Village Community Development District No. 10

The Community Development District 10 supervisors Monthly meeting is called the order August 14th, 2025 at 3:00 PM Good afternoon, everyone. Appreciate you coming. We will start off with the roll call. All supervisors are in attendance. First item will be our pledge of allegiance, which we will follow. Please remain standing and we'll follow it up with a moment of silence or our military first responders. I pledge allegiance To the United States of America and the Republic, which stands by nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. Thank you. Please Be seated again. Welcome everyone. Nice to see full crowd. Um, the next item on our agenda will be I will be asking for audience comments given the amount of people we have today. One of the first things I need to do is a little bit of housekeeping. I would like to go over some of the rules and guidelines that this board follows. This is from our procedure manual. The district encourages citizen participation in the demographic process and recognizes and protects the right of freedom and speech afforded to all as the board conducts the business of the district. Rules of civility shall apply. District board, supervisors, staff members, and members of the public are to communicate respectfully. It is preferred that person speak only when recognized by the board chair, and at that time refrain from engaging in personal attacks or derogatory or offensive language. Anyone deemed to be dis disruptive and negatively impact the efficient operation of the meeting shall be subject to removal. After two warnings, the board shall conduct public comment in accordance with the Florida statutes. The district chair, or such other person conducting the meeting shall ensure that there is at least one period of time, which is audience comments on the agenda whereby the public has the opportunity to address the board. Members of the audience making public comment shall speak into the microphone. We do request that you give your full name and address and address all comments to the board. Public input. Given the number of people today, there's two different ways that we can do this. Uh, first of all, I'm going to ask for a show of hands of how many people would like to come up and make comments during this meeting. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Okay, there's two ways we can do this. Let me ask another question. Since I'm assuming that most of these comments are gonna have to do with the anonymous complaint system, uh, people are gonna want to speak in favor and against how many people out of the seven or eight want to speak in favor? In favor Of what? In favor of the anonymous complaint system. One. In favor of keeping it. In favor. Of keeping it, yes. Thank you. No, I, okay. All right. Everyone else, I assume wants to modify the rules. Mr. Chair, Could we also just, um, also, um, make sure that everyone's aware that if it is an item that is already on our agenda, that comments need to wait until that portion of the agenda? Yes. This is some things that are Not on these agenda. Thank you. Uh, I'm assuming that these eight people are strictly on the anonymous complaint system. Is other than that, is there any other item that someone would like to speak on today? Okay, so there's one in relation to the anonymous complaint system. There's two ways we can go on that anyone that wishes to speak will be given three minutes to be able to make their comments. We do not need to hear the same thing seven or eight times. So if you have nothing to add that is different than the people that have already spoken, then please allow that time for someone else to get up and speak their peace. Uh, if you're just gonna repeat the same process over and over again, then we're gonna have to cut you off and move on. At your choice, you can determine one person to speak on behalf of your group. That person will be given additional time up to at least 10 minutes, and they can speak to the group. So we can do it individually or we can have a, that will be your choice. Yes, ma'am. May I ask a question? It has nothing to do with, with my question is, Mr. Chairman, We need to get her, She Does need to come up to the podium. Yeah. What we're going to do, and since you raised your hand, because you have something different than you wish to talk about, I'm gonna let you come first and take care of your business, and then we'll deal with the other issues. So if that, at that time you can ask your questions or whatever, okay? Okay. Yes ma'am. Okay, Mr. Chairman, so You wanna mention, Okay, so I'm assuming that we're gonna go on an individual basis and we're gonna have seven to eight people that are going to wish to make comments. Uh, before we proceed with that, please, everyone make sure your telephones, iPhone, watches, whatever, anything that is going to make noise and disrupt the recording of this meeting, please either mute 'em or turn 'em completely off. Okay. That said, um, I'm gonna let y'all decide who would like to go first or whatever, but after, we're gonna start with the, maybe in the pink pack, if you would like to come up, please state your name and address and give us your comments. My name is Linda Peters. I live at 8 3 6 Regal Manor Lane in the village of Osceola Hills at Soaring Eagle. And I have a question really about process here at these meetings. Um, are we, as an audience permitted to come to the microphone and ask general questions of the board, or are they limited to items that are on the agenda? Okay. The way this is done with the audience comments portion of it, you can come up and speak about anything other than what is on the agenda. Okay? If you wish to speak about an item that is on the agenda, you will wait until we bring that item up, and then you will have an opportunity at that time to make a comment. Thank You. During the meeting. Clear? Okay? Mm-hmm. That's it. Uh, no. I do have some questions. I don't know if this is the time to, to bring those up Or, we'll, we'll see what we can do. Okay. And I would like to say that I do not just refer, these questions do not just represent my questions. These, some of these are questions that residents in our neighborhood who were not able to attend today asked if I would bring to the floor. So I just wanted to put that out there. Um, am I limited to a certain amount of questions? You're limited to three minutes. Okay. Good. Uh, first question, the board, do you represent the developer or the resident? We represent the residents. Thank you. Is the budget process independent of the developer? Yes. And how can we learn about that budget process? I could let our budget director speak on that, but basically all of the information is online. You can look at every single line on the budget. You can also attend these meetings during the budget process when we go through it as we approve it. Uh, there actually, the, the current budget, I believe next month we are going to be meeting and voting on approving that budget. So you can attend any of these meetings at any time. We talk about the budget every, every month. Thank you. Mr. Chairman. Can I ask, how many have attended the Resident academy? How many people in the audience have attended the resident academy? About five six. Okay. And for the record, the budget hearing will take place on September 4th at 3:00 PM in the same location. Thank you. Next question. Are you as the board