PVAC Minutes 02/09/2000 RFebruary 9, 2000
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
PUBLIC VEHICLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Naples, Florida
February 9, 2000
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Collier County Public
Vehicle Advisory Committee, having conducted business herein,
met on this date at 9:00 a.m. in REGULAR SESSION in Building
"F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the
following members present:
CHAIRPERSON:
Pat Baisley
Cliff Flegal
Bryan Pease
William Csogi
ALSO PRESENT:
Thomas Palmer, Assistant County Attorney
Bill Bolgar, Code Enforcement Director
Maria Cruz, Code Enforcement Specialist
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April 4, 2000
February 9, 2000
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: I would like to open the Collier
County Public Vehicle Advisory meeting of February 9th. We do
have a new board member today. He's a member of the public.
His name is William --
MR. CSOGI: Csogi.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: -- Csogi. We need to take a roll
call.
MS. CRUZ: Good morning, for the record, Maria Cruz, code
enforcement official. And we also have Mr. Bill Bolgar on behalf
of code enforcement director Michelle Arnold present here.
Patricia Baisley.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Here.
MS. CRUZ: Clifford Flegal.
MR. FLEGAL: Here.
MS. CRUZ: Tom Lugrin. Let the record show Mr. Lugrin is
absent.
Bryan Pease.
MR. PEASE: Here.
MS. CRUZ: And William Csogi.
MR. CSOGI: Here.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY:
MS. CRUZ: Okay.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY:
deletions to our agenda for today's meeting?
Do we have an approval of our agenda for today's meeting?
MR. PEASE: I'll approve.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Do I have a second?
MR. FLEGAL: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: All in favor say aye.
(Aye.)
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: I'm looking for an approval of the
minutes from our October 14th, 1999 meeting.
MR. PEASE: I'll do that, too, since I was there.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: You're on a roll today. You were
there. Well, I was there, too, so I will second that.
MR. PEASE: We were the only two that were there.
Mr. Lugrin has an excused absence.
Do we have any additions or
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CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: All in favor say aye.
(Aye.)
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Move on to new business. Robert
Louis Scallan doing business as Hummeride, Inc.
Is Mr. Scallan present, please? Could you come up to the
podium.
MR. SCALLAN: Yes.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Could you come up to the podium
and be sworn in, please?
(Witness was sworn.)
MR. FLEGAL: Are you ready for questions?
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Yes.
MR. FLEGAL: Tom, I guess I will ask my questions of you first.
We have an application in the name of Hummeride, Inc. Such a
company doesn't exist yet.
MR. PALMER: Well, then the final validity of any permission
that you would grant today would be -- would be subject to
having the corporation exist as a formalized corporation
recognized by the Department of State in Florida.
MR. PEASE: There's a notation that he's looking for funding.
And my question is, is there discussion needed on this item?
Does he have questions of us?
MR. FLEGAL: That was my first question and I have a lot of
them. And that's one of them, I mean. He doesn't -- I realize he
hasn't purchased the vehicle and that's fine, too, but he doesn't
even have, the way his application reads, the funding to
purchase a vehicle. He's trying to get somebody to put money
into his business, I mean.
Why do you want to approve any kind of application with
forty-seven contingencies, that if you go out and do this, this,
this? I mean, it's useless to have this paperwork if that's what
we're going to do.
MR. PEASE: Except from his perspective, which is I assume
to--
MR. FLEGAL: To help him get the funding. I mean, there's so
many -- he doesn't have any experience at all. I don't know yet if
he has a commercial license. I haven't asked that question. His
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existing company, which he says he's going to change the name
of, I guess is where he's employed. I don't know. We don't have
a background check yet. I'm not impressed by the application.
MR. PALMER: I understand what you're saying. If, in fact,
knowing that he's going to be granted permission by this board
to operate in Collier County, may be some value prerequisite to
getting finances and so forth. If there's nothing in there that is
an uncorrectable impediment, something that in the future can't
be absolved, the board can effectively say that if you do this, this
and this, we see nothing that will bar you from getting a final
certificate from the board for the purposes of financing.
