02.08.2022 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting (Morning Session)

[Music] i'd like to call to order the pasco county board of county commission the 10 o'clock meeting for february 8 2022. at this time please silence all your phones electronic devices and mute your microphones please rise for the invocation and the pledge of allegiance oh merciful creator 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 i pledge amen to the fire of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with justice for all mr clark could you please call the royals yes ma'am uh district one commissioner oakley here district two commissioner moore here district four commissioner fitzpatrick here district five commissioner mariano here district five chairman starkey no i'm three three three sir uh here okay so 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 any 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 a webex link and are currently on cube we request that when you address the board comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or team member member but rather directed at the issue this provides mutual respect between board members and the public after stating your name and address to the clerk a three minute timer will be activated after two minutes a single beep will indicate you have one minute left and when your time is up two beeps will sell and you should close your comments webex participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up so do we have anyone signed up for public comment we have one person here in the chambers mr richard raymond mr if you come to the podium and give us your name and address for the record thank you richard raymond one two four zero seven hay guard drive newport richie good morning yeah i'm here because um i have a problem with um dog odor dog feces this has been going on for like four months i've called code enforcement they were slow at it but they finally got there it was um they were given a warning um they didn't comply they come back they give them a court date the court date is

march 24th i cannot open my windows i cannot breathe without gagging i can't have guests family at my house i've called the health department i've called county commissioner's office after calling the commissioner's office yesterday i started getting calls back this morning from code enforcement there's a lot of health issues with this i have a breathing problem my girlfriend has a breathing problem i've brought a lot of this up to where it's an environmental problem we have well waters we have 20 foot from their house they have nine dogs on a 70 by 110 lot i'm told that you can have nine dogs but they do not pick up the dog poo they urinate they have all the feces everywhere i've called animal control i wasn't home but last friday my neighbor said that they come out uh just been going on for four months and um i worked in the septic business and if you had a gallon of septic on the ground or if you had an odor from a septic the health department was there right away but this is a lot worse and they won't come out it's not a problem to them i i can i've got a list of things that's unhealthy it's airborne it's worse than human waste i have to live with this and now i have to wait until the 24th they won't comply and i can't open my windows i can't breathe in my own yard i i want something done i i can't live like this it needs to be something done now i've had it i've i got a call from code enforcement on the way here this morning because i called um the commissioner's office ms fitzpatrick's office well now they're doing something but i mean they knew i was on my way here to talk to you so i mean yeah now they're on the ball but they're still not doing anything now what do i do where do i go who's your commissioner myself it's patrick and can i give him my card and i have been in contact with code as you know and i'm sure they were the ones in contact with animal control as well so i appreciate todd's calling absolutely now that we got the ball rolling i will continue to follow up with your cake yeah and if you want

to come out to my house you will be amazed at how i have to live when i'm with us on a warm day you don't go after yourself all right is there anybody else here who would like to address the board at this time who has not signed up for okay so we will move on to resolutions and let's read the first one all right resolution number 22036 a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida commending raymond wright for 28 years of dedicated service to pasco county and congratulating him on his retirement whereas raymond wright began his career with pasco county on november 29 1993 with the rhoden bridge department and ended his career as a maintenance technician for with the facilities management department and whereas throughout raymond's career with pasco county he has proven himself to be an invaluable asset to those he served daily whether it be co-workers or citizens his outstanding work ethic and positive attitude have earned him respect from all county departments including fire rescue and the pasco county sheriff's office and whereas raymond worked diligently on many of the county's buildings and structures to keep us all safe and healthy in our workplaces using his proficiency in many trades and his dedicated service did not stop until after his shift as raymond also worked late nights and sometimes into the early morning hours while being on call and whereas in 2018 a young child in the date city area was playing around the family in-ground pool and inadvertently stuck his hand in the skimmer the child's arm was sucked in up to the elbow and became lodged in the skimmer and was unable to be pulled out the child's parents called 9-1-1 and fire rescue was there within minutes after arriving and determining that they needed additional help and equipment they placed a call to date city facilities management office and without hesitation raymond grabbed a jackhammer and headed to their location raymond arrived and instantly knew what needed to be done raymond began to strategically use the jackhammer to remove the concrete decking around the skimmer while fire rescue kept the child calm together they were able to safely release the child's arm and hand and whereas raymond has not only was not only a maintenance technician he was also a dedicated employee who took pride in his work and most importantly he was a great friend to those with whom he worked and whereas on november 30th 2021 raymond officially retired from the pasco county facilities management department and the board of county commissioners demon appropriate to recognize his contributions to the pasco county board of county commissioners and

the citizens of pasco county now therefore be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida in session duly assembled that said board hereby expresses its deepest appreciation to raymond wright for his 28 years of dedicated service to the citizens of pasco county dunn and resolved in regular session with a quorum president voting this eighth day of february 2021 no problem second all in favor aye opposed congratulations commissioner oakley raymond we certainly i certainly appreciate everything you've done for the county and and yourself and your family and and your friends and all um definitely appreciate all the good work you've done here in this county and in the neighborhoods and thank you for helping that girl that time with with that issue of the pool and i'm sure you've saved her from some terrible body injury or even maybe even her death so we're greatly appreciative of all that you've done in that circumstance and thank you and it's great that you're the person you are and all of our staff members and all of our helpers like you and rhoden bridge and all are also the same way i know because they work very hard for the county and they work very hard to keep the neighborhoods clean so with that i also if you want to continue working i think they might have a place to use you so since we're short of people but you may look forward to retirement and you do we certainly uh understand that but we certainly appreciate having you and we'd love to have you continue on so yeah great thanks thank you you want to speak oh no thank you if you want to i've got a parchment here to give you and with the board come down we'll take a picture that's funny politicians you guys come up here wait for sure all right everybody right here one two three perfect thank you we're going to go to um resolution number 22064 a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida designating january 23rd 29th 2022 as certified registered nurse anesthesiologist anesthesiologist week to recognize the importance of the role in providing high quality care for the citizens of pasco county whereas certified certified registered nurse anesthesiasts are advanced practice registered nurses providing anesthesia care to patients in the united states for more than 150 years crnas are among the nation's most trusted professions and whereas legislation passed by congress in

1986 made nurse anesthesiologists the first nursing specialty to be accorded direct reimbursement rights by medicare and whereas crnas are primary anesthesia providers in rural communities and continue to be the primary providers of anesthesia care to us military personnel and whereas crnas practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered from traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms to critical care access hospitals from ambulatory surgical centers to the offices of dentist podiatrists ophthalmologists pain management specialists and more and whereas crnas are qualified to make independent judgments regarding all aspects of anesthesia care based on their education training and licensure and whereas crnas are trusted anesthesia experts on the front lines caring for patients safety and compassion compassionately delivering specialized cost-effective care to all patients from newborns to seniors for every type of procedure in all types of facilities and whereas crnas are courageously serving on the front lines of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic using their advanced skills and airway management in innovation and ventilator management to care for the sickest patients leaving their homes and families to travel to hospital hospitals and facilities across the country so they can assist where the need is greatest and now therefore be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida that said board hereby designates january 23rd to the 29th 2022 as certified registered nurse anesthesiologist week then it ordered in a regular session with a quorum president voting the safe day of february 2022. thank you all in favor aye aye aye opposed well i'm really honored to be the uh sponsor of this resolution and i have a daughter that works in the healthcare industry she's a pa orthopedic pa and my goodness what what uh your profession has been through the last few years i just it's been quite interesting for sure and i appreciate you guys recognizing us a lot of times um i would say we're really good at our job so you never remember us the medications that we give we are the face that you see right before you go to sleep but you don't actually remember all the nuances before you actually go to sleep or while you're doing it the crna is with you the entire time that you are asleep every single second every medication judgment call we're there to make sure that you make through your surgeries or through your events of life without a without a hitch so i appreciate this yeah and commissioner moore was in the healthcare industry so yeah and i yeah i was for quite some time my wife is also a master's level registered nurse she actually is now a nurse instructor a professor and teaches herself

