:18, 77:20
issued [2] - 6:9, 7:6
issues [9] - 8:1, 8:3,
14:13, 16:12, 46:4,
54:1, 54:22, 54:23,
68:14
item [8] - 3:10, 5:22,
21:13, 25:6, 27:21,
27:22, 64:6, 80:18
ITEMS [1] - 2:1
items [5] - 19:1, 19:3,
27:25, 29:6, 63:1
IV [3] - 2:9, 27:22, 29:6
J
January [6] - 22:2,
23:23, 24:14, 24:17,
24:25, 68:24
Jardack [6] - 1:12,
3:21, 4:9, 17:21,
27:17, 83:13
JARDACK [10] -
17:23, 48:7, 49:4,
49:9, 62:5, 83:14,
83:24, 84:7, 84:21,
85:5
job [5] - 13:3, 15:6,
18:11, 18:14, 51:24
Jorge [1] - 1:20
Jose [1] - 1:11
Juan [1] - 1:10
judge [1] - 76:22
judged [1] - 76:23
judicial [1] - 25:18
jumped [1] - 37:12
June [4] - 24:2, 59:20,
64:17, 83:5
jurisdiction [1] - 28:24
K
keep [3] - 32:1, 82:3,
82:20
kept [1] - 64:19
key [1] - 45:21
kind [14] - 6:22, 7:15,
7:17, 7:18, 10:23,
36:9, 44:11, 64:25,
65:10, 65:15, 70:23,
72:22, 73:21, 80:22
kit [1] - 4:19
kits [2] - 19:23, 20:4
knowledge [9] - 32:9,
33:17, 36:19, 36:20,
37:7, 37:13, 40:3,
40:6, 40:21
L
lack [2] - 16:9, 22:16
laid [1] - 35:10
land [1] - 47:18
Larry [4] - 5:3, 5:10,
12:17, 14:18
last [17] - 8:6, 11:12,
31:16, 32:23, 48:7,
57:3, 63:9, 63:15,
64:10, 64:13, 68:1,
68:4, 69:4, 75:16,
81:17, 83:5, 85:19
latest [1] - 13:7
latitude [2] - 55:9,
55:10
Lauderdale [1] - 47:12
law [2] - 25:10, 25:12
laws [2] - 26:4, 26:8
Lazaro [1] - 1:24
least [3] - 37:21, 76:8,
82:8
leave [4] - 51:10, 60:8,
72:24, 76:3
leaves [1] - 33:10
leaving [1] - 82:3
left [1] - 63:1
legal [8] - 10:21,
25:11, 25:13, 32:19,
40:4, 45:2, 46:13,
56:19
legality [1] - 54:19
legally [1] - 45:25
legislation [5] - 9:18,
10:2, 11:11, 11:22,
17:8
length [2] - 41:8,
82:11
lengthy [2] - 28:2,
29:16
Leon [1] - 14:19
less [1] - 32:22
letter [3] - 8:23, 61:1,
61:18
letters [6] - 10:10,
10:13, 10:16, 57:2,
57:5, 65:8
level [4] - 42:24,
42:25, 70:23, 72:15
levied [1] - 21:21
licensed [4] - 32:11,
33:17, 33:19
licenses [1] - 31:3
lies [1] - 48:6
limit [1] - 71:19
limitation [2] - 72:22,
73:21
limited [2] - 33:14,
66:4
line [1] - 54:8
list [6] - 31:1, 35:15,
41:15, 48:4, 50:15,
53:1
listed [2] - 19:1, 47:21
listening [2] - 59:4,
80:20
lists [1] - 47:12
literacy [2] - 34:24,
35:7
live [1] - 40:9
lived [1] - 48:24
lobby [1] - 68:25
lobbying [1] - 70:20
located [2] - 14:4,
52:3
location [1] - 62:17
locked [1] - 72:5
look [11] - 18:9, 22:18,
22:19, 41:25, 42:12,
49:19, 60:9, 76:14,
81:6, 82:9, 82:12
looked [1] - 67:23
looking [5] - 4:18,
24:25, 37:23, 56:9,
58:12
looks [2] - 64:17,
64:20
Lorena [1] - 87:4
LORENA [1] - 87:18
lose [1] - 75:7
lost [1] - 49:12
love [3] - 15:19, 63:5,
67:17
Lynda [1] - 6:11
M
magistrate [22] - 14:1,
30:12, 31:1, 43:15,
43:23, 48:9, 57:4,
59:6, 69:21, 72:4,
73:16, 74:5, 74:6,
74:8, 74:10, 74:15,
74:19, 77:10, 77:16,
78:5, 78:13, 85:19
Magistrates [2] -
20:24, 21:5
magistrates [40] -
2:12, 9:1, 13:11,
13:13, 13:15, 13:25,
22:21, 26:11, 26:13,
26:17, 28:18, 28:21,
29:23, 30:15, 30:22,
33:25, 35:4, 36:16,
39:18, 41:20, 43:13,
44:4, 44:13, 49:12,
53:2, 53:5, 56:22,
56:23, 57:8, 63:9,
63:10, 63:15, 63:18,
64:16, 65:7, 71:21,
74:24, 76:6, 83:16,
85:21
magistrates' [1] - 30:3
main [1] - 39:7
maintain [1] - 62:20
maintaining [1] - 52:7
major [2] - 54:22,
54:23
man [1] - 48:9
Manager [1] - 1:24
manner [1] - 13:4
Manual [1] - 2:14
manual [3] - 21:4,
66:18, 73:25
Manuel [2] - 1:17, 19:8
Mark [1] - 1:25
market [2] - 22:2, 41:2
markets [1] - 13:19
Martinez [2] - 1:20,
1:25
Martinez-Esteve [1] -
1:20
massive [2] - 7:19,
57:5
masters [1] - 52:20
