Okay, no, I got it.

It's green when it's not lit, and then it's brighter green when it is lit.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you.

It's it's too dim.

Did he say?

Okay.

Okay.

Good afternoon.

Today is Tuesday, July 21st, 2026, and this is the hearing for this month for City of Tempe Hearing Officer.

My name's Vanessa McDonald, and I'm gonna be conducting the hearing this afternoon.

I'm gonna read something into the record, and then we can go ahead and jump into our agenda.

The City of Tempe Hearing Officer is authorized by Arizona revised statutes and the City of Tempe zoning and development code.

The hearing officer is granted the authority to conduct public hearings to decide upon the abatement of code violations occurring on properties within the city of Tempe.

These violations include deteriorated pools, structures, or landscaping, storage of junk or refuse, and storage of inoperable or unregistered vehicles.

Abatement actions are brought before the hearing officer by the city's code compliance division, typically after numerous attempts at contacting the property owner to obtain voluntary compliance with the code.

On today's agenda, we have five items.

We have a set of minutes from June 2nd, 2026, and we have four property abatements.

Today we will likely hear that at a future date.

Um when they were delivered to me after the hearing, and I believe that they accurately reflect what took place at that hearing.

The applicant is the City of Tempe, represented this afternoon by Code Compliance Inspector Michael Moreno.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Thank you, Madam Hearing Officer.

My name is Michael Moreno, and I am a code compliance inspector with the City of Tempe Code Compliance Division.

I am here this evening to request a 180-day open abatement for the property located at 1 to 8 East Garfield Street, Tempe, Arizona, 8528.

This case was initiated on October 24th, 2025, after code compliance received an anonymous complaint about a deteriorated landscape, trash and debris in the front and rear properties, and a deteriorated fence.

On October 24th, 2025, an initial inspection was conducted, and the violations were confirmed at that time.

The first notice was mailed to the property owner, John Crossman.

On November 25th, 2025, a follow-up inspection was conducted at the property, and the violations had not been corrected.

A final notice was mailed out to the property owner, John Crossman.

On December 29th, 2025, another follow-up inspection was conducted at the property.

The violations had not been corrected, but there was progress with the deteriorated fence.

From January 12th, 2026 to January 28th, progress had been made to correct the violations on the property, and I had attempted to contact Mr.

Crossman multiple times with no answer.

On February 10th, 2026, I conducted another follow-up inspection at the property.

The violations still had not been corrected.

I was able to contact Mr.

Crossman by the phone, and due to progress being made on the property and no additional complaints, I granted the second extension.

On March 27, 2026, a citation was issued to the property owner, John Crossman.

The fines have been paid for that citation.

On May 26, 2026, a notice of intent to abate was mailed to the property owner, John Crossman, and posted to the property.

Okay, so the pictures I have in my packet are dated May 26th.

So these pictures were taken after progress was made on the property.

Correct, yes.

So this first photo here is taken on the north side of the property facing south.

This is kind of an overview of the front of the property.

I know it's a little bit difficult to see here, but we do have some deteriorated overheight grass and weeds.

There's lots of bald spots, as well as uh very tall, inconsistent landscaping here, as well as on the side in this back corner.

Uh I'll show in my next photo.

A close-up of more overheight grass and weeds in the gravel, as well as various types of trash and debris here in the carport.

We have lots of center blocks, large piles of wood, multiple dead tree branches on the roof area as well.

And I know it's difficult to see here because it's dark, but there's also more items here inside the carport.

We can also see in this picture of some of the dead trees that are in the rear yard.

This is from the front, obviously.

You can see up here.

Here we can see another large dead tree right here in the front, as well as numerous uh debris kind of here tucked in the back, multiple stumps, as well as overheight grass and weeds, and a deteriorated appearance.

This photo here is on the east side of the property facing west.

Um we can see there's a lots of deteriorated landscaping here on the side of the property, as well as that deteriorated fence with uh different pieces of wood and stuff like that.

His attempt at trying to repair the fence, as well as over here, there's lots of dead shrubs and grass.

The next photo I have is gonna focus here on this area.

So this photo here is just a close-up of some of the overheight grass and weeds and dead vegetation.

I know it's a little difficult to see, but there's also trash and debris that's mixed in here in the back.

Um, a lot of concrete debris, um, different pots, uh, metal, various wood.

Wow.

This next photo here is once again of the side of the property, um, a close-up here of the fence.

And as we can see here, there is enough JTD here in the back, junk trash and debris, excuse me.

