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powers. dozens of companies came out against the order calling it discrimination. the trial for the challenge to the order is set for july. despite promises from a florida state lawmakers there will be no statewide requirement for safety inspections of older condo buildings in the state. just nine months after the deadly collapse in surfside, democrats and republicans could not agree on safety reform. the failed bill would have also required condo boards to do studies how much money they need for any repairs. the military academy of west point, new york, says it's investigating an incident involving cadets in a florida community. thursday night six students overdosed on fentanyl. according to official, one person has been arrested in connection with the incident. authorities say four people overdosed from taking cocaine that was laced with the drug. the other two overdosed from exposure to the drug when they were giving the other victims cpr. the united nations says more
capital of if not the u.s. then even the world. people say it rivals what's built in dubai. you know, condos are a huge part of the economy, and it's also a really big mix of florida's -- a really big part of florida's residential housing mix. you have so many condos, so many beachside condos. not only do you have developers making money off it, you have politicians making money from those developers who are wooing condo boards. you have people who are doing the installation, the contracting, designing. there are so many tentacles of this economy that are tied to condos, and a lot of legal experts i talked to said that can make it a really uphill climb to get some of these changes made because the other side of that equation is you have the actual residents, and in florida, there are a lot of people with fixed income, not everybody is a multimillionaire. surfside was considered relative to some of the other surrounding areas a slightly more affordable place to own a condo. and so you also have
do their work. we've immediately done stuff in our city. we have a huge amount of commercial residential over three-story buildings. we have about 507 and within a week, we did at least visual inspections of all of them. we sent our inspectors out and we are now requiring within about 21 days each of those buildings to do a licensed report on the structural engineering background to make sure that everything is sort of up to date. that all said, i think we're all going to be looking at just sort of how our building code operates with regard to these condominiums where in instances the decisions are made by condo boards, we've heard a lot about the disputes among boards and things like that, so i think you can expect both our county, our city and in fact the state of florida to be doing a real analysis as to whether or not the process is right and then of course, whether or not we are testing the right things, whether we need water proofing
south collapse, condo associations have to be more proactive about assessments that they're making. now, there's still an investigation to what the exact cause was in terms of the actual cause of this incident. but i think that associations are going to have to make a note of what is happening here and be more proactive moving forward. >> neil: more proactive means more expensive. the condo association president in the south tower case issued a report in april setting out to residents there, we have mayor repairs to make. but it was a $15 million assessment that would have unite owners paying from $100,000 to $200,000. here plea was to get that money fast. is that what weir looking at now, the condo boards, the better part of valor here and caution now have to take a hard
there was water on the floor. these maintenance guys are running around trying to fix it but they were just maintenance guys. >> yeah. >> i'm not sure they know where this water was coming from. >> that was happening for step years even before the construction? >> correct. >> you say there was a constant turnover with the condo board and friction how to deal with everything. do you think that contributed to things not getting fixed sooner? >> absolutely. it was almost like, you know, i'm here from new york and every -- it was condo board here seems to be very strict. the condo boards down in florida don't seem to be as strict as here. i'm not quite sure why. i know i only went -- >> there is no place in america that's as strict as new york city condo boards. you know that. maybe that's a good thing now that we're thinking about it. >> exactly. there was one meeting and one meeting only i went to and everyone was yelling and