so yeah thank you for all you do been around you guys many times on the outside of the business world and in the surgery room as well so we appreciate you and thank you so much and and being a nurse in essence and i would say this to our people at home what a great career there's a huge need as we know and i will tell you what what a great career so if you're thinking about going in the medical field being a nurse in essence is a great career it's a long road to get to but it's so worth it yes there's a lot of it's a lot of entertaining right it's worth it commissioner moore i just heard i think it was sunday on 60 minutes i'm not dr was going in the background that there is a real shortage of nursing instructors there is that as well your wife's doing that so we need a lot more of you in the future absolutely all right so we go down and uh take a photo okay we have two here okay perfect thank you ma'am can we have your name for the record krista k-r-i-s-t-a barrios b-e-r-r ios okay now we're going to do rs2 resolution number 22065 a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida declaring the kumquat pie is the official pie of pasco county whereas kumquats a miniature citrus fruit first arrived in pasco county in the late 1800s and whereas since their arrival growing kumquats has become both a hobby and a commercial activity that grew the town of saint joseph into a leader in kumquat production and whereas st joseph's rich and flavorful history and kumquat production laid the groundwork for dade city to become the host of florida's only kumquat festival the dade city kumquat festival and whereas the kumquat festival brings tens of thousands of visitors to dade city every year to experience our vibrant community while they enjoy a bounty of kumquat based products and whereas for generations the gowdy family has played a role in the growth of kumquat production since they first settled in the saint joseph community in 1883. and whereas the gowdy family are renowned for their hand in making date city the kumquat capital of the world and whereas kumquat pie an iconic dish that represents the history of the kumquat in dade city was created by rosemary gowdy and is the most popular kumquat product served and sold at the annual dade city come watch kumquat festival and whereas on january 26 2022 the pasco county tourist development council voted to name the kumquat pie as the official pie of florida's sports coast and whereas the board of county commissioners voted to name the kumquat pie as the official pie for pasco county now therefore be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida the said board hereby designates and declares that kumquat pie is the official pie of pasco county dunnon resolved in regular session with a quorum president voting the safe day of february 2022 liverpool second all in

favor aye aye i don't know i was going to say what about the blueberry pie you're in district you happen to be in district one blueberry can come into play i'll be the official jam there you go um all right commissioner mark the floor is yours yeah thank you thank you madam chair if we could have the duty family if you don't mind if you could come up to the the podium right there for a second whoever would like to come up mr goody too yes it's your mom yeah so let me give you a little history of how this got rolling so the tourist development council we had our meeting two weeks ago we were talking about the kumquat festival and we have john moores from the dade city chamber here as well we're going to have him come up and take a picture in a second with us we were seeing the pictures of this miraculous kumquat pie and we know the history behind it here in date city and across the the password county so wouldn't it be a great idea to make kumquat pie the official pie of florida sports coast which is our obviously our tourism arm of password county so we voted on that said well let's go to the next level let's make this bigger it needs to be the official pie of pasco county as a whole so that's what we brought to you today it was voted on it is officially officially the pie of pasco county the kumquat pie and the family i'm going to let you say a few words in a second a second here the goodie family pioneers in the kumquat industry but his your wife your mother was the creator of kumquat pie and there's her picture right there miss rosemary was the creator of kumquat pie so we are thrilled to have you here today to celebrate you know your history your family's history in the pit in the history of pascal county and kumquats so thank you for being here we really appreciate it and i know you have a few words you can tell us more than i said about the history of kumquat and kumquat why it's so important to pasco the the kumquat pie the kumquats are so important because for years we we always brought money into this county we didn't we didn't use have a lot of local sales all of our sales were always abroad in the northeast and out of the country and even as far over in california in the original years but that money came to pasco county um and so it was spent it was spent by our workers that spent by us you know re buying things in pasco county um supporting you know the clothing the every all of our workers would buy gas food whatever but as time went on we had disease we had freezes now after the 1983-85 freeze we lost our identity in a

sense because we originally used with leaves to put in citrus packages used for decorations we shipped back then probably 30 to 50 000 bushel of kumquats there were three of us three different people that were doing that before the 83 freeze then came citrus canker which quarantined us where we could only do the kumquat by the fruit itself and we had lost our identity because all the little fruit stands all over in the pasco county and all the counties north of here and east of here they lost the fruit stands because of the quarantine also because of the freeze after that we kind of had to create things we already had marmalades jellies jams stuff like that chutney made out of complex but my mother came up with this kumquat pie recipe after a while we put that recipe in every little container that we shipped we still today put that inside of our our container that we sell to the two publix as time went on then they created the kumquat festival 25 years ago the kumquat pie was the big hit everybody came to find out what completes we're all about meanwhile they tasted this pie this pie is a very simple pie anybody can make it whether you're a baker or not because it's just doing ingredients we make the pies at our packing house we sell them to other places and also to individuals that come by and and buy the pie and buy the marmalades and jellies and all the kumquats themselves um we appreciate you all recognizing us it's been a long rough rough industry we're still fighting citrus greening diet preppies and citrus canker but we have also have a bigger demand than we could ever grow there are so so many people they use it beers and wines now and also some ciders so it can be used for all kinds of things you can take a kumquat drop it in the class of water and i could spend the next four hours talking about coming up yeah i'm going to let this go but thanks to mom yeah stay here for one second madam chair can we bring adam thomas up from florida sports coast we're going to talk about the importance of what kumquats actually do for tourism in pasco county and how they work very closely with the date city chamber and john moores well the as as everyone knows the kumquats are unique to to pasco county and it brings over 40 000 people in on an annual basis to actually attend the kumquat festival so as a tourism perspective it's an economic impact at the uniqueness of the selling proposition of kumquats you can't even say without breaking a smile so it's very unique to our our marketing efforts and the partnerships that we have within the city of dade city so yeah thank you before we even come out yes well i i shared in purchasing the kumquats from him when i had the citrus

plant right there at 54 and 75 uh the freezes we had seven freezers during the 80s which was tough for him it's tough for us we're all dylan and citrus and and we use those kumquats and different packages and shipping them out so we we shared business throughout those years and [Music] i don't know how greg and his family have held up to do this but they've had an uphill battle ever since but you got to commend them for carrying on and keeping us alive and hopefully the weather and the diseases go away so you can even flourish more it's just been a great part of our community here and we appreciate what you do we were talking earlier about how the growth is coming to some of the rural area and you have to be when i was shipping fruit i had to be careful when i sprayed my grapefruit for fresh grapefruit because it might blow onto another neighboring home nearby in the rural area and so we had to be very careful he has that same thing happening to him and we share and doing the same kind of business like that certain spraying but i certainly appreciate the gudi family very much can you say again while uh folks are listening from all over where where it is they can go buy your products um right now right now our products are available at our packing house which is where which is um at 31647 goodie road dade city florida it's six miles west of here in our little packing house so you can also be bought here in um in town there's um the farmhouse uh pro market and cafe that sells our products um also the jiffy store in san and charlie's market out in saint joseph we're closed we're going to be closing down our gift shop to two days a week because of the fact we don't have a lot of ripe kumquats right now and we don't have our commercial business so we're just going to hold down to that but the pies are available in any one of those four places i know some place on the west side that might be able to carry them too i didn't i don't have it don't carry them at the um at your um do we have pies there right now we don't have them yet okay well i'll have to come back we all have a piece in front of us we want to try it before we walk down but there's actually in the hallway if you're here in the audience today you came the right day because you're gonna be able to taste a piece of kung fu pie yourself in the hallway compliments of florida sports coast in the gui family all right we're moving down the line so commissioner fitzpatrick i would like to say thank you for everything that you do and i remember picking

kumquats off my neighbor's trees and all my friends trees so i hope our youth can enjoy kumquats for years to come and i will be having to stop at your store very soon because pie is delicious well thank you um that is the other funny thing about a kumquat if you go somewhere and you wear a shirt that says the word kumquat on it you better be willing to talk to people because they're going to ask you what's going on and by the time you're done um you know we had a we had a story of a guy that was at a georgia state fair he was wearing one of our kumquat growers shirts and um that he bought from our shop and he was standing there and he somebody said well what's the and his wife ended up sitting down going to the car finally went up to him after 45 minutes said look we need to get an affair you need to quit talking about coming so you can really get yourself tied up but i love all the stories the my mother's brother's uncle's sister's cousin used to bring him for me when they come to florida you know all these different people that would that would come to florida get kumquats and take them back north of course back then they didn't have the pie they didn't have a lot of the other things so you know we're unique to grow them here in pasco county we love pasco county we're not going anywhere of course because we have our roots are pretty deep so you know we just appreciate y'all acknowledging us and commissioner mariana i'd like to say uh i remember first coming to the kumquat fell for the first time trying that kumquat pie it was absolutely delicious uh i i will apologize we should have done this years ago apologize for that and i just want you to know there's a georgia kumquat plan in district five there you go thank you delicious chair yeah i'll say one more thing while i was hunting in georgia in november i have my name on my personal office across the street and my number's there a gentleman called me i answered the phone in georgia he said is this the place where kumquat festival happens they said i said yes sir it's very it's coming up soon so john moore's uh the word's out and everybody hears it so but i got that call this year and i said it was pretty amazing again just called me out of the blue is this where kumquat is there going to be a sticker on your pies it says the official pasco county pie yeah that's i'm going to have to do it thank you thank you can i get some funding for that goes into the record can you bring your entire family up yeah everybody and your picture of your mother too i want to say just a few things

