4.23.24 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting (Morning Session)

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some others here I think it's appropriate for us to say something okay I I just I just want to say that um it's just tragic that commissioner Bradford um um passed away before he really got to fulfill his dream of of serving the people of Pasco County and um I know that he was so so happy to be sitting over here and um ready and willing to work hard with us to make this community a better place and um I just I'm just going to miss him very much and he was a fine man and he he left us wai too young so okay thank you chair you Mr chair very same sentiments is commissioner starky it's you're on a campaign Trail you build a rapport with someone hitting going to a lot of the same events and seeing folks everywhere you go and when you go through a campaign before coming to elected office you build some of a somewhat of a special bond taking taking the lumps good and bad uh along the way and to be sworn in in the same year as Vice chair badford was was pretty special um you know we get to see our families out there on the campaign Trail and family interactions and Mrs Bradford and the whole the the the Bradford team and you know it's it's a a kind of like a brotherly Bond if you will uh once you win and to be to be sworn in together and see how happy by chair and his family were for earning the post and your family earned that post um it's pretty special and something I'll I'll never forget and I hope you guys won't either and looking back through pictures um just just quite special so y'all keep hanging tough you've hung tough through this whole thing and anything that we can do as a board and colleagues please don't hesitate to holler at us God bless you Mr Mariana yeah I like to say Gary was a great man um I remember sitting with Mr Mrs Bradford a bit ago and he was thinking about contemplating his run this time and he just had that passion he wanted to do it wanted to serve and uh he felt he do a good would do a good job the joy that he had after winning um was phenomenal just to see everybody just so happy and um so proud that he was going to get to serve the citizens of Pasco and and the way he did it from the get-go I mean he elevated all our staff people um with his passion about how we want they have the right people working for him and how they need to be taken care of and um that passion just didn't wne and he just wanted to make a difference and he did make a difference every step of the way and we're we fortunate to have served with him very fortunate to know him and we know he's in heaven he's in a better place and um and I I wish the Bradford family all the best as as they carry on because they do have a great family um you know one of the best things about Gary as well as all the things he did polit politically and and his in career he was a great family man and and led his wife life in a great way so we'll miss him thank you Mr carbal wants to say

something caral thank you Mr chair just just to add on to that from an administrator's perspective and from the team Gary was always just so vibrant and upbeat and and genuinely curious you know especially as a as a new commissioner about what what the team did and and why and that and that positive disposition was just was just contagious I just recall several times even when he was undergoing treatments he would pop into the office he would make it a point to to make rounds and and still see folks and and that gives you know I think that still still holds true with us here you know today uh I'd also just if I could and commissioner Marana kind of Vault off of yours to really thank Todd and and Paula too uh for for really working a lot of the District 4 issues you know through this and supporting Gary through all that so I think they deserve some special recognition as well but uh thank you okay anyone else I would yes um so clerk Nikki is not able to be here today but she did ask me to pass this on to um a few notes to her family um so she said you know commissioner Bradford cared about Pasco County Citizens and um he focused on public safety and First Responders and he knew that to have a premier County uh you must first take care of the men and women who keep us safe and um he courageously fought his health battles with his wife Debbie um by his side the whole time and um he will be missed and our thoughts and prayers really go out to your family um and I will add that he was such a kind man he came and um even after he was diagnosed he came over to our office and really wanted to learn what the clerk's office did and I know I I heard that here already today um and we he just will be missed I want you to know that thank you echoing some of the other sentiments um I can recall the first meeting that we had with commissioner Bradford daav and I even before he was sworn in his attitude was he wanted to do a good job he wanted to know what it need what he needed to do to be effective and be legal um and we spent a you know a good bit of time discussing the you know the the operations of the county and what uh his goals were for being a commissioner um and he'll be missed yeah I um I know I've had his his support from myself um I know 12 years I ran the first time I ran I I lost but I had his support and it meant the world to me and I knew how he felt about serving as a commissioner and how he how much he really wanted to be a commissioner um it just dear to my heart that his struggle he went through and finally got to be a commissioner and then no no one can judge or tell you know what we're dealt the cards we're dealt we have to deal with and he did it very well he he worked very hard with the struggles he had with taking his treatments and being at meetings and it hadn't been that long ago we were inl lakes and uh cut the ribbon on the the new fire station there that went in between a couple other stations that did

so much and he just did so much and wanted to do so much for the citizens of Pasco County in public safety um and our firefighters he he really wanted to serve and do all of these things and again we're not we're not giv a tomorrow so we've got to remember that every day we need to tell our loved ones that we love them and continue to do that because there's no promise for tomorrow so with that we'll okay thank you um at this time do we have anyone signed up for a public comment yes sir we do um okay so we have two individuals signed up uh Pastor Troy Peterson is the first um on the list Pastor Troy Peterson 8114 Leo kid Road Port Richie Florida I do have some flyers for the National Day of Prayer move to receive in file second I got a motion second all those in favor say I I I motion pass first off uh I really app appreciate Mr chair what you just spoke because we really never know what tomorrow brings and um we always have to be prepared to give an answer of the hope that's in us and that hope is eternal life through Jesus Christ Our Lord um and that's what I want to share today is we have an opportunity to come together like in the book of Hagi uh the high priest Joshua came together with zerel the governor of the of the land and they seek God's guidance together and really that's what the National Day of Prayer is not just a a one day thing and it's done it's continuing to work the body of Christ the pastors the leaders in the area the governing authorities to really to be ready for every good work to obey our governing authorities and to work together as a team one body in Christ and I've been honored since I've been here in Florida eight years to be a part of the National Day of Prayer um last couple years uh leading in in um handing out the specific prayers that we're going to be praying to the different leaders and so that will once again like every year be the first Thursday in May um both right out here on this side of the county right out here several congregations will be coming together um I would encourage everybody you know even department heads I I know we had a department head uh commissioner starky I really appreciate last year you even just stopping by and and getting to pray over you before you went to fly out and see your daughter and also May 4th we have a huge opportunity commissioner Mariano thank you for coming last year if you can imagine South Koreans Coming to America to pray for Revival well that's what's happening last year happened in 41 cities this year it's happened in 21 cities um it's happening in pelis and Hernando County for a whole week and they will be in Pascal County at light of the world May 4th so if you can stop

by come and go as you please it'll be from 2: to 5:00 uh we'll be praying over our government leaders uh the South Koreans will be praying for us and then we'll have a meal in our fellowship hall from 5: to 6 and then we'll have worship from 6:00 to 9: as well in prayer thank you for your time all right thank you and Mr chair they pray with intensity okay the next individual signed up is Craig Pearson name and address for the CL yes uh my name is Craig Pearson live at 5781 Colonial Drive Newport Richie Florida since 1987 with my wife Joanne uh since ' 87 I come from a family of contractors and building inspectors and the other side of the family are Educators um once I moved to Florida brought my whole family here uh we invested in Pasco County I purchased several pieces of prod property and I said I'm getting a little too old for this but my last purchase uh wasn't uh great um I'm regarding the purchase at that 1218 Ember Avenue I spoke before your commission uh back in February um I'd been trying to uh put an end to a uh uh I guess a demolition order that had been issued uh to or to owners prior to myself uh back in according to the pictures that were taken uh at that time by the county that they were good enough to extend to me that was on uh in March of uh 22 and uh somehow that got started when we checked we got free excuse me not free but we got Title Insurance the title insurance said that there were no leans or activities on the property we checked the the Manifest if you will that the county had and it showed that there was uh in the past there were problems with debris on the property but that those had all been settled and closed uh they then sold the property to another gentleman who quickly I guess sold it to me um but when we checked on it the reference at the closing was something to do with a shed that there was a shed that had no permits taken out well when we looked at the pictures from the county that were taken there was a slab next to the well uh with uh uh it had reinforcements and this around it um and then when we purchased the property we went over there and all those reinforcements were gone so we assumed that that whatever was happening was gone unbeknownst to me I guess parallel to our efforts we made 31 trips of household debris to the county landfill um I have a picture of the property here if I may did you um give us the address of the property pardon me uh yeah yes the address there is 12018 would receive in file 188 what oh I'm sorry Marino that was Ember Avenue Ember yes it's in the Moon Lake section of Newport Richie um and uh so I finally gave up because none of the people would meet to me they they the best I could do was talk to them on the phone and the legal department said well it's not our job to make sure you get the notices it's only

