Chapter 15

City Attorney Caton said, “the staff and the Attorney’s Office disagree with a lot of what Mrs. Mead had to say, but I don’t think it will serve any useful purpose to say we agree with you here and don’t agree with you there and what have you.”

Since I quoted directly from the Standard Building Code, the construction regulation selected by City Officials long ago, Mr. Caton disagrees with the SBC which is exactly the problem.  City Officials have based a policy on procedures forbidden by the SBC, CO on change of tenant.  City Officials use their illegal demands to bully property owners into hiring City Officials' friends (those who agree with City Officials' illegal demands), to force property owners to do unnecessary work and end up needlessly costing law-abiding property owners a great deal of money for unnecessary contractors, expose owners to grand theft of building materials and historic artifacts, and when these things inevitably occur, the Police Department, City Attorney and the State Attorney appear to protect the people breaking the law.

Since we live in America, we are supposed to be entitled to the protection of local, state and federal laws.  All Officials I have contacted, including law enforcement, refuse to stop the apparent illegal/criminal actions against us as owners and unwilling victims of corruption thereby protecting the violators.

The emails on the following pages concern arranging the visit to our property by Ms. Ustick.

The email from Ms. Ustick to Delmus Wilkinson, dated September 24, 1999, states, “I want to meet with Ms. Mead at the property first and see what her issues REALLY are before we meet to go over this.”

I have repeatedly told Ms. Ustick, Mr. Bonfield, Mr. Wilkinson, all City Council Members, the DBPR, FDLE, Governor Jeb Bush, etc., what the REAL issues are:

City Officials are breaking laws made and instituted by our elected officials, signed by the Governor and passed into law and which should apply to all by:

        Illegally requiring a Certificate of Occupancy on change of tenant 
        which they use to steal money, building materials and artifacts from 
        property owners

      

        Committing conspiracy to commit extortion by all City Officials 
        working together to enforce illegal requirements.

        Committing conspiracy to commit grand theft since the outcome 
        of these illegal actions results in the forced removal of the property
        owner’s assets:  building materials, money, artifacts, etc.

        Conspiracy to prevent the commercial property owner from operating 
        an authorized, legal business in the City by illegally requiring a new 
        Certificate of Occupancy on change of tenant to obtain an occupational 
        license (really just a tax to operate in the City) and then refusing to

        award a new Certificate of Occupancy when they do comply with these
        illegal demands, as we did.

         Refusing my repeated requests, under the national Public Information 
         Act and the State Sunshine law for documentation sent to Governor
         Jeb Bush, DBPR, FDLE, etc. and the refusal of the recipients, whom 
         I also contacted, to furnish a copy also.  These secret dossiers have
         illegally remained secret due to City Officials and State Officials, both,

         consistently refusing to abide by the pertinent laws thereby keeping the 
         reasons for these State Officials refusing to stop these illegal actions 
         unknown to me. 

         Intimidation (caused by building inspectors dressing similar to police 
         officers), hysterics, adamant refusal to obey the law and other illegal 
         actions on the part of City Officials which cause a hostile atmosphere 
         and environment for a property owner who is in complete compliance 
         with all applicable laws.

I have made extensive efforts to show anyone and everyone who is in some way in a position to stop the illegal actions how City Officials are acting outside of the law.  Most appear to be involved in widespread corruption which is harming the people of the City as a whole and as individuals.  This is my REAL intent.

I met with Ms. Ustick and Mr. Weeks on our property on September 27, 1999.  I discussed the damage caused to our historic property by the apparent illegal/criminal actions and illegal demands on the part of City Officials especially the Building Inspection Department.  I asked that she stop these illegal activities.

I received a letter from the Florida Attorney General, Mr. Butterworth, dtd September 27, 1999, refusing to stop the apparent illegal/criminal actions against me and my husband, but stopping corruption appears to be his job.  Since City Officials appear to have illegally demanded over 300 new CO’s from Pensacola property owners in a situation defined by the Standard Building Code as not appropriate for new CO’s, it appears to be the Attorney General’s job to charge public officials with breaking the law since the State Attorney for our area, Mr. Golden refuses to obey the construction law, the Standard Building Code.  It appears that Mr. Butterworth also refuses to do what appears to be his job.

I wrote Ms. Ustick a letter, dtd September 28, 1999, and put in writing my thanks for Ms. Ustick and Mr. Weeks visiting our property on September 27, 1999.  I also pointed out, as we had discussed at the site, that Pensacola Building Inspectors accepted projects as complete and complying to building codes when they did not physically inspect the projects they accepted.  I also reiterated the complaints against Mr. Miller, the contractor, that I had made, in writing, to Mr. Wilkinson but had heard nothing further.  I put in writing the discussion with them where I showed them the damage caused to our historic property by the apparent illegal/criminal actions and demands on the part of City Officials and asked Ms. Ustick to stop this.

Ms. Ustick wrote a letter to Mr. Weeks, dtd September 29, 1999, where she stated, “Bill, I wanted to thank you for coming out after hours to meet with Ms. Mead this week and also for the follow up information you provided.  It was very helpful to have your perspective and to keep me out of trouble.  Thanks again.”