matter [3] - 22:8,
66:20, 85:11
matters [1] - 28:25
mean [13] - 10:25,
44:23, 46:8, 49:23,
51:16, 52:5, 58:4,
58:6, 58:13, 63:10,
74:11, 78:24, 81:1
meaning [2] - 21:20,
22:1
means [3] - 39:18,
42:9, 50:17
meet [6] - 18:21,
67:22, 69:6, 81:22,
82:18, 83:20
meeting [18] - 3:16,
4:12, 4:20, 4:25, 5:1,
16:18, 25:23, 35:22,
36:4, 45:13, 48:8,
60:1, 63:4, 68:1,
68:4, 68:5, 68:7,
80:1
Meeting [1] - 1:2
Meetings [1] - 2:3
meetings [7] - 5:18,
31:16, 31:23, 59:17,
65:4, 79:23, 79:25
meets [1] - 25:14
Member [1] - 1:11
MEMBER [48] - 12:7,
12:11, 16:2, 19:11,
19:16, 20:8, 23:11,
29:7, 34:14, 41:4,
49:18, 50:8, 56:18,
58:3, 61:11, 62:2,
62:13, 63:2, 63:25,
64:2, 67:4, 67:9,
68:3, 68:8, 68:12,
70:15, 71:6, 71:13,
72:8, 73:22, 75:3,
75:15, 76:13, 76:18,
77:13, 77:17, 77:23,
79:11, 79:14, 80:6,
81:14, 81:17, 82:2,
82:6, 83:6, 84:7,
85:5, 86:3
member [5] - 3:20,
3:21, 25:19, 34:10,
34:11
MEMBERS [3] - 1:9,
23:16, 27:19
Members [5] - 3:14,
4:1, 19:20, 21:6,
60:1
members [7] - 4:2,
4:10, 11:18, 25:16,
25:20, 69:14, 69:25
membership [1] -
25:21
memo [2] - 31:5,
80:22
mention [2] - 16:4,
16:24
mentioned [4] - 34:16,
38:17, 67:14, 69:10
merited [1] - 57:13
messing [1] - 57:21
met [2] - 17:17, 35:11
Miami [24] - 6:4, 8:14,
13:18, 26:25, 36:10,
36:13, 36:15, 37:3,
37:8, 37:13, 37:14,
38:19, 39:7, 40:22,
47:13, 48:3, 48:23,
50:2, 50:6, 50:23,
51:1, 56:15, 66:16,
87:11
Miami-Dade [22] -
13:18, 26:25, 36:10,
36:13, 36:15, 37:3,
37:8, 37:13, 37:14,
38:19, 39:7, 40:22,
47:13, 48:3, 48:23,
50:2, 50:6, 50:23,
51:1, 56:15, 66:16,
87:11
Miamian [1] - 6:3
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COURT REPORTERS, INC. (305) 373-5600
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might [4] - 5:5, 42:21,
82:22, 85:10
million [1] - 7:1
mimic [1] - 70:19
mind [1] - 82:20
minimum [1] - 43:14
minutes [2] - 6:1,
12:22
misheard [1] - 37:11
misplaced [1] - 10:16
missing [1] - 49:5
mistaken [2] - 59:19,
59:21
model [1] - 75:20
models [1] - 75:19
moment's [1] - 78:8
money [2] - 39:22,
77:22
monitor [1] - 57:2
month [2] - 24:21,
66:25
months [15] - 6:8,
35:3, 42:12, 51:12,
55:7, 58:19, 59:1,
59:12, 59:18, 59:21,
60:6, 60:22, 61:17,
69:5, 83:21
morning [2] - 3:14, 6:2
most [2] - 9:15, 17:3
Motion [1] - 27:10
motion [20] - 19:13,
20:9, 23:11, 23:12,
27:9, 27:14, 27:16,
29:8, 47:2, 52:6,
52:11, 52:12, 56:4,
61:25, 62:1, 62:23,
63:24, 64:3, 83:9,
86:2
move [1] - 73:10
moved [7] - 19:11,
20:8, 27:15, 29:7,
63:25, 64:1, 86:3
moving [9] - 17:10,
34:13, 45:23, 46:10,
46:25, 55:2, 56:4,
65:19, 77:8
MR [156] - 3:8, 3:14,
3:24, 5:8, 5:16, 5:20,
6:2, 9:22, 9:25, 11:6,
11:21, 12:16, 14:15,
14:18, 15:9, 17:23,
17:25, 18:12, 18:16,
18:20, 19:6, 19:12,
19:19, 20:10, 20:14,
20:19, 22:6, 22:8,
23:13, 23:18, 24:7,
24:15, 24:18, 24:22,
25:2, 25:4, 25:6,
27:6, 27:12, 27:15,
27:22, 28:14, 29:4,
29:9, 29:16, 29:20,
32:7, 32:16, 32:20,
33:2, 33:5, 33:8,
33:19, 33:22, 34:7,
35:13, 35:24, 36:3,
36:7, 36:11, 36:17,
36:20, 36:21, 36:23,
36:24, 37:6, 37:10,
37:18, 38:11, 38:12,
38:13, 38:15, 38:20,
39:5, 39:8, 39:14,
39:17, 40:12, 40:15,
40:19, 40:23, 43:8,
44:10, 44:20, 44:21,
47:4, 47:22, 48:7,
48:17, 49:4, 49:8,
49:9, 49:11, 50:7,
52:17, 52:22, 52:25,
53:3, 53:7, 53:8,
53:10, 53:15, 53:19,
53:20, 55:9, 55:14,
55:25, 56:11, 56:17,
56:21, 59:15, 60:13,
60:17, 61:4, 61:7,
62:5, 62:8, 63:7,
64:1, 64:7, 64:13,
65:11, 66:6, 66:10,
66:15, 67:5, 67:7,
68:2, 68:5, 68:11,
70:14, 73:4, 73:11,
