[26:05] We're going to call the meeting to
[26:06] order. I believe it is
[26:09] 3:13.
[26:12] Building Standards Commission,
[26:15] March 5th, 2026.
[26:19] We have Mark Miller here, Jimmy Head,
[26:25] Mikey Witworth, Jimmy Baker.
[26:31] » Spanky, will you lead us in pledge of
[26:32] allegiance and the invocation?
[26:34] >> Sure.
[26:39] » Pledge allegiance to the flag of the
[26:41] United States of America, to the
[26:44] republic for which it stands, one nation
[26:48] under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[26:51] justice for all.
[26:54] >> Let's pray. Father, just thank you for
[26:57] today. Thank you for this time together.
[26:59] Just uh be with the committee as we make
[27:01] decisions uh for our citizens and for
[27:04] the city. Just uh help us to use your
[27:08] wisdom to be able to do that. I just
[27:11] lift up our country to you uh our
[27:14] leaders and uh all the people in the
[27:16] military at this time just protection
[27:19] for them. I ask it all in Jesus name.
[27:21] Amen.
[27:22] >> Amen.
[27:30] We have any questions or comments from
[27:32] citizens at this time?
[27:37] Okay, we'll move on to
[27:41] the minutes. I'll entertain a motion
[27:45] from the previous meeting's minutes.
[27:49] >> I'd make a motion to accept the minutes
[27:51] as written. I'll second it.
[27:54] >> First is made by Spanky, second by Mark
[27:58] Miller. All in favor?
[28:00] >> I I
[28:03] all approve.
[28:07] We will move on to new building cases.
[28:12] We're going to open this up to public
[28:14] forum.
[28:17] And the first new case we have is 707
[28:20] Moody Street.
[28:23] All right. So, we don't have anybody
[28:24] here to represent that today. Um, today
[28:28] we're asking for an order to abate the
[28:30] trash and debris off the property. Um,
[28:33] as far as notices, we haven't been able
[28:35] to send them anywhere. It's a unknown
[28:38] address for the owner. So I'm posting
[28:40] the notices on the property just
[28:42] stapling them to a stake and we haven't
[28:45] had any contact from them at all. So
[28:48] we're just asking for an order to abate.
[28:50] >> Okay.
[28:52] >> Is that including the the shop or garage
[28:55] that's fallen over? Is that part of that
[28:57] property?
[28:58] >> No, that's on the neighbor property.
[29:02] » Okay.
[29:04] Anybody
[29:07] else have a question?
[29:11] We'll close and let take appropriate
[29:13] action.
[29:16] » Make a motion to abate the property.
[29:19] >> We've got a first made by Spanky to
[29:21] abate the property.
[29:22] >> Second.
[29:23] by Mark.
[29:27] All in favor?
[29:29] I I
[29:35] Motion passes.
[29:41] We'll open up again public forum.
[29:46] We'll move on to 100 South Harvey.
[29:54] Can you state your name?
[30:02] Can you tell us what you got going on?
[30:06] >> Uh, I have squatters on my property and
[30:10] they've steadily added more trash and more trash onto it for
[30:14] the last nine months, probably 10
[30:16] months. I've been trying to get them out
[30:18] of my house. I've not had the money to
[30:20] get the eviction notice put on there.
[30:23] Um, I've got this I got this off the
[30:25] line and I was going to put it on the my
[30:27] door today. It's I don't know if it's
[30:30] legal or not. That's what I brought it
[30:31] here for to see if it was. It's just a
[30:34] three-day notice for them to leave.
[30:37] But I went to the police. I've went I've
[30:40] talked to everybody that I know of to
[30:42] talk to and I just can't get them off
[30:43] there. And yesterday I went to go clean
[30:46] the lot up and soon as I picked
[30:48] something up that the boy that's staying
[30:50] there, he told me not to touch it. it
[30:52] was his and there happened to be I don't
[30:54] know if they called the police or what
[30:55] that happened but the police was there
[30:57] and they told me that I can't touch
[30:59] anything. I can't move anything off the
[31:01] property because it's not mine. So, I'm
[31:05] just trying to get them out and get it
[31:07] cleaned up.