But in any event, I would recommend that even if you were
going to grant permission based on subsequent conditions, that
there be a specific time limit, that if these things are not
accomplished say within ninety days, that the -- that the whole
application lapses and you have to start over. Otherwise people
go in and embank these things and we don't want to see that.
But on the other hand, it would be maybe valuable to this
applicant to know that yes, if he does this, this and this, he can
be qualified, and we see nothing that can't be correctable such
as, you know, a criminal record, it either exists or it doesn't exist
and it's not correctable. But a lot of these other things would
just be a matter of getting it done.
But in any event, as I say, I would not grant anything out into
the indefinite future, otherwise people would be putting these
things in their back pocket. And you have already perceived the
possible threat for abuse that exists there.
MR. PEASE: Is ninety days a reasonable period?
MR. PALMER: Well, we could ask the applicant. I just threw
that out. It seems to me that ninety days ought to be about
enough to put a taxicab company together. But that was just a
number I threw out.
MR. SCALLAN: That's extremely within reason. I'm working
diligently to get this -- everything in line. In fact, I should hear
from my lending institution today on that financing.
And I kind of see your point. I didn't want to go out and buy
an eighty thousand dollar vehicle and then come to the board to
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have this approved and then it be rejected and I have this
vehicle that I can't use. So that's kind of my angle, the reason
why I'm doing it in these steps.
MR. PEASE: That makes sense. We have approved them
before.
MR. FLEGAL: I understand that part of it, but, I mean, the part
that bothers me is where he says he's going out to get funding.
Most people are ready to give them the permit, they walk over to
Ford or whoever, Cadillac or Lincoln and they're sitting there
waiting to sign the papers. In this case it leads you to believe
that he's not even that far.
MR. PEASE: He's a victim of his own honesty.
MR. CSOGI: You still get a letter of credit from the bank to
present to the board, and he still has to obtain a letter of credit
saying that he can purchase a vehicle.
MR. FLEGAL: Do you have a commercial license, driver's
license?
MR. SCALLAN: No, I do not. This vehicle is under the six
thousand pound limit that requires a chauffeur's license.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: You have a chauffeur's license?
MR. SCALLAN: No, I do not. One is not necessary to operate
this vehicle.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: You have to have a chauffeur's
license to operate a for-hire vehicle.
MR. SCALLAN: Okay. As far as securing that, that should be
no problem.
MR. PEASE: Will you be the driver?
MR. FLEGAL: That's not what I remember.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: -- driver's license is not required --
MR. PEASE: CDL is not required, right.
THE COURT REPORTER: I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.
MR. PEASE: The CDL is not required.
MR. FLEGAL: I guess I need Tom's guidance. Section one
forty-two thirty-seven, driver standards. Each driver of a motor
vehicle for hire must hold a current and valid commercial driver's
license in said driver's name issued by the State of Florida or by
any other state of the United States.
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CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: What page is that on?
MR. FLEGAL: Page eighteen.
MR. PALMER: Well, I think the word -- I don't think the word
commercial is the operative word. It means he's got to have the
license that's required by the state law to engage in that
particular activity.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: That's the way we have always
understood it.
MR. PALMER: Yeah, that's what it means. If he needs a
chauffeur's license, then he needs a chauffeur's license. Besides
that, we'd be controlling anyway. We wouldn't want to ratchet
up a local regulation that requires a license that's beyond what
the state requires.
And I take it in this instance this vehicle requires a
chauffeur's license, which means he has to get a chauffeur's
license in order to operate the vehicle.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: This really should be reworded here
so that it's not misleading to anybody.
MR. PALMER: It really should.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: A workshop item.
MR. PEASE: A workshop.
MR. SCALLAN: So is that definite, chauffeur's license is
absolutely required? It seems like I heard two different points.
MR. PALMER: Well, the point was whether or not our
ordinance required a standard that's higher than the state law.
And in my opinion, we have never intended that. But if state law
requires you to have a chauffeur's license, then you must go out
and get a chauffeur's license before you operate this vehicle for
hire.
MR. SCALLAN: Right.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: You also understand that your
vehicle would have to be registered for hire? MR. SCALLAN: Yes, I do.
MR. PEASE: So what are we missing?
MR. FLEGAL: If you're -- if you're getting ready to get this
vehicle, you understand that if you're going -- is your corporation
buying the vehicle? Is that what you're waiting to find out?
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Who's buying the vehicle? Are you going to buy it and lease it to
the corporation or what?
MR. SCALLAN: It will be bought under the corporation's
name.
MR. FLEGAL: Okay. I guess my next question is, if that's the
fact, since this corporation doesn't exist yet -- MR. PEASE: He's got a corporation.
MR. FLEGAL: But that's not the one that he's made the
application for. And we don't have a credit report on this
corporation. We have a credit report on him personally.
MR. PEASE: It's what we have to have when it's a new
company, right? The credit report on a new company is
supposed to be zero.
MR. FLEGAL: Well--
MR. PALMER: Credit history-- accept it's existence --
MR. FLEGAL: He's changed his existing corporation. He's just
changing the name of an existing corporation.
MR. PALMER: Well, if that's the case, to whatever extent that
corporation has a history, it will have some sort of an economic
history.
MR. FLEGAL: The corporation has been in business since '97.
MR. PALMER: Okay. Then it ought to have some sort of
history from that point in time.
MR. FLEGAL: I would think.
MR. SCALLAN: Would it be simpler if I were to purchase this
vehicle under my own personal name?
MR. FLEGAL: I guess that's up to the people that are going to
loan you the money. I mean, are they -- if they're -- are they
loaning -- they can't be loaning the Hummeride, Inc. because that
company doesn't exist.
MR. SCALLAN: Right.
MR. FLEGAL: So they must be loaning the money to MEDCLEP
or whatever it is.
MR. SCALLAN: They are loaning the money to me personally,
not under the MEDCLEP name. MEDCLEP is an extremely small
home business that I started in '97. It was medical collections.
It's basically not -- at this time not generating any money. It's
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not being actively run.
And through the state, as I understand it, I may be wrong, is
that I could change, I could simply change that name as far as a
corporation or I can simply just incorporate as an S corp. for a
whole new business. To my understanding it was simple -- a very
simple procedure just to change that business name to avoid
some paperwork and fees.
MR. FLEGAL: I don't disagree with that. What I'm looking for
is, if you're going to get the vehicle personally, which is fine, you
can do that, then lease it to your corporation, but I'm looking for
the registration of the vehicle, which we haven't got yet, but
you're going to have to get. MR. SCALLAN: Right.
MR. FLEGAL: Isn't he going to have to -- if he leases it to the
corporation, who's he going to register the vehicle with?
MR. PALMER: Well, obviously, either the corporation is going
to have to own title to the vehicle or he is. If he has known title
to the vehicle, there would be no way he could lease it to
anybody. You can't lease what you don't own.
Whether or not you want to put this in the name of an
existing corporation and just change it's name is up to you.
Those are -- those are questions of liability, about what would
happen if somebody should be injured as a result of your
activities with this vehicle. And the county can't give you advice
on that.
The fact of the matter is that the vehicle, whomever owns it,
must be the vehicle that will be licensed by this board for you to
operate for these uses. We want to know who owns it, but it's a
matter of indifference to whether he owns it to us, whether he
owns it or whether the corporation owns it or leases it, so long
as this vehicle is the vehicle that we know about that he will
operate under the license that you grant to him.
MR. FLEGAL: And when he gets his insurance, is the
insurance -- if he owns the vehicle and leases it to the
corporation --
MR. PALMER: Well, the insurance effectively is going to
insure the public, and it will be a question of what the policy
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says. The insurance company may have some idea of what it
wants to happen. But in general, as long as the coverage is
there protecting the class of people that are to be protected, the
question of who owns the vehicle should be a matter of
indifference to the county as long as the protection, the
insurance protection exists. And what we're interested about is
public liability.
MR. FLEGAL: Right.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: On your occupational license you
list your type of business conducted as livery and advertising.
What kind of advertising are you referring to, advertising on the
vehicle?
MR. SCALLAN.' Right. Business owners will -- would approach
me and their logo would be placed on the vehicle.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: You can't do that with a charter
service vehicle. The only thing you can do is put your name on
the rear bumper. Is that what you call that, the rear area of the
vehicle?
