Village Community Development District No. 5 (2026-02-10)

Chairman, I thank you, sir. Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Village Community Development District five Meeting of the Board of Supervisors. Appreciate you being here today. As we begin all our meetings, we have a roll call of who is present, uh, which would be Mr. Walter Martin present, Jerry Nolan. Here, Jerry Lesi present. Mark Sweer is excused today. And I'm Gary Cato, serving as your chair. If you would please rise for the ledge of allegiance and followed by a brief moment of silence. Alright, I pledge allegiance, United States of America and Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty. Liberty and justice. All. Thank you. You may be seated. Well, I was gonna go through my welcome speech today, but looking at the audience, I think probably most of you could come and run the meeting if you needed to. You've been here enough. Nice to see you again, Lee, while Mr. Shields, is he still in a room with us? Ien by the podium. Okay, Ken. Thank you. And Cliff. Okay, first thing on our agenda, item two A, uh, I was not at the last, uh, meeting. I'd like to thank the vice chair, even though he is not here today for taking that for me. Uh, uh, the approval of the minutes, which will require a, uh, a motion and also approval of the, uh, purchase orders. So the minutes I know you've had in advance. Any questions regarding the minutes from the board? Okay. Uh, you also have an agreement, what do we call it? The honey de of exterior painting services wall and so forth. Uh, that was under two B. That also would require a motion, but we can combine the two into one motion for both items two A and two B. There are any questions on either one of those? We'd entertain 'em now. Okay. May I have a motion then please? Motion to, uh, approve the consent agenda as submitted. Okay. The second, Second. Second. It's been moved and seconded to accept the approval of the minutes and the purchase order utilization, uh, to piggyback agreements in item two B. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? So moved. New business, Mr. Felicia, nice to see you back again and again. You're in our prayers. Thank you. Uh, but I'm sorry to say that I was sick yesterday, so I was not, uh, able to attend the project wide advisory committee, so I can't comment on the agenda. Okay. I believe Mr. Noel, uh, was there in your absence? I was, and, uh, it was a, a meeting that had a few items in it, that, of, of interest. Mm-hmm. There was the approval of the award of an invitation to bid Lake Sumter Landing Shoreline resentment project that's approximately $800,000, and that includes all of the construction work and construction management. Uh, there was the, uh, review and approval of the recommendation to Sumter Landing Development, dis Community Development District for purchase order, utilizing a certain agreement with TE Tech for the HVAC design and construction engineering services at Lake, my rec center. And that was for approximately 1.6 million. There was some review of the award for invitation to bid for the sound systems for, for various rec centers. 10 rec centers involved are gonna get new sound systems. Um, seven of the, uh, regionals and three of the neighborhood rec centers gonna be taken care of. The rest of the items on the, uh, agenda for the, that they were discussion items and, no, no, uh, pretty much routine making, but that's, that's my report for yesterday's PWAC meeting. Okay. Any questions regarding the PAC report? One question. Yes, sir. The sound system, are we talking about a sound system where you can, if you have a club meeting or something, you plug into the sound system and it goes to the rec center sound system, not a standalone? That's correct. Okay. Was video included in any of those? Do you know? Uh, there is some video work being done where, uh, those, those rec centers that have the old system, they're now gonna be getting a, a drop down system that's built into the, into the ceiling. Okay. Obviously, I think I'm technically challenged because when I click on the videos, I don't get the video, but I do get the audio, so I gotta check with somebody on that. Okay. Uh, that is not, let's see, the next item after, um, project wide advisory, there's no motion required on that, uh, is the item three b, acceptance of the audit report, which I'm sure everybody has gone through in great detail. I know we had that well in advance. Are there any questions at this point on the audit report? I think we have a presentation here. Yes, sir. I'm sorry, I didn't hear present any. My mistake. I love 'em when they go that way. That's okay. No. Uh, Sean Boyle Finance, uh, as you know, just for your audience, district five is required to have an audit each year of the financial statements by an independent firm. Uh, this firm actually works for the board. Um, you hire them, you retain them. The process of, of obtaining this independent auditor is dictated by the state. Um, we go through a formal, uh, procurement process for that. So this year's no different. Uh, that auditor is Purpose Gray, and they're gonna come up here and they're gonna go through some details. So I'll keep my, my comments brief. I would Mr. Chair, like to thank the board. I'd like to thank, uh, the employees. It takes, uh, pardon upon, but it takes a village to get this done, and this year is no exception. And I, I think you'll be pleased with the outcome. So, with that said, I have Ms. Helen Painter from Purpose Grace. She is a partner at that firm, and she's gonna go through some details and tell you how you ended up the year. And then, uh, if if's acceptable at the end and you're in agreement, we would look for a motion to accept this report. Okay. I also noticed that, uh, we received an email on this this year asking us if we had any comments, uh, anything we would like to discuss directly with the auditor that we thought may be unusual items or things we had questions on it, we think. Yes, sir. So