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1. 1Feb 17, 2026
   Board of County CommissionersC8Consent agendaApproved

   Approved minutes

   Approved Staff’s recommendation with Chairman Mariano and Commissioner Yeager absent from the vote.

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   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:06:23Next order of business is uh consent. I see we have one pulled item. Do we have any other items that need to be pulled by staff or commissioners?

   1:06:33None? So do we have a motion uh

   Ron Oakley

   1:06:36I'll make motion that we accept all the other incense the out of

   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:06:41C A

   Ron Oakley

   1:06:41does

   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:06:42not be pulled C A.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:06:43Yeah, by me. A rare poll by Commissioner Starkey.

   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:06:46Do we have a second?

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:06:48Second?

   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:06:48All in favor? Aye. Aye. Commission Commissioner Starkey, C A.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:06:52Yeah, can you can you put uh the some of the uh PDFs on? uh uh on here. So this is about um What what we pay? When we have to mow someone's property. And um nope, no, that's not what that's for later. This is uh C eight. Some of the a attachments on come on, come on up. Um Th the first thing that caught my eye because I looked into this um was that it

   1:07:22was a comp we we were using a company from another county. Commissioner Mariano would if he's listening. You know we like to try and keep this local. And I understand that we are now using a company. You wanna explain that please go down the fashion?

   Denise Anderson

   1:07:37Sure, Denise Sanderson Co Compliance Director. And so Commissioner Starkey, you're correct. Um Following a competitive process, we selected a vendor, uh very few respondents to that procurement uh a year or more ago. Um we did end that agreement with them recently for non-performance. Uh we also had a second contractor that pulled out from performance as well. We've gone back out um and have uh received uh competitive bids from I believe it was three companies. companies. The the company

   1:08:07that we have since selected is a Pasco based company.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:08:10So um looking at it, we pay per square foot. Is that how it works? That is correct. By the size of the lot? Correct. Or how much they have to mow.

   Denise Anderson

   1:08:21Size of the lot.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:08:24But what if there's 'cause I I started looking up some of the lots and you know, what if there's only a little bit of mowing?

   1:08:36It does.

   Mike Carballa

   1:08:36It's a bid and

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:08:37there's

   Mike Carballa

   1:08:37risk.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:08:38So Okay.

   Denise Anderson

   1:08:40In some cases they do remove trash as well. And so in some limited cases you may see dumping fees associated with if there's trash on the site.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:08:48And I I just want you guys to take a look at what it I mean, it's costly to the citizens. It's a ne it's a necessary thing. Um but um so so on one of these, um okay, go go down. Uh where where's can you open up one of the PDFs that's attached to me? I think it would be on another

   Denise Anderson

   1:09:08Right there, the lean resolution.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:09:11Okay, so so clearing costs, penalty. So all right, so m I thought the mow the mowing where's the mowing cost? That's the clearing cost.

   Denise Anderson

   1:09:23That's the clearing cost.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:09:24Okay. And then um the penalty is to the homeowner. Correct. Land O'Neill?

   Denise Anderson

   1:09:30Correct.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:09:31And um I'm still waiting for it to go.

   Denise Anderson

   1:09:34I'll point out this is also these are class one violations, which is a hundred and fifty dollar uh citation, and that's under the uniform fine and fee schedule set by the sixth judicial court. That is not represented in the lien resolution. Okay.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:09:46I wanted to get an understanding what the numbers were on this p on the PDF. There's there's a there's a whole bunch of violations that we're dealing with there. This is okay, so what is that number f so this is what I was seeing. A hundred and twenty one dollars, that seemed to be a pretty common amount for a lot of these mowings. So um So this says one twenty one. Now we're going to a higher higher one.

   Denise Anderson

   1:10:15I don't know that we are. I'd have to I'm not looking at the bid. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about on the new contract.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:10:21Yeah, the f okay, so this is an example of of one of the ones we're paying. What is the number four? What is the number five? We're trying to understand what that was.

   Denise Anderson

   1:10:33Oh that's just part of the calculations. Um It doesn't matter.

   Mike Carballa

   1:10:40I think it's part of their quality control because they

   Denise Anderson

   1:10:42can

   Mike Carballa

   1:10:42check off the boards.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:10:45Well, what is four seven two four four?

   Denise Anderson

   1:10:48That is the total amount, including the administrative costs for that particular one.

   1:10:53So there is a spreadsheet that gives you right, you've seen this that breaks down those that's also in your attachments. It identifies the clearing cost, the penalty, the administrative costs, recording costs, and then the total, which all of those are within each lien for the said property.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:11:11Okay, so um so when we do a code enforcement violation That money goes to the state, not to us. Is that correct? Or is it different in this

   Denise Anderson

   1:11:21it goes to this judicial.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:11:22Okay, I think that in this instance where's Ralph? If we're pa if our citizens are paying for

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   1:11:31the lien goes to against the property and it comes back to us because those those are that's a special assessment lien.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:11:39Okay.

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   1:11:39The citation that is written for the violation would end up going to the state.

   Denise Anderson

   1:11:44And that is not included in one of these numbers that you're seeing.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:11:58So are we first in line? But mind me, where are we in that in that process on the lien?

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   1:12:05We are in the first tier, but there may be people in front of us like a mortgage.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:12:14Well all right. Well I wanted to understand what I was seeing, what that number four, what that number five was and um and then I didn't like that it was going to someone in another county. But that's all fixed and so do you guys have any questions on these? It's just it's just so sad that we have to do this, but uh I it's also I want people to see how expensive it is for us to mow. Um It's kind of amazing that that it costs that much to go most someone's yard. That we can't find someone who'll do it for us.

   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:12:45We have a whole jail full of workforce don't

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:12:47Exactly. That's what I was thinking too.

   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:12:51Do we have a motion?

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:12:52Move to approve. Second.

   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:12:54All in favor? Aye.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:12:55Aye. C

   Seth WeightmanVice Chair

   1:12:56eight passes. Thank you.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:12:58Wait, do we have a quorum voting? Is that okay? Yes, we got three. Okay. All right, thank you.

   Denise Anderson

   1:13:04Thank you.