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329 Attorney Miller spoke first and said there is really nothing to add to what has been said in the past except Lisa has asked him to help her with this. She is here tonight to ask to keep six horses on the property at 342 Bedford Street. He told the Board that they could ask Lisa any questions they wanted to. Dr. Roemer said she didn't have any questions at all but she has been on the Board since last July and there has been many times there has been six horses on the property - two more than the permit was given for. Attorney Miller said that Lisa did make a mistake by keeping six horses, he said it was a misunderstanding. The Board feels that it is no misunderstanding but that Lisa is unrespon- sive to the Board's letters or the regulations of the Board. The attorney went on to say that Lisa has had horses since she was nine years old and she did have violations in her teens and manure problems but she is grown up now. Mr. Smith said the issue here is the number of horses that Lisa keeps on her property vs. the number of horses stated on her permit. Dr. Roemer said she is not sure this is worth hashing all over again. The Board has made it clear to Lisa that she is to keep four horses only on her property and Dr. Roemer said, she personally, has gone by on many occasions and counted six horses. She told the attorney that she per- sonally is not in favor of variances, and sine she has come on the Board in July, twenty -percent of the time has been spent on Lisa and the horses. Dr. Roemer said Lisa has only been in compliance with her permit for the past four weeks, and that is not enough because she has been "out of compliance" for years. If her permit said, "Three", there were four horses and if the permit said "Four", she has been keeping six horses. Lisa said the other horses were just visiting for the day. She said she did have six horses for the month of February. Mr. Lambie said he has been by many times and found Six horses and then Mr. Smith added that he comes by early every morning and there were six horses there during the whole month of August, in fact, for months, there were six horses there. Mr. Lambie told Lisa that she has paid no attention at all to what the Board has said or has not acknowledged any letter written to her in regard to her animal permit. She was told to call the Board of Health Office any time she was bringing extra horses on the property to stay there temporarily but she never called the office, just did as she pleased. After further discussion, Mr. Lambie said the Board will not change its posi- tion at this time. It is four horses only. The attorney asked: "The Board will not allow six horses at any future time?" Mr. Lambie said, "We did not say that, but the Board is for four horses, only. The Board is not willing to increase the number of horses at this time. Lisa is very unresponsive to the Board's wishes.