[31:09] >> Have you been in touch with any of the
[31:11] city personnel?
[31:12] >> I just I called him yesterday.
[31:13] >> Yeah. So, yesterday was our first
[31:15] contact with her.
[31:18] >> I didn't know who to get a hold of or
[31:19] nothing. and they haven't been able to
[31:20] get a hold of me and I haven't been able
[31:21] to get a hold of them because they've
[31:23] been throwing away everything that's
[31:24] been put on the house or any mail that's
[31:26] been sent there. They've been throwing
[31:27] it all away.
[31:29] So, I just ain't been able to I've been
[31:32] staying with my boyfriend to avoid them
[31:35] mostly and I just ain't had no way to
[31:39] know anything about it. I guess
[31:42] they just now let me know. So, that's
[31:44] what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get
[31:45] them off of there and then as soon as I
[31:48] do, I'll get it cleaned up. They're
[31:49] cleaning on it today. I've told I told
[31:51] them a month ago that what was going to
[31:53] happen and so they've been they started
[31:55] cleaning on it yesterday, I guess, after
[31:56] I left.
[31:58] >> So, you said it cost to file.
[32:02] >> Yeah, it cost $150 to file an eviction notice and then $50 for each
[32:07] person you want to get off of there.
[32:09] >> And who do you file that with the city?
[32:11] >> I haven't filed it yet. No.
[32:13] >> I mean, is that who you would? Jug
[32:15] County
[32:16] >> County
[32:20] » and there's two people to stay in there.
[32:22] So that's that's like $250 that I don't
[32:25] have.
[32:26] >> Well, sure. I'm with you. What can the
[32:29] city do anything?
[32:33] So
[32:34] like as far as them people being there,
[32:37] I mean she has to go through the legal
[32:38] recourse to have them removed from the
[32:42] property and and the first step in that
[32:44] is going and visiting with the local JP
[32:46] court. I'm not sure what precinct which
[32:49] one she need to go see, but you can
[32:51] start off just going to the
[32:53] >> I went here to the police station and I
[32:56] talked to them.
[32:57] >> Well, it wouldn't be with the police
[32:58] station. It' be with the county access.
[33:00] uh that you need to see the
[33:03] >> can I put this on my door?
[33:05] >> That's what I'm trying to tell you is
[33:07] you need to ask them.
[33:08] >> Okay?
[33:08] >> Because they they control that. The the
[33:10] city does not control that. Uh the local
[33:14] justice of the peace,
[33:15] >> okay?
[33:16] >> Whoever is over your precinct is who
[33:18] you'll officially need you'll see. But
[33:20] one of the precincts, their offices is
[33:22] down at the county annex. Okay.
[33:24] >> Where the sheriff's office is at that
[33:26] same building.
[33:27] >> So,
[33:28] >> okay. Just ask for the justice of the
[33:30] peace and and they'll get you in the
[33:33] right direction.
[33:33] >> Okay. Thank you.
[33:36] >> That's all I know to do though.
[33:39] >> So when the when something like this
[33:41] happens, can the city not I mean do they
[33:43] not do we not knock on the door and say,
[33:45] "Hey, you got a mess. You need to get it
[33:47] cleaned up or that's not part of the
[33:48] deal or what?"
[33:50] >> Yes, we have talked to somebody at the
[33:52] property.
[33:54] Her name was uh
[33:55] >> Brandy.
[33:56] Yes. Yes.
[33:58] >> What did she say?
[34:00] >> She said that they were working on
[34:01] cleaning it up, but um I haven't seen
[34:04] any progress.
[34:06] >> No, other than today, I haven't seen
[34:09] they hadn't done nothing.
