“I don’t think you should risk safety as a means of saving upfront money,” Bullard explained. READ: 1 dead, 2 critically injured after car, OFD vehicle collide in College Park But he maintains cost savings should not have been the motivating factor in this case. “Because at the end of the day they were safety mechanisms.”īullard noted that the law’s repeal was crammed into a much larger bill dealing with a host of other cost-cutting issues during the Great Recession. “We should have kept those protections in place, those regulations in place,” Bullard told Heath. The bipartisan repeal was unanimous in the Senate and nearly unanimous in the House, except for three “no” votes.įormer state representative, Dwight Bullard, a Democrat, was one of those three. READ: GM recalls 400K Chevy, GMC pickup trucks for exploding side airbags As soon as he was gone from Tallahassee, the same state legislature, under pressure from real estate lobbyists, repealed his law.
The parking lot, full of pot-holes and water accumulating, has another year of life expectancy,” Robaina told 9 Investigates.īut just two years after Robaina wrote the law, term limits forced him out of office. The structure is going to need to be looked at in the next two years. “So they calculate: The roof has five more years. Robaina wrote the 2008 law after speaking with thousands of condo owners across the state.
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Waltz had ‘no right’ to give update on officer shot in head “So what does common sense tell you?” asked former Republican state representative Julio Robaina.
In 2008, Florida passed a law requiring condos like Champlain Towers South to get what is known as a “reserve study.”īasically, the state’s condos would get inspected every five years, with an engineer or architect producing a report detailing how much the condo was going to need for future big-ticket repairs. READ: 17 Apopka church members test positive for COVID-19 following July 4 gathering
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