We're going to call the meeting to
order. I believe it is
3:13.
Building Standards Commission,
March 5th, 2026.
We have Mark Miller here, Jimmy Head,
Mikey Witworth, Jimmy Baker.
» Spanky, will you lead us in pledge of
allegiance and the invocation?
>> Sure.
» Pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America, to the
republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
>> Let's pray. Father, just thank you for
today. Thank you for this time together.
Just uh be with the committee as we make
decisions uh for our citizens and for
the city. Just uh help us to use your
wisdom to be able to do that. I just
lift up our country to you uh our
leaders and uh all the people in the
military at this time just protection
for them. I ask it all in Jesus name.
Amen.
>> Amen.
We have any questions or comments from
citizens at this time?
Okay, we'll move on to
the minutes. I'll entertain a motion
from the previous meeting's minutes.
>> I'd make a motion to accept the minutes
as written. I'll second it.
>> First is made by Spanky, second by Mark
Miller. All in favor?
>> I I
all approve.
We will move on to new building cases.
We're going to open this up to public
forum.
And the first new case we have is 707
Moody Street.
All right. So, we don't have anybody
here to represent that today. Um, today
we're asking for an order to abate the
trash and debris off the property. Um,
as far as notices, we haven't been able
to send them anywhere. It's a unknown
address for the owner. So I'm posting
the notices on the property just
stapling them to a stake and we haven't
had any contact from them at all. So
we're just asking for an order to abate.
>> Okay.
>> Is that including the the shop or garage
that's fallen over? Is that part of that
property?
>> No, that's on the neighbor property.
» Okay.
Anybody
else have a question?
We'll close and let take appropriate
action.
» Make a motion to abate the property.
>> We've got a first made by Spanky to
abate the property.
>> Second.
by Mark.
All in favor?
I I
Motion passes.
We'll open up again public forum.
We'll move on to 100 South Harvey.
Can you state your name?
Can you tell us what you got going on?
>> Uh, I have squatters on my property and
they've steadily added more trash and more trash onto it for
the last nine months, probably 10
months. I've been trying to get them out
of my house. I've not had the money to
get the eviction notice put on there.
Um, I've got this I got this off the
line and I was going to put it on the my
door today. It's I don't know if it's
legal or not. That's what I brought it
here for to see if it was. It's just a
three-day notice for them to leave.
But I went to the police. I've went I've
talked to everybody that I know of to
talk to and I just can't get them off
there. And yesterday I went to go clean
the lot up and soon as I picked
something up that the boy that's staying
there, he told me not to touch it. it
was his and there happened to be I don't
know if they called the police or what
that happened but the police was there
and they told me that I can't touch
anything. I can't move anything off the
property because it's not mine. So, I'm
just trying to get them out and get it
cleaned up.
>> Have you been in touch with any of the
city personnel?
>> I just I called him yesterday.
>> Yeah. So, yesterday was our first
contact with her.
>> I didn't know who to get a hold of or
nothing. and they haven't been able to
get a hold of me and I haven't been able
to get a hold of them because they've
been throwing away everything that's
been put on the house or any mail that's
been sent there. They've been throwing
it all away.
So, I just ain't been able to I've been
staying with my boyfriend to avoid them
mostly and I just ain't had no way to
know anything about it. I guess
they just now let me know. So, that's
what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get
them off of there and then as soon as I
do, I'll get it cleaned up. They're
cleaning on it today. I've told I told
them a month ago that what was going to
happen and so they've been they started
cleaning on it yesterday, I guess, after
I left.
>> So, you said it cost to file.
>> Yeah, it cost $150 to file an eviction notice and then $50 for each
person you want to get off of there.
>> And who do you file that with the city?
>> I haven't filed it yet. No.
>> I mean, is that who you would? Jug
County
>> County
» and there's two people to stay in there.
So that's that's like $250 that I don't
have.
>> Well, sure. I'm with you. What can the
city do anything?
