2026 and this session of the City of Tarpon Springs Code Board is now open. Can we have a roll call, please? Mr. DeVos?
Here. Doctor. Here. Here. Mr. Here. Mr. Here. Mr. Abercrombie is absent excused today. Mr.
Paul. Yep. Here, here. Here. Yes. Here. Thank you. Can we all rise for the invocation and
the Pledge of Allegiance? Dear Lord, please grant us the wisdom and the empathy that we will need in order to make the
best decisions. During today's session, on behalf of the City of Tarpon Springs and its citizens. And also may the city and all of us have the best of
fortune in this coming year. Thank you. And now Amen. And we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Okay. We can be seated. I'm going to go over the hearing proceedings for
everyone. The procedures for this code board are as follows. It is the intention of this board to promote, protect and improve the health, safety and
welfare of the citizens of Tarpon Springs by promoting an equitable, effective and inexpensive 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. Such appeal shall be filed within 30 days of the execution
of the order to be appealed. Florida Statute 286.0105 requires any party appealing a decision of this board to have a record of the proceedings to
support such an appeal. The procedures of this board is as follows. First, the city presents its witnesses and exhibits, after which the
alleged violator is able to ask the city witnesses and any specific any specific questions regarding their testimony. Secondly, the alleged violator is allowed to make a
presentation and present his or her witnesses and exhibits. Then the city can question the alleged violators. Witnesses. 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 city and then by the alleged violator. After those three steps are taken,
this board will close the public hearing portion of the case to discuss it and take appropriate action. Before we begin the proceedings, excuse me, the public hearings, we
will have all potential witnesses stand up and be sworn by the secretary of the board. So if you're going to give testimony today, please stand
up and you'll be sworn in by the Secretary. These were just.
For truth and nothing but truth. I do be seated. And would everyone please turn off any
cell phones? Or put them on? Silence. Okay, a little change in the agenda today. For the members of the board. Case
number C one will not be heard, and we will proceed with what's listed as case number four. This is the first case we'll
deal with today is case number 25. Dash 80000719. Historical properties incorporated 200 East Tarpon Avenue, Tarpon
Springs, Florida 34689. And it's P I'd 1227 dash 15 dash
77778-4010090. And if the inspector is ready to proceed, go ahead. Sir. Yes, sir. My name is Mike Ralston. I'm the code enforcement officer for the city of Tarpon Springs. And
this is for 200 East Tarpon Avenue. On December 8th, we received a call from the owner
of the brouhaha. Right here in my hand that she was having roof work done, and her roofer did not feel comfortable up on the roof because of what he
thought was a gas line. So he called in myself, the building official Keith Meade, and the fire marshal, Kevin Woodridge, came out. And there is a gas
meter with a gas line running up over the building, across back down into the current
restaurant at 200 East Tarpon. This is kind of just giving you from the back. So again, it's
running up here, going across up and then coming down and connecting in. This is it.
Going back into the restaurant. So this is some various pictures of the gas line running across all of the other
buildings. That is you're looking down here. This is looking down towards the ground. This is your gas meter. So it's running up. And then we're on the roof now. And it's that's
where it begins to run across all of the roofs. And this is just various junctions as it, it snakes its way over. Upon
speaking with the owner of currents, she explained that they had gotten a permit for this back earlier. So I did
some research on it. And this is just the gas meter. And this was the permit I was able to locate from 2017. And you'll notice at the bottom of the
inspection notes, this was would have been David Gilson at the time was the inspector. And he puts in there the piping was installed as an emergency repair gas meter must be moved
onto the property and the piping redone. I cannot speak to how or why this did not get followed up or what what happened if Covid, I really
don't know. But now that it's come to the attention of the current building official and the fire marshal, with it running across multiple people's properties, it's just
not something that the city is okay with at this point in time. So a notice of violation was issued telling them that they were going to need to redo it.
And that's pretty much unless you have questions for the building official or the fire marshal. It's pretty cut and dry from our perspective. It's a gas line running across
multiple buildings and properties not within code. Well, first question I would ask is just so that I'm sure
about what we're really discussing here, what has the the owner responded, are they going to do it make the changes that you've indicated that they
should, that right now there was some question over that original permitting that they felt they were okay with as it was configured. So if
apparently apparently the city takes a different position. Correct. But that's that's my presentation is pretty quick and dry. So if the if the owner
would like to present, I have no problem with that. So another question, you indicated that it was an emergency install. Is that what the
permit was for? That's what it said was on that original permit was it was done as an emergency repair in 2017. So what was the prior? Was there a
similar configuration with that piping or is it this is totally this seems that seems to be the what was done at the time was that they installed it that way.