74:21, 75:9, 76:10,
76:16, 77:9, 77:15,
77:19, 81:10, 82:1,
82:20, 83:1, 83:8,
83:14, 83:23, 83:24,
84:1, 84:11, 84:18,
84:21, 84:24, 85:18,
86:4, 86:6
MS [4] - 12:23, 53:21,
82:2, 82:6
municipality [1] -
26:25
must [2] - 21:4, 25:7
N
name [3] - 6:2, 14:16,
37:15
nationwide [2] -
55:12, 56:7
native [1] - 6:3
nature [1] - 9:16
neat [1] - 65:15
necessarily [1] - 24:7
need [26] - 11:5,
12:14, 18:8, 18:21,
20:5, 27:9, 29:5,
31:11, 32:21, 36:15,
36:18, 41:20, 42:8,
45:22, 46:13, 49:11,
49:13, 52:5, 52:6,
52:11, 52:12, 55:5,
55:11, 59:11, 63:17,
73:8
needed [5] - 5:25,
29:21, 64:15, 85:8,
85:20
needs [3] - 5:22, 40:7,
42:19
negative [2] - 13:5,
46:9
never [4] - 29:2, 44:14,
75:1, 76:2
new [12] - 31:9, 32:25,
33:3, 38:21, 39:3,
44:14, 51:13, 52:23,
53:10, 56:21, 62:18,
83:11
news [1] - 33:11
next [9] - 19:18, 21:13,
27:21, 50:17, 51:22,
64:6, 66:25, 67:21,
68:5
nice [2] - 60:25, 73:16
nine [3] - 18:25, 63:16,
63:20
nobody [2] - 15:23,
56:7
non [1] - 82:5
non-attorneys [1] -
82:5
none [9] - 19:17,
23:17, 27:20, 29:12,
39:17, 62:7, 62:25,
64:4, 70:23
nonissue [1] - 77:18
normal [1] - 80:12
note [1] - 58:17
notes [1] - 87:9
notice [5] - 22:9,
22:10, 22:15, 26:23,
78:8
noticed [1] - 25:24
notifications [1] -
44:25
November [3] - 81:22,
82:18, 82:21
novo [1] - 28:19
number [8] - 6:17,
30:23, 43:11, 43:19,
45:19, 48:11, 49:10,
54:14
Number [24] - 19:19,
19:25, 20:15, 20:19,
21:3, 21:9, 21:13,
23:6, 23:18, 25:9,
25:11, 25:13, 25:16,
25:23, 26:3, 26:7,
26:9, 26:12, 26:18,
26:23, 41:17, 41:18,
67:19, 69:5
nutshell [1] - 28:4
NW [1] - 1:1
O
observe [1] - 56:23
obtained [2] - 19:24,
21:7
obviously [5] - 34:18,
69:22, 70:1, 71:17,
74:10
October [1] - 1:2
OF [3] - 1:1, 87:1
office [9] - 6:21, 8:7,
8:12, 21:1, 21:7,
21:11, 44:16, 49:1,
83:17
OFFICE [1] - 1:19
Office [6] - 1:24, 4:3,
7:5, 7:22, 8:20, 9:2
Officer [1] - 26:24
official [1] - 11:14
officially [1] - 82:16
often [1] - 39:19
OIG [15] - 16:5, 16:8,
16:15, 16:19, 16:24,
67:16, 68:9, 69:10,
69:16, 70:25, 72:21,
75:5, 78:21, 81:5,
81:12
once [3] - 61:23,
79:17, 80:17
one [47] - 9:9, 14:1,
14:21, 16:22, 19:2,
31:10, 31:17, 32:4,
32:22, 33:8, 33:23,
34:17, 37:17, 37:18,
38:21, 41:18, 42:8,
43:24, 44:15, 46:11,
48:14, 52:22, 53:5,
53:8, 53:10, 53:14,
53:21, 54:2, 57:4,
58:17, 58:18, 63:9,
64:24, 66:8, 66:12,
67:14, 71:14, 73:6,
73:23, 74:8, 74:14,
77:1, 85:19
ones [5] - 31:9, 34:17,
38:22, 39:10, 52:24
ongoing [3] - 42:19,
44:22, 54:23
open [11] - 12:5,
42:19, 51:10, 52:7,
54:1, 55:4, 55:6,
58:25, 59:9, 59:17,
79:19
opened [2] - 53:23,
59:11
opening [1] - 5:13
opens [1] - 61:23
operate [1] - 28:2
operated [1] - 7:16
opportunities [1] -
21:17
opportunity [4] - 76:8,
78:17, 79:5, 79:18
opposed [8] - 19:17,
23:17, 27:20, 29:11,
50:25, 62:6, 62:25,
64:5
order [3] - 19:6, 22:22,
64:14
Organizational [2] -
1:2, 2:3
organizational [3] -
3:16, 4:12, 25:23
organizations [2] -
45:1, 45:2
original [3] - 21:25,
28:24, 66:22
otherwise [3] - 26:21,
30:7, 59:24
ourselves [2] - 44:1,
46:4
out-of-County [1] -
13:24
outside [2] - 33:16,
37:9
overstep [1] - 46:15
own [1] - 77:5
P
pace [2] - 64:18, 64:19
PAGE [1] - 2:1
page [2] - 18:4, 62:15
pages [1] - 87:7
paid [1] - 28:8
Palm [8] - 36:8, 36:25,
38:18, 38:23, 47:13,
53:6, 53:14, 53:17
paragraph [2] - 26:1,
26:6
parameters [2] -
35:10, 49:21
parcel [1] - 23:9
part [11] - 17:3, 29:13,
40:24, 55:15, 66:23,
71:20, 73:19, 78:1,
80:3, 80:21, 85:11
participate [1] - 21:17
participating [1] -
