10.25.2022 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting (Morning Session)

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foreign okay it's mine foreign good morning and I'd like to call to order the Pasco County Board of County Commission 10 a.m meeting this is the 1003 meeting of October 25th 2022. at this time please silence all your electronic devices and mute your microphones if you're online so let's rise for the invocation on the pledge your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature make us thankful for your loving Providence and Grant that we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gifts amen amen one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all hey Madam clerk can we please call the robe district one commissioner Oakley here District Two commissioner Moore here District Four commissioner Fitzpatrick District 5 commissioner Mariano here District three chairman Starkey here okay now is the time for public comment citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any current or future agenda item coming before the board and on other business under the board's purview today's public comment will be handled as follows first we will take public comment from those who are here in person then we will take public comment from those who have pre-registered for WebEx link and are currently on cue we request that when you address the board comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or team member but rather directed at the issues this provides mutual respect between board members and the public after stating your name and address for the clerk a three-minute timer will be activated after two minutes a single beep will indicate you have one minute left when your time is up two beats will sound and you should close your comments WebEx participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up and Madam clerk do we have people signed up yes we do Madam chair we have Brian Miller followed by David Crosby followed by Christy Joe Dockery good morning good morning thank you Brian Miller on Street Media in Florida in Orlando I'm sorry um I've met with several of you over the past few years I guess going back about three years my company provides the sponsorship messaging at the traffic signal control cabinet at the right-of-way um over the past few years I believe I've had some widespread support amongst the this board as well as staff however a few months ago we ran into a roadblock in uh in June I believe the this board changed the land ordinance code which would prohibit our plans of placing the sponsorship messaging so I'm here today to request this board um of two things if there's still interest to uh direct staff to work with us in one uh changing the land ordinance code it would be a very simple one

Clause change to that and two direct staff to uh work with us to proceed to contract and that's all I've got to say so thank you all right thank you very much Mr Crosby David Crosby oh it's a famous name because we're still as a Nash yeah do we have a celebrity here is this Mr Crosby okay um and someone will help them with the mic Eric we have a a hand mic okay we'll get him a hand Mike foreign

my name is David Crosby I am a new student at window Creek Technical High School in the transition education program this year I graduated from Hudson High School last year I was looking forward to learning how to use the Go pass go transit buses at my new school but it is very hard and scary with the sidewalks not having curb cutouts and very thick grass that I can't get my wheelchair through I almost went over face first and my teachers had to catch me my teacher Miss Dockery took pictures of the sidewalks and corners without curb cutouts I am asking for a sidewalk from Lemon Road to season Lane on Orchid Lake Road or curb cutouts on each corner of orchid Lake Road to Regency Park Boulevard so I can get to and from Route 25 Bus Stop and my school with my class my teacher has been driving us to and from our job training site at Regency residence three times a week because I cannot get my wheelchair up and down the corners by myself thank you for your consideration in this matter well we will absolutely jump on that so I see staff writing stuff down there and Bradford will meet with you in the back there so thank you for coming and letting us know about this you're welcome good luck at Wendell crane I'm his teacher this is a learning experience for us we don't even know if we're at the right meeting but no you are shot it'll work here it's great yep move to someone make a motion most of his freedom file all in favor all right um what is what are you studying at Wendell crane setting caddies Eric go ahead and give them my code thank you Mr peppers okay just making sure you know about our amp skills program because we we have nope nope we're got our own building now it's not open yet um but um just go online and take a look and uh we're getting our own building on uh Darlington and 19. but we have programs for like for this gentleman and your crew okay okay also set tables what I cleaned the tables wipe them down oh I I also do I know this is my first time all right also fill up the sugar caddies I hope fill up the waters I hope sure yes absolutely thank you thank you thank you thanks for coming out

and we will be forced into a situation where we have to file and and move on to to litigation this body should not approve the termination of the agreement on this consent agenda but should move it over and should not approve to commit funds for protracted and expensive litigation thank you Anthony Homer followed by Hugh Townsend followed by Sam I Sani I don't I'm sorry I don't know go ahead I'm Anthony homer I'm the easy one so thank you Anthony Homer with rodsports 1875 Goldenrod Street Sarasota Florida good morning let me tell you we were we were pretty shocked and blindsided to find out that this this drastic change to our relationship with the county of Pasco was on the consent agenda we weren't notified of this ahead of time it's a good thing we did a search of the consent agenda that looks for things that are related to rad Sports so and especially when we ran it by our attorney to find out that this is essentially not a discussion that it is a termination asking us to vacate in 30 days because we won't have the opportunity to cure having said that we have a long-term relationship with Pasco County we've got long relationships with many of you here on the Deus and it's been changing we've been through a lot we have a contract that probably could use some modification we would love to come to the table we have said that repeatedly in every communication with the county we're happy to work things out it has to be mutually beneficial but like every relationship if you've if you've been in one long enough we know what happens when you focus on facts not feelings there's two sides to every story everybody has facts that supports their side of the story um you know we we've got an 84 success rate with events coming back they love to come back they love this place I've got 79 000 visits in 21 59 000 visits in 22. we think we're doing a good job for Pasco County but we don't want to get bogged down in the facts we get it our partner feels like something needs to change we are totally willing to come to the table and have that discussion we want to work with you guys so what's important for us is we get that opportunity now our attorney is telling us this is one thing you know telling us this is essentially a termination it's a notice of AK and they're telling us they have the funds to do this to carry this out and it doesn't even have to come back to the commission we've spoke with a couple of Commissioners our understanding is different you've told us that this is not the case you have told us that this is a chance to negotiate so we're going to go forward in good faith we're going to trust you guys we trusted you in the past we trusted you in construction costs blew out of proportion and we didn't have enough budget we worked out how to get it done we worked together we've been working together in the past we worked through covid with a temporary Co

so I think we've proven that we have the ability to work with you all and to be flexible what we're asking for in return for this trust is the good faith that we aren't being blindsided it is not indeed a termination and that we are going to have the opportunity to move forward in good faith um like any relationship we want to avoid that divorce it's going to get expensive and nasty nobody wants that so what we're asking for is this item to be either removed today for discussion or at least taken off the consent agenda for discussion our preference is that this is removed and tabled and then we have an opportunity to meet with either you one-on-one or with staff I appreciate your time that's what we're asking for thank you Mr Townsend do you have two different items they actually involve the same issue okay um if I can present I think I can tie them together all right name and address good morning Commissioners Hugh Townsend uh president of Hunter's Ridge Homeowners Association 9701 Hermosillo Drive Newport Richie Florida I Rise to speak in what I believe is your agenda item number seven zero and mstu specifically for Paving here in Pasco it is my understanding of the 67 counties a handful possibly less than five still do it the way that we are doing right now I want to see that corrected I want an mstu established so that people are not struck by a sudden Bill and an example of that is El Sol Court families have access to El Sol Court they came to do a repaving assessment of six thousand dollars per family shocking in this Economic Times we had one family in favor one family against and because it was a 50 50 vote all families are being assessed I've got letters I'd like to present for the sainies and for the Marvin's and interestingly the marbins were the ones in favor um now in as an aside we were heard by the planning and we were also heard by the County Commission which was adjourned until your 20 September meeting but none of the four families received a notice of it being on the agenda for that meeting Ergo none of them could attend the families feel that it's Draconian to be assessed a bill of that high in nature that is why I am in favor of an mstu which will take a little bit of extra money out of every property owner and then this whole sudden shock issue would not come up against the people here in Pasco and as I'm sure you're aware you read it it does not pertain to privately owned roads in gated communities these are the communities the HOAs that the Council of neighborhood associations represent that the homeowners are struggling to pay their bills now and can receive a high assessment if I could present the