So
like as far as them people being there,
I mean she has to go through the legal
recourse to have them removed from the
property and and the first step in that
is going and visiting with the local JP
court. I'm not sure what precinct which
one she need to go see, but you can
start off just going to the
>> I went here to the police station and I
talked to them.
>> Well, it wouldn't be with the police
station. It' be with the county access.
uh that you need to see the
>> can I put this on my door?
>> That's what I'm trying to tell you is
you need to ask them.
>> Okay?
>> Because they they control that. The the
city does not control that. Uh the local
justice of the peace,
>> okay?
>> Whoever is over your precinct is who
you'll officially need you'll see. But
one of the precincts, their offices is
down at the county annex. Okay.
>> Where the sheriff's office is at that
same building.
>> So,
>> okay. Just ask for the justice of the
peace and and they'll get you in the
right direction.
>> Okay. Thank you.
>> That's all I know to do though.
>> So when the when something like this
happens, can the city not I mean do they
not do we not knock on the door and say,
"Hey, you got a mess. You need to get it
cleaned up or that's not part of the
deal or what?"
>> Yes, we have talked to somebody at the
property.
Her name was uh
>> Brandy.
Yes. Yes.
>> What did she say?
>> She said that they were working on
cleaning it up, but um I haven't seen
any progress.
>> No, other than today, I haven't seen
they hadn't done nothing.
» So, they're staying in your house and
it's
>> they it's actually I have a house in my
sister's trailer is right in the on the
same lot. Yeah. and they they broke into
the trailer and they threw away all my
sister's stuff and they moved into it
and I just can't get them out of there.
My sister's in ICU and Amarilla right
now and she ain't been able to do
nothing either cuz she's been she's got
cancer.
>> But they didn't start renting from you
to start with?
>> No. No. I've told them from the day that
they showed up to get out
and they just stayed and stayed and they
just stay. They say they ain't got
nowhere to go.
Is there a trailer hitch on the trailer?
>> Yeah,
it'd be hard to move it though.
» And so what we're asking for is a order
to abate the trash and debris there
also. Um this particular case is uh 6
months old already. And I went back and
looked and it's the sixth code
enforcement case that's been opened up
here that's related whether it be trash
and debris or outdoor storage or junk
vehicles.
>> So it is becoming a nuisance.
>> She cannot pick up none of the trash,
but the city can go in there and do it
>> under y'all's order. Now we don't
necessarily want to have to do that. I
mean, I would rather make the property
owner responsible, but at some point in
time,
>> we do need to get it picked up whether
it's them or us.
>> They've started cleaning on it and I,
like I said, I I would go clean it if I
could.
>> But the police told you to leave it
alone.
>> Yep.
>> So,
does that come back? Does she have to
pay anything if this if we file the
abatement?
>> So, yeah. So, if if if y'all give us the
order to abate the property, then
there's going to be a total on the
weight that we pick up from there and
that that would be she would get a bill
for that and if she didn't pay it'd be
assessed a lean on that property.
>> Could I just land it up?
» We go back to the justice of the peace.
Okay. that the justice of peace is
controlling what you can do.
>> Okay.
>> But if you would start that process, I
I'd be more than glad to let you pick it
up.
>> Okay.
>> I'll go talk to them today.
>> But I can but the justice of peace is
the one that has to tell you that you
can't.
>> Okay.
>> I have a job where I work nights, so
it's hard for me to be up during the day
most of the time. But but I will go and
I will talk to her.
I mean,
it's
>> not right.
>> I'll make them prove what's theirs.
>> It's on your property. I'd have to go
through one by one and prove that it's
not theirs. I couldn't prove that it's
mine either.
Well, I mean, I think if like Larry
said, if you want to check with your JP
and your precinct and see what has to be
done,
>> Yeah.
>> then
if it was mine
and it's going to cost money to do that,
I would
um let the city let us do an abatement
on it and then see what that's going to
cost.
>> Okay. As far as the weight,
[clears throat]
>> yeah, I can do that.
>> I think the weight would be cheaper.