Was the original piping. Maybe we can have that discussion, I don't know. But anyway, this is an emergency issue. So it's supposed to be, I assume. And we can get to that here. Mr.
But okay, let's get ready to to give your side of the story, he has another question. You have a question down at the end. I'm sorry, the regional emergency permitting, what was the date
that it had to be replaced by? Was anything annotated whatsoever on that? No, it only had that 2017 date and there was no follow up on it. Any
other questions now, sir? You may proceed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the board, city staff. My name is John
Trapani. I'm one of the owners of Historic Properties, Inc. Historical properties was
formed in like 1984 85. We formed a corporation to buy and restore historically and architecturally significant buildings. All the buildings
that Mr. Gilson refers to are under ownership of historical properties. It's not. You speak closer to the microphone, please. We're having a bit of a
hard time hearing you. Do. Like, maybe it's easier to move this.
How's that? Better? Yes. So? What? So, without getting into to the weeds too much, most all of these buildings that we
bought and restored are over 100 years old, are all on the contributing National Register. They're contributing buildings to the National Register. The
gas meter and line were there. And when we bought the property in 1984, the current restaurant back then, it was called the 1905. It was a a cut and shoot
bar where you could go in and get shot or get cut if you wanted to. The windows were all broken out of the buildings. They've been restored. We. I
don't dispute anything Mr. Gilson says about cutting the gas line over the buildings. It was our understanding that the city permitted it without any
stipulation. I mean, we probably. The owner of the our tenant ran the line. She called and asked us and we said, well,
as long as it's a licensed bonded gas contractor, that's fine. There was never a mention of. Being temporary. So but
we're not disputing that. But let me just say this. The. We're happy to work with the city with the fire marshal's, with the the building officials.
One of our partners died Tuesday. But not not only was he a partner, he was a family member. So this has been going on for eight years. We would
just like for 30 days to have a continuance for 30 days to meet with the fire department and the building officials and come up with a solution and come back and say, okay, we'll we'll
do this, this and this. And if you know, whatever we do will meet whatever the fire department and the building officials want. But the the
work was done with a permit. It wasn't like anybody was trying to slip anything through on the city. I mean, Mr. Gilson himself has said there was a permit issued for the work, and
it's pretty expensive work to be temporary, I can tell you that. But the other thing is the meter is on our property.
The next door property owner, their meter is on our property too, which that's fine. We don't. It's not bothering us. So just so you know that it's there's not lines going
everywhere, all over people's property. So we respectfully ask for a 30 day continuance to meet with the city. My partners, Lewis Pappas, he's a
restauranteur. He has 17 restaurants. He's really familiar with gas installations, but he's busy planning a funeral. Well, let me ask the
the inspector. Do you feel that that's a reasonable request? For the Fire Marshall building official? That's more his wheelhouse as to what time
frame to rectify the situation. Well, I don't know that we would rectify it, but 30 days to meet with them and the plan. But that will that will lead towards a resolution, I'm sure.
Yes, sir. Okay. Chief building official city of Tarpon Springs. Yes, sir. 30 days to continue this, to meet with him and come up with a plan to rectify the situation. I'd be okay with
that. It's been there for eight years now, and. But it is. It is an issue that needs to be corrected, but it doesn't need to be done tomorrow. I have a
question. So to become compliant, what needs to be done? What to be compliant? 100% compliant because he can't, even though his company owns I
think two of those properties. Well, all of them. The building brouhaha. Yeah. The property appraiser shows that brouhaha is owned by somebody else. We
own everything west of brouhaha to the corner. Okay. Because the gas line is on brouhaha roof right there. Meter and their meters on our property running up the side of their wall. But look, we're not here
to argue. We're here to say we'll meet with the city. We'll come up with a a mutual, satisfactory solution to, to whatever needs to be done. We just didn't know about it. And
now there's been some extenuating circumstances I'm okay extending, you know, continuing for 30 days to meet with them and and come up with a plan. Very good. Sure. Go
back to the to the inspector. Can we on this particular case, can we just suspend it for now or you could. It's really up to you. You could make a motion and say you want to have it
come back before you at the next code board, at which time we could give you what the agreed upon compliance is. And then you put a hard deadline and say, all right, I think
that if somebody would care to make a motion that we that we hold this case in abeyance until our next meeting when we get an update on what? So moved.