letters from the family we'll have another minute if you want to keep going okay to receive and file okay all in favor my apologies I had spinal surgery and uh I'm not as mobile as I was getting back to the issue the mstu is the fairest most reasonable way in a modern society to maintain the roads one family in particular that had just moved down from New York didn't even have a clue that you could be assessed for a Paving uh repair or new Paving because coming from the Northeast those were all rolled into our taxes the mstu like we paid for a street light like we pay for a tipping fee is a reasonable way for the county to maintain the roads especially with all the new population that is coming in to this area so again I am in favor of the mstu thank you very much and I did speak with you about this this week and uh I haven't had time to research what happened on that but we voted to approve that last time I just need to check with Ainsley if you know we I know I'm just telling you I'm going to look into this new MST public hearing this afternoon but I appreciate your support for that and I'll get back to you on the other Ainsley will be here this afternoon I don't think he's here this morning okay next um Sam I think it's Sani s-a-i-n-i oh okay so you are here with Mr Townsend on the same subject okay all right um Pastor Troy Peterson second sorry all in favor aye opposed thank you or Professor Troy Peterson 8114 Leo Kidd Road Newport Richie Florida once again I'm here I would like to make a motion to appoint somebody cares pastors to lead in the invocation to think that we've been entrusted to lead in an invocation to do the National Day of Prayer right outside this building for 20 years it's quite an honor I believe we can handle the Commissioners meeting as as well I was praying this morning and with Pastor Leonard and pastor Jerry and the lord gave me a scripture uh out of Psalms 19 starting in verse 7. the law of the Lord is the perfect covering of the Soul The Testament testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the statues of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart the Commandment of the Lord is pure in lighting the eyes the fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever the judgments of the Lord are true in the and the righteous all together and in Psalms 1 blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of Sinners nor sits in the seat of scornful but his Delight is in the law of the Lord and in the law of the Lord he meditates on it day and night he shall be made like a true tree planted in the rivers of water that brings forth fruit in its seizing season whose leaves

also shall not wither and whether he does he's whatever he does shall prosper the ungodly are not so but are like a chaff which the wind drives away and so what we've noticed since we've been coming into the city of Port Richey for for years encouraging them to pray in Jesus name what happened is they denied that for a season and then all of a sudden the mayor Goes to Jail the vice mayor is gone the city manager is gone we've got a whole new everything in the city of Port Richey now they're allowing us to come in and pray in Jesus name okay because we what we're asking is not that anybody come in and pray and pray in the invocation but that we lead it and because they're allowing us to do this in Port Richey now we have five events a year that's sponsored with the church and the City of Port Richey the next one being the Fall Festival October 29th uh the the police department will be there handing out the candy the fire department will be there and so we just want an opportunity to come in and pray and to work alongside our commissioners thank you for your time thank you but I'm sure that's all I have signed up anyone online um there is was one person signed up but they are not logged in is there anyone else here who wishes to speak to the board of County Commissioners this morning come on up to the mic uh name and address for the record please Madam chair can I just say something real quick and I appreciate I appreciate Pastor Troy you come every time I think one thing you need to remember because we usually don't respond is that you mentioned about you know coming here and leading the National Day of Prayer on this side of the county which is greatly appreciated and um I myself and commissioner Oakley always participate on the one on the west side but we also have we East Side sorry I don't know where I am today um but we also have 20 churches that participate in that over there too so I mean to pick and choose on how we have we have members here that protect um you know practice Judaism as well you know so I mean to pick and choose you know out of you know the 30 or 40 you know churches that participate in a number of events here I Think It's just tough I mean you know that's just me I mean to just to pick one group which I again I appreciate it but you're allowed as always and we say this you're allowed to come up here and pray and pray for us and pray for the obviously the constituents and the and the members in the audience anytime you want you're very welcome to do that we appreciate that but I think just for us to just to pick one church when we have so many churches that participate and are involved with the county um with just it's going down a slippery slope that's just my opinion yes and uh name matters for the record please my name is 5142 La Plata drive and um I'm here on the same subject that Mr Hugh Townsend presented

um about the repaving of El Sol Court I am um the family the fourth family who moved in um it's been roughly about a year now and um I'm asking that the this whole project of the repaving doesn't move forward at the time when we first received the notice I had just moved here it had maybe been roughly a month and I wasn't you know aware that you know exactly what that letter meant I mean I was still unpacking boxes you know living out of boxes very different here you know than where I came from in New York and I wasn't aware that um moving forward if this was passed um how much you know monetarily this would cost and that if you aren't able to pay it then things have happen like a lien could be placed on your house because I'm not in a financial financial position right now where I am able to pay that but aside from that um there was a hearing we came to it we showed up and then they said they tabled it and we were going to hear again and no one was notified of that last hearing so we weren't able to come and speak on our behalf and um also it was the issue that the neighbors had for several years that you know the the the El Sol Court had many potholes but since then the potholes had been repaired so the street is now fine so there's really no reason to repave it and for these four families to be put in this situation so I'm just kindly asking the court if they could please reconsider moving forward with the repaving of El Sol Court so um that's already passed but I'm going to come meet with you and explain to you uh how after this afternoon how I think things will move forward and I I think you'll be okay but I'll come meet with all of you all right thank I appreciate it thank you very much okay anyone else okay um we will now uh end the public comment and move on to the consent agenda yeah okay so we have a um resolution rs1 okay um let's see is anyone here for Public Health Systems friendly Public Health Systems I trust I'll go ahead and read the resolution resolution number 23-007 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida recognizing the designation of Paso County as an age-friendly public health system by trust for America's health whereas Pasco County Government Senior Services the Area Agency on Aging of Pasco and Pinellas and the Florida Department of Health in Pasco County Doh Pasco launched a partnership in 2021 to help Pasco County become an age-friendly public health system through the trust for America's health age friendly initiative and whereas the Florida Department of Health in Pasco County had

to demonstrate several of five key potential roles for public health including connecting and convening public sectors and professions that provide the support services and infrastructure for healthy aging coordinating existing supports and services to avoid duplication identify gaps and increase access to Services collecting data to assess community health status and aging population needs conducting communicating and disseminating research and best practices and com complete complete menting existing supports and services and whereas the benefits of joining the trust for America's health age friendly Public Health Systems include gaining access to information about how to best help aging communities public recognition for participating communities and building Partnerships within communities of older adults and whereas the trust for America's health age friendly initiative helps participate in communities build a become a great place for all ages by adopting access to key services and community activities as well as helping to identify environmental and policy changes that address older adult needs and whereas this designation ensures Health Equity for all citizens of Pasco County Health Equity is achieved when every person in our county has the opportunity to attain and maintain good health and when one's own health and when one's health is diminished due to conditions in which they live and work all right let me try again and when no one's health is diminished due to conditions in which they live and work it's a difference with the word no and whereas this initiative aligns the Doh pasco's Community Health Improvement plan and Pasco County Government strategic plan and whereas this title certifies that Pasco County's health system has demonstrated that it is committed to eliminating quality of care disparities among age groups and ensuring all citizens have the opportunity to for Optimal Health and well-being now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby recognizes Pasco County's designation as an age-friendly public health system by Trust of America's Health done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this 25th day of October 2022. all in favor aye welcome commissioner Oakley welcome uh I don't know who the spokesman is but I see a gentleman coming to Milwaukee so but we want to let you know we certainly appreciate all you're doing for our County and our citizens in the county so it's greatly appreciated by the sport thank you good morning members of the board Brian Hoban director of community services and I just wanted to take a minute just to thank the Department of Health and specifically Megan Carmichael for really leading the charge on this designation as well as our partner our partnership with area agency they're

