06.6.2023 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting (Morning Session)

720 square feet and then we have multiple columns that are highlighted in multiple someone took 2 000 of our feet and we want it back what happened there you see that no let me explain so the dgsf 2022 depart dgsf means Department growth square feet these are the ones that are colorized are estimates of the square footage need based on the space standards so what this tells me if you're if you're in green you currently meet the the required space for that particular group if you're in yellow you're within 10 000 square feet of that group or of that measurement oh and if you're in red you're you you're below by more than ten thousand square feet of what you need as far as space so what this tells me the 27 000 means that's the amount of space in 2022 that you technically needed but will you currently occupy 29 000 square feet so it's actually the opposite you have 2 000 more square feet than than technically and we're keeping it everything okay good because you need it in the future and so by 2026 the the math tells me that you need 28 000 square feet by 2031 you need 30 000 by 2036 31 000 by 2041 33 000. and so that's the way this sort of works across the board for each different group and so the colorization tells me who needs the most square footage added to their inventory right now and so development services currently occupies 38 000 square feet but they need 47. by 2041 they'll need 66. what the short term when I say short term let's say through 2022 2026 that short-term uh need will be resolved with the addition of the old Rasmussen building also known as Citizen Center to support that development services that's not in these numbers that's not in these numbers okay yep so many of these and we're going to get to this here in a little bit are all many of the short-term needs are already in process where are biggest needs are going to be are in the medium term to long term fire rescue is at 217 000. by 2022 they would need 239 000 by 2041 574 000. again the the projects that we have in the pipeline right now all of the fire stations that are in design or that are coming online within this next year that will support all of that near-term um deficit for internal services the current need is our current occupation or is 247 000 the need is 238 by 2022 and by 2041 286 000. public infrastructure 318 000 is the current occupation 337 is what's needed this is an area where there are two major projects underway Nottingham is what we call the public infrastructure project going on up in near the the waste energy plant which will support our rodent bridge and project management teams we'll talk about this more but that project along with a expansion of our of our East McKendree site for

utilities will help to support the deficits in this area Public Services currently has 260 000 square feet of occupation and they need 259 in 2022 and by 2041 395. Detention Center currently occupies 637 000 square feet and by 2041 we'll need one point almost 1.1 million square feet the near term will be resolved again if they're in red right now but the near term is being resolved by the addition that we're working on right now for the constitutionals the clerk and comptroller currently occupies 76 000 square feet they technically need by our calculation 69 000 square feet and by 2041 79 000 square feet the judicial Group which is made up of the quartz admin the judges the public defender and the state's attorney currently occupies 194 000 square feet but they need currently today 228 000 and by 2041 324 000. this is an area that we do not have anything really in the pipeline in a major significant way to relieve this space deficit the sheriff's office currently occupies 188 000 square feet by our calculations they should be occupying 173 000 by 2022 and by 2041 223 there are a few uh there is a notation there there are a few new buildings related to the uh the sheriff's first area and some of the buildings that occurred during the transition with the Detention Center which need to be added to the Future calculus for this area can I ask you a question on that one um so does that and that does not include then the Rasmussen building that also does not include the Rasmussen building but there will be a subtraction if that because we're gonna yeah take out it'll almost be a wash okay and the first building is that a county building County owned building the first buildings are county-owned building GSM ith the sheriff cannot own uh property or buildings and so even though they might be constructing them through Grant dollars that they've been able to achieve they ultimately then get transferred to the county okay and um what about the Child Protection is that a building the new one they got is that building or just a program their child protective services is in a leased facility in Council Square which is okay no I said wrong the center for okay is Chase here is anyone here for the sheriff I don't think they're here today so they gotta they got an allocation two years ago for to build a new center like first kind of but the center for missing and exploited children yes that will be near the first area off of Charles Bo Harrison way and you're where the canines are that'll be built in that same area and I and I did talk to the sheriff and his folks about working with us on um having a plan for a layout of their campus because they haven't really we

haven't I don't I'm not sure how much we work together on that do you we do participate with them um and I'll actually be able to show you something here in this presentation that'll give you a fairly good representation there might be small modifications but a fairly good representation okay continuing on property appraiser currently occupies uh 16 000 square feet the information we calculated says they should be occupying about 18 000 and by 2020 2041 excuse me um 25 000 square feet we have expanded some of their offices in land of lakes and Newport Richie already so these uh these areas that you see in red are probably if I redo the calculus uh probably already been resolved supervisor of elections uh at is at 35 000 square feet almost 36 and they're exactly what they need for 2022 time Horizon and by 2041 they'll need 58 000 square feet tax collector currently occupies 61 000 square feet and at the 2022 time Horizon needs 63 000 square feet so they're pretty close and by 2041 though uh we'll need about a hundred and ten thousand square feet we will be in fact it's kicked off the beginning of this month the West Pasco Government Center will be his area in the West Pasco Government Center on the first floor will be expanded and then he's also looking at a new facility that we'll talk about here before you leave this chart sure I'm sure just looking at the clerk and the judicial and wondering if you might want to help out your fellow you know judges since I am not the elected clerk I know you're not I feel comfortable bringing that up There's 7 000 feet there that maybe could be you know helping somebody yeah I do know that the layout of the building is it might be difficult because I'm not certain you know State Attorney public defender up on the second floor I'm not certain but I'll take that back to the clerk okay finally the Department of Health currently occupies 57 000 square feet and they're estimated to have 58 000 square feet in 2022 and we'll need 68 000 square feet by 2041. the uh the property that we just purchased to consolidate their operations up on 54. excuse me 52 between Little Road and US 19 uh what we call the Summit Building will be coming online later this summer and that will resolve their West Side needs and their near-term needs but in the long term we'll need to expand their capabilities on the east side of the county so that is the projections which then those projections then again I've summarized them down up to the branch level here for this presentation but we have them down to every single building every single Department um so that we really can plan at a granular level so what that then leads us to is to start to work with our Consultants to put together a program and I've broken this program down into the major highlights of what would occur