uh greg does such a wonderful job of talking to you that i don't have to say much but i want to say that gunpoint growth was founded in 1971. we've been in business now for 50 years nice and we started as a as an organization owned by five growers and now we're down to just the two of them two families the goodie family and the nyhopper family so that's what we're owned by right now and i i don't want to let the night offers out of it because they contributed a whole lot to it too i also want to thank two organizations the catholic women's club in san antonio the first year i looked for somebody that that would sell our pies at the festival we didn't have enough people for it to go to go around so what i did is i went to the women's club in san antonio and sold them on the idea of taking the project they did they made 600 pies on faith that they would sell them at the festival they sold out nice nice that's right that's great and they've been settling out almost every year since that thank you so much [Applause] i'm gonna squeeze in here look at ryan first and then i'll step in and do it all right should i hold up my pie slice oh [Applause] all right everybody right at me please all right smiles one more good excellent all right good job good job greg you guys in the audience this isn't the normal occurrence of the county commission we don't hang out it's usually very boring in here okay do we have any calls for the consent [Music] do we have any pulls from the consent agenda because we don't have we have nothing okay all right so we are onto the consent agenda do it do any of the board members have anything they want to pull today no matter i think this is the first well this is absolute first move approval second uh all in favor aye aye aye that has never happened opposed no i don't think so that was quick okay so now we are on to the resolutions let me get over here not resolutions the rs regular r30 good morning hi good morning david engel office of economic growth i am here today to present mr mike davis who's the chairman of the jobs and economic opportunity committee

the board of county commissioners created the jobs and economic opportunity committee in 2015 by resolution and every year the committee is required to present a annual report to the board mike thank you mr angle commissioners how are you today definitely need to do a repeat of the pie i had a problem with mine it wasn't big enough i thought it was too big but mine was the same way it wasn't big enough uh does this work okay yeah all right so uh good morning again my name is mike davis i'm with uh i'm the chairman of the jobs and economics opportunities committee we have a short presentation for you as you know the jobs and economics opportunities commission was created back in 2015 it is a is comprised of citizen volunteers from various industries from finance banking real estate agriculture mining to give insight and be an oversight committee i also give recommendations to the jobs and economic opportunities commission trust fund which is funded by the penny for pasco at least part of pay for pasco uh we do have nine members uh within the within the uh on the board um part of uh this uh the the pay for pasco initiative is to provide incentive money to businesses to grow the jobs and economy of pasco county so why do incentives matter here in pasco county and one of them is to entice businesses to come in and create jobs so that people will not only work but live also within pasco county and we get a return on that tax money revenue over the life of the employees living inside pasco county part of that is also to help encourage higher wages within pasco county and to also diversify pasco county's tax incomes so how does that work the uh in the slide the these are all of the largest manufacturers in pasco county the ones that are highlighted those are manufacturers that have received incentive money from the pay for pasco tax fund and those are have been uh approved by the board um and then uh they're vetted through the office of economic uh growth and the jobs and economic opportunities commission gets

to review and give insight and direction on whether they are doing this appropriately and in the presence of transparency government that is why we are a citizen based committee um this is a very full slide of a lot of things yes you might need your glasses uh that's david's fault um basically this is just um programs and how much they have been awarded by the board of county commissioners um how much they've been paid and so forth if i let me look at it real quick i can give you some quick numbers because mine's a little bit smaller actually this one nope my i missed it where is it are we missing a slide i think we're missing a slide are we missing a slide here my apologies yeah there is a slime oh there we are sorry i fat fingered it it's a whole lot easier um so it's a big number uh-huh that's a big number that's a big number so the uh jobs and economics opportunities trust fund uh which is the jeotf um that is projected of 69 million dollars and some change through 2025 which is the end of the voter approved life expectancy to date the expenditures including all the operating costs have been just uh just over 34 million and there are just under 32 million that are already approved by the board uh just not have they just have not been uh expended yet also included with that is uh budgeting numbers for the for all of the uh administration of the funds so now getting back to the tiny one this is kind of more of a breakdown of those big numbers as to who got um what funds and uh the biggest one in there is the pads and poor's program and public infrastructure they take about 74 percent of that allocated funds there is employer training reimbursements which uh has only been just over one percent of the funds operating expenses was only just under three percent uh development and permitting fees was just at one and a half percent of uh of the programs uh pasco economic development council got 13 of those redevelopment loans which is a new program within the office of economic growth

only has a quarter of a percent however that's hopefully that is going to get bigger that number me personally and the other members of our board would like to see that grow if you don't know anything about the development loans that is for uh businesses that are struggling um we're utilizing uh uh interest-free loans from the tax from the paying for pasco tax to help them build rebuild their their outside of their building bring them back up to code especially in the blighted areas we've started it mostly i say we david engels and his group has started that over in the holiday area to help entice more people to show up there in a cleaner and a more safer environment for businesses so over the life of the loan we do have several that you guys have already approved i know some commissioners have not been here for the full uh time uh since 2015 so this might be some new information to you which is why we talk about it not in great deep detail however these are our big programs again kind of hard to see so i'll just name them off we have some uh mettler toledo project which was a expansion and relocation they received seven 7.6 million um that created 583 full-time jobs with an average salary of 58 000 annually for those employees we built well built sorry uh did an expansion relocation uh that involved bringing in 110 full-time jobs at an average of 77 000 annually and they received a a hundred thousand dollar award touchpoint medical they received 250 000 that brought in 116 full-time jobs with an with an average of 57 uh and a half thousand salary then we have some uh future potential projects uh land investment partners um they received six million that's part of the pads and pours program um just like harold harold properties as part of the pads and pourers as well that is uh these are all class a office building uh the herald properties that one was seven million uh eminem route 54 west

again other pads and pours uh received four million zebra hills sewer they did some site ready work there they got three and a half million overpass business park along with all the wonderful traffic issues over there another conversation that uh got two different um two different uh uh projects one was for twenty thousand another one's for 186 000 caldwell avenue properties did construction uh again for pads and pours and they received 1.5 million moffitt cancer was our big one uh with the expansion and relocation that was uh done last year i'm correct with that they received 25.7 million and then the old pasco widening for public infrastructure received 3.2 million these are the active ones that are currently uh being um being built and and moving forward some of those other ones that i had already mentioned have already completed their requirements and all of the um penny money is has been allocated to them now the important part about this slide here is does this have a uh this doesn't have a a pointer does it is that it i want to turn it off is this the pointer is our pointer is that is that a pointer oh hey look at that i got it all right thank you man so the important part about this slide is our estimated gcp if you don't if you're unaware of what gcp is as the uh gross county product just like your gdp that you would see in economics for the nation this is about the county so the pay for pasco is for uh eminem route 54 what is that i don't remember what that is eminem route 54 west yeah i don't know that's a lot of jobs is the mitchell ranch town center they're incentivized to build a office building a parking deck oh eminem spine roads yeah i know where that is okay thank you sir uh so 3 200 jobs to pay for pasco gave them 4 million they have capital investment of 200 million the estimated gross county product that they're going to be helping us out with this is my tax dollars coming back to us 152 million