phenomenal and they helped out with this and of course our team members our staff members with senior services who continue to work diligently this designation is going to be another step forward for our community and the seniors in our community and just want to take time to thank everybody for that thank you anybody else want to speak so down front we'll take some pictures no we do it together uh yeah I want you to stand up behind us and then the rest of us yeah good recommendation thank you thank you all about recommendations now that I'm 65. hey how are you [Laughter] singers all right folks one two three perfect thank you how do you have another one another large Theory five days a week to work out thanks she looks she looks good dedicated running a half marathon she's awesome yeah okay are we've got a couple resolutions oh no that's first one res two more yes so um resolution number two is recognizing the outstanding and invaluable disaster relief assistance provided by Andrew fossa Abraham Phillipson so if you could come up to the podium Krista Jones Jessica Milford Danielle Lang okay I'll go ahead and read the resolution resolution number 23-011 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida recognizing the outstanding and invaluable disaster relief assistance provided by Andrew fossa Abraham Phillipson Krista Jones Jessica Milford and Danielle Lang in support of the Commonwealth of Kentucky whereas during the evening of July 27 2022 a large rain rainstorm struck Southeastern Kentucky affecting is it bright hit how do you pronounce that say breath breath it okay breathit Perry clay Pike lecture ousley osley and Floyd counties resulting in the widespread destruction destruction casualties and missing persons and Razz many roads throughout the affected counties were covered with water and completely impassable several counties had been affected by mudslides and landslides while the water systems and pumping stations were broken down from the influx of rain water and debris citizens were without water working sewer systems power and Communications and whereas despite the capabilities of Kentucky's First Responders in a Swift and Powerful reaction by the federal government Kentucky was soon in need of support from the nation andraz the Tampa Bay area has a huge as it has a large network of professionals who are trained prepared and experienced in serving during natural disasters and severe weather events and whereas Pasco County

understands the value of providing Aid and relief during times of disaster and Prides itself on its skilled Workforce and workers dedicate dedication to respect Integrity Innovation service excellence and quality and whereas First Responders who are able to travel to assist other communities feel a profound sense of pride in their teams while being able to further hone their skills in an unfamiliar environment and whereas the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners wishes to extend their appreciation to these highly valued team members for their service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the experience they bring back to serve the citizens of Pasco County in the future now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby recognizes the outstanding invaluable disaster relief assistance provided by Andrew Foster Abraham Phillipson Krista Jones Jessica Milford and Danielle Lang in support of the Commonwealth of Kentucky done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this 25th day of October 2022. do it for approval second my goodness all in favor aye wow uh commissioner Moore I'm looking at the picture thank you madam chair Chief you want to come up so if you look on the there's a PowerPoint up there to show obviously this extensive damage that happened because of the flooding in Kentucky but um I'm gonna let Chief Foster tell about it but one of the great things about our team is that they're always called to action obviously we um don't like to see him have to leave Pasco County but they're they leave Pasco County for good reason because they are so good at what they do recently obviously being in South Florida one of you guys I won't be here will definitely need to do a resolution for all their efforts down in South Florida in the coming weeks but um you see some of the pictures obviously with the governor Congress and Paul Mitch McConnell that came in and provided I think resolutions or proclamations as well they're all kernels oh you're all Kentucky girls that's a big deal my uncle's a Kentucky girl you're a Kentucky Colonel yeah he looks like Colonel Sanders that's right the deployment was very unique for us we see storm surge the water comes in and the water comes out this event was a two-fold event they actually had two flooding events within a period of about eight hours and the destruction and like I say and I when I was talking to Eric I'm doing my debrief you don't know the power of water and we just saw it again down in Lee County um but we were very instrumental with the Kentucky I am Emergency Management and we had a very good working relationship uh we made some very good friends while we were

there but this team behind me they're they're second to none they're very hard workers um they know their jobs so uh as you can see we did have a good time we had down time but just a Devastation of making those friends and making those relationships with other Emergency Management folk fire rescue folk law enforcement tops it all so but thank you very much for the resolution yeah you guys are amazing so thanks for all your work so Google Applause everybody you guys there we were there two weeks wow Madam chair we certainly appreciate all that absolutely thank you I know the people where you went appreciate y'all being there yes sir we're friends now we're actually Facebook friends and Talking Friends and we still share information back and forth yeah so very good job thank you Mr Mariano thank you madam chair Andy thank you team thank you very much for for going down there um it's great to get the experiences as Kevin Guthrie said much better learning the experience there than here so when it does come here you're better trained as well and I'll tell you from from a few years ago with Mexico uh Mexico Beach getting hit the support they got from Pasco County was greatly appreciated every step of the way they mentioned they've mentioned several times at Consortium meetings um one thing I was just looking at I was down in Fort Myers when the rotary District when all went down there dropping off food and went to us see our First Responders down at the uh gymnasium they our people had to sleep uh they had some locker rooms that they were able to use but then the rest of the time they're under the bleachers and I found that very disturbing so it's very difficult especially when when we were in Lee County for three weeks and the sleeping Arrangements your basic going primitive you're living a lifestyle like sleeping in a campground in tents um the hotels no power no water so we were in Western shelters um we were sleeping in the EOC uh some of us got better sleeping Arrangements later on we actually uh Lee County actually secured a Best Western hotel and blocked out all the rooms so First Responders and contractors that were working the storm were actually able to stay there but a majority of the folks that were down there from other agencies whether it be in-state or out of state or sleeping on cots or sleeping bags on the ground some were sleeping at parks I met a group of folks on Pine Island that were sleeping in hammocks they were tying their their hammocks to trees and they were sleeping outside at night there was just no room no place to sleep there's no place to put anybody between the displaced citizens trying to find places the First Responders trying to find places FEMA coming in contractors coming in it got very overwhelmed very quickly you know it was a few years ago my daughter was working with the um and they had all the first all the emergency

people coming forward to recognize him to thank him et cetera and I thought it was real good they did that but one of the things I was thinking about as I as I saw the the sleeping arrangements and maybe there's improvements we can make because let's say a hurricane is going to hit one part of the state which it does and the other part can help once the cleanup is basically started quickly there's opportunities there we can we can make accommodations better I'd like to get to get with you uh get with Kevin get a group together to kind of find out what can we do regionally what do we Statewide to make when you guys are going down there to have better accommodations to go forward when I like I said when I see the guys I mean they're out there intense in Fort Myers Beach with piles of sand up all around and they're driving down going through and then when the rains come down they're undercover they get wet they're like stuck again so I think there's some efficiencies and things we can do Statewide that could be a lot better but with what you've seen and our team does a phenomenal job with it so there there is there is ways that I have um and then my basic EOC uh we have been trying to get assets from the state it is sometimes difficult they do have assets that they can give to us to keep that we can use for deployments and stuff like that it's just a matter of number one finding a place to store it number two having something to haul it so we have vehicles that can haul but we need other items to facilitate that so I wouldn't expect all 67 counties to have their own supplies and all everything else but I would think that we can do enough to maybe have like five or ten Supply groups that every group would know what was there what was going to go there and be able to access it I know so they can restore it regionally around and then when you need it you could pull it from if it's from Pensacola Jacksonville whatever to go to an area that got hit that we can do some efficiency that'll work together correct so if this if this I think there's an opportunity and I what I just saw was you know disturbing I mean our our service team was down there and and they were like really just protecting everything and they're out in in canopies that when the rain comes down if they're out they're getting wet and they're yes it's tough to get dry and it's not good for them to be in that situation great to see when you get the downtime you can actually chill and relax and and go but I want to make sure that as they're there at least when they're going to go back and need be they can get some place where they can change and and make it more palatable to us to go through but anyway we appreciate everything you're doing and we do have resolutions coming up for the sheriff's office I went down to Fort Myers as well as our first fire system and then the uh in the Rotary Club as well so we're going to recognize everybody but thank you guys for all you

did I have some people I'd like to add to that um that went down on their own and shoveled out brown stuff out of houses right um I think Sonia's preparing it so okay I'll get with you after but you guys want to come down so yeah yeah framed and I have the extras as well thank you let me look at Ryan first and then I'll take it after him all right folks right here one more perfect thank you are they really perfect thank you thank you appreciate you thank you thank you very pictures [Applause] you know perfect thank you okay oh I could ask cheers the folks from Able trust all right um the record needs to reflect that commissioner Fitzpatrick is here sorry it's been here for a while so I'm sorry we didn't do that when she came in are the um are the folks here for the able trust is everyone here it's 11 30. so no it's we just wanted to see if they're here yeah if they're here we would just go ahead and okay no we'll wait okay and then we have an 11 o'clock time certain are those okay all right so RS3 is the 11 30 RS4 it's yours is mine manufacturing day great well it's uh manufacturing month manufacturing day yeah if you're here for manufacturing month please step up to the podium thank you foreign resolution number 23-009 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida declaring the month of October as manufacturing month in October 7 2022 as manufacturing day in Pasco County whereas October is nationally recognized as manufacturing month and national manufacturing day is observed annually on the first Friday of October throughout the month especially on national manufacturing day manufacturers typically open their doors to give local middle and high school students a behind the scenes look into what happens within manufacturing facilities to help address common misconceptions and whereas during national manufacturing month in national manufacturing day we commit to strengthening and supporting the manufacturers and hard-working manufacturing employees of today as well as the manufacturers and workers of the future each year hundreds of thousands of people observe this day by attending open houses public tours and career workshops as we Mark 10 years since the first national manufacturing day we must Inspire the next generation of workers and innovators to seek careers in manufacturing Andres Florida encourages businesses to grow and create meaningful