>> Maybe
>> do that.
» Any idea what the cost might be? Just a
guess.
>> From what the policeman told me, he said
that it'd be $150 right off the bat.
>> No, they're talking about the weight of
the trash that they're going to go
remove from there.
>> Oh, okay. I don't
>> Yeah. So our part would be weighed up
the trash, but her cost of getting them
out going through the JP court.
She [clears throat] has to originally
pay a certain fee, which I don't know
the fees,
and then they start the process, but
then when it comes down to if they have
still not got out of that property, then
you had to pay more money to have the
sheriff's department remove them.
>> [clears throat]
>> It's frustrating, but
>> and you have to leave their belongings
out on the in the rideway for a certain
amount of time. I think it's like 48
hours, something like that. Then once
that period is up, then she can dispose
of it however she wants to dispose of
it.
>> They say a reasonable amount of time.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. So, if we order an abatement, the
city's going to go clean all the stuff
up and haul it off.
>> Correct.
>> But as far as people being gone, that's
not
>> they won't even make them leave. No.
All they'll do is they'll clean it up
» and then they'll bring all the stuff
back
>> and then Yeah.
So, I just I'll go see the Justice Peace
and I can see what she what they can do
about it. If you could just wait till I
can do that.
>> Any other questions?
» We're going to close the open meeting.
appropriate action.
>> Oh, if she's going to go see the
justice, please. Would you put it off
for a month and see what the justice
says?
>> Is that what we're saying?
>> That's
>> I'm entertaining a motion.
>> That would be fine with me.
>> You want to go see the justice of the
peace and see what you can do?
>> Yeah. I want to get them off of its
property. I move we put it off for a
month in and see what just
>> We've got a
motion to review it in a month with next
meeting. I have a second.
[cough]
>> We got a first by Jimmy Head, a second
by Mark Miller. All in favor?
» Thank you.
>> Please know how you come out.
>> I will. Thank you. Ma'am, if
>> you want to join me out here and then
get the
» [laughter]
>> come visit you.
>> Okay, we're going to open it back up and
go to pending cases and we have 1306
Wisconsin Street.
Lovely.
>> Could you state your name?
>> Jessica Charlton.
I'm in the same spot [laughter] progress
going. [clears throat] I
>> We've done some more work and then um
it's not been a lot because the guy that
I've got paid for do it, his mom has
fallen sick and so he's like her primary
caregiver. So, he ain't been able to
come out too much and do too much more.
And then
yeah, I'm just like, yes, the hole is
back in my yard, but I got my plumbing
done this weekend and they're coming to
fill it in tomorrow. [laughter] But
other than that, it's one neighbor
complaining about my yard.
And yeah, he don't even have to come
down to my area. He he can stay on that
side of the alley. But he's been bugging
me for years. And it's just, you all my
meters are accessible. I I don't
understand why I'm still on this list.
» Johnny, would you like to speak on that?
>> Yeah. So, the rest of the trash and the
debris will have to be removed before we
can get you completely off this list. We
need to get you all the way into
compliance. So, a lot of that stuff uh
it it had been sitting there. So, I
looked at pictures from September and
then pictures from today and a lot of
that stuff in the exact same spot.
>> Yeah, like I said, his mom has went,
she's gotten sick and he's the primary
caregiver, so he ain't been able to
come. It's Chad Binger.
>> The property has come a long way
>> and um there's not much left. I imagine
that you could probably get a dump
trailer and get the last bit of it in
one last final push, you know.
But our recommendation today, we're
going to defer to the board.
» I'm sorry, I didn't hear your
recommendation.
>> We're going to defer that decision to
the board as to whether give that
cleanup order or table it for uh the
next meeting.
>> You'd like a have a defined date,
though, correct?
>> Yes, sir. Yeah, this case is now a year
and six months old. So, I I would
definitely like to see it come to a
conclusion.
>> I mean, you know, honestly, we'd love
nothing better than to take you off the
list if the place was cleaned up.