uh um i'm not going to go through all of these because they're all very specific but overall the bottom line with all of these projects they're currently uh being invested in 660 600 sorry i'm having a stroke so let me uh go back there all right six thousand six hundred and ninety four jobs pay for pasco um cost from uh is uh just underneath just over 19 million but the uh estimated gross county product is over 573 million dollars back into our local economy so that's that's pretty pretty huge um so roi our return on our investment for every dollar that we get that we spend on the paying for pasco based off of every tax dollar that these jobs are creating not just property taxes but you know things that people buy consumer taxes sales tax gas tax all that for every dollar we're getting back twenty nine hundred dollars annually that is a good return it's uh it's okay i'll take that it's okay um this is actually my favorite slide mine too and i wish it was uh bigger um because if you like that one number about you know the big numbers of you know every dollar coming back as as uh you know twenty nine hundred dollars this one is not about business this one's about people so um part of our allocation of of awards has gone to um workforce and training at pasco hernando workforce board they uh received um just over a million dollars and this was uh last year the purpose for it was to serve un adult unemployed or underemployed residents to build technical skills and resumes on-the-job training the requirement was i had to have a minimum of 150 residents as participants the end result was there was 201 residents that were participated in this program of that 201 92 of them were registered er were homeless individuals and um those all all those individuals were trained and were then offered jobs um and i believe they have around 82 retention rate from these uh positions so not only is

the paying for pasco tax money going into helping train people but giving them uh making them a a valuable member of our community am skills uh commissioner starkey is uh yeah she she likes them a little bit uh they expanded their advanced manufacturing workforce training programs um and they received 125 000 the nice thing about this program is i actually was able to connect with um one of the high schools i knew somebody there connected them with am skills because they were a coach a life coach for at-risk kids they've never heard of amskills and amscilles does these a little two-week boot camps for these uh at-risk youth to get them involved in technical education and so that was kind of a neat little thing that i got to do as being part of this board had i not i would have never heard of amskill so um so see there you go i'm helping you out thank you so looking at the numbers i think we we can probably look to try to find if it's an applicable use at 125 000. there's got to be a way we can increase that number up that would be fantastic thank you because this a lot of the money we get is very restrictive and so we try and be less restrictive with that so that that would be very helpful they have um we've been giving them a reduced amount every year mainly because if i remember correctly you can correct me if i'm wrong but uh amp skills has grown since they first started and they started getting into some i believe they got their non-profit status and so forth so now they're getting additional funding through other other uh avenues um so but if there's other companies that are like that absolutely i think that i think there's it's it's a good it's a good opportunity and i'm sure yes with the new amazon announcement yes and the amstel is going to be right up right alongside there there's going to be a huge expense between robotics so maybe something to take a look at yeah we want to go in and help another school build a robotics training program so that's that's our goal for the big lift for the next years to get students involved in robotics yes ma'am uh and then uh pasco edc with some entrepreneurial ship programs they received 2.8 million for a new cooperative funding agreement and um and so again that's these are all programs that are impacting

individuals and not just uh businesses themselves so and that's at the end of and at the end of the day that's what we're here for um so uh the uh economic empowerment again you know am skills career source uh the micro loan program smart starts these are again all of the various programs that the paying for pasco jobs and economics opportunity trust fund goes towards um improving uh standby had one more paper here hold on a second we're not done man lost my lost my piece of paper i had stuff written on hold on a second there it is okay so um in conclusion the jobs and economics opportunities commission does have a recommendation to the board of county commissioners that we that we have uh would like to ask and that is to expand the oversight uh of it to include reviewing all of the economic growth all the office of economic growth programs regardless of whether the paying for pasco funding is being used for it mainly because it's all about economic opportunities and jobs it's not just about using the pasco county uh funds for it the other request that we have is that we expand the marketing for the pain for pasco projects so that it's a little bit more [Music] represented such as putting the penny logo on project communications uh requesting that if an organization does receive funds from the payment for pasca that they do put the paint pending a logo on their website so and also such as like the pasco edc pasco hernando work workforce board and am skills just putting that logo there just so that it's branded because there is a a disconnect i believe with a lot of what the penny does even though this is just a portion of the penny the school board gets most of it but this is still a big piece of it they get 45 they get 45 cents of it we get equal amount but they get to keep all theirs we we split ours three ways yeah so uh the jeoc concludes as far as our report goes that in 2021 the pay for pasco trust fund program is being aggressively and appropriately administered to meet the goals of keeping pasco county

economically vibrant furthermore it is helping to facilitate the creation of high-wage jobs and diversifying the county's future tax income streams it is working to improve the lives of pasco county residents we'd also like to commend mr david ingle and steve smith of the office of economic growth for their work of in making the programs successful in 2021 and i want to thank you and i'm sure the board does for your volunteering to serve on this important committee and we really appreciate all the work that you guys do and support for the county thank you we'll make sure you get invite to our am skills grand opening absolutely any questions anybody else thank you well thank you very much that was a secret oh do we have a copy of that because i don't have it in my it'll be it'll be in the it'll be in the powerpoint we send out afterwards a master powerpoint i'll just to echo you know talking to david we we can we concur with their recommendation with respect to oversight over all oeg programs and then on the second one i adamantly support the use of the penny logo on organizations that receive penny money in those programs and not just that i would expand that to organizations that receive county money should be acknowledged us with the use of the county logo at certain events in certain places too because they're organizations i go to events and you don't see and we've sponsored a decent amount whether it's penny or county agreed so we will work to reinforce that with these but that may need help from from the board as well so nice good idea dave did you want to say anything no um i just wanted to thank the jeoc for a great year they provide great insight a lot of energy and good ideas and we graciously applaud and accept the additional oversight because we're much more sophisticated than we were three or four years ago and i thank the board for your time well and thank you david great job yeah and did we just have an announcement i got an email this morning uh ngtv coming in with 30 jobs oh navigation yeah yes sir they took the uh former oscar site um in the trinity business park is that what we call that yes it's a pad ready site right on trinity boulevard i met with the young couple last week very very interesting dynamic couple and to think what they've done in three years is just mind-boggling mind-boggling so if you want trendy athletic where you know where to get it yeah it's just requested um no i think it's for information only

presentation only yeah no action just presentation only if we need to tweak anything in the resolution we'll bring that back to the future date and they think that that um that facility is going to be open very quickly they're um doing a tilt wall construction and it's very nice and i think that's just the beginning for that couple they're 29 and 27 years old and three years 50 million dollars in sales all through social media started it in college yes yeah yeah 60 jobs i think so next we have um i think we have uh planning and development i think this is going to be continued but yes ma'am we are going to there's more work that needs to happen with the the stakeholder group and so we want to pause this and bring it back after we continue to work with some stake we've met with them we but we need some to continue dialogue and bring it back probably at the newport richie meeting in march okay so the 22nd of march all right so do we need a motion to continue no no no ma'am it's a regular item we'll just bring it back on the agenda when we when we're ready for it okay and now we have and now we have adam we have that did you bring pie i think it's all eating no we still have some more sir [Laughter] thank you madam chair uh fellow commissioners thank you so much it's uh it's that time of year again when we talk about the great things of tourism and what tourism does for the economy so today before you we are going to review the economic impact and visitor tracking report for fiscal year 21 and i i do want to preface this as how this data is aggregated in visitor intercepts face-to-face intercepts at local attractions vacation rentals hotel motels rv parks campgrounds our lodging establishments uh retail and restaurants and also boat ramps as well and we also reach out to our visitors via email as well so we aggregate about over 2 500 data touch points of our visitors over the course of the last year so that's what you're going to see here and we're going to start with some big numbers the economic impact of what it really means to to pasco county's economy and what it means is that 721 million dollars was the economic impact over the course of fiscal year 201 which is over a 10.5 increase from 2019 wow that's great that economic impact stemmed from over 511 million dollars of visitor spending and that's visitor spending on restaurants on gas on lodging on attractions and entertainment over the course of the year and that's again up another ten and a half percent