Okay. Yeah. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Seconded. All right. All those in favor wants to know. I'm sorry. Who did the motion? Motion? Who made the motion?
The doctor. Okay. Thank you. Second was by whom? You did the second. I'll second it. How about that? Thank you. I'm sorry. I just need a second to go. No problem. All right.
We'll just have a voice vote. All those in favor say aye, and I and all those opposed nay. And apparently, that's what we're going to do. Then you'll
have your 30 days to make your plans and discuss it with the fire department head, and hopefully we'll be able to resolve this to everybody's benefit. We look forward to it.
And we thank you for your consideration. You're entirely welcome, sir. Thank you. Thank you for your cooperation. Mr.
Chair. Who was your name? Pardon me? There was a nay. There was no name. No no no no no. Everybody. All all yeas. No nays. Okay. In the evidence
submitted do I. Can I have that please. Oh I thought because we were tabling it they weren't. Yeah. We, we didn't actually see any evidence. Just took testimony. All right. Next case
please. We're going to go now to case number two on the agenda. This is case number 20
5-80000586. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation trustee Freddie Mac. Seasoned loan structured Transfer Action Trust. The property is 1107
Goshen Road, Tarpon Springs, Florida, 34689, and the PDI number is 14. Dash 2715. Dash
45 180, dash 004. Dash 0160, and it's code violations. Alleged eight dash 40. Duty of maintenance of private property
eight Dash 41 nuisance conditions and eight Dash 52 prohibitions. All right. My name is Mike Ralston. Once again, I'm your code
enforcement officer for the city of Tarpon Springs. This is going to be fairly quick and straightforward. It just has a long history. This started back
on July 8th. Yes, July 8th, 2025 for 1107 Goshen Road. The property was extremely overgrown, borderline abandoned
and unkempt. We've been going back and forth with who was the owner who then became the tenant. There was foreclosure. It was sort of all over the place, and they did clean up
the property quite a bit, but they've just sort of stalled out here at the end. This is the location. It's at the dead
end of Goshen Road, and the home was before was almost not visible. It's been cleaned up significantly. But our main issue is for the neighbors sake
all in here. This is all overgrown. There's a shed in there you can't even see. And we are. We've kind of hit a dead end with communication
with the the bank that owns it. The tenants are still there. And, you know, they say we're going to work on it, but we're just looking for a board order. Give them a hard deadline,
whatever you're comfortable with. 30 days, 45 days and say that they need to clean out that back portion of the property and clean it up and
bring it into compliance so that the the neighboring property there doesn't have, you know, a harbinger, a harbinger for rodents and
everything else. It's just so it's like they almost they almost came to the finish line on their own. We just we need a board order at this point to drive home the, the final point.
And that's really all I'm asking for is whatever date you're comfortable with and just have them finish cleaning up the the property that's viewable from the street here,
and we're done. And if nobody has any objections, I'll submit our our evidence in. Thank you. And it's exhibit A is our
photos. Exhibit B is the courtesy letter. Notice of violation. Notice of hearing. Exhibit C is the affidavit of posting for the notice of violation and notice of hearing. Exhibit D is the Pinellas
County Property Appraiser and Pinellas County tax records. An exhibit E is our emails and other correspondence. And that concludes my presentation. Is
anyone here to represent the other side in this case?
Apparently not. Officer, do you have a recommendation as to as
to how much time it might take? Aware of the just by the nature of we're dealing with a corporation that's probably going to take a minute to get
the paperwork and send it to the right department, I would say at a minimum 30 days, but probably 45. Just to be fair to
them. And do you have any kind of a recommendation as to what the fine might be if they don't come into compliance? I believe
you guys have a fine rate page in there for overgrowth. Well, if we do, I'll have to try to
find it. Okay, here we go. The date class, $125 a day. Is that what? That's what it looks like
to me to. Right. All right. Does anybody have any questions for the inspector? Does anybody care to make a motion? Then in
this case, I would make a motion. I will provide the 45 day period to come into this fair. I'll second that. Okay.