every, I don't remember getting that before. Is that something new? Yeah. Every year they send out, uh, a questionnaire to, they interview individuals, but they also send out a questionnaire, um, asking, uh, one or more board members if there's any unusual, uh, situations that you may want them to look into. So I'll let Ms. Helen, uh, dive into that. And with that said here, she's, thank you. Good morning. Welcome. Morning. Good morning. Good Morning. Board supervisors, uh, Helen Painter with Purvis Grand Company. Uh, believe we have a slide presentation. Yes. Thank you for your, your comment on the, um, email. Uh, so we do that randomly, uh, and it, it's required by audit standards to, um, you know, ask, uh, I believe two years ago it was a treasurer that we, uh, inquired with. So we're required to ask, um, both financial and non-financial and those charged with governance. So the board of supervisors is considered to be the governing board over, um, the audit process where we work with management, but we answer to the board. Uh, and so, um, our presentation today is just a summary. We won't get into too much detail. You have the audit report there. Uh, the, the best thing about your finance team is that you get monthly financial information. Right? And so nothing is a surprise to you. Uh, and then we are confirming that there was no surprises that came to our attention. So the objective of an audit is to give a, an opinion on the financial statements. And like Mr. Boyle said, um, this is required by the state of Florida, and the state of Florida has rigid requirements for governmental entities, uh, and what their report has to say, because after the acceptance of the audit report, it has, this report has to go to the auditor general's office and they do a desk review. And if there's anything missing or anything they're questioning, uh, they would contact us back. So part of the, what we have to look at is the financial statements given opinion. We have give, issued an unmodified opinion on the financial statements, a clean opinion. Uh, we have to, uh, have professional judgment and skepticism. We have to look at the risk and material misstatement and, uh, the financial health of the district. Um, we are happy to say that there were no internal control compliance matters that came to our attention. Uh, we also have to look at your investments. You have an investment policy, you have investment committees. We are required to ensure that you're following your policy, that it's in accordance with the Florida statutes. We also have to look to see that, um, your, uh, finance key financial individuals have continuing education with investments. And so they have to show proof of that too. So there's a lot of regulations that go with government, and it's all about, uh, making sure that, uh, the citizens' funds are properly, um, uh, you know, to oversight is being made. Uh, and because you are a special district of the state of Florida, uh, you also have to be even more transparent. And report includes information as to what were the special assessments that were charged, how much you have in bonds outstanding, uh, and if you have any construction projects with value of 65,000 or greater. And so that's all that information is, is in your audit report. Uh, again, there were no issues that came to our attention. Some key financial observations. There were no new capital additions this year. Uh, your investment earnings, uh, were not, uh, as, um, uh, robust as last year, but they did come in greater than budget. And you did, uh, adhere to your reserve policy that you're setting aside monies, uh, for any future emergencies or future major capital repairs. So you're following your policy there. And we believe that most importantly, your your budget to actual statement that is in this audit report, uh, you know that, um, the budget season starts up pretty soon and you all adopt a budget, and that's where your controls come in place where you say, you know, this is what we expect to get in, um, assessments, and this is what we need to spend and what it's gonna cost to run the, um, maintenance of the district. And this particular year, you'll see that you budgeted for a loss, uh, how, because of the fact that you wanted to spend down some excess reserves. And you'll see that here in the report. The first column is the original budget. The second column is the amended budget, and then what your year to date actual was. And most importantly, you came under budget with your expenses that you had budgeted to spend 4.2 million and only needed to spend a little over 4 million. So you, uh, kept your expenditures under control and, uh, you're able to do that because of you have a budget department, you have, um, financial information that's given to you monthly so that you can, uh, see what's going on with your budget, uh, on a monthly basis. So those are some of the key highlights with the audit. Um, this is just a good scenario that shows that, you know, to, to have a good audit report and have it produced timely and sent to the state timely. We work with management, uh, and the governing board and, uh, all this working together, we are able to conclude the audit process. So I'd like to thank, uh, the board for having us present today. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, I would also like to mention thank you for recognizing our staff. I know that is a really, really difficult job that they have to do in this. Yes. And every year they do it beautifully, as does your mm-hmm. Uh, firm. So thank you for all what you do also. Thank You. Appreciate that. Any questions from our supervisors regarding the audit report? And I know we've been through it in numerous amount of times. Walter, one, one question. Um, do you make recommendations on the percent of our reserve, be it up or down, or is that something that's done internally by, uh, our accounting department? I'm just concerned sometimes if we have too much reserve, if we should spend down some of the reserve be a little more liberal on the amount of reserve mm-hmm. That we carry rather than having an excess. Correct. So you management has put together a policy and the board has approved that policy, and we'd look to see if you are adhering to that policy and, and you did. Uh, and I believe that you all budgeted to spend down some of that. So you'll see there that there was about $800,000 that was spent down. Uh, and so, you know, just look at it on an annual basis and see if spending it down was the right move. So that's not in your purview. You don't make recommendations. We think you're carrying too high of a reserve percentage, Uh, correct. That's, that's more of a management decision. Yes. Yeah. Over the years, we have obviously strived to keep our special assessments down for our residents. Mm-hmm. So we have not raised them in, I think what, Gary, 16 years, something like that. It's been a long time that we've lowered them numerous times. Mm-hmm. Uh, one of the concerns was were we budgeting enough in our reserves to be able to continue that? And I think we came to the determination and we may not be able to continue doing that based on the reserves. So we increased the amount. I believe Jerry made that, uh, motion. So we put more away this jury, uh, that then would suffice. At this point, you think that, that our decision to increase the reserves was sufficient from what you see For the, for the 26th fiscal year. Mm-hmm. Yes. Well, of course we have not looked at that yet. We've looked at your financial information through November. Mm-hmm. Uh, because we're required to do what we call a subsequent event to make sure nothing material has happened. So we'll have to wait till the end of the year to see the results of operation. Mm-hmm. Uh, but you'll be able to see those monthly financial reports. I believe it's in your, your Board package. Well, that was a pretty good idea in advance then, whether we put a sufficient amount away, probably halfway through the year, I would think. Yes. And what's most important also is your, is your five year capital future capital outlay budget. That's where the large expenditures will come in for, you know, repairs and maintenance mill and overlay to the roads repair fencing, that's where your big capital items are. And you have that money set aside and committed at the current time, and you didn't spend anything this year in that. Mm-hmm. Uh, and then, so we, we ensure that when you do spend, uh, for committed funds, that you use just that pot of money, so to speak, uh, and that you're not using general operations. Okay. And Mr. Chairman, I have question. Yes, sir. Is either generally accepted principles, accounting principles, or does, does the state make recommendations or have guidelines regarding the amount of reserve you have, say, as a percentage of, or compared to the value of your infrastructure? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Um, so that, you know, we have a certain responsibility for the, for the amount of infrastructure that we have within this district, and it has a value to it. Yes. And then, uh, and the cost to replace that has a value, and it, it, obviously it goes up from year to year because of inflation and other mm-hmm. Uh, circumstances. But is there some sort of a guideline that we need to have, or is it in place already that says, based upon the value you should have a oh, 27% or 50%, whatever that number may be, that, that we can use to guide us in our budgetary process? Uh, there's no official guidance on that. Uh, the GFOA Government Finance Officers Association does have a recommendation for your district general expenditures to have in fund balance 25% of your annual budget. But as far as future capital outlay costs, you can see how that is such a moving target. And it would be very expensive to have, you know, look at the cost of your road replacement. So there's no official guidance. That is something that, you know, you as a board and with your management team would have to decide as to what you could afford, uh, for the future. So that's your capital outlay. But no, there's no written, uh, recommendation except for general operating expenses. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? No, thank you. Obviously, with the extent of our budget, we need to have a motion to accept it. So at this point, if there are no further questions, anything from the audience on this, okay. Then I would, uh, entertain a motion to accept. I'll make, I'll make a motion to accept the, uh, audit report as presented. Okay. Second. Okay. Any other further questions? It has been moved and seconded to accept the budget as stated. All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. It is unanimous. Thank you very much, and very nice job on behalf of our finance department. Thank you. Okay. Next item on the agenda, public hearings. We have two public hearings listed on here, and I think we'll be getting an update from Ms. Shannon. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Good. Um, yes, there will be two public hearings this morning. Okay. Okay. Yes, sir. Before we get started, a quick overview of the public hearing process. Yep. In public hearings, the board access 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 the property owner, district staff, and those that will be substantially and directly affected by the outcome of the board's decision. 