out of 100 or 1.4 million uh visitors 30 percent of them are first timers which is great so it goes into the visitor experience which is the length of stay how long they're staying they're staying on an average of four nights in pasco county and they're staying at 35 percent of them are staying in hotel motel set 17 percent are staying with friends and family and almost 40 percent of them are staying are just coming in for the day spending money and then returning back to their home post-trip evaluation this goes back to uh the visitor satisfaction and it's a this is a huge kpi for uh the the dmo that's at a on a scale of one to ten visitors actually gave us an 8.5 as a place to visit and 93 of them are planning to return to florida sports coast in pasco county so the perception of pasco this is just a couple slides out of our out of our our full report pasco county is a wonderful vacation spot it has everything a visitor could need it's beautiful here amazing waters beautiful views and activities lots of sunshine and great water views and beautiful and vibrant pasco county farms cows and open roads it's just so pretty so these are some of the perceptions of what the visitors are experiencing here so you can see that the brand promise is being satisfied but also the visitor experience is being satisfied once they're in market and that's why you see a high rate of return of 93 percent for first-time visitors is that above average um it's it's above average for us yes ma'am um we are benchmarking that against ourselves year over year for visitor experience in the visitor promise are we satisfying the visitor promise according to our brand guidelines and our attractions and everything that we have to offer the visitor once they're in market yes ma'am so that was a 10-minute presentation for a year's worth of data and collection uh i'm sure okay i just thank you i can't say enough about adam and his team and i i know you guys feel the same i think i've been on the tdc for what five years now five years five years and what progress and grown by leaps and bounds is just amazing amazing what here teams does and again i can't say enough about his team and adam i mean adam and i spent a lot of time together it's like a second full-time job for me i think you know helping out and helping to promote uh passport tourism but i'll give an example just uh last week with the groundbreaking of pop stroke which

is the product of tyler woods and his team which will be built in the wesley chapel area across from the outlet malls and sierra's property the gentleman there greg which was one of the partners in pop stroke one of the reasons he actually built here is because he was coming here because of his kids travel tournaments they play and he saw the potential in that wesley chapel market directly off you know 75 and 275. that actually in addition to bringing tourism here it's actually helping to bring businesses here because people are becoming aware of what password county has to offer we're such a diverse county when you think about it so we're a large county you i leave my house i can get to an orlando in about 55 minutes without traffic right but it takes you about that long to get to the northeastern side of pasco county as well because we're such a large county but when you traverse through the county and you go through the hills of dade city we're having some of these great cycling events that another one coming up soon you might even want to mention that um and then you go to the central pasco and then you go to the west side and our beautiful coast which i spent a lot of time on boating and fishing but there's so many opportunities for the citizens not only password county but for our visitors as well to come here and partake if they're at center ice or the wide grass ranch sports campus or at a volleyball tournament at sunwest there's so many things for them to do in this county let's be honest it's night and day from where what it was i know when we all first came on the commission not it's not that it was a bad thing but it's so there's so many more options to keep the people here because previously people would come to paso county if they could find a hotel to stay in they would more than likely go to hillsborough county or pinellas county to do their shopping and eat eating and drinking and things like that guess what they don't have to leave anymore and with the number of hotels we have coming up the beautiful new hotel we have over the ryegrass right sports campus with a rooftop bar well that's going to drive more people not only to stay here when they're here for events but it's going to help our local economy as well because people will go there instead of leaving password county to have the same experience so thank you again for robert thank you thank you mr upland uh adam i thank you for all the good work your staff do in in this uh tourism area and we certainly appreciate mr moore's leadership also in that but i keep telling him the reason it's so busy around wesley chapel is because he's caused all this with you and your team to happen so it's a great thing for the county and we certainly appreciate but they can't

forget what causes this traffic so i remember a number of years ago over 10 years ago maybe the tampa bay partnership did this survey about why what where would you go you know what what's a reason to go to this county that come here that county and they were gathering like the top things the only thing that came up in pasco county actually was starkey wilderness park that was it and they couldn't no one you know the community the area couldn't think of any other reason to come up to pasco county so um now i'm sure if they did that list again there we may have more stuff than anyone else it's amazing what what has happened over the last 10 15 years and it's exciting i mean we have growing pains from it but we have solutions for those too anyone else you've done a phenomenal job that's coming on um when we look at all the things the weird grass sports complex you mentioned that was a huge thing that really set the tone of people staying instead of out of county they're in guy uh you know saddlebrook starting it way way back a long time ago the hockey rink coming in cody and mitch phenomenal project what they brought in it's just like driving stuff um you know sunwest is going to be taking up more and more right and we've got our first tournament coming up yes that's not our first one but it's a big one coming up nice you know snow cat ridge hollow screen those activities that you can do other things while you're here scalloping up and down um you know larry pendleton who used to be the chair of the uh ceo of the florida sports foundation he always said to me that just stuck in my head when i was on the tdc it says the purpose of tourist development is not tourist development it's economic development so as you touched on when you get people to come from other places and they see what a great place is to be it's going to drive these executives to come in and say you know what i want to bring my business here i want to live my here i want to raise my family here i got so much to do i'm going to come back again so everything that you're doing with tourist development is leading to many many other great things coming on so keep up doing work thank you all right um i think that's it for for you thanks again i will add one last thing that that tourism is the purest form of economic development and every economic development starts with a visit thank you very much very good nice and thanks for the pie um okay now we're on to uh commissioner's items commissioner oakley

oh i have a couple items um saturday i was the guest of the traveler's rest when they celebrated 50 years has been a travel park here in the community they started in 1972. uh there's roughly 1500 homes or more it's actually and a lot of you don't see it because out in the rural area there on the west side of interstate 75 from 41 county road 41 and they are very happy to be a part of our community and we're happy to have them as a part it's it's like a city of its own it's a community because it has their own fire station they have their own sheriff's deputy they have their manager which they consider their city manager and then they have their board and so many people they recognize the other day 28 years of giving for different social activities people working toward that during that 50 years 28 years being a part of that and others just being leaders in their own community and learn how to live with each other and be with each other and they're very happy and they're happy to be a part of the county and we work my office works very well with them and we've been able to help them through some issues of permitting and things like that so it was a great visit so it does happen on saturday so 50 years in our community and then the other thing when i left there that morning i came out on county road 41 and we're always talking about bicyclists out on the roads and they were all in single file they're all in my lane i was behind them and even though they were trying to beat to the right side of the road they take up about three foot of the right side of the road of you know it's an arterial road it's a country road out there so it uh it's just not wide enough i could not pass there was curves or hills you know you had to go to and you had to be very careful and then um after uh i got by them there was another group turned in front of me that i had to wait for to turn go across and going on jasmine road so i mean i appreciate the fact they all come and i i enjoy their sport they have the right to be on that road but to me it was very dangerous so i'd rather see them on our trails and i'd rather see that uh roads built to where we have bicycle lanes to take care of them so but to me it just seemed like it was a a dangerous situation that could happen if you're not paying attention so uh let's bring it up again

at the mpo because the d.o.t does have safety money it comes out of some group out of university of florida right and that's how hernando county got the wider shoulders on spring lake spring right spring hill but 41 is one of those roads we've got some paving but i don't know if we have widening in that paving from 21st to paris grove road i think that's that's scheduled sometime in the near future i would you know that's why we did that ecom study is to say which roads should we put the shoulders on why these numbers and it needs to be in this area yeah so let's let's keep working okay all right that's all i have question thank you madam chair i just i just have one item and i'm actually sad to let you know that one of the young people that were there the first day we opened the universally inclusive playground um has passed away um you know the day if you were there that day when we when we opened the playground and did the ribbon cutting and everything he was without naming his name at this time he was one of the kids that made all the news stories and the papers and things like that he was just having a time so i was having conversations with some of the folks in our community especially in the wesley chapel community and i had a conversation with keith wiley and we also have communicated via contact with the parents as well we thought it'd be very nice to to dedicate that playground with a signage or plaque to that young man so what i would ask today is if you would um please help honor him and i talked to keith and we were just asking for up to up to a thousand dollars to build and make this um plaque or sign dedication and then when that time comes we'll let you all know because once it's built we will have a little ceremony for and his family will be there nice that's a great idea if i could have a motion or make my move okay thank you all in favor aye aye all right thank you all that's all i have thanks uh commissioner fitzpatrick thank you um as you know we've been working on some inclu inclusive playground on the west side of the county and here is one of the renderings and if we can what i would like to say is we have cdbg funds and geo bond funds and based on a community input there is about a 50 000 shortfall so i am working on fundraising but i would like to request that the board be in support of covering the gap in the interim so we can move forward with procurement and construction so it can be open for the kids by this summer