32:6
particular [5] - 46:11,
57:4, 62:11, 65:25,
84:15
particularly [1] - 6:16
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party [1] - 23:2
passed [2] - 62:7, 83:8
past [8] - 33:25, 38:2,
38:24, 43:5, 53:12,
54:25, 74:22, 84:6
payment [2] - 6:25,
30:18
Pedro [6] - 1:23, 7:21,
21:24, 22:5, 64:21,
73:3
pending [2] - 66:23,
69:8
people [42] - 5:21,
8:11, 8:16, 11:16,
32:5, 36:7, 36:14,
36:18, 36:25, 37:7,
38:3, 38:17, 40:9,
40:21, 41:24, 42:5,
42:21, 42:22, 43:2,
45:18, 45:20, 51:7,
53:25, 55:16, 59:2,
59:13, 65:25, 66:2,
66:3, 71:4, 71:9,
71:25, 72:3, 72:19,
72:23, 73:14, 73:18,
76:12, 79:24, 80:10,
85:8
Pepe [2] - 1:11, 3:18
per [4] - 23:9, 26:1,
29:24, 31:5
percentage [7] -
50:13, 50:16, 51:14,
51:16, 52:13, 61:5,
62:16
percentile [1] - 56:6
perfectly [2] - 62:22,
62:24
performance [2] -
65:18, 73:9
performances [1] -
35:16
performing [1] - 85:1
perhaps [1] - 45:10
period [10] - 41:23,
52:9, 61:17, 61:20,
69:19, 70:3, 71:10,
75:4, 83:23, 84:1
person [13] - 31:10,
33:16, 37:13, 37:18,
39:3, 39:15, 47:10,
50:1, 51:2, 56:14,
57:20, 57:21, 60:25
personal [9] - 21:22,
23:19, 33:9, 53:20,
63:8, 63:12, 63:13,
71:16, 75:13
personally [1] - 48:23
persons [1] - 80:20
petition [3] - 10:19,
22:18, 23:8
Petitioner [2] - 70:11,
70:13
petitioners [1] - 26:15
petitions [3] - 8:11,
14:22, 28:9
physical [1] - 69:2
physically [2] - 43:20,
48:1
picks [1] - 78:25
place [1] - 56:6
planned [1] - 47:15
plead [2] - 76:1, 76:9
plenty [1] - 82:10
point [13] - 20:5, 29:5,
34:25, 35:20, 35:22,
45:8, 50:14, 52:17,
58:24, 59:3, 77:24,
78:1, 85:24
points [2] - 8:18, 16:7
policies [15] - 16:6,
16:13, 16:20, 17:1,
17:6, 66:17, 67:12,
67:17, 68:19, 68:22,
69:9, 73:25, 79:3,
81:25, 83:4
Policies [1] - 2:14
policy [3] - 70:19,
70:20
Ponce [1] - 14:19
portion [2] - 47:9, 63:7
position [1] - 38:1
positive [1] - 17:4
possibility [2] - 45:23,
75:19
possible [5] - 43:21,
60:16, 67:20, 83:17,
83:25
possibly [3] - 13:25,
46:19, 83:21
power [1] - 30:10
PR [1] - 17:4
practice [2] - 70:2,
70:21
pragmatically [2] -
51:3, 74:17
prefer [3] - 36:14,
38:14, 46:24
preferable [1] - 32:8
preferably [1] - 48:17
preference [8] - 32:14,
32:17, 36:18, 41:10,
46:17, 46:18, 46:24,
48:18
preferences [1] -
32:18
Prehearing [1] - 2:5
preliminary [1] - 83:4
prerogative [2] - 4:24,
5:16
prescribed [1] - 4:15
Present [1] - 1:9
present [4] - 3:18,
19:21, 20:1, 50:11
presentation [1] -
16:16
presented [1] - 23:1
presently [1] - 17:18
pressing [1] - 3:5
pretty [3] - 65:1,
68:14, 73:17
previous [4] - 13:12,
15:16, 49:13, 59:16
previously [2] - 29:23,
30:2
privy [1] - 58:9
probationary [1] -
83:23
problem [3] - 42:4,
44:11, 57:10
problems [3] - 7:18,
38:2, 43:4
procedure [5] - 22:10,
32:19, 69:9, 81:8
procedures [22] - 2:9,
16:6, 16:13, 16:20,
17:2, 17:6, 20:22,
26:4, 26:7, 26:18,
27:23, 28:6, 30:21,
66:18, 67:13, 67:18,
68:20, 68:22, 73:25,
79:4, 81:25, 83:4
Procedures [1] - 2:14
proceed [1] - 10:20
proceedings [1] - 87:7
process [30] - 13:17,
13:20, 14:1, 14:5,
14:24, 16:9, 18:10,
22:20, 28:12, 30:24,
37:25, 38:9, 41:11,
42:15, 44:2, 44:22,
45:13, 49:22, 49:24,
51:19, 55:4, 55:5,
56:20, 57:23, 58:6,
58:16, 71:19, 75:17,
75:24, 84:21
processing [1] - 28:11
production [1] - 65:17
productive [1] - 34:3
productivity [1] -
48:11
Professional [1] -
87:4
professional [1] - 13:3
progress [4] - 2:14,
15:1, 49:19, 66:16
proper [1] - 26:13
properly [3] - 2:16,
8:3, 40:11
properties [2] - 6:17,
23:20