our job to send them out which being a former government employee myself as a director of environmental health um and taking I'm not an attorney but I took enough law courses that um they need to obtain a signature well what happened is in January my wife goes to the mailbox and we get a general mail there and the mail was from the county we opened it up we called people and everybody said again well too bad yeah all our legal paperwork is done so it has to be taken down it's literally the nicest house on a motion is rece all those in favor say I and people couldn't believe all I'm asking for is that somebody to sit down with me and and show me what happened later on I said all right forget it I'll hire my own license company we hired the company I said ask him if we have to get it down something different than the permit allows you the six months for me to clear all the items out of the property they said no it's a six-month permit yes sir your time's up so if I can have your permission to at least meet with someone that's commissioner Bradford's District or is Comm BR Mr maybe Mr could look if if I may that this would this was an item that was slated for it a de demolition order was issued before this gentleman purchased the property my office has spent several hours over the phone on this issue um as um I understand the building official has the the structure that is slated for demolition has was built with no permits or expanded with no permits um and um at this point the the time he the gentleman has two options either we're going to take it down or he can take it down and save the save the costs of of that demition I realized that but we had a permit to take it down that's how found out it was missing because I called him I said no I'm tired of fighting let's just set a date we set a DAT date for the 12th of May to take the structures down I called the electric company to have the power turned off and she goes oh the power's already off and I said how can it be off I own the property I got a bill from you right here she says well we can't tell you who did that I said okay I said take a test you know so I finally found out it was a county so my nephew went over and he said you were right Uncle he said there's nothing here they took down everything they even wrecked all the fences took the fences away so that now some of the people that that live unfortunately in the the woods on that street I guess can have a nice park for themselves to hang out in um and also you know what and here's the real irony is that our permit was nailed my permit was nailed to the the tree to take it down okay your time didn't hire any company to take it down but I was in my time frame sir if if you if you would when you go back out go into my office ask for uh Sonia Walling and I'll I'll get with you in the attorney's office we'll talk about it further well thank you very much I don't mean thank your

time thank you have another person signed up there's no one else signed up anyone on WebEx no sir is anyone in the audience wish to speak that did not get a chance to sign up if so come forward line up in front of the podium I see one coming okay yes sir hello um name and address for the clerk um do I I don't have to State my address it's protected but I can that's fine okay uh my name is Marlo Jones I am a community organizer here in Pasco County with faith in Florida and uh today I come here with members of the Arline family and the Thomas family uh the Thomas family and the Arline family um are one of the oldest African-American families on the West Side here in Pasco County migrated from Georgia in 1925 been living in the Pine Hill Community for over a hundred years and we love this community uh about four weeks ago we suffered a tragic death in our family and um not long after that uh the trash service waste connections came and took the family's dumpster this dumpster has been with the family for over 55 plus years in the same spot 55 plus years they haven't give in sufficient reasons why um so we wanted to reach out wanted to First send my condolences to you all and to uh commissioner Bradford's family this is commissioner Bradford's District I've been working with commissioner Bradford 's office on some public safety issues in the Pine Hill area where we had a young man hit and killed by a car um but this time we're coming because residents in the community you know deserve to have some Fair representation and uh the trash hauler Service Waste Connections has been very rude to the um customers haven't had any issues for 55 plus years I mean the dumpster is older than I am so we're coming today to talk to the county because this is a County area the county has control of this area it is commissioner Bradford's District so uh we just want to come here with the family today to see if there can be some type of resolutions because I read the ordinances I've talked to other trash hauler companies and um there's really no reason for what happened you still have you still have a minute oh I still have a minute wow so you know I'm used to uh going down to Newport Richie where it's very quick okay um I think I'll come here more and speak I'm just kidding but um well you're welcome here so thank you I really appreciate it commissioner um but I do want to thank while I have this time I really want to thank commissioner Bradford I've heard everybody speak warm kind words about him and I'll say um when the young man was hit and killed a homeless person who was walking to a shelter he was hit and killed last April we reached out to commissioner Bradford's office we reached out to the city of Port Richie and Newport Richie and it was the county who first responded Todd came down we walked the streets we we seen how dangerous it was there's kids out there there's a

baseball field out there there's a church out there the African-American club and uh I just want to thank him and his office for showing compassion and caring for the constituents in this community thank you thank you Mr chairman yes sir Hey sir sir already on okay never mind uh administrator is working on for you she's gonna she's GNA meet with you okay so is anyone else to speak seeing no one they will close the public comment section and they will move to our resolutions our first resolution Madam clerk yes sir um so this is resolution number 24- 099 for the National Day of Prayer so if if anyone is here for national day of pray please come to the podium I'm assuming Pastor Peterson all right uh a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida observing Thursday May 2nd 2024 as the National Day of Prayer in Pasco County whereas the National Day of Prayer is an event deeply rooted in our country's history dating back to the First Continental Congress in 1775 in 1952 Congress passed a joint resolution recognizing a National Day of Prayer in 1988 President Ronald Reagan signed a law setting aside the first Thursday of May as the day on which the National Day of Prayer is officially observed and whereas the National Day of Prayer unites Americans from all socio economic political and ethnic backgrounds in prayer for our nation this diversity was intended by Congress when it designated the National Day of Prayer not that every faith and Creed would be homogenized but that all who sought to pray for this nation would be encouraged to do so in any manner deemed appropriate and whereas during this important time in our nation's history we continue to give thanks and pray for the brave members of our Armed Forces who are defending our freedom and their families we humbly ask God for their protection for the recovery of the wounded and for peace throughout the world which we all seek and whereas on Thursday May 2nd 2024 Americans will unite all over the country in prayer for our nation state and local communities giving thanks for the many blessings we have received and asking for protection and blessings upon our nation and our nation's leaders now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby observes Thursday May 2nd 2024 as a National Day of Prayer and encourages all citizens to join and observing this day with appropriate programs ceremonies and activities done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this 23rd day of April 2024 move approval second got a motion second all those in favor say I I motion pass yes sir I just appreciate the opportunity of sprad for okay I'm a combat vet so I know the importance of prayer my family praying for me and that's one of the things we do the National Day of Prayer we pray

the Seven Mountains the influence we pray for our veterans we pray for our police departments we pray for our governing authorities and I just appreciate the opportunity to be a part of it okay thank you yes sir Mr way thank you chair it's um great honor to to lead the National Day of Prayer at the historic Courthouse where chairman Oakland I I work and you know our our board we all recognize Faith bait community events and in some sort of way over the course of the year and I think that's very important and I think it's very important that you all come and you you take time out of your day to come and pray for us to help support us in making the many many decisions we make two board meetings a month and not just for us but for our our staff as well that we're we're using proper discernment and in guiding this County and all the hundreds of thousands of people that live here and the folks that are moving here from young to old and so it's very grateful that you take time out of your busy schedules and and care enough uh about our County and us as decision makers to to pray for us and and help support us where we where we're needed so thank you you want to go down for a picture or yeah let's go down for picture Okay so go down front I'm going stand stand on the end young lady's name is Abigail look it that way thank you all appk you [Music] okay Madam clerk resolution two yes sir um yeah yeah is Dr Tiffany Bogart here can you please join us at the podium all right so this is resolution number 24-100 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida recognizing Dr Tiffany Bogart for receiving the 2024 Florida animal protection and advocacy Association employee of the year award wow great whereas each year the Florida animal protection and advocacy Association representing 72 agencies and over 1400 Animal Control Officers and Animal Welfare professionals Statewide recognized as outstanding individuals in the field of animal control and services that have distinguished themselves as leaders in their profession and shown outstanding achievement in their organizations and communities and whereas the Florida animal protection and advocacy Association has selected Dr Tiffany Bogart Pasco County Animal Services shelter veterinarian as their 2024 employee of the year award recipient for her outstanding achievements and strong commitment to service Excellence to the citizens and pets of Pasco County and whereas Dr Bogart has excelled as the shelter veterinarian for Pasco County Animal Services exemplifying Innovation and process Improvement leading her team to accomplishing over 6,000 surgeries and 150,000 Medical Treatments in 2023 while also hosting two public lowcost vaccine clinics each week and whereas Dr Bogart went above and beyond

her duties with the Pasco County Animal Services by assisting in a cruelty case involving neglected skunks Dr Bogart was able to provide full medical exams on all animals and assist the prosecuting attorney's office with the case to ensure no further animals were at risk of being harmed and whereas Dr Bogart provided Humane euthanasia technician certification training for several Florida animal protection and advocacy Association agency members mentored veterinarians and Veterinary students for the University of Florida shelter medicine program program and provided training and coaching for students and local high school veterinary technician programs at Pasco and Hudson High Schools as well as St Petersburg College and Hillsboro Community College now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that set board hereby commends Dr Tiffany Bogart for her achievements and selection as the 2024 Florida Animal Control Association employee of the year done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present in voting this 23rd day of April 2024 congratulations second got a motion second all those in favor say I I Dr Bogart welcome thank you Commissioners for recognizing my award I'm like congratulations proud I I made a speech but now I can't really say because I that were listed and I've said to Mike on the side there I'm I did a lot of work yeah thank you so much for recognizing me I am honored to represent Pasco County and its citizens and all the animals it's I'm glad to be a voice for them thanks Mike and Spencer for making a wonderful work environment that makes me want to come to work every single day I have a great team without them we couldn't do all this amazing work but thank you very much yep [Applause] congratulations Mike you want to say some words about yes I do she's uh she's an amazing individual um her career um I I can't even imagine how many animals she Hy sterilized in her time does it uh sometimes on the weekends we have what we call popup clinics for tmbr cats and stuff and she works with the people that do that um as well um but I I just want you to know how blessed I feel um to have both of our veterinarians receive this award from the agency um and then also we had uh one of our employees take the Pasco County you know uh employee of the year award this year so been a great year for us uh starting out and we hope to continue that but um Dr Bogart has just done some amazing work and she comes in every day ready to go Bri and early she's on it so we are so thankful for her and for what she does for us thank you that's that is great we we certainly congratulate you on your achievement and continue the good work through the county so I mean it's it's great things that are happening you got team members here with you bring them up we'll all come down and have a picture so hey Mr

