As town hall officials open their building department forensic audit, in addition to state investigations, another potential issue may be $3,900 in missing permits for Stonehill Estates’ decks.

According to the North Haven assessors’ online database, 26 of 41 units at Stonehill Estates, an adult condominium community at 130 State Street, have first or second floor decks.

A building permit application filed May 21, 2003 for 20 Stonehill Estates units lists fee charges for first floor living space construction, second floor living space construction, and garage construction. Space for deck construction fees has been left blank; no deck charges are listed. The permit is signed by North Haven building official Dave Maiden.

A building permit application filed August 20, 2004 for the other units also lists fee charges for first and second floor living space construction, and garage construction, but does not include deck construction fees.

No deck permits exist within Stonehill Estates’ building department file.

Stonehill Estates’ proposed site plan, filed June 20, 2002 with the engineering department, does not show decks. The property’s as-built drawing, filed November 8, 2005 with engineering, displays decks.

Deck construction permit fee is $50 per deck, according to the town hall fee schedule in effect during construction at 130 State Street. Additionally, the late fee charge for starting a job without a permit is $100 per deck, for a total of $150 that has been uncollected for each deck.

Stonehill Estates has 26 decks, times $150, which equals $3,900 in fees unpaid to North Haven.

Maiden was unable to be reached for comment because, according to a building department employee, he has been out of work with an injured back.

When contacted, Mario DiGioia, president of Donmar Development, Stonehill Estates’ contractor, said he was unaware of any potential permitting problems.

“As far as I can remember every permit was pulled out there correctly,” he said. “That was a long time ago.”

“Everything was figured into one or two lump sums,” DiGioia added. “You can’t just pull one unit’s permit at a time. There were one or two building permits for that place.”

Stonehill Estates’ units were grouped under two encompassing permits; however, those permits list specific lump charges only for first and second floor living space construction, and garage construction. Space where lump deck construction charges would have been recorded has been left blank on both permits.

First Selectman Michael Freda said he was unaware of any potentially missing permits for Stonehill Estates, but that he would alert state investigators and the town’s forensic auditors of the matter.

Potential Stonehill Estates’ discrepancies were discovered during the Citizen’s ongoing investigation into the building department.