Um, lots of metal, uh, wood, various items that are actually pushing on the fence, um, as well as more dead vegetation.

This photo here is to the rear of the property at the uh northeast end, uh kind of facing the alley and the sidewalk.

As you can see, a lot of this vegetation here is actually blocking some of the sidewalk and hanging over more trash and debris that we can see sticking over the fence, uh various metals and wood, as well as more uh deterioration here along the alley.

Here's a quick close-up just of that trash and debris there from the alley.

Uh, as we can see, like I said, there is multiple uh items in the rear here, as far as metal and wood, um, tools, pots, coolers, and here's a few dead uh branches on this tree as well.

This photo here is another uh photo taken from the alley on the north side of the property facing south.

Um, just to reiterate more wood, um wrought iron fencing, shade structures that are all deteriorated and falling down.

Here is a wide photo here from the northwest side of the property.

As you can see here, we have multiple dead trees, all very large.

Um there's at least three here in the back that are completely dead, as well as this tree here has multiple dead branches.

There's also a large pile of concrete debris here in the alley.

Wow.

This photo here is directly over the rear fence.

Um, it is so overgrown, it's kind of hard to see, but there's a lot of trash and debris that is covered with excessive pine needles, over height grass and weeds, dead branches, um, lots of cloth or shade material fabric that has since fallen down, uh, multiple drums and barrels, um scrap metal, things of that nature.

Once again, this is uh another photo here of the rear of the property facing south.

Um, this here is the back door.

As you can see, we have multiple coolers, lots of dead vegetation that's hanging around in here, as well as on the ground.

As I stated before, uh I am seeking a 180-day open abatement for the violations of trash and debris and deteriorated landscaping located at the 128 East Garfield Street property.

Okay, thank you.

Um, just out of curiosity, because it just dawned on me that I never get to see the properties after they're cleaned up.

What is the expectation?

Like, because this is a pretty large abatement.

Um, so what will it look like after the abatement goes through?

So, obviously, our biggest things are um the dead trees are obviously the biggest thing that we can see.

That's also a safety hazard.

Um, it could potentially be a fire hazard as well, being that close to the power lines.

Um, so ultimately here, and I'll I'll throw this picture up.

I don't know if you can see it.

Um, these there's at least three trees here, as well as a lot of this dead, these dead branches and vegetation, as well as everything below here.

Um, the property does have a lot of vegetation that is within code.

Um, ultimately, we're trying to get it not as a deteriorated appearance.

Yeah, anything that's dead um that could potentially be a safety risk is what we're after, as well as I think it speaks for itself, the any sort of junk trash and debris.

Um, like the colors, the metal, all of like that stuff will go away.

A lot of this, everything here, a lot of this is even hindering the property owner's ability to fix his own fence because it is pushing on it.

Um, so anything like this, especially you can see it over the fence and through the the broken areas of the fence as well.

So that's essentially what we're looking at, as well as any sort of overheight grass and weeds or any any sort of vegetation that's coming out over the sidewalk that is impeding traffic or flow on the sidewalk or alley.

So the structures like what's up there, even though they're haphazard, certainly not to code.

Right, those will stay essentially right now.

What we're concerned with is the large amount of trash and debris and deteriorated landscaping, while there always is other um code violations on properties.

We're focused on some of the bigger things first and trying to give the property owner a chance to correct that and giving in the opportunity once if we are able to go in and abate the property to correct those other issues on his own.

Right.

Okay.

Thank you.

I didn't mean to put you on the spot.

It just dawned on me that I never see these properties on the back end of an abatement.

Um, Mr.

Defar, is there anyone on the line wanting to talk about this agenda item?

Madam Hearing Officer, no one online.

Thank you.

And I'll make a note for the record there's no one here in the chamber other than um City of Tempe staff.

So given the fact that the communication with this property owner has been, you know, just off and on scant at best, and the condition of the property and like you said, the danger of having those big dead trees.

Um, I'm gonna go ahead and grant your 180-day open abatement request for the crossman property at 128 East Garfield, contained in case CE256613.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next item is agenda item number three.

Again, this is an item that was continued from the July 7th hearing.

This is a request for approval to abate public nuisance items at the Hernandez property located at 205 East Hermosa Drive.

The applicant is the city of Tempe, represented this afternoon by Code Inspector John Salazar.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Madam Hearing Officer.

My name is John Salzer, and I'm a code inspector supervisor with the City of Tempe Community Enhancement Division.

