Dear neighbors,
Yesterday, I received a notice from the parking authority. If it is a mistake
by a rogue untrained employee, many of you will probably be getting these too.
With a violation date of Dec 6, 2007, I received a notice by mail for a $61
ticket for an expired inspection sticker. The notice was for a $41 fine and $20
penalty. No ticket appeared on my car Dec 6th. This notice was dated Dec. 31st.
The problem is that my inspection would not have run out until Dec 31st and it
was inspected 2 days after Christmas. The location of the ticket is the 4300
block of Baltimore. This block does not have permit parking so it would seem
the parking authority employee was looking specifically for this type of
violation.
If an untrained employee is hunting for this violation but does not know that
the sticker runs out at the end of the month, many of you will probably be
getting these too. Since I never received a ticket on the car, I may continue
to get more of these $61 tickets for December.
Exactly like the problem of the 4 month delay when we get bogus trash tickets,
this came as a complete surprise yesterday. My mechanic has thrown away the old
sticker. And I did not know to get my car away from the hunt until after I
received a new sticker even though my sticker was still valid throughout Dec.
I was already feeling intimidated by my upcoming court appearance (3 bogus
trash tickets for $962). In that, I am compelled to go to court. I have no idea
of what I'm being accused (except "premises must be kept clean and litter
free") And I received notice each time at least 4 months after the alleged
violation date. These tickets were because of this "working relationship"
between UCD and the Streets department enforcement staff..Our house is among
the most vigilant observer of both the rules and conventions of placing the
trash out. My friend is in charge and he simply does not make trash mistakes.
I know this!
>From the UC Review, April 11, 2007. "Clean Sweeps in U.City, or Not?"
."Wendell said that when the UCD was aware that property owners weren't
receiving violation notices in a timely manner, the UCD tried to encourage
facilitation to send the notices out earlier. If they receive complaints about
certain properties, UCD officials may also share that information with Sweeps
officers".
Look at Wendell's evasive bullshit ("encourage facilitation" and that they may
share complaints). UCD is making these complaints to generate these bogus
violations against us and they are trying to blame our neighbors. This answer
is supposed to make us afraid of our immediate neighbors because Wendell is
claiming that they are anonymously trying to screw us rather than this being a
UCD driven intimidation.
If UCD was a damned service organization as they claim, why wouldn't these "UCD
officials" take a complaint about some real issue, and if their intervention is
appropriate; give a friendly call or leave a note on the spot to simply resolve
the problem? Are we supposed to believe that it is a better process or more
efficient to intimidate us by sending us bullshit tickets after 4 months? A
ticket without a specific reason given?
They're also trying to set up suspicion among neighbors with Wendell's
statements. Don't forget with this "working relationship" to "educate" us, any
real trash would lay on the street for 4 months. It's absurd to accept that all
of our neighbors are calling UCD to pass anonymous complaints to the city! But
why would Wendell try to mislead the reporter? Many of us have talked about the
problems with an unaccountable, unethical entity taking over the role and power
of government.
Being compelled to court under this set of circumstances, I feel my quality of
life in this district and city is nearly gone. This is a frightening path and
we are moving quickly.
I wanted to give everyone a warning to be alert to this newest ticket problem.
Take care,
Glenn