when running the numbers for children under the or people citizens under the age of 18 on ssi in that area there's 411 kids with special needs in that area so i feel it's very important that we target that area and provide a playground for all children the next page is just the letter that i'll be going out for donations and when they came back to the rendering with the renderings i had requested some additional items some of the additional items included monkey bars for upper body strength and they have i know parks and rec had included some spinning cups and things like that so if you like to go to the next slide so the additional cost ended up being about a thought fifty thousand dollars so i would like to make a motion to move forward oh wait a minute so that's a big number um so you're asking the board to pay for it or i'm asking the board so i'm correct requesting if the board would be in support of covering the gap in the interim so we can move forward with procurement and construction while we go out and collect dinner i go out and collect donations and i already have meetings set up and developers on board so it will be completed by summer i'm very i mean obviously i'm very supportive of this happening on the west side county i don't think you need to do that yet because if you have design you have to pay for you got to procure no service we're ready for procurement no commissioner we're ready for we're ready to go construction at this point so we oh i got you we in order for the board to award the contract we need to have it fully funded uh the intent here is we'll cover the gap with general fund while the commissioner goes and raises money to cover the data gently be out there yeah okay thank you a little more discussion commissioner i mean if we have a we have a motion in a second so let's just give her amount of time if she comes up with the money great but if she doesn't i don't want to see her i'll just keep on going it's a very very poor area yeah um so we need to make sure it happens you can raise the money to offset the difference and so be it but we need to find the money if we don't okay thank you okay so all in favor pose all right thank you everyone i appreciate your support in helping service these children in the area another concern that i had is going out to specific parks and seeing a lot of the safety concerns i am working very

diligently with parks and rec i did not provide photos today if you truly would like photos i could provide them but i prefer just if everyone can keep in mind if we need to direct more and approp additional funding to these parks there are safety concerns and i do not want to see any children get hurt and do a liability just to maybe start thinking on expanding the budget for parks and rec so children can be safe and if we can invest in our youth today maybe they won't end up with addiction mental health and homelessness so i really truly feel we need to start focusing on our youth to promote provide a better quality of life in the future and so they can become productive members in society lastly i would like to discuss or bring up if we could have a citizen's ordinance advisory where citizens can come in and have an advisory put their input a lot of the times when citizens come to us while we're at the diocese making the decisions they've already gone through all of the processes jumped through all the hoops already have entitlements and again i find it difficult to take somebody's entitlements away once they already have them so i really feel that citizens want to be involved they really need to come in on the ground floor so i would like to have their voice be heard possibly at a citizen's advisory committee so that's interesting because i served on one of those for years um and it was called the citizens ordinance review committee and it was a county uh committee where we um where we were like the first we were the beginning we did the sign ordinance the tree ordinance the landscape ordinance the right-of-way ordinance we did a whole bunch of ordinances um and so i i'm okay with that i think that the only thing is is that our staff is pretty burdened on time and uh and so it it is a staff commitment to have the court we call it cork but we functioned pretty well for years though yeah if i may so historically you had cork quark was dissolved when the led when we were starting the major rewrite of the land development code and an ldc stakeholders committee was formed that worked for a while and then because most of the people that were on the ldc stakeholders committee were involved in the development community they requested to be disbanded because they didn't they wanted to talk to each other because of sunshine concerns so that went away and in its place the horizontal and vertical round tables were put in place where staff brings to the development community new ldc ordinances

that being said sid citizens are not on right on those things now on the other hand you've got a planning commission and that's really their job is to vet the ordinance before it gets to you but you can i mean you can have a and you can reinstitute court if you wish but that's historically that's sort of how you got to today i don't know about attention yeah and i appreciate the comments but right now i mean our staff is overloaded i don't see how they can take anything else on they're trying the hardest to get through permits and review processes and things if we pull any of them off right now this in my opinion it's just not the right time maybe down the road when things settle down look at this again but we can't pull one staff member for one minute of the day off anything i mean we're so backed up right now it's insane and i see the county administrator saying yes we're backed up i think sally would agree we're backed up i mean i just and we can't hire anybody because it's not we're not in the new we gotta wait to the next budget cycle to actually find somebody and put it in the budget to hire so well we have additional seats that have not been hired so there are full-time employee openings you just don't it's well it's hard it's hard to hire right now commissioners i don't think we need to start a new committee up either i mean frankly our county attorney has got so many things with difficulty even hiring people to go do these things he's outsourcing things with the salary money he's got so to take even put another thing on his shoulder right now it's just going to push other stuff back down the road i find if citizens have an issue they bring it forward we can bring it here they can come right to here we can discuss it get it going forward quickly and easier if we think it's worthwhile rather than going through a committee to again take up more staff time it's it's hard enough to get what they got to get done already i agree that there is a backlog i also agree when citizens come the day of and it's come to the point it's almost at the final decision and things are already completely in place and they've already been through planning and they're coming to their board for their final hearing if they want to be involved they would really need to be involved at the ground level so something to think about there's one more thing you know and i listen i i sincerely appreciate all your comments and things there's such a variation of what ordinance is what they're going to do though at the same time so you if you have an ordinance

there may be a large amount or a small amount of people that actually that might impact or may not impact but 95 of the rest of them aren't going to care about it because it's not going to have an impact on them so also it could be difficult to find that makeup of people that are really going to be um truly engaged through the entire process because again it may not have an impact on on them that's just my opinion but again i appreciate the consideration i just don't think now is the right time especially with staffing i understand what's happening i appreciate the conversation i know i couldn't discuss this behind closed doors due to sunshine so i appreciate the open conversation today but the citizens are aware yeah so i i am sympathetic to that opportunity because that is how i was able to advance some initiatives that were important to me like landscaping signage cell towers billboards all that kind of stuff and i i hope that we can find a way for more citizen input as as we you know grow so i think it's important but but i do think our staff can't handle one more thing right now so so we need to look for a creative way for for citizen input in my opinion thank you i agree commissioner mariano thank you madam chair um you know the presentation with tourist development was really impressive and if you remember one thing the high percentage people like what they saw they'll come back again i want you to think along the u.s 19 whether in holiday or hudson when you see the panhandles that are out there now i'm glad next meeting we've got the audience i believe is coming up jeff right away use ordinance we i thought i told you march but i may have told you the second meeting uh so shortly it's coming up yeah um when i'm when i'm driving here today i'm driving down 5a road i see bed frames i see snipe signs i see trash all the way down coming down little road a little road knock a mattress on the side of the right away snipe signs on the right way a bag of trash on the side of the right of what's coming down all the look that we have out there we need to i think we need to look at getting a cleanup crew that can drive around our busy arterials anyway to get them cleaned up so we got something done i called on it yesterday still out there today so who did you call uh went to public works yeah see i didn't even know we're supposed to call public works for that stuff yeah so you know and busy et cetera but when i look at the trash there's like a wendy's

that's got a homeless thing in there we've tried to clean it up once clean it out twice they're back with a vengeance now right beside it there's a new construction going on there's a retention area trash everywhere we gotta we gotta clean this stuff up and and dan if you can maybe put a plan together what we can go do i'll happen to take it for rider to look at it i mean picowoods drive with the canals by the walmart there was homeless people in there when they did the development they did it as a conservation easement right a mitigation area so here's what we've got we've got a canal on one side of us 19 toward the beaconwood side loaded with trash both sides right vegetation going everywhere i get trees where they like to hide under et cetera and it just is i got tons of trash we literally picked up bundles and bundles of stuff it is still there we i'm going to try to put a cleanup crew to go back out there and just rake it all up so i bring john palando from swift mud out there i said john it says you know you've got to let us get this vegetation out of here the homeless are coming in it's destroying it oh we can't do that it's a conservation easement yep i go wait a second i says look at what's here look what it's causing because of your conservation easement i said now let's go walk we walked to the bridge we looked on the side down the leisure canal on the other side nothing but grass right no vegetation no homelessness out there no big trash on that side anymore with all the fencing we did so i get a government telling me we can't go clean up what we want to go clean up to to make it set because of the easement even though on the other side of the same canal we can treat it differently let me let me ask you a question and could you put my photo up please because this is what i was going to talk about but you're there it's making its way through the process okay so if it's a conservation easement and it's a swift mud is it swift mud i'm just kind of curious because there's one on sun lake boulevard that has a homeless camp where actually they had a guy a dead guy in there and all the camp did was move a little over because he smelled um but we can't grub it um because it's a conservation land so why don't we start can we ask can we makes swift mud start cleaning up cleaning those up and then they'll see what we're up against why do we have to clean up their their conservation property and then maybe they'll be more sympathetic well let's i mean let's try it because now look at my photo so zoom in please can you see what's going on there someone's sleeping yeah i wasn't sure what he was doing there i wasn't sure if he was alive or dead okay but this is my trouble creek in 19.

