07.06.2021 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Hybrid Virtual Meeting

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good morning everyone i would like to call it order of the hybrid virtual pasco county board of county commission meeting of july 6 2021 at this time please silence all electronic devices and mute your microphones please stand with me for the invocation 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 maybe may be faithful stewards of your good gifts amen [Music] amen district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick here district five commissioner mariano here district one chairman oakley here has anyone heard from commissioner starkey all right now it's time for public comment sisters given the opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this section the board makes public comment on items to be placed on a future board agenda and other business under their purdue today's public comment will be handled as follows first we will take comment from those who are here in first then we will take public comment from those who have pre-registered for webex link and currently on cue this format does not weigh the request that you address the board only comments not directed toward any commissioner or team member rather directed toward the issues this provides mutual respect between the board members and the public for webex and in-person participants after stating your name and address for the clerk the timer will will start in this countdown after two beeps after two minutes one beep will sound letting you know that the one minute remains after the time is up two beeps will sound letting you know that your three minutes are up and you should close your comments webex participants will be disconnected when their time is up the following people have signed up to speak in person so we take those first mr chair the first person i have signed up and um i don't know if i'm going to be able to pronounce your last name because i can't read it very well but it's robert is it everest thank you first thank you sir you can state your name and address for the record and then you may proceed uh i live out of the county but i'm here representing iff local 4420 uh my name's robert first f-u-e-r-s-t uh i'm speaking today on behalf of the citizens of pasco county and the members of iff local 4420

and we want to voice our support for the mstu rate increase to 0.34 mills as recommended by chief cassand to properly fund the fire department in the county's public safety mission and our vision for its future in october i will have completed 23 years of service in pasco fire rescue department in that time span i have witnessed and assisted in the daily struggles of our citizens and firefighters alike i have served pasco fire rescue at every level available in the rank and file of the department and i am extremely proud of where this department has come from and excited to see the prospect of where it is headed we are truly on a pathway to being a premier fire department in the state of florida as has been envisioned by this board our administration and your con constituents during the time i've been in this fire department we have always provided a level of service above and beyond what we could reasonably be expected with the resources given and that is a testament to the dedication of the men and women that make up pasco fire rescue i would like to thank the board members for their previous support regarding improving our funding to bring the fire department to the service level that we are at today however our work is not done and neither is yours through your past actions we have been able to improve the capabilities of pasco fire rescue for the citizens of the county and the men and women who put their lives on the line every single day in service to the community unfortunately years of underfunding the public safety mission by previous administrations have left us and our citizens dangerously vulnerable and our infrastructure struggling to overcome the deficits of the past while attempting to meet the needs of a growing community and the future this millage rate increase will allow us to provide services for the taxpayers that were needed 10 years ago or more such as autonomous rescues the tanker operator program trucks company two and three and squad company two the mstu increase has been projected to have a net effect on taxpayers that amounts to around seventeen dollars per year per hundred 000 of taxable property value we understand that raising taxes is never popular or even wanted but in this case it is necessary in this circumstance it is needed to provide services that are in line with community professional and national standards today and in the future time and time again in the surveys and at the voting booth the citizens of this county have recognized the public safety mission as vital and of utmost importance to them we believe the citizens understand and

will support this increase because they know it is imperative that experienced professionals with the equipment and expertise to mitigate public and private emergencies arrive in as little time as possible when lives property and livelihoods are in the balance we know they will support it if they understand that the current mstu which directly funds our public safety mission is significantly below the state average we expect they will support it when they realize that the last that last year pasco county citizens made in excess of thirty eight thousand nine one one calls that required more than ten minutes for a trained pasco fire rescue employee to arrive on the scene during that person's time of need sorry your time i'm almost done we are sure they will support it when they because they realize that many areas of the county are underserved regarding available fire department resources and every citizen deserves highly skilled first responders quickly when they call for help thank you the next person signed up is walter price i guess they're going to let us know when the time's up because it's over in you for which it was not here the lights aren't working it's not working up here so just let us know when his time's up name and address walter price 1697 fox great blue loots florida it's good to see some familiar faces about 10 years ago we spent a lot of time together i uh i'm going to bring a different perspective um than a lot of these distinguished firefighters that have been here for many years i'm more of a new firefighter i've only been there for six years i can tell you that in the six years i've been there i've seen the morale continuously pick up positivity has picked up but we're still not at that premier fire department that the citizens deserve as well as the county commission wants we still have the surrounding counties who have the majority of the things that we're still trying to get so that we can become that kind that everybody that's a firefighter wants to come to and work and support the citizens i also have a different perspective as most of you know i'm a real estate appraiser i've been doing that for 17 years the growth in this county is tremendous i've done more appraisals in the last two years than i can remember in the last 17 of doing it as many of you do know after the residential boom comes the commercial boom a lot of the commercial properties that we're getting are baker box stores we have the amazon just down the street from my house

there's a lot of things a couple little fire trucks isn't going to support that we do need more specialized trucks to be able to battle the fires or any kind of a hazardous material the 0.34 increase i get it it's a tax increase it's not popular with anyone but i can tell you i'm just as good at not wanting taxes as anyone else however being in public safety for six years i understand the need for a little bit extra to be able to get the things we need the biggest thing that i can tell you is it's very frustrating when we have a certain call that comes out let's say it's a cardiac arrest the most frustrating thing is it takes a couple minutes for us to get the calls we get dispatched we get the truck we go we got to find traffic we get there six seven eight nine ten minutes starts going by your chances of survival are even significantly dropped right after that some of you live in districts that take well over 15-20 minutes to get a fire truck and rescue anything there so this millage rate is not a tax increase it's a beneficial thing for public safety so we ask that you know you take that into consideration not raising taxes but public safety making us the premier county that we need to be having the equipment staff and every available resource that we could possibly have to benefit everyone as a whole in this county not just a few i appreciate your time and appreciate everything you guys do and and just know that we you know we need this for safety that's really what this comes down to not raising taxes not benefits of money raises all that stuff it's public safety thank you okay thank you thank you the next individual sign up is jesus martinez sorry gotta lift that up good morning i'm jesus martinez second vice president of the local 4420 paso county professional firefighters to come to you today to stand in support of the plan our chief has set before us the increase to the fire mstu is needed to help us match the industry and residential growth in our county the men and women that i represent serve the county to their fullest potential and strive to be premier the goal was set for them by our county administrator our fire chief and this board we look to you today to pave the pathway to premier give us the ability to take the public safety to the next level that our residents deserve pasco county has made strides in the past several years but we stalled on a hill and are in danger of going backward the increase will help propel us forward and into the future our citizens deserve a fire department

