Citizens for Pets in Condos Closer to Goal

It's been a long, tough battle for this cause - allowing cats and dogs in condos - and Maida Genser, Fairy Godmother of the effort, is a real hero. An important meeting is coming up on the issue. Here are the details:

1) The Florida Condo Ombudsman is now ready to hear us.  Please
help make sure our voices are heard.

   12/8/2007, 10 AM - 1 PM, Annual Condominium Association
Members' Roundup, Broward Community College, South Campus, 7200
Pines Blvd, Building 68, Pembroke Pines, FL. This is your chance
to be heard! Come speak up for allowing pets in condos. Danille
R. Carroll, ESQ, the Florida Condo Ombudsman, has called this
meeting. She will be there, as well as the head of DBPR land
sales, and local state legislators.

   Directions: Take the Florida Turnpike to the Hollywood
Blvd/Pines Blvd exit. Go one mile west on Pines Blvd to the
campus entrance and proceed south to the perimeter road (just
beyond the parking lot that fronts Pines Blvd) then left to the
last building on the right, Building 68 - the Performing and
Cultural Arts Theatre. The building is on the NE corner of the
campus. Parking is just beyond (east of) building 68. The
entrance to the building is on the west side.

   Please write up your concerns -- make them concise and to the
point.  Then, send them to Danille Carroll, the Ombuds”man”
whether or not you are able to get to this public meeting.  Ask
her to put your comments into the record.  Use these same notes
if you get up and speak at the meeting.  We want her to hear us
loud and clear;  You may e-mail the Ombudsman at:
ombudsman@dbpr.state.fl.us.

   

   Other ways to contact her:

   

   Office of the Condominium Ombudsman

   1940 North Monroe Street

   Tallahassee, FL 32399

   Phone: 850.922.7671

   FAX: 850.488.3395

   

   OR:

   

   1400 W. Commercial Boulevard

   Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309

   Phone: 954.202.3234

   FAX: 954.202.3237

2) Linda Schmidt is fighting to keep her cat.  She is in a desperate situation.  She has an appellate attorney who will file an appeal for her, but she immediately needs over $2000 to get a transcript of the trial where her former attorney challenged whether the condos pet laws were properly entered.  She is waiting to get disability and waiting for insurance to pay for her injuries. If anyone can please help with any kind of donation to help her, or with a loan, please contact us at info@petsincondos.org.  If you make a donation for Linda, please let us know to separate that money for that purpose.  Go to http://www.petsincondos.org/HelpUsHelp.htm#Donate for information on how to donate. 

Please sign the petition to allow pets, link in upper left at http://petsincondos.org/