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CONTENTS

 

CONTENTS 2006-2013

 

(Post titles listed most recent first, oldest last)

 

 

May 2, 2013                          SPEAK UP, BE HEARD AND BE COUNTED....

 

May 2, 2013                          PETITION

    

December 7, 2012              WHY THE DELAY, SECOND CALL

 

JULY 7, 2012                        WHY THE DELAY....

 

DECEMBER 12, 2011         SHERIFF LEONARD FULFILLS HIS COMMITMENT

 

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011        SHERIFF LEONARD OFFERS ASSISTANCE

 

JULY 7, 2011                         THIRD REQUEST FOR HOMESTEAD ADDRESS

APRIL 1, 2011                        THE DALLAS COUNTY E911 BOARD IS NOT DALLAS COUNTY                         

 

MARCH 30, 2011                  JUDGE PRATT DISMISSES 4:09-CV-00198-RP-RAW

 

AUGUST 7, 2009                   ANOTHER STORY LINE, THIS TIME OVER BOB OCKERMSN'S SIGNATURE

 

NOVEMBER 20, 2007          A LONG ATTORNEY SEARCH IN A VERY LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

 

OCTOBER 11, 2007             DALLAS COUNTY HEARS [SORT'A, MAYBE HEARS ABOUT] REQUEST

 

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007        AFTER MONTHS OF RECEIVING LIES, STONWALLING AND BULLYING

 

FEBRUARY 13, 2007            ADDRESS SIGNS COST $4.25

Speak up, be heard and be counted in favor of effective Dallas County Government

TO BEGIN WITH:

After a six-year case history, at great and unnecessary expense to Dallas County taxpayers, during which the Dallas County E-911 Service Board repeatedly refused to provide an E-911 address, the E-911 Board reversed itself with no explanation of the unnecessary delay, the taxpayer expense or the reasons for the Board's self-reversal of its own Order.

The E-911 Board has been asked twice to reveal its reasons for this unexplained, expensive delay and to date has not responded.

This site  contains background information about this instance of the Dallas County E-911 Board's waste of taxpayer money.

Also provided here is a petition whereby Dallas County and other taxpayers can join together to request that the E-911 Board answer why this taxpayer money was wasted.

The Petition text follows in the next post.

Petition



 

PETITION

 

Whereas:

The Dallas County, Iowa Code, Title II, Chapter II, Section 11:03 states: "The Dallas CountyE-911 Service Board shall cause to have installed, signs for every person owning, controlling, occupying or using any house, store, storeroom or building situated on premises, fronting any public way…."

For a six year period, through two appeals to the E-911 Board and an appeal to the U.S.District Court, the E-911 Board refused, to address the parcel it has now addressed 26000 O Lane.

On October 6, 2011, after six years delay, the E-911  Board, reversed itself and did address 26000 O Lane after all.

All of the E-911 Board's reasons for its six-year denial and delay, as testified under oath by the Board's Chair and its Coordinator, are belied and mooted by the E-911 Board's self-reversal.

The Board's delay resulted in the expenditure of $149,887.93 in unnecessary attorney fees, $73,314.43 the Iowa Communities Assurance Pool paid on behalf of Dallas County and the E-911 Board, and, in addition, $76,573.50 personal expense to the taxpayer,  only then to reverse itself to the cost of a $4.25 sign.

The E-911 Board's violation of Section 11:03 and its egregious and unnecessary expense to taxpayers is a stain on Dallas County Government and demands that the E-911 Board reveal its true and full reason/s for its misuse of tax revenue by its delay.

Therefore:

I respectfully request the Dallas County Iowa E-911 Service Board to respond fully and truthfully to this request for the Dallas County E-911  Board's justification for wasting $73,314.43 of taxpayer's money in a useless, unnecessary six-year delay before reversing itself and addressing 26000 O Lane at a cost of a $4.25 sign post.

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If you will to join this petition, copy it into an email message, fill it in and address it to:

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WHY THE DELAY, SECOND CALL; DALLAS COUNTY CONTINUES SILENT

Receiving no response to his July 2012 request for its "reason for unnecessary delay," after six more months of waiting Brad Schroeder repeated his request to the entire E-911 Service Board in December 2012.

 

WHY THE DELAY?