that can respond to their emergency in a timely manner the number of responses greater than 10 minutes has been on the rise from as long as i can remember this is unacceptable to for a premier department with the increase proposed paso county will still have one of the lowest fire msu's in the state of florida we fight every year to keep up with the industry standard and i know we are better than just standard i'm not only representing the pastor county professional firefighters i'm a resident here in pasco county i have a beautiful wife and a three-year-old son it currently takes an ambulance anywhere from 12 to 15 minutes to get to my house i love my job i love my brothers and sisters above all i love my family and i ask you to help us make pasa county a safer place to work play and live thank you thank you the next person signed up is dixon phillips good morning dixon phillips i live outside the county but i'm here representing local 4420. more i'm sorry address 2121 west dallas avenue tampa florida good morning last year paso county fire rescue ran 77 837 emergency calls of those calls 38 000 had response times over 10 minutes 17 000 of those 38 000 calls were over 15 minute response times we've all waited 15 minutes for something whether it's waiting for food you ordered waiting for some type of service and it feels like an eternity constantly checking your watch or your phone wondering how much longer now imagine if you were a family member or dime when seconds matter 15 minute response times are unacceptable it should not matter whether you live in hudson holiday dade city lando lakes wesley chapel or zephyr hills nobody should have to wait 15 minutes for fire rescue how many citizens of this county survive their medical emergency or have better outcomes if we arrived on scene one minute earlier personally i was a paramedic and charging a call three weeks ago we had a 12 and a half minute response time coming from quarters to a house that was located in our zone the call notes described a patient that was showing signs of a stroke a typical stroke patient loses 1.9 million neurons every minute the stroke goes untreated so that patient lost 25 million neurons during our response time by the time i arrived on scene the patient stopped breathing shortly after that when the cardiac arrest this mstu increase will provide the

citizens of this county more fire stations personnel and more trucks on the road so we can lower the response times the 911 calls there's no doubt this decision that you all have has real life or death implications thank you thank you the last person i have signed up is barbara campbell good morning my name is barbara campbell i'm at 32839 knollwood lane and i'm nervous as sin right now because i've never heard okay deep breath yeah we are too i promise i'll stay over here okay um okay recently we've had a lot of rain and just daily rain every day and what we've noticed because where we live on knollwood lane is right across from the new kirkland ranch academy of innovation that construction is adjacent to kiefer road kiefer road has been changed and what we've noticed i've lived in that house for 25 years i have a neighbor who's lived in her house for 30 years we've never had flooding never had flooding the other day we were within just a couple inches of people having water going in their houses we know that it's from kiefer road we know it's changed and we know that the water that's come in is not just clear rain water which would be normal this is all full of clay and silt so we know where it's coming from we've looked at kefir road from that side trying to find out where it's coming from you know like what's happening and there are trenches dug from water running it's bad we're asking for you commissioner oakley to please bring some people out or just meet with us talk with us about what we can do before somebody's house gets flooded it's it's just not right okay okay thank you thank you i think she sent us an email like i folded it to michael yeah mike's coming forward or he's gone he'll help you with that so okay that was the last person signed up okay last person signed up does anybody in the room wish to speak but did not sign up seeing no one coming for uh nobody's on webex no one signed up for webex today all right so this ends the public comment period and now we'll go to a eoc update yes sir uh commissioner chair um we'd like to request an emergency or walk home for a local state of emergency board to hear that second got emotional second all those in favor say aye aye aye aye aye as you know we have tropical storm elsa uh coming up the west florida coast

uh we have laura wilcoxson the interim director emergency management online to give you a brief update on that and then i'll request that you approve the local state of emergency for us to deal with the storm as it comes go ahead laura hi this mexico county is management i have a six powerpoint briefing for you uh the current forecast that we're looking at for tropical storm elsa is that we will see sustained tropical storm force winds around 65 miles per hour we are expecting to receive a moderate storm surge however it starts coming in at below low tide and we'll see it's coming over at high tide we're expecting like 13 and data types type conditions that we experienced in november of 2020 where it didn't come over too far we had minor roads like that uh tiny box we're looking at about four to six inches of rain with isolated areas of higher amounts across pastor county and currently we are under a tropical storm warning a storm surge morning and a hurricane watch just for the wind speed along coastal park right now [Music] uh the current action that we are taking into the county is our eoc is activated at level one modified that means our commanded general staff is at the eoc 24 7 where some of them working remotely operational grants through emergency management we've been hiring this store for over a week now or participating in local regional and state conference calls we have four county standby locations currently operating uh since friday so far we have given out over 7000 our public works teams have been busy deploying pumps moving water from you know flood areas especially around the west side of the county they've been managing minor room flooding that we've seen from heavy rain and right now first over the year it looks like we fill up the capacity to accommodate the rainfall anticipated from this farm we have opened up our residential information center as our customer service team they will be staffing overnight tonight so it will be open for 24 hours for any residents that have questions or concerns to call in to the county uh we've been out monitoring our regulations your example they are low we expect that we can accommodate the additional rainfall we do have a designer shelter on standby but as we're not anticipating the last need for sheltering we have no evacuation anticipated at this time

based on the current forecast and the current county action i would recommend to the board that we execute a local state of emergency thank you okay any questions for laura for me any questions i'll talk to emily here um yep laura did you get a chance to go to lakeside woodlands and check on those homes that uh every sent information yesterday i requested the building official to send out an instructor today and she said that she was doing that excellent thank you okay yes um is one of the tropical force winds expected at this point to arrive at 8 pm this evening [Music] and it it works for about 12 hours so you're looking about 8pm tonight until 8am tomorrow morning thank you from a county operations standpoint we're not closing early at all today and we will evaluate whether we openly in the morning later today okay move approval second emotional second all those in favor say aye aye aye motion pass okay thank you all right thank you laura all right now it's time for uh next order of businesses consent agenda i have a pull sheet with uh c16 full-on discuss c17 pull and discuss c49 pull and discuss cease 60 bowling revised what's your pleasure on the other items we'll pull the remaining of the concept agenda second got a motion second all those in favor say aye aye motion pass first item c16 thank you mr chairman uh c16 is a great project uh it's actually district five no district four is listed um it's up in hudson on us 19. i just want to kind of highlight it it's a reimbursement of the 10 grand for the tree mitigation fund so this guy has stepped up improved his property made it look better and i just want to bring attention to it so that others can know that it's aware and he's going to bring it forward that's good that's jim i agree it looks so much better but um looking at the photos first i'll say in the last photo he has illegal festoons um and uh i personally think that we should be um doing away with chain link and and bob wire on on our major roads i think i know at least definitely i'm 54 and 56 where you know we're trying to be a premier county we shouldn't be having chain link fences and and bob fire on top that's that's a very special factor to kind of look well you got to remember there on 56 there are some areas that still have cattle on them so you have to

have non-drive bikes or commercial businesses yeah yeah um and just as we look at the landscape codes and updating the land development coast if you look in any nice city or county driving through sarasota or somewhere you're not going to see chain link and also we should have a requirement that chain link has to be properly maintained i see a lot of times and i saw it in these photos where it's not hooked to the poll and it's fallen over so i just think you need to look at that but i think the landscape looks tremendous and it's a great program and i encourage more companies to do it what an improvement that's pretty good so i'm new approval second i got a motion in a second all those in favor say hi motion pass c17 commissioner moore thank you mr chairman um hey i just pulled this i i'm fine with everybody we wanted a point um on the planning commission uh my issue is the same thing i stated last time i don't think we should be voting all these at once we should be pulling these separately moving forward i mentioned that last time when we did that i think you guys remember we shouldn't put everybody in a barrel because there may be a time in the future that we prefer not to have one person so instead of having a discussion and saying okay i'm good with four of them and not and not one of them i think we should be voting for all of them separate in the future if you guys would agree with that i mean well i believe i'm bringing this up because i personally like the way we did it before and when we need to point at somebody uh i see you're saying yeah i would prefer to go back to that that method then yeah mr chairman yes and commissioner stark i agree 100 commissioner moore i was going to actually pull the i was pulling the agenda item too so i'm glad you did um the last time we did the uh announcement of a new planning commission member i said at the same time i don't have a single person from district five and there's not a single person in district one either so i think you should have anyone from the district either so so i think we should go back to uh go go back to ten if you wanna have an alternate for another position that's fine go to 11 if you have to but i think we should all be appointing at least one person if not two yeah yeah where's charles charles gray he's from what district he's then