over the next 15 to 20 years and so for courts again the Judiciary Court admin public defender States Attorney Clerk of Court operational side and the guardian ad litem they would like to move into a Consolidated criminal port at the central criminal or at the Atlanta Lakes Public Safety campus then the East and West courthouses would be repurposed to become exclusively used for civil court cases and the state's attorney has an immediate need for expansion they're the the group that is most pinched right at this very moment and one of the Liberty professional buildings will be utilized to support their expansion for the Sheriff's Office the long-range need is for an administration building again on the Land of Lakes Public Safety campus you're going to hear that campus referred to multiple times over this presentation and we'll talk about it here in just a little bit the new they'll also need a new Trinity district office and a fleet operations garage also to be located on the public safety campus for the tax collector again they will be um sure I'm sorry you said the new Trinity district office will be located where a new Trinity district office would probably be located in the same place just expanded okay because you said the Public Services campus but that was for the fleet operations garage okay the fleet operations garage will be on the public side campus well I've seen the truck trucks all under the trees over there in the grass yes the tax collector they want to add an office location somewhere in the loots area gun highway State Road 54 and then again like I mentioned the West Pasco Government Center offices will be expanded the property appraiser has had expansion in Land O'Lakes New Port Richey the supervisor of election will begin construction and as for an expansion of their uh their area in the Dade City Technology Center um and that will will also ensure that we include spaces in all of our libraries for voting to occur Department of Health their larger location will be necessary Mark Wesley Chapel in the longer term and for other constitutionals and BCC um departments there was an idea that was floated as part of this master planning exercise to consider something that we're calling Citizens Service locations these would be the most essential services that many departments offer and having all of those co-located think of Bank building that might not offer every service that we provide but just maybe the top ten so that if we're we're in the community a little bit more and make it more accessible for for our citizens for development services we need to continue to expand all services on the west side this will include utilizing the vacated space in the west pascov government center after the move into the Rasmussen Citizen Center building and then consider citizen service locations as well for this group

for internal Services a new EOC 911 facility would be located on the public safety campus a new facility central office warehouse that's in the design phase currently a new centralized records facility would also be located on the public safety campus and then we would consolidate the I.T functions that are kind of spread out in multiple locations on the west side of the county Services the recommendation is for a new pcpt or go Pasco building that would be added to the Galen Wilson campus and then we would utilize the vacated spaces from pcpt to then expand admin Community Services Community Development on the west or the gaming Wilson campus we would also relocate Human Services to youth Lane this has actually taken place and then relocate misdemeanor probation to the Liberty complex for public infrastructure again we talked about the Nottingham locations and McKendree locations as their opportunities for expansion and growth and then for our Public Safety Branch we the plan recommends to consolidate fire rescue Administration billing Community risk Logistics and training onto the public safety campus and then to continue to expand the Detention Center based on our population increases these population increases were calculated by our Consultants using statistical models based on our population Trends other Trends throughout the state and and also our average daily population and our incarceration rates currently and so that what they're recommending is that our average daily population by 2041 will be 2881 and our incarceration rate will be at 3.52 per thousand yeah when is the fleet at Nottingham expect to be done the well Fleet at Nottingham is just a portion of the Nottingham project Nottingham will include all of Public Works our sign shop uh project management will also be relocating to not a cam along with Fleet that project is in the design phase right now and will probably begin construction probably somewhere around the first of the year in 2024 and I would anticipate probably a 18 to 24 month it's pretty extensive facility out there construction phase okay thank you so I mentioned the public safety campus a lot here and this commissioner Starkey is our best effort to try and map out all of these current sites and this is where that idea of what will first look like this is that same campus so let me draw your attention just to orient here this road here is US-41 this road going straight back and kind of curving is what we call Central Boulevard that is the road that leads back to the jail now and so in let me start at the back of the campus where the jail is so the current jail is 43 42 and 41 will be the future expansion of the jail 40 um will be the additional expansions that we're anticipating into the future

if you come down the road Central Boulevard just a little bit more you'll see a road that heads South that road that heads South will be called foundation's way 49 will be the new facilities Warehouse for the central area of the county and this 50-52 area that will be the Fire Rescue Training Center as we come back up to Central Boulevard and work our way a little bit further west down Central then we'll go north and we'll follow it North along what's called Lucy Doby's way and you'll see a cluster of buildings up here that are 38 37 36 34 33 31 that cluster of buildings is a lot of the back of the house support functions for the sheriff their AG unit is back there the helicopters are back there some of their heavy equipment is back there and so those those buildings are sort of support to the Sheriff's Department and if you come back then down south along Lucy Dobies then Meander east past the canine you're on Charles Bo Harrison way you'll move past the canine 23 would be where that new that new victim's advocacy building that you were mentioning commissioner Starkey that's where that would pretty much land 25 is is the Varnado Center who's going to work in that building I I would have to verify that with the Sheriff's Department I don't know 25 is the Varnado Center which will be the um which will be the new forensics building for the Sheriff's Department 26 27 28 30 29 this is all of what is considered to be first and so all of those buildings are related to the first program as we come back down and go back to Central Boulevard and Meander West further down Central Boulevard these two buildings to the north here um 15 it would be a fleet facility is where we're envisioning that to land there's the potential for that to maybe be a shared use facility with the sheriff's department that's still being discussed 14 is a is a Clerk's records facility that would support court operations and then 13 is where we expect to land the new Central criminal Courthouse it's shared with a very large parking area and that's designed on purpose because 12 would be the new public safety administration building it would also contain our new EOC our 9-1-1 this would be a multi-story building I know it looks like a smaller footprint there this would be a multi-story building that would contain all of those features and functions and then during activation the courthouse is typically closed so the sharing of that parking lot when that facility the emergency type facility usually has a surge in parking need that would be able to support that and do that most effectively 11 would be a warehouse to support Emergency Operations if we go up you'll see there's a road