chairman yes before we get on Mike I I just want to say you know since you came to the County Commission uh as the Director you've done such an amazing job surrounding yourself with great people providing such a great environment uh it's led to all these great servants Dr bats thank you for your all your great service and your team as well because that's the type of leadership we need to get things done and what you guys are doing is absolutely phenomenal so thank you all thank you [Applause] Shel here somewhere good thank [Music] you ulations thank you okay that concludes the resolutions we will move on to our next item which is um our consent agenda where's that and on the consent agenda I have um one item pull to revise is C8 are there any other items the board wishes to pull at this time from the consent if not I'll entertain a motion move approval the remain of the consent agenda second got a motion and second all those in favor say I I I motion pass 4 Z all right uh C8 good morning board Andrew Baxter Facilities Management director C8 uh mentioned in the original documentation and the budget amendment a software system that we use which is actually confidential and so that has been removed redacted and with that we seek approval move approval second got a motion and second all those in favor say I I I motion pass 4 Z all right thank you that concludes the consent agenda we will move on to regular item Mr chair Mr Cronin is here for 36 a Time certain but he's ready to speak we'll move forward with with regular item 36 there he is all right good morning thank you for seeing me early this morning and uh first of all let me say my our condolences from the Pasco EDC for the entire Gary Bradford family each of you and each of our citizens too it's a sad day for us um especially as I I sit here and and see the flowers in his remembrance he was such a a stalwart for positive growth in our community we're sadden to see him go um it is uh my honor to to present to you our second quarter update for the Pasco edc's results for our memorandum of understanding and our penny for Pasco uh agreement with the County's Board of County Commissioners um in your packets and I made sure I think we all have have this are the metrics that go behind this but I do have an abbreviated PowerPoint so that we can get there fairly quickly and then if you have questions about the uh metrics we can go into details but always like to start with business recruitment I think people like that as the good news Department because that means people chose us they intentionally moved here uh we celebrated not too long ago uh Global Electronics uh testing services which is on your cover slide with their uh SE expansion in Pasco

County but also since then we've had a total of three more wins uh totaling four out of our goal for 12 for the year so things are moving around moving forward fairly quickly and if you look at the the mix uh well first of all let me say we're almost at our capital investment goal of $250 million we're at 238 million right now and just over halfway on the job creation 765 new jobs to Pasco County but if you look at the mix of what we've got coming in I think that's really telling because uh years ago we would not have these types of companies looking at Pasco uh right now the majority of our projects are in the advanced manufacturing but look quickly at the life sciences is quickly a second coming up behind them uh with over 20% of the activity and Then followed by high-tech who would have thought that uh uh Pasco is leading in high-tech in life sciences uh but especially the fact that these are all jobs that will uh multiply each one of these types of Industries create other jobs in our environment too so these are good jobs for our people 125 projects right now and 117 leads you guys know that always makes me nervous that when we have uh more projects than leads that we got to focus on our pipeline but 125 projects again that's about four times what we had uh last year at this time yeah we're busy um as far as retention and expansion and this is where we work with our existing business and we still spend about 80% of our time on existing business and helping them grow we feel that's the best advertisement we can do for our economy is to show how well we take care of our existing economy um company visits we're out knocking on doors working with the companies seeing their facilities understanding what their needs are so they can grow looking under the hood um and also that includes our Workforce Development effort so our talent is still our most precious commodity that we have here we're one of the few communities that has land but we've got land and people and making sure that we get the talent pipeline right is extremely important um before I go on this slide reminds me that uh in the last week we also had an announcement that you're going to see uh again soon uh one of our team members you might remember last year Mr Turner Arbor won the the award from Florida Economic Development Council uh as the workforce professional of the year uh considering he was very young at the role uh most people wait a lifetime to get that status well this week I'm happy uh to report that um one of our youngest in in in the position Miss Sarah alwe was awarded the Daniel Webster scholarship and recognized as the young innovator of the year and that's one of only three individual awards that the Florida Economic Development Council gives each year so uh we're thrilled to have backto back representation from Pasco County uh from our team and especially because it's our future generation it's the ones that are coming we're leaving you in much better hands

in the future someday I'll retire I guess um media coverage we continue to get great coverage and earned media value and again this is people telling our story not us just telling our story uh over 1 5 million the last quarter and then the top landing pages of where they're hitting for us uh on our website of course they're still coming through the homepage but they're looking at the news like Gary plastic they're looking at Smart Start um they're looking at those announcements and where are they looking from well California New York Georgia Virginia and Illinois out of those five top locations they're looking at us you might notice that three of those are very high tax States and that indicative of the great environment we have here are people that are looking to continue to move to Florida because of our our low tax environment still have uh good following on each of our social media uh platforms 12 almost 12,000 followers and again a lot of that is our small uh startup Community entrepreneurship programs they use social media like we use email sometimes so um we get a lot of traction with that and it's important also for our community to know what we're doing and what resources are available for us uh getting out on the road uh we had 18 industry and trade events that we attended this last quarter busy time of the year uh five conferences and seminars and then presented to eight business groups and local groups here and that's everything from uh rotary to fedc and anyone in the local region so getting the word out making sure that um uh people know what we have to offer here marketing Pasco as a great place to do business and investors uh still hovering right around 88 um and our goal though for fundraising for the private sector were almost there so our goal is uh 557 we're at 404,000 as of halfway through the year uh and usually the second half of our year is when we've got uh more events like uh netfest and um uh the annual Awards and things like that that help out um speaking of which um we've got some new investors uh reant which is a uh company that works with relocations uh for companies that are moving here uh also Hancock Whitney I think a lot of you all know them and then uh Clifton Larson alen which is one of the largest CPA firms in the United States has taken an active interest in what we're doing here um so that they can actually help some of these large companies that are moving here upcoming events uh Pasco 50 coming up uh and that is June 13th I'm using my I don't have my reading glasses with me guys sorry um and that's where we bring in the HR professionals and the leadership of companies from around the county to understand what their challenges and obstacles are uh also the industrial update coming up on July uh 17th it looks like is that 14th 17 17 thank you 17 and then uh uh and that's at the Hilton Gard in that is what used to be almost a soldout event pretty regularly and and that's really for a lot of the Brokers and people in

the community that don't always get up to Pasco and sometimes we've got to educate our region of what's going on up here because each time they come up they say wow I had no idea um and then annual Awards I mentioned will be at the ipac again and that'll be the Thursday following uh Labor Day uh at the phsc institutional Performing Arts Center uh um also this was sent to youall Prior I think to the netfest uh activity we had half of netfest uh a couple weeks ago with the U uh rain and storms that came through the first half of the day the shooting event has been postponed to May 3rd there's still opportunities for youall to come out uh and shoot and the lunch is included but we did still have a couple hundred people that came for the evening event um which is pure networking and that's a great way for people to get to know you guys and get to know other leaders in our community um I'm going to segue right into the penny for Pasco unless anybody has any questions on the M part are you okay with that chairman y okay uh ready sites again uh these are the sites that uh thanks to the penny for Pasco we were able to assess and evaluate uh we're getting inquiries all over the United States and again we're one of the few places that has land and people but we had 12 presentations on those sites uh already this this uh uh year Advanced manufacturing again seems to be the one that they're most interested in for the sites and those are factories and uh things that make things uh companies that make things um and we're on the short list for a couple of those projects already too so uh we've had two of those sites go off the market already one was the Amazon robotic Center which you see is uh restarted and then the bedo site uh near the Zep Hills airport here's a list of the inquiries 18 inquiries 15 responses to rfps uh in including the ready sites in the RFP uh presentations to consultants and developers 12 and then actual site visits where they get out and kick the dirt and see the site which is that's a really good sign that means you've made it through a couple layers of vetting if they're going to get in the car or airplane to come see those sites inter ational uh a lot of international activity that part of the year the second uh second quarter um went to Austria to meet with life science companies out of 12 meetings 11 of them became projects or leads uh that's really really high uh uh transition rate for us usually if we get one or two good projects out of a a trip like that it helps to justify and pay for it uh this is a lot and almost all of those were life science uh companies that want to locate around mafa and if they don't locate around maet we have plenty of other places uh that they can put them all throughout the county uh we also joined uh in our Consortium with global Tampa Bay on a trip to England uh were members of the British American Business chamber and this was a followup to the trip that we took uh two years ago and commissioner Mariano and

