WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:20:43" NOTE recognizability:0.847 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.903588673333333 00:00:02.230 --> 00:00:02.998 Well, good morning. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:10.094 Two years ago I stood here this very place NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:10.094 --> 00:00:13.190 surrounded by community stakeholders. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:13.190 --> 00:00:15.840 Some of whom are with us here. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:15.840 --> 00:00:19.440 Today we announced that we were taking steps NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.255 to protect the tenants of Marion County NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:22.255 --> 00:00:26.391 against bad actor landlords only weeks later. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:26.391 --> 00:00:27.852 The pandemic disrupted NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:27.852 --> 00:00:30.589 the world as we knew it. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:30.590 --> 00:00:35.588 Throwing renters into even further turmoil. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:35.590 --> 00:00:38.980 Thanks to a robust local rental NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:38.980 --> 00:00:42.294 assistance program that has distributed NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:42.294 --> 00:00:46.548 more than $90 million since 2020, NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:46.548 --> 00:00:49.893 eviction filings in Marion County NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:49.893 --> 00:00:54.068 remained lower than pre pandemic levels. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:54.070 --> 00:00:57.360 But far too many residents still face NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:01.950 poor and even dangerous living conditions. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:01.950 --> 00:01:06.670 Which is. Why we are here today? NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:06.670 --> 00:01:07.972 Over the past several years, NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:07.972 --> 00:01:11.806 we've heard a parade of horror stories. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:11.810 --> 00:01:14.975 From tenants at Lakeside Pointe NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:14.975 --> 00:01:16.534 apartment complex. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:16.534 --> 00:01:21.830 Stories of collapsing ceilings of families, NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:21.830 --> 00:01:25.030 going weeks without utilities. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:25.030 --> 00:01:27.658 Of maintenance requests. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:27.658 --> 00:01:30.286 Going completely unanswered. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:30.290 --> 00:01:32.780 Of health issues caused by NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:32.780 --> 00:01:36.068 unacceptable living conditions. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:36.070 --> 00:01:42.460 And fire. After fire after fire. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:42.460 --> 00:01:43.542 In short, NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:43.542 --> 00:01:46.247 stories of families living in NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:46.247 --> 00:01:47.870 already vulnerable circumstances. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:47.870 --> 00:01:51.704 Who must also navigate unsafe living NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:51.704 --> 00:01:55.220 conditions due to owner neglect? NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:55.220 --> 00:01:59.198 Residents understandably ask. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.008 How on earth can this go on here? NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:02.010 --> 00:02:05.972 In Indianapolis well since 2017, NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:05.972 --> 00:02:08.292 the Marion County Public Health NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:08.292 --> 00:02:09.959 Department and the city. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:12.320 Have diligently pursued civil NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:12.320 --> 00:02:13.500 enforcement actions. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:13.500 --> 00:02:16.048 Filing hundreds of violations NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:16.048 --> 00:02:19.233 against ownership of the property. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.469 Under current law. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:21.470 --> 00:02:23.939 What has been less certain, however, NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:23.939 --> 00:02:26.872 is the scope of the city's authority NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:26.872 --> 00:02:29.729 to sue an owner when a pattern. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:29.730 --> 00:02:34.338 Of violations adds up to a public nuisance. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:34.340 --> 00:02:36.190 A pattern that threatens the NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:36.190 --> 00:02:38.594 health and the safety. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:38.594 --> 00:02:41.306 Of residents and neighbors. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:41.310 --> 00:02:45.240 What is beyond dispute though? NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.228 Is that more action is needed? NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:48.230 --> 00:02:53.048 And that includes a creative application. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:53.050 --> 00:02:56.835 Of existing authorities and clarification NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:02:56.835 --> 00:03:01.430 of existing law at the state level. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:01.430 --> 00:03:05.138 That is why we welcomed a suit last summer. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:05.140 --> 00:03:07.040 From the Attorney General's NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:08.940 office against Lakeside points. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:08.940 --> 00:03:11.200 Property owners. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:13.858 This year new bills have been NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:13.858 --> 00:03:16.719 proposed in both chambers of the NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:19.300 Indiana General Assembly to clarify NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:19.300 --> 00:03:23.341 and address gaps in state law. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:23.341 --> 00:03:26.569 We support those efforts. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:26.570 --> 00:03:30.640 And in light of the ongoing decline in NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:34.490 living conditions at Lakeside Point. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:34.490 --> 00:03:36.466 The city of Indianapolis. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:36.466 --> 00:03:39.430 And the Marion County Department of NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:39.515 --> 00:03:43.050 Public Health. Are giving notice. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:43.050 --> 00:03:46.596 If property owner owners do not NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:46.596 --> 00:03:49.770 make real progress toward fixing NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:49.770 --> 00:03:52.570 health and safety violations. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:52.570 --> 00:03:56.458 By January 31st. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:03:56.460 --> 00:04:01.023 2022 we will jointly file suit under NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:01.023 --> 00:04:04.588 the Indiana State Nuisance Law. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:04.590 --> 00:04:08.090 There must be real consequences. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:08.090 --> 00:04:12.218 For charging Indianapolis residents. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:12.220 --> 00:04:16.126 To live in unacceptable and uninhabitable. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:16.130 --> 00:04:18.010 Conditions. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:18.010 --> 00:04:21.218 That should not be the way of life. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:21.220 --> 00:04:27.786 In any city. But especially not in our city. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:27.790 --> 00:04:30.720 Furthermore, there must be consequences. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.390 For the significant financial cost. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:34.390 --> 00:04:36.061 To Indianapolis taxpayers. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:36.061 --> 00:04:39.960 As a result of the owners failure NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:40.062 --> 00:04:42.198 to maintain properties. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:42.200 --> 00:04:47.685 Repeated I empd repeated IFD visits. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:47.685 --> 00:04:53.510 To Lakeside point are costly to all of us. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:53.510 --> 00:04:57.278 A family's lost wages. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:57.280 --> 00:04:59.480 Due to housing disruption, NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:04.288 that too is costly to all of us. NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:05:04.290 --> 00:05:07.279 So our message as a community is NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:09.489 this property owners are obligated NOTE Confidence: 0.79001633 00:05:09.489 --> 00:05:12.436 to do more than cash rent checks. NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:16.010 --> 00:05:20.049 At the very least, the properties they. NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:20.050 --> 00:05:25.408 Own and maintain must be habitable. NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:25.410 --> 00:05:27.266 Lakeside points current owners NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:27.266 --> 00:05:30.610 have until the 31st of this month. NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:30.610 --> 00:05:34.090 To make good on those obligations. NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:34.090 --> 00:05:37.285 At that point, the city will have no choice. NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:37.290 --> 00:05:40.230 But to take legal action? NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:40.230 --> 00:05:42.138 So now I'd like to introduce NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:42.138 --> 00:05:44.550 the CEO of the Marion County NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:44.550 --> 00:05:46.830 Health and Hospital Corporation. NOTE Confidence: 0.920166318571429 00:05:46.830 --> 00:05:48.579 Paul Babcock Paul. NOTE Confidence: 0.932874516666667 00:05:54.770 --> 00:05:55.418 Thank you mayor. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:05:55.930 --> 00:05:57.680 My name is Paul Babcock and I am the CEO NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:05:57.724 --> 00:05:59.428 of the Health and Hospital Corporation, NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:05:59.430 --> 00:06:01.390 the agency that overseas and supports the NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:01.390 --> 00:06:03.089 Marion County Public Health Department, NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:03.090 --> 00:06:05.330 Eskenazi Health and Indianapolis NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:05.330 --> 00:06:07.010 Emergency Medical Services. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:07.010 --> 00:06:08.448 The property owners at Lakeside NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:08.448 --> 00:06:10.362 Point have for years ignored the NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:10.362 --> 00:06:12.373 basic health and safety needs of NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:12.373 --> 00:06:14.202 their residents to keep up with NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:14.202 --> 00:06:15.960 the level of complaints and inspect NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:16.023 --> 00:06:17.979 their a housing inspector that is. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:17.980 --> 00:06:21.408 Visits this property every day and in fact, NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:21.408 --> 00:06:22.040 housing division. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.440 Sweep of this property in 2019. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:27.000 Found more than 600 violations, NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.680 some of which may remain unresolved to date. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:31.832 The Marion County Public NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:31.832 --> 00:06:32.696 Health Department has, NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:32.700 --> 00:06:34.471 on average 60 cases in court at NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:34.471 --> 00:06:36.394 any given time related to the NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:36.394 --> 00:06:38.840 Lakeside Pointe apartment complex. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:41.000 It is unacceptable that ownership has NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.630 refused to resolve hundreds of health and NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:43.630 --> 00:06:45.515 safety violations that threaten tenants NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:45.515 --> 00:06:47.600 and jeopardize our communities health. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:49.085 The Marion County Public Health NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:49.085 --> 00:06:50.570 Department has worked with the NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:50.624 --> 00:06:52.148 city of Indianapolis for years to NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:52.148 --> 00:06:53.881 try and impact this property and NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:53.881 --> 00:06:55.567 strongly believe that we must now NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:55.567 --> 00:06:57.742 take action in the interest of our NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:57.742 --> 00:06:59.332 Community and our Members health, NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:06:59.340 --> 00:07:01.316 we are proud to join this city in NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:01.316 --> 00:07:02.884 seeking better conditions for the NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:02.884 --> 00:07:04.876 residents of Lakeside Point and finally, NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:04.876 --> 00:07:06.784 I'd like to thank the housing NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:06.784 --> 00:07:08.768 inspectors who have tirelessly worked. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:08.770 --> 00:07:10.660 To make this location a better place, NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:10.660 --> 00:07:12.487 even in the midst of a global NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:12.487 --> 00:07:14.210 pandemic in which they must do NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:14.210 --> 00:07:15.974 their essential services as well as NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:15.974 --> 00:07:18.024 help the residents of Marion County NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:18.024 --> 00:07:19.719 as they survive through COVID. NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:21.885 And now I'll hand it over to Brandon NOTE Confidence: 0.88964892125 00:07:21.885 --> 00:07:23.270 below with Indiana legal services. NOTE Confidence: 0.889746325 00:07:27.780 --> 00:07:28.170 Thank you. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:30.540 My name is Branden Beeler. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:30.540 --> 00:07:32.210 I'm the housing Law Center NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:32.210 --> 00:07:33.880 director at Indiana Legal Services. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:33.880 --> 00:07:35.623 First and foremost, we want to thank NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:35.623 --> 00:07:37.300 Mayor Hogsett and the administration, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:38.796 and particularly Deputy Corporation NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:38.796 --> 00:07:41.040 counsel Matt Giffen and his team NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:41.098 --> 00:07:42.748 at the Office of Corporation NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:42.748 --> 00:07:44.696 Counsel for this important step. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:44.696 --> 00:07:45.894 Today, tenant habitability NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:45.894 --> 00:07:47.879 claims are challenging to bring. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:47.880 --> 00:07:49.236 They require investigation, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:49.236 --> 00:07:50.592 preparation and collaboration NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:50.592 --> 00:07:53.279 with partners such as the Marion NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:54.919 County Public Health Department. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.080 Even though Indiana law requires. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:57.080 --> 00:07:58.652 Landlords to provide safe, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:07:58.652 --> 00:08:01.580 clean and habitable housing to their tenants. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:01.580 --> 00:08:03.596 This is often not the case. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.400 Bad actor landlords are aware of NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:05.400 --> 00:08:06.963 the challenge tenants face and NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:06.963 --> 00:08:07.878 asserting habitability claims NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:07.878 --> 00:08:10.055 on their own and will prey on NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:10.055 --> 00:08:11.495 the most vulnerable of tenants. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:11.500 --> 00:08:13.712 One of the top requests for legal NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:13.712 --> 00:08:15.471 services that our office receives NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:15.471 --> 00:08:17.703 are from tenants trying to rectify NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:17.703 --> 00:08:19.629 their bad living conditions. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:19.630 --> 00:08:19.977 Unfortunately, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:19.977 --> 00:08:22.059 many of these requests are also NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:22.059 --> 00:08:24.265 coupled with the tenant facing an NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:24.265 --> 00:08:25.741 eviction action for retaliation NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:25.741 --> 00:08:27.604 for complaining to the landlord NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:27.604 --> 00:08:29.000 about the bad conditions. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.936 And in the worst of cases we've seen NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:30.936 --> 00:08:32.305 Marion County courts evict tenants NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:32.305 --> 00:08:33.961 because they could not afford to NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:33.961 --> 00:08:35.554 pay their rent because they had NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:35.554 --> 00:08:37.640 to spend their own money to make NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:37.640 --> 00:08:39.690 repairs in their rental units. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:39.690 --> 00:08:41.230 ILS has been a proud partner with NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:41.230 --> 00:08:42.601 the city of Indianapolis and NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:42.601 --> 00:08:44.241 its continued efforts to bring NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:44.241 --> 00:08:46.021 parity and fairness to tenants NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:46.021 --> 00:08:47.137 facing habitability issues. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:47.140 --> 00:08:49.743 As Mayor Hogsett alluded to in 2020, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:49.743 --> 00:08:51.408 we partnered with the City NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:51.408 --> 00:08:53.225 of Indianapolis to begin the NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:53.225 --> 00:08:54.909 tenant Legal Assistance Project, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:54.910 --> 00:08:55.801 or T Lab, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:55.801 --> 00:08:57.583 which is specifically aimed at providing NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:57.583 --> 00:08:59.451 legal assistance to Marion County NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:08:59.451 --> 00:09:01.336 tenants who are experiencing bad NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:01.336 --> 00:09:03.049 conditions with their rental units. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:03.050 --> 00:09:04.670 Tenants in Indianapolis can call NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:04.670 --> 00:09:06.650 the Mayor's Action Center and be NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:06.650 --> 00:09:08.438 referred to the talent program and NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:08.438 --> 00:09:10.019 every Thursday that lap program. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:10.020 --> 00:09:12.138 Offers a free advice line for NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:12.138 --> 00:09:13.197 Marion County residents. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:13.998 In addition, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:13.998 --> 00:09:15.594 Lakeside Pointe Apartments came NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:15.594 --> 00:09:18.350 on ILS radar due to the work NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:18.350 --> 00:09:19.806 through that Elapp program. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:19.810 --> 00:09:21.322 In addition to T lap ILS partner NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:21.322 --> 00:09:22.990 with the city of Indianapolis and NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:22.990 --> 00:09:24.286 operating the eviction avoidance NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:24.286 --> 00:09:25.730 project and more recently, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:25.730 --> 00:09:27.302 the Tenant Assistance Project, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:27.302 --> 00:09:29.267 which provides on site attorneys NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:29.267 --> 00:09:31.074 attendants to consult with prior NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:31.074 --> 00:09:32.430 to their possession hearings. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:32.430 --> 00:09:34.215 ILS wants to thank Mayor Hogsett and NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:34.215 --> 00:09:35.710 his administration and are proud to NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:35.710 --> 00:09:37.084 partner with the city of Indianapolis NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:37.084 --> 00:09:38.393 in taking this important step NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:38.393 --> 00:09:39.947 today to help ensure that runners NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:39.950 --> 00:09:41.710 at Marion County and especially NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:41.710 --> 00:09:43.470 families with children have safe, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:43.470 --> 00:09:45.700 clean and healthy rental homes. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:45.700 --> 00:09:46.206 Thank you. NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:46.206 --> 00:09:47.724 I'd like to introduce Claire Holbe, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:47.730 --> 00:09:49.210 the executive director of Patchwork, NOTE Confidence: 0.904355074 00:09:49.210 --> 00:09:49.520 ND. NOTE Confidence: 0.93342376 00:09:55.800 --> 00:09:56.798 Good morning everyone. NOTE Confidence: 0.93342376 00:09:56.798 --> 00:09:59.830 My name is Claire Holbe and I am NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:09:59.914 --> 00:10:01.838 the executive director of NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:01.838 --> 00:10:04.164 patchwork in DA501C3 nonprofit, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:04.164 --> 00:10:07.574 based out of Indianapolis IN. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:07.580 --> 00:10:10.564 As we gather in this conference room to NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:10.564 --> 00:10:13.477 pursue yet another Ave for a solution NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:13.477 --> 00:10:16.090 for the residents at Lakeside Point, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:16.090 --> 00:10:18.211 I believe it is important to highlight NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:18.211 --> 00:10:20.838 again that it is the residents who are NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:20.838 --> 00:10:22.790 living this reality every single day. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:22.790 --> 00:10:24.482 At this moment in the middle NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:24.482 --> 00:10:25.610 of an Indiana winter, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:25.610 --> 00:10:27.566 there are numerous families NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:27.566 --> 00:10:30.011 without hot water units without NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:30.011 --> 00:10:32.529 sufficient heat and homes with mold NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:32.529 --> 00:10:34.484 and leaks and rotting ceilings. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:34.490 --> 00:10:36.660 Patchwork in the first became aware of NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:36.660 --> 00:10:38.600 the gross negligence at Lakeside point, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:39.868 through relationships with residents NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:39.868 --> 00:10:41.770 who came to Indiana through US, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:41.770 --> 00:10:42.658 refugee resettlement. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:42.658 --> 00:10:45.322 These families sought safety and a NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:45.322 --> 00:10:48.057 community where they could live with dignity. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:48.060 --> 00:10:49.470 I've personally walked into the NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:49.470 --> 00:10:51.570 homes of many of these families who NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:51.570 --> 00:10:53.478 have come seeking refuge from war NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:53.478 --> 00:10:55.359 torn countries such as Burma and NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:55.359 --> 00:10:56.839 the Democratic Republic of Congo. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:58.744 What I have witnessed is anything but NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:10:58.744 --> 00:11:01.098 a safe and a dignified place to live. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:01.100 --> 00:11:02.332 I recall one woman, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:02.332 --> 00:11:04.661 a young mother living with her elderly NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:04.661 --> 00:11:06.716 parents and her infant children. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:08.298 She invited me into her home, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:08.300 --> 00:11:10.916 and upon entering into her bathroom. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:10.920 --> 00:11:13.090 What I saw was a leaking brown NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:13.090 --> 00:11:14.892 substance into the bathtub where NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:14.892 --> 00:11:16.496 she bathed her children. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:16.500 --> 00:11:18.901 This was later confirmed by the Marion NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:18.901 --> 00:11:20.924 County Health Department to be sewage NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:20.924 --> 00:11:22.489 leaking from the apartment above. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:22.490 --> 00:11:24.500 The mother had tried multiple NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:24.500 --> 00:11:26.510 times to alert property management NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:26.577 --> 00:11:28.330 about the issue until neighborhood NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:28.330 --> 00:11:29.950 advocates intervened and involved NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:29.950 --> 00:11:31.165 the health department. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:31.170 --> 00:11:34.986 Her requests for help were ignored. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:34.990 --> 00:11:37.460 Our cry as community advocates NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:37.460 --> 00:11:39.930 has been unified all along. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:39.930 --> 00:11:42.090 All we have asked for is a safe, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:42.090 --> 00:11:43.822 dignified and affordable living NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:43.822 --> 00:11:45.987 environment for current and future NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:45.987 --> 00:11:47.560 residents at Lakeside Pointe. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:47.560 --> 00:11:49.175 Long term residents have described NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:49.175 --> 00:11:51.010 having no other place to go, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:51.010 --> 00:11:53.056 lest they decide to uproot their NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:53.056 --> 00:11:54.887 lives and their families lives NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:54.887 --> 00:11:57.293 from the neighborhood and from the NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:57.293 --> 00:11:58.980 Washington Township School system. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:11:58.980 --> 00:12:00.695 Our neighbors deserve to feel NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:00.695 --> 00:12:02.067 safe in their home. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:02.070 --> 00:12:03.545 Early on Saturday morning I NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:03.545 --> 00:12:05.778 received a call from a family that NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:05.778 --> 00:12:07.508 I had visited multiple times. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:07.510 --> 00:12:09.735 This family had battled longstanding NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:09.735 --> 00:12:11.960 issues such as months without NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:12.034 --> 00:12:14.059 hot water and emergency leaks. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:14.060 --> 00:12:15.644 This particular morning, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:15.644 --> 00:12:20.060 a fire raged yards from their back window. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:20.060 --> 00:12:21.670 The heat from the fire had caused NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:21.670 --> 00:12:23.800 their back window to crack. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:23.800 --> 00:12:25.774 The 16 year old daughter had NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:25.774 --> 00:12:28.286 reached out to me and fear video NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:28.286 --> 00:12:30.518 calling and saying that she had NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:30.518 --> 00:12:33.047 never been this scared in her life. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:33.050 --> 00:12:34.378 Residents and neighborhood advocates NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:34.378 --> 00:12:35.706 have been working relentlessly NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:35.706 --> 00:12:37.280 for months and years to see NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:37.280 --> 00:12:38.365 change come to the community, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:38.370 --> 00:12:40.458 we could not have gone into this point NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:40.458 --> 00:12:42.130 without the brave residents who have NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:42.130 --> 00:12:44.290 spoken out to the media and in court. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:44.290 --> 00:12:45.935 We could not have gotten here without NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:45.935 --> 00:12:47.734 the care and commitment of the NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:47.734 --> 00:12:49.130 Community and neighborhood groups. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:49.130 --> 00:12:51.650 I would like to particularly thank one group, NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:51.650 --> 00:12:53.462 the Nora neighborhood ambassadors. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:53.462 --> 00:12:55.727 They have been answering calls. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:55.730 --> 00:12:57.886 They have been on site during fires. NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:57.890 --> 00:12:59.355 They have offered their homes NOTE Confidence: 0.861997224375 00:12:59.355 --> 00:13:00.820 and their showers and their NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:00.880 --> 00:13:01.860 laundry facilities. NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:01.860 --> 00:13:04.104 When these were not available to NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:04.104 --> 00:13:05.600 residents at Lakeside Pointe. NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:06.968 Washington Township schools has NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:06.968 --> 00:13:08.336 been a consistent supporter, NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:08.340 --> 00:13:09.495 particularly, nor elementary, NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:09.495 --> 00:13:11.420 which is across the street, NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:11.420 --> 00:13:12.696 and many students attend. NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:12.696 --> 00:13:15.063 I also want to extend a heartfelt NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:15.063 --> 00:13:17.367 thank you to the health Department NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:17.367 --> 00:13:20.050 for offering a full Time Team to NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:20.050 --> 00:13:22.240 address issues at Lakeside Point only. NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:23.612 They have been one of the biggest NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:23.612 --> 00:13:24.720 partners and as today shows, NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.265 continue to be. NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:26.265 --> 00:13:28.850 We have engaged with the NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:28.850 --> 00:13:30.410 Indianapolis Fire Department, NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:30.410 --> 00:13:33.530 the Marion County Property Tax Board, NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:33.530 --> 00:13:36.407 with city Councilor pots with mayors offices, NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:36.410 --> 00:13:38.560 shows today and with state NOTE Confidence: 0.946270184166667 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:39.850 senators and representatives. NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:13:42.500 --> 00:13:44.726 Response from leadership has been one NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:13:44.726 --> 00:13:47.559 that we have been truly grateful for. NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:13:47.560 --> 00:13:50.528 And yet a year after issuing an NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:13:50.528 --> 00:13:51.800 executive summary highlighting NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:13:51.874 --> 00:13:53.713 all of the outstanding stories NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:13:53.713 --> 00:13:55.378 and issues that families face, NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:13:55.380 --> 00:13:58.120 we are still scrapping for a solution I NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.500 have been in zoom rooms with leaders, NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:00.500 --> 00:14:02.865 35 people from the state, City, NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:02.865 --> 00:14:06.555 County, community level and so why? NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:09.384 Why has it been so hard to achieve NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:09.384 --> 00:14:11.660 a solution for Lakeside point? NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:11.660 --> 00:14:13.440 Patchwork indie will continue to NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:14.864 stand alongside those continue NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:14.864 --> 00:14:16.445 defining a solution for Lakeside NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:16.445 --> 00:14:18.197 Point and other properties like it. NOTE Confidence: 0.936072690769231 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:20.980 Thank you. Questions. NOTE Confidence: 0.476111223333333 00:14:22.190 --> 00:14:23.018 Follow up with. NOTE Confidence: 0.179515245 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.130 Why? Why has it been so hard NOTE Confidence: 0.179515245 00:14:28.130 --> 00:14:30.100 to try to get answers to these? NOTE Confidence: 0.669689366666667 00:14:39.170 --> 00:14:40.100 Our legal expert. NOTE Confidence: 0.56552386 00:14:42.050 --> 00:14:43.630 My name is Matt Griffin. NOTE Confidence: 0.56552386 00:14:43.630 --> 00:14:45.230 I'm the deputy corporation counsel. NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:14:45.230 --> 00:14:47.340 I think first thing we NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:14:47.340 --> 00:14:49.450 want to mention is the. NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:14:49.450 --> 00:14:51.526 There are barriers under state law NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:14:51.526 --> 00:14:53.330 as it's been currently interpreted NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:14:53.330 --> 00:14:56.194 to some of the things that could be NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:14:56.194 --> 00:14:57.887 enforcement avenues for the city. NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:14:57.890 --> 00:14:59.050 At the same time, NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:14:59.050 --> 00:15:00.790 the city and the health department NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:00.852 --> 00:15:02.694 have been pursuing the avenues at NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:02.694 --> 00:15:04.358 our disposal and that includes NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:04.358 --> 00:15:06.192 all the violations and ordinance NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:06.192 --> 00:15:07.947 violation actions by the Health NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:07.947 --> 00:15:10.049 department that Mr Babcock mentioned. NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:10.050 --> 00:15:12.666 That is, demolition orders for two NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:12.666 --> 00:15:15.311 derelict buildings on the property that NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:15.311 --> 00:15:17.744 the city has pursued numerous vacant NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:17.744 --> 00:15:20.488 board orders that the city is pursued. NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:20.490 --> 00:15:22.470 A zoning violation action that the NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:22.470 --> 00:15:24.755 city is pursued as well as other NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:24.755 --> 00:15:27.080 fire department and IPD responses. NOTE Confidence: 0.833559124 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:28.286 So I think we have been. NOTE Confidence: 0.807985321666667 00:15:30.470 --> 00:15:32.348 Using the tools at our disposal, NOTE Confidence: 0.807985321666667 00:15:32.350 --> 00:15:34.175 what we're talking about today is NOTE Confidence: 0.807985321666667 00:15:34.175 --> 00:15:36.485 bringing an additional tool to bear. NOTE Confidence: 0.578283794285714 00:15:38.180 --> 00:15:40.868 And that additional tool would be NOTE Confidence: 0.578283794285714 00:15:40.868 --> 00:15:44.265 what and how is this threat of NOTE Confidence: 0.578283794285714 00:15:44.265 --> 00:15:46.264 lawsuit different or supersedes NOTE Confidence: 0.578283794285714 00:15:46.264 --> 00:15:48.424 all the other accumulated court NOTE Confidence: 0.578283794285714 00:15:48.424 --> 00:15:50.416 actions that have already been filed? NOTE Confidence: 0.578283794285714 00:15:50.420 --> 00:15:51.488 Why would this succeed? NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:15:53.800 --> 00:15:56.338 So I I don't know that it's supersedes at NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:15:56.338 --> 00:15:58.876 all the work that has been done before. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:15:58.880 --> 00:16:01.589 It is another tool in the toolbox NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:01.589 --> 00:16:04.488 where we want to push the envelope NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:04.490 --> 00:16:06.877 the the two words that stuck out NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:06.877 --> 00:16:09.014 in the mayor's remarks for me NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:09.014 --> 00:16:10.503 were creativity and clarification. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:10.503 --> 00:16:12.789 We've not filed jointly with the NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:12.789 --> 00:16:14.782 Marion County Public Health Department NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:14.782 --> 00:16:16.717 of Public Nuisance case before, NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:18.945 so that's pushing the envelope NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:18.945 --> 00:16:22.142 on the interpretation of the NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:22.142 --> 00:16:24.206 public nuisance statute. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:24.210 --> 00:16:26.034 I'll go back to your first question though NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:26.034 --> 00:16:28.388 if I can just say why is it taking so long. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:28.390 --> 00:16:30.382 We have a negligent property owner NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:30.382 --> 00:16:32.342 that's not doing anything in response NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:32.342 --> 00:16:34.638 to years of suits from the Marion County NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:34.703 --> 00:16:36.333 Public Health Department and most NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:36.333 --> 00:16:38.356 recently from the City of Indianapolis. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:38.356 --> 00:16:41.196 Not to mention the Attorney General's office. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:41.196 --> 00:16:43.461 They're not abiding by their NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:43.461 --> 00:16:45.920 responsibility as a property owner. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:45.920 --> 00:16:48.620 That's why residents are living in NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:48.620 --> 00:16:50.420 conditions that are uninhabitable. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:50.420 --> 00:16:55.166 We are looking at three things that NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:55.166 --> 00:16:57.427 that stand out now that that sort NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:16:57.427 --> 00:17:00.039 of push the the creativity approach. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:00.040 --> 00:17:01.790 One I mentioned filing jointly with the NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:01.790 --> 00:17:03.340 Marion County Public Health Department. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:03.340 --> 00:17:03.739 Secondly, NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:03.739 --> 00:17:06.532 there is real interest at the General NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:06.532 --> 00:17:09.419 Assembly on this issue of property NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:09.419 --> 00:17:11.939 conditions of landlord tenant relationships. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:11.940 --> 00:17:14.117 I think from both sides of the NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:14.117 --> 00:17:16.210 aisle and so our ability to. NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:16.210 --> 00:17:18.604 To file under the public nuisance NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:18.604 --> 00:17:20.615 statute and use this opportunity NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:20.615 --> 00:17:23.335 as a test case to shine a light NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:23.335 --> 00:17:26.542 on what might be discrepancies or NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:26.542 --> 00:17:30.206 unclarity within state law, NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:30.210 --> 00:17:32.072 I think helps us in the short NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:32.072 --> 00:17:34.049 term with the living conditions, NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:34.050 --> 00:17:35.370 lakeside point and then in the long term, NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:35.370 --> 00:17:37.398 with our ability to hold bad actors NOTE Confidence: 0.946910448823529 00:17:37.398 --> 00:17:38.818 accountable all over Marion County. NOTE Confidence: 0.508949798333333 00:17:40.810 --> 00:17:42.574 When your guy goes out there at NOTE Confidence: 0.508949798333333 00:17:42.574 --> 00:17:44.630 4:30 PM on January 31st, find out. NOTE Confidence: 0.6370098 00:17:46.860 --> 00:17:48.880 Then at this point, if nothing NOTE Confidence: 0.6370098 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:50.260 has changed in terms of NOTE Confidence: 0.95538334125 00:17:50.320 --> 00:17:52.516 condition or ownership of the property, NOTE Confidence: 0.95538334125 00:17:52.520 --> 00:17:54.488 then the lawsuit gets filed in February 1st. NOTE Confidence: 0.734730848333333 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:58.710 Can we get your name Sir? Sorry NOTE Confidence: 0.690957543333333 00:17:58.760 --> 00:18:00.080 yeah. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm deputy, NOTE Confidence: 0.690957543333333 00:18:00.080 --> 00:18:03.490 bear of community development. Thank you. NOTE Confidence: 0.626320601666667 00:18:03.490 --> 00:18:04.942 A quick question, so I think NOTE Confidence: 0.626320601666667 00:18:04.942 --> 00:18:06.579 we all got kind of summary, NOTE Confidence: 0.626320601666667 00:18:06.580 --> 00:18:09.090 but do you explain what specific NOTE Confidence: 0.626320601666667 00:18:09.090 --> 00:18:11.439 verification you're hoping to get NOTE Confidence: 0.543134704 00:18:12.020 --> 00:18:12.780 in terms of state law? NOTE Confidence: 0.505448456666667 00:18:14.700 --> 00:18:15.108 We can we NOTE Confidence: 0.49512623 00:18:15.120 --> 00:18:15.609 can get together. NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:19.560 I don't know if we both, NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:19.560 --> 00:18:22.978 so there's the current state law. NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:22.980 --> 00:18:26.193 There's a statute was passed in 2016 NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:26.193 --> 00:18:30.660 that took effect in 2017 at sea 558 that, NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:30.660 --> 00:18:33.710 at least under some interpretations, NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:33.710 --> 00:18:35.414 handicaps the ability of a city NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:35.414 --> 00:18:37.535 to prove that a nuisance exists NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:37.535 --> 00:18:39.825 through calls for emergency services. NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:39.830 --> 00:18:42.486 So a police, fire EMS and then to NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:42.486 --> 00:18:44.444 recover damages based on those NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:44.444 --> 00:18:46.479 same calls for emergency services NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.027 so it it doesn't remove the city. NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:48.030 --> 00:18:50.070 Ability to use the nuisance statute, NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:50.070 --> 00:18:52.770 but it diminishes its effectiveness, NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:52.770 --> 00:18:54.500 at least under some court NOTE Confidence: 0.6990699175 00:18:54.500 --> 00:18:55.800 interpretations of that law. NOTE Confidence: 0.779096264444444 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:58.410 What is really the difference NOTE Confidence: 0.779096264444444 00:18:58.410 --> 00:18:59.378 between as Matt said, NOTE Confidence: 0.779096264444444 00:18:59.380 --> 00:19:01.258 a court's interpretation of that statute, NOTE Confidence: 0.779096264444444 00:19:01.260 --> 00:19:03.630 and what we believe was the NOTE Confidence: 0.779096264444444 00:19:03.630 --> 00:19:05.648 legislative intent which was not NOTE Confidence: 0.779096264444444 00:19:05.648 --> 00:19:08.168 to limit the city's ability to use NOTE Confidence: 0.779096264444444 00:19:08.168 --> 00:19:10.590 that statute to go after bad actors. NOTE Confidence: 0.5060526 00:19:12.220 --> 00:19:13.128 Do you see this NOTE Confidence: 0.853421315 00:19:13.280 --> 00:19:15.385 lawsuit as a potential test NOTE Confidence: 0.853421315 00:19:15.385 --> 00:19:16.630 of Court's interpretation NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:18.997 of SC 558? And do you think that NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:18.997 --> 00:19:22.870 will overturn the 2018 decision? NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:22.870 --> 00:19:26.536 The 2018 decision that that you mentioned. NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:26.540 --> 00:19:27.968 Has a number of different aspects. NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:27.970 --> 00:19:30.876 It's not just concerned with ACA 558 NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:30.876 --> 00:19:33.140 I I think we do view it as a test. NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:33.140 --> 00:19:35.331 I think that legal question is not NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:35.331 --> 00:19:37.568 settled and we know under the existing NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:37.568 --> 00:19:40.457 law and the carve out in the law that NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:40.457 --> 00:19:42.419 preserves our ability to do this, NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:42.420 --> 00:19:43.740 that we do have this authority. NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:43.740 --> 00:19:45.268 So I I think it is important that NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:45.268 --> 00:19:46.595 that we seek clarification both NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:46.595 --> 00:19:48.085 the General Assembly level but NOTE Confidence: 0.876813972857143 00:19:48.085 --> 00:19:49.528 also from the Court system. NOTE Confidence: 0.6086323245 00:19:51.380 --> 00:19:53.487 Is there anything you can do between NOTE Confidence: 0.6086323245 00:19:53.487 --> 00:19:55.493 now and January 31st for the NOTE Confidence: 0.6086323245 00:19:55.493 --> 00:19:57.228 folks living in these substandard NOTE Confidence: 0.6086323245 00:19:57.228 --> 00:19:59.377 conditions to accelerate get them out? NOTE Confidence: 0.6086323245 00:19:59.380 --> 00:20:01.207 Just what can you do for some of the NOTE Confidence: 0.6086323245 00:20:01.207 --> 00:20:02.868 folks that are living in there now? NOTE Confidence: 0.71492339 00:20:04.420 --> 00:20:07.750 So residents are eligible for NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:07.760 --> 00:20:09.040 rental assistance through the through. NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:09.040 --> 00:20:11.062 The indie rent program that the NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:11.062 --> 00:20:12.920 mayor mentioned at the outset. NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:16.016 In some cases, residents have used NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:16.016 --> 00:20:18.080 rental assistance to relocate. NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:18.080 --> 00:20:19.856 If a if a landlord chooses NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:19.856 --> 00:20:21.490 not to accept those funds, NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:21.490 --> 00:20:23.398 or a landlord is not responsive, NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:25.917 then those funds are portable and NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:25.917 --> 00:20:28.133 I do believe that the that the the NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:28.133 --> 00:20:30.298 other government officials such as NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:30.298 --> 00:20:32.114 the Washington Township Trustees NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:32.114 --> 00:20:34.229 Office has been working on a. NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:34.230 --> 00:20:36.612 Case by case basis with residents NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:36.612 --> 00:20:38.750 who who have had basic needs, NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:38.750 --> 00:20:41.405 including the need to relocate NOTE Confidence: 0.856414352 00:20:41.405 --> 00:20:42.998 out of property.