commissioner fitzpatrick what about um don anderson which we just appointed i think he's one of his patrons so okay so that's fine so so you got a couple on the west side here you got a couple of these signs fine i mean i'm fine with everybody now i think in the future though as we talk about it we do them separately we pull them we do one by one if you want to go back to those appointments i'd be fine with that too but i don't think we need to we can't hold this up now though well i don't want to hold that up but i want to suggest would be for six months while we work on redoing it you and i don't have anybody representing on the planet so this would be three districts that are not represented so i think we need to do a quicker than six months i'd like to see it back even two months this requires a land development code amendment okay so i'm not sure that you can get a land development code amendment done in two months 90 days is about as fast and you've got your land development or your planning and development staff doing a bunch of stuff so but that would be up to the administrator if we want to see if we could bring it back in in uh four months it gives them a little extra time maybe yeah because we have a language before you discuss but i'll also remind you that the reason that you moved to board appointments versus commission appointments was to get away from to move forward the way most other jurisdictions do it and not have to say this but political appointments and having the entire board agree on everyone that is on that planning commission because it is probably your most important board that's that was the reason why i feel that the west side should be represented and i'm not saying that there shouldn't be representation of of the districts we've got three you have three west side what i'm saying is that the we used to have three west individual appointments by commissioners that's why we moved away from that because of being more political is it let me ask you it's clearly more clear can we say that the planning commission has to be made of members representing each district yes i that i don't know that i don't have a problem with i think we went to the last time since i just want to keep going since i pulled it but um initially it was you know we looked at the applications don't forget so all of us here look at the applications there were people from each district at that moment at that

time that i thought i don't think i had one from my district everybody was comfortable with or didn't want right so mr mariano i'm going to say i think the language we had before worked it shouldn't be a hard thing to redo it um our mpos we appoint everybody from ourselves our own districts as well so it's not just something unique to us this is done as an mpo as well i want to i really want to go back to that i like to bring back the same language we had from before so it makes it easy for staff and help speed it along and just go back to the same thing we did before well i will say that even though we're talking about going back to the way it was before we i think the planned commission has been operating very well the way it it is now but i understand i want a representative though and the district one should be represented as well you've got two districts represented all five commissioners and they elect us to serve and represent and we have the authority for these different committees to appoint people and i think we should fulfill that and not not be afraid to it i understand politically i don't have any feeling of not being represented on that planet commission board because they're all they're all our citizens i mean really so we all you know they all represent all of us but when we look at situations mr chairman you know as a in the districts there's a reason we're all represented from districts elected county-wide so we look at everything in our district we should have that expertise but county-wide as well we need to make the best vote we can for the best of overall county when we put a representative on there we can be assured because i don't want to talk to my plenty of commission representatives what's your appointment they're appointed i don't i don't talk to them they're down they're going to do their thing and that's the way it should be they do their thing if we don't like what they've done we could go pull them back but i don't know that anyone's ever pulled one back in recent times right so i mean once they put on they we make the decision we want on there they're represented in our district but still looking at everything counting how many appointed representatives on yeah so we could do one each and then administration we're just having that large we all agree on yes yeah yeah i'm okay with that but we'll bring this back four months let's bring it back and i may not find someone in my district but at least i still find someone who understands my discipline yeah well this is my

okay let me just jump in one more time and listen i'm not i'm not against this what you guys want to do i want to have cohesiveness or whatever um might want to wait until we actually get do our redistricting though first because the districts are about to change yeah and if you get put somebody on there they might have to pull okay we do six months well he said four so okay you know what that's that's a great idea yeah okay okay we'll get a way to wait to redistribute to that make that change let's get the paperwork ready now oh i didn't make a motion yet no but um well so we're now we're going to make well right now the motion is just for these folks and then i i guess you'll need a we need another motion to bring that back we're just giving a staff well if you want to shorten these terms you need to amend the the initial motion that was made i mean if you if you want to if you want to appoint these people for their full term that's fine but if but i heard some discussion about only appointing them for well i'll let the two commissioners that are looking at making the changes go ahead and make the motion as you see fit um well i make the motion to approve the names listed here for six months i have a question so wait what happens you can do it under discussion for robert make your money so um i make the motion to approve the names um here and for six months where and then after redistricting we will look at doing um one per commission member and one at large okay i got a motion school book number two plus the school performance yeah so i think that statute second or second now discussion and so what happens to the ones that are already appointed and there's multiple from multiple districts they're just going to get kicked off their term their term lasts for six months and the board man has to then has to decide about reappointment or not appointment so who's from which district before yeah we have six months discussion there's one final thing we did was it a month ago two months ago reappoint other planning commission members so now we're making a motion on these but we previously appointed the other commissioners to long terms so now you so you have that you have to deal with separately from this yes so i guess you could do that when you bring it back and in my own motion i mean well under discussion i i want it to be that they don't have to live in the commission or district because i may not find anyone

who qualifies in my district um but it would be my appointment you're looking at me like no i'm not no i'm i'm first of all that's true if that's direction to administration that's fine i don't want you to expect the county attorney to be drafting this this is a land development amendment so looking out there looking at you just because there may not be anyone who's qualified or wants to okay they spend a lot of time wait we have to find that job call the question mr chairman okay uh all those in favor i got a motion and a second all those in favor say aye aye aye aye aye aye all of those like that no motion pass unanimously little did you know okay move on to c49 mr mariano thank you mr chairman uh this is another i think a good thing that we're taking care of an issue that was lingering for a long time as far as the flooding goes i know we're working with swift mud in our plan uh and several times i've asked about we're waiting for boring tests to be done to find out what could be done with the soil dropping around and mike if you want to talk where we stand with that situation there we're still working it but i'd love to hear from the front door certainly yeah mike carbala assistant county administrator of public infrastructure with regards to the maggie valley project yes soil sampling is complete uh there is some arsenic in in some of the soils um a lot of the soils actually but when we get into construction what we'll what we'll typically do is we will legally dispose of the contaminated soils uh additional soil that comes out that's needed to balance the site uh you know we're working with parks on a few things there so that would be the next priority followed by um you know possibly doing an additive alternate or a bid item to where we could uh pay the contract or have the contractor pay us to to handle the soil sell it do something like that to help offset the costs to those citizens when we come back so those are the things that we typically look for in a lot of jobs but particularly so in this matter yeah okay and mike thank you very much for talking i would have talked with him earlier on this but as this would come out of the holiday whatever i could talk to you at the time but thank you very much and i'll move approval thank you thank you you have a motion a second all those in favor say all right i live in the area so i need to know if i'm allowed to vote so commissioner fitzpatrick this is not the creation of the assessment district this is the

