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Call to order. It's 2 p.m. and the Code Enforcement Board for the City of Tarpon Springs is now in session. Bobby, can we

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take a roll call, please? Mr. Dumas here, doctor. Mateo here. Mr. Ogle here. Mr. Stephan here.

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Mr. Paul is absent. Mrs. Kern is absent, miss Merricks. Yes, Mrs. Lambert. Yes. Thank you.

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Roll call, sir. Thank you. Would you all please rise for the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance? Lord, please give us the insight and the

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humility and the wisdom that we would need to make the best decisions that we can for the city of Tarpon Springs. Now for the Pledge of Allegiance, the

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Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with

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liberty and justice. Justice for all. Be seated, please. And please turn off all cell phones

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or switch them to silence or airplane mode. We'll now go over the hearing procedures. The procedures for this code board are as follows. It is the

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intention of the board to promote, protect and improve safety and welfare of the citizens of Tarpon Springs by providing an equitable, effective and inexpensive

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method of enforcing various codes within the city of Tarpon Springs. Any aggrieved party may appeal a final administrative order of this board to the Circuit Court.

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Such appeal shall be filed within 30 days of the execution of the order to be appealed. Florida Statute 286.0105

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requires any party appealing a decision of this board. To have a record of the proceedings to support such an appeal. The procedure of this board is as

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follows. First, the city presents its witnesses and exhibits, after which the alleged violator is able to ask the city's witnesses any specific questions regarding

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their testimony. Secondly, the alleged violator is allowed to make a presentation and present his or her witnesses and exhibits. Then the city can

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question them. After both rounds of testimony, both on the part of the city and on the part of the alleged violator, each party is asked to give a closing argument, first by the

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city and then by the alleged violator. After these three steps are taken, the board will close the public hearing portion of the case to discuss it and take appropriate action.

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Before we begin, we will have all of the potential witnesses stand and be sworn by the Secretary of the board. If you're going to testify, you

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need to stand up. Raise your hand and the. Secretary will will swear you in. Yes, sir. Do

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you swear the testimony you're about to give is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? I do, thank you. You may be

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seated. All right. I would ask the inspector. I believe our

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first case is C two, case 26-80000870. If you're ready, sir, you may proceed. Yes, sir. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Anthony Boone. I'm the code enforcement

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supervisor, and I'm filling in today for Mike Ralston, who is out in training the rest of this week. So that's what leads me here with you today. I'm

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here with the first case 2680000870. Elaine Smith. 1132 Sunset Ridge, Tarpon Springs,

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Florida. And this is a water violation. 20-42, 40-43 and 20-44. This violation was seen

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by Inspector Mike Ralston on July 1st, 2026. And we also posted that same day. What you see before you is the property

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appraiser, which shows the address, the parcel number, and over on the right is the certified mail that we also sent out being a notice of

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violation. And we did receive the signature card back on July 10th. A couple of things to keep in mind when this all

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started on April 3rd through the 16th of of this year, the community was warned. We made a lot of notifications by people watering. We put it on our

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Facebook post. We put it on the city's Facebook post, we put it on the Instagram post, and as well, it's still currently on our city's website, which shows

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the extended phase three water shortage. That's my reason for showing you that on April 17th of this year, that's when the violations started, and they

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were extended from June 20th 3rd to October 1st. So if you remember, this violation was July 1st. This is the home of

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the address on Sunset Ridge. We're showing the water coming out of the sprinklers that Mike saw on July 1st. Their assigned

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day. Let me go back to July 1st. July 1st was a Wednesday, and Mike sent this email approximately 1128 in the morning. The assigned day for

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this home is a Tuesday between the hours of 8 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. and from midnight oh 1 to 4 a.m. So this happened on an

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off day, and it was outside of the time restriction. This is the notice of violation of the water restriction that we posted to the home, sent

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certified mail. It shows the date, the violation, the fined amount. And on the backside of it gives you also another what your days are for you to water.

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This property was posted on July 1st and certified copies were sent. That is my presentation. For this I do

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have a booklet here that has all the same evidence in it. Photos along with the property appraiser and the certified

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mail copies. The representative for Mister Lane Smith is here. I believe it's her daughter. If you'd like, you can come up.

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And that's my case. I have spoken with her today. It was my mom's house. I'm sorry. You need to give us your name and

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address, please. Elaine Smith, 786 Jacquelyn Lane, Palm Harbor, Florida. Thank you. So this was my mom's house and she passed

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on May 3rd, had the funeral in June. And I wasn't thinking about sprinkling. I apologize.

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And I couldn't even go back to the house. I was just heartbroken. So when I did go back to the house, I saw the sign and the house. And then I

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got up at my house in Palm Harbor. The certified mail. And I have a death certificate. So

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she's here for her mom. If you if you didn't hear, her mom passed away. And I believe this would have been in May. So are you saying that maybe the timers of the sprinklers were

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just going during that time? I really don't know. Okay, but no one was at the house at the time. Is the water sprinklers going off now? No. As soon as I

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got the certified and I realized what was going on, I went over and I shut it off. The system's off. Let me ask the inspector, in lieu of the

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the testimony that we've just heard. Is it possible that we can just dismiss this case? That's entirely up to the board itself. Well, I my job is to

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present it as the chairman, I. I would strongly suggest that we just drop this case. The fact that that the person who really lived at that house

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passed away. And I think we need to show a little empathy here. That's my own opinion. But if anybody wants to discuss that, I would agree, I will.

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Yeah, that motion with you and I can make a motion if you'd like for that as well to dismiss the case. All right. We've got we've got a motion to dismiss this particular case.