commissioner that two years ago oh my God I think it was yeah going um and and that also met with business service companies but but also defense sector so we we we're not forgetting about those other sectors that we have as well too sopic is right around the corner sof week uh we'll be there looking for companies that want to be somewhere near uh centcom Socom and mcdill uh and then international business and tourism day was celebrated uh as part of the growing Global event and that was at Florida Avenue Brewing in Wesley Chapel in the second quarter which also seems like it was ages ago but it was just the other day right uh met with 37 companies on exports uh over this last quarter that is um uh to help them find export markets overseas so they're not just selling to people here in Pasco but selling to people abroad um that's more money that comes into our community instead of just us recirculating it here uh trade missions nothing during that time of the year which is not surprising uh that is the time of year that uh most of our trade goes to places like Latin America uh and that time of year is their vacation time so um we will have a trade Mission coming up to Vancouver um in September of this year uh trade related events we had three different events that were for export trade promotion and then enhanced marketing again marketing those penny for Pasco programs over and above what we already do for you for theou uh continuing to see uh more more information about the International activities and concert with global Tampa Bay but Smart Start you Smart Start the incubator system tends to still be one of our leaders in uh social media but also um the onesie toy activity of the small businesses the people that want to start uh their own company and may not necessarily want to work for somebody else and we see more and more of that especially as more people move here with trailing spouses uh and as kids that want to live here stay they want to stay here after graduation they're starting companies as well so uh that's an important part of of why we work with the incubator systems and the startups and then the target industry snapshots uh we update those each year to make sure that we're including all the different successes that we have when companies come here and they look at um Advanced manufacturing for example one of the first questions they have is who else is here so we show them on those brochures of who else is here to show that we have the ecos system we have the workforce uh and that paints a much better picture than me just saying yeah they're here um so it gives them a good visual uh and Workforce Gary Plastics has had two job fairs um one of them was over a thousand people I think you all had already heard about that lined up around the block um that's going to be a huge uh employment generator for the Northwest portion of the County uh Workforce connect assist in stem uh fair at Angeline at the new Academy of

innovation and the uh hug guys actually approved the jci for gets uh that quarter as well and gets was the global Electronics testing services and I think everyone was a little surprised of his reach and where that company is I mean six locations all around the world and even some of the companies when we're abroad meeting with companies we find out that they send their their chips and their cards to be tested by gets here in Pasco County great success story and speaking of success the executive success program so uh that's where we bring bring our leadership of our companies through understand things about Pasco EDC Pasco County uh it's kind of like a leadership Pasco on steroids um they just finished their listening s uh session and uh attended growing Global as a class co-starter for causes kicked off during this quarter and actually it's going to be finishing uh here in a couple weeks so you might recall during our annual Awards uh we announced that we were going to uh host and sponsor the very first co-starters class for um nonprofits as we saw the county was growing so rapidly a lot of our nonprofits were not scaling at the same rate to be able to take care of the people here um so we sponsored the very first class out of our own pocket to say let's get this going and we picked some nonprofits from all around the county in areas of anti-human trafficking homelessness addiction foster care uh recidivism and we brought them together to teach them how to run their nonprofit more like a business and our goal is that somebody else and I'm saying this very intentionally that maybe somebody hears this uh sponsors the next cohort and so on um so that we can continue to roll out this program for all the nonprofits throughout Pasco County uh to help them scale and meet the demand of the the services and the growth that uh is required here so I'm really proud of how people came together for that one and the mix that we have that um uh graduation will be coming soon and you'll each get an invite for that uh also we hosted our second annual microloan success lunch and this is again a great Penny program uh where we help those companies that are otherwise unbankable and could be a company who just got a big order from Publix but they're only a year old and they don't have credit yet and they need money to get that second machine to be able to fulfill the order or it could be someone that has had a a past track record that doesn't demonstrate you how well they could actually do in the future so these are high-risk loans um but they're also very low default because these companies are very loyal uh that somebody has given them a chance and we like to bring those to potential investors so that the banks and lots of times through their CRA funds uh invest in that fund to help it to become a revolving fund uh and that way the the onus isn't just on the penny dollars uh and to date we have over3 million out on the streets right now that equates to over $5 million in activity that was generated out of that

so that is one of my favorite programs that probably doesn't get a lot of u a lot of Mr chairman yes sir just to touch on that because as you highlighted you know a few several months back we were working with Point Distillery and they need to put the second line in place to get it running to have a chance to get the Rolling Stones in their hurricane rum brand that has led to this success of getting it put the put the bottles out have been shipping out like crazy all over the world uh great success and what it's done for them is kind of like a a starting for them because now so many other groups now come to them saying well we see you're doing it for them on this high end we want to see what you can do for us so that's opened up many many doors for them they're looking to expand across the board in this County as well so that's a classic thing of a small company having an opportunity and we helped them take that step and it's been paying off big time for them right yeah you guys helped direct with with that one that wasn't necessarily part of the micro but very similar situation that uh uh somebody's going through Rapid growth and um you know it's it reminds you of the the car that caught the ambulance you know what what what do they do or the uh the dog that caught the ambulance um so uh um we had the um our second Big Grow I'm sorry third Big Grow Pasco event uh which is a daylong event and it was the biggest that we've had thus far uh and that was at the wellness center at St Leo very well attended and uh uh the guest speaker the keynote speaker was Colonel J Powers uh he was head of the fifth Special Forces and you all might remember the uh 12 strong movie with the uh yeah so he was the uh the colonel over all of that Special Forces Group but he's also the COO of Tampa Bay wave so he totally gets what we do and understands what we do from in an Trum preneurship aspect and they're great Partners in the region for us 90 events uh seems like a lot uh for for Smart Start but they're out there almost every week they've got something going on 500 86 event participants 55 incubator members we have now between the three locations uh I think that's the most we've ever had and two microl loans uh total in 40,000 were issued during that quarter and 193 one-on-one counseling sessions with those individual companies so that's the team it's not me that does it um I I'm really happy for everything that they continue to to do and as I mentioned earlier earlier uh we'll definitely have one of them back to um to to brag about her and the recent award that we got from the Florida Economic Development Council but with that I'll stop and see if you all have any questions um I have uh I just want to thank you again for a great report it's always so exciting um I'm hopeful that one of the uh pitches that we gave that I worked on uh comes comes through I've heard there's been a little movement but I'll leave that silent for now um I did want to tell you and I'm uh my staff has reached out to him I had a a meeting the

other night and I'll tell the Commissioners about it um in a little bit um uh but one of the gentlemen who participated he's from starky Ranch he sits on the CDD board and um I've asked him to call me because we've reached out to him he's in the tech industry and he holds twice a year a big Tech Symposium similar to that coverse or what is the one yeah yeah but he does his own and he and he wants to do it in Pasco County but there is no place large enough so he goes down to Tampa now when I saw that picture of St Leo and I went you know I went to that um for a little bit uh what was that event that was there gr Pasco yeah Gro Pasco um would they let this gentleman use that space because I think that might fit oh yeah yeah know that is a that is a space for the community um they've got U catering service and things like that the Boy Scouts are going to be using it for upcoming event uh uh for the sheriff that uh getting an award from the scouts and I think their capacity is well over 250 or 300 um that they can do there I think uh the the breakout sessions and the ability to host in classrooms or in the rooms around there lend really well to those type of tech events where you've got more than on stage out there but this isn't the first time we've heard about events and not having a place uh and he brings companies in from all over the place and they go to Tampa because there's no place here so that is a problem for us um I as soon as uh um I've asked I've emailed him to call me I did not get his phone number but I'd like to connect him with you and oh please do and then and certainly with David Engel and um and our team and you know see what his needs are and I I'm hearing this more and more so I think we have to start talking about figuring out a way to have a centrally located event space large enough for us to have you know our own kind of Convention Center opportunity and and and our TTC our our DMO uh gentleman back there is saying yeah he wants that too right I was just going to suggest that that uh you know this events definitely fall into the the tourism Department's area but it's something that we all see as a big asset business too yep you bet bu too big asset and then it would be nice to have somewhere to graduate our kids from as well too yeah and this year the Cinderella Ball uh which is the big fundraiser for the Pasco Education Foundation we were in Tampa we were at The JCC you know in South Tampa so um we we need something but I'm ex I was wanting to act on this guy's problem so we'll get together sounds good thank you for everything thank you for a a good report oh I think he called me I was glad to see those results at the front you make you get that pipeline full and seeing the results really uh makes a difference here in the county so and you and you've noticed too that more and more businesses are coming to Pasco County and um we're not just a residential uh County anymore but we are actually probably getting in twice as

