Board of County Commissioners
09.15.2021 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Public Hearings
Wed, Sep 15, 2021
The board held a series of public hearings to set final assessment rates and utility fees for the coming fiscal year, approving all five resolutions without dissent. Commissioners adopted a $95-per-ERU stormwater fee generating roughly $27 million countywide, while also raising the residential solid waste disposal assessment to $86 per ERU as part of a seven-year, $7-per-year increase plan tied to planned facility expansion. Final assessment rolls for the Quail Hollow and Fox Ridge MSBUs and Williamsburg West MSTU were also adopted unanimously.
Agenda5 items
- 0:00P1Final non-ad valorem assessment rate for Quail Hollow MSBUpublic hearing
- 2:24P2Final non-ad valorem assessment rate for Fox Ridge MSBUpublic hearing
- 3:11P3Final non-ad valorem assessment rate for Williamsburg West MSTUpublic hearing
- 4:09P4FY2021 stormwater management utility ERU fee rate resolutionpublic hearing
- 8:50P5Annual solid waste disposal assessments and rates for FY2022resolution
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living creature make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gifts amen here district 3 commissioner starkey district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick district 5 commissioner mariano here district 1 chairman oakley here and we have a quorum and this time this is republican and then we proceed with the public hearing agenda started with item p1 item p1 was published in the tampa bay times on august 25th 2021 good morning justin grant director of public infrastructure fiscal and business administration item p1 is a resolution by the board of county commissioners pasco county florida establishing a final annual non-avalorum assessment rate and adopting the final non-as alarm assessment role for the quail hollow municipal service benefit unit known as msbu used to establish the budget to fund those activities as recommended by the advisory board of the quail hollow msbu okay do we have um this is public hearing do we have anyone to speak to this item there's no one signed up on webex for this item mr chair however we do have someone who pursues signed up i just don't know what agenda item they are here for mr um pastor troy pedersen [Music] what item sign up for okay thank you sir that's this that's at 10 o'clock that's at 10 o'clock for those these are just on these items these five items okay all right no one to speak to this item uh see another rule second got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye aye aye aye i'll oppose like saying is this required i i haven't been told that it's not okay thank you sir so it passed four zero next item p2 item p2 was published in the template times on august 25th 2021. item p2 is a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida establishing a final equivalent residential unit and a final annual non-avalorum assessment rate and adopting the final non-avalorum assessment role for the fox ridge municipal service benefit unit for the rodent rodent road maintenance and drainage system repairs providing for an effective day okay this is public hearing is anyone signed up to speak to p2 no one on webex and no one in person signed up second got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye all right all right all of the opposed like that motion pass 4-0 item p3
3:13item p3 was published in the tampa times on august 25th 2021 imp3 is a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida establishing a final non-ad valorem assessment rate and adopting the final non-avalorum assessment role for the williamsburg west municipal service taxing unit mstu used to establish used to establishing the budget to fund those activities as recommended by the advisory board of the williamsburg west mscu okay this public hearing has anyone signed up for this item no one on webex and no one's signed up and you still need to call for if there's anybody in there is anybody in the audience uh wish to speak to this item seeing no one do april second i got a motion a second all those in favor say aye aye aye aye all opposed sign motion pass four zero p4 item p4 was published in the tampa bay times on august 18 2021. good morning my name is sandy chica administrative service manager for the public works department i am here for your approval of agenda pw210093 resolution of the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida to establish the fy 21 equivalent residential unit eru and eru utility fee rate to fund the pasco county storm water management utility system and provide an effective date in 2020 the stormwater utility fee was adopted at 95 per eru 2021 preliminary rate on the trim was 95 eru per eru 2021 final rate resolution 95 per eru total value of the assessment is approximately 27 million dollars okay is anyone signed up to speak to adam people yes um item p4 we have someone in person we did not have anyone online the person who signed up in person is dorothea is it dec perino yes come to podium i apologize if i mispronounced your name oh okay thank you good morning and i'm sorry this is my first time ever coming to a mescal county meeting so i apologize if i don't know okay what the proper procedure is but i'm deporino i live in darby florida on miller road um i recently last three months lost my husband unexpectedly and with the hurricane that came to darby and the recent rain we've experienced a lot of flooding on miller road and the ditches were allowed to be filled in with sand and and not properly maintained we also i also live next to a canal that drains into cypress creek and the canal is totally plugged up i've made numerous phone calls about the road and the canal and the flooding i am a registered nurse and when our road floods in front of our property i live in the back end i'm not able to get out of my house and and numerous neighbors weren't
6:25able to drive down the road because it's so flooded recently we've had a lot of development in our area a lot of homes going up which seems to have changed the the structure of the land um we got flooded with um i think it was elsa the hurricane but we also got flooded one day with four inches of rain and that's never happened with four inches of rain that our property was flooded i have photographs of a lake in front of my house and driveway that i can't get out the cypress canal the last time it was maintained it's a right-of-way to cypress creek was in 2015 i believe we had 4k four hurricanes back to back and fema came in and assisted when i called swift mud they said well that's because fema was involved and all rules go out the window they told me it was private property and they don't maintain the canal so i don't know if this is the appropriate time to bring this up but we're having some difficulty with storm water control and i have one income not two and it's very difficult for me to even maintain my taxes or bills right now and i can't afford a tax increase and i don't seem to be getting anywhere with the storm water control i live on the same road that sylvia young lives on and her son ac live on the road is constantly being broken up and we have a lot of flooding in the area even on bellamy brothers road the flooding you can't get through the road without going through water so i appreciate your time listening to this i don't know if it's appropriate but we'll have we'll have someone take your name and i understand the number yes sir we'll have them contact you i appreciate it thank you very much okay thank you miss miss perino i'm sorry i need her address for them okay come back and give us your full name and address my name is dorothea gracik perino p-a-r-r-i-n-o i live at 28 304 miller road darby three three five two five okay thank you very much yes ma'am is anyone else here to speak to this item let's see none more approval okay we've got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye aye all opposed like sign motion pass five zero thank you p5 item p5 was published in the tampa bay times on august 15 2021. good morning justin wrestler solid waste director p5 is a resolution by the board of county commissioners establishing the annual disposal assessments tipping fees and other rates fees and charges for funding the solid waste disposal and resource recovery system so this represents again the third year of a seven year seven dollar plan rate increase these rate increases have been structured to support the the growth
9:26that we're seeing and the need to expand the waste energy facility as well as to replace some of the revenue that's being lost when the power purchase agreement expires in 2024 so what this would do is move the proposed residential assessment up seven dollars to 86 dollars per eru next slide please and when you look at the residential assessment and the residential collection ceiling for pasco county we do see that it's comparable to other municipalities that have waste energy facilities in the area with that staff recommends the board move for approval of the resolution does anyone sign up to speak at p5 so we did have someone signed up via webex but they are not logged in not on and no one else signed up um in person is anyone here uh wish to speak this item seeing no one pleasure to the board moving forward second got a motion a second all those in favor say aye all right our opposed like sign all right motion pass 5-0 that concludes this meeting this morning we'll uh come back for a regular meeting at 10 o'clock you