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All those in favor vote yay, yay. We need a second. We need a second. Second. It was second. Second. I didn't hear no problem was it was. Yes, sir. Second. All those in favor say

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yay! Yay. All those opposed? Nay. The ayes have it. The case is dismissed. There's no fine. Thank you ma'am. We're sorry

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for your loss. Thank you. All right. Moving along. Brings us

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to case number three. It's 26-80000791. Inspector again, my name is Anthony Boone. I'm the supervisor of code

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enforcement. Mike is out of town, and I have all the information in reference to this case as well. Case

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2680000791, which is located at 706 East Tarpon Avenue, Norris Properties. Hopefully I'm saying that right, sir. Probably not. The violation

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code here is 20.22 a mandatory connection. This incident started with US and code enforcement on March 31st, 2026.

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And then we opened the case in April 7th of 2026. I also have our water utility people that will also be here to testify.

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What led us to this event? So and if any time I do something wrong, please step up. City staff received an after hours text in reference to a septic

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tank overflow in the 700 block of East Tarpon Avenue. One city staff was on scene. They learned that this was coming from 706 East Tarpon Avenue.

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The Don tacos. What you see here is a sample of the text that come in to the city. And over here it says, you know the call description, a broken

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sewer, 23 South Walton Avenue, which is 706 Tarpon and Walton. That is the intersection there. And it talks about what what needs to be done. This didn't

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come to us. This went strictly to the water department. When the water department got there, they saw this puddle that you see here. Over here you'll see

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some more puddle. And in the puddling running across. The other thing that I want you guys to be aware of is this is Walton Avenue, and this is. And they'll be able to explain it

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more. But this is one of our ponds. This is a city fence. This is city property that if you ever been down Walton Avenue and it fills up, this is

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the water overflow from it. So here is the sewer running across. One of the things that I learned from the water

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treatment people is most of the time, if this would have stayed on property, it's on property. But once it left the property and became on the right of way or onto someone else's property,

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this is why the city had to come in and take initiative. Action. This is a Google map

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showing the location. These photos are not part of the time frame. This has you know, they're just what I'm trying to show you where Don tacos is and

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where the water was puddling. So this is all from Google Maps. On April 2nd, the business pumped out the septic tank. And let me go back that night that

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the the water department was there. They cut the water off the Don taco so it wouldn't

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keep flowing. On April 2nd and showed them a receipt that the septic tank was pumped. This is

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our notice of violation. Talking about the mandatory connection, this was issued on April 7th. And if you look again where I was telling you earlier, code enforcement

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performed a field inspection with the city right here on March 31st. So as you see, we were working during this time frame to make sure we had

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everything right, who the property owner was, because Don Taco is a renter and that kind of stuff. And Mike is here today, the property owner of

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the property. On April 24th, the property owner, which is the gentleman over to my right, came to the office here at Code

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Enforcement and stated that they would regularly pump the septic tank to. They can start making mandatory connections.

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And that's what led me to here. So this is. The eligibility statement for the company to

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start the plan check. And if I talk incorrectly. Now it's a payment thing. You you have to pay to connect. The city is not going to tell you where the

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connection fee is until you pay. And something that I just learned last week was if you show them where the connection fee is, 2:00 in the morning, they shut the road down and people hook up to it. So once

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the payment is paid and you get the connection fee, then you have to start the connection.

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On May 11th, the city staff started talking with the owner. So, you know, we're talking about a month goes by. We've been working this case since March. And here we are now with

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the hearing before you guys. This is the notice of hearing that we posted either on the property, gave to a property

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supervisor on scene and sent to the property owner and a certified mail. Are you good with most of the stuff that I

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said? That's what brings us before us. Mike is here to talk about. I'm assuming what his challenges are or what he needs

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to do. That being said, this is the case file that has all the exhibits. It has the property appraiser, all the notes inside that file for your records. I'm

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answering any questions you guys may have of me. Any questions from the board? Just a question. What's the current status now there's no overflow or there hasn't, but you know,

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has not been an overflow has not been an overflow. And they're not connected and it's not connected. Right. Thank you. Any other questions? Yes. I

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have a question that Don Taco is a tenant. So on Don Taco's lease, is that their responsibility to it doesn't it

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doesn't matter. From the city's perspective, the only person we bring code enforcement against is the owner of the property, because they're the only one that we can get compliance with. Okay. Thank you. It may be a

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question for the owner if he decides to go for Mr. Klein. I don't know if there's any kind of provision or as part of that responsibility. So I don't know. It's a good question, but I

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don't know. Would you repeat your question so that I was just commenting about the lease question? I obviously, from the city's perspective, it's the ownership, but is there any

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provision in that lease that says that Don Taco is responsible for mandatory connections? I, I don't know the answer to that, but yeah, that that's a discussion that we can have. Mr. Clarence and, and also, I know we're saying

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Don Taco. Right. But there's a barbershop, there's a convenience store. All of that is part of that sewer contract. Okay. So when they make

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connections, every tenant that's in 706 East Tarpon Avenue will have access to that. But we've never had any issues. And I think Michael even said

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that we never had any issues until this restaurant moved in. So it applies to the whole plaza. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And

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we as the respondent have anything to say. Step right up to the microphone. Yes, sir.