I am here today seeking 180 day open abatement for the properties you described, located at 205 East Chermosa Drive here in Tempe 85282.

This case was initiated by a public complaint on January 15th, 26 for junk trash debris and overheight grass and weeds in the front and rear yards of the property.

On January 16th, the property was inspected and found to be in violation of the above-mentioned violations.

The first correction notice was sent to the property owner for those violations.

On February 4th, 2026, the property was reinspected and all the violations were still present.

A final correction notice was then mailed to the property owner for those violations.

On February 27, 2026, the property was reinspected and no corrections were made at this time.

The violation for dead and deteriorated palm fronds in the front yard was added, and a new revised final notice was mailed to the property owner with all of the violations listed.

On March 23rd, the property was reinspected, and no corrections were made towards the violations.

At that time, I emailed a copy of the latest revised final notice to the email listed on the water bill after not receiving any contact from the owner.

On April 1st, April 1st, 26th, the property was reinspected, and the violations were still present.

I called the phone number listed on the water bill, and it was a Spanish speaker recording on the phone.

On April 6, 26, contact was made with the owner, Mr.

Hernandez in Spanish, and he would he was advised of the current violations at the property.

Excuse me.

Mr.

Hernandez advised the violations would be resolved in the next two weeks.

On 417, 26, the property was reinspected, and some of the overheight grass and reeds was removed from the front yard, but the other violations were still present.

On April 24th of 26, the property was reinspected and no additional progress was made toward the existing violations.

A citation was issued to the owner, Jesus Hernandez, for the violation of junk trash debris and dead palm fronds.

The owner failed to appear in court for his court hearing, and the case was sent to collections.

On May 13th and May 22nd of 26, the property was reinspected again twice, and the violations were still present.

On June 5th or 26th, a notice of intent to abate was mailed and posted to the property for this hearing.

I would now like to present photos taken today of the existing violations.

Thank you.

This is just a quick photo of the front of the house.

As you can see, there is some dead palm fronds hanging out here.

They're getting longer by the week.

There was some overhigh grass and weeds here in the front, but the property owner did remove those, so those weren't added.

And then up here in a minute, right here about this little uh porch area.

I'm going to show you where there's quite a bit of the junk trash debris that we're addressing.

They just put up that lattice work in front.

I think it's to block everything out, so we can't really see it.

Here's just a quick photo of all of the dead palm fronds hanging down.

As you can see, they're all dead throughout here, all the brown deteriorated dead palm fronds.

Here is a close-up photo of that patio area, if you will, as you can see in this particular area, there's boxes, plastic, metal, buckets, uh, all kinds of you know, chairs, trash and debris all sprung out through the floor area.

He's got it almost stacked all the way up to the roof here.

But yeah, I believe this lattice was added here, so you really couldn't see this, but this is right off the side uh front patio of the house.

Moving towards the backyard.

Here's kind of an overview from the alley.

Uh a lot to go on here.

You've got uh deteriorated, I'm not sure if it's its appliance boxes burned.

You've got trash and debris all sprown out all throughout here.

You got tons of wood and metal just stacked up, metal doors, wood doors, all of this debris all sprawn out all throughout.

You've got some metal cabinets and stuff here, bags of trash that are kind of spread out here as well, all throughout the back of the property.

Wow.

Just a different angle of the backyard.

As you can see, there's more all lined up back here over on the side of the house.

And this is going all the way in the back porch area, all throughout the back.

More wood, more metal just stacked in the back.

Looks like some old discarded appliances, old wood, kind of spread out all throughout the back.

It almost looks like there's more stuff in that picture than there was in June.

Different angle, I'm sorry, different angle.

Uh definitely adds more to it, right?

Yeah.

And this is just a different angle here, as you can kind of see more from the side.

Everything over here, you can see it's stacked from this angle.

There's just almost stacked as high as six-foot wall, all in the back corner, all throughout the other part of the backyard, metal, discarded metal and pieces of trash down here as well.

And last but not least, just a different area.

As we go farther down the alley, as you can see throughout the rest, there's um discarded appliances, washers, dryers, stacks of metal, and you can just see trash thrown out all throughout the front and the side here throughout the backyard.

Wow.

All right.

As I stated before, I am seeking 180-day abatement for the property located at 205 East Hermosa for junk trash debris and deteriorated palm fronds.

Thank you, ma'am.

Okay, thank you.

Um, quick question.

Once he found out they were Spanish speakers, were the notices or anything in Spanish?