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. If so, the board must enter an Order of enforcement. Our first case is case number D five dash zero six dash 26. If there's anyone here to testify, if you please stand and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear affirm that the testimony and evidence you're about to give in the hearing today will be the truth and nothing but the truth? Yes, I do. Okay. This point, we'll temporarily suspend our regular meeting to go into Judic judicial hearing on these Good Morning Board, Shannon Boyd Community Standards. Today I have before you, case number D five dash zero six dash 26 Village Community Development District number five, versus to the estate of Gerald j Stefanski, 2 1 8 6 Broxton Place, unit 83, lot 2 4 1. Violation of the district's rule to bring about deep compliance and specifically the rule that states no vehicles and capable of operations shall be stored on any home site. Nor shall any junk vehicles or equipment be kept on any home site owners shall keep their home sites neat and clean, the grass cut, irrigated and edged at all times. If an owner does not adhere to this regulation, then the work may be performed on behalf of the owner and the cost shall be charged to the owner. As stated in the Village Community Development District number five, external deed restriction standards. Inoperable vehicles are vehicles that are incapable of operation, are not licensed, and or registered or have flat or missing tires. Also, as stated in the external deed restriction standards, maintenance means the exercising reasonable care to keep buildings, landscaping, lighting lawns, and other related improvements in fixtures in good condition. On November 25th, 2025, a complaint was received regarding a broken door, broken windows in an inoperable vehicle in the driveway. Staff verified these violations and also observed weaves and a dirt weaves in a dirty driveway and walkway. A deed restriction reminder was written on November 26th, and the initial and second letters were sent out on December 9th. In December 22nd. And after following the procedures of external deed restriction, a notice of public hearing was sent by regular and certified mail On January 12th, the homeowner is deceased. The homeowner's daughter was residing in the home, but is currently incarcerated. Staff have contacted Freedom Mortgage via telephone to inform them of the violations. Staff also forwarded copies of all the letters and photographs that were taken to Freedom Mortgage. During an inspection of the property on February 8th, it was determined that the property does remain out of compliance. Now currently due to a phase two water shortage restriction, which became effective February 8th through July 1st, staff had temporarily suspending enforcement of pressure washing requirements until the drought order has been lifted. So this order of enforcement will not pertain to the dirty driveway and walkway. So staff's recommendation would be to find the owner in violation of the District deed compliance rule. As cited by the deed compliance staff, the owner has seven days to remove the weeds from the property to bring that portion of the property into compliance. If the weeds have been removed and that portion of the property has been brought into compliance within seven days of the order of enforcement, that portion of case number D five dash zero six dash 26 shall be closed. If the weeds have not been removed within seven days of the Order of enforcement, authorize the district to maintain the property, I impose a minimum of a $250 fine. Or the actual cost of maintenance, whichever is more to be paid within 10 days of the invoice. Authorize a district to maintain the property twice a month in the summer and once a month in the winter as needed, and impose a $250 fine each time the district maintains the property. If the owner prohibits a district from maintaining the property, then the owner shall be fined an initial amount of $150 and an additional $50 per day until the property is brought into compliance. The owner has five days to remove the inoperable vehicle or place a valid registration sticker on the vehicle to bring that portion of the property into compliance. If the inoperable vehicle has been removed, or a valid registration sticker has been placed on the vehicle to bring that portion of the property into compliance within five days of the order of enforcement, that portion of case number D five dash zero six dash 26 shall be closed. If the inoperable vehicle has not been removed, or a valid registration sticker has not been placed on the vehicle within five days over 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. The owner has 30 days to repair or replace the broken windows, the torn lanai screen, the broken screen door, and the damaged siding on the lanai. If the Windows Lanai screen screen door and the siding on the lanai have all been repaired or replaced within 30 days of the order of Enforcement, that portion of case number D five dash zero six dash 26 shall be closed. If the broken windows torn lanai screens broken screen door and damaged siding on the lanai have not been repaired or replaced 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 that portion of the property has been brought into compliance. If the weeds have been removed, the inoperable vehicle has been removed, or a valid registration sticker has been placed on the vehicle. And if the broken windows torn LAN ice screen, broken screen door, and the damaged siding on Lanai have all been repaired or replaced within the time timeframe specified herein, case number D five dash zero six dash 26 shall be closed. If the property is not brought into compliance as required, hearing staff shall record this Order of enforcement Kali 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 or seeking an injunction against the property owner. The property owner is 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's brought into compliance and all fines are paid, the Chairman authorizes staff to execute and record a satisfaction and release of claim of Lien Chairman to execute the order of enforcement. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. I was gonna ask you if you could repeat that, but I I don't think you want do that. No, I wouldn't do that yet. Uh, my understanding is this is an estate, correct? What was that? Yes, it is an estate. Estate, yes, He's deceased. Uh, and who is now the responsible owner of the property? Do you know? I believe his daughter, The daughter. We had direct communication with the daughter. She's currently incarcerated. We're not gonna get a lot of communication with the daughter then. Okay. Um, this looks like another one of those that could drag out for an extremely long time. The property would continue to deteriorate, I would think, and I'm sure the neighbors would be up in arms over this. Um, we run through a lot of these. I guess my question is, where does this finally come to an end? Could this be another one of these three year drag outs, uh, on the estate? Like we're dealing with now on another property? And I guess I'd turn that over to counsel at this point. So that was gonna be my question. Those notices on the door are those foreclosure notices. Um, I, I am not sure What, so there are a couple of pleadings that are posted to that door that potentially could be foreclosure notices. I don't know. I can't tell. There's a photo in there that's closer but even still can't read it. Right. You still can't read it. So if there's a foreclosure, then obviously we need to get our lien recorded and it might not, um, be one of those three year drag outs. 'cause it sounds like there's already something going on in court. I just don't know what that is at this point in time. Um, I do, yes. I believe they're eviction notices, The eviction, so That's a Twist. She doesn't own it. It was a renter. Oh, there was a renter there. The other, okay, so that doesn't help us. There was a renter in there that won't help us. And we don't have squatters anywhere in there that we know of, correct? Not that we know of. No Counsel. I think at this point, um, we have to proceed as we normally would. I mean, not really knowing what the status of the property is or where it's at, if there's a probate, anything going on with it. Our job here is gonna be to enter the order of enforcement and record our claim of lien so that whatever happens in the future, we, we preserve our right and our standing to get some money if there's any available to us. Yeah. We need to get an update Exactly what's going on with that property though. Yeah, and I mean, you know, we could do some record search, look at court dockets to see if we could find anything. Um, I can do that or, you know, community standards can try and do that first so that I, I'm not involved. And then if they need my help, certainly I'm willing to step in. But I think Shannon and I have talked before and she's aware of how to pull court records, so she might be able to do that. Okay. So you're looking for a motion to go forward with order of enforcement on this, correct? Yes, Sir. Okay. We'll close our public hearing first. Oh, you have questions? Just one question. Yes, Shannon, in a case, like if we were, we were looking at, in a state, is there any way to speed up the process? We're looking at 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, and eventually we end up with an open forum like this and a state's death of the, uh, property owner. Can we waive or suspend this 30, 60, 90 days? That's a lot of time when we know in the end we're not going to end up getting any money. We'll end up, end up filing a lien with the lien holder, the mortgage company. Am I just dreaming or what? Mortgage, Yeah, I mean these are our standard, um, standard timelines that we, yeah. So unfortunately because it's an a estate, it's no different than if it wasn't. And if we differ from it, we could set a precedent, it could be used later against us. Correct? Well, I mean, I think the fact that it's empty, that now the estate representative is incarcerated, Do we know for how long? No, I mean, I think you have some circumstances here to where if you wanted to reduce the time period, you could, um, because you don't have an active person there. Um, we don't know who's, uh, maintaining the property. I think that's different than when you have a property owner who lives there every day who gets this order of enforcement and decide they want to ignore it. Yeah. Um, or maybe they can't do it for one reason or the other right away. They're not here. There's nobody here. So, I mean, I think if you wanted to shorten the time period you could, and I wouldn't have a problem with that. I think in this case it would make sense. And one of the concerns that I would have, the daughter is incarcerated now. We don't know for how long, when she's no longer incarcerated. If she decides to return home to the roost and be a squatter or an estate recipient of the estate, then we're gonna have some real problems on her hands. Um, so I think Walter's recommendation is a good one in this particular case. Make the exception and shorten those As to the, uh, loose sighting, the 30 days, you can drop that down to 10 or 15. Um, it looks like the other days are seven and, and 10 days appear to be fine, which Are reasonable. So if we want to proceed, we just need to close the public hearing and have a motion to accept staff's recommendation with a change to bullet number two from 30 days to 10 or 15, whatever it is that you decide. Okay. No further questions while we're in hearing. Okay. Hereby close the public hearing. Supervisors, any discussions on your part regarding this, please particularly? No. I, I, I, yeah. Shorten it to the extent that we can and let's see if we can expedite a, a potential resolution to this issue. Yeah. Makes good sense. Mm-hmm. So, so the change would be to the 30 day time period for the broken line ice creams. I'd go to 10. Okay. Can we have a motion accordingly on that? I would move that we, uh, move on this enforcement issue and reduce the 30 day period to 10 days. Second on that second. Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Hearing none, they could vote. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Detentions. Thank you board. Okay, Now we have a second one, correct? Yes, Do, yes sir. Second case number D five dash zero seven dash 26. If there's anyone here to testify, if you please stand and raise your right hand. Ms. Boyd's already been sworn so we can open the public hearing. Hearing is hereby open. Good Morning board Shannon Boyd Community Standards. Today I have before you case number D five dash zero seven dash 26 Village Community Development District number five versus Wanda f Albert 2 51 Thurmond Avenue, unit 6 54. Lot one four violation of the district's rule to bring about deed compliance and specifically the rule that states eid each home, excuse me, each owner shall keep his home site neat and clean. As stated in the village Community Development District number five, external deed restriction standards. Maintenance means the exercise of reasonable care to keep buildings and landscaping lighting lawns and other related improvements in fixtures in good condition. On November 18th, 2025, a complaint was received regarding loose siding on the home. Staff verified the violation and issued a deed restriction reminder on November 19th. The initial and second letters were sent out on December 9th and December 22nd. And after following the procedures of compliance, a notice of public hearing was sent by certified and regular mail on January 9th. The homeowner is deceased and the property is reverting back to the lender. Staff contacted Compu Link regarding the violation and have sent them copies of all the letters and photographs that have been taken. Staff contacted Comp Link for a status update and was informed that they would expedite the request. But during staff's inspection on February 8th, it was determined that the property does remain out of compliance. Staff's recommendation would be to find the owner in violation of the district deed compliance rule as cited by the deed compliance staff. The owner has 30 days to repair or replace the loose siding on the home to bring the property into compliance. If the loose siding has been repaired or replaced and the property is brought into compliance, within 30 days of the order of enforcement, case number D five dash zero seven dash 26 shall be closed. If the loose siding has not been repaired or replaced 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 reached $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 owner. The property owner is responsible for reimbursing the district for all attorney's fees, costs, and expenses associated with or related to this order of an 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 claimant of a lien chairman to execute the order of enforcement. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. Uh, I have one question. Who is the lender on this again? Um, comp link. Okay. Okay. Any questions from, uh, board of Supervisors regarding this pretty standard stuff? Yeah. Okay. The question, information. Why do we refer to owner rather than lien holder or mortgagee? Because right now that is still listed as the legal owner. Is that homeowner, even though we've spoken to family, we spoken to the daughter who said that it's reverted reverting back to the bank. It's still, I guess, going through the process State is Samantha, the state's still the owner? Yeah. Other questions? The process? Mm-hmm. Mr. Nolan? No, I have no questions. Jerry? No. Okay. I have no further questions at this point. I would adjourn from public hearing. What is your pleasure? Board Order of Enforcement is requested. I would make a motion to, uh, approve the order of enforcement for case number D five dash oh seven dash 26 Village Community Development District number five versus Wanda f Albert 2051 Thurman Avenue, unit 6 54. Lot 14. So second, any further questions? Been moved and seconded to issue an Order of Enforcement regarding this property as presented. And all those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions. Thank you. Board. Do you have your order? Thank you. Thank you. Shannon might not be the appropriate point, but I would like to mention at this point that, uh, recently I heard a presentation given by Mr. Armstrong, and of course we know the work that Shannon does and uh, that is a very difficult job, believe me. And you have done it absolutely superbly. So thank you very much for your efforts. You make life a lot easier for the Board of Supervisors. I'd like that to be entered into the record. Okay. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Next item on the agenda is old business item five A. Uh, we've got a few things on that I know. Yes. Good morning Board members. Um, the first item is to track your deed compliance complaints. Um, that will come back to you on an annual basis in November. Mm-hmm. Um, the second item pertains to the standard lien property. Um, and the fact that this board did authorize the chair to sign a letter to, um, Congressman Webster's office, um, they did in fact open a case. Um, we went through that process with them. The current update is due back from HUD on February 20th. Um, so once we receive that information, we will share that with the board. But that is the legal timeframe that the agency has to respond to that inquiry. Okay. Um, for those of you that are not aware in the audience, this is kind of an unusual circumstance. The mortgage holder at this point has been hud, it goes back to them and they, uh, we have had fines and I believe the lien that we had placed against this property, which they felt they had the Federal Authority under the federal registry to remove our fines and our legal fees. Uh, we disagree with that. Our counsel has spent time on that. I know you certainly have Brittany and I appreciate that. Uh, so we are coming back to HU through our congressional representative and asking him to deal with them directly and justify why they feel they can do this particular action. It is highly unusual and to the best of my knowledge, uh, in my old dealings with hud, uh, it has not been done before that I'm aware of. Uh, and this could have a, a huge effect on us down the road. So we are challenging this and we're waiting for Mr. Webster to come back and let us know what the response was from hud. And again, by the 20th, we