the commission. The meeting of the Charlotte County construction industry licensing board is now called the order. This board is responsible for certain contractor licensing requirements and for conducting discipline hearings to determine the validity of alleged violations brought forth by the county. May we have the roll call please? Here John Donnelly here Michael Melton here Charles Michael Melton here Brian Mandillo Absent Charles Packard here Night Diane Colte Michael LaCorta here Here the next meeting date will be June 5th 2025 at 4 p.m. And these same quarters May I have a motion to approve the minutes for the hearing of February 6th, please? 25. Motion to approve the minutes. And the second. Kevin Correll, I second. And all the favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion passes. Any agenda changes? Miss Tazio. Aye. Aye. Opposed motion passes. Any agenda changes? No, say no. No. Are there anyone in present giving testimony today if so please stand up and face, Miss Braden, and be sworn in. Seeing none, I guess we can waive that procedure. It's missing on to consent affidavits of noncompliance fines. In this case, I will need a motion to approve affidavit and noncompliance fines. Kevin Krill, I motion to approve. And a second. Michael Porter, second. Just one of you, please. Mr. Downley. Second. Okay. All in favor say aye aye all opposed motion passes Restatement cases I see none discipline cases Do we have any discipline cases so I don't have to open up the motion Okay, great how about old business? Is anybody want to do anything today? How about new business? Okay, let's hear from the licensing manager, please. I'm just gonna walk up here and say I got nothing. I'll do it. I'd be par for the course. Licensing has been steady. We have a new licensing officer. Way back there, Mr. Darrell Dilla. and he's already hit the road he's been out working with Tom and he's already taken care of business so he's gonna fall in pretty easy on everything fantastic I have one question for you is your microphone on I would assume it is there's no one here. Okay. All right. Thank you. I'm sorry. I told you I had nothing. Proactive contacts over the past couple of months. We've had about a hundred proactive contacts out in the field, field investigation. Front desk talks with the officers being asked to come up and speak with licensing or someone regarding the licensing issue. We've had about 50 contacts that way, about 205 phone calls made or returned. 12 citations have been issued in the past couple of months. And we have opened 11 contractor licensing cases, two of which were closed based on no evidence, no anything, and the rest of them are all in process right now of either figuring out whether we have something or figuring out if we don't. Okay. And that's about it. I have a quick question for you. In the past month or a couple months, every once in a while I'll get a flyer sent to my office advertising for handyman or this particular flyer a mailer, I guess you would call it, said he could do electrical contracting, plumbing contracting, no license number, no nothing, no evidence of insurance or anything. Would those be, are you guys still taking a look at those? Are you just inundated with what you're... I mean, we're inundated. We're trying to keep track of what's going on, especially in the coastal areas right now. But that's the kind of stuff. If we've got a, if we've got a fire that we can look at, sure we can look at it, we can make a phone call, we can check against other things and see what's going on. I think it's good that the public knows that when they see something with no license number or any other information that's pertinent, that they should, you know, hand that over because that clearly is a red flag. It's at the very least. We've had problems with that in the past. And at the very least it's a red flag. Because we don't know where that's coming from. We don't know where these people are coming from. So at the very least we need to look into that. You know, because a handyman is not really something that's regulated so much anymore. But when a handyman's saying they can do this, do that then we need to start looking at it closely. Yes sir, thank you very much. Any questions for this gentleman from the board? Thank you. Have a good day, sir. How about a report from the building department? Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. For the very short, I'm a minority with community development. From meeting buildings doing pretty well. Picked up a little bit from last month. We actually issued 236 single family homes, 49 in Babcock. For a total permits issued in March 3,345. We had a little dip over the past couple of months. We seem to be coming back to more normal level. The only thing I'd have is we're working closely with Conan Force went on those special magistrate hearing for the unsafe structures after they're a cane damage. Right. I've seen many of those and the red tags on them. In fact, I happen to be working on one of them, so I hope everyone else is going through the hurdles that you have to do in order to get back and prove these things or knock them down or whatever. And I would like to say that I'd like to congratulate the building department. Heard from many people about the responsiveness, the quick turnaround on the permits and it seems that we've really gotten a hold of that and whatever was going on before, obviously, very busy because of the hurricanes, but certainly are on track there. So thank you very much. Welcome. Any questions for this gentleman? This is a quick question. If the county has deemed a structure to be substantially damaged, does the homeowner have any recourse to dispute that claim? Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, the ARB. Because obviously there's a lot of maybe potentially moving pieces with the cost to rebuild and those kinds of things. I just wanted to ask it straight away just because I've had a couple clients come up to me where like is my if the county is deemed my house substantially damaged water my you know does that mean I have to tear it down and I tell them no but I have nothing really to point to or anything like that they just have the documentation that says needs to be torn down or they're mine anyway it needs to be torn down. Yeah the easiest way to dispute it would be through the permit process and on our 50% we call it a 50% packet which kind of spells out all the gives you like a detailed cost breakdown of all the work and so you'd be the owner or the contractor would demonstrate that the cost of repair does not exceed 50%. Very good. Thank you. Let the record show that Miss Quilty is present at the meeting, please. And how about a report from the Assistant County Attorney? Jean Jean. Yes, so it's my last meeting today. I want to thank you all for your service here. We've got a new attorney, David Musco, who's here in the audience. He's going to be taking care of you guys in the future, so you're in good hands. Well, I'd like to thank you, Gene, for the fine work that you've done here, at least for the length of time that I've been on the board. And Mike and some others maybe. We thank you very much. Fine job, Jean. Sorry to see you go. How about the comments from Mr. Bernson, our board attorney? I just like to thank Jean for the period of time working with her. It's been a pleasure. She brought me up to speed real quick when I came on with the board and it's been a pleasure working with her as well as with the whole board. Nothing else to report. And any comments from any licensing board members? I know this is kind of a an abbreviated meeting not much going on here right now, but if you have something chime on in now is the time. Okay. I apologize for being late. That's okay. We're gonna let that go this time. May I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? It's like melting my motion to adjourn. And a second. Thank you. All opposed? All in favor? Say aye. Aye. We do adjourn. Thank you very much. I'm going to get a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a music