[34:13] » So, they're staying in your house and
[34:14] it's
[34:15] >> they it's actually I have a house in my
[34:17] sister's trailer is right in the on the
[34:20] same lot. Yeah. and they they broke into
[34:22] the trailer and they threw away all my
[34:23] sister's stuff and they moved into it
[34:26] and I just can't get them out of there.
[34:29] My sister's in ICU and Amarilla right
[34:31] now and she ain't been able to do
[34:33] nothing either cuz she's been she's got
[34:35] cancer.
[34:36] >> But they didn't start renting from you
[34:40] to start with?
[34:40] >> No. No. I've told them from the day that
[34:43] they showed up to get out
[34:46] and they just stayed and stayed and they
[34:47] just stay. They say they ain't got
[34:48] nowhere to go.
[34:51] Is there a trailer hitch on the trailer?
[34:54] >> Yeah,
[34:56] it'd be hard to move it though.
[35:01] » And so what we're asking for is a order
[35:03] to abate the trash and debris there
[35:05] also. Um this particular case is uh 6
[35:09] months old already. And I went back and
[35:11] looked and it's the sixth code
[35:13] enforcement case that's been opened up
[35:15] here that's related whether it be trash
[35:17] and debris or outdoor storage or junk
[35:19] vehicles.
[35:20] >> So it is becoming a nuisance.
[35:23] >> She cannot pick up none of the trash,
[35:25] but the city can go in there and do it
[35:28] >> under y'all's order. Now we don't
[35:31] necessarily want to have to do that. I
[35:33] mean, I would rather make the property
[35:36] owner responsible, but at some point in
[35:38] time,
[35:41] >> we do need to get it picked up whether
[35:43] it's them or us.
[35:45] >> They've started cleaning on it and I,
[35:47] like I said, I I would go clean it if I
[35:49] could.
[35:50] >> But the police told you to leave it
[35:52] alone.
[35:53] >> Yep.
[35:54] >> So,
[35:56] does that come back? Does she have to
[35:57] pay anything if this if we file the
[36:00] abatement?
[36:01] >> So, yeah. So, if if if y'all give us the
[36:04] order to abate the property, then
[36:06] there's going to be a total on the
[36:09] weight that we pick up from there and
[36:12] that that would be she would get a bill
[36:15] for that and if she didn't pay it'd be
[36:17] assessed a lean on that property.
[36:21] >> Could I just land it up?
[36:26] » We go back to the justice of the peace.
[36:29] Okay. that the justice of peace is
[36:31] controlling what you can do.
[36:33] >> Okay.
[36:35] >> But if you would start that process, I
[36:37] I'd be more than glad to let you pick it
[36:39] up.
[36:40] >> Okay.
[36:42] >> I'll go talk to them today.
[36:43] >> But I can but the justice of peace is
[36:45] the one that has to tell you that you
[36:47] can't.
[36:48] >> Okay.
[36:50] >> I have a job where I work nights, so
[36:52] it's hard for me to be up during the day
[36:54] most of the time. But but I will go and
[36:56] I will talk to her.
[37:10] I mean,
[37:13] it's
[37:13] >> not right.
[37:16] >> I'll make them prove what's theirs.
[37:18] >> It's on your property. I'd have to go
[37:21] through one by one and prove that it's
[37:23] not theirs. I couldn't prove that it's
[37:24] mine either.
[37:27] Well, I mean, I think if like Larry
[37:30] said, if you want to check with your JP
[37:32] and your precinct and see what has to be
[37:35] done,
[37:36] >> Yeah.
[37:37] >> then
[37:39] if it was mine
[37:42] and it's going to cost money to do that,
[37:45] I would
[37:47] um let the city let us do an abatement
[37:52] on it and then see what that's going to
[37:53] cost.
[37:54] >> Okay. As far as the weight,
[37:55] [clears throat]
[37:56] >> yeah, I can do that.
