Bo Graduated from Poplar Springs High School near Graceville in 1966 and was on the Florida Championship Basketball team that year. Bo is married to Cecilia Maddox Creel and has two sons: Michael and Paul. He now has four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

With 50 years in the construction industry and prior experience as a licensed building contractor, Bo is an excellent building code consultant for residential and commercial properties, and provides exceptional fire and building inspections.

He was also a continuing education for contractors instructor for 20 years where he taught:

• DBPR Licensed Building, Electrical, Plumbing and Mechanical Inspector
• DBPR Licensed Building and Plumbing plans examiner

Education

• Florida State Fire College: Certified Fire Safety Inspector
• Certificate of Competency Arson Investigator
• Southern Building Congress

Certifications

• Building Inspector Building Plans Examiner Plumbing Inspector
• Electrical Inspector Mechanical Inspector Plumbing Plans Examiner
• Chairman Creek Indian Council under Governor Lawton Chiles
• Member Port St Joe Lions Club
• Member Acme Masonic Lodge Panama City, Fl
• Member Shaddai Shrine Temple Panama City, Fl
• Currently work as Inspector and Plans examiner for EPCI

Michael “Scooter” Hodges has been married to his wife, Lisa for 40 years. He has 2 children and 5 grandchildren and has been involved in the construction industry for over 40 years.

He got his start as a helper in both carpentry and electrical and settled into the electrical trade as a journeyman electrician. He eventually went to work with the county building department as an inspector. Within a few years, he received several inspectors and plans examiner certifications from the Southern Building Code Congress. He was later certified as a Municipal Fire Safety Inspector for the State of Florida. When Florida implemented the requirement for inspectors and plans examiners to be licensed, Scooter was among the first to receive his licenses including:

• Building Inspector and Plans Examiner
• Electrical Inspector and Plans Examiner
• Mechanical Inspector and Plans Examiner
• Plumbing Inspector
• One & Two Family Dwelling Inspector
• Building Code Administrator
• Plans Examiner

He has been an instructor of continuing education classes for Contractors, Inspectors, Architects, and Engineers since 1992.

In 1995, he founded Hodges Inspection Service Inc., a private construction code consulting and inspection service. He was soon awarded a contract with the Florida Department of Management Services to perform inspections on all state construction projects in northwest Florida.

In 2001, Scooter Hodges and Bo Creel began providing municipalities with a full-service building department at no cost to the municipality as EPCI. We now provide this service to 11 Cities, 3 School Districts, and 2 Colleges.