preliminary assessment my my opinion is that it is a large enough area that you should not have a voting conflict given that it's not the creation if you would like me to confirm that with a commission on ethics before this comes back this is the preliminary role i'll be happy to but i think you can my opinion is you can vote on this thank you okay so i have a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye aye all opposed me all right motion pass five zero all right c60 item c60 there was an error in the solicitation number that populated in the memorandum that uh error has been approved fixed promotion second all those in favor say hi okay motion pass five zero okay that finishes the consent items we'll move on to regular the first ones are 69. good morning good morning bob cory past mechanic budget director i hope we could have the slides please good morning the objective of this item is to set the tentative millage rates for the truth and millage mailings that will go out to all county taxpayers in august next slide please but before we get to setting the tentative millage rates we did receive the final taxable assessed values from the property appraiser on july 1st and i would like to go through those numbers and give you the impact of what has happened between preliminary and final so as you can see comparing 2021 to 2022 the final taxable assessed values increased by about 3.4 billion dollars to over 35 billion dollars overall next please you can see the new construction was really a big factor that played into this increase in taxable assessed values uh new construction the assessed values and that have been increasing every year since 2014. next please you can see there was minimal change between the preliminary and final taxable assessed values between the preliminary that we received on june 1st the finals that we received on july 1st the increase was 10.81 percent there's very little change here the main difference is that in the preliminary taxable assessed values we do not receive the breakouts for the cras and the tips instead we internally estimate what those will be and so in july we got the actual values for the cras and the tips and you can see they changed a little bit resulting in about 1 million dollars in additional revenues for the board in the general fund next please

so we are currently recommending no change in the operating millage rate and the fire mstu millage as you are aware under the save our homes provisions of florida constitution the value of homesteaded properties cannot increase by more than 3 percent or the rate of inflation whichever is less the current rate of inflation we're using for homesteaded properties is 1.4 so for a typical uh single-family home valued at 150 000 that's homesteaded if we uh subtract the standard exemptions of fifty thousand dollars to have a hundred thousand dollar taxable value the uh property taxes for that typical single-family home would increase by ten dollars and sixty-five cents not because there was a change in the millage rate which there is no change in the property tax they increased simply because their home had a higher value in 22 than it did the year before and for non-homesteaded properties non-homesteaded properties the value of homestead non-homestead properties cannot increase by more than 10 percent so if we take that same 150 000 uh home the property taxes for that home would increase by just over 114 dollars per year next please if we look at the fire mstu between june and july it increased from 11.92 increase to 11.93 which yielded an additional six thousand dollars in the uh fire fund to six point one eight million dollars next please if we look at the tips we can see again in june first we didn't receive those from the property appraiser so we estimated those overall the tiffs is 28.7 million dollars with the bulk of that going to the county-wide tif which is currently being used for transportation-related projects next please here we have the community redevelopment areas the county contributes or will contribute next year 3.5 million dollars to the city cras in an effort to assist the cities in eliminating eliminating slum of light in their cra areas next please the recommended action first we'd ask you to approve the tentative millage race that you see here before you and set the first public hearing for september 13th 5 15 pm in date city you'll notice the main difference between last year and this year is the three voter approved debt millages that we uh just closed one this morning and that we have since closed since last year and so that's the main difference between the millage rates from last year and this year and with that you have to

we'll finish it off yeah okay mr chairman make a comment about the budget yeah you can thank you sir um first i wanted to thank the commission for directing the county attorney to meet with myself and also the county administration and my legal counsel to discuss the legal support for my budget request and i also wanted to thank county administrator biles for meeting with me last week on wednesday to go over what is going to be put into the budget for my office it wasn't presented in the slides however my understanding with meeting with the county administrator that for my i.t budget request that county administration acknowledges that the commission has a legal obligation to fund it and that they are funding it at 40 of the request i just wanted to state that funding at 40 of the request is inadequate to meet the needs of my office and the requirements of the law and then i i am requesting full funding in fiscal year 22 and at the june age 40 county commission meeting mr chairman and i'm sorry and i respect you to no end but this is we cannot have these conversations with this is the board actually debating the budget if we're going to have allow all constitutions to debate their budget requests we have to bring all of them in here and have that that's not policy we have to stick with the policy we've had all the years of a commission so if we're going to open that up we have to open it up to every constitutional office to come here during our debate and have input i'm just we can't get away from how we've done things in the past and we have to move forward if we're going to move forward with that we have to set that policy previous prior to the meeting and invite them all to have that discussion at the podium and debate the budget but this is commissioner's debate at this time on the trip right you you have two public hearings scheduled in september for the budget right justice this is not the place for us to have that debate without allowing the other constitutionals the same opportunity this is an item that's coming before the board on a public matter but this is this is commissioner debate now so any constitutional would be able to come and speak to this matter even if they were to come on public comment similar to the fire rescue here today correct but not during when we're having our debate

we're discussing the voting on friends now all right so um i'll wait to make my comments during miscellaneous business thank you okay privacy reward look move approval all right i got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye aye motion pass 5-0 thank you bob thank you move on to r70 good morning justin wrestler and solid waste director r 70 is a resolution establishing the preliminary annual disposal assessment tipping fees and other weights fees and charges for the solid waste system fund next slide please so this is year three of the multi-year assessment increase that we presented back in 2018 and this is really designed to offset the revenue loss from our expiring power purchase agreement and to support the rapid growth that we're seeing here in pasco county so in addition to all the growth that we've seen we've also seen waste tonnages with existing pasco county residents increase during kelvin so what we're proposing again is a seven dollar assessment increase a 6.37 6.39 tipping fee increase next slide please and as you can see when you look at our disposal and collection ceiling we're comparable with other counties who have ways to energy facilities and other counties in the area one thing that i do want to point out is that because we're not on a franchise system we're not obligated to go out for bid for a collection and a lot of neighboring counties have actually seen significant jumps in their franchise fees uh due to the labor shortages in cobit so having the open market system really benefited the citizens of the county this year because of that next slide please with that i would recommend the board make a motion to approve the resolution authorize the county administrator to sign the preliminary role and advertise the public meeting on september 13th at the dates equal house well i'll make that motion but i want to have a little discussion under a second motion and a second so under this number um you know that i have always been in favor of moving to a franchise and i think you all need to talk to our waste haulers because i met some of them at the fact conference and very unhappy bunch of people and we need to be sure that we have people who are willing to work in pasco county to pick up our garbage just saying reach out and listen to what they have to say we're going to have a big problem any other discussion okay i have a motion in a second all those in favor say aye all right motion pass five zero

all right r71 good morning commissioners marcie yesberg director of community development uh today we are looking at our local housing assistance plan otherwise known as the lhap next slide the lhap is the county's plan for spending the state housing initiative partnership funds did you know that last year we did not get any funding but like this coming year we should be getting about 3.8 million dollars and we are required to update our plan every three years and so this plan would be effective from 2021 currently to 2024 looking for you to approve it and then it goes to the florida housing finance corporation who's the funding agency if you go on to the next slide you could see that the l hat contains three sections the first section goes over general program details definitions and the income levels that we deal with the second sec section is our housing strategies which we will go over specifically and then the third section are incentive strategies from the county you've seen this document before i want to show you what has changed in it that this year we did remove the pasco opportunity program otherwise known as pop and our developers do still have the opportunity to come and do individual contracts that we would bring before the board and then we also changed how we require payback for our owner occupied rehab program instead of them paying it back in a mortgage and a monthly payment now they pay back when the property is sold when it's refinanced when they've lost homestead exemption or they've passed away so let's go over in the next slide the home ownership strategy so it's basically divided up into home ownership and rental strategies we have to spend 65 percent of our funding on home ownership so we do down payment assistance helping people low and moderate income people to become homeowners we do that right in-house with our own staff same thing with owner-occupied rehab once somebody gets into a home a low and modern income person we want to make sure they could stay housed and so we do help with some major rehabilitation whether it be putting in a new ac or fixing a roof then we do these other strategies demolition reconstruction disaster repair foreclosure prevention and new construction home buyers assistance program with our partner agencies and in-house we also do

