Resident tells Pampa commission code enforcement issued stop-work order without ID

John Rooney of 132 South Nelson used the meeting's public-comment period to recount recent interactions with city employees and a Pampa police officer and to ask the commission to revoke a stop-work order issued to property owners.

Rooney said a Public Works employee and a police officer treated him courteously during separate encounters, but that on one day code enforcement officers arrived unannounced in the alley, handed him a folded stop-work order without identifying themselves and then recorded his presence with a phone. Rooney said he had dug a ditch for a sewer line and believed the property owner should be allowed to perform noncommercial plumbing work under the city's FAQ guidance.

The presiding officer accepted the comment; no staff reply disputing Rooney’s account appears in the public portion of the record. Rooney asked the commission to revoke the stop-work order for the property and allow owners to proceed with noncommercial work. The commission did not take action on that specific request during the meeting.