THREE DAYS A WEEK POST COMMENTS AT CAPE-CORAL-DAILY-BREEZE.COM Headed CAPE CORAL up field North Fort Myers Red Knights take on Riverdale’s Raiders BREEZE — SPORTS EARLY-WEEK EDITION WEATHER: Partly Sunny • Tonight: Partly Cloudy • Wednesday: Partly Cloudy — 2A cape-coral-daily-breeze.com Vol. 50, No. 140 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 50 cents Council to readdress permit refund denial Chulakes-Leetz said Tronchet that prior to the adoption of 75 permits currently that would Homeowner wanted $467.89 reimbursed did the responsible thing by fix- Resolution 13-11, over 330 be eligible for the permit refund, By DREW WINCHESTER the vote deadlocked in October. ing his home instead of walking defective drywall permits were but have not petitioned the coun- [email protected] Council will readdress the away. issued at an average cost of $500. cil for a refund. City Council will once again issue at next Monday’s meeting. Tronchet’s remediation work This equates to over $165,000 Right now, Tronchet is the hear the case of Ryan Tronchet, a Councilmember Chris was done prior to the approval of in cost recovery for the Building only homeowner that has peti- Cape Coral homeowner who Chulakes-Leetz said he feels that Resolution 13-11, which was Division, according to city docu- tioned council. remediated his house of Chinese council did Tronchet a disservice designed to help homeowners. mentation. Chulakes-Leetz said it is obvi- drywall but was denied a permit by denying his request, legislating “His request was denied based City Building Official Paul ous that Resolution 13-11 is refund of $467.89. The previous by “fear” instead of helping a res- on fear,” Chulakes-Leetz said. Dickson said during Monday’s council denied the request when ident in need. City staff reported previously council workshop that there were See DENIAL, page 6A McGrail wants city manager to revisit public records policy By DREW WINCHESTER [email protected] “I don’t think Cape City Councilmember the perception Kevin McGrail wants the city of what the manager to revisit his public impact of this records policy, which unilaterally is to the pub- dropped the threshold of “exces- lic is quite sive” requests from an hour to fif- what some teen minutes. think it is.” City Manager Gary King — City Manager made the switch last month. Gary King Complaints from citizens who’ve received bills of over $700 for their public records King said that since the change requests prompted the council has been put in place, a vast member to speak out on the issue, majority of all requests have fall- McGrail said. en within the 15-minute threshold He’d prefer the “excessive” and only 1 percent exceeded the time frame to be at the 30-minute newly established time frame. threshold. “I don’t think the perception of “I call for that to go to a half what the impact of this is to the hour as an interim time frame,” public is quite what some think it McGrail said. “It’s a happy medi- is,” King said. an and we can evaluate from that point.” See McGRAIL, page 6A Blues Fest attracts music lovers from near and far By DREW WINCHESTER Deborah Coleman, Smokin Joe [email protected] Kubek and Bnois King and Peter Kaufman traveled all the Tommy Lee Cook. way from Denmark to listen to Performances by the bands some live blues music. Sort of. Southern Hospitality and Blue He was on business in Orlando Fury was enough to get Paul and when he caught wind of the 12th Margaret Karst to the festival, annual Southwest Florida Blue though they planned on staying Festival, so he decided to grab for the full nine hours to get their two of his friends, take a three - blues fix. day vacation, and head on down They didn’t travel as far as to Lee County to check out some Kaufman, but the festival has Cole Bros. troupe to perform in Cape through Wednesday live music. become a tradition for the “This is my first time in Englewood couple who come to Julius Carrollo, a.k.a. Clo