tax payment and assessments when somebody becomes uh two years or more behind in a pay in their tax payments again we want to keep them housed so we will pay uh their taxes so those are our home ownership strategies mercy yes i just want to ask you a quick question on the demolition reconstruction uh we've torn down a lot of homes and sometimes i would think that people don't have the funds to go put them back up that's why they do have to unders program that can be tied with those homes that we can actually someone can benefit from this funding to go rebuild that home yes that's this that that would be that but but we also have to weigh the cost of investing into one like for example we work a lot with the hr hre program and we can do a demolition on some of these homes but there there could only be a certain percentage and so sometimes it's 250 000 to rebuild a house that has is basically falling around down so it depends on the home but this is a strategy that can be used so if someone let's say tears down a home the lot's worth 30 40 grand whatever it may be and now to go rebuild the homes a lot much larger chunk of money can we put do we have incentives in there for the people that want to say either build the home or the people that want to buy the home that after the home is built that can be coordinated to help let's call a neighborhood redeveloped that's what we have been doing that's exactly what we've been doing with that funding and we've been doing it with the pop developers the last home that we did we put over three hundred thousand dollars in it and it sold for 140 000. yeah i don't know if i want to go down that road yeah but if this is if there's another way to make it work yes on the yeah sorry we're interrupting you but and i think you were on this nationwide call that i was on of course that's my committee at naco so i get to hear our best practices and things that are happening around the country i think this was in pittsburgh philadelphia where the community had made uh had a foundation that would add to that kind of program so that you could build a good house in a neighborhood elevate the neighborhood a little bit and still have it be affordable for the person who's buying it but uh i thought it was a brilliant um program and something that our community might think about you know if we have a fundraiser and um and collect money that goes into

a fund that can help so so we also have strategies on rental property which is the next slide and we do rental assistance with eviction prevention i will tell you that some of these uh programs are a little bit on hold with the ship money while we have the funding from the our heart program the funding source is with the coronavirus relief funds rental rehabilitation disaster mitigation land acquisition with new construction rental security and and or utility deposits with rapid rehousing and that's specifically for people that are either homeless or preventing homelessness and then we also work with special needs so those are the strategies that are included in the lhap the next two slides um discuss the incentive strategies and that is your next item on the agenda so i'd go straight to the final slide for the recommendation to approve the local housing assistance plan and to direct the chairman to sign the necessary documents be happy to ask answer any questions questions well um i sit on this the committee that worked on this and um a lot of great ideas uh came into this uh i just wanted to bring up another idea that i heard from melissa mckinley at the fat conference so the counties were getting money to buy places to put people through covet because of kobe and many counties were buying up old hotels and remodeling them and then they get to keep them after this is over for supportive housing is that the right word but like our county there aren't very many old motels and so what what palm beach county did in their rural areas because they didn't want to move the people who were having issues in the interior to the cities they wanted to keep them in their neighborhoods they bought old commercial buildings and rehabbed them into into um town homes or what or apartment buildings they remodeled old commercial buildings i thought that was a brilliant idea and a way to use some of our vacant property that's out there and i think we should look at it so with that i move approval second got a motion a second uh all those in favor say aye aye aye aye opposed nate all right most past five zero thank you okay move on to r72 so our next item is on the committee that uh commissioner yes it was on the affordable housing advisory committee and this is our report to the board of county commissioners

and these are the uh incentives so on the next slide uh it talks about the responsibilities of the affordable housing advisory committee and that's the ahack and their responsibility is to present a report to you and the florida housing finance corporation that includes recommendations on listed affordable housing incentives that are in the florida statutes and we review the county's plans policies and procedures ordinances regulations statutes and comprehensive plan among other documents applicable to affordable housing for the evaluation of their impacts on affordable housing projects so they met this year in the spring and on the next slide they looked at the following incentive strategies and again these are all by law and i will go through each of them and say whether or not it's in place or whether or not we're recommending it so expedited permitting for affordable housing is already in place the modification of impact fees you all waived mobility fees last year for affordable housing so that's in place the allowance of flexibility in densities for affordable housing and you will see that there are several recommendations that we are making that during the time that the land development code is look being looked at in the comprehensive plan for a rewrite we're actually just bringing these items to their attention to look at it at this time so the allowance of flexibility and densities be looked at while they're looking at the rewrite of the ldc reservation of infrastructure capacity is currently adequate and in place parking and setback requirements again looking uh to see that those would be apt optimized for affordable housing projects in a rewrite the affordable accessory residential dwelling units otherwise known as adus again support the modification of the land development code to incentivize affordable adus in residential areas the incentives continue on the next slide flexible lot configurations again when the land development code rewrite comes in to look at flexible lot configurations modification of street requirements there does not need to be any changes there process of ongoing review that is currently in place and there needs to be no changes there and a public land inventory and that is

in place but we are recommending mapping the public lands being available so those um on the final slide although we did not need to look at inclusionary zoning the committee did have a couple of discussions on inclusionary zoning and we also are recommending that the county investigate ways to incentivize inclusionary development so that would mean uh developments that would have housing for different income levels by offering density bonuses tax credit options or other incentives so in conclusion on the last slide we are very grateful for ordinance 2017 which waived the mobility fees so thank you to the board of county commissioners for that and we also are mentioning that in past years affordable housing requirements have started in mpuds but then they've been removed and we're we'd like to look at ways to incentivize keeping those affordable housing requirements in the mpud and then finally again with the land development rewrite in progress we really want to use that opportunity to look at these policies uh these other incentive trucks strategies to see if they could apply uh while the land development code is being rewritten uh finally uh with along with community development i just want to also thank uh planning and development for their collaboration with this incentive program and thank you commissioner starkey for your service it was wonderful so uh the the um what we are looking for is a recommendation to approve the incentive strategies i'll make that motion okay got a motion second second and and i i wanted to bring up one of the items that we discussed which is the parking and a perfect example and i don't remember the name of it is the the building that was built across from the wrap house um that is a housing spear village spear village name i guess named dr linda's beer there has never been a car there and i i thought maybe they never opened up or something happened but they told me i think there's eight units six six units but nobody in there can drive because they all have developmental developmental disabilities so now they're going to build another building and our code would require them to double or triple the parking lot that will have no cars in it so in cases like that you know we really we really don't need a humongous parking lot so this

