1 CLERK OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY … Organizational Meeting of...1 CLERK OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY...

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COURT REPORTERS, INC. (305) 373-5600

1

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


2

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


3

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


4

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


5

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


6

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


7

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


8

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


9

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


10

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,

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


11

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


12

deep breath and relax. We're in good

hands. And I appreciate your time.

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


13

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


14

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.


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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


15

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.


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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


16

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


17

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.


Mr. Jardack, you have something to

say?

MR. JARDACK: No.

COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Anibal?

MR. DUARTE-VIERA: No.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


18

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


19

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


20

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.


COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Motion.


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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


21

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,

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


22

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


23

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.


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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


24

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


25

the first of December.

MR. BLANCO: December.


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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


26

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


27

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


28

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.


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,

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


29

including appeals of the Board. Without

that, the Board would never finish.


MR. BLANCO: Mr. Chair, at this

point, we need a resolution just adopting

all these items under IV.


COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I have a motion.


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,

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


30

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


31

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


32

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


33

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


34

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


35

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


36

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


37

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.


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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


38

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


39

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


40

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


41

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


42

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


43

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


44

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


45

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


46

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


47

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,

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


48

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


49

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.


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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


50

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


51

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


52

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


53

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


54

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


55

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


56

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


57

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


58

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


59

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


60

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


61

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


62

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


63

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?


1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


64

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,

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


65

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


66

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


67

totally completed for your approval. It's

going to be prior to the '16 -- for the

'15 tax year. I'm sorry.


MR. BLANCO: VII.

COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Mr. Blanco.



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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


68

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


69

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


70

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

Petitioner representing -- well, actually,

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


71

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 --


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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


72

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


73

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.


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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


74

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


75

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


76

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.


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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


77

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


78

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


79

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.


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,

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


80

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


81

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 --

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


82

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


83

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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


84

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


85

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

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


86

house before we go?

Okay, motion to adjourn.



COMMISSIONER DIAZ: We are adjourned.

MR. BLANCO: Thank you very much for

everything.


(Thereupon, at 11:25 a.m., the

hearing was concluded).

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25


87

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

COURT REPORTER

$

$15 [1] - 23:9

$700 [1] - 29:24

'