We'll have a voice vote. Yay or nay. The ayes, please. Yay! Yay! Yes. And the nays? Any nays? No,
no. Negative votes. So the motion passes. We'll go on to case number three on the agenda.
It's 20 5-800000705 Haralambos I Kitsos 1010 Hamilton Avenue, Tarpon Springs, Florida. 34689.
It's PDI number ten dash 27 dash 15 dash 87822, dash 0090010, and the alleged code
violations are 8-5, two prohibitions and 42.00 parking of recreational vehicles in
residential areas. And Inspector, if you're ready. Yes, sir. My name is Mike Ralston. I'm the code enforcement officer for the city of Tarpon Springs. And this is for 1010
Hamilton Avenue, Tarpon Springs. It is a homesteaded property. On November. Let's see here.
17th, we received a complaint about a boat that was up on blocks. Upon inspection, that
was confirmed. It's a boat trailer that's being propped up on cinder blocks just off the
driveway. We issued a courtesy letter, a notice of violation, and did not have any contact with the owner until just last week. He was out of town. He
said that he is going to come back in, he's getting a new trailer and that he will be removing the boat. I explained to him this process of how it was going to work, that you guys were going to give him a
deadline, a final deadline to get the boat out of there and put it on a trailer that doesn't require cinder blocks. And he said he is going to do that. So I'm comfortable if you
want to give him till sometime, you know, mid-February. And hopefully he brings it into compliance. Our evidence is here. There's no one here to
object to it. So I'm going to submit that to you. And it's all of our standard exhibits. Exhibit A is the photographs. Exhibit B is the courtesy
letter notice of violation and the notice of hearing. Exhibit C is the affidavit of posting for bototh the Notice of Violation and notice of hearing. Exhibit D is the Pinellas County Property Appraiser and
Pinellas County Tax Collector. Records and exhibit E is all
correspondence. And I want to make one correction to my statement after Mr. Boone just reminded we were in the area
for a complaint on another property and we observed this. So this was not complaint. This was a self initiated case. All
right. There's no one here to respond. Any questions from the board? I have a question to the
inspector. When was he coming back into town. He says the 18th, the 18th of this month. So, you know, to give him a little bit of time to get his get a trailer and get the
logistics together, whatever you're comfortable with. Does anyone have any further questions? Does anyone care to make a motion in this case?
I'll make the motion to give him 45 days to come into compliance. All right. Any second for that. Second, second.
All right. We've got a motion to grant 45 days. And let me ask the officer, do we need to.
Put in a potential fine? If it's not, if you if you are giving him a deadline, I would recommend. Yeah. You do pick a fine amount out of the rules that you guys have adopted. All
right. I believe it would be what would be considered a class one, the $25 a day. Yes, sir. Do you want to amend the motion to include to extend his
time to 45 days with an if he doesn't do it, 25 day class one violation per day any second. I'll second that. Okay. Thank
you. And now we'll we'll vote on it. And I think we need do we need a roll call vote yes. Or do we need just yay or nay?
Yay yay or nay. All right then it'll just be yay or nay. If you're voting yay, go ahead. All right. And any any nays.