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I'm Mike, I'm the owner of the property and I've been out of the country for a year. I was in Europe and also nontoxic

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does not have a lease for me. That was a that was a lease that was made by a second tenant that I didn't even know about. And I am willing to show

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you that the 30 years that I owned the property, there has never been even one time that we had to pump. Because when

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the septic tank was installed, we put oversize tanks and an oversize grease tank also. So

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since that was about a year ago, the guy came in, we jumped from 3000 gallons of water per month. He was to 18,000, 19,000. So he

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was warned at that time that he will have to pump this tank every week. He does not pay his bills. The electric, the gas,

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the pump, and none of that. So I'm willing to guarantee that he will not be there for the likes in two months, which that's the timing that he has

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to leave once he's presented with to to leave the place. And. I am. Willing to present all

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that information. And I'm willing to guarantee that in three months at the latest, once he leaves, we will take care of that completely. And I did try to get some prices from

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what you guys want me to do is range from 80,000 to $120,000. That will never happen because I don't care if I have to vacate the whole place and no water will be around, because

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there's no way I can come up with $120,000 just for somebody that pays a very minimum rent, not to me, but to the

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subleasing guy that is with. So like I said, I will render with the problem. It will be done two months from the day that

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present with a letter sheriff will. Presented to him the what do you call the lawyer that's going to do that is out of town? So I would say within a week,

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next Tuesday he's coming back. But Wednesday. Thursday he'll have the letter vacate the spot and. And if he doesn't comply, I will empty him and the other

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guy that gave him the lease. So I will not pay $120,000. I guarantee you that. But I will have that place empty and I will comply in three months. If you guys want to give me a

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chance to do that, I don't know what else have any questions about, I have go ahead sir, I actually have a code. Yes. A

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code question in this enforcement, you talk about the mandate and mandatory connection. 20.22 can you or can someone from the city

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explain what initiates that connection mandate? All right. This is another and she's one of the supervisors. So I'm gonna let her explain that. And where this is going from here.

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Hi, I'm Heather on the water conveyance supervisor for the city. I'm over water distribution and sewer collections and meter repair. So the mandatory connection,

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22-22 in there. It specifically states that if you have a septic that fails and there is nearby sanitary sewer to connect to through the city,

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you must connect within 90 days. And that's when it is failing. So on top of that, his drain field is failing and that's what's causing the overflows.

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The Department of Health will not approve a permit to to for him to be able to make a repair on that septic because there is sanitary sewer available

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through the city. All right. But my problem is not my problem. It's the guy that's running from me. Plus, there will not be a problem anymore because this guy is going to be

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out of there. So that's not you know, I'm not going to be able to come up with $120,000 for that connection, because I asked Mr. Kontos that did the same thing for his 2 or 3

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apartments over there, and he said it's going to start 80 to $120,000 to do that. Does any of the board members have any further questions for the

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witness? Just a question, please. So essentially, this is never going to be corrected, if you will, because you're saying it's not going to happen. It will be connected. No, no.

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Corrected with respect to the mandatory connection, this 20.22 so you're you're not going to do it is what you're telling the board. What I'm saying is, okay, I'd rather take the restaurant out, take

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the place, the other store out, and there will be hardly any water. Go back to 1000 1000 gallons of water into a 900 and

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a 600 tank. So I'll never. The first 30 years I didn't have any those two tanks pumped at all. I will go back to that. Well, you didn't have a failure then. You had a failure. Now,

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based on what the city is saying. So for question for this is because of the restaurant that came in illegally, as far as I'm concerned, and uses 18,000 gallons of water extra. That's

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why it's there. Understood. Okay. Well, when did you first find out about Don tacos operating out of your building? I found out when he was just

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about halfway done. The guy next door, which rents the convenience store, told me he had a small operation there for many years, but I didn't know

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that he owned by the filling station, wasn't it? Yeah, it wasn't in that building was next door. Yes. Yes. Right. Yes. Not in your building. Not in my building. And like I said, that

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was not that was done. Not under my signature. And did you give him a, an eviction notice when you found out. No, I did not. Because like I said, he

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previously had a smaller like, I don't know, fast food. I don't go there every day. You know, I'm 80 years old. I got I don't live right next to the to

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the place. So I will correct the problem for sure. But I will not be able to spend $120,000 to put a individual

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lift station that you guys want me to do or any other questions. Yeah. For the for the city staff, the. So it's still mandatory. I mean, Mr. Clarence

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said he's going to fix the issue, meaning it's not going to obviously overflow again because of the water usage. But however, he still required, based on the mandatory

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connection that it has to be completed. Correct? That's correct. And in order to fix his issue, he would have to repair the drain field. And he has to get a permit through the

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Department of Health to do so, and they will not approve that. So there's there's no there's no deviation to the the rule that is not the correct what you just said without

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correcting the drain field. If you go back from 20,000 gallons to 2000 gallons, which is 10% of the water, that will take care of that. As the city, I

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need three months. I need three months to take care of that. So as far as an option for the right board can make a determination on the violation administratively, we will deal with the outcome of the issue.

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We'll talk to the city manager. Understood. I just want to be clear about what his intent is to. So we have the city established a by date to have this connection accomplished.

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Well, we're beyond that because city code states 90 days when there is a failure. Let me ask the inspector what can what can

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be done to rectify this as far as to satisfy the city of Tarpon Springs today? Yes. To connect to the city sewer that's available for him that

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he can do. Well, he said he passed that time. That's why we're here. What can we bring a heavier stick and say, you must

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make the connection by such and such a date or a fine will. Will you and the board? The board? I'm sorry. That's up to the board. In your motion. All right. Does anybody have any

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further questions for either the inspector or for the alleged violator? I just have one question. Don Taco is still

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operating daily. Are they still in business. And yes, they are. And they have the the thing that they're doing now is every week they have to pump the

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station. So there's no more spilling of the whatever. And the whole thing did not start from over use of the system. It was a truck drove over and

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broke the pipe, the, the perforated pipe that is used for the drainage. So that's, that's when the whole thing started. There was nothing going on until that day. Is that correct? That night that

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they had the pictures? We don't know that. Okay. I didn't know, based on an inspection that something was observed. I probably have pictures to bring

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to show you that the pipes were crushed. There's a bundle of nine pipes, and somebody drove her over it. And the they

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crushed them. There is no reason for a 2000 gallon a month usage, and you can check that with the previous water,

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you know, Bill that it was going. Never had a problem with it, never had more than 3 or 4000 was the highest ever before. Now we're up to 20,000.