jobs By Priority prioritizing policies that promote economic growth including lowering taxes eliminating unnecessary regulations and investing in education and the environment and whereas government and whereas Florida is taking steps to diversify its economy and strengthen its Workforce by establishing a plan to invest in skills-based education to make Florida number one in Workforce education by 2020 by 2030 so that companies can continue to draw from an outstanding pool of talent in the Sunshine State and whereas Pasco County is fortunate to be home to many great manufacturing businesses some of which are world leaders in their respective fields Andres by working together and edu with educational institution the board of County Commissioners and local manufacturers have and continue to work together to connect with future Generations build the next generation of Skilled Manufacturing employees take charge of the public image of manufacturing and ensure the ongoing prosperity of the whole industry and whereas manufacturing month and Manufacturing day serves as opportunities to recognize all professionals agencies and organizations who bring value to Pasco County's manufacturing industry and economy now therefore be resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said Bohr hereby declares the month of October as manufacturing month and October 7 2022 as manufacturing day in Pasco County done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this 25th day of October 2022. motion to approve second all in favor all right of course this is one of my favorite resolutions so um welcome uh to the bocc and please come on up and and talk about how important manufacturing is to all of us thank you commissioner Starkey for recognizing manufacturing industry the manufacturing month is the annual National event executed locally with support of thousands of Manufacturers across the country as a whole student teachers parents job Seekers and local community members and open houses plant tours presentations designed to Showcase today's Advanced manufacturing technology and high wage opportunities manufacturing manufacturing month event in our regional include virtual tour live questions and answers webinar with the owner of a southern manufacturing technology Roy Sweetman and local students to manufacturers speed Network events and local manufacturers in Pinellas County and Pasco County teachers with multiple in-person plant tours and proclamations from across the area I'm a local manufacturer I own RJ manufacturing just up the street up a little next to Home Depot business is good our manufacturing month is a co-produced by a National Association of Manufacturers and the manufacturer Institute and supported by the Bay Area manufacturers Association in Florida makes thank you very much and uh Jim you want

to speak a little bit about our manufacturing training program yeah I'm Jim Shen and I'm with am skills and I I wanted to thank the board here for all your continued and generous support for am skills right now we're servicing we're over 60 manufacturers here throughout the Tampa Bay Region and without your support we wouldn't be able we wouldn't be here and be able to do that so we have a bright future ahead and thank you so much for supporting us yes does anyone want to plug Bama yeah Christina Davenport I'm the immediate past President Obama and here to represent and thank you in the board for what you've done for us today so Bama's Bay Area manufacturing association yes and uh is it is it Bama who holds that dinner once a year that we partner yes so yeah and hopefully when we have our building open we can have an event there we're very much looking forward to that and um I I was at your of your business right and you have some amp skills uh workers there yeah and he has a lot of CNC machines you want to tell them what your business does my business is uh we I've been doing a lot of high Precision Machining um we bought a building in Pasco County uh we do a lot of medical devices a little bit of Department defense um automotive performance um Aerospace Technologies now we just recently expanded our business and metal fabrication with lasers and CNC press brakes we are trying to work closely with Pasco County Schools I want to go and do a speech with a few of those and maybe uh you know maybe turn the page with some you know some local student maybe you want to get a manufacturing that's right that's right so I I love our department defense contractors you guys would not believe how many we have here in the county that's so that's so important all right let's yeah go ahead Jim a week at the mic please I'm sorry at the mic we do have a boot camp going on right now at the Lighthouse for the visually impaired and blind you know right down on Ridge Road so we have VIP day tomorrow so if anybody would like to come and join us there at 10 o'clock or one o'clock in the afternoon we certainly hope to have you get to see one of our boot camp programs looks like and we had a record number of applicants we have 23 going through we we had 25 but a couple had there was a health issue and they had to drop out but and I believe 10 of them are veterans here too so yes and Mr karbala and me and some legislators and a future County Commissioner we were all down there last last week yeah yeah so um okay let's go down take a picture oh wait it wasn't mine that's good for sure I can get you more close the iPhone first right here thank you one more thank you all right thank you thank you

everybody [Applause] thank you okay I think we have an 11 o'clock time Sergeant yes you do um our 76. The Honorable Mike Fasano coming up I think and uh sure 76. oh it's a regular item okay good morning good morning good morning Madam chair good morning Commissioners um I won't take but a few minutes normally when you see the tax collector uh it's because I want to get money from you today I'm going to give you a little money um you know each year that uh our our staff works so diligently to do provide such excellent service to not only people in Pasco but throughout the state they come from all over the state to visit our offices to get uh get services without having to require a um an appointment and normally I'm able to give you some dollars back each year we had budgeted to give you back 2.1 million dollars this year I'm happy to report I'm going to present you a check with a 3.5 million dollars um and uh but but I know oh I need 250 000 of that to go to the sheriff so he's building a training center he's agreed to put a little training center in hat building for us and um and I'd like to ask if you would consider I'm sure you'll get with your County Administrator and staff of how that goes about but uh of the 3.5 million you have 250 000 would go to the sheriff for the purpose of building us part of a that at his Training Center inside there will be a nice 500 square foot room for our training center for our new employees and present employees I'll make a motion second all right I saw Kabbalah shake his head yes I'll take I'll take it I'll take it thank you to the clerk I'll thank you thanks so much for all you do okay uh do you want to check again Mike if your time folks are here for your 11 30. uh certain I I don't think so so but thank you okay so I think then we are we have RS5 RS5 commissioner Mariana yeah um individuals receiving the rank who received the rank of Eagle Scout if you could come up to the podium Nicholas Cersei Kersey sorry um Jeffrey is it fonden Oh yay that's good and um Andrew Kelly all right I'll go ahead and read the resolution a resolution number 23 Dash zero one zero at resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida congratulating Nicholas Kersey uh Jeffrey bonnen and Andrew Kelly on achieving the rank of Eagle Scout whereas Nicholas Kersey the son of Todd Kersey and Stacy Kersey is 15 years old and a sophomore at Hudson High School Jeffrey faunen is the son of Tim Fannin and Kim fawnan is 14 years old and a freshman at Mitchell High School and Andrew Kelly the son of Joe Kelly and

Amy Kelly is 15 years old and a sophomore at Wendell Corrine Technical High School Anne Raz in 2016 at Nicholas joined scouting at which time he joined Club Scout Cub Scout Pack 40 in Hudson Florida and later became a Boy Scout in 2018 after being awarded his Arrow of Light and in 2014 Jeffrey joined scouting at which time he joined clubs Cub Scout Pac 40 in Hudson Florida and later became a Boy Scout in 2019 after being awarded his Arrow of Light and in 2013 Andrew joined scouting at which time he joined Cub Scout Pack 40 in Hudson Florida and later became a Boy Scout in 2018 after being awarded his Arrow of Light Andres on August 31st 2022 Nicholas and Jeffrey attained their Eagle Scout rink and on July 13 2022 Andrew Kelly attained his Eagle Scout rink Andreas achieving the rank of Eagle Scout is of a special significance not only is scouting not only in scouting but also in higher education business and industry and community service the award is a performance-based achievement in stand with standards that have been maintained over the over the years andraz to earn the rank of Eagle Scout the highest advancement rank in scouting a Boy Scout must fulfill requirements in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills and whereas Nicholas Jeffrey and Andrew have all held the positions of patrol leader assistant senior patrol leader and senior patrol leader and whereas Nicholas has earned 40 merit badges Jeffrey has earned 39 merit badges and Andrew has earned 27 merit badges 21 of which are required to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout these badges include citizenship in the nation archery Communications personal management environmental Sciences citizenship in the community sustainability Personal Fitness camping swimming finger painting first aid orienteering rifle shooting Indian lore life-saving family life game design welding and more Andres Nicholas Jeffrey and Andrew have participated in numerous community service projects with their troop 40 including roadside cleanup and have assisted with other Eagle Scout projects and rasp for his Eagle Scout project Nicholas chose to design and lead the construction of a primitive campsite at Cruise Lake Park along with along one of the many trails in the park which took 60 hours to complete for his Eagle Scout project Jeffrey chose to design and lead the construction of picnic tables at Seven Springs Elementary School which took 55 hours to complete for his Eagle Scout project Andrew chose to lead the cleanup and painting of the nature of the nature center and outside Decking at the upper pithlocos I can never say that pith look scouty thank you yeah Cody River yeah thank you the upper Cody River Preserve which took 50 hours to complete troop 40 members and friends helped with all aspects of their project projects now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said bored hereby congratulates Nicholas Kersey Jeffrey fonden and Andrew Kelly in