MR. FLEGAL.' If you're wanting to do kind of like the Naples
Trolley and have a bunch of ads on this summer, then you can't
do that.
MR. PEASE: You need to -- you need to have more seats than
what we oversee, which is what, fifteen?
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: I think so, yeah.
MR. PEASE: A mini coach or larger to put advertising on it.
MR. FLEGAL: The only thing you would be allowed on this
vehicle is basically like a license plate or, you know, your name
across the trunk, Hummeride, Inc., and that would be it. Nobody
else's name, no Iogos, nothing. Just that, Hummeride, Inc.,
period.
So if your intent is to do it through advertising to help make
money to pay for your vehicle, this isn't it. MR. SCALLAN: I understand.
MR. FLEGAL: So you need to tell us what your intent is,
because if you get this permit, you definitely can't do that. MR. SCALLAN: Right.
MR. FLEGAL: And that may change your business.
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MR. SCALLAN: Right. Well, obviously, I mean, if I can't do it, I
mean, I understand that that can't be done and it would strictly
be for hire services, livery services.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY.' We don't regulate --
MR. FLEGAL: They can do what they want.
MR. PEASE: They surely can.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: The only rates that are regulated
are the taxi rates.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: I think we have a lot of pieces that
are still missing to this application, and whether or not we
approve it conditionally and let Maria fill in the pieces or have
him come back in front of us --
MR. PEASE: I think I have come up with -- we need a
registration class nine, which would also include the VIN
number, which we don't have. Usually we get a VIN number.
Credit history on the existing corporation, if that's -- if it's going
to be put in the corporate name. Proof of insurance and a
criminal background check.
MR. FLEGAL: And a corporation name to start with, because
that corporation doesn't exist. He's made an application as
Hummeride, Inc. and there is no such corporation.
MR. PALMER: I understand he intends to change the name of
his existing corporation.
MR. FLEGAL: I understand that. That's just one thing, I mean.
We need to understand what all he has to do. And I think,
personally, approving somebody, you know, conditionally upon
going and purchasing the vehicle and getting the registration is
one, or getting the background check criminally which comes
from somewhere else is fine.
But now it seems we're getting into approving things where
all of a sudden the items you have to do, the list keeps getting
longer and longer and longer and longer for the county to get
before they issue a permit. And I just -- I don't know, personally,
don't feel the board should do that.
So I am not in favor of this until we see all of this stuff. I
mean, anybody can sit up here and say we approve you
conditionally, go out and get forty-seven things and give it to
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them, next.
MR. PALMER: Well, that's true. And you're well within your
discretion to insist if you want to that you see a full application
before it's presented to you. You can do that if you desire or you
can delegate to Maria as you desire, as long as it isn't something
that you must pass upon on the merits.
For example, if Maria had -- if the background check came in
and there were some questions about it, you might want to not
let Maria make the final determination on the weight that would
be given to that. You might want to have that be your collective
decision of the board.
A number of our quasi-administrative bodies will delegate to
staff things that are crystal clear and there's really not a lot of
judgment on. But if there's something of judgment comes up, it
usually goes to the board and let the board decide the matters
that may be -- you may give more weight than somebody else
may give.
But in general I think -- I agree with you that's it nice to have
a complete package before the board so you know just what it is
you're doing, instead of this little bit out of reach. And you don't
really know what happens. In fact, you might not even
necessarily have any formal follow-up on it.
On the other hand, the board could meet. Rather than meet
three months from now, if this thing gets wrapped together in
another thirty days, the board might want to meet to address the
merits of this application.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY.' I think we could give him a
checklist of things that he needed to bring back to us to present
at the next board meeting or next scheduled board meeting. And
if he has all of those things in line, certainly he would get a
permit.
MR. PALMER: As a matter of fact, if you wanted to, you could
make a policy to Maria not to present to you any applications
that are not complete or they are complete except for a few
incidentals, whatever you want to do.
MR. PEASE: This is a little bit unique in the amount of the
expenditure on one vehicle.
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CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Exactly.
MR. PEASE: So I don't have a problem with it coming up to
the board because that's a big investment. I understand his
concern.