many businesses we our residential projects so it's really been good for Pasco County and will be good for our citizens help keep our taxes lower that's that's exactly right they take care of bigger own us on the tax space and uh um and I think we're almost at a point now because of the growth and because of what we've got coming in we can be picky about what types of jobs and what types of companies that are coming in here and really make sure it it dubv tales with our comp plan and the strategy that David Engel and his his shop is working on for economic development too yeah Mr Mariano thank Mr chairman bill it's always great to hear from you because you always give us great news of how how great we're doing but your leadership your team has been phenomenal um recently we heard some stats where we're like third in residential growth but we're number one commercially yeah and I think it's a huge tribute to what you've done in the opportunities here I love the line that you used about we have land and people they show a picture and I don't know how you carry that even further but that is just like such a great uh combination to work with well I'd love for everybody to take that sound bite home with them because you all I'm the hired help you know if you guys on the street say the same thing it means so much more but you're you're you're right we're one of the only places that has land and people in most of Florida if you've got people you don't have land and if you've got land you don't have people um we're sitting in a really good situation right now and it's and it's not just people we got great people yes we do and you're making the most of it and we appreciate it thank you thank you commissioner okay all right thank you Bill okay well thank you again for the yes sir thank you we'll move on to uh regular item 37 good morning Mr chairman nario pitos planning and economic growth department so at the August 88th uh 2023 Board of County Commissioners meeting the BCC directed The Planning and Development Department to implement PM 26 single family detach and attached lot sizes and allowances and MPS and at the time the board of County Commissioners was primarily concerned with the proliferation of lot sizes that were 40 ft wide and thus we had to create a policy memo that clarified the circumstances under which uh we would support um those lot sizes recent development activity however has seen proposed lot sizes that are less than 40 feet wide and questions have Arisen as to the applicability of PM 26 and how to handle those lot sizes that are less than the bcc's uh tolerance for 45 foot wide Lots or in some circumstances even for 40 foot wide lots and so the specific issue is regarding lot sizes in the 30 to 40 foot wide range today so we're bringing forward policy memo 26 to do a small tweak a revision uh basically PM 26 is going to be revised uh and amended to state that the lots that are essentially 30 to 40 ft

wide or another way to say it is 40 ft wide or less um will be allowed only if they are rear loaded Lots so these are the proposed text edits to uh PM 26 just to see the exact language uh in addition to making the revision for the lot range lot size range that we that I've just talked about um we're also making two small edits to the uh town home portion of policy m126 one is to clarify that town homes shall be platted and uh a second revision is as it relates to the architectural appearance of town homes currently uh as Illustrated on the overhead the revision is to say a two or more story Town Home Building shall not be entirely stucco but shall have a different first floor architectural veneer such as brick or sighing with stucco reserved for the upper levels of the building uh the intent for this provision uh to be is to be applicable for the front facade of the first story or first floor elevation of the town home and we can make this clear in the articulation of the memo um with confirmation from the board um my suggestion to make it a little bit more clear is to break it up a little bit uh to something to this effect uh a two or more story Town Home Building shall not not be entirely stucco on the front facade of the town home the first story architectural veneer shall be different from the upper levels of the building heavier architectural elements shall be on the first story and lighter architectural elements allowed on the upper levels these veneers can be brick stone sighing or other material that is identified by the Builder uh and so that's the three V revisions very narrow uh focus on uh policy memo 26 that's before the board today any question for this you're talking about stucco if it was stucco on the top but then it' be some board or some other kind of texture on the bottom is that on the sides front sides and so the idea is not to have a full facade of a town house building to be all stucco but rather the first floor might have brick let's say and then the upper level might have stucco right or it might have brick and siding or it might have siding and stuckle or might have stone and St any combination just the heavier element ought to be on the does that include the sides of the Town Hall no this would just be for the first or the front the front the front what about the rear uh it wouldn't it we don't see as I've suggested not necessarily for the rear although one could contemplate if a townhouse did a rear of a townhouse did face um uh a road a collector Road let's say or an arterial however uh it's most likely to be the case that the rear is going to be fenced or there may be a rear garage that'll block the facade of the rear so the primary focus is has is the front facade okay Mr St um I think this is a very good clarification um but there's a couple things that I might suggest um I don't have any issue with Hardy plank or uh something similar being on the top top I'm designing a house and it's Tabby

or stucco on the bottom and Hardy plank on the second so um I wouldn't put rock or brick on the second but I would do allow a Hardy plank you know that's the lateral um sighting I personally um I did get a call from tbba and I know there's some hesitation for um putting it on the sides but I think that we should wrap the corner um maybe 4 feet or something I don't I don't know what the good number is for construction material if things come in a certain size but just wrap the corners um and I I have some I have a photo here of a town home product where um the windows were put in flat I mean they are on the same plane as the building and that that is really like mobile home construction and I think that the windows we need to not allow that kind of window un um but I I would allow I would say I think there should be an exception in all of this and that is um if someone is building a um 40 or 60 to 80 Ami say say 80 Ami and under I think they should have some relief from some of the AR architectural um restrictions that we have because because we do have a need for for that product and uh I don't think we'll get a lot of it but we need to be able to help that part of the industry um build build their build their product but okay so here are some of the photos that I have I just wanted to show you guys these are these ones up top are in Longleaf and they're on 32 foot wide Lots so you can build a very cute product a a very attractive product on a a a smaller lot as long as they're real loaded but you see what they did on on the sides um the the uh material continues now now you were talk you were talking about town homes they don't have to wrap um and I think you uh I'd like to get a picture of what I'm talking about with the windows but you can see these windows have bandings around them the there's some there's some Builders out there who aren't doing that um anywhere on their houses and I I feel the windows need to have some kind of banding otherwise it's really really looking cheap um there might be another picture are the are those uh rear loaded town homes that's what they were uh those are rear loaded single families single families okay yeah um now here's some rear loaded town homes in Asteria and you can see these Town Homes wrapped they did put the um uh treatment on the side they didn't and this is what I'm talking about where you have stucco on the bottom and siding on the top um and they they did turn the corner so you know I don't know I don't know if you really want to not have anything on the sides um but the garages they just have the banding around the door but not none none of the uh treatments so let's see if there's any other pictures um these are a Taylor Morrison product this is um 35t wide homes and they have um shingle on the top and stucko on the bottom and I think I personally think that's okay I don't think you

would ever put rock or brick on the top but shingle and sighting in my mind is okay um now you can see they didn't put it on the side well they did wrap the the the area by the front door but they did band somewhat band the windows and and there's some relief in [Music] um they don't look like they're just flush with the with the wall I'm not a builder I don't know if there's any Builders here but I think we should at at the very least have some kind of trim around the windows on the side that's kind of my my point and here's the houses from the back these are rear loaded houses and um they don't have any of the treatment in the back but they did ban the windows on the second floor thank you commissioner I've uh taken the notes um in the uh original language of the memo I could see how there would be this conflict between the upper and uh lower level uh in the revised language we're we're noting that heavier architectural elements shall be on the first story so the brick and the stones and lighter architectural elements a lot on the upper levels and then I made a a note to say that sighting and shingles Etc may be on the upper levels and I noted all the other um ideas if the if the board would confirm those as well and and I don't think they should be painted shingles I think they have to be like real shingles I mean I don't mean they have to be operable shingles but and and going through some of my photographs of driving around the county yeah there's some Builder that's painting just painting it so it looks like a shingle but it really isn't I didn't noce sh shingle or shutter shutter shingle I don't know what's the difference say Shing I'm not sure well there there's shingles there's shakes shakes yeah shakes and then there's shutters shutters are oh yeah the shutters I'm saying they're painted on shutters I can I can send the picture over yeah okay okay all right chair yes thanks chair Terry 4.5 talks about 44 to less our board policy is nothing less than 45 ft so when it says less than 40 ft uh support developments single family detached lot what are we saying here so in PM 26 uh we put our red line as 45 foot wide Lots anything less than the 45 foot wide Lots needed to have over a certain threshold which I believe was 50% needed to be rear loaded we also make allowances in PM 26 to allow 40 foot wide lots for example in the 55 plus Community you could still do a 44 wide lot um other developments more recent developments have uh proposed less than 40 foot wide Lots as re as rear loaded um product and this was unclear in the PM 26 memo because the focus at the time back in a last summer was what to do with the proliferation of these 40s uh and so we didn't really think about single family detach lots that were less than 40 because 40 was the the hard line that we would that we stopped at last summer um this memo is clarifying that we would be supportive

