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Florence Lopez assigned this issue to Code Enforcement - CG

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. This case has been transferred to our Code Enforcement tracking system and will be closed here in See, Click, Fix. Code Enforcement cases are responded to based on a priority schedule set by the Alameda City Council. Cases involving health and life safety are the highest priority. Should you have questions regarding the status please contact Code Enforcement at 510 747-6818.

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Rats-Dear MichaelS--I suggest you immediately call Alameda Count Vector Control/Rat Patrol. Your situation is likely to cause hundreds of rats to congregate in your neighborhood. AC Vector Control has advised me that rats carry leptospirosis, a potentially fatal disease, and other diseases. Their urine alone carries leptospirosis, which is a death sentence for children, the elderly, and anyone with an immune deficiency, such as an autoimmune disease.

I assure you, Alameda Code Enforcement, headed by Greg McFann, will let the neighbors of this property die rather than actually do their job to enforce the code. Please search 1217 Park St for numerous code violation potentially causing death which Code Enforcement, McFann, Givens, Fullard, have failed to address. You must make the danger public, and email the city council members directly, in order to force McFann to do his job. I suggest you keep the danger public, as on SeeClickFix, and go directly to the City Manager and the City Council, who have failed to properly train and supervise the Chief Building Official Greg McFann, and the employees below him.
I warn you that you must not offend McFann,Givens or Fullard, as they are ready, willing and able to retaliate against you, and such retaliation can cause your death or the death of your neighbors as it likely will at 1217 Park St.
I suggest you safest bet is to give it up entirely, an d flee the 94501 jurisdiction for other jurisdictions that do not have incompetent management. Almost all other jurisdictions in the bay area actually have code enforcement which will keep residents alive. Alameda does not. Your choice is to flee or face the consequences.

Alameda Building Official--this is my public records request for all records as to what action Alameda Code Enforcement has taken on this issue. If the response is none, as usual, please just post that response here so residents will know that they cannot expect any code enforcement, ever, even if the failure to follow the Alameda Municipal Code, which refers to and adopt the state various codes, will cause their deaths. Disabled, elderly, and child resident of Alameda should flee immediately because of the danger caused by the failure of Greg McFann's code enforcement department to enforce basic safety codes, and the retaliation and disability discrimination they will face if they make any attempt to get McFann's department to enforce the codes.

This issue was recategorized from Police -General to Garbage/Recycling Service.

Alameda Building Official assigned this issue to PW ESD Kerry

The complaint makes no mention of rats rather the complaint is about odor and leaving the garbage lids open. The complaint has been forwarded to the Environmental Services Division of Public Works as this falls under their jurisdiction.

https://www.acgov.org/aceh/food/complaint.htm This is the url of complaint form for the Alameda County Health Dept, which makes certain restaurants in Alameda County don't do this. Online, it appears they already had a vermin problem and were cited for it, so I suggest you complain again. You can also call them, and should find the number on the website near the url above.

PW Clean Water Program personnel previously responded in a timely manner to the stench complaints from this facility during the summer of 2016, when this report was forwarded to the Building Official. Much more recently, PW Clean Water Program personnel also completed a facility inspection at this facility, proactive of any potential complaint and essentially in advance of the current rainy season. There were not any stench or problem conditions in the subject waste enclosure at that time.

PW CWP staff are closing this issue, reported on more than a year ago, as we have inspected and resolved issues there in the interim, independent of this report. See additional public comment also just logged.

PW Clean Water Jim--Thank you for responding. I very much appreciate you and Marc doing your jobs quickly and competently, and showing your work on SeeClickFix. I find Public Works very responsive and helpful. Much of SeeClickFix is photos and descriptions of the good work that Public Works does every day: garbage, illegal dumping, clean water, sidewalks, streets, and the rest.

But Public Works is not responsible for unpermitted, dangerous building work, vermin infested premises, broken floors that trip me into a hot stove causing burns, a broken concrete walkway that trips my roommate, sending him to the hospital in an ambulance for a brain scan. Nor is Public Works responsible for a landlord failing to provide a working toilet, or hot water, or any waterer gas for cooking and heat, or electricity, etc. Only Code Enforcement can deal with these issues.

Because Code enforcement turns people away--refusing to even answer the phone or respond to emails--telling them that these are not code violations, or just for spite refuses to issue a notice of violation for someone who accidentally offended them, and engages in other more unpleasant retaliation, residents have created the workaround of getting other people to do Code Enforcement's job:
- PW Clean Water when a landlord's dangerous building works put lead paint chips on the ground,
- PW illegal dumping on private property, even though repeated dumping at the same address by the owner or tenants should go to code enforcement,
- PW Kerry when the landlord provides none or too little garbage removal, causing rats to congregate,
- PW when graffiti there is graffiti on private property the landlord should remove, but Code Enforcement refuses to send the form letter to the landlord, sometimes public works just gives up and removes it themselves,
-Alameda County Vector Control to come out and trap the rats living in this neighborhood, and especially under my apartment (https://seeclickfix.com/issues/38959290)
-Fire Prevention issuing the notices of violation that Code Enforcement refuses to issue, if fire has jurisdiction,
-Echo Housing to tell the landlord, no, Orlando Givens is wrong, a landlord cannot cut off the water, hot water, gas for heat and cooking, or electricity any time she wants if she has a permit, a landlord must provide utilities, especially to mobility impaired disabled persons, and she must give notice, and no, again, Orlando Givens is wrong that notice consists of the landlord saying "I just cut off your gas, and I am keeping it off I want to do some more building work",
-Echo Housing to tell the landlord, no, the landlord cannot contaminate the premises with lead paint chips, and must clean it up, especially as child neighbors visit and share the same lead-contaminated yard,
-Echo Housing to tell the landlord, no, she cannot scream obscenities at us tenants for requesting water, gas, lead remediation, repairs, etc., all tenants have a right to a habitable premises, even if Alameda Code Enforcement has not issued a notice of violation, refuses to issue a notice of violation, and when forced to do so, and a landlord cannot abuse them or otherwise retaliate,
-Alamada Disabilty grievance/risk manager when Code Enforcement refuses to allow access to disabled persons via reasonable accommodations, (not helpful, I'll skip this step from now on)
-Alameda City Attorney's office to pry the documents out of Gregg McFann,
-City Council to see that Code Enforcement and the City Attorney act,
-newspapers to make sure the City Council makes Code Enforcement and the City Attorney Act (see Big )/ Big Pro letters)
--finally, the nuclear option, Writing to the Neighbors, the specifics of how they will be harmed by the code violations, and the complete lack of compassion or competence of Greg McFann, Orlando Givens, and Carolyn Fullard (sp).

For the residents involved in the Big O / Big Pro controversy, it took them 12 years to get the city to enforce the conditions on Big O's conditional use permit, or get them out. I'm not spending the next 12 years with McFann, Givens and Fullard (sp) failing to do their jobs, and making Alameda residents afraid of them.

I understand you may be friends with these three miscreants. You may also have a loyalty to the city of Alameda that makes you reluctant to read criticism of another city employee. Also,Greg Mcfann is extremely powerful, can't be fired, will be here forever, and is likely able to get his boss and/or the city manager fired rather than getting fired himself. I'm not trying to get him fired. I am just trying to shame him into doing his job. This is a life and death matter for Alameda tenants and homeowners, so I hope you will understand why I am naming and shaming the wrongdoers.