um they uh are living there on um and they and there is a trespass agreement with walgreens here but but you know they're they're living there and um this is in the rain this guy is like out there frankly i don't know i i alerted the sheriff and our county staff and i don't know what happened code was out there the next morning and he was already gone and walgreens had made him leave but the the tent is still there the tent was still there uh and they added to it that that tarp but this is on us 19 in our county but that's also a private property well this site is the other side is not it's it goes to both sides on the other side i didn't take it from the roadside there is um a shopping cart and bikes and garbage and this garbage is up and down the the area here and it's it's really it's incredible so so why is so the question but let me say that these people our pr like we have gone to this group that's hanging out here they don't want any county services this is not the group that will say that we've been able to house you know marcy and her group done a fantastic job but when he says no i like living here what do we do that's my they gotta go where that's you know how that's well let's find out where they can that's our big challenge guys if walgreens does not allow him and he does leave so then he's not trespassed but it's still private property so then isn't walgreens responsible for cleaning up their property yes yes so then walgreens needs to go out and throw it away and clean up their property but i don't i think i don't i don't know why i don't know if they're comfortable going up and telling these guys to trespass in themselves i mean maybe they hire their own security company or something or maybe we have to start putting a fire on walgreens to not allow this on their property i don't know we got the bank of america that the homeless camp that was behind this where a lot of these guys were living one person it turns out for two years um we found the person who owned it he did clean it out he grubbed it um uh but i think they're going to come right back but i'm sure yeah alex i'm not trying to put you on the spot at all but the sheriff's office actually has a business unit i forgot the exact name of

it and they do a really good job um i've we've been in contact before and working with chase and if a business is and i'm not just using this as any any type of issues where they need to trespass an individual or certain parties they do a great job of working with the businesses and they'll show them through the process and taking through the process of what they need to do which isn't that difficult the bit you know this comes down to a business taking the initiative to make the call if they make the call they have people in each district am i correct correct yeah each district in cri yeah business crime prevention unit that's it a business crime prevention unit that they can reach out to and they will meet with the general manager or district manager or whatever is with walgreens and walk through the process they can do that it's already in place and with the trespass agreement those have to be renewed annually and i know code is working on pro creating their own trespass agreement file and i know the sheriff's office also has one code can't code doesn't have that authority i'm not sure why they would be doing that okay well maybe i re said that wrong so if code and the law enforcement goes out for example one of the one of the concerns and on a property where there was a fire just recently and i was informed that the trespass agreement was expired and i contacted the owner and it was actually renewed in may of 2021 so it was not expired so where is the centralized database and how can we have code and law enforcement work together to both have access to that one database well the trespass agreement is part of the sheriff's office's responsibilities and and program they are the code should not be doing trespassing that's not that's not something that they have the authority to do right that's something that that's something that the sheriff's office has no that's not what i was meaning i was was a way for them to look it up and have access to it to see if it has a trespass agreement so they can call the sheriff if correct yeah i could see that being handy they have files and then that they look up in the car like when we did leave leisure each other day they were able to go in there and say okay this one's got a trustworthy scream and this one doesn't code does code does i mean well the sheriff's office had it yeah well i know the sheriff does but it would be interesting you know it should it would be good if code had the ability to know if this one has that on it so they could call this sheriff to come

trespass i think they have access alex and lil better know they don't have access all right so i am concerned if it if it's an annual thing i'd rather it continue until someone chose to not have it continue because exactly where i was going to go yeah yes that's going to bring alex up to let him let him address that because like you say why do i want to have an annual agreement i want to put this agreement keep it in place and let it run until until ownership changes yeah alex saw incremental affairs officer for the sheriff's office so basically all the to your point commissioner fitzpatrick all of the trespass agreements are housed by the sheriff's office it's a program that we do so normally how trespassing works is if a property owner sees somebody on their property that's trespassing they can report to the sheriff's office to have them removed from the property the way the trespass agreements work are let's say it's a property owner who's no longer in the area or they're not able to supervise it on a daily basis they have they can set up an agreement with the sheriff's office to say you know no one's allowed on this property or you know certain individuals are but if they're not this individual they're not allowed on the property and then they can be trespassed without you know explicit authorization from the property owner because they've already given it in writing now to your point commissioner mariano the trespass agreements are all housed with the sheriff's office but if a code or one of the commissioners has a question about a particular property they can always reach out to us and we'll we'll share that information with them is there any reason you can't share that with our code directly so they can just access rather than taking up your valuable time yeah so i can i can check on our end i don't know if that's something we can share due to security reasons but i can check on my end if that's something i so i know on an individualized basis we can share it i don't know if we can give complete access to somebody outside the agency i could check though just um so you know that every time we have like a harbor south leadership council meeting and and they come we encourage everybody to sign that trespass agreement we want as many businesses as possible to sign that or hoas because sometimes they're living on the grounds inside a community and so but you know that form is important commissioner to your point on that so we actually have a link on our website as well that we can share with the commissioners if they'd like that has the process laid out for property owners that if they're interested in trespassing agreement they can go through that process to get that signed up with the sheriff's office so

when we see homeless people such as here leisure beach we know they're it's not legal to go camp out on someone's property and live there right so for the for our code people to actually take a look at they're gonna have to go look at the file check one by one by one just like your officers do as well um so having the access would be definitely beneficial even just for that piece of information if that can be a separate data file we can access it makes it a lot easier for code to be able to say okay here's what's going on now if we know the break in the law by having homeless people living there could be starting a fire there was a smoke drugs as you saw pictures last week you know there's a behavior we want to stop i mean there's enough opportunity there there's enough opportunities for mental health with the opioid thing that's out there now if you want to get help if you want to get a job if you want to find a place there's opportunities that are out there like when we clicked out down at leisure beach a few at least lane a few years back um 32 people were there none of them took help yeah we've got to be vigilant that they just can't stay here i agree if they're somewhere else we put money together or you give them a bus pass to go back to where they came from and they have what the sheriff's department and others want to have a place where they could land to go to but you know what if they just come down here and someone bust them down there why do i care at this point so my understanding is the sheriff's department and please correct me if i'm wrong if they have a mental health issue which most of those who don't want help do there's not much they can do with them so basically you can offer them the services and say hey these are all your options these are things you can look into but let's say we go out to a trespassing situation and we say they need to leave the property or does not want you on the property and they leave if they don't want to take the help that we're trying to give them they're you know they have the rights and they can just say no thank you i'll go about my day so that's that is that's the difficulty um and basically what our behavioral health intervention team does is if whenever they're dealing with these individuals on a daily basis trying to kind of break down those that wall and say hey please accept this help we're trying to get you help get you to a better place and that's basically the daily struggle of trying to make that happen and i know it's a battle and we've got people we've been working with and there's one person on sea ranch we're trying to go highlight them to make that fly and you guys many many trips out there but if they know they can't stay in a place to go to another place and get kicked

out of there too maybe they'll have enough yeah question for you why why do we just have a annual contract for these trespassers why can't it just run for the life of the ownership of the property so the reason for that is if property changes hands so again it's on a voluntary basis so the property doesn't have doesn't have to have a trespasser again with the sheriff's office if they don't want to so let's say property changes hands and the new owner is not interested in trespass agreement it gives them the opportunity every year to renew so if there's a new owner they don't have to go through this process of unrenewing or something like that but if you get someone especially if he's out of town yeah he's gonna you're not gonna be able to contact him you gotta go through the whole loops we'll go through that right now with the ones that have expired if you just have it where that property agreement owns as long as you own the property you have an agreement in place and then we'll know if ownership changes that okay now we've got to get the new guy to go have him sign up but why don't we have it expire why have to go through the hassle of going back through this again it doesn't make any sense we have a meeting with sheriff tomorrow we're we'll bring that sure yeah and and yeah that is you know kind of a policy judgment call there so i think that was the main reason that that was done was again if you have you know they change their mind or maybe they're not having trespass concerns anymore they don't want that access anymore but you know if they change your mind let them bring it back and say look i don't want to do anymore they can do that but yeah once it's in place let's keep in place to the ownership or at least longer than one year anyway three years five five years what why why end it if they don't want to end it and let's face it when you've got to renew something you don't know what's coming up yeah you're not going to do it now it's more paperwork to have to renew it every year so it's less work or just thinking of your workload yes i'd be happy to have those conversations with the sheriff on rnc yeah and i appreciate you building the rapport with people with mental health concerns and i am working i was i attended a meeting the asap board meeting and they do have help for people to enter transitional housing and grants to help them and i'm also working on getting a list of transitional housing facilities and also i'm working with miss kathy's team on homeless and homeless lists and now that flyer should be ready soon i think but thank thank you very much do you have anything else commissioner yeah a couple more things uh i want to say driving over here today on 52 yeah for the first time in two years there