>> I mean, I've only been back in the house
for like seven months. I wasn't even
living there before.
>> But by those seven months, I've done a
lot of work.
>> I think it came to us originally to be
tore down.
>> That was years ago.
>> Yep.
>> And I got it all cleaned up back then.
And then my dad ended up getting a
divorce and moving back over there and
brought all his stuff from his out of
county house back over to that property.
And now he lives in love and I'm having
to deal with it all again. And
>> how long do you need for month?
>> Can I have a month?
They they said they'll come help do it.
But
>> any other questions?
We're going to close open form and go to
take appropriate actions.
>> Make a motion we review it at the next
meeting.
>> We got a motion by
Spanky to review it at the next meeting.
Do we have a second?
>> Sure.
>> We got a second from Jimmy Head. All in
favor?
>> I
>> Thanks, guys.
>> Motion's approved.
>> Please.
get it done.
>> No. What' you I said, "Please get it
done."
>> I will. I will.
>> Thank you.
>> Okay. Now, we're going to hear 134
Airline.
>> Arline. Yeah.
>> Harland.
» What's your name?
>> My name's Buddy Woodward.
>> Hey, buddy.
>> Thanks for coming.
>> It's coming along. I think it's pretty
good. I think you can just have a couple
more vehicles out here. I got to move.
>> Yeah. So, there is the vehicles left. Uh
I went by there today and most
everything outside the fence is taken
care of and the fence was put back
together correctly. It looks like um
there is still a bunch of stuff behind
the fence but
>> I'm going through it slowly separating
it.
>> So the vehicles um we can handle those
through code enforcement and uh as far
as as far as the property, we're going
to also defer that decision to the
board. So everything outside of the the
fence viewable from the street is taken
care of.
>> Status on the the [clears throat]
trailer that the city was going to was
the city going to get rid of that?
>> Yeah, it's still on our list. It's
moving up the list as we're knocking out
demolitions, but
>> uh it's
>> it's still there.
>> Yeah, she she you live in it, right? The
trailer. That's
>> No. So there's there's a
>> her property.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. That's what Yeah, she does.
>> The one that we're going to demolish.
It's actually right next door,
>> I think. 136 R line.
» Do they live in this trailer?
>> Yeah, the the there's one on the north
side that's outside
around
And the reason I bring up the fence is
uh so there's a expectation of privacy
right there. So I can't go looking over
it. But I have passed by with the fence
open and I can tell that there's still a
lot of stuff back there that does need
to be cleaned up. But once that fence is
closed, then I don't, you know, I'm not
going to go looking over it.
» And what do you have a plan on the
vehicles?
>> Um, well, yeah. Yeah, we'll get rid of
them. We're going to get rid of them. I
got I had somebody that's interested in
buying one that's under the tarp in the
front.
>> Yeah.
>> And uh he just started his job, so I was
going to let him get a couple checks up
before he paid for it. But I probably
arrange it to where I go ahead and get
it to his property. Get that one out of
the way. And the blazer over front. I
guess we'll just move into the yard.
» Johnny, you feel like they're far enough
we can remove them at this point and
just take care of it with code
enforcement. Is that correct?
I believe I can work those junk vehicles
through code enforcement and uh say as
far as the trash and the debris,
everything I can see from public right
away is taken care of pretty much.
There's a couple little small things,
but
not enough to keep it on the agenda, I
believe.
» Any other questions?
We'll close it the open form and take
appropriate action.
» Make a motion that we remove it.
» What's motion, Mark?
>> Okay. I thought it was a question.
>> Okay. [laughter]
>> It was a semi in there.
>> Okay. We got a first by Mark. remove it
from the
then a second by Jimmy Head. All in
favor?
» I motion carries.
» Thanks y'all.
>> Thank you.
guys.
» Yeah, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to
add anything or not.
Okay, I'll entertain a motion on a
journey.
>> Motion to adjourn. Second, I
>> think he's made a motion to journ.
All in favor? I I
meeting is closed.