will um you know address some of that right yes do they utilize all the pcpt transit services to get to and from their doctor's appointments in that facility or not the paratransit mm-hmm yeah yeah i mean they need that some parking because caregivers come and family comes but they don't need 1.9 parking lots per unit no way also on the surplus lands we've asked this we're asking the school district also to um any other entity that owns public lands in the county for for their list as well and so that we can see where there might be some surplus lands that we can put some housing it's always been my view that um and i think the industry is kind of or the i don't want to call it industry but i think you see for example like in tampa to have large areas of challenged economically challenged people is not a good idea it's better to have small areas interspersed all throughout the community and it used to be when you had a dri 10 had to be at a lower price point than the rest of the community and then when they got rid of dris they got rid of that and so then now no one's closing no no one builds those kind of communities and sometimes it's it's maybe just a smaller place which doesn't you know people retire they don't have the salaries anymore but they want to live in the same community um so it could be your grandparents you know it doesn't mean that someone's on section 8 volunteer so yeah we just need to have a big mix of everything to be healthy okay any other discussion do we are there still 77 vouchers for children that age out of foster care and are they being utilized which would provide their rental assistance until they're 26 years old i i am not familiar with the uh exact amount but there are multiple there's many vouchers that are unused so how are we planning to help kids that have aged out of the fosters program to start being able to live independently become so the project that commissioner starkey was just talking about that those 50 units which has not yet come before the board those 50 units will be used for youth aging out of foster care and previously homeless people but they should still be able to live where they want not in one facility so i would like to see more public awareness on the funds out there for those kids that are for our youth so the housing vouchers all run through the pasco county housing

authority and i'll be happy to get you more information about that thank you okay i got a motion a second on the floor all those in favor say aye our opposed name all right all right motion pass five zero thank you r73 i'm not going anywhere yet thank you uh commissioners um this next item is an amendment to our 2019 action plan as you know the county is an entitlement community which means that we get regularly every year the community development block grant the home investment partnership and also the emergency solutions grants in addition to getting those funds we've gotten three tranches of additional money through the cares act program so we've heard a lot about the cares act money came directly to the county money came to also other agencies like hud sba and things like that so this is part of the funding that came through hud this was the third tranche of community development block grant funds for the coronavirus initiative so it's cdbg cv funds we got just under 2 million dollars it's 1.9 million dollars so if you go to the next slide you can see that this amendment is uh for the 2019-2020 action plan and we could fund the following activities public services development economic development and also use some of the funding 20 percent of the funding for administration and while these are very typical to the community development block grant when they are cv funds they have to prepare prevent and respond to covet 19. so the next slide we'll go over the projects with you and these projects were we did a request for proposals we have a committee that reviews and ranks them and then we bring them to you for your approval the first one is uh for uh providing the renovation for the new am skills building so that they could expand uh their workforce training and apprentice programs so that's just under six hundred thousand dollars and also forty thousand dollars for the good samaritan health clinic to install a hot water heater touchless sittings paper towel and soap dispenser dispensers on the next slide we have the public services so usually we could only spend a certain amount of our funds for public services and that was waived for cb funds so we were able to help many more of our nonprofit agencies 91 thousand dollars going to met men

347 thousand dollars going to saint vincent de paul for emergency non-congregate shelter for individuals and families four hundred thousand going to the coalition for the homeless and this is for two things one is um to run the family shelter which should be opened up sometime this summer and the rest is for hotel motel vouchers uh cares a 56 000 for cares for supportive services to disabled focus on covering the gap between prioritized service delivery system for individuals lacking information and services related to the preparation prevention and response to covet 19 and then the last amount 172 thousand for sure to west care for short-term pre-vocational training and services that support treatment recovery and relapse uh and and preparation for individuals whose employment was adversely correct affected by covet 19. mr chairman yes sir um question for you on the last one west care um i think training is great we need more vocational training for those positions but nationwide right now one of the issues a lot of our small businesses are seeing especially the restaurant retail side are they're you know because they're making people are making more right now not working in those 10 11 12 an hour jobs it's more beneficial they stay home so why i think that's a vocational training is a great idea at the same time you know in some manner in some way we need to be able to encourage folks to go back to work i mean i every one of us knows small businesses that are struggling to find those employees now it's not and it's not because of where we're located or where you live because this is across the board nationwide hillsborough and pinellas are having just as big as problem as we are or i say we as our small businesses are finding staff so at the same time we need to be and find ways to encourage people to get back into the workforce and be dependent and not be dependent on what the feds are giving them right now because that's not going to last forever you know in the state that's but i think that's what this does well i know people who need this kind of help because well i'm not against it i'm just saying we got to find ways to encourage as well well i think that's what this does this helps them become more stable so they can go apply for a job that's fitzpatrick aaron i thought they were canceling in september and phasing out unemployment for people that have been on it for that long the limit that's the state was different than the feds i don't know exactly what

the feds are doing right now i can't keep up day-to-day anymore well i saw in the paper maryland tried to end theirs and the courts in maryland said you can't end your federal subsidy so i'm going to guess that it does but that's beyond what we can control yeah but i think this i don't want to go into more depth of what west care does so they they specifically though so westcare is also our drug court provider so they specifically work with people that are experiencing substance abuse issues so so that's why there's you know you know there are a number of programs that we have that are working with certain populations of people to help them get back into the workforce because of those barriers um there are lots of unintended consequences commissioner moore to the you know to unemployment to doing the rental assistance that we're doing all of those things impact exactly what you're talking about yeah and i'm listening i'm all for vocational training it's it's it's great you're teaching somebody an actual trait and so they can use and not just a temporary position to that won't last um this is something that could obviously be long term for people and definitely very supportive people that are going through recovery and need that assistance to get out of the workforce um but i just wish there was you know more ways we could in ways we could focus more on the encouragement side of things to get people back out to the in the workforce that um are able bodied in their jobs are available yeah mr chairman yeah sure and i'll agree i i think we should try to find those incentives i think am skills is a phenomenal success story though uh and if those people can get those higher paying jobs as well they can be more moderate to go not just like going to mcdonald's or wherever people are putting out bonuses to get people to work this is going to elevate them all the way up so i mean the more money you can put into that the more people want to take that training i think it's a phenomenal way to go so i will say the hotel motel voucher thing um one of the things they look at is the city of newport richie has actually taken down several different substandard hotels that's taking away a lot of the blight well that light's moving elsewhere uh when i look at like on us 19 we've got that it's the belmont inn that's tucked away there's not a single person that's from out of town living in that place

now hotels are designed to bring in positive people spending money etc so by using up a hotel space frankly it actually hurts that value now frankly the new hotels get built in the past like 10 years the holiday express the hampton and the homewood suites they came because it was a demand for single entry hotels something higher line higher level so i don't think it's really taken away that but somehow we can look to get away from that program especially on 19 like you say in other areas we can use the money to remodel old buildings in appropriate areas and build some kind of our own kind of um housing our own motels or or apartments whatever it is i think we should i you know there's another hotel getting ready to go down and that's the magnus and so we're going to lose more rooms but i prefer people to be in a motel than to be in the woods personally but but and i'd love for there to be more houses we could put them in and so we have a great program there's an app that if you see a house um you can take a picture of it and send it um rentonpascal.gmail.com say it again rent in pasco gmail.com yeah i think that's kind of the program kelly miller's working for you guys right so um yeah they need more houses so i every once in a while i come across one in the neighborhood i think the owner would let you know let it happen because you have to have a willing um landlord so but i uh move approval oh sorry can we oh there's more well i just wanted i'm not sure i just want to tell you what you're i'm moving to approve on the next slide you're approving the amendment um on how to spend the cv money the projects that are been recommended also you're delegating full authority to execute project specific agreements to the county administrator and delegating authority to approve environmental reviews to me okay move approval and i'll second justin mr marcia you're doing a great job it's a tough position that you're in a tough situation obviously a step of the way and commissioner stark i'm glad you stepped up to be on the affordable housing i think we are good naked position as well as that you can implement direct ideas quickly all right we got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye aye motion pass 5-0 thank you for your time someone called hud they keep asking me if it was me it is you i called her well when did i you didn't call hud but you spoke to the congress