here that is called Symphony Boulevard we expect Symphony Boulevard to bisect our campus and then drift up to the north for a future development up there um so then at the what would be Central Boulevard and Symphony at the northwest corner of those two connectors would be the future Sheriff admin building is what we're proposing if we come down 9 and 10 9 is our current utility administration building we see that one growing into the future with a new environmental lab and some additional office space for utility Administration as we pump up there is the new visitation center at six seven is envisioned to be one of those citizen service centers and then four is the new fire station so um who who is the master planner of this do we have a professional doing this or are we doing it ourselves so we Enlisted the assistance of fur Wegman Banks and Carter Global Lee cgl to assist with this presentation and what what were there I mean was there any goal to to have a downtown or to enhance the experience for all the people working there so this is on a public safety campus we have divided this campus into sort of three zones there's Zone what we call the public Zone which would be pretty much what I'm highlighting right now and that would that zone would stop pretty much right at the courthouse then there's the private Zone which includes these Sheriff facilities and then there's the secure Zone which is the jail they're really once you pass this point right here there really won't be Public Access this is not really a downtown Centric area this is this is the support facilities for Public Safety okay so they're going to be a lot of people working right there yes ma'am where's lunch time for them down US 41 there's I gotta get in their car and I gotta drive down the road when when we have this humongous campus with thousands of people working there I think that's very short-sighted and a little sad that's I think we can do better I mean when I when I'm here when I'm at my office and I I see p i see our staff walking around the parking lot for exercise um that is not a forward-thinking this is I think we can do better just what I want to say yeah I think I think what you experience I think what you see here is is the layout for the need and that's what Andrew is expressing yeah I get the need and I'm all and I'm so glad that we're planning for it I just would like us to be a little more um creative and how in our placements so we create a sense of place and not just buildings plop down wherever there seems to be an open spot that's that's my thought understood we can take that back surely

as we again where we are this is the 100 000 foot level in a design exercise so we are we are not down to the place making sort of decision this is just trying to Envision that we have these needs and we have this square footage where could that fit on property that we already own this may not be the exact placement and it's certainly not the final design great well I I would just ask that we just put a little more thoughtful planning into it so we create a place that is a great place to work there's an enhancement to the community and a desk you know a destination more than just a bunch of parking lots randomly placed and I think Mr Starkey brings a very good point that we should look at I mean if you take a look at the county building now over in Newport Richie you've got no food available except for a guy with a hot dog truck right not not a good look for us um you can take Land O'Lakes years ago had a building with a restaurant in our own commercial building made a lot of sense the people that wanted to eat there they could stay right then out of the drive out and around we should be able to find space in here for something where it's easy accessible to get to I like the trail idea too but people yeah with parking for food trucks you know food truck Court something something and absolutely just something better Tallahassee the PSC building they have up there they've got a they've got a cafeteria I'm not looking to get a cafeteria they're going to have someone privately run it let the expense go let them pay us rent especially if it's going to be sitting this blend's going to take a long time to do so all that time you can actually be making money on it so change it for later on anyway yeah so absolutely we can all of those are on the table at this point um this is just trying to plan for the needs of our departments not necessarily get into the design of those particular buildings but we can absolutely consider those things when we get to that phase how many more slides do you have two more two more all right maybe about three more why don't we do this because I want a little probably more conversation later on but our guest of honor is here so Commissioner of Simpson you want to wait okay all right go and finish up easy as long as you're comfortable all right all right so then all of those big plans ultimately need a a phasing plan associated with them because there's a lot of asks and a lot of need over the next 15 to 20 years so we've tried to break that down into a a phasing plan um over a 15-year time period that I'm going to share with you this is not exact there's still room for for what I call targets of opportunity if we see a building that you know is would be cheaper for us to buy and it's in the right location that could be moved up in this schedule

so everything in this one to five year time Horizon already has funding behind it and in fact many of them are already under design and so that takes us out to 2027 and so over the next five years we'll be building about 188 million dollars almost 190 million dollars of of new facilities years six to ten and 10 to 15 or 11 to 15 are where the difficulties arise from a funding perspective and so none of these projects going from year six to ten and forward are funded at this point and so the major projects in these phases include things like four new fire stations a central criminal Courthouse the Consolidated public safety administration fire rescue operations building the record Center and an additional 588 bed jail expansion are all in this six to ten year time Horizon and that totals between 417 to 466 million dollars in infrastructure needs in years 11 to 15 the major projects in this stage include three new fire stations and the second phase of the criminal Courthouse a new PSO administration building and an additional 951 bed jail expansion all of this has a price tag of between 300 to 333 million dollars associated with it and so the funding for these large Capital investitures so that we can continue to provide services for the citizens of Pasco County is the Challenge and opportunity that we all face and so with that those are that's the presentation of the facilities master plan there's no questions Miss real quick I just had one thing uh and maybe you discussed it but what about BCS as far as the Permitting Services here on the east side of Pasco because right now we're starting to grow Leaps and Bounds in a permitting office it's you know what it is over here is there room for expansion of that for the future or the current uh development services area in the East Pasco Government Center has adequate capacity to expand for the future okay all right okay Mr Starkey can you go back to the um the earliest one no no no uh the first one to five sure um where is the okay so the new tax collector office Odessa Trinity yeah that's uh do we ever uh like privatize any of this so can someone build a building and then lease it to us um we have had those opportunities presented to us in the past typically when we do the it really is a funding matter typically we've been able to self-fund those projects and in the long term that is a a cheaper solution for us than leasing again a facility when there's typically an up charge on that lease or lease option yep it's something we can consider though for future expansions if if that is a if that is the desire yeah the team is