in compliance with the bond covenant? Certainly. Hope so. Our attorney would tell us otherwise. Yes. And, and please don't, uh, misunderstand me. I don't mean to be insulting. Uh, I don't mean to to sound like I don't know what I'm talking about. Ignorance. Uh, I am just conveying from some of our other residents questions that they have asked me to bring forward. No problem. We're willing to answer any questions you have. Thank you. What facilities and businesses have been sold by the developer in the last year? And is there a list of others coming up for sale or planning to be sold That is not part of this board's preview? We cannot respond to that. Thank you. How do you respond to, this may be another one, but I'll ask it anyway. How do you respond to the statement that the developer changed direction and is mainly interested in selling new homes versus pre-owned homes? Uh, that statement was provided to one of our residents by village's sales agent. Again, not the responsibility of this board. Thank you. Um, future expenses that we should be prepared to see that we are not aware of, at the same, at the present time. Those would be included in the budget if they are known or anticipated. Thank You. Uh, what is the communication among the CDD regarding expense amounts, levels and common service providers? For example, landscaping of common areas who negotiates with and selects the contractors. And what is the process for selecting a new or existing contractor for renewal? Would you like to handle that one? Yes. So there is a professional, uh, purchasing department, um, and through that department, um, based on the board's capital needs or ongoing maintenance, they do the solicitation, they handle the selection committee, um, rankings. They present those findings to the board and make a recommendation for award of contract. And each individual board holds contracts for their specific districts. The one exception is anything in the project wide fund would go to the Sumter Landing Community Development District. Okay. We're kind of running over your three minutes. How many more do you have? Or, I'm gonna have to cut you Off. I've got, I I will cut it to one more. Okay. Uh, and that would be, again, this is from one of our residents could not make the meeting. Is there someplace that we can go to find out, uh, about the concerns with the new Walmart opening and traffic issues, uh, that are resulting well already have resulted probably will more so, uh, impact us the widening of Morris, we were hoping, hoping would take place, uh, near the 44 intersection. It has not, we don't know what the plans are. How would we pursue That? I would say that would fall under Sumter County's preview and you should go to the Sumter County, uh, commissioner's meetings. Okay. And ask those kind of questions. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else with anything other than our need restrictions? Anonymous complaint. Okay. Whoever would like to go first will start. Timer will start at three minutes. Okay. Uh, my name is Lorraine McDonald. I live at 37 71 Fester Lane in Antrim Des. And I'm here with a large group of homeowners that have recently been reported for what we consider to be nonsense complaints. Um, and so what we're asking is that the rule be changed to be consistent with that rule. That's in effect right now for districts 2, 3, 5, 6, and 12. It reads, district 10 does not allow for anonymous complaints. Only residents of their district are allowed to submit a concern on properties within their respective district. The complainant is required to provide their name, unit lot and phone number to the community standards for verification. We would like this information to be public knowledge and available to anyone upon request. We, a lot of us have lived in the neighborhood for many, many years and we do violate the rules. I'll admit that right now. We put law and ornaments out that we think are tasteful and appropriate and add to the attractiveness of the community. We have never had a problem with that until the last 18 months or so. It seems like we either have someone who's moved into the neighborhood or someone that's riding around in a golf cart trolling for violations. And we would like to put a stop to what we consider to be nonsense complaints. We, we agree that if a violation is a, a safety issue or if it's an extreme violation against the rules, then we agree that it should be reported. But if you're gonna report something like that, you should be, you should be able to give your name and your address and stand up for what you believe is right. And that's, that's what we have to say. Thank You. Okay. Thank you very much. Do you need a copy of how this Reads? No. If you would like to leave it with us. Thank you. I was gonna say one more thing please. I just wanted to say that in our neighborhood, um, we did do an email blast to the people in our neighborhood. Out of 106 people that responded 99 were in favor of the rule. I also have a petition, three or four pages that are signed by Collier residents, Dunedin, um, lake Deaton, Osceola Hills, Hillsborough, and a great many of them are on board also. So I just wanted to throw that out. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next person. Who would like to go next? Good afternoon. Board members. Uh, my name's Joseph Palermo. I live at 3 7 9 5 Orango Way. And I am in favor of keeping the anonymous complaint. I don't see what, knowing the name of the person who made the complaint, what it's going to do, I don't see what problem it solves. I don't know what you're going to do with that information once you're going get it. So I'll keep it short because we're on a time limit. That's all. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. My name is Richard Dery, uh, shale Trail Loop 1524 in the Village of Hillsborough. Um, I am speaking in favor of keeping the anonymous complaint system as it is. I think it's unfortunate that we started calling it an anonymous complaint. When I read what's in the district, um, information, it's really an anonymous deed violation. And the process, as I read it and understand it, is someone in, uh, reports a deed compliance issue. It is then investigated by the community development district. And if it's found to be frivolous against the written rules, that's the end of it. If it's found to be in violation, then it starts the process where the homeowner gets notified and you begin that process to give people the opportunity to resolve the issue. It's irrelevant whether the person is known or not known. The only reason, I'm trying to figure out what's the problem that we're trying to solve, it appears to me that the only reason to put, to get rid of the anonymous complaint is to end valid complaints from people that aren't comfortable with confrontation. Because once you put their name and number out there, and we've seen it time and again, there are people that get pretty nasty, even if it's a legitimate. So I would really like to see us just keep the complaint system as is. And, and again, we all sign these, uh, that we were gonna be in compliance with the deed restrictions and we should follow. Not everybody's taste is the same, but just follow the, follow the rules. So I'm asking, thank you very much. Thank you. My name is William Steele. I live at 2 0 0 7 Leonard and Patton Villages Village of Hillsborough. Um, I am in favor of displaying or notifying people who