Property [3] - 1:23,
1:24, 4:2
property [28] - 6:20,
6:25, 7:25, 8:2, 8:7,
21:15, 21:18, 21:22,
21:23, 22:1, 23:4,
23:22, 25:19, 26:15,
28:22, 28:25, 33:9,
33:10, 37:22, 40:1,
47:14, 53:20, 54:24,
63:8, 63:12, 63:14,
71:17, 75:13
proposed [4] - 10:2,
10:3, 43:14, 44:5
provide [4] - 2:11,
61:21, 75:17, 75:23
provided [9] - 19:22,
25:10, 25:12, 26:1,
26:5, 27:1, 28:3,
30:25, 35:15
providing [2] - 35:14,
76:7
provision [4] - 69:16,
69:18, 72:2, 83:11
public [12] - 13:5,
15:24, 21:5, 22:9,
53:23, 53:24, 54:4,
66:3, 72:14, 72:16,
80:3, 84:10
published [1] - 44:24
purpose [1] - 77:24
purposes [1] - 4:20
Pursuant [1] - 2:5
put [19] - 38:1, 39:22,
41:13, 41:14, 43:4,
44:18, 50:12, 51:7,
55:6, 55:7, 55:17,
56:6, 60:24, 66:12,
70:21, 77:5, 79:23,
81:5
puts [3] - 47:24, 48:9,
54:21
putting [1] - 10:24
PUYANIC [2] - 14:15,
14:18
Puyanic [4] - 5:3,
5:10, 12:17, 14:18
Q
qualifications [3] -
14:3, 26:9, 26:14
qualified [2] - 42:5,
47:19
qualify [1] - 31:11
quantity [1] - 7:19
quick [2] - 41:5, 67:10
quickly [1] - 10:8
quite [1] - 61:10
quorum [2] - 3:22, 4:4
quote [1] - 9:8
R
raised [1] - 16:21
Ramos [1] - 87:4
RAMOS [1] - 87:18
ramped [1] - 43:25
Raquel [2] - 1:11, 4:6
rate [1] - 29:24
rates [1] - 10:6
rather [1] - 37:6
ratification [1] - 19:8
ratified [2] - 23:6, 25:7
reach [2] - 79:22,
82:14
reached [1] - 44:25
read [3] - 29:14,
29:21, 34:4
reading [1] - 82:17
reaffirm [1] - 35:9
real [7] - 11:15, 21:22,
23:22, 24:9, 24:17,
33:10, 48:19
reality [2] - 44:12,
51:20
really [19] - 7:2, 10:3,
10:10, 13:1, 13:6,
13:20, 14:4, 14:9,
15:6, 18:21, 36:12,
39:17, 41:4, 63:17,
65:17, 67:10, 69:3,
69:13, 73:9
reapplied [1] - 38:24
reapply [1] - 31:9
reappointing [1] -
20:6
reason [5] - 34:6,
35:12, 59:8, 72:13,
76:20
reasonable [2] -
79:17, 82:12
reasons [3] - 7:23,
28:15, 73:24
receive [1] - 60:7
received [1] - 61:19
receiving [1] - 61:15
recently [1] - 75:2
recognized [1] - 54:2
recommend [2] -
22:23, 28:9
recommendations [1]
- 9:14
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15:23, 22:9, 23:17,
24:24, 29:11, 29:18,
29:21, 33:16, 62:25,
64:4, 67:24, 81:11,
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recruit [2] - 42:9, 59:2
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57:13, 58:12
referenced [1] - 48:2
reflected [1] - 38:4
refund [1] - 28:8
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12:7, 12:11, 16:2,
19:11, 19:16, 20:8,
23:11, 29:7, 34:14,
41:4, 49:18, 50:8,
56:18, 58:3, 61:11,
62:2, 62:13, 63:2,
63:25, 64:2, 67:4,
67:9, 68:3, 68:8,
68:12, 70:15, 71:6,
71:13, 72:8, 73:22,
75:3, 75:15, 76:13,
76:18, 77:13, 77:17,
77:23, 79:11, 79:14,
80:6, 81:14, 81:17,
82:2, 82:6, 83:6,
86:3
Regalado [17] - 1:11,
3:19, 4:7, 16:1, 18:5,
18:20, 41:3, 42:17,
45:21, 49:17, 54:9,
55:19, 59:16, 66:19,
67:8, 71:1, 81:11
regarding [4] - 14:23,
62:17, 66:20, 69:18
regards [1] - 44:21
Registered [1] - 87:4
relax [1] - 12:1
relief [1] - 7:11
remedied [2] - 7:2, 8:1
remember [1] - 11:4
rendered [1] - 28:17
replace [1] - 11:17
report [19] - 6:9, 7:7,
7:8, 9:3, 9:9, 9:12,
13:7, 16:5, 16:8,
16:19, 18:8, 25:8,
29:14, 67:16, 68:9,
73:8, 78:21, 81:12,
87:6
REPORTER [2] - 87:1,
87:19
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represent [2] - 8:12,
25:16
Representative [1] -
11:12
Representatives [1] -
11:7
representing [3] - 6:5,
70:11, 70:12
requested [1] - 30:19
requesting [2] - 30:14,
32:3
requests [1] - 4:21
require [2] - 7:3, 19:4
required [5] - 19:1,
