Ten Returned Penalty Mailings

RECORD CHAIN

1. The City had repeated correct-name mail history to this owner and trust. The cited activity-log pages show repeated correct BARITELL or JACKIE BARITELL addressing before and after the BARTITELL entries, including entries on M004, M005, M007, and M008. The misspelled entries appear between correct-name entries, not at first contact.
2. The activity log records each return in a dated "LETTER RETURNED" entry. The ten entries fall on 02/01/2024 M004, 03/07/2025 M007, 06/19/2025 (four entries) M008, 08/07/2025 (two entries) and 09/26/2025 M009, and 11/05/2025 M010; each is an administrative-penalty or monitoring-fee mailing dispositioned "RETURN TO SENDER."
3. Three of the ten entries address a misspelled trust name. Those entries read "JACQUELINE M. BARTITELL TRUST" - the inverted-letter form - in the text of the produced activity log M004 M008, not as an extraction artifact.
4. Penalties continued to accrue across the same period. The undelivered mailings carried the administrative penalties and monitoring fees that the City continued to assess in successive cycles over the same months M004 M007 M008 M009 M010.
5. The log entries verbatim. The paragraphs below reproduce the City's activity-log text as produced:

The four 06/19/2025 returned-mail entries M008: "CERTIFIED ADMPEN JACKIE BARITELL TRUST 4880 T ST SACRAMENTO, CA 95819 *RETURN TO SENDER UNCLAIMED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"; "CERTIFIED HDBMONFEE JACKIE BARITELL TRUST 4880 T ST SACRAMENTO, CA 95819 *RETURN TO SENDER UNCLAIMED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"; "CERTIFIED HDBMONFEE JACQUELINE M. BARTITELL TRUST C/O JACQUELINE BARITELL 4880 T ST SACRAMENTO, CA 95819 *RETURN TO SENDER UNCLAIMED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"; "CERTIFIED ADMPEN JACQUELINE M. BARTITELL TRUST C/O JACQUELINE BARITELL 4880 T ST SACRAMENTO, CA 95819 *RETURN TO SENDER UNCLAIMED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"

02/01/2024 LETTER RETURNED M004 - the inverted-letter form on first-class mail, sixteen months before the June cluster: "FIRST CLASS MAIL HDBMONFEE JACQUELINE M. BARTITELL TRUST C/O JACQUELINE BARITELL 4880 T ST SACRAMENTO, CA 95819 RETURN TO SENDER NOT DELIVERED AS ADDRESSED UNABLE TO FORWARD"

03/07/2025 LETTER RETURNED M007: "CERTIFIED AND FIRST CLASS ADMIN PENALTY AND MONITORING FEE JACKIE BARITELL TRUST 4880 T ST SACRAMENTO, CA 95819 *RETURN TO SENDER NOT DELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"

08/07/2025 (two entries), 09/26/2025, and 11/05/2025 LETTER RETURNED M009 M010: "CERTIFIED MAIL HSG ADMPEN JACKIE BARITELL TRUST … *RETURN TO SENDER UNCLAIMED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"; "CERTIFIED MAIL HSG HDB MONFEE JACKIE BARITELL TRUST … *RETURN TO SENDER UNCLAIMED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"; "CERTIFIED ADMPEN JACKIE BARITELL TRUST … *RETURN TO SENDER NOT DELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"; "CERTIFIED HDBMONFEE JACKIE BARITELL TRUST 4880 T ST SACRAMENTO CA 95819 *RETURN TO SENDER UNCLAIMED UNABLE TO FORWARD*"

The record also shows formal notice was received on other cycles: "GREEN CARD RECEIVED" delivery confirmations for penalty/monitoring-fee mail on 02/15/2024, 03/20/2024 (×2), and 07/09/2024 M004 M005, and at least one later signed certified green card for the 07/16/2025 hearing packet, logged as received 06/11/2025 with a signature reading "Gwen" and dated 06/05/2025 M033. Notice on this case was intermittent, not absent.

FULL CIRCLE

The City may argue: service was legally complete on mailing. Under SCC.1.04.100, "service by certified or regular mail shall be deemed effective on the date of mailing," and subsection (C) provides that "the failure of any person entitled to receive a notice and order shall not affect the validity of any proceedings taken under this code." The mail went to the address of record, the inverted-letter form is harmless because the street address and "C/O JACQUELINE BARITELL" line identified the recipient, and a returned envelope therefore changes nothing about the City's compliance.

This card does not assert that the penalties are void for defective service. It addresses actual notice. The record shows ten returned penalty mailings, three addressed to the inverted-letter trust name, on a file whose log shows correct-name addressing before and after those entries M004 M005 M007 M008 M009 M010. Under a rule that deems service effective on mailing, the penalties may have continued while these particular notices came back undelivered.

The returned-mail entries and the misspelled trust name appear in the City's own Case File, produced against the closed-production baseline carried by Card 4. The penalty cycles those mailings carried continued through the same period Card 14 Card 15. The produced record does not show a resolution of the returned cycles.

The finding is limited to what the log records: ten penalty mailings returned undelivered, three addressed under an inverted trust name, during months in which the penalty cycle continued.