consistently looking at the lease versus buy option they we make these as business decisions yeah I didn't realize where our Engineers near engineering department is do you guys know where that is uh it is is it an old jail um that was the Pasco County building actually literally it was called the Pasco County building it included everything it was the courthouse it was the jail oh my government center so when was that built when was that building built I believe that building was built in either the late 40s or early 50s are you talking the one in Newport Richie it is across the street from the West Pasco board of realtors office um it's just in such a bizarre place in downtown New Port Richey uh are we going to move that that will be moved to the Nottingham facility which is currently under design everything there along with Public Works engineering project management sign shop everything that that's in that realm will move to our Nottingham facility and what will we do with that building in Newport that's still TBD I'm a fan of owning the properties that we're going to build on I know we've had some situations where we had rapid expansion we rented out like trouble Creek our stormwater Crews down there it's not a high rent but it's I think much more efficient for the long term to have our own buildings and not have to be subject to what rent charges may go with land prices going up uh yes it's the right thing to do well when we do that analysis like County Administrator was stating we do do that at least by analysis and it typically works out in favor for us to buy to save out interest costs and rent costs up charges it's pretty simple so on any of these here um I'm looking at the the um go Pasco I've seen other counties get federal grants for some of those are we going after that yes with with uh we're we're in the process here of hiring a grants manager as I told you before centralizing grants and so we'll we'll be chasing Federal money to back up everything at every opportunity and we've got actually on some of the public safety campus stuff um Congressman Bill Rex's office has been very helpful in helping us get some you know some initial seed money so we're very hopeful on that too so we continue to explore those Avenues and on any of this one to five you say most of this is funded it doesn't say here what the light green and the dark green represents uh I apologize so I did not explain that the light green is sort of the design side of that uh project in the dark green is the construction side of that project all these are funded uh except for the go Pasco building I would say all of those are funded and maybe the tax collector he's still thinking how he's going to probably sell one that one well I hope we don't fund the go Pasco because that needs to be a Federal

grant we shouldn't be looking at doing that ourselves well I'm happy to say Mr Caballo is looking at all sorts of Grants right now he's got putting a team together so the approach that we didn't go after many grants and didn't have success I think that's going to be changing so I'm optimistic about that all right any other questions for Andrew good motion to approve numbers I wouldn't approve it yeah with that layout all right we'll close that I don't even know my guest of honor and his family's here with him fantastic yeah commissioner almost almost didn't recognize him Mr Simpson please come forward and your family can come up behind you they want to join you okay good morning this is resolution number 23-126 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida honoring Wilton Simpson for his dedication and service to the citizens of Pasco County whereas Wilton Simpson Florida's 13th Commissioner of Agriculture and a fifth generation Floridian oversees the Florida Department of Agriculture and consumer services commissioner Simpson understands the challenges faced by Florida's farmers and will guide the department in functions such as protecting the environment ensuring the availability affordability and safety of our food supply and protecting Florida consumers and whereas from 2012 to 2022 commissioner Simpson served as a member of the Florida Senate and was elected Senate President for the 2020 to 2022 term commissioner Simpson while serving as Senate President through a worldwide pandemic fought to keep Florida open and free and to ensure that Florida was a Beacon of Hope opportunity and freedom for generations to come and whereas seeing a need in the community Wilton Simpson and his wife Kathy founded the Simpson breast health center to ensure women had the care they deserved at a time when they deserved it the most the Simpson breast health center at Advent Health Zephyrhills is led by an independent team a board-certified Physicians and provides some of Florida's most advanced diagnostic imaging technology for breast cancer with a full spectrum of Breast Care Services and whereas Wilton Simpson is an advocate for the pay center for girls and he has worked for policies and resources for Pace's mission to equip girls and young women across our state with the opportunity for a better future through education counseling training and advocacy and whereas the Moffitt Cancer Center honored Wilton Simpson for his long-term standing commitment to moffett's Mission and his legacy of supporting the growth of the scientific Community for the benefit of all Floridians and his dedication to the Spiros FL project by

the naming of Wilton way in the first 75 Acres of the development as the W.E Simpson Concourse for cures and whereas Wilton Simpson donated 1.7 acres of land for cares Community aging and Retirement services for a 6 000 square foot senior center in Dade City Florida helping to protect the dignity and the individuality of each senior by making a healthy safe and beautiful environment for them and whereas learning what it meant to be part of a team from his time on the football field in that Old Pasco Pirates Jersey Wilton Simpson understands that our problems are real the stakes are high and the solutions require someone who knows how to roll up his sleeves and get the job done woven into every honor and achievement are the triumphs tragedies and truly incredible stories of hard-working Floridians Wilton Simpson has fought for with the goal of helping others achieve their American Dream now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby honors Wilton Simpson for his advocacy philanthropy and leadership in the community by his dedication and service to the citizens of Pasco County done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting the sixth day of June 2023. move approval second all in favor say aye aye commissioner Oakley can't believe it's this time you don't look old enough to have done all these things so but really you've done a great job and served your county your city and you know he does live in my district you know that's I was wondering if that might come up but we we have greater expectations for you in the future so we're not letting you retire or step aside even though Kathy says it's enough [Laughter] but you've now moved in your new home in my district and your children are going to move in their new home in my district and now we're both just called Commissioners so we're equal now and so he's being oppressive but Wilton I I cherish your friendship I love and care for your family as though they were mine I just can't say enough of all the things to be done for Pasco County and certainly want to thank you for for every little bit just keeps going we'll keep working together and achieve a lot so thank you for all you do would you like to speak well hang on for just a second yeah the accolades we're going to pile on you yeah good job opening uh yep it's amazing to see the work that you've done and how it's going to carry on to another generation like myself your kids your grandkids my kids the work that

