Jax Mayor: Nothing to be done about ‘saggy pants’

File this under: “your tax dollars at work.”

(Even as belts apparently fall short.)

Jan Bartell, a greeter at the Cedar Hills branch of the Duval County Tax Collector’s Office, reached out to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry for some help with an issue of community comportment recently.

That issue: an epidemic of “saggy pants” at her Westside Jacksonville workplace.

“How do I go about getting a city ordinance passed or a proposal,  to prevent men wearing their pants below their buttocks,” Bartell wrote.

“I am so tired of seeing this display of indecency. In our office, and around Jacksonville, every day!!!! This has gone on long enough. I feel it is an ignored issue.  A lot of people complain about it,  but no one says anything or does anything about it,” Bartell said.

“It is so disrespectful to their selves, and others, we do not and prefer not  to see their underwear or behind,” Bartell adds.

Bartell deemed her pursuit of sartorial standardization to be a “mission and a quest,” in appealing to the Jacksonville mayor.

Alas, she didn’t get the answer she sought.

“Back in 2014, several Florida cities passed ordinances against saggy pants, but repealed the ban after legal action took place,” Curry wrote, adding that “probably not much … can be done to resolve the matter through an ordinance at this time.”