of lot sizes that are less than 40 ft wide if they're only if they're real loaded so similar to to the picture that commissioner starky just showed in long leaf you can get single family homes detached homes on lot sizes that are less than 40 ft wide but they would have to be rear loaded as that example showed that's that's what we're trying to get well for that for that specific type of product I'd want more stringent architectural design standards such as what commissioner starky mentioned for the towns I'm okay with what you're talking about towns because that's really a more affordable product versus a single family home right now in this market so I'm okay there but if 4.5 I think you know they're going to be selling as a single family home product I think that product needs to be you know looking really really nice for that lot size I think that should be the be the compromise um okay thank you chair is there is there a certain percentage of the um rear loaded units that can be in a project or can the whole project be those uh in the original PM 26 discussion um we noted that an entire project could be say 40t wide Lots uh if it was rear loaded so you could do 100% 40 foot wide Lots only if they were rear loaded um otherwise you had to do 45 ft and there was a threshold that to meet uh in this with this revision you could still do let's say all 35t wide Lots again the only way to do that would be through being rear loaded so you could do 100% but it would all have to be Aly loaded product right okay that leads me to another question ter with this sooner or later um that's my window issue with with this type of of product I like to get with industry stakeholders and we figure out the parking aspect of this that way we don't continuously have you know debates healthy but we actually set a standard on what town home project comes in and if parking's sufficient for folks because more and more folks are living the number of people living in a town home is growing um so I'd like to get with the the stakeholders and maybe have some conversations and keep evolving um this Mo to make it the best that it can be and we get the best product out of folks and livability and you know all the assurances that you can you live here but you're able to park also absolutely too we've uh We've started the discussion on the town home parking question um as you know parking standards are currently being revised we're in process and uh there are upcoming commissioner briefings on the parking standards and uh we can give you a heads up on that ahead of coming to the board of County Commissioners with those Land Development code amendments and we'll try to incorporate the town home parking uh updates directly into the Land Development code with that with that Land Development code Amendment and the next subject that I

would like us to talk about is rear loaded Town Homes because you know I'm not a fan of front-loaded town homes and I've showed you many projects that I don't think we're going to be very proud of when they all come up with all that was where we had all the concrete in the front yeah or just all driveway yeah this well depending on how far we go I think that still needs to be a market driven decision whether it's you know rear loaded or the way that they've been built historically to put a mandate on the type of product I think we really need to be considerate of that for what the Dem Market demands are um I think the market will seemingly shift we've started to see it as the rear loaded product drum has been beaten by this board um but I think that's a slippery slip to mandate only you know reared Town Town Homes yeah I just don't want us to I'm cautious to go and force it I think the market will say what people can have and you know and what it goes back to affordability too so well and that's why I thought it was important to talk talk about having a lane for affordable truly affordable um 80% Ami and under that that um we don't um have we don't take out the ability for that that market to exist in the county Mr chairman yes sir so I think we bring up a several good points I'll say as far as like to the sighting issue I think commissioner starky I think you're you're you're fine with um the sightings going across the side my my house actually is all Hardy Board Siding all the new stuff not the old stuff um and I think it looks fine I think the elevated part whether it be shingles or that is fine um I do think it's important to make sure we make these things look good for a long time otherwise you're just creating some slums of the future and I've driven by you know several projects that are really old that just have no designs whatsoever and they look terrible yeah um so it's going to bring down value if you want to really help and help a neighborhood up the architectural things that we can do I think is brilliant and I don't think it costs that much more money to elevate it the incentive that we put in place from this year if it's rear loaded to have a 5 foot wide small lot it's a it's a nice carrot that's out there so I think it's it's it's it's not pushing but it's incentivizing what we like to see if you're going to go smaller then go re loaded like we're trying to get and we've seen the market doesn't go unless it's an incentive forward I think that might be enough incentive for those that want to go yeah tighter can go and make it work so and whether you do Town Homes the same type of way I think it's it's it's critical to go both both ways okay anything else have you got direction from us or you need um and just to confirm uh with regard to some of the discussion points that were made by commissioner starky um we're going to uh clarify to enable

or allow horizontal sighting shakes and that sort of thing on the second levels or the upper levels wrap the corner four feet so just bring it around the corner uh Windows should not be on the same plane as the facade of the building and need to be framed or trimmed and that's all the way around all the way around um uh and then craft an exception to the architectural restrictions or requirements ments for the single family detached houses that are 60 that are serving the 60 to 80% Ami uh range for affordable housing I I I have a problem with that you what I have a problem with that oh really yeah discuss that okay well maybe they need something but if you put too much if you put too much on them they they won't be able to build them but well let's do something we can we can talk about it we can revisit we can table that for now to at the board's pleasure of course uh and revisit that perhaps at the affordable we could ask that industry I I agree yeah okay yeah okay wanted some more stringent architectural standards on rear loed single family I don't know if that Mr wa thank you chair yes so 4.5 if we're going to allow I mean these are single family detached so these are houses on smaller Lots than the for you know what we have rules now at 45 ft that type of product really I think needs to be heavy on the landscape and Architectural design standards I think that's the the incentive if you will for having us approve potentially a smaller lot size um and then I want to be sure that with the wrapping of the four feet and the other points and wrapping of the windows I think is important if that's not what when you worked with the stakeholders if those if those points weren't discussed with them I think we need to hear what they have to say before it becomes set in stone so if those are new to it I you know I think there a lot of stakeholder time put in this so a few more minutes discussing if they were okay with what was offered here or or not I think it's important that they sure I can reach out to the tbba okay and speak with them all right okay anything else got some direction thank you Mr chairman okay thank you move on to uh R 38 good morning Commissioners and members of the board Panos cones assistant director for Transportation uh engineering department or Ted as we call ourselves um before I go ahead with my presentation I would like also to express my condolences for the passing of commissioner Bradford to you and to his family um this presentation is about the Construction contract for the westle Chapel Boulevard um the limits of the project are from South of from north of State Road 54 state road 56 to Pasco Road uh typically Ted presents construction contracts through um the consent agenda however because of the size of the contract the uh significance of the project to the

county and also for the his because of the history of the project our County Administrator suggest that we give you a brief presentation that's why we're here today um so as you see here the limits of the projects are shown um through its path westle Chapel Boulevard provides access to many community unities and also commercial businesses also provides an alternate route a relief route to I75 uh presently uh South at the South End uh westle Chapel Boulevard the six Lanes it's posted at 45 miles per hour and it provides uh 5 foot sidewalks on the west side and an 8ft pathway on the west side it also provides 5ot bicycle Lanes in the middle in transitions to a two-lane rural uh roadway posted at 55 mil hour there are no sidewalks or Pathways but there are five to five foot shoulders now as we move north uh north of uh progress Boulevard uh the uh West Chapel Boulevard widens to four lanes again it's posted at 45 mph it provides 5 to 6 sidewalks on both sides and also provides 4ot bicycle Lanes uh project history this project has a long history longer than we want it and also went through several project managers I just happened to be the last one and we just have to say that we're very excited to bring this project to its last stage its construction uh the original route study was approved in 2003 and the recommendation was for a four-lane rural uh Road within 150t right of way the design started at 2008 uh between 2008 and 2014 the new Tampa Bay Regional planning model became available and it showed us that the four lane typical section wouldn't be able to accommodate the projected volumes that area as you very well know is going through explosive growth so the volumes the projective volumes were almost double so the recommendation was made to take the road to six Lane typical section but keep it within 150 ft right away which meant we had to condense the typical section to an herban no digits on the sides no depressed median just herban which meant closed drainage system sidewalks on both sides and I will go through the typical section later but it was it became an urban six lane roadway um after that uh we did the updated uh route study between 2015 and 2016 M mainly to assess drainage needs because of course the Clos drainage system required additional ponds and additional drainage facilities uh there were additional impacts to Wetlands Etc so we did an updated route study that concluded 2016 the board approved the rout the uh updated route study we resumed design in 2016 and just about when we started to move along in 2017 the updated model uh for for PL flood planes became available from swiftmud the final uh model up to the time we were using the draft so we thought to do a a uh diligence uh study and find out if the updated flood planes were compatible with our design we didn't want to any