you've done as Senate President what you're leading the way in the agriculture community and just the state of business in our state is phenomenal and it's an honor to whenever you decide to retire hopefully some of us will still be around to pick up where you've left off carry the tour and continue to make our home and our state the best place to live and raise a family and and have success so thank you for being here today yeah Mr Starkey and and I would like to add on uh you know when we had some others in the Senate that were reluctant to file for Appropriations we we could always count on Senator Simpson and now commissioner Simpsons and he carried a lot for us that I think a lot of people in this County don't realize so we are very appreciative you saw what our needs are here in the county and um and they're they're big and and so all your help that you gave us during that time was greatly appreciated thank you MS garbellum from an administrator's perspective your your uh your team and yourself have just been fantastic to work with and I really appreciate all the support that you've given to the county you've really helped us in get a lot of things done which is which is great and and we continue to really want to move things along economically and infrastructure wise it's it's just been a phenomenal partnership so we thank you for all of that I'd like to say commissioner that uh you've been I think the most impactful elected official that Pasco County's ever had uh and there's not that just resonates how you do great things in just the east side of the county you do great things on the west side of the county your overall thinking benefits the entire state in such a great way that I think is the reason we're the best state to live in uh you'll you're dedication just every step of the way the honors you get at Moffett well well deserved my daughter Amber loved working with you your mentorship with her was phenomenal uh getting stuff done with PACE Center for Girls uh meant so much to her Metropolitan Ministries as well another one that you helped drive along to help people that needed it the dedication of the Care Center was just some so impactful for the seniors out there that need the care so everything you've done has been for the betterment of all and your your logic your wisdom your smarts has really just been tremendous leadership and uh but I think this better thing is still coming commissioner thank you well I should just say thank you and leave I can only go down from here but it was such an honor to um to serve the last 10 years in the Florida Senate and be the Senate President during the pandemic and and keeping Florida open and getting our kids back into school um getting making sure our businesses were able to run and operate and when you think about the things that we did through those two years you know we that

we don't normally talk about the wildlife Corridor exists today it was one of my major priorities that we had of um you know my last two years as president and we put um you know this last year a billion dollars nearly into helping take down that Wildlife Corridor and a lot of times we don't always appreciate those things and if you think about what is the wildlife Corridor if you Google a map of the state of Florida at night time on a clear night you will see all the beautiful lights that make up Florida everywhere it's dark is the wildlife court order everywhere it's dark is where we grow our food we charge our aquifer and it's an area that has to be preserved or needs to be preserved for all of those reasons and then to be elected Commissioner of Agriculture um it's clearly an honor of a lifetime and um and you know part of that Wildlife Corridor fits right into you know obviously fits hand in glove with your agriculture two weeks ago at our cabinet meeting we approved 70 million dollars almost 40 000 acres of land to be preserved in the state of Florida in this year's budget there's 30 over 30 million dollars to preserve a thousand acres in the Wesley Chapel area something we're looking forward to seeing finish up here pretty soon there is when you think about Moffett Moffett is going to revolutionize Cancer Care in the world the research facility they're building there will not only bring thousands of jobs to our area of the state but the world the world will travel to the Tampa Bay area and now to receive cancer they already do but more will as this Center comes online another major priority and and I'm glad they're breaking ground in two or three years I think we'll have some of the first buildings open and when you think of all the other little things the the stuff for Dade City and Zephyr Hills we're gonna have an Armory a brand new Armory in Zephyrhills Florida and and you think about the the county itself and Metropolitan Ministries and how we handle our homeless all of those things were critical to be um part of a you know part of being in the senate senate president and now is that commissioner you know it's all about safe affordable abundant food making sure food supply remains robust in this country but in the state in particular and so it's a real honor to be here today thank you for this resolution and I want to thank my family obviously they've been here the whole time and and Kathy I think has gotten you now having to retire now in a few years I mean I've had to think three years and about six months left and um but anyways it's been a real honor to serve it's a real honor to be in this community growing up here in Trilby and and it's really been from the football field to the Senate presidency so thank you all and thank you for the resolution thank you [Applause] we're going to take a picture

thank you you didn't mention the trails everyone look at me really quick one two three and then family yeah foreign thanks excuse me oh yeah well done commercial Oakley but it brought that forward do what I'm glad you brought your resident forward to have that award oh my goodness it's hard to imagine how much has happened during this term legislature and that all that's gotten done it's been fantastic actually he was very instrumental in the when I was at Swift when I started thinking about the water line connecting a regional system to connect Zephyrhills in Dade City with water Wilton and also uh will Weatherford got the funds nine million dollars to have that line put in on the East it's on the east side of 301 connecting Dade City and Zephyrhills from their water so it was great thanks just think about that only nine million dollars yeah but he got done through the state so I mean that's been amazing I mean subject to sewer programs for preserving agricultural land for our future development from fruits you should tell them to keep the food source going so just amazing accomplishments oh that's true all right committee reports commissioner Oakley okay from the largest District in the county that looks good but we'll start off with um here we have the soft opening for the library here for you Embry library and we add this and it's pretty amazing that here we are talking about the remodeling all of of the library um yesterday we got word uh Ralph put it out I guess that the Pasco libraries is organized as library of the Year by Florida Library Association so you got to be really proud of our libraries Association and the library that we have throughout the county it really I had a fellow tell me one time that libraries wasn't very important we are take that money and use it somewhere else but let me tell you something there's a lot of our citizens that depend on that library in whatever area or Community you are when you close one down like you Embry the phone ran off the hook for a long time for uh trying to get it back open so that they missed their library that much so and now it's back open and a little later on we'll have a ribbon cutting for that I almost think they shouldn't be called libraries that they should be like community centers something more than library because when you think of the old school in the library books but they do so much more than that oh they do they would love for