congressman's office about affordable housing so then they called hud so we'll we'll get it together with me it wasn't me okay that ends regular items we'll move on to old business mr moore all right thank you mr chairman all right hope everybody had a safe and happy independence day and thanks to our county staff and the team obviously working around the clock preparing for hopefully what's a not a severe situation but being diligent and keeping our public aware and engaged of what's going on i think some of you probably heard this you may have gotten the call from um secretary gwen 67 secretary gwen because we spoke and i kind of encouraged him too to maybe let everybody know but uh unfortunately before the public sees this on a daily basis disappointing news but we're going to look at the positive behind it the diverging diamond f dot has decided to um what's the word i'm looking for again they um default defaulted thank you so you just can't think today uh so f dot defaulted i'm dab contractors for the diversity diamond project um fortunately you know i remember the company i got pretty involved with that so up and down that they would get this done they would meet the milestones the timelines they were moving along nicely in the beginning and unfortunately they slowed down again so f dot has um defaulted them what happens now is that the surety bond company is in charge of finding that replacement for them um it may take a couple months for them to find that replacement but the good thing is it does not have to go through the whole process and go out to bid again so they're able to go find that replacement on their own so we will see a work stoppage we already have seen work stoppage on that at that location and so hopefully the the company will the surety company will be able to find that replacement very soon hopefully sooner than later um so it doesn't look like it's going to be done for the holiday season well we've got to be uh hopeful that nothing happens with the other projects they got going because they've got several in our county you're right you're right and let's let's let's hope that uh they are able to continue on with their and move forward and maybe faster now with the project they have was 50 on 54. um how many county projects do they have right now do we know that that they're working on for us mike do you know where they're doing mr allen comes up

the way example state road 52 um last month i could see a bunch of cars that were out there some stuff going on driving over this morning tons of cars but i don't see any bodies i don't see any work i don't see a crane being moved so i don't know what they're doing but right tell us about them yeah well as far as 52 and 54 go those those are state projects of course and you know we don't know what the effect of those are our staff is trying to reach out to dot to see if there's you know make sure that these are mutually exclusive events as far as work with the county dav has finished up a couple of signalization type projects for us nothing major so they they're they're done um but yeah so currently not on any other projects in the county not that i'm aware of offhand anything major and active correct and we and we know they were forbidden to bid on anymore in district seven i believe although someone told me they've just won a low bid yeah they do how could that happen they got some in the airport at uh brit in brooksville at the airport city project yeah um i just want you to know i also talked to secretary gwen and i asked him about state road 52 and he said it is a little bit behind schedule and they're getting ready to send them some letters so yeah it's unfortunate yeah it really is you know because you know who pays the price is our citizens that pay their taxes and expect these projects to be done in a timely manner so hopefully the shorty company gets a good company out there that will finish this up for us because it's such a great project that's going to have huge benefits and i i like i said i think the overpass is going to be open in in front of 56. no no it is isn't it no no originally no originally supposed to be done in october i know the overpass interchange will open before 15. that's three well now no that wait no this this what do you say overpass will open before they're done with 56. yes oh they're going to have that done in two months do you mean 56 is nothing you're talking about 56. we're talking about the virginia times yeah the 75.50 yeah two what a different time frame i think we thought about 56 he was thinking about he was thinking about 56 to go to 301 diverging diamond um on the current timeline was supposed to be done before the holiday before the holidays for the holidays now they're going to be two months behind so you're probably getting this is what he told me okay you could tell it could be up to two it could be up about two months for them to fight the new contractor out there i think it'll take two months

to get a contract when the contractor can get out there as a different story but anyway didn't i hear what when's the overpass interchange going to be maybe i heard maybe i misunderstood what i heard so overpass road will be reopened in february right we closed over pass road okay to save money and accelerate the construction and then that project will be uh i want to say it would be in 23. i can get you the date okay and get you the exact date so i i just missed it well i think i'll be confident the contractor they bring in now will expedite things so anyways that's the story there um and obviously good luck to the team of a lightning in the stanley cup finals looking great almost had it last night wednesday uh you know someone some elected officials around here um said they wanted them to come lose last night and come back to uh come back to tampa that was the thing i wasn't one of them those were other people those were other people so we're moving on to win every game here in pascal county right right that's right right so that's it go bolts okay uh yeah i second your goal both um so a couple of things it says in my notes here charring stations but i think that there's change charging stations um i was having a discussion with someone and i realized that we don't have any requirements for charging stations to be um constructed and i think we should because more and more people are uh purchasing the electric cars and i don't know if any of these apartments are putting in any of the charging stations um there but i think we should be looking at requiring to have some i mean i i can't recall what it is but pretty soon it's gonna be all electric cars local governments have stations so what does well the city is jeffrey hill's house no but you got to learn how to live so we need more i think the amazon fleet is all going to uh electric vans but my understanding is they're not they're not putting them in a lot of these apartments and we need to have some we need to ask them otherwise they're going to come in and tear it all up you're looking at if a person has electric car don't you think they'll put it in i i think we should be um requiring some of them right there yeah otherwise if we have less apartments we don't need any of them you could have less police and less fun all right so i've handed out something to you called the yellow dot program this was sent to me by a constituent

and it said the the program first began in 2014 after the florida senate passed senate bill s a 262 blah blah blah it authorized all counties of florida to elect to implement the yellow dot program i'm sorry our firefighters left the office of public safety director f dot is the responsible agency for action take at state level i don't know why it says fdi that's a mistake um any person in the county that is participating in the program simply has to follow the guidelines they are provided the yellow sticker and medical information form the sticker is typically placed in the rear window of your car and the medical form with photo in your glove compartment and i think you could put it on a window at your house but and it's voluntary but you i think the county has to decide if they're going to be in the program so i i wanted everyone to take a look at this and see if it's something that we want to do um i uh wanted to see if the sheriff's office could give us an update on first uh it's very exciting about what what's going on there so maybe sometime in the future schedule uh an update for us on first and um just uh wanted y'all to know i met with our county attorney jeff stein snyder and others and um i think the county and attorney's office is working on a a good program to increase the um i should say decrease the time it takes to get an rfp out on the an rfq out out on the street um as soon as you know sometimes it's taking a little longer than we'd like to see so uh we're moving towards a uh a program that i think will improve that okay that's what i got that's it okay that's right and commissioner starkey i believe the fire department has a program similar where the disabled or elderly can have a it's like a pill box and it goes in a refrigerator so it would be nice to have something like that for vehicles as well so law enforcement and fire department knows where what their disability is or what medication they may or may not be on um i also did towards solid waste it was actually really interesting i would like to look at some other avenues to help generate funds within the solid waste plant last week i attended the fac conference it was very informative the one of the seminars breakout sessions i went to was the litigating the opioid crisis this can bring additional funds to offset the costs in pasco county and

