Property Maintenance Clearing of Lots - Pasco County Code of Ordinance (Section 42-1) - Lien Resolutions - No Funding Required
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
DispositionApproved
Approved Staff’s recommendation with Chairman Mariano and Commissioner Yeager absent from the vote.
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Feb 17, 2026
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Feb 17, 2026
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- Feb 17, 2026BoardC8▶Approvedthis item
What was said
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Next 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?
None? So do we have a motion uh
I'll make motion that we accept all the other incense the out of
C A
does
not be pulled C A.
Yeah, by me. A rare poll by Commissioner Starkey.
Do we have a second?
Second?
All in favor? Aye. Aye. Commission Commissioner Starkey, C A.
Yeah, 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
was 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?
Sure, 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
that we have since selected is a Pasco based company.
So 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.
Size of the lot.
But 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?
It does.
It's a bid and
there's
risk.
So Okay.
In 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.
And 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
Right there, the lean resolution.
Okay, 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.
That's the clearing cost.
Okay. And then um the penalty is to the homeowner. Correct. Land O'Neill?
Correct.
And um I'm still waiting for it to go.
I'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.
I 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.
I 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.
Yeah, 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.
Oh that's just part of the calculations. Um It doesn't matter.
I think it's part of their quality control because they
can
check off the boards.
Well, what is four seven two four four?
That is the total amount, including the administrative costs for that particular one.
So 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.
Okay, 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
it goes to this judicial.
Okay, I think that in this instance where's Ralph? If we're pa if our citizens are paying for
the lien goes to against the property and it comes back to us because those those are that's a special assessment lien.
Okay.
The citation that is written for the violation would end up going to the state.
And that is not included in one of these numbers that you're seeing.
So are we first in line? But mind me, where are we in that in that process on the lien?
We are in the first tier, but there may be people in front of us like a mortgage.
Well 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.
We have a whole jail full of workforce don't
Exactly. That's what I was thinking too.
Do we have a motion?
Move to approve. Second.
All in favor? Aye.
Aye. C
eight passes. Thank you.
Wait, do we have a quorum voting? Is that okay? Yes, we got three. Okay. All right, thank you.
Thank you.