I would suggest that, Robert, that you -- I know you signed off
that you read the ordinance, but I would suggest you read that
again and really understood what you're allowed to do or what
you're not allowed to do in terms of your business plan, because
we want you, if you're going to do this, to be viable and to be
there long term for the benefit of the customers and the local
residents.
The board does not have the power to arbitrarily say you can't
operate. What we can say is if you will do these things, you're
going to have a good shot at being approved because you have
completed the tasks that were before you.
So I would concur with the other board members that we not
put a vote on this at this point, but ask that he go back and get
those items at least on a tentative basis.
MR. SCALLAN: Will you supply me a list of those items?
MR. PEASE: Maria can do that.
MR. PALMER: Another thing that would be helpful, let's
assume that in this process, Maria, everything is moving along
smoothly and Maria sees no reason why this board would deny.
That's fine. But if Maria should -- a red flag should come up and
Maria says we have got a serious problem here, don't -- don't
make any commitments on an eighty thousand dollar vehicle. I
mean, Maria can do those kinds of things. And then he can be
apprised as things go how things look. We have no reason to
suspect sitting here today that this application won't be
approved, but we don't know it for a fact.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: That's right.
MR. PALMER: But we also see no -- no -- no poison pills in
anything that you're reading. And in all probabilities you will be
approved. It's a matter of getting the ducks lined up, getting it to
Maria. Maria can probably make a judgment for you that, yes,
everything looks fine and she sees no reason why she would
suspect the board would deny when they decide your matter on
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the merits.
MR. PEASE: April would be a good time to have this brought
before us. It gives him time to get some things in order and it
gives him time also on his financing.
I think he does have a projected
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY:
date in here of March 15th.
THE COURT REPORTER:
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY:
have on here for your --
What date, I'm sorry?
March 15th, isn't that what you
MR. SCALLAN: Right. I would like to move on this as quickly
as possible. This has kind of been in the works. I've been
planning this and putting the project together for some time now.
MR. PEASE: When's our meeting?
MS. CRUZ: I'm sorry?
MR. PEASE: When is our April meeting?
MS. CRUZ: Four.
MR. PEASE: April 4th. That's only twenty days.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Could I have a motion on it?
MR. PEASE: He started it.
MR. FLEGAL: I guess my motion would be that we -- what's
best, Tom, table it until the next meeting?
MR. PALMER: Continue the matter to a date certain, to the
next meeting, subject to a complete application being presented
to you at that time. And what -- you will determine the matter on
the merits.
MR. FLEGAL: I would make a motion that we continue this to
our next meeting, which is currently scheduled for April 4th, and
-- in hopes that the applicant can fill in all of the blanks and bring
us additional information so we can make a confirmed judgment.
MR. PALMER: By that -- but you don't mean have title to the
vehicle?
MR. FLEGAL: No, title doesn't bother me --
MR. PALMER: Right.
MR. FLEGAL: -- if he says, you know, if you will give me a
permit, I'm ready to go buy the vehicle, that's fine. Right now it's
kind of in limbo whether he really can buy the vehicle or not.
MR. PALMER: Right.
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MR. FLEGAL: And I'm a little bothered about giving permits
when you can't buy the vehicle.
MS. CRUZ: May I have for clarification purposes the list of
items that he needs to provide, because all I have is the
registration, credit history on the existing corporation?
MR. PEASE: The corporate name, criminal background check.
MS. CRUZ: The criminal background check was requested on
January 26th, and that's beyond our control. We send that to
FDLE and we can't determine when they're going to be sending
that in to us.
MR. PEASE: Credit history on the existing corporation, if
that's where the title of the vehicle is going to be.
MR. FLEGAL: If he's changing names from the existing
corporation to the new corporation, then the existing corporation
should have some kind of credit history because it's been in
existence since '97.
MR. PEASE: Get that, and then it's narrowed down to just the
last two items which can be approved contingent on, which is
the class nine registration and the proof of insurance.
MR. FLEGAL: He needs a proper driver's license.
MR. PEASE: The proper driver's license, that's right.
MR. SCALLAN: Is that an item I must secure before -- once
again before I own this vehicle?
MR. PEASE: Everything except registration and --
MR. FLEGAL: Driver's license should be easy to get.