adjacent properties to experience any additional flooding so our design team did an analysis a drainage analysis and found out that one drainage Crossing had to be upsized but nothing would be become to the adjacent properties so we were glad about that so we resumed the design after that and between 2019 and 2023 we did the design we also under took the right of way acquisition uh we had um let's see here um that seems like a really long time it took a long time but we had at some points to stop and redo things and five years so uh we had to acquire 43 parcels and we had to deal with 25 different Property Owners so that was an extensive uh effort for our resource resources um we also had to undergo through several plan re revisions because as we were doing the design new developments came to to light and there were new connections we had to add new turn Lanes Etc so we had to update our design constantly plus we had to go through several reviews by fdot because they contribute funding to the project so they also had an input in the design so we finished the design and then we went to buit solicitation in mid December and the bids were opened in uh end of January 2024 so here we are now with uh uh having a contractor uh on board and ready to award the contract uh as I said before the approved by the board typical section for the uh widening of Westley Chapel Boulevard is for six Lanes three Northbound Lanes three southbound Lanes five fo bike Lanes on both sides uh 5 to 6 ft sidewalk on the uh west side and an 8ft pathway on the uh East side this graphic here shows the uh um Pathways and sidewalks at the end of the construction as you can see on the uh West Side we have a continuous uh 5 to six foot sidewalk uh that's the blue line and on the east side we have an uh 8ft pathway from the south end where we match the existing 8ft pathway all the way to approximately Mia Boulevard except for a short thousand foot segment between Royal Palm Boulevard and Pet Lane what happened there is our design team found out that uh there were issues with offside uh storm water storm water management uh impacts to Westlands close to Pet Lane uh impacts to the uh power lines and also we would need additional right of way in order to uh connect with the driveways uh a couple of developments there so to avoid all those impacts they reduced the uh pathway width from uh 8 ft to 6 feet uh now nor going north from there we transition back to what's existing out there on Wesley Chapel Boulevard North of progress which is uh 5 to six food sidewalks on both sides so are we going to have a trail on Old Pasco Road on all Pasco Road yeah you you only have a you have a sidewalk going up to I don't know what road it is there and then aren't we putting a multi-use path on Old Pasco what happens is um I drove that segment of West Chapel Boulevard from uh north of Boulevard all the way past

I75 in both sides of w Chapel Boulevard is 5 to 6 ft sidewalk there is no multi-use path or pathway now on on all Pasco Road we have a 12 foot uh multi-use path coming down from overpass all the way to uh um uh Oakley Boulevard and from there we tie to an existing uh um multiuse path on Oakley Boulevard so we have that on uh all Pasco and Oakley Boulevard comes around a f for Westley Chapel yes exactly but the multiuse path terminates at Westley Chapel Boulevard mm I yes you understand well no I don't understand I don't understand if he said that I thought there I think I heard him say and I don't know all road so I don't know where Magnolia is cuz not nothing here says Magnolia um um my understanding is that there is a multi-use path on Old Pasco Road yes but you're not showing it here yeah because the Fus that's not Old Pasco is W West Chapel Boulevard that's so but it turns into Old Pasco as it goes north right the road changes name uh I'm trying to bring it up here if you go to Google Map so it ties in oh I'm in the wrong place if you're coming south down Old Pasco and you go through the residential areas and it then it turns down Oakley into the Grove where all those folks live into the amities it's a te it's kind of a tea turns in okay so so you have a way you're going to have a way for these people to access the Old Pasco Road Trail that's going to be tricky the South and what you're saying is the South End doesn't have any between Wesley Chapel Boulevard and say Oakley that won't have it but it ties into Wesley Chapel Boulevard constrained there an existing double backs S's and then hits where the this project is down to 7056 75 down there to yeah so it does a big backwards s it's too bad there's not another way to get over there um question for you looking here can you put that map back up can you go down to where it's says um Oaks Boulevard okay Oaks Boulevard is um it's where the L is on Wesley Chapel Boulevard you see see that area is that part of a wildlife Corridor it looks to me like that is a a slew or a wetland continuation from one side to the other is a bridge there it's the um uh cage uh swamp and that's where we're providing a bridge over so you have a a critter Crossing underneath I don't think there is a uh Animal Crossing but there it's it's a bridge how high is the bridge off the elevation of the ground um I'm not sure uh I have with me our design uh consultant PM Rachel cuz it looks to me like that connects to a lot of wetlands I mean a lot of corridor there Westward goes to wellfields and that goes all the way down that quarter goes all the way down into Tampa into I think that might go into long long long leaf or whatever that Flatwoods so I just want to make sure we're it's probably um too late to

consider going uh up and over with a pedestrian underpass but um that would have been a good spot to do it so people could get from one side of the road with without having to cross the traffic but seems to me we we need to be sure that we're letting the critters travel safely underneath there well we have a traffic signal at Royal Palm and we also have a signal at comp par uh so there will be two signals providing uh the ability for people to cross safely from one side to the other okay um I know that the um person who's selling the property where it used to be the RO coffee roaster um which is down on 54 and is that wesy chapel and Westy Chapel Boulevard it's on the south west side they've given up quite a bit of land there for the a wildlife Corridor and and and there is a bridge there as well but I think we should be mindful that we're going to have animals going under the bridge there yeah for sure we can provide you the information about how high the bridge is we will talking about to the cop's rant side I mean that's not protected of anything they're going to be coming right through there but if they're already elevated that's that's just what we need yeah but you can see that system it's coming all the way down all the way down into Flatwoods so um in summary uh the improvements include six travel lanes and five foot bike Lanes through the entire Corridor uh five to six foot sidewalks on the West Side through the entire Corridor six foot pathway on most of the theast side as I mentioned between uh Grand o Boulevard and Pet Lane we transition to 6 feet uh and and uh we will provide lighting for the entire Corridor on both sides of the of Wesley Chapel Boulevard and we have two new traffic signals uh the one at Stage Coach Village Boulevard it's currently as a temporary signal we will uh change it to a permanent signal with Master arms and we will provide another new signal at comp Park Drive wonderful MH and I do think that Wesley Chapel Boulevard is one of the roads that will will is on the the landscape median landscape list it's going to take a few years of course it's not even fin being finished but I think we go Little Road Coler Parkway Wesley Chapel I don't I I don't know if that team is here but I just had a meeting with them and I do think you'll get median Landscaping I think I think we also provide limited Landscaping at the intersection of overpass and Old Pasco Road as part of the widening of fullas Road there's a landcaping there too yeah that's good Mr chairman Mr Mariano so if you would discuss the Landscaping because once this contract's done and signed you're not going to be able to change it un let's you get back with a change

order and I understand sometimes it's tough if they're just going to put grass in there that's what you're going to stuck with until you rechange it well the the LA the uh architect that's working on it for the county they've only gone as far as designing for I think they're at 30% of little roads so they're nowhere near um there but how long is this project going to take three years three years time how many see little three that's they had a thing here you know we could was it was it Branford you weren't in that meeting were you with me I think it was Jason no I'm not I'm not sure who was in that meeting I had a meeting with um Public Works and and the architect the landscape Architecture Firm J it was Jason is Jason here um well we can I think we can come back to that let's let's look at what what they had proposed in what year and see maybe it makes sense to time this one because it might have been Bruce bowns and not this one but I think we should put it on here M shman yes so if I'm looking I'm looking at grass in the center and when we did us41 I was trying to get them to up change it when they were like getting closer and closer but they said it was too far down the lane to switch back and put the peanut grass in but the peanut grass is doesn't have to be maintained as much so it's much better the mowing Etc you can put trees in with a lot more ease so if we're going to do this I think we should I mean if that's all we're going to get is grass that that should get addressed right away we could even put oak trees like we did on 41 which looks lovely but anyway okay we'll we'll look at the schedule with Jason we look at amending the contract and adding that that uh those items and also maybe irrigation too if we are looking about landscaping irrigation would be also included okay yes absolutely put the irrigation in while you're doing the road I mean I'd rather use something be drought tolerant that we would have to put Irrigation in why why spend the money on that if you can avoid it well they're putting they're putting it in in places so we're going to make the commercial properties put in irrigation I'm consider we don't have to make a decision we'll we'll revisit it and and report back yeah okay all right uh so the construction Court we expect we recommend approval of the Construction contract today uh we intend to give ntp within the next couple of weeks uh we anticipate the construction to take approximately 36 months so we anticipate completion by May 2027 and the Construction contract the cost is for 6944 million and we have an independent contract for CI services with a a different firm for $4.5 million what's CI construction engineering inspection $4 million to see if they built it right yeah you're talking about a $69 million spend so that's still a lot of money