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I have a question for the city in this code. There's no no way to waver or deviate from this

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violation. It's it's it's a you. It's not just the city. There has to be other permits that have to be obtained that will not be obtained without connecting. Exactly. So there's no, there's no, but we'll we'll

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handle it administratively with the city manager how he wants to do it. Let me say this is I believe that there's some things that are beyond the scope of this board. We're

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we're really dealing with whether or not there should be a fine imposed or if there's a violation. And I think that's what we need to determine. Does

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anybody care to make a motion in this case? So let me ask a question as it's you know, the motion about a fine this

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particular amount and then beginning assessing it per day and beginning on the, let's say, September 17th as outlined. And then I assume it just continues

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in perpetuity then because it's not. How does that. Well, if we had this particular motion, want to make sure we're going down the right road. That's all right. Depending on what date you put in, if it's not in

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compliance, defined starts. And at some point we then take the it becomes a lien against the property. And then again, administratively, we have to determine whether or not we're

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going to act on the lien. Understood. So what exactly are you saying? Well we just tell him what potentially can happen.

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Yeah. Right. So yeah, the motion as it's as I can, I can make the motion and then whatever, as Andy indicated, it goes from there. So I can, I

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can do that. So I'll move that the case case number 26-800000791. To find the respondent. Harris Properties LLC in violation of the City of

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Tarpon Springs Code of Ordinance 20-22. Mandatory connection for the property located at 706 East Tarpon Avenue, and to assess a fine of

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$25 per day beginning on September 17th, 2026. But to compliance is achieved and to order the respondent to connect to contact, rather, the Code Enforcement Division to arrange

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for a reinspection of the property to verify compliance with the board's order. Anyone care to second this motion?

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Motion has been made and seconded. I'll I will second. I

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just I have a comment though. September 17th is still a month away. If we have another

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incident by accident even we could be jeopardizing that freshwater pond, right? Is

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there a way to maybe change the date or asking the rest of the board members to maybe set it back towards more more towards

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September 1st, compelling them to take action immediately? That's entirely up to the board. I'm asking the board. I can amend that. I can make it to September 1st instead of the 17th. I understand what your

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concern is, but yeah, so you want to amend your your motion and indicate that the day that the fine will begin will be September 1st rather than the

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17th, as indicated. All right. I'll second that. Okay. The motion has been made. And second, we're considering September 1st when we vote on this particular doctor. You made the second. So is that

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okay with you? Oh, yeah. It was made and seconded. Okay, great. Thank you. All right. All those in favor, say yay! Yay. And anyone opposed? Say nay. The

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ayes have it and the motion is passed, sir. Is that so? You need sir, you need to talk to and keep in contact with the

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Code Enforcement board inspectors, because beginning September 1st, you're going to be running into a fine of $25.20 $5 a day. That's correct.

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And so you guys, looking at my problem, you're making it worse. Instead of giving me a couple of months since I'm getting the tank, which cost me $1,200 a

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month just to keep a pump so I don't have any problem. Like you're, you giving me a another two weeks earlier so you can make one 500 bucks? I mean,

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like you're supposed to help me. I've been doing this for 50 years. This is not my first day. I've been in the business in Tarpon Springs for 50 years.

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And you're going to treat your citizens that way. I mean, like, I think you guys need to be thinking a little bit more towards who you're serving,

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know what you're thinking. 50 years I've been working in this in this town, and I had a business for 45 years. All

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right, so who do I need to talk to? I would imagine that you need to talk to the water department, and you need to talk to the code enforcement to, to, to see what can be done in

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order to rectify the situation. There is no way that I can comply in two weeks that you're giving me. There's no way that I can comply in two weeks. Well,

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we'll have to see then. Then you'll have to come back and and appeal the fine. If a fine is imposed. I'm not going to argue with you, sir. The motion was made and passed. I'm

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looking for you guys to help me take care of a problem. Don't make it worse. We're not trying to make it worse. You're not. You moved up from 17. I don't want to debate it with you, sir.

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Motion has been made. Passed. That's it. I need to talk to you. You can certainly. As I indicated when we started, you can certainly appeal it to the Supreme to this circuit court.

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If you don't like the decision that's been made to meet you right outside, they'll talk to you outside. We need to move on,

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sir. So your case is over with. Right? Well, I'm done with y'all. Can some of your people

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from the water department out there now? All right, just let the record reflect that. A couple of the representatives from the water department are going to speak to the gentleman.

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I'm sure he's upset, but, you know, we not only have to protect his interests, we should have to protect the interests of all of the people in Tarpon Springs. And that's why we have to make the tough

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decisions that we have to make. So the next case, please. Your case number four, eight, three

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five has been pulled for an extension. All right. Should we go on to case five. No, not number five. We're pulling number four. That's correct. So

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we're going to go on to five. Yes on the case five. All right. Case number 2680000862. This is

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1943 North Pinellas. The business name is 1919 North Pinellas Avenue LLC. Tarpon Springs. The Violation Code of

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Ordinances. 84841 and 139.01, which is the dumpster screening requirement. Our initial inspection was June 22nd of

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2026, and the next day of June 23rd, the case was open. Here is what grabbed our attention.