should have that answer. Any questions from our supervisors on this? Nope. Okay. Thank you. No action required on that. No action necessary. Okay. Next name is on the agenda. Informational items only. There are three items on here. These are routine items or financial statements, our Department of Property Management, monthly report, villages, community Development District five hearing updates. Um, I believe you received copies of all these in your package and on your computer. Are there any questions on any of the three of these? Okay. No motion required on these? No motion necessary. Okay. Okay. Hearing none. We'll move on to district manager's reports. Yes. Good morning again. Um, so on the agenda today is an update from the community standards team about the online architectural review process. Um, so I'll again ask Ms. Boyd to come to the podium, um, to provide you an update with how that is progressing. You Got quite a show going today? I Do. I do. Good Morning board, Shannon Boyd Community standards. So I'm gonna show, uh, I have a little presentation here of our new online review process So far. We started this on December 1st and we've had 1,424 ERC applications submitted online. Oh, Ooh. Huge. Quite few. So what you would do is when you go on our website and you click on the application, it's gonna bring you to this website right here. And you're gonna go ahead and click on architectural review application. And then it's gonna bring you to this, this looks just like our paper application did. You're not required for any additional information than you were before. It's just online versus in paper form. So I'd ask you for the same information. Once you get to the end of the application, the homeowner signs off, they hit the green submit button on the bottom there, and then it gets submitted form. So once their application gets submitted, they get an email that says your application was submitted. So that way they know it went through, their application was submitted, they then get an email. When staff goes in to put it for what date it's going to be reviewed, the resident then gets an updated email that says your application is going to be reviewed on this day. So that way if they do wanna attend the meeting or they wanna know when to, they might be receiving their results, then you have this, this is the email. Once the uh, application gets reviewed, it either gets approved or denied. Staff goes in and updates that. So here is one that was approved. They get an email with the approval in it and has the signature for the chair and has any stipulations that relate to that application. If it was a denied application, it would say denied and it would give the reason why it was denied. Okay. And then this is each person's user profile, so anybody wants to submit it. You're creating your own user profile. So no matter how many, you could submit multiple applications and you could look through them in your own personal profile. So if someone submitted one application, it's in their profile. If they submit five, they use that same profile and can go in. So it's pretty, uh, easy system. Um, and like I said, so far we've gotten 1,424 of 'em, so that's great. Wow. And thank you. And do you have any questions for me regarding it? Yes sir. Email is this optional? No. Oh, they do have a choice of doing the standard application written Down, yes. If needed. Because I know it's hard to believe in this day and age that nobody or a few does not have a computer. I have one, even a laptop, but I don't know what I'm doing on it. So yes, it is possible. It's nothing. Every time I hit a character, I do something wrong. It either avoids it or whatever. So yes, we have had residents that don't have a computer. Ah, yes. Okay. Or, um, don't know how to use ones very well. And we will accept either a paper application or help walk them through the online application. So yes, we still do accept that. So you've experienced a significant drop in, uh, daily traffic at your office. I would assume, given the fact that you've gotten 1400 applications online. You know, I haven't looked at our walk-ins. I mean, our walk-ins still stay pretty regular because they're more question based than a lot of times just dropping off an application. So I guess there's probably less people just dropping off an application, but we're still getting our typical walk-ins with the questions. Okay. Okay. Um, yes, state your name please and Cliff Winder. I live on Lane in the village of Piedmont. Um, Shannon and I have many talks about this. I have a question, Shannon. There is a procedure that you put the results in at the end as of yesterday at 12 o'clock February 4th. Results were still not there. I think that that time limit has to be change so that we get 'em a little earlier. I might be the only person in the villages that looks at that, but I look at it every single month and I wait for, and District four had a lot of applications last month and I need to know those that were approved and those that were denied. I'm just trying to throw that out so that, but the system works really good. Thank you. Thank you Cliff. And yes, we are working on getting those up uploaded sooner. Okay. By the way, just to be clear, this in no way impacts the review process that we already have established. And we have Ken, uh, as our point person on that. Uh, good opportunity to say thank you to Ken for the hard work you put in. That is not an easy job. It's every single week and you have faithfully performed your duties and we greatly appreciate that. So thank you for what you do. Supervisors, any questions regarding this? Wow. No, I just think it's a great I do too. Yeah. It's a great addition. Yeah. It improves the efficiency and Absolutely. And more and more people are, Walter and myself excluded. More and more people are more interested in doing things online. Yeah. I think we call ourselves technically challenged, if I remember right. I would add are most of the EE applications from the newer