[37:56] >> I think the weight would be cheaper.
[37:59] >> Maybe
[37:59] >> do that.
[38:04] » Any idea what the cost might be? Just a
[38:06] guess.
[38:07] >> From what the policeman told me, he said
[38:09] that it'd be $150 right off the bat.
[38:12] >> No, they're talking about the weight of
[38:13] the trash that they're going to go
[38:14] remove from there.
[38:15] >> Oh, okay. I don't
[38:16] >> Yeah. So our part would be weighed up
[38:18] the trash, but her cost of getting them
[38:21] out going through the JP court.
[38:24] She [clears throat] has to originally
[38:25] pay a certain fee, which I don't know
[38:27] the fees,
[38:29] and then they start the process, but
[38:31] then when it comes down to if they have
[38:33] still not got out of that property, then
[38:35] you had to pay more money to have the
[38:37] sheriff's department remove them.
[38:41] >> [clears throat]
[38:43] >> It's frustrating, but
[38:44] >> and you have to leave their belongings
[38:46] out on the in the rideway for a certain
[38:48] amount of time. I think it's like 48
[38:50] hours, something like that. Then once
[38:51] that period is up, then she can dispose
[38:53] of it however she wants to dispose of
[38:55] it.
[38:56] >> They say a reasonable amount of time.
[38:58] >> Yeah.
[39:00] >> Okay. So, if we order an abatement, the
[39:02] city's going to go clean all the stuff
[39:03] up and haul it off.
[39:05] >> Correct.
[39:06] >> But as far as people being gone, that's
[39:08] not
[39:08] >> they won't even make them leave. No.
[39:11] All they'll do is they'll clean it up
[39:16] » and then they'll bring all the stuff
[39:17] back
[39:18] >> and then Yeah.
[39:20] So, I just I'll go see the Justice Peace
[39:23] and I can see what she what they can do
[39:26] about it. If you could just wait till I
[39:29] can do that.
[39:32] >> Any other questions?
[39:36] » We're going to close the open meeting.
[39:39] appropriate action.
[39:42] >> Oh, if she's going to go see the
[39:43] justice, please. Would you put it off
[39:45] for a month and see what the justice
[39:47] says?
[39:49] >> Is that what we're saying?
[39:51] >> That's
[39:53] >> I'm entertaining a motion.
[39:55] >> That would be fine with me.
[39:57] >> You want to go see the justice of the
[39:58] peace and see what you can do?
[40:00] >> Yeah. I want to get them off of its
[40:02] property. I move we put it off for a
[40:04] month in and see what just
[40:06] >> We've got a
[40:09] motion to review it in a month with next
[40:12] meeting. I have a second.
[40:15] [cough]
[40:16] >> We got a first by Jimmy Head, a second
[40:19] by Mark Miller. All in favor?
[40:24] » Thank you.
[40:25] >> Please know how you come out.
[40:26] >> I will. Thank you. Ma'am, if
[40:27] >> you want to join me out here and then
[40:30] get the
[40:41] » [laughter]
[40:42] >> come visit you.
[40:45] >> Okay, we're going to open it back up and
[40:48] go to pending cases and we have 1306
[40:51] Wisconsin Street.
[40:54] Lovely.
[40:55] >> Could you state your name?
[40:56] >> Jessica Charlton.
[41:04] I'm in the same spot [laughter] progress
[41:06] going. [clears throat] I
[41:07] >> We've done some more work and then um
[41:10] it's not been a lot because the guy that
[41:12] I've got paid for do it, his mom has
[41:14] fallen sick and so he's like her primary
[41:16] caregiver. So, he ain't been able to
[41:18] come out too much and do too much more.
[41:21] And then
[41:23] yeah, I'm just like, yes, the hole is
[41:26] back in my yard, but I got my plumbing
[41:28] done this weekend and they're coming to
[41:30] fill it in tomorrow. [laughter] But
[41:32] other than that, it's one neighbor
[41:35] complaining about my yard.