'15 [1] - 67:3

'16 [3] - 19:10, 24:2,

67:2

1

1 [11] - 1:1, 19:4, 25:9,

26:1, 26:6, 41:17,

57:7, 57:9, 67:19,

69:5, 87:7

1.4 [1] - 7:1

10 [5] - 1:2, 26:18,

50:15, 63:9, 63:16

100% [1] - 50:23

10th [1] - 68:11

11 [1] - 26:23

11/05/2015 [1] - 87:11

111 [1] - 1:1

11:25 [1] - 86:9

12D-10 [1] - 20:20

12D-51 [1] - 21:9

12D-9 [2] - 4:16, 20:20

12D-9.014 [1] - 2:5

13 [2] - 45:3, 63:21

14th [2] - 81:13, 81:21

18 [2] - 2:2, 6:8

18th [1] - 22:13

192 [1] - 21:10

193.116 [1] - 27:2

194 [2] - 26:21, 26:22

194.015 [1] - 25:15

195 [1] - 21:10

1977 [1] - 28:18

1992 [1] - 48:24

1st [3] - 22:2, 24:20,

69:6

2

2 [5] - 19:19, 25:11,

41:18, 57:8, 57:9

20 [1] - 47:16

2015 [16] - 1:2, 2:2,

2:7, 2:10, 2:12, 3:15,

4:11, 13:11, 13:20,

19:10, 23:8, 23:20,

27:8, 27:25, 30:16,

30:22

2016 [2] - 23:24, 64:17

21 [1] - 47:17

22 [1] - 1:2

25 [2] - 2:5, 54:16

27 [3] - 2:7, 2:9, 33:10

286.011 [1] - 26:1

29 [5] - 2:11, 38:7,

38:13, 38:16, 42:7

2nd [1] - 24:20

3

3 [5] - 19:4, 19:25,

25:13, 26:2, 26:6

30 [19] - 31:6, 31:11,

32:21, 33:5, 37:17,

38:9, 44:12, 44:24,

45:4, 49:6, 54:14,

62:9, 62:14, 62:15,

63:13, 71:24, 71:25,

75:12

30% [1] - 51:1

34 [1] - 38:7

35 [1] - 6:6

4

4 [5] - 20:15, 20:19,

25:16, 26:2, 26:6

5

5 [4] - 21:3, 25:23,

26:2, 26:6

500 [1] - 50:25

6

6 [2] - 21:9, 26:3

60,000 [1] - 10:12

63 [1] - 64:14

66 [1] - 2:14

67,000 [1] - 64:9

7

7 [2] - 21:13, 26:7

717 [1] - 14:18

7504 [1] - 15:12

78 [1] - 15:12

8

8 [3] - 19:4, 23:6, 26:9

86 [1] - 87:8

9

9 [2] - 23:18, 26:12

90 [2] - 67:16, 68:10

A

a.m [2] - 1:2, 86:9

ability [2] - 78:7, 79:1

able [3] - 15:3, 43:22,

59:2

absolute [2] - 30:6,

30:12

accept [3] - 51:9,

53:25, 58:2

accepted [2] - 62:24,

70:21

access [5] - 66:3,

77:24, 78:1, 78:3,

78:11

accolades [1] - 13:6

accomplish [1] - 35:2

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,


1

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,


2

53:9, 53:11

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,


3

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] -


4

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


5

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


6

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


7

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

record [15] - 14:17,

15:23, 22:9, 23:17,

24:24, 29:11, 29:18,

29:21, 33:16, 62:25,

64:4, 67:24, 81:11,


8

83:3, 87:8

recruit [2] - 42:9, 59:2

recruiting [1] - 42:9

reduction [3] - 22:23,

57:13, 58:12

referenced [1] - 48:2

reflected [1] - 38:4

refund [1] - 28:8

REGALADO [46] -

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

Reporter [1] - 87:5

reporting [1] - 66:21

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

serving [1] - 72:15

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

simple [1] - 72:12

single [3] - 16:21,

47:15, 80:1

single-family [1] -

47:15

sit [2] - 56:22, 80:2

sitting [2] - 6:12, 54:3

situation [9] - 31:25,

38:4, 40:5, 40:6,

42:19, 44:1, 45:17,

46:7, 77:22

six [1] - 7:5

sixty [1] - 64:13

sixty-seven [1] - 64:13

size [1] - 6:16

slightly [1] - 66:21

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

special [16] - 2:12,

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

specific [3] - 8:18,

37:24, 39:25

specifically [3] -

40:16, 41:14, 69:16

specifics [2] - 31:15,

31:17

specified [1] - 7:23

speed [2] - 13:20, 44:2

spoken [1] - 5:23

STAFF [1] - 1:22

staff [14] - 6:13, 7:9,

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

stand [1] - 63:11

standard [4] - 70:4,

75:6, 76:23

standards [1] - 85:1

stands [1] - 40:1

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


9

starting [5] - 7:20,

23:21, 24:9, 59:20,

62:18

starts [1] - 68:23

state [9] - 14:16,

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

status [2] - 2:14,

66:16

statute [1] - 10:25

Statute [4] - 25:14,

25:25, 26:20, 27:1

Statutes [1] - 21:10

stenographic [1] -

87:9

step [2] - 45:25, 51:6

still [3] - 17:4, 28:11,

43:22

stone [1] - 24:5

stop [2] - 9:21, 9:24

stopped [2] - 34:1,

57:6

Street [1] - 1:1

strong [1] - 54:11

structure [1] - 42:20

studies [1] - 9:3

stuff [2] - 5:15, 65:8

sudden [1] - 10:17

suggest [1] - 51:12

suggested [4] - 31:6,

45:5, 59:16, 63:19

suggestion [2] -

53:21, 56:12

suitable [2] - 48:13,

48:14

summarily [1] - 56:16

summer [1] - 8:6

Sunshine [1] - 21:4

superintendent [1] -

8:19

supply [1] - 60:15

surfaced [1] - 74:7

surpass [1] - 71:9

suspend [1] - 34:5

suspended [1] - 34:2

sweet [1] - 54:14

system [10] - 21:15,

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

tirelessly [1] - 64:22

today [3] - 3:4, 4:21,

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

TRIM [2] - 22:9, 22:15

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

U

unanimously [1] -

46:2

under [10] - 4:16, 6:14,

7:25, 18:25, 24:8,

24:15, 29:6, 29:22,

47:8, 47:12

unfortunately [1] -

32:21

uniform [1] - 20:21

unintended [2] - 9:17,

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

week [2] - 82:25, 83:1

weeks [3] - 7:5, 82:9,

82:11

weigh [2] - 51:4, 59:7

weighed [1] - 84:8

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,


10

11:12, 19:10, 22:3,

22:11, 22:13, 23:8,

23:20, 23:21, 27:9,

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

years [15] - 6:6, 30:5,

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

yourselves [1] - 47:6

Z

Zack [2] - 5:2, 5:11

Zapata [2] - 1:10, 3:3

zone [1] - 77:3

zooming [1] - 14:25

1 CLERK OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY … Organizational Meeting of...1 CLERK OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY...

Documents

Transcript of 1 CLERK OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY … Organizational Meeting of...1 CLERK OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY...