2018-06-27 Meeting Minutes (EMC)

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Chair Bennett: Okay, excuse me— Vice Chair Olson: Let me, let me— Ms. Demoruelle: I will go. Thank you so much. Vice Chair Olson: Let me help you just a little bit, because like I say, I started with this with Bob Jacobson when he was a councilperson in the mid-90s, right, and you have the dissolution of the sugar companies and the lands being purchased by various different people, property—I don’t know—when did you get the deed to your property? (to Jerome Warren). Mr. Warren: I got my deed in 1997. And in the deed it says that the company will be responsible. Vice Chair Olson: Yeah, well, but of course they created—then the company dissolved under you. These were all sugar plantation dwellings that in the dissolution of their, as entities— Mr. Warren: It’s the company or their successors. Vice Chair Olson: Successors, yeah. See, they only recently received deeds to the individual properties, and then of course the reason that these companies did that was to get away from their responsibility to have to provide this infrastructure. That’s what it is. C. Brewer, Doc Buyers—I was in the back room on this one, so— Mr. Warren: I researched my deed. I did the title search-- Vice Chair Olson: --I know how you got your deed, but— Mr. Warren: --No, I researched it. It’s the company or their successors— Vice Chair Olson: --But there is no company because they went bankrupt. Mr. Warren: No, no— Chair Bennett: What is the point? Vice Chair Olson: The point is that the whole process is totally—it’s start over. He’s basically the new guy on the block, and everybody who was working on this— anybody who has much history on it, most of them are dead and gone. And they’re just trying to unscramble the mess at this point. He got his deed in 1997, tells you about all you need to know.