DALLAS COUNTY IS NOTIFIED THAT THE MOOTED REASONS FOR SIX YEARS OF EXPENSIVE DELAY BY THE DALLAS COUNTY E-911 SERVICE BOARD REQUIRE AN HONEST REASON FOR THE DELAY

Hartung & Schroeder

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Schroeder@handslawfirm.com

 

      June 5, 2012

Wayne Reisetter

Dallas County Attorney

207 N 9^th Street, Suite A,

Adel, Iowa 50003

Dear Wayne:

            As you may be aware, with the promulgation of the 2012 edition of the Official Dallas County Address Map, the homestead of my client, Carl Hays, has now been appropriately addressed at 26000 O Lane.  As you are also aware, Mr. Hays invested considerable time and effort over the course of several years trying to secure exactly this result.  In fact, his first request a proper address for his property was entered December 15, 2006.  Unfortunately, his requests were wrongfully denied by Dallas County until very recently. 

            Among reasons Dallas County has given for its previous denials of this address are:

1.       "Dallas County cannot change a decision made by the E-911 Board." Pratt ruling on Motion for Summary Judgment, p.16
2.       "…the access point on [sic at] Lane 1 is designated 25998 O Avenue." Ibid
3.       "…it was decided by the E-911 Board that the previous ruling was justified due to the GPS location of said driveway."  Ibid P. 20
4.       "…due to safety considerations…there would be no further action by the E911 board to grant Mr. Hays' request." Ibid
5.       "…the assigned number will be plotted by GPS at the center of the primary entrance of the premises and will not approve multiple addresses to premises." Ibid p. 21
6.       "…all of the Plaintiff's [Carl Hays] utility and postal services were established at another address." Ibid p. 22
7.       "Plaintiff did not use that particular drive to access his property."  Ibid
8.       "…the Board felt that the entrances were properly marked." Ibid P. 23
9.       "…it is undisputed that Plaintiff already had two separate E911 addresses assigned to his property as a whole at the time the amended ordinance took effect." Ibid P. 59
10.   "…it was rational for the Board to deny his requests on the basis that Plaintiff had already been assigned two separate E911 addresses." P 59
11.   "24002 260^th Street is a nonexistent address." Ibid P. 60

            With the addressing of 26000 O Lane, it is now established that all the various reasons offered by Dallas County over the years for its failure to address Mr. Hays' homestead properly were not valid or prohibitive reasons.  Dallas County could have -- and eventually did -- grant Mr. Hays the relief he requested, and to which he was entitled.

            Mr. Hays now requests a response from Dallas County regarding the reason for this completely unnecessary delay and his incurring of tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to accomplish what should have been done in 2006 when first requested.

            Thank you.  I look forward to your reply.

                                                            Sincerely,

 

Brad Schroeder
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHERIFF LEONARD FUFULLS HIS COMMITTMENT FOR THE E-911 BOARD TO ADDRESS MY HOMESTEAD; DALLAS COUNTY CONTINUES TO STALL!

To: Brad Schroeder
From: Carl Hays
December 11, 2011

Brad:
       Sheriff Leonard faithfully did fulfill his committment for the E-911 Board to address my homestead properly.  However, the proof must show on the ground and it hasn't; Dallas County has continued to bollix the process and delay.

       First, after much waiting I acquired the minutes from October 6, 2011 E-911 Service Board meeting, the relevant Board minutes follows:        

          "New Business

          Carl Hays Addressing

          Leonard said that he'd met with the Carl's attorney and knows what Carl is requesting.  Carl said two nice driveways are going away and Carl is going to be using the old driveway [ Lane 1]....  Carl wants his address to be noted on that land, so wants another sign post ....  Dallas County claims if you gps at the gate his address would be 26002 center of the road.  Leonard met with Dallas County Engineer Jim George and through these discussions, E911 can give him 26002 or could rename the driveway "O Lane" and give Carl an address off of "O Lane", but with the address of 26002 "O" Lane.  Jim George is in favor of this as well...."

          "Hersch made motion to rename the driveway "O Lane" and to assign an address of 26002 "O" Lane for Carl Hays.

Adams 2^nd."
            End of November 6 Minutes

 

 

 



    Second,  Todd Noah is still unable (unwilling?) to show me a master records in the Dallas County Map Data Base that include all of the information for my three addresses in one place at one time.  He did provide a page that shows an address, 26002 O Lane but it is not linked to my name nor to the homestead parcel.  Nothing for 26002 O Avenue shows up on the web site.  Todd also revealed that the number to be at the entrance is 26000, not the 26002 recorded. The E-911 Board finally made this correction at its January meeting, 2013. 

    Third, no street sign, O Lane, has appeared after two months of attempting to track down where this is in the process.

    This deserves action now!  It has been more than two months since the October 6, 2011 E-911 Service Board meeting.

 

 

     Thank you,

      Carl