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Waste management, along with city staff waste Management sent me an email. This was the email they sent me. They said that Waste Management wasn't

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even able to dump their dumpster because it was so much. Piled around it and on it. So they left it. This was on the

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23rd when I checked the property, and I found a lot of vegetation overgrowth and some more dumpsters, which we'll see

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in more pictures here. We sent them a courtesy letter. We sent a courtesy letter out on the 23rd for that violation. I told you for the 22nd. And it talks

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about it being a duty of maintenance. No, a nuisance conditions and a dumpster and screen requirements. This is

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what we saw. This is what made us open the case, one being the dumpster. The other is that area there. This is the back road behind the plaza. The

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plaza is Anclote, so it's on North Pinellas, right at the Holiday Inn Tarpon line, Pinellas line. So this is the back way of the business. If

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you are going towards Anclote Boulevard, this is the back of the business. You can see overgrowth here and then you'll start seeing overgrowth there.

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Got some more photos. You have an overgrowth on the fence. This is probably not the best picture, but this is trash

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outside the dumpster. Closer view of that fence. And here's the walkway. This is Anclote Boulevard. That's a holiday.

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This is the sidewalk. We didn't get a response on our courtesy letter right away. So now we're at the notice of violation. So

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we posted this to the property. We certified, mailed this to the property, and I attached the photos to the back of it to

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show them what our concerns were at the time. Now, the reason you don't see that dumpster in here with this photo, which is what our main

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call call was, the dumpster was empty, the dumpster was gone, and it was empty, but there was still issues with the vegetation. Still had this

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other dumpster right here that has overgrowth. And I mean, I had trash and there was a gate that was broken off this next

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photo. Now I try to give you an aerial. This is not this is off of Google Maps. I did it to try to show you guys where we saw the the problems. So this is

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the front parking lot. This is North Pinellas. This is Anclote Boulevard. If you come in on the property on the side, you come in right here. This is

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Oakmont. This is where that dumpster was. That was really overfilled. This vegetation there is all along the street of Oakmont. Then you come

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around and there was some overgrowth here, overgrowth in here, overgrowth where the red is. And then you drive on around. And this is where you

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saw those palm trees blocking the sidewalk. I go back to do

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an inspection on the inspection day, which was July 30th. And this is what I saw. I still had some overgrowth, had the

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overgrowth here, but I started noticing now this day was a rainy. This was after our inspection. Our inspections have to be after 5 p.m. this

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was after 5 p.m. and I started seeing Brown. So it made me think that they started spraying. But now we had rain.

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Still doing my inspection. I have the palm tree, which is not as bad because it's like somebody sprayed right there, still had some trash along here,

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but they finally fixed that gate. So we saw some improvement, but there just wasn't enough that we couldn't not move forward to where we

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are. Some more photos. This is that overgrowth I was showing you on the back corner of the building that led us to this hearing, which is today. This

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was also posted to the property. This was also certified, and this would have all been on July 2nd. And it led to today. We did receive an email from

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the property manager who is here today, and I've been talking with them today on eight six. They have fixed the dumpster area. They're having

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problems with the homeless there. People are coming and they're illegally dumping on the property itself. And I am aware of this. Most of you guys

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know I did ten years here with the City of Tarpon Springs Police Department. I worked with this company multiple times to prevent this, but I did reassure them that they

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needed to update their trespass authorization and try to ask for more area checks in the area to stop the homeless. Then they have to take their own

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measures on how to stop illegal dumping. I don't know if you have to hire a company, a security company. Some of these things were stressed to them.

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Today. I went by, I don't have photos because I wouldn't have been able to have time to load them. Everything is clear. The property is cut. It's right

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where we want it to be, except two spots. One spot is where that big dumpster was. That's gone now, people or store

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clerks are throwing their trash over the corral, so there's no dumpster, but there's trash being collected in this corral. And then on that back street of

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Oakmont, the vegetation is overgrown. I did reach out to the manager today. I sent him an email hoping he would call me so we could maybe discuss

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these problems before hearing, but he's here. I've already stressed to them the things they need to fix right now. One would be that dumpster corral

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and that vegetation and then stay on top of it. They're here. They may want to talk to you guys. I'm not sure. Feel free to come up here. I'm not here

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to kill them. But I am looking for compliance. And one of our big thing is that last little vegetation and just hope that we can move forward and not be

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back here again, even on a courtesy letter that presents my case, all the exhibits, all the courtesy letters, the certified mails are all in here,

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and I am going to submit this form to you guys. Feel free. Well, I have any board members have questions for the inspector. I have a question

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for you. Yes, sir. I notice on the one portion of the property along Pinellas Avenue, there's a dead tree. Is that has that

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been identified in this violation also, which one are we looking at? It's a violation. Site 1943 North Pinellas Avenue.

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Just a overgrowth over the fence. And then right on top of it is a dead tree. So I'll go

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back to my photo. Sorry. That top one right there. This is where you're talking about. No,

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there's the fence. No. Go back. I don't keep going. That's my

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photo. Would you be talking about that dead tree there? Right there. Yeah. Is that. I think that's it right there.