MR. PALMER: Yeah, it strikes me that if you're serious about
doing this, I'd get my driver's license ASAP.
MR. FLEGAL: Yeah, I mean, you just have to go -- it's --
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: It's not a difficult thing, it's just a
written test to get a chauffeur's license. It's very easy.
MR. FLEGAL: I mean, it's like changing the name of your
corporation, it's no big deal. And whether you have it and don't
ever drive is immaterial, you know. And it's just something you
have that -- so I would go get that immediately.
MR. PALMER: Or another possibility, if enamored with this
name, fine, but if you could do something slightly different, do it
d/b/a. Have this corporation doing business as something, a
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name that you like, and you don't have to go through all of the
rigmarole of a formal change of the corporation recognized by
Tallahassee. It's a lot cheaper, it's very expeditious. That might
work. Just a suggestion.
MR. SCALLAN: The State of Florida can supply information on
how to do that?
MR. PALMER: Oh, yeah, it's a simple process. You just do
business as some other thing, but you're formally the -- the
corporate name doesn't change. And nothing in the corporation
is affected. You'd just be doing business as some other name
which is a catchy name that somebody else hasn't already -- that
isn't already using. Very simple, inexpensive process. MR. SCALLAN: Thank you.
MR. PEASE: I would second the motion to continue this item
to the next board meeting.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: All in favor say aye.
(Aye.)
MR. SCALLAN: Question.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Uh-huh.
MR. SCALLAN: Where might I find more information on the
county's policy regarding the advertising concerns?
MR. PEASE: The ordinance, and Maria can give you a copy of
that. You did sign off that you had read it. Do you not have the
ordinance?
MR. SCALLAN: Yes, I have that. That was for -- for livery.
MR. PEASE: It also discusses advertising. In fact, it's the
very first item on the table of contents. MR. SCALLAN: Okay.
MR. PALMER: Maria -- Maria knows most of these things. If
you talk to Maria, she can probably help you in almost every
aspect of your application.
MR. SCALLAN: Thank you.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Move on to our next item of new
business, George E. Rogers doing business as American Eagle
Limousine, Inc., request for approval to operate a charter
service.
Is Mr. Rogers present?
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MR. ROGERS: Yes.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY:
please?
(Witness was sworn.)
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY:
Would you swear Mr. Rogers in,
Any questions on this application?
MR. FLEGAL: Maria, I assume the background check is in the
same category?
MS. CRUZ: That's correct.
MR. PEASE: What's this section on --
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Is--
THE COURT REPORTER: I'm sorry, I'm not able to hear you.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: We're looking for the section under
-- about bad debt on the credit report.
MR. PEASE: It says page twenty-five, Maria, but I don't --
MR. FLEGAL: Page twenty-two.
MR. PEASE: Twenty-two?
MR. FLEGAL: The only thing this says is current credit report.
Bad debts, twenty-five. The only thing this says on twenty-five
is at the top, no certificate shall be issued to any applicant
whose owner's credit report indicates facts and circumstances
showing failure to properly pay vehicle-for-hire related bills.
Since he's not been in business, this has no bearing. MR. PALMER: That's correct.
MR. PEASE: And there's nothing in the ordinance related to
any personal bankruptcy or anything of that nature in terms of an
applicant?
MR. PALMER: Absolutely. As a matter of fact, I think as a
matter of law that couldn't be a valid consideration, otherwise it
would be a double-edged sword, you're darned if you do and
you're darned if you don't by declaring bankruptcy.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: We've had people in the past that
have come in front of the board that have been bankrupt. MR. PEASE: Just wanted to double check.
MR. PALMER: However, if somebody in a bankruptcy did that
to absolve themselves of a lot of taxicab related debt, then it
becomes a material consideration.
MR. FLEGAL: Then you can consider it. That's what I
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thought. Subject to the background check, I make a motion we
approve the application.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Do I have a second on that motion?
MR. PEASE: What do you think, Bill, do you want to be in on
this?
MR. CSOGI: I will second it. I read it. No problem.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Put the new guy right on the spot
there, Bryan.
MR. PEASE: Next -- next -- next quarter you get to actually
make a motion.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: All in favor say aye.
(Aye.)