attaining the coveted rank of Eagle Scout and is very proud of Nicholas Jeffrey and Andrew for their accomplishments and dedication to our community done and resolved in regular session with the Quorum president voting this 25th day of October 2022. move approval all in favor aye aye commissioner Mariana thank you madam chair um so gentlemen I've got three resolutions today and it's a group resolution I want to say I'm going to redo these for you though so you're going to have your own individual one coming up but I'll give you at least these for today um if I could I want to have you guys just to talk a little bit about your projects that you had so let's go with Nicholas first with the campsite for my my project I built primitive campsites in Cruise Lake Park it was very interesting leading a team of Scouts to assemble picnic tables would paint them move them get them all in the right positions we're really cool thank you very much yeah we need your name and address for the record we can lower that Mike the just your name for the record please okay her name is Nicholas Kersey thank you thank you all right and Jeffrey and give your name first Jeffrey full name uh my name is Jeffrey Fannin okay um my project I built picnic tables for elementary school um it was kind of weird trying to get everyone to work together for uh one goal but over time they all worked as a team and it went well so excellent that's great all right and Andrew my name is Andrew Kelly my project was to repaint the Nature Center at upper Cody River Preserve we overcame some obstacles with not enough paint but however the project did end up it looked great and I'm glad for the County's support on that project thank you fantastic hey and I I have a brother and a nephew who are Eagle Scouts so I know how much work they'll send to this I tell you and I and I really appreciate it it's been a while since we've given one so yeah I'm delighted to give three in one day that's phenomenal what I'd like to do with you three gentlemen and maybe your troop is let's go to Sun West Park at a second link we have out that we've already developed there's an area we're going to do like a primitive type of a campsite thing we're talking about picnic tables is appropriate uh the I'm sure there'll be some painting and you guys can give us maybe some input as far as what we're thinking about doing and get your Insight to what you think would be good because I think all in all it would be a great place for cult stack the scouts actually be able to go out there and spend a weekend out there and kind of enjoy it in the nature that's right there so uh if you guys would Endeavor uh that with me I would uh I'd appreciate that and we'll take a look sound good um so we get the families here right okay so let's do a picture if you guys would let's stay up here I'm gonna do a

picture with the three down below with the three of them and then we'll bring the families in we'll do one by one with that that's all right yeah ceremony mom amazing oh yeah waking up yeah all right everybody right here one more great thank you all right and all the family members smile even the County employee wants [Laughter] okay everybody right here one two one more great thank you each individual yeah let's go in the center Soldier that was up and working come this way all right right here folks thank you great okay right here perfect thanks thank you all right everybody right here please got it thanks congrats [Applause] okay I think we are on to the consent agenda and I have um C-17 commissioner Mariano pull and discuss speed 23 Andrew Baxter pull and revise c-52 Brantford aduma withdraw okay um uh C50 Nikki pull them discuss branford's got another one C55 withdrawal commission Mariano C60 pull him disgusts uh c68 Adam Thomas withdraw c25 who who's doing that Andrew Baxter a baxter is that withdrawal or just withdrawal board members are there any other items you would to wish to pull was c25 listed as a withdrawal yeah okay and on C60 you can leave that in the consent I'm fine with that consent yeah okay and well actually no no please withdraw that I have one quick thing to make on that thank you okay we're gonna withdraw it okay I mean you're going to discuss this discussion okay entertain a moment motion for the consent agenda so move second all in favor aye opposed okay we are on to c17 pull and discuss all right I pulled this item um it's a 286 000 expense I we have we have so many issues right now between mpuds um our local ordinance as well uh I don't know if we got the right Focus to go spend this money at this point in time on this later today under committee reports I'm going to put a presentation on about some things I need to think we need to look at if you want to continue to this the afternoon is fine or Terry can explain what we want to go do and um but I'm just a little weary to do this right now okay the comprehensive Plan update is operated by the long-range planning

division in conjunction with Consultants who are doing a lot of the heavy lifting though long-range planning is running the project the mpud team is on a separate team within the Planning Development Department in current planning that's a separate set of planners we do have a plan in place to address some of the mpud work that has come into the county more recently there's a there is a higher volume of mpud applications that have has come in but we do have a plan that is going to be put in action um hopefully this week we've already been affecting some of the changes to improve the status of the mqd workload but we're going to be going much deeper and engaging fully the department in the support of doing that mpud work so Madam chair part of my concern is separate as well as well your team together working on mpus et cetera we've got a huge issue as far as the backlog that's out there and then I don't see I appreciate your working on a plan we've been talking about this for a long time you take away any more staff time to do a change of the plan we have in place right now I just don't know if you can afford to do that as far as getting these things through literally we had Tempe Lightnings High individual Jay feaster come and meet with all the Commissioners to talk about a project that is a simple project that's got 150 yards of dirt and for over out of two weeks or four weeks now we can't even get that thing where it's listed as being submitted to get looked at the building is operational this is running as a school we've got 20 kids that can go in there and they've actually got to hire a person to make sure they don't go over that number or code's going to find them and shut them down the building is efficient it's a hockey rink we put some type of for some reason someone guided or it was set up for 20 people for an occupancy when a regular hockey team takes 30 players so I've worked real hard to try to get this thing through uh and I think I've had I've got others doing the same we can't seem to get stuff done well Madam chair if I just speak to the the hockey rink specifically um my team is eager to work on that project and are ready to work on that project if the applicant could submit their conditions of approval for the team to review so that's what's missing right now if the ball is in the uh applicants Court we're ready to review it when they do submit it and my and I've had multiple conversations even this morning with my team that we want to review it but there's nothing for us to review at the moment all right now I'm going to contradict you to that statement because

talking to them they have sent it over it wasn't quite what you wanted but rather than even getting comments back to say what the shortfalls are it's considered where they haven't submitted yet so I'm going to call you out for that well I mean there's documentation they haven't submitted it to us so okay you haven't accepted it hasn't been submitted yet from what I understand they've not been submitted all right we'll talk about it later so commission I'd like to speak for that it's in my district so I'd like to speak to it uh the developer there went in for through the Planning Commission and got a uh 20 a conditional use for 20 people to play until he got finished but there's bigger issues because in his planning he started out going to put this in the backyard to only come up to pick a residential area in my district which there's no roads actually coming to that that are not substandard at the most so part of the issue when he comes and gets his final mpud approved and if it's going to tell us what he's got to do to have transportation going there and it's not on a dirt road we've got all the dirt roads in East Pasco County we need we're not going to run a dirt road to a facility he built and he's got 20 he's got a conditional uh trying to put it in his backyard but the fact of it is the entire time he's been there and working he's done it without permits and I've had to call his hand on several times not being allowed Terry and his team are very much aware of what's going on on that project and we want it to get through because it is of value for our citizens in Pasco County the fact of it is if he would have chose a commercial site for this project for this ice rink the roads would already be there his problem is he chose an area in a rural area where there's houses one 10 acres in all and and those folks have not even had their chance for public hearing because of the way he went through getting this conditional use so he he's trying to jump the gun but I'm telling you he has to pay his dues we told him over a year ago to present his mpud and he only did it in May he still has to pay his dues and go through the process like every other developer and we have many developers like 90 of them besides him they're doing it right way getting a permits moving forward getting their information and there's no sense in moving this forward because when he when he gets that he's going to look at McKendree Road this dirt at his place and he's going to look at a vision road but won't be completed for 10 years that comes into that area just right there at Pasco Town Center he's been doing it wrong the fact of it is when he finally gets all his information together and presents this then this roadway he's going to have to build because he's a private individual the