19:3, 23:10, 28:1,
46:23
requirement [1] -
40:10
requirements [1] -
25:14
requiring [1] - 40:8
rescheduling [6] - 2:9,
8:4, 8:8, 8:23, 27:24,
28:14
residence [1] - 40:10
residency [1] - 34:18
resident [1] - 46:22
residential [2] - 33:13,
33:14
residents [2] - 46:19,
46:20
resides [1] - 44:15
resolution [4] - 19:4,
20:5, 23:7, 29:5
resolutions [2] - 4:14,
19:3
resolved [1] - 68:15
resources [1] - 58:22
respect [4] - 31:14,
66:8, 72:19, 76:20
respected [1] - 31:24
respective [1] - 21:16
respond [5] - 12:8,
12:13, 50:10, 67:17,
81:21
responded [1] - 50:4
responding [1] -
78:20
response [7] - 11:21,
16:19, 66:4, 67:15,
68:9, 68:18, 80:16
retain [1] - 28:10
retained [1] - 30:10
retention [1] - 28:7
retired [1] - 31:8
Revenue [2] - 2:3,
4:16
review [4] - 14:2,
25:18, 28:16, 57:16
reviewed [3] - 31:2,
61:2, 61:3
revise [1] - 60:18
revised [1] - 66:22
rights [1] - 21:18
Robert [4] - 1:24, 4:5,
13:2, 19:25
role [1] - 3:4
roles [1] - 21:16
roll [1] - 3:13
room [1] - 57:1
Room [1] - 1:1
rooms [2] - 43:12,
43:21
root [1] - 42:3
rough [1] - 43:10
round [1] - 61:16
RPR [1] - 87:18
rule [7] - 16:25, 74:12,
74:13, 75:18, 75:24,
78:10, 78:24
Rule [3] - 2:5, 4:16,
21:9
rules [5] - 20:22, 26:4,
26:7, 77:25, 81:5
Rules [1] - 2:3
Ruvin [1] - 20:2
S
sampling [1] - 9:6
satisfied [1] - 23:1
satisfy [1] - 15:4
saw [2] - 20:16, 55:11
scanned [1] - 10:17
schedule [4] - 15:2,
28:16, 30:3, 30:11
scheduled [1] - 24:19
scheduling [2] -
39:16, 49:15
school [1] - 6:19
School [7] - 1:11,
3:19, 4:7, 13:22,
16:17, 54:22, 70:5
schools [2] - 6:24,
8:20
second [21] - 12:9,
13:8, 19:12, 19:14,
20:10, 20:11, 20:18,
23:13, 23:14, 27:17,
29:9, 29:10, 52:15,
62:4, 62:5, 62:24,
63:7, 64:2, 64:4,
77:14, 86:4
secondly [1] - 10:9
seconds [1] - 9:19
section [1] - 25:25
Section [3] - 25:15,
25:25, 27:1
see [16] - 5:4, 5:9,
5:11, 31:17, 46:3,
54:12, 57:19, 57:20,
58:10, 59:1, 65:15,
75:4, 77:3, 79:24,
81:2, 82:15
seeing [2] - 65:16,
65:17
sees [1] - 18:4
select [1] - 45:10
selection [3] - 26:12,
26:16, 33:21
send [7] - 42:1, 60:19,
61:8, 68:16, 69:12,
81:24
sending [1] - 80:21
Senior [1] - 6:4
sent [1] - 69:11
sentiments [1] - 13:1
September [1] - 22:13
serious [1] - 57:22
serve [3] - 30:16, 66:1,
76:4
served [2] - 44:14,
70:7
service [2] - 15:17,
72:15
services [2] - 30:18,
55:24
SERVICES [1] - 1:5
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session [1] - 68:23
set [1] - 51:21
seven [1] - 64:13
several [3] - 31:16,
35:3, 53:1
shall [1] - 83:10
shape [1] - 47:1
Shlossberg [1] - 5:2
shocked [1] - 75:11
short [1] - 37:7
shortage [1] - 43:19
show [6] - 15:23,
23:17, 29:11, 62:7,
62:25, 64:4
showing [1] - 35:4
sic [1] - 34:11
side [3] - 15:25, 73:3,
85:25
sigh [1] - 7:11
sign [1] - 40:25
significant [3] - 6:22,
7:18, 8:13
signing [1] - 48:21
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single [3] - 16:21,
47:15, 80:1
single-family [1] -
47:15
sit [2] - 56:22, 80:2
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38:4, 40:5, 40:6,
42:19, 44:1, 45:17,
46:7, 77:22
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sixty [1] - 64:13
sixty-seven [1] - 64:13
size [1] - 6:16
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slippery [1] - 76:24
slope [1] - 76:24
slow [3] - 10:13,
13:25, 14:5
so.. [2] - 75:14, 85:23
solely [1] - 26:13
SOLIS [3] - 24:7,
24:18, 43:8
Solis [1] - 1:24
someone [7] - 50:22,
50:25, 57:10, 69:19,
70:12, 74:7, 74:18
sometimes [2] - 15:4,
66:4
