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Officeholders

Barbara-Jo Bell

2025 Form 6 · annual filing (Commission on Ethics) · received 2026-06-30 · 5 pages (text)

Net worth$250,000
Income listed$252,255
Real estate$525,000
Debts listed$594,544
Worth a look0

Where listed income comes from

  • Government & public payroll 75% $189,755 · State of Florida
  • Real estate 25% $62,500 · Tampa Bay's Premier Property Preservation

Worth a look 0

Nothing stood out under the current rules.

Context 5

Context Unusual reporting

Lists Personal Items/Jewelry, Vehicles separately from the $50,000 household-goods total

Personal vehicles, jewelry, art and furnishings can be reported in the household-goods lump sum or itemized. Net worth doesn't appear to count them twice.

What to check
  • No action needed unless the lump sum also includes these items.

Rule: Household items listed twice
“Describe, and state the value of, each asset you had on the reporting date you selected for your net worth, if the asset was worth more than $1,000 and if you have not already included that asset in the aggregate value of your household goods and personal effects.”2025 Form 6 instructions, Assets ✓ quoted from the saved instructions · how this rule works

Context Unusual reporting

“Bank Accounts” ($25,000) doesn't name the institution

Intangible assets should name the entity they relate to.

What to check
  • Which bank, company or fund is this?

Rule: Asset without a named institution
“Do not list simply "stocks and bonds" or "bank accounts."”2025 Form 6 instructions, Assets ✓ quoted from the saved instructions · how this rule works

Context Unusual reporting

All 6 asset values are round numbers

Every listed asset is valued in round thousands, which suggests estimates rather than statements or appraisals. That's allowed, but it makes the totals less precise.

What to check
  • Are bank or brokerage balances (which are exact) rounded too?

Rule: All values are round numbers

How this rule works

Context Unusual reporting

Net worth $250,000; listed items add up to $215,456

Reported net worth: $250,000. Household goods + listed assets − listed liabilities = $215,456. A difference is normal: net worth also counts assets and debts that aren't listed individually (items under $1,000, credit cards, taxes), and the instructions say subtracting listed liabilities from listed assets won't give an accurate figure in most cases.

What to check
  • No action needed unless other items look off.

Rule: Net worth vs. listed items
“Simply subtracting your liabilities from your assets will not result in an accurate net worth figure in most cases.”2025 Form 6 instructions, Net Worth ✓ quoted from the saved instructions · how this rule works

Context Income & business ties

75% of listed income ($189,755) comes from State of Florida

Listed income totals $252,255 from 2 sources. The largest is classed as government & public payroll.

What to check
  • Who is this source, and does it have business before the office sought?
  • If the filer owns it, check the business section and secondary income.

Rule: Where the money comes from
“List the name of each source of income that provided you with more than $1,000 of income during”2025 Form 6 instructions, Income ✓ quoted from the saved instructions · how this rule works

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Their filings

Other filings by Barbara-Jo Bell

FilingReceivedNet worthItems
2024 Form 6 — annual (Commission on Ethics)2025-06-29$250,000

Net worth

Net worth
As of
Household goods (lump sum)

Assets over $1,000 $760,000 listed

DescriptionValue

Liabilities over $1,000 $594,544 listed

CreditorAddressAmount

Joint and several liabilities not reported above

Reported as “N/A”.

Income $252,255 listed

Elected to attach federal tax return instead:

Primary sources

SourceAddressAmount

Secondary sources (major customers of businesses owned)

Interests in specified businesses

Reported as “N/A”.

Signature

Signed by
Date
Filed with COE

Source

Document
Open PDF · original source
Retrieved
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SHA-256
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Pages
p1 form6 · p2 form6 · p3 form6 · p4 form6 · p5 form6
Extraction
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