Dear Committee:

  File 81018 Hearing 101111..

I am writing in hopes that you will see that although I have had problems, I have worked hard to resolve them when making your decision on my rooming house license.  Whatever you do, I have to abide but I feel I need fairness on my part too.  I harbor no hard feelings.

First of all, I am enclosing a copy of the email that was sent to the DNS as far are updates and completion of violations. 

Mr Witkowiak also stated in 2010, I received a notice that due to that fact they did not follow procedure, they could not revoke my license.  Again, this is not true.  Check the files and I received that notice in 2008.  I received nothing in 2009 for the 2010 renewal and in 2010 I went to a meeting and only 15 people were there, the same ones, and the rest were there for the bar and the school problems. 

He said it was hard to revoke a rooming house license.  I had a few police calls and only a few violations for that year.  My license was renewed without further discussion.  lIsten to the tape. PLEASE.  Also Mr Witkowiak said he was contacted by the police department and drugs were found in the rooming house.  Where is this report, when did it happen? I never received any notices or fines from the police department and when Sharon came with police officers from the District attorney's office, they said they found nothing.

Now to address the police concerns.  I am not saying there have not been problems but I checked with my phone company, they have no idea why all the 911 calls say they came from my rooming house and after 10 years, this would happen.  I am having att send bills to verify. Also the calls were either false reporting of a closed halfway house to people arguing on the porch.  It was also reported as a closed building which was not true.  There were calls from the rooming house but alot of the calls were not from the phone and I was actually of victim of threats from people I evicted.  If you look at 2010 and 2011 there were not alot of legitimate calls from my rooming house.  The last incident in the neighborhood, the police talked to our witnesses.  The officer said if someone calls against me because I evicted him and threatens, I am the victim not the problem. 

Not one person, had any evidence of drug use everyday or alcohol use everyday.  It was the neighbors and their friends.  Mr Testka cried for the safety of his daughter, yet, he subjected her to hash chemicals from a silk screening business in the basement.  He also did not indicate of the gangs of kids that hang on that playground.  Pictures of some of them were submitted to the committee, older children hiting at younger children and stop sighns with sticks. 

Many of the people mentioned Jan.  Well Jan was in and outof the hospital in 2010 and 2011   Check with Mount Sinai Hospital.  She almost died.  So she could not have caused problems then.  The neighbors made up statements but had no eivdentiary support showing pictures, videos and any evidence that these were true fact and not just exaggerated stories blaming all problems in the neighborhood on my rooming house.  In the 2010 meeting, I asked for pictures and police statments to them.  None were presented. 

These 13 group of people, stood outside the meeting room for over 2 hours talking about what they were going to say.  If they were to testify, they should have been interviewed separately because everyone of their statements were tainted by collaberating with the other people and their friends.  What upset me is that none of these people work all day and they see these problems all day long.  How do they support themselves.  When they made a complaint about something during the day, they should have been asked where they worked, when they worked and how could they witness anything if they were at work.

The Teska's  if you look athe the police reports from August, you will see that I evicted tenants and they called the police on me or threatened me.  I was the victim not them or the neighborhood. 

Now look at the police reports:

Sept 7, 2010 trbl with subject  an eviction

October 26, 2010  Police investigation - no reports received, no citations, nothing

No call October 26, 2010 to Feb 7, 2011

1 call Feb 2, 2011

No calls in Mar 2011

1 call in Apr 2011

It says 10 911 in May and 3 in June calls but ATT says it was not from the phone and are sending the bill
June 15 was trbl with an eviction

June 16 was a follow up call not a police call per say

June 25 was a fals call reported that it was a cosed building and people were loitering.

There were calls to the police and police checking from 60/2011 to Sept 3, 2011.  Most of them were with tenants I was asked ot evict. And some of the calls were from them threatening me,

No calls since Sept 3 at all. 

I have had police visit for drugs, alcohol in a vending machine and I have received no warrants. tickets, citations or anything else.  It is the same people calling the police dept for the same things but no proof.

The Teska   Typical day 10 am starting beers,  Where are the police calls,   Where are the pictures  ALL hearsay  Yes the police even told me they were watching the property because of the constant complaints of drugs and alcohol and each spot inspection or unannounced visit, nothing found.  They lost so much money in the vending machine, because there was no liquor, just a disgrunted evicted tenant out to cause trouble.  Attracting homeless people and partying on the porch all day   Where are the police calls, where are the pictures

Mr Testka letter:  Rooseveldt on porch arguing about guns, he was evicted in July, he was not there in august.  A dispute to the police was about him getting his security deposit back Aug 1 but he was gone in July.,

Tenants outside smoking pot daily,  In one of his other letters, he indicated when the wind blows east, he can smell the pot.  Well that is from behind him then because the rooming house is to the north.  Also where are the pictures or police reports  Again hearsay

House was raided by police twice...When, they came because someone said beer in the vending machine and found nothing   There is no record in the police calls of any raids in 2010 nd 2011.  When were they and why didn't I or any of the tenants see them.

Larry Harris was not living at the rooming house at the time of the 2010 complaint.  He had been evicted,   He was calling the police about the vending machine beer and he is still in the neighborhood on 3rd st causing trouble.   I wrote to MR Witkowiak's ofice and told him, he was not my tenant at the time.  And if he threatened the mother of Teska's where was she to collaborate the threat.  No where and it was Whitney that called the police, she did not even talk to them and she is still out with the child next to my house daily.

2010  Loud music  In the 2010 meeting Teska said it happened all the time but only called the police once,  Never taped or recorded anything.  However, they had a business in their basement and loud music and bright lights all nite and nothing was done.  I reported that to the DNS on a visit and nothing was done.

All the complaints about Larry Harris.  He was not my tenant at the time of these events.  As far as a sex offender, there are 2 in the back rooming house.

The October 2010 assault was proven by the Milwa police dept that the mugging and robbery occurred in the rooming house behind me.  The Teska continue to lie about that under oath and nothing is done.

The Red van was the brother of a former tenant.  He picked up his brother daily.  They did not sit outside and where are all the pictures or proof of this drug dealings  Just hearsay.... All the time.  His brother offered to testify...

There is so much speculation and inuendos but where is the substaniated proof.  I am being thrown to the Wolves so the alderman's can get elected this next term.

How come  no police calls since Sept 3 and look at all the pictures of the improvements prior to the hearing.  Where am I a slum landlord who does nothing.  How come no problems now  DId the DNS come in and check my house again  NO

I have been persecuted non stop from the people next door and thei rfriends.  Contact the woman who lived there until they bought the place, I offered to, she had no problem with me and even offered to sell her property to me.

I know that with all the preasure from the neighbors and the alderman's wanting to get elected, that I will be thrown under a bus.  I can't help what they do but when a group of people get together and discuss stories at length, with no documented proof or pictures, then how can they be independent, unbiased because they are friends, and creditble. 

I ask not for sympathy but for a look at the true facts and how procedure was not followed by investigating allegations appropriately and false testamony.

Thank you for alowing this to be submitted.  As I said I do not expect much but it is only fair that I can address these as I could not do in the committee meeting.

Thank you  Damon Honegger  414-688-3001