CENTURY VILLAGE ELEVATOR ACCIDENT

Hi all,

The following short video portrays the typical biased reporting by TV journalism of the horrible accident in the Village. It is being placed here for one reason.

It is highly likely that the Bureau of Elevator Safety, a part of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation in Tallahassee will vigorously "crack down" on Century Village. I opine this because they were not treated at all well in this report.

All High-Rise Associations should take notice, if their elevator is delinquent and take all measures to cure any defect and delinquency. At least, you may be assessed a fine of $1.000.00 at worst you may experience some catastrophic variant of what happened at Dover B.

If you reside in a high-Rise Association and do not know if your elevator is delinquent please go to the following site:

https://www.myfloridalicense.com/wl11.asp

Simply follow instructions and enter either your elevator License number or the name of your Association and you will see if you are current.

Please take the time to see that your machine is inspected and compliant with current code.

In the spirit of full disclosure, it must be noted that my building; Greenbrier C, is in fact, delinquent. Why you may ask? The Greenbrier C elevator is 9 months old, having been fully remodeled. We have had two inspections since the new machine was declared operational. We have submitted our violation free inspection report and the required fee to the Bureau of Elevator Safety. Despite this, no Certificate has been received.

This may reflect on the woeful underfunding of the Division, or other factors, as yet unknown. Thus it should be noted, that sometimes, responsibility is difficult to assign.

Dave Israel