was making a complaint years ago. Uh, we received a complaint from someone through the villages, and we were somewhat investigated, if you wanna call it that. We were running a business out of our home for a massage power. My wife has serious back conditions. She had a doctor coming and a massage therapist coming usually on a weekly basis. The person that did the complaint said that we were running a, a legitimate business out of our house. We got the doctor to send a note to the villages or whoever the person was that was taking care of this, uh, years ago. But they would not take the complaint off of our record. They would not tell us who made the complaint or, you know, anything. I think that's wrong. If you're going to find a complaint is not valid, it should be taken off or it should be rep, uh, reprimanded to the person that made the complaint in the first place. This was a serious mental anguish that we were caused. What do you mean that the, it was not resolved. That the complaint was not taken off. We had a doctor who was doing the massage and their therapist send a note to Whoever we got the complaint, uh, listing from that we were running a business. They said that, 'cause we asked them to take it off of our record, that there was a complaint against us. They says that we cannot do it. Once there is a complaint registered, it stays on your record for forever, whether it was founded or unfounded. Okay. Mr. Steele, if I could clarify something before this board, the item that you're particularly talking about, this board has nothing to do with what you're talking about, is an internal deed restriction. This board only deals with external deed restrictions. That complaint and the information you got back was coming directly from the developer or his declarant. So we have absolutely no control over that. And anonymous complaint, a non-anonymous is not going to make one bit of difference on that. Okay. This board does not handle Intel interior complaints. All right. Okay. Uh, also one other thing. Um, my son is retired military with medical restrictions. And during the heat of this past summer that they were contacted, that they were having complaints from their neighbors because the grass and weeding was not done on a regular basis. Um, he just couldn't do it. I did it sometime for him, but he was finally able to get, uh, a someone to cut the grass and, and do the weeding. But there's now a complaint against, uh, his file and no one has come forward saying that they did it or did not do it in the neighborhood. Okay. We would like to know, at least we could give them an excuse for what has happened or ask them if they could give some help. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I am in favor of just, uh, letting people know who made the complaint on their property. Because years ago we had many people in our neighborhood being reported from somebody that was going around in a golf car. One people followed them. They didn't live within two miles of our area. It had nothing better to do. Okay. Your time's up. I'm sorry. A quick question, um, before we go on, mark. Um, in regards to coming off the record or whatever, the Sunshine Law doesn't, that everything has to be kept and open for anybody. If those complaints are there, they don't, you can't just erase 'em off the file because of the Sunshine Law. Is that correct? Uh, the public records law in Florida requires that you maintain written records and documentation. So yes, if a call was made and uh, reported and it was written down, then that's a public record. So that's not our responsibility or anything we can do about that. I wanted wanted to make sure that you understood that, that if someone makes a complaint, it's a public record. And that public record, no matter who made it, if you know who made it, if you didn't know who made it, that record is gonna be there based upon the Sunshine Law. And we have no control over that. That's a state law. Thank you. Alright, next. Whoever's holding their, Hannah, I can't see you. I'm Diana Ferris at 37 39 Park Drive in Antrim Dells. And I had no plans to speak, so bear with me. 'cause I might just kind of ramble. But I'm going to, uh, check this. I sent a message today to our Facebook page, so I'm gonna look at that for just a few of my thoughts. Um, I have mixed emotions about making the complaints anonymous. My husband and I were reported, we had a complaint, actually two filed. And when we went to the, whatever, you go to the, a agricultural board with whatever it is, um, they said that, uh, it was not a valid complaint, but we went through a lot of stress because, um, it was regarding something that the previous homeowner had done, which I understand happens a lot, which is a shame. Um, but we were told that I forget why that it, it was just not to worry about it. So, um, I think to somebody down there who said that they feel that we don't need to know the name. I, I think the main reason that those of us who agree that it should be anonymous, want to do it, to try to curtail the amount of, uh, complaints that somebody obviously feels they can submit because we have had so many in the neighborhood and they can be very ridiculous and excessive and not legitimate. And I don't understand why these complaints aren't reviewed prior to being given to a resident because that could cut down on so much of the animosity and whatever frustration is caused by receiving. 'cause we could have actually had to pay thousands of dollars for the landscaping issue. That wasn't an issue. So my point is, is there any way this law could be changed or whatever it's called, not to be a blanket, you know, getting a rid of the anonymity, anonymity, however you say that, but could it be changed so that it one may be limits the amount of complaints that somebody can file and maybe that might prevent whatever seems to be happening in our neighborhood by some troll from happening. Um, it can something be done to change the rules so that, like I said, can, can somebody review it before it goes forward and causes so much stress Because something like a white cross or a ceramic bunny like, like Lorraine says, it's tasteful. You know, something gaudy. Maybe that's different, but maybe some word or something of some kind could address those things so that everything doesn't go out and cause stress to people. 'cause it's very Stressful. If I could respond to you for just a second. Yes. Um, I'm not sure whether you realize the way this process works. Probably not. But If a complaint comes into community standards, they send someone out to your residence Yes. To look at it and determine whether it is a valid complaint or not. May I respond? Sure. Because we did get a really long letter, two page letter that didn't explain anything. So when I called community standards and spoke to the lady, she said, I don't know what it is about either, but you need to submit whatever, take all the measurements and do this and do that and explain everything and we'll review it. I called and asked twice from two different people, they didn't know what it was about. And they said that kind of happens often, Jack. I would disagree with that. Can I chime in a little bit here? Um, Mr. Wiser used to be on the Architectural Review board as I also was, so we are very familiar with that process. What, what they're talking about. It sounds like the previous homeowner did landscaping changes or whatever and never got approval. Exactly. 