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Assistant County Administrator Mark Cunningham notified the County Commission in a Feb. 24 email that the county had filed an Affidavit of Violation against Bob's Boathouse for operating without a Certificate of Occupancy (CO). Cunningham reminded the board that on Jan. 31, the county denied Bob's Boathouse's request to extend its Temporary Certificate of Occupancy (TCO). Instead, the county issued a Notice of Violation and informed the own- ers of Bob's Boathouse that they had 20 days to come into compliance by addressing the 19 outstanding items that were identified on the punch list. Unless that work was completed by Feb. 20, Cunningham pointed out in a Jan. 30 email, the county would issue the Affidavit of Violation and take the business to court. Cunningham continued in his Feb. 24 email, "[T]he County inspected the premises on 2/21/14 and determined that only 3 of the 19 items were addressed." Subsequently, he wrote, the county issued the Affidavit of Violation. Aker told the News Leader that the engineer of record for Bob's Boathouse filed a response with the county on Feb. 24, pointing out that two more items on the punch list had been completed, "and the county apparently — I don't know why, yet — disagrees." Bob's Boathouse stands on the site of a former car dealership on South Tamiami Trail. File photo Sarasota News Leader February 28, 2014 Page 44