wasn't traffic at 52 and 41. i think one one light change to get through it was it was great so i think i think the ridge road extension is helping uh so i'm gonna make him uh a statement and uh you know ridge road could go all the way to overpass we saw all the construction that's going on we still see the traffic on 54 56 et cetera let me see we get 54 i mean 50 ridge road extension to go all the way to overpass and connect up there just waiting to make it happen there will be some houses that have to go with whatever but you could make that connection you could have a road going all the way to 301 and that would be i think ideal for this county long term down the road right i have to look at that map and madam chair just to pile on a little bit um i don't know ralph are you doing any updates today i'm not going to steal your thunder then i'm going to have to keep going come on i was just going to push up the good parts i was going to have them come during my time okay at this point we're about to hit lunch so well let's let's keep moving all right i'll just do a couple of couple more things had a meeting at signal cove last night uh about the dredging they were just as incensed as leisure beach i'm happy to say that dan and mike and the team are looking at some alternatives they'll be coming up and they're going to work that through we are going to try to shorten the timelines up and uh going forward we had a restraint committee actually before i get to that uh i want to say i was reading the article on the suncoast news i didn't watch the meeting with port but they i guess we're going to take out the harbor isles portion which is very extensive homes but the comment was made that they're going to leave sand pebble in sand pebble is a gated condominium community mean if we're going to clear out these non-blighted areas san pedro should be part of it and i think we should coach dan as he talks with them to make sure that comes out of that cra as well do they have any single section 8 housing or affordable housing in there no it's a gated community okay thank you you're done uh last thing i'll say and i think you may want to talk to this but we did have a restore committee meeting the other day we didn't have a quorum there was confusion about getting in getting out but i will tell you my assistant was there for 15 minutes after the meeting started i think they came at seven i know so they get they're an hour late but yeah anyway so it was a little difficult to do it but we didn't have it it didn't vote on anything but we did have a great presentation on baffle boxes

one of the things they talked about which i wanted to bring to the core is they've taken like a million pounds of contaminants that would have gone into indian river lagoon million pounds with the baffle box they got 14 from they got set up they've been working these things for 16 years i found out after the fact that saint petersburg has got a bunch of them osmar's got a bunch of them uh and there's even one in tarpon spring so i was thinking i was going to go take the trip out to melbourne titusville but frankly we've got some local stuff to go look at adam bill allen biddlecon was there uh he's going to go find find out more about it colleen's working on it as well to go find out where these are to go look at them because they take out so much of pollutants that go in the water right their water quality is going through the roof in height i mean they're really taking a lot of trash they're taking a lot of contaminants because it filters all out all those sediments that going in there and the water quality is getting better and i want to say our stormwater team's done a phenomenal job with all the flooding that used to have up and down the coast our water quality has gone up so high this hudson artificial reef project that we try to do because our sea grass has come back so well in that one area or the two areas that we had picked out the army coast is well the seagrasses are you can't go build the other artificial reefs there now oh we'll take it on our side down down so whatever where it may go i really don't need one no no well i was going to say going through the restore act process it takes steps and steps in years and years right but i think if we go look at tourist development to go take a look at maybe take a look at that cost the cost could probably go way down the monitoring cost much much higher going restore you got a report report it would take all that away we just probably get it done so if i ask i asked curtis franklin says please go to tourist development i will make mention to the board that i'm supportive of it i think it's a good place to fund it not a ton of money but it's long-term benefits are definitely there and that is all yeah um can we have ralph come up in the next five minutes and report sure that'll make him they'll cut his time because he'll make it fit i have three minutes so i will say while he's on his way up i just want to you know recognize on the good news stuff the public works and solid waste our keep pasco beautiful did some work at the florida arbor day a couple weeks ago and gave out about 200 trees to people who are there and then and talk to them about recycling and stuff like that so a lot of good work happening out there so

with that i'll give it to ralph and he can talk about what my friends in tallahassee are doing thank you good morning ralph lair enter governmental affairs officer so i emailed this information to you yesterday morning so you'll have it but on friday the senate and house rolled out their preliminary budgets the senate came in at 108.6 billion dollars and the house at 105.3 billion dollars their bills will be considered in the appropriations committee committee both in the house and the senate tomorrow and then it will go to the floor next week and then the conference so going into the preliminary budget with our where we are on our projects uh that we submitted just a moment okay i'll just i'll just tell you where we are at so you'll know uh ridge road extension we put in for uh ridge road extension phase 2b it is in the senate budget fully funded at 14 million dollars our pasco county green key drainage improvements we put in for two million dollars uh there's a placeholder in the house for one million dollars you passed over the boat ramps and parking so so far with the boat ramp so the 1.8 million dollars did not make either side uh so we'll uh you know we still have conference uh so wait it didn't make it in anywhere it did not get in the house it did not get it in the senate no that's there's a placeholder of one million dollars in the senate for a sports training and youth tournament complex it's the 35 million dollar ask again one million dollar placeholder uh there are um two projects that the county sheriff's office got in uh a community outreach and engagement initiative 450 000 uh and that was fully funded in the senate partially funded in the house at 125 000 and a center for recovery uh of endangered and missing persons uh 3 million 200 000 in the senate uh not in the house right now i got to say also that our municipalities on the east side did put in requests so san antonio date city and zephyr hills have some requests in both sides of the budget thank you so uh again early still have a ways to go um so we will go in to like i said invo the house and the senate voting out their budgets next week and then they'll uh be uh in posture to uh go into conference and negotiate uh the outcome for the final budget and as you know we only have a couple more weeks

left we end march 11th with session uh so i'll be going up there on those last final weeks to see if what we can do so ralph i'm looking at a bigger um i was looking on my phone so it really wasn't loading up right yeah now i'm looking on my giant ipad okay are you saying that only things in parentheses are funded because it's not clear on here no it's in color and you don't see that no so so basically there's an amount that was the full ask and then um the senate when you when you see it it was in green uh that was in their budget house was in yellow partially funded was in parentheses you don't see it i will get one printed up for you uh during break and then uh i'll give each of you a copy so again and i did have a breakdown saying that again send it in green house in yellow parentheses is partial amount this is how it's showing up like that yeah it's i can't sell okay i'll print up a a a copy for you well we have some unusual big things in there this year so we got some good things in there yeah about the boat ramps but so at the end of the you know end of the day i think we'll uh hopefully we'll fare well and then we have the governor to uh deal with and hopefully it'll be a year where he's not uh using the red pin as much because it's an election year yeah um yeah well quick question waste energy did they have any luck with that anything on the dirt roads waste energy is not moving uh in the house um we only have one more week of committees uh if it's gonna get its chance it's gotta at least be heard in one committee it is moving in the senate uh this week i think it was in appropriations which is the final stop on the senate side so very much aware of this we've got other counties our county to the south pinellas county it's important to them and i know our guys justin is really working really hard on getting that done um i spoke to the sponsor representative mariano this week about it she was going to go speak to the chair of the committee it's referenced to to try to get it one more time to get it heard so we at least heard of one committee and anything on the dirt roads senator simpson was talking about so that's an issue that was discussed in the end he decided not to move forward with that one um however there is a project that uh was discussed uh hernando county put a project in uh to pave county line road uh and that was fully funded its 50 million dollar project um and that was fully funded in the senate not in the house again to pay that section uh you have been discussing so hopefully at the end of the day that project may get in

what about metropolitan ministries because i can't tell on here if they received any funding i recall right i think they did give them they have a line item they do have a line uh they do have an issue in there um miracle for pasco homeless campus expansion they ask for two million dollars it's fully funded in the senate nothing in the house at this point in time house did not do that many projects uh that impacted pasco as much as the senate did okay all right we'll uh break for lunch and then we'll continue hey if anybody wants it's um andy and marie's birthday so we have cake downstairs high end cake for you happy birthday go get it [Music] you