Snow and ice assessment

Says she shoveled what she could during freezing rain but her bill seems extreme — she has only 15 feet of sidewalk and her street is never plowed.

Owner of a commercial building since 1983 with her first-ever ticket; says 72.5 feet of sidewalk could never take the two billed hours.

The tenant at Karakitzos's building; says he salted daily and the section never took more than half an hour to clear, asks for reassessment of the $500 charge.

Spoke for her mother Quincy, a 60-year-old small business owner with a language barrier, who got her first $500 fine in five years with no warning notice.

A disabled resident whose lawn care providers were away during the storm; the city's own snow-removal referral list failed her and her bill came in higher than her normal contractor's price.

Says many speakers got the exact same 120-minute/$499 bill for wildly different properties, suggesting inaccurate work reporting by the contractor.

Got a December 17 notice mailed five months later with no prior warning; says weather data shows barely any snow that week and asks for dismissal as a warning.

Appearing for Novi Properties, points out the notice date and alleged service date are two weeks apart, her cameras show no city crew, and no invoice was ever provided — asks the charge not be confirmed without a complete record.