The Miami Code Enforcement Board convened on July 14, 2026, at 10:00 AM to hear cases involving mitigation requests, extensions of time, and first-time violations. The board addressed two mitigation cases, one special appearance for a partial release, and a series of violation hearings, issuing findings of guilt and setting compliance deadlines and per diem fines.
Several properties were heard in absentia with findings of guilt and compliance periods:
Continue to stand if you are here to testify to be sworn in. Do you solemnly swear? Could you please stand? Yeah. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? You may have a seat. We have a new interpreter. Okay. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you would translate from English to Creole and Creole to English to the best of your ability? Thank you. Uh bonsoir. No. Thank you. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you would translate from English to Spanish and Spanish to English to the best of your ability? Thank you. Thank you. Roll call. Present. Mr. Javier Rodriguez. Present. Mr. Keon Williams. Present. We have a quorum. Good evening. Everybody here tonight is either here for a mitigation, an extension of time, or you're here for the first time. We will call mitigations first, then extensions of time, and then those who are here for the first time. And if it's a commercial non-residential property, it's up to a thousand dollars per diem. And if it's a commercial non-residential property, it's up to a thousand dollars per diem. If you're a repeat violator, the if it's a residential property, it's the $500 per diem. If it's a non-residential commercial property, it's up to $5,000 per diem. When your case is complete, there's a handout that's at the podium that tells you how to request an extension of time. So long as you request an extension of time before the time to comply has expired, the fines don't start running. But if you miss that date, that's when the fine start running. So make sure you take that piece of paper and you request the time before the time to comply has expired. So they give you 30 days, request the extension of time on the 20th day if you're not gonna comply by the 30th. So you don't have any fines to worry about. If you plead not guilty, the city will put on its case. You can put on your defense, and the board will determine by majority vote whether you're guilty or not guilty. If they find a property guilty, then they will assess a number of days to comply with a violation and a per diem fine. All orders of the board are available to the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida within 30 days. Thank you. Um we have a board member that uh has an excused absence. For moves for excuse absence for your leases, second. All right, and so what I want to do is we got two mitigations. Can I call those up first and get those out the way? And then I think we have one special appearance. Okay. You think it's gonna be long on a special appearance?