us to come up with a better one yep and we'll move on to uh last Friday we had the new Lagoon if you'll notice the pictures you can't get the total Lagoon in a picture 15 Acres so it's quite large and uh I'm blessed again in in my district I have the first Lagoon in the nation in the nation first one in the nation in my district and this is the second Lagoon in the not just second in the nation but it's it's not that at all it's a first largest Lagoon in the nation by 15 Acres it's pretty amazing facility with the mermaid costs a lot of time I won't go there but so but yes they had mermaids out there the other day so uh it was a very beautiful sight out there that had that relaxation but uh it's actually beautiful pretty amazing I mean there'd be 200 000 people come and and visit this Lagoon if you can imagine here in our County and and here and in your district one yeah okay the reality is it's pretty amazing I didn't have to help turn this switch on or though the valve on to get water in but the first Lagoon the water had to be turned on and it's more than just turn the valve open because you had to maintain water pressure for safety and Fire Control at the time you were filling the first Lagoon but actually we got it turned on the right time Mike probably was a big part of that at that time and his team got it turned on and got it and we maintained pressure throughout the system to where we didn't give up our safety for our homeowners in case of fire for our safety so this is this amazing first project second project and the time they took to listen to the people and go through everything and say here's how we're going to do it when the concerns came out they will show what they were going to do and then coordinate with our own utilities which um Mike being a part of we did it on they did it all they did it all right every step of the way oh yeah and it was just in it to see it come for a second one I was sitting down with Karthik and Mike and saying how does it feel to like create something as awesome as this yeah got to be proud of this pretty awesome yeah and we as a County definitely we need to be proud of these lagoons because they actually are a great amenity for for the morality of yeah in Pasco County and also the other Lagoon also a lot of citizens been at that one and actually you get a lot of visitors from Europe and all coming over here just to be near around these lagoons so yeah so it's really good so I went from there I went to a dead website over in Orlando Lakes and because we've been discussing you know 40 and 50 foot Lots so these are 40 50s and I think there's some 60s in here and it's pretty amazed look at the

Landscaping on these houses and in the architectural view that you have on these now this is a 5 and older property so they either have one car or a car and a golf cart and so but they've done such a great job in architecture and look at all the landscape some of these that have come in before don't have this kind of look at that landscape and the architecture of those houses that's I don't mind having 40 and 50s if I have that I mean really that's that's a beautiful home and uh of course five and older a lot of single people that live here with one car and a golf cart and there's some there's couples some of them have a it's like a balcony area inside their house for when they have grandchildren off so but uh very well done and a very nice product and in our County actually this one's in land of lakes and they're going to be building one in Palmetto Ridge that's a Del Webb product that's coming in Palmetto Ridge and so in this kind of community all the Landscaping is maintained by one company yes all of it's done by one company this is large mode and everything else they pay off each homeowner pays a fee for their yard caring officer which you can see it's very well done it keeps it looking nice all the time and you know when you get a senior community those smaller Lots I think are definitely much more acceptable you don't need all the parking you do for a family yeah you drive down to some places you'll see they used to be like first seniors and the young families moved in and you get cars being parked on the grass all over and it's a whole different world but as a senior community I think those 40s and 50s work uh they get parking out front so they do have more people and there's not a lot of other things going on so it does the community Works their area where everybody goes in the Central Park it's like amenities amenities Galore you know people all happy there it is so just absolutely just beautiful what you see in this this product yep you have a swimming pool and they have just have times for children to be at the pool but it's not when the adults are going to be there they have like a two or three hour slot in the afternoon like from two to five and children can be there other times just the other else are there so but it's uh very well done very nice product I look for more products like this and would hope that we can get some more of these developments other than Dale Webb and other than 55 and older we need we need this kind of product for our other homes that we have and

developments so we'll move on to uh next item I had was during the cleanup event in Zephyr Hills they removed 70 tons of trash tires and um the coach plants in all Solid Waste Public Works in the city of Zephyr Hills conducted this cleanup and 70 times a lot of stuff just laying around in yards and I know my Starkey she knows that all the different areas that she goes to there's a lot of tonnage that's laid out there need to be picked up and this was very successful to do this Cleanup in Zephyr Hills this was very good and said thank you to all the volunteers and team members who made it possible for this cleanup so and I was trying to think there was a there's so much been going on it seems like in the last few weeks I don't I worked since I got I got two assistants now instead of instead of just one it seems like they've decided I need to work six days a week instead of just five and October I had a meeting with another dancer y'all got to cut out the Saturdays on them because the three events I went to to speak I only knew about one of them that I was supposed to speak at and I mean thank goodness I've been here six years to have the information to be able to cover it but from giving a house to a veteran to uh opening a new VA clinic in Zephyrhills and other things and then this with the Lagoon suit you got to be really thankful for all the things that happen in our County actually the veteran home was off Collier and in District Two and uh but very nice that people give of Lane actually the land was donated and the tours the tunnels tunnels to tours Foundation is the one to present that home to the to the veteran it's a very welcome family to the Pasco County so very nice so with that that's everything I have today all right thank you sir okay commission Whitman thank you first got to throw out there since Moore's in the room go Bulls go Bulls um obviously we have a Senate President so I'll give some love to a former speaker will Weatherford who's chair of USF Board of Trustees and this last week USF entered the association of American universities which is a big deal and talk about what Regional impact and what that means uh USS just going going to the next level the best and brightest will go there unlike UCF uh and we'll continue and we'll continue to to pump up the pump up the green and gold so thank you for indulging me Mike Moore so congratulations to USF and chair Weatherford and uh everybody in the USF