[41:38] And yeah, he don't even have to come
[41:39] down to my area. He he can stay on that
[41:42] side of the alley. But he's been bugging
[41:44] me for years. And it's just, you all my
[41:48] meters are accessible. I I don't
[41:51] understand why I'm still on this list.
[41:58] » Johnny, would you like to speak on that?
[42:01] >> Yeah. So, the rest of the trash and the
[42:03] debris will have to be removed before we
[42:05] can get you completely off this list. We
[42:08] need to get you all the way into
[42:09] compliance. So, a lot of that stuff uh
[42:13] it it had been sitting there. So, I
[42:15] looked at pictures from September and
[42:17] then pictures from today and a lot of
[42:19] that stuff in the exact same spot.
[42:21] >> Yeah, like I said, his mom has went,
[42:23] she's gotten sick and he's the primary
[42:24] caregiver, so he ain't been able to
[42:26] come. It's Chad Binger.
[42:28] >> The property has come a long way
[42:30] >> and um there's not much left. I imagine
[42:32] that you could probably get a dump
[42:34] trailer and get the last bit of it in
[42:37] one last final push, you know.
[42:41] But our recommendation today, we're
[42:43] going to defer to the board.
[42:48] » I'm sorry, I didn't hear your
[42:50] recommendation.
[42:51] >> We're going to defer that decision to
[42:53] the board as to whether give that
[42:55] cleanup order or table it for uh the
[42:58] next meeting.
[43:00] >> You'd like a have a defined date,
[43:02] though, correct?
[43:04] >> Yes, sir. Yeah, this case is now a year
[43:07] and six months old. So, I I would
[43:08] definitely like to see it come to a
[43:10] conclusion.
[43:13] >> I mean, you know, honestly, we'd love
[43:15] nothing better than to take you off the
[43:17] list if the place was cleaned up.
[43:19] >> I mean, I've only been back in the house
[43:21] for like seven months. I wasn't even
[43:24] living there before.
[43:26] >> But by those seven months, I've done a
[43:29] lot of work.
[43:30] >> I think it came to us originally to be
[43:32] tore down.
[43:34] >> That was years ago.
[43:35] >> Yep.
[43:35] >> And I got it all cleaned up back then.
[43:37] And then my dad ended up getting a
[43:39] divorce and moving back over there and
[43:41] brought all his stuff from his out of
[43:42] county house back over to that property.
[43:45] And now he lives in love and I'm having
[43:48] to deal with it all again. And
[43:51] >> how long do you need for month?
[43:54] >> Can I have a month?
[43:58] They they said they'll come help do it.
[44:00] But
[44:02] >> any other questions?
[44:05] We're going to close open form and go to
[44:08] take appropriate actions.
[44:10] >> Make a motion we review it at the next
[44:12] meeting.
[44:13] >> We got a motion by
[44:15] Spanky to review it at the next meeting.
[44:17] Do we have a second?
[44:19] >> Sure.
[44:20] >> We got a second from Jimmy Head. All in
[44:23] favor?
[44:23] >> I
[44:27] >> Thanks, guys.
[44:28] >> Motion's approved.
[44:30] >> Please.
[44:31] get it done.
[44:33] >> No. What' you I said, "Please get it
[44:34] done."
[44:35] >> I will. I will.
[44:35] >> Thank you.
[44:40] >> Okay. Now, we're going to hear 134
[44:43] Airline.
[44:44] >> Arline. Yeah.
[44:44] >> Harland.
[44:48] » What's your name?
[44:48] >> My name's Buddy Woodward.
[44:50] >> Hey, buddy.
[44:51] >> Thanks for coming.
[44:52] >> It's coming along. I think it's pretty
[44:55] good. I think you can just have a couple
[44:56] more vehicles out here. I got to move.
