Park Place/Customer Service/Public Records

From Park Place:

Park Place is an Independent Living Facility located in downtown Sheffield. This community offers a variety of apartments and amenities and comes with a rich history of our area. Park Place complex also houses several retail, business offices and restaurant spaces. It is our goal at Park Place to provide a safe and enjoyable environment for our tenants at all times. We strive to be a productive business to the downtown area of Sheffield and to continue to bring business and revenue to this area of the Shoals. We are serviced by a Professional Pest Control Company and handle all complaints from tenants promptly and efficiently. Park Place is a vibrant, active community in the heart of Sheffield. We invite you to call and schedule a guided tour of our Facility.

It would seem that whatever problems some have attributed to Park Place, they are welcoming tours. It's always hard to keep any large facility completely free of problems; however, if you know of a major health hazard at Park Place or anywhere, it's always best to report it first to the manager and/or owner. If you don't receive the response you feel you deserve, please feel free to contact us.

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A few days ago, we had a young woman contact us who stated we had "put her friend's business out there." We asked for more information...as in a name would help...but received no reply. Nevertheless, we feel we know to whom this reader was referring - a many times convicted criminal.

It shouldn't be hard to understand that some people are public entities. Those who commit crimes against the state (all residents of Alabama are the state in this particular case) are public personages. They remain public until they leave the state court system. After that, sex offenders excluded, they are private individuals unless they re-offend or enter public life in some other way.

So, no. We haven't put anyone's private business "out there."

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Now another odd bill introduced into our legislature: A proposed Constitutional Amendment was introduced in the House that would exempt the state from the observance of daylight saving time. The bill is pending in the House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections Committee [HB185 by Representative Tommy Hanes].

Well, Rep. Hanes, if you knew your stuff, you would know this (from ThoughtCo):

But does any agency or entity actually have the responsibility to regulate daylight saving time across the United States? Believe it or not, yes.

It's the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 and later amendments to the daylight saving time law state that the Department of Transportation is "authorized and directed to foster and promote widespread and uniform adoption and observance of the same standard of time within and throughout each such standard time zone."

The department's general counsel describes that authority as "ensuring that jurisdictions observing daylight saving time begin and end on the same date."

So what happens if a rogue state wants to, say, create its own version of daylight saving time? Not gonna happen.

For any violations of the daylight saving time rules, the U.S. Code allows the secretary of transportation to "apply to the district court of the United States for the district in which such violation occurs for the enforcement of this section; and such court shall have jurisdiction to enforce obedience thereto by writ of injunction or by other process, mandatory or otherwise, restraining against further violations of this section and enjoining obedience thereto."

So, no, we as a state can't control it. Sorry. Perhaps next session, you can introduce a bill authorizing us to secede from the Union.