Anybody that doesn't agree with that. All right. Then we have that case out of the way. We'll go on to the what appears to be
the last case for today. And that's case number 20 5-80000. I'm always afraid that I'm
going to miss a zero, but 722 Saint Mary USA, LLC for South Pinellas Avenue, Tarpon Springs,
Florida 34689. And it's PD number 1227 dash 15 89 980 2-070-0101. And the alleged
violations are 212.00 building permits 274.00 business tax receipt required 56-06 mobile
food processing vehicles as accessory to food and drink establishments. And if the officer is ready, you may
proceed. My name is Mike Ross. I'm the code enforcement officer for the city of Tarpon Springs, and this is for four South Pinellas Avenue. On
December 12th, myself and the Code enforcement supervisor, Anthony Boone, were out collecting signage, illegal signage. So it was early in the
morning and we happened to go by the establishment and we observed a food truck. And this is at the corner here of
Pinellas and Tarpon Avenue. Spartan gas right here. We observed a food truck stored behind the building, which was
gated off. And that. The issue here is that the mobile food truck rule for the city, the food trucks, cannot be stored on premises at the property
unless it was part of the original approved site plan. So obviously Spartan Gas, this property was never designed for
a food truck to be stored on site at the time. And now that this the new food truck rule has come into place, the truck can't be stored here on the
property, both because it violates the food truck rule for the city, but also it is a separately, it becomes a fire hazard. He would never be able
to get this site plan approved, because you couldn't store that close to the building. So even if it was an appropriate site, you'd have to have more area to
store it in. So what we're asking is the food truck is good to be there, provided he gets his business tax receipt renewed, which he's in process
of doing. He's working with planning and zoning. They also have to have the second business tax receipt for the food truck itself. And then the only other thing that really
needs to happen is just the food truck has to leave at the end of the night. When it's done operating, it needs to be stored off site to be in compliance. There wasn't a
building permit issue on there, but we we are withdrawing that. After talking with the building department and the owner, we're not going to pursue that because there's been some clarification on it. So that's
all we're asking is he needs to secure two business tax receipts. And the food truck cannot be stored on the premises after hours when it's not serving. And if, sir, if
you don't have any objection, I'm going to submit our evidence. Yeah. My my only objection is about storing the food truck because it's been there for two years. And I
talked to someone in code enforcement, I believe, when they first started to do business in my property. And he said, if you park them in the
back, there's no problem about that. And it's been they're doing the same thing. They come out in the morning and by five stop you because you're giving
testimony now. And the the point was, do you take any objection with him, with the city putting this evidence into the evidence that they park in
the back? Yes, they park in the back. Okay. But as I said, I agreed with code enforcement when they first started to do business is I will have them
park in the back at night, and in the morning they come out, they pull it out and do their business in the mornings. And by 5 or 6 when they close, they
park it in the back. And it's been, Mr. chairman, if I may, sir. Thank you sir, the staff, I think it might be cleaner if the staff presentation was completed, if the presentation
was completed, and then this gentleman was able to testify at that point after the conclusion. That's what I was trying to. Yeah. To to limit his it turns out he was
supposed to respond to whether he objected to evidence being put in it. So let me back you off, sir, for right now. And if the officer wants to continue,
go ahead. No, that that concludes my presentation. And then I'll have some questions for him when he's, when he's done presenting. All right. Does any of the board members have any questions for the
inspector? Apparently not. All right. Now, sir. Now you get your chance. I'm sorry, because I'm not used to this. Hey, we're not that formal. You you
can go ahead right now. Yeah. As I said, when they first started, I believe two years ago, someone from code enforcement sent me a similar
letter, and I talked to them over the phone. I believe his name was Mike. That was like two years ago. I don't remember his name exactly. And we agreed together that in the morning
they're going to come out and in, in at night they're going to pull back and store in the back because before that they were leaving their food truck
out and he said, no, they can't be out. You can't put tell them to go and put it in the back of the building and behind the gate, and you close the gate, and that's all. And it's been
there for two years, and we've been doing the same thing every day. They come in the morning, they pull it out at night, they put it in the back, that's all.
Inspector, are you have any questions? So do you know who you spoke to in code enforcement? I believe his name was Mike. But I can look up the
old because I believe I still have the old letter. And it has his name and his number. And that's when I called him and made an agreement with him. So
I'm. I am Mike. I'm the code enforcement officer. I do recall us discussing this at one point before, but I there's never been we've never allowed
anybody to store it on site. It has to be kept off the premises. I would even be would ask you if you have correspondence from me where I told you you could
keep it behind the building, I would love to see it because that's. No, that was over the phone and it's been two years, so I. Did never told somebody,
you or any other business they could store it on, because I don't think I don't have that kind of, I believe an older guy. Well, the only other person you might have talked to would have
been Anthony Boone, who would have been a corporal with the police department at the time. But I, I have never allowed any business to store up a food truck on the property is I
don't have that authority. It's an ordinance. It has to be part of your approved site plan so that whoever if you can't identify who it was that told
you that I. I believe I can check and find out that the the letter that I received two years ago and probably gonna have the name there, but I'm
not sure, but I believe it was Mike. But what? Mike, let me ask you a question, sir. Yes, sir, if I might. You have no actual connection to this food
truck business, do you know? All right. I just would like to see where this vehicle is. Yeah, I collect rent. That's the issue. That's your only participation in this situation.