Like, they were not.

No, we we reached out to him, had an uh inspector who spoke Spanish, obviously reached out to him and talked to him, provided the number for contact for him.

Okay, and we never received any callbacks from him whatsoever.

Good.

I just wanted to know.

A little bit of an effort was made.

Uh, Mr.

DeFara, is anyone on the line wanting to talk about this?

Madam Hearing Officer, no one online.

Thank you.

And again, I'll make a note for the record.

No one is here in the chamber except for uh City of Tempe staff.

Um, well, given the condition of the property and um the history going back to January of this case and how there's been little to no progress.

In fact, if anything, it's gotten worse.

Um, I'm gonna go ahead and approve.

Madam Harry Officer, just for the record, can you just um say the case number real quick?

There's one extra two in there.

Okay.

I have CE 2260324.

It should be uh CE260324.

Got it.

Okay.

There's an extra digit in there.

Okay.

Okay, so I'll continue.

I'm gonna go ahead and approve your 180-day open abatement request for the property at 205 East Hermosa Drive, contained in case CE 260324.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

This brings us to agenda item number four.

This is again another case that we continued from July 7.

Um, this is a request for approval to abate public nuisance items at the Michelson property at 1312 West Elnoray Street.

Applicant is the City of Tempe, represented this afternoon by Code Inspector Kevin Kowalski.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Madam Here and Officer.

My name is Kevin Kowalski, and I'm a code compliance supervisor of the City of Tempe Community Enhancement Division.

I'm here this evening to request a 180-day open abatement for the property at 1312 West Elna Ray Street here in Tempe, 85281.

This case was initiated by Inspector Zapolo who could not be here tonight.

On March 11th, uh 2026, he went by the property and observed having deteriorated landscape.

Upon inspection, overgrown grass and weeds in the front side and backyard were observed along with the rear alleyway.

A notice was sent to the owner of the property who was identified as Patrick Michelson.

On March 25th, Inspector Zapolo went back to the property, found it also uh continued to be non-compliant and in violation, and a final notice was sent to the owner.

On April 8th, a third inspection was conducted by Inspector Zapolo.

Um no changes were observed.

At that point, he left a door hanger requesting contact uh by the occupants or owner.

Uh he also telephoned the owner and made telephone contact with him on that day.

Their conversation was short.

Uh the owner disconnected the phone call by telling Inspector Zapola it was not a good time and hung up the phone.

Uh Inspector Zapola did call back and left a message uh requesting contact uh from the owner, um, but didn't hear anything back.

Uh by April 15th, uh, after confirming the property was still not in compliance, Inspector Zapolo issued a citation to Mr.

Michelson.

Uh two weeks later, uh, after checking court records, it was discovered that the defendant did not appear in court.

He failed to appear, and the citation was ultimately sent to collections.

On May 14th, Inspector Zapolo called and left another message for the owner again requesting contact to discuss how to get the property into compliance.

And at this time, the abatement process had begun.

By June 3rd, uh notice to abate was posted to the property and mailed to the owner.

June 23rd, Inspector Zapolo uh driving by the property while inspecting other uh addresses in the area.

He was able to make contact with the owner, Mr.

Michelson, and had a conversation with him discussing what needed to be done to bring the property into compliance.

A couple of weeks later, uh July 8th, uh, although some progress was made, property was still noncompliant.

Um he attempted in-person contact and was unsuccessful.

Left another phone message for the homeowner.

Didn't receive any phone call back, and ultimately the property remains uh non-compliant today.

And I would like to show you some photos of the property taken earlier today.

Perfect.

Thank you.

It is tucked back in there as you can kind of see over here, but uh up front, the car level, a couple of large trees um completely overgrown, deteriorated, sagging, uh, maybe a little bit of storm damage, but uh almost completely obscuring the uh property from street view.

This is also looking at the front of the resonance, and we are now on the other side of the property, looking back the other way from west to east.

You can see the overgrown trees um hanging well over the property line and obstructing the sidewalk area.

Also, some of the branches on the front tree are also uh dead and deteriorated.

This is a photograph of the west side of the property.

Uh on this side is the property on Elnoray in question.

All overgrass, high weeds, some dead, some living, kind of growing up the fence line, but definitely along in the gravel, what used to be a gravel uh landscaped area.

Here's another photograph of the front of the property.

This is just looking back towards the residence, but you can see how obstructed the front sidewalk is uh because of the over the growth.

This photograph pictures the east side of the property along the other fence line on the other side.