cost both of them are so I think we should just put in our contract they had to have built it right or it's on we hope so T typically when we do estimates the CI contract we estimate to be at at uh 10 to 15% of the construction cost so according to that this is $45 million is we're getting a bargain mhm there you go for a bargain so today you need a motion from us approving this yes please move go ahead your District move approval second all right got a motion second all those in favor say I I I motion pass 4 Z thanks sir very much move on to 39 or a [Applause] 39 oh it's going to look so much better and it's so needed oh my God Mike's back with us good morning commissioner Mike schumate director of Animal Services R39 is a introduction um of an ordinance Amendment U to the code of ordinances chapter 14 section 1427 definitions 1436 disposition of animals 1442 danger dogs division to Animal Services advisory committee section 147 6 vaccination of dogs cats and ferrets against rabies section 14100 microchip required section 14103 impoundment section 14106 appeal of revocation suspension or denial of a permit section 14108 prohibition uh on the retail sale of dogs cats and rabbits providing for applicability providing for repealer providing for separability providing for inclusion into the code and providing an effective date um so the definition section that's going to be changed um we had a adoption based business model still left in our ordinance uh we did away with that at the last time the board visited the retail sale of rabbits and we no longer had any retail pet stores in the county the one that we had that we grandfather Dan the gentleman passed away sold his business um or ended his business bus and his wife moved back to Canada so we no longer needed that section we just need to take that out of the uh definitions we're also removing rescue tag we no longer use rescue tags the rescue organizations purchase their own tags for the dogs that they take from the county um and we also had uh retail establishment added to the pet store definition seems like there was some folks that wanted to try to bypass that thinking that they could sell dogs cats and rabbits in their businesses uh but we want to make sure they understood that pet store was meant retail store um and clearly defined harborer uh we've used it in the the um the ordinance quite a few times but we never clearly defined it and all it really says the harbor is a person that owns cares for um provides for um animals uh while they're in their care um the next section is uh 1436 uh this said dispos of impounded animals and we're changing the title to disposition in other words we're not disposing of them we're we're actually putting them somewhere else or giving them to somebody else and we want to

just clarify that a little bit um but also U we want to talk about the whole times in uh sub paragraph D um currently if uh we find a traceable ID or we know the owner of an abandoned animal um we're bound to a 10-day hold period um we'd like to drop that down to the um six day hold period or we go by hours whether it's 240 hours for the 10 days or 144 for 6 days uh chances are if we know the owner we don't have to wait that long to get in contact with them and make arrangements with them to get their animal out of the shelter as quickly as possible and that's what we want to do is keep the flow of animals moving in and out of the shelter and so we can we can do that and if we do contact them and they have truly abandoned the animal and not coming back for it then we can get them to sign it over to us and we can adopt it out so um section 1442 dangerous dog section M Mr chairman yes sir so let me just go back to that Mike okay if if you let's say you have a person like we had a few years back some lady that she had issues healthwise she couldn't take care of the dog and we had our limits to hold on the pet do we have the fle do you have the flexibility to hold on to what longer if you know something oh you feel something's going to happen yes okay and even in those situations where people have abandoned for some reason uh what we call involuntary abandonment sometimes when people die and there's no next of kin that can make it down soon we know who the owners are going to be we contact them we can hold on to their dogs as long as we know they're coming for them okay right so in situations like that where people work things out with us we're pretty reasonable with that as well I just want to make sure you have the flexibility for those situations absolutely yeah uh the dangerous dogs section um we do require certain requirements for people that um retain dangerous dogs in the county and we want to add to those State U the state law and dangerous dogs does give us that flexibility um we want to include two photos so that we can readily identify those animals uh we also want to mandate sterilization to prevent breeding of those traits in future animals or the owners uh training their dogs with those be behaviors so uh that's one stipulation and along with the sterilization there is exemptions that do apply for medical condition of the animals things like that the next uh section we're going to be changing or asking to be changed is division two which is the animal services advisory committee here we're asking the board to actually Sunset the committee um I do not think the committee has had a predominant function or role um either in serving the board or serving Animal Services as they're designed to do uh in a number of years uh we actually have pretty good relationships I hope with each of the Commissioners uh we receive phone calls and we we handle the issues uh we advise the board as much as we can we also have great relationships with all the partners that are on this committee we work with them

almost every day so um we feel like when we try to have these meetings with the committee number one it's also a lot of work on us to try to get them all there many times we don't have a quorum many times they have nothing for us we're just downloading information to them basically telling them how we're doing and things like that uh the board does have the option of course if they do sunset to bring it back at any time they would like so um interesting enough at the last meeting where we had a quorum which was February 28th they reviewed vied our presentation to the board and they voted 100% to uh push it forward so with that I I'll I'll move to the next item um Mr chairman yes sir that's that's a great sign that you're doing a good job that you get the trust of the community to say that absolutely and I want to say yesterday I was I was tied up in the morning um and a phone call came in and you told the people you didn't overpromise you said we'll try to get out there in a day or two uh you guys were out there an hour and a half and the people were just amazed thrilled and happy yeah so okay thank it's great when it works out that way sometimes it does take us a day or two but yeah yeah we get hopefully we get it done though so uh 1476 vaccination of dogs cats fets against rabies required state law and County ordinance requires veterinarians to provide us the rabies certificate because that's what we use to actually put the rabies license um to make sure everyone has a rabies license um or vac or County license for their pets and also to make sure that uh those animals are vaccinated against rabies for the safety of those around them um we're actually adding that when they give those to us they need to do it by the 10th of the month after they've uh you know completed the rabies vaccination we need to get those into our system a little quicker uh we're pretty good about it and um we want to make sure that the officers in the field will have that information in our system so that they're not issuing citations that aren't warranted um the next section is um 14100 microchip required currently every dog that leaves our shelter and every dog that's adopted um or sold in the county is required to have a microchip but uh we also would like to incorporate all Strays leaving our shelter also have a microchip um one of the reason reasons they're stray and they may not find their way home is the fact they have no identification we all know it's difficult sometimes to keep those tags on collar uh so microchip would help us get them home a lot quicker um 14103 impoundment this is animals brought into the shelter um we have the same uh 10day hold or two 240 hour hold for litters of puppies and kittens um we'd like to change that and make them exempt from that um been in this business a long time I've never seen a litter of kittens in a box go stray um or puppies uh they typically don't however if they are with their mom and they come in the shelter we will hold

them for the the full um 240 hours if need be um we also request um for the sake of some of our citizens really is to be able to uh have a sterilization option when we return them after a stray hold so somebody comes into the shelter their animals been stray um and uh we'd like the option of being able to wave certain fees in Le of them having their animals sterilized at the shelter uh that way we can get them back out there and hopefully they won't have the Stray tendencies that they normally do it'll reduce over population in the county and actually sterilization is is better for their health in the long run uh and finally 14106 um if we do uh decide to Sunset the uh advisory committee which I hope we do um we need to amend the uh appeals uh process for any kind of revocation suspension or denial of a permit we do issue permits for breeders pet dealers and large kennels and um tomorrow recall I don't think we've ever denied one yet but uh that we do have to have appeal process in place and we'd like to change that from the advisory committee to the dangerous dog hearing board uh to be that uh committee that does that and then finally 108 section 108 uh it's the prohibition uh on the retail sale of dogs cats and rabbits uh we simply want to uh make sure that that retail establishment including a pet store uh is placed in there to remove any uh doubt on people people's minds okay so the recommendation would be to accept the proposed amendments to the Pasco County code of ordinance chapter 14 direct board records to advertise the proposed uh amendments for public hearing before the Board of Commissioners on May 21st of this year uh in Newport Richie um at 1:30 p.m or soon thereafter as may be heard be happy to answer any questions second got a motion and a second all those in say I hi hi motion pass 4 Z that was easy thank you right thank Bob Barker be proud now uh we're going to take a break for lunch and be back at 1:30 for a public hearing [Music]

CCO County waterways and Wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy excess fertilizer grass clippings trash oils and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains storm water carries these pollutants directly into our lakes and rivers creating an unhealthy environment for fish water foul and other Aquatic animals storm drains are meant for clean rainwater most other discharges are illegal if you suspect an illicit discharge please contact Pasco County Department of Public Works at 72783 43611 [Music] the average shelter return to owner rate for cats is less than 2% that means if you bring a community cat to our shelter it's not likely they'll end up being returned to their caregivers cats in our communities often have one or more caregivers and they usually hang up in their home area the best thing to do for these cats is to leave them be share that message and you to can help battle pet overpopulation if you concerned the kittens have really been orphaned meaning they haven't been moved or you're sure mom hasn't been back in at least eight consecutive hours then you can step in and care for the kittens Animal Services offers resources on our website about kitten fostering span neuter Services trap rentals and vaccinations whether you have a single Community cat or a bunch of kitties we encourage you to contact us at 8813 39291 1212 or through our website for more information on our snip trap neuter vaccinate release program this means healthier and fewer Community cats in your neighborhood healthier because we can prevent diseases like rabies and fewer because all of the cats that we treat are also spayed and neutered cats are eligible for the program at 8 weeks old CCO county is a strong and growing community and through our combined efforts we can help save lives with three simple words leave them be [Music] [Applause] go Pasco and Pasco County libraries are perfect Partners perfect place to buy your bus pass I'm very excited to introduce our newest Library where you could buy bus passes we listened to your requests and you can now buy your bus passes at the downtown Newport Richie Library it's very convenient to come from where I live to the library to pick up a a bus pass before I would have to