sorry [6] - 49:8, 61:9,
63:11, 64:12, 67:3
sort [2] - 78:9, 78:11
Southwest [1] - 15:12
speaker [1] - 12:21
speakers [2] - 15:16,
67:15
speaking [1] - 12:18
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8:25, 22:21, 26:10,
26:12, 26:16, 28:18,
28:20, 29:22, 30:2,
30:11, 30:15, 30:22,
52:20, 53:2, 53:4
Special [2] - 20:23,
21:5
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37:24, 39:25
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40:16, 41:14, 69:16
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31:17
specified [1] - 7:23
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11:1, 11:24, 13:2,
15:6, 18:17, 45:16,
56:13, 63:23, 64:21,
73:23, 78:12, 79:22
staffing [1] - 8:2
Stan [1] - 6:3
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75:6, 76:23
standards [1] - 85:1
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Stanley [2] - 5:3, 5:8
start [9] - 3:7, 10:21,
24:5, 24:6, 42:14,
42:24, 51:20, 70:6,
76:21
started [1] - 42:18
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31:21, 32:12, 33:11,
33:17, 33:19, 36:12,
48:19, 60:25
State [1] - 6:9
stating [5] - 24:24,
41:1, 48:20, 48:22,
80:22
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66:16
statute [1] - 10:25
Statute [4] - 25:14,
25:25, 26:20, 27:1
Statutes [1] - 21:10
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87:9
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43:22
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57:6
Street [1] - 1:1
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studies [1] - 9:3
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sudden [1] - 10:17
suggest [1] - 51:12
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45:5, 59:16, 63:19
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53:21, 56:12
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48:14
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summer [1] - 8:6
Sunshine [1] - 21:4
superintendent [1] -
8:19
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21:16, 21:18, 21:19,
21:20, 54:17, 57:12,
65:23, 66:12, 69:24
T
tackle [1] - 74:12
Tallahassee [3] -
11:12, 17:9, 78:22
tangible [1] - 23:19
target [1] - 24:18
tax [18] - 2:7, 2:10,
2:12, 19:10, 21:18,
21:19, 21:20, 22:2,
22:13, 23:8, 23:20,
27:8, 27:11, 27:25,
30:16, 30:22, 60:3,
67:3
taxation [1] - 28:25
taxes [3] - 21:15,
21:21, 25:19
taxing [1] - 25:21
taxpayer [5] - 21:17,
22:14, 23:3, 28:21,
57:11
taxpayers [5] - 6:5,
8:8, 8:15, 9:1, 25:17
team [1] - 43:2
television [2] - 79:24,
80:2
temporarily [1] - 83:18
temporary [3] - 83:22,
84:21, 84:22
tend [3] - 70:25,
72:16, 72:25
terms [9] - 16:9, 17:8,
30:17, 45:6, 49:23,
52:6, 52:13, 58:14,
74:3
Terrace [1] - 15:13
testing [1] - 9:6
Thanksgiving [1] -
82:21
THE [1] - 1:1
themselves [1] - 6:24
theory [1] - 51:2
Thereupon [1] - 86:9
they've [6] - 9:4, 9:5,
9:7, 18:15, 49:24,
85:21
thinking [1] - 65:3
third [1] - 8:24
thousand [3] - 10:18,
10:20
three [22] - 8:18, 8:21,
16:7, 19:2, 42:13,
47:20, 47:25, 48:4,
51:12, 55:7, 59:12,
59:18, 59:21, 60:6,
60:22, 61:17, 63:13,
69:23, 75:13, 82:7,
83:21
three-tier [1] - 69:23
throughout [2] -
32:12, 47:14
throwing [2] - 49:23,
51:17
tier [1] - 69:23
tireless [1] - 13:2
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14:10
today's [1] - 70:24
together [2] - 18:23,
43:4
totally [2] - 24:2, 67:1
touch [1] - 13:9
town [2] - 14:4, 14:7
trafficking [1] - 78:2
train [1] - 51:19