community um next we had a we had our first town hall it was in Lexington Oaks and uh I think Maxine Carlson and Jose and cam for spearheaded and inviting us out and um great conversation with the folks in Lexington Oaks they're a really engaged group of people and I put a picture of the sign I think commissioner Stark you'd be proud of this sign and um uh did a good job of of bringing this in and sharing their concerns there's a lot of longevity in the Lexington Oaks Community so turnover home ownership is seemingly pretty low so those folks that live there have a lot of history within the community and um a pretty fantastic perspective on on things and they kept their Oaks I'm like Seven Oaks right they took theirs so anyway thanks to the folks at Lacey Oaks for having us um also June 2nd was a special day Pasco County's birthday and so we have to recognize recognize that and do we have any any other pictures up on there here we go so Andy made us do this commissioner Oakley you did a fantastic job kicking off the Murado Lagoon event and uh it's like you're in a totally different totally different world a fun way to kick off summer uh great crowd and uh you know a piece of information that was pretty interesting is that Lagoon will hold up to 4 000 people 4 000 guests and then there's over a mile approximately over a mile a shoreline around this pool so you know just just an amazing design and build there so congratulations to everybody who um stayed the course to get get that project done and I don't see anything else am I missing anything we're good all right that's it Mr chair thank you okay Mr Starkey um okay let's see how my pictures roll I have a lot of them okay do you have the kids collection first okay so uh the first one I want to talk about is the kids collection for the Oasis Pregnancy Center um thank you to everyone at the blcc office for um donating we had quite a collection of diapers and everything um thank you Jack for coming and we here's our our collection and they were very grateful to see all these and we'll work on this again next year and I have some ideas how to even publicize this even more we had the annual community cleanup and holiday Lake Estates on May 21st I was at the Maaco board meeting so I I missed it but my staff went we collected 36 tons of garbage and thanks to uh all the staff that came out we had to do it on a Sunday thank you to John Bautista and Robert finneran and the solid waste team to John delandro and the Road and Bridge team Christian J Cox environmental compliance team and Patrick Arrington and the compliance team so

um got a lot of stuff out of that neighborhood and uh we had our commission on status of women had their inaugural women uplifting women event on May 23rd and Derek's doing a great job with that I'm very excited about what he's what he's done there and so uh they uh the commission on SAS of women serves an advisory capacity to the board of County Commissioners and County leadership with respect to Madison to the status of women like discrimination employment education and other vital topics you can follow them on Facebook one of the things I love is they're compiling a list of women-owned businesses for the county so if you know any please be sure and send that to me we'll get it on to them next we have Bexley um oh this is even worse so um commission no our County Administrator lives in Bexley this is not your picture though right because okay I'm one of this I'm one of the streets there's one Builder on one side and then another Builder on the other side and when I drove around you know I did my Del Webb in the morning and then the afternoon I was with um so this is very interesting street in Bexley one side of the street has Street trees and the other side does not so I made you know I I pointed this out to our our tbba folks as we were driving through this neighborhood and I got a call from our friends at Pulte and said oh whoops yes we are missing 180 trees in Bexley we will put them in and that's great but how is it that we're missing 180 trees that we didn't know so once again I say we have a process missing in that process and uh and going out there to meet Martin I don't know if did I send a picture of the town homes in Wesley Chapel Gina I sent that to Katie I'd rather yeah okay so I drove through a a community in Wesley Chapel off of Mansfield and um they're like no trees and so I've asked for the copy of the plan to see what was supposed to be there and then we can compare it to what's there and and again I think that's um that's not it because it's town homes that yeah I think that's what that is I think that's the town home community in uh off of Mansfield I can't remember the name of it um but you can see I feel like something's missing there and I I I'm pretty sure when they do their develop get their development agreement it has a requirement for x amount of trees okay next picture keep going okay so then I uh on my way to over there I drove down um Lake patience Boulevard

so to get there you pass through Oakstead and keep keep scrolling through and because these aren't in order um I want you to get to the map okay Oakstead and Lake patients up here you see where the green is that's where the multi-use trail is and it stops at the entrance to that last neighborhood in Oakstead and it's right across the street from Oakstead Elementary which by the way has no sidewalk but then you go um this dotted line okay now now keep going let's see what let me see what else you did here there's a um I thought she showed where there was a sidewalk well so these are two pictures of brand new developments on Lake patience drive one is a homes for rent by American homes and one is a I think it's a full tea project and you see the right-of-way that we have and my understanding and someone here can correct me but what I got from staff is that and Brad can explain this better than me I know tell me if I get this wrong like patience was in The Five-Year CIP so they were kind of like eyes on it during development so they did a route study and decided okay like patience doesn't need to be four lane it only needs to be two and so it fell out of some kind of review and so now these neighborhoods just put in the five foot sidewalk so we have the multi-use path coming from Oakstead that stops there's a sidewalk over the bridge then it stops and then we get a brand new five foot sidewalk that we will have to rip out to continue the multi-use drill which is unfortunate did I say that right to have been planning and development yes that was actually a very good summary given the complexity of it uh yeah it was in the CIP so when projects like that are in the CIP typically a new project coming in will actually pay into the fund to help the county construct the project uh so that was what happened and then after those payments were made and and it was mitigated for uh the CIP was re-prioritized and it fell out of the CIP so that the sidewalks that are actually there are technically a little bit above and beyond because they've already paid in to have the county build the sidewalks of the future with the trail system and whatnot so uh yeah well we're putting a multi-use trail down here so those have to come out yeah they'll end up coming out but when we could have had them build the the path yeah that was that was a just a perfect storm of timing with being in the CIP and then coming out of the CIP but those are the types of things that happen when we're prioritizing and reprioritizing Road systems because these projects you know these are several years typically that these things can be approved so but this just goes back to my conversation with the administrator that when we have no one in charge of the trails we're making