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That is not listed in here. I don't have it. It's not. If it fell, it's going to fall inside their little corral. I don't see it falling on the sidewalk. Okay. So it doesn't pose a

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problem. No. We would address it. It's going to fall on their property. Okay. Anyone have any further questions for the

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inspector? All right. The. Alleged violator. Sure to make a statement. Good afternoon, everybody, and thank you, Officer Boone. Yeah, he shed

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some clarity on the issue when I spoke with him earlier today. I'm sorry. Please, can you give us your name and address? My name is Ryan Pike and the property manager for the

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address here. Thank you. As Officer Boone said, we've completed the majority of the violations that he's spoken about. He shed some clarity on the remaining items. When I

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spoke with him this morning. Simple stuff. We can we can trim the trees along the road. And as far as the dumpster enclosure, the corral there, we

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can get that cleaned up. We're going to look into possibly removing that from the area to deter any kind of dumping that we've been seeing over the years. And yeah, I just would

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ask for just a little bit of time to get that completed. I think they'll move pretty quick to now that we know who they

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are and we've made faces and. Well, let me ask you, Inspector, how much time would you give them? A minimum of of the 30

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days. You know, I try to put somewhere near our next hearing date in case they're not. So at least a 30 days. Let me ask you, do you think he can get it all

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done in 30 days? Yes, sir. All right then, I have questions. You have a question, ma'am? Question? How many tenants do you have at the Plaza? Okay.

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Yeah, maybe. Maybe between 6 and 8. Something like that. Oh, six and eight. Okay. How many dumpsters do you have? Because it's my understanding that the one that we saw, the first

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photo was over flowing and that's removed. Where are the tenants dumping their garbage? The dumpster that was in that enclosure has just been moved to a different location. Oh, a

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different location on the property. Okay. Yeah. Does anybody have any further questions for. The inspector or

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for the alleged violator? All right then. Does anybody care to make a motion in this case?

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Nobody wants to make a motion. Come on board. It's over here. We're not going to we're going to have to sit here a long time. Then it says, all right, I've got a motion. Go ahead sir, I

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move in case number 26-80000862. To find the respondent at 1919. North Pinellas Avenue LLC, in

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violation of the City of Tarpon Springs Code of ordinances 8-40. Duty of maintenance of private property. 8-41 nuisance

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conditions. 139.01 dumpster and screening requirements for the property located at 1943 North Pinellas Avenue, and to assess

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a fine of $25 per beginning September 17th until compliance is achieved and to order the respondent to contact Code Enforcement Division to arrange

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for Reinspection of the property to verify compliance with the board's order. I'll second. Second. I'll second it. Go ahead. All right. Motion has been made and seconded. All

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those in favor vote aye aye aye aye. I, I guess all those opposed. Nay. And the ayes have it. So the motion passes. You

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got your 30 days. Thank you everyone. Otherwise it's going to cost you $25 a day. But we expect you to have it finished up. All right then. Thank you.

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Inspector. Your next case. Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. I need the the packet for evidence, please. Oh. Thank you. Here we

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go. Thank you so, so much. Perfect timing. Says the battery. Go ahead. Inspector. Yes, ma'am. There you go. My

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name is Anthony Boone. I'm the code enforcement supervisor. Tarpon Springs code enforcement. This is case 2680000889. Corey

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Lannelongue, who's in the audience out here with us? 306 Banana Street, Tarpon Springs. Violation of City Ordinance.

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212-000 building permits. So in this case, I had the deputy building official, Mr. Mike Roush, come to my office with

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some photos of a property that he says there's not a proper permit for. So not having a proper permit is can be serious

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because of the nature of make sure it's been properly inspected and you have the right contractors. So I'm going to show you a few pictures of what Mike Roush saw and did a

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stop work order on, which is a notice of violation was issued and it was posted to the property itself. As you see the

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red, that's the stop work order that the deputy building official. And these little photos that you see here are things showing what was put up

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and not permitted. This just shows you the notice of violation tells us the inspection date. The property was posted with a notice of violation on eight three. Still

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no permit. The property was then posted with a notice of hearing today and my computer just died, so there's no more pictures. I have the building

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official here who can say what needs to be done as of today. I did go in and look and see where we are. They've applied

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for this permit, but they need to come up with a few new things. Like what contractor, what plans do you have? So we

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are moving forward to the right step. There are permits out there, but there can be no more work done. And Mike, is that

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pretty much all that Mike trout speak to the building department? Hi. Good afternoon

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Mike. Deputy building. Mike Roush, deputy building official with Tarpon Springs. So they have made application for that. There's some documentation that they need to get in place that they have not done yet. Over

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the time of of the notices being issued. So we're still waiting for contractor, still waiting for plans, still waiting for documentation so they can get the permit and get

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some inspections. That's our case before you. This has all the certified mail, the property appraiser, and any photos that you may need to see

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in reference to and any notes from the building official Inspector, do you have any idea as to or an estimate in your opinion, as to how long before

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they can have everything resolved as far as the permit process? They submit. Once they submit the documentation, it would go into plan review, go into Q. It could take a week.

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It could take two. It just depends on where they're at in the process. And if they get all the documentation issued correctly and there's no revisions to the plans or

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anything like that. So. So. Is there any work that's been done that has to be taken down or. It all depends on if the engineer or whoever they're planning does approves their

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plans for that detail, then no, it would not need to be taken down. They do have some issues with clearances coming out the front door. There's a height requirement by code. They don't meet that right now, so they will have to adjust that

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somehow. But that will be part of that engineer plan and engineer decision. Would you estimate that 30 days would be a sufficient amount of time? Yeah, I believe that would be

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sufficient. Does anyone else have any questions? Any board members have any questions for either of these two gentlemen? I do, no, I do. Oh I'm sorry. Go ahead. That's okay. I have a

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question. I am not sure. The border of the historic Tarpon Springs historic area. I thought Banana Street was on

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that realm. You know that. I don't think so. I do not know that answer. But that's one of the things for code for the planning zoning. So that's another that's another item that gets reviewed is to make

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sure it meets the setbacks and meets those requirements of planning. And zoning would take care of that as well. Okay. Thank you. That's that's the importance of the plan review. Great. Any other questions? All

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right. Can we have the respondent if you care to make a statement for the record, present your side of the case.

