As state and town investigations continue to probe North Haven’s building department, another potential concern could be $12,600 in missing porch permit fees at Quail Run Village, 500 and 511 Elm Street.

According to building department files, Quail Run Village was built by Woodmere Development LLC, the same company responsible for Pondview Estates, where previous inspection revealed possible undercharged and expired permits totaling $10,784.

Quail Run Village, 72 age-restricted condominiums, is split into two sections across the street from one another at 500 and 511 Elm Street. According to original site plans, the property was authorized with porches.

However, no porch permits exist in Quail Run Village’s building department file.

Quail Run Village’s 72 housing units and one clubhouse are spread over 15 buildings, whose building construction applications are grouped into nine building department documents. The nine permit applications list fee charges for first and second floor living space construction, and garage construction, but do not include porch construction fees.

For example, Quail Run Village building permit application B2003-0039 lists interior construction fee charges for 12 units at 511 Elm St., but leaves blank space for porch fees. The permit is signed by North Haven building official Dave Maiden.

Building permit application B2003-0070, which covers four units at 511 Elm St., lists first and second floor construction fees, as well as garage construction fees; written on a line for porch construction fees is only “n/a.” Across similar porch fee space on building permit application B2003-0602, representing six units at 511 Elm St., is also “n/a.”

The remaining permits also do not list porch fees.

Quail Run Village’s nine building permits applications were submitted between January 21, 2003 and July 6, 2005. The property’s final inspection report, signed by Maiden, contains references to porches.

According to the building department fee schedule in place before 2006, there is a $75 flat fee per porch. Late fee charges are $100 per porch, totaling $175 not charged for every porch at 500 and 511 Elm Street.

Each of Quail Run Village 72 units has one porch, times $`175, equals $12,600 in potential uncharged porch permit fees.

Maiden has continued to be unavailable for comment because, according to a Town Hall employee, he has been out of work with a back injury. Maiden previously told The Citizen that he must exercise caution due to state investigations, and cannot be interviewed until after the investigation finishes.

Woodmere Development’s attorney Timothy J. Lee of Fasano Ippolito & Lee, of New Haven, said Tuesday that he had not heard of any potential permitting problems regarding Quail Run Village.

First Selectman Michael Freda said he has increased efforts to oversee the building department. “We’ve ramped up our forensic audit internally,” he said Tuesday. “We’re prioritizing locations for the forensic auditor to evaluate. We’re focusing on whether building department fees have been lost.” Freda added that such locations are condominiums, town houses, and homes.

As Connecticut’s state attorney’s office investigates whether criminal liabilities exist within North Haven’s building department, town officials are looking into procedural processes. State building official Lisa Humble had been answering procedural questions, but Freda said such communication, which necessitated back and forth paperwork, was too slow.

“I put this forensic audit in place because it allows me, on behalf of the town, to move much more quickly on the procedural side, as opposed to relying on the state building department in Hartford,” Freda said. “I have included the town attorney, the public works director, and myself in this so that it is going a lot faster, which I like.”

The potential missing porch construction fees were discovered during The North Haven Citizen’s ongoing investigation into the building department. The North Haven Citizen is systematically inspecting condominiums and other large properties throughout town.