very costly mistakes and it's very disjointed and you know I know Keith is saying when they get their Master Trail Master Parks plan and trails done they can be the one but they would never see this because this is not a park and um mpo doesn't want to look at this doesn't get it somewhere we're missing a person and I really really need you to get that person on board yeah because if it's uh it's not on the mpo plan then where does it fall and right now we've approved a whole bunch of money for Penny for Pasco coming up that's going to go the trails right on 5A Road those are on the big Trails but I don't know but I'm going to get to this yeah up on 5A had a Development coming in I was going to put a five foot path in meanwhile I know this year it was supposed to be on the CIP to be done or at the eight foot or 10 foot wide multi-use Trail trailers coming in and these guys are laying it out to go five foot called in we looked at it we get them to negotiate with us so they at least they build their part of the same amount of square footage concrete and put the trail in so it's there we still got to connect it still got to rebuild it but that was almost missed yeah so if we're not going to build a four-lane road here we're not is that correct my understanding is that the last study that when the Tower Road to the north was a good job that changed so who's maintaining all that grass there I believe that that is actually all dedicated to the county at this point okay so now we have this big big cost there and so why not take that area and turn it into a linear Park you know do do something with it that benefits that community a Trailhead or you know you know kids playground um I don't know something but let's think bigger than than just having a big piece of land that we have to know um okay I have I have more and then yeah thanks man so uh next picture so a number of years ago Rick Baker um when I was involved with template partnership he gave me a book about building great cities I went and read a chapter and he he highlighted a section that I should read which is how North Carolina brought manufacturing back to its community and one of the ways that they were very successful was when they were able to get one manufacturer back actually was in the textile industry when he came to their Community he made them very very welcomed and they got him into the country club and they made sure that he met people in the society in the community and then that guy went and told all his buddies back in Italy actually what a great place that area was and a bunch of them moved their companies there so I took that to heart

with my international program it's kind of part of how I started that international program at pedc and I take take my International CEOs in manufacturing here in the community I was taking them around showing them Community assets in Tampa Bay before covet hit we've toured the airport the port Amalie Arena camels some of our local manufacturers and it and it lets our CEOs kind of meet each other and it's great things happen when they when they meet each other and they they Strike Up business with each other because they didn't even know two of these people didn't even know that the other one existed until I had lunch with them before we went on this event so here we are um this is out of order but this is at the point you probably recognize that um and um this was kind of a little West Pasco day we just did it in the afternoon so we had I had seven CEOs in and we we turned toward the point Distillery this is a very cool um prohibition Distillery so that's kind of an oxymoron but they have two of those and this this company is amazing here in Jack's district and um I was really grateful for them to to open up and give us this this tour and uh so here we are at a company called two six another amazing one in your District Judd it's so non-descript in the front um but they grow crystals for lasers and it's one of the only ones like this maybe in the world there's I think there's another one United States somewhere but uh they they have an amazing and they pull a lot of electricity and uh because the crystals grow for months in a very very expensive machine I can't couldn't show all of it because it's Department of Defense and it's their security there and everything so um this is their generators and and and so if the power goes off they have to have uh a massive amount of electricity to be made and they have a backup for the backup because if if they lose power for even a few seconds they have to stop and rebuild all their all their um crystals so uh I want to thank them for the tour I think they're going to be expanding so we've got to get David over there but uh something I do maybe a couple times a year oh and we toured the jail our last one before Kobe was we toured in jail and these guys all really appreciate it yeah medler Toledo touch point we have um Dan Tang from is it GTS I think he's probably one of our fastest growing companies he's about to open up in four countries so he'll be in about eight or nine countries here soon um we have Miata we have farmer Works um one company I'm trying to recruit here so okay next section this is um commissioner Bradford's District when I was coming back from one of those Drive arounds this is the in the next picture this is a Kubota Dealership I don't think they were allowed to do this but I know they're not allowed to put those out on the

highway and I did talk to commissioner Bradford and he does want code to keep their eye on this and not let them put their tractors out in the right-of-way of U.S 41. okay next uh this is a picture of June from June 15th they were car wash on 54. and then the next picture is what it looks like today that's your District and apparently you know I can't say anything in other people's districts so uh I'm happy to pass this on to you but this is what's happening all around the county okay literally what is happening all around the county can you go back to the one from 2015. did you submit this already I can't because apparently um I'm not I don't know as it's Joe Blow citizen I can turn in three a day so maybe this is one of my I'm turning this in right now but I I you know I I know I keep harping on this but it's just it's just we're just let's cut what's the flipping backwards what's the color of the building today um that one clean machine it's kind of gray you see the trees between the two buildings are gone and there's no there's a lot of stuff done there's a noticeable change there yeah okay um also I wanted to ask tears rolling on up to 12. uh there was a a meeting last night and holiday I wasn't able to go because I had an ill neighbor who had we had a birthday party for it I was wondering how well it was attended how well attended it was and is it possible to have did you have one in Trinity because I I think you had something nearby my husband was going to go when I was in in Utah but if not I'd like to schedule another one uh nectario through those planning and development and there's a number of comprehensive Plan update workshops happening around the county this summer so far we've had two the first was at Saint Neil University these are county-wide events they're not necessarily you know prescriptive to the particular region that they're being held in but we had well enough in San Leo then yesterday's was the second meeting or the second Workshop um Roberto bessaril the assistant planning bombing director of voice in attendance so he'll be able to provide them update development so yesterday's meeting was very nice they were about 60 to 70 people wow yeah it was very good they they have some activities that people were excited they participated they showed like some apps through the phone and they survey their input next they did a some right on and people kind of scattered throughout the room to

participate on on their input for what are their their Vision I guess for with their transportation or other elements so it was it was a good turnout and so once those are currently being planned out there's one being planned in Hudson um there's another that's been talked about that a few public meetings uh possibly in Shady Hills there is one I believe that's Wesley Chapel Zephyrhills later this summer and I believe there's one more um I'll tell my head I can't remember I hope you can do one on the 54 Corridor Trinity Odessa area I think Atlanta Lakes was another one that that uh so we're skipping tornado Odessa I can double check to see if there is one scheduled for that area well you know go the Starkey TLC maybe all right thank you okay thank you okay all right let's play take a break for lunch [Music]

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