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I. Corey Long 306 Banana Street. So basically this I'm here with my contractor Dan who who's, who's been helping with this. We have another contractor who's been doing did the

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concrete pads that I guess was supposed to put in for the permit for the pergola. Something got crossed. We got the notice of violation. I tried to put one myself. I found out it's extremely

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difficult as a homeowner to try and figure out any possibility of getting this paperwork in. We talked. The concrete contractor is actually working

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on getting an engineering report for it. It's a Home Depot pergola. I guess they don't have the plans. It's a pre engineered. You need to give us your name and address.

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Dan. Dan Carnegie 4409 Worthington Circle, Palm Harbor. Thank you there. It's a pre engineered pergola. There's two of them erected on top of the slabs that Pro Max concrete

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permitted and poured. And the the pads have been approved. The pergolas were intended to be part of that permit process for somehow they got overlooked.

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Anyway, here we are. So he resubmitted for a additional permit for the pergolas. We're waiting on an engineer's letter and drawing to submit. With

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that application that has been requested about three weeks ago. We're still waiting for that response from the engineer. We hope to have that any day. That's what I'm hearing from Pro Max concrete. As soon as

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that engineers letter and drawing is available, he will submit that so we can get this permit in place and get an inspection out there. So I would think 30 days would be more than enough time to make

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that happen. As far as the clearance that you brought up in the. And the. I'm not even sure what that what that is. We haven't got anything to tell us what that what that setback is

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as far as from from the front door, I'd like to know that so we can address that before anything else any further. So if there's any way we can find that out that would be helpful. Well, you'll be able to find

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that out after this case is is over by talking to the to the proper officials. But does anyone have any questions for

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either the respondent or the contractor or contractor? No questions. All right then. Does anybody care to make a motion

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in this case? I can make the motion if you'd like, sir. I move that in case number 26-80000889 to find the

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respondent, Corey Lynn Long, in violation of the City of Tarpon Springs Code of ordinances 212.00. Building permits for the property located at 306

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Banana Street, and to assess a fine of $25 per day beginning on September 17th, 2026, until compliance is achieved and in order and to order the respondent to contact the Code

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Enforcement Division to arrange for Reinspection of the property to verify compliance with the board's order. Second, second. Second. Okay. All those

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in favor, vote yes. All those opposed, vote no. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Have it. And you have 30 days. Otherwise you're going to

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get fined $25 a day. And hopefully the situation will get rectified to everybody's satisfaction. Thank you. Thank

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you. All right Inspector, next case. We stayed up this long before. All right. So before

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you now is a case where I'm going to explain it all together. So this is case

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number 2680000790845. South Pinellas LLC 845 South Pinellas Avenue. Please don't get it confused with the North

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Pinellas. Okay, this is total opposite end, but almost the same style business and not related. You guys gave a board

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order for two. The board's order was they needed to get the permit for this certain time and complete the project

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at this certain time. Okay. That being said, I have an affidavit of noncompliance for the permit, and I have an

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affidavit of noncompliance for the completion. Right behind that, I have an affidavit of

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compliance for the permit, an affidavit of compliance for the completion slash connection. There is fines due. So we were

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not in compliance then. We were brought into compliance with fines due for permitting noncompliance for connection,

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compliance with connections. But fines are due because it wasn't done at the times you guys permitted. So I'm going to

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present. All of this for you. So there's two non and two compliance with fines due. And your motions do read out as

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such. Thank you. Do you have any questions for me in reference to that. Yes. How much fine are we talking about.

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Well so the permitting one they were out 11 days and that approximate cost would be 275.

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And for the complete connection was seven days. And that's $315. So the math is 315 plus 275 is

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what the fines would be on a compliance of both violations. No. So the total fine is five,

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95, 9590 for both. So the non-compliant for 11 days it says yes. Right. And then the other ones and the other was

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seven days. Seven days. Yes sir. One was $25. The other was $45.

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So how much is owed. What'd you say. 590. It was 315 plus 275.

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And there's no one here for that case. What kind of cost is the city involved? That's that's part of our satisfaction

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fee that gets added on with the city itself. So we have a satisfaction fee. The we we worked while we were doing this. This was our inspections. We had to go out. We have to

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inspect. Once they completed the work, the building official goes out and he inspects. So it was during our normal work day that we get paid for. It wasn't like we were off duty and had

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to come in, so I. Compliance is what I wanted so. And I got it in somewhat of a reasonable time frame. Anyone care to make

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a motion? This case you're looking for four motions or can we. Well can we reduce it down. Recommended motions. Yes. There'd be four. There'd be four motions, two motions for

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the permit and then two motions for the completion of of the job. Okay. Well I'll kick it

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off. I move in case number 26-80000790. To find the respondent. AM I on the correct

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one? 8451845 yes. 1845 yes. Okay. 1845 Pinellas Health LLC did not correct the violations

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on or before June 25th, 2026 for the property located at 1845 South Pinellas Avenue, and to accept the affidavit of

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noncompliance. Did I read all four motions together and make one vote? No. I would do four separate. All right then. Anybody want to second that

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motion that's just been made second. Second. That's fine. All right. It's been made and seconded. All those in favor vote yes. Yes. All those

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opposed vote no. Yes yes yes yes. All right. The yeses have it. Any nos. There's no no's. And we'll go on to the second

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motion. Second motion. I move in case number 268-80000790. To find the respondent. 1845

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Pinellas LLC did correct the violations at the address. 1845 South Pinellas Avenue on June or July 6th, 2026, but has not