All right, let me ask the inspector what needs to be done to rectify this situation. He needs to complete his application for two separate business tax receipts. One for
I already did. I submitted the application and she. Patricia, told me that they're going to email me back if they still need anything to be. So that
would be step one is getting that completed. Those two business tax receipts and the food truck leaving every night at the conclusion of business. It cannot be stored on there.
So can you make arrangements sir with apparently these people that are are I don't think because that would be impractical that they drive it from where they're going to
store it every morning. So I, I don't know, I wouldn't be able to store it there if the city says that they can't start there, then I believe that I will have to let them go. Are they storing it there for free?
Are they are they paying you some type of a fee to park it there? It's a rent. A monthly rent. I collect a monthly rent. Okay. Well, then I think that you you're going to have to speak to them and explain to
them that it can't be parked there anymore. I already did when I received the violation. And they said, what kind of response did you get from them? They're going to leave. They
can they are going to leave the the property. They are going to leave. Yeah. Because they can't pay me for the morning and pay someone else for the night. Okay. And that's okay with the
city if that was handled that way, as long as it's not there at night. But the order I'm asking for the board is that you issue an order that says
the food truck cannot be stored there at night, and if they can't come to terms and the food truck goes elsewhere, that's comply. As long as it's
not there, stored after hours, that's that is our issue. It can't be stored on the property. Now does that have to be addressed to the to the people that actually have the food
truck? No, it would be it would be the property owner. It's the it would be this gentleman, the property owner of where it's being stored. Because that's what the violation is on the property where it's being kept.
Okay. But like I don't understand the logic behind this violation because if they can do business in the morning, why they can't be not doing business at night like they are
not going to do business, you're not going to store it. So if you allow them into that property, so why not in the back at night like they are
there in the morning. So I what's the what's the problem with the night? I only enforce the ordinance as it was drafted. And the ordinance says no food truck can be stored on the
property unless it's part of the site plan. Yeah, but I still don't understand the logic behind it. Well, let me say this. I don't know that it's the prerogative of this
board to, to to question the ordinances that we need to enforce. So the ordinance is the ordinance. Yeah, I know, but I need to, but I still can't grasp the logic. I was asking him if he knows the
logic behind it or the reason it or not. Apparently that's the no one knows the logic behind it. So let me ask you this. How much time do we need?
Do you feel an officer to rectify this? Without any other? I would be asking for a pretty short deadline because it's it's fairly easy to comply. It's hook it up and remove it.
They're they're coming and pulling it in and out each night to do business. So I understand that they might not be able to come to terms with the rent, but that's
unfortunately is not for us to sort out. So I would ask for a relatively short deadline and say that, you know, you need to come up with a solution, but it
can't be stored here. I thought the the owner indicated that they're going to leave. Is that not what you said? So when is that? Is there a time line for that? By the way, did you tell
them because they already paid for January. So by the end of the month to get their money back then. Yeah, you may have to have to refund. I mean, that's up to you, but that's what I thought. He said that
they've already made a decision that he's going to to vacate. So whatever that is as far as the timeline, then we can have that discussion. But. Right. Yeah. So I if you want to say
the end of the month that that's entirely that's the purview of the board. You guys picked the date and the fine. Well does anybody care to make
a motion? Yes, sir. I'd like to make the motion. Give him 30 days. I mean, he's the business owner. He's got tenants, he's got contracts, he's got all that stuff to give us 30 days to work through it all, and
it's gone. All right. Does anybody care to second that motion? I'll second. I'll second it. All right. We've got a motion and a second. You want
to select a fine classification? I believe it would be class one, wouldn't it? Inspector, can you
give us some help there? Parking and storage of vehicles. Right. With class one. Class
one. All right. Would you care to add to your your motion as far as what the penalty might be? If yes, no problem. Added to that would be that at the
end of 30 days, if it isn't moved, it falls under class $125 per day. Fine. And with that added, let's have another
vote just to make sure everybody agrees with that. So everyone in agreement say yay! And anyone that opposes say nay.
And we've got a voice vote of of yay. So the motion passes. Any other. That is the end of
the cases. And then we have one affidavit with fines due to submit. Let me just ask the the the witness here. Now, do you understand that you're going to
have to get these people to get that out of there. Yeah I will give them 30 day notice starting today and they should leave in 30 days. Do you think that you'll be able to accomplish that? Yeah. All
right. I would just suggest that if if you find that you can't, that you contact the the officer. Oh my contact was
there and perhaps he can give you some 30 day notice to them. So assistance okay. Yeah. All right. Your case is is complete.
