The Municipal Code Enforcement Board met on February 25, 2026, at 1:30 PM in the Main Library Council Chambers. The board considered a fine reduction request, approved minutes, and heard several new business cases, old business affidavits, and nuisance abatement lien filings. A total of 16 new business items were on the agenda, with several withdrawn, continued, or resolved.
There's not one day. I went to it when I was working claims. Good to see you. Today's meeting of the municipal code enforcement board is called to order on February 25th, 2026. Welcome everyone. Please rise with a pledge of allegiance. A pledge of allegiance to the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. Agendas of today's meeting are on the wall at the entrance to chambers. Please remember to turn off your cell phones. Formal rules of evidence do not apply. Each sign is limited to 15 minutes. The board may grant additional time. Individuals who conduct themselves otherwise will be asked to leave. If necessary, they will be escorted from the chambers. Um the property is written up approximately two years ago, and it was found in violation of this board for an abandoned building. It's been accruing liens ever since. Um the family couldn't couldn't maintain the property, so an outside LLC came in to purchase the property, and then was found that uh there were multiple names on the title and the deed, and some of them had passed away. So they took on the task of going through a lot of probate over the last two years to get it to where it's in their name, and now they're uh under contract to sell it to habitat for humanity. So we'd support reducing those liens on administrative cost. Thank you. And the the property's been maintained by the LLC ever since they got involved. Thank you, Inspector. So the question I have is um what is the requested lien reduction amount or the administrative fees? What is that number? The administrative fees total one thousand two hundred one thousand twenty-seven dollars and twenty cents. That's one zero twenty-seven twenty-seven. 1027.20. There is somebody a representative from Habitat for Community here if you have any questions for them. What date? What date are you requesting? Is there a date? No. No. Just a leave. This is just a uh a lien reduction request. Yes, madam clerk. It's appropriate to have the uh if there's somebody here to represent to speak. Is there anyone here to speak on this case? Please come forward, sir. Could you state your name and address to the clerk, please? Yes, sir. Caesar Figaro with Habitat for Humanity on 14010 Roosevelt for the bar in Clearwater. Um, so the property in question is nine Santa England. This property we were originally under contract two years ago prior to the probates. Um, once we realized that there were probates on it, we kind of let them handle that at that point, and now they've come back to us to purchase the property again. Um, right now we are in a diligence period and are requesting for the lien reduction. Um, at this time, once closing of the property is occurs, we are good to begin with demolition and making sure that the property is given to homeowners. Absolutely. Does anyone have any questions?