If we look down uh everything on the fence line to the left, um is the property at 1312.

You can see additional over high grass and weeds, a lot of it dead and deteriorated, but also climbing up the fence line.

Tree in the front yard that we can see overhanging and obstructing the sidewalk is also overhanging the property next door.

Here's a photograph of the rear of the property looking from the alleyway.

You see a bunch of uh grass and weeds in the gravel landscaping back here, again, some dead, some alive, but also in the gravel landscaping area of the backyard.

This is a picture in the alleyway along the fence line of the property.

I'm standing at the edge of the property here looking back across the entire uh fence line.

You see uh quite a bit of over high uh dead grass weeds almost uh halfway up the hall, excuse me, halfway up the wall, property, property wall that is, and extending all the way down uh from one side yard fence to the other.

Is that a storage shed or something?

It's an accessory structure that's remains incomplete in his backyard.

But yes.

Again, more additional dead grass.

It appears that perhaps at one point he did cut some of it down in his backyard, but then left it kind of laying along the fence line and in the alleyway.

There's another photograph of some of the uh dead grass and stuff that you had cut down, kind of looking back uh into the property again, that vegetation growing into the alleyway.

Photograph there.

Does that sign say someone will be shot if you entered the property?

It does.

I think I believe that's one of two that he has in the property.

Wow.

Like that.

So we've got PD, right?

As part of always be involved, correct?

And this is the final photograph looking at that same sign you were just referring to, madam.

Uh again, more of the uh dead grass uh and vegetation in the property again of the sign and mention um looking back from the alleyway into the backyard.

So I stated before I'm seeking 180-day open abatement for the violations of nuisance code 21-3B8, deteriorated landscape for the property at 1312 West El Narray Street in Tempe, Arizona, 85281.

Well, thank you.

Thank you for the photos.

Um, Mr.

DeFara, anyone on the line wanting to talk about this case?

Madam here and officer, no one online.

Great.

And I'll make another note.

No one is here in the chamber other than City of Tempe staff.

So um, given the condition of the property, minimal, if any progress, and the property owner's reluctance to be cooperative in the process.

Um, I think it's appropriate to approve your 180-day open abatement request for the property located at 1312 West El Narray Street, contained in case CE261509.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

As I mentioned earlier, agenda item number five.

Uh, we're not going to be hearing that case.

That property has been sold, and so it will need to be re-advertised, correct?

And so it's being continued to a day not certain because we don't know when that will be heard.

Um, so that takes us to agenda item number six.

This is a request for approval to abate public nuisance items at the angel property.

This property is located at 1240 east El Parque Drive.

The applicant is the city of Tempe, represented this afternoon by Code Inspector Scott Lean.

Welcome.

Good evening.

Thank you, Madam Hearing Officer.

My name is Scott Lee, and I'm a co-compliance inspector with the City of Tempe Coal Compliance Division.

I'm here this evening to request 180-day open abatement for the property located at 1240 East El Parquet Drive, Tempe, Arizona, 85282.

This case was initiated on March 4th, 2026 for deteriorated pool odor weeds along with junk trash and debris.

On March 5th, 2026, I inspected the property and observed grass and weeds growing in the gravel landscape of the front side and rear backyard.

I also found overhigh grass and weeds in the rear alley along with overhanging branches obstructing the front sidewalk.

I also noted junk trash debris underneath the front carport area, the rear backyard and underneath the rear back patio.

I sent out two correction notices mailing both to the owner of the property, Alicia L Angel and the current tenant.

On March 19th, I reinspected the property and found no corrections had been made.

I mailed mailed two final correction notices to the property owner, Alicia L Angel and current tenant.

On April 3rd, 2026, I inspected the property again and found the violations had not been corrected.

I attempted to contact at the front door, but no one answered.

I left a pink flyer along with my business card, the property.

On April 6th, 7th, and 8th, I 2026, I attempted to contact the property owner via telephone, but was enabled to leave a voice message.

On April 16th, 2026, I reinspected the property, noting that no corrections were made.

A citation was issued to the property owner, Alicia L.

Angel for junk trash debris, sidewalk obstruction along with deteriorated landscape.

On May 4th, 2026, I attempted to contact the property owner at the residence, but no one answered.

On May 12, 2026, I re-inspected the property again, noting the property was still in violation.

I issued a second citation to the property owner for junk trash debris, sidewalk obstruction and deteriorated lambs landscape.