Thank you, thank you you. Okay? All right. We've got one more item on the agenda. I believe this is an affidavit of
compliance with fines. Due case number (258) 000-0585 Anthony Marcello Trust. And it was at 25 West Martin Luther King
Junior Drive. This was before you guys a few months back. It was a vacant lot and it was all overgrown. The fence was laying down. He has recently come into
compliance. As of December 11th, I re-inspected the property after he got hold of me and said he had taken care of everything. So we are placing him in compliance as of that
date and he will most likely be appearing before you for a fine reduction. I'm guessing next month we're going to send him all that paperwork, assuming that you guys accept his
affidavit of compliance. Does anybody care to make a motion to accept this? Compliance? I'll make the motion. Go ahead,
sir. So there we go. Make the motion. That it get back to the case. Number 25-80000585. That
has come into compliance. At next month. Be notified to how do we do the fine portion. Sorry, it's already fine. Yes.
That's all I got to do. Except that it's been closed and completed. Number seven. Number seven, accept the affidavit of
compliance. Sorry, I didn't get the right wording. All right. Anybody second that motion. Second. Okay. And we'll just have a voice vote. I have a
question. Yes. Here we go. How much of the fines? We would have to run it back once the once you accept it, we would end it at the December 11th and
then it would be a new fine amount because it's it's still running. He's being fined right now. So until you accept that his he is in compliance, we don't really have that total
number yet. You have to stop his fines. It seems like we're you're asking us to vote. They're in compliance with not knowing how much they owe the
city. Well, that. Bobby, can you help me out here once. Once? No, no, no. Not probably. How much do they owe the city that we're saying? Yeah. You're fine. Go. Move on. No, we're not
saying you're fine. Go on. We're saying we're. You are accepting they're in compliance, so the fines will stop running. And he will then get a final
total bill. So even though we we say he's in compliance, he's being fined $50 a day. He's being fined $50 a day right now.
Has been since he was here in code board. That is saying you are in compliance and the daily fines. And he will then be given a a final bill of what he
owes the city. This is just to stop his daily fines that are running because he came into
compliance. December 11th. Any other questions? Does anybody
care to make a motion that we accept this? Oh, I believe we already had. All right. And it's been it's been made and
seconded. Let's have a vote. All in favor say yay yay and all opposed. Nay. None opposed.
And it passes. Any other items? I do have a question. Just for procedure. In the past we've done requested motions. I had gotten away from doing that
because I didn't want the city to be putting things in writing for the board, that the attorney has an opinion on that if you'd like us to go back to putting in a requested motion
for them to read off of, but because it seemed like there were some issues today, getting through what motion to make and what not, I'd like to suggest that maybe not write out the
motion, but just give us one motion number you would recommend. Okay, I decided to have it. We have it all right in front of us. I thought the kind of sample language was in
the their, their packet and then I can I could get with Mr. Salzman as to issue specific motions if that's what you're referring to. And we used to we
used to just put in a requested like this is what the city is asking. And it had the motion and everything filled in. But I felt like that might be somebody might say, you're being a little bit you're
steering well, has anybody said that? Has it been challenged? No. But I and I've so but we can we can bring it up with attorney Salzman I can talk
yeah I can talk to Mr. Salzman about it because muddying the waters would be kind of the concern that you're already picking up on, obviously. So that would be the only concern with that because it could be a
cleaner operation. But at what cost? You know, in terms of due process, everything. So let maybe table the final decision
on that specific issue. Any comments from the members of the board today? Care to say anything. Happy new year. Happy
new year. Happy new year. Thank you very much for bringing that up. Happy New Year to all and best wishes for 2026, for not
only for the board members, but for all of the City of Tarpon Springs. Whatever luck we can get, we'll use. Right? All right. Thank you. Item it is
about the minutes that's on your agenda today to accept them or not. Approval of minutes. Okay. December 11th,
2020 five minutes to accept or. All right. Can we vote on whether to accept the minutes? I'll move to accept the minutes
from December 11th. Second, second. All right. All the ayes. Yay! Yay! Anyone with an A, and apparently it passes. And thank you, Bobby, for bringing that
up because that's something that I would have missed. All right. The next code Enforcement board hearing will be held on February 12th, 2026
at 2 p.m. and this proceeding is closed.