'cause what happens if somebody files complaint, and Shannon can confirm this, first of all, community standards does research. They check to see what, if any, approvals for exterior changes have been requested for that home. Mm-hmm. And what has been approved. And trust me, I've seen it countless times what gets approved versus what gets done in the field can be two different things. Sure. That's why they send somebody out to check if nothing is in violation, it dies right there. But it didn't, It sounds like the violation itself was the fact that there were changes made without, without, without approval. That's why they, because I used to see these all the time, people coming in and getting approval, what had been pre done by a previous homeowner. Right. That's all it was. It was not. It's just, it's a formality. But at least now you have, and I'm sure our architectural review Approval, yes, it was approved. Everything is now on the record as approved. Why can't they just look and see that it was regarding the previous, Uh, uh, there's no, it's still a violation. It, there is no grandfathering in the villages. Okay. Other than the developer. Alright. That's part of my opening statement. Okay. Well that explain, that explains that. Thank you. Okay. But I still think that the anonymous reporting needs to be addressed and maybe not be a blanket, you know, done away with, but maybe really seriously needs to be addressed because there are so many people, especially in my neighborhood, because there has been so many ridiculous Well, what we feel is ridiculous Going, I'm gonna have to cut this one off. We're over the three minutes. All right. We kind cut in time a little bit. I apologize Mr. Chairman. May I also add that we have no control over the, um, village and sales office who may accept the property for, um, you know, negotiating a sale. Uh, and it was, the ARC approval was never received. The, uh, property's in violation. The new owners buy it. Um, why didn't they know? We have no control over what the sales division does about notifying people. If there is a current, um, violation already recorded, then there would be a problem with the sales department. You know, not acknowledging that. But if it's not acknowledged, we don't have control over that. Not. Alright, let's move to the next person, please. Yes, sir. Uh, my name's Pat Gokey. I live at, uh, 2 5 9 2 alade in Perry vs. And I see pros and cons of anonymous and not anonymous, but I'd like to suggest to you a compromise. And that is that, um, whoever it is that takes the complaint, the form has a box that says do they live in the village? In that village or in the case I'm in Perry Villas and I can make the argument that, okay, do they live in Perry Villas? Well, but I also have to drive through other parts of Collier to get there. So maybe I'm interested, I know there's a number of pe there's a bunch of violations in Perryville. I think most people would not have any idea if they exist. Okay. Um, so, you know, if it, if you just have somebody check our IDs all have a, a unit number and that tells you what, you know, where we live without putting into the, into the complaint our name, address and everything, that then becomes public knowledge on the Florida Sunshine Wall. But if they just check or they say, write down what unit the person lives in, then it would be known that they lived in the area. They had a reason to complain. Um, and that it's not some troll from 10 miles away. So that would be my suggestion to you, is just have the, the form, have a box checking that they live in the unit that they're complaining about. Okay. That you Next. Uh, my name is Jeff Ratner. I live at 1130 Ivo Wood in the village of Dunedin. Um, one of the, this is a twoedged sword. I mean, on one hand you have some of the vigilantism that's going on in the villages with people who apparently have nothing better to do than drive around, uh, and do what they need to do. I got a friend who got, uh, on a fence compliance thing that was in compliance. This guy was driving around in a car two blocks away and wrote it, went over and wrote it down. It got on our street. Somebody got, uh, had a violation. She was so vindictive, she got a clipboard and went up and down the street taking about 20 names and turned those in. She later thought had second thoughts or her husband, or encouraged her to have second thoughts is the story. And, uh, she tried to rescind those 20 complaints and was told no she could not. Um, I think the deterrent here is if you have to give your name, you have to give your address. First of all, you should have to live in that area. Not running around in a car, not going around with a clipboard and just taking names. 'cause you have nothing better to do in a place where there's so much to do. Um, the deterrent here is when you have to give a name and an address, it's a deterrent to you. If it means so much to you, you should have no problem doing that. Where do you stand if you, if you have to remain anonymous in the background and you don't have the guts to give a name and an address and stand behind it, when there is a clear infraction, Then what are, what are you really doing here? Uh, it is just, it's just craziness. You should have to at least live, in my case, in Dunedin, I think that has to be a given. But the deterrent here is to the person who will not give a name. You can't just walk away, take names on a clipboard and do whatever you wanna do because you're not happy that day. It, it just makes no sense to me. It is. But I do agree. It's a two-edged sword. You give that name, you're worried about vindictiveness and you're labeled a troll. Uh, who knows what people are gonna do. But this country was not based on vigilantism and neither was the villages. So I think it's time that, uh, we turn around and we say, you should give a name and an address. Have the guts to stand behind your own convictions instead of standing behind anonymity. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Gentleman? Okay. Any, anyone else? All right, we'll move on. Are there any other residents here that wish to bring up any other comments on any other topics? All right. In that case, thank you all for coming. We are going to move on with our agenda, and the next item on the agenda will be our consent agenda. I have a question. When will you have to come to the podium please? When will we get a decision on this? The board will discuss it. And if we decide that we want to discuss any changes, it will be put on the agenda for a future meeting. We make no decisions today based on anyone's comments. So will someone be notified that this will be on the agenda for another Meeting? The notices of all meetings are posted prior to every single meeting with an agenda. So if it is on there, you will, it will be public notice, it will be there. Is there any kind of timeframe for when a decision will be Made there is not. Excellent. Before we move on, let me, I'm gonna make a couple of comments myself. Um, in regards to the, you must be in live in the district where a complaint is made. I had something happen to me this past Monday. As a matter of fact, I was out playing golf. I was up north and waiting on the grip in front of me getting ready to hit my tee shot. And I look over and there is a home over there that is in the most god awful condition of anything I've ever seen. It has v hanging all over it off of the