[44:58] >> Yeah. So, there is the vehicles left. Uh
[45:01] I went by there today and most
[45:04] everything outside the fence is taken
[45:06] care of and the fence was put back
[45:09] together correctly. It looks like um
[45:11] there is still a bunch of stuff behind
[45:13] the fence but
[45:14] >> I'm going through it slowly separating
[45:16] it.
[45:17] >> So the vehicles um we can handle those
[45:20] through code enforcement and uh as far
[45:23] as as far as the property, we're going
[45:26] to also defer that decision to the
[45:29] board. So everything outside of the the
[45:32] fence viewable from the street is taken
[45:34] care of.
[45:36] >> Status on the the [clears throat]
[45:38] trailer that the city was going to was
[45:41] the city going to get rid of that?
[45:43] >> Yeah, it's still on our list. It's
[45:46] moving up the list as we're knocking out
[45:48] demolitions, but
[45:50] >> uh it's
[45:50] >> it's still there.
[45:52] >> Yeah, she she you live in it, right? The
[45:55] trailer. That's
[45:57] >> No. So there's there's a
[45:59] >> her property.
[45:59] >> Yeah.
[46:00] >> Right. That's what Yeah, she does.
[46:01] >> The one that we're going to demolish.
[46:03] It's actually right next door,
[46:05] >> I think. 136 R line.
[46:11] » Do they live in this trailer?
[46:15] >> Yeah, the the there's one on the north
[46:17] side that's outside
[46:22] around
[46:45] And the reason I bring up the fence is
[46:48] uh so there's a expectation of privacy
[46:50] right there. So I can't go looking over
[46:52] it. But I have passed by with the fence
[46:54] open and I can tell that there's still a
[46:56] lot of stuff back there that does need
[46:58] to be cleaned up. But once that fence is
[47:01] closed, then I don't, you know, I'm not
[47:04] going to go looking over it.
[47:10] » And what do you have a plan on the
[47:13] vehicles?
[47:14] >> Um, well, yeah. Yeah, we'll get rid of
[47:17] them. We're going to get rid of them. I
[47:19] got I had somebody that's interested in
[47:20] buying one that's under the tarp in the
[47:22] front.
[47:22] >> Yeah.
[47:23] >> And uh he just started his job, so I was
[47:24] going to let him get a couple checks up
[47:26] before he paid for it. But I probably
[47:27] arrange it to where I go ahead and get
[47:29] it to his property. Get that one out of
[47:31] the way. And the blazer over front. I
[47:35] guess we'll just move into the yard.
[47:41] » Johnny, you feel like they're far enough
[47:43] we can remove them at this point and
[47:44] just take care of it with code
[47:46] enforcement. Is that correct?
[47:48] I believe I can work those junk vehicles
[47:51] through code enforcement and uh say as
[47:53] far as the trash and the debris,
[47:56] everything I can see from public right
[47:58] away is taken care of pretty much.
[48:01] There's a couple little small things,
[48:02] but
[48:06] not enough to keep it on the agenda, I
[48:09] believe.
[48:14] » Any other questions?
[48:19] We'll close it the open form and take
[48:22] appropriate action.
[48:25] » Make a motion that we remove it.
[48:33] » What's motion, Mark?
[48:34] >> Okay. I thought it was a question.
[48:36] >> Okay. [laughter]
[48:37] >> It was a semi in there.
[48:39] >> Okay. We got a first by Mark. remove it
[48:42] from the
[48:44] then a second by Jimmy Head. All in
[48:46] favor?
[48:50] » I motion carries.
[48:55] » Thanks y'all.
[48:56] >> Thank you.
[48:57] guys.
[49:08] » Yeah, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to
[49:09] add anything or not.
[49:12] Okay, I'll entertain a motion on a
[49:14] journey.
[49:16] >> Motion to adjourn. Second, I
[49:18] >> think he's made a motion to journ.
[49:21] All in favor? I I
[49:26] meeting is closed.