On May 13, 2026, I went to the residence and dropped off another citation copy, which was placed wedged in the door underneath the carport.

And on May 14th, 2026, I sent a revised final correction notice to the property owner, adding a violation of excessive deteriorated palm fronds on a palm tree located in the front of the property.

On May 28th, 2026, I re-inspected the property, noting some of the trash bags underneath the carport had been removed, but the property was not in compliance.

On June 12th, 2026, I posted a notice of intent to abate the property, which was wedged in a door underneath the carport.

A copy was also mailed to the property owner's address.

At this time, I'd like to present photos taken today of the existing violations.

Thank you.

So the pool is not an issue anymore, right?

The pool's not, it's empty, it's not an issue.

So as you can see, so this is the back alley which faces its uh north, and you can see the address there.

We've got overheight grass and weeds along the property line of the listed address here.

See it all up and down.

You can see uh weeds on the gravel landscape deteriorated landscape all throughout here.

Um, like I said, the pool is empty.

Here's uh another photo, same location or similar location.

You can see the deteriorated landscape weeds and the gravel landscape all around and and grass here.

Um you can also see underneath the carport some of the junk trash debris, which is boxes, coolers, totes.

Um there's a looks like a stack of clothes, some tables all up and down here.

So there was some progress in the backyard.

They cut down a lot of those dead yes, madam hearing officer.

So this is the northeast corner of the um back of the property, and you can see still more grass and weeds in the gravel landscape deteriorated landscape.

Um, I don't know, this is um some sort of a wood structure over here.

Um it's tucked up on the east uh backyard side again back um in the backyard of the property.

You can still see um up in here um deteriorated landscape, uh, grass and weeds in the gravel landscape up and down right here.

Here's a closer picture of the rear backyard patio, and you can see the piles of clothes right here and uh some of the other junk trash debris, and it looks like there's some other um junk behind the pool fence here.

One more closer photo of what is underneath the patio here with all the junk trash and debris.

You also see that's dirt here and missing some of the gravel in the backyard right up to the patio.

This is the uh west uh backyard side where you can see some more junk trash debris uh uh trash lid here.

There's some boxes or trash back over in here, an old wheelbarrel.

It's kind of tucked back in behind the um brush.

So the obviously these were taken today.

The property owner has started to address some of the well, actually because you can see um we have no more sidewalk obstruction.

I'll show you the picture of that here in a second.

We still do have an old shop vac underneath the carport that's been there.

Um but uh everything else um the property owner's been working on the front as well.

Yeah, the palm tree got trimmed.

Yes, that looks better.

Yes, ma'am.

Um the sidewalk obstruction is uh no longer here as well.

So um as stated before, um I am seeking 180 day open abatement for the violations of nuisance code 21-3B1 junk trash debris and 21-3b8 deteriorated landscape for the property at 1240 East L Parque Drive in Tempe, Arizona, 85282.

Thank you, Madam Hearing Officer.

Thank you.

Um Mr.

Defara, anyone on the line wanted to talk about this?

Madam Hearing Officer, no one online.

Okay, and again, I'll note no one is here other than City of Tempe staff.

Um well I do think that the property owner or tenant or whomever um the responsible person is for this property has made some good progress, but it's not compliant still.

I didn't want to suggest that they were brought into compliance.

I just wanted to make it noted for the record that they had made some decent progress.

Um so um you've been in contact with the owner right, and then the tenant lives there, or you've been unable to so I've actually um when I noticed there was work on the property, it was inspecting another property, and so I had sent an email to the property owner because I have had no contact whatsoever.

Um sent an email I think it was July 13th.

Uh the property owner responded on July 16th, indicating they're working on the property, but that that's the only communication I've had since initiating this investigation.

Okay, perfect.

Well, thank you.

Um, and again, like I mentioned before at the beginning of the hearing, there's two weeks, you know, between today and when the actual property would be abated.

So if they continue to make progress, then that would be really helpful um to them.

Nevertheless, I am going to approve your one you wanted 180 days, correct?

Um, so that you can stay on top of this property.

So again, um to restate it, I'm approving the 180-day open abatement request for the property at 1240 East L Parque Drive, contained in case CE 261356.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Hearing Officer.

Well, that concludes our agenda for this evening.

Uh Mr.

DeFara, any announcements?

Madam Hearing Officer, one announcement.

Our next hearing officer is scheduled for Tuesday, August 4th at 5 o'clock in the in the chambers and live on Temp 11.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Good night, everyone.

We're adjourned.