gutters, uh, mold and mildew all over the back of the house. Weeds three and four feet high. And it was embarrassing to me and disgusting. I'm a village resident. I should be able to file a complaint on that particular property, but I don't live there. I live in District 10, but why shouldn't I be able to do it? Another Situation, if you live in District 10 and you have to border District nine and there's a house right down the street from you that you have to drive by every single time you come and go from your home, and they have decided to paint it pink or purple or whatever, they're in district nine. I'm in District 10. Why can't I report that? I don't think it has to do with districts. We are villagers. We try to do everything together. We try to keep everything as uniform as we possibly can. We know the rules aren't the same for every district. They vary. I won't say greatly, but they have, I'll say we've, we've kind of learned our lessons over the years and things that caused problems later became part of the restrictions or guidelines or whatever. And we've tried to live and learn and avoid problems by changing those. So they're, they're not the same. So there's a lot of people that may go out and file a complaint. And as we've said, once community standards goes out and inspects the property, in most cases, if it is not a valid, uh, violation, you'll never hear from it. It's a dead issue. It's gone. There's no black mark on your record or anything else. At that point it was found to be not valid. End of discussion, Mr. McDonald. You made a statement that you know the main thing and you admitted, yeah, you've broken some rules and you've done this, that and the other. Anonymous or non-anonymous is not gonna change the fact that you're breaking the rules. It's just the fact that whether somebody wants to file a complaint and you know, whether you've got a name or not does not lower the number of violations. It just lets you get away with it. So I'm just gonna ask you to please follow the rules and we won't have these problems. Okay? Are you still gonna consider our, we will discuss it. Matter of fact, we discussed it last month. I will bring it up with the board later and podium. If five other districts are doing this and they seem to think that it's working for them and they're discouraging complaints, which they do, um, then that should tell you something. Well, I mean, as, I mean, I I understand your feelings that you think it shouldn't be, uh, or it should be anonymous or shouldn't be anonymous or whatever, and that you think other districts should be able to report. But the group of us live in Antrim Dales, we don't border anybody. There's no reason why anybody else should be reporting any violations in Antrim Dales because there nobody rides through there. Nobody borders. We don't border any other district or anything like that. So for us to say we want whoever lives in our neighborhood only to be able to report is a valid concern. Uh, and that's not the way that we set up this board. We don't make exceptions for entry death. Well, and We're not asking You to or any other neighborhood, we're Asking you to pass the rule that all the other districts have. That's All we're asking a point of reference. Those districts, several of them are looking to go back to anonymous complaints because of issues that it has caused in that district from doing away with them. So time will tell how many of those districts remain with turning in a name or go back to anonymous complaints. So I, I wouldn't be quoting all those districts as a for sure thing because that is not a for sure thing. Well, my understanding is there's other districts that are getting on board too, so You're gonna have other districts added. That's their opinion. If other districts Come off, that is their prerogative. But, you know, but this is what we want. So, well, what we will do is as the board, we always have supervisor comments. If any of us want to bring something up and have it put on an agenda for a future meeting to discuss, it will certainly be there. And you can certainly come back and express your opinions and so forth at that time. Thank you. We appreciate your consideration And thank you all for coming. Mr. Chairman, I got a quick question for the attorney. How common you have to come up here and speak, mark. Would something like there with these little lawn ornaments or something in, um, a courtyard villa complex, would that be a petition possibility to it just because it's a district wide? Well, the deed restrictions prohibit law ornaments, so you can't make an exception. So it's not to make it do a petition on that. Okay. First of all, name and address please, ma'am. Okay. My name is Elizabeth Rizzo. I, I live at 3 8 7 1 East Torch Lake Drive in Antrim Dells. I had two complaints against me and one was with a little white cross. What I found out is when you do this without knowing who's making these complaints, you're pitting neighbor against neighbor, village against village. And what do I mean by that? After these two complaints were made about me, one was because I had a political picture on the, on my, on my front window. What I did was I went to other villages and the very same thing that happened to me, they, they were, they were not, nothing was done to them. So I felt that I was targeted. And that's my objection. Objection. If you're not gonna do this consistently, it is not fair. Why should you have a number of people with the very same thing that, that happened to me and nothing's happened to them. The way the system is set up is it is complaint driven. If there is a complaint filed, community standards will respond to it and it will be resolved one way or the other. Either it is a violation or it's not a violation. I won't get into the issue of whether little white cross, a little white cross is a yard ornament. It is prohibited. Any kind of signs on your property are prohibited other than one for sale sign in the window and the size is limited. So both of those are valid complaints. I'm sorry, that My point is these complaints are I, I felt targeted. When you have neighbors having the very same things on their lawn and nothing's happening and it's not their fault. I was targeted and that's what happened here. You're allowing people to, it might not be for, to, to, uh, you know, complain about something horrible like a pink house or flamingos it, it could be just that their people are using it to target other people. So if you're not gonna do it consistently across the board, then you know it's not fair. Here's the question I like to ask people when they come up with this kind of situation, and, and I'm sorry you feel targeted, but, and it's not a perfect system, but I always ask you, you want to know the person's name. There's only two reasons why you want that person's name. You either want to confront them about it and I don't know where that's gonna lead and I don't want to know or you wanna apologize to 'em, which is it? Well, I, I think if you are not a coward, you would come up to me and say, Hey look, you know, that's, I just want you to be aware that that is not, you're not in compliance, but these are cowards. These Are people that are, I I don't wanna be doing any name calling at all. Well, I don't Know any names 'cause it's anonymous, so That's right. Okay, we're out of time. I'm sorry. There's one lady in the back. This is gonna be the last one. I don't need to give