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: You're approved. Congratulations,
sir.
MR. FLEGAL: Congratulations, sir. Good luck.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Moving on to old business.
MR. ROGERS: When do I get my permit?
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: You have to see Maria in her office.
MR. ROGERS: Today?
MS. CRUZ: Yes, sir, you can come in later on if you like.
MR. ROGERS= Thanks.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: The only old business that I really
have is we have discussed items here over several months that
we wanted to change in the ordinance, and we never really
follow through with them. I would like to see a meeting where
we just discuss those items and get down to work and do it.
MR. PEASE: My suggestion is we not put them in a workshop
format, because the workshop format becomes conversation and
no action gets taken. I suggest we put it on the agenda for the
next meeting.
MR. FLEGAL: I agree.
MR. PEASE: We just spend some time.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Either way, but it needs to get done.
We just keep talking about it and no action's ever really been
formally taken on it.
MR. FLEGAL: Why don't we -- we all probably have different
items that we can think of that haven't been accomplished. Why
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don't we pass those on to our chairperson and have her direct
the staff to put them on the agenda for the next meeting. MR. PEASE: Wonderful idea.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: That's fine. Just pass them over to
me,
MR. PEASE: I will walk mine.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Okay. You can walk yours over.
Do we have any other reports? No?
Discussion?
MR. FLEGAL: Maria, we have a vacancy, don't we?
MS. CRUZ: I'm not sure if we do.
MR. PEASE: Transportation.
MR. FLEGAL: We're missing -- we're supposed to have five
members and one alternate. We have four members and one
alternate.
MS. CRUZ: Right. I will check into that.
MR. PEASE: Wasn't the staff going to send a letter out to the
members? Not the members, but the certificate holders?
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: I think we had discussed that, yes.
MS. CRUZ: It was discussed.
MR. PEASE: But not accomplished.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Those things happen.
MS. CRUZ: There's only one of me. It will be done.
MR. PEASE: Make it so.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: I would like to have a full board
here. And I would like to see some participation from the public
here, the public or other certificate holders. There's never
anybody here.
MR. PALMER: Well, that may be that everybody thinks
everything is fine and there's no serious concern about this
activity in Collier County.
MR. PEASE: We're doing our job properly.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: I guess so.
MR. PALMER: I would be concerned if we had a room full of
people here.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: I don't want that either. But
sometimes when we're discussing some items to change in the
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ordinance, it would be nice if you had a little input from other
people.
MR. PALMER: Well, if people are concerned about it, there
will be adequate notice before the County Board of
Commissioners and they can speak at the time that the board
considers the amendments. I don't recall ever having any public
comment on anything to do with the PVAC ordinance. MS. CRUZ: I don't recall either.
MR. PALMER: Even by the regulated industry.
MR. PEASE: It's good to have this slot filled.
MR. PALMER: Oh, yeah, it's always nice to have a full
compliment, then we don't have quorum problems.
MR. CSOGI: Well, I can say before today, I had never heard of
the committee -- before my application and before I saw it in the
paper, I didn't know it existed. As a public viewpoint. I don't
know if we advertised this meeting's held today in the paper or
anywhere.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: They're advertised.
Where do they advertise them?
MR. PALMER: They post them on bulletin boards.
MR. CSOGI: In the building here?
MR. PALMER: Yeah.
MR. CSOGI: That's it?
MR. PALMER: Yeah. There's no legal requirement that a
regularly scheduled meeting of a board like this publish in the
newspaper. Every board, depending on the matter that's being
addressed, may have its own triggering requirement of
advertisement. But in general, even when this board is
considering quasi-judicial matters on the merits of an
application, grant or denial, there's no requirement that that be
anything other than posted on bulletin boards within a
reasonable time prior to the meeting.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: Okay. Anybody else have anything
else to discuss today? No?
MR. FLEGAL: Next meeting is April 4th.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY: That's correct.
MR. PEASE: I make a motion we adjourn.
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CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY:
motion?
MR. FLEGAL: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BAISLEY:
May I have a second for that
All in favor say aye.
There being no further business for the good of the County,
the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 9:40 a.m.
PUBLIC VEHICLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
PAT BAISLEY, CHAIRPERSON
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