districts, 12, 13, 14, which would be and younger age that had been bought up with the computer and the laptop electronically versus, uh, a standard retirees 70 or 71? It's uh, that's hard to say. That's hard to say. I mean, we're getting, we still have over a hundred, a hundred applications for the morning meeting and definitely over a hundred for the afternoon meetings. So I don't really see that their numbers are dropping much. Mm-hmm. Um, I know in the southern districts, the newer districts, um, because they are new, we definitely get a lot more applications down there because they're new homes and people buy them and wanna Change. And their age is younger too. It Is, yes. Absolutely. Yeah. I hired a consultant to do my work. It's called my grandson. Yeah, I was gonna say, there's a lot of new and innovative things now that are coming out that we're taking advantage of, and I'm, I'm really glad to see that. Uh, I entered into AI for the first time about a month ago, and I now have a new best friend who has a British accent, which I talk to regularly. And my wife said, you fool, you're talking to a machine that is not a person, but it seems like a person. So I'm glad we're progressing with the new technology. A couple of the things that have been discussed in the past, and we're not gonna discuss them in detail at this meeting, but I think in the future we will, uh, I know we have magistrates now who are also taking a look at some of these cases, which relieves us of having to do that. Uh, likewise, uh, they also have a different review process, uh, which I'm not thrilled about. I think having Ken there who is an engineer and an attorney has the background to look at these things as a real plus. So that I, I would hope would stay intact and I believe it will. But there are new things coming out all the time and I'm glad we're taking a look at 'em. So thank you for that. Thank you. Anything else from the board on that? No. Okay. I don't think there's any action on our part required on that. No. Okay. We will then move on to big part of the meeting District council reports. Yes, sir. Just one report on your agenda is the, uh, temporary enforcement suspension plan as referenced earlier in the meeting, the storm water, not the storm water, but the phase two water shortage that it enacted. The, um, restrictions on water use, uh, that applies within the villages and applies to deed restrictions concerning, um, maintenance of lawns and things like that. Any pressure washing, anything that has to do with the use of water. Um, the district at this point, from February eight until July one, or if it's lifted sooner than that, will not be proceeding with any, uh, cases that have, um, the requirement of use of water. For instance, the pressure washing, if there's a case that's brought or a complaint that's made on a property owner for failing to pressure wash, that case will not be brought before you because under this plan and under the, uh, phase two water shortage restrictions that were enacted by Swift mud, you cannot proceed with, uh, any action against the property owner for failing to do that. Same goes with law. Again, that's an enact. It's from February 8th through July one, unless they lift it sooner than that. Um, but your plan is on the agenda. Um, if you have any questions concerning that, um, I'm here to answer those. But essentially that's what it is, is an explanation of Swift Mud's plan, um, and what the restrictions, what, what it says as, as far as enforcing our restrictions because of the water restrictions. Um, and so that's how the district will be proceeding again until it's either lifted or through July 1st, 2026. Do do the regulations, uh, suspend the ability to have homes pressure washed at this point or My under just The enforcement, The enforcement of deed restrictions? Uh, my understanding is that a property owner is allowed to pressure wash if they're going to complete a project. For instance, if they're gonna paint, they're allowed to pressure wash the property. So there are some times when they can, but essentially what it says is that we cannot enforce deed restrictions if they relate to water use. So this is only two deed restrictions that we would normally Correct Take. But the homeowner can still, while they, they should not be pressure washing, they Can't, they should review the restrictions issued by swift mud. That's a good answer. I like that. Okay. Any questions regarding that? It is gonna require an action on the part of the board to suspend that. So we understand. And my understanding is you can only water your lawn once a week. Yes. Correct. Any other questions regarding it? This does require a motion on the part of the board, so if there are no further questions, I would ask for a motion to accept the suspension as requested. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. And no further questions. All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? You got it. Thank you. Next item, item number nine, audience comments. We know all the audience personally, they're faithfully here, so if there are any more comments, now's your time. Okay. Thank you for being here. Supervisor comments. Mr. Fei? None. Thank you. Good to have you back again, my friend. Mr. Noel. Nothing this morning. Mr. Martin? Uh, no other comments? My major concern was somehow speeding up the process on the, uh, estate in the foreclosures. Right? Yeah. Understood. Still have a concern. I agree. I don't know if there is a solution, but No. To answer your, no, uh, no further comments. Okay. And I have nothing further. Uh, we will have some stuff at the next meeting I know that we'll be discussing regarding reviews and so forth. Um, so at this point, there's no further action. I would entertain a motion. Brittany, you have anything else you wanna present? Nothing. I didn't entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Does not require a vote. Ah, we are adjourned. This is a record, folks. I'm telling you. Amazing.