training [2] - 39:3,
39:6
trainings [1] - 26:10
transcript [1] - 87:7
transparent [1] - 80:9
tried [1] - 34:19
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true [2] - 82:3, 87:8
try [3] - 18:2, 57:19,
82:15
trying [10] - 13:19,
32:23, 35:1, 43:5,
54:13, 77:2, 84:3,
84:14, 84:20
turn [2] - 17:12, 46:9
tweaked [1] - 66:24
two [28] - 6:1, 12:22,
42:13, 46:8, 50:24,
51:12, 59:1, 63:1,
69:22, 70:6, 70:9,
70:20, 71:15, 72:10,
72:13, 73:1, 75:5,
75:18, 75:20, 75:21,
75:24, 76:5, 77:1,
77:8, 78:10, 78:25,
82:8, 82:11
two-year [4] - 70:20,
75:18, 75:24, 78:10
type [2] - 47:14, 50:22
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46:2
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7:25, 18:25, 24:8,
24:15, 29:6, 29:22,
47:8, 47:12
unfortunately [1] -
32:21
uniform [1] - 20:21
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11:23
unit [1] - 47:15
units [1] - 47:16
unless [4] - 31:24,
38:6, 73:1, 80:4
unnecessary [1] -
10:4
up [37] - 3:7, 7:21,
7:24, 9:21, 10:4,
11:10, 12:5, 12:13,
12:14, 12:19, 13:20,
15:10, 24:2, 30:9,
34:18, 34:21, 35:4,
43:25, 44:2, 47:16,
48:24, 53:25, 54:1,
54:4, 54:9, 61:21,
64:23, 65:4, 67:15,
68:13, 74:4, 76:3,
78:22, 79:8, 79:19,
85:1
up-to-date [1] - 61:21
upgrowth [1] - 46:6
V
VAB [12] - 1:16, 1:24,
2:2, 2:3, 2:7, 2:14,
6:10, 6:21, 7:3, 15:5,
22:18, 28:5
valorem [2] - 21:20,
46:7
Value [26] - 3:2, 3:16,
4:11, 7:8, 11:8,
11:14, 14:24, 17:19,
19:9, 20:2, 20:23,
21:5, 23:25, 26:4,
26:19, 27:7, 28:1,
66:17, 68:25, 69:17,
69:20, 69:25, 70:2,
70:8, 70:10, 71:18
VALUE [1] - 1:4
value [4] - 10:22,
21:21, 22:2, 24:9
values [1] - 22:1
various [1] - 4:13
verified [2] - 26:11,
31:4
version [1] - 83:10
vetted [1] - 34:20
VI [2] - 2:14, 66:15
VIERA [16] - 17:25,
19:12, 20:10, 23:13,
27:15, 29:9, 39:14,
47:22, 52:17, 52:25,
53:8, 53:20, 56:11,
64:1, 82:1, 86:4
Viera [3] - 1:12, 3:20,
4:9
view [1] - 6:16
viewpoint [1] - 54:6
VII [2] - 2:16, 67:5
voiced [1] - 8:19
volume [3] - 50:19,
52:2, 52:3
vote [1] - 79:18
voting [1] - 80:18
W
wait [4] - 12:6, 70:9,
75:21, 77:13
wants [1] - 78:18
warned [1] - 85:21
waste [1] - 68:17
watch [2] - 57:18,
80:13
ways [1] - 65:5
web [3] - 21:2, 21:8,
21:12
website [2] - 26:8,
61:14
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82:11
weigh [2] - 51:4, 59:7
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welcome [1] - 3:2
Wendy [5] - 5:3, 5:9,
12:16, 12:19, 14:23
West [2] - 53:14,
53:17
whatsoever [3] -
13:15, 34:6, 70:24
whole [6] - 56:24,
57:18, 63:4, 77:24,
81:7
window [10] - 41:25,
51:11, 52:7, 52:9,
52:11, 58:23, 59:1,
59:17, 61:23, 62:21
wisdom [2] - 54:10,
55:5
wish [2] - 4:22, 4:24
wishes [2] - 31:14,
39:23
wonderful [1] - 25:4
word [1] - 34:19
words [3] - 30:8,
35:18, 39:12
workload [1] - 52:14
works [2] - 47:11,
55:13
world [2] - 70:24,
85:11
writing [1] - 81:2
written [1] - 4:21
Y
year [45] - 2:7, 2:10,
2:12, 6:19, 8:6,
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27:25, 30:16, 30:22,
31:8, 32:23, 32:24,
46:9, 49:13, 50:24,
57:3, 58:20, 60:3,
60:7, 61:16, 62:20,
63:15, 64:9, 64:10,
64:13, 64:19, 65:2,
65:23, 67:3, 70:20,
74:8, 74:9, 75:18,
75:24, 78:10, 85:19
year-round [1] - 61:16
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46:8, 70:6, 70:9,
71:15, 72:10, 72:14,
73:1, 75:5, 75:21,
76:5, 77:8, 78:25
yourself [1] - 4:7
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Zack [2] - 5:2, 5:11
Zapata [2] - 1:10, 3:3
zone [1] - 77:3
zooming [1] - 14:25