County's not going to spend our citizens money to provide a road to this development when it's private and I think it's going to be a Christian School which in normally I think Christian Schools if it's 501c3 would not pay any Abalone taxes to benefit the citizens at all now it's a good facility and people want to use it I met with lightning and other people that want to use this project but it's got to be done right and it's got to be done right because you've got if you're going to approve this one to go move it through real quickly well that's great but I want those other 90 people that have been doing it the right way and waiting their turns to be approved at the same time and that can't be done this got a process to begin with it takes too long and we've had so many mpds coming through the county and Terry's team and all they're doing the best they can but they're overloaded with work on that I heard something this past week Terry maybe you can explain if there's a way to do the same thing we do without going through the process of all the mpuds I don't know if that's something that can happen or not and if it makes it faster for the county so maybe you can explain that we are working on Land Development code amendments um that will enable us to reduce the number of mpuds that are being submitted because right now there's a couple of um thresholds that are being tripped by the Land Development code that are established by Land Development and developers are tripping over them and also on the comprehensive plan um one of them is the trip generation threshold threshold where projects that create more than 1 200 daily trips are automatically forced into applying for an mpud in the Land Development code right now and there's a a strategic code Amendment that's coming forward to the BCC that says that if a project can be handled through a development agreement or through a conditional use permit or through a special exception um it does not need to go the route of an mpud it can it can be taken through those channels which are shorter time frames and much easier to accomplish than the negotiation of conditions of approval for mpuds yeah that uh is one amendment that has to happen there are two or three other much larger substantive amendments Land Development code in order to enable um like a comprehensive reduction on the amount of mpuds that we're receiving in other words in order to enable our regular Land Development code to perform without having to um rely and go to the mpud the same thing is happening in the comprehensive plan where there are certain policies that state that you shall do an mpud and this particular situation or what have you

and so we have policies and we have code Provisions that are dictating the use of one instrument that maybe 10 or 15 years ago the county wasn't expecting the amount of volume of work coming in and now all this volume is coming into one of our more complicated processes which is causing some of the backlogs that we're experiencing today and so we have to adjust that regulatory framework change the policies a little bit and redirect how we can handle this work in different using different instruments and that's that we have at our disposal we just have to enable them yeah so that's going to be better for all of us for impudes we all want to see go forward one minute I want to see it finished but there's so many issues just because he picked a residential area to put a 20 occupancy for a building that holds 812 people the trips for that he only paid a fee of I think 32 000 or so for 20 conditional use trips when it becomes where he provides for many many more his fee is going to go up plus he's got to build a road and that developed I I did go visit that facility I think it's a fantastic facility and I hope we figure out how we can help him get that open I I know our high schools are using it and one of the high schools has 30 kids on team so they can't use it so but I want to go back to the original thing that commissioner Mariana brought up and um I do want to talk about this development process that we have and solutions I'm just not sure that this is the place for it right now during the um during consent so I um like well we'll talk about commissioner items so Terry just be sure to be here this afternoon because I think we should talk about this it's a big issue and I want to continue that conversation so um I could just let me follow up with that okay all right so so part of the reason to pull it is all right they want to redo the comprehensive plan so be it and I'm Terry I'm glad you mentioned it because the problem I think is a lot with our code and when I've got to give an example of the cubic fill ordinance of five cubic yards that was designed for low areas where we have a closed base and where people are filling in and going and I told you recently we had someone come in for a development where they just brought in eight truckloads of dirt completely against the violation and all we do is go through the permitting process and the guy gets approved and he gets to keep it in there so that type of thing is like so why even have that ordinance of five when you're going to go allow it to happen anyway well that's why I'm for this no no no no to fix all this stuff but but I don't want the focus just to be on the comprehensive plan it's got to be on the ordinance literally you can go put a wallet together you can go put a sea wall up raise it up to like three to

five feet where they're supposed to be yeah where they want you to do it now right and you got to go get a separate ordinance to go put fill in if you have a let me just bring this back I know just let me just touch on one more one more point I got to make and I'll just kind of go when you look at Coastal development and you when someone wants to go put grass in the back or put a pavers or concrete you can go through it's a much easier way to go so we want to bring this item back in another yeah I want to talk about efficiencies and Madam chair I have one comment on that because my question is you had mentioned that the occupancy was 20 and they needed at 30 it was a difference of 10. I was just curious if there was a reason for that and also is it Patrick and septic this is not the place to talk about that so with all due respect so can I discuss this I'm going to take a motion on C 17. commissioner Mariana you pulled it all in favor no wait his motion was to what continue he didn't I don't believe you made a motion what is your motion to to um it was a very Advantage do you want to bring it back as an agenda item something we really Madam chairman if I may that's not what I mean let me so this is this is hiring a consultant to do the comprehensive plan which I believe is part of your evaluation appraisal report is it not that is correct so under state law we are supposed to be doing this it's not related to your Land Development code or your mpud process this is updating your comprehensive plan it's got to be done so I'd like I'd like to see if we can get a move to pass this and we will but we'll have this yeah okay but we will have this discussion again later during commissioner items I'll be here I just don't think that may not be this morning um we'll see how far we get Andrew c23 good morning Madam chairman members of the board Andrew Baxter Facilities Management director item c23 has three Corrections that need to be applied to it we've distributed those one is related to the alphanumeric way that the compensation was awarded in one section and then the two others are basically related to the distribution of the agenda item and so with those Corrections we recommend approvals second all in favor aye opposed thank you Andrew c52 is a withdrawal of C50 pull and discuss Nikki Alvarez soles Madam chair I just would like if when this item is approved to be approved pending clerk approval we didn't receive the document until this morning clerk approval second all in favor aye um C55 is a withdrawal and commissioner Mariano we kept C60 no you did want to pull it okay no I won't be I want to pull it yeah so go ahead so quick thing if you look at the location map that's on it uh the line for the hammock creep um

project is it borders at Old Dixie Highway and I'm wondering if staff can take a look at it and take that line from Old Dixie Highway and put it out toward the gulf further because currently we've got a big project up at Sea Pines for storm water right now the line stops it him a creek is on Old Dixie this opportunity and to actually have more water drain out along that whole way instead of going down all the way down to Gulf Drive where we've got property we're going to be draining out so if that line was moved over to the side I wonder if we couldn't look at what's possible for out there to get the drainage to continue and not stop at the wall of Old Dixie well I would I would ask if that affects the agreement and does it have to be modified so so what's that you have to go take a look at and move in that boundary if we could and I'd expect that done today Bradford you could do it right there just press the button down on your mic yeah no you got to hold it while you're speaking okay good morning commissioner Commissioners interim assistant County Administrator yes um commissioner Mariano this is a project a project led by Swift Mud and um there's an agreement in terms of the scope so we can have that discussions with them and see if they can take that into consideration but like other projects they are the ones leading this so so with the note that Joe take a look at that I'll move approval second all in favor aye keep that map up for a second I see Tower drive over there that's another reason not to have Tower Road um so don't say tower out anymore folks we're going to say rangeland because we couldn't have a tower anyway you can't Tower Drive Right There Tower Road goes uh it's the old railroad track by the stuck rangeland it's just going to be a continuation of rangeland okay we'll do it again thank you motion yeah move approval that's just the call the call of the vote all in favor I opposed I thought we did but maybe we did okay c68 is withdrawn C 25th is with c25 is withdrawn time threaten okay and now we have a Time certain we almost got there this is resolution RS3 and if you are here for well actually is it able trust if you would please come to the PO team too bad they weren't here when the kids from uh yeah [Music] okay I'll go ahead and read the resolution resolution number 23-008 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida declaring October 2022 as disability employment Awareness Month in Pasco County whereas in 1988 Congress declared the month of October as National disability employment Awareness Month in order to recognize the