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paid the fine of $275 and to accept the affidavit of compliance. This. The amount is based on the non being

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non-compliant for 11 days. Anyone care to second that motion? Second motion has been made and second, we'll have a vote. All those in favor vote

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yes. Yes, yes. Any opposed. Vote no. The yeses have it. The motion passes. We'll go on to number three. I move in case

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number 26-80000790. To find the respondent. 1845 Pinellas LLC did not correct the violations

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on or before July 8th, 2026 for the property located at 1845 South Pinellas Avenue, and to accept the affidavit of

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noncompliance. Anyone care to second this motion? Second, motion has been made and seconded. All those in favor vote yes. All those opposed vote no. Will vote yes. Yes,

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yes, yes, yes. And there's no opposition. So the motion passes. We'll go on to the fourth motion. I move in case

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number 26-80000790. To find the respondent. 1845 Pinellas LLC did correct the violations at

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the address. 1845 South Pinellas Avenue on July 15th, 2026, but has not paid the fine of $315 and accept the

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affidavit of compliance. The amount is based on being non-compliant for seven days. Any second on this motion. No second motion has been made and

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seconded. All those in favor vote yes. All those opposed, vote no. Yes. Yes, yes. And the yes is have any opposition? There's no opposition. All right. The motion passes. Moves

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on to our next case on the agenda. All right. This is an affidavit of compliance. Case

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number. If you catch it 2580000. 0505. This is 504 East Morgan Street. They are now in

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compliance. As of July 16th. This would have been for a 841 nuisance vehicle structures and

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another connection of water. We've been working with this gentleman for quite some time, but he's finally in compliance.

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Oh, he does have fines. His fines are approximately $23,875. I am going to submit to you the affidavit of compliance, and he

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will probably be coming before you guys for to see about a fine reduction. And we need to

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vote on whether we accept it or not accept the affidavit of compliance. All right. All those in favor, we need the motion. We need a motion. All right. Quick, just a question,

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please. Can I get a motion? As far as accepting or not accepting this affidavit of compliance? Mr. chair, can I have a just a question for

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Inspector 1 in 25. Was this when you said 25, how long has this been? I mean, I could do the math, I guess, in the 23,000, but I don't have that initial date in front of me

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because it's an affidavit of compliance. It's already been before the board. Okay. So I don't have that. Okay. That's

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fine. Thank you. Any other questions for the inspector? Does anybody care to make a

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motion in this case? So question with the fine being as it is 23,000 plus, if we make the motion then he comes in the

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person. If they choose to come in and obviously comes in for a request for reduction. Correct. But we is there something you can do now or do we move forward essentially with what we have on this motion? You

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move forward what you have before you now, because we need to get him into compliance. Okay. That's the big part. And then the second part, he's got 60 days to make that motion. Understood. Okay. Thank you.

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That's my question. We make the motion to reduce the fine or does he have to? We're not going to I don't believe we're going to worry about the reducing the fine at this time. No, no reduction in fine. We

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just need to we will bring that before this house is being cleaned. They got water connection, which is what we need as a city. Yeah. That was my question about reduction of

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fine based on you know, we have and that's a done deal. Consider a reduction of fine at this time. No, no, just accept or not accept the affidavit of

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compliance with fines. Do correct question for the attorney. Does the violator have to request the reduction in fines? Yes. Okay. Mr.

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Chairman, any other questions for either the inspector or for counsel? All right then. Can we get a can we get a motion in this case? I will make that

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motion. I move in case number case 25-80000505. To find the respondent. Geneva Taylor

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Estate did correct the violations at the address 504 East Morgan Street, but did not

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pay the fine. Estimated $23,875 and to accept the affidavit of compliance, I'll second it.

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Anybody care to second that motion? I did, I second it. All right. Motion has been made and seconded. All those in favor vote yes. All those opposed

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vote no. Yes. Yes yes yes is have it. There's no opposition. The motion passes. It's accepted. Any other thing. We have one more case. One more

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case. All right. One more case of affidavit of compliance. Again our goal. Our goal. This is you guys are familiar with

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this one. You you all were here for it. It's 2680000744 for the property of 720 Crimson Crimson King Trace here in Tarpon

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Springs for violation. 841852 and 40.00 as of July 8th, which they met your board order that they are in compliance property

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looks very well at this point, but we wish that you guys would accept his affidavit of compliance. There is no fines. He did do it within the time frame that you gave him.

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Anybody have any questions for the inspector? If not, does anybody care to make a motion? In this case I move in case number (268) 000-0744. To find

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the respondent Paul Alvarez, in compliance of the City of Tarpon Springs Code of Ordinance, section 8-408-418-52

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and 40.44 for the property located at 720 Crimson King Terrace, and to accept the affidavit of compliance. Okay,

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so do we accept the letter of compliance? We've got. Anybody care to second? We have a second. All those in favor vote yes. All those opposed, vote no.

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Yes. Yes yes, yes. Have it. And there's no opposition to the vote. All right. Anything else? You have your minutes to

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approve, sir. Okay. Anybody care to make a motion to accept the minutes of the board for July 9th, 2026? That was our

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last meeting, I so move! All right. Anybody care to second that second? All right. It's been motion has been made and seconded. All those in favor

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vote yes. All those opposed vote no. Yes yes yes I have it. There is no opposition. And the minutes have been approved.

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Public comments. Anybody in the public want to comment? Well, we have an audience of just one and there's no comment, so we'll move ahead. Any board or

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staff comments? Anybody care to make a comment? No, sir. Anybody over on this end. No. No one. Okay. The next code

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enforcement board meeting will be on September 10th, 2026 at 2

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p.m. And this meeting is closed.