Briny Breezes Mayor Ted Gross hears lots of complaints from residents upset about the town’s permitting process — and he might easily have joined their chorus recently after his unit was plastered with a failed inspection notice.
But he didn’t.
The failure was because neither he nor his contractor showed up for the inspection, Gross told his fellow aldermen at the Town Council’s Sept. 25 meeting. One of the responsibilities for the contractor he hired to install hurricane windows on his unit was to coordinate the permit process for him, the mayor said.
“So, I called my contractor, and my contractor gave me all kinds of complaints,” Gross said. “The town this, the town that, the town this.”
The contractor told the mayor he had expected the town to call and alert him to the time and date of the inspection, so the mayor checked things out with Town Clerk Sandi DuBose.
“I ended up seeing the correspondence that our town clerk ends up sending to contractors. And to me, it was so clear and concise,” he said, applauding DuBose for the quality of her work.
“Everything that they were telling me was a lie,” Gross added. “They were just blowing smoke, is what they were doing.”
— Larry Barszewski
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