contributions made by individuals with disabilities and Raz disabilities employment awareness month is also an opportunity to acknowledge workers with disabilities who make our community our economy and our nation stronger and Rise according to the U.S census bureau's American Community survey 13.7 percent of Floridians live with disabilities and whereas Pasco County has numerous businesses throughout different Industries committed to hiring people with disabilities and res residents with disabilities deserve the right to live independently enjoy self-determination and to be treated equally in the workplace and whereas the able trust also known as the Florida endowment foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation has worked with employers and Community organizations through El Pasco County and the State of Florida to enable thousands of citizens with disabilities to enter the workforce and whereas the Florida's division of vocation Rehabilitation and division of blind services within the Department of Education assist people with disabilities so that they may become employed and whereas these organizations have an overwhelming impact in the lives of many of Pasco County Citizens with disabilities by offering services including job placement assistance training support and job coaching and res Pasco County Fosters a welcoming environment for people who live with disabilities this is evidence in part by the private part private public partnership that led to the inclusive playground that opened at Wesley Chapel District park in 2019 and whereas disability employment Awareness Month celebrates the contributions of workers with disabilities both past and present and showcases supportive inclusive employment policies and practices now therefore be resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby declares October 2022 as disability employment Awareness Month in Pasco County and encourages organizations of all sizes and in all Industries to edu to educate about disability employment issues and to celebrate the many and varied contributions of American workers with disabilities dinner resolved in regular session with the Quorum president voting this 25th day of October 2022. move for approval second all in favor aye aye commissioner Moore thank you madam chair welcome how are you doing so we have Leanne Rexford the director of strategic initiatives for able trust and obviously Alexis Doyle's you're the board of directors for able trust thank you so much for being here today um it wasn't long ago that myself and commissioner Mariana was there too um we went to the uh the luncheon to talk about all the great things the initiatives that Abel trust is doing not only in Pasco County but obviously across the State of Florida too so we thought this was a perfect timing you know what month it is what we're celebrating for you to come in and talk more and explain to the the audience members but also those at home that are

watching everything that you guys do at able trust to help our citizens with disabilities to get out there and get employed and we could talk a little bit about what you do at Saddle Brook too as well how much time do you have yeah a couple minutes so the we provide resources for providers who and then in turn get Floridians with disabilities into the workforce um so we are a connector between the power The Vocational Rehabilitation line services and the end users being the Floridians that need those services but don't necessarily know how to access them and then how to access the providers that can get them to the jobs and the training that they need but also most importantly we're supporting those providers we're supporting those not-for-profits and for-profits that work so diligently every year and every day to to work with this hidden talent pool that is misunderstood most of the time so getting them in the job is one thing retaining them is another sure and we're here to support them through the whole process with education and data and research great thank you Alexis why don't you tell us a little bit about how you at Sutter Brook in the past have used the program and some of the successes that you've had a employees with disabilities and different backgrounds and using their skill set to help encourage our front of the house and back of the house guests that we have to be able to have a great stay at Saddlebrook to be able to have genuine hospitality and hospitality is a great driving force for our economy in Pasco County and we definitely see the benefit for employing those with all abilities in all ranges anything from a front line as a server's assistant server back of the house stewarding all the way up to top positions such as Chief Financial Officer and president so we've had everything in between making those accommodations for our employees that have different abilities and backgrounds some are in wheelchairs some have different abilities throughout the the spectrum of autism and Asperger's and other areas so just bringing those accommodations and showing that it's a great will selling a great business decision and it's the right thing to do for your business and a great Direction and commitment for Pasco County great and you like you mentioned you know there's there's such a talent pool of people out there with you know of all abilities that we need to obviously continue to focus on um and your yourself at Saddlebrook and all the things you're doing at able trust but there's so many more employers that are are participating in this probably more than ever now right they're okay anybody else this but um I would love for Pasco County to be working with you guys so I also love that yeah I'm familiar with the program that Hillsborough County is actually the um public defender down in Hillsborough County

um partners with Pepin and has a great program for Pepin transition students to come in and work in her office so um I I would and I TR we tried with the clerk's office um with the uh someone but they're they're there are funds available to help set up these programs and if anyone has any spare time and want to take this up this would be something really good for the county to get involved City of Tampa just did something as you're aware of yourselves I think they just um pass an initiative I think it was their last Comm or council meeting the city of Tampa added some funding to someone yeah that'd be good and thank you um I think this is a great program and I would like to say thank you for everything that you do it is one of the concerns that are near and dear to my heart um and I know we briefly discussed summer camps and we have expanded our summer camps to over 30 children's special needs children last summer which had risen from the year before and I think this Madam chair I think it'd be really important that we Implement something or a program like this over the summer for the kids that are transitioning from high school so they can learn how to work in a workplace out of high school and then also for any disabled any disabled member in our community that would like to come out and get on the job training skills and then if it wants to last over the summer then they could have a long-term permanent placement yeah you know um Mr administrator uh maybe it would be interesting if we could have um different departments suggest ideas of where they could possibly use some um of these kind of clients I made note of that okay great would that fall under um they have Ferguson's they have just to make it easy so we can move on is that they can explain the program and how it works they have their way of doing things they're the professionals they're the ones that go into the companies and implement this versus us trying to figure it out ourselves they're the ones that that's why they're there they will tell you what you can do to implement this but it'd be great for Pasco County to offer this to our citizens as well for our disabled or even our seniors thank you couldn't agree more um what I can do is leave some information we'll hook you up we'll make the connection and he's right behind you yeah I think commissioner Marion has been patiently waiting still oh I'm sorry he was with me the day so he's aware of what's going on here right and Alexis thank you very much for bringing me out to to this very important meeting with Amber trust who did a great presentation and I think we're all very excited about trying to help our citizens better especially those that could use that lift up we talked as well about even trying to work with our

federal postmasters there may be some opportunities there but wherever it is we can help I think you'll see you've got full support here so thank you very much and I I wasn't able to be at the lunch but one of my um friends used to be uh chair of your organization and right now I cannot remember his name um he was the head of career source for the State of Florida for a while though uh he's up in Jacksonville now but I can't remember and I was there I was there at the lunch about a year ago okay and Alexis I've known for a long time and and appreciate everything y'all do and Vocational Rehabilitation is very imperative that we have well we actually yesterday we'll do that I have extras for you too do this and we will grab it together all right everybody right here one two three great thanks perfect thank you excellent okay thank you very good yep and then um click here okay okay now I'm like where am I personally right r75 okay I think we're on our 75 which is the the pedc report good morning good morning and happy Tuesday everyone it is a great day in Pasco County I recognize that I am standing between you and lunch and I'm putting a photo of scallops on the screen to start with that's where they all went yeah that's uh those are Pasco scallops so for those of you that went in Hernando nothing like that those are good Pasco scallops but uh it's my pleasure to present to you our fourth quarter report for this last fiscal year this will be our final report uh for the fiscal year start out with the memorandum of understanding and I'm going to go through these pretty quickly since uh since we've got lunch in front of us and we'll talk about some of the big highlights but let's see oh there we go I think this is probably the slide that most people are most interested in and that's how we do in recruitment how do we do in the the beauty contest that we win when companies come to look at Pasco County uh to invest in we had 11 wins this past year uh of that 11 wins several jobs we're going to talk about that the next slide but I did want to make reference to our lead Pipeline and where the activity is coming from so if you look at the very last line they're Advanced manufacturing you heard from RJ manufacturing earlier business is good and Manufacturing still tends to be one of our leading sectors because we are still one of the only places that has land and people and and that is is rare in Florida a question for you come back when you say Aerospace Aviation and defense are those not and these are not