it can be utilized in many different ways including the jail expansion or for the mental health wing and other programs to help reduce addiction and mental health and another last thing i went to in the past couple weeks was the farm share out at west pasco little league and with the sheriff's office and they started around 9 00 a.m and they were literally out by 10 30 and i never saw this but there was a gentleman on a lawnmower pulling a trailer so it definitely went to people in need so thank you mr mariana thank you mr chairman and as far as the opioid crisis um at that conference uh glad you went to it i think we should have at this point maybe have our attorneys come back to us at some point bring us a report give us a status report as far as where we stand yeah that that'd be fine um we had talked to the outside counsel about doing that um the attorney general's office is pushing a settlement a memorandum what they call a memorandum of understanding but a settlement with the with local governments um and we sort of wanted outside council to talk to you all about that anyway so maybe the first meeting in august we'll set it up as a litigation assessment meeting okay and there's a slideshow on that so i can probably send you the link for this live show excellent okay um at the gulf coast consortium when they had the conference they had the meeting up there and it was very i see that on the informative they don't put the consortium on there because they keep it separate from fact i know but i always go there yeah that's they separated that a few years back um and anyways so while we're there nerda allocated a lot of money for different projects around the state which was good to see they've got new projects coming up this coming year that are going all all about water quality i think last month they talked about baffle boxes dan duarte who sits in the consortium as our representative from balmoral mike is for you to hear as well he sent a bunch of information over senator mike sent it to staff it's something that taking the water that comes from the street ways and what i talked about was that over marine parkway the condominiums here the water just flows right in goes into the gulf no treatment whatever we can do that up and down this whole coast all the way through and control the water set it up he's going to get that information together even if we have a rough broad plan about what we think we want

to go do if we have it done by the end of this year i think we can submit for it get it through and look to get allocation i love the crap catch all that junk before it goes they might have as much like 50 million dollars available for that type of project so i think it's something we need to go take a look at um another thing that came up i brought it up i think either last month or so about the height requirements for residential housing along the uh um let's say the us19 corridor um we did away with a height requirement for all commercial stuff but not for residential and i've got one gentleman for instance he's bought bought a lot buying a lot getting it architectural design in the right now to build it from the base flood elevation 30 feet high 35 feet high it keeps him from building let's say a 10-foot ceiling or a 12-foot ceiling he'd like to go higher with it i had a builder steve bird locally uh who's been building these type of homes for many many years when i asked him about what was his opinion on was he says i have no idea why we have that height restriction 45 is completely reasonable i didn't know either because when someone told me about it the same gentleman the first one i told him is yeah we have no height restriction so i only found out later on uh chocolate snap back and forth but i would like staff to bring us back uh the item changing the height restriction from 35 to 45 or at least up to 40 feet and let us take a look at it so i'm going to make i'm going to make that motion so that would be a land development code amendment so do you want it do you want it when you said bring it back to you do you want an introduction of it or do you want it to go through the planning commission forward to you uh if i can do it directly just own a directive yeah i'm comfortable with that okay can't it be in one of those big um soup bowls that you bring us with lots of little fixes it's not really a glitch bill so i'll clarify the motion i'll make it just we'll go to the uh height of above base ventilation 245 feet so you're saying yeah okay you have a motion a second all those in favor say all right all opposed motion pass that's all i have sir okay all right mr biles thank you mr chair i gave you my one of the good news items earlier on the castle accreditation for fire rescue that's a pretty big deal kind of puts us in the top tier if you will nationally on the rescue side you'll start seeing those stickers show up on the on the vehicles out there i do need to

ask the board's permission or to grant me the authority to intervene in the tco rate case if deemed necessary and to allow the county attorney and army to spend up to twenty five thousand dollars or the county attorney spent up to twenty five thousand dollars in health outside counsel to support that effort that there's not a the right case is going to the puc later in july so or actually early august so we need to file before then so i would like the board to give me the authority to intervene in the tico right okay you got a motion second a second all those in favor say aye all right motion pass five zero and that's all i have sir so yeah this is faster i'm assuming that last motion was the administrator and the county attorney in conjunction will decide whether or not that we have a viable a viable plane there but um i don't i don't have anything of general interest you only give them so many things and i'm well undermined okay i just want to say you have two more than the new president of fact um thankfully uh appointed me reappointed me to chair the federal committee of that so i'm looking forward to doing that congratulations interest in washington and we'll have a fact federal client in the spring we're not going this fall that's because yeah this one to say i said okay thank you sir um i did want to make some comments about the budget for my budget request i mentioned on item r69 about the i.t request and requesting that be fully funded i also wanted to state that when i met with mr biles in regards to the local requirements last week this in regards to the request for local requirements and the county's obligation to fund it we do have a difference of opinion as to what is required by law mr biles had stated that the county is not required to fund the local requirements while i believe that it is required to fund those requirements the in at the june 8 border county commission meeting the emphasis was on property tax revenue and there are other unrestricted revenue sources that go into fund the general revenue account such as sales tax and state revenue sharing the county acknowledged that their revenue sources are going up when we saw the revenue outlook presentation to the bcc on march 22nd and the impact of senate bill 50 for taxation of remote and marketplace sales

has not been discussed which will also increase available local revenues and i recognize that my request is more than the county administration would like however it is based specifically on the commission's legal funding obligations and the reasonable needs of my office and i would like to remind the commission that while the population in pasco has grown 19 percent and the commission has expanded staff 49 i'm sorry 39 since 2010 my team has been reduced by 11 in that same time period and the funding situation in my office is just unsustainable the commission is responsible for determining and setting its funding priorities and satisfying the requirements of law and support of the clerk's statutory functions to serve our our citizens our community should be among the commission's highest priorities what i'm asking for in local requirements is along the same lines of public safety with the sheriff as well as your firefighters and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have thank you mr chairman i think there's a the fun there's a fundamental dispute between the administrator and the clerk with regard to whether or not what the clerk is asking for is in fact a local requirement and i was not part of the meeting that the administrator and the and the clerk had but i think it it boils down to for a large scale um whether or not the west paschal judicial center is the local requirement clerk's position as it is the county's position is it's not all right any other questions but all the other issues are being addressed and right the it cost um in the budget is for 40 of the request and i would like to have a full the full funding of it in um fiscal year 22. well if we can't make it if we don't make it there this year we'll make it we'll finish it up next i think that's kind of how we're handling all the extra stuff that came that's the last minute from what i understand okay uh i only have one thing uh on our mr miles if you would have whoever sends out the message for the the eoc meetings briefings that our assistants are included in that so that helps us just sign on and get you know get that message to get there on time so there was a little confusion yesterday because some of them were not there were some technical issues they were working through yesterday afternoon they sent the invite several times and

people weren't receiving an invite so they'd work through some technically i think i got it four times yesterday so yeah you may have gotten more than one invite eventually right yeah yes sir they're working on that yeah just just make sure that i think it makes our offices the list has both you and your assistants yeah so i don't know well mine will validate that i don't think mine was informed until after after i'd already had it a couple times and the intent is to have one this afternoon at three o'clock that assumes that we're done with the public hearing agenda prior to right so we will delay that if we need to can i explain normally i'm not like this this kind of person but if you're on that call i kind of you know asked a question because we were all the way down to the city of san antonio before they called on a commissioner and i i don't think that was appropriate that's being fixed okay thank you [Laughter] yes sir and just to touch on as you're saying it as far as communication the email on my phone doesn't show up like a text message no i didn't see the email and it was like running around through the day but later on i got a text message from ralph lair saying hey did you know this meeting was coming up i don't know then i looked to check the email sorry it was there et cetera so one way or another we're gonna make sure that because my assistants let me know either so maybe i don't i don't know if they knew either so yeah we could just step that up with that big right all right i think i'd have follow-ups okay another commissioner starkey's comments are right on the money too yeah i think i wasn't the only one who noticed that all right anything else adjourned until 1 30 for public hearings you