my info again, do I? Yes ma'am. Okay. Diana Ferris 3 7 3 9 Park Drive. Antrim de And I just wanted to add, there's three reasons in my opinion because when we had a complaint filed against us, my thoughts automatically started thinking, Hmm, I wonder if my friend, my neighbor, I know there filed it, who filed this. It, it doesn't pit neighbors against each other, but it causes distrust. It causes suspicion and it's ill, ill will, ill feeling. So to me that's not a good thing. That's All. No, it's not. And that therefore I recommend to everybody read your rules and regulations and follow 'em. That solves the whole problem. You don't break the rules, you don't get a violation. Anonymous, non-anonymous. It doesn't matter. Please follow up the rules. I said I was gonna cut it off. Good. Follow up. Something attorney says last time, come to the podium please, pat. Okey 2 5 9 2 Alade. Uh, this is a little bit of a, a change to the thing and that's why I asked. When I moved in, I signed the deed restrictions. Now Mr. Boone, I'm sorry, attorney Brian said, well the deed restrictions have law ornaments and we can't change that. Okay. Um, but we do change the deed restrictions. You're looking at changing it right now. Um, I wanted to put a covered pergola on my property like my neighbor has. And I was told, well it's not allowed anymore. It's like, well wait a minute. It's not against my deed restrictions. So I'm kind of curious about this changing deed restrictions. Okay. I can answer that question very simply. Number one, this board does not make the rules. We are given the authority to enforce the rules. Okay? We don't make them the declarant, the developer, whatever you want to call him, can change the rules anytime he wants to. And they are constantly evolving and changing and being tweaked and so forth. Well, but that, but that's from district to district, not within District 10. Can they? That is no, they, he can, the rules can be changed. We can't change 'em. Okay. Interesting. Okay. We enforce a be on. So just for clarity and make sure we're using the correct words here, the deed restrictions cannot be changed by this board or by anybody here other than the developer. Developer can change the deed restrictions. This board then adopts its own rule to enforce those deed restrictions. So just so we don't get any confused with the words here, because there was talk about rules and deed restrictions and those deed restrictions can change by section because like we could have 51 different sets of deed restrictions in District 10. Yeah. Because they can change per section depending on what the developer wants to do and include, for example, your restrictions. How beg pardon your restrictions in Perry Villas will be different than what Mono Right. Because or what Anybody else. Designer versus coyerville. Correct. Okay. I live in Hillsborough in our deeds it requires a two car garage. Certain amount of square footage. You go down to chitty chatty, they have carports. Right. So they've changed those restrictions for that particular area to allow that. But that the developer does that. We have no control over that whatsoever. Okay. I was just kind of curious how it got changed that a um, a RC approved a covered Pergo law and then they decided we're not doing it anymore. That's a A RC not de restrict. Okay. And I, although I did the resident academy three years ago, A RC is a district entity, aren't they? They cover all districts. Right. Okay. And as long as to answer part of your question on that, 'cause I was on the board at the time that that changed, a lot of that had to do with Sumter County and the way that they wanted to change it as to whether that was a room addition or Okay. How it was treated. Um, are we, are you talking about metal roofs today? Yes. Yes. That was on the agenda. Are you gonna have a comment period for that later? Okay. When it comes up. Alright, thank you. Okay. Alright, Mr. May I made one comment. Um, the reason that the anonymous complaint system or complaint system period arose is because when we each signed the deed restrictions, we can civilly sue each other. So if you come to my house and you don't like something that's compliant, you know, if you think it's out of compliance with the deed restrictions, you can't civilly sue me because you signed the thing, the original, I signed the original so you can file a civil suit against me. The villages doesn't want neighbors suing neighbors. And so that's why the, um, complaint system arose so that we can have someone go out, check the violation, is it, Is It a violation or not? And then, you know, proceed from there. Okay. End of discussion on that. We're gonna move on now down our agenda. Back to the consent agenda. First item will be the approval of minutes from the previous meeting. Anyone have any comments, changes, modifications? If not, I will accept a motion. Motion to approve the minutes from the previous meeting. Second, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion approved. Next item will be approval of fiscal year 20 25, 26 meeting scheduled. Anybody have any questions, comments, need any reminders and modification? A Reminder, good afternoon board members. So you will note that this is adjusting your meeting schedule. It will beginning October, be the Wednesday before the second Friday at 10:00 AM Um, the clerk's office will be sending the reminders, but um, please make sure you take the new dates and, and set them in your calendar. They're already there and my wife approved it. Okay. We will need to a motion to adjust That. Yes, I need a motion. I move. We approve the fiscal year. 20 25, 20 26. Meeting schedule. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion to passed past. Moving on to new business deed restriction need and clean rule enforcement. Good afternoon board, Shannon Boyd Community standards. Um, today I'm here to discuss with you enforcement of neat and clean rule within the deed restrictions. So the District 10 board of supervisors has developed general provisions in Appendix B and defined maintenance in the adopted standard definitions for all properties within District 10. Staff would like to amend and restate the rules to bring about deed compliance and standards definitions to create a process that would allow for any complaint received for a violation of any part of the general provision and defined maintenance standard will result in a comprehensive review of the property's compliance. With the entirety of these provisions, district staff will inspect all applicable maintenance standards during their site visit. Regardless of the specific nature of the original complaint. District staff would also like to include a new addition to appendix fee and the standards to include the cleaning up of miscellaneous landscaping debris in the spring of rogue Vine growth into these documents and the matrix and fine schedule staff recommends the board discuss the topic and approve the advertisement to amend and restate the rules to bring about deed compliance for an October 8th, 2025 public hearing. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. Any Questions? Yeah, Shannon, I don't understand this part about ma maintenance standards will result in a comprehensive review of the property's compliance with the entirety of these provisions. District staff will inspect all its applicable maintenance standards during the site visit regardless of the specific nature of original complaint this means. Okay. So what that means is, for example, if say right now we receive a complaint for overgrown grass and weeds, that's what staff and the, these compliance officers are going out there to verify. Now, say a week later we might get a report of there being mold on the home. So to alleviate that, when staff goes out there to address the overgrown grass and weeds, they're also gonna look to see if there's mold on the home to see if there's overgrown shrubbery to see if there's miscellaneous landscaping, debris, anything that we can maintain, we're gonna go out there under that neat and clean and look for that way we're not addressing one situation and then get another complaint a week or two later, um, where we're getting another one for a different violation on that same property. But you're only dealing with the neat and clean aspect of it, correct? We're not going out there to determine whether there's lawn ornaments or No, Just the need and clean aspect. Yes, sir. Just a little more, as you said, comprehensive. Correct. A comprehensive encompasses, so you're going to consider grass and overgrown reeds. We a maintenance standards complaint and you're going to go out and you're going to assess all maintenance standards on the property, correct? Yes ma'am. Rather than limiting yourself to, right? Correct. Yeah, I would prefer that this wording be tightened up because, um, as the chairman said, it just pertains to neat and clean. Not the landscape wall's too close to the property line or it's too high or anything like that. It's just about need and clean. It's in the heading. But it wasn't clear to me when I read this that it just pertains to need and clean. I I'm not as concerned about that. 'cause it does talk about part of the general provisions and defined maintenance standards, right. Of the, of the, and so it will result any comprehensive review of the property compliance with the entirety of these provisions, meaning the maintenance standards. Correct. So at the, if you decide to move forward with this at the public hearing, we would have the draft of the verbiage that would be in the appendix fee to include those items. Okay. I mean, I'm in favor of the concept, but, um, to me the wording was con confusing enough that I hadn't raised the Question correct. This isn't the final document Correct. This is just to get the board's agreeance that you would like to see that change. And we'll present to you the finalized language that will specify what they're looking at when they re under the neat and clean umbrella. I'd like to make a motion that we accept the neat and clean rule enforcement and allow, um, community standards to go forwards in drafting the uh, uh, correct content. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you board. Thank you. Okay, next item. We have a public hearing case number D 10 0 6 25 Development District 10 versus John T. Carter and Susan E. Carter. Uh, yes, I'll quick overview. But it's case number D 10 dash 15 dash 25, correct? Mm-hmm. Correct. Okay. Uh, and public hearings, the board of supervisors acts as both the judge and jury. In that capacity, the board will consider evidence, make findings of fact, and draw conclusions of law. During the hearing, the board may only receive evidence from district staff, the property owner, and those will be substantially directly affected by the outcome of the board's decision. The board is required to limit testimony to relevant evidence as it relates to the matter before it, at the conclusion, the public hearing, the board will need to determine whether staff presented competent, substantial evidence to support a finding of the alleged violation. And if so, the board must enter an order of enforcement against the property owner. If there's anyone here who will be testifying, please stand and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony and evidence you're about given the hearing today will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but be true? Yes, I do. Can I open the public hearing at this time? We'll open the public hearing just for clarification, um, on the agenda, if you could correct that. Case number 2 1 5 instead of oh six. Thank you. Proceed. Good afternoon Board Shannon Boyd, community Standards. Today I have before you case number D one zero dash 15 dash 25 Village Community Development District number 10 versus John T. Carter and Susan E. Carter. Individually and as trustees of the Carter Family Trust dated April 13th, 2020 1 4 3 1 Jungle Plum Way, unit 1 9 1 Lot 1 3 9 violation of the district's rule to bring about deep compliance and specifically the rule that states owner shall keep their home sites neat and clean and the grass cut, irrigated and edged at all times in the village. Community Development District number 10, external deed restriction standards maintenance shall mean the exercise of reasonable care to keep buildings, landscaping, lighting lawns, and other related improvements in fixtures and good conditions. On April 7th, the complaint was received regarding a tarp on the roof. The violation was verified and staff spoke with the homeowners and explained the a RC process for a roof replacement and to advise staff of any updates on the replacement of the roof. A deed restriction reminder was written on April 9th and the initial and second letters were sent out on May 5th and June 3rd. After following the procedures of compliance of external deed restrictions, a notice of public hearing was sent by regular and certified mail on June 19th. On May 21st, a RC application number 1 7 6 4 1 9 was approved for the reroof staff. Spoke with Mr. Carter to get an update on the situation. Mr. Carter stated that recently the claim had been settled with the insurance company and the roofing contractors are scheduled to begin the replacement On August 19th. During the inspection of, uh, the property on August 12th, it was determined that the property remains out of compliance. Staff's recommendation would be to find the owners in violation of the district's de compliance rules as cited by the DE compliance staff owners have 30 days to remove the tarp from the roof and repair or replace the roof in accordance with the District 10 Architectural Review manual in District 10 rule. If the tarp is removed from the roof and the roof has been repaired or replaced in accordance with the District 10 Architectural Review manual in District 10 rule, and the property is brought into compliance within 30 days of the Order of Enforcement, case number D 10 dash 15 dash 25 shall be closed. If the tarp is not removed from the roof and the roof has not been repaired or replaced in accordance with the District 10 Architectural Review manual in District 10 rule, and the property is not brought into compliance within 30 days of the Order of enforcement, impose $150 fine to be paid within 10 days of the invoice and impose a $50 daily fine until the property is brought into compliance. If the property is not brought into compliance as required herein, staff shall record this Order of Enforcement claim of lien in the public records of Sumter County, Florida. It is a property owner's responsibility to contact the Community Standards Department to request a deed compliance officer revisit the property to confirm compliance. If the fines reach $1,500, the case shall be turned over to district counsel to seek all available remedies, which may include initiating a lawsuit in seeking an injunction against the property owners. The property owners are responsible for reimbursing the district for all attorney's fees, costs, and expenses associated with or related to this Order of Enforcement claim of lien. If the property is brought into compliance and all fines are paid, the Chairman authorizes staff to execute and record a satisfaction and release of claim of Lien and chairman to execute the order of enforcement. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. Supervisors, any questions? Nope. Nope. Okay. Thank you. Uh, I believe Mr. Carter, you're here if you would like to make any comments or have any questions about the process. I think the only question I have, I'm a little confused on this, uh, review application, uh, for architectural review document. It said on the second page, paragraph three, item two that I have, I thought nine months from the date the application was approved to get the repairs completed. But I, you do have the nine months as far as the approval process is concerned, but you have an active violation and it has nothing to do with that approval. I mean, you could, you could wait nine months to do it, but you're gonna be paying fines for the entire time after the 30 day or whatever we decide. Okay. 30 days from what date now? It would be basically 30 days. From today's date. From today? Yes. So I You've already got your roofer scheduled. Right. Are you comfortable with that schedule? Well, I am unless a hurricane changes things next week. Okay. Well I can understand that we can't help, we can't help you with that either. The way things have been going, what we can do is based on staff's recommendation, if we decide to go with that recommendation, you will have 30 days if something untenable happens between now and then, you can always come back to this board and request additional time with reasonable. Yeah. Well hopefully that won't be necessary. Correct. They're supposed to deliver the shingles and supplies Monday, so maybe that'll help hold the roof on if we do get some big wins. Okay. Alright. I would suggest you let them know that you've got this deadline and you've got these fines imposed and Oh, they know. Okay. So that keep pushing on them to make sure that they meet their deadlines. It, it is been State Farm and, and between the attorneys and I still have got no money, but they, they keep reassuring me that it's in the pipeline, so. Okay. Any other questions or comments you'd like to make before we proceed? So I just call you when they're done with the project and you come out and some check it out. They were reinspected at that point. Okay. If there are no other comments, I will close the open hearing of open public hearing. Okay. At this point, we just need a motion to approve staff's recommendation. Correct. I would move that we approve staff's recommendation. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Staff recommendation? Motion is approved. Thank you. Board. Thank you. Moving on to all business. Yes. Good afternoon board members. The only item on your tracking list is the architectural review manual revision, which is item five B, um, which Ms. Boyd is prepared to present to you. Good afternoon Board Shannon Boyd. Community Standards. At your June 5th, 2025 board meeting staff presented information regarding re-roofing projects and the challenges the a RC residents and contractors are facing due to the age of the community and obtaining material. Staff also outlined metal roofing options to help provide guidance on whether to allow standing seam style metal roofs. The board of supervisors directed staff to bring back the proposed a RC manual revisions to help alleviate some of these challenges while maintaining the integrity and design of the compute, uh, community. The proposed a RC manual revisions include alternative roofing materials to include Tesla, other solar manufacturers and metal roofing material options and color specifications. And incorporating multicolored courtyard villas into the manual for guidance on reroofing requirements. Staff recommends the board of supervisors review the proposed a RC manual changes, provide any feedback, and if no recommendations or changes are requested, approve the a RC manual revisions as presented. That would take effect August 14th, 2025. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. And what is a multicolored courtyard villa? That would be in District 10. The Courtyard Villas, um, were built with multiple different colored shingles. If you look at some of the other districts, um, in the older sections, they were built with one color. So the Courtyard villas were all built with the same color roof shingle, district 10. They all have multi colors in there. Unfortunately, the verbiage in the manual didn't specify it. It had that they all had to match. And it's created problems with certain members on the A RC committee that would have to write this whole thing. They don't match in district. There's no matching roof and it's not a requirement in District 10. Shannon, the one question is, 'cause I still have an objection to the standing seam roof. I would like to see the verbiage that metal roofs are permitted as long as they have a shingle or tile like appearance. Because at least that way it's not going to jump out, is a standing seam roof and that they're going to generally be granulated or something. Again, they're not gonna look much different than a typical shingle roof. I, I would agree with that a hundred percent And I disagree with that. I actually think standing seam rooms are fine. I think that, you know, what we've done generally in the past mark with this board is we have tried to make the standards as kind of broad as possible, but then allow ARC to make the final decision, you know, to make, to make a decision. Is that color acceptable? Is the reflective quality of the annual team roof too much? We want to basically not, um, micromanage arc on those decisions because They're one A doesn't want a, doesn't want that fall in their lap. I can tell you from that, we didn't want to, we don't want to be the one to approve some bright blue roof. They want the board, that's why they had the color provisions in there that they had to be similar colors to other roofs in the general neighborhood type of thing. And yes, ARC can step in and still say no to somebody who comes in with a bright yellow request. 'cause there's no reason for that to be, it has to come, it comes down to, and we've approved any number of, of metal roofs in different types, but they had either a shingle like, or some vari you've shown variations of some tile like appearance that they just wasn't, because that has a horizontal to it that standard shingles do. The standing seam is a bright, shiny, straight up and down regardless of the color. So I know that you've mentioned that the developer is putting standing seam metal roof in the new sections that they're building. Is there a specific type of canning steam metal roof that they're putting there specific color that we could actually reference? I mean, do they have a standard that they are using in the new neighborhoods that we could potentially aware? Not that I am aware of, but I can research that. What neighborhoods are they doing this with? I've not seen any standard seamed roofs anywhere. I've seen them use that as an architectural enhancement over a window or whatever. But I've not seen a