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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 6, 2015 Page 14 At the request of Board Member McGehee, Mr. Gupta responded that the litter behind their 1746 and 1735 buildings was often due to children seeking out the ice cream truck and accumulation of trash from that. Mr. Gupta advised that his firm had spoken to the driver of the truck, but he had ignored their requests. Ms. Joshi advised that their firm had five part-time caretakers and one full-time caretaker and attempted to keep things cleaned-up, but children were children. Mr. Gupta agreed that they had a lot of staff, and hired outside contractors as needed. Mr. Gupta noted that, during the inspection, they hired twenty contractors at one time to com- plete the work. At the request of Board Member Willmus, Mr. Gupta stated that, while having done many courses and holding a real estate broker license requiring 30 hours of annual con- tinuing education, he not none of his staff had been certified or received accreditation in property management. Mayor Roe thanked Mr. Gupta and Ms. Joshi for presenting their case, letting them know they had done well in expressing themselves, and asked that they remain in case any questions or need for additional information should arise. Chair Roe asked staff to return to respond to some of the issues brought up by the appel- lant. Inspection timing and repairs made while on site or shortly thereafter, and how staff in- terpreted that, and whether the inspection represented a snapshot in time, and did not make a determination if something was or was not fixed immediately Mr. Munson responded that when staff inspected something, even if a property owner was fixing the item, it was still listed as a violation. Mr. Munson clarified that the idea was that property owners were to self-inspect the building and make a correction before the inspection occurred. Other instances when repairs were made during inspection and calculated toward the grade Mr. Englund responded that every property was inspected using the same criteria, and many of those violations were not uncommon and were often repetitive among buildings, and still calculated in the grade. Listing violations multiple times Mr. Englund advised that each violation of a certain category type was counted once in the calculation, but listed multiple times to allow the management to find each violation and correct them each once they received the inspection notice, meant as a means to edu-