manufacturing those would be manufacturing that fit into that category so um you think about our friends at true simulation and things like that those fall into that category so they're in two all right and can you make sure that I get a list of those five Advanced manufacturing wins successes in their contacts absolutely thank you and then this is this shows you the overall impact of of um of those 11 wins so our goal was 14 wins uh this year we got 11. but if you look at the numbers what came with that our goal for capital investment was 100 million we ended up with 240 million dollars of new capital investment into Pasco County and over 1200 jobs this when I looked at around the state at some of the other counties on how they did we're trending with some of the big counties in South Florida and it's really because we've got the product we've got the people and we've got great leadership here uh training visits again I'll go through you all have the packet so I'm going to go through some of this fairly rapidly and then save time for questions we're still out calling on companies we're still hitting events we're still working with our partners like am skills and the workforce training uh Partners we're attending conferences nationally internationally and locally speaking about Pasco as a place to do business but also letting our partners know what kind of programs that we're working on earned media value and again you can't necessarily put this in the bank but if you were to go out and buy this type of media it would cost you four 4.5 million dollars of earned media value that we've enjoyed over this past year and the web it I asked this question of my staff every single presentation shows 96 new 96 of the users on the web are new to our website and I said how can that be did they not come back and it turns out they get the information they need and then they're they're working with our staff from that point on so each time you see this they are a genuine new unique users coming in and pretty good size reach uh 408 000 Impressions and that's how people uh view our our our county is by those impressions and then on our overall uh complexion of what what does our organization look like right now we have 91 total private sector investors and our goal this last year was 550 500 uh for private sector investment uh for dues we're over 600 000 and with events uh over 715 000 that came from the private sector so each time that we use tax dollars that leverages that private sector investment and that's money that the county didn't have to spend but it also shows that our business Community is still behind us we have 44 members on the board right now and uh new member columnar Holdings they're working on a project up at 52 and 75 I think most of you have talked to them is that is that 44 up or down or because I don't I don't know how to I don't know how many that's that's I don't know how to yeah it is it is a big

board but they're very nice people so they're very easy to manage and also while I've got that slide up we did a return on investment for our public dollars right now we're at 146 to 1. so that means for each public dollar that you give Pasco EDC to put into programs the gross County product that comes out of that was 146 times the amount of public funds going in so really important to show where that return is because the work we do the return goes on your bottom line not our bottom line and some hard sometimes it's hard to dig and find what that impact really looks like um and then just some overall things that had happened we did take our board on their uh annual scalloping Retreat and again uh Pasco is doing so much better uh with scalloping and organizing this this has become a real thing for Pasco County and applaud to our tourism group as well that helped us with that we're starting to use tourism a lot more to Market quality of place is becoming very important post covid so you'll see us doing more things together um joined a tbbw Tampa Bay Business Journal CEO Roundtable where I was uh joined with CEOs like Coca-Cola and USF and others it was very nice that they included Pasco County in that conversation we also concluded our executive success program as a new program we finished it up this year it was a success the six seven is redundant but we have a new another class that started uh just last week and the Japanese Council General came uh for a really impromptu to visit yeah he was throwing out a pitch at one of the Rays games and came up for dinner in Shoemaker Law Firm put together a dinner for him we have the Southeast U.S Japan conference coming to Florida first time in 14 years in November so it's important that we continue to embrace that relationship with Japan and then Senator Scott used our office for his field staff they have a federal agency Roundtable or or open hours that you can come in and ask about federal agencies and then last but not least when I was up at the international Economic Development conference was asked to speak on a panel talking about sustainability in Pasco starting to get some some attention from National Economic Development groups upcoming events meet the members that is uh two days so that's the 27th that is our event where our incubator members get to meet our board members so that we can promote a true b2c and B2B type of connection holiday appreciation social Uhl will be invited to that that is going to be December 1st coming up rapidly leadership pass go business and industry day we still host the leadership Pasco group for that day that is a a fun day where they get to learn about our businesses and then our annual economic forecast luncheon we moved it again this year it's going to be at the Heritage Springs on January 19th fairly centrally located and we're going to be announcing those speakers very soon and then last but not least grow Pasco so grow Pasco this is in our third year

this is all of our entrepreneurs coming together with speakers uh there's quite a buzz there and it's a weekend event they come out on Saturdays and if you've got time to come out and join them there's quite a buzz there with the groom so that's it for the mou if you want me to stop or I can just jump into the penny for Pasco and we can something okay you're good okay Scott Cason is not the penny for Pasco there you go take pictures while it's loading I just want to commend the eagle scout so here I'm an eagle scout as well too and I was thinking of of great projects and as we had someone with disabilities in here earlier what a great idea if somebody could put a handicapped accessible Podium here in in each of the centers yeah yeah because I poor guy I couldn't even see him yeah yeah or we can get a Podium that goes up and down we still haven't you're still having okay while he's while he's bringing it up I you remember on the penny for Pasco I actually have a executive summary sheet that at the beginning you should have um the first slide there so ready sites uh still continuing to get Great Looks on on ready sites um this has become one of the programs that now has gotten the attention of the surrounding counties because they don't have land a lot of those are now coming to you with projects attached to them so it worked we needed the product uh international program I think there's been quite a few new meetings with the global competitive uh uh Global Commerce Global competitiveness committee and from what I understand this week was a full house as they get ready to plan for events this next year looking at a couple trade missions and a couple foreign direct investment missions but uh definitely a renewed uh interest in that and I think again people have not been traveling for the last couple years so that's that's part of it as well and and uh we are talking about doing a Pasco International day and I'm thinking that we'll do something here at the board meeting in uh February is that one we said I think so uh and then we'll have an event uh that the following Wednesday night with all our International Partners in the county so we just want to celebrate all those International and that'll be business and culture as well yeah okay there we go um international program we also uh worked with the commercial service on a a gold key program one of our companies here at Florida Avenue Brewing uh went on a trade Mission with Enterprise Florida to Panama and they were scholarship to participate in that we hope they get some some sales and then morgana's Alchemy in New Port Richey won our International Achievement Award this past year and is all over the world literally I love it enhanced marketing again getting the the message out on the

sites the workforce connect Smart Start each of these Penny programs come out of that and Workforce connect is still getting a lot of attention working together with am skills and our other training partners and the executive excuse me executive success program I just mentioned and then lastly Smart Start we just had 10 small businesses that were awarded grants through Santander here one of our newest investors here we are in the middle of a move on our East I'm sorry our West uh Pasco Enterprise Center which is going to be co-located with am skills so we'll start to see a lot more of that interface with Makerspace hackerspace startups and so on we're also talking to Tunnel tunnel tunnel for Towers right now too about helping them with with those people that are going to live in the village for entrepreneurial type programs so this is still one of our our best programs and that's our Smart Start program and I think going forward this next year you're going to see us really doubling down on emphasis on startups and emphasis on the talent pipeline we still have to come up with 14 000 jobs for our friends at Moffett some of them haven't been born yet so that is is going to be a big Focus not just for us but all of our partners here you don't mean 14 000 I mean 14 000 employees yes yes yes and that's just for the Moffett piece of it that's not for all the companies coming around then they have to have a place to live so I will stop there I know we're getting towards the end for for lunch but uh again thank you all uh shout out to commissioner Moore I know this is our last meeting to present to you I don't see any produce or any vegetables to throw at me so I'm happy but I know you're coming to our board meeting tomorrow too thank you I've enjoyed it and uh Bill a little shout out to our Santander folks um they gave M skills a hundred thousand dollar Grant yeah for uh I think boot camps or I can't remember what it's for but yeah they're they're being a good Community partner so yeah I think the the investment they've made in this community and they've shown where their heart is uh helping small businesses helping minorities and helping those get a leg up isn't just them going through the motions because they're in this community they genuinely care and they actually made those investments before they're even fully staffed so I mean that says a lot about how they're treating our community yeah yes just a quick statement bill I love the Listia of the ready science program and I think you know that Tom Ryan David Engel are working with a group up in Hudson on Hicks Road yes if you would keep an eye on those guys kind of Coach them along as far as their next step up we get some I think big things Brewing up there to add in another one in this pie yeah yeah there are some there are some big projects moving around right now so I'm very excited about that thank you okay thanks okay thank you much thank you very much what time is